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This week in digital we’ve had Fringe reviews flooding out of every orifice (there’s a nice visual for you), all of which have been collecting in the delicious pool that is The Fix section on our website. Uncover a treasure trove of live reviews of cabaret, theatre, comedy, dance, circus, music and burlesque. Read Q&As with your most adored Fringe acts and find out what they “taste” like. Mentally etch in your favourite watering holes using our spiffy Fringe venue and map guide. All you have to do is click the yellow button on the top right to have access to it all.
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Hailing from a farm alongside the mighty Mississippi River, William Elliott Whitmore has developed an intense love and spiritual understanding of the land, which he flawlessly conveys through all of his records. With live performances of a calibre to leave one completely stunned in silence, William Elliott Whitmore is a performer showcasing musical ingenuity. We have five double passes up for grabs to Whitmore’s show at Enigma Bar on Sun Mar 24, so log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Thu Mar 7.
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Experience Leonardo’s Bride’s Abby Dobson (left) and Fourplay’s Lara Goodrige when they team up to sing some French songs at Paradiso Spiegeltent in Rundle Pk from 7pm on Thu Feb 28 as part of Adelaide Fringe.
Get set for some rockin’ in the free world at Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Tue Mar 5 at which you can expect lots of classics along with songs from new album Psychedelic Pill as well as opening act Husky.
Catch the Melbourne-based punk rockers with US band Bomb The Music Industry at Enigma Bar on Fri Mar 1 as part of their Young Drunks tour.
Witness the Brisbane-based indie rock outfit as part of their national campus tour which will bring them to Adelaide Uni Bar as part of O’Live on Wed Mar 6 with Mssrs as special guests.
Holden and Ford fans can rock’n’roll all night and party every day with Clipsal 500’s guest artists including KISS and Mötley Crüe on Sun Mar 3.
Popping into Rocket Bar on Thu Feb 28 at which Tom Levinson, fresh from appearing on television’s Q&A, will be performing with a full band featuring The Herd’s Jane Tyrell along with guests One Sixth and Jimblah.
Speeding along this week... ADELAIDE NIGHT MARKET – Taking place as a
lively, vibrant affair on North Tce between King William Rd and Kintore Ave every Sunday from 5pm until 8pm with food stalls and market stalls and entertainment until the end of March.
THE DEPOT – Experience the chilled-out vibe of
this new outdoor Fringe venue, located between Franklin and Grote St, with free entertainment most nights and a big ticketed concert on Sat Mar 16 featuring Pete Murray, The Whitlams and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
SUPER MAGIC HATS - See the fresh,
Melbourne-based beatmaker at Currie St’s Ed Castle Hotel on Sat Mar 2 with help from Zabba and Heston Drop when he drops tunes from his new self-titled EP.
HOWL THE MOON – A delightful outdoor
Adelaide Fringe pop-up venue located at Stepney’s Linde Reserve that features food stalls, a bar and much live music from the likes of Joe Man Murphy, The Yearlings and more.
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Songbook will see Katie exploring material from throughout her career including songs from George, Katie Noonan and the Captains, Elixir and her acclaimed solo album. This intimate performance mode is the perfect setting for Katie to revisit her most popular songs.
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MAR 8
What: Sleepover Fundraiser For Youth Beat / Where: Barrio, Hajek Plaza, Adelaide City / When: Sat Mar 16 To Sun Mar 17 / Tickets: $100 (limited to 100 places) from everydayhero.com.au/event/barriosleepout
Pay-jama Party
Everyone’s favourite temporary nightspot, Barrio, is hosting a charity sleepover on the final night of the Adelaide Festival. Lucky punters will be able to pull up a pillow, snuggle into a swag and party on down to see out the end of Barrio. The sleepover is a pyjama-clad fundraising event, which asks punters to ‘buy a bed’ for $100. The donation will go directly to Mission Australia’s Adelaide Youth Beat program. In return for your donation, you get a spot on the plaza to
Who: The Black Seeds / Where: The Governor Hindmarsh / When: Thu Apr 25 / Tickets: $35+Bf From Moshtix.com.au, Oztix.com.au Or Venuetix.com.au
sleep and a free breakfast and coffee service from Cibo in the morning. You may have seen the Youth Beat van out and about on Friday and Saturday nights. The program gets kids on the street to safety, helps with intoxication issues, and also connects at risk youth to emergency services if needed. In the past, the program has provided aid to children as young as eight. Barrio is a licensed venue, which does mean that sleeping spots are only available for the over 18s.
Seedy Times Modern reggae masters The Black Seeds finished work on their fifth studio album, Dust And Dirt, in 2012. Fairly chuffed with the results, they’re treating Australian audiences to a free download of the latest single, Love Me Now, on their website. This will give you the chance to learn the words (‘Serious, I’m ready, come on love me now. Come on love me now. Serious, yes I’m ready’) before they hit town. The new album takes a step away from their previous releases, introducing more funk, disco and rock flavours. The world-renowned Kiwi group have just completed a sold-out global club tour and an enormous European tour, and now it’s our turn.
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LESS THAN 3, EATER OF THE SKY, INWOODS, ARTICHOKE, GRENDELL (BAR 2) VISIONS, MACHINE CHILDREN, KILL DANTE (BAR 3)
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WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE (USA) LINCOLN LEFEVRE, BEN DAVID
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THE RESIGNATORS (CD LAUNCH) DEAD JOE, JOBSTOPPER, GIVE OR TAKE, PROPHETS OF IMPENDING DOOM (BAR 2) LS@160BPM (BAR 3)
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Who: Underground Lovers / Where: The Garden Of Unearthly Delights / When: Thu Mar 14, 7pm / Tickets: $33 through FringeTix
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Underground Lovers
Fourteen years since their last album, and nearly 20 since they visited Adelaide, dream pop wonders Underground Lovers will be launching their seventh studio album, Weekend, at the Garden Of Unearthly Delights. The 10-track album is accompanied
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THE DEEP END (CD LAUNCH)
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by original artwork by Sean T Barnes (Pastel Prairie). Weekend forms part of a Pledge Music campaign featuring sheet music, T-shirts, art prints and old posters. Sure, it might look like a garage sale, but really it’s just upcycled ’90s chic.
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“CLARITY RECORDS BIRTHDAY PARTY”
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SLEEP PARADE
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PLEDGE THIS,TRAINWRECK Who: Ainslie Wills / Where: The Metro / When: Fri May 3 / Tickets: $10 + bf from moshtix.com.au
Wills You Sing Me A Song? Who: Nantes with Battleships / Where: Ed Castle / When: Sat Apr 20 / Tickets: $10 at the door
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Time-warping synth kids, Nantes, are ready to take you back to the ’80s. Having crash-tackled the radio with Fly and Drones, the Sydneysiders have just dropped Avid. A loping, moaning pop single, it blends
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well with their past releases, plus hints at good things on their forthcoming album, BeingsBeing. Due out on Fri Mar 15, the album launch in Perth will kick off a national tour that reaches Adelaide on Sat Apr 20. Coming along for the ride are fellow Sydney kids, Battleships, who are terribly proud of their recently released mini album.
For the price of a chicken parmy, you can see Ainslie Wills on her very first album tour. Wills recorded You Go Your Way, I’ll Go Mine in just under a fortnight. The sweet singer’s CV is filled with indie cred: a single recorded live and unrehearsed (Ocean), strings on the album recorded in a church, a 10-day sabbatical to work on her debut release in seaside solitude and a music video that took out a bag of awards at the 15/15 Film Festival in 2010. Fans of Sarah Blasko, Feist and Beth Orton will get a kick of out Wills. Get to her before she’s swept up by a mob of hipsters and declared their queen.
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Is It Really So Strange? Outside in the Hindmarsh sun the temperature is fondling the mid-40s, but you’d never know it from Paul Foot’s trademark attire. Despite the heat, the UK comedian looks like he’s come direct from a Comedy Gala appearance: there’s the bad tie and slacks straight from an archaic episode of Mind Your Language, the ridiculous hair stolen from a Chinese crested chihuahua and a faintly absurd smirk on his funny little face.
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here’s more to Foot’s humour than the dress sense of a Grange Hill relief teacher and a camp flitter. Making his Adelaide debut at last year’s Fringe with Still Life, the 39-yearold comic routinely terrified and delighted spectators with his awkward stage presence, off-piste strolls and inspired moments of nonsense. In person, Foot’s verbal wanderings are more eloquent than the mad Elizabethan minstrel of his stage show, but he denies there are alternate personas at play. “Well sometimes people suggest they are being a character onstage, but I don’t think I’m being a character,” Foot suggests. “I don’t think there’s anything artificial about it when I walk on stage. It’s natural and it’s not contrived.” It’s hard not to feel that even his interviews are merely a conduit for Foot’s uniquely skewed humour. Facts are plagued by ambiguities, reality slips away. Despite being a regular guest on UK music quiz show Never Mind The Buzzcocks and studying
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mathematics at Oxford University in the early 1990s, Foot preposterously suggests he’s never heard of fellow Oxonians Radiohead. “So there was a famous band who were at Oxford at the same time as me?” Foot asks. If he’s feigning, it’s impressive to watch. “I don’t know any music beyond 1953. I only listen to Ella Fitzgerald and lots of classical music. When I go on that Never Mind The Buzzcocks show I never know who the people are. That’s one of the reasons why I enjoy it – I have no conception of modern music.” Unlike his old stand-up partner Russell Brand, Foot has taken an obstinate, hermetic route to comedy stardom rather than one indexed by heroin, Hollywood and Katy Perry. “For the first few years of my career it felt I was ahead of my time,” Foot admits. “I was doing a double-act with Russell for a few months, which is mentioned in [Brand’s autobiography] My Booky Wook. I was doing strange stuff and nobody wanted to hear it. Things move on though and suddenly people are ready for what I’m doing.” Even when taking up lucrative opportunities such as fronting Australia’s Virgin Mobile Robin Da Hood campaign, Foot’s retained his odd comical mannerisms. YouTube outtakes feature Foot’s Robin throwing sausages, wrestling dwarfs and traumatising his stuffed pet falcon, Leonard. “When I went to that meeting with Virgin Mobile, it was just me messing about doing silly voices. It’s a good example of how I’ve kept on doing what I do and I’ve never been tempted to dumb down or adapt for clubs. I’ve just carried on and slowly people began to enjoy what I do. There is still an integrity to the Virgin advert because it’s my silly creation. They could have paid a lot less
money and had an Australian actor doing some words, but they took a bit of a risk and it was successful for them. My career is also a bit of a risk - I go where the artistic thoughts take me. It’s like a painter who sells lots of still life paintings but then moves into landscapes and doesn’t know if people are going to buy it or not. It’s dangerous and very exciting.” Adelaide’s Fringe season of Foot’s Kenny Larch Is Dead signals one of the final stops of his tour cycle before debuting a new show at Edinburgh Fringe in August. “There’s six minutes in Kenny Larch that is very difficult to explain – I call it ‘prototype madness’. Words that on the face of it look like someone’s just gone mad. It looks random, but isn’t – it’s carefully worked through. Random words and silly phrases, but people will be wondering why they’re laughing. It’s on the edge of meaning and means just enough to be funny. You can watch it and there’s a different quality to the laughter. “When I did Still Life in Edinburgh [in 2011] someone came to the show and told me he was studying a PhD in comedy and there were parts of the show that he couldn’t explain in an academic sense why it was funny – there wasn’t an obvious punchline. I’d already had that in my head for a few years thinking the same, but was inspired by that and wanted to come up with a whole show which you just can’t analyse.” Although he’s planning an island retreat before his Fringe season commences, Foot has little interest in lazing about on the beach. “Even when I’m having a bit of me time on a holiday, it’s more just a backdrop for work – I love relentless travelling, being in different places, living out of suitcases and forging ahead with some stupid idea that I’ve got and writing in my notebook. It’s brilliant. Other
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When Rip It Up catches up with Paul Foot, he’s taking a break from directing the latest Fringe show from Adelaide’s comedy troupe Gravity Boots. “I don’t see a lot of other comedy – I exist in a comedic vacuum and unwind by watching a murder mystery - but I met them in Edinburgh and I promised I’d go and see their show. I was bowled over by them and thought it was brilliant. They are similar to me, but in a sketch format - they are on the edge of being a load of old rubbish nonsense, but it’s inexplicably funny.”
things in my life, like love or whatever, it doesn’t really affect me that much because I’m engrossed in something else.” Is that a form of autism? “I don’t know. I guess it is in a way. They say that everyone is autistic to some tiny extent, that’s what makes us human and not just robots. Being a creative artist, it’s a sort of madness. I often say to my assistant, ‘I’ve got this idea about madness and putting these words together – do you think that will work on stage, or should I be down at the psychiatrist?’. There’s an element of truth in that. If I wasn’t doing it on stage and travelling the world, then I would probably be locked away in the mental institution. It’s a thin line…” WHO: Paul Foot WHAT: Kenny Larch Is Dead WHERE: Cinema Nova WHEN: Wed Mar 13 until Sun Mar 17 at 8.45pm
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Yippee Ki Yay, Mr Falco The last time Fucked Up’s drummer Jonah Falco journeyed to South Australia, it was at the personal request of Dave Grohl. When Foo Fighters played Adelaide Oval in 2011, it fell on the shoulders of Falco’s eclectic Toronto punk collective to warm up the massive crowd.
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That Foo Fighters tour will resonate in my memory as one of the most amazing experiences of my musician life,” Falco admits. “The amount of excitement stepping onto the stage every day was huge, but that was quickly counterbalanced by the realisation you’re the one thing standing in the way of 50,000 people and their favourite band for 30 minutes a night.” The tour ensured Fucked Up spent many humorous hours backstage with fellow North American support act Tenacious D. “The sheer novelty of coming backstage
and seeing Jack [Black, vocalist], Kyle [Gass, guitarist] and Brooks [Wackerman, drummer] – these people I had previously only seen on television – was weird in itself, but the fact we were all joking and goofing off was surreal. Jack’s personality on-stage and off is almost identical – there is no disconnect, just his personality represented in song-form.” A beefy bear of a man, Fucked Up frontman Damian ‘Pink Eyes’ Abraham’s confrontational stage persona sees him regularly throwing his sweaty, shirtless body into the audience. Showing little concern for his well-being, it’s hard to imagine he’ll be able to keep up such physical levels of performance when he’s 65 and dealing with a colostomy bag and a couple of hip replacements. “Damian’s personality on-stage is very much the same off-stage – minus the bottle-breaking and rubbing himself with mud. With the colostomy bag he might have to be a little more ginger with the mud than usual, but he’ll find a way to make it work and it still be entertaining
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US comedian David Cross has appeared on two Fucked Up Christmas singles in the past – will the band be returning the favour when Cross resumes his role of Tobias Funke in cult show Arrested Development’s return to television in May? “I would happily play a ficus to be a part of that show,” Jonah Falco admits. “I’m pretty sure I could be a good stand-in for Michael Cera too – I’m pretty awkward at the best of times. David, if you’re listening, remember that time we included you on the celebrity version of Do They Know It’s Christmas? It’s time for payback.”
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without it being as unfortunate as hell.” After side-projects in 2012, including Falco’s “almost Stone Roses” solo outlet Lonely Wholesome and Abraham’s ongoing hosting role of Canadian music show The Wedge, 2013 has seen Fucked Up reconvening to record the follow-up to 2011’s David Comes To Life. Despite the pressures involved in topping the critically acclaimed concept album, Falco is feeling rejuvenated. “Now that Fucked Up is rolling again I’m really happy, as we have a fresh perspective on things. It’s moving quickly and we’re writing the new record now, in fact. The new songs are sounding good and are gelling, and Damian’s even come to practice, which is not a frequent event!” Falco says fans can expect to hear previews of the Canadians’ forthcoming fourth album at Soundwave this weekend. “You probably will hear some new songs at Soundwave. We’re going to dial it back this time and go Ramones style – two minute songs, three chords, no talking, 1-2-3-4, walk off-stage after 22 minutes.” Up against Bring Me The Horizon, Metallica and Blink 182 sets at interstate Soundwaves, Falco jokes about who he’d chose if faced with such a timetable clash. “Heh heh. I’d probably go and see Metallica! But maybe you’ve seen Metallica before and you haven’t seen Fucked Up? Metallica maybe released their best album in the mid-‘80s, whereas with Fucked Up, there’s so much that’s unwritten in our history. And so I’m begging you please, please come watch Fucked Up. Nah, the choice is endless at Soundwave. It’s anybody’s guess who you’re going to want to see. Seriously, you’re going to want to come and see Fucked Up though…” Maybe you can add a few riffs from Kill ‘Em All as an extra lure? “I think the favourite pastime of guitar players is playing other people’s riffs between songs because they’re bored. If you can’t hear Metallica at Soundwave across the field, you’ll hear their riffs coming from us. We played Orion Festival Of The Arts, the big Atlantic City festival Metallica curated, and during our set our guitar players were playing Metallica riffs in between songs. We actually got a little queen wave from James Hetfield in a golf cart as he went by our stage.” WHO: Fucked Up WHERE: Soundwave, Bonython Pk WHEN: Sat Mar 2
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The festival season is now officially in full force with the Fringe well and truly underway and Adelaide Festival kicking off. Incorporating internationally acclaimed theatre productions, famous writers and mesmerising visual arts displays, the festival also takes in Adelaide Writers’ Week which will begin from Sat Mar 2 and run through to Thu Mar 7. For over 50 years the event has celebrated creativity and has grown to absolutely epic proportions, with 2013’s line-up including Goran Bregovic & The Weddings & Funerals Orchestra, 2001: A Space Odyssey and 6000 Miles Away, to name just a few. With Adelaide Festival comes the return
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of the hugely-anticipated late night club Barrio at Hajek Plaza, which will remain open for just 10 nights, offering punters a different and exciting theme every night. As if that’s not enough in itself, things are set to get even larger as WOMADelaide fast approaches next week too, returning for its 20th year and featuring incredible traditional and contemporary artist performances from all over the world... We’re in our third week of the mad season now, so if you haven’t had a chance to check out any of the thousands of shows literally taking place on every corner of the city, you better get onto it while you still can. Nina Bertok
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Who would write a whole show about plums? Only a complete idiot, that’s who. Unless that’s what the idiot wants you to think… Since farewelling Good News Week, Claire has tackled many of life’s biggest questions. So, if “plums” is the answer, what is the question? Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to find out by winning one of the two double passes we have up for grabs to Claire’s Tue Mar 5 show at The Deluxe in the Garden Of Unearthly Delights at 8.45pm. Competition closes at 9am on Mon Mar 4.
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A spectacular tribute to ‘60s British rock performed by a nine-piece band, and featuring a stunning multimedia show in an exciting new eastern suburbs venue - a former art deco cinema. Dance the night away ‘60s style. We have two double passes up for grabs to the show at Regal Theatre on Sat Mar 2 at 8pm so log onto ripitup. com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Fri Mar 1.
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Bulmers Best Of The Edinburgh Fest is an unbeatable night of world-class comedy featuring three international acts for the price of one, featuring the hilarious Jimmy McGhie as well as Stuart Goldsmith and Carl Donnelly.
One of the greatest ballerinas of our time, Sylvie Guillem stars in this mesmerising show choreographed by Mats Ek, William Forsythe and Jiri Kylian. A masterpiece highlighting Guillem’s unique technical perfection.
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THE GERMAN CLUB Pull up a bar stool and whet your whistle for an evening of anarchic theatre, live music and rambunctious goings-on. Prudencia’s dream-like journey of selfdiscovering unfolds amid the audience in a riotous romp of rhyming couplets, devilish encounters and wild karaoke.
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LEO IF THE LAWS OF GRAVITY SUDDENLY CHANGED, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? WOULD YOU BE A LITTLE FREAKED OUT OR WOULD YOU GRAB A FEW CREATIVE FRIENDS AND A CAMERA TO CREATE A SHOW THAT YOU COULD TOUR AROUND THE WORLD? FROM THE PRODUCERS OF SOAP COMES A MIND-BENDINGLY SURREAL PRODUCTION FROM BERLIN THAT WILL CHALLENGE YOUR OWN PERCEPTION OF GRAVITY AND REALITY: LEO; THE AWARD-WINNING POETIC JOURNEY OF A MAN WHO REDISCOVERS HIMSELF. Accompanied on stage by only a suitcase and all that it contains, Tobias Wegner, who makes his Adelaide Fringe debut, seemingly defies gravity in his eye-teasing, mind-bending solo stage performance. “It’s true, it does look like I’m defying gravity,”
he agrees, “but I’m actually on stage twice; once live and the other projected on a screen. It’s a live feed; the stage set is built laterally to the camera. I perform in some very awkward positions and the camera captures everything that’s happening and projects it onto a screen that is viewed at a 90-degree angle of the live movement. What the audience sees on the screen looks like everything is upright and normal, but gravity is coming from my side.” Wegner explains that this is not a Jamiroquai -styled moving box that makes him appear to slide up the wall, but a combination of physical strength and the tilted camera. “It’s all fixed on stage,” he affirms. “I guess it’s a bit like watching a tennis match; people look from the screen to the live performance and back. I think part of the charm comes from watching the screen but also being able to check out the live stage performance side; it’s an interesting contrast.” Wegner explains how he and a team came up with the original concept for LEO. “LEO was written by a team of five people,” Wegner replies. “The original idea for the clown character came from another production
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we were creating as part of a Spiegeltent Variety Performance back in 2008. It was there that I came up with the ‘tilted gravity’ concept. Following a year’s run of the show the company asked if I was game enough to create an hour-long production – so we did. The planning process took three months in total, but they were spread out over one and a half years. It’s quite a task to get schedules to match when you have five freelance artists working together. With other projects happening at the same time, we would sometimes meet in Berlin or Montreal and work half-days at a time.” Audience feedback so far has been positive, according to Wegner, LEO often successfully touching the hearts of those who come along to see the show. “It’s not a total ‘wow’ show; there’s no fireworks, no pyrotechnics,” Wegner replies, “but it is really hand-crafted and low-key which, I think, is what touches people’s hearts. They seem to be charmed by the simple approach to presenting the show, but also by the physical techniques that I perform. They also really enjoy the musical scene, live drawing and cartoon interaction with the characters that appear to come to life. There is a lot of humour, acting and acrobatics involved. Even though people can follow how things are made, it still seems magical to them and they become attached to the illusion – and to the Leo character; we are lucky to say that people feel touched by him.” Sometimes it’s the simplicity in imagination that people love; like the creative process of seeing the pictures in your mind when a story is being read out loud. “That is absolutely valid for LEO,” Wegner agrees. “We have created an almost fairytalelike atmosphere in this show. It was the director who created the synopsis while we created and researched with the camera, looking for movements that would serve the purpose and the approach of the show. He wrote the story about this average guy who discovers gravity is suddenly coming from the side and then makes the most of it after being scared to death by it. Leo discovers a whole new way of looking at things and he lives his dreams along the way. “LEO is almost a journey through the fine arts,” he adds. “The character discovers talents that he didn’t know he had and finds a totally new joy in his life… until a point where he almost loses track, he drinks too much wine and suddenly it’s not so funny for him anymore. The reality somehow overwhelms him and the monsters that he created and the ghosts that he called forth seem to take power over him. But in the end he manages to make some new friends and escape to unexplored shores with fresh knowledge about himself and his personality.” WHAT: LEO WHERE: The Garden Of Unearthly Delights (The Vagabond) WHEN: Until Sat Mar 16
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POP QUIZ: WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU CROSS TWO TENORS, TWO BARITONES AND A VOCAL-BASSIST WITH A VOCALPERCUSSIONIST? ANSWER: SIX-PIECE UK A CAPPELLA GROUP, THE MAGNETS! WITH REGULAR APPEARANCES ON TV SHOWS AND COMMERCIALS, AS WELL AS RADIO AND YOUTUBE, THEY TRAVEL THE WORLD FESTIVAL CIRCUITS AND ARE OFTEN ASKED TO PERFORM AT PRIVATE PARTIES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS INCLUDING SIR TIM RICE AND ELLE MACPHERSON.
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The Magnets were one of only two acts performing in The Garden Of Unearthly Delights at the Adelaide Fringe 2012 to receive five-star reviews and have now returned for the entire Fringe season on the eve of their latest album release, All This Time. Having been here for almost two weeks, baritone Michael Welton loves the warm weather. “It’s always great to escape the British winter and come into the end of the Australian summer,” he enthuses. “Even with the heat, the shows have been going fantastically well and we’re just about to have our biggest audience for the run tonight! The Garden is so much bigger this year; more venues and some great acts; it’s nice to be one of them! It’s great to be able to get out and see other shows happening in The Garden as well. Ponydance are crazy fun and I can definitely recommend Piff The Magic Dragon.” The Magnets’ are launching their fourth studio album on Sun Mar 10 and it is due for public release through Wrasse Records (UK) and distributed by Shock Records throughout Australia on Fri Mar 15. “We were inspired by the 2012 London Olympics to focus in on British artists,” Welton explains. “We felt it would be nice to go back to our roots and explore some of the songwriters that have inspired us during our lifetime. The album contains four decades of pop music and two original tracks: Running Around and What You Gonna Do? “The album is a look at our favourite songwriters; our version of a Best Of British; artists like Richard Hawley, who is a fantastic current songwriter in the UK, as well as songs stretching all the way from Led Zeppelin and David Bowie through to Adele. As usual, we’ve put our own spin on the tracks. Rolling In The Deep is mashed-up with the bassline of a completely different song, whereas Sting’s After The Rain is now done in 5/4 timing. All This Time, which is another Sting cover, really sums up the feeling of the recording; the breadth of the musical experience we have now as well as how long the band has been going; it’s been 18 years now!” And they all still like each other, too, as Welton laughingly points out. “Yeah… we do!” Welton chuckles. “Actually, we had a great gig last night and it was so nice to just sit and reflect together after the show, which doesn’t always happen. It’s moments like that which remind us why we do this; why we love it so much.” The Magnet are performing a one-off charity gig; an acoustic set at Down Syndrome SA, with all proceeds going to the Early Intervention Class for kids up to the age of four. “We’re always keen, wherever we are, to get involved in the community,” Welton declares. “Just rocking up and doing your own show every night is great, but the best way to really meet people and make friends is to get stuck into some other shows, whether it be late night cabaret events or doing a charity appearance. We did a few while we were in Edinburgh and around the city and in social clubs – which is what triggered it in my mind when it was suggested that we perform for Down Syndrome SA. I’m particularly looking forward to the barbecue and meeting everyone afterwards.” Those who have seen The Magnets perform live more than once often note the amazement of the audience when the band start to create sounds solely with their own voices. “It’s a constant pleasure to see the impact we have on people,” he agrees, “and probably the reason why we’ve carried on as long as we have. We’re always working on new ways to entertain the audience. As an a cappella group, you can sing beautifully for the first few songs, but after that you may well lose some people’s attention while others remain rapt in the music. There’s always an element that you need something more. “Our show is quite heavily choreographed, there’s a lot of humour and an amazing vocal-percussion drum solo,” Welton concludes. “With so much variety incorporated into our shows, we can always take the audience to somewhere that they’re not expecting.”
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ANTIBALAS ARE AN AMERICAN ENSEMBLE WHO HAVE MODELLED THEMSELVES ON FELA KUTI’S AFRICA 70 AFROBEAT GROUP WHILE ALSO INCORPORATING ELEMENTS OF JAZZ, DUB AND FUNK. They have previously trekked along the east coast of Australia but are now making their first appearance at WOMADelaide. The dozen-member group, who are signed to Brooklyn’s Daptone Records (also the home of Sharon Jones) and whose name is Spanish for ‘bulletproof’, were founded in 1998 by saxophonist Martin Perna in New York. “It came about organically,” he begins. “At the time I started the band I had no experience as a leader but had a lot of motivation and some songs. And because I’d built up a lot of good relationships with other musicians, it was easy enough to convince them to join because they really liked the concept. “So it has been a very organic process and I can’t stress that enough,” Perna adds. “And it grew into this thing because we started working hard and then things began happening for us.” How does the songwrting process work? “The formula is that there is no formula,” Perna decides with a laugh. “Some songs come together in one way and another song will come together in a different way. And it’s changed over the years. In a nutshell, some songs will come from the pen of just one band member. But for other songs, a band member will have an idea but there will be something missing so someone else adds to that. And it may just be a little spice that’s needed to make it work. “But by and large I would say the songwriting is mostly collaborative,” he then considers. “If you have a song and bring it to the group, everyone else is going to critique it and say it also needs a bit of this and a bit of that.” Antibalas were also involved with the successful Broadway stage musical Fela! which celebrated the life and times of the Afrobeat superstar. “It’s actually been an ongoing thing,” Perna reveals. “It’s on tour now in the US and our trombone player Aaron Johnson is still the musical director so he auditions new players for it. So he continues to tweak the music as required and the band that does the Fela! show now is probably made up of six or seven former members of Antibalas.” The group is also preparing for a new album.
ANTIBALAS BY ROBERT DUNSTAN “We’re working on ideas now while we are on the road, so I’d say that folks in Australia will probably hear two or three of the new songs. It’s a work in progress but we always like to keep our live show fresh while also throwing in quite a few old songs.” Antibalas have a great video for the song Dirty Money (easily found on YouTube) which features some of the cast of The Muppets. “We also tried to get Kermit but apparently he’s not in the union,” Perna laughs. “But it was great how the Dirty Money video came together because we had absolutely no budget but knew some folks who did really good work and could also work on a shoestring. And we knew that they could do it in a way that was
quite light-hearted while also conveying a very serious message.” That message is about America’s financial state. “Yeah, Dirty Money is a goofy statement about how people are now killing themselves over bits of paper,” Perna says. “The world is made up of people, but it seems they are no longer a priority because, for the bankers and financial dealers, it’s all about making money. “Profits now seem to win out over people and issues such as health care and education,” he sighs. ‘We could go on and on about this.” Perna, who is now based in Austin, is in two minds about the internet.
“It’s been good in some ways because it’s a great way to get the word out there but as far as downloading goes, it has not helped,” he suggests. “And that’s because, in our case, while we do have a lot of fans which we have built up, the music industry today is like swimming upstream and trying to defy gravity. “And because we are such a big band, it’s not always a good financial decision to go out on the road and promote ourselves that way,” Perna concludes. “We love to tour though and we’ll never stop doing that.”
WHO: Antibalas WHERE: WOMADelaide (Botanic Pk) WHEN: Sat Mar 9, Stage Two at 7pm
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INTERVIEWS IT ALL BEGAN WHEN JOSH THOMAS WAS ANNOUNCED AS THE WINNER OF THE 2005 RAW COMEDY FINALS AT THE MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL. FROM THERE HE HAS WON NUMEROUS COMEDY AWARDS, TOURED SEVERAL SOLO STAND-UP SHOWS BOTH IN AUSTRALIA AND OVERSEAS, BECAME A PODCAST HERO IN HIS OWN RIGHT AND PAVED HIMSELF A YELLOW BRICK ROAD INTO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF TELEVISION – NOT TO MENTION HIS 115,000+ TWITTER FOLLOWERS AND OVER 200,000 FACEBOOK FRIENDS! NO WONDER HE THINKS HE’S AN OKAY KIND OF GUY – OR DOES HE?
WHAT: Josh Thomas – Douchebag WHERE: Arts Theatre WHEN: Until Sun Mar 3
DOUCHEBAG
JOSH THOMAS
BY CATHERINE BLANCH
“This will be my fifth time to the Adelaide Fringe,” Thomas says over the phone from Bangkok, where he’s visiting his dad. “I wasn’t there last year; in fact I didn’t do any stand up last year because – among other things – I was filming my new ABC2 show Please Like Me. It actually goes to air while I’m in Adelaide.” Although what comedy shows are about can sometimes be hard to explain, Thomas attempts to give us the gist of Douchebag anyway... “That’s a completely reasonable question,” he says. “It’s only a bad question when comedians don’t know what their shows are about. Usually we just think that we’re just going to throw a few jokes around and the rest we’ll just make up as we go… Luckily for me, and for that question, my show is about something! It’s really just me getting worried that one day I’m going to become evil if I make bad choices and things start to spiral out of control and down the bad path.” Well, not everyone is born bad, are they? Most people remain delusional to how awful they actually are. Thomas isn’t so sure... “Josef Fritzl,” Thomas suggests, “he had a wife, so he must have seemed okay at some point… And then he turned into one of the most evil men ever!” Thomas claims he doesn’t really have any particular good-to-evil people to focus on in his show. “Not really,” he hesitantly says. “But since getting into television, every other day I get requests from charities that ask me to do something to help them; but they’re usually quite silly requests. One guy wanted me to dress like a homeless person for two weeks to raise
awareness of homelessness, but I don’t think he really thought that through. I thought it was a pretty offensive thing to say coming from a person who runs a homeless shelter! There was another time where they got a bunch of us ‘celebrities’ to sell The Big Issue,” Thomas recalls. “So I put on this man’s Big Issue vest for half an hour and spent most of the time having my photo taken with people – all the while thinking to myself ‘Oh, look at me… what a fucking hero!’, if you know what I mean. I can’t begin to imagine what that guy was thinking. It was such a douchebag thing to swan in and pretend like I’m this incredibly nice guy, doing for 30 minutes what this other man does for a living!” Back to Douchebag, Thomas says the show is completely new and about to make its debut in Adelaide. “It’s completely new. Poor Adelaide…” he laments. “Because the Fringe is so early in the year, you guys get everybody’s shows before they go anywhere else. I just feel that, across the board, Adelaide gets five percent shittier shows than any other city, simply because of timing.” Why not bring it back at the end of the year once all the kinks have been ironed out? “Well, no, because by then we just throw it in the bin and start again!” This will be Josh Thomas’ second time performing at the Arts Theatre. “I no longer need to perform in a sweltering tent in the middle of a heatwave that is next to the portable toilets,” he jests. “I’m in the Arts Theatre where it has walls, air conditioning and toilets with plumbing. Now that I have a job on the television, I get to have walls and plumbing!” And TV has certainly changed him, too. “That, right there, is a pretty good example of how it’s changed me,” Thomas laughs. “My venue can go blackout this year if I want. I can turn the lights off and it will be completely dark. You can’t do that in a white tent. It’s very exciting.” Going along with his worry about becoming evil, if Thomas steps away from stand-up comedy and moves into the glamorised self-important world of television, will that change him too? “You know, being in television is really not that glamorous,” he chuckles. “I mean, they’ll give you a bottle of water so you don’t have to drink from the tap, but it’s really not that much more glamorous than being at the airport!”
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WITH RYAN LYNCH
NO SLEEP ‘TIL ADELAIDE Did you ever see that sort-of autobiographical film Eminem made back when he was still relevant? If you haven’t here’s a brief run down, Eminem escapes the pressures of his inner city life through the art of hip hop, specifically spoken word rap battles. Some other stuff happens, but that’s essentially it. Sydney-based live art hip hop gameshow Sketch The Rhyme pits artists and rapper against each other in a similar sort of battle. Only instead of Eminem facing off against a sceptical crowd (because he’s white), he’s nose to pencil against Mr Squiggle. Sketch The Rhyme is at Gluttony – The Pig Pen, Thu Mar 7 until Sun Mar 17 at various times.
STAY OR LEAVE Daniel is becoming more and more detached from reality as he sinks deeper into his obsession with myths and folklore. In an effort to find the closure he needs to overcome his mania, he travels to the small island where his grandmother grew up. While there he meets a local teacher and begins to unravel a horrific series of events. I don’t know about you, but I’ve seen enough horror movies to say that things are looking pretty bleak for our friend Daniel. See what happens next in Breaker at the Holden Street Theatre – The Arch now until Sun Mar 17 at various times.
GROOVE IS IN THE HEART Anthropoetry is a musical spoken word journey throughout the human anatomy. Utilising hip hop, science and humour, you will discover the answers to pertinent questions like: why do we stick our noses into other people’s business? Since when did we start wearing our hearts on our sleeves? Why are we up to our necks in debt/trouble/shit? Poetry is accompanied by sounds, beats, bleeps and bloops in a measure of our current modern condition. Anthropoetry is at Gluttony – The Piglet from now until Sun Mar 10 at various times.
BASIL KITCHEN RULES When I grew up, my mother almost exclusively prepared meals for my family. I never really knew why, especially since my dad always bragged about his culinary skills. When I was about five years old, my mother went away to visit relatives, leaving me alone with my father for a weekend. I wouldn’t know it until much later in life, but my dad is the American incarnation of Basil Fawlty. His culinary incompetence, combined with his short fuse and arrogance, was a powder keg of disaster. You too can experience all the hilarious missteps of Basil, Sybil and Manuel during a three-course meal at the Faulty Towers Dining Experience from now now until Sun Mar 17 at the Old Adelaide Inn at various times.
PUBERTY BLUES With the recent success of period dramedies on television, it seems that all of us have a hankering to hop in our DeLoreans and push the pedal to 88 miles per hour. While very few of us have the good fortune to have befriended a genius like Doc Brown in our formative years, we can fantasise, and The Deer Johns are here to help. Taking us on a light-hearted, musical journey, The Deer
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Johns tell us the story of Jonathan, a young boy growing up in 1970s suburban Adelaide. With comical storytelling and iconic music, this show is guaranteed 1.21 gigawatts of nostalgia. Go back in time at the The Big Slapple’s Apollo Theatre on Sun Feb 24, Sun Mar 3 and Sat Mar 16 at 6pm.
LORDS OF STRUT Wannabe celebrity siblings Famous Seamus and Seantastic are the selfproclaimed Lords Of Strut and they are hitting the Fringe with a whirlwind of razor sharp wit, humour and panache. Despite adorning themselves with a moniker that sounds like a seedy strip club on Hindley St, the brothers scoff in the face of gravity as they put their finely-tuned acrobatics on full display in hopes of fame and fortune. See them strut their stuff at Gluttony, Sun Mar 10 until Sun Mar 17 at 8pm.
SPOIL YOUR LOVE LIFE Numerous articles have been written about the dangers of celluloid romantic comedies. In these movies, handsome men sweep women off their feet, sweet reconciliation and reunions are all too common, and couples find each other through improbable coincidence. Studies have shown that real life couples have relationship problems due to misconceptions about love and romance, a direct result of Hollywood rom-coms. Hanna has seen one romantic comedy too many. Her secret desire to live in one opposite Hugh Jackman is spilling out of the privacy of her bathroom and into the Fringe during Spoil Your Love Life at La Boheme, Wed Mar 6 and Sun Mar 10 at 8.30pm.
TURN BACK TIME It’s 2113 and a century since preteens and middleaged mums went gaga for celibate 300-year-old vampires. A century since tears were shed over spilt milk (literally) on My Kitchen Rules. A century since people actually read anything longer than a Tweet. Featuring visual and performance art, this historic time capsule explores the artefacts of people living in 2013, a simpler time of cell phones and cars with rubber wheels. This historic exhibition runs daily at Gluttony – The Runt from 5.30pm on weekdays and 12pm on weekends (except for Monday).
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Winning multiple awards at other Fringe events, Echolalia combines theatre and dance to present a touching, and often hilarious, examination of the pitfalls and shortcomings
of social etiquette. Inspired by the humour and directness of autistic children, this show turns our cultural niceties on their head and exposes the truth behind them at the Adelaide College Of The Arts from Tue Mar 5 to Sat Mar 9 at 6pm.
YOUNG ADULT Sooner or later everyone has to grow up. Even Peter Pan grew up to be Robin Williams. Getting older means losing your hair, developing a gut and having lots and lots of unwanted responsibility. Believe it or not, some people try to put it off; hell, I got a Master’s degree so I could avoid full-time work just a little bit longer. But alas, here I am typing my fingers to the bone. Comedian Nikki Britton is determined to succeed where so many before her have failed with a show exploring her compulsion to run away from the unrelenting maturity epidemic. Get immature with Abdicating Adulthood at the Tuxedo Cat from Wed Mar 13 until Sun Mar 17 at 7.15pm.
STICKY SITUATION We’ve all found ourselves in awkward social situations. Like going in for a hug when the other person wanted to keep you at arms length with a handshake. Or waved at someone who wasn’t looking. Or pretending to talk on your phone when an actual call comes through. Sticky Feet follows three strangers as they attempt to overcome their communication faux pas by accepting their inner-weirdos. Be awkward with them at Higher Ground from now until Mar 3 at 9.30pm.
LET YOUR FREAK FLAG FLY A show that is full of powerhouse singing, toe-tapping jazz and tongue-in-cheek burlesque sounds to me like a good place to let your hair down, and Amy Michaels and her Good Time Girls are going to do their best to help you lighten up. They may not be offering services like the ‘good time’ girls strolling down Hindley St, but you’ll lose your inhibitions with a night of quirky lyrics and catchy tunes at The Depot – The Shed from Thu Mar 7 until Sat Mar 9 at various times.
HIS OWN WORST ENEMY Dane Hiser is one of the most uncoordinated, awkward and sociallyinept human beings to ever stumble out of a womb. Despite these glaring flaws, Dane is one cocky bastard. He refuses to be embarrassed by his shortcomings. Instead, he embraces them. Dane’s stand-up comedy act Settle Down not only pokes fun at himself, but at the conventions that shame us all. Whether you’re laughing at or with Hiser, one thing is certain, we could all use a little selfdeprecation. Loosen up on Fri Mar 1 at Gluttony – The Runt at 11.30pm and Sat Mar 2 and Sun Mar 3 at The Pig Pen at 9.30pm.
EVERYONE PLEASE STOP ROCKING MOUSTACHES NOW PLEASE THANKS WITH SAM SIMMONS Dear young ironic hipster dudes with moustaches, why don’t you all just fuck off. You don’t deserve the hormonal onset of puberty to sprout such a thing on your idiot lip. My moustache is practical and I have it on my face for five very plain and simple reasons. Number five: Because it gives me something to comb as I have nothing to comb on my head. Number four: My moustache really makes my nostrils pop. Nostrils are incredibly underrated erogenous zones - did you know your nostrils flare when you orgasm? Like a horny bullock. Number three: I have a thing for men with moustaches – Tom Selleck, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Boony, Ron Burgundy, Frank Zappa, Salvador Dali, Gandhi, Errol Flynn, Richard Pryor, Sam Elliott, John Waters, John Cleese, (real) Chopper and Ming The Merciless. Many of you rocking said ironic moustaches would only recognise Ron Burgundy on that list and this makes me sick to the stomach. Number two: It’s good to fiddle with in times of stress. When I was a boy I would nervously hold my ‘chap’ in times of extreme stress, this I have found out is not appropriate as an adult man. Number one: Bitches be lovin’ this shit. So back off you no-sockwearing-ankle-flashing kneetards! With ya job stopper neck tatt and your kooky ironic Garfield fake op shop shirt and fluoro ‘90s wind breaker, that was my look in Year 9! Leave moustaches to real men (dandies, old TAB dudes and sex pests included). Come see me prance in The Garden Of Unearthly Delights, enjoy my Ham Face.
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CABARET
JENS ALTHEIMER SQUARING THE WHEEL Worst thing to see when arriving on stage? To see no more than four people in the audience.
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JON BENNETT, PRETENDING TOMAS FORD THINGS ARE A COCK Obscure claim to fame? Personal manifesto? Hello. I once spat beer through my What have you only recently realised? That some nose all over Tim Rogers. people use the term ‘wide on’. Useless ephemera cluttering your abode? I have unborn sea monkeys. I actually do. I’m not making that up. I also have Weekend At Bernie’s II on VHS. What film demands a sequel? Weekend At Bernie’s II. Bad celebrity experience? When I told Vince Colosimo which film he was in. Something you’ll be avoiding during festival season? Police. Favourite foreign word or phrase? ‘Les choses sont un bite’ - this was how I had to say Pretending Things Are A Cock in Montreal. Clothing you can’t bear to throw away? My Adelaide Grand Prix hat that my grandpa gave me.
Q&A
JIMMY MCGHIE – BULMERS BEST OF THE ED FEST Disappointment you’ve never recovered from? Not being selected for the under 12s cricket team, in spite of being told I had a natural leg break. It turned out that the man who told me that was a sex pest posing as a cricket coach who was later arrested.
In a Hunger Games comedy fight to the death, which hapless comic would you take on? Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall - we’d hug each other to death. Current fad you’re loathing? Planking. Is that still current? Best fancy dress outfit? I once dressed as ‘the truth’. Useless factual tidbit? A tidbit is a noun that means a small piece of tasty food or a small and particularly interesting item of gossip or information. And the moral of the stor y is… Cock.
Countr y or city you’d still like to perform in? My grand ambition with my act is to tour around Europe. I have fantasies in particular about playing in Poland and France. We need more: Shows that shake things up. I don’t come to a Fringe festival to see pedestrian suburban stand-ups from the telly. I come here ‘cos I want to get buzzed on a thousand new ideas and weirdos. We need less: Tickets to comedy shows. I love comedy, but it’s all some people will see at Adelaide Fringe and they’re missing out. Favourite holiday memor y? The first time I went to Bangkok’s ladyboy markets. So much glitter and feathers in one place! I spent all my savings in one day and had to loan a stack of money for the rest of the trip. What gig would you love to play again? I got to support Birds Of Tokyo on a national tour a few years ago, including a date at Thebarton Theatre. It’s not often someone so leftfield gets that kind of opportunity to scare Triple J-loving teenagers. Worst review? The Advertiser sent along an architecture lecturer to review my 2010 Fringe show; he literally hid behind a partition at Sugar for the second half of the show like a little girl. Then proceeded to write a review as though he had even attempted to understand what was going on. I actually don’t mind bad reviews, everybody is entitled to their opinion and my show is not to everbody’s tastes. I do, however, mind dickheads.
WHAT: Squaring The Wheel WHERE: Le Cascadeur WHEN: Sat Mar 2 until Sun Mar 17 at 5.30pm
WHAT: Pretending Things Are A Cock WHERE: Cupola WHEN: Tue Mar 5 until Sun Mar 17 at 7pm
WHAT: An Audience With Tomas Ford WHERE: The Tuxedo Cat – Red Room WHEN: Thu Mar 7 until Sun Mar 17
WHAT: The Best Of The Edinburgh Fest WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Until Sun Mar 17 at 7.45pm
DAVE THORNTON
IVAN ARISTEGUIETA ADELAIDE COMEDY’S NEXT GENERATION
DAVE CAMPBELL
RADHA LEIGH BURLESQUE BEAUTIES
Inappropriate or bad advice you’ve been given? To eat a raw egg before a show to make sure you have a good voice. Tried it once! Best show as an audience member? ‘Le cri du Chameleon’ the ‘showcase’ of the French National Circus School in Chalôn, directed by Josef Nadj, was a pretty big revelation back in 1996. Unlikely situation you’ve found yourself in? Unwillingly sliding down a very steep, icy slope in the European Alps with no obvious way of braking and some big, uncomfortable-looking rocks coming closer very fast. What do you now realise was a bad idea? Leaving a train with automatic doors during a short stop on a station with all my (international) luggage left in there. Historical event you wished you’d witnessed? Being with the man who coined the small step/giant leap phrase – and taking that step before him. Your other creative outlets beyond the stage? Inventing silly machines and building them. What film demands a sequel? Memento would be rather interesting. Worst performance injur y? Fell off a rising tightwire, landed with my right foot half on a stone... that ankle was never happy again. Favourite foreign word or phrase? Prost! Clothing you can’t bear to throw away? Golden rule: when the hole is bigger than the undies, they have to go!
Fictional character you relate to best? The Brand Power Girl. Disappointment you’ve never recovered from? Getting the trademark for hoverboard safety pads. I thought hoverboards would be invented by now. Historical event you wished you’d witnessed? The first chicken laying an egg. Or did the first egg hatch a chicken? I just want people to stop asking me is all… If your life flashed before your eyes, what would be your favourite moment? When I learnt the ancient kick boxing art of Muay Thai in order to avenge my brother. No wait, that was Jean-Claude Van Damme in the seminal action movie Kickboxer.
What would you like to uninvent? The leaf blower. I don’t want to criticise but wouldn’t a vacuum have been more convenient? Something you’ll be avoiding during festival season? Malaria. Favourite foreign word or phrase? Décolletage. Both as a word and an entity. Unlikely situation you’ve found yourself in? When I was picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and without memory, then raced to elude assassins and recover from amnesia. No wait, that was Matt Damon in the movie remake of the seminal spy-action movie, The Bourne Identity. Pop culture star responsible for your sexual awakening? The Brand Power Girl. WHAT: Dave Thornton – Tall And Pointy WHERE: Le Cascadeur WHEN: Until Sun Mar 3 at 8.30pm
Pop culture star responsible for your sexual awakening? Donna from Beverly Hills 90210 - I don’t know why?
What tickles your fancy? A juicy burger with lots of bacon while watching a Louis CK stand-up special.
If your life flashed before your eyes, what would be your favourite moment? The first time I tried Nutella.
What have you only recently realised? Azerbaijan is a real country, and not one made up for joke purposes. Fictional character you relate to best? The Joker from Batman. Disappointment you’ve never recovered from? Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. Useless ephemera cluttering your abode? Tazos from the ‘90s.
What tickles your fancy? Mainly otters.
Bad celebrity experience? My wife and I once saw Leonardo DiCaprio in Madrid. She took a very close photo of him. She didn’t look at me for a month. What would you like to uninvent? Fake tofu bacon. Do I need to say more? Something you’ll be avoiding during festival season? Nothing! I will experience the Fringe completely. I will need those memories to survive during winter. Favourite foreign word or phrase? As I am already a foreigner, my favourite Australian word is ‘wanker’. I love the sound, it’s very melodic. Great ‘twang’. Pop culture star responsible for your sexual awakening? Kelly Bundy, Married With Children. When has technology let you down? They still haven’t invented an automatic ironing machine. They have made smart phones, tablets and spaceships but we still can’t put a wrinkle shirt in a machine that pops it out ironed and wrinkle free. Disappointing! Lana Del Rey says she tastes like Pepsi-Cola. What food or beverage do you taste like? Chorizo! Everybody loves chorizo, even vegetarians.
If your life flashed before your eyes, what would be your favourite moment? Eating my first Big Mac. What would you like to uninvent? Dubstep. Something you’ll be avoiding during festival season? Hepatitis (hopefully). Favourite foreign word or phrase? Moshi moshi (hello on the phone in Japanese). Pop culture star responsible for your sexual awakening? Buffy. In a Hunger Games comedy fight to the death, which hapless comic would you take on? Amos Gill - he smiles too much. Lana Del Rey says she tastes like Pepsi-Cola. What food or beverage do you taste like? White Russian. What do you now realise was a bad idea? Allowing George Lucas to make a prequel trilogy for Star Wars. Current fad you’re loathing? People with 20/20 vision who wear glasses. Useless factual tidbit? Bull sharks can survive in fresh water. And the moral of the stor y is… I’ve wasted my life.
WHAT: Adelaide Comedy’s Next Generation WHERE: Rhino Room WHEN: Until Sat Mar 2 at 6pm
WHAT: David Campbell - Bipolar Bear WHERE: Rhino Room WHEN: Until Sat Mar 2 at 10.15pm
What would you like to uninvent? Everything after 1995. Clothing you can’t bear to throw away? Jeans. Bootcut jeans will return people… mark my words, people with arse cleavage will once again reclaim the streets from the skinny boys with their bandy legs and silly boating shoes! Pop culture star responsible for your sexual awakening? Madonna was always the high priestess of sex in the ‘90s. In a Hunger Games comedy fight to the death, which hapless comic would you take on? I tell you who I wouldn’t like to fight: Stephen K Amos. He gave me a bear hug after the Melbourne Gala last year and almost snapped me in two! Your most dramatic fashion disaster? Purple velvet top and flares worn to a school battle of the bands. I was going for 1970s Americana, whereas I should have worn a Nirvana T-shirt. Current fad you’re loathing? Everyone dressing like country squires with barbour jackets and flat caps. Although… I started it. And the moral of the story is… Come and see my show, The Best Of The Ed Fest at the Gov. Let’s face it, that’s why I took time out of my busy day to write this nonsense.
Inappropriate or bad advice you’ve been given? “Take more clothes off” (said by a male producer that had no idea what burlesque was). Unlikely situation you’ve found yourself in? Performing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala with Bob Downe and Dave Callan last year (with my dance partner Lyra la Belle). I still can’t believe it happened. What do you now realise was a bad idea? Trying to live by the mainstream standards of a professional adult life. I make a living out of dressing up and making people dance and paint.
Historical event you wished you’d witnessed? When The Beatles came to Adelaide. What scares you? Puppets. Masks. Clowns. Father Christmas. And caterpillars. Favourite holiday memor y? Building forts on the beach against the tide at Carrickalinga as a child. Worst performance injur y? I managed to destroy my left shoulder performing in a flashmob once - and broke my toe at the same time. What does your handwriting say about you? My handwriting is very neat and without flourish… the neat bit, at least, is true of me in general. Favourite foreign word or phrase? I love the Indian concept of ‘masala’. As a Bollywood dancer, your teachers will throw “Hey! I want you to dance masala style!” at you all the time. It means spice! WHAT: Burlesque Beauties In Next To Nothing WHERE: Rhino Room WHEN: Until Mon Mar 11 at 9.30pm (Sunday and Mondays only)
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Personal manifesto? Eat like a king, make love like a lady. Fictional character you relate to best? Mario from Super Mario Brothers. My girlfriend is always being kidnapped by dinosaurs. Also, I own lots of red hats. Disappointment you’ve never recovered from? I had a chance to drive a hovercraft when I was 10 years old, and I didn’t do it because I thought I’d be really bad at it and that people watching would make fun of me. Later on I realised what an awful mistake I made. I’m still crying. If your life flashed before your eyes, what would be your favourite moment? Probably witnessing the Hindenburg blimp disaster.
Personal manifesto? I always dance like someone’s watching. That’s why I took pole dancing classes. What have you only recently realised? That the term ‘pussy popping’ is not limited to meaning losing your virginity. Fictional character you relate to best? Morgan Freeman’s character in Bruce Almighty. Runner-up: Xena: Warrior Princess. Useless ephemera cluttering your abode? I hoard water plastic water bottles to prevent them from going into landfill. Incidentally, I have a landfill of plastic water bottles in my apartment. Historical event you wished you’d witnessed? The moon landing, because I’ve always wanted to be part of a conspiracy.
Personal manifesto? Don’t put any joke in you don’t believe 100 percent. If you think it’s shit, the audience will think it’s really shit.
Personal manifesto? To work out what the word ‘manifesto’ means. What have you only recently realised? That you can hang socks on the line without using pegs. Why did no one tell me this earlier?
Something you’ll be avoiding during festival season? Nutrition. Clothing you can’t bear to throw away? A T-shirt that I bought at a Jamiroquai concert in 2002. Just waiting for it to become cool and ironic (I give it three more years, tops). Unlikely situation you’ve found yourself in? Spending New Year’s Eve with Jack Black (clang). Pop culture star responsible for your sexual awakening? Jack Black, on New Year’s Eve. Your most dramatic fashion disaster? I used to love double denim when I was in high school. What do you now realise was a bad idea? Selling all those Pogs. They’d be worth a shitload now. Best fancy dress outfit? Prince Harry as Hitler. Useless factual tidbit? I’m writing this while wearing a shirt with flamingos on it. And the moral of the story is… You can’t fight city hall!
What would you like to uninvent? Those five-toed running shoes. They’re creepy. Clothing you can’t bear to throw away? My ripped denim skirt. I love performing in it, but at this point it’s so old it resembles a loin cloth. Pop culture star responsible for your sexual awakening? Kelis. When she said her milkshakes were better than mine I took that as a personal challenge. In a Hunger Games comedy fight to the death, which hapless comic would you take on? Oh all of them, I’m real resourceful - I can cook outdoors and tie a square knot. Especially that DeAnne Smith, she’s all vegetarian and spindly. Bitch is going down.
Fictional character you relate to best? Foghorn Leghorn. I am big, loud and obnoxious. Disappointment you’ve never recovered from? Losing to Lorenzo Compaino in the under 12s 100 metre final at Pastel Park Primary School. If your life flashed before your eyes, what would be your favourite moment? Pastel Park Primary School fete. Bad celebrity experience? Celebrity Apprentice. Pop culture star responsible for your sexual awakening? Blossom. In a Hunger Games comedy fight to the death, which hapless comic would you take on? Rob Hunter. I would eat him whole and then spit out his glasses. Lana Del Rey says she tastes like Pepsi-Cola. What food or beverage do you taste like? Who is this Lana Del Rey? She sounds like a dumb bitch. Did she get paid quizzillions of dollars by Pepsi to say that? I’m now going to look her up on YouTube. I bet she shits me. Current fad you’re loathing? The fad that our society celebrates stupidity and mediocrity on television. Especially when you are trying to make it as an actor and there are no roles because reality TV shows like The Shire and Big Brother series 23 are being made.
Fictional character you relate to best? The Bumblebee Man from The Simpsons. Disappointment you’ve never recovered from? That I’m not adopted - being stuck with my family is terrifying. Useless ephemera cluttering your abode? Seriously? Ephemera? If I didn’t know ‘manifesto’ was what makes you think I was a chance with ‘ephemera’? Bad celebrity experience? I met Brian McFadden. That’s bad enough, isn’t it? What would you like to uninvent? Crocs. Not the animals, but the shoe/thong/embarrassment things. Something you’ll be avoiding during festival season? Sobriety. When has technology let you down? It would be a shorter list if I told you the times it hadn’t let me down. Your most dramatic fashion disaster? A G string backwards certainly wasn’t a highlight. Best fancy dress outfit? We had a ‘P’ day at my high school and so I went as a pregnant teen, only to find out that just weeks earlier a year nine student had fallen pregnant. It was a real lesson in timing. Useless factual tidbit? Mosquitos have 47 teeth. And the moral of the story is… Always bring a dictionary to your interviews to avoid looking like a simpleton.
WHAT: Tommy Dassalo - Spread WHERE: Rhino Room - Beer Garden WHEN: Mon Mar 5 – Sat Mar 16 at 6.30pm
WHO: Abigoliah Schamaun - Girl Going To Hell WHERE: Rhino Room - Howling Owl WHEN: Tue Mar 5 until Sat Mar 16 at 10pm
WHO: Smart Casual WHERE: Rhino Room WHEN: Sun Mar 3 until Sun Mar 17 at 7.15pm
WHAT: Tommy Little – Sex, Drugs And Herbal Tea WHERE: The Spare Room WHEN: Until Sun Mar 17 at 8.30pm
ANDREW MCCLELLAND
DJ GARNER THE CANDY BUTCHERS
TIM FITZHIGHAM
SAPPHIRE SNOW AT THE MOVIES
Personal manifesto? There’s gold in them there records! Fictional character you relate to best? Stephen Fry. Disappointment you’ve never recovered from? Hoverboards. Useless ephemera cluttering your abode? A vast collection of culturally diverse hats.
Historical event you wished you’d witnessed? Caesar making his first salad. What film demands a sequel? Requiem For A Dream. What tickles your fancy? My patented fancy tickler. What’s beside your bed? Whatever tickles my fancy. If your life flashed before your eyes, what would be your favourite moment? The night I partied like it was 1999. I believe I did that some time in 2003. Clothing you can’t bear to throw away? My original 1980 Walkman headphones. Unlikely situation you’ve found yourself in? Sitting on a couch in a Channel 10 green room between a Playboy bunny and a visibly nervous Malcolm Turnbull. Pop culture star responsible for your sexual awakening? Oscar Wilde. When has technology let you down? Whenever I receive yet another update about somebody’s meal. Current fad you’re loathing? Loathing. Best fancy dress outfit? Nude Andrew McClelland.
WHAT: Hang The DJ WHERE: Deluxe WHEN: Fri Mar 8 until Sat Mar 16 at 11.30pm (Fridays and Saturdays only)
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What keeps you up at night? Flint - but he’s only three months old, so that’s okay.
Unlikely situation you’ve found yourself in? Being helped out of a canal in Amsterdam - I’m still not sure what happened. Travel tip? Always take one power adapter for the destination you are going to and one power-board. This is great for charging/running more than one thing at a time. What do you now realise was a bad idea? Whatever it was I did that got me in that canal in Amsterdam. Historical event you wished you’d witnessed? I wish I was around in the heat of the space race when man first walked on the moon. I think it gave everyone in the world a sense that we could do anything. What scares you? Big, aggressive people. Favourite holiday memor y? Swimming with turtles on a daily basis in Barbados. Your other creative outlets beyond the stage? I love to ride my skateboard but I do it less because it hurts more and more and I have to be on stage. What film demands a sequel? I’m not sure it demands a sequel but I just love In Bruges. Worst performance injur y? Torn ligaments in right shoulder - surgery, screws and 12 months rehab. What does your handwriting say about you? I’m happier typing. WHO: The Candy Butchers WHERE: The Big Top WHEN: Until Sun Mar 17 (various times)
What literar y work would you love to turn into a musical? Is it too much to suggest All At Sea? It’s a true story and has got everything: a man, the dangerous crashing elements, desperately trying to cross vast oceans in a Thomas Crapper bath tub. I may be biased - I wrote it. Favourite family heirloom? I’ve got a coin that has made it down to me from the time of William III (16891702) and I quite like that. There’s a suit of armour I sometimes wear for gardening and my grandad’s old jumper - I really love that.
Song that you’ve shed a tear to? I’m hopeless, never stand near me at any classical concerts, Handel, Chopin, Elgar - the inherited stiff upper lip goes distinctly wobbly... What are you looking forward to? Meeting Adelaide - I can’t wait. And hopefully meeting my audience - both shows, Flanders And Swann and Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler, are things I’ve worked really hard on trying to make as good as they can be. I hope the audiences agree. What’s the greatest myster y? Anything involving Sherlock Holmes, and has anyone ever played a Bermuda triangle? What’s the last thing you think about at night? What I should have done better in the day that’s gone and what to do about it in the morning, then my family. WHAT, WHERE & WHEN: The Gambler at the Cupola until Sun Mar 17 at 8.15pm and Flanders And Swan at Romantiek until Sun Mar 17 at 5.30pm
What keeps you up at night? Rhinestones… in bed! Worst thing to see when arriving on stage? A room, chocka-block full of candles… while carrying burlesque feather fans. Inappropriate or bad advice you’ve been given? ‘Ignore the pain in your feet: it’ll go away’. Heck no! High heels are evil, but that’s why we have pedicures… Best show as an audience member? Soap (in the Garden last year) and Zumanity (Las Vegas). Travel tip? You can never bring too much hairspray. We need more: Boylesque performers. We need less: Coriander. Historical event you wished you’d witnessed? The first man on the moon. What scares you? Quiet audiences and cockroaches. Your other creative outlets beyond the stage? Swing dancing! As well as sewing and baking. What film demands a sequel? Burlesque. Maybe they can actually make it about burlesque this time… Worst performance injur y? Broken nails and bruised knees… No broken bones yet! Favourite foreign word or phrase? Gezellig. Ask a Dutch person what that means and they’ll smile! Clothing you can’t bear to throw away? My first burlesque costume. It looks terrible, but... good memories.
Something you’ll be avoiding during festival season? Car races and baked beans. WHAT: At The Movies WHERE: The Soul Box WHEN: Until Fri Mar 15 at 11pm (Fridays only)
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FRANK SANAZI DAS VEGAS NIGHT Personal manifesto? To live as long as George Burns and ze Queen Mother. Disappointment you’ve never recovered from? Ze inability of ze Axis powers to defeat ze inferior allied forces in ze mid 1940s. Useless ephemera cluttering your abode? Mein Iraq Pack playing cards - Dean Stalin is perpetually covered in vodka, Saddami Davis’ card is ripped at ze neck and Osama Bing Crosby is missing… presumed lost! Historical event you wished you’d witnessed? The birth of the universe… how long could you dine out on zat story? What tickles your fancy? A feather duster around my gentiles (that’s a Jewish gag).
What’s beside your bed? Mein servants. In a Hunger Games comedy fight to the death, which hapless comic would you take on? I vud take on Stan Laurel for visual comedy value! Your most dramatic fashion disaster? When I turned up at a toga party dressed as a goat. The same thing happened a couple of years ago at a Christmas party when I read the invite wrong and turned up as Satan. That’s what it’s like having to live with dyslexia. Current fad you’re loathing? Gangnam style everything. Ain’t nobody got time for dat’! And the moral of the stor y is: It’s nice to be known, but it’s better to be known to be nice. Or, as we say in ze fatherland… It’s nice to be known, but it’s better to be known to be Nazi! WHAT: Frank Sanazi’s Das Vegas Night WHERE: Cupola WHEN: Tue Mar 5 until Sun Mar 17 at 10.45pm
MARK TRENWITH Personal manifesto? Breathe and eat and stuff… It works for me. I’m still alive. What have you only recently realised? I’m not a good ballet dancer. Useless ephemera cluttering your abode? I have hundreds of Disney character toys in my parents’ old house which they are threatening to destroy. Historical event you wished you’d witnessed? The opening of Coles Gepps Cross. What film demands a sequel? Schindler’s List. What tickles your fancy? Duck Tales re-runs. What’s beside your bed? Your mum (classic!). Pop culture star responsible for your sexual awakening? Bea Arthur. In a Hunger Games comedy fight to the death, which hapless comic would you take on? Rob Hunter. When has technology let you down? Twitter. It’s made life confusing. People expect you to follow them, but if you follow them in real life they call the police.
Your most dramatic fashion disaster? Once I rocked up to a wedding wearing the same thing as the bride. Never again. Best fancy dress outfit? I have a Mark Trenwith outfit that looks just like him, it’s ridiculous! Useless factual tidbit? Superman originally had a sidekick called Cup-A-Superman (this may not be true). And the moral of the stor y is… Eat your greens. WHAT: Mark Trenwith – After Dark WHERE: Rhino Room WHEN: Tue Mar 5 until Sat Mar 16 at 6.15pm
ROCCO HERCULES SUMERSHIRE & JIB FROMBROFFITS - THE SAINTS OF BRITISH ROCK What keeps you up at night? RHS: The French. JF: Itchies in me bum. Worst thing to see when arriving on stage? A French sound technician. Best show as an audience member? JF: The Beatles reunion tour. Unlikely situation you’ve found yourself in?JF: Being kicked out of the Great Pyramid (true story!). Travel tip? RHS: Fly first class. We need more…? Women. We need less…? French women. Historical event you wished you’d witnessed? JF: Birth of me first child. What scares you? Ghosts. Favourite holiday memory? RHS: Christmas in Israel. Your other creative outlets beyond the stage? JF: Drinking. What film demands a sequel? The Hulk 2. What does your handwriting say about you? RHS: Me’s sophisticated, intelligent, handsome, charming and heroic. Worst performance injur y? JF: This one time me fell off a 20-foot stage into a crowd of young people. They was hurt really bad. Clothing you can’t bear to throw away? JF: Soiled undies.
Something you’ll be avoiding during festival season? STDs. WHAT: The Saints Of British Rock WHERE: Apollo Theatre, The Big Slapple WHEN: Mon Mar 4 until Fri Mar 15 at 8pm
JENNY HAMILTON – A GRIZZLY TOOK MY BEBE Fictional character you relate to best? Bigfoot or a yeti. We have the same shiny, thick, furry coat. Historical event you wished you’d witnessed? The Klondike gold rush in Dawson City, 1898. Those people knew how to party! What film demands a sequel? Hot Tub Time Machine. If your life flashed before your eyes, what would be your favourite moment? Any and every moment I spent with my wife. She is the best. Bad celebrity experience? Corbin Bernsen came to town to film a TV movie. I asked to take a picture and he was a real dickhead about it. You would have thought I asked for money. I think he is a celebrity!? Clothing you can’t bear to throw away? Old awesome T-shirts. Pop culture star responsible for your sexual awakening? kd lang. She is an amazing person and a Canuck, eh! And she helped gay be okay across this country.
Your most dramatic fashion disaster? The prom - I looked like a guy in drag. Mom was so proud though, so what can you do. Lana Del Rey says she tastes like Pepsi-Cola. What food or beverage do you taste like? Pork Puffs. Fat is flavour, they say. WHAT: A Grizzly Took My Bebe WHERE: Tuxedo Cat WHEN: Until Sun Mar 17 (various times)
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Flume Flume is hitting the road this April for a nationwide headline tour with main support and musician buddy Chet Faker. Off the back of a series of storming success (including two songs in the Top 15 of Triple J’s Hottest 100, a widely-acclaimed debut studio album and some heaving Laneway Festival performances), Flume, AKA 21-year-old producer Harley Streten, will get back behind the decks in just two months time for the Infinity Prism Tour which will feature an extended set and a brand new stage production. The ‘infinity prism’ is a device that references the kaleidoscopic imagery of Flume’s album cover by way of a hexagonal infinity mirror embedded with LED lights. The ‘prism’ will feature in all his live shows (read: you’re going to trip balls). Flume and Chet Faker will zoom into Adelaide for a performance Thebarton Theatre (a big upgrade from their usual haunt at Rocket Bar) on Wed May 8. Flume plays at Thebarton Theatre on Wed May 8.
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Q+A With The Hilltop Hoods
Seth Sentry is taking off on his biggest Australian tour to date on the back of his single Dear Science. 2012 was a massive year for Seth with three high rotation radio singles, an album debuting at number six on the ARIA charts, Triple J’s feature album and taking out Channel [V]’s Oz Artist Of The Year. Following on from last year’s heavy touring schedule and performances at festivals like Homebake, Fat As Butter, Sprung and the first Channel [V] Island Party, this year is set to be even busier than last, starting off with the monster summer anthem and an equally impressive national tour.
Performing at this year’s Clipsal 500 extravaganza, Adelaide hip hop legends the Hilltop Hoods have got a massive year ahead of them, according to MC Pressure (Daniel Smith). Not only will new album, Walking Under Stars, hit the shelves in the coming months, a US and Canadian tour is in the works too.
Seth Sentry plays at The Gov on Thu May 16.
You kicked off 2013 with Falls Festival, what else is coming up this year?
Huxley Having delivered releases for an enviable roster of labels including Tsuba, Morris Audio, Fear Of Flying, Hypercolour and 20:20 Vision, Huxley (AKA Michael Dodman) has stayed true to his robust, bass-led strain of house music that reflects his interest in UK and US garage. Whether veering towards deeper vibes alongside Ethyl on his own Saints & Sonnets imprint, turning in cast iron grooves for Tsuba or full vocals barnstormers like his lauded Let It Go single for Hypercolour early 2012, there is a clearly defined but versatile sound to Huxley productions that marks him out as a truly talented producer. Huxley plays at Sugar on Thu Feb 28.
Falls is one of my favourite places to play, it’s such an old school kind of vibe because it’s been around forever. I’ve been writing lots of guest verses as well. We’ve already started the next album which is part two of Drinking From The Sun. We started writing it around the same time as the first one, it’s called Walking Under Stars. It’s an approach we’ve never taken before. I Love It was a huge success for you, what do you think it was about that track? I don’t know. We don’t go about making music expecting it to hit triple platinum, so it was amazing. Surprising, too. It’s been a decade of us making tracks so you never know what to expect.
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You’re playing at Clipsal 500, are you into cars? Um... I like cars. I appreciate driving nice cars... It’ll be good seeing Motley Crüe playing and KISS. The winner of the Hilltop Hoods Initiative will be announced in March, what are you looking for? We want to give back to the hip hop community. The criteria is that you’ve got to be a hip hop or electronic artist, you must not have a previously commercially released album, though mixtapes are alright. It’s just whatever pleases the judges’ ears, really. What’s happening on the Golden Era front?
Silicone Soul
Spit Syndicate
(Darkroom Dubs)
(Obese)
Darkroom Dubs Volume 3
Sunday Gentlemen
Various Artists
Official – The Best Of Australian Hip Hop Volume 1 (Warner)
Previous Darkroom Dubs compilations haven’t impressed me, because as the titles suggest, you feel you really need to be in the middle of a dark Glaswegian or Berlin dancefloor at four in the morning to appreciate them. Silicone Soul’s latest entry, to celebrate 10 years of their Darkroom Dubs label, is the Glaswegian duo’s most successful to date from the group who are also signed to Soma Recordings. Yes, Volume 3 is dark but there is an early morning groove present throughout that lifts it above previous editions. The back-to-back selections of Terje Saether & Malin Peterson’s Scared (the Gregorythme and Of Norway versions) are an unlikely winning combination; very different remixes that contain Peterson’s haunting voice. With five of their own tracks Silicone Soul show they have form - especially the Tim Paris remix of Midnite Man and the late night morphine tek jazz of Smokestak. Dark, dubby and druggy, Darkroom Dubs Volume 3 is sexy Ibiza techno’s antidote. Jeff Spicoli
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It’s not easy turning music into a fulltime job, let alone making any money out of it, and don’t Spit Syndicate’s Nick Lupi and Jimmy Nice know it. In fact, they’ve crafted an entire album around that concept – the album’s title being inspired by author Irving Wallace’s The Sunday Gentleman, a book Wallace allocated to writing each Sunday as a pet project and something he actually enjoyed doing in his spare time. Lupi and Nice are in the same boat judging from their third album. It’s a candid and very personal album (without being a downer necessarily), which reveals the trials and tribulations of a couple of struggling artists within a scene that is still very much in its growing stage, all the while having to put up with the daily grind of their daunting day jobs. Beauty In The Bricks and second single Folly are worth multiple listens as the album’s standouts, and the list of guest appearances (including beatmakers Adit, Stylaz Fuego and M-Phazes) is mighty impressive. Nice third effort all up. Simone Keenan
A testament to how an unlikely music genre came to make its name on the mainstream charts, Official – The Best Of Australian Hip Hop Vol. 1 quite fittingly kicks things off with our very own Hilltop Hoods and their tripleplatinum smash hit single I Love It Feat Sia, and continues the momentum with the crème de la crème of Oz hip hop including Bliss N Eso, Drapht, The Herd, The Funkoars, Urthboy and Muph & Plutonic among others. Compiled by DJ Flagrant (AKA Nate Flagrant), what you get on this album is just a taste of what the genre has to offer, though a couple of tracks (including Seth Sentry’s The Waitress Song and 360’s The Festival Song) could have been left out. Overall, it’s a nice 20-track intro into what Australian hip hop is all about and as far as compilations go, it features a good selection. But by no means is this the definitive collection of the best of the best. Simone Keenan
We released a free mixtape which you can download, we recently signed a local artist K21. We’re releasing our own album, Walking Under Stars and we’re going to the US and Canada in April, possibly maybe even Europe in the middle of the year, depending on how much of the album we get done.
Hilltop Hoods plays at Clipsal 500 on Fri Mar 1.
Calendar/ Friday Feb 28 Urthboy (Rocket Bar) Fri Mar 1 Agoria (Mr Kim’s) Sat Mar 2 Super Magic Hats (Ed Castle) Sat Mar 9 Eli Verveine (Cuckoo Bar) Sat Mar 9 Generik (Electric Circus) Mon Mar 11 Future Music Festival (Ellis Pk) Sun Mar 31 PVT (Ed Castle) Thu Apr 18 Spit Syndicate (Jive)
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It’s a show like no other when Mark de Clive Lowe hits the stage. Marked by impromptu studio production created from absolute scratch (using drum machines, keyboards and effects), every one of his gigs sees live remixes directly birthed on stage for a one-off, truly unique experience. A first-call collaborator for many diverse artists including Jill Scott, Leon Ware and Dame Shirley Bassey, de Clive Lowe is about to put on an unmissable show at Barrio as part of the Adelaide Festival, hitting the stage with bassist Ross McHenry and his Future Ensemble project. “I’m definitely a musician first and foremost,” he states. “I like to do the solo show where I have some a cappellas which are ready to go when I’m creating live remixes. Everything is created on stage - the basslines, the keys. People often ask me how much risk is involved in something like this and there are obviously plenty of chances for hiccups. For me, though, that is the biggest reason to make this kind of music, I like the risk in music. When I see someone performing live, I want to see that element of risk. It’s like jumping off a cliff without a parachute. Things can – and do – go wrong but you’ve got to work out how to make it work for you with all the technology that is involved. And there will be glitches, for sure – when you’re dealing with technology there are going to be some hiccups.” For his scheduled Adelaide show, de Clive Lowe says his performance will include a live percussionist, the reason being that it’s always more fun to bounce ideas and sounds off another person on the stage. There’s nothing quite like a bit of sparring between two musicians, he laughs. “I absolutely love working solo but when you’ve got someone on the stage with you there
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are benefits to that too,” he claims. “I think it works both ways – it’s for the musicians on stage to be able to spar and click musically but I think it’s also more fun for the audience to watch. It does depend on what kind of audience you have and what kind of day you’re having in your mind, in general too. The vibe of a show is very important. I like to keep audiences guessing, I like it when nobody knows what’s going to happen. My shows are always different when people come to see me. Those who have seen me before know that I love to take a well-known track and flip it on its head and do it a whole new, different way.” Spontaneity and experimentation is the key to good music, according to de Clive Lowe, especially in a live setting. When it comes to studio sessions, it’s all about sampling and mish-mashing. His latest album, Take The
Space Trane, was released by the UK based imprint Tru Thoughts Records this year and he reveals there are plans for more of where that came from. “Take The Space Trane has been so much fun,” de Clive Lowe says. “I collaborated with the Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra big band, which has been so interesting! I’m always trying to push the boundaries so this has definitely been a step in a different direction for me. Basically what you get is a collision between clubs music and big band, jazz sounds – and it actually works when you combine it together. It’s so easy to become stagnant in music, to keep churning out the same tunes, so you really have to challenge yourself as much as possible to keep things fresh. This has definitely been one of those experiences for me.”
Urthboy rtok by Nina Be
Did you know that Christopher Pyne likes the Hilltop Hoods? Neither did Urthboy (AKA Tim Levinson). That is, until he joined ABC’s Q&A panel alongside the Liberal member, former Minister For Immigration Amanda Vanstone, Labor party member David Bradbury and author Anne Summers this year. Maybe pollies are cool after all, Levinson thought. Then he quickly changed his mind. “It’s a lot of fun to be involved in a meaningful conversation and I am very
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interested in asking politicians questions,” he says. “I was looking forward to it because you see them on television and most of the time they’re skirting around issues and it’s so hard to get a straight answer out of them. It’s not an easy thing to do because they’ve become so media-trained that they have invented an artform in deflecting answers. It isn’t even about doing the greater good for the community anymore, they’re just professional media personalities. It’s about being engaging and charismatic. The most interesting thing about the Q&A experience was that I found out Christopher Pyne loves the Hilltop Hoods, so Adelaide represent! Amanda Vanstone is a real piece of work. You can get caught up in what she’s saying
but then it hits out in the back of your mind, ‘Wait, this is the person who oversaw kids stitching up their lips’, despite the fact I found her enjoyable and funny to hang with.” Ever the outspoken one himself, Levinson is currently basking in the success of his latest album and smash hit, Smokey’s Haunt – an album that’s earned him a number 14 spot on the ARIA Album Chart and a 2012 J Award nomination. A collection of stories, rather than mere hip hop tunes, Levinson joined forces with the likes of Adelaide’s own Delta, Jimblah, Alex Burnett (Sparkadia), Jane Tyrell, Solo (Horrorshow) and Daniel Merriweather, creating a record that is his most accomplished yet. “It’s always nice to hear people say positive
With an already-established fan base across Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, de Clive Lowe says 2013 will be the year of much travel, with a string of South African shows to follow after his Aussie visit. “I’ve got a lot of good plans for this year, it’s looking like it’s going to be a very big year, actually. I don’t do ‘sitting still’ very well. I’m living in America now and, when I was growing up in New Zealand, it was all about living in London, which I’ve done. Just being on the move constantly is what seems to work best for me.” WHO: Mark de Clive Lowe WHERE: Barrio, Adelaide Festival WHEN: Fri Mar 1
things about something you’ve been sweating on,” Levinson claims. “I can’t really ask for any more as far as what people seem to have taken away from the record in reviews. When you make music it’s such a solitary experience and you spend so much time labouring over all sorts of decisions. The strange thing is that even when people at gigs tell you they like your stuff, you do have to keep your guard up and think about it diplomatically. Let’s be honest – half the time people may be drunk or nervous and just be praising you for the sake of it. I can take praise but I do keep grounded about it. All I’m asking for – as any artist out there is – is that people really hear the music and make the artist feel like they are being listened to, that they get it. I think it’s healthy to develop a mentality where you allow people to tell you what they think but keep up a guard.” Currently in the midst of his first national tour in over two years on the back of Smokey’s Haunt, Levinson says he’s looking forward to stopping by Adelaide – something he also candidly admits wasn’t always the case... “We’ve [The Herd] had different times throughout the years where Adelaide was a place we wouldn’t go because the crowd attendance was so poor. We didn’t give up on Adelaide, though, we started coming back in recent years and it’s turned around quite a lot, the audience has been awesome and we’ve developed a real connection with the crowd. I’ve always had mad love for hip hop coming out of Adelaide. Unfortunately you tend to have a mentality of being ‘on the run’ when you’re in the middle of a tour, there aren’t many places you can really spend much time in, but I know that a week after the show I’ll be coming back to Adelaide because I’m on a WOMADelaide panel. So it looks like I’ll be seeing a lot more of you guys than I normally would.” WHO: Urthboy WHERE: Rocket Bar WHEN: Thu Feb 28
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Tour Guide/ THU FEB 28
URTHBOY (NSW), ONE SIXTH & JIMBLAH @ Rocket Bar
FRI MAR 1
CARTY (Syd) @ Grace Emily RICK PRICE (Syd) & THE ROB PIPPAN BAND @ Beachhouse Café (Victor Harbor)
CLIPSAL 500: HILLTOP HOODS, DRAPHT, ILLY, PEZ, VENTS & PURPOSE @ Victoria Pk THE SMITH STREET BAND (Vic), BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY (US) & THE BENNIES (Vic) @ Enigma
MON MAR 25
SAT MAR 2
SOUNDWAVE: METALLICA (US), LINKIN PARK (US), PARAMORE (UK) and so many, many more @ Bonython Pk CLIPSAL 500: THE ANGELS, IAN MOSS, MOVE TO STRIKE & HESTON DROP @ Victoria Pk SUPER MAGIC HATS (Vic) @ Ed Castle
BONNIE RAITT (US) & MAVIS STAPLES (US) @ Thebarton Theatre ROBERT PLANT & THE SENSATIONAL SPACE SHIFTERS (UK) & PLAYING FOR CHANGE @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre KITTY, DAISY & LEWIS (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh
SUN MAR 3
WED MAR 27
CLIPSAL 500: KISS (US) & MÖTLEY CRÜE (US), THE BEARDS, BEFORE THE AFTERMATH & THE RULES @ 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 LOST DINOSAURS (Bris) & MESSRS @ Adelaide Uni Bar
FRI MAR 8 – MON MAR 11
WOMADELAIDE: JIMMY CLIFF (Jam), HUGH MASEKELA (South Africa), THE CAT EMPIRE (Vic) and so many, many more @ Botanic Pk
FRI MAR 8
MXPX (US) @ Fowler’s Live THE MARK OF CAIN (SA/US) @ HQ
SAT MAR 9
KING PARROT (Vic), ALKIRA, EXERTHUR & GORLAPSE @ Enigma
SUN MAR 10
DINOSAUR JR (US) & RIDE INTO THE SUN @ Governor Hindmarsh
TUE MAR 12
BOB MOULD (US) @ Fowler’s Live ARLO GUTHRIE (US) & SARAH LEE GUTHRIE AND JOHNNY IRION (US) @ Trinity Sessions OPETH (Swe) & KATATONIA (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 JOE SATRIANI (US) @ Elder Hall
WED MAR 20
GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS (UK) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre
THU MAR 21
MUTEMATH (US) & BIG SCARY @ Fowler’s Live GRINSPOON (Syd) @ Governor Hindmarsh DEBORAH CONWAY (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf PAUL BRADY (Ire) @ Guthries (Prospect)
FRI MAR 22
JOHN MCCUTCHEON (US) @ Guthries (Prospect) MAT MCHUGH & THE SEPERATISTA SOUNDSYSTEM (Syd) @ Jive RICK PRICE (Syd) & THE ROB PIPPAN BAND @ Old Clarendon Inn
SAT MAR 23
MAT MCHUGH & THE SEPERATISTA SOUNDSYSTEM (Syd) @ Jive BEACHFEST: JIMMY BARNES, JON STEVENS, ROSS WILSON, THE BLACK SORROWS & SWANEE @ South Adelaide Football Club (Noarlunga Downs) RICK PRICE (Syd) & THE ROB PIPPAN BAND @ Regal Theatre (Kensington Pk)
SUN MAR 24
WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE (US) @ Enigma RODRIGUEZ (US) & THE BREAK (Syd/Tas) @ Governor Hindmarsh (sold out) THIS WILL DESTROY YOU (US) @ Crown & Anchor JORDAN MILLAR (Syd) & JACK
IGGY & THE STOOGES (US) & THE BEASTS OF BOURBON @ Thebarton Theatre TAJ MAHAL TRIO (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh
TUE MAR 26
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PAUL SIMON (US) & RUFUS WAINWRIGHT (Can) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
THU MAR 28
TONY JOE WHITE (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh MAD CADDIES (US), GOOD RIDDANCE (US), A WILHELM SCREAM, VOODOO GLOW SKULLS (US), THE FLATLINERS, DIESEL BOY, ONE DOLLAR SHORT, JAMIE HAY, JEN BUXTON, TOTALLY UNICORN & PAPER ARMS @ HQ SIMONE FELICE (US) & JESS REBEIRO (Vic) @ Exeter Hotel
SAT MAR 30
THE RESIGNATORS (Vic) @ Enigma
SUN MAR 31
DEMON HUNTER (US) & I THE BREATHER (US) @ Fowler’s Live
TUE APR 2
STATUS QUO (UK) @ Thebarton Theatre THE DARKNESS (UK), JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS (US) & JACKSON FIREBIRD (Vic) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
WED APR 3
DROPKICK MURPHYS (US), FRANK TURNER & THE SLEEPING SOULS (UK) & SWINGIN’ UTTERS (US) @ Thebarton Theatre
THU APR 4
FINBAR FUREY (Ire) @ Governor Hindmarsh
FRI APR 5
Irish troubadour Luka Bloom has just released a new album, This New Morning, and is about to embark on what will be his 10th Australian tour. In June of 2011 Bloom had toured Australia with the 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) to sing As I Waved Goodbye, a song about the Tibetan lama when he fled the country in 1959, each night before his holiness spoke to followers. “I’d written the song about 10 years ago,” Bloom explains, “but I’d played it when I was in Sydney at Enmore Theatre in March of 2011. Some people from the Dalai Lama’s organisation were there and then invited me to take part on the tour. “And it was one of the greatest experiences of my life,” he adds. “It was also very inspiring
and I wrote like crazy for six months and ended up with a heap of songs that I’ve recorded for This New Morning.” This New Morning, which follows the ‘best of ’ re-recorded collection Dreams In America, features a cast that includes Glen Hansard, Donal Lunny and noted percussionist Robbie Harris. “It happened that way,” Bloom says, “because I felt the songs were a little bit bigger than just me. So I knew it was a perfect opportunity to invite some musicians and singers I admired to participate on the record.” One of the many guests is Australian musician Steve Cooney, who once played with Adelaide folk rock outfit Redgum. “Steve has become a great, great friend and has often told me about Redgum,” Bloom announces with a laugh. “And as far as guitar playing goes, Steve is my hero because he has inspired so many people here in Ireland. And he’s a fabulous man.”
A bonus offering on This New Morning is a re-recording of the song You Couldn’t Have Come At A Better Time. It’s a tune that introduced many to Bloom’s talents when it appeared on the Donal Lunny-produced 3CD soundtrack to the five-part BBC television series Bringing It All Back Home in 1990. “I’d worked up a really rockin’ version of You Couldn’t Have Come At A Better Time for a festival I was doing in Belgium with some friends,” Bloom says. “And a few people had been disappointed it didn’t appear on Dreams In America, so it was a prefect opportunity to include the rockin’ version on This New Morning.” WHO: Luka Bloom WHAT: This New Morning (Big Sky) WHERE: Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Wed Mar 6
ROGER HODGSON BAND (UK) @ Thebarton Theatre THE ROSHAMBOS (Bris) @ Rhino Room
SAT APR 6
JAKE SHIMABUKURO (Hawaii) @ Governor Hindmarsh COUNTING CROWS (US) & JACKSON MCLAREN (Vic) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre THE ROSHAMBOS (Bris) @ Governor Hindmarsh (front bar) DEAD LETTER CIRCUS (Bris), BREAKING ORBIT & QUIET CHILD @ Adelaide Uni Bar
COMING UP
SUN APR 7 EUGENE HIDEAWAY BRIDGES (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh TUE APR 9 PENNYWISE (US), FACE TO FACE & THE MENZINGERS @ HQ
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WED APR 10 BIRDY (UK) @ Thebarton Theatre BLACK BREATH (US) & I EXIST @ Enigma Bar
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FRI APR 12 THE ROSHAMBOS (Bris) @ Cavern Club DZ DEATHRAYS (Bris) @ Rocket SAT APR 13 THE ROSHAMBOS (Bris) @ Cavern Club SUN APR 14 JON ANDERSON (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh RORY ELLIS (Vic) @ Church Of The Trinity LIVINGSTONE DASIES (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf TUE APR 16 SILVERSTEIN (Can) & ISSUES (US) @ Fowler’s Live (licensed all-ages) THU APR 18 ZUCCHERO (Italy) @ Thebarton Theatre JOSH GROBAN (US) @ Festival Theatre SAT APR 20 EXTREME (US) & RICHIE KOTZEN (US) @ Thebarton Theatre JORDIE LANE (Vic) @ Band On A Boat (Elder Pk) NANTES (Syd) @ Ed Castle SUN APR 21 JORDIE LANE (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf THE DRONES (Vic) & KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh
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Part of a double bill with San Franscisco rockers Journey, UK rock icons Deep Purple are currently touring Down Under. Legendary frontman Ian Gillan is excited to be back in Australia. “We have had two months off from touring so we will be exploding with energy! We played in 48 countries last year and we’re going on to Vietnam, Thailand, Nepal, Hong Kong and other places after we’ve been to Australia. It’s been brilliant and I don’t think we’ve stopped in the last seven years.” Do you get sick of living out of a suitcase most of the year? “I don’t think we can get sick of it because there’s something fresh happening every day apart from the location. It is pretty exciting and intense, but we do get plenty of time at home. When we’re out on tour the schedule
is pretty packed, but I reckon we would be on the road six months of the year.” Formed in 1968, Gillan says Deep Purple’s longevity has nothing to do with a sex, drugs and rock‘n’roll aesthetic. “It never was mate! Not the drugs anyway! I smoked my first spliff when I was 38 and there have never been any drugs in Purple - we’ve always been a drinking band. It isn’t difficult to keep your inspiration, not difficult at all.” Gillan agrees that Deep Purple pairing with Journey will make for an amazing concert experience. “I was delighted when I heard that they will be going on tour with us and it is a ticket that I’d certainly buy. My missus loves their music, which was how I got introduced to them, and my manager used to be their agent years ago. I am thrilled that we’re hooking up together.” Can fans expect a greatest hits set? “There’s a surprise every night because there’s nothing planned really. The songs are
vehicles, the shows are pretty dynamic, a lot of energy and fresh things go into it every night. We’ll be playing stuff from way back - we even do Hush which comes before Roger [Glover, bassist] and I joined the band in 1969.” Deep Purple fans won’t have long to wait for a follow-up to 2005’s Rapture Of The Deep. “We’ve just finished recording in Nashville and we’re finishing off the mix as we speak. It’s looking like coming out in April I think. It isn’t like any other Deep Purple album, but then again none of them really are. When we followed Deep Purple In Rock with Fireball the record label went nuts because it was completely the opposite - that’s been the story of our life, really.” WHO: Deep Purple WHERE: Adelaide Entertainment Centre (with Journey) WHEN: Mon Mar 4
The Guide // Thursday 28th ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Bill Parton Trio (8.30pm) Joe Avati: The Good, The Bad & The Ethnic (8pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty CALEDONIAN HOTEL – One Planet CAVERN CLUB – band night CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Fell To Earth and guests. Front Bar: DJ Paul Gurry CROWN HOTEL – Spectrum (8pm) 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) EXETER ON RUNDLE – The Byzantines GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Bulmers Best Of The Edinburgh Fest (7pm) Isaac Lomman: Comedy Hypnosis! A World Of Enchantment (9.30pm) Front Bar: Gumbo Room Blues Jam
THIS MONTH AT THE WHITMORE HOTEL
GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Kaurna Cronin MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker NORWOOD HOTEL – Open Mic Night PJ O’BRIENS – DJ G-Rillz PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango PROSPECT TOWN HALL – Club 5082 featuring Ziggy & The Bandits, Kiss The Mic, Kindergarten Kings, The Radicalities and Skyshot (7pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Bogan Bingo (8pm) ROCKET BAR – 8 Bit Kidz featuring resident DJs Stubanger, Hank & Osk and the Powderoom Posse SUGAR – ITDE Deejays and interstate/ international guests THE LION HOTEL – Clearway TONSLEY HOTEL – Katrina Caton (8.30pm)
WHITMORE HOTEL – RAINBOW JAM SESSIONS (7.30PM) WORLDSEND HOTEL – Worldsend Music Program featuring The Aves, Ghyti & The Philanthropic Orchestra and The Chefs
Friday 1st ADELAIDE CASINO – Chandelier Bar: Jacqui Lim (6pm) Bill Parton Trio (10pm)
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ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: Jaki J (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Franky F (6pm) Joe Avati: The Good, The Bad & The Ethnic (8pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Iris (8pm) BRECKNOCK HOTEL – Corner Bar: BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Slyde CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Causing Hammock and Jungle City then Ride Into The Sun DJs (10pm) DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Steve Simon (7pm) DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs Derek Lang, Eric Falcon and Lukky K DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Acoustically Raw 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) ENIGMA – The Smith Street Band with Bomb The Music Industry, The Bennies and guests ESPLANADE HOTEL – 2 Up Duo EXETER HOTEL – Troy Harrison EXETER ON RUNDLE – Lost Giants and Rapid Transport FINDON HOTEL – karaoke FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – The Rustlers (7pm)
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – FEAR & LOATHING, SUBTRACT S AND TOSS GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Bulmers Best Of The Edinburgh Fest (7pm) Best Of The Fest – Late Show (10pm) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The Dunes with Last Days Of Kali GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays
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Fri 1 The Multitaskers (Fringe Event) Sat 2 Cat Stevens Tribute Sun 3 Sophie Orchard Tue 5 Raw Jam Wed 6 Listen Laugh Clap (Fringe Event) Thu 7 Rainbow Jam Fri 8 A Brilliant Disguise (Fringe Event) Sat 9 Listen Laugh Clap (Fringe Event) Sun 10 Listen Laugh Clap (Fringe Event) Tue 12 Raw Jam Wed 13 Kelley Webb 'Our Little Wonders' Exhibition
Perfect entertainment venue for all adult event occasions. Thu 14 Rainbow Jam Fri 15 A Brilliant Disguise (Fringe Event) Sat 16 Phoebe Mccoll Sun 17 St Patrick's Day Tue 19 Raw Jam Thu 21 Rainbow Jam Fri 22 Alex Tomlin's Far Q Sat 23 Whitmore Birthday Bash Sun 24 Dominic Tue 26 Raw Jam
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The Guide // GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Diskonnect (6pm) HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – Spectrum (8pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Bonz (5pm) Velvet (9.30pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Dimitra (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs IRISH CLUB – Shamrocks ‘n’ Shenanigans (7pm) LIMBO – DJs LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee LOUISIANA TAVERN – Eleven Days 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 – E’nuf Said OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Kopy Catz OFFICE ON PIRIE – DJ Jess (4.30pm) ORIENTAL – Shane Wolf (4.30pm) Undercover Duo (8pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Redline PJ O’BRIENS – Frenzy RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ Snake & DJ Rupheo (9pm) RED SQUARE – DJs REX HOTEL – karaoke and Boris Loves To Boogie ROB ROY HOTEL – Bogan Bingo (8pm) ROCKET BAR – Abracadabra featuring resident DJs The Shiny Brights DJs
SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8PM) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – BLIND DOG TAYLOR AND ONE MORE MILE (8PM) SETTLERS TAVERN – Rockweiler (8pm) SMITHFIELD HOTEL – Rock The Boss (8pm)
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SOUTH ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – Russell Stuart STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance. Downstairs: DJs play retro SUGAR – TGI Funky with Ben Alibi and HMC SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Pat Spins Out (8pm) SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJs TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests
TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Dino Jag Duo (7.30pm) VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs VILLAGE TAVERN – Crazy Knites WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Hushes (9pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – StoneCrow (8.30pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – Worldsend
ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Heidy De Ruyter (6pm) Joe Avati: The Good, The Bad & The Ethnic (8pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: The Hi-Topps (9pm) BAROSSA VALLEY BREWING – Lily & The Drum (1pm) 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 – Band Room: Crank Yankers 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 EXETER ON RUNDLE – The Secret Garden presents Melissa Main with Monkey Puzzle Tree
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – SOUNDWAVE BREAKFAST WITH DJ ALICE
FIND YOUR FACE ONLINE. TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio Flamenco (7.30pm) TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – DJ Wolfman (9pm) THE COVE TAVERN – UK Blitz (8pm) THE DEPOT – 50 In The City, Squeaker, Heston Drop and Es Ist Super (6.30pm) THE ELEPHANT – Kinetik and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY – Ch@t Room THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Marcus Toop (4.45pm) Zkye & Damo (9pm) Chrysler Bar: McKenzie (9.30pm)
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Music Program featuring AYCC presents Rising Sun Music Festival featuring Irie Knights, Headphone Piracy, Xango, Babylon Burning Unplugged, Timberwolf and Abby Howlet ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs
Saturday 2nd ALMA TAVERN – MetroRetro ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J. Upstairs: Bongo Madness with DJs Ed Law and Scotty (10pm)
GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm)
GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ MARKY POLO (8PM) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Pub Scrabble Main Room: Ping Pong Madness (1pm) Bulmers Best Of The Edinburgh Fest (7pm) Best Of The Fest – Late Show (10pm) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Will & The Indians with Sweet Decline and Sister Rose 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 HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Planet Square
The Guide // HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm) HOLDEN STREET THEATRES – The Studio: Limited Edition (2pm) HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Lucas Day (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips, Tinker and Bangwel (8pm) HQ – Havana Brown KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Acoustically Raw LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ and MC Renard (10pm) MARBLE BAR – I <3 MB with DJs and MCs plus national and international guests MARINA SUNSET BAR – DJs playing the best in house and electro MARION HOTEL – Franky F (5.30pm) Boris Loves To Boogie (8.30pm) MARS BAR – VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – One Planet OLD SPOT HOTEL – Cherry Grind (9pm) ORIENTAL – Russell Stuart PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Good Company
PRODUCERS BAR – THE BABES PJ O’BRIENS – Animal House RAMSGATE HOTEL – Adelaide’s best cover bands RED SQUARE – DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan ROB ROY HOTEL – Another Side Of Aussie Bob (7pm) ROCKET BAR – Bananas: Track Team and Japeye SANDBAR – requests with DJs
SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SESSIONS SEBEL PLAYFORD – Misjif STAMFORD PLAZA: CASCADES – Jacqui Lim (7pm) SUGAR – Prince Aaronak, Driller, Derek Lang plus a host of international guests SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs
THE ELEPHANT – The Buzz and DJ G-Rillz THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment THE REGAL THEATRE – For Your Love: ‘60s British Rock Invasion (7.30pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Luv2luv (9pm) VALLEY INN – karaoke VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – Rumours VICTORIA SQUARE – Splash Adelaide present Square Mile (3pm) WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm) WATERLOO STATION HOTEL – Spectrum (8pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Blues Guitar Workshop with Cal Williams Jr (1pm) Uke Want It, Uke Got It (9pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – Jump ‘n’ Jive WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – Worldsend Music Program featuring Encarta, Lemurian and Unset ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs
Sunday 3rd ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School ARKABA HOTEL – Joe Avati: The Good, The Bad & The Ethnic (8pm)
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The Guide // BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Emerald (4pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Fringe shows DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Cry Wolf ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Russell Stuart EXETER ON RUNDLE – Shady Lane FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – The Satellites (3pm)
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – PAROXYSM PRESS SPOKEN SLURRED GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Jay Hoad. Front Bar: Vaudeville Vibes: Dr Sketchy’s Anti Art Class GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Shit Disco GRAND BAR – bands, DJs and MCs HIGHBURY HOTEL – Heath Solo HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – NPL Poker (6.30pm) LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – Shades Of Blue
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MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Sunday Sessions Comedy hosted by Lindsay Webb (4pm) MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – Fig Jam MIDDLEBROOK ESTATE – Bill Parton Trio (12.30pm)
MOSELEY SQUARE – SUMMER SUNDAYS @ THE BAY FEATURING JAY HOAD AND SIMON PETER & DR D (1PM) OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Undercover Duo ORIENTAL – Slyde PALATE 2 PALETTE – Lily & The Drum (1pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Gerry O PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Swap Sides PRODUCERS BAR – Whole Lotta Bon (9.30pm) RAMSGATE HOTEL – acoustic session (4pm) Tom Kurzel & Ed Trainor fortnightly rotation (7.30pm) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Dino Jag Trio (7.30pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN – Bodybeat
SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SOLOISTS SEMAPHORE PALAIS – Velvet
Sun Mar 3
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SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – SPECTRUM (4PM) SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Sour Sob Bob (4.30pm) The Bertie Wooster Trio (6pm) TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) DJ Junior (5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm) 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 – Blues Guitar Workshop with Cal Williams Jr (1pm) Uke Want It, Uke Got It (5pm) ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs
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The Guide // CROWN & ANCHOR – Fringe shows EXETER ON RUNDLE – Dan V GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Bulmers Best Of The Edinburgh Fest – Tight Arse 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 ROB ROY HOTEL – Bogan Bingo (8pm) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jam Night (8pm) SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and Paul Vallen WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Coma Fringe: Jazz Flip with Tom Pulford/Mike Stewart (8pm)
Tuesday 5th AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson CROWN & ANCHOR – DJs Stevie & Duncan plus Cranker Comedy
DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Bitches Of Zeus GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Music Works – The Dynamic Day Gig (10.30am), Bulmers Best Of The Edinburgh Fest – Tight Arse (7pm), Front Bar: Adelaide Ukulele Appreciation Society: Beginners Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – John McNamara Acoustic Soul & Blues HILTON HOTEL – KG’s Complete Trivia HQ – Birds Of Tokyo MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm) PORT NOARLUNGA & CHRISTIES BEACH RSL – Acoustic Rendezvous live music open mic (7.30pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Bogan Bingo (8pm) SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller THE GOODY – Complete Trivia THE LION HOTEL – Acoustic Sessions TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – DJs Ryley & Dylan Sanders (8pm)
WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Under Milkwood (8pm)
WHITMORE HOTEL – ACOUSTIC RAW JAM WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia
Wednesday 6th ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Joe Avati: The Good, The Bad & The Ethnic (8pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Salsa After Party (9pm) 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 Mic Night (7.30pm) DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Bento (What’s in Yo’ Box?!) EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music Exchange (7.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Curtis FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – Complete Trivia
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – Sunnyboy Al’s Krazy Karaoke GLENELG FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Luka Bloom – The Heartman Tour GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Ghyti with Lucy Campbell HIGHWAY – The Combi Room HQ – Flashdance MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Bogan Bingo (8pm) SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with Margi (7.30pm) SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular and Mr Whiskas SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Juno (7.30pm) THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill TONSLEY HOTEL – quiz night (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Wednesdays (7pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Under Milkwood (8pm)
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Save Your Legs! The following phone interview with Save Your Legs! stars Stephen Curry and Damon Gameau takes place during a press day at the MCG, and proves amusingly confusing as the pair talk over each other and each then imitates the other’s voice. And then Curry breaks in: “So you spoke to us on the set of Thunderstruck?” Yes. Curry: “Wow!” Gameau: “Classic!” Curry: “And here we are again 10 years later! Do we look different?”
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o, an obvious question to start with: SYL! is all about cricket, so are you big fans? “I was when I was younger but I’m not so much now,” Gameau says. “I suppose I’m more of an AFL fan now.” “Anything that you can sit around and watch for five days while wearing your undies and drinking beer and pontificating is all right with me,” Curry says. “But I’m not as big a fan as Teddy [his character in the film], as I have a few more other things going on in my life. I share the love of the game and the camaraderie, but I also think that I get out of the house a bit more often.”
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I’d like to ask about whether they were involved in the film from the earliest days, but the pair are already leaping ahead. “There were many incarnations of the characters and I think that it took Brendan [Cowell, screenwriter and co-star] about five years to write,” Gameau notes. “It was based on the documentary that Boyd [Hicklin, the director] made about the real Abbotsford Anglers and their trip to India.” And how closely is the film based on the story of the real Anglers? “Very, very loosely,” Curry admits. “The connection is that the Anglers are a real cricket team who went on a tour of India in 2001 - and that’s about where the similarities end.” “What they got up to might not be suitable for family viewing,” Gameau says. “It would be more of a Gus Van Sant film, or a Ken Loach project,” Curry adds. “Or maybe a Lars von Trier documentary?” Gameau offers. The pair are quick to discuss the quirks of their characters in a flurry of jokes. “Teddy is a cricket fanatic, sure,” Curry says. “But Stav is a fanatic too,” Gameau says, “only he’s more of a…” “A self fanatic!” Curry laughs. “Teddy loves Sachin Tendulkar as much as Stav loves himself !” “Stav does look really good in that peach
suit though!” Gameau says. “I got to keep that too, but I’m not quite sure what would be an appropriate occasion to wear it. Not a funeral, I think.” How was it to actually film in India? “It was an amazing experience,” Curry says. “We were there for about five weeks… I’d never been there before but Damon had, and he warned me that the moment you get off the plane all your senses are assaulted, and it’s so true. India becomes sort of another character in the film.” “The people, the food, the colours: it is quite an experience,” Gameau says. “Stephen and I actually had some confronting moments there [laughter]. And we all got sick after a few weeks.” “We did!” Curry confirms. “When we shot the stuff where I’m sick on the train that was about two days after we all came out of our own real sickness, so I think I was able to bring a sort of method actor edge to the performance.” Suddenly Curry and Gameau start laughing as scriptwriter Brendan Cowell has burst into the room. “What’s going on?” he interjects. “Hit me with one question!” Um… how did you find out about the story of the Anglers? “From Boyd’s documentary,” Cowell says. “I saw a DVD of it and thought that there
Curry In A Hurry
It’s a shame that Stephen Curry, so identified as a comedic actor since it all began way back with that ever-overrated The Castle, has never properly been allowed to show that he can shine in a proper (and actually good) drama, as no one much cared for: the factually-based misfire The Night We Called It A Day; the are-they-funny-or-serious? The Nugget and Take Away; the discussed-righthere AC/DC-heavy Thunderstruck; the munchy giant-croc silliness of Rogue; and the recent and awful The Cup. But he was nicely restrained in a willy-intensive episode of Rake and excelled as Graham Kennedy in the made-for-TV The King - a fine performance that few saw.
should be a big romantic comedy made about it… The script helped get the story that Boyd wanted to tell out there, and it was all about mateship and the Australian heart.” WHAT: Save Your Legs! WHERE: Palace Nova Eastend and selected cinemas WHEN: Now screening
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I Give It A Year (M) Writer/director Dan Mazer’s English character/ comedic drama has a large and fabulous cast and some pretty tough insights into the nature of modern relationships, and it even manages to get over a tendency to get a bit too grubby and gross-out (although, given all the coarse language and the brief penis close-up, this somehow got away with a mere M rating). Londoners Nat (Rose Byrne), a marketing sort, and Josh (Rafe Spall), a struggling author, meet and marry after only seven months, and at their opening-scene wedding even Josh wonders aloud if it’s all been too fast, which, of course, it has. When problems and arguments arise during their trying first year together, the pair agree to work at it, but then Nat meets hunky client Guy (Simon Baker) and Josh
Andrea Bocelli: Love In Portofino
finds himself getting closer to his lonely, ‘cause’-friendly ex Chloe (Anna Faris), and soon the lies start and the convoluted plot mechanics kick in. Given the propensity here for being ‘outrageous’, it’s nice that the central foursome of players are so appealing, with Byrne lovely, funny and sad, Baker and Faris charming in familiar form and Spall (hardly an obvious romantic lead) something of a revelation, and more than surviving the fact that he’s playing a bit of a dickhead. And then there’s the supporting players: Minnie Driver as Nat’s sister and Jason Flemyng as the husband she hates; elongated Stephen Merchant as Josh’s always-inappropriate best mate; and Olivia Colman absolutely stealing it as the therapist, who keeps breaking off to rant and rave at her ‘arsehole’ spouse. Mad Dog Bradley
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Tenor Andrea Bocelli’s first filmed concert is at the Palace Nova and the Wallis Mitcham and Mount Barker on Sat Mar 2 and Sun Mar 3. Details: palacecinemas.com.au and wallis.com.au.
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Opening But Unrated Cloud Atlas (MA), drawn from David Mitchell’s book and directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis (Andy and Lana these days), is a dark, FX-laden fantasy featuring a name cast in several roles each, including Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, James D’Arcy, Susan Sarandon and Hugh Grant. Director Stephen Chow’s Journey To The West (M) is opening exclusively at the Hoyts TTP to coincide with the Chinese New Year.
Beautiful Creatures (M)
Save Your Legs! (M)
The Last Stand (MA)
Director Richard LaGravenese (who also adapted Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s novel for the screen) helms this dark-magic romantic fantasy, and it’s surprisingly better than the unfair label with which it’s been slapped (yep, you know the one: it just wants to be another damn Twilight). High schooler Ethan Wate (Alden Ehrenreich) lives in the small, often steamy southern US town of Gatlin, a place of Bible-bashing, bitchy exes and late parents, but has always wanted to relocate, and yet this desire takes a backseat when he meets mysterious new student Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert, Jane Campion’s daughter), whose shadowy family virtually own the community, even though her dad Macon Ravenwood ( Jeremy Irons having fun and not hamming) barely leaves the rambling homestead. Macon insists that Lena not let Ethan get his romantic hooks into her but it’s all too late, and soon we’re into prophecy and destiny territory as we build to ‘caster’ Lena’s impending 16th birthday, and other characters intrude, including naughty, flame-eyed cousin Ridley (Emmy Rossum) and local fire-and-brimstone specialist Mrs Lincoln (Emma Thompson going over the top a bit). Using a witty script, offering some wry detail (like Ethan’s love for the locally-banned book Slaughterhouse-Five) and with a fine supporting cast (especially Viola Davis as Amma, Ethan’s librarian ‘aunt’), this surely isn’t the film you’re expecting at all, and it’s also impressive that the virtually unknown (when this was actually made, that is) Englert and Ehrenreich are so strong - even if he sometimes looks like an animated cartoon character. Mad Dog Bradley
I don’t like cricket-tuh, whoa no, I loathe it-ugh, yeah - and this irksome, male-bondingtype comedic/drama from screenwriter/co-star Brendan Cowell and director Boyd Hicklin (who helmed the original, exclamationmark-free 2005 doco from which this one was elaborated) isn’t going to convince me, or anyone else, otherwise, cobber. Gettingoverage Teddy Brown (Stephen Curry) is the overly proud president of Melbourne’s smalltime Abbotsford Anglers team, and old mates with show-offy members Stav (Damon Gameau), chillaxed Rick (Cowell) and the rest of the lads, even though their lives lately all seem to be heading in different directions. When they improbably receive last-minute sponsorship to play international cricket in a pretty minor Indian match, the motley mob set off to a rather Bollywood-looking country where their chummy bonds are tested, they tediously insist upon eating Australian food (when Teddy doesn’t, he’s stricken with a ‘hilarious’ case of gastro), all must face the fact that they’re not kids anymore (duh) and Teddy might be about to fall for all-grown-up childhood pal Anjali (Pallavi Sharda, strong but wasted here). What seriously irks about Ocker cinema is that when our movies aren’t about junkies expiring in Sydney gutters or ‘kitchen sink’ agonisers following the depressing plight of Croatian immigrants, they’re, instead, painfully contrived, calculatedly ‘feel-good’ outings like this, and full of would-be audience-friendly larrikin (yuk!) shenanigans. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi, oi…? Hello? Anyone? Mad Dog Bradley
The Governator lands his first leading role in 10 years (Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines) and steps right back into being typecast as Ray Owens, a former LA narcotics operative, long since turned sheriff of the sleepy town of Sommerton Junction, overseeing three bumbling officers and generally getting politely stepped on by the townsfolk. When a volatile prisoner escapes custody and his cartel plan to cross into Mexico from Sommerton, the FBI (lead by Forest Whitaker) head out to intercept, but ultimately Ray is left with no choice but to deputise a drunk in the lock-up (Rodrigo Santoro) and the village idiot ( Johnny Knoxville) to stand up against the violent gang before they skip the country, destroying half his town in the process. Torn between resurrecting the over-thetop, wisecracking action fare of Arnie’s glory days, and fitting in with the more serious, schlockier shoot-em-ups of recent years, proceedings remain uneven and roughly paced, with important plot points glossed over in favour of fast cars and gunplay - not necessarily a bad thing for an action flick, but don’t try too hard to connect all the dots between characters and story. Arnie’s been playing himself for much of his career and isn’t showing any signs of branching out now, but the rest of the cast is solid, and the film, though underdeveloped, is rife with big guns, flippant one-liners, improbable battles, high-octane car chases and way too much testosterone - all the hallmarks of a classic Schwarzenegger film. Yep, he’s back. Kat McCarthy
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And the latest from workaholic director Steven Soderbergh (whose Magic Mike was here six-and-a-bit months ago), Side Effects (MA), is a psychosexual-type drama starring Rooney Mara (of the US Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and still looking a bit feral), Channing Tatum (AKA Magic Mike himself ), Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Meryl Streep’s daughter (and she looks it) Mamie Gummer.
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The Room: Still Back By Popular Demand Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas
Tommy Wiseau’s ‘Citizen Kane Of Bad Movies’ The Room is still playing latenight, audience-participation-friendly shows during the Fringe, so check out palacecinemas.com.au for all details.
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Queenies Food Review d by Paul Woo
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While researching a little background information on Queenies cafe I came across their blog and a competition for customers to suggest the faux history of its mascot Queenie, a cheeky looking lady in polkadot shorts. While responses included anything from a detailed history of her life as a 1940s war widow to the simple prediction that she was a party girl with a reputation for getting drunk, my history with Queenie and her delightful little cafe began just a short time ago when I dropped in for lunch by the seaside. Queenies has jumped right out of the ‘60s with a retro style that is becoming more and more familiar in cafes opening all over town. Inside is a casual mix of vintage furniture and accessories with a large space for groups to the rear. They’ve also made good use of the front porch and side sunroom, adding more dining options with the added bonus of a fresh sea breeze if the weather is right. Service is great, and the menu has taken a more modern approach with tapas style servings from the ‘Little Bites’ menu, salads and sides or a fantastic list of pizzas, including the ‘Queenie’. As it turns out she was quite the fan of pizza, featuring caramelised pumpkin, walnuts, spinach puree, roast capsicum, rocket and blue cheese for $16. The ‘Little Bites’ menu features plenty of delicious Mediterranean-infused options, with my top picks including the salt and pepper soft shell crab, coriander, chilli and gremolata for $12, pan-fried haloumi, paprika and lemon for $12, and green beans, anchovies, chilli and garlic for $8. All of these dishes were presented in a no-fuss fashion, with a focus on flavour that quite simply hit the spot. Daily desserts are featured inside, with Queenie’s cheeky attitude coming through in the chef ’s latest creation entitled ‘50 shades of chocolate’ – a towering, five-layered ganachefilled cake served with whipped cream, a wink and a smile. WHAT: Queenies Store WHERE: 9 Jetty Rd, Largs Bay WHEN: Wed – Sun 8am – 9pm INFO: 8341 7677
Running With Bulls Tempranillo Winemaker Sam Wigan was born and raised with viticulture roots. The son of Andrew Wigan, the head winemaker at Peter Lehmann Wines, Sam has followed in his father’s footsteps and gone on to lead the way over at Barossa Valley winery Running With Bulls, helping craft one of their finest reds to date with the Running With Bulls Tempranillo 2011. As a bit of a foodie as well, Sam has provided Rip it Up with a recipe that’ll bode well when paired with your next glass of vino.
Chorizo and Prawn Tapas
300g green prawns (shelled and deveined) 3-4 chorizo (depending on size, cut into 1cm thick slices) 1tbs olive oil 2 cloves of garlic (crushed) 1tsp sweet paprika Toothpicks Lemon juice Method: Marinate prawns in olive oil, paprika and garlic for one hour. Once marinated, wrap each prawn around the outside of a slice of chorizo and secure with a toothpick. Cook on the barbecue over medium high heat for two to three minutes until the prawn is cooked through. Transfer to a plate and then give a good squeeze of lemon juice. Eat immediately and enjoy with a glass of Running With Bulls Tempranillo.
Local Libations
Chargrilled by Shane A Ettridge. Proudly available at The Kings.
Barossa Blonde When entertaining friends, picking a brew that will both please the masses and keep beer snobbery intact can often be problematic. Finding a tipple light enough to complement the backyard chargrill but carrying enough character to stand on its own as the mozzies come out is key. Seppeltsfield out in the Barossa first introduced us to their brewing prowess with a cheeky little Bock, and their second installment, the Barossa Blonde, might well be the perfect barbecue drop. Bone dry, floral and bitter, Barossa Blonde is also clean and crisp with a touch of spice. It’s a no-fuss, uncomplicated pilsner style booze. Next time you’ve got the posse coming round, take your beer geek helmet off, sit back and give this a look and remember – even though summer might be over, you can still enjoy a couple of blondes. Cheers.
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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04
In the midst of some rather confusing times, the universe sparks up on the side of the fire signs. Get ready to be blessed with inspiration, impulse and energy out of the blue. The moon’s presence in Leo has you feeling imperious and strong, which overrides Mars’ floundering.
Taurus 21.04/20.05
Communication is the theme and Venus is out to sea. Clearly loquaciousness is not going to be the manner in which you express yourself. There is no need to pressure yourself into thinking that you should be particularly wordy. A few well chosen gestures will do the trick.
Gemini 21.05/21.06
The presence of Mercury in Pisces is still hamstringing communication. Life is insisting that you find different deeper, more right-brained ways to get your message across. Use poetry instead of prose, fuzzy logic instead of pure reason. Take a great creative leap of faith.
Cancer 22.06/22.07
Virgo 23.08/22.09
The moon arrives just in the nick of time. Just when you thought you were being swamped by waves of emotion, life lights you up with possibility. It doesn’t just light you up, it adds fuel, firepower and all sorts of wild and wonderful passion. Follow your fiery heart.
Relationship is probably stopping you in your tracks and making you wonder if there is any sense in your perspective whatsoever. It would be best to take this as a chance to review your perspective in a creative way, rather than white-anting yourself with doubt.
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Libra 23.09/23.10
Venus is just putting the final touches onto her journey through Aquarius. She has polished all her ideas and ideals. She has a vision. Soon she will find out experientially whether how she has envisaged love will match up to reality. Take a breather before change comes.
Scorpio 24.10/21.11
There’s a knack to remaining fluid while in heavy traffic. Move towards the empty spaces, the gaps, rather than towards collisions. There is a lovely meeting here between Saturn and Mars – wisdom and will. Hopefully it will inspire you to act thoroughly and admirably.
Sagittarius 22.11/21.12
The fact that you are in some way in a position of influence, doesn’t mean that the path is free from undergrowth and unexpected bumps. Others will try to take you to task. If things get too flexible, solid plans will turn to jelly and go nowhere. Stick with your gut feeling.
Capricorn 22.12/19.01
Though you are bounding around on the inside and dying to get out of your shell, life is insisting on awareness and restraint. If you can put frustration aside and trust life’s pace, then your heart will dance. The choice is very much with you. Be tempered by patience. Or not.
Paul McDermott’s The Dark Garden Before becoming a comic in the Doug Anthony All Stars and the iconic host of Good News Week, Fringe ambassador Paul McDermott was an Adelaide expat enrolled in Canberra art school with dreams of becoming an artist. Despite a lucrative detour into television, McDermott has never put down his paintbrush, illustrating two children’s books as well as scripting and animating an award-winning children’s short film The Girl Who Swallowed Bees in the early
Aquarius 20.01/18.02
Venus is the last of the planets to stay in Aquarius and avoid the plunge into the deep seas of Pisces. Venus is the goddess of love - and she dearly wants to give you her time. She’s not finished with you yet. Don’t miss. Soak up all the love that’s right before your eyes.
Pisces 19.02/20.03
With five planets whirling like dervishes in Pisces, there is no doubt that you are the central attraction at this astrological party. There are strong currents pulling at you. They are trying to pull you out of any inertia present - and move you towards your deepest dreams.
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2000s. This Fringe season under the moniker ‘Young Master Paul’, McDermott will unveil a series of artworks that he has been creating for over 20 years in his first-ever public viewing at Tuxedo Cat, The Dark Garden. Inspired by current global events and ideas about climate change, The Dark Garden invites audiences into a post-apocalyptic world with hybrid creatures, monsters and fauna featured in more than 100 paintings, prints and banners across three immersive
environments. Lead only by the glow of their own torch light, audiences will be able to move through the space listening to specially crafted soundscapes to accompany each ‘environment’. WHAT: Paul McDermott: The Dark Garden WHERE: Tuxedo Cat, 199 North Tce, Adelaide WHEN: 12pm-6pm daily until Sun Mar 17
Grounded
Fisher Jeffries Level 1, 19 Gouger St, Adelaide Fri Mar 8 - Fri Apr 19
Grounded is the work of four graduates of the Adelaide Central School Of Art including Nic Brown, Cathy Frawley, Sally Parnis and Lyn Wood. Each of the artists are drawn to landscape, this subject immersing itself within their artworks and being the basis for the exhibition. Ideas of sensation, poetic space, sites for transcendence and shifting reality have all been translated into their pieces through varying paintings, sculptures and drawings. Opening: Fri Mar 8 at 6pm – 8pm
Riverscape, Sally Parnis
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The moon leaves Cancer with you feeling encouraged. As she gears up into fiery Leo, be sure to stay with her and not slip back into old ways. Trust your heart to shine. There’s not a lot of effort to be made here, to be what you are not. Respect yourself in brand new ways.
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There are several different options to spend the day at the races among the punters and social elite. Here are some of our picks of packages to help maximise your experience of the Adelaide Cup at Morphettville Racecourse.
Panasonic Fashion Pavilion - $235
Includes two-course luncheon and afternoon tea, five-hour diamond beverage package, fashion parades by Paolo Sebastian, DJ entertainment and race book.
Nova Stables - $125
Includes lunch voucher to select from the new menu and afternoon tea, six beverage vouchers, Nova 91.9 DJ and entertainment.
Myer Fashions On The Field Competition
The winner on the day will go through to the national final at Flemington during the 2013 Melbourne Cup Carnival.
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The Adelaide Cup is upon us once again, and it’s as true as ever that it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose, it’s how you do your hair that’s most important. Take a look at this guide of some of our picks for Adelaide Cup racing style to ensure that while you may gamble on the losing horse, you won’t gamble on a losing outfit. American Apparel Lace Sun Dress – americanapparel.net
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Claire Vivier Flat Clutch – suedeonline.com.au
Abache Hair & Beauty and Media Makeup providing free touch-ups for hair and make-up. General admission tickets - $2. Gates open 10am. For more info visit sajc.com.au.
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Andorwith Hi Summer Cult local brand for tees with plenty of ‘tude and the right mix of bad-assery, Andorwith, launched their new Hi Summer range at Laneway Bar on Hindley St on Sat Feb 16. Check out some of the newest ranges that come in fits for both guys and girls, designed and hand-printed in Adelaide and are now available at selected Adelaide boutiques and online. andorwith.com
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DVD Reviews
House At The End Of The Street
On The Road
The Oranges
To Rome With Love
Jack Kerouac’s novel, a ramblingly autobiographical ‘Beat’ classic, was always discussed as a potential movie project, but it took Brazilian filmmaker Walter (The Motorcycle Diaries) Salles and producer Francis Ford Coppola (who must have been weeping when he stood down as director) to finally bring it to the screen in all its drug-addled, deeply melancholic, wildly raunchy glory. After the death of his dad in 1947, restless wannabe-writer Sal Paradise (Sam Riley as Kerouac’s alter ego) meets a series of figures on his wandering travels, including Carlo Marx (Tom Sturridge as Allen Ginsberg’s proxy) and Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund as Neal Cassady’s stand-in), although it’s the larger-than-life Dean who makes the biggest impression, especially as he comes complete with an on-off girlfriend named Marylou (Kristen Stewart forced to smile at times). And, as he matures as an artist, young Sal journeys with Dean across America, Canada and Mexico, helps make life difficult for Dean’s other squeeze Camille (Kirsten Dunst), stops off in Louisiana with Bill/Bull/William Lee (AKA William Burroughs, wonderfully impersonated by Viggo Mortensen) and his spacy wife Jane (Amy Adams), engages in all manner of sexual permutations - and invents a revolutionary style of self-expression. MDB
TV-intensive director Julian Farino’s strongly-cast, sweetly stabbing comedic/ character drama offers a nicely witty script, some generous laughs and a little more bite than you perhaps might be expecting (which might explain why this one bypassed cinemas in favour of bigger, dumber, easier pics). The Wallings, David (Hugh Laurie) and Paige (Catherine Keener), and the Ostroffs, Carol (Alison Janney) and Terry (Oliver Platt), are across-the-street neighbours and longtime friends, even if their respective offspring, teen daughters Vanessa Walling (Alia Shawkat as the awkward, Gothy one) and Nina Ostroff (Leighton Meester as the cute but scatty one), are not. When Nina returns home from a somewhat disastrous time in Europe and, well, tries it on with David, the stage is set for heartbreak aplenty, although there’s a welcome lack of hand-wringing histrionics here, and it’s evident that Farino and screenwriters Ian Helfer and Jay Reiss like the characters a great deal, which is why such a glittering cast of character actors got involved in what is really quite a modest, even unassuming production. And it’s good to see Laurie, after perhaps one too many series worth of House, shining as a fairly normal guy who’s neither twit nor arsehole. MDB
Writer/director/star Woody Allen’s latest is his fourth recent film set in a European capital, and while, of course, it isn’t great, there’s still fun enough to be had here. Four not-quite-interconnecting stories are followed: Jerry (Woody), a retired opera director, visits Rome with his psychologist missus Phyllis ( Judy Davis in her fifth Woody pic) so that daughter Hayley (Alison Pill) can introduce her fiancé Michelangelo (Flavio Parenti), but Jerry instead becomes obsessed with Michelangelo’s dad’s singing, even after it’s revealed he can only croon in the shower; Jack ( Jesse Eisenberg), an American architect living with girlfriend Sally (Greta Gerwig), finds himself adoring her ‘irresistible’ friend Monica (Ellen Page), as an older ‘sellout’ (Alec Baldwin) moves in and out of the action with weird ease; Antonio and Milly (Alessandro Tiberian and Alessandra Mastronardi) are dopey newlyweds separated by circumstance, leading to her seduction by filmmaking (and more) and his experiences with a (here it comes…) prostitute (Penélope Cruz); and, finally, the silliest thread has a mild businessman (Roberto Benigni) who suddenly gets famous for no reason, as Benigni reminds us why he’s been forbidden from making movies in the US for so long. MDB
Icon / MA / 137 Mins
Roadshow / M / 87/90 Mins
Hopscotch / M / 107 Mins
Roadshow / M / 97/110 Mins
Although it’s often listed as having been made after she became a proper star with pics like the first Hunger Games and David O Russell’s Oscar-nominated Silver Linings Playbook, this Jennifer Lawrencestarring, Mark Tonderai-directed thrillery dud was actually, it seems, shot before she got seriously famous (maybe immediately after Winter’s Bone), and then held back in post-production and distribution limbo and legalities. Her vaguely traumatised Elissa moves with ever-worried mom Sarah (well-cast Elisabeth Shue) into a notorious rural house in which a loopy teenage girl once murdered her parents in the opening sequence, and poor old Mom gets increasingly concerned about Elissa’s friendship with said girl’s surviving brother Ryan (Max Thieriot, a little dull), who might live just a little too close by for comfort. And if you’ve seen the trailer for this one, you know just what to expect from this glum little number, as everything is given away in 90 seconds or so, from the central ‘twist’ to every other surprise, and there’s not even a little gore or nifty violence here to keep you watching (although chances are Lawrence’s tough Elissa would give any given axe murderer a very hard time indeed). MDB
Prince Rupert Loewenstein / Bloomsbury / 262pp / $29.99
Loewenstein, born in Majorca, a descendant of the Bavarian royal house of Wittelsbach, managing director of the merchant bank Leopold Joseph and a senior member of the Roman Catholic Order Of Malta (!), worked from 1968 until 2008 as ‘bank manager, psychiatrist and nanny’ for The Rolling Stones, and this study of his exploits is quite readable - if, unsurprisingly, a bit stuffy. Rambling rather while he discusses an over privileged childhood, he gets to the Stones stuff about 60 pages in, as he alters the entire music industry while continually noting that he didn’t care much for the band’s music. However, much of this is otherwise about legal issues (which isn’t that interesting unless you’re a lawyer) or, somewhat tackily, about money, and lots of it (which also isn’t that interesting unless you’re a lawyer - or a Stone). MDB
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Outrageous American theatre company BBB (Banana Bag & Bodice) have been invited to bring their much-acclaimed Beowulf – A Thousand Years Of Baggage to Adelaide Festival. The work, which is fuelled by a sevenpiece band, is based on the epic ninth century poem Beowulf which told of the mead-drinking Scandinavian warrior and his adventures slaying assorted dragons, monsters and such. Jessica Jeliffe is one of the company’s artistic directors alongside Jason Craig (who plays Beowulf ) and she spoke to Rip It Up about the work from home in Brooklyn. “Someone from Adelaide Festival had seen us do Beowulf in Edinburgh in 2011 as part of the shows at Assembly Theatres,” she begins. “It got some great reviews – and a lot of word of mouth – and then the rest is history. “But the show originally came about when Jason [Craig] and composer David Malloy were commissioned by a theatre company called Shotgun Players in California to write a show. So Jason looked up at the bookshelf and said, ‘Well, Beowulf. Let’s try that’. So then he read the thing – he’d never even read it before – and so it kinda landed in our own laps and he put it into his own words with his own perspective.” It is of course a highly contemporary version of the centuries-old story and the musicians, led by pianist David Malloy, play a diverse array of material that includes punk, cabaret, electronica and jazz. “Dave is a very eclectic composer and what he’s done for Beowulf is just amazing,” Jeliffe
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says. “He really likes to mix things up with so many different styles. And he has a knack of composing music that best fits each part of the story. “So when we went into the rehearsal room, to hear what Dave had first written was just amazing. And then he was writing new songs as we went along after being inspired by the scenes we were creating for the stage and the interaction between all the characters.” The 17-member company, who are very excited about making their first trip to Australia, will be performing Beowulf – A Thousand Years Of Baggage in The German Club. It’s an inspired choice as the Flinders St club hardly seems to have changed its décor since it first opened in 1886. “I know,” Jeliffe laughs. “We have seen some photos of The German Club and are excited about presenting Beowulf there. When we first saw the pictures of the venue we all noted how dated it looked but also thought
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it would be perfect for what we are doing. It will also lead to lots of discussion about the wonders of Beowulf especially with that bar that runs along the back of the club. We’ll feel like we are all hunkered down in some Scandinavian mead hall. “And every venue we’ve taken the show to have been very different,” she adds. “For example, we’ve performed it in The Famous Spiegeltent with its mirrored walls and plush velvet curtains but we’ve also done it in small, indie music clubs. “But we love adapting the show to whatever venue we’re playing,” Jeliffe concludes. WHAT: Beowulf – A Thousand Years Of Baggage WHERE: The German Club (223 Flinders St) WHEN: Mon Mar 11 until Sat Mar 16 at various times
Your guide to the student experience. This week we welcome Mad March and all of its accompanying glory. Having been spoilt with an extra week of the Fringe this year, this transition into March isn’t as notable as it has been in other years. Except, of course, now is the time that everything happens all at once and you find yourself cursing this excellent city of ours for cramming everything good into one month. Before you complain you can’t split yourself into 16 to go and see everything you want to and that Adelaide should calm down and spread the love throughout the year, it’s been made pretty clear that this would do more harm than good for Adelaide as an attractive city to visit and vibrant place to live in. Adelaideans love a fad - and once a novelty wears off from something it’s usually quickly abandoned. Still not convinced? Just see how many people make it to your lectures now compared to in three weeks time. And remember, if you have any student news, events, info or deals I should know about that you want to see in Fast Times, email lachlanaird@ripitup.com.au, Poke facebook.com/fasttimesripitupmag or Tweet @FastTimesRIU and I’ll do the rest. Peace, Lachie
Buskers To Harbour Town Need a place to practise your busking prowess and maybe earn some shiny coins in the process? As everyone becomes a critic come Fringe time, it can be daunting to launch straight into Rundle Mall to catapult your Fringe career. Instead, mark your territory first at a place that has before now been removed from the busking culture, where anything is better than nothing and you aren’t treading on the toes of the fluteplaying bikie. Harbour Town is looking for buskers for the first time, with a busking program that invites everyone from singers, musicians, dancers, puppeteers and clowns to sell their wares and entertain the bargain hungry crowd. Application fees start at just $10 for a three-month short-term stint, or $30 for a year. If you want to sell your own original merchandise so fans can take your talents home with them, an additional $50 fee applies. Now just to decide which of your many awe-inspiring and unique talents to bring to the public first. Applications for busking at Harbour Town can be found at harbourtownadelaide. com.au
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‘Wear A Piece Of Adelaide’
No, we don’t mean walk around wearing nothing but a carton of West End Draught with arm and head holes cut out of it. Instead, 26 new and established designers will showcase jewellery that has been inspired by Adelaide itself. Six AC Arts students have been selection to join the 20 other artists to make jewellery that act as Adelaide mementos, some even using pieces of the city in their creation. Just a few of the icons that have been referenced include the Christmas Pageant, churches, Coopers Pale Ale, the Tour Down Under, a piece of jetty, a large fluorescent rhino at the Art Gallery and a Stobie pole in the exhibition that is running in its second year. AC Arts alumni Alice Potter will also be exhibiting her Over The Top Pig necklace, which – of course – was inspired by the Rundle Mall pigs. While everyone’s feeling festive this season, head along to see how some of Adelaide’s treasures and eyesores have been used to make wearable art. WHAT: Wear A Piece Of Adelaide WHERE: AC Arts WHEN: Until Sat Mar 16
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International Women’s Day Breakfast If your passion for feminism stretches beyond watching Girls and following Lena Dunham on Twitter (do it - so good), the International Women’s Day Breakfast may be something more substantial and relevant. The breakfast is to fundraise for the Australian Refugee Association (ARA), of which The University Of Adelaide is a supporter. The breakfast will not only celebrate what women worldwide contribute and achieve, but also the ARA’s work in projects that support women from refugee backgrounds who are settling in Adelaide. If you – and not Lena - are the
voice of the generation and can help share the other voices of other generations to help improve the lives of women locally and internationally, be sure to head along. WHAT: International Women’s Day Breakfast WHEN: Fri Mar 8 WHERE: The Eclipse Room, Level 4 Union House, University Of Adelaide TICKETS: $45 or $40 for students, ARA volunteers, members and partners INFO: australianrefugee.org
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Fringe Benefits If the Fringe has tipped your bank account into your own personal GFC, perhaps it’s time to take a different approach to try and curb the damage before the festival ends. Fringe Benefits is a program for 18 to 30-year-olds to have access to discounted tickets on gigs from all the good things that go on at this time of year. This includes, comedy, theatre, film, cabaret and even other festivals like WOMADelaide and Adelaide Festival. By signing up you’ll get weekly eNews with passwords for discounts, deals and giveaways and invites to free movie previews, exhibition openings
The student lifestyle is largely impoverished and opportunistic. Getting something for less than others is - in my view - a basic human right. As a key believer in defending human rights, I have found these student deals to help sustain life while also sustaining the bank balance. and industry parties. Members also have exclusive access to the Fringe Club artist bar, where you can rub shoulders with some of the visiting artists as they unwind with a beverage or 30. Sharing a dancefloor with drunk professional dancers who are still a gazillion times more co-ordinated than you is one of those special Fringe moments to savour. To register for Fringe Benefits – including access via a Mobile Member Card – visit fringebenefits. com.au
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CD Reviews
CD Of The Week
Scottie’s Singles
Darwin Deez
Listen Now:
Songs For Imaginative People
Daughter
(Lucky Number)
Still
(4AD/Remote Control)
Maybe you missed Bat For Lashes at Laneway the other week due to a big-arse steel gate blocking your access to the Fowler’s Live courtyard? If you’re still praying for some old testament smiting of the infidels responsible for closing the citadel, Daughter might offer eternal salvation. Like Natasha Khan collaborating with The XX, this is minimalist pop as gorgeous and unique as Sigur Ros performing whale songs on an ice floe while an aurora borealis dances gracefully across the sky. Still’s sigh of the times daringly elevates this London trio’s March debut If You Leave to one of the year’s most anticipated. Perfumed genius.
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Purity Ring Belispeak
(4AD/Remote Control)
Purity Ring are the castle-dwelling Gryffindor to Crystal Castles’ dungeon-creeping Slytherin. Both Canadian duos use similar potions, yet Purity Ring offer white magic for lovers. The good news is 2011 single Belispeak has been re-released to coincide with Purity Ring’s March tour of Australia. The bad news is that Canada’s answer to The Bird & The Bee aren’t gonna make it to Adelaide on their Down Under jaunt. What’s the matter, kids? Don’t tell me you’ve got a thing against giant fuck-off gates preventing your fans from getting within shouting distance of you?
Thelma Plum
Dropkick Murphys Signed And Sealed In Blood (Dew Process/UMA)
The Boys Are Back is the opening track on Dropkick Murphys’ latest full-length, and it’s both a cheeky chorus given that they covered Thin Lizzy two albums ago, and a perfectly apt rallying cry as the Massachusetts-based septet deliver a new platter only 20 months after the
last (their shortest time between records ever). Signed And Sealed In Blood, despite the title sounding like a metal album, sticks largely to the Celtic-punk approach the band has refined over 7 previous studio albums. Fans know what to expect: customary Irish instrumentation married to rowdy rhythms (Burn, Out Of Our Heads), Al Barr singing some punk rock‘n’roll brawlers (The Battle Rages On), and co-vocalist Ken Casey taking lead on a few more schmaltzy or jokey numbers (The Season’s Upon Us manages to be both). But in a break with convention, this time out there are no covers or re-workings of traditional material, although the lyrics of baseball ballad Jimmy Collins’ Wake were written by Richard Johnson. With plenty of rousing choruses and a dash of sentimentality, Signed And Sealed In Blood is a fine addition to the band’s back catalogue and never puts a foot wrong, without raising the bar any higher than it already was. Dropkick Murphys play Thebarton Theatre on Wed Apr 3. Owen Heitmann
American indie delights Darwin Deez (both the name of the band and their quirky lead singer) are back with their second album, Songs For Imaginative People, and it does not disappoint. Quirky, fun, eclectic, eccentric and everything inbetween, it wakes you up like a hot shower in the morning. It has truly set a challenge to any listener: if you don’t feel compelled to start dancing like a maniac, there’s something wrong with you. Darwin Deez’s psychedelic rock pop is as infectious as a dirty disease and this album is by no means ashamed. First track (800) HUMAN calls back that popular riff from Radar Detector from their first album but puts a nice little spin on it. You Can’t Be My Girl’s addictive chorus is, well, addictive. The contrast of the chorus with the abrupt spiral into chanting and electric guitar solos is crazy amazing. Do you like a good sharp rhyme? Well, Good To Lose is the song for you. Enchantingly funky and trippy, this song is a dream. If you like your music a little offbeat, well Darwin Deez’s Songs For Imaginative People is for you. This album is delightfully imaginative. Retweet, reblog, thumbs up, all of the above. Karina Carroll
Around Here (Footstomp)
Despite her music seeing her nominated in the Best New Talent category at last year’s Deadly Awards, folk singer Thelma Plum says “it should never be about colour”. It’s probably not a good time to admit that as a seven-year-old I thought Lionel Richie and Billie Dee Williams were the same guy (if I didn’t already love that sucka in Return Of The Jedi, he completely blew my mind when he began dancing on the ceiling). Like Lisa Mitchell with a parental guidance sticker, Around Here is a fresh acoustic amble from a gal who looks like the Aussie version of Mila Kunis. Get a taste of this Plum cake while it’s still hot out of the oven.
Fall Out Boy
My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) (UMA)
After a few years apart, emo punching bags Fall Out Boy have re-formed with the same wanker bassist, same propensity for ridiculous titles and same awful musi… hang on, what’s this? The goobers have finally released a cracking little pop song? Jiminy Jillickers. Everything’s coming up Milhouse.
Pitbull Feat Christina Aguilera Feel This Moment (Sony)
A-ha shite heartbreak.
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Live Review
Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Tue Feb 19 Review by Robert Dunstan Photos by Andreas Heuer
I have to confess to not seeing the opening act as they were on stage at 8pm, just as the venue’s doors swung open, and only played for about 900 seconds. I can, however, report that it was an acoustic act who go under the name Mojo Jacket. How a relatively unknown, unsigned Melbourne band got to do a national tour with Ringo is anyone’s guess and even Mojo Jacket were somewhat surprised, if the comments on their official website were anything to go by. Ringo and his band (Richard Page of Mr Mister fame; guitarist Todd Rundgren; sax player and musical director Mark Rivera; keyboard player Gregg Rolie of Santana and Journey; session drummer Gregg Bissonette and guitarist Steve Lukather of Toto) took to the stage just after 8.30pm and kicked off with a version of the Carl Perkins rockabilly song Matchbox. It was an interesting choice given that The Beatles’ original drummer, Pete Best, used to sing it with them before Ringo took over the drum stool and the lead vocals for that song. Apparently Ringo had a deal that he would sing at least one song on each album by The Beatles. I was disappointed but not surprised that Ringo didn’t elect to sing anything from his second solo
Reviews // Quick Ones
Yothu Yindi
Buffalo
Ty Segall
(Liberation)
(Independent)
(Drag City/Spunk)
Healing Stone - The Best Of Yothu Yindi
Like most Australians, I first heard of Arnhem Land band Yothu Yindi when their awesome Filthy Lucre remix of the poignant Treaty became a global sensation. I eventually began to dig a little deeper and discovered some fantastic music - plus even got to see Yothu Yindi play a few times. Yothu Yindi’s status has been duly honoured with the release of Healing Stone - The Best Of Yothu Yindi, celebrating the band’s momentous career. The album, which comprises of both a CD and DVD featuring videos and documentaries, is a fantastic little collection, rightfully beginning with the hits Treaty and Djäpana, before getting into tunes from all six of their albums. If you’ve not heard much of these guys before, be prepared to be impressed. The music is a mix of traditional sounds and blues rock, with even elements of reggae and funk thrown in. The music conjures images of Australia in a similar way to the likes of Paul Kelly or Redgum, with the traditional indigenous elements adding to the effect. You can feel the humidity of a warm summer’s night, and hear the spirit of this ancient land. And there’s even a swag of strong messages here too! This is definitely a tidy collection, and one worthy of celebrating the greatness of Yothu Yindi. Luke Balzan
album, 1970’s Beaucoups Of Blues, a country offering he’d recorded in Nashville with the cream of that city’s musicians and singers including The Jordanaires. He did, however, give a nod to his love of country music by singing Buck Owens’ Act Naturally and Don’t Pass Me By, as he had done with his former band. Greg Rolie took lead vocals for a fantastic version of Santana’s Evil Ways, which recalled the performance with his former band some 44 years ago at The Woodstock Music & Art Fair. He also threw in a fantastic organ solo. Toto songs also fared well with the inclusion of Rosanna, Africa and Hold The Line, but a highlight was definitely Mr Mister’s Broken Wings with Richard Page on lead vocals and on which guitarist Steve Lukather excelled with a stunning solo. Lukather, incidentally, looked in fine form and it appears he’s lately been shredding a great deal of weight along with shredding his guitar. Ringo, who threw in several songs from his latest album, Ringo 2012, also led the crowd through a sing-along version of Yellow Submarine and chose to end the evening, fittingly, with A Little Help From My Friends before returning to encore with a rousing rendition of John Lennon’s Give Peace A Chance. The 25-song concert was actually pretty much as I expected – friends from interstate had been sending various reports – and I left feeling that I had just witnessed some great musicians having a lot of fun with their assorted back catalogues.
Blood And Bone
Little Wes Carr has pulled a tactical move, calling his latest musical efforts Buffalo. Evidently, this little noodle is trying to escape Australian Idol’s chamber of fame doom, yet memories of this dark past still linger. Yes Wes, even the beast from which you’ve taken your new title, a domestic cattle species that snacks on grass across great North American plains, knows you were on Australian Idol that one time. Anywho, moving forward (in the words of Julia Gillard) this little four-track taster manages to expose a new repertoire for Carr, a mix across some pop-infused blues and some alternative country. There are some definite hat tips to a ‘90s Crowded House seeping in on Lost, a somewhat repetitious ballad featuring sounds that have been done before. Blood And Bone sees Wes stripping back to his roots and back to what really matters to him. Much of this is due to great inspiration from our little homeland, rural South Australia. He’s taking pointers from the trucks that roll back and forth and the big empty plains, all humble in their existence. Sharni Honor
Twins
For many, music is a drug, an addiction that can’t be shaken easily. For Ty Segall, music appears like nicotine. Knowing you’ve nearly finished a packet of 25s, yet already thinking about buying the next one. His past calendar year works much in the same vein, with Twins being his third album involvement from 2012, albeit his first solo release. Having brought out albums with his touring band and also with San Francisco’s White Fence in the past 12 months, Segall still found time, and inspiration, to release Twins, a psychedelic trip down a rock‘n’roll lane. While maintaining the fuzzed-out vibe of his other projects, Twins is very much an album that stands alone, with more intensity and effects applied to Segall’s musings. The album sounds most comfortable when the songs are shorter, punchier and more upfront. With less time, the rhythms move much faster, allowing tracks like You’re The Doctor to arrive on impact. That said, the longest moment on the album, Ghost, comes in at just over four minutes. It, along with others of similar length, simply feel longer than the raucous mini-adventures Segall mostly rolls with. Given the Orange County songwriter’s heavy touring schedule in recent times, it is clear that Twins has been a live success. So Ty, lift your game. We want four albums in 2013. Sam Reynolds
Coveleski Coveleski
(Gun Fever/Green Media Distribution)
Perth’s Coveleski display a knack for oppressive, tightly wound punk rock on their self-titled debut EP. Noisy riffs and unrelenting gritty vocals abound, such as on the sinuous It Was All Of Us. There’s plenty of complexity but little subtlety, with the band going straight for the jugular on the likes of Know Your Prey and TB II and declining to let go. The exception is the aptly titled Slo-Burn, which allows the four-piece just a little more space, fleshing out their sound and giving these seven tracks a bit more light and shade. File under tense, provocative post-hardcore. Owen Heitmann
Bento
Diamond Days (Independent)
Silverchair’s three original members are no stranger to sideprojects. Drummer Ben Gillies has previously set out on his own musical path in the form of Tambalane, a straight-up rock‘n’roll band that never really took off. With Bento, Gillies aims a little bit higher, enlisting the help of notable Sydney players to bring Diamond Days to life. The result? Surprisingly not bad, once you get over the fact that Gillies was never meant to be a frontman. His vocal effort is the main gripe on an album that takes a number of different musical turns, with some fine melodies and guitar licks in tow. It is hard to see Diamond Days reaching a broader audience, but at the very least the album has given the successful percussionist a reason to swap the shadows for the spotlight. Sam Reynolds
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“I’m really happy with it. It’s way beyond anything I’ve ever done before,” Jay Hoad gushes of his recently completed new album Home Is Where The Heart Is. Rip It Up chats with the world-travelling Fiji-born Adelaidean about the accomplishments of the new album and where home is for him exactly. “South Australia is definitely home. Fiji is definitely home too,” Hoad explains. “Home Is Where The Heart Is is also the title track and was written in Fiji. It was inspired by how the Fijian people so strongly convince me that Fiji is home every time I step foot in the country.” The premise of the title for Hoad is not only a sentimental catchphrase, but a philosophy he has come to live by. “I spend eight weeks in South Australia and eight weeks in Fiji and the rest of the
eight months is spent on the road, so the idea that home is where the heart is is a good thing to remember when you’re on the road.” The Fijian influence on the album translates through Island Boy, a track that prominently features Fijian recording artist Knox. They were drinking kava one night on Knox’s veranda overlooking the Pacific Harbour when the collaboration became incepted. “Knox is incredible. He’s a sort of Bob Marley figure in Fiji and is probably the most famous artist in Fiji. He’s usually a soul man but I managed to get him a little out of his comfort zone on Island Boy with some spoken word stuff.” Island Boy’s music video is set to be released on Sun Mar 3, which coincides with Jay Hoad’s upcoming show at the Gov. The show is special for Jay Hoad as it will be a world exclusive preview of the new album in its entirety before its eventual release in June, although it was originally planned as an album launch show. “The album was originally supposed to be released on Sun Mar 3 but with
the financial restriction of being an independent artist we’ve had to put it back a few months to take a little bit of stress off our shoulders,” Hoad explains. “We’ll be previewing the whole new album and finishing up the campaign to raise the last of the money to finish it off with pre-sales and our Pozible campaign.” To make things extra special, this show will bring together the complete Jay Hoad Band, a six-piece that only play together 15 times a year. “I wish I could tour with them all the time, but we don’t all live in Australia or South Australia. The band is killer; I’m honoured to work with such incredible musicians.”
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“I’ve got the day off work so I’ll just cruise around, lay low, get a haircut and do all those things you usually do on your birthday,” Haseloff says of his preparations for the Clipsal 500 show. “The set has been knocked out for some time so we’re just going over it. We had another rehearsal yesterday and it’s sounding spot on. I’m confident and excited and ready to go really.” This confidence is supported not only by his talent but by the recognition of the
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music industry, his fans and his peers. In 2012 Haseloff topped the list of mostplayed artist on Triple J’s Unearthed radio channel, nudging ahead of fellow Adelaide locals Bad Dreems for the top spot, and has also been one of their feature artists. While an undeniably impressive achievement, Haseloff remains humble. “It’s just cool knowing that I’ve been around for so long underground but now the music is starting to become known. The thing I’m most proud of is that it happened really naturally, it wasn’t like I had to hit them up and hit them up and rap at their door to get noticed. I just kept uploading music over the last couple of years and managed to make it onto their radar, so I’m stoked with it.” The possible reasons why audiences have reacted so positively to the music are similarly grassroots. “It’s think it’s really just a snapshot of Australian society in that demographic,” Haseloff ponders. “I think there’s a certain genuineness about it that speaks to people really well. The first two singles weren’t really radio records by any definition but
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Selected as one of the Clipsal 500 Bands On Track to support the Hilltop Hoods, Drapht, Illy and Pez on Fri Mar 1 is upcoming hip hop producer and Triple J Unearthed favourite Ryan Haseloff, AKA Purpose. Landing on the same as the release of his debut Where It Starts, Haseloff describes this happy coincidence as a “second birthday.”
The Aves Vs GPO The Worldsend will host a battle royale for the post-garage scene on Thu Feb 28. On the bill are The Aves, in the wake of their Big Day Out appearance, with Ghyi & The Philanthropic Orchestra their main adversary. The Chefs will also be making an appearance, but as they don’t identify with the post-garage scene, they are free from the scuffle. The battle begins at 9pm.
WHAT: Home Is Where The Heart Is album preview WHO: Jay Hoad Band with Fleurieu Rhythm Makers and Babylon Burning WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Sun Mar 3
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The piano pop rockers release their debut music video for lead single Going Away. The slick video features quite a few iconic local locations, including Jetty Rd, Glenelg in a pretty dark love story scenario. The band’s debut EP dropped on Fri Feb 8 via iTunes ahead of an Australian tour in August. The music video for Going Away is available on YouTube or from billpatrontrio.com.
they still got some love. I think it’s just a matter of people connecting with the music and wanting the best for it as well.” It’s this kind of appreciation that Haseloff enjoys and wishes to bestow upon his most dedicated fans for their loyalty and support with exclusive and personal gifts, including signed CDs, posters and a bonus mixtape. Haseloff values rewarding dedicated fans because he himself is a big hip hop fan. Among Haseloff ’s mentors are his stagemates for the Clipsal 500 concert, Illy and Suffa from the Hilltop Hoods. Illy, who features on key track Comin’ Home, may even join Haseloff on stage for a rendition, which would surely top off an already incredible second birthday. “It’s on the cards but we’ll have to see,” Haseloff teases. WHAT: Clipsal 500 Concert Series WHO: Purpose and Vents supporting Hilltop Hoods, Drapht, Illy and Pez WHERE: Clipsal 500 WHEN: Fri Mar 1
Laura Hill To Release New Album A special treat this Fri Mar 1 in the Paradiso Spiegeltent of the Garden Of Unearthly Delights: Laura Hill and special guests The Tuesday Bandits will launch her new album Blue Skies, which is officially released on Fri Mar 15. For a sneak peek at the new album before Hill heads off on a touring spree, be sure to check it out. Tickets available through FringeTix.
Brillig Bring High Noon And High Tides The Wild West is alive and well at Howl The Moon during the Fringe, with Brillig bringing their instrument-swapping and knee-slapping hijinx for two nights on Fri Mar 1 and Sat Mar 9. Their show High Noon And High Tides will help launch their new album I Ain’t Ever Gonna See The Sea, with the band playing all the tracks on that record, as well as a few special extras. Doors are from 7.15pm with the show from 8pm-10pm. Tickets available via FringeTix.
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