Rip It Up / Mar 7 - 13

Inside: WOMADelaide / Opeth / Dinosaur Jr ISSUE 1229 / MARCH 7 - 13 2013 / RIPITUP.COM.AU

FIX

THE ADEL AIDE

FREE

YOUR FR TO AD EE GUIDE FESTIV ELAIDE'S AL MO NTH.

INSIDE

Y I M JM i f cl f WO M A D E L A I D E 20 1 3

incredibleburtmovie.com.au

PRESENTED BY TRIPLE J, STREET PRESS AUSTRALIA, CHANNEL [V] AND MUSIC FEEDS

NEVER BE THE SAME TOUR WITH SPECIAL GUESTS WALK THE MOON (US)

THU 16 MAY

HQ

TICKETS & INFO AT THERUBENSMUSIC.COM

Editor’s Note// Timeless songwriting.

Rarely has Adelaide been blessed by such an intense influx of globallyrenowned musical artisans as we’ve enjoyed over this past week. Witnessing these fine songwriters ply their trade and perform their classic songs has been akin to a profound masterclass in the art of the enduring song.

Personally I’ve witnessed just a small percentage of the luminous music performances going on during this relentless festival season, but each has featured moments that have left respective audiences transfixed. Paul Kelly’s richly detailed How To Make Gravy prison letter. The melodic, dream-like scenes of Neil Finn’s stunning Private Universe.

Metallica’s James Hetfield howling through 1991’s eternally powerful The Unforgiven.

Nick Cave working up a frenetic sweat purging himself of The Mercy Seat’s death row tensions. Neil Young & Crazy Horse stealing the sublime Hey Hey My My (Into The Black) back from Kurt Cobain’s greenhouse.

We might differ on which songs struck a chord, but tens of thousands of music fans around me were similarly stirred, lifted, warmed, transported and touched by the power of witnessing these songs performed live by the men behind their might. Few could argue with the energy of these performances, from Nick Cave in a sticky Thebarton Theatre through to Metallica on a warm Soundwave night in Bonython Pk. Given the abundance of classics loaded into their set, I’d even hazard that zero Metallica fans would have been fazed by unloved albums St Anger and Lulu being completed ignored. Sad but true.

Scott McLennan Rip It Up Publishing Editor

THE HOTEL

with Scott McLennan

The Mixtape//

Office Jukebox

Scott McLennan Atoms For Peace – Amok (XL/Remote Control)

Rip It Up’s random weekly compilation.

1. Bon Jovi – Livin’ On A Prayer 2. Michael Jackson – Heal The World 3. Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You 4. ABBA – Money Money Money 5. Taylor Swift – Love Story 6. Britney Spears – Oops!... I Did It Again 7. Madonna – Rain 8. The Flaming Lips – Do You Realize??

9. Stevie Wonder – I Just Called To Say I Love You 10. Wings – Mull Of Kintyre 11. Berlin – Take My Breath Away 12. REM – Stand

ey Cheesy Ks e g n a Ch ennan

by Scott McL

Nina Bertok

“Apparently, beavers can swim half a mile under water with one breath of air. Do with that what you will.”

DeAnne Smith

Cat Power – Sun (Matador/Remote Control)

The Fix Q&As Page 23

Miranda Freeman Soul II Soul - Volume III – Just Right (Virgin)

HOTEL METRO.COM.AU

METROPOLITAN 46 GROTE ST ADELAIDE | OPPOSITE THE CENTRAL MARKETS | 8231 5471

THURSDAY 7TH MARCH DAN HEATH AND STUFF FROM 9PM

TUESDAY 12TH MARCH ACOUSTIC CLUB FROM 8PM

FRIDAY 8TH MARCH HELLO NEWMAN, THE AVES, IHEART + ST MORRIS SINNERS + AMCAT DJ’S FROM 9PM

WEDNESDAY 13TH MARCH FREYA + BLAST RHOMBUS FROM 9PM

SATURDAY 9TH MARCH GRONG GRONG, ISOLATION VALVE + PIGASUS FROM 9PM

COMING SOON 15/3 THE ARCH MENACES 22/3 THE WILD THINGS 28/3 SWIMMING

SUNDAY 10TH MARCH TOTALLY + YO YO SUMMER FROM 4PM LUNCH & DINNER 7 DAYS A WEEK COOPERS ON TAP

THUR 7 MAR FRI 8 MAR SAT 9 MAR SUN 10 MAR MON 11 MAR TUES 12 MAR WED 13 MAR THURS 14 MAR FRI 15 MAR SAT 16 MAR

UNDER MILKWOOD 8PM. $28/23 THE FURBALL EXPRESS 8.30PM. $18 THE FURBALL EXPRESS 8.30PM. $18 THOM LION 5PM. $17 FIVE RIVERS MEDICINE SHOW 5PM. $25 CHAPLIN - NO LONGER SILENT 8PM. $15/10 CHAPLIN - NO LONGER SILENT 8PM. $15/10 UKE WANT IT, UKE GOT IT

9PM. $20 - EXTRA SHOW!

UKE WANT IT, UKE GOT IT

9PM. $20 - SOLD OUT!

UKE WANT IT, UKE GOT IT

9PM. $20 - SOLD OUT!

ALL TIX FROM FRINGETIX BOOKING FEE INCLUDED: ADELAIDEFRINGE.COM.AU OR 1300 621 255 T: 08 8443 4546. 39 GEORGE STREET, THEBARTON SA 5031. WHEATSHEAFHOTEL.COM.AU GET THE WHEATY APP FOR iPHONE AND ANDROID

6

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

Brought to you by

Online//

Editor// Rip It Up Publishing Scott McLennan scottmclennan@ripitup.com.au

What’s on our site this week.

Associate Editor// Rip It Up Publishing Nina Bertok ninabertok@ripitup.com.au Arts Editor// Robert Dunstan robertdunstan@ripitup.com.au Digital Editor// Miranda Freeman miranda@ripitup.com.au Photography// Benon Koebsch, Andreas Heuer, Andre Castellucci, Kristy DeLaine, Sia Duff Contributors// Michelle Read, Mad Dog, Ryan Lynch, Luke Balzan, Rob Lyon, Miranda Freeman, Sam Reynolds, Michael Wickham, Catherine Blanch, Karina Carroll, Sharni Honor, Peter Lanyon, Owen Heitmann, Melissa Keogh, Ilona Wallace, Lucy Campbell, Kat McCarthy, Cyclone, Nina Bertok, Joe Miller, Lachie Aird, Winston Reed and Texjah Art Director// Sabas Renteria sabas@ripitup.com.au Graphic Designer// Suzanne Karagiannis suzanne@ripitup.com.au Advertising Phone// 7129 1030 Advertising Manager// Charlotte Chambers charlottechambers@ripitup.com.au Advertising Executives// Nerida Foord neridafoord@ripitup.com.au Oliver Raggatt oliverraggatt@ripitup.com.au Administration// Accounts//Subscriptions// 7129 1030

Play a video game designed by the frontman of the Severed Heads. Win a heap of free Fringe tickets. Read an interview with Bryan Dessner, the brains and founder behind the Adelaide Festival’s Brassland concert series.

Learn about a brand new art space situated underground in Victoria Square’s forgotten tunnels. Listen to a freshly released teaser of a new Daft Punk song. Read extended live reviews of Soundwave Festival. Watch David Bowie’s gender-bending new music video. Check up on the fashion of your local peers in our new street style section.

Pic Of The Week

Administration// Kate Mickan katemickan@ripitup.com.au

ZTV (Zhivago TV) releases their interview of the infamous Ron Jeremy.

Watch it now at vimeo.com/zhivagotv

To enter your pic of the wee

General Manager// Luke Stegemann luke@ripitup.com.au Managing Director Manuel Ortigosa

k please email images to suza

nne@ripitup.com.au

Distribution// Passing Out Distribution Company Printing// Bridge Printing Office

Read magazthe cover ine cover to online RIPITU .

P.C

Where you can you find these things? In the magical digital land that is ripitup.com.au.

Aside from a flood of content, this week we’ve got a whole host of ticket giveaways that quick-clicking readers are able to snaffle. Last week we dispatched tickets to Birds Of Tokyo and a handful of Fringe shows, and we’re not stopping there. For your chance to win, ‘Like’ us on Facebook (facebook.com/ripitupmag) and keep your eyes peeled.

OM.A U

Deadlines// Editorial: News, Gig Guide, Local - Thursday 5pm prior to publication date Display Advertising: Bookings - Wednesday 5pm prior to publication date, Artwork (Colour & Mono) - Thursday 5pm prior to publication date • Opinions published in Rip It Up Magazine are not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is taken for the contents of illustrations or advertisements. Š COPYRIGHT 1989 Rip It Up Magazine • All Rights Reserved • All material published in Rip It Up is subject to copyright. • No part may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher. • Please note that all prizes will only be kept one month after winners have been notified.

RIP IT UP Level 8, 33 Franklin St, Adelaide SA 5000 P// 08 7129 1030 F// 08 7129 1058

Head to ripitup.com.au for full articles, reviews and more.

Published By Rip It Up Publishing Pty Ltd ACN. 101 152 336.

Win

5XQGOH 6W &LW\ ÇŽ

Log onto u om.a ripitup.c . to win

thu 7 fri 8 sat 9 sun 10 mon 11 tue 12 wed 13

the hello morning (vic) city riots night 1 city riots night 2 magnetic garden dan v bitches of zeus curtis

Happy Hour every Tue & Thu 9:30-10:30pm Check out the Exeter’s famous Curry Night on the balcony every Wed & Thu! The Exeter Balcony is available to hire for private parties, launches and more!

SAT 9

BAND ROOM STOCK EXCHANGE AND DAN HEATH SOLO

End Of Watch From the writer of Training Day, End Of Watch is a riveting action thriller that puts audiences at the centre of the chase like never before. Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena star as young LA police officers who discover a secret that makes them the target of the country’s most dangerous drug cartel. Log onto ripitup.com. au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five copies of End Of Watch on DVD. Competition closes at midday on Thu Mar 14.

A irreverent, uplifting comedy An about friendship, trust and human a possibility, The Intouchables p has broken box office records in its native France and across Europe. Based on a true story of friendship between a handicap millionaire (Francois Cluzet) and his street smart ex-con caretaker (Omar Sy), The Intouchables depicts an unlikely camaraderie rooted in honesty and humour between two individuals who, on the surface, would seem to have nothing in common. Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five copies of The Intouchables on DVD. Competition closes at midday on Thu Mar 14.

Our favourite superheroes are back. New guys Finn and Jess join old favourites Rudy, Curtis and Seth for a power-crazed fourth series. Do the new Misfits have any new A-list powers?

Well, kind of. Jess has X-ray vision and Finn has telekinesis – although he finds it a challenge to move even a cup of tea. And keeping our gang on the straight and narrow, or at least trying to, is new probation worker Greg with a set of warped moral guidelines and an incredibly short fuse. Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five copies of Misfits: Series Four. Competition closes at midday on Thu Mar 14.

CROWN

THEN DJ AZZ AND

Misfits: Series T Intouchables Four The

ANCHOR

SUN 10 BAND ROOM SEE FRINGE LISTINGS!

MON 11

BAND ROOM SEE FRINGE LISTINGS!

TUE 12

THU 7 BAND ROOM - QUAINT

BAND ROOM CRANKER COMEDY

DJ ANTHONEY

DJ STEVIE AND DUNCAN

FRI 8

WED 13 GEEK! WITH DJ TRIP

ATTRACTION AND SCUMBAG CITY

BAND ROOM RIN AND THE RECKLESS RIDE INTO THE SUN DJS

196 GREN FELL ST / 8223 3212

BAND BOOKINGS CROWNANDANCHORBANDS@GMAIL.COM RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

7

This Week //

Your fast guide to this week’s best entertainment

MxPx

Kustom Kulture

King Parrot

Catch the legendary Washington trio when they play some anthemic punk rock at Fowler’s Live at an all-ages show on Fri Mar 8 to celebrate the their 20th anniversary.

Taking place at Plympton’s Highway Inn from Fri Mar 8 until Sun Mar 10 with a host of roots and rockabilly bands including Los Straightjackets (pictured) from the US and CC Jerome from The Netherlands.

Bite Your Head Off and experience some intense metal and get some Shit On The Liver at Enigma Bar on Sat Mar 9 when the Melbourne band play with Alkira, Exerthur and Gorlapse.

Bob Mould

The Mark Of Cain

Bryce Dessner

Returning with his band to play selections from Copper Blue and Silver Age as well as highlights from his immensely influential Hßsker Dß and Sugar period as well as solo material at Fowler’s Live on Tue Mar 12.

See the internationally respected iconic Adelaide trio (now with American drummer Eli Green) at HQ on Fri Mar 8 at which they will be playing songs from new album, Songs Of The Third And Fifth, as well as old favourites such as Battlesick.

After guesting alongside fellow Adelaide Festival acts Doveman and Kronos Quartet earlier in the week, Thu Mar 7 sees The National’s Bryce Dessner take to the stage with Clogs and Adelaide Art Orchestra at Adelaide Town Hall.

Speeding along this week...

FUNHOUSE – a night of rawkin’ hardcore metal taking place at Thebarton’s Forresters & Squatters Arms on Thu Mar 7 featuring Unknown Remorse, Hollow Eyes, Strength Of A Bear and We Ate The Search Party.

ALASDAIR FRASER – see the amazing fiddle

ARLO GUTHRIE – be sure to catch the folk

CHRIS SMITHER – see the American

player from Clackermannan, Scotland, when he roisins up the bow to play Guthries, Prospect Rd, on Wed Mar 13.

music legend and son of Woody when he plays Church Of The Trinity, Goodwood Rd, on Tue Mar 12 with daughter Sarah Lee and Johnny Irion.

roots music legend when he launches his new album, Hundred Dollar Valentine, at Goodwood Rd’s Church Of The Trinity on Wed Mar 13.

Perfect entertainment venue for all adult event occasions. r )FOT #VDLT QBSUJFT r "EVMU #JSUIEBZT r 4QPSUT DMVC EBZT r 0S KVTU B XJDLFE OJHIU PVU XJUI GSJFOET

BOOK TODAY t /08 01&/

IN NORWOOD CALL 13-BOWL (13-2695) t WWW.KINGPINBOWLING.COM.AU

8

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

News //

More at ripitup.com.au and onion.com.au

with Ilona Wallace

Who: Buzzcocks / Where: Fowler’s Live When: Wed Apr 24 / Tickets: $48 + bf from moshtix.com.au or oztix.com.au

Buzzcocks Are Back Who: DZ Deathrays / Where: Rocket Bar / When: Fri Apr 12

Kickstart Deathray Already on the bill for The Bronx’s national tour, DZ Deathrays just can’t get enough of performing. Keen as beans and full of the pep and joy of youth, DZ have announced their Teenage Kicks tour to fill in the small slivers of time between The Bronx and Groovin’ The Moo sets. Intense.

The tour will feature tracks from their ARIAwinning debut album Bloodstreams, released last

year. Bloodstreams picked up the 2012 Jagermeister Independent Music Award for Best Independent Hard Rock Or Punk Album, an accolade that Frenzal Rhomb guitarist and radio personality Lindsay McDougall declared “bullshit”.

The thrash duo have hardly had a second to retaliate, too busy with touring and plans for their second record which they’re hoping to produce before the end of 2013.

British powerhouse of punk pop Buzzcocks will be hitting Sydney and Melbourne stages for the Hoodoo Gurus’ touring festival Dig It Up!, but that’s not all. Buzzcocks will also play a string of sideshows exclusive to Adelaide, Brisbane, and Perth. Buzzcocks formed in 1976 and have remained at the fringes of pop culture consciousness ever since. They’re cited as the inspiration for Australian groups Hoodoo Gurus, The Hard-Ons and The Mark Of Cain. Considering the tickets to see Buzzcocks, a founding force of British pop and punk music, are the same price as a ticket to Adam Hills, there’s really no excuse to miss it.

Who: Counting Crows with Jackson McLaren / Where: Her Majesty’s Theatre / When: Sat Apr 6 / Tickets: livenation.com or bass.net.au

McLaren At Her Majesty’s Jackson McLaren, a 21-year-old from Melbourne, will be travelling the country on the wings of Counting Crows this April. On the back of his five-track EP, McLaren has gained a place on the Crows’ first Australian tour in nine years. Supporting a band with seven multi-platinum records isn’t a bad way to jumpstart a career.

Who: The Drones (with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard) / Where: The Governor Hindmarsh / When: Sat Apr 20 / Tickets: $35+bf from moshtix.com.au, venuetix.com.au or oztix.com.au

Marine Bits And Bobs Warfare

Who: Bob Evans / Where: Fowler’s Live / When: Sat Apr 27 / Tickets: moshtix.com.au

What: Comic Con / Where: Adelaide Showground / When: Sat 16 Mar & Sun 17 Mar / Info: ozcomiccon.com

Comic Chamele-con Star Trek’s William Shatner, MacGyver leading man Richard Dean Anderson and The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s original Magenta, Patricia Quinn, are the top-billed guests at this year’s Oz Comic-Con. As well as its pop culture icons, creatives like Matthew Clark (Doom Patrol), Doug Holgate (MAD Magazine), and Jason Palmer (Firefly) will be appearing to represent the artistic side of things.

Held over Sat Mar 16 and Sun Mar 17, the convention is a chance to meet (or see from a distance) some brilliant minds from television, comics and film. Ticket options are endless, with various packages and dinners to choose from, though the Game Of Thrones dinner featuring Maisie Williams and Jason Momoa has sold out. Check the Oz Comic Con website for all ticketing details and prices.

The man with the two everyday names, Kevin Mitchell/Bob Evans, is setting out on a national tour to promote his upcoming album, Familiar Stranger. His first album in four years has been pre-empted by new single Go, which features the vocal stylings of San Cisco’s Scarlett Stevens. Cheerful, upbeat and more pop-heavy than his folktinged past, the single suggests the Familiar Stranger Tour will be more high-energy and engaging than ever before.

Who: King Parrot / Where: Enigma / When: Sat Mar 9 / Tickets: $12 at the door.

What: Teen Rush (featuring At Sunset, What About Tonight, and Kristina) / Where: The Governor Hindmarsh / When: Tue Apr 16 / Tickets: moshtix.com.au, venuetix.com.au or thegov.com.au $35.40+bf or $64.70+bf for meet and greet

Pash Rush Get your pocket money together, it’s Teen Rush time. The Gov is hosting an all-ages school holiday fest for teenagers. The bill features Adelaide boy band At Sunset; an

10

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

Australia-wide collective of One Direction enthusiasts, What About Tonight; and Kristina, former X-Factor contestant and one half of girl group Good Question. The alcohol-free event is accompanied by a meet and greet after the show, but tickets to the special session are close to twice the price of standard entry.

Shit On The Liver The viral hit Shit On The Liver is nuanced and executed with extreme skill.

King Parrot, the band of brains behind the track, hit Adelaide at the beginning of March. Bringing metal to its Adelaide home, Enigma Bar, the group are touring their recently released album Bite Your Head Off.

The Drones are coming. Sights locked on Adelaide for Sat Apr 20, the Victorian group will be armed with a garage full of rock music. The former Australian Music Prize winners are setting out on their national I See Seaweed Tour, named for their ninth album, due for release in March. Joining them on tour will be the band with the greatest name ever: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.

Who: Adam Hills (AUSLAN interpreted) / Where: Thebarton Theatre / When: Sat Jun 29, 7.30pm / Tickets: $48 through venuetix.com.au

Adam Hills So bloody cheerful all the time, Australian export comedian Adam Hills is celebrating the joy of joy in his new show, Happyism. Even though he spends the majority of the year touring overseas, occasionally Hills remembers that he has to perform to Australian audiences to keep them on side, especially now that his Spicks And Specks kingdom has crumbled. If you’re not sick of laughing yourself silly after the Fringe, hold on to a $50 note and snag a ticket to Hills’ show in June.

ARTISTS INCLUDE

tival s e f s ’ d l r o w WOM A D - the

TalLest Man on Earth (SWEDEN) * Antibalas (USA) * Moriarty(FRANCE) * The Herbaliser DJs (UK) * Zoe Keating(USA) * Hugh Masekela (SOUTH AFRICA) * Souad MasSi (ALGERIA/FRANCE) * Tim Rogers & The Bamboos (AUSTRALIA) * Christine Salem (REUNION) * The Cat Empire (AUSTRALIA) * Clairy Browne & The Bangin RacketTes (AUSTRALIA)

SEE WEBSITE FOR FULL LINE UP!

CD

OUT NOW

Presenting Partner

Availab le at

JB Hi-Fi

The Hills Cider Company.

Winner - The Best of Edinburgh Award WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE LAWS OF GRAVITY WERE TO SUDDENLY CHANGE?

“This is circus but it’s bad, sexy and dangerous” —Total Theatre

THE BIG TOP T ic ts

ke fr om $ 22

14 FEBRUARY FEBRU UARY – 9 MARCH

{

{

The Vagabond

TICKETS FROM $34 FAMILY AND GROUP DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE 15 February – 16 March

{

{

Interviews//

Find more interviews online at ripitup.com.au

ff i l C y Jimm t Dunstan

by Rober

Reggae Rebirth Legendary reggae singer Jimmy Cliff, who recently collected a Grammy for his latest album, Rebirth, an album produced by Tim Armstrong of skainfluenced American punk rock band Rancid, is about to make his second appearance at WOMADelaide. orn near Montego Bay in Jamaica in 1948, Cliff, currently the only living musician to hold Jamaica’s highest honour, the Order Of Merit, signed to UK label Island Records in the late ’60s and scored success with nowadays classic reggae songs such as The Harder They Come, Sitting In Limbo, You Can Get It If You Really Want and a host of others.

Cliff begins the interview by detailing how Rebirth came to be produced by Rancid frontman Armstrong.

“The original connection came from my management when I said I was ready to make a new album,” Cliff says. “And Tim was one of their suggestions for producer. So we spoke on the phone and that felt good and then we met up and it felt even better. It moved along nicely from there.

“I already had a few songs written and Tim liked those and there were another few songs we wrote while making the album by bouncing ideas off each other. But I also decided to do [The Clash’s] Guns Of Brixton and [Rancid’s] Ruby Soho as those two songs were punk songs with a reggae influence. So I thought it was a good gesture on my part.”

The Clash’s Joe Strummer made one of his

B

12

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

last appearances on Cliff ’s 2004 album Black Magic on the song Over The Border.

“Joe came in with the lyrics and myself and [album producer and Eurythmics’ frontman] Dave Stewart put the melody together,” Cliff says.

When growing up in Jamaica, Cliff became a big fan of the American soul music he heard on the radio.

“Oh yes,” he enthuses, “but even before I heard Sam Cooke, Sam & Dave and Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, I was listening to New Orleans people like Professor Longhair, Fats Domino and Smiley Lewis.

“And a lot of the jazz greats too such as Louis Armstrong,” Cliff adds. “I had a good dose of all kinds of music. I was listening to all those people.”

When Cliff moved to England he often found himself on bills with fellow Island Records acts.

“When I first went to the UK though, I built up a following myself in the clubs,” he says. “But I do remember a gig where I was opening for The Spencer Davis Group so I got to know Steve Winwood. And then he formed Traffic using members of my band.

[Percussionist] Rebop Kawku Baah used to play in my band before he was with Traffic.

“And so was the bass player,” Cliff says, possibly referring to Dave Mason, who penned Can’t Stop Worrying for the reggae singer’s Struggling Man album of 1972.

In 1972 Cliff also starred in the Jamaican crime film The Harder They Come as Ivan, a young man who turns to a life of crime and violence. The film has since become a cult classic and Cliff reveals that he has wanted to make a sequel for many years.

“And it’s still on the table,” he says. “But

It’s A Wild World the main character in the film would now be Ivan’s son and I would play his father. And I also have another three movie scripts on the table and hopefully they will all go into production later this year. I also want to release another album and am about half way through it already.”

Cliff ’s 1969 protest song Vietnam, which scored much praise from Bob Dylan at the time, has now been updated to become Afghanistan.

“It’s the same situation as happened in Vietnam,” Cliff says of the song about young soldiers going overseas to a conflict and wanting to come home.

“War is all about profit and money,” he then sighs. “And a lot of innocent people die for that at the expense of the people who want to make the money.”

The musician, who says he enjoys the work of such female artists as Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys and Adele, is not a fan of dancehall, an electronic offshoot of reggae.

“It doesn’t have the feelings of roots reggae nor does it have the socially conscious lyrics of roots reggae,” he announces. “Dancehall lyrics are all about girls, cars and superstars. That is all it is about and while there is a place for that, dancehall is not for me.

“But there are people like Tarrus Riley, Tanya Stephens and Queen Ifrica who are still writing about the culture of reggae,” he quickly adds. “They are carrying on the roots reggae tradition.”

Cliff promises that his WOMADelaide set will comprise of his classic songs along with some material from Rebirth.

“I never get tired of playing the old songs because my audience never gets tired of

Jimmy Cliff was one of the first to record Cat Stevens’ Wild World, which became a top 10 UK hit for the reggae singer in 1970.

“I was living in England by then and Cat Stevens and I shared the same music publisher,” Cliff says. “So one day my publisher played me a demo of Wild World and said it was a song by Cat Stevens but Steven [Cat Stevens’ real first name] didn’t like it. I couldn’t believe it because I loved it! It was such a great song.

“So I called Steven up and he gave me the key it was in and then he played it down the phone to me on his guitar. We then went into the studio after I’d put a band together and Steven produced it for me. Doris Troy [later famous for singing on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon] was one of the backing singers and I also helped Steven mix it.”

hearing them,” Cliff laughs. “And I remember the last time I was in Australia and someone came up to me and said, ‘Jimmy, I was waiting all night for you to sing The Harder They Come.

What happened to it?’ So I felt very bad.

“And I love coming to Australia because the audiences are always so enthusiastic for my music. And because Australia is so geographically different to anywhere else in the world, it’s a good place to explore.

“Not that I get too much time between shows,” he concludes with a hearty laugh.

WHO: Jimmy Cliff WHERE: WOMADelaide (Botanic Pk) WHEN: Sun Mar 10, Stage One at 10pm

Soweto ir ho Gospel C

The Cat Empire

nstan

by Robert Du

Colourful South African ensemble Soweto Gospel Choir are excited about playing WOMADelaide and promise to put on yet another high-energy show that will help bring Botanic Pk alive.

It’s a little known fact that Soweto Gospel Choir were formed at the request of Australian promoters Andrew Kay, Clifford Hocking and David Vigo and did their first ever gig in Melbourne in 2001.

“We actually call Australia our second home,” choir leader Shimmy Jiyane says. “So we always like to come back and sing for our friends.”

Since those early days, the 52-member ensemble have worked with artists such as U2, Robert Plant, Peter Gabriel and Stevie Wonder as well as touring Germany in 2007 as opening act for American funk rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers.

“That was amazing,” Jiyane readily recalls. “We were a bit worried about being the opening act at a rock concert, but the audience loved us. They were actually yelling out for more and it was such an amazing moment for us.

“But there have been many, many other highlights,” he then enthuses. “We’ve won two Grammys and were the first South

zan

by Luke Bal African group to perform at the Academy Awards [singing the Oscar-nominated song Down To Earth with John Legend].

“And performing for Nelson Mandela was also a highlight. There have been so many, really. We’ve worked with lots of big music stars. We also worked with [American photographer and filmmaker] Andrew Zuckerman for his Music project.”

Jiyane, who says the choir is currently working on a new album set for release in March, is excited about the prospect of performing at WOMADelaide.

“But we are also coming to make people happy and show the talent we have in our country,” he states. “We feel like ambassadors for our country. And we are going to love playing an outdoor festival for the first time in Adelaide. We’ve only played indoor venues there before [Festival Theatre and Her Majesty’s Theatre] so we can’t wait to be part of WOMADelaide.

“So we’ll be doing our usual high-energy show with our four-piece band and we are bringing all our colourful costumes.”

WHO: Soweto Gospel Choir WHERE: WOMADelaide (Botanic Pk) WHEN: Sun Mar 10 and Mon Mar 11, Stage One at 5pm

It’s been quite a while between drinks for Melbourne party band The Cat Empire, with some wondering whether it was curtains for the band.

Not only are they once again on a WOMADelaide bill, trumpeter and vocalist Harry Angus tells Rip It Up there’s a new album on the way.

“I’ve been making a new Cat Empire record, which is almost finished,” he begins enthusiastically. “It’s been a really big and super-awesome process! When you say you’re going to do a record, the first thing you have to do is write a bunch of songs, so initially we didn’t really know how it was going to pan out. I think we’ve all been on the same page about the kind of music that we want to be making right now, and the way we want to record it, so we wrote a bunch of killer songs, and they all sound like they belong on the same record, and so it’s a good record!”

It’s clear to hear that things are on a high for the band at the moment, with their WOMADelaide show symbolically heralding a new phase. Despite past successes, the Cats have had their share of rollercoaster rides.

“I’ve had times when I was a bit down

by L uke B alzan

nstan

by Robert Du

We speak to Michael Barker, the former drummer with The John Butler Trio who has also toured with My Friend The Chocolate Cake, Tim Finn and Split Enz, and ask how Swamp Thing began.

“I’d moved back to Rotorua for family reasons and then I met Grant through a mutual friend and found that we were like-minded people,” Barker begins. “He’s an incredible player and an amazing singer.

And Grant’s never done a two-piece thing before.

“So our jams started to produce songs so we recorded an album – we did that over two days with no overdubs at [Neil Finn’s] Roundhouse Studios – and toured that and we’ve now just released our second one. We did the new one at a studio I’ve just built at home.”

As well as playing drums, Barker, who curates a music festival in Rotorua at which

Tim Finn recently performed, also adds bass to Swamp Thing’s live sound by using an antique keyboard.

“It was made by Rheem, the people who make the hot water systems,” Barker laughs.

“It’s got a fairly basic sound with only two octaves. And it’s a pretty awful sound but I run it through a Big Muff guitar pedal.

That only makes it sound even worse, but in a good kind of way. We call it ‘swamp bass’ because it provides a real bottom end fuzz which works really well.”

Barker, whose brother is a dairy farmer at Tailem Bend, has performed at WOMADelaide many times in the past.

“Yeah, I’ve played there over the years with Vika & Linda, David Bridie and John Butler,” he says. “And I remember that when I played WOMAD with David, it was so hot that I couldn’t really put my hand on my cymbals. Drummers bash their cymbals and then sometimes put their hand on them to dampen the sound, so I had to do that really, really quickly that day!”

WHO: Swamp Thing WHERE: WOMADelaide (Botanic Pk) WHEN: Sat Mar 9 (Speakers Corner at 3pm) and Mon Mar 11 (Stage 2 at 4pm)

WHO: The Cat Empire WHERE: WOMADelaide (Botanic Pk) WHEN: Fri Mar 8, Stage One at 10pm

Sali f Ke ita

hing Swamp T

Swamp Thing is a blues and roots music duo from New Zealand comprising of drummer Michael Barker and singer and guitarist Grant Haua.

The pair are making their Adelaide debut at WOMADelaide this weekend.

on the band and the journey we were on at times,” Angus confides. “I’ve also had times where I’ve felt really positive about it.

Everyone has their ups and downs, but when you’re feeling down about it, you wouldn’t mind if you didn’t go on tour for a while, and when you’re feeling good about it, you can’t wait for the next tour, so it just depends.

Right now, things are really good! The music’s great, the shows are great and I can’t see us kicking the can any time soon.”

Taking a bit of a break has really helped rekindle the band’s chemistry.

“It’s helped me to appreciate what we have in The Cat Empire,” Angus confesses.

“It’s such a great band. The reason I think this is going to be a good record is right now, we’re all in a place where we’re all really appreciating what this band is, what’s unique about it, why people come to see us and why people like us in the first place.

“We’re a party band, we make people dance, we make people feel happy. We’re not Leonard Cohen most of the time, and we shouldn’t try to be!”

For many people, the only time you’d think about an albino is if you were buying a pet bunny. But for Malian musical master Salif Keita, albinism is a daily reality that’s seen him face all sorts of prejudice and fear across his African homeland and beyond.

Born an albino of royal heritage and rejected for his musical pursuits as well as outcast for his albinism, Keita has seen his share of the dark side of the human condition. However, he’s managed to rise above it with a positive attitude to become one of his country’s greatest and most prolific musicians. His latest album The Difference was an ode to being an albino, and he’s proud to be bringing a new swag of tunes to WOMADelaide this year.

“My last album was The Difference, and I talked a lot about the problems facing albinos,” Salif begins via translator. “After the album, I was largely complimented, because it’s given everyone the opportunity to understand the way in which albinos suffer and are discriminated against and outcast in society, so it’s been largely praised, because they’ve got a much deeper understanding of the issue.”

In Mali and elsewhere in Africa, there’s a culture of fear and rejection against people born with

albinism, including ritual killings and banishment.

“It’s going to take time to break down that fear of having albinism and albinos in the community. It really isolates them, and it’s really going to take a lot of time to shift that cultural attitude.”

Keita is confident that his music can help change such attitudes.

“I definitely hope so, and that’s what I aim and hope for my music to do, to change these attitudes.”

Over the years, Salif has had the opportunity to play and record in many places, with each leaving a distinct mark on his music.

“It definitely changes depending on where I am,” he muses. “It changes the ambience, the personalities, the people I’m with, it all changes. With the last album, we decided to do it in Mali, because it was just a lot simpler with all the traditional instruments that were included. Change the place and it definitely changes the ambience, but it’s always positive.”

And of course, Keita’s greatly looking forward to returning to WOMADelaide.

“Australians seem to love African music, and they love to dance, and I’m hoping that everyone will dance and jump and have a party with me in my performance!”

WHO: Salif Keita WHAT: WOMADelaide (Botanic Pk) WHEN: Sun Mar 10, Stage One at 7.30pm

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

13

Interviews//

Find more interviews online at ripitup.com.au

Anger Management Who would have thought Swedish metallers Opeth putting the death growls on the shelf would anger fans so much one would challenge frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt to a duel? Released in 2011, Heritage, Opeth’s 10th full-length album, polarised a fan-base accustomed to a bridging of progressive music and classic death metal. trongly rooted in psychedelic-drenched ‘70s prog rock, its ambient, otherworldly sounds flirted with jazz, folk and classic rock. During their Australian tour to promote the release, the Swedish band only performed songs featuring clean vocals. Certain attendees subsequently cried out for “fucking death metal” or growled during the shows’ more serene moments.

“I’ve seen it all, man, I’ve seen it all,” Mikael Åkerfeldt admits. “It feels like, what are we? You

S

take away the screams and we’re nothing to some people. Which makes me question, why do they like us at all? Do they just kind of go out to have a fucking beer during ballads? There are so many other bands out there who deliver the screams in every song; just go watch them instead. Opeth is not one of those bands. We try to do a little bit of everything.

You don’t like it, that’s fine, but don’t be a cunt.”

It was, frankly, disappointing to witness, especially when said performances were still wildly dynamic and crushingly heavy. When venturing outside afterwards, several punters loudly proclaimed how this equated to a betrayal. Åkerfeldt’s seemingly not bothered much by such reactions – except when they are blatantly untrue.

“I think it’s unfair to say it’s not Opeth, it’s just that they don’t like it,” he says of particularly venomous feedback. “That’s fine. I don’t expect everyone to like everything that we do. But to say it’s not Opeth, it’s not right.

“It’s wrong, because it is Opeth,” he laughs.

“If it says Opeth on the record and a song is on

Opeth Crabb

by Brendan

Heritage Rock MARY TOBIN PRESENTS

THE PICK OF FRINGE COMEDY!

NO

W

PL

AY IN

G!

OUT

TOO SOON? STA R O TOP PO -RATEF D JIMAN DCA DEDDIE S TALKS T **T.COM

“…A trio of punchline-perfect Poms made for a fast-paced show. Best outcome possible” EVERGUIDE 2012

CARL DONNELLY

JIMMY McGHIE

3

STA NDI UK C NG FOR T OMICS HE

PRICE

BOO

1!

OF

K FA ST!

STUART GOLDSMITH

19 FEB - 17 MAR 7.45PM GOVERNOR HINDMARSH HOTEL

BBEST EST OOFF TTHE HE FFEST EST OP E

NS

SA TU

2 - 17 MARCH 9PM

RD GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY AY DELIGHTS !

SH at theW gov FRI & SAT NIGHTS UNTIL 17 MARCH DOORS OPEN 10PM SHOW 10.30PM GOVERNOR HINDMARSH HOTEL

MARYTOBINPRESENTS.COM.AU 14

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

For Opeth’s latest performances, Mikael Åkerfeldt says there will be a mix of heavier back catalogue material and less songs from Heritage. And yes, there will be screaming.

“Heritage is not new anymore - now it’s just another album in our discography. Now it’s settled in and we’re doing more songs from the back catalogue and doing some of the screaming songs. It was never the idea that we were never going to play those [old] songs again; it was just that we were promoting a new album which is a bit different. But yeah, there’s gonna be screams.”

there, then it’s Opeth. I care about the fans, but if they don’t like something, it’s not like, ‘Guys, we have to go back to the working desk now and see what we did wrong’. We stand behind every one of our records, 200 percent. Our fans, we love them, but it’s not like if a portion of the fans don’t like what we do, it won’t change what we do. It won’t have us custom write a record in order to please someone. All our records, even the popular ones that everybody likes, are based on what we like. So that’s our recipe for whatever success we’ve had, we’re just doing what we want to hear basically. Heritage is no exception.”

These comments remind this scribe of a conversation with Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson, a long-time friend/collaborator of Åkerfeldt’s. He remarked that when musicians seek sating others at the expense of pleasing themselves, they’ve crossed that line from artist to entertainer. The Opeth mainstay can get on board with this line of thinking.

“People are going to have their opinions, it doesn’t matter what we do. If we had tried to repeat a previous record, I’m not sure that would have worked either. I don’t like to see ourselves as a product. I don’t like to see ourselves catering to anyone’s needs other than our own.

“There are people out there who don’t think that One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is a very good film. Some people think that Dumb And Dumber is a masterpiece. People have different tastes and there’s nothing you can do about that.

It’s impossible to cater to someone when it comes to expressing an art form.”

Were some of the live audiences’ behaviour frustrating?

“I’ve got a thick skin. Sometimes I get affected and sometimes I’m not the most confident person in the world. We’ve done close to 200 shows for the Heritage record and I’ve had people challenge me to duel. I remember there was a guy, wherever it was in America... He was like, ‘Mike, I challenge you to duel’. I’m like, ‘Okay, draw, bitch!’

“People seemed to be provoked by the fact that I didn’t scream, which I think is a bit silly. We’re always gonna try and make ourselves happy first and foremost, and it’s just a nice side-effect that some people like what we do.”

WHO: Opeth WHERE: HQ WHEN: Tue Mar 12

Review//

For more reviews and photographs of Soundwave, head to ripitup.com.au.

ve Soundwa

itmann &

by Owen He ham Michael Wick

Bonython Pk, Sat Mar 2 Pics by Kristy DeLaine & Andreas Heuer

As the festival season winds to a close it’s that magical time of the year when Soundwave comes to town. Now that it has assumed the mantle as the top festival of the year there are large expectations to live up to. After a massive line-up last year, many were concerned there was no way to top it.

Well hats off to Soundwave promoter AJ Maddah, since he did it with one simple word – Metallica.

After more than 30 years in the business and plenty of miles on their clock it would have been easy for Metallica to just phone it in – show up, play their songs, collect their cheque and go home. Luckily for the thousands of fans that flocked to see them this was not the case. They performed every song perfectly and the setlist they chose to play could be the tracklisting of the Metallica ‘best of ’ CD when they finally decide to release one. Their performance had everything and it wouldn’t have been a Metallica show without pyro. Anyone who was lucky enough to see the intro to One was treated to quite the show, with fireworks and flash bombs simulating the war spoken of in the song.

Of course there was more to the day than just Metallica, with 12 hours of entertainment thrown at fans. With more twin stages per square inch than any other festival it meant that there was a quick change-over between bands and allowed for so many more bands to be seen.

Pennsylvanian pop punk band The Wonder Years opened with Local Man Ruins Everything from their latest album, from which the likes of Coffee Eyes and Woke Up Older came as well. They also played killer tracks from their second album The Upsides, such as My Last Semester and the song that

won me over to them, Melrose Diner. Older number You’re Not Salinger. Get Over It. got an airing too. Frontman Dan Campbell politely suggested other bands that people might want to consider checking out and was equally deferential when asking fans to sing along: “You don’t have to, I’m not a cop.”

Also on the pop punk front, Motion City Soundtrack took the stage 10 minutes late but attempted to compensate by going overtime.

Their set stretched back as far as The Future Freaks Me Out and right up to True Romance from last year’s Go. In between they played faves like LG FUAD, This Is For Real and Her Words Destroyed My Planet. Exuberant keyboard player Jesse Johnson was as usual the visual focal point of the band, leaping around the stage, gesturing, clapping and generally threatening to steal the limelight from lead singer Justin Pierre, even if the audience were hanging on every word, especially on the massive sing-along Everything Is Alright.

It was great to see Killswitch Engage back in the country after all the rumours swirling around they were breaking up after the departure of singer Howard Jones. Luckily for the band and fans alike, the void was filled by ex-singer Jesse Leach (who many fans believe was better than Jones anyway). Killswitch were rocking out so hard and the crowd was so energetic that the barricade broke, forcing a 10-minute break while it was repaired.

Guitarist Adam D was at his jovial best during this disruption, entertaining the crowd with his attempt at rapping and just talking crap.

On Stage 3 All Time Low were doing their best to take Blink-182’s crown, both in terms of their highly melodic pop punk songs and their adolescent stage banter (“I am crazy horny”, “Who wants to make a baby with me later tonight?” – the answer being every teenage girl in the crowd, by the response).

New tracks For Baltimore and The Reckless And The Brave fit right in alongside older material

such as Lost In Stereo. Old single Weightless was my highlight of the set, which closed with fan favourite Dear Maria, Count Me In. Next up was the real Blink-182, and at first it seemed they’d chosen the set as if they were playing a headlining show rather than a festival. Almost a third of the songs came from their poorly received comeback album Neighborhoods and the previous record, the self-titled effort where they stopped being the juvenile fun-loving band that they’re arguably best known as. They were also missing drummer Travis Barker, although Bad Religion’s Brooks Wackerman filled in seamlessly. The second half of the set had more popular appeal: they packed in hits Josie, All The Small Things and classic Dammit, as well as pulling Carousel out of the bag for oldschool fans.

The band that had the unfortunate task of playing before Metallica was Linkin Park – they had to do their best to set the crowd up for Metallica despite many fans not appreciating their music. Linkin Park’s sound is made for festival shows and they were great – a lot of their new songs translate perfectly to a festival sound and their older tunes sound huge when pumped through the massive Soundwave speakers. The Californian band looked like they were having heaps of fun as they expertly mixed their older, heavier songs in with their newer, electronic songs - hopefully we can see them in this setting again, perhaps for their own stadium tour.

The only complaint with Soundwave this year was the timetabling – with a band like Metallica that most people are going to flock to see, why put other big name bands on at the same time? With huge bands Metallica, The Offspring, The Amity Affliction, Bring Me The Horizon and Paramore all playing at the same time, there was bound to be a clash for many people. Maybe in 2014 there will be justice for all.

THE ADELAIDE

FIX

WELCOME

YOUR FREE GUIDE TO ADELAIDE’S FESTIVAL MONTH

2013

NOTE FROM THE ED

WIN!

T CHECK OOMU.AU RIPITUP.C E FOR MOR

HEAD TO RIPITUP.COM.AU TO ENTER ALL COMPETITIONS Photo: Tony Lewis

CAL WILSON Feel guilty about feeling guilty? Cal doesn’t. She’s great at it. She can feel guilty about anything – shoddy recycling, misleading tourists, sleeping in. Kick off the Guilt Quilt, share the blame and tame the shame… if you don’t come, you’ll feel awful. Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five double passes to Cal’s show at The Deluxe in the Garden Of Unearthly Delights at 8.45pm on Tue Mar 12. Competition closes at midday on Mon Mar 11.

PETE HELLIAR

Adelaide Festival’s late-night club Barrio made its (hugely-anticipated) grand opening last Friday night and so far we’ve seen some incredible acts fill its stage, including Mark de Clive Lowe and Soul II Soul. With Hajek Plaza now having been transformed into a bustling shantytown of amazing live music, tasty food and exotic

drinks, you still have just over a week to make your way down there and discover what all the fuss has been about when it comes to this pop-up venue. Then there’s Australia’s biggest world music festival, WOMADelaide, which opens its gates at Botanic Pk this Fri Mar 8 until Mon Mar 11 and brings with it some of the best, most

eclectic and incredibly talented acts from literally all over the globe. In the midst of all of this the Adelaide Fringe still continues to deliver the comedy, theatre, cabaret and live music right up until Sun Mar 17, so do try and squeeze in as much as you can before it’s all over for another year.

Nina Bertok

Pete’s pretty sure he can be laid back and still relate to the youth of today... Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five double passes to Pete’s show Whatevs (…Forevs) at The Big Top in the Garden Of Unearthly Delights on Wed Mar 13 at 9.30pm and see if Pete’s still in touch with today’s youth. Competition closes at midday on Mon Mar 11.

A-LIST OF COMEDY A-List Entertainment have given us a whole swag of Fringe comedy DVD goodness to give away to one lucky reader.

Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win the likes of Umbilical Brothers, Eddie Ifft, Chris Franklin, Jimeoin and Arj Barker’s Balls. Competition closes at midday on Thu Mar 14.

PETER POWER’S THE LIVE SHOW! does your

mum

know?

your decision on organ and tissue donation

The Hip Hypnotist.

“The Ali G of stage hypnosis” The Sun

“Peter Powers is the number one today” The Independent

“The UK’s naughtiest hypnotist” The Express

Share your decision Every Australian is encouraged to discover the facts about organ and tissue donation and register their donation decision on the Australian Organ Donor Register. Most importantly, every Australian family needs to ask and know each other’s donation wishes. Even if you have registered your donation decision, your family will still be asked to confirm your wishes, should the situation arise. Families that know each other’s donation wishes are much more likely to uphold those wishes.

Discover, decide and discuss organ and tissue donation today.

OK?

“Of all hypnotists I’ve seen, he is by far the funniest” News International

“This man is a comedy genius” Manning River Times

Friday 22nd March Dunstan Playhouse Festival Centre BASS 08 8216 8600

Saturday 23rd March

www.donatelife.gov.au 16

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

Centenary Hall Goolwa 1300 466 592

MAR 7 - 13 2013

THE ADELAIDE

FIX

2013

Your ultimate guide to the festival season.

THU

CALENDAR FRI

7.

8.

PAUL SINGS

HERBALISER DJS

ARTS THEATRE

WOMAD

Fringe Ambassador and ex-God of TV, Paul McDermott, return to the Fringe to sing (with a band of real musicians)!

Described as a great entertainer at the top of his form and putting on a true gem of a show, McDermott’s musical performance is both beautiful and humorous.

The Herbaliser DJs are the London musician-DJ-producer duo of Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba. Once one of the best-known acts in the Ninja Tune stable, the pair now release tunes on their own label, the jazz-rap innovators having been sharing their passion for sampling horn-driven hip hop, rare groove, soul, funk and jazz since the mid-‘90s.

SAT

9.

SURAHN & KEB DARGE BARRIO Surahn takes time out of his busy multi-instrumentalist touring lifestyle with Empire Of The Sun to show Barrio his dreamy disco love ballads.

His performance will be followed

by Keb Darge from the UK, who will knock your bobby socks off spinning the rarest of rare rockabilly-surf records.

JUDITH LUCY & DENISE SCOTT: THE SPIRAL GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY DELIGHTS (VAGABOND) Two of Australia’s funniest ladies are joining forces for an evening of short stories, tall tales and jokes at each other’s expense. One sought spiritual enlightenment, one ‘found herself’ on all fours by the roadside. Grab a wine and settle in for the funniest night of conversation you’ll hear this festival.

TUE 12.

11.

GORAN BREGOVIC & HIS WEDDINGS & FUNERALS ORCHESTRA WOMAD Celebrated composer and former rockstar Goran Bregovic conjures emotive, emblematic anthems of the Balkans.

Always surprising, with ambitious compositions through more than 30 albums over 30 years, he fuses European classicism and raucous Balkan rhythms, driven by electric guitar, a feisty gypsy brass band and an all-male choir.

WED 13.

PETER HELLIAR

SEVERED HEADS

GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY DELIGHTS (BIG TOP)

QUEEN’S THEATRE

Pete’s pretty sure he can be laid back and still relate to the youth of today.

The Age claims Pete “Helliar is gifted of comedy, biologically funny” while Time Out warns his show is “a laugh riot... has the audience in stitches, nonstop laughs from start to finish”.

MON

SUN 10.

Using tape loops, noisy synth arrangements and dissonant sound sources to striking effect, Severed Heads leapt to the forefront of the world’s emerging electronic music scene. Catch this game-changing group as they re-form especially for the Adelaide Festival for the last time.

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

17

THE ADELAIDE

FIX

FIX BITS

2013

WITH RYAN LYNCH

EXPATRIATE

WHAT A TEASE You know you’re old once your friends start getting married. You know you’re even older when they start talking about having kids. One day, over a bottle of Johnny Walker, a good friend told me that he would name his hypothetical daughters “Tina, Tammy and Toni”. I replied, “So they’ll all end up strippers” - a statement he vehemently denied. I conceded, saying “that’s true one of them will end up doing burlesque if she’s a bit... chunkier”. This is inaccurate of course, as burlesque is more like that Alison Brie/Gillian Jacobs spread in GQ. If you know what I’m talking about then you’d be a fool not to see the Miss Burlesque SA Final, where South Australia’s most glamorous ladies will battle it out to represent their home state at the Star Theatre, Sat Mar 9.

NEUTERED FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY Attention all of you literary types who happened to be saddled/blessed with small children... Holden Street Theatres and The Recycled Theatre Co present Shakespeare For Kids! Now you and your devil spawn can enjoy all of the major Shakespearean themes together such as: the corrupting power of unchecked ambition! Love and suffering! The illusion of justice! The effects of jealousy! The relationship between cruelty and masculinity! The uncertainty of gender! Envy and manipulation!

Greed, revenge and countless others! Catch various all-ages interpretations of Shakespeare’s most famous works at The Studio, Holden Street Theatres from now until Sun Mar 10 at 11am.

DAWDLE & DOODLE Have you ever been to a Fringe show and upon walking out thought, “I could’ve put on a better show than that”? Well now you can. In addition to live music, street food and market stalls, Nairne Main St will be closed to traffic and open for excitement and imagination. Kids and adults of all ages are being armed with pavement chalk and what they do with them is only limited by their imagination. Write a poem, draw a cartoon, the sky is the limit. Artwork can be Tweeted or posted to Facebook to share with the world, and the ‘clown police’ will be keeping things in order with their super soakers - ie no chalk genitalia.

Get drawing on the Nairne Main St, Nairne, Sun Mar 17 from 10am – 4pm.

YUKON JACK If we’re being frank, comedy at the Fringe can be a little hit or miss. There is just something about the Fringe that draws all of the amateur comedians out from their parents’ garage. How do you sort through the rubbish and find comedy gold? Press releases for comedians are notoriously vague and word of mouth is notoriously slow. But if their native country’s secret awesomeness (their elite special forces unit is responsible for eliminating 100 high ranking terrorists around the world) is any testament, these four comedians from Canada (the country I affectionately call America’s hat!) are the real deal. Catch Yukon comedy fever at A Grizzly Took My Bebe at Tuxedo Cat from now until Sat Mar 16 at various times.

SON OF GUMMO A weirdo writes 22 short plays and decides to call it 22 Short Plays. Likening the experience to speed dating, the

18

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

show is both terrifying and rewarding. You may see something you like, something you love, something you despise and, in all probability, something that disgusts you. Chock-full of junkies, computer nerds and folks who steal people’s kidneys to sell on eBay, you can be sure that you’ll meet some really unsavoury characters and straight up losers. It will be a blast. 22 Short Plays is at the Producers Hotel until Sat Mar 16 at 8.30pm (except for Mondays).

ORWELLIAN Do the phrases doublethink, Newspeak, thoughtcrime or memoryhole mean anything to you?

How about replicant or Nexus-6? If these phrases do indeed spark little flights of fancy, chances are dystopian science fiction is your thing. You can be sure that Big Brother (not the pervy one who watches young Australians make fools of themselves, the scary tyrannical one) is keeping his all-seeing eye on Soma, a designer drug that is now legal and widely used that melts anxiety so that only happiness remains.

Join Tobias Manderson-Galvin as he takes you through a kaleidoscopic and surreal tour of this Brave New World at the Producers Hotel until Sat Mar 16 at 10pm (except for Mondays).

UNISEX The press release for Melbourne artist and intellectual Mark Wilson reads: “Daughter of a theatre legend and a prima ballerina, awardwinning actress Mark Wilson dissects her own story and her next job: being directed by her father as Lady Macbeth.

Grand performance, whispered confession, and devastating self-mockery combine as she prepares, promotes and performs the role of her life.” I have no idea what any of this means, but what I do know is that Mark has personally created a dress comprised of over 40 kilts; and he will most definitely blow the hinges off preconceptions of human sexuality with his unique brand of dark humour. Wilson’s show UnSex Me is at the Producers Hotel until Sat Mar 16 at 7pm (except Mondays).

THE HARD STUFF Have you noticed that a lot of what the Fringe has to offer revolves around tickling your funny bone? It seems that no matter where you turn there is a stand-up comic or a humorous burlesque show or a magician whose sleight of hand involves telling jokes to the audience. Where does one go for the seriously heavy stuff? Well look no further, because when an architect who is designing a memorial to the victims of an unspeakable act of cruelty comes face to face with a grieving mother, their views on faith, grief and commemoration will be changed forever. Like A Fishbone is at Higher Ground East from Fri Mar 8 – Thu Mar 14 (except Mondays and Tuesdays) at 7.30pm.

Being an American who has moved to Australia, I am all too familiar with the legal loopholes of obtaining visas and the frustration of finding work within my field. Sometimes your qualifications aren’t up to snuff, or you are presented with the Catch-22 of needing experience to land a job, but since no one will hire you, you can’t get experience. Yuri can relate. He’s a brilliant Eastern European surgeon who arrives in London in search of work and a new life.

Instead he meets Patrick, a young man offering help, friendship and a trip to the English countryside. There Yuri reveals cold hard truths about England and himself. Angry Young Man is at The Studio, Holden Street Theatres from now until Sun Mar 17 at various times.

DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK Last year’s Fringe saw Uta Uber Kool Ja, the international never-was and washed up quasiceleb, descend down on Adelaide to whip up a storm of uncomfortable nostalgia and longing. Like all self-proclaimed fabulous wannabe divas, Uta comes to Adelaide once again for a comeback tour that is never-ending, mainly because she’s not actually coming back from anything. Uta is dancing, crying and laughing with you and at you as you stroll down her boulevard of broken dreams. Before the champagne goes flat and her high heels snap, Uta will share her experiences and ask that you, the audience, bare all as well. Uta’s intimate parties can be found at the Hotel Richmond until Sat Mar 16 at various times.

REPRIEVE FROM THE MADNESS We all know that this time of year can be both exhilarating and, if we’re being completely honest, a complete pain in the arse. Underage drunks in the Garden making fools of themselves, the bloody Clipsal shutting down every major artery in and out of the city’s east, the insanely long lines to hang out with hipsters at Barrio. With all of the festival season hullabaloo, sometimes you just want to relax in a tranquil atmosphere.

And that is where acclaimed pianist and singer songwriter Rich Batsford steps in. His meditative solo piano music will explore how to live a spiritually fulfilling life amid the disorderly bogans and general riff-raff of this festival season. Chill out at Mindfulmess at the Artbase at Higher Ground on Sat Mar 9 and Sat Mar 16 at 3pm.

I HATE ME AT THE MARKET WITH SAM SIMMONS It’s Saturday morning and I’m at the Adelaide Central Market. I’ll say it again, it’s Saturday morning and I’m at the Adelaide Central Market.

I don’t belong here, I should be sweating off a hangover in bed, or wrapping up some weird-arse one-nightstand with a well-built lady acrobat that looks a bit like a brickie from behind, that I’m too scared to say ‘I don’t want to see you again’ to as I herd her into a taxi.

Instead, I’m up spritely early hanging with ‘funky’ nanas at the organic stall watching a Lee Lin Chin look-alike sniff sage so violently she near inhales a leaf.

As I pad avocados for ripeness and generally soak up the colours and smells, I have a horrific realisation.

I am getting old.

I hate me at the market.

I am planning my meals for the week, I am everything I have yelled and moaned about in past shows and the one I am currently in.

In my current show I go to great lengths ranting about how this mass popularisation of all things ‘foody’ makes me sick to the core, yet here I am sampling fig and goat cheese like some white linen clad 1980s Bernie Ecceleston sampling focaccia for the first time in Norwood.

As my sustainable hessian bag fills with cruelty-free slaughtered roo and kale, I cry a little bit internally, but I swallow my shame tears like a guilty wank about that lady in the Brand Power commercials.

I hate me at the market.

I stop at that Big Table café place in the market, it’s filled with nubile semihippie virginous well-chested creamchurning women and I’m just another one of those lecherous old men sitting there with my coffee.

Once again…

I hate me at the market.

What’s next? Shall I be preserving jams, maybe go shopping for knickknacks before racing home to watch people cry on reality home renovation shows, as I eat my slow-roasted organic pork belly, with wilted summer greens…

You fuck.

Before I leave the market I go to the food court and all is right with the world again, Anglicised sweet and sour pork, honey lemon chicken, prawn toast! Dim sims.

This reminds me of my childhood.

I feel older than ever, but it tastes terrific.

Catch Sam Simmons’ Shitty Trivia at The Garden Of Unearthly Delights (Romantiek) until Sun Mar 17.

INTERVIEWS TORO Y MOI (AKA CHAZWICK BUNDICK) HAS OUTGROWN CHILLWAVE, EVEN BONDING WITH A HARDCORE HIP HOPPER IN ODD FUTURE’S TYLER, THE CREATOR. THE AMERICAN’S LATEST SONG-ORIENTED ALBUM, ANYTHING IN RETURN, TOO, IS CLOSER TO THE NEPTUNES THAN DREAM POP. COULD BUNDICK BE, THEN, THE NEXT URBAN SUPER-PRODUCER? HE IS MAKING THE POWER MOVES. But, first, Bundick must fulfil his tour – and promotional – commitments for Anything... This month he’ll return to Australia to play, among other dates, the Adelaide Festival. “It’s gonna be a full band,� Bundick assures. “It’s gonna be a good live show.� Bundick was last here for the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2012 with his homeboy Washed Out (AKA Ernest Greene). “I loved it!� Bundick recalls fondly. “Australians just love to dance – [they] appreciate dance music on a whole other level.�

In fact, Bundick has a new base. He’s relocated from his native Columbia, South Carolina to Berkeley, on the shore of San Francisco Bay. Bundick wanted to be with his girlfriend, he reveals bashfully. “Also, it’s just nice to get out of your hometown after a while. Berkeley’s just an awesome area, too.�

Bundick was born to a Filipina mother and AfricanAmerican father – they’d left New York for the South to raise a family. Bundick came up with Greene, the high schoolers meeting at a party. They’d eventually begin collaborating on music and “hanging out�. However, Bundick, into punk, initially acquired a profile fronting the indie group The Heist & The Accomplice. He also studied graphic design at the University Of South Carolina. His musical sensibilities ever-expanding, Bundick ultimately felt confined by indie banddom and so experimented with laptop production.

Airing lo-fi tracks online, he found his music tagged ‘chillwave’ – as was Greene’s. The term, originating in the blogosphere, would soon be attached to any ‘new’ electronica evoking ‘80s synth pop, shoegaze and ambient or Balearic house. Regardless, Bundick signed to the US independent Carpark Records, delivering a well-received debut, Causers Of This, home to the popular Blessa, at the start of 2010. A year on, he followed with Underneath The Pine.Â

TORO Y MOI BYÂ CYCLONE

Anything... represents another progression for Bundick, mixing up glitch-hop, electro-funk and jazzy deep house. “I feel good,� he says of his evolution. “I mean, there’s so many more things I wanna try to do, so I try to outdo myself every time. It’s all good.�

A Pitchfork reviewer detected the influence of Flying Lotus and J Dilla on Toro Y Moi as early as Causers...

And The Neptunes comparisons aren’t far off the mark for Bundick, whose vocals are uncannily like Pharrell Williams’ on the lead single So Many Details. “I just wanted to do electronic R&B this album so, yeah, I was listening to a lot of electronic music, hip hop music...�

In the meantime, chillwave has, ironically, crept into urban music, Canadian rapper Drake and his

beatmakers (led by Noah ‘40’ Shebib) pioneering illwave. Bundick’s touch is also detectable in the R&B of Toronto’s TheWeeknd and Odd Future’s Frank Ocean. Tyler, The Creator, peculiarly ambivalent about hip hop, has referenced Bundick. Bundick has done surprisingly few remixes.

Nevertheless, he did rework Tyler’s French! (featuring Hodgy Beats) off Bastard, his take somewhere between dubstep and Houston’s chopped & screwed.

More importantly, Bundick teamed with Tyler to cut 2012’s Hey You – the demo of which he confirms was “leaked�.

Bundick would love to again connect with Odd Future’s enfant terrible. And he’s actively pursuing hip hop production. “That’s one thing I always hope to do – do that kind

of stuff – so hopefully people will seek me out.�

Bundick has ventured into club music. He introduced a French house-inspired side-project, Les Sins, back in 2010. He recently relaunched it with Fetch/Taken via old ally Dan Snaith’s Jiaolong imprint, the Canadian himself veering away from the IDM Caribou with his dancier Daphni guise. Bundick plans to release more Les Sins fare, but presently he’s “just trying to work on improving those production skills and then trying to make things sound right�. He sighs, “It’s definitely a challenge just to make a straight electronic song.� WHO: Toro Y Moi WHAT: Anything In Return (Mistletone/Inertia) WHERE: Barrio, Adelaide Festival WHEN: Fri Mar 8

OPENS NEXT WEEK!

‘Simply the best comedian I have ever seen and the most difficult to describe’ THE AGE

+++++

‘Sublime, original & brilliant’

THE INDEPENDENT

ĆŤÄ ÄƒÄ˘ ĆŤÄ ÄˆĆŤ ƍđƍĉċąĆ

ĆŤ ĆŤ ĆŤ

melbourne international

comedy festival

27 mar – 21 apr 2013 comedyfestival.com.au

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

19

THE ADELAIDE

FIX

Your ultimate guide to the festival season.

2013

INTERVIEWS

FROM HER HUMBLE BEGINNINGS SINGING IN HER CHURCH GOSPEL CHOIR TO BECOMING A MULTI-AWARD WINNING BLUES ARTIST (WITH TWO GRAMMY NOMINATIONS AS WELL AS BLUES MUSIC ASSOCIATIONS AWARDS FOR BEST TRADITIONAL AND BEST CONTEMPORARY FEMALE BLUES ARTIST), RUTHIE FOSTER IS MAKING HER WAY BACK TO AUSTRALIA. MAKING HER DEBUT IN ADELAIDE DURING THIS FESTIVAL SEASON, FOSTER IS BRINGING WITH HER THE GRAMMY-NOMINATED EIGHTH ALBUM LET IT BURN. Foster is having a late evening in Boston as we speak and a touch of respite prior to her concert with Mavis Staples the following evening. Recorded in New Orleans, Let It Burn is a collection of original and reworked cover songs, a lot of which Foster attributes to her producer John Chelew. “A lot of the credit goes to my producer,� she replies. “He would call me once in a while with suggestions. I really fell in love with his arrangements of The Black Keys’ Everlasting Light and with John Martyn’s material as well. In fact, I had three of his songs picked out but I could only record one, so we went with Don’t Want To Know. “I do have to take some credit myself,� Foster chuckles. “I wrote a few tunes that made the cut.

Welcome Home is one I’ve been sitting on for a while and the arrangement to Johnny Cash’s Ring Of Fire is something I’ve been playing around with for some time.

It never really fit onto any of the previous CDs but it blended in nicely with the other songs.�

It certainly did. It’s gone from being an upbeat country love song to a soulful song of desire. “Thank you; it is quite sultry,� she agrees. “I don’t know what it was that brought this song about.

Honestly, I was just playing some chords on the piano one night and the lyrics to that tune just fit. I hit record and got that down as a demo. I then recorded it with a bunch of guys from New Orleans and they really came through with putting their own flavour on that song to really make it shine.�

Foster also recalls her tour with The Blind Boys Of Alabama quite fondly. What was initially meant to be a collaboration with them on two songs on Let It Burn ended up being much more.

RUTHIE FOSTER

BY CATHERINE BLANCH “Those guys are a hoot to hang out with,� Foster enthuses. “You certainly know when they’re in the room – that’s for sure. I’m so glad they managed to find some time to come down and record with me. Originally we had them slated for only a couple of tunes but they ended up all over the CD, which I’m really grateful for. “I also got to meet Jimmy Carter; one of the original Blind Boys. You’d never know that he’s the oldest member of the band because he can hold a note forever, he’s got endless energy and he can raise the roof on getting the crowd into a song like no one can.

You wouldn’t pick that by just looking at and talking to him because he’s so laid back, but when it’s time to sing, he amps it up like nobody’s business. “I’ve got to say, being around these boys who have been in the music business for so long, you learn that

possibilities are endless when it comes to the longevity of touring. They make me want to stop complaining about getting on a plane every week because they seem to handle it very well. And I love having men’s voices on my records. I never really got the chance to do that in the past so having the Blind Boys was a real treat for me.�

Foster speaks humbly of her Grammy nominations.

Her first was for the 2010 release of The Truth According To Ruthie Foster and again for the 2013 release of Let It Burn. “It is nice to be nominated; it’s one of those things that surprises me but it’s a real validation to have my music recognised and to be in the company of so many other musicians that I admire and respect. It’s also a chance to get together with some old friends; I knew several people in my category such as Dr John and

Shemekia Copeland and I’ve sung with Joan Osborne on several occasions. “It was nice to hang out and congratulate each other for finally getting there – except for Dr John‌ you just know he’s always gonna be there – he’s a living legend in the blues world. I say this respectfully that I was gracious to lose to Dr John; it was perfectly okay,â€? she laughs. “Be sure to tell everybody that we’re looking forward to coming down there,â€? Foster concludes, “and if they’re coming out – and they better – to prepare to have a hallelujah time!â€?

WHO: Ruthie Foster WHAT: Let It Burn (Fuse) WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Wed Mar 13

6*' 6 5ƀ+46 /#0 T-SH I CLERAT & HO O FRORENCE DIE M $1 – 0 LATEST NOVELTY TEES INCLUDE Big Bang Theory, Thor, The Avengers, Batman and more

LATEST BANDS IN STOCK Of Mice & Men, Whitechapel, Motionless In White, Pierce The Veil, Sleeping With Sirens, All Time Low, The Amity Afiction, Bless The Fall, Buried In Verona, Along Came A Spider... And many more.

Colonnades Shop 39 Noarlunga Centre, 08 8186 3666 | Elizabeth Shopping Centre Hs01 Oxenham Mall, Elizabeth, 08 8252 0222 20

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

INTERVIEWS

The ensuing Pirate Rhapsody, Mermaid Requiem proved just as fruitful. Bradson returns, taking a slightly different direction, with his third Adelaide Fringe offering: Sweet Sixteen Or The Birthday Party Massacre.

We speak with Tommy Bradson in his Garden Of Unearthly Delights’ backstage caravan-turned-dressing room that he shares with fellow Garden performer Barry Morgan – whose music plays in the background while Bradson applies his make-up in preparation for the show.

“I can do my face in 10 minutes if I have to. In fact, I can do it in five, but it depends on how good you want me to look,” Bradson laughs. “It started out as something like Pierrot The Sad Clown-style of mime makeup, but it’s really just that basic chalk-wash with a bit of colour – but I like to trannie it up with some glitter and flash-in-the-pan… As you do!”

Bradson says his show Sixteen Candles Or The Birthday Party Massacre is an excuse for him to play the rockstar and show off his theatrical side.

“It’s an odyssey of a young girl arriving at her 16th birthday party and how we learn about people through those that know them best,” he replies. “Sometimes we learn that what people say about someone isn’t quite true and how we come to realise this once we’ve had the chance to meet them.

“It’s also an excuse for me to sing some pretty good rock tunes; songs you’d typically hear at a party by artists like Elvis, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones. Unlike all of my previous shows, there are no originals in this one.

“The storyline is set in the ‘60s and is based around my aunties and uncles who were hosting these kinds of parties back then,” Bradson adds. “I’m enjoying doing something different and playing more characters than I normally do – and playing Australians in particular.”

In previous shows Bradson has played both male and female characters – and he claims he plans to do

SWEET SIXTEEN OR THE BIRTHDAY PARTY MASSACRE

TOMMY BRADSON

the same when it comes to his current show.

“I will, but I’m stepping it up a little bit,” he states.

“This time I’m playing four people. The show starts with June Whitlam; mother of the household who is hosting a surprise birthday party for only daughter Lula. I then play Lula’s stepfather Gary, her boyfriend Johnny and then Lula herself.

“Each character arrives at the birthday party in real time so the audience is experiencing the beginnings of this party and they, themselves, become guests at the party as the evening wears on.”

Bradson explains that his 2012 Adelaide Cabaret Festival show focused on his mother but SSOTBPM has now given him the opportunity to focus on his extended family.

“SSOTBPM is about cousins, strange aunts and uncles, weird people that you only really see on special

“A vampiric symphony of terror.”

(Rzeczpospolita)

occasions like weddings, funerals, Christmas. I had a big beautiful family as a kid so I wanted to celebrate that as well as giving myself the opportunity to play real Australian characters.

“I’ve never really looked deep into the Aussie culture before, but it’s who I am. This show is about keeping with the spirit of staying together no matter what happens. It was instilled in me as a kid that even though my cousin may be a little arsehole, I still have to play with him and share my toys with him. Now, as an adult, my cousin may still be an arsehole but I’ve still got to have a beer with him at Christmas time.”

In When The Sex Is Gone Bradson switched between characters on stage, but in Pirate Rhapsody, Mermaid Requiem he left the stage to transform himself from the pirate to the mermaid. He explains the costume

N OW G YIN PL A

W I T H S P E C I A L G U E S T ATO M T M

The game-changing super group re-form especially for Adelaide Festival for the last time. Promise.

“The puppetry...is masterful.“ (The Australian)

…

ERTH

Innovative theatre company Erth conjure a dark world of love, sex and death.

N OW G

YIN Queen’s Theatre PL A ( Wed 6 Mar - Sun 10 Mar)

Dunstan Playhouse (Thu 14 Mar — Sun 17 Mar)

SEVERED HEADS …

WHAT: Tommy Bradson – Sweet Sixteen Or The Birthday Party Massacre WHERE: The Garden Of Unearthly Delights (The Campanile) WHEN: Until Sun Mar 17

I N S P I R E D BY N I CK C AV E & TH E B A D S E E D S’ M U R D E R B A L L A D S

TR WA R SZ AWA Acclaimed director Grzegorz Jarzyna takes on pop culture’s favourite blood-sucking hero.

(Russh)

changes will have to be mighty quick this time around.

“Rapidly – at a stupidly ridiculous pace!” he declares as he paints his eyelids shades of blue and black. “I have a three-piece band on stage with me this time so it’s more of a rock gig. They play some songs around the dialogue scenes that play over the PA while I’m offstage.

I absolutely love this open style of performance; the unpredictable interaction with the audience; the songs I sing and the characters that I play. This is the bed that I’ve made for myself and I’m happy to lie in it!”

MURDER

N O S F E R AT U …

“...beautifully weird and hideous fun.”

BY CATHERINE BLANCH

THE PLEASANTLY UNPREDICTABLE THEATRICAL CABARET PERFORMER THAT IS TOMMY BRADSON HAS WON HIMSELF A CULT FOLLOWING AT ART FESTIVALS BOTH HERE AND ABROAD. HIS DEBUT SHOW IN THE GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY DELIGHTS – WHEN THE SEX IS GONE – WON SUCH ACCOLADES AS BEST NEWCOMER AND BEST CABARET AT THE 2009 MELBOURNE FRINGE AND THE JOHN CHATAWAY INNOVATION AWARD IN 2010.

“A spellbinding experience.”

(Chicago Tribune)

2001: A S PAC E O DYS S E Y …

WITH ADEL AIDE SYMPHONY O RC H E S T R A A N D A D E L A I D E CHAMBER SINGERS CO N D U C T E D BY RO B E RT Z I E G L E R

An epic evening of live music and film.

Queen’s Theatre ( Wed 13 Mar )

Festival Theatre (Fri 8 Mar — Sat 9 Mar)

ADEL AIDEFE STIVAL.CO M. AU BA S S

131

246

◊ TICKETS SELLING FA ST ◊ RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

21

THE ADELAIDE

FIX

2013

MICHAEL WELTON THE MAGNETS Obscure claim to fame? Sharing the bottle of (seriously good) whisky The Magnets bought me for my 30th birthday with Sir Tom Jones.

Favourite family heirloom? My grandfather’s leatherbound complete set of Dickens. One day I’ll even find time to read it.

Countr y or city you’d still like to perform in?

Beirut. I speak reasonable Arabic and I’ve always wanted the chance to say “masa al-kheer (good evening) Beirut”.

Best show as an audience member? My first ‘proper’ gig. Swedish soft-rockers Europe at London’s Hammersmith Odeon (now Apollo), circa 1988. It blew my mind.

CABARET

COMEDY

DANCE

MUSIC

THEATRE

CIRCUS

Q&A

DEANNE SMITH

UNDERGROUND LOVERS

CAL WILSON

Personal manifesto? 1. Beware advertising. 2. Just do it.

Fictional character you relate to best? Walter White from Breaking Bad. Except instead of meth, I make jokes. But all the killing and stuff is basically the same.

Useless ephemera cluttering your abode? Oh my.

I have so much. I have a whole box of some old lady’s photographic slides that I picked out of dumpster in Sydney in 2009. She seemed to love taking pictures of her Cadillac in different locations: the beach, the bush, overlooking a lake…

What film demands a sequel? Anything starring Ellen Page or Natalie Portman. I may have ulterior motives for this.

What literar y work would you love to turn into a musical? Living In The End Of Times by Slavoj Zizek.

Hilarious, provocative, perplexing, damning and fun, all in the same package.

Personal manifesto? More shoes. More chocolate.

More dancing in the kitchen in your pajamas.

Disappointment you’ve never recovered from?

That singers don’t always write their own songs. And also that they’re not singing live on the radio. I used to press my ear to the speaker in the hope I could hear their chair moving when they got up after finishing their song. Working in radio was an eye-opener.

Bad celebrity experience? Years ago at a stand-up gig I was performing at, I introduced myself to the big name MC, who I’d never met. He gave me a weird brush-off, which I put down to him being about to go on. When he introduced me as “Mr Cal Wilson”, I realised he’d thought I was just some chick that wanted to meet him...

Clothing you can’t bear to throw away? My son’s first baby clothes. It’s ridiculous - I totally don’t fit them anymore.

Unlikely situation you’ve found yourself in? Being caught trying to fit into my son’s baby clothes.

Pop culture star responsible for your sexual awakening? Mr Spock. I love a smart man who looks after his eyebrows.

In a Hunger Games comedy fight to the death, which hapless comic would you take on? George Burns. I’ve already won.

Obscure claim to fame?

Walking the red carpet at Cannes.

Favourite foreign word or phrase? Can I say “squizz”? Because I really can’t get over that. It sounds so squirty and wet!

Unlikely situation you’ve found yourself in? I once licked Paul McDermott’s hand.

Pop culture star responsible for your sexual awakening? There was a girl called Trini on American educational show 3-2-1 Contact that I watched when I was in pre-school. She was amazing. But since that reference won’t mean anything to you, can I say Hannah Gadsby?

Useless factual tidbit? Apparently, beavers can swim half a mile under water with one breath of air. Do with that what you will.

What’s the trick to a great live sound? Having a great mixer.

What scares you? Not having a great mixer.

We need more: Live music venues.

We need less: Corporate sports culture and the celebrities that inhabit that fake shit.

Favourite holiday memor y? Italia.

What are you looking forward to? Playing in Adelaide after such a long time.

Best show as an audience member? My Bloody Valentine at the Capital in Brisbane. I couldn’t hear for days.

What’s leaving you baffled? The lack of originality in reality/music shows.

Last gadget purchased? MS20 Korg synth and Guitar Tuner app for iPhone.

What would you give to write the perfect song?

Perfection is for suckers.

What gig would you love to play again? ICA London.

What’s the greatest myster y? Michael Buble.

Worst review? I never read them so wouldn’t know…

Critique of music, especially pop music, is non-existent.

What agitates you? Marketing and advertising, and the people that do that shit, posing as art and artists.

What’s the last thing you think about at night?

Michael Buble.

WHO: The Magnets WHERE: The Vagabond WHEN: Until Sun Mar 17 (various times)

WHAT: DeAnne Smith – Let’s Do This WHERE: The Tuxedo Cat – Cat Bowl WHEN: Thu Mar 7 – Sun Mar 17

WHO: Underground Lovers WHERE: Paradiso Spiegeltent WHEN: Thu Mar 14 at 7pm

WHAT: Cal Wilson Is Guilty WHERE: Deluxe WHEN: Mon Mar 11 – Sun Mar 17 at 8.45pm

PETER HELLIAR

GERALDINE QUINN

UTA UBER KOOL JA!

Disappointment you’ve never recovered from? I never made Who’s Most Beautiful People. Not once. I pretend like I don’t care but deep down it stings.

Historical event you wished you’d witnessed?

Abraham Lincoln hunting vampires.

What film demands a sequel? The Godfather Part Two. What tickles your fancy? Has fancy become a euphemism for ‘balls’? I need to know before answering this question.

If your life flashed before your eyes, what would be your favourite moment? Having my ‘fancies’ tickled by Larry Emdur at the Logies between the years 2001 and 2005. Yes, I am going with fancies as a euphemism.

Bad celebrity experience? Having Curtis Stone manhandle my ‘fancies’ at the Logies between the years 2005 and 2007.

Pop culture star responsible for your sexual awakening? Elisabeth Shue. Her side boob in Cocktail was the catalyst for puberty.

Your most dramatic fashion disaster? A Boy George wallet purchased at Zina’s Hairdressing Salon in 1983.

Personal manifesto? Try not to embarrass yourself.

No, wait - try to embarrass yourself, as long as it gets a laugh/sympathy.

Useless ephemera cluttering your abode? You’ve obviously never seen my house.

What film demands a sequel? Salo.

Disappointment you’ve never recovered from?

Sigourney Weaver embarrassing me at the Oscars by yelling at me in front of everybody. I know I had slept with her husband but so? Everyone had slept with my husbands.

Historical event you wished you’d witnessed? I would have loved to have been there when Napoleon was seducing Josephine. That would have been a hoot.

The comedic event of the century! He is so very short.

What film demands a sequel? All of my films - even the Latvian adult ones.

ALISON POLLARDMANSERGH - FAULTY TOWERS THE DINING EXPERIENCE

What’s leaving you baffled?

How much time the pedestrians of Adelaide stand waiting to cross the road.

Last gadget purchased? A decent tablet for my wife and kids so they can prop me up at the dinner table while I’m away (via Skype).

What gig would you love to play again? I’d go back to our student days of busking for beer money in London’s Covent Garden in order to enjoy some youthful exuberance (and cheaper drinks).

What’s the greatest myster y? How a good night’s sleep can change your perspective on everything..

Best post-performance meal? Our German tour staple of steak and chips, with a cleansing pils and red wine to follow.

Lana Del Rey says she tastes like Pepsi-Cola. What food or beverage do you taste like?

Passiona and ham steaks.

What do you now realise was a bad idea? Buying a few too many Ed Hardy T-shirts. I bought two.

Useless factual tidbit? My fingers are not on the home keys as I type this.

And the moral of the stor y is… I’m plugging a show.

WHAT: Pete Helliar – Whatevs (Forevs) WHERE: The Big Top WHEN: Mar 12 – Sun Mar 17

22

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

What’s beside your bed? My mouth guard. What’sth up, ladiesth?

What’s beside your bed?

Regret. And gardening books.

What would you like to uninvent? Psy. Pop culture star responsible for your sexual awakening? Billy Joel. Shut up!

Lana Del Rey says she tastes like Pepsi-Cola.

What food or beverage do you taste like? Your mother’s tears of disappointment. Also gin.

Best fancy dress outfit? I dressed up as Edith ‘Little Edie’ Bouvier Beale from the documentary Grey Gardens one Hallowe’en. Two people got it, and one of those was Asher Treleaven. I was impressed.

Useless factual tidbit? Pigeons can suck liquid.

What literar y work would you love to turn into a musical? The Island of Doctor Moreau by HG Wells.

It’d be like Young Frankenstein crossed with Cats.

Obscure claim to fame? I touched Morrissey once.

Favourite family heirloom? My parents have a 1970s limited edition Salvador Dali wine bottle, which I covet.

I’ve put dibs in.

If your show included a backmasked message, what would it be? ‘Buy my stuff, I can’t pay my rent, PS I love you’.

WHAT: Geraldine Quinn – You’re The Voice: Songs For The Ordinary By An Anthemaniac WHERE: La Boheme WHEN Tue Mar 12 until Sat Mar 16 (various times)

Bad celebrity experience? I am one!

Pop culture star responsible for your sexual awakening? Which sexual awakening? There have been several. Let’s see. I can finally talk about it now that he’s dead. It was Jack Nicholson. But don’t tell my first husband. This is going to print isn’t it?... Can I retract that statement?

When has technology let you down? All the time. Me and the Mac Apple computer are like Fatal Attraction - the computer is the bunny. Wait, no. The computer is Glenn Close, I am the bunny and Michael Douglas is George, my assistant.

Your most dramatic fashion disaster? At a red carpet event a young innovative designer once had me wear a sequin – singular - over a mole on my shoulder. Needless to say I was not allowed into the event - the Logies.

Lana Del Rey says she tastes like Pepsi-Cola.

What food or beverage do you taste like? Lana Del Who? I taste like the olive brine in a dirty martini mixed with Wizz Fizz. Do you like sherbet?

WHAT: Uta Uber Kool Ja! WHERE: Richmond Hotel WHEN: Tue Mar 5 – Sat Mar 16 (various times)

Current fad you’re loathing?

Shorts that are shorter than their own pockets. I don’t want to see your trousers having a prolapse.

What have you only recently realised? Learning Dutch isn’t nearly so hard as people say.

What tickles your fancy? If it’s a ‘what’, it’s glutenfree carrot cake. But if it’s a ‘who’, then it’s definitely my husband, Pete.

If your life flashed before your eyes, what would be your favourite moment? The birth of my kids… all five of them.

Something you’ll be avoiding during festival season? Direct sunlight.

Unlikely situation you’ve found yourself in? Performing to the entire cast of Jim Henson’s Puppet Up Uncensored. Surreal.

In a Hunger Games comedy fight to the death, which hapless comic would you take on? I keep thinking of Benny Hill, but really don’t know why. Maybe it’s a subconscious thing: the buxom wench fights back!

Your most dramatic fashion disaster? It was buxom wench-related…

Lana Del Rey says she tastes like Pepsi-Cola.

What food or beverage do you taste like? A flat white with extra double cream.

Useless factual tidbit? When touring the Netherlands – which we do for five months of every year – we take our own bikes.

WHAT: Faulty Towers The Dining Experience WHERE: Quality Hotel Old Adelaide WHEN: Until Sun Mar 17 (various times)

Hundreds more Adelaide Fringe & Adelaide Festival reviews at ripitup.com.au/fix.

ITSOSENG SPACE THEATRE, FRI MAR 1 Itsoseng: a ghost township, a victim of post-apartheid South African reality, a people consumed by established rituals of drinking, dying and drinking again. On a sparse set, a stage strewn with litter among the chalky dust, playwright and actor Omphile Molusi delivers a powerful monologue charting his homeland’s essential struggle between hope for promised changes and despair at political ineptitude and indifference.

His character speaks from the grave of his first love; a women driven to prostitution and death by her circumstance, a narrative that clearly defines the tragedy exacted when the very act of survival destroys one’s hopes for any real future. Moments of wry humour provide small islands of relief throughout this inherently sad account of a town “waiting for its second death”.

Molusi’s portrayal of the social, emotional and physical breakdown of an entire community is remarkable, the sheer physicality of his performance completely mesmerising.

Final Word: Provocative | Rosie van Heerde Itsoseng continues at Space Theatre until Mon Mar 4.

6000 MILES AWAY FESTIVAL THEATRE, FRI MAR 1 Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami occurred at the same time that this powerful dance trilogy was being choreographed in Europe; the title 6000 Miles Away is a mark of respect for those terrifying events. This show is the result of standout contemporary dancers including the highlycelebrated Sylvie Guillem, whose adaptable talents range from this contemporary dance to its more traditional cousin in Swan Lake.

The Australian premiere season of the Adelaide Festival’s 6000 Miles Away was my introduction to contemporary dance; I found it a musically confronting, consuming visual performance. The dance was for me electrified, urgently convulsive, unsettlingly frenzied and gratifyingly playful, leaving me interpreting humanity’s urgent need for simultaneous love, vindication and release.

Like a birth of sorts, my introduction to contemporary dance transformed from wide-eyed onlooker to understanding; from an all-encompassing soundtrack to a pleasingly warm and safe embrace of pleasure.

Final Word: Profound | Jenny Smith 6000 Miles Away performs at Festival Theatre until Mon Mar 4.

THIS IS WHAT WE DO FOR A LIVING THE BIRDCAGE, FRI MAR 1 In the gutted shell of the Regent Theatre, impish, leather-shorted Tina and dramatic, string-vested Ken perform. Aided by a few props – a rope and a trapeze – the artists rely on each other to give life and interest to the performance. The stark setting only makes their chemistry more intense and engaging.

The couple share how they became Tumble Circus through a dazzling blend of theatre, comedy and acrobatics. We peek into their past together and apart; from when the two young jugglers met, their arguments, Ken’s issues with his mother and the question of children. All of this is shared with charm and fantastic humour. The physical displays are masterful.

They might wear clown shoes but Tina and Ken are about more than just silly tricks. There’s tenderness, grace and intelligence too. This Is What We Do For A Living is a definite favourite.

Final Word: Perfect | Ilona Wallace This Is What We Do For A Living continues at The Birdcage until Fri Mar 8.

CANDICE MCQUEEN: NASTY! THE STUDIO HOLDEN STREET THEATRES, FRI MAR 1 “Mmmm… Grrrrrrl!

That shit is Nasty!” caught on as my phrase for describing almost everything for the rest of the night thanks to London cabaret performer Spanky.

Wearing glam rock outfits, a pink wig and huge eye lashes, Spanky is a unique, gender-bending ‘Mr Sister’ who tucks, but lets the body hair grow.

Spanky performed well-scripted spoken word and sang parodies of well-known ‘90s tunes to mould into her story of partying for thousands of years. It begins

with the ‘nasty’ crucifixion of Jesus and later about the ‘nasty’ in her relationship with River Phoenix.

This camp cabaret is a clever creation, brilliantly sung and Spanky is skilfully supported on stage by an acoustic guitarist. Clearer diction and sound adjustments would help the audience hear more of the jokes and the more you can remember the pop-culture events of the ‘90s, the funnier you will find the show.

Final Word: Grrrrrrl! | Bobby Goudie Candice McQueen: Nasty! continues at Holden Street Theatres – The Studio and The Garden Of Unearthly Delights’ Paradiso Spiegeltent until Wed Mar 6.

KAPUT THE GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY DELIGHTS’ UMBRELLA REVOLUTION, FRI MAR 1 This would have to be one of the best family friendly comedies at the Adelaide Fringe Festival. Kaput is a hilarious one-man slapstick in a silent movie-type style, which combines acrobatics and general frivolity onstage for entertainment across the age spectrum. Adults caught onto the subtle mature jokes and kids laughed, shouted and squealed with excitement as he slipped and blundered in his attempt to screen a love film for the audience.

Tom Flanagan is an endearing acrobat and comedian who has found the right formula to stand out from other forms of comedy and physical theatre. Judging from the excited screams of the children in the audience and their enthusiasm to get up on stage and participate in the frivolity, Tom Flanagan’s energy is clearly infectious.

I hope the parents of a few of the children brought a spare change of clothes for any accidents that occurred during the performance.

Final Word: Goofy | Bobby Goudie Kaput continues at The Garden Of Unearthly Delights’ Umbrella Revolution until Mon Mar 11.

HA HA COMEDY LATE SHOW AUSTRAL HOTEL – THE BUNKA, SAT MAR 2 Saturday night’s show was the last stop on a comedy pub crawl, so the Bunka was packed beyond its limits with the best drunkards in town. The evening’s MC was Dan Willis, whose main task was filling a teenage boy with tequila for the amusement of the crowd.

Tim FitzHigham started the show, delivering his English wit at a million words a minute. Greg Fleet provided current affairs-based jokes about the Pope, drugs and Lance Armstrong. Chris Franklin was definitely the favoured comedian of the night, wooing the boozy crowd with his mullet and giving us a live performance of his hit song Bloke. Alan Anderson, Scottish and roaring, rounded out the night with a discussion about museums.

A note to pretty girls: avoid the front row. One teenager spent the entire evening being sexually harassed by every speaker on stage, at varying levels of rapey obscenity.

Final Word: Rowdy | Ilona Wallace Ha Ha Comedy Late Show continues at Austral Hotel – The Bunka until Sun Mar 17.

ERIC’S TALES OF THE SEA – A SUBMARINER’S YARN TUXEDO CAT – BLUE ROOM, SAT MAR 2 Trussed up in his cream turtleneck sweater, Eric came on stage after a short slideshow presentation. Diving right into his material and hardly pausing for breath over the next hour, Eric explained the perils and pleasures of life as a submariner in the Royal Navy.

He told terrifying vignettes about sharks and escape tanks, exploding lungs and shredded feet, and also reflected on the relationships he fostered under the sea. His story about his relationship with Dick, his best friend, had some of the audience in tears. The stories are genuine and touching, told with a generous splash of humour.

The technical explanations and steady stream of chatter from this bright-eyed and fairy-floss-haired individual could be a little overwhelming at times, but the pay-off at the punch-line is definitely worth it. Eric is a gentle soul with a gift for storytelling that shouldn’t be missed.

Final Word: Special | Ilona Wallace Eric’s Tales Of The Sea - A Submariner’s Yarn continues at Tuxedo Cat – Blue Room until Sat Mar 9.

REVIEWS

CHOPPER’S BIG FUCKEN LATE SHOW 3: ONE AND A HALF MEN THE GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY DELIGHTS’ VAGABOND, SAT MAR 2 If it weren’t for both of Heath Franklin’s ears being attached to his head, you would think the real Mark ‘Chopper’ Reid was standing right in front of you. With his trademark Wayfarers, Dennis Lillee moustache and foul vocabulary, Chopper confidently staggered on stage wooing the audience into heavy uproars of laughter simply by dropping F-bombs as many times in one sentence as verbally possible.

Chopper’s Big Fucken Late Night Show also staged some of the funniest blokes in the business, including the hilarious Arj Barker and down-to-earth Dave O’Neil.

David Quirk, who possesses nearly as much crudeness as Chopper, took things to a whole new level with a set of vulgar and extremely crass jokes that, unless you have a mildly sick mind, left you scratching your head.

This hardcore, all-or-nothing, ball-busting show is Aussie bogan comedy at its best, guaranteed to shock, offend and harden things the fuck up.

Final Word: Hardcore | Melissa Keogh Chopper’s Big Fucken Late Show 3: One And A Half Men continues The Garden Of Unearthly Delights’ Vagabond until Sat Mar 16.

RAYMOND CROWE – CURIOSITIES ROYALTY THEATRE, SAT MAR 2 Hand shadow artist Raymond Crowe calls himself an unusualist.

His new show, Curiosities, is definitely unusual. It’s also a fun and nostalgic nod to times gone past. Crowe’s skills are without question; his sleight-of-hand work, ventriloquism and, of course, shadow art delighting a rapt audience. Yet it is his comedic stage presence that really makes this show.

The routine has a vaudevillian air about it and relies on great comic timing to make things work. Crowe navigates through a variety of old style ‘acts’, including a ridiculously funny flea circus routine with great humour and style. Sometimes it was difficult to hear if you were sitting right up the back but since this is a visual show, it didn’t really matter too much.

Crowe finished with his YouTube hit, What A Wonderful World, and you get the feeling that this is exactly what Curiosities is all about.

Last Word: Wonderful | Rosie van Heerde Raymond Crowe – Curiosities continues at Royalty Theatre until Sun Mar 17

KITTY FLANAGAN – HELLO KITTY FLANAGAN ROYALTY THEATRE, SAT MAR 2 Kitty Flanagan is at her best when she has an audience keen to travel along her highway. Animated and energetic, Flanagan’s latest show provides plenty of opportunity for her to get her dancing groove on.

She ‘demonstrates’ the joys of cabaret and burlesque to great effect; her onstage moves with commentary providing moments of pure gold.

Much of her time is also spent sharing free advice to women about themselves, to men about women and to pretty much everyone else to just shut up. Thankfully she doesn’t manage to follow her own advice because the rest of the show was a hilarious mix of clever observations and perhaps a slight rant or two about why pet ownership beats babies and children hands down.

Flanagan is truly a great live experience and the packed theatre was clearly having a wonderful time.

Final Word: Faceachinglyfunny | Rosie van Heerde Kitty Flanagan performs at Royalty Theatre until Sun Mar 10.

BIG BAND BURLESQUE NEXUS CABARET, SAT MAR 2 This scintillating smorgasbord of scrumptious women, sumptuous costumes and delicious vocals with sensational lashings of big band brilliance from sextet Capitol Swing had the full-capacity Saturday night audience hooting, hollering and howling for more.

Hosted by the inviting and voluptuous Lady Cara, who also belted out some terrific numbers during the show, we were served a feast of fun and aesthetic excellence by the gorgeous and exceptional burlesque performers; Brianna Bluebell (reigning Miss Burlesque Australia),

Vespa White, Sapphire Snow, Lunar Eclipse and Becky Lou (all their real names, of course).

Breathtaking in their beauty, captivating in their presence and admirable in their expertise, this glamorous team of glorious girls embodies the capacity for women to joyously celebrate and share the appreciation of the female form, with class, fun, sassiness and elegance. Put a hot, brassy, golden-era live soundtrack behind it and you have a winning show!

Don’t miss it!

Final word: Sizzling!! | Nikki Fort Big Band Burlesque continues at Nexus Cabaret until Fri Mar 8.

THE STRANGE UNDOING OF PRUDENCIA HART THE GERMAN CLUB, SAT MAR 2 The National Theatre Of Scotland presents a hilarious, chaotic theatre experience that should not be missed.

The strange tale unfolds in the audience area, mostly in spoken rhyme, with added Scottish folk music and bursts of Kylie thrown in. The acting is brilliant and David Greig’s writing superb.

The story begins with uptight academic Prudencia Hart travelling from Edinburgh to Kelso in the Scottish borders to speak at the folk studies conference The Borders Ballad: Neither Border Nor Ballad. Snow then covers the town and the mysterious dream-like journey of self-discovery begins for Prudencia Hart.

For a show that takes place in the audience there isn’t too much intrusive audience participation beyond collective chants or actions that help the story flow, although there is one exception of ‘the boy’ chosen on the night who gets extensively dry humped by the cast.

Tonight… that was me!

Final Word: Wow! | Bobby Goudie The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart continues at The German Club until Sat Mar 9.

THE GIRL WHO WON’T GROW UP LA BOHÈME, SAT MAR 2 La Bohème’s setting was perfect for this intimate sharing of inner thoughts as Megan Doherty takes to the stage in her entertaining, witty and nostalgic journey of coming to terms with where one’s life has ended up! Acknowledging the lack of progress one is likely to encounter should you impart no effort, Doherty sings her way through various humorous anecdotes she has imagined, dreamed and accepted about her life thus far.

Her excellent accompanist kept a steady pace as together they captured our attention with her powerful voice, fascinatingly expressive face and cheeky mannerisms. Her story of wannabe-fame and glory contains cleverly crafted ditties built around recognisable and catchy tunes and the obvious ability to laugh at herself and embrace her current life state was refreshing, sad, moving and inspiring. Her personal story struck a chord within most members of the audience.

Final Word: Wistful | Sian Williams The Girl Who Won’t Grow Up continues at La Bohème continues until Sat Mar 9.

PIANO CHICKS THE PROMETHEAN, SAT MAR 2 The glamorous Becky Blake from Chunky Custard blends a number of thematic strands with mainly good results and the story of her own journey in music is convincing. We really do get a sense of the highlights and pitfalls of trying to make it as a piano chick.

The songs of famous piano chicks are performed with considerable skill by Blake and a very accomplished band. We don’t learn anything particularly new about these women, but we enjoy hearing the songs.

Ultimately the Chunky humour in this show diminishes the serious contribution made by piano chicks over the years and even the excellent musical presentation from Blake and the band. This is not a Chunky Custard show; the band do not join in the hi-jinks. There is no doubt the packed audience had fun, but it was an odd mixture of light cabaret and serious musical intent.

Final Word: Sparkling | Adrian Miller Piano Chicks continues at The Promethean until Tue Mar 12.

CHECK OUT RIPITUP.COM.AU FOR MORE NEWS, INFO & INTERVIEWS RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

23

Future Music//

24

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

PRESENTED BY HOLDEN STREET THEATRES AND WESLO HOLDINGS P/L

Y N N U F SINESS

DON’T MISS THIS COMEDY SPECTACULAR

BTHEU2013 COMEDY GALAH

IRELAND M O R F T C E IR D INGE IN HIS ONLY FRCE APPEARAN

BOOK

{

EDDIE BANNON

HOSTED BY ONT MARCEL LUC STARRING TS, O O B Y T I V A R G , L A U S A C T SMAR & K R I U Q D I V DA MANY MORE MEDY O C G N I Z A M A S T I H H S A M S

VENUE*TIX 8225 8888 FRINGETIX 1300 621 255 VENUETIX.COM.AU ADELAIDEFRINGE.COM.AU

weslo GUIDE 2013 THE

FRINGE SEASON

“A SECRET APPEARANCE

BY POSSIBLY AUSTRALIA’S FUNNIEST COMEDIENNE”

“AUSTRALIA’S FUNNIEST RISING STAR”

NOW TOO BIG FOR TOWN HALL!

HOLDENSTREETTHEATRES.COM

ONE SHOW ONLY THEBARTON 9 MARCH 7.30PM THEATRE

112 HENLEY BEACH ROAD, TORRENSVILLE

Beats//

Proudly brought to you by

Incoming

XXYYXX Young music prodigy XXYYXX is heading our way for his first ever Aussie tour, bringing with him his now-trademark eclectic and vivid electronica. The 17-year-old Orlando-based star-in-the-making (known to his mum as Marcel Everett) released his debut album last year to rave reviews, his music having been featured in XLR8R, The Needle Drop, Earmilk, Indie Shuffle and BIRP, just to name a few, and has also done remixes for the likes of Tinashe and Usher. Conjuring up a broad range of emotions and visions, Everett’s music has been likened to James Blake and The Weeknd. Supports on the night will include Oliver Tank (Sydney), Oisima and Glamour Lakes.

XXYYXX plays Fourwords at Arcade Lane on Thu Mar 21.

Q+A With sanso-xtro

Yacht Club DJs

Referencing avant jazz, folk, avant rock and experimental electronic works, Melissa Agate has built a strong international reputation as sanso-xtro. A long stay in London included extensive European solo tours, featuring her heartfelt singing, synthesisers, guitars, percussion and custom made electro-acoustic contraptions triggered by her hands, feet, knees and elbows...

After revelling in their largest national tour to date last year, Australia’s favourite mash-up duo, Yacht Club DJs, are back for another nation-wide round of shows. Known for their repertoire of songs from the early ‘60s, blues, current pop numbers and theme songs, their famous mixtapes and dance-floor party starters Kleptomania, Demons Of Gymnastics and They Mostly Come At Night have become hot property, finding their way onto eBay and selling for over $100 a piece. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for the next addition to the Yacht Club DJs’ mixtape this year and be sure to catch this huge party when it lands at Adelaide’s Rocket Bar next month.

Yacht Club DJs play at Rocket Bar on Fri Apr 5.

Diafrix Last year Diafrix returned to the scene with new album Pocket Full Of Dreams which featured special guests like 360, Dwele and Daniel Merriweather, as well as production from ARIA award-winning Styalz Fuego. The album garnered rave reviews and was named iTunes’ Best Australian Hip Hop Release of 2012 thanks to the singles Running It, Easy Come Easy Go and I’m A Dreamer (featuring 360), which also earned Diafrix a support slot on Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ recent sold-out national tour. This April Diafrix are back for their own headlining I’m A Dreamer Tour which will see them performing all across Australia with very special guest and emerging Sydney-based rapper, Miracle.

Diafrix play at Rocket Bar on Sat Apr 20.

CD Reviews

Fabric 67: Zip

PVT

Balance Presents

Fabric

Homosapien

(Balance Records)

(Fabric)

(Create/Control)

I’m going to be honest (that’s what reviewers do, right?), I’d never heard of jozif prior to getting my hands on this disc.

I mean, there’s so fucking much music out there that you would need to live in a basement and be hardwired directly into the electronic vastness of the interweb in order to be up with one-tenth of what’s kicking around. Now, as a reviewer you get to tap into a shit-tonne of goodness, but on the flip to that, you also get exposed to a lot of banal ear-bollocks. This mix from my man jozif falls into the category of ‘Goodshit’. Yep, jozif has done something here which could be termed a deep and emotive house mix that oozes class and something a little special. Out of the 13 tracks in the mix, I can only fault the choice of Charles Wester’s Butterfly, which commences the record. This tune is a strange choice to start the mix with, but I guess some recipes just have some strange shit that goes into creating the greater flavour. At the end of the day, or the start, or the middle, if you like your beats deep, soulful and sparse, check this out. texxxjah

These mixes have become predictable in the best way. In the same way you can predict a baby or that a really drunk mofo will puke on you, or the way you can predict commercial music will serve up a big ol’ dick sandwich to the dick sandwich-lovin’ mainstream to joyously gag on, you can pretty much always predict that another Fabric instalment will own it when it comes to proper tech sounds and cool-as-fuckness. Yep, 67 has it on point with a well thought out blend of trippy shit like Pam Pam by San Proper & Steven De Peven, or the boompty jack of Melchior Productions’ She Like. Maybe Soul Capture’s psychedelic Seekers is more your thing, or if you like things deeper and on a pure house tip, Sasko’s Jazz In The Forest will provide. At the end of the day, what resonates the loudest is that once again Fabric nails it. And if the day ever comes that these dudes release a shit mix album, I’ll be checking to see if my armpits have turned into pussies. texxxjah

Experimental music shouldn’t mean you need to use every piece of technology at your disposal and flirt with every genre you can name. The third album from Australian electric rock trio PVT, Homosapien, finds itself trying to be edgy, but ending up sounding more like what the Bondi Hipsters may create if trying to make an experimental electro rock album. Shiver reverberates as the album’s opening with heavy synth and too-distorted vocals. There’s more than just a nod to ‘80s new wave throughout, although it doesn’t resonate with the same authenticity of a band who have experienced one acid trip too many.

The material seems all too familiar and teeters on the verge of unoriginal, which is worrying for experimental electro rock. Distortion and echoes get old pretty quickly and by the time title track Homosapien comes around you wonder if the CD is actually skipping.

Lachlan Aird

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

Is there anyone you’re looking forward to seeing at WOMAD? A couple of the acts which I’ve highlighted on the program are Goran Bregovic & His Weddings & Funerals Orchestra (I’m obsessed with trumpet), Shunsuke Kimura (I take a lot of inspiration from Japanese traditional instruments), Ayarkhaan (curious) and Jimmy Cliff (no need for explanation!).

You’ve got two albums under your belt so far, tell us about them...

Yep! I have released two sanso-xtro albums so far.

Sentimentalist was my debut in 2005 on UK’s Type Records and in 2011 I released my second album Fountain Fountain Joyous Mountain on USA label Digitalis. Sentimentalist was about missing home and trying to create warm in the cold, I lived in London for seven years. Fountain Fountain Joyous Mountain was recorded out in the countryside, just past the Barossa Valley in an old stone cottage, it’s more organic with dark free jazz drums, eerie synthesisers and I started to sneak in vocals.

jozif

26

What sort of set are we in for?

Everything I do is totally live, part improvised but not so far as to lose connection from the essence of the songs as they are on my albums. I perform with two synthesisers, an acoustic guitar, effects pedals, some custom made electro-acoustic contraptions and my voice. I sit on the floor and use all my limbs... Hands, elbows, knees, feet to make a lot of sound and sing as well. Most of the material I will be performing at WOMADelaide is from my second album Fountain Fountain Joyous Mountain plus quite a few new ones which are to be on my forthcoming third album.

You’re originally from Adelaide, though. What do you think of music coming from Adelaide?

I feel a bit ashamed to admit but I’ve been quite detached from the Adelaide music scene for some time. I live in Melbourne now, but I know for sure there will be some great things I’m missing.

Adelaide has for a long time produced some interesting music and art. Possibly because it’s such a comfortable place to reside as an artist.

Sanso-Xtro plays at Electrolounge (WOMADelaide) on Fri Mar 8.

Calendar/ Sat Mar 9 Eli Verveine (Cuckoo Bar) Sat Mar 9 Generik (Electric Circus) Mon Mar 11 Future Music Festival (Ellis Pk) Sat Mar 16 Oddisee & Olivier Daysoul (Rocket Bar) Sun Mar 31 PVT (Ed Castle) Thu Apr 18 Spit Syndicate (Jive) Mon Mar 16 She Can DJ Tour Feat DJ Femme, Nat Noiz (Electric Circus) Thu Apr 4 Sinden & Brenmar (Electric Circus) Thu Apr 4 Strange Talk (Electric Circus)

with Nina Bertok

A late night chillout lounge featuring Adelaide’s best electronic music artists at

The Triple J favourites evolved out of the Sydney hip hop indie Elefant Traks in the early 2000s. They presented an eponymous album, containing the playful Scallops, “an Aussie backyard anthem”. The socially-conscious troupe went on to memorably cover Redgum’s Vietnam War-referencing I Was Only 19. The Herd’s commercial breakthrough came with their fourth album, 2008’s Summerland, which made the ARIA Top 10. There have been lineup changes (plus soulstress Jane Tyrrell joined later). Yet today The Herd’s members still handle the daily running of Elefant Traks, though not Kennedy, who works with youth. (He is also active as a solo artist and in Astronomy Class.)

Alas, The Herd won’t drop a sixth album in 2013, but they do have plans. “Yeah, look, it’s a busy year for Elefant Traks,” Kennedy starts. “The label’s release schedule is pretty much locked in, so we’re actually working on some stuff probably for next year, but then there’ll definitely be stuff coming out this year because we’ve got the 15th anniversary of the label. We’re planning on doing some sort of exclusive one-offs and collaborations and stuff just to celebrate that – much in the same vein as the Dr Seuss shows late last year.”

Future Shade was an especially adventurous hip hop album, The Herd challenging the confines of traditional Aussie boom-bap

The Herd

by Cyclone

with genre-hopping. Nevertheless, that path can be perilous, as TZU discovered with their slept-on (albeit brilliant) dubstep foray Millions Of Moments. Asked how The Herd strike a balance between advancing the music and placating the hip hop heads and Kennedy laughs.

“I don’t think that’s something The Herd’s ever done very well! I guess we never really approach The Herd as a hip hop project.”

The Herd’s albums have divergent influences partly because they deal with multiple beatmakers. They select the cuts that fit an album, regardless of genre. It could be a waltz, a Brazilian-flavoured track or a record with “a rave vibe”.

“We’ve had a few tracks over the years that have spoken to the heads, but it’s never been something we’ve striven for, to get that acceptance. We have copped a lot of criticism over the years – probably more so in the early

days. But, for the straight-up hip hop stuff, we’ve got other vehicles for that outside of the band – so [we] just kind of let The Herd do what it does.”

The Herd are respected, too, for their sociopolitical platform, tackling racism in Australia on the early 77%, at a time when US hip hop has deviated from inflammatory rap music – despite the country’s economic malaise. Kennedy has his own theories about that.

“Post-9/11, I think the labels’ appetite for anything controversial or political was diminished. It took people years to say anything contradictory about Iraq and Afghanistan and the response to 9/11. It really seriously shifted how people felt they could speak out in public... I think generally we’ve probably become more conservative since then in the Western world – so Australia and the States... The music industry particularly in the States has conglomerated

e Zane Low

by Cyclone

The BBC’s Radio One has introduced us to music’s most influential DJ tastemakers, starting with the late John Peel. Pete Tong furthered dance globally, while Annie Nightingale pushed breaks, Mary Anne Hobbs dubstep and Gilles Peterson nu-jazz.

Now the Kiwi Alexander Zane Reid Lowe is making his mark – and, like Annie Mac, he’s also in demand on the club and festival circuit.

Lowe has a dual identity. On his awardwinning evening program The Zane Lowe Show, he mixes up the latest rock, urban and dance (Lowe reputedly helped to break Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy). But, when playing an event

Interviews

The Herd are the ultimate Australian hip hop supergroup, combining live instrumentation, technology, multicultural music and, of course, beats, rhymes and singing. The eight-piece are aptly regrouping for WOMADelaide, having taken a break following 2011’s opus Future Shade (they did appear at the Peats Ridge fest). And Ozi Batla (AKA Shannon Kennedy), one of The Herd’s two MCs with Tim ‘Urthboy’ Levinson, is “stoked”.

such as Future Music Festival, as he will be for the third time in 2013 (“The Prodigy, man, you just don’t say no to them!”), Lowe keeps it club. The DJ, an ‘anything goes’ specialist like Peel, concedes that summarising what he does is “complicated”.

“When I first started out DJing, there was definitely that sense of, ‘Huh’?”

However, Lowe believes that today’s audiences have ever more diverse tastes.

In Australia, after successive tours, there’s “familiarity”.

“It used to feel a lot more dual – now it feels slightly more schizophrenic in the complimentary way.”

Even on air, Lowe DJs in a quick mix style.

He calls it “rap DJing”. At last year’s FMF he dropped Fatman Scoop’s R&B club staple Be Faithful. In 2013, aside from DJing “heavier” electro and “deeper dubstep”, Lowe is digging

trap, expressing an affinity with DJs Baauer and RL Grimes. More surprisingly, Lowe has found a way to “transition” into deep house, “because that kind of 808 or 909 sound that’s going through the hip hop stuff is far more sparse”. He’s realised that sets don’t have to be wholly frenetic, the DJ pumping up crowds.

“I’ve no problem with everybody sinking down and grooving now, if that’s what they wanna do – and that probably just comes from confidence,” Lowe adds, “reactions come in different ways.”

Lowe began his media career in music TV in Auckland. It was “a hobby”. He also cut records with the hip hop outfit Urban Disturbance and later (the still extant) electronica vehicle Breaks Co-Op. Migrating to England, he’d broadcast on London’s Xfm, switching to Radio One in 2003. Additionally,

a lot and there’s a lot less diversity – a lot of the good record labels from the 2000s and the ‘90s are gone. That materialistic ‘cars and champagne’ rap is easy – and it’s easy to sell to kids. People are less interested in hearing a political message in general – and then the labels and everyone else is a bit more cautious and they don’t really want to offend people. It’s a different era as well. People don’t really wanna be told what to think, in a way.

They wanna believe that they’ve come to it themselves. I think we live in a much less politically engaged time than probably 10 or 15 years ago even, so that just reflects itself in the music.”

WHO: The Herd WHAT: WOMADelaide WHERE: Botanic Pk WHEN: Mon Mar 11

he’s gigged as an MTV Rocks VJ, presenting Gonzo, pre-Alexa Chung. Coming from the progressive yet isolated NZ proved an advantage.

“As much as I’ve lived in London for almost as long as I lived in NZ, I do feel, and will always feel, just 100 percent Kiwi,” the 39-year-old says. “That’s just who I am – that’s just what motivates me.” (Ironically, his kids have English accents.)

Industry pundits are proclaiming that rock is back.

“I know,” Lowe blurts out. “It’s hilarious – like it ever went away! It’s so funny.”

So where does he predict music is going?

“Well, you know, wherever the musicians wanna take it,” Lowe replies with a laugh.

“I think not enough credit is given to the musicians – which sounds funny. [But] people still believe that there’s some kind of focus group of audience members or whatever who decide where things are going. It just doesn’t work that way. Energy is based around the music that’s made and the most exciting records will get people’s attention. Then people go, ‘Okay, I like the sound of that – what else is out there of that nature?’.”

Lowe, who creates his own re-edits for DJing, is easing back into music-making.

“I feel that I need to give some of my life to that again. It’s why I got into music in the first place. I never had dreams of being a radio DJ first and foremost. I always wanted to produce and write music.”

Not that he’ll ditch radio.

“I think I’ll always broadcast in some respect.”

Lowe is producing beats for rappers and attending writing camps in the US. Mysteriously, he’s actually had a session with “one of the UK’s most established and successful pop and country writers.” Lowe is happy. “It’s been one of the best years creatively of my life.”

WHO: Zane Lowe WHAT: Future Music Festival WHERE: Bonython Pk WHEN: Mon Mar 11

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

27

On Tour //

Check out The Guide at ripitup.com.au

Tour Guide/ 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 THEE WYLD OSCARS (Vic) & SYSTEMADDICTS @ Worldsend

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 CARTY (Syd) @ Grace Emily RICK PRICE (Syd) & THE ROB PIPPAN BAND @ Beachhouse Café (Victor Harbor)

MON MAR 25 IGGY & THE STOOGES (US) & THE BEASTS OF BOURBON @ Thebarton Theatre TAJ MAHAL TRIO (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh

TUE MAR 26 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) & CARLA LIPPIS @ Governor Hindmarsh

WED MAR 27 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 ROGER HODGSON BAND (UK) @ Thebarton Theatre THE ROSHAMBOS (Bris) @ Rhino Room KATY STEELE (WA) @ Jive

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

SUN APR 7 EUGENE ‘HIDEAWAY’ BRIDGES (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh

TUE APR 9 PENNYWISE (US), FACE TO FACE & THE MENZINGERS @ HQ

WED APR 10 BIRDY (UK) & LEWIS WATSON (UK) @ Thebarton Theatre BLACK BREATH (US) & I EXIST @ Enigma Bar

FRI APR 12 THE ROSHAMBOS (Bris) @ Cavern Club DZ DEATHRAYS (Bris) @ Rocket

COMING UP SAT APR 13 THE ROSHAMBOS (Bris) @ Cavern Club SUN APR 14 JON ANDERSON (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh RORY ELLIS (Vic) @ Church Of The Trinity LIVINGSTONE DAISIES (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf

by Rob Ly on

We’re well and truly in the midst of Mad March, so with all the goings on right now it would be easy to forget the international musicians playing in town.

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion slip into Adelaide this week to promote their new album Meat And Bone.

The great man himself talks to Rip It Up about the upcoming tour.

“We’ve always have a really good time playing in Australia and our association goes back a long way,” Spencer begins. “I think our first tour in Australia was like in 1994 and the people have always been so nice to the Blues Explosion. We’ve got some nice friends in Sydney and Melbourne and Perth is always really crazy. We haven’t been to Adelaide for a while, so that will be nice!”

Meat And Bone is a cracker - are you happy with how it has been received?

“I think it’s starting to get a really good reception around the world. We’ve received some very nice reviews in the States, Japan and Europe. A lot of people have come up since the release of the record and talked to me about how much they enjoyed the album.”

How do you compare Meat And Bone to the last couple of albums? “Meat And Bone is a straightforward affair and we didn’t have any musical guests, we didn’t invite a special mixer or producer as we did it all ourselves. Certainly, compared to [2004’s] Damage this is a much more straightforward walkabout record. There is a reason for that: because we took a break and we didn’t work for four years, the joy and enthusiasm of doing this record really came through.”

With all that energy, have you thought about the next album and how it may sound?

“No, not at all. We haven’t talked about it

and our plan is to keep playing shows well into the summer.”

How do you keep the Blues Explosion magic fresh every night?

“Every night is a challenge to play the best possible show we can, to do a great job, to get people moving, stomping their feet and clapping their hands. I think that’s the challenge and one thing that helps us keep it fresh is that we don’t have a setlist and never have. We like to keep things a little open and flexible and I’ll just start it and see where it goes or someone yells out for a song. If it works we may repeat it, but we like to keep the door cracked open for some chaos or improvisation.”

WHO: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion WHAT: Meat And Bone (Fuse) WHERE: Fowler’s Live WHEN: Thu Mar 14

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 FRI APR 19 THE DELTA RIGGS (Vic) @ Rocket ALUKA (Vic) @ Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre 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

Jr Dinosaur Telford

by Brendan

WED APR 24 BRYAN ADAMS (Can) & AMY MACDONALD (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre BUZZCOCKS (UK) & MOLTING VULTURES @ Fowler’s Live BRITISH INDIA (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh THU APR 25 THE BLACK SEEDS (NZ) @ Governor Hindmarsh THE MORNINGS (Tas) @ The Cavern FRI APR 26 GUY SEBASTIAN (Syd) @ Thebarton Theatre (sold out) MIDGE URE (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh DIG IT UP!: HOODOO GURUS (Syd), THE FLAMIN’ GROOVIES (US) & PETER CASE (US) @ HQ THE GROWL (WA) @ Rocket SAT APR 27 GUY SEBASTIAN (Syd) @ Thebarton Theatre (sold out) BOB EVANS (WA), TIGERTOWN & DAVEY LANE @ Fowler’s Live THE GRISWOLDS (Syd) @ Ed Castle SUN APR 28 ADRIAN EDMONDSON & THE BAD SHEPHERDS (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh THE MORNINGS (Tas) @ Raglans Backpackers TUE APR 30 TOOL (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

For the complete Tour Guide including dates and venues please check out ripitup.com.au

28

Jo Spence n rB Explosi lues on

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

Dinosaur Jr are relentless, and always have been. From crafting an impossibly loud brand of laconic guitar pop, to finding melody amidst the madness, flirting with commercial success and critical apotheosis, the band have flagrantly thrown convention to the wall.

But just as unyielding as their music was, so were the inner tensions between J Mascis and Lou Barlow. After years apart, Barlow finally rejoined the fold in 2005, with the band (completed by drummer Emmett ‘Murph’ Murphy) since crafting three albums to rival anything that they’ve committed to tape. It might seem like a hokily poetic Hollywood story cliché, if it wasn’t Dinosaur Jr… “None of this seems very likely, does it?”

Barlow laughs. “Ten years ago, I would have said no [to the idea]. Murph is kind of like

the glue that keeps it all together. He’s the guy who talks to both J and I, we are both really close to him in our own way. With J and I, we are in our own little worlds, we’re socially different people, and Murph is the social butterfly, the backbeat of it all.”

While not wiping the slate clean, the reunion allows the band – and Barlow himself – to exorcise some bad blood while expanding on Dinosaur Jr’s musical legacy. Last year saw two of Barlow’s tracks make Dinosaur Jr’s celebrated album I Bet On Sky. The year also marked the emergence of the first new material from his post-Dinosaur Jr project with Jason Loewenstein, Sebadoh, in over a decade, with the promise of an album later this year. To see Barlow finding a happy and productive co-existence with Dinosaur Jr and the band he formed after the bitter split is another unthinkable reality, and bodes well for the foreseeable future.

“For me, playing in those bands is different

sides of the same coin,” Barlow states. “There is a certain confidence that Dinosaur Jr has, because we have such a unique sound, it’s like you are behind an object, and it gives me something that I don’t normally have. When I’m with Sebadoh, the band is so much more affected by the atmosphere, there is so much more communication with the audience, there are more factors involved. Whereas with Dinosaur we just show up, set up the amps and bam! Yet you do one for enough time and you miss the other – the risk from night to night, the communication with my band members, and the lack of confidence, it can be that it’s like I miss that too. I like the confidence; I like being vulnerable – that give and take.”

WHO: Dinosaur Jr WHAT: I Bet On Sky (Liberator) WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Sun Mar 10

The Guide //

Subscrib to the Rip It e flipbook, de Up li weekly to yvered our inbox. ripitup.com.a u

Thursday 7th ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Bill Parton Trio (8.30pm) 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: Ricochet Pete. Front Bar: DJ Anthony DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Trivia Night (7.30pm) DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) DUKE OF YORK – Beer Garden: DJ Mitchy Burnz. Front Room: Speakerboxx and DJ Skinny B ED CASTLE – Band Room: live bands (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm) EMU HOTEL – Karaoke Party (9pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – The Hello Morning

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – STRENGTH OF A BEAR, UNKNOWN REMORSE, HOLLOW EYES AND WE ATE THE SEARCH PARTY GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Bulmers Best Of The Edinburgh Fest (7.45pm) Front Bar: Gumbo Room Blues Jam

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Tom West GRAND BAR – OMG MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) NORWOOD HOTEL – Open Mic Night PJ O’BRIENS – DJ G-Rillz PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango 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 SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Joe Man Murphy (6.30pm) THE ASTOR – After Dark Auditions THE LION HOTEL – Clearway TONSLEY HOTEL – Jake Daulby (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Under Milkwood (8pm)

WHITMORE HOTEL – RAINBOW JAM SESSIONS (7.30PM) WORLDSEND HOTEL – Worldsend Music Program featuring Til the Break and Escapism

Friday 8th ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs ARCADE LANE – Surviving Sharks, Echo & The Empress and Angels Of Gung-Ho ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: Jaki J (10pm)

ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Franky F (6pm) Titters: Fringe Comedy with host Sheridan Stewart (7pm)) Jo Avati: The Good, The Bad & The Ethnic (9.30pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BARTLEY TAVERN – Voodoo Slang (8pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Dawn Raider (8pm) BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Rin & The Reckless and Ride Into The Sun DJs DOCKSIDE TAVERN – ‘Bout Time (7pm) DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs Derek Lang, Eric Falcon and Lukky K ED CASTLE – Full Tilt live bands and party DJs ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs EMPIRE POOL LOUNGE – DJ (8pm) EMU HOTEL – 3 Hump Camel (8pm) ENSALADA THE UNION: RYMILL PARK – Magie Noir: A Voodoo Tale (10.30pm)

ESPLANADE HOTEL – Michael Venner Duo EXETER HOTEL – The Scribes EXETER ON RUNDLE – City Riots Night 1 FINDON HOTEL – karaoke FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – Swapsides Duo (7pm)

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – SLICK ARNOLD, DIRTY BOULEVARD AND DEADBEAT BLUES FOWLER’S LIVE – MxPx GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Bulmers Best Of The Edinburgh Fest (7.45pm) Best Of The Fest – Late Show (10.30pm) Front Bar: Trent Worley Solo GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The Dunes with Alpha Beta Fox GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Horizon (6pm) HALFWAY HOTEL – Dino Jag Duo (7.30pm) HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – Big Cheese (7pm)

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

29

The Guide // HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Paul Stubbings (5pm) Fever (9.30pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOLDEN STREET THEATRES – Limited Edition (6pm) HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Dimitra (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs HQ – The Mark Of Cain IRISH CLUB – Shamrocks & Shenanigans (7pm) LADY DALY HOTEL – Brompton Blues Band (9pm) LIMBO – DJs LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee MARBLE BAR – Uni Night with DJs MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION CULTURAL CENTRE – Mingle (5pm) MARION HOTEL – Gary Isaacs (6.30pm) MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – Mojo Trio OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Light It Up OFFICE ON PIRIE – DJ Jess (4.30pm) ORIENTAL – 2 Up Duo PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Troy Harrison PJ O’BRIENS – Alian 8 RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ Snake & DJ Rupheo (9pm) RED SQUARE – DJs REGENCY TAVERN – Three Star General (8pm) REX HOTEL – karaoke and Tom J Williams ROB ROY HOTEL – Hayride (8pm) ROCKET BAR – Abracadabra featuring resident DJs The Shiny Brights DJs

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8PM) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Muddy Road SETTLERS TAVERN – Super Heroes (8pm) SHOTZ BAR – Raven Black Night with Hidden Intent, Zero Hour and guests SOUTH ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – Heath Solo STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance. Downstairs: DJs play retro

30

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

STAMFORD PLAZA: CASCADES – Jacqui Lim (5pm) SUGAR – TGI Funky with Ben Alibi and HMC SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Monsieur Swing (7.30pm) SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJs TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio Flamenco (7.30pm)

FIND YOUR FACE ONLINE. TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – DJ Wolfman (9pm) THE ASTOR – London Calling THE ELEPHANT – Animal House and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY – Ch@t Room THE HIGHWAY – Kustom Kulture featuring The Baskervilles, Jesse Deane Freeman & The Rhythm Aces, The Torinos, Lolly Dolly Burlesque and CC Jerome & The Jetsetters THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: John McKay (4.45pm) Flaming Sambucas (9pm) Chrysler Bar: Blake Saban 3 (9.30pm)

TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Acoustic Blonde (7.30pm) VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Furball Express (8.30pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – The Crew (8.30pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – Worldsend Music Program featuring Laced In Lust,

BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – karaoke with Gemma BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Eleven (8pm) BRIGHTON BAR – Pure Blondie BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Dirty Harry CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: The Stock Exchange and 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 EMU HOTEL – DJ ENSALADA THE UNION: RYMILL PARK – Magie Noir: A Voodoo Tale (9.30pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Tom J Williams EXETER ON RUNDLE – City Riots Night 2 FINDON HOTEL – Harvest

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – STRAWBERRY FISTCAKE, MURDERBALLS, ADMIRAL ACKBAR’S DISHONOURABLE DISCHARGE, EXPLODING CACTUS, THE SCABS AND KAMIKAZE

RIPITUP.COM.AU FACEBOOK.COM/RIPITUPMAG

Kill Shot, Generation Swine, Trash City and Escapism ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs

Saturday 9th ALMA TAVERN – MetroRetro ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J. Upstairs: Bongo Madness with DJs Ed Law and Scotty (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Heidy De Ruyter (6pm) Joe Avati: The Good, The Bad & The Ethnic (9.30pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Triplescore (9pm) BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson

FOWLER’S LIVE – Full Tote Odds GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm)

GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ MARKY POLO (8PM) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Ping Pong Madness (1pm) Bulmers Best Of The Edinburgh Fest (7.45pm) Best Of The Fest – Late Show (10.30pm) Front Bar: William Street Strikers GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The Bastard Sons Of Ruination and Cave Man Disco GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays with DJs and MCs GRENFELL 110 – Weekly Summer Sessions featuring DJs Ragz, Jesse Proverbs and John Spencer and Daly (10pm)

The Guide // HACKNEY HOTEL – DJ HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Ex Men HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm) HOLDEN STREET THEATRES – Limited Edition (2pm) HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Acoustic Reign (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips, Tinker and Bangwel (8pm) HQ – Peking Duk KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Troy Harrison 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) Two Hard Basket (8.30pm) MARS BAR – VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – Flaming Sambucas OLD SPOT HOTEL – Wildcard (9pm) ORIENTAL – Sam Clemente PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Harry & The Hitmen PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Big Fish

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 REGATTAS BISTRO – The Blue Note Club featuring Bill Parton Trio (5pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Hayride (8pm) SANDBAR – requests with DJs

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SESSIONS SEBEL PLAYFORD – Black Caviar SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – Clearway SUGAR – Prince Aaronak, Driller, Derek Lang plus a host of international guests SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Nikko & Snooks (7pm) SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE ELEPHANT – Unknown To Man and DJ G-Rillz THE HIGHWAY – Kustom Kulture featuring Slingshot Dragster, The Villenettes, The Satellites and Los Strait Jackets plus tiki carving workshop with Marcus Thorn

THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment nt TONSLEY HOTEL – One Planet (9pm) m) VALLEY INN – karaoke VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – Rumours WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Furball Express (8.30pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – Wild Ones WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – Worldsend Music Program featuring Skeleton Club, Dead Joe, Fire For A Dry Mouth, h, Cassie O’Grady and Will Kinn ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs

Sunday 10th ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School ANGUS PLAINS WINERY – Linda McCarthy (12pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Joe Avati: The Good, The Bad & The Ethnic nic (7pm) Top Room: Ark Goes Greek (9.30pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt unt BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – The Bluff ff (4pm) Van Demons Band (7pm) BRIGHTON BAR – Tomorrow Rising, Stone Fox and Monday Comebacks (6pm) m)

Follow us on Instagram. @ripitupmag

Rip It Up endeavours to provide an accurate guide, however, takes no responsibility for out-of-date listings. Gig Guide submissions and any changes can be sent to Kate Mickan katemickan@ripitup.com.au, faxed on 08 7129 1058 or care of the RIU address, Gig Guide deadline is Thursdays at 5pm. Please contact venues for any further information regarding the booked acts.

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

31

The Guide // CAOS CAFÃ&#x2030; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Freak Central featuring Fluï¬&#x20AC;y: A Rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Roll Soap Opera (2pm) CROWN & ANCHOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Band Room: Fringe shows DOG & DUCK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris ED CASTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) EMU HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; East: the Cold Chisel tribute show (7pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Unknown To Man Duo EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Magnetic Garden FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Roll Radio Hits (3pm)

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; BLAKE SABAN 3 GLENELG SURF CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; La Mar Sundays GOVERNOR HINDMARSH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Main Room: Dinosaur Jr. Front Bar: Vaudeville Vibes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dr Sketchyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Delightfully Unearthly Sketch Fest GRACE EMILY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; All Star Shit Disco GRAND BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; bands, DJs and MCs HIGHBURY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wire & Wood HOLDEN STREET THEATRES â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Limited Edition (2pm) HOPE INN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Crew (8pm)

# $GHODLGH )ULQJH ² PRUH VKRZV DGGHG After selling out their Adelaide Fringe season, 3 have added a bunch of extra shows!

This will be your last chance to catch WKUHH RI $XVWUDOLD·V EHVW PDJLFLDQV LQ WKLV XQLTXH EOHQG RI FORVH XS PDJLF PHQWDOLVP DQG SV\FKRORJLFDO SUHVWLJH

HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rampage (8.30pm) LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Three Star General (2pm) MARINA SUNSET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday Sessions Comedy hosted by Lindsay Webb (4pm) MARS BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; VJK classic video hits MICK Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SHEAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tongue & Groove

Fri Mar 8 Paradiso Spiegeltent Dune

MOSELEY SQUARE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; SUMMER SUNDAYS AT THE BAY FEATURING FRANK & THE BEANZ (1PM) OAKS PLAZA PIER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pier One Bar: Dino Jag Duo (7.30pm) ORIENTAL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Redline PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Two Hard Basket PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; One Planet RAMSGATE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; acoustic session (4pm) Tom Kurzel & Ed Trainor fortnightly rotation (7.30pm) ROB ROY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Johnny Cash Tribute Show (3pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Heath Solo

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ACOUSTIC SOLOISTS

+HDG WR IULQJHEHQHÃ&#x20AC;WV FRP DX IRU cheap tickets!

1RW D )ULQJH %HQHÃ&#x20AC;WV PHPEHU" ,I \RX·UH DJHG ² YLVLW IULQJHEHQHÃ&#x20AC;WV FRP DX WR MRLQ ,W·V IUHH

SEMAPHORE PALAIS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Incredibles SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Red Hot Blues Band SUGAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans

TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acoustic Sessions THE HIGHWAY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kustom Kulture featuring The Jam Jets and Billy Bobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s BBQ Boys THE LION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) DJ Junior (5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm) WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm) WEST THEBBY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke with Margi & Shaggy (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Thom Lion (5pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Worldsend Music Program featuring The Rowdy Neighbours, Stout Defence, Slap Granny, Cortisol and The Lizards ZHIVAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Black Cherry DJs

Monday 11th BULL & BEAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Musoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jam (8pm) CROWN & ANCHOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Band Room: Fringe shows EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dan V GOVERNOR HINDMARSH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Main Room: Bulmers Best Of The Edinburgh Fest â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tight Arse. Balcony Bar: Lord Stompyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tin Sandwich

4 MAY

ABSOLUTELY 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

THIS MONTH AT THE WHITMORE HOTEL

TICKETS FOR EACH SHOW UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE â&#x20AC;¢ Pre Sale â&#x20AC;¢ show only $30 +bf - dinner/show $65 +bf P: 8431 1822 www.thenorwood.com.au

32

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

18 25 MAY

SUNNY COWGIRLS

B A REAL LPUFOOD, A E WITH R INE LIST A GREATSWOF LIVE & LOT MENT ENTERTAIN

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 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

MARCH

317 MORPHETT ST CBD | 8231 5533 | WHITMOREHOTEL.COM Weekend shows 8:30pm start | Sunday shows 4:30pm start

The Guide // GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ultimate Quiz with Graham Lawrence (7pm) HQ – Future Music After Party 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 – Five Rivers Medicine Show (5pm)

Tuesday 12th ADELAIDE TOWN HALL – Musica Viva featuring Karin Schaupp and Pavel Steidl (7.30pm) ANCHORAGE RESTAURANT – Lily & The Drum (7pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: DJs Stevie & Duncan. Band Room: Cranker Comedy DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm)

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Bitches Of Zeus FOWLER’S LIVE – Bob Mould GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Bulmers Best Of The Edinburgh Fest – Tight Arse. Front Bar: Ukulele Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Pub Art presents Cats Of WW2 HILTON HOTEL – KG’s Complete Trivia HQ – Opeth MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (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 – Chaplin – No Longer Silent (8pm)

WHITMORE HOTEL – ACOUSTIC RAW JAM WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia

Wednesday 13th ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar + Arena: free beginners Salsa class (8pm) Salsa after party (9pm) Lounge Bar: Joe Avati: The Good, The Bad & The Ethnic (8pm) BAROSSA WEINTEL HOTEL – Sam Kekovich Sportsman’s Night (7pm) 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 – DYNAMITE WITH DJ DYNAMITE

GLENELG FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Ruthie Foster supported by Jordie Lane GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Michaela Burger with Kelly Breuer HIGHWAY – The Combi Room HQ – Flashdance KENSINGTON HOTEL – Uke Beaut: beginners to advanced ukulele (7pm) 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 – Kat Wallace (6.30pm) THE ASTOR – Trivia Night THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill TONSLEY HOTEL – Quiz Night (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Wednesdays (7pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Chaplin – No Longer Silent (8pm)

Rip It Up endeavours to provide an accurate guide, however, takes no responsibility for out-of-date listings. Gig Guide submissions and any changes can be sent to Kate Mickan katemickan@ripitup.com.au, faxed on 08 7129 1058 or care of the RIU address, Gig Guide deadline is Thursdays at 5pm. Please contact venues for any further information regarding the booked acts.

GIG GUIDE

THURSDAY MARCH 7

BULMERS BEST OF THE EDINBURGH FEST FRONT BAR:

GUMBO ROOM BLUES JAM

FRIDAY MARCH 8

EVERY NIGHT EXC. SUN + WED OF THE ADELAIDE FRINGE

BULMERS BEST OF THE ED FEST

BULMERS BEST OF THE EDINBURGH FEST

BEST OF THE FEST – LATE SHOW FRONT BAR: ROYAL GALA SATURDAY MARCH 9

PING PONG MADNESS

BULMERS BEST OF THE EDINBURGH FEST

BEST OF THE FEST – LATE SHOW FRONT BAR:

JUNGLE CITY + SHIP WRECKED + CAUSING HAMMOCK

SUNDAY MARCH 10

DINOSAUR JR

15 FEB 16 mar

BEST OF THE LATE SHOW

FRONT BAR:

VAUDEVILLE VIBES AT THE GOV: VAUDEVILLE VIXENS FASHIONISTAS

MONDAY MARCH 11

BULMERS BEST OF THE EDINBURGH FEST – TIGHT ARSE

BALCONY BAR: LORD STOMPY’S TIN SANDWICH – ADVANCED CLASS

TUESDAY MARCH 12

BULMERS BEST OF THE EDINBURGH FEST – TIGHT ARSE Ping Pong Madness

SAT MAR 9

FRONT BAR:

UKULELE APPRECIATION SOCIETY

WEDNESDAY MARCH 13

RUTHIE FOSTER + JORDIE LANE

FRONT BAR: OPEN MIC NIGHT

THURS MARCH 14 • BULMERS BEST OF THE EDINBURGH FEST FRI MARCH 15 • BULMERS BEST OF THE EDINBURGH FEST • BEST OF THE FEST – LATE SHOW SAT MARCH 16 • BULMERS BEST OF THE EDINBURGH FEST • BEST OF THE FEST – LATE SHOW FRONT BAR: PUB SCRABBLE SUN MARCH 17 • BULMERS BEST OF THE EDINBURGH FEST • STEPHEN K. AMOS IS THE SPOKESMAN THURS MARCH 21 • GRINSPOON SAT MARCH 23 • IMOGEN BRAVE + PALEFACE + JUNGLE CITY SUN MARCH 24 • RODRIGUEZ SOLD OUT MON MARCH 25 • TAJ MAHAL TUES MARCH 26 • KITTY, DAISY AND LEWIS THURS MARCH 28 • THE SWAMP FOX TONY JOE WHITE SAT MARCH 30 • LATINO ALL STARS CARNIVAL THURS APRIL 4 • FINBAR FUREY SAT APRIL 6 • JAKE SHIMABUKURO SAT APRIL 7 • EUGENE ‘HIDEAWAY’ BRIDGES SUN APRIL 14 • JON ANDERSON – SOLO TUES APRIL 16 • TEEN RUSH: FEATURING AT SUNSET, W.A.T + KRISTINA

Ruthie Foster + Jordie Lane

WED MAR 13

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH HOTEL 59 PORT ROAD HINDMARSH T 8340 0744 www.thegov.com.au RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

33

Snapped //

Find more social pics online at ripitup.com.au

r at Her Cat Powe heatre T Majestyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s photos by r Andreas Heue

of the Opening estival F Adelaide er Pk at Eld photos by Sia Duff

34

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

Snapped //

ve Soundwa Park on at Bonyth photos by e Kristy DeLain Heuer & Andreas

TURN T 15 FO O PAGE R OU R SO

UND WAV E

REV BAN IEW & D SH OTS.

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

35

Culture //

Films / Food / Fashion / Art / Reviews

John Jarrat t

by MDB

Wolf Creek 2 John Jarratt is in town in between night shoots on the oh-so-hushhush production of Wolf Creek 2 when he sits down for this interview, and it looked like he needed a rest as he admitted to being pretty tired and “not as young as I used to be”.

And while we’re ostensibly meant to be discussing the sequel to this hugely popular, near-cultural-event Aussie horror movie, our chat actually encompasses a range of his films, old, new and just-about-unknown. irst up, Jarratt mentions a straightto-DVD film he wants to promote - writer/director/executive producer Joseph Sims’ Bad Behaviour - in which he plays a policeman “stuck in this terrible thing that happens, but I can’t talk about it too much as it’ll give the film away.

I play the hero, a dad, and it’s about what a dad would do if he just happened to be a copper… I thought it was a very good script, considering that it was written by a 20-yearold guy who’d never made a movie before...

And then I met him and I thought that he was very bright, very switched-on and ‘of

F 36

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

the future’. And what he turned out on a budget that would probably have paid for Mel Gibson’s lunch was extraordinary.”

In the still-at-cinemas Django Unchained, Jarratt appears in a controversially comic sequence also featuring ‘grindhouse’ fave Michael Parks and writer/director Quentin Tarantino himself. Did QT become a fan of your work due to Wolf Creek?

“I think that he got off the plane in 2003, before Wolf Creek, and said [adopts amusing American accent], ‘I wanna meet John Jarratt!

He’s my favourite Australian actor!’ He was a fan of my previous work, and then Wolf Creek came out a year or so after that and he loved it too.”

Some journalists have been very unkind about the sequence in which John, Quentin and Michael appear in Django, criticising its ‘indulgent’ aspect and Tarantino’s Australian accent.

“The first thing he says did sound a bit South African, but the rest of his dialogue is fine… And Jamie Foxx was great, a really centred actor, and Quentin’s a wonderful guy too, and it was really just a terrific movie to be a part of.”

There’s at least one more pic that John did in America: a scary one called Shiver.

“I was in that in Portland, Oregon. I play a sort of middle-American nerd, a creepy serial killer who’s quite verbose. And I’m bucktoothed and I talk like this [adopts almost Jerry-

Lewis-like voice], ‘Hello, how are you?’… It was interesting to play him, but Mick [from Wolf Creek] would have eaten him for breakfast.”

Which brings us to the movie we’re actually supposed to be discussing: Wolf Creek 2 - and yet we can’t, as A) it’s not finished and B) so much of it is secret, and being hidden from journalists.

“Well,” John says, “you ask me anything you want and I’ll give you the right answer.”

Okay: do you kill lots of people in this one?

“Maybe.”

Can you perhaps give us a synopsis of the plot?

“No, but I can tell you that it’s going to be different, and more like a ‘road movie’, and there are things towards the end that you’re never going to expect - but I’m not going to tell you about them either!... But, hang on, I’m giving it all away, and I don’t want to give it away! I want the audience to go see it and enjoy it.”

Greg McLean’s directing again, of course?

“There’s no film without Greg.”

And does anyone from the first film turn up in jokey cameos or flashbacks?

“As zombies? No.” Come on John! Is there anything about the film that you can tell us?

“Yes! It’s going to be better than the first one, and it’s going to scare the shit out of you!”

Before He Was Mick There was a time not that long ago when John Jarratt wasn’t typecast as an Aussie heavy/baddie/loony, and was even quite the heart-throb in Antipodean dramas, comedies and true-blue epics, including: Picnic At Hanging Rock; Summer City; The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith; The Odd Angry Shot; We Of The Never Never; the fine, forgotten ghost story Next Of Kin; the fine, forgotten Ocker satire Australian Dream; one of two giant-croc pics, Dark Age, in 1988 (“Me with my shirt off again!” he groaned when he saw the DVD cover of this long-unseen Monster Movie during our interview); Dead Heart; All Men Are Liars; and lots of TV, like Water Rats, McLeod’s Daughters and A Country Practice, in which he might have learned to properly channel the bloodthirsty rage that he later brought to the Wolf Creek films.

WHAT, WHERE & WHEN: Bad Behaviour is out now on Monster Pictures DVD, Django Unchained is still playing at selected cinemas and Wolf Creek 2 will be in cinemas in late 2013

Short Film Competition

THE SATURDAY GARDEN& SESSIONS SUNDAY 2-4PM Â&#x2019; FREE

entry form

Go to .au ncpic.org d an a lo n w to do entry form

closing date

All entries mu be received bst 18 October 20 y accompanied 13 b an entry form y

The National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre (NCPIC) Short Film Competition gives young people between the ages of 15 and 25 years the opportunity to showcase their creative talent and express their thoughts and ideas around cannabis issues.

Brief The film can be in any style or genre (i.e. drama, comedy,

documentary, science-fiction, etc) but must be a 30Â second TVC (i.e. in the style of a TV commercial) and creatively explore the issues and risks surrounding cannabis and driving.

Prize Money There will be one national

winner selected, with prize money offered of $5,000 for the producer of the winning entry. There will be two runner-up prizes of $2,000Â each.

GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY DELIGHTS LIMBO Â&#x2019; CIRCOLOMBIA (COLUMBIA) THE CANDY BUTCHERS THE MAGNETS (UK) Â&#x2019; PONYDANCE (IRELAND) HEATH FRANKLINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CHOPPER WIL ANDERSON Â&#x2019; LEO (GERMANY) FRANK WOODLEY & SIMON YATES â&#x20AC;&#x201C; INSIDE LA SOIRÃ&#x2030;E Â&#x2019; PANTS DOWN CIRCUS CHRIS TAYLOR (THE CHASER) Â&#x2019; KATIE NOONAN GEORGIA GERMEIN Â&#x2019; TOM GLEESON Â&#x2019; SHARON NEEDLES HAYDEN CALNIN Â&#x2019; DUNE Â&#x2019; UNDERGROUND LOVERS TRANSATLANTICS Â&#x2019; DARK HORSES feat TEX PERKINS MARCEL LUCONTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CABARET FANTASTIQUE FRISKY & MANNISH (UK) Â&#x2019; ABANDOMAN (UK) Â&#x2019; SAM SIMMONS CLAIRE HOOPER Â&#x2019; MORGAN & WEST (UK) BARRY MORGAN Â&#x2019; TOM GLEESON Â&#x2019; CRAIG HILL (UK) 1 MAN DEBATE WITH SIMON TAYLOR Â&#x2019; DAVE THORNTON TIM FITZHIGHAM (UK) Â&#x2019; PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON TOMMY LITTLE Â&#x2019; EAST END CABARET (UK) Â&#x2019; MICKEY D NN (U (UK) (UK U ) TOMMY BRADSON Â&#x2019; FLANDERS AND SWANN

TIX ON SALE NOW GARDENOFUNEARTHLYDELIGHTS.COM.AU GHTS.COM.AU ADELAIDEFRINGE.COM.AU R U N D L E

P A R K

-

E A S T

T E R R A C E

-

A D E L A I D E

Film //

Find more film reviews online at ripitup.com.au

Quick Flicks

Adelaide Cinémathèque 2013 Mercury Cinema

2013’s Adelaide Cinémathèque season kicks off at the Mercury Cinema on Thu Mar 14 with a season of films by writer/director/star/et cetera Cory McAbee, including his newie, Crazy And Thief, as well as The American Astronaut and Stingray Sam, and with the man himself there in person to perform with his band, for Q&As and more still.

And keep an eye out for the new full Cinémathèque calendar, complete with threads concentrating upon Roman Polanski, Michelangelo Antonioni, John Ford, Charlotte Rampling, preTwilight vampires and more. Check mercurycinema.org.au for all details.

Side Effects (MA) Wildly workaholic director/pseudonymouseditor-and-cinematographer Steven Soderbergh’s latest (here a mere six months after his male-stripper drama Magic Mike last year) is a tough one to talk about, with a genuinely surprising script by Scott Z Burns (who also penned Soderbergh’s Contagion and The Informant!) that shouldn’t be discussed in too much detail - but is, and often, by punters and critics who don’t understand the word ‘spoiler’. Emily Taylor (Rooney Mara) is introduced visiting her husband Martin

(Channing Tatum AKA Magic Mike himself, and Soderbergh’s current muse) in prison, and when he’s released the plot seems to be heading towards a study of his return to ‘insider trading’ ways. However, we instead take a turn, as Emily is revealed as seriously depressed and, after episodes of dangerous behavior, referred to Dr Jonathan Banks ( Jude Law), who prescribes ‘Ablixa’ and makes contact with Emily’s previous doctor (Catherine Zeta-Jones as Victoria Siebert), as Burns’ screenplay takes yet another dark alternate route and our heavily-medicated contemporary society is fearlessly placed under the microscope.

And while there’s plenty here that can’t be discussed, let’s concentrate upon the elements that actually can, including Law, who’s never been better (and always excels when he’s allowed a little humour and the chance to use his real accent), and Mara (AKA the American Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), whose strange, quiet performance is truly something to behold. Note too, that some sources claim that this is to be the 49-year-old Soderbergh’s final film as director, but surely that can’t be right because, given the preposterously prolific way that he works, he’s still got at least 298 good movies left in him.

Mad Dog Bradley

Great Expectations (M)

Blinder (M)

Cloud Atlas (MA)

Director/executive producer Mike Newell (who nowadays prefers blockbusters like Harry Potter entries and the ghastly Prince Of Persia to period sagas) handles this, the latest in the endless filmings of Charles Dickens’ 1861 novel, with appropriate sincerity, although you have to wonder why it keeps on being turned out in one form or another (could it be because it’s out of copyright and therefore no rights have to be purchased at great expense?). A poor orphan named Pip (Toby Irvine as a kid and his brother Jeremy as a 20something) is cared for by characters including Joe Gargery (Jason Flemyng), and after a run-in with fugitive convict Magwitch (slobbering Ralph Fiennes) and times spent with loopy Miss Havisham (Helena Bonham Carter, another Harry Potter refugee), he’s approached years later by Mr Jaggers (Robbie Coltrane, a third HP stalwart!), who reports that he’s now a gentleman due to an unknown benefactor. Pip then journeys to London, and it’s here that Dickens’ story shows its political colours, especially as our slightly dopey hero is poisoned by his experiences of being rich and finds this a problem when he realises that he loves Miss Havisham’s charge Estella (Holliday Grainger, although it could have been the more intriguing Rooney Mara).

Suitably grimy (if not as filthy as last year’s Wuthering Heights), this is notable for its performances: Jeremy Irvine, who fights to make Pip more than some mere drip; Fiennes, who plays the ham-friendly Magwitch for authentic muddy sympathy; and Carter, whose portrayal of the Gothic-horror-ish Havisham, another favourite of over-actors, is somewhere between man-hater, basket case and Black Adder.

Mad Dog Bradley

Co-writer/director Richard Gray’s overlong, ploddingly glum drama is ostensibly about Aussie Rules footy but, in actual fact, it proves to be a humourless study of forgiveness, redemption and so forth, with plenty of agonising along the way. We open in the middle of a big, boozy party back in 2003 after a Torquay Tigers victory but then, after a resultant scandal rocks the town, we pick up with former golden boy Tommy Dunn (Oliver Ackland) living in exile in Boston and tempted back home for the funeral of Coach Chang ( Jack Thompson, a little more subtle than expected). Timeframes then clash awkwardly as we flash back and forth 10 years, as Tommy seeks to make peace with his mum (Zoe Carides) and former mates (notably Angus Sampson as Franky), and we learn more about that night way back in the mists of time, how it destroyed Tommy’s relationship with Rosie (Anna Hutchison) and what went on with her 15-year-old ‘water girl’ sister Sammy (Rose McIver in probably the best performance here - and obviously not 15 as well).

While last week’s similarly Aussie and equally dreary cricket-drama Save Your Legs! had some jokes (sort of ) in between all the dull themes about growing up, responsibility and the like, this supposedly sporty epic is crippled by its overly serious tone, so that by the time we finally get to the climactic, youknow-it’s-coming game most punters will be itching to hit the showers.

Mad Dog Bradley

Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent and many more play multiple characters across multiple timelines, sometimes intersecting, sometimes just influencing, leaving a trail of cause and effect across the past, present and future.

Beginning (loosely speaking) in 1849, we meet a man travelling the Pacific with his doctor, whose story is read by a composer in 1936, whose lover blows the whistle on a nuclear cover-up to a reporter in 1973, whose manuscript is read by a literary agent in 2012, whose forced committal to a retirement home and subsequent liberation mirrors the plight of a food server fighting for her people in 2144, who becomes a god-like figure for a troubled community in 2321.

With a budget over US$100 million, this collaborative effort between Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski siblings is one of the most expensive independent films ever made and it shows, with elaborately detailed sets, costumes, make-up and special effects across the diverse eras, showing great accuracy for the times we know, and great imagination for the times we don’t.

While each story is told in order, a little more focus than usual is needed to keep up with the constant jumping between each one, and to spot the links that tie each story together. It’s an intellectual drama as much as it is a philosophical one, more about the narrative as a whole than the individual plots.

It’s a great comeback for the Wachowskis, and well worth a look.

Kat McCarthy

38

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

Opening But Unrated Barbara (M), co-writer/director Christian Petzold’s 1980s-set, Germanlanguage drama stars Nina Hoss and has been compared to The Lives Of Others due to a lack of anything else suitable.

Broken City (MA), from director Allen Hughes (formerly one of the co-directing ‘The Hughes Brothers’), is a cop/corruption drama toplining Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jeffrey Wright, Barry Pepper, Kyle Chandler and Griffin Dunne.

And Oz The Great And Powerful (PG), an FX-heavy prequel to The Wizard Of Oz from director Sam Raimi (an awfully long way from the original Evil Dead films), offers James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams and Zach Braff (remember him?).

Road Movie Mobile Cinema Various Locations

Check out all RMMC happenings on their Facebook page.

The Room Wraps Up Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas

There’s still one Fringe-friendly session left of Tommy Wiseau’s ‘Citizen Kane Of Bad Movies’ - Sat Mar 9 at 9.30pm - at the Palace Nova, so check out palacecinemas.com.au for details.

Food //

with Miranda Freeman

Email miranda@ripitup.com.au

Tea or coffee?

As a working writer, you learn specific skills. They include writing leads, sourcing stories and becoming an unparalleled Olympic athlete when it comes to caffeine consumption. Which is why we’re always excited to hear about new coffee bars, local roasters and tea salons opening up around the place for us to feed our weary faces with freshly-brewed pick-me-ups. Here are two new places that ought to satisfy both your coffee and tea cravings.

Just Brewed Sometimes, even the baristas at Bar 9 want just a nice cup of tea, which is why they’ve recently opened a tearoom next door called Just Brewed. And hey, with its super slick and clean décor, even us caffeine aficionados writing these pages are willing to pry ourselves away from our jumbo triple-shot lattes to check this place out. Partnering up with renowned tea trader Canton Tea Co, who are based in Bristol, Just Brewed features a variety of artisan loose-leaf tea blends from all around the world as well as an in-house coffee roaster and a selection of manual brewing devices. When it comes to tea the

Please Say Please This week caffeine aficionados will soon have a new hub to squander their funds following the opening of a brand new speciality coffee bar on Grenfell St, Please Say Please. Helmed by award-winning barista Daniel Freer, who used to work at Bar 9, the itsy bitsy shop front will be serving breakfast, lunch and espresso and filter coffee, brewed from beans sourced from Melbourne roasters Proud Mary.

Their food menu will be officially underway from Mon Mar 11 and will include dishes like toasted Turkish bread, Bircher muesli, six-hour cooked goat with feta panini or chicken and chips with bacon marmalade and pea puree. A delicious meat transmogrified into a breakfast spread? This I’ve got to try. Alongside the coffee and eats, the gents are also in the process of working on a handpicked tea menu in collaboration with Storm In A Teacup, which will be included on the menu soon. In celebration of their opening, until Sat Mar 8 they’ll be selling coffee for just $1 a pop. Remember to say please.

WHAT: Please Say Please WHERE: Shop 2, 50 Grenfell St, Adelaide WHEN: Mon – Fri from 7am – 3pm INFO: pleasesayplease.com.au

most important component really is the water, so there’s a handful of water filters available for sale in case you’re really serious about brewing green tea without the bitterness. From smokey lapsang souchongs to a fresh Taiwanese alishan high mountain leaves, poke your head in and try a cup from their exotic range.

WHAT: Just Brewed WHERE: 96 Glen Osmond Rd, WHEN: Mon – Fri 7.30 – 4pm and Sat – Sun 8.30am – 2pm INFO: justbrewed.com.au

Local Libations

By Shane A Ettridge.

Proudly available at The Kings.

Balnaves 2011 Coonawarra Chardonnay Ah chardonnay, you are the ‘blanc de blancs’. For a long time South Australia has seen overworked, overpriced, oaked-out and ego-driven bombs which, although pleasing the hypedup Crows supporters in the mid-’90s, just no longer cut the mustard with today’s boozehound. We want the natural character of the grape to shine and Balnaves has shown great confidence in their fruit and done just that with their Coonawara chardonnay. Shortbread and floral aromas get the ball rolling. A front palate of melon with a hint of green apple is well-backed but not dominated by new and one-year-old French oak. The length is impressive. Brioche, cream and with great balance and acidity, this Burgundian style plonk is just class.

A plate of truffled mushroom gnocchi with the first lady of song Ella Fitzgerald and you’re happy from Cheek To Cheek.

Cheers.

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

39

Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04 After some swimming around in circles, it seems you have found magnetic north. Though you are in unfamiliar waters, at least your sense of direction is back. Fortunately you are flexible and resilient, which has you in good stead. Life has moved you closer to reality.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 Lay low and you’ll keep your target in sight. If you make the mistake of doing battle with all and sundry, you’ll come out very confused and soaking wet.

There are now seven planets in water signs. This is tough for fire signs. Retreat is okay. One can’t fight a king tide.

Capricorn 22.12/19.01 Life is very much on your side.

Though you are renowned as a builder and a chronic achiever, there is a feminine side to goat-lore that is very wise to the benefits of relaxing, trusting and receiving. Ride the currents and life will offer a cornucopia of myriad blessings.

40

Not so long ago all the action was in Aquarius. Now it’s in Pisces. Though you are out of the limelight, the limelight has all sorts of intrusive drawbacks.

Anonymity brings with it the blessings of peace and quiet.

Park your heart in a pleasant place and rejuvenate.

As far as a life in pop culture goes, multimedia artist Laurie Anderson has one of the most diverse and interesting ones. A world-renowned luminary in experimental art, a one-time UK chart topper with her single O Superman and the wife of Lou Reed are just some of the things on this 65-yearold’s resume, her latest achievement being her first ever Australian solo exhibition this month at the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum Of Art. Presenting an extraordinary collection of new and old works from 1971 to the current day, The Language Of The Future will feature an eclectic mix of Anderson’s work in video, sculpture, sound, paper, writing and live performance, including infamous artworks like The Swimmer – a sixchannel, dreamlike video and sculptural installation based on Anderson’s memory of a summer spent in hospital at the age of 12 – and Electric Chair, a kinetic artwork encapsulating the warehouse party generation. Newer works in the showcase include Lolabelle In The Bardo, a series of paintings remade into a new site-specific installation for Samstag inspired by the Tibetan Book Of The Dead and a former pet terrier. The exhibition will run until Fri Apr 19 and entry is free.

WHO: Laurie Anderson in The Language Of The Future WHERE: Samstag Museum Of Art, 55 North Tce, Adelaide WHEN: Daily 10am – 5pm until Fri Mar 19 INFO: unisa.edu.au/samstag

Pisces 19.02/20.03 There are seven planets in your midst – and most of the rest are in water signs as well. This is a lot like a planetary king tide.

The whole ocean is coming your way. If you are prepared for it, this could open up your vision and show you how to get there. If not, it’ll overwhelm.

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

The Swimmer by Laurie Anderson

Mercury, along with just about every other planet, is in Pisces.

Pisces is the sign of poetry and longing. It’s certainly not the sign of straight lines and logic. There is a poet inside us all, just waiting to see the world through the eyes of beauty. Scrap practical matters momentarily.

Aquarius 20.01/18.02

Laurie Anderson

Michelle Nikou

Virgo 23.08/22.09

Electric Chair by Laurie Anderson

The moon begins her week in Scorpio. She pulls all that is real inside to the surface.

She doesn’t let you get away with hiding what you feel from yourself or anybody else.

She invites you to find that courageous part within that can fly through challenges and come out golden.

Leo 23.7 /22.8 There is so much water around at the moment, it would be easy to let your fire fizzle.

Don’t! Adjust yourself to the circumstances. Water means flow. Water means feeling.

Water means that we have to learn to trust and float rather than fight. Attune yourself to the current.

with Miranda Freeman

Scorpio 24.10/21.11

Cancer 22.06/22.07 Seven planets are in water signs. This delivers you a golden opportunity to be yourself. You are comfortable with feeling – though you hide it – but others aren’t always as comfortable. Discomfort is shown by confusion and emotionality. Relax your defences and flow.

Email miranda@ripitup.com.au

Venus has now slipped into Pisces. With Pisces comes a keen awareness of separation, alienation and lonesomeness.

This can turn into a dirge, or a deep spiritual longing that can turn our lives the right way up.

Seek the all-consuming bliss that satisfies. Hunger for truth.

Gemini 21.05/21.06 The one thing you can rely on is change. This is important right now, because cosmically you are under a lot of pressure.

With so many planets in watery Pisces, encouraging depth, emotion, longing and dreaming, there’s little room for much else. Change is going to come.

Art //

Libra 23.09/23.10

Taurus 21.04/20.05 This is definitely a feeling time, not a thinking time. If you are daunted by feelings, then you might be a little vulnerable. If not, you will be only too happy to drop down from your head to your heart. Venus is now in Pisces, pulling you towards your deeper longings.

with Sudhir

Haselton, Nikou & Siebert Greenaway Art Gallery 39 Rundle St, Kent Town Until Sun Mar 24

Linked by their common usage of the odd found material issues new values, three SA artists - sculpturists Louise Haselton and Michelle Nikou and collage artist Mark Siebert – have joined forces to exhibit alongside each other for the first time at Greenaway Art Gallery in celebration of the Greenaway 2013 calendar launch.

Using materials such as cement, florist foam, wood, neon, lead, discarded lotto tickets, old stones and other ‘found’ objects, Haselton, Nikou and Siebert have taken borrowed, old objects and reinvigorated them as contemporary three-dimensional works.

Fashion //

Email lachlanaird@ripitup.com.au

with Lachlan Aird

Men’s / Ksubi - The Good Vs God Tee & Vanishing Elephant Wentworth Leopard Print Shorts

Rock & Royal Pop-Up Store

Say It With Words At Future Music!

Rock & Royal is one of the latest highend local online stores that has been snaring some pretty impressive labels to add to its repertoire. This includes boasting rights as Charlie May’s only Australian stockists as well as hosting new season Sara Phillips, Kahlo and White Suede. For the duration of March much of Rock & Royal’s stock will also be available in their new pop-up store in Rundle Mall. This will give you a chance to experience highly celebrated international, national and local brands in person, and take home your purchase then and there to fulfil your instant gratification thirst.

Women’s / American Apparel Let’s Have Some Carbs Tee & Cheap Ch Monday Tight Denim Shorts

Want to grab the attention from the bands on stage at Future Music? Want Psy to take off his sunnies in stunned silence, Kele from Bloc Party to give you a high-five and Azealia Banks to flip her weave at your mad ‘tude? Try a cheeky slogan on your shirt and give it a go. At least this way it may stay on for the whole day!

O

ET

.AU RIP

STYL

M

E

R

T U P. C IPI

Street Style With Jake Boylon

IT

UP STR

E

Name: Kieran Laing Location: Glenelg Favourite item: Citizen watch Favourite brand: Ovadia & Sons Fav place to eat in Adelaide: Vego & Love’n It

Rock & Royal Pop-Up Store is located at 1 Charles St Plaza. rockandroyal.com.au

Rock & Royal Launch Party To celebrate Rock & Royal’s first pop-up store, there will be an in-store party held on Fri Mar 8 from 5pm-7pm. If a party isn’t incentive enough, there will be 10 percent off storewide on all full-priced items.

A Sure Bet If you’re under the wrong impression about Adelaide Cup tickets after we printed genuine 1975 prices in last week’s Fashion, general admission tickets are actually $25 per person.

Head down to Morphettville this Mon Mar 11 to catch the action.

p Workerss behhio p– nd Worksho

ed design was one The talent space that sign studio laide – de n de io A sh a fa enew eir ojects for R pr t lo pi om e pr ote th of th ion show to sh fa ed a at ld br le recently he ing just ce ctions. Hav designers latest colle the space, in ar ye Angela their second uise Penn, Rachel Lo , rade to ng pa La a y held Lach Thomson a m signs m de E n d io Carrig an e latest fash some of th e on the ad m l al e showcase er ories that w ble for and access d are availa the team an by is p es ho is ks prem store. Wor purchase in and open Hindley St 1 15 at d s. locate ay kd ee w 10am-6pm

Workshop Catwalk Show, Wed Feb 27 at Workshop, 151 Hindley St / Photos by Ella Gamlen

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

41

Reviews //

Find more reviews online at ripitup.com.au

Culture

DVD Reviews

Bully

The Intouchables

Kathmandu Lullaby Misfits: Series Four

Reel DVD / M / 94 Mins

Roadshow / M / 108/112 Mins

Entertainment / M / 103 Mins

Roadshow / MA / 429 Mins

Co-writer/co-producer/cinematographer/ director Lee Hirsch and co-writer/coproducer Cynthia Lowen had trouble with this study of bullying in American schools, with the US R rating (our MA) imposed and therefore making it inaccessible to its target audience. But surely the censors were simply shaken by what’s a confronting experience, as we’re introduced to kids, teachers and parents in Mississippi, Oklahoma and Georgia: there’s 12-year-old Alex, happy at home, weeping as he returns to school after holidays, and bullied on the bus; Ja’Maya, in detention for using a gun to scare her attackers; Kelby, who came out in her teens and was victimised; and two boys we only see in photographs and home movies as they committed suicide rather than face their aggressors (and note that the sequences involving the grieving parents of 11-yearold Kirk Smalley are almost too much to bear). Although it doesn’t manage to get to the heart of why bullying happens, Hirsch’s film is nevertheless impressive, if tough to sit through - especially if you’ve ever been too fat, too thin, too short, too tall, too dumb, too smart, too weird, too gay, worn glasses, had other disabilities, had trouble making friends or just been too damn different.

MDB

A huge hit in Europe and one of the most successful non-English movies ever released here, co-writers/co-directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano’s wonderfully unsentimental, based-on-fact drama is built around two quite brilliant central performances. Philippe (François Cluzet), a moneyed Parisian quadriplegic, conducts interviews for a new carer and meets the near-homeless and totally unqualified African migrant Driss (Omar Sy), who’s only there for a signature for his welfare cheque. However, Philippe hires the irrepressible young man after deciding that he’s the only candidate with any actual life experience, and the pair, of course, become fast friends, without any hand-wringing or soul-baring, and with much rude laughter (Sy, in particular, has one of the most infectious giggles in the whole history of the movies). Making tough points about the plight of immigrants and the disabled in modern France without ever speaking down or lecturing to the viewer, this is one of last year’s very best films, with Cluzet totally convincing and very affecting and Sy hugely likeable as he sings along to Earth, Wind & Fire’s hoary old disco classic September.

This disc also features some deleted scenes as extras.

MDB

Director Icíar Bollaín helped to adapt this Spanish production (in Spanish, English and Nepali) from Victòria Subirana’s book, itself drawn from fact, and the result’s a sometimes uneasily clichéd piece aided greatly by a beautiful performance by near-unknown Verónica Echegui. Her Catalan teacher moves to Kathmandu in the early ‘90s with dreams of bringing education to isolated areas, and after initial scenes establish that her charges adore her no matter how badly her work’s compromised by a patriarchal and traditionalist system, we move into wellworn territory when she’s threatened with deportation due to visa problems, and taking the advice of friend and interpreter Sharmila (Saumyata Bhattarai), agrees to marry Tsering (Norbu Tsering Gurung), a man she doesn’t know, but who (rather conveniently) has unusually progressive views. Naturally, of course, she and Tsering bond as they journey further into the mountains and into forbidden places, when one of her students is sold into prostitution, but their resulting love is threatened when she later hits upon the notion that the only way to combat corrupt government and harsh cultural rules is to set up her own school, a decision that leads to scenes that stray even further into predictability - and even mawkishness.

MDB

Creator Howard Overman’s culty UK TV series hasn’t quite lost its edge, but, unfortunately, its original cast are almost completely gone here, and while their stand-ins are quite amiable, it’s not really the same (and it also goes without saying that there are spoilers galore to follow if you haven’t seen the first three seasons - so get watching!). Those grungy ‘superheroes’ on probation are back, sort of, but as Nathan left long ago, Alisha and Simon are off doing some time-travelling-prophecy stuff and Kelly is defusing mines somewhere, only Curtis (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) remains (and even his ‘power’, from that stillunexplained ‘storm’, keeps changing), and he’s joined by randy Series Three inductee Rudy ( Joseph Gilgun) and his occasional twin (ditto), wimpy telekinetic Finn (Nathan McMullen) and tough ‘seer’ Jess (Karla Crome), and Abbey (Natasha O’Keeffe), an amnesiac who follows the group around after an encounter with an evil, golf-clubwielding bunny-man. And the storylines are as wild as they can be at this point, with the threat of more zombies, a dangerously magical briefcase, more power-swapping and a cameo by The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse. This release features a behindthe-scenes piece and weird animation quickies collectively titled Misfits Strung Out. MDB

Nick Groff And Jeff Belanger / Allen & Unwin / 257pp / $24.99

Groff (assisted by his researcher Belanger) here recounts his life and times, and how he became one of the creators of TV’s (supposedly) hugely popular paranormal investigation show Ghost Adventures, although even his staunchest fans will have trouble with his extremely poor prose, awkward expression and lame insight. Recounting an energetic childhood that led to two brushes with death and, therefore, an interest in the supernatural, that along with a passion for filmmaking, resulted in the creation of the series (a sort of cheap US version of Most Haunted produced by goofballs who insult the spooks and endlessly call each other ‘bro’ and ‘dude’), Groff eventually recounts his most memorable all-nighters at haunted locations, and finally says that his life was changed forever when he saw a ‘full manifestation’ for two seconds. And no, like, he wasn’t, you know, dreaming or nothing, dude!

MDB

42

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

France’s Compagnie Luc Amoros are coming to WOMADelaide with their Blank Page production during which six visual artists climb aboard a 10-metre scaffold of clear perspex panels and create wild messages accompanied by a live soundtrack.

It’s a work that has been successfully performed around the world and the company, led by artistic director Luc Amoros, is now looking forward to presenting it in Australia.

“WOMADelaide’s Ian Scobie had seen us doing a different performance about 10 years ago,” Amoros says over the telephone via an interpreter. “But Blank Page has been going for two years now and the timing meant that we could now come to WOMADelaide.”

What are some of the practical challenges of presenting Blank Page?

“It’s actually a very structured and centred work so it does not present too many challenges,” Amoros says. “And the production of Blank Page that is coming to Adelaide is a street theatre production.

We also do work in theatres but at a street theatre setting we can meet and interact with the people.

“And the work is largely focused on the image and based very heavily on painting. So it’s very visual and very direct and presented to the audience in that way. Nothing is pre-prepared so it’s all happening there and then in a very direct way and the mood and feel changes with each audience.”

How does Compagnie Luc Amoros’ work

Stage ros

Luc Amo

nstan

by Robert Du

come about?

“Before I engage any of the artists I come up with a small series of images I think would be appropriate,” Amoros says. “They then work at bringing those images to life on the big screen. So there is a lot of improvisation going on with that to see what works and what doesn’t. It’s all about working closely with the artists once I have come up with some ideas.”

The company is influenced by Indonesian shadow theatre as well as Australia’s Dreamtime paintings.

“It’s what you might call primitive art but what interests me is that it’s becoming more and more important in the art world,” Amoros says. “So shadow theatre from South East Asia has been a big influence because it wasn’t considered to be art until recently. But Blank Page also contains popular culture art such as graffiti as well as art from Brazil.

Photo by Chloe Laetitia Thomas

Bookshelf Chasing Spirits: Behind The Scenes With TV’s Hit Ghost Adventures Crew

Blank Page

“And I would certainly like to check out some Dreamtime paintings while in Australia,” he adds. “We hope that in the very short time we are in Australia we get time to do that.”

The company, whose next work will focus on the art of Native Americans, often put on special performances for young people.

“It’s our second speciality although our normal work also appeals to young people,” he says. “But I feel it’s very important to target young adolescents so that when they grow into young adults they have some understanding of the arts.”

WHO: Compagnie Luc Amoros’ Blank Page WHAT: WOMADelaide (Botanic Pk) WHEN: Sat Mar 9 (Stage 3 at 9pm) and Mon Mar 11 (Stage 3 at 8.15pm)

Your guide to the student experience.

Fast Times this week is somewhat sadly more reminiscent of a picture book than its usual resemblance to a highly sophisticated and polished academic piece of writing *cough*.

Last week uni officially kicked off with the three major unis holding their O’Week celebrations, attended not only by students, but also the likes of Arj Barker and Ball Park Music. Sadly for many, O’Week has passed, and while the hangovers from Skullduggery for many haven’t, it’s time to get stuck into some actual learning. Many of you will suddenly realise much of the next year (and years to come) will be spent reading, and in the non-reading moments you will be stressed about all the reading you aren’t doing. This picture-heavy edition of Fast Times is my gift to those people. You’re welcome.

And remember, if you have any student news, info, events or deals I should know about email lachlanaird@ripitup.com.au, Poke facebook.com/ripitupmag or Tweet @ FastTimesRIU and I’ll do the rest.

Peace, Lachie

O’Week Adelaide had a circus, Flinders had a re-animated statue of Captain Matthew Flinders and UniSA had a music festival, so wherever you’ve enrolled you can safely say you got something out of your O’Week experience… And I’m pretty sure that every academic institution had some sort of pie eating/dairy drinking competition. Ah, tertiary studies….

On Dit Launch Last week I was fortunate enough to be invited along to the launch of a new year for On Dit, the student magazine for The University Of Adelaide. On Dit has been an institution of the university for over 80 years, allowing students to share with the university community at large their opinions through writing, artwork and illustration. The first issue for 2013 shows the co-editors Casey,

Stella and Holly’s determination to carry through maintaining the high standards of the fortnightly publication, which, for full time students, is no mean feat. If you’re a student of Adelaide Uni with a bee in your bonnet or a thought you want to express, contacting ondit@adelaide.edu.au is your first port of call… Unless it’s to whinge about Fast Times. Don’t do that. Please.

I’ve sold m bring Fas y soul to social m t Times o edia to n Faceboo k and Tw line. Add me to itte info as it happens r to get all the . Or just my colle adm cti baby slo on of YouTube cli ire ths. Or b ps of oth.

@FastT imesRIU faceboo k fasttime .com/ sripitup mag

with Lachlan Aird

ION T A N I AST PROCR TIP Procrastination is one skill at uni that will stay with you for life no matter what industry you pursue.

Consider this a ‘Break In Case Of Emergency’ glass case if you ever find yourself lost without a cause for distraction.

Go On Big Brother There’s no better excuse to not do your weekly readings or hand in an assignment on time or study for an exam than being locked in a house full of weirdos. Big Brother is yet again looking for people to wilfully enter a house of strangers and be watched, judged and studied by the rest of Australia. However, for a career in radio or the media it may be a much quicker and more effective method than slugging away in front of the books. Auditions can this year be fast-tracked through a video diary entry, but for those unsuccessful you’ll have to line-up with the rest at the faceto-face auditions on Thu Apr 11. Big Brother is watching (I may not be).

Big Brother auditions will be held on Thu Apr 11 at the Ridley Centre – Adelaide Showground 11am-7pm.

Visit bigbrother.com.au to register and for more info on the audition process.

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

43

Reviews //

Find more reviews online at ripitup.com.au

Culture

CD Reviews

CD Of The Week

Scottie’s Singles

Listen Now:

Kutcha Edwards

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Blak And Blu (Independent)

Sacrilege (UMA)

If It’s Blitz’s Heads Will Roll didn’t make you dance ‘til you were dead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ 2013 comeback single Sacrilege is sure to leave you soaked in sweat and glitter. Despite the New York threesome not including a bassist in their ranks, the disco groove of Sacrilege runs deliciously close to slipping into Patrick Hernandez’s 1979 hit Born To Be Alive. Given Sacrilege’s exuberant choral outro resembles the final euphoric scene from Madonna’s Like A Prayer video, music nerds (or maybe it’s just me?) will also lap up the serendipity in Madonna’s first overseas trip being as a Patrick Hernandez dancer. With Karen O taking a less screamy, more Screamadelica route on Sacrilege, this taste of Mosquito is a total blood buzz. Mmmm…

Sacrilicious.

Listen Later:

British India Summer Forgive Me (Liberation)

Various Artists Sound City – Real To Reel

Pulsing with frustration and regret, there’s a fantastic, sinister edge to Declan Melia’s urgent attempts to win back a lover on British India’s unrelenting Summer Forgive Me. While the guitars could have come straight from a mid-‘90s You Am I track, the frontman’s lyrical desperation is closer to the lethal thrust of Every Breath You Take. Lines like ‘I refuse to become just a memory’ and ‘I love you way too much to just give up like that’ suggest this cracked protagonist owns worn out copies of Fatal Attraction and Taxi Driver in his DVD rack. Turn it up loud enough and the restraining order practically writes itself.

(Sony)

Vanity projects aren’t supposed to crackle with this much unique energy.

Like a screen grab of the posters filling Dave Grohl’s bedroom walls circa 1982, the soundtrack accompanying the Foo Fighters frontman’s documentary features old idols including Paul

McCartney and members of Cheap Trick and Fleetwood Mac effectively simulating their golden era on freshly minted tracks.

The fact these tunes were composed to celebrate the sublimely grimy LA studio Sound City is merely of passing interest here – it’s the Sgt Pepper’s assemblage of music royalty that makes Real To Reel so absorbing.

The mouth-frothing realisation of a Dave Grohl, Joshua Homme and Trent Reznor studio session is perhaps the most comely of the 11 songs presented.

The trio have each worked together before (on projects including Nine Inch Nails’ With Teeth, Queens Of The Stone Age’s Era Vulgaris and Them Crooked Vultures), just not at the same time.

Closer Mantra is everything you’d hope from this holy trinity, with memorable counter melodies and a tense build marking it as Reznor’s most engaging output since Year Zero.

From the Queens Of The Folk Age feel of Centipede through to Stevie Nicks’ witchy croak on You Can’t Fix This, this is a project filled with genuine spark and talent stacked to the rafters.

Scott McLennan

Having already proved himself to be an impressive singer songwriter on his first two solo albums, indigenous bluesman Kutcha Edwards returns to the fray with his third long player Blak And Blu, and it’s a damn fine release.

After his first couple of solo records, Kutcha became a member of The Black Arm band (a massive conglomerate of some of the best indigenous artists in this country) and had been spending much of his energy on the project. However, with Blak And Blu, he returns as a solo artist, and accompanied by Jeff Lang, has produced a brilliant collection of blues tunes that would comfortably do battle with anything from the US deep south. Kutcha’s distinctive vocal rings true throughout, and always has something to say. When accompanied by Jeff Lang’s roaring guitars, you can’t help but like this one! Kutcha’s also got a bunch of friends together to play with him on this one, including guest appearances from Dan Sultan, Chris Wilson, Rebecca Barnard, and more.

With Blak And Blu, Kutcha is back again in his own right!

Luke Balzan

Standish/Carlyon Nono/Yoyo

Cat Power

(Chapter Music)

Nono/Yoyo’s accompanying promo photograph of Melbourne’s Tom Carlyon and Conrad Standish looks like a taboo pic of Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Paul Rutherford furtively bumming Todd Rundgren. Fittingly, the musical spunk of the track showcases a DNA mix of wistful ‘70s rock and downbeat ‘80s electro.

Hurrah for truth in advertising.

Bec & Ben This Is Why I Love You (Footstomp)

Sydney whippersnappers Bec & Ben sound like Chrissy Amphlett and Dave Faulkner going to a costume party dressed as The White Stripes and subsequently bashing out a two-piece version of Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain. With a dusty Tarantino road trip bite to the lyrics, chances are there will be blood.

Dido No Freedom (Sony)

Considering she was 2001’s answer to Adele, it’s ironic that Dido can’t get arrested these days her latest anaemic plod is bloody criminal.

44

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

Live Review

Her Majesty’s Theatre, Sun Feb 25 Review by Scott McLennan Pics by Andreas Heuer

Why do cigarette packet warnings have to always be such a downer? Among the Smoking Causes Blindness and Smoking Causes Mouth And Throat Cancer cautions there should be at least one single silver lining message: Smoking Causes Awesome Weathered Vocals Like Cat Power’s.

The 41-year-old singer born Charlyn Marshall does a good deal of coughing off-mic and has something of an asthmatic wheeze to her interactions, but, in the moments she truly nails it, sickness can’t diminish her sumptuous vocals.

Heavily constructed around her startling 2012 release Sun, Marshall’s sound is as rich and smoky as burnt sandalwood.

For a minute, the audience wonders if we’ll actually get to hear Cat Power at all. Intro music is abruptly cut short after David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’, the lights go down, the crowd applauds and… nothing.

There’s an awkward confusion, exacerbated by a strong awareness of Marshall’s erratic gig history.

The lights go back up, Bob Dylan’s appropriately comforting Shelter From The Storm plays over the speakers and suddenly she arrives: Cat Power has made it to our little bitty island in the middle of the Pacific for her first Australian show in three years.

With a husky “Hello Adelaide”, Marshall kicks off The Greatest, but seems both distracted and a little wonky as she swaggers about the stage. Dressed in a

Reviews // Quick Ones

Benny Walker Sinners and Saints (Independent)

Sinner or Saint? I’ll let you decide what to make of Benny Walker, but with his brooding brow and cheeky feathery hat, I’d say he was a bit of both. Much to my surprise, Mr Walker is not the halfback from the National Rugby League but actually a smooth musical dude. Sinners And Saints throws around some tunes that just roll off the record with ease, but with no real notable peaks and troughs, the record lacks a bit of a journey. Walker is more about going for familiar sound than exploring too much diversity.

Following his 2010 EP Summer Sun, Benny walked through an extended Australian tour to some locations off the beaten track, spreading his coastal chills far and wide. It turns out that Mister Benny Walker is a bit of a cultural cat, dabbling in a few support slots with Archie Roach and working the country festival circuit, including some appearances at Woodford Folk Festival.

This regional Victorian, with his ohso-smooth sound, draws influence from a certain Donavon Frankenreiter character, with a familiarity lurking beneath Benny’s raspy vocals and tender picked melodies.

Drift further into his summer blend of blues and surf roots to feel instantly at one with lazy balmy afternoons.

Sharni Honor

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

How To Destroy Angels

II

Welcome Oblivion

(Inertia)

(Sony)

This second album from the psychedelic pop peddlers is very much cut from the same cloth as its predecessor, however this time around there are some epic boobies on the cover instead of some weird Croatian monument.

Those wondering if a bigger production budget would compromise the Unknown Mortal Orchestra sound, rest assured, they haven’t sold out. In fact, the band’s infatuation with lo-fi tape hiss is on full display. While this made their first album endearing, this time around it is those creative aesthetics that take prominence over quality songwriting.

Whereas UMO’s first record was a fun throwback to the psychedelic bands of the ‘60s, II sounds like the band was half asleep while recording it. It is frustrating, because there are moments on II that are brilliant, however sporadic. Between these little flourishes of promise, there is nothing but dull guitar noodling and barely audible mumbles.

II is a perfect title for this album, as it is a fairly tepid sequel to a breakthrough first installment. UMO take no risks with this record, instead opting to release what (mostly) sounds like an album full of B-sides and throwaway tracks. But hey, boobies.

Ryan Lynch

denim shirt embossed with the Sun rune, she spends the song intently rummaging through her breast pocket and flicking the offending detritus towards her keyboardist, somewhat oblivious to stage obligations.

With two percussionists and Marshall wielding two mics for vocal reinforcement, Cherokee lifts the show to a more extraordinary level. That eagle whistling halfway through the tune may well be simply signalling his head-shaking awe of the marvellous Marshall.

Unfortunately, Manhattan unravels in a less enticing manner. The New York singer appears to be unsuccessfully fumbling for a different melody before admitting defeat and settling for howling like a coyote instead. The Jamaican rhythms and red stage glow of King Rides By and the celestial swell of Sun thankfully readjust the SS Chan’s course, with Marshall’s powerful backlit performance of Angelitos Negros resembling a Bonnie Tyler music video.

Sticking closely to Sun’s tracklisting, the funky 3, 6, 9 builds like a wild party (albeit a party where you have to hook up a doctor’s appointment the next morning to deal with the repercussions) and You’ve Got Nothing But Time is reduced to a fourminute edit of the 11-minute studio version.

Bathed in golden lights, Ruin finalises the show as an affectionate Marshall hands out flowers to her audience, gives a salute and leaves the stage.

Afterwards there’s some bitchin’ and complainin’ about her performance, but given Marshall’s track record this is a great gig in spite of its askew moments. Gifted with a voice as dry and smoky as a barn fire, this is raw Power.

For those who thought the self-loathing of Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral captured Trent Reznor in his most dramatic role, his surreal resurrection as a domesticated father of two may well prove even more surprising. Married to his How To Destroy Angels co-vocalist Mariqueen Maandig, hardcore fans have expressed fear that the fevered venom and bile of NIN classics such as Mr Self Destruct and Wish have been alchemised into Napisan and Morning Fresh.

Spending the last few years accumulating soundtrack awards like they’re junk mail, How To Destroy Angels expands on the geographical terrain of The Social Network and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, yet Reznor appears to take an Eno-esque delight in this project’s constraints. With Maandig delivering lush lead on tracks such as Wake-Up, Reznor is reduced to offering tiny backing vocal pleas like Tinkerbell trapped inside Captain Hook’s lantern. Too Late, All Gone’s duet between industrial music’s Romeo and Juliet is far more enticing, but the familiar production clanks and lyrical bent (it’s ironically close to Every Day Is Exactly The Same) can’t help but summon thoughts of past NIN glories that dug even deeper.

Before anyone has the chance to call Tin Machine on this likeable, if limited, project, Mr Reznor has now announced Nine Inch Nails’ welcome 2013 reboot.

Halo to the chief.

Scott McLennan

Stillwater Giants Fly Under The Radar EP (Independent)

The very twee sounds of WA’s Stillwater Giants will be familiar to many, given the amount of over-achieving, guitar-pop bands currently finding their way through the cracks in this country. But Fly Under The Radar is an EP that definitely looks deeper within the genre to explore elements of surf rock (More Ways Than One), along with more dance-infused beats (Broken Soul).

With the assistance of Perth super-producer Dave Parkin, Stillwater Giants find comfort in repeating the musings of their contemporaries. Though despite the success of the EP’s stand-out title track, following the more surfinfluenced sounds may be the only way this four-piece can differentiate themselves from the rest. At the moment, the irony of EP track Not Like The Others is far too great.

Sam Reynolds

Petra Haden Petra Goes To The Movies (Anti-)

Haden, whose a cappella redo of almost the entirety of The Who Sell Out is also worth tracking down, here offers 18 not-quite-completely-noninstrumental and non-lyrical versions of themes from her favourite movies, including: bona fide classics (such as surprisingly effective and rather witty takes on Bernard Herrmann’s God’s Lonely Man, AKA the main theme from Taxi Driver, and his stringsfrenzy opening piece from Psycho, as well as the main title from Goldfinger and the beloved 1978 Superman theme); cool reworkings of key scores from Rebel Without A Cause, Cool Hand Luke, Tootsie, Big Night, Bagdad Café and The Social Network; and, finally, in what might be a sneaky shot at political commentary, a quietly haunting and actually sung interpretation of David Bowie and Pat Metheny’s This Is Not America (from The Falcon And The Snowman way back in 1985 and pretty much forgotten - until now).

MDB RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

45

Local //

with Lachlan Aird

Email miranda@ripitup.com.au

Local News

Systemaddicts EP Launch

Red Leather R iot

by Lachlan A ird

Red Leather Riot may be relatively new kids to the punk music scene, but they are already making a red hot go at getting recognised, playing three shows locally in the coming weeks. So, what’s their secret?

“Being fronted by a chick helps us to book gigs,” vocalist Nicki Gartlan suggests. Fair enough then.

Gartlan cites The Kills and The Dead Weather frontlady, Alison Mosshart, as her main inspiration.

“She’s absolutely my idol,” Gartlan gushes.

“I think everything she’s done, even when she was 16 in a punk band Discount, is amazing. I even wrote a song for her.”

For those of you who have experienced Mosshart onstage, Gartlan’s onstage presence isn’t entirely in sync with her idol’s smoky and untouchable persona. “Our stage performances are very energetic and engaging,”

Gartlan says. “A lot of people comment on how much stage presence we have. We’re also a bit cheeky on stage and have lots of fun.”

Gartlan is the lonely girl of Red Leather Riot, sharing the stage with Tom Snow on guitar, Nick Richter on drums and Phil Gartlan on bass. To make it even more overtly clear, when the band were handing each other nicknames, Gartlan scored Token Female alongside the other band members’ Assassin, Encino Man and Hulk.

This feeling of being in a boy’s club doesn’t faze Gartlan at all.

“My sense of humour is very much boys’ style anyway,” she laughs. “I really enjoy the male energy that’s around me. We can just muck around and have lots of fun – and be a bit feral sometimes.”

Considering the band has only been together for just over a year, working together is something that is still an adjustment for everyone. However, they seem to have found a system that works for them.

“I come up with the lyrics, which I sing and hum a melody to the other guys who

come up with the music. I try and give them as much of an idea of what’s in my head. I’m not from a music background and haven’t been in a band before so I’m not sure if that’s how other bands do it, but it works for us.”

The results have booked the band three upcoming gigs at Enigma Bar, the Gov and Scorcherfest, which will reveal new material from the band. There have also been expressions of interest from some Victorian bands to go and support them in Melbourne, although exciting things for 2013 don’t end there.

“We’re also going to do some recording in a few weeks,” Gartlan divulges. “We’re either leaning towards an EP or full-length album. We want to get something out there that we haven’t done ourselves through a home recording. I guess we’ll see how that works out!”

WHO: Red Leather Riot WHERE & WHEN: Enigma Bar on Sun Mar 10, the Governor Hindmarsh on Sat Mar 30 and Scorcherfest at Light Hotel on Sat Apr 6

He Frahnather Moon & The light T ide

by Robe rt Duns tan

Local singer songwriter Heather Frahn performed at WOMADelaide back in the ‘90s with her trio so is now looking forward to returning to the festival with her new band, The Moonlight Tide. They will also be armed with Frahn’s new album, Be The Change.

“When I played WOMADelaide all those years ago as a young tacker, I didn’t really understand what it was,” Frahn says.

“And I also think that the way I’ve evolved with my music really fits into the style WOMADelaide programs.

“And it’s the kind of gig that artists work so hard for. So when I walk out on stage I am going to stop and take note and take it all in because it will go so quickly.”

Heather’s band comprises of drummer Daniel Seymour, bass player Dylan Ferguson, keyboard player Neil Underwood, fiddle player Kat Stevens and vocalists Michelle Byrne and Michaela Burger.

46

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

“Back in 2010 I knew that I wanted to do another album with a full band sound,” Frahn says. “So I started to hand-pick some musicians I knew and liked and worked towards a new album.”

Frahn first began doing gigs as a young teenager in the ‘90s.

“So it’s been quite a journey and I still enjoy being creative,” she says. “And I’m really enjoying working with The Moonlight Tide at the moment because they are all so generous and so giving. And it’s a good mix of people because we all get on so well.

Frahn mostly recorded Be The Change at home.

“I’m really proud of it,” she says. “Over the years I’ve been working a lot in theatre so I have really built up my sound recording skills. We did, however, record the rhythm section at Kim Webster’s Cheese Factory and then I took those files back to my studio where we added the rest of the music.”

Copies of the album will be on sale at the festival.

“I’m only printing up a run at a time as I

need them,” she says of the CD for which she did all the artwork. “So we spent the other day putting another batch together.

They are all hand-crafted so everyone who buys one knows they have been put together by hand rather than mass produced.”

Frahn will also be hosting a workshop at WOMADelaide on Monday afternoon at 3pm at the Speakers Corner stage.

“Over the last few years I have been working at Flinders Medical Centre doing sound for relaxation using harmonic instruments such as Tibetan bowls and harmonic singing to help patients with their healing and recovery,” Frahn says.

“I’ve been doing that with Stuart Rose who plays flute and didgeridoo. Stuart has a background in Zen Buddhism, so the workshop will be focusing on all that as well as all the vocal harmonics.”

WHO: Heather Frahn & The Moonlight Tide WHERE: WOMADelaide (Botanic Pk) WHEN: Sat Mar 9, Moreton Bay Stage at 1pm

In conjunction with their support of Melbourne’s jangly, ‘60s garage homage, Three Wylde Oscars, local outfit The Systemaddicts will be launching their new album, Do You Really Want My Love?. This is the second full-length album from the garage punk band with the launch being a part of the Worldsend Music Festival.

There’ll be drink specials and support from St Morris Sinners. Doors from 8.30pm, tickets $10.

Louise Adams & Tom Collins Louise Adams from Louise & The Tornados has teamed up with Tom Collins for a unique, stripped back and raw Fringe show. Being held for one night only at new Fringe venue Howl The Moon on Fri Mar 8, both established artists will be performing together live and promise an infusion of blues, garage rock, bluegrass, rockabilly and soul. Performance from 8pm with tickets from $13 from Fringetix.

Fleurieu Folk Festival Applications Open The Fleurieu Folk Festival are after the top folk artists we have to offer. The festival encourages emerging and established artists to be included in the 2013 line-up.

The festival won’t be until Fri Oct 25 – Sun Oct 27 at Willunga, but that at least gives you plenty of time to perfect your set.

For more info on how to be involved visit fleurieufestival.com.au.

Laura Rose Debut Show Laura Rose marks her debut show at Arcade Lane this week. There for moral (and musical) support are Archie, The Scarlet Ives, Oh Me My and Square One DJs to ensure the party kicks on. It’ll be a showcase of some of the best emerging local folk pop going around, with a party to boot. Tickets are $10 at the door on Thu Mar 7.

/

%

- 0-

3(7( 0855$< 7+( :+,7/$06 7+( $62 :,7+ 63(&,$/ *8(67 -$0(6 ' 60,7+ '2256 23(1 $7 30

7,&.(76 $9$,/$%/( 7+528*+ 9(18(7,; )5,1*(7,;

102.3