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Taking place at Old Queen’s Theatre on Sat Feb 2 with Totally Unicorn (pictured) along with heaps of other fine acts including Sydney’s We Lost The Sea, Dr Piffle & The Burlap Band, God God Dammit Dammit and Space Bong.
Hitting Grote St’s Hotel Metro on Thu Jan 31, McLaren Vale’s the Singing Gallery on Fri Feb 1, the front bar of the Governor Hindmarsh on Sat Feb 2 and Port Rd’s Suzie Wong’s Room on Sun Feb 3.
Be witness to this huge event featuring a dozen bands and solo acts, including Sydney’s Crossing Red Lines, Jungle City (pictured), Slick Arnold, Dirty Boulevard, Nikai and James Abberley, at Light Hotel on Sat Feb 2.
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Experience the straight-edge American metalcore outfit at Fowler’s Live on Sun Feb 3 for a licensed all-ages affair at which the five-piece will be highlighting songs from their seven albums.
Hitting North Tce’s Tuxedo Cat from Fri Feb 1 until Sun Feb 3 with Thee Oh Sees performing with lots of other bands on Friday evening and American garage rocker Nobunny (pictured) playing on Sat Feb 2.
Heading over from Melbourne to launch his Shane O’Mara produced album, Sinner And Saint, at Thebarton’s Wheatsheaf Hotel on Thu Jan 31, Willunga Hotel on Fri Feb 1, Hotel Elliot (Port Elliot) on Sat Feb 2 and Glenelg Surf Club on Sun Feb 3.
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gig at Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, from 9.30pm on Sat Feb 2 as part of the Sessions program.
Melbourne to play their Mexican-inspired garage rock at the Grace Emily on Sat Feb 2 with help from Molting Vultures and Systemaddicts.
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THE WATERBOYS – touring Australia for the very first time and playing all their hits, including The Whole Of The Moon and more, at Thebarton Theatre on Thu Jan 31.
SARAH BLASKO – showcasing songs from her new album, I Awake, with help from Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, on Fri Feb 1.
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TWELVE FOOT NINJA, THE KILLGIRLS, MAYWEATHER (BAR 2) FILTHY LUCRE, RATGOD, DIRTY BIRD, THE UNSET (BAR 3)
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Ballyhoo Indeed Call Me Any Time Paul Simon can call me Al. He can call me whatever he wants if he’s playing a tin whistle in a pink room with Chevy Chase wearing a sports coat. It has been 25 years since You Can Call Me Al was released on Simon’s landmark album Graceland. To celebrate, he’s touring to perform songs spanning all eras of his illustrious career: from his beginnings
in the folk clubs of early 1960s Greenwich Village, to anthemic fruits of his celebrated partnership with Art Garfunkel and his acclaimed solo career. Get the bongos ready for when Simon takes over the Entertainment Centre on Wed Mar 27 with guest Rufus Wainwright. Tickets: ticketek.com.au.
“I understand you’re probably very busy so thank you for taking the time to consider working with us,” The Roshambos’ songwriter Kyle Shackleford said in an email this week. Probably is right. Once we’ve had coffee, looked at photos of lemurs and made some suggestive remarks about whether the toothpaste on our shirt is jizz, we’re ready to talk about Brisbane indie pop outfits that do catchy songwriting and exuberant vintage pop style. The Roshambos are just that, releasing their debut EP Ballyhoo in 2012 – called a “recipe for shit-hotness” by Triple J’s Dave Ruby Howe - and playing alongside Empire Of The Sun, Little Red, Cub Scouts and lots more. They’ll play songs from their new blues, roots, folk, surf and experimental music EP Noises From Hootchy-Kootchy at the Rhino Room on Fri Mar 5, the Governor Hindmarsh on Sat Mar 6 and the Cavern on Fri Mar 12 and Sat Mar 13.
LAUNCHING “STRIPPED ACOUSTIC THURSDAYS” FEATURING RESIDENT BAND FOR FEBRUARY, THE SKELETON CLUB, DOWNSTAIRS (FREE ENTRY) REGGAE THURSDAY FEATURING: JESSIE PROVERBS & SPECIAL GUESTS (UPSTAIRS BAR 3)
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Back In Black Too much coffee and smokes, Black Breath? Happens to the best of us, but it might be worth rethinking that whole shouty music thing. Black Breath emerged from dark basements and dive bars in
small-town Washington, US, to challenge the region’s apathy towards trenchant and punishing music. They describe their punk, metal and garage rock sound as “acutely classic without being painfully retro; a ripping blend of Entombed, Celtic Frost, Poison Idea and Discharge”. Sick. See one of their first Australian shows with Canberra’s I Exist on Wed Apr 10 at Enigma.
It’s too bad mention of the word Smithers just leads to thoughts of: “Hello Smithers, you’re quite good at turning me on”. Because CHRIS SMITHER has been around even longer than The Simpsons, playing a synthesis of folk and blues for more than 40 years. Bonnie Raitt calls him “my Eric Clapton” - see the American original on Wed Mar 13 at Trinity Sessions, Clarence Pk.
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Debuting in Australia for the Adelaide Festival is a collection of New York’s creative community brought together by Thomas Bartlett AKA DOVEMAN. It’s just been announced that joining Doveman for the Burgundy Stain Sessions are four guest performers: Robert Forster of Australia’s The Go-Betweens, Vermont folk artist (and Beth Orton’s husband) Sam Amidon, singer songwriter Sally Seltmann and blue-eyed damsel Julia Stone. Doveman and his guests will take to the Dunstan Playhouse on Tue Mar 5, with info and tickets at adelaidefestival.com.au.
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Steeped in splashes of yacht rock, hopeful house music and an avid appreciation for the ‘80s, Panama make music of the nostalgic, euphoric pop varietal. They channel Peter Gabriel and get compared to Cut Copy and Van She with singles such as It’s Not Over and share stages with Dappled Cities, Mitzi, Van She and Elizabeth Rose. Dance to this at Rocket’s Cats night on Fri Feb 15.
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Beaver Rock When most scunge-jeaned rockers say they’re going hard on tour, it generally means waking up in someone else’s vomit, brushing themselves down and starting the party again. When Japandroids’ Brian King goes hard on tour, it ends in leaking stomach acids, life-saving emergency surgery and a gnarly 20-centimetre abdominal scar. hile the touring circuit for DIY bands can be hellish at the best of times, a history of peptic ulcers ensures the 30-year-old guitarist and vocalist has also been shadowed by ill health. Touring Calgary in 2009, a ruptured ulcer almost killed him. While he’s kept a close watch on his condition ever since, the van/stage/hotel/van routine doesn’t make it easy to maintain a healthy regime. “We’ve had our ups and downs, but I’m feeling really good right now,” King promises. “Most of the time I’m fine and I can live life like anybody else would on tour. When I notice things are going downhill, that’s when it can get dangerous. It’s more about me being more responsible for my own health now than I used to when I was younger.” Although King says it was something he’d “battled with” since he was young, it was Japandroids’ rapid change of fortunes that exacerbated the ulcers. When the duo’s 2009 debut Post-Nothing began earning plaudits from tastemakers such as Pitchfork and Spin, King and his accomplice David Prowse suddenly found their nine-to-five routines upended. “We went from having a typical lifestyle to everything drastically changing. Over the
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course of a few weeks you go from sitting behind your work desk and playing in your band on weekends for fun to quitting your job, packing up your house and then going out on tour for two years. You’re travelling every single day, playing shows every night, not sleeping very much and not eating very well. It’s a very traumatic change of lifestyle and for the ulcers I’ve had compulsively since I was young, it was just too much to take. It nearly killed me, so now I just have to recognise the symptoms of when things aren’t going so well and then rein it in until I’m good to go again.” Growing up on Vancouver Island on the frigid edge of the Pacific, King’s childhood summers were spent on his grandparents’ fishing boat and reading music magazines. The remote setting ensured the young rock fan had to actively search out news of the latest hot acts emerging 200 kilometres south in the grunge capital of Seattle, Washington. “Our town was pretty small and we didn’t have a local music scene whatsoever. I’m old enough to have grown up pre-internet, so we weren’t exposed to a lot of music apart from what we’d hear on the radio, but when I got a little older my friends and I would head to Vancouver or Seattle to see shows all the time. I found out I was pretty interested in music from the time I was young, so my parents embraced it and let me go to concerts.” Despite being pre-teens when Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain committed suicide in 1994, King says the eye-opening Nevermind was an early, immeasurable influence on the Japandroids pair. “Being so close to Seattle, Nirvana were gods when I was growing up and they inevitably played a role in Dave and my lives. We both got into them around the time
Je T’aime Nevermind came out, since you could barely turn on the radio or TV in Canada – or open up a rock magazine - without seeing or hearing Nirvana. In many ways you were so overexposed to it you almost had to like it. Lucky for us it was really good and we really did like it. “I remember the day Kurt committed suicide was actually a pretty somber day at my school. I grew up in a time when to wear an oversized Nirvana T-shirt to school was actually really fashionable, so there were a lot of people who were really into it growing up. Although you didn’t really understand everything Kurt was going through, you were old enough to understand he’d committed suicide and what it meant in terms of Nirvana being no more.” Just like Nirvana, Japandroids’ love of melodic rock is unbridled by spin or overwrought imagery – what you see is what you get. “We’re kind of modelled on classic punk bands and post-punk bands we liked, where their image is just themselves and it’s very simple. We feel the plainness – the ‘here’s what we are’ – is really important because it lets people know we are making this music and that’s it. It’s an honest, simple and direct link between the people making the music and the people listening to the music. You look at an album cover for the Ramones’ [selftitled] record – four guys leaning up against a wall and the word ‘Ramones’. This is what they look like and here is their music. We wanted to have the same aesthetic as that.” Ahead of their debut Australian tour as part of St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, Japandroids have recently been regaled with wondrous stories of Down Under. “We were in Toronto a couple of weeks ago and hanging out with Damian [Abraham]
The lyrics to Japandroids’ track Wet Hair features the line ‘Let’s get to France so we can French kiss some French girls’. Did Brian King find plenty of French girls waiting to kiss him when Japandroids finally played in France? “As a matter of fact I did - I particularly enjoyed that. It’s the opposite when you get to [the province of] Quebec, which is the French-speaking part of Canada, and play a show in Montreal. They’re all like, ‘What the hell? Quebec wasn’t good enough for you?’ There’s a frigid resentment of that song in Quebec but an embracing of it in France…”
from Fucked Up. He was saying that Fucked Up had toured Australia before and had loved it, so we should be really excited about it.” Not only has Abraham toured here before, the plump frontman also scared the bejesus out of whole stadiums while supporting Foo Fighters in 2011. “Yeah! He was telling us that and all kinds of crazy stories of that tour. Fucked Up are a popular band, but even for them they were really big shows. They seem to love Australia, so I’m looking forward to it. How hot is it there today? I heard it’s been [45 degrees]? That’s insane. If it makes you feel any better it’s 0 degrees here and if it gets cloudy it may start snowing, so you’re doing pretty good!” WHO: Japandroids WHAT: Celebration Rock (Inertia/ Polyvinyl) WHERE: Laneway Festival, Fowler’s Courtyard & UniSA WHEN: Fri Feb 8
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Let’s Get Lost San Francisco has long been known for its thriving arts community, an inspired hub for musicians and artists alike. Leading the charge are indie rockers Thee Oh Sees, a four-piece outfit comprising guitarist and frontman John Dwyer, vocalist and keyboardist Brigid Dawson, bassist Petey Dammit and drummer Mike Shoun. There’s always been a lot happening in San Francisco,” bassist Dammit enthuses. “It’s just the vibe of the city. It’s pretty easy to do what you wanna do, whether that be like a fine art or music or anything like that. Especially right now there’s so many wonderful bands and stuff like that. It does have some lulls here and there and people start complaining that nothing’s going on, but I’m like, ‘Just shut up and wait another month,
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‘cause next month you’ll have more stuff to do than you’ll know what to do with!’.” Having released six albums and a stack of EPs in the last five years alone, Thee Oh Sees are one of the more prolific groups of recent years. After starting out as an outlet for Dwyer’s lo-fi home recordings, the group gradually expanded to the current line-up. With a diverse back catalogue covering punk, folk and kosmische, the band are now closer to garage psychedelica, as experimental as ever without losing their strong sense of melody. Their run of multiple releases per year only ended in 2012 with last year’s sole release, the ecstatically received latest album Putrifiers II. “I think just recently we’ve kinda caught up to ourselves,” Dammit suggests. “Instead of just recording and releasing songs constantly we got to a point where we were touring so much we didn’t have enough time to write new stuff, so I think that’s maybe why it seems more selective.” The band’s live show is as celebrated as the music itself. Leaning more towards the
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Putrefaction Guaranteed The promise of a new Thee Oh Sees album should please diehard fans. With recording apparently already completed, the band are looking to get straight into finalising the release as soon as their Australian tour finishes. “I’m not sure exactly [when it’ll be out],” Petey Dammit admits. “I reckon it only takes about a month or two for it to go from the studio to the record press, so it should be out maybe March or April. I mean there are set times when record labels like to release stuff too, so that might push it back a little bit, but it should be out before too long.”
faster material in their repertoire, their sets are unashamedly fun and exciting for band and audience alike. Constant touring has helped sharpen them, but having travelled through so many different genres it took a while for each member to gel in the live setting. “Late in 2005 we decided that some of the slower songs we had been playing - the songs that I originally learned in the band - were kind of fun to play, definitely, and great to listen to, but live they didn’t necessarily translate as much. Both John and I and everyone else in the band had come from a more punk rock background, with louder, faster music, so it was pretty easy for us to just switch back to doing that. I think it did take a little while. The train started out chuggin’ along pretty slowly, and then it got up to speed. That’s kinda where we’re at now.” The band’s schedule has always been busy, packed to the brim with constant touring and recording. A three-week break before their current tour ended up being used to again record new material, which Aussie fans should get a taste of in the next few weeks. The group’s unorthodox recording process means the members themselves are often still new to the material by the time the shows start. “Some of the records are like the last one, Putrifiers II,” Dammit explains. “That one was written all by John and recorded mainly by himself, so the rest of us didn’t have much input on that or anything. But that makes those songs a little harder for us to play live ‘cause we’ll have to sit there and try to figure them out and things like that. But there’s also a lot of songs that we record that aren’t necessarily suited to our live setting.” For now Thee Oh Sees are concentrating solely on their Australian tour. Having been through the country three times before, the San Franciscans are no strangers to Oz and can’t wait to come back. “I’m definitely looking forward to it,” Dammit admits. “I’m absolutely in love with your country, so I will always go on record as saying if I move from San Francisco I’m going straight to Melbourne!” WHO: Thee Oh Sees WHAT: Putrifiers II (Fuse) WHERE: Lost City Festival, Tuxedo Cat WHEN: Fri Feb 1
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Queen Of The Slipstream American blues singer and guitarist Bonnie Raitt, whose latest album, Slipstream, has been nominated for what could be her 10th Grammy, is heading back to Australia to perform at Byron Bay’s Bluesfest as well as undertake some sideshows. hile Raitt’s ’70s and ’80s albums remain classics of the American folk and blues genre, she had to wait until the release of her 10th album, 1989’s Nick Of Time, before making a connection with mainstream audiences. Her latest album, Slipstream, has been issued on her own record label, Redwing Records, and was partially produced by Joe Henry. “And Slipstream has exceeded all expectations and the fact it’s on my own record label makes it that much sweeter,” Raitt says. “I set up my own
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There Goes My Hero Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, whose documentary, Sound City, is screening for one night only at Marion Cinemas on Thu Jan 31, is a huge fan of Bonnie Raitt. On the red carpet at last February’s MusiCares Salute To Paul McCartney, Grohl spotted Raitt and immediately ducked away from an interview to introduce himself. “That was funny,” Raitt recalls. “I had no idea he was a fan until he broke away from that interview and dropped to his knees before me and told me how much he loved me. “And I’m a fan of Dave’s work too. And that’s the great thing about playing festivals and turning up to awards nights because you get to meet people who you would never think were fans.”
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touring together for years and Mavis was great. She whipped the audience into a frenzy each night and it was all I could do to follow her. “Mavis usually likes to play and then head straight off back to her hotel, so I end up getting up during her set,” the musician says when asked if they share the stage together. “But Mavis and I just did a television show together for Austin City Limits [Festival] and did Will The Circle Be Unbroken and a terrific Randy Newman song, I’ll Never Get Over Losing You. We did that one for our dads.” Mavis Staples’ pop was Roebuck ‘Pop’ Staples of The Staple Singers, while Raitt’s father was John Raitt, an actor and singer who appeared in many Broadway stage musicals as well as alongside Doris Day in the 1957 film The Pajama Game. Raitt, a strong supporter of public radio, toured Australia in 1992 on a three-way bill that featured herself, Marc Cohn (of Walking In Memphis fame) and Bob Dylan. It was the start of what would become the latter’s Never Ending Tour, when he first began to deconstruct his earlier songs in such a way that they became virtually unrecognisable. “I know, I know,” Raiit laughs. “It was tricky to even guess what songs he was playin’ on that tour. And I was speaking to my friend [producer] Don Was, who has worked with Bob, and he reasoned that he does it to keep things interesting for himself. But my gosh, the success Dylan has had with his last few albums is just fantastic. And he’s got such a great band behind him. “And that’s why it was a little daunting to cover a couple of Dylan songs [Million Miles and Standing In The Doorway] on my new album,” she says. “Joe Henry suggested them but had to really convince me they would work. “But I love Standing In The Doorway and to have someone like [guitarist] Bill Frisell guesting on it, along with Greg Leisz on pedal steel, just made those songs.”
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Smelling better than the usual Big Day Out fare of hot dogs and stale chips, punters arriving early at Big Day Out this year are greeted by a delicious smoky waft of grilled meat. It’s hooking into the nostrils of those who’ve gathered to watch Adelaide upand-comers such as Archers and Gemini Downs on the Red Stage. With a similar local flourish, the new Chow Town food court proves a winner; like their name infers, the Jack Ruby’s pork belly burger is a hit of presidential proportions. Dr Piffle & The Burlap Band’s Lilypad performance also takes place within throwing distance of Chow Town. Like shearers, bushrangers and woodsman walking out of the forest and meeting at a goldfields tavern, the money they’ve saved on haircuts has been spent on bits of wood to belt the shit out of other bits of wood. The rambunctious tatterdemalions quickly gather a crowd to rival that of Every Time I Die on the Orange Stage, where vocalist Keith Buckley is yelling to his circle pit to “Start a fuckin’ motorcycle” before kicking into I Suck (Blood). At the Essential Stage things are far more frantic, with the tribal junkie punk of Death Grips making for car crash viewing. Like Tyler Durden possessing Mr T for a jibber-jabber version of Renegades Of Funk, the frantic moves of MC Ride have him resembling an angry man being tazered – or one who perhaps needs to be. Zach Hill has little more to his drum kit than the bulk mayonnaise tubs you see drummers pelting down in the mall, but it’s his frontman who is the visual attraction here, chewing open a bottle of water and flicking about like a black shark aware of its ultimate mortality. Like their album cover for No Love Deep Web, it’s shocking, fascinatingly provocative and all a bit of a cock-up. If The Big Bang Theory formed a band, they’d be Vampire Weekend. Cheery, nerdy and
be-shirted, frontman Ezra Koenig’s foppish ensemble has him resembling David Byrne played by Hugh Grant. Performing under the Emanuel Leutze’s painting Washington Crossing The Delaware, a frigid looking capture of George Washington’s 1777 attack on rebel forces, the New Yorkers kick through Cousins, Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa and One (Blake’s Got A New Face) as the arena fills with sunburnt, toppling human towers. After Mansard Roof, keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij nominates this as “the best show we’ve ever played in Australia”. “We thought it would be really hot and fucked up,” Koenig adds, “but it’s perfect.” Yeah Yeah Yeahs are similarly sublime. Frontwoman Karen O looks like she’s borrowed her ridiculous yellow Christian Joy outfit – and perhaps her new blonde bob – from Sia, but her electrifying swoops across the stage are all her own. Nick Zinner’s guitar pulse announces opener Cheated Hearts, Fever To Tell’s Pin is delivered with a forceful rasp and new track Mosquito’s needling, buzzing guitar and hectoring howl to ‘suck young blood’ would perfectly fit a video of vampire children in underground catacombs – if they hadn’t done that already with Y Control. O lets out a scream like Medusa setting her hair on fire for that particular track, while Gold Lion bringing a We Will Rock You thump to proceedings. As well as the quicksilver rush of Zero and Heads Will Roll, the New York trio dig back through the archives with unexpected airings of Art Star and Tell Me What Rockers To Swallow. An hour of fragility, freshness and ferocity – the perfect festival set? The Killers might be YYY’s closest rivals for perfectly shoehorning together a decade of music into an hour. Brandon Flowers looking as dashing as a Jane Austen charmer, although his Tom Cruise smile is momentarily broken during opener Mr Brightside by an outbreak of fighting in the crowd. “It’s like I’m back in high school or something,” he sighs. While Flowers looks far dishier than the bearded dustbowl frontiersman of their 2007 BDO appearance, guitarist Dave Keuning is still stuck in fashion hell. Thankfully the kick-arse
Hot Fuss sounds being wrenched from his Gibson Explorer distract from the fact he’s wearing a leather vest that even a member of Journey would have baulked at in 1981. Bassist Mark Stoermer is also rocking a dodgy black vest, but his awesome bass run that announces Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine is a spine-tingling moment. After Keuning and Flowers perform a subdued take on Crowded House’s Don’t Dream It’s Over, the set ends with drummer Ronnie Vannucci bashing out the final strains of When You Were Young as flashpots of confetti shower the crowd. On a day where cut-offs are so plentiful and revealing they should really be renamed butt-outs, Sleigh Bells’ Alexis Krauss is the bedazzled queen. There’s too much smoke on the Essential Stage to see much of her beyond the bejewelled cut-offs and roller-derby chic, but her sweet and sweaty sounds meld perfectly with Derek Miller’s guitar crunch on Reign Of Terror’s End Of The Line and Comeback Kid. Melbourne-born 50-year-old Michael Balzary has to be the coolest old bastard at the Big Day Out. Like Willem Dafoe remodelled in 3/4 scale, the musician also known as Flea earns one of the loudest cheers of the day when he walks on his hands across the stage before the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ classic tune Soul To Squeeze. In his traditional Drederick Tatum voice, his asides during the 90-minute set are hilarious. Whether looking up at the large lunar wonder to the north (“I love you Mama Moon”), staring into the crowd (“South Australia! Fuck yeah, we see you motherfuckers, we’re not fuckin’ blind”) or acknowledging the little guys (“Thank you to… the people who clean the fuckin’ toilets”), his comments are as enjoyable as the jerky dance moves elicited by hits such as Scar Tissue, Don’t Stop and Californication. By The Way thickens the funk, before Suck My Kiss and Give It Away bring the night to an end. After last year’s feeble showing, to see the arena comfortably full at the close of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ shirtless encore is an encouraging sign that the Big Day Out has its uplifting mojo back. See you again next year then, Kenny West? RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU
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Miguel Migs San Francisco deep house icon Miguel Migs is heading back to Australia next month for a four-date jaunt across two weeks. Though he first made his name in the house scene, Migs is just as well known for his deepseated love or reggae and dub, as well as classic rock, blues, funk and soul. Two dozen EPs and three full-length albums to his name, Migs’ career spans over 15 years, including collaborators with original disco diva Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King, reggae legends Capleton, Half-Pint and Freddie MacGregor, Meshell Ndegeocello, nu-jazz singer Georg Levin and bossa nova phenomenon Bebel Gilberto. Adelaide supports on the night will be Sonny Fodera, Ezee G, Jorge Watts, Juddo and Juliet Fox.
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Last year was hugely successful for the Sydney-based five-piece Panama, who landed a number one spot on Hype Machine thanks to the title track of their debut EP It’s Not Over. The video clip for the anthemic offering has since garnered over a quarter of a million views across Vimeo and YouTube, while the EP itself saw the guys flying over to Los Angeles to record with super-producer Eric Broucek of DFA Records fame. Add to that drummer Jim Orso of Hot Chip and Holy Ghost!, Panama’s debut was certainly an impressive one. Released through Sydney-based electronic label Future Classic – also home to Flume, Flight Facilities and New Navy – Panama are now about to embark on a highly anticipated national tour during February. Fans of Cut Copy and Van She, and lovers of house, ‘80s electronic and yacht rock, shouldn’t miss this one.
New York MC/producer El-P (AKA Jaime Meline) enjoyed a bountiful 2012. The Company Flow stalwart not only received acclaim for his boldly eclectic production on Atlanta MC Killer Mike’s RAP Music, but also for his allegorical solo endeavour, Cancer4Cure. This summer Meline is returning to Australia as Laneway’s firstever MC. Music critics loved C4C, but how has it gone down with the hip hop heads?
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Eli Verveine After a long period of intense experimentation and self-disocvery, Eli Verveine honed her skills at the legendary Dachkantine club and her weekly radio show in Zurich’s Radio Lora before garnering enthusiastic responses with her refined mixtapes and attending the 2004 Red Bull Music Academy in Rome. With the likes of Marshall Jefferson singing her praises – “You sound just like from my hood in Chicago” – and having performed all across the world, from Chicago to Detroit and Cologne to Paris, she’s about to build her ever-growing fan-base in Australia. Known for her rough and rumbling mixes, her upcoming set it sure to be an un-missable, high-octane affair.
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Honestly, it’s been an amazing response. For some reason, this record seemed to strike a note with a lot of people. Who knows why? I don’t know why. Maybe it was just the right record for the right time. You never really know what’s gonna happen. You put your heart and soul into these things and then you put it out there and all you can do is just hope that people wanna hear what you wanna say. I’ve seen both sides of the coin critically. I felt like this record has maybe even been my best received record that I’ve ever done. For a guy who’s been making full-length records since 1997, it’s nice to not feel like I’m on a downwards slope, you know? The Killer Mike album was excellent as well. Do you plan to work with him again?
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Oh definitely, no question... We’re talking about doing a collaborative record, actually, with both of us rhyming. He’s a huge, huge, huge part of my life now. Our friendship and the collaboration was great – and we really wanna make a lot of new music together. Company Flow have reunited for shows as recently as 2011. Is there any chance of new material? I don’t know. There’s always a chance. Certainly, it’s not something that I’m opposed to – in theory. What can we look forward to at Laneway? Honestly, we just have a pummelling, savage, relentless set (laughs) – but we put our asses to these shows, we put ourselves into it really hard. Even if you don’t know who we are, I think that you’ll walk away from seeing us feeling like you saw a real performance. There’s only two things that I love about the music industry, if you don’t count the occasional cheque, which are making music and performing music – and I take both of those things equally serious.”
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Oz hip hop – it’s an unstoppable force at this stage, and Adelaide continues to prove that it’s still the place where huge amounts of quality crews are being spawned. Even though Blackwood’s Full Tote Odds are by no means grasshoppers or up-and-comers in the scene, it’s taken a while to get their debut album Place Your Bets out to the public – but if the quality of this release is anything to go by, these boys would clearly rather take their time and do it right. Although the album does feature a lot of what’s now almost a cliché of the genre – epic nights of partying and hitting the piss with mates – there are deeper moments on Place Your Bets which showcase the guys’ maturity lyrically as well as production-wise, and especially impressive is FTO’s fresh take on the Oz hip hop genre through a fairly heavy use of guitars throughout. Southern Wind has been a Triple J favourite for some time now, but there are plenty of other solid nuggets on here which are musically on par – Feeling Alright, What’s Going Down and Adrenaline are definitely recommended. JP Cameron
Brisbane-based synth-pop four-piece Mitzi provide yet another example of why Future Classic is the label of the moment. And it’s clearly not unwarranted hype – with artists like Flume, Flight Facilities and Mitzi on their roster, the Sydney-based label has proven itself as a serious tastemaker with a knack for predicting your favourite artists, often before you’ve even heard of them. Most of the time they’re pretty spot-on, Mitzi’s much-anticipated debut full-length Truly Alive living up to expectations and ticking all the boxes as far as breezy, sunny garage-disco is concerned. It’s light-hearted, charming, pretty and just plain old cool, with first single Who Will Love You Now definitely making for an excellent introduction to what you’re in for on the rest of the album. Lazy summer days of chilling on the beach? This stuff was made for. Chuck it on, you won’t be sorry. Simone Keenan
You don’t have to be overly complex or even particularly innovative to make a good album and Paul Kalkbrenner’s brand new (and epic!) 17-track offering Guten Tag is living proof of it. Avid Kalkbrenner fans will no doubt find the producer’s almost-sinister-sounding, moody brand of techno a welcomed addition to their collection, but as far as first-timer listeners or newer fans go, it may be a bit of a grower. Despite Kalkbrenner’s dark techno leanings there are some lighter shades throughout Guten Tag and just enough uplifting moments to ensure the tunes work just as well on the dancefloor as they do on your headphones (for which, it seems, the album was mostly intended). Atmospheric, melancholy (and sometimes even delicate), the sixth offering from the German does have pulling power overall but may be a little too slow-burning, even for die-hard tech fans. JP Cameron
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“I’m so excited about it!,” Holy Other says, today based in South London after (ostensibly) spending time in Berlin and Gothenburg, of his tour. “I haven’t travelled nearly so far in my life – or even expected to. I’m an electronic artist, but my live show isn’t a 21st Century laptop set – not that I have any issue with those, it would just be totally at odds with my artistic intentions. Instead I’ve taken a hardware-only approach... I just feel distracted with the laptop around and feel that it can be a distraction [for the audience] in a show that is supposed to be atmospheric and visually engaging.” Holy Other means to catch other artists on the cult indie festival bill, but not the obvious alt-R&B Jessie Ware and Poliça. “I’m totally in love with Julia Holter, so I will definitely be checking out her set,” he relays. “Everything she creates is gold. I’m also hoping Perfume Genius’ performance is as fragile as his output, because he really knows how to touch me. And, among a few other things, I really have to see Bat For Lashes. I love festivals that are willing to push genre boundaries.” Holy Other, his music reconfiguring ambient, R&B, vocal house, UK garage and dubstep, premiered with 2011’s starkly downbeat EP With U on New York’s Tri Angle Records (an early Transparent vinyl release, aside). With U set the scene for the startlingly intimate Held, which Pitchfork summarised accurately as “a modern love album” – presumably for those over Adele. It’s quiet storm for ghosts. Held, led by the
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Manchester’s Holy Other took postdubstep soul into ever more avantgarde and tenebrous territory with last year’s acclaimed album Held. Now the producer/vocalist, who maintains an anonymity that Burial would admire, wearing a shroud when performing, is bound for Laneway on his inaugural Australian trek. And he’s granting rare interviews, his emailer surprisingly familiar.
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single Love Some1, made ‘Best of 2012’ lists, including Mixmag’s. “I was so happy about how it was received,” Holy Other says. “I feel like there are far too many artists who slip under the radar if their material can’t be neatly boxed into digestible genres and are doomed by the perpetual vagaries of the burgeoning ‘experimental’ bracket. Held was written during some painful and some beautiful moments of my life. A few months on, I find it an emotional challenge to listen to it from beginning to end. The process of writing the record was a formative experience for me, definitely. I’ve learned that my emotion will always affect what I produce, even if I attempt to write anything with another emotion in mind. I’ve learned that there are healthy levels of being
precious about what you create – and there are unhealthy levels.” Reviewers have noted the sublimated R&B influences on Held, yet growing up Holy Other listened to punk (plus ‘90s emo). “I think I should probably be more ashamed about this than I actually am,” he kids. However, the anti-blubstepper claims to “totally love contemporary R&B”, citing recent singles like Usher’s Climax. Electronic music has a long tradition of figures who choose to remain anonymous or cultivate mystique. Not even the internet will betray Holy Other’s identity. But his elusiveness is less about gimmickry than avoiding just that. Besides, Holy Other may be private, but his music isn’t – although it lacks biographical context.
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UK jazz/rap innovators The Herbaliser may be one of the pioneers of their genre, but according to one-half of the DJ/producer duo, Jake Wherry, these days they wouldn’t know most of the artists dominating the scene they helped establish. And they don’t mind it at all, thanks. “I’ll go on a popular digital site thing, like Juno or iTunes or whatever, and I’ll try to download legally, and it’s just...Not good,” Wherry laughs. “I went into the hip hop section of iTunes and I don’t even recognise most of the
music they’ve classified as ‘hip hop’! I know that tastes do change and we’re over 40 years old, so we’re considered ‘old men’ – but Christ! It’s just not recognisable as hip hop, it doesn’t even come close. The only album that’s really impressed me recently was the Quakers record because it’s hard, tough, raw, it’s how it’s meant to be.” Apart from the hip hop super-group established by Fuzzface [Portishead’s Geoff Barrow], 7-Stu-7 and Australia’s own Katalyst [Ashley Anderson], there’s hardly been a new release under the hip hop/rap category worth a mention, according to Wherry – and you can blame the likes of Simon Cowell for it. As a matter of fact, The Herbaliser’s latest album There Were Seven is one major ‘fuck you’ to the X-Factor/American Idol mastermind. “There was a narrative in our brain as we
wrote the album, so I guess you could say there is at least a loose concept behind it,” Wherry explains. “We used it more as a tool to help us write the tracks and keep them cohesive but we realised it was starting to form a good story. It’s about these seven renegades who’ve been away from their city for a long time and when they come back it’s all really changed a lot. There’s a character in the story called The Lost Boy who’s built this machine which makes everything sounds absolutely perfect and it just kills the soul, really. The Lost Boy is basically Simon Cowell, who’s spread his dirty work as far as Australia. He started out running a major record company but now runs most of the pop entertainment industry on TV. The machine that makes everything sound perfect is Auto-
“For the most part, I opted to be anonymous because I didn’t want the response to my music to be affected by my persona. Yeah, I create music that is intensely personal for me, but I like an audience to take whatever they please from it without my intentions overlaying and altering it. It would have then been totally odd to be so forthright about my own appearance. I’m rather shy, so initially it served as something to shield [myself ] behind. But I didn’t actually anticipate that anonymity isn’t as aesthetically neutral as it should be.” WHO: Holy Other WHAT: Laneway Festival WHERE: Fowler’s Live/UniSA City West Campus WHEN: Fri Feb 8
Tune, of course. This is basically how we perceive the general state of music, including a lot of what is considered as ‘hip hop’.” Some 18 years ago when Wherry first formed The Herbaliser with musical partner Ollie Teeba, the aim was anything but global domination or fame – nor was it even heard of for such a unique-sounding project. Originally signed to the Ninja Tune stable in the mid-‘90s, the pair combined their love of golden era hip hop with their fascination with ‘70s television soundtracks – and despite both having been involved in other projects over the years, nothing has come close to the success of The Herbaliser. As Wherry puts it, “if it works, stick with it”. “Why wouldn’t you? Nothing we’ve done as individuals has been as successful as what we’ve done together. Expanding on that and putting the band together as well was a good move because we were one of the first electronic DJ/producer acts to have a live band. It’s a powerful thing to see nine musicians on the stage – imagine the power of hip hop beats but with musicians playing on top.” And while Wherry and Teeba will be performing a DJ set at WOMADelaide this year, the rest of the band will not be making an appearance unfortunately. Blame geography, Wherry says. “We’d love to bring the whole band to Australia but it’s a large number of people and this time we haven’t been able to do it. The guys from the Harvest Festival have been talking about possibly doing it next year but we’ll see. We play relatively little Herbaliser stuff in our DJ sets, it’s more about playing our influences and party funk and hip hop kind of stuff. It’s a different experience than having the band. It’s quite old school and we hope people enjoy it for that at least.” WHO: The Herbaliser DJs WHAT: WOMADelaide WHERE: Botanic Pk WHEN: Fri Mar 8, 11pm-1am RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU
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SHANNON NOLL (Syd) @ Goolwa Aquatic Centre THE WATERBOYS (UK) @ Thebarton Theatre BENNY WALKER (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf THE SIMON HUDSON BAND (Vic) @ Hotel Metro
HEATHER PEACE (UK) @ Cavern Club NEON BOGART (Vic) @ Higher Ground East Art Base (188 Grenfell St)
FRI FEB 1 SHANNON NOLL (Syd) @ Coopers Alehouse (Wallaroo) SARAH BLASKO (Syd) & ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA @ Festival Theatre WENDY MATTHEWS (Syd) @ Space Theatre BENNY WALKER (Vic) @ Willunga Hotel LOST CITY FESTIVAL: THEE OH SEES (US), PEAK TWINS and more @ Tuxedo Cat THE SUPERJESUS & THE ANGELS OF GUNG-HO @ Governor Hindmarsh (sold out) THE SIMON HUDSON BAND (Vic) @ The Singing Gallery (McLaren Vale)
SAT FEB 2 PAT CAPOCCI COMBO (Syd), LUCKY SEVEN, THE SILVERADOS & DJ CHRISTINE ORANGE BLOSSOM @ Governor Hindmarsh SHANNON NOLL (Syd) @ Norwood Live LIOR (Vic) @ Space Theatre BENNY WALKER (Vic) @ Hotel Elliot (Port Elliot) LOST CITY FESTIVAL: NOBUNNY (US) and more @ Tuxedo Cat THE SIMON HUDSON BAND (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh (front bar) SCUMFEST: TOTALLY UNICORN (NSW), CAPTAIN CLEANOFF, DR PIFFLE & THE BURLAP BAND, WE LOST THE SEA (Syd), SPACE BONG, HIGHTIME, GOD GOD DAMMIT DAMMIT and so many more @ Old Queen’s Theatre PLAYIN’ UP: CROSSING RED LINES (Syd), THE GOOD LUCKS, LIKE THREAD, JUNGLE CITY, SLICK ARNOLD, DIRTY BOULEVARD, NIKAI, LIPSMACK, BREAKING RUNDLE, JAMES ABBERLEY, CALIFORNIAN COUSIN & HEATH ANTHONY @ Light Hotel
SUN FEB 3 THE NECKS (Syd) @ Governor Hindmarsh SHANNON NOLL (Syd) @ Old Clarendon Inn EARTH CRISIS (New York) @ Fowler’s Live BENNY WALKER (Vic) @ Glenelg Surf Club SWEET JEAN (Vic) & THE YEARLINGS @ Wheatsheaf THE SIMON HUDSON BAND (Vic) @ Suzie Wong’s Room
TUE FEB 5 THE PRESETS (Syd), PARACHUTE YOUTH & LIGHT YEAR @ HQ
WED FEB 6 RORY MCLEOD (UK) @ Guthries (Prospect)
THU FEB 7 JOE PERNICE (US) & NORMAN BLAKE (Scot) @ Grace Emily STRANGERS (Syd), THE DEAD LOVE & THE PRETTY LITTLES @ Ed Castle LITTLE WISE (Vic) & THE DUDLEYS @ Red Lime Shack Café (Pt Adelaide)
FRI FEB 8 LANEWAY FESTIVAL: BAT FOR LASHES (UK), JAPANDROIDS (Can), JESSIE WARE (UK), HOLY OTHER (UK), JULIA HOLTER (US), CHET FAKER, ALPINE, THE RUBENS and so many more @ Fowler’s Live COLIN HAY (Vic) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre LITTLE WISE (Vic) & THE TEAHOUSE FIRE @ The Singing Gallery (McLaren Vale)
SAT FEB 9 COLIN HAY (Vic) @ Arts & Convention Centre (Barossa Valley) LITTLE WISE (Vic) & THE TEAHOUSE FIRE @ Wheatsheaf MICK COOPER (Vic) & STEVE FOSTER @ Portobello’s (Glanville)
TUE FEB 12 CELTIC THUNDER (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
WED FEB 13 CELTIC THUNDER (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre CONVERGE (US), OLD MAN GLOOM (US) & STARVATION @ Fowler’s Live
FRI FEB 15 THE DEMON PARADE (Vic) @ Rocket Bar NEON BOGART (Vic) @ Higher Ground East Art Base (188 Grenfell St) PANAMA (Syd) @ Rocket Bar
SAT FEB 16 THE DEMON PARADE (Vic) @ Grace Emily NEON BOGART (Vic) @ Higher Ground East Art Base (188 Grenfell St) FEELINGS (Syd) & THE VIENNAS @ Ed Castle CIVIL CIVIC (UK/Aus) @ Crown & Anchor
MON FEB 18 JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh
TUE FEB 19 RINGO STARR & HIS ALL STARR BAND (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
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WED FEB 20 CAROLE KING (US) @ Festival Theatre
THU FEB 21 SIR CLIFF RICHARD (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre JULIA STONE (Syd) @ Flinders St Baptist Church
FRI FEB 22 GUNG HO (Bris) @ Rocket NORAH JONES (US) @ Festival Theatre SANTANA (US) & STEVE MILLER BAND (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre SLEEPY SUN (US) & RIDE INTO THE SUN @ Fowlers Live
SAT FEB 23 A DAY ON THE GREEN: DIESEL (Syd), MARK SEYMOUR (Vic), DARYL BRAITHWAITE (Vic), THE BLACK SORROWS (Vic), PSEUDO ECHO (Syd) & 1927 (Syd) @ Annie’s Lane (Clare Valley)
MON FEB 25 CAT POWER (US) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre
TUE FEB 26 ED SHEERAN (UK) & PASSENGER (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre GLENN FREY (US) & ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA @ Festival Theatre
WED FEB 27 VIN GARBUT (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh
COMING UP FRI MAR 1 CLIPSAL 500: HILLTOP HOODS, DRAPHT & ILLY @ Victoria Pk THE SMITH STREET BAND (Vic), BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY (US) & THE BENNIES (Vic) @ Enigma ENGLISH DOGS (UK), BASTARD SQUAD (Vic), PERDITION & THE MEATBEATERS @ Forresters & Squatters Arms SAT MAR 3 CLIPSAL 500: THE ANGELS, IAN MOSS, MOVE TO STRIKE & HESTON DROP @ Victoria Pk
Esteemed American singer-songwriter Joe Pernice has had a long and distinguished career encompassing a lot of different bands and personas, but right at the moment events have transpired so that a whole swag of them are active concurrently for the first time. His new outfit The New Mendicants – which he formed with current touring partner Norman Blake from ‘90s Scottish power-pop heroes Teenage Fanclub, with The Sadies’ Mike Belitsky on drums – are his most pressing concern, but two of his other former glories remain active as well, one on the comeback trail after a lengthy hiatus. “I’ve got three records in the pipeline,” the affable Pernice explains. “There’s a new Pernice Brothers record that’s going to come out [this] year, this New Mendicants record I’m making and I was in a band called the
Scud Mountain Boys back in the day, and we broke up in ‘97 but we’ve re-formed and made a new record, so there’s three new records coming soon.” These days Pernice resides in Toronto, Canada, and it’s in these climes where they’re both foreigners that his relationship with Blake has flourished in the last couple of years. There are a lot of parallels between the work of Teenage Fanclub and The Pernice Brothers – they both deal in variants of sublime, melodic pop – so once they found themselves as relative neighbours a collaboration almost seemed inevitable. Pernice seems excited by the fact that the creative process for the new outfit has been really collaborative. “We were bringing stuff in separately, but certainly nothing finished,” he tells. “For me the tunes I’ve been bringing into this band most resemble sketches more than on any other record I’ve made – these have been less complete than on any other record I’ve done – so I really do feel like it’s a collaboration. It’s a
collaboration more than just one guy coming in with a completely finished song. And while their impending visit to Australian shores doesn’t involve the full band, this rapport that Pernice and Blake have built up in recent times will still have plenty of chance to come to the fore. “These shows are going to be just Norman and I, playing together,” Pernice reveals. “We’ll sing some of the songs we’ve written for our new record, I’ll probably sing and play along with some Fanclub stuff and he’ll play a few songs of mine – we’ll do it that way. I wouldn’t say we’re going to ‘wing it’, but I think it will be slightly casual. I just want to make sure that the songs are enjoyable for people to hear.”
WHO: Joe Pernice & Norman Blake WHAT: Australia 2013 EP (Spunk) WHERE: The Grace Emily WHEN: Thu Feb 7
SUN MAR 3 CLIPSAL 500: KISS (US), MÖTLEY CRÜE (US) & THE BEARDS @ Victoria Pk MON MAR 4 DEEP PURPLE (UK) & JOURNEY (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre TUE MAR 5 NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre WED MAR 6 LUKA BLOOM (Ire) @ Governor Hindmarsh FRI MAR 8 – MON MAR 11 WOMADELAIDE: JIMMY CLIFF (Jam), HUGH MASEKELA (South Africa), THE CAT EMPIRE and so many, many more @ Botanic Pk
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FRI MAR 8 MXPX (US) @ Fowler’s Live THE MARK OF CAIN (SA/US) @ HQ
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SAT MAR 9 SOUNDWAVE: METALLICA (US), LINKIN PARK (US), PARAMORE (UK) and so many, many more @ Bonython Pk SUN MAR 10 DINOSAUR JR (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh RONAN KEATING (Ire) & BRIAN MCFADDEN (Ire) @ The Depot TUE MAR 12 BOB MOULD (US) @ Fowler’s Live ARLO GUTHRIE (US) & SARAH LEE GUTHRIE AND JOHNNY IRION (US) @ Trinity Sessions OPETH (Swe) @ HQ WED MAR 13 RUTHIE FOSTER (US) & JORDIE LANE (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh ALASDAIR FRASER (Scot) @ Guthries (Prospect) CHRIS SMITHER (US) @ Church Of The Trinity THU MAR 14 THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION (US) @ Fowler’s Live PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (US) @ HQ FRI MAR 15 TITLE FIGHT (US) & LUCA BRASI (Tas) @ Enigma
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Twelve Foot Ninja will create all sorts of mayhem while they’re here rocking Enigma Bar. Steve ‘Stevic’ McKay talks about the band’s new album Silent Machine and Project 12, where the rockers released digital tracks and a corresponding comic as they approached the release of the album. “The album has been getting a really good response, especially having started the tour,” McKay says. “So far, so good man!” Was it a case of blowing out the cobwebs for your first show in Newcastle to kick off 2013? “Definitely, there was a bit of apprehension before the gig but once we got up there we just went for it. The crowd was really responsive and I think there was 50,000 there! Not quite,
but it was good and we can’t complain. If it’s like that for the rest of the tour I think we’ll be really stoked.” Project 12 was a really great initiative to promote the album. Is that the sort of thing you’ll keep doing to keep the concept of albums alive? “We’re always trying to push the envelope and try to deliver things in a different way. The way the industry is evolving I think that’s what you have to do because people expect more and more. If you put Jurassic Park on now people will say how shit the dinosaurs look, but when I first watched it, it was fucking amazing. I think you have to keep evolving and we have a couple of tricks up our sleeve. The album has been out for a while so it’s about how to reinvigorate it after the initial effect has worn off, which is very interesting. I won’t jinx it by talking about it before I’ve actually done it.” Is it frustrating that people only have an
attention span that lasts for five minutes? “That’s a really good question and I think you’ve nailed it in the sense that’s the logic behind delivering more than just the songs. That’s the concept behind the comics and we try and produce an album that you may listen to 10 times that you’ll hear something new. That’s what I like to get out of albums. There are so many different tracks that they grow to like them. It is about trying to create as much value for the punter so that they hang in there and not leaving them hanging by following up with content. A lot of bands make albums and celebrate that and sit on their hands a bit, missing opportunities.” WHO: Twelve Foot Ninja WHAT: Silent Machine (Volkanik/MGM) WHERE: Enigma (with The Killgirls and Mayweather) WHEN: Fri Feb 1
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Thursday 31st ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Franky F (6pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty CAVERN CLUB – band night CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: The Violet Crams, Thursdays Friend and Teen Rebel Pirates. Front Bar: Paul Gurry DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Trivia Night (7.30pm) DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) DUKE OF YORK – Beer Garden: DJ Mitchy Burnz. Front Room: Speakerboxx and DJ Skinny B ED CASTLE – Band Room: live bands (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm) EMU HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – The Giveaways
GILBERT STREET HOTEL – TARA CARRAGHER DUO (7PM) GOOLWA AQUATIC CLUB – Shannon Noll GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Sleepless MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) NORWOOD HOTEL – Open Mic Night PJ O’BRIENS – DJ Dylan PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango ROCKET BAR – 8 Bit Kidz featuring resident DJs Stubanger, Hank & Osk and the Powderoom Posse SUGAR – ITDE Deejays and interstate/ international guests SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Brenton Manser (7pm) THE LION HOTEL – Clearway TONSLEY HOTEL – Acoustic 4-Play (8.30pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music
Friday 1st ADELAIDE CASINO – Chandelier Bar: Jacqui Lim (6pm) ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: Jaki J (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar + Arena: Mark Usher (5pm) Lounge Bar: Franky F (6pm) Johnny G (8pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – karaoke (8pm)
AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BELAIR HOTEL – One Planet BLISS ORGANIC CAFÉ – Rob McDade Solo (6pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Van Demons Band BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – Dance Club with DJ BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CLOVERCREST HOTEL – The Scribes COOPERS ALEHOUSE: WALLAROO – Shannon Noll CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) Ride Into The Sun DJs (1am) Band Room: Anchors and With Like Wolves DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Pete Jenkins Duo DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs Derek Lang, Eric Falcon and Lukky K DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Copy & Paiste ED CASTLE – Full Tilt live bands and party DJs ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs EMPIRE POOL LOUNGE – DJ (8pm) EMU HOTEL – Rock The Boss (8pm) ENIGMA – Twelve Foot Ninja, The Killgirls and Mayweather (Bar 2) Filthy Lucre, Ratgod, Dirty Bird and The Unset (Bar 3) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Undercover Duo EXETER HOTEL – Remedy EXETER ON RUNDLE – Youth & Wonder and Bubonic Babe FINDON HOTEL – karaoke
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – GLEN & THE PEANUTBUTTER MEN, THE SCABS AND EXPLODING CACTUS FOWLER’S LIVE – Generation X GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: The Superjesus and Angels Of Gung-Ho GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Slingshot Dragster with The Blind Heard GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Steve Simon HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – Acoustic Highway HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Hijinx with DJs
HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOPE INN – Tomboy HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Dimitra (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs HQ – Festival Flashdance LIMBO – DJs LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with h Laura Lee MARBLE BAR – Uni Night with DJs MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Katrina Caton (6.30pm) MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – Happy Cat’s Trio OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Harvest ORIENTAL – Shane Wolf (4.30pm) Slyde (8pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Boris Loves To Boogie PJ O’BRIENS – Kopy Catz RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ Snake & DJ Rupheo (9pm) RED SQUARE – DJs REX HOTEL – karaoke and Redline ROB ROY HOTEL – E’nuf Said (6pm) DJ Smiley (8pm) ROCKET BAR – Abracadabra featuring resident DJs The Shiny Brights DJs ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Dino Jag Solo (7.30pm)
SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8PM) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Gumbo Ya-Ya SETTLERS TAVERN – Wildcard SMITHFIELD HOTEL – Diskonnect SOUTH ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – Theo STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance. Downstairs: DJs play retro SUGAR – TGI Funky with Ben Alibi and HMC SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Monsieur Swing (7.30pm) SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJs TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio Flamenco (7.30pm) TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – DJ Wolfman (9pm) THE COVE TAVERN – Side FX
THE ELEPHANT – Kinetek and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY – Ch@t Room THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Troy Harrison (4.45pm) Flaming Sambucas Duo (9pm) Chrysler Bar: The Henchmen (9.30pm) VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs VILLAGE TAVERN – Animal House WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Streamliners (9pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – Rockweiler ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs
Saturday 2nd ALMA TAVERN – MetroRetro ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J. Upstairs: Bongo Madness with DJs Ed Law and Scotty (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Becky Blake (6pm) Heidy De Ruyter (8pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Unknown To Man (6pm) BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – karaoke with Gemma BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CROWN & ANCHOR – Kingston Downs with guests plus DJ Azz CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with Nicole (8pm) DRAGONFLY – rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and everything in between DUKE OF YORK – DJ Mitchy Burnz, DJ Parry, DJ Skinny B and MC Scotty ED CASTLE – Plus One Saturdays with live bands and party DJs (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends
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FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – EAST TEXAS, GENE FURY’S CADILLAC EXPRESS AND THREE DOLLAR BILL GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm)
GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ MARKY POLO (8PM) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Lucky Seven’s Ninth Birthday Party with special guests GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Mesa Cosa with The Molting Vultures GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays with DJs and MCs GRENFELL 110 – Triumvirate Ents presents: Weekly Summer Sessions featuring DJs Ragz, Jesse Proverbs and John Spencer and Daly (10pm) HACKNEY HOTEL – DJ
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SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ACOUSTIC SESSIONS SEBEL PLAYFORD â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acoustically Raw SLUG â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Point 05 SUGAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Prince Aaronak, Driller, Derek Lang plus a host of international guests SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ playing retro and requests TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Flight 69 TEQUILA REA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE ELEPHANT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Streaker and DJ G-Rillz THE LION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Zkye & Damo (9pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Robin George (8.30pm) VALLEY INN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke VICTORIA HOTEL: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;HALLORAN HILL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rumours WALKERS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Sessions (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Spiral Dance (8.30pm) WINDSOR HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Jump â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jive WOODCROFT TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke (8pm) ZHIVAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; High Heels DJs
Sunday 3rd ALMA TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday School ARKABA HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Top Room: Miss Multinational Fashion Show (6pm) BACCHUS BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Harmonics (5pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Eric The Falcon
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SEMAPHORE PALAIS – The Incredibles SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Pete Cornelius & The Devilles SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Simon Hudson (6pm) TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) DJ Junior (5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Sophie May Fly (2pm) VIRGINIA NURSERY – Paul Stubbings WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm) WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi & Shaggy (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Yearlings and Sweet Jean ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs
ADELAIDE TOWN HALL – Australian Chamber Orchestra: Tognetti’s Mozart AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson CHRISTIES BEACH RSL – Acoustic Rendezvous (7.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – DJs Stevie & Duncan and Cranker Comedy DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Bitches Of Zeus DJs GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm)
Monday 4th BULL & BEAR – Muso’s Jam (8pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Mary Webb Acoustic EMBASSY HOTEL – karaoke EXETER ON RUNDLE – Truce GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ultimate Quiz with Graham Lawrence (7pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Complete Trivia RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jam Night (8pm) SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon
GILBERT STREET HOTEL – THE AIRBENDERS PRESENT TUESDAY ORGAN SESSIONS GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Music Works GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Pub Art HILTON HOTEL – Complete Trivia HQ – The Presets MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm) SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller THE GOODY – Complete Trivia THE LION HOTEL – Acoustic Sessions TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – DJs Ryley and Dylan Sanders (8pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Acoustic Raw Jam WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music
Wednesday 6th ARKABA HOTEL – Salsa classes (6pm) BOTANIC BAR – Gemma CENTRAL DISTRICTS FOOTBALL CLUB – Complete Trivia CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Geek with DJ Tr!p DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Dan’s Open Micc Night (7.30pm) DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Bento (What’s in n Yo’ Box?!) EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music Exchange (7.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Curtis FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – Complete Trivia a
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – SUNNYBOY AL’S KRAZY KARAOKE GLENELG FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Ron Hawkins HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Sports Bar: 888 Poker (7.30pm) Dining: Complete Trivia (7.30pm) HIGHWAY – The Combi Room HQ – Dancers Extravaganza KENSINGTON HOTEL – The Fiddle Chicks (7.30pm) MARION HOTEL – Adelaide Comedy (8pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm) m) SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with th Margi (7.30pm) SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular and Mr Whiskas THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill TONSLEY TAVERN BAR – Quiz Night (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Wednesdays (7pm) m) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music
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Mindblender Immediately following what is “one of the worst interviews I’ve ever had”, Rip It Up has the task of cleansing veteran comedian and honorary Aussie Ross Noble of the unpleasantness he’s just endured. Naturally, the conversation leads to debaucherous 21st celebrations, being gifted with the keys to the city of Port Pirie and serial killer clowns. We think it went well. his year marks the milestone of Noble’s 21st year as a stand-up comedian. While Noble may be back in his native homeland of England, he is not unfamiliar with the expectation of his previously adopted country to celebrate a 21st properly. “I was thinking of maybe getting members of my family to come up on stage throughout my show to tell embarrassing stories,” Noble says. “Actually, what I should do is get people who have been to all my gigs over the last 21 years to come up and tell horrendous stories about my shows – that would work, wouldn’t it?” Well, it would. But Noble soon realises it wouldn’t pan out quite like a typical 21st celebration.
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“I wouldn’t have celebrated properly until the celebrations have been covered on A Current Affair,” he admits. “The headline will be Over 15,000 Revellers At A 21st Celebration Show Destroy Someone’s House.” For many, by the time they reach 21 years of their career it’s nearly time to retire. Considering Noble started at 15 years old, he isn’t at that point yet. “I was the Shirley Temple of the comedy world,” Noble brags. “I started out by turning up at the local comedy club and the guy there said, ‘Yeah, no problem at all – get yourself on’. Luckily, it went well.” Noble looks back on his early days fondly, although he now confesses his greatest asset was having a teenager’s brazen disposition. “There were some moments that were absolutely horrendous, but at the time I didn’t see it as being that bad. When you’re that age things don’t register in the same way, you’re just like, ‘Oh, I’m in a room full of drunks and they’re all yelling at me… Fair enough’.” Even though things sometimes went badly, Noble isn’t surprised he’s still a stand-up comedian 21 years on. “There was never a plan B. If you’re going to do something, don’t give yourself the option to fail and that way it makes you work towards it more. I was only ever like, ‘Well this needs
to work out, or I’ll be homeless’.” This dedication has led to Noble’s newest tour, Mindblender, which will see him again playing shows in big arenas like the Adelaide Entertainment Centre for the Fringe, but also smaller rural gigs that Noble enjoys just as much, if not more. Noble lights up when asked to recall his favourite memory from a rural show, responding enthusiastically. “The Mayor or Deputy Mayor of Port Pirie was at the gig last time I was there and I asked him if I could have the keys to the city. He was like, ‘Yeah! Yeah, of course you can!’ - not realising that he didn’t have the authority to do that - so when I turned up the next day at the council offices he gave me an old shed key on a bit of ribbon. It was great.” Noble’s continuing relationship with rural Australia is chiefly derived from two factors: fond memories of the 26,000km charity trip across Australia he made in support of the 2009 Victorian bushfires that claimed his St Andrews home, as well as his need to mix things up. “When you spend 20-odd years constantly on the road you get to go to most places – but don’t always experience them. In the last few years I’ve tried to properly look at places and find out what they’re all about. I’ve seen more of Australia than most Australians.” The need to shake things isn’t a restless indication that he’s looking at retiring anytime soon, with Mindblender perhaps just marking the middle of his career. “I think with stand-up you get better with
He’ll Have You In Stitches Ross Noble’s latest endeavour is starring in British low-budget horror/comedy, Stitches, which Noble anticipates will have an Australian DVD/Blu-ray release in March. Noble happily gives a detailed insight into what we can expect. “I play a scummy children’s entertainer who gets accidentally killed by some kids at a children’s party [he gets a knife through his face]. Six years later the kids are teenagers and he gets brought back to life by these black magic clowns. He gets revenge on the teenagers and dispenses them by using clowning techniques. He rips people’s innards out, blows them up and makes them into balloon animals – well, intestines animals. Oh, and he kicks someone’s head off with really big shoes… It’s not really a family movie.”
age. I think now I’m much better than I was 21 years ago, and I’ll be far better than I am now in 21 years time… If I can be bothered.” WHO: Ross Noble WHERE: Adelaide Entertainment Centre WHEN: Sat Mar 16
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Django Unchained (MA) Writer/director/co-star (spoilers?) Quentin Tarantino’s longtimecoming follow-up to Inglourious Basterds again warps history to his own extraordinary ends, and while Basterds upset some (but not all) with its rethinking of the fate of the Third Reich, this, of course, has provoked even louder outrage as it bravely digs up the past that America desperately wants to forget. After deliberately old-school credits, slave Django ( Jamie Foxx) is ‘bought’ by dentist-cum-bounty hunter Dr King Schultz (Christoph Waltz of Basterds) some two years before the outbreak of the Civil War, and introduced to the business of doing in wanted men in long, almost leisurely, but still wonderfully witty and violent sequences that only Tarantino could manage or dare. After a profitable winter, the two colleagues journey to the Mississippi plantation ‘Candyland’ to hopefully locate and liberate Django’s wife
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Brunhilde (Kerry Washington), although Calvin Candie (formidable Leonardo DiCaprio) won’t stand for that, and surely we’re building up to great vengeance and furious anger ain’t we? Cast throughout with guest stars (funny Jonah Hill), culty types (Franco Nero, the original Django) and Tarantino faves (mostly Samuel L Jackson in a role as servant Steven that seriously pushes the damn envelope), this mightily epic, gorgeous-to-behold saga is headlined by sensational work from Foxx, Waltz and a fearsomely dandified DiCaprio, who’s never been better - or nastier. And anyone who wants to insist that this modern masterpiece is sensationalist, irresponsible nonsense, or that QT is a racist who delights in mocking the age of slavery, deserves to be clapped in irons! Mad Dog Bradley
Dave Grohl’s Sound City Event Cinemas Marion
This Grohl-directed doco, chronicling the history of America’s greatest unsung recording studio, screens for one night only: Thu Jan 31, when this issue’s hot off the presses, at Event Cinemas Marion. Details: eventcinemas.com.au.
Jacob’s Creek Outdoor Cinema Jacob’s Creek Visitor Centre, Barossa Valley Way, Rowland Flat, South Australia
This week’s JCOC offering is the allEnglish-star-stuffed filming of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (MA). Details: jacobscreek.com and their Facebook page.
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas
NT Live’s version of Arthur Wing Pintero’s farce The Magistrate, starring John Lithgow, screens at the PN on Sat Feb 2 and Sun Feb 3. Details: ntlive.info and palacecinemas.com.au.
Flight (MA)
The Guilt Trip (M)
Zero Dark Thirty (MA)
Director/co-producer Robert Zemeckis’ first live-action pic since Cast Away (don’t even think about his tedious motion-capture animations) is genuinely morally ambiguous despite its major budget and big stars, and features a performance by Denzel Washington that daringly flies in the face of his noble previous pics. His Captain Whip Whitaker, a boozy, drug-friendly pilot whose secret life as an addict hasn’t detracted from his semi-legendary status, is in the cockpit during a flight to Atlanta when the aircraft’s hydraulics fail and he must terrifyingly turn the plane upsidedown in order to crash-land it in a field, leaving six dead but 96 saved. However, the investigation into the incident, conducted by lawyer/spin doctor Hugh Lang (Don Cheadle) with help from Whip’s pal Charlie Anderson (Bruce Greenwood), tests the ethics of all involved (and the movie itself), as Whip attempts to dry out with help from a recovering junkie (Kelly Reilly as Nicole), and everything leads to a lengthy, suspenseful public hearing where Melissa Leo’s prosecutor Ellen Block cross-examines with dangerously honeyed tones. While the scarily-sustained disaster sequence herein impresses, what makes this work is the cast, with strong support from Cheadle, Reilly (very fine in a role that could have gone to a ‘name’ player) and a funny but expertly controlled John Goodman as dealer Harling Mays, introduced to the tune of The Rolling Stones’ Sympathy For The Devil. But it’s still Washington’s film, and there’s no doubt that audiences used to him as Malcolm X or ‘Hurricane’ Carter will be appalled by the sight of him completely off his face. Mad Dog Bradley
After pouring his inheritance into developing and marketing his new cleaning product, organic chemist Andy Brewster (Seth Rogen) pays a reluctant visit to his inveterate, M&Ms addicted mother, Joyce (Barbara Streisand), before setting out across the country to meet potential buyers. When a late night conversation brings about the story of Joyce’s lost love, Andy secretly tracks him down in San Francisco, and in order to reunite the pair, he invites Joyce to come on his road trip. Now, as if the pressure of risking everything he has on a household cleaner wasn’t enough, Andy also has to endure eight days in a hatchback with his mother. In her first leading role in 16 years (The Mirror Has Two Faces), Streisand nails the part of a stereotypical, over-loving, slightly neurotic Jewish mother, demonstrating an authentic rapport with Seth Rogen, who almost plays the straight man, and does a decent job of it. Another harmless and light-hearted film to add to the cache of choreographer (Bring It On, Step Up) turned director (Step Up, 27 Dresses) Anne Fletcher, The Guilt Trip is full of old fashioned road trip humour, and not as predictable as you might suspect, largely thanks to screenwriter Dan Fogelman (Tangled, Crazy, Stupid, Love), who always likes to head towards the expected, then turn slightly, or considerably, in the other direction. Hardly a masterpiece, but good clean fun, here’s a good opportunity to spend some quality quiet time with mum. When did you last call her, anyway? Kat McCarthy
Director/co-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer/co-producer Mark Boal’s follow-up to their award-winning, if bitterly divisive, The Hurt Locker is, arguably, again not quite what it might appear: whereas Locker was less about war than what it is to have a death wish, ZDT is less about the suspenseful true-life search for Osama bin Laden than the red tape one woman must wade through to prove that a mean old bastard is living in suburban Pakistan. Maya ( Jessica Chastain, perfectly cast as a character that reportedly suffers from some compositing and artistic license) is a CIA agent introduced in 2003 observing the torture (sorry, ‘interrogation’) of a terror suspect and then, over a frustrating period of years, sticking to her conviction that bin Laden’s hiding in plain sight, and butting heads with the blokes who run the whole gargantuan (and at times chaotic) operation, and are torn between the fear of making fools of themselves and wanting to blow shit up. And the first near-two-thirds of the drama details her fighting with superiors (particularly Kyle Chandler’s Joseph Bradley and James Gandolfini’s CIA Director), gaining support and watching as friends depart (and die), before we finally get to the SEAL-storming stuff which proves to be surprisingly effective, given that we know exactly what’s going to happen. Almost uninvolving at times, as we’re initially subjected to lots of technical jargon and talk, talk, talk, Bigelow’s film nevertheless does eventually get properly gripping, and benefits greatly from Chastain’s subtly powerhouse performance. And yes, it does end on a bit of an anticlimax - but, then again, so did Osama bin Laden. Mad Dog Bradley
Opel Moonlight Cinema Botanic Park
Zoolander (M) is one of the coming week’s attractions at the Opel Moonlight Cinema. Details: moonlight.com.au.
Opening But Unrated Silver Linings Playbook (M), from director David O Russell (who also adapted Matthew Quick’s novel), features Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Chris Tucker, Julia Stiles and Jacki Weaver in her Oscar-nominated role.
Summer Scoops Film Festival 2013 Mercury Cinema
This year’s festival of 17 ‘flavour-filled’ films continues, with titles including Compliance, Sightseers, Anton Corbijn and Roman Polanski docos and more. And be there for a screening of director/producer Owen Elliott and writer/producer Michael Winchester’s Aussie Bathing Franky (MA) on Thu Jan 31 at 7pm, when this issue’s hot off the presses - as Elliott will be in attendance to discuss this moving drama. Details: mercurycinema.org.au.
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In 2011 Adelaide was hit by a wave of Mexican – all of a sudden, Mexican eateries started popping up all over the place. Now the latest food trend has travelled across the border and settled somewhere in the heart of the USA, with the latest food craze being delicious, greasy Americaninspired eats like burgers, hot-dogs and chicken wings. Burger bars are starting to pockmark the city as a result, which we’re certainly not complaining about! Here is a peek into three new places where you can feed your face.
Tucked in a neat little cube on the corner of O’Connell St, Burgastronomy is a new gourmet burger bar that is about quality instead of quantity. There’s only a few menu items instead of three pages, but each of these items are done to perfection. Beef, chicken and vegetarian burgers, a few sides and snacks such as corn fritters, jalapeno poppers and fried chicken comprise the menu, with highlights being the ‘Signature’ angus beef burger for $12, the ‘Hot Bacon Bird’ chicken burger for $13 and sweet potato chips for $3 with each burger purchase. Small but well-executed, Burgastronomy is the place to go if you want a decent feed but without the big, heaving restaurant atmosphere.
WHERE: Unit 9, 1-19 O’Connell St, North Adelaide WHEN: Tue – Fri 11.45am – 2.45pm & 5.30pm – 9.30pm, Sat 12pm – 10.30pm and Sun 12pm – 9.30pm INFO: burgastronomy.com.au
Local Libations Fancy Burger
WHERE: 17 Synagogue Plc, Adelaide WHEN: Daily 11am - 9pm INFO: fancyburger.com.au
Chuckwagon From the individuals behind Mother’s Milk comes Chuckwagon, a new American-themed street food bar run under the watch of a veteran Texan chef. Pushing Tex Mex food in a well-serviced Australian environment, sleek décor, Moroccan tiles, a downto-earth vibe and gentle hip hop are just some of the things you can take away from your dining experience at Chuckwagon. The idea is to rock up and grab everything from Portobello chips to jalapeno ‘poppers’ (jalapenos stuffed with cream cheese wrapped in bacon) or get really involved with some slow-cooked pulled pork buns, American-style hot dogs and deep fried pickles. The food is cheap, starting at $4 and going as high as $14 for ‘The Ultimate’ burger with two patties, bacon, two types of cheese, lettuce, tomato and mayo. While the venue can’t currently serve alcohol a liquor licence is underway, the burger bar is hoping to serve local, microbrewery beers and fresh sangria in the coming months. WHERE: 175 O’Connell St, North Adelaide WHEN: Tue – Sun from 11.30am – 9pm INFO: 8267 4070
No, Fancy Burger isn’t exactly a new burger bar, but its new Adelaide shopfront certainly is! The popular Blackwood-based eatery has boldly opened a new store in Synagogue Place off Rundle St, an alleyway that has never really housed anything other than nightclubs and market bazaars in the past, thus making it a welcome addition. Fancy Burger uses only South Australian produce and their patties are 95 percent fat free, so you can feel a little less guilty while stuffing it into your gob. If you’re not in for a burger, there are also steak sandwiches and hot dogs available. They also have a range of ‘Fancy Sauces’, which they make fresh in the store.
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Prancing Pony Brewery ‘Fire Brewed’ Amber Ale The talks from our treasurer around cutting the red tape of beer labels, in theory, sounds wonderful. However when the amount of labels far outweighs the amount of actual breweries, es, my great fear is that, while contract brewers will be laughing hing all the way to bank, just how unique can we expect each to o be? The creative minds behind nd Prancing Pony have left that headache for others to ponder er and are producing (in their own brewery) quirky ales up in Mt Barker’s less glamorous us industrial precinct. Using actual fire to start the boilingg process it’s obvious once tasted their amber ale has been truly hand-crafted. A full-bodied number with great complexity, some caramel malt notes are guided cleverly by a good hit of citrus dominant hops flavours. A persistent bitterness gives great length and finishes dry. Join an old mate at the bar with some salted pistachios and argue about where Kings Of Leon went wrong. Cheers.
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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04 It is possible, in the kind of light that is shining this week, to see the slight mismatch between feelings and thoughts. This opens up the possibility of balancing things out. There are no major frictions, yet life is not so dull that you have to create havoc. Find a gentle beauty.
Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 Hanging with friends is the warmest place to be. On a deeper level there is an issue with patience. Your mind is going at one pace and your feelings at another. It is your feelings that are slower and wiser. Life is insisting that you slow down your imagined version of reality.
WHAT: Rem’s Inaugural Super Art Fun Happy Adventure 3000 WHERE: Espionage Gallery, Suite 1, Level 2, 93 Rundle Mall, Adelaide WHEN: Thu Feb 7 (6pm – 10pm) – Sun Feb 16
Capricorn 22.12/19.01 It is in solitude that your heart regenerates and gives birth to the sweetness of loves and likes. The more you trust this space and cease trying to avoid it, or distract yourself from it, the quicker you will get the goodies. There are no short cuts. Courage in aloneness breeds love.
Aquarius 20.01/18.02 The sun, Mercury and Mars, are firing you up. Apollo, as the sun in Greek mythology, was, among other things, the breaker of family curses. Be yourself, with all the integrity you can muster - and you will slip out of all moulds. Insight is close - and momentum too.
Virgo 23.08/22.09 The general message is to let go. There is no love borne by preventing others from enjoying their freedom. To do so sends yours up in smoke too. Though this might be a difficult moment, it is an important part of the cycle of eternal regeneration. It is autumn that brings spring.
Cracked aerosol paint, marred portraits of infamous political figures and subtle, gentle use of colour comprises the work of local artist Remi Picheta, otherwise known as Rem. The Adelaide creative will put together some of her best and newest works in one of Espionage’s most boldly titled events, Rem’s Inaugural Super Art Fun Happy Adventure 3000. There will be snacks on the go on the opening night from Rem’s mum and sweet tunes playing. Head along and have a cider or a beer.
Stick with what you know to be strengthening and healing. If you get into a tangle over differing ideas, or ideals, you’ll come off second best. Your strength is in your belly, not your head. Intellectual differences don’t mean much in the long run. Stay steady and whole.
Leo 23.07/22.08 The more you crave relationship, the more you notice that you are presently on the opposite side of what is. The Aquarian sun is inspiring most people to embrace their freedom and individuality. The world might seem aloof. Protect your longing. Let it ripen.
Pisces 19.02/20.03 Others may say that you are slowing them down – but you’re not. Those who are in tune with your sensitivity and feeling will understand that you are being the turtle and not the hare – which of course will win you the race. Insist on the simple miracle of good listening.
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11 Frome St, Adelaide Astray-lia And The Furrowed Brows Wed Feb 6 - Thu Feb 28
59 Port Rd, Adelaide Provocateurs Thu Feb 7 – Sat Mar 9
Astray-lia And The Furrowed Brows is an exhibition that invites you to encounter very unusual and participatory artwork inspired by walkabouts through the Australian bushland. With themes surrounding the clash of Australian culture and our icons, artist Karlien Van Rooyen aims to provoke deeper thinking about the macabre history of Australian colonisation and the pressing social and environmental issues modern society currently faces. All materials in the exhibition have been 100 percent salvaged. There will be hands-on interactive craft to take home on the opening night. Hey, who doesn’t love craft? Opening: Wed Feb 6 from 6pm - 8pm
Provocateurs will showcase three local artists working within vastly different fields. The exhibition will feature Joseanne Vinsentin with her densely layered, digital prints full of cultural symbolism, Russel Leonard with his intricate embroideries and quirky portraits and Jane Blacket’s mystical and dreamlike images crafted using tabletop graphics. Head on down and you might just be able to acquire a nifty tea towel for your kitchen. Opening: Thu Feb 7 from 6pm – 8pm
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Cancer 22.06/22.07 The moon begins her week in Cancer, giving you a sense of strength and self-worth. That warm feeling in your belly is you feeling good about yourself. Others may be on a completely different wavelength but it doesn’t faze you. They can have their reality and you yours.
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As you ponder what the truth is and where it might be hiding, there are big changes going on under the surface. Old ideas that have outlived their time are crumbling like deserted cities. New shoots are breaking through the ruins. Love is creating space for the next adventure.
Gemini 21.05/21.06 With Mercury in Aquarius, mixed in with your willingness to experiment with any idea that fascinates, there’s every chance that you will be utterly absorbed with left-field interests, madcap schemes and idealised intrigues. You may come up with a genius solution – or not.
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Taurus 21.04/20.05 Though the sun is in airy Aquarius, there are a lot of Capricornian themes running through your chart at the moment. Capricorn is about getting your structures right, about having a good sense of what it is that you are building – and then figuring out how to make it fun.
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Iggy & Lou Lou Grand Circle Has Launched Buy it. Wear it. Sell it. Three simple ideas that make sense at face value but not always in execution. This was creator Jessie Cawte’s experience with trying to sell some items online from her too-full wardrobe, resulting in frustration and wasted opportunities. To simplify things, Jessie has created Grand Circle, an online destination solely to buy and sell women’s pre-loved fashion. As only clothing can be sold on Grand Circle, it is the perfect place to offload your statement pieces, impulse buys and worn-once items while hunting for something special to replace it. And thus, the circle continues. Grand Circle has now launched, so once you register and link your PayPal account you are all ready to set up shop, make some spare cash and – more important – spare wardrobe space. To register, visit grandcircle.com.au.
Does My Butt Look Moist In This? Mmmm. Yes. While you would expect that guy with the Sham Wow to be plugging the concept of jeans that moisturise you on that 24/7 infomercial channel, Wrangler – yes, Wrangler – is actually the brand behind this innovative, remarkable and absolutely ludicrous idea. Known as the Denim Spa Jeans, the skinny-fit have been treated with hydrating oils and butters such as apricot kernel, passion fruit and rosehip oils and shea butter. The three different finishes will be aloe vera, olive extract and smooth legs. Why, you ask? To help fight cellulite, silly. Perhaps best targeted for the poorly flexible, and time-poor, considering that 95 percent of women will face cellulite in their life, Wrangler may have struck gold. Or oil. Lots of oil.
Wrangler Spa Denim Jeans are available from asos.com.au. RRP approximately $140.
Since its establishment in 2003 by Melbourne artist and designer Irish Grishin Selzer and her partner Peter, Iggy & Lou Lou has pioneered the revival of porcelain jewellery by making it as bad-ass as it is pretty. The collections are deemed as “perfect for modern day lovers” due to their sense of romance and history with elements of humour – with the new collection of ceramic skulls summing up the label’s mantra perfectly. Whether you look at the rose-decorated skulls as a romantic symbol of compromise (flowers for the girl, skull for the boy?) or simply a big steaming pile of awesome, it’s no surprise the brand is gaining traction and international attention from the likes of actress Emily Blunt, M83’s Anthony Gonzalez and ex-trainwreck Nicole Richie. Made of durable quartz porcelain in the creator’s home studio, each piece is something to be admired, treasured and probably the coolest thing ever you could pass on to your grandkids. For more products and info, visit iggyandloulou.com.
Harris Scarfe Moving Sale Making the final steps from the old to new, Harris Scarfe are doing what anyone does while moving house – throwing nearly everything away and starting anew. Their plan over the next six weeks is to clear everything from their current location on Level 1, Rundle Mall Plaza before taking up their new multi-million dollar residency in the soonto-be-opened Rundle Place with completely fresh products. Apart from up to 60 percent off fashion, the same discount range is also offered for homewares and manchester, with up to 40 percent off electrical goods. If you need to stock up on just about anything to make sure your year is kicked off on the right track, now is your opportune moment. Unleash the bargain hunter and impulse buyer within – and be up to 60 percent less guilty about doing so. Harris Scarfe Rundle Place will open on Tue Mar 19.
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Mumford & Sons The Road To Red Rocks
Not Your Ordinary Housewife
The Expendables 2 Lockout Roadshow / MA / 98/102 Mins
Roadshow / MA / 91/94 Mins
Less tediously ludicrous than the first film, director Simon West and co-writer/ star Sylvester Stallone’s sequel is another ageing-he-man-stuffed action epic with a brazenly silly sense of humour and oodles of cheesy heroics, goofy in-jokes and general ego-stroking. Barney Ross (Sly) and his boys (including Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren and Jet Li) are introduced during a curtainraising opener where they (spoilers?) rescue Trench (Ah-nuld Schwarzenegger), and then there’s barely time for backslapping, getting home and ‘character development’ before Church (Bruce Willis) shows up again to send them on another dangerous mission, this time with (gasp!) a chick (Nan Yu). And yep, they get to the Soviet Union (no, really) and run afoul of a baddie called (no joke) ‘Vilain’ ( Jean-Claude Van Damme!), who’s doing bad things at a Russian plutonium storage mine and makes our expendable heroes awfully annoyed. With that gettingon cast (as well as, of course, Chuck Norris) having more fun this time out, this is hardly what you’d call ‘good’, but it’s still knowingly trashy fun that offers just a little more firepower than the Vietnam War. Special features include commentary, gags and more on the standard disc, and all that and more on the Blu-ray. MDB
Breathlessly advertised as ‘From The Producers Of Taken’, which primarily means co-writer/executive producer/ex ‘enfant terrible’ Luc Besson, and borrowing simpering star Maggie Grace from that film and its unpopular sequel, this is mostly notable for having little to do with those pics and instead cheekily ripping off the basic plot thrust of John Carpenter’s original Escape From New York. A falsely-convicted, supposedly-gone-bad government agent called Snow (Guy Pearce trying hard to out-Kurt Russell Kurt Russell) is given one chance to redeem himself after the bleeding-hearted Emilie Warnock (Grace), the President’s daughter, is, well, ‘taken’ while aboard MS One, an experimental space prison in which the Earth’s 500 most dangerous criminals are kept in an artificial sleep, and a violent uprising commences semi-headed by Alex (the underacting Vincent Regan) and Hydell (the massively overacting Joseph Gilgun, far better in UK TV’s Misfits). And while Pearce certainly appears to be having fun as he goes up against an army of slobbering psychos, you won’t be. Special features on the standard disc include cast and crew interviews only, while the Blu-ray has those, deleted scenes and more. MDB
Nikki Stern / Allen & Unwin / 346pp / $29.99
UMA / M / 88 Mins
Folk’s four-man wolf-pack are back and better than ever, taking the long ol’ road to Red Rocks, an idyllic amphitheatre in central Colorado. Transport yourself on this sensational 12-track journey, expertly shot by Fred & Nick, capturing the charm of the Red Rocks setting. This particular stop on the Gentlemen Of The Road tour provides a festival atmosphere yet offers an unbelievable intimacy that makes you feel as though they are singing only to you. Yes Marcus Mumford, I will let you be my Little Lion Man. Stage banter a-plenty, snippets of interviews and some hand-held camera action of Mumford in transit makes for a well-rounded addition to the front of stage magnificence. Little commentary is needed to highlight the talent of Mumford & Sons; their music is absolutely flawless in execution. Not to mention Marcus Mumford and those pipes; how he can maintain such a high standard of delivery baffles me. The Road To Red Rocks captures what this travelling circus do best: deliver endless amounts of energy in their live show with passion just melting off the stage. Sharni Honor
Stern’s story, written after she overcame cancer, is an extraordinary one, and while you might think you’ve heard it all before, you haven’t, as this is uncomfortably frank and confronting. An orphan adopted by Jewish Holocaust survivors, the welleducated Stern travelled to Europe in the mid ‘80s and met Paul, a cartoonist with whom she fell in love, married and returned to Australia alongside before he revealed his darker side, and the pair found themselves involved in ‘sex therapy’ movies, ‘porn scams’ and publishers of popular ‘erotica’ - as well as police busts, custody battles and more. Penned in straightforward style by Stern, and also detailing her attempts to find her birth mother in the chaos, this is often a disturbing read, especially when you consider how, in the 20ish years since this couple’s key period, the internet has changed the world of pornography and prostitution - and not for the better (if that’s the right word). MDB
Thursday Stage
As part of this year’s Adelaide Festival, respected local company Brink Productions have teamed up with the UK’s English Touring Theatre to present the world premiere of Thursday. Penned by UK playwright Bryony Lavery, Thursday takes its reference from the story of Adelaide woman Gill Hicks, who lost her legs in the 2005 London bombings. We speak to Brink’s artistic director, Chris Drummond, who will direct the play which boasts an ensemble cast made up of local actors Paul Blackwell, Nathan O’Keefe and Deidre Rubenstein, alongside Sydney’s Kate Mulvany with Emma Handy, Martin Hutson, Lena Kaur, Tom Mothersdale and Rochenda Sandall (all hailing from the UK). “They arrived a bit jet-lagged from London,” Drummond laughs. “And none of them have been here before – although [playwright] Bryony Lavery has – so the heat has been a bit of a shock. And they spent the first night checking their beds for spiders.” Drummond first began exploring Gill Hicks’ remarkable story back in 2008. “But we didn’t start work on it until 2009 and were back onto it again in 2011 over in London. So it’s been a four-year period and it’s taken shape pretty much how I expected but, on another level, having the input of all the other people, it’s now completely different. “And as soon as I had the idea of Gill
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Hicks’ story, I imagined it would be part of Adelaide Festival because I knew it was going to be big, quite ambitious and highly theatrical. So it will premiere at Adelaide Festival, go on to Canberra and then tour the UK in 2014.” English Touring Theatre, which formed in the early ’90s, became involved in Thursday when one of the company’s producers, Jane Claire, was in Adelaide in 2008 for Australian Performing Arts Market and also attended a production of Brink’s When The Rain Stops Falling. “Jane was looking for an Australian company to work with and she enjoyed Rain a lot so we sat down one day at Adelaide Festival Centre’s café and had a very quick chat about what we could do. And I’d seen Gill Hicks on television when she was on [Andrew Denton’s] Enough Rope. So the idea came from that really. It had a strong London focus but was about an Adelaide woman.”
What kind of involvement has Gill Hicks had? “We’ve become quite close,” Drummond responds. “I originally tracked her down through the organisation MAD [Making A Difference] For Peace and sent off a fivesentence email explaining who I was and what we wanted to do. She got back to me a couple of weeks later and said she liked the sound of my thinking and was willing to meet in London to talk more about the idea. As it happened, we met in Adelaide when she came home for a visit. “So Gill hasn’t been involved in any of the creative ideas although Thursday is based on her story,” he adds. WHAT: Thursday WHERE: Norwood Concert Hall WHEN: Mon Feb 25 until Sat Mar 16
Cooper adds a title to the Contemporary Film Directors series, and while ‘Italian Horror Maestro’ Argento’s work is considerably less reputable than other directors studied (in books on David Lynch, Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier, John Sayles and others), this is the most readable and least wanky of the bunch. Theories of cinematic study (including all that sometimes-brain-straining spectatorship stuff ) are sometimes amusingly brought to bear on Dario’s films: his ‘Animal Trilogy’ (The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, Cat O’ Nine Tails, Four Flies On Grey Velvet), his four key efforts (Deep Red, Suspiria, Inferno, Tenebrae), and the many and varied titles thereafter, from the enjoyably nutty (Phenomena), to the deeply disturbing (The Stendhal Syndrome), to the hysterically silly (Trauma), to the hopelessly bland (The Cardplayer and TV’s Do You Like Hitchcock?), to the devastatingly dreadful (the simply inexcusable, we-waited-30-years for this? Mother Of Tears). MDB
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Cat Power Silent Machine (Remote Control/Matador)
Sometimes portrayed as a female version of troubled musician Elliott Smith, for years the prevailing image of Chan Marshall was of a gifted troubadour with an eggshell psyche. One of the finest albums of 2012, Sun suggested the performer had entered a confident and exhilarating new zone. Like the glitchy, subliminal appearances of Fight Club’s Tyler Durden that pre-empt his charismatic, ultimately destructive introduction, Silent Machine featuring Marshall digitally flickering to life as she gradually takes on a propulsive new persona. The bluesy swagger, triple-tracked vocals and Old Testament parables of Silent Machine are all part of the whip-smart renewal. More Power to you, ma’am.
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Swimsuit Carsick (Independent)
Before reviewing Swimsuit’s new single, I have something to admit in the interest of full disclosure: yes, the guy who mixed and mastered this 7” did indeed come to my 15th birthday party, where many Sega games were played and large chunks of Black Forest cake scoffed. A long way from the Streets Of Rage theme, Swimsuit’s Carsick single sounds like Karen O singing over a Walker Brothers 45 played at 33rpm. As the pink vinyl spins, woozy guitars fight against the onset of dysrhythmia and singer Liz Dooley daydreams about PJ Harvey’s 1995 catsuit. Meowsers.
James Kenyon The North Pole (Vitamin)
James Kenyon – not from Kenya as the nature of his name would suggest, but actually one of our homebrews. Originally hailing from Gawler, South Australia, Kenyon’s unfortunately moved to Melbourne to study. That’s okay. We won’t judge. Much.
Now these husky yet gentle pipes hardly strike you has the voice of a construction worker, but maybe these cats are more sensitive than they appear. Kenyon now brings to you The North Pole, hosting a charming shape and, despite its title, a distinct lack of Christmas bells, which I’m very excited about. Just when you think these tunes are destined to be sun-drenched in sweetness, brooding dark moments appear that entice you further. That double bass creeps in on the first track Like Old Sundays and proceeds to frolic all over your spine for the reminder of the record. It does wonderful things for your latissimus dorsi (I’m pretty sure that’s a muscle in the back). From the first pluck of that tender banjo the good vibes just smack you in the nostrils. The picked melodies are paired with some distorted brass and a welcomed female presence that wanders in at all the right moments, complementing the music beautifully. Become engulfed within Kenyon’s selection of songs that speak of memories, Sundays and red, red wine. An absolute smooth drop. Sharni Honor
For every Ziggy Stardust there is a Garth Brooks and Chris Gaines. Or Lady Gaga and Jo Calderone. Or a Beyonce and Sasha Fierce. The necessity of creating an alter-ego is often motivated by an artist’s desire to experiment outside of his or her established genre. In 2009, Interpol frontman Paul Banks decided to depart from his band’s icy demeanour as Julian Plenti, with mixed results. Now Paul Banks is taking full responsibility for his solo efforts by ditching the wholly unnecessary Julian Plenti alter-ego, and for good reason. Banks no longer feels the need to hide behind a mask because the songs on Banks are some of the strongest he has written since Turn On The Bright Lights more than a decade ago. With infectious basslines that anchor jagged song structures, Paul Banks’ newest album is a welcome return to form. The songwriting on Banks is divisive in its ramblings of quasi-philosophical conundrums, but as Banks states, “Right now, I truly give zero fucks what anyone has to say about me”. Whereas Interpol’s latest release, the self-titled album of 2010, was unfocused and lacked cohesion, Banks knows his true identity and is embracing it. Sam Reynolds
Feelings Intercourse (Select/Inertia)
A Day On The Green
I’ve had better.
Redfoo Bring Out The Bottles
Live Review
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It’s no wonder LMFAO buffoon Redfoo is currently squiring tennis superstar Victoria Azarenka – he’s also made a whole heap of cash thanks to his relentless way with a racket.
Rio Feat Nicco Party Shaker (Central Station)
Sunshine, booze and a cheap Euro appropriation of island rhythms? This German schlock sounds like Vengaboys rubbing lotion into the ’90 thighs of Mr President. If you’re a fat guy named Steve who loves Hawaiian shirts and The Baha Men, you’ll crack a fat for this. For everyone else, it’s the most tasteless Caribbean blend this side of Starbucks.
Birds Of Tokyo Lanterns (EMI)
With a title offering a vulgarly literal take on the ‘torch song’, this insipid Triffid fodder is as soft and useless as a plasticine cock and not even half as much fun. Oh my God, they killed Kenny. You bastards.
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The 301st (!) A Day On The Green was quite an event, even despite the burning (believe me!) sun and a misnomer in the title - but, then again, A Day On The Brown is rather less appealing. First up was Stephen Cummings, who took to the stage with little accompaniment and proceeded to knock off an hour or so of solo efforts, an original Sports song or two and some new material. And while he’s certainly one of the most idiosyncratic guys in Aussie music (read his autobiography for proof ), his set proved a strange mixed bag of fluffed jokes, weird put-on American accents (or it seemed that way) and too many overextended versions of tracks like the recent Love Is Mighty Close To You, the Sporty Suspicious Minds and (what else?) Who Listens To The Radio?. Tex Perkins and his Dark Horses were up next, and while he performed almost entirely new and unfamiliar stuff, and had some of the audience vaguely puzzled, there’s no doubt he hasn’t lost any of his growly charisma. And while many were obviously waiting for a Cruel Sea offering, and there was at least one, it wasn’t actually one of their bona fide hits. But, well, he was cool, which can’t quite be said about Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons, who had the punters on their feet with
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John Murry
Django Django
Battleships
The Graceless Age
Django Django (Tour Edition)
To You
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With meditations on life’s ups and downs, with a significant emphasis on the downs, The Graceless Age from American singer songwriter John Murry is fraught with the type of imagery associated with a Harmony Korine flick. If you know what I mean then good for you, if not, let’s just say that ‘needles’ and ‘spoons’ are referenced frequently. Hard drugs are just the beginning of Murry’s reliance on the underbelly of society. Poverty, abandonment, betrayal, loneliness; all inevitably rear their ugly heads. To say that The Graceless Age is hard to stomach is an understatement; it is a gruelling journey through the muck, through the discarded, through the forgotten. It is Murry’s smooth baritone delivery that offers respite from the stroll down life-is-shite lane. Coupled with the slow burn of slide guitars and haunting piano arrangements, Murry’s voice is the small glimmer of hope in the darkness. The third track Little Colored Balloons epitomises this feeling; Murry sings about the time he died from an overdose in San Francisco, and the paramedics that forced him back to life. It’s that fighting spirit, the spit-inthe-face-of-adversity attitude, that is this album’s saving grace. Ryan Lynch
Sunny pop songs can be cop-outs. Put a bit of jingle into it, clap, harmonise… and voilà! Summer pop. Cheerily, Django Django add a bit of chilli to the soupy wash of beachy trash. Maybe it’s because they’re from London, where the sun is just so darn exciting. Django Django favour a stuttery sound laden with imaginative electronic instruments and (d)jangly guitars. The vocals, however, can grate. Straining male vocals were okay in the analogue sixties, but jar a bit in the digital clarity of this century. If the heatwave is getting to you, and even the thought of bopping along to pacey sun-drenched pop is making sweat pour down your cherry-red face, then breathe deep and relax. The remixes on disc two are a little more chilled than the original release. But that doesn’t make them good. The remix of Default sounds like Tom Furse found the audio equivalent of Photoshop’s blur tool and smudged the goodness out of the music. The remix disc drags this album down, but it seems Django Django saw its worth – precisely $0. For those currently purchasing the album, the remixes come to you at no extra cost. Ilona Wallace
Jibe Ho! Release that main sail and drop that anchor, Battleships have sailed into town and are here in your ear holes to stay. Ahoy there, you Sydney sailors with a succulent sound, not to mention your evocative melodies, tantalising rhythm and musical intelligence. Oh boy, good vibes just seep through the indie rock selections that To You brings to the table. Strong Temper Trap infusions carry the record, maintaining a certain energy, a certain pulse that pushes right through to the last second of closing track Another Way. The track Head On (Collision) is a standout, hosting a charming build that still manages to pull back in all the right places. The only thing these ships have to battle is to keep their phenomenal sound fresh, but with such beautiful riffs wafting out from that guitar, that shouldn’t be a problem. Keep your retinas on these little ships, receiving copious amounts of Triple J play with all of their Unearthed hits. This super-catchy selection is a cracker for a jog, so now that you’ve got your soundtrack, suit up and hit that pavement. I’ll be on the look out. Battleships, it’s definitely fair to say that you can battle my ship any day. Sharni Honor
slightly sloppy, Countdown-esque faves like Hit And Run and Shape I’m In (complete with gags about the band’s bellies, although the extra kilos didn’t prevent the belting out of some serious sax). The biggest surprise of the day were Sunnyboys, who performed as the sun started to properly, and mercifully, set, and demonstrated that they have more to offer than their hit Alone With You. And they almost seemed glad for the opportunity to belt out some tight takes on lesser-known items including Happy Man, Liar, My Only Friend and their almost-charting Show Me Some Discipline. By this point many were naturally itching for the headlining act to commence, and Elvis Costello & The Imposters definitely did not disappoint, as the older, this-year’s-model but still formidable bespectacled legend belted through everything from the opener, I Hope You’re Happy Now, to The Mystery Dance, Radio Radio and the curiously intellectual ballad Every Day I Write The Book to lots of original pseudo-punk standards including I Don’t Want To Go To Chelsea. There was also an expanded, still bitingly yearning Alison before a terrific cover of The Rolling Stones’ Out Of Time and a climactic running-together of Oliver’s Army (complete with that N word), Pump It Up and an epic take on (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding, before the gang departed the stage with guitars feedbacking merrily. Yep, he might be pushing 60, but Elvis’ aim is still true.
Cub Scouts Told You So EP (Independent)
Cub Scouts, hailing from sunny Brisbane, provide another chapter in the ever-evolving movement of Australian jangly pop bands doing big things. Having won a Queensland Music Award for Song Of The Year and toured extensively throughout 2012, the five-piece are moving forward via debut EP Told You So. The EP begins with Evie, a boppy number containing steel-drum synths and handclap snares. There is certainly lots of joy to be found, and award-winning track Do You Hear carries on that enjoyment. Yet it melds too easily into other similar Queensland acts, and the high levels of enjoyment are more annoying than anything else. This country is well and truly in a deep phase of bands producing new wave-inspired pop anthems. Dare to dream there is a variant pulse lurking beneath this present flatline. Sam Reynolds
City Calm Down Movements EP (I Oh You)
There is something so grand and emphatic about City Calm Down’s sound that consistently raises your expectations of them. And with the release of their second EP, Movements, the band consistently delivers. Produced by Malcolm Besley in their hometown of Melbourne, Movements sits comfortably at height, with no fearing of coming down. At times it’s easy to think these guys are the incarnations of bands like The Smiths and The Cure; City Calm Down prove throughout Movements that they are worthy of belonging in the same conversation as those groups. Bellowing bass and slick synths give life to a dark city chill on Stay and Dare, while Sense Of Self and lead single Pleasure And Consequence modestly balance out the EP’s more demanding moments. The ‘80s are back. This is a good thing. Sam Reynolds
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Local Gigs
Working Dog Union Sessions at Space Theatre, Sat Feb 2
Working Dog Union are a new local act with a unique take on the traditional music of both Ireland and Scotland. They’ll be showcasing their Celtic-inspired stuff as part of the Adelaide Festival Centre’s Sessions program this Sat Feb 2 featuring all the bells and whistles (and pipes). The show starts at 6.30pm and tickets are $25 through BASS.
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Surfer punk band The Lizards are a big name down at Glenelg, but now, with their debut album Frill Seeker set to be released at Cats At Rocket this Fri Feb 1, they’re finally making their way down to the big smoke to entice a different sort of crowd with their ‘90s-inspired brand of rock music. Rip It Up spoke to lead vocalist Pat Ramm about how Frill Seeker came to be. “We recorded it in October last year and did it over about three days I think,” he says. “It’s 14 tracks. Four of them come off an EP we decided to record again. The band has been kicking around for about three or four years now, and those news songs basically came about from the first year.” Influenced by a cocktail of ‘80s and ‘90s Australian garage rock like The Hard-Ons and The Meanies, and Californian surfpunk like Pennywise and Pulley, there’s no denying that there’s one element that really sticks out in The Lizards’ live show: energy. “I think there’s massive similarities in terms of songwriting, attitude and sound
between [surf punk and Australian rock music],” Ramm agrees. “I think basically just because they’re both from the coast and have similar sorts of lifestyles and values. They’re both pretty generally energetic. We do tend to go pretty hard. We do have lots of high energy levels.” Although The Lizards have been kicking around for a while now, the release of their debut album comes at the apt time of an unexpected grunge revival. Among the waves of hegemonic EDM, bands like Violent Soho, DZ Deathrays and Millions are also experiencing good airplay on the Triple J charts with their offerings of something a little more gritty. As such, The Lizards are right at home premiering their studio effort at Adelaide’s hippest venue. “I haven’t fully noticed [a grunge revival],” Ramm muses. “But every time we play live we get really good crowds and they seem to be embracing the grunge sound. We just do what we love but if people are into it that’s good. “That’s the thing as well, we’ve never played at Rocket Bar before. We got approached by [Cats At Rocket] and we know it’s a pretty cool and popular venue, so we said yes and we’re looking forward to it. We’ve only ever really played in Glenelg,
so being offered a shot to play there is really cool.” Recently the band supported their first international act, Ten Foot Pole. “That was really, really good. We’d been trying to get a support like that for a while and that show was really cool, they were really nice dudes. And we’ve stayed in touch with those guys and become quite good friends, so something could come of that.” So what’s next for the band?” “We’re supporting [Bearded] Clams and Numbskulls in February, they’re two big Australian punk bands. Then pretty much after that we’re going on a Perth tour in March, an east coast tour in April, then just keep working at touring as much as we can.” Given the band name, what’s their favourite lizard? The results are mixed. “Definitely a stumpy tail,” Ramm says. “We’ve all got preferences. I think one of us likes geckos and the other one likes komodo dragons. Big lizards in general.”
Playin’ Up Light Hotel, Sat Feb 2
Scorcher Fest has expanded to create a series of sideshows entitled Playin’ Up, with the inaugural event to be held at the Light Hotel this weekend with a dozen live acoustic and amped up acts. Jungle City, The Good Lucks, Like Thread, Slick Arnold and Dirty Boulevard are among some of the acts set to play, with the event starting at 7pm sharp for just $10 entry. Under 18s are welcome with an adult prior to 11.30pm.
WHAT: The Lizards, Beaver & Derryn Lynch Mob WHERE: Cats At Rocket WHEN: Fri Feb 1
The Dunes
Supermind, Sat Feb 2
Blissed out dream-pop will return to Supermild this weekend with The Dunes this Sat Feb 2. Just like last time, the band will be performing early at 9pm sharp and finishing at 10pm before resident DJs take over the decks. Entry is free.
Lost City Festival Adelaide’s boutique mini-festival Lost City will return this Fri Feb 1 – Sun Feb 3 featuring headliners like Thee Oh Sees, Sleep Over and Nobunny. This year’s theme is ‘Worlds Of The World’ in which Lost City’s new home base Tuxedo Cat will feature multiple stages with different fit-outs and accompanying visuals. A host
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of strong local contenders will perform this year offering different soundscapes and live shows, some of those acts including Rule Of Thirds, Oisima, Summer Flake, Fake Tan, Pilot Record DJs and Big Richard Insect. There will also be local artists on hand to weave stunning visual elements into the festival, including Red Tomato Design and
Paper Arms Crown & Anchor, Fri Feb 8
Tooth & Nail printing Lost City T-shirts. Tickets are on sale at the door. WHAT: Lost City 2: Worlds Of The World WHERE: Tuxedo Cat, 200 North Tce, Adelaide WHEN: Fri Feb 1 – Sun Feb 3 TICKETS: $47 through Moshtix
Gearing up for their second album release and tour, Paper Arms are playing a hometown show at the Crown & Anchor this Fri Feb 8 before heading off to Tasmania, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane. Tickets at the door.
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