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‘DREAMER‘ ‘GIVE A LITTLE BIT’ ‘THE LOGICAL SONG’ ‘IT’S RAINING AGAIN’ ‘BREAKFAST IN AMERICA’ THE LEGENDARY VOICE OF

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“YES, JON STILL IS THE VOICE...ANDERSON’S VOICE REMAINS EXQUISITE.”

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“JAKE IS TAKING THE INSTRUMENT (UKE) TO A PLACE THAT I CAN’T SEE ANYBODY ELSE CATCHING UP WITH HIM.” EDDIE VEDDER

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AFTER RELEASING HIS OWN ALBUM OF UKULELE SONGS

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hen you're eating a banana in public and don't know where to look. Saying 'goodbye' to someone but you both walk off in the same direction. Having a bad dream like a cockroach is crawling on your face only to wake up with an actual cockroach crawling on your face. Mondays. Girls who use the word 'like' way like too often like. Noisy pants. Getting floss stuck between your teeth. Chasing a ping pong ball. Missing letters in your alphabet soup. Ducks that don't cross the road at their designated yellow road signs. Cat vomit.

That moment you realise you've been using someone else's toothbrush. Accidentally calling your mum “babe”. When people ask if they can 'borrow' a tissue. Warnings on packets of nuts that say 'this product may contain traces of nuts'. Missing the straw and getting it up your nose. Strangers who cough all over you. Comb overs. Whistlers. Nose hairs. Nose hairs that whistle. Not being your parents' favourite when you clearly should be. When the bloke next to you at the urinal sneaks a peak. Accidentally swallowing a fly. Men who shave in public. Not having another word for thesaurus. Finding a short curly hair in your food and wondering where it came from (and how?). Disclaimers. Paper cuts. Expiry dates. Moustaches on women. G-strings on men. Why strangers have the best candy. Trying to walk past someone in the street but you end up doing the left-right-left-right shuffle. Constantly spotting 2 for 1 meal deals when you've recently broken up. Not being able to pronounce anything on the wine list so you point to it instead. You're at the movies and someone sits directly in front of you despite the fact there are over a gazillion spare seats. Exaggerators. Thinking someone's waving to you so you instinctively wave back only to realise they were shooing away a fly. Mistaking plastic decorative fruit as real fruit. Bogan names. The excessive use of exclamation marks!!!!!!!!! Old people texting. Walking through a spider web in the dark then flapping your arms around like a crazy person convinced there's something crawling on you. Making it compulsory to wear helmets when skydiving. Man colds. People who use the expression 'willy nilly', willy nilly. Not having a meat option at vegetarian restaurants. Accidentally sending your boss a dirty text. Why Eminem isn't the spokesperson for M&Ms? Man boobs. Being told that texting on the toilet isn't considered multi-tasking. Asking someone how many weeks to go when they're not pregnant. Getting stuck in a bean bag. Trying to take a discreet photo but your flash goes off. Not knowing which armrest is yours at the cinema. Mistaking your haemorrhoid cream for toothpaste. Changing your Facebook status to 'single' and your ex 'likes' it. Making unintentional eye contact with a stranger who's licking the sauce off their hot dog. Having a Wiggles song stuck in your head. Accidentally farting while doing sit-ups at the gym. Couples who sit on the same side of the booth when there is no one on the other side. Noisy eaters. Women who wear jewellery that clinks and clanks every time they move like they're some kind of walking wind chime. When people take 20 napkins, use one, then throw them all away. Hairy backs. Running out of paper in a public toilet. Gunts. The creepy guy who sits next to you on public transport. Whenever anyone says “ya know what I'm sayin”. Using speakerphones in public places. The very moment you think you've accidentally sent an inappropriate all-staff email. Vegemite in the butter. Butter in the vegemite. On your way to work you realise you're still wearing your slippers. When you're introduced to someone and can't work out whether they're male or female. Finger tapping. Morning people. Couples that own a dog together and call themselves mummy and daddy. The person next

to you on a crowded bus starts reading your newspaper. Conspiracy theories. Double negatives. Being asked for your telephone number or account number after you've entered it using the keypad on your phone. Having a deja vu moment. Having a deja vu moment. Someone standing over your shoulder watching you type. Spandex on people that clearly shouldn't be wearing it. Guys who leave the toilet seat up. Girls who leave the toilet seat down. Your boss sends you a friend request on Facebook. Celebrities claiming to be environmentalists. People who can never order anything off the menu without customising every detail of their meal. Stepping inside a lift moments after someone's farted in it. Men on trains who insist on sitting with their legs spread wide. Sticky keyboards. Owners who knit clothes for their pets. Explanations that begin with the words “Once again“. People who habitually need favours. Why nobody's thought of cat-flavoured dog food? Accidentally putting your bra on backwards and realising it fits better. People who order diet soft drinks at all you can eat buffets. Pressing send before you fi... Asking a stranger to take a photo of you standing with someone incredibly famous but you end up with a pic of their thumb over your face. When you're eating lollies and someone asks if they can have a red one. Trying to run backwards in thongs. The fact that bowel cancer kills 5,000 Australians every year, but if detected early, 90% of people could survive. Tell us what shits you at whatsh-tsyou.com

Editor’s Note// Is it possible that John McClane has lost more pints of blood on the big screen than any other action hero in the history of celluloid? He hoofed it across shards of glass in the Nakatomi Building in Die Hard (1988), was showered in the twisted metal of an exploding Fairchild C-123 in Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990), copped a nasty wire cable gash to the bicep in Die Hard With A Vengeance (1997) and took two bullets in the same entry wound in Die Hard 4.0 (2007). Not only would his private health insurance premiums be through the roof, the indefatigable NY cop must hate airport metal detectors more than German terrorists. Laughing in the face of a potentially fatal haemorrhage, Bruce Willis has once again donned the McClane smirk for his fifth stoush with multinational extremists. A full quarter century since the series launched, A Good Day To Die Hard even features a nice nod to unforgettable bad guy Hans Gruber’s demise in the original 1988 blockbuster that started it all. Although A Good Day To Die Hard finds McClane’s blood-smeared quips and smart-arsed resilience making way for a weary protagonist looking increasingly peeved at his latest bout of exploding helicopter déjà vu, I sincerely doubt this old cowboy is ready to ride into the sunset just yet. Yippee-ki-yay.

with Scott McLennan

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Office Jukebox

Scott McLennan Owl Eyes – Nightswim (Illusive/Wunderkind)

Rip It Up’s random weekly compilation.

1. Robyn - Konichiwa Bitches 2. Elvis Costello - Tokyo Storm Warning 3. Gorillaz – Left Handed Suzuki Method 4. U2 – The Unforgettable Fire 5. Elton John – Japanese Hands 6. Deep Purple – Woman From Tokyo 7. The Vapors – Turning Japanese 8. Air – Alone In Kyoto 9. The Wombats – Tokyo (Vampires And Wolves) 10. Gwen Stefani – Harajuku Girls 11. The Presidents Of The United States Of America – Japan 12. Bush – Japanese Freight Train

Turning e Japanes Freeman by Miranda

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Nina Bertok Bonobo – The North Borders (Ninja Tune)

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Seven Psychopaths

With album Homosapien released in February, PVT are heading back home for their first headline shows in more than two years. We have two double passes up for grabs to their Adelaide Show at the Ed Castle on Sun Mar 31 so log onto ripitup.com.au and get entering for your chance to win. Get in quick, as this competition closes at midday on Fri Mar 29.

From the team who created In Bruges comes Seven Psychopaths, an inventive, violent, hilarious film that retains the deft writing and comically twisted creativity about moralistic criminals that made In Bruges a cult classic. Featuring Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Abbie Cornish, Tom Waits and Olga Kurylenko, we have five copies of Seven Psychopaths on DVD up for grabs, so log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Thu Apr 4.

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Two Little Boys follows Nige (Bret McKenzie from Flight Of The Conchords) and his best mate Deano’s (Hamish Blake from Hamish & Andy) riotous misadventures as they struggle with their imploding friendship which has been put under pressure by an unfortunate incident involving a hot meat pie, a ginger cat and the untimely death of a Scandinavian soccer star. Nige chucks the dead body in a nearby roadworks hole and runs to Deano for help. Trouble is, Deano’s not really the guy you should turn to in a crisis. We’ve got five copies of Two Little Boys on DVD up for grabs so log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Thu Apr 4.

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This Week //

Your fast guide to this week’s best entertainment

Good Riddance

Demon Hunter

Tara Carragher

Catch the US punks when they play a huge show alongside Mad Caddies, A Wilhelm Scream, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Diesel Boy, Totally Unicorn and Adelaide’s Paper Arms as well as several more acts at HQ on Thu Mar 28.

Experience the US metal act on their first ever Australian tour to promote the release of the band’s second album, True Defiance, at Fowler’s Live on Sun Mar 31 with fellow Americans I The Breather as special guests.

See the award winning local lass undertake a free entry city launch of her new album, Big River Crossing, at Grote St’s Hotel Metro on Sun Mar 31 with special guests Chris Finnen and Joe Man Murphy.

Craig Atkins

Simone Felice

The Resignators

Witness the amazing drumming monkey and member of The Timbers when he launches his solo album, Light And Shade, at Grote St’s Promethean on Sat Mar 30 with special guests such as Mary Webb, Olly Holmes, Dick Dandy, Little Hefty and more.

See the American alt country musician and former member of The Felice Brothers and The Duke & The King when he plays a gig at Rundle St’s Exeter Hotel on Thu Mar 28 alongside Melbourne’s Matty Green with the NT’s Jess Ribeiro as special guest.

Get set for some high energy ska punk when the Melbourne ensemble launch their new album, Down In Flames, at Hindley St’s Enigma Bar on Sat Mar 30 with Jobstopper and other guest acts.

Speeding along this week... METAL EASTER 2013 – taking place at Cavern Club, North Tce, on Sat Mar 30 as an all-ages affair from 4pm with Full Frontal Lobotomy, The One Within, Days Of Deceit and others including Masta Craft as well as Fragmenta and To The Slaughter.

STATUS QUO – catch the legendary British rockers when they go down, down deeper and down at Thebarton Theatre on Tue Apr 2 at which punters can expect an evening filled with their many, many hit songs.

EASTER METAL FEST – happening at Thebarton’s Forresters & Squatters Arms from 4pm on Sat Mar 30 and Sun Mar 31 with 16 bands including WA metal outfits Tempest Rising, Severtone, Nightmare Effect and Hellious alongside heaps of local talent.

THE FLOORS - experience the rockin’ Perth trio when they launch their debut album, Dead Beat, from around 9pm at Waymouth St’s Grace Emily Hotel on Sat Mar 30 with Adelaide’s The Villenettes as special guests.

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MAR 30

THE RESIGNATORS (CD LAUNCH), DEAD JOE, JOBSTOPPER, GIVE OR TAKE, PROPHETS OF IMPENDING DOOM (BAR 2) LS@160BPM (BAR 3)

MAR 31

POETRY FOR THE BLIND, ENCYCLE, JUNGLE CITY, THE DIRTY THIRDS, HELLIOUS, RED SKY AT MOURNING (2 STAGES - 2 ROOMS)

APR 5

STORM THE SKY, WAKE THE GIANTS, GRAVEYARDS, THE BROADSIDE, HOMELAND, AT FATES MERCY

Breezing Through

APR 6

THE DEEP END (CD LAUNCH) LACED IN LUST, CHERRY GRIND, E*F*F (BAR 2)

APR 10

BLACK BREATH (USA) I EXIST, STARVATION

Still Rocking After 179 Years The four men performing in this seniors’ insurance-sponsored tour have a combined career that spans an unbelievable 179 years. Daryl Braithwaite, Joe Camilleri, James Reyne and Ross Wilson’s credit lists are a who’s who of Australian rock – The Black Sorrows, Daddy

Cool, Sherbet, Australian Crawl and Mondo Rock. Age-resistant superstardom sees these guys back on the circuit for a string of exclusive dates around the nation. Join them at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Fri May 10; tickets through BASS.

House Vs Hurricane premiered their music video for album-opener 40 Deep as a sneak peek of a brisk national tour. Between a European jaunt and an appearance at Slam Dunk Festival (UK) the band will sprint home to Australia. Closing out the tour is a weekend down south in Mt Gambier on Sat Apr 27 and Adelaide’s Fowler’s Live on Sun Apr 28. Details and ticket information can be found at oztix.com.au.

APR 12

"CLARITY RECORDS BIRTHDAY PARTY" 2 STAGES - 2 ROOMS THE WEIGHT, NEBRASKA, SEARCH AND DESTROY, WEIGHTLESS, RACCOON CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, CANIDAE

APR 13

SLEEP PARADE, SAN MARCOS, FILTHY LUCRE, FELL AT TEN (BAR 2) BLACK SPEECH, STRAY DOG STRUT, FETISH BURLESQUE, JACK COUNTERACT, SUBURBAN STANDOFF (BAR 3)

APR 18

CECILE (JAMAICAN DANCEHALL ARTIST) JESSIE PROVERBS

APR 19

THE MORNINGS are setting out from Tasmania on an enormous 30-date tour of Australia and New Zealand in the wake of their new EP release Ribbons. Over the three nights The Mornings will spend in Adelaide, the six-piece band extravaganza of their Telescope Tour will be replaced with more intimate sets from duo Samuel Cole and Seth Henderson. Check themorningsmusic.com for show locations and ticket information.

APR 24

(ANZAC DAY EVE) 2 STAGES -2 ROOMS MAYWEATHER (CD LAUNCH) LIKE WOLVES, AT FATES MERCY, SECONDHAND SQUAD, VISIONS, STARSCREAM, WALK THE PLANK, ARCHIVES

APR 26

SECONDS BEFORE SUNRISE (CD LAUNCH) IN ELEGANCE, THE BROADSIDE, EMPIRE, RED LIGHT SOUND

APR 27

Rah Rah Delta Riggs Having destroyed the festival circuit with spots at Big Day Out, Pyramid Rock, Festival Of The Sun and Peats Ridge Festival, The Delta Riggs are ready to leave their rock’n’roll impression on your radio. Due out on Thu

PLEDGE THIS, TRAINWRECK, I EXALT, WORDS OF A LIAR, TINA GRAY (BAR 2) "STRIKE METAL CLUB" ALKIRA, TO THE GRAVE, RED SKY AT MOURNING, BALLS DEEP (BAR 3)

"NECROMANCY" (ZOMBIE PROM)

MAY 5

D AT SEA (CD LAUNCH) CHASING GHOSTS, MILLIE TIZZARD

Apr 11 their self-produced debut record Hex. Lover.Killer launches with first single Rah Rah Radio and a karaoke drama video to match. Their national tour will reach Rocket Bar in Adelaide on Fri Apr 19.

MAY 11

HOBBS ANGEL OF DEATH

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A favourite of Paul Kelly, former Adelaidean KRISTA POLVERE is going from strength to strength with new record Reservoir Drive. The delightful songstress has already enjoyed success with the album’s lead single, Looking For Love, which features guitar and vocals from Ryan Adams. The next track Jack And Me has just hit the airways, but if radio isn’t enough for you, get to Jive on Sat May 18 for Polvere’s live show.

MAY 18

"REPEAT OFFENDERS CREW"

MAY 25

"THE NEW DEAD METALFEST AFTER PARTY"

MAY 31

MACHETE (CD LAUNCH)

JUNE 7

JERICCO (CD LAUNCH)

JUNE 8

DREADNAUGHT, I AM DUCKEYE

JUNE 9

KING OF THE NORTH

JUNE 11

THE BELLRAYS (USA)

Who: Black Sabbath / Where: Adelaide Entertainment Centre / When: Tue May 7 / Tickets: ticketek.com.au

JUNE 14

Black Tuesday Adelaideans may say that no one ever tours here, but Black Sabbath are once again spurning convention and daring to venture down south. The world’s most renowned metal forefathers will be touring their new studio album, 13, which

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BREAKING ORBIT (CD LAUNCH)

is their first release since 1995. Vegetarians be warned, in an interview with Rip It Up last month Ozzy Osbourne said he is “eating more meat now than ever”. Whether this diet includes bats and birds, you’ll just have to head to the show to see.

Before they go to spread their glory around the globe, Sydney’s THE GRISWOLDS are coming to town for a tour of their EP’s latest single The Courtship Of Summer Preasley. Catch them at the Ed Castle’s Plus One on Sat Apr 27.

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Win an exclusive trip for two people, travelling with the Adelaide Crows to their game against Collingwood at the MCG on Jul 12. Just spend $10 or more at Grandstand Bar one hour before, during or up to one hour after an Adelaide Crows interstate game until Jun 29 for your chance to win.^

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A Good Day To Die Hard Aussie actor Jai Courtney’s in a fine mood as he starts off this interview with a cheerful, “Hey man, it’s a nice day here and, you know, it’s always good to come home. I’m from Sydney, from the ‘burbs, and it’s great to be back.” nd he has every right to be happy with how his career has, essentially, gone through the roof, as he’s gone from Antipodean productions like All Saints, Packed To The Rafters and Spartacus to the formidable Hollywood double-act of Jack Reacher and, of course, the movie we’re actually supposed to be discussing, A Good Day To Die Hard. Was this rise to do with talent, cluey choices, good looks or sheer luck? “Mate, there’s always got to be a bit of luck in there! And nothing comes without hard work too, and dedication and commitment to what it is you’re trying to achieve… I mean, you never know when you’re going to be in that right place at that right time.” So the transition from the Aussie smallscreen to a few indie pics like Stone Bros to the Hollywood heights: how did it happen? And seemingly so quickly? “Stone Bros was a film I did for a day a week out of drama school, my first paid gig, and then I went to those guest spots on those shows and I did Spartacus in New Zealand. And it wasn’t until I wrapped on that that I started to head out to LA, and it was a few years before Reacher came along, and about seven trips there and back. I mean, I look

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back now and those few years, you know, look like overnight compared to the journey that some have to endure, but I was willing to work at it for as long as it took.” How exactly was Courtney picked to play Jack, estranged son of Bruce Willis’ longsuffering John McClane, in this fifth Die Hard adventure? “I auditioned really early on when they were casting a really wide net, and nothing happened, as is often the case with auditions: it’s often a case of going in, having your 10 minutes, buggering off and then never hearing anything. A couple of months went by and I got the job on Reacher and so I went out there to do that, and it was when I was on my way back to Australia that I got a call saying that the auditioning hadn’t concluded on the casting of the actor to play Jack. And so I had this one day in LA and I was asked if I wouldn’t mind coming in and reading again. I went in and then I got this call before I got on the plane home saying that they wanted me to come back and read with Bruce. “And it was a great session,” he continues, “and [director] John Moore was there and some of the guys from the crew and Bruce and some of the producers, and I was there for about 90 minutes. And we played out these scenes and did some improvisation, and I suppose that it was a bit of a chemistry test… And we did discover that we had this good thing going, but I still walked away not certain of how it all went, and I remember thinking that even if I didn’t bag the gig, then I still had had the opportunity to have enjoyed that day.” At 27, Courtney was only two when the first

Die Hard came out, and yet, while he did “come to them a little late”, he’s nevertheless a huge fan of the series, “and it was awesome to be involved in one”. Courtney spends almost 90 percent of the film alongside Willis, exchanging oneliners, dodging bullets and butting heads. “He was great to work with, just great. He’s doing well for a bloke who’s getting on a bit: he’s still very nimble. And that’s inspiring to me, as I do want to achieve that sort of longevity… And so watching a guy like Bruce do it and still be so passionate about the work is very cool. I do think that we work well together, and that the buddy-flick stuff is so good.” Despite the FX and the stunt doubles and the other cinematic tricks, it was a physically demanding experience too. “It was intense, yes, but safety is a big concern with a movie like this, and the element of danger is always there. I mean, something really simple could shut the whole production down… You’ve got to take care, and yes, it can be really tough with all those technical elements: the driving with the big [camera] rigs, working with the firearms. But it’s all pretty exciting at the same time - and we did all escape relatively unscathed.” Courtney’s also keen to talk about two movies which he worked on last year, both of which are currently in post-production: I, Frankenstein and Felony. “And both of those were actually shot in Australia too. I, Frankenstein was a movie we did in Melbourne, and it’s cool and sort of otherworldly, and it’s a classic good-andevil story. And Felony was something that I worked on when I came home after Die Hard, which was great and based on a script written

A Kick To The Side Jai Courtney’s an unusual sort of sidekick for a Die Hard movie (or indeed any actiony-type shoot-‘em-up affair), as he’s actually our longtime hero’s spiky, scowling son, but he is something of an improvement on goofy old Justin Long, Bruce Willis’ target/accomplice/pal in the rather flawed Die Hard 4.0 (known in America, and maybe only there, under the ill-advisedly patriotic title Live Free Or Die Hard) - although Justin’s not necessarily a bad sort of actor, even if he isn’t anywhere near as good as Die Hard With A Vengeance’s would-be pseudo-sidekick, Samuel L Jackson (but of course). And then there’s Die Hard 2 (usually, but not always, subtitled Die Harder), which is mean-spirited and narratively confused enough to not need a bona fide sidekick (or even a properly memorable villain), and, naturally, the first Die Hard, way back in 1988, where the right-guy-in-the-wrongplace and even-then-follicle-challenged John McClane/Bruce Willis has no damn sidekick - and really doesn’t need one.

by Joel Edgerton, who I’ve admired for years. And I’m also likely to be involved in a project called Divergent… You know, it’s really a key time for me, and I need to work at doing the right projects, things that I really believe in, and I do think that things are about to get very interesting.” WHAT: A Good Day To Die Hard WHERE: Now screening WHEN: Cinemas everywhere

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The Boys Are Back! Boston’s Dropkick Murphys, a socially conscious punk band with a penchant for traditional Irish music, have just released a new album, Signed And Sealed In Blood, and are about to tour Australia once again. n this occasion, as well as performing at Byron Bay’s Bluesfest, the seven-piece will also be hitting the road with UK act Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls and Californian punks Swingin’ Utters. “As always we’re lookin’ forward to it,” Ken Casey, Dropkick Murphys’ vocalist and bass player and only original member from when they formed as a punk quartet in 1996, says. “And playin’ shows around Australia with Frank and Swingin’ Utters is like a dream line-up. Frank opened for us on a European tour and has also played with us in Dublin for our album launch in Ireland. So we’re great friends.” Signed And Sealed In Blood, which follows Dropkick Murphys’ 2011 concept album, Going Out In Style, is their eighth studio release. It doesn’t stray from their previously successful formula of anthemic sing-along songs, but Casey reasons it’s their best sounding offering thus far. “And we recorded it pretty quickly,” he reveals. “Our last album took the hard road by doing a concept record [the story of a fictional character and Irish immigrant named Cornelius Larkin] with all the songs tied into a greater story. But the new album was just a case of writing a bunch of great songs. And we all felt we had gotten that much better as songwriters and that we were now much better in the studio. So we just went in and banged it out.

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“But it’s turned out great and we’re really happy with it,” Casey adds. The new album, which features Mumford & Sons’ Winston Marshall on banjo as a guest musician, was preceded by the release of a raucous Christmas single in the form of The Season’s Upon Us. Kasey laughs, however, when I suggest that the seasonal ditty about a dysfunctional family may one day take over from The Pogues’ Fairytale Of New York as one of the best anti-Christmas songs ever written. “I don’t know it will ever take over from Fairytale Of New York, but we are happy for The Season’s Upon Us to stand alongside it,” he says. Dropkick Murphys were driving home from a gig in New York in mid-December of 2012 when they were stopped by the police. “It was about 10 in the morning and we got pulled over on the highway,” Casey recalls. “We’d actually been driving quite slowly so wondered why they would pull us over. So the cop came up and just took a peek in the car and then said, ‘Okay, go about your way’. “Just as soon as he’d done that, a headline popped up on my mobile – I’ve got an app for a local newspaper – about the shootings at Sandy Hook and it said that police were performing random searches of vehicles in the area. And we were passing through not far from where it all happened.” The flipside of Dropkick Murphys’ Christmas single, The Season’s Upon Us, is a tongue-in-cheek ditty called AK-47 (All I Want For Christmas Is An). “I think the right to bear arms, as set in the American Constitution, is now outdated,” Casey reasons. “It’s misguided now and some people have really twisted the meaning of it. Okay, it might be okay to have a handgun to protect yourself at home, but to have automatic rifles?” “Having said that, I don’t think gun control

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laws are an issue that needs a political debate right now,” he concludes. “Let’s just put all that aside and help the grieving families of the children who were killed. But I do think Sandy Hook was the final straw so, after the dust has settled, we can look at changing things.”

WHO: Dropkick Murphys WHAT: Signed And Sealed In Blood (Dew Process) WHERE: Thebarton Theatre (with Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls and Swingin’ Utters) WHEN: Wed Apr 3

It’s Dynamite Dropkick Murphys have a liking for Aussie band AC/DC and have often been known to drop the band’s TNT into their live set. Footage can be found on YouTube, taken on St Patrick’s Day of this year, of the band performing the song during an encore in New York and the now traditional stage invasion taking place. It all went a bit wrong, however, when bass player and singer Ken Casey noticed someone on stage giving a Nazi salute. Casey quickly dropped his bass and went over and bopped the offender before he was dragged away by security. Casey announced to the crowd, “Nazis are not fucking welcome at a Dropkick Murphys show”. A round of applause followed and the encore resumed.

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Putting On Duritz Californian band Counting Crows released their fifth studio album, Saturday Nights And Sunday Mornings, in 2008, then things went fairly quiet. That is, until 2011, when they released a fantastic live album paying tribute to their first hit record, August And Everything After, and quickly followed it up with an album of covers. nderwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation), was made up mostly of littleknown tunes, including a few from some independent bands who the band were involved with. While a live album and an album of covers may sound like a swan-song, the opposite is true for the Counting Crows, who’ve now found a new lease on life and are ready to hit back with renewed energy. And

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part of that includes a tour to our fair city. Charismatic frontman Adam Duritz tells Rip It Up a little more about what the Crows have been up to lately… “We did a lot of touring around America, we went around three or four times last year,” Duritz begins. “And I’ve been doing a lot of work with bloggers, particularly Ryan Spaulding from Ryan’s Smashing Life, and have been putting on these showcases for the last three years, at places like South By Southwest, and we’ve put on maybe 150 sets to this point. And now we’re getting ready to leave for Austin, and we’ve got a show in Interactive Week with about 18 bands, and then a week later in Music Week, we have a show with about 18 or 20 bands in it as well, and then we’ve taken that on the road with Counting Crows, kind of like a travelling indie festival! We have three bands opening for us, and they play short sets, and they rotate it every night to play different spots. We had a blast being on the road with all these different

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Countdown Revolution Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz says there isn’t room for the band’s biggest hits at every single show. “One thing we haven’t done over 20 years is decide that some song has to be played every night whether you want to or not, ‘cos that seems like a pretty quick road to hating a song. So we don’t do that. I love Mr Jones, I still love playing it, but that’s partly because we don’t play it every night, or Round Here or anything else. There’s nothing that’s sacred, except that the show has to be great.”

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bands on the road, with Counting Crows headlining each night. It was a lot of fun!” Having the opportunity to play with all the indie bands has led to a festival-like atmosphere at many Counting Crows shows. “We had a lot of fun with it,” Duritz recalls. “A lot of these bands haven’t had a chance to be seen by that many people, and they played 30-minute sets with 10 minutes in between and it was really cool. We had a blast and I think all the bands did as well. And that’s what we’ve been doing these last few years. We made the [Underwater Sunshine] record, and some of those bands are on the record with the songs we covered. The record was inspired by it, by my involvement with those bands and some of the other guys’ involvement. And there’s a lot of great music nowadays. It’s a lot easier to make a record than it used to be, and a lot of the really best bands - not all, but a lot are independent.” Playing with so many young bands has helped keep things fresh for the Counting Crows after playing together for more than 20 years. “I think so,” Duritz confesses. “I think the thing that really keeps it fresh is still being interested in what you’re doing, and there’s a lot of different ways to do that. We play a lot of concerts every year, and people ask me what to expect at a Counting Crows show, and I don’t know, there’s no setlist. I don’t know what we’re going to play on any given night in Australia. Every day after soundcheck, or around dinner time, I send a text out to the band and the crew, and the opening band if we’re close friends, and it just says, anything you want to play tonight, anything you want to hear tonight… and they send me back texts and I use that as a guide. I still put together whatever setlist I or Immi [David Immerglück, guitarist] want to play, but the thing is, I think you owe your audience something every night, you owe them all your passion, all your creativity. You don’t owe them particular songs, you owe them the best possible show, and the best possible show is made up of songs that you or your band really want to play, and so that’s what we do.” WHO: Counting Crows WHERE: Her Majesty’s Theatre WHEN: Sat Apr 6.

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Flume Off the back of a series of storming successes (including two songs in the Top 15 of Triple J’s Hottest 100, a widely-acclaimed debut studio album and some heaving Laneway Festival performances), Flume, AKA 21-year-old producer Harley Streten, will get back behind the decks in May for the Infinity Prism Tour which will feature an extended set and brand new stage production. The ‘infinity prism’ is a device that references the kaleidoscopic imagery of Flume’s album cover by way of a hexagonal infinity mirror embedded with LED lights. The ‘prism’ will feature in all his live shows (read: you’re going to trip balls). Joining in all the crazy stage visuals on the tour is Melbourne musician Chet Faker, who recently collaborated with Flume on charting single Left Alone. Flume plays at Thebarton Theatre on Wed May 8.

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Credited with shaping and steering house music’s future, Derrick May is credited as being the visionary who invented what we know as ‘techno’. While his production and solo recordings have halted over the past decade, his legacy has continued on throughout the years thanks to various remixes, re-works and collaborations with some of the most experimental musicians including Depeche Mode and ABC. The classic Derrick May ‘noise’ is a finite balance between percussion-laded cascades of sound complemented with samples and melody – something more akin to techno poetry delivered with unrefined emotion and passion. Don’t miss this techno pioneer at Electric Circus next month.

The Partysquad – DJ Jerry Leembruggen and MC Ruben Fernhout – are hitting Australia for the first time. The Amsterdam duo have been active since the late ‘90s, with Leembruggen surviving a serious car accident in Ibiza. Their sound a mega mash-up of dance, urban and Caribbean genres, The Partysquad have had hits like Amsterdamn with Afrojack and are down with Diplo. They also have their own label, RebelYard, as Fernhout explains.

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Move D First introduced to techno in 1989, Move D (also known as David Moufang) has been churning out the hits for over two decades with a string of incredible releases. . Known for his records with partner Jonas Grossmann as Deep Space Network, as well as his own solo releases, Moufang’s debut album Kunststoff (1995) featured tracks like Soap Bubbles and In/Out which oscillated between soft, dreamlike textures and the spiked electronics that Detroit was beginning to explore. And while collaborative ventures followed (including Exploring The Psychedelic Landscape and A Day In The Live with Pete Namlook), more recently Moufang has announced he is working on a number of new projects that will see a new Deep Space Network album as well as a second Conjoint album (a collaboration with jazz veteran Karl Berger, Born Under A Rhyming Planet’s Jamie Hodge and Gunter ‘Ruit’ Kraus). Move D plays at Sugar on Sun Apr 14.

I was producing for, and involved with, various groups – mostly R&B and hip hop – and when I hosted this talent showcase Jerry played inbetween the acts. I still had the mic and started hyping up the crowd. So, in a natural way, our future set-up was created there... Your style has been branded ‘experimental rave EDM’. How accurate is that today? We still like to experiment – for example, reggae with gabba kicks. We like to rave and party and our music is considered EDM so, yes, I think it’s still kinda accurate!

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You collaborated with Major Lazer on Original Don after putting out a Mad Decent EP. Now you have another collaboration on the new Major Lazer album. What can you tell us about your work with Diplo? Have you ever partied with him? Diplo is a monster when it comes to finding new stuff and hooking up with people inbetween gigs worldwide. Where other DJ/ producers stay in their hotel, he hooks up with four cats in one afternoon. I think he’s not human. And, yes, we partied together more than a few times – he’s a pro at that too! You had an album out in the Netherlands back in 2006. Will you do another?

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New Yorker in Berlin David Sumner releases his debut album after 15 years in the game on Berlin’s Ostgut Ton. The former Sandwell District member’s (and label boss) uncompromising techno sound is perfectly at home in Berlin and on Ostgut Ton but at times it is a tad uncompromising. Tracks such as Voiceprint and Inter, the album’s highlight, are wonderful examples of beautiful and moving ‘quiet’ techno while Counterpoint takes techno away from the club for a majestic beatless journey but on the opposite end of the spectrum, the club tracks disappoint. The dull Against The Wall thuds to nowhere with limp atmospherics while Modifier suffers the same fate. Incubation’s strengths are away from the club. If Function expanded on this theme it could have made for an interesting ‘fuck the club’ techno record. Jeff Spicoli

The Tongue makes an impressive return (not to mention a hugely anticipated one) with Surrender To Victory – the follow-up to 2010’s Alternative Energy – but at 15 tracks and not much experimentation it all gets a little tedious and forgettable after the track seven mark (which thankfully happens to be the raw, flawless Rhymin’). Songs like the get-off-your-ass motivator Just You Wait and the opener Bittersweet (featuring the hair-raising vocals of Ngaiire) are definite stand-outs and the production courtesy Queensland upand-comer Cam Bluff is nothing short of slick, managing to successfully blend Oz hip hop with his (very obvious) American influences. Meanwhile, The Tongue raps about love, religion and perseverance among many other things, sometimes with the help of Hilltop Hoods’ Suffa, Thundamentals, Spit Syndicate’s Jimmy Nice and Ellesquire just to name a few, and in the process pulls off a quality album... The only down side is that you won’t find anything here that you haven’t heard before. Simone Keenan

If some weird hybrid of Pendulum and Enter Shikari is your cup of tea, you’ve found it in Hadouken! – especially on their latest effort Every Weekend. If you happen to be a fan of neither, the only tracks you might probably give more than one spin are the moody Parasite and the euphoric hands-in-the-air anthem Bliss Out which has a seriously catchy chorus. Other than that, Hadouken! throw together loads of dubby ‘wub wub’ moments, mixing them with hard electronica, D&B and even trance, while vocalist James Smith switches between bratty and emo, with very clear ambitions towards the mainstream. Unfortunately, the cheese factor is very high on Every Weekend, with dumbeddown lyrics and an overall sound channelling 2010 rather than 2013 – which makes it all the more puzzling why these guys would jump the dubstep bandwagon so late in the game. Better luck next time. JP Cameron

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Right now we like the concept of singles and EPs, really. Our new releases include a song called POV2.0 with The Deathset and Diplo on Dim Mak, The Lion on our own imprint at Spinnin called RebelYard, a song with Caspa on his album called Let The Rush Kick In, and a remix for A-Trak’s Jumbo on Fool’s Gold. The Partysquad play at Apple Bar on Thu Apr 5. The Lion is out Fri Mar 29 on Spinnin’ Records.

Calendar/ Fri Mar 29 Arty & Mat Zo (HQ) Sun Mar 31 PVT (Ed Castle) Thu Apr 4 Sinden & Brenmar (Electric Circus) Thu Apr 4 Strange Talk (Electric Circus) Thu Apr 4 Partysquad (Apple Bar) Fri Apr 5 Yacht Club DJs (Rocket Bar) Fri Apr 5 Nick Skitz (HQ) Sat Apr 6 Allday (Ed Castle) Sat Apr 13 The Twins (HQ) Thu Apr 18 Torro Torro (Apple Bar)

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“We’ve supported big acts before, like Public Enemy, Lupe Fiasco, Bruno Mars... But Ryan Lewis and Macklemore was different! It was really great to meet them and share the stage with them and hang out afterwards. They’re such humble guys, which is nice – Macklemore is a recovering alcoholic so he doesn’t drink anymore. That meant there was no alcohol backstage, which is the opposite of what we’re used to with other artists. It was different and interesting and fun to tour with them six days in a row. It’s funny how some people hate on them but they managed to sell out their shows. I think it just shows you that as soon as you become popular there are going to be some people that just don’t like that.” Not that Diafrix are concerned about the haters. With Pocket Full Of Dreams having spawned three massive singles – Running It, Easy Come, Easy Go and I’m A Dreamer (featuring 360) – Azmarino and Momo have been receiving plenty of support from Triple J as well as the more commercial Nova.

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Last year’s Pocket Full Of Dreams was the undisputable breakthrough album for Melbourne’s Diafrix, but as one half of the hip hop duo Khaled ‘Azmarino’ Abdulwahad acknowledges, it’s only the beginning of the journey. While their sophomore effort has taken Azmarino and Mohamed ‘Momo’ Komba’s status in the Oz hip hop scene to a whole new level, the pair claim there is still a long way to go and a lot more hard work to be done before either one of them is fully satisfied. Still, taking out iTunes’ 2012 Best Australian Hip Hop Release and supporting Ryan Lewis and Macklemore recently has made for a pretty nice start to the year, as Azmarino agrees.

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Popularity? Mainstream success? After years on Struggle Street – bring it on. “Definitely,” Azmarino concurs. “We’ve worked so hard for it. It’s been a very long process, especially with this album. We’ve been hoping that this was the one that would take us to the next step, which it has. It’s turned around a lot of things, we consider ourselves lucky. We’ve been in the industry for a long time now and we’ve seen many talented MCs with no chance of getting on the radio, so anything that gets played by us, we are very grateful for. Hopefully we can keep up the momentum. It’s been beautiful and it’s been amazing and we are hoping that this means more opportunities will be opened for young African rappers to experience some success too.” Both African refugees who moved to Australia in search of a better future –

Azmarino in the early 2000s and Momo at the age of three – it’s safe to say that both are well acquainted with life on Struggle Street. It’s one of the many reasons they have chosen to pay it forward by including young upand-coming Sydney MC Miracle on their upcoming national tour. “He’s a young guy who we discovered and we have a lot of things in common with him,” Azmarino reveals. “One of those things is his African background. He’s 20 years old and we’ve helped out with a lot of workshops for young kids in the past, so we came across him and he really made an impression on us. We really admire the fact that he’s hustled in the last three years so we are really excited about our fans getting to see him and discovering him.” From the looks of things, the days of hustling are over for Diafrix – the pair is

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Dance artists have been doing it for years. Now the new avant R&B acts want in. They’re trading in secrecy. If Canada’s TheWeeknd shuns interviews, then Los Angeles’ inc. – comprised of the Aged brothers, Andrew (vocals, guitar) and Daniel (bass, production) – have grainy publicity shots, a minimalist bio and no Wikipedia entry. The lowkey duo, due to tour Europe, lately presented a stunning debut, no world, to much buzz – and curiosity. Indeed, inc. are putting their own twist on illwave R&B, tapping into New Wave, trip hop, Aaliyah’s influential catalogue with Timbaland and ‘90s neo-soul.

No world was, according to the press release, completed back in 2011 – but, says Andrew, that’s “kinda misleading”. In fact, inc. began the album late that year and it was done by last June. “So it wasn’t that long [ago] – and then our reason for the delay was basically just record label stuff.” Surprisingly, the hipster-endorsed outfit, who insist on conducting phone interviews together, their voices blending, are signed to 4AD – the feted UK label traditionally associated with indie and punk (it launched the gothic Bauhaus). Even today 4AD has few dance, let alone urban, acts – with one notable exception SpaceGhostPurp. Says Daniel, “We really connected with them as people – that’s how it came about. It seems to be the way we like to do most things now, connecting with the people... It felt different than meeting with

other labels and other A&R people and stuff. It felt much more open and progressive – or something.” Inc. freely identify their favourite tracks on no world. For Andrew, it’s the dramatic Angel – also a critics’ pick. “We wrote that really fast.” Daniel is close to Desert Rose (War Prayer). The single, The Place, finds Andrew singing almost falsetto – and it’s a song that combines inc.’s deep alt-soul with George Benson-y guitar. The Ageds arrived in LA from a small town in Northern California (they don’t say where), starting out as session musicians. Between them, they’ve worked with everybody from the rapper 50 Cent to soul royalty Raphael Saadiq, Pharrell Williams and Cee Lo Green to rock’s Elton John and Beck. (They’ve likewise recorded with the dance-pop Nite

about to hit the road on one of their most extensive tours yet and are set to return to the studio later in the year to commence work on the follow-up to Pocket Full Of Dreams. “We’re just gathering information for it right now, we’re looking at topics and working on beats. This album has had a really strong theme about problems and struggle and about persevering and hoping that tomorrow is going to be alright. We’re in a bit of a different place now so who knows how the next one will turn out. It’s been a struggle, but it’s been a beautiful struggle.”

WHO: Diafrix WHERE: Rocket Bar WHEN: Sat Apr 20

Jewel.) They sought experiences. “That was our goal for a while – to play with great artists and play with great musicians and be on great records,” Daniel says. Eventually the pair made “a pretty big break” from giggingfor-hire, Andrew explains. “We stopped at one point, pretty clearly and deliberately, and we built this [inc.] from the ground up.” The siblings aimed to “prove” to themselves, and others, that it might be done – that they “could start from zero again and try to get somewhere.” The Ageds devised what they called Teen Inc until 2010, the same year a seven inch surfaced, developing “a clear vision” for their music. The next year The Guardian featured them in a ‘New Band Of The Day’ on the basis of their first EP, 3. Inc. chose not to approach any famous allies to cameo on no world. Andrew laughs about inc. being “kind of anarchistic”. “We wanna do it our own way.” They haven’t even contacted Elton, a huge supporter of new music. “Funny enough, we have absolute direct contact with him if we want to go that direction, but we just are too shy and pathetic to think like that!” Inc. hope people discover their music themselves. “We wanted to make sure it’s like a clear thing that people can see – and then they can know whether they really like it or not, not just because someone said it or not.” Inc. don’t necessarily feel an affinity with TheWeeknd, Frank Ocean and Miguel, all creating “progressive R&B” (as Billboard is referring to it). They tend to “stay” in their “little zone”, Andrew says. He won’t segment R&B into ‘indie’ and ‘commercial’, either, considering all black music to be about “spirit”. Not that inc. are dismissive, Andrew stresses. “We have a lot of respect for our peers – and people pushing things forward.”

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SUN MAY 5

SAT MAY 18

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 TONY JOE WHITE (US) & CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh LUCA CIARLA (Italy) @ Wheatsheaf SIMONE FELICE (US) & JESS RIBEIRO (Vic) @ Exeter Hotel

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

JORDIE LANE (Vic), MYLES MAYO & AP D’ANTONIO @ Wheatsheaf THE DRONES (Vic) & KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh

D AT SEA (Vic), CHASING GHOSTS & MILLIE TIZZARD @ Enigma (all-ages)

DRAGON (Syd) @ Governor Hindmarsh KRISTA POLVERE (Vic) @ Jive GAY PARIS (Syd) @ Jetty Bar (Glenelg) HEROES FOR HIRE (Syd), NINE SONS OF DAN & FOREVER ENDS @ Fowler’s Live

SAT MAR 30 THE RESIGNATORS (Vic) @ Enigma THE FLOORS (WA) @ Grace Emily

SUN MAR 31 DEMON HUNTER (US) & I THE BREATHER (US) @ Fowler’s Live

TUE APR 2 STATUS QUO (UK) @ Thebarton Theatre

WED APR 3 DROPKICK MURPHYS (US), FRANK TURNER & THE SLEEPING SOULS (UK) & SWINGIN’ UTTERS (US) @ Thebarton Theatre

THU APR 11 JAGWAR MA (UK/Syd) @ Jive

FRI APR 12 THE ROSHAMBOS (Bris) @ Cavern Club DZ DEATHRAYS (Bris) @ Rocket HAYWARD WILLIAMS (US) & THE YEARLINGS @ Wirra Creek (Willunga)

SAT APR 13 THE ROSHAMBOS (Bris) @ Cavern Club THE LIVINGSTONE DAISIES (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf HAYWARD WILLIAMS (US) & THE YEARLINGS @ Barossa Regional Gallery (Tanunda) SLEEP PARADE (Vic), SAN MARCOS, FILTHY LUCERE & FELL AT TEN @ Enigma Bar

SUN APR 14 JON ANDERSON (UK) & HEATHER FRAHN @ Governor Hindmarsh RORY ELLIS (Vic) @ Church Of The Trinity HAYWARD WILLIAMS (US) & THE YEARLINGS @ Wheatsheaf

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 THE TWOKS (Vic) & THE TIMBERS @ Wheatsheaf

WED APR 24 BRYAN ADAMS (Can) & AMY MACDONALD (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre BUZZCOCKS (UK) & MOLTING VULTURES @ Fowler’s Live BRITISH INDIA (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh RÜFÜS (Syd) @ Jive

SUN MAY 19

THU APR 25

FRI MAY 24

TUE MAY 7

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

NORMA JEAN (US), VANNA (US) & SAFE HANDS @ Fowler’s Live TEGAN & SARAH (Can) @ Thebarton Theatre BLACK SABBATH (UK) & SHIHAD (Vic) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre OM (US) @ Jive

SAT APR 27

THU MAY 9

KING TUFF (US) @ Tuxedo Cat GUY SEBASTIAN (Syd) @ Thebarton Theatre (sold out) BOB EVANS (WA), TIGERTOWN & DAVEY LANE @ Fowler’s Live THE GRISWOLDS (Syd) @ Ed Castle

YATCH (US) @ Rocket Bar

ADRIAN EDMONDSON & THE BAD SHEPHERDS (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh THE MORNINGS (Tas) @ Raglans Backpackers TIMOTHY NELSON & THE INFIDELS (WA), AMANDA MERDZAN & THE BAKER’S DIGEST @ Wheatsheaf

WED APR 17 THE ANGELS, JIMMY BARNES, DIESEL, IAN MOSS, GANGAJANG, JAMES REYNE, DON WALKER, PHIL SMALL & SWANEE @ Thebarton Theatre MARTINE LOCKE (WA/US) @ Church Of The Trinity 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 THE DEEP END (Vic) @ Enigma

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh

FRI MAY 10 THE KOOKS (UK) @ Thebarton Theatre STICKY FINGERS (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh APIA TIME OF MY LIFE: DARYL BRAITHWAITE (Vic), JOE CAMILLERI (Vic), JAMES REYNE (Vic) & ROSS WILSON (Vic) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre SANDY THOM (Scot) @ Church Of The Trinity JELLO BIAFRA & THE GUANTANAMO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (US), GRONG GRONG & CENTRAL DELI BAND @ Fowler’s Live BUZZ CAMPBELL (US) @ Port Dock Brewery

DESTROY MUSIC: THE GHOST INSIDE (US), EMMURE, ANTAGONIST AD & HAND OF MERCY (Syd) @ Fowler’s Live SAN CISCO (Bris), MILLIONS (Bris) & CHAOS CHAOS (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh (licensed all-ages)

SAT MAY 25 SOMETHING FOR KATE (Vic) & COURTNEY BARNETT (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh THE NEW DEAD METALFEST #4: PSYCROPTIC (Tas), THE AMENTA, NE OBLIVISCARIS, FRANKENBOK, OUROBOROS, THE SCHOENBERG, BLACK LIKE VENGEANCE, CLOSED CASKET and many more @ Fowler’s Live (all-ages)

MON MAY 27 BOOMTOWN RATS (Ire) & MENTAL AS ANYTHING (Syd) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

THU MAY 20 THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh

FRI MAY 31 KAKI KING (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh

WED JUN 5 KAMELOT (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh

SAT JUN 8 NORTHLANE (Syd), STRUCTURES, STRAY FROM THE PATH & STATUES @ Fowler’s Live

SAT MAY 11

TUE MAY 14 TENACIOUS D (US), BARRY MORGAN (Vic) & SASQUATCH (US) @ Thebarton Theatre

FRI APR 19

TUE APR 30

THE DELTA RIGGS (Vic) @ Rocket ALUKA (Vic) @ Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre HEATH CULLEN (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf

TOOL (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

EXTREME (US) & RICHIE KOTZEN (US) @ Thebarton Theatre JORDIE LANE (Vic), ALUKA (Vic) & TIMBERWOLF @ A Band On A Boat (Sold Out) NANTES (Syd) @ Ed Castle DIAFRIX (Vic) & MIRACLE (Syd) @ Rocket BIG SCARY (Vic) & CAITLIN PARK (Syd) @ Jive SHAUN KIRK (Vic) & AP D’ANTONIO @ Wheatsheaf

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MASKETTA FALL (Vic) & CALL THE SHOTS (Bris) @ Fowler’s Live (from 2pm and licensed all-ages)

EUGENE ‘HIDEAWAY’ BRIDGES (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh NIGEL WEARNE (Vic) & AP D’ANTONIO @ Wheatsheaf

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TURIN BRAKES (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh FLUME (Syd) @ Thebarton Theatre

ZUCCHERO (Italy) @ Thebarton Theatre JOSH GROBAN (US) @ Festival Theatre TIM GUY (Vic) @ Grace Emily SPIT SYNDICATE (Syd) @ Jive

SAT APR 20

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

WED MAY 8

THU APR 18

SUN APR 7

TUE APR 9

A BREACH OF SILENCE (Bris) & BORN OF OSIRIS (US) @ Fowler’s Live

FRI APR 26

SILVERSTEIN (Can), SIENNA SKIES (Syd), A GHOST ORCHESTRA & SECONDS BEFORE SUNRISE @ Fowler’s Live (licensed all-ages) TEEN RUSH: TITANIUM (NZ), AT SUNSET, KRISTINA & DJ LAVRAX @ Governor Hindmarsh

SAT APR 6

WED MAY 22

THE BLACK SEEDS (NZ) @ Governor Hindmarsh THE MORNINGS (Tas) @ The Cavern HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGARY (Vic), THE PREATURES & THEM SWOOPS @ Jive

SUN APR 28

TUE APR 16

DEFTONES (US) @ HQ

THU MAY 2 THE BRONX (US), DZ DEATHRAYS (Vic) & HIGHTIME @ Fowler’s Live

FRI MAY 3 AINSLIE WILLS (Vic) @ Hotel Metro BONJAH (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh

SAT MAY 4 OWL EYES (NSW), COLLARBONES & MAMMALS (Syd) @ Governor Hindmarsh

WED MAY 15 EVERMORE (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh

THU MAY 16

FRI JUN 14

FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND (Wales) @ Fowler’s Live SETH SENTRY (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh THE RUBENS (Vic), WALK THE MOON (US) & ALI BARTER @ HQ

KATE MILLER-HEIDKE (Bris) & FRANKY WALNUT @ Flinders St Baptist Church DAVID BRIDIE (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh

FRI MAY 17 THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM (US) @ HQ GAY PARIS @ Enigma

SAT JUN 15 THY ART IS MURDER (Syd), CATTLE DECAPITATION (US), KING PARROT (Syd) & AVERSIONS CROWN @ Fowler’s Live (licensed all-ages) DAVID BRIDIE (Vic) @ Barossa Arts & Convention Centre

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Thursday 28th ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar + Arena: Do You Remember House? (8pm) Lounge Bar: Bill Parton Trio (8.30pm) Top Room: Incredibles Eggstravaganza (8.30pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty CAVERN CLUB – band night CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Suhn Solo and guests plus DJ Anthoney 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) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Black Caviar EXETER ON RUNDLE – Simon Felice with Jess Ribeiro FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – DEAD POPES OF THE VATICAN, SUBTRACT S AND KAMIKAZE FOWLER’S LIVE – Cheap Sober GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: The Swamp Fox – Tony Joe White with Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk. Front Bar: Gumbo Room Blues Jam with Lazy Eye GRACE EMILY HOTEL – AP D’Antonio GRAND BAR – OMG HQ – Collateral Damage presents Hits & Pits Festival

MARION HOTEL – Cue ‘n’ Brew: 888 Poker (6.30pm) Bart’s Bar: Paul Smith (6.30pm) NORWOOD HOTEL – Open Mic Night PJ O’BRIENS – DJ G-Rillz PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango ROCKET BAR – 8 Bit Kidz featuring resident DJs Stubanger, Hank & Osk and the Powderoom Posse SEAFORD HOTEL – Filthy Lucre (9pm) SUGAR – ITDE Deejays and interstate/ international guests SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Brenton Manser (6.30pm) THE LION HOTEL – Clearway TONSLEY HOTEL – Acoustic 4-Play (8.30pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Acoustic Reign (7.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Coma Presents Luca Ciarla: Fiddler In The Loop (8pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – RAINBOW JAM SESSIONS (7.30PM) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

Friday 29th (Good Friday) CROWN & ANCHOR – closed EXETER ON RUNDLE – closed GRACE EMILY HOTEL – closed due to human sacrifice around 33AD HQ – Cyantific ROB ROY HOTEL – closed WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – closed

Saturday 30th 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) Top Room: New Romantics (8.30pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Mr Buzzy (9pm) BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – karaoke with Gemma BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CAVERN CLUB – Metal Easter: Full Frontal Lobotomy featuring Mastacraft, Pistenbroke, Kilij, The One Within, Days Of Deceit, Burn’Collect, To The Slaughter and Fragmenta (4pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Life Pilot 7� launch with Safe Hands, Mara Jade, A Ghost Orchestra and One In The Chamber plus DJ Azz CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with Nicole (8pm) DRAGONFLY – rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and everything in between DUKE OF YORK – DJ Mitchy Burnz, DJ Parry, DJ Skinny B and MC Scotty ED CASTLE – Plus One Saturdays with live bands and party DJs (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends EXETER HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment EXETER ON RUNDLE – Causing Hammock with Jericho’s Bird (10pm) FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – FELL AT TEN, BLOOD KLOT, THE SECOND HAND SQUAD, RED SKY AT MORNING, NIGHTMARE EFFECT, HELLIORS, SEVERTONE, TEMPEST RISING AND ESTATES

FOWLER’S LIVE – The Crown GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ MARKY POLO (8PM) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: 12th Annual Latin All-Stars Carnival. Front Bar: Psychodelicacy GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The Floors with The Villenettes GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays with DJs and MCs GRENFELL 110 – Triumvirate Ents presents: Weekly Summer Sessions featuring DJs Ragz, Jesse Proverbs and John Spencer and Daly (10pm) GUTHRIE’S – The Barstool Philosophers with Jupiter Creek (7.30pm) HACKNEY HOTEL – DJ HAHNDORF INN HOTEL – True Colours HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Live & Loud presents HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm) HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Black Fedora Jazz (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips, Tinker and Bangwel (8pm) HQ – Arty JETTY BAR – Squeaker and Hawkai (9.30pm) JIVE – Gosh! with DJ Craig

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The Guide // KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Redline 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 – Harvest OLD SPOT HOTEL – Rock The Boss ORIENTAL – Black Caviar PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Big Fish PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Show Us Ya Hits PJ O’BRIENS – Streaker

PORT NOARLUNGA FOOTBALL CLUB – South Coast Raw & AGS Music presents Easter Metal Massacre featuring Stray Dog Strut, A Black Picture, Unknown Remorse, Trench Effect and Cyclosa (6.30pm) 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 ROCKET BAR – Bananas: Track Team and Japeye SANDBAR – requests with DJs SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SESSIONS SEAFORD HOTEL – Stiff William (9pm) SEBEL PLAYFORD – Misjif

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FOWLER’S LIVE – Demon Hunter & I The Breather GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays featuring Local Revolution (3pm) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Kicking Beyond Matter, Krave Kemistry and Little Fish GRAND BAR – bands, DJs and MCs GREAT EASTERN HOTEL – Mick Kidd Blues Duo HAHNDORF INN HOTEL – Black Caviar HIGHBURY HOTEL – Paul Stubbings HOPE INN – The Rustlers HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – NPL Poker (6.30pm) HQ – Demigodz LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – The Barstool Philosophers (2pm) MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Sunday Legends with Swanee (6.30pm) MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – Riley Duo OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Dino Jag Duo (2pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Redline PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Wire & Wood PJ O’BRIENS – Dino Jag Duo (8pm) RAMSGATE HOTEL – acoustic session (4pm) Tom Kurzel & Ed Trainor fortnightly rotation (7.30pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SOLOISTS

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ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Ark Goes Greek (8.30pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Iris (4pm) Zepporama (8pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Sunday Rubdown DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Copy & Paiste ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Lochy Neale EXETER ON RUNDLE – The Faction

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – BEDLAM, HELLONIA, DOWN WITH THE SHIP, DEAD BY MIDNIGHT, NIGHTMARE EFFECT, BLOOD KLOT, TEMPEST RISING, DROWNED BY THE TRAITOR AND SEVERTONE

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SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – Kopy Catz SUGAR – Prince Aaronak, Driller, Derek Lang plus a host of international guests SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE ELEPHANT – Frenzy and DJ G-Rillz THE HAUS: HAHNDORF – Nikko & Snooks (7.30pm) THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL – The Anchors (9pm) VALLEY INN – karaoke VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – Rumours VINE INN: NURIOOTPA – Point 05 WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Baker Suite (9pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – Blue Comets WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm) ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs

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The Guide // SEMAPHORE PALAIS – Frenzy SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – The Torinos SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) DJ Junior (5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm) VIRGINIA NURSERY – Angelo WATERLOO STATION HOTEL – Tomboy WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm) WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi & Shaggy (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Lonely Cosmonauts (4pm)

DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm) GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Music Works. Front Bar: Adelaide Ukulele Appreciation Society beginners night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Improv Cabaret HILTON HOTEL – KG’s Complete Trivia MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm) SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller THE GOODY – Complete Trivia THE LION HOTEL – Acoustic Sessions TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Ryley (8pm)

Monday 1st

WHITMORE HOTEL – ACOUSTIC RAW JAM

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Complete Trivia RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jam Night (8pm) SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and Paul Vallen

WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

Tuesday 2nd AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson CROWN & ANCHOR – DJs Stevie & Duncan

Wednesday 3rd ARKABA HOTEL – Salsa classes (6pm) after party (9pm) BOTANIC BAR – Gemma CENTRAL DISTRICTS FOOTBALL CLUB – Complete Trivia CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Geek with DJ Tr!p DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Dan’s Open Mic Night (7.30pm)

DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Bento (What’s in Yo’ Box?!) EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music Exchange (7.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Curtis FINDON HOTEL – Muso’s Jam hosted by Streaker FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – Complete ete Trivia FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – WEDNESDAY NITE DYNAMITE TE WITH DJ DYNAMITE GLENELG FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Courtney Robb b with Sour Sob Bob HIGHWAY – The Combi Room HQ – Flashdance KENSINGTON HOTEL – Caliente Guitarr Trio (7.30pm) MARION HOTEL – Adelaide Comedy featuring Felicity Ward (8pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy ggy (9pm) SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne nne (8.30pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with Margi (7.30pm) SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose,, Ferris Mular and Mr Whiskas THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill TONSLEY HOTEL – quiz night (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Wednesdays (7pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

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EVERY TUESDAY 730PM

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CARNIVAL SAT MAR 30

THE SWAMP FOX TONY JOE WHITE + CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK

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GUMBO ROOM BLUES JAM WITH LAZY EYE

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12TH ANNUAL LATIN ALL STARS CARNIVAL FRONT BAR: PSYCHODELICACY TUESDAY APRIL 2

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WEDNESDAY APRIL 3

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THURSDAY APRIL 4

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GI Joe: Retaliation “It’s fantastic,” Adrianne Palicki, star of GI Joe: Retaliation, gushes. “This whole thing! Being here in Sydney, the premiere here, you know, it’s been great. I’ve never been to Australia, and Sydney is just wonderful.” t’s been almost four years since GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, but Palicki didn’t actually appear in the original film. “They really wanted to make a different sort of movie, they really wanted to switch it up a bit, you know?” the actress suggests. “It therefore has pretty much a brand new cast, and the great thing too is that if you haven’t seen the first film then it doesn’t really matter: you haven’t missed anything.” Palicki explains how she was picked for the role of Lady Jaye. “I auditioned for [director] Jon [M Chu], and it was really just the weirdest audition, as there was this guy there, this gun specialist, and we had to be shown how to use a gun, and it was rather shocking, as there I was having to go into this room and load and reload this gun. And I had to pretend that I was being shot at and yell, and Jon would tell me where to move to, and what to say, and what was

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supposed to be happening. And it was the first time, really, that I felt like an ass! I just kept thinking, ‘What am I doing?’.” Palicki has done action-type movies before (including the Red Dawn remake, the apocalyptic horrors of Legion and a recent Wonder Woman TV movie), so she has no issue with the physical intensity and challenges of making such pics. “That sort of thing, the intensity, is what drives me to do this stuff a lot, as I love it. I love the adrenalin rush and yes, I know that we have amazing stunt doubles and that they’re ready to take over, but you know that action is what you’ve signed up for, and that means that action is what you’re going to get. And you might also get hurt.” Did you? “I did a bit - but it was inevitable.” And there was much training necessary, too. “Massive training, yes. There was a monthand-a-half where we trained with Navy Seals, which was hardcore… They really brought in the big guns. And my character, Lady Jaye, is a weapons specialist, and so I got to deal with a lot of different weapons… And there was combat training, and lots of choreography, so that you can properly choreograph the fight scenes, and then you have individual training - and then you have unit training, which is about learning to work as a team with the

other actors.” The other actors? Like Dwayne Johnson? “He is such a sweetheart, and maybe one of the nicest people on the whole planet. He’s ginormous, but I’m also very tall - I’m 5’11” - so he’s not as tall for me as he is for others. But it’s his presence that’s so big: he has such kindness and warmth. You know, he just comes into a room, and the first thing you notice isn’t his size or his height but just his wonderful energy.” Palicki’s happy to talk about one of her other stars - Bruce Willis! “You know, he didn’t actually come on board to play that character until we had already begun shooting. We weren’t even sure if he was going to do it, and then he came on in virtually the middle of the making of the movie… I just adore him, and we actually worked very closely together. I got to do many of my scenes with him, and he’s just such a wonderful actor and a great person. And he had me in stitches and just rolling around with laughter. And it was great too, as he came in at a point in the movie where we’d been at it for a long time and we were all very tired, and Bruce just came on in and perked us all up again.” Palicki says that with the promotion of Red Dawn and the whole Retaliation experience she’s been exceptionally busy of late.

A Little Light Typing Adrianne Palicki has done a fair few action movies, she’s 5’11” and, well, pretty damn tough. So is there a danger that she’s likely, in the future, to be typecast as an action hero(ine)? “No, I don’t really think so. The good thing is that my work on [US TV’s] Friday Night Lights helps with this, and movies I did like Elektra Luxx and Women In Trouble… I choose carefully, and I try to be as diverse as possible. And my character Lady Jaye isn’t just an action hero: she has vulnerability, she has an arc, she’s funny and she’s an amazing character. And that’s what I always try to choose.”

“There’s some other stuff that I might be doing in the future - but I can’t tell you about any of it, sorry.” That’s okay - and nothing new. WHO: GI Joe: Retaliation WHAT: Now screening WHERE: Cinemas everywhere

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Rust And Bone (MA) Co-writer/director/co-producer Jacques Audiard’s latest is easily his best work and far superior to the overrated The Beat (That) My Heart Skipped and A Prophet, with a plot that might sound unlikely in synopsis but which, in actuality, proves to be a starkly affecting study of just how frighteningly harsh this life can be. The broke (and mostly broken) Alain (Matthias Schoenaerts) and his little son Sam (Armand Verdure) half-hitch-hike their way from Belgium to Antibes, in the south of France, to live with Alain’s longsuffering sister, and, in keeping with his anger issues, Alain finds employment as a bouncer, and it’s on the job at a nightclub where he meets Stéphanie (Marion Cotillard), who proves to be one of the few women who doesn’t fall for his rough and casual charms. When Stéphanie, who works and

Quick Flicks performs with orcas at a Seaworldtype establishment, loses her legs in an accident and spends months depressed and enraged in recovery, she eventually turns to Alain for help and perhaps friendship, and he comes to her aid in moving and very tough scenes where they swim (and yes, Cotillard’s lower legs are convincingly CGIed out), she later joins him in his labours to become an illegal boxer, and they, just maybe, become lovers after one of the bluntest let’s-do-this-thing scenes in all French cinema. Some have suggested that Schoenaerts outdoes Cotillard in this, Audiard’s most human of human dramas, but, in the end, they’re both tremendous, and stubbornly refuse to judge their characters, no matter how selfish, cruel and infuriating they might well be. Mad Dog Bradley

Adelaide Cinémathèque 2013 Mercury Cinema

The Formative Films Of Roman Polanski commences at the Merc with this creepy auteur’s Knife In The Water (M) on Thu Apr 4 at 7.30pm, and continues with Repulsion (M) on Mon Apr 7 at 7.30pm, Cul-De-Sac (M) on Thu Apr 11 at 7.30pm and, finally, his classic Chinatown (M) on Mon Apr 15 at 7.30pm. Cinémathèque details are at mercurycinema.org.au - and why exactly haven’t you got a membership yet?

A Good Day To Die Hard (M)

GI Joe: Retaliation (M)

Jack The Giant Slayer (M)

The fifth Die Hard movie (although they try to disguise that with a non-numbered title), released 25 years after the first, would work fine if it were some carbon-copy, smash-‘em-up action extravaganza - but this is a Die Hard pic, and surely we expect something, you know, better. The pushing-60 John McClane (the pushing-60 Bruce Willis) decides that it’s time to catch up with his alienated son Jack at the same time that said lad (agreeably played by Aussie Jai Courtney), a CIA agent embroiled in a convoluted plot about assassinations and nukes in downtown Moscow, is set to stand trial after having being dangerously framed (of course). And McClane, who says he isn’t looking for trouble, arrives in town at just the right time, and just the right place, to join up with Jack (and the also-fugitive Komarov, played by Sebastian Koch) to dodge bullets and baddies, endure a seemingly endless freeway chase, jump off a selection of buildings and survive choice beatings and bomb blasts, as everything builds to a (spoilers not necessary, as it’ll be well-known by the time you read this) finale set in Chernobyl, which, even for this type of apolitical nonsense, feels particularly ludicrous - and sorely disrespectful. Directed by John Moore (better-known for some real schlock), this has adequate work from Bruce, scene-stealing gags from Jai, a couple of rousing moments, wall-to-wall FX and exactly the ending you’re expecting, hoping for or, indeed, fearing. And, seriously, out here in the real world, just how many damn times would John McClane have died bloody hard by this late point? Mad Dog Bradley

Non-action-groupies with short memories will be glad to hear that this 3D sequel to 2009’s GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra can be viewed without having to (re)watch, or even think about, the original. With dance/music-pic specialising director Jon M Chu taking over from nowexecutive-producer Stephen Sommers, we pick up with that somehow secret and yet internationally celebrated military squad, the GI Joes, which now includes Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson), Duke Hauser (Channing Tatum), Lady Jaye (Adrianne Palicki) and others, and find that not only are they still battling the forces of COBRA but, of course, that the ‘cliffhanger’ ending of the first film has paid off, and the unnamed American President (played by prestige English actor Jonathan Pryce) has been taken over by Zartan (which therefore means that Pryce can have a fab time in two roles). The Prez, in an act of lip-smacking villainy, frames the Joes, and after improbably surviving in the desert and attacks by more baddies, the outfit are compelled to seek out their last remaining ally, the original but now-retired ‘Joe’ Joe Colton (Bruce Willis, of course, whose late-on intro suggests he might be uncredited, although his bald mug’s all over the ads and publicity), as President Zartan/Pryce eventually offers easily this film’s best moment outside the head-thumping ackshorn. Hugely expensive, all-star (sort of ), typically globetrotting, technologically dubious, really dumb and yet occasionally cheesily funny, Chu’s outing isn’t as bad as it probably should be. Mad Dog Bradley

Once upon a time, when we were all still in footy pyjamas and mum read us Jack And The Beanstalk at bedtime, most of us fell asleep dreaming about the magic harp and the golden goose, but somewhere in the world, someone was unable to get past how the beans became magical and what the giants were doing up in the clouds to begin with. Bryan Singer gives that poor, ADHD stricken child an answer, and reintroduces Jack (Nicholas Hoult), a farm boy raised on the legends of giants, whose trip to sell his uncle’s horse brings him an encounter with a princess and some enchanted seeds, which bear the same characteristics as Gremlins and mustn’t get wet. The inevitable happens, the seeds sprout a giant beanstalk and Jack and the princess find themselves fighting for all mankind when the King’s corrupt advisor (Stanley Tucci) sets out to bring the giants down to earth. Singer employs the blood of many Englishmen, including Ian McShane as the King and the unmistakable voice of Bill Nighy as the ‘head’ giant, while Ewan McGregor reunites with his Trainspotting cast mate Ewen Bremner as two of the King’s guards, in a visually impressive project that delivers a lot of action, a little bit of humour and more than a fair share of scenes that are just a camera angle away from being rather terrifying, in a colourful sort of way. Lots of fairytales have been rewritten, updated or fractured of late, but this one actually works. Fee fi fo fum, et cetera. Kat McCarthy

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Alliance Française French Film Festival 2013 Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas

2013’s FFF continues at the PN until Sun Apr 7, so check out affrenchfilmfestival.org and palacecinemas. com.au for details, mes amis.

Opening But Unrated The Croods (PG), a DreamWorks animation epic set at the dawn of time, features a voice cast including Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener and Cloris Leachman. Workaholic Japanese director Takashi Miike’s Hara-Kiri: Death Of A Samurai (MA), his follow-up to 13 Assassins, is his first feature in 3D. The Host (M), a religio/sci-fi drama drawn from that interminable novel by Stephenie ‘Twilight’ Meyer and directed by script adaptor Andrew (In Time) Niccol, showcases Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger, Emily Browning and William Hurt. And director Roger Michell’s Hyde Park On Hudson (M) is a biopic following Daisy Suckley’s relationship with Franklin D Roosevelt in which she’s played by Laura Linney, he’s played by Bill Murray and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (portrayed by Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter in The King’s Speech) are played by Samuel West and Olivia Colman.

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Adelaide Food & Wine Festival Market Feast Hey Adelaide, this chilly weather isn’t so bad. With the currently cooling temperatures comes fireside dinners, wood-oven feasts and hearty glasses of red, all of which you can enjoy in excess as part of the Adelaide Food & Wine Festival. Returning this Sat Apr 6 – Sun Apr 14, over a week the festival will fill laneways, market halls and esplanades all over the city with delicious smells and aromas. Here’s a glimpse of a few of the events coming

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The opening night of the Adelaide Food & Wine Festival will be celebrated with a dinner en masse at the Adelaide Central Market. Spearheaded by head chef at Hilton Adelaide’s The Brasserie, Dennis Leslie, freshly shucked oysters and canapés will be on offer for arriving guests before being seated at one long table for an enormous feast of fresh South Austrlaian produce. Tickets are $145 a head. WHERE: Adelaide Central Market (near Zuma’s) WHEN: Sat Apr 6 from 8pm - midnight TICKETS: marketfeast.eventbrite.com.au

East End Wine Down

Wines & Fishes

Wind down on Sunday with the East End Wine Down, a collaborative Sunday sesh thrown together by Radpublic, Kooki and East End Cellars to celebrate South Australian winemakers in an urban laneway environment. There will be DJ beats and food truck eats throughout the afternoon. Tickets are $30 a head. WHERE: Vardon Ave, Adelaide WHEN: Sun Apr 7 from 12pm – 4pm TICKETS: eastendwinedown.eventbrite. com.au

Jack Ruby

WHAT: Jack Ruby WHERE: 89 King William St, Adelaide (formerly Bull & Bear) WHEN: Mon – Fri 11am – late & Sat 4pm – late INFO: jackruby.com.au

WHERE: Semaphore Beach Foreshore WHEN: Sat Apr 13 from 12pm – 4pm TICKETS: winesandfishes.eventbrite. com.au

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GOODIESEN BREWERY AUTUMN ALE Personally there is no better time of the year to throw down a couple of colds ones. The mercury drops and all of a sudden the colour of the beer I drink matches the colour of leaves falling from the trees. Now that might sound a bit romantic but I make no apologies, redish brown ales hold a special place in many hearts around town and the latest release from the hard working Goodiesen family will break none.

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As we wave a sad farewell to Bull & Bear, it’s time to welcome Adelaide’s newest American-inspired diner eatery Jack Ruby. Capturing the vibe of secret bars and speakeasies of the Prohibition era in the 1930s, Jack Ruby combines American diner culture with the vibe of a unique underground bar. Think sliders, tacos, poutine, Reuben sandwiches, chilli fries, buffalo wings, dogs and Kentucky-fried quail accompanied by the gentle twangs of legends like Elvis, BB King and Buddy Holly through a freeplay jukebox. Alongside the food and tunes, the venue will be serving several American microbrewery beers by the keg and bottle alongside alcoholic milkshakes like the ‘Hershey’s’ – made with bourbon, peanut butter and vanilla bean ice cream. The fully table-serviced menu will be available until at least midnight on Friday and Saturdays, so if you’ve forgotten to top yourself up with a feed during those after-work drinks, you know where to go. Jack Ruby is open for service as of now, with the official launch event to take place sometime in mid-April.

Wines & Fishes is a celebration of young gun chefs frying up some of the best produce our oceans have to offer – a feast of sustainable seafood and local wines from cellar doors including Ducks In A Row, Fox Gordon, Cape Jaffa, 3 Dark Horses and Oliver’s Taranga. Tickets are $65 a head and include two beverages, three courses and a gelati to finish.

Out of the bottle and into the glass it pours well. A thick creamy head forms quickly and initial aromas of chocolate and maple syrup get the ball rolling. Honeycomb, molasses and a slight herbaceousness are a pretty sexy threesome on the palate and are given drive by a persistent yet gentle bitterness. Without being overly complicated it still has decent length and depth of flavour. Best enjoyed sat alone at your local saying very little to anyone and if Neil Young’s Heart of Gold happens to join you, welcome it with open arms. Cheers.

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Stars // The planets of love are both in Aries. Life is about to show you both sides of the coin. The masculine will be there in all his courageous glory – and the feminine will be there in all her sensuous magnificence. They are speaking different languages, so be very aware.

Libra 23.09/23.10 Venus has leapt into Aries. Mars is already there, along with the sun. This implies decision time, action stations. It certainly doesn’t imply decidophobia. Though the energy is a little raw and your cultural finesse could be compromised, your hidden passion is ready to rise.

Taurus 21.04/20.05 Venus has just moved into Aries, putting your life’s passion on a hot plate. Dance, or get off. If you stay stagnant, your hoofs will sizzle. The disease of ‘tomorrow’ robs us of life. Existence is sending you a beautiful reminder. Spice energises, when used in the correct measure.

Scorpio 24.10/21.11 Of all the water signs, you are the most comfortable with fire. This is a good thing, because after weeks of endlessly deepening emotion, something had to happen to get the ball rolling again. Support movement wherever it arises, even if it is a little unrefined. Say yes to life.

Gemini 21.05/21.06 Though you are feeling all the right impulses to leap forth into adventurous delightedness, the moment isn’t ready. There is still work to be done in the deep, silent waters of Pisces. You want your action to mean something, not just be there for its own sake. Let it ripen.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 Though you are nowhere near being the centre of attention, you have an important role to play. Others have decided to break the stasis by doing something - anything. This is bound to create reaction and controversy. Your job is to articulate what is going on. Name things.

Cancer 22.06/22.07 As the moon rests in Leo, you gain courage. As the sun shifts into Aries, so it’s time for action. There’s no point sitting around wondering. List all you need to do in order to claim the throne. It could be the throne of love. It could be the throne of wisdom. That’s your call.

Capricorn 22.12/19.01

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Del Kathryn Barton Wins 2013 Archibald Prize Hugo Weaving, otherwise known in our hearts as Elrond the Lord Of Rivendell, is the subject of this year’s Archibald Prize-winning portrait by Melbourne artist Del Kathryn Barton. As one of Australia’s most acclaimed actors, Weaving’s film credits range from blockbuster films like The Matrix to iconic Australian productions like Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert. His gnarled portraiture marks Barton’s second Archibald Prize to date. “Hugo Weaving is an Australian cultural treasure, an artist in ever sense of the word,” Barton said. “Initially I had considered a very simple pictorial approach for Hugo, a bearded man in a black suit. But when we sat down to discuss the portrait I was enchanted by the rich content in his stories and

felt moved to interpret and assemble a kind of personalised symbology within his portrait.” In the prize-winning painting, crafted using a mix of goache, watercolour and acrylic on canvas, Weaving’s stern sitting

position is brought to life with Barton’s signature use of vibrant pattern meshing and figurative, contemporary imagery. Barton recently exhibited at the Art Gallery Of South Australia in 2012 with her latest series of paintings Deep Space.

Aquarius 20.01/18.02 Friends are important. To be with one’s tribe, brings a feeling of wholeness. Community is as precious as water in the desert. None of this makes it easy. As you navigate friendships, so all sorts of trouble surfaces. Help turn the reactivity into understanding and closeness.

Virgo 23.08/22.09 There is plenty of power in the forces of ignition. Having been both becalmed and out of your depth for a couple of weeks, it comes as a relief to hear the great motor of life kick back into gear. Even the discomfort of misconstrued action feels better than no action at all.

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Somewhere back there you must have decided that you needed to grow some wisdom by taking on a challenge. Life has certainly been generous in its response. The challenge you have landed involves nothing less than transforming negative emotions. Have you found gold?

Leo 23.07/22.08 The moon starts her week in Leo - the sun in Aries. There is passion and fire in the air. You are a romantic adventurer. Your business isn’t to battle for battle’s sake. There needs to be significance to your escapades. They need to light up your heart. Create yourself anew.

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Del Kathryn Barton, Hugo, 2013

Aries 21.03/20.04

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Pisces 19.02/20.03 Though there will always be tremendous strength to your emotional currents, others don’t always swim with you down the same waterways. Your soul is a motor that drives you to realise its wishes and dreams. There is no need to get caught in everybody else’s impatience.

Crew Cuts

In And Out

Magazine Gallery 83a Hindley St, Adelaide Fri Mar 29 – Fri Apr 12

Urban Cow Studio 11 Frome St, Adelaide Thu Apr 4 – Sat Apr 27

Following the success of their previous Frontier exhibition at Tooth & Nail, urban street art kings Ankles and Smile, AKA the crew behind Rawhide, are again joining forces for a collaborative showcase in Crew Cuts at city gallery Magazine. Featuring new works in cut paper, there will be live sampling thanks to Carlo Rampage on the opening night. Opening: Fri Mar 29 at 6pm

In And Out is an exhibition of large, energetic and encompassing works, questioning a painted analogue of perceptual space by local artist Glenn Kestell. The exhibition will be officially opened at Urban Cow Studio on Wed Apr 3 at 6pm by guest speaker Christopher Orchard. Opening: Wed Apr 3 from 6pm

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Rundle Mall AW13 Parades On Fri Mar 22 Rundle Mall held their fashion parades to showcase some of the signature looks from Rundle Mall retailers for the cooler seasons. This included an exclusive look at what we can expect from Ted Baker when it opens in Rundle Place, as well as key autumn/winter looks from David Jones, Charlie Brown, Bossini and Oroton.

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Culture

DVD Reviews

Lawless

Stitches

Dead Europe

Dredd

Roadshow / MA / 111 Mins

Anchor Bay / R / 88 Mins

Paramount Transmission / MA / 84 Mins

Icon / M / 96 Mins

Australian director John Hillcoat (of The Road and the Nick Cave-written The Proposition) here handles another Cave script, this time drawn from the factual book The Wettest Country In The World by Matt Bondurant, an actual descendant of the repellent characters seen onscreen. In 1931 in Franklyn County, Virginia, the Bondurant brothers, namely war survivor Forrest (Tom Hardy), nasty Howard (Aussie Jason Clarke) and wimpy youngest Jack (Shia LaBeouf ), are moonshiners and bootleggers targeted by a corrupt DA (Tim Tolin) and nasty Special Deputy Charlie Rakes (Guy Pearce, struggling at first as a womanhating germaphobe), who want control of the business. Sweaty violence ensues, but two of the Bondurants are thrown off their game by romantic involvements, with Forrest intrigued by the mysterious Maggie Beauford ( Jessica Chastain - again!) and Jack chasing the religious Bertha Minnix (Mia Wasikowska, another Australian), while also taking illegal instructions from infamous gangster Floyd Banner (Gary Oldman in restrained mode). Heavily atmospheric, this has a terrific cast but altogether too much plot, resulting in a movie that should be tremendous but, instead, tends to prove criminally overlong. This release features commentary by Hillcoat and Bondurant, deleted scenes, featurettes and a music video. MDB

‘Wild and crazy’ stand-up comedian Ross Noble’s image is almost completely unthreatening and user-friendly, which makes it rather strange that he would choose to star in this, co-writer/director Conor McMahon’s low-budget, Ireland-shot, blackly-comic horror/gore-fest. Stitches (Ross) is a grubby, boozy, caravan-dwelling clown who’s mocked, kicked and laughed at during a children’s party, and after his accidental death (involving lots of lurching about with a kitchen knife stuck in his eye) we pick up years later with the thenbirthday boy Tom (Tommy Knight) now a troubled teen, haunted by the event and terrified of clowns (that’s ‘coulrophobia’, apparently), and all his seedy pals alsogrown-up and hoping for a parent-free party. And the spectral Stitches takes this opportunity to rise from the grave to knock off those he feels responsible for his demise, in ludicrously graphic murder sequences typically capped-off by a raspy, Freddy Kruger-like one-liner - although the most outrageous splatter sequence is reserved for early on and doesn’t feature Noble, as Tom imagines a bitchy teacher turning into a killer clown, grabbing a schoolmate and tearing off his penis in screaming close-up. This includes a Making-Of featurette. MDB

Director Tony Krawitz makes his feature début with this filming of (parts of ) Christos Tsiolkas’ long and nasty 2006 novel, and the result’s an ambitious tale with strong playing that’s so relentlessly ugly and cynical that it’s eventually impossible to care. Greek-Australian Isaac (Ewen Leslie) is a gay photographer keen to travel to Greece, but when he announces his plans to his dad (William Zappa) it makes the old man lose it and, it seems, is the impetus for him to kill himself, which therefore means that Isaac goes to Greece anyway, in order to sprinkle Dad’s ashes around Athens. However, when he arrives he finds suspicion everywhere, and soon he’s journeying to Paris and Budapest in search of the truth behind a terrible secret, as all the while he becomes increasingly obsessed - and perhaps pursued - by Josef, a young refugee with haunting eyes (and Josef ’s played by Kodi Smit-McPhee, obviously older than he was in The Road and Let Me In but still intrigued by humanity’s cruelty). While a daring Leslie works hard here, there’s so much else to dislike, with a view of the hateful side of Europe that almost makes you want to gag by the end. MDB

An English-born future-shock (schlock?) ‘character’ who first appeared in 2000 AD in 1977, Judge Dredd is so popular that the production of this Pete Travis-directed, only-part-American-financed actioner was plagued by fans who still foam at the mouth at the memory of the Sly Stallone-starring Judge Dredd (1995), and yet they needn’t have feared, as this is just about the coolest pseudo-Apocalyptic saga in ages - and our ‘hero’ never takes his helmet off ! In Mega-City One, a cramped metropolis in an irradiated future, Dredd (Karl Urban) is a law-enforcing ‘Judge’ (as in that, jury and executioner) who’s assigned the task of breaking in a psychic recruit (Olivia Thirlby as Anderson) and, after turning up at the 200-storey, criminal-crammed ‘Peach Tree’ block, is ordered dead by Ma-Ma (Lena Headey from Game Of Thrones). Dredd and Anderson (who tries to humanise our boy a little, but never truly detracts from his sweet blankness) must then fight off every goon, psycho and scumbag in town, in sequences that prove exciting in the hands of director Travis, and, when the oodles of victims are under the influence of Ma-Ma’s drug ‘Slo-Mo’, allow for balletic, comic-book-like set-pieces of wildly gory grandeur. MDB

Bookshelf

No Way Back Matthew Klein / Corvus / 420pp / $24.99

Klein’s latest, with its slightly hokey, cobwebbed cover image, seems like it might be just another creepy-crimey page-turner, but there’s rather more going on here, and his ability to evoke steamily unnerving atmosphere is considerable. Jimmy Thane, an exaddict with a deeply troubled past and a missus who’s stuck with him no matter what, is given a last professional chance by a big-time business pal: become ruthless CEO of a hopeless IT firm and turn around its disastrous fortunes in seven weeks. This he sets about doing, and yet everything is underpinned with an intriguing, Florida-based unease, as Jimmy wonders why his wife puts up with him, a strange neighbour appears to be watching, the receptionist at work finds him inexplicably irresistible and more, all with a surprisingly ‘70s edge and a final series of revelations that don’t let you down - quite. MDB

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The Prophet The Prophet, the best known work by Lebanese poet, philosopher and artist Khalil Gibran who lived from 1883 until 1931, is about to be brought to life on stage by award winning oud player Joseph Tawadros and The Song Company. Tawadros has worked with The Song Company, one of this country’s leading vocal ensembles, in the past for Visitatio, and is now looking forward to their new collaboration which follows his 2009 release of The Prophet, an album of solo oud based on the Gibran piece. “I’ve always been a big fan [of Gibran] so I did The Prophet album after reading the book and being inspired by his poetry,” Tawadros says. “And then I was approached to put together The Prophet with The Song Company so I jumped at the opportunity to work with them again. “And because I’m such a big fan of Gibran’s work, it made a lot of sense,” he continues. “And as I’ve worked with The Song Company before, I also knew it would work. Visitatio worked really well for us back in 2009 and I had always wanted to do something with them again. “But I’m still writing it as we speak and fine tuning it and then polishing it up a bit more because it’s a hard medium writing for classical voices. There were no vocals on my album, The Prophet, because it was just me playing oud. It was just music inspired by the words, so this will have words, although Gibran didn’t write his words intending that they would ever be sung. “But I think the audience will enjoy what

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we’ve come up with,” he adds. “And Gibran’s work contains a really good message and has a good vibe and a lot of spirituality which is what I’ve tried to convey in the music score. There’s a common link between the words and the music.” The musician, who also composes for documentaries and short films and who has collaborated with artists such as Neil Finn and Lior, picked up a recent ARIA award for his album Concerto Of The Greater Sea, which was recorded with The Australian Chamber Orchestra. “I’ve been nominated heaps of times in the past in that category [Best World Music Album],” he laughs, “so it was kind of a relief to finally get one. When you get nominated so many times and don’t pick one up, you never

know how it’s going to go on the night.” Tawadros’ recently released Chameleons Of The White Shadow features such illustrious guests as banjo player Bela Fleck, vibe player Roy Ayers and bassist Richard Bona. “I’m really excited about the new one,” Tawadros concludes, “because it combines a lot of unusual instruments – banjo, Hammond organ, vibraphone, tuba and accordion – with the oud.”

WHAT: The Prophet WHERE: Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Thu Apr 4 at 6pm and Fri Apr 5 at 7.30pm

Your guide to the student experience. It was strange to hear the stories of the youth ambassadors from the Roadtrip To End Poverty while the shitstorm that is the Labor Party leadership was unfolding. Who knows if Julia Gillard will even still be PM when this goes to print? Like basically with every occupation, the romantic approach to politics is well and truly on the way out, with politicians now having to be meaner and savvier than ever before to ensure survival. However, I like to think that ambassadors, like those on the roadtrip, who sacrifice their time, energy, money and tolerance, did so for all the right reasons and keep the true romanticism behind advocacy alive. Sure, it looks good on your resume to rub shoulders with MPs at Parliament House, but even the most opportunistic bastard couldn’t hack an 18-hour bus ride and sleeping on the floor of a scout hall with 999 others if they didn’t truly believe in the cause they were promoting. If you believe in something – make it count. You’ll be rewarded for it in the future and, if you one day reach Canberra - don’t be an arsehole about it. Thanks. And remember, if you have any student news, info or deals I should know about email lachlanaird@ripitup.com.au, Poke facebook.com/fasttimesripitupmag or Tweet @FastTimesRIU and I’ll spread the word. Peace, Lachie

Roadtrip To End Poverty On Sat Mar 9, 1000 young ambassadors for poverty relief across Australia embarked on the Roadtrip To End Poverty. The initiative was run through the Oaktree Foundation, a non-for-profit poverty relief movement run entirely by people under 26, and saw a group of passionate Adelaideans take their campaign all the way from Adelaide to Sydney, stopping off along the way to gather support and signatures. The Canberra leg saw the delegates meeting with over 90 MPs including Bob Carr, Gary Humphries and Christine Milne, who helped launch the Movement To End Poverty campaign as well as their own political

Hey! Student Vox Pop stunt on the lawns of Parliament. A select few were invited to attend Question Time (which, as always, was a circus). Evermore even jumped on the SA delegates’ bus to conclude the roadtrip in Sydney with a media stunt (of course), with the band pledging to base their next music video around the roadtrip and closed the event with a concert. While the delegates didn’t have the most glamorous of times – having to sleep in the same room and share showers with 1000 others - the support, signatures and donations they made along the way for poverty relief is worth the sleep deprivation.

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If you want to join the Movement To End Poverty, visit endpoverty.com.au. To find out more about opportunities offered by the Oaktree Foundation, visit theoaktree.org.

I procrastinate by: Watching Game Of Thrones and Parks And Recreation.

Roadtrip To End Poverty Delegate I study: Bachelors of International Studies and Media at Adelaide Uni But in my spare time I: Travel, see live music and fundraise campaigns for more and better aid in developing countries. The best thing I’ve learnt at uni so far is: To be yourself and you’ll find yourself surrounded by people who love you for you. My best study tip is: To actually do readings! Everything will make more sense and your tutor will like you.

In the future you can expect me to: Be fighting for a better world in whatever career I find myself in.

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Earn Money To Study Yeah, I thought it was one of those internet pop-up ‘Earn $1200 A Day By Working From Your Couch’ dealios too, but apparently this one is legit. StudyBooster is a new website designed to financially motivate students to achieve their goals. A student sets a goal and their friends and family pledge an amount to be paid out to the student only if the goal is completed to the benefactor’s satisfaction. The science behind it is that student’s benefit both by financial motivation (no shit) and by writing down their goals. So you don’t look like a complete dick for taking others’ money for your own benefit, StudyBooster will

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donate two percent of all successful pledges to Save The Children foundation, so both you, and your supporters, will be helping your education and the livelihood of less fortunate children. Basically, if you need some extra cash to fuel the coffee addiction, make a dent in your HECS or be used for celebration beers once you graduate with a glowing GPA, StudyBooster could help you reach that new extra height of success. And if you don’t, you get squat and children worldwide won’t get anything either. And you don’t want that on your conscience. “Won’t somebody please think of the children!?”

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.

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No, we aren’t asking for you to pimp out your younger siblings for a Toddlers And Tiaras knock-off so you can procrastinate by watching some home-grown ‘talent’. Local production company, Free Range Theatrix, are after aspiring young performers from 14-22 to join the cast of their upcoming pantomime, Once Upon A Pageant. The call-out sheet asks for everyone from menopausal fairy godmothers to disenchanted environmentalists to cross-dressing fairy godfathers, so if you have a sense of humour, a few spare hours up your sleeve and an ego that needs to be preened, this is your chance. And yes, there’s a beauty quest, with Sleeping Beauty, Snow White

and Prince Charming one through to seven pitting it out against trolls for the plastic tiara and nylon sash. This will be the latest production from Free Range Theatrix, which was formed by Adelaide art practitioners Sally Hardy and Noni Vassos in 2010 and has since helped create original and contemporary theatrical works for young Adelaideans. What better way to put off homework than by commanding the attention of others from the stage? I can’t think of any either. For more info and audition guidelines visit freerangetheatrix.com

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Culture

CD Reviews

CD Of The Week

Scottie’s Singles

Listen Now:

The Strokes

Chvrches

Comedown Machine (Sony/Columbia)

Recover (Liberation/Goodbye)

If last year’s Chvrches single The Mother We Share didn’t win you over with its spellbinding Cocteau Twins glow, Recover’s Yazoo pleas are sure to claw your heart like a desperate, abandoned lover. This is the sort of electro pop Tegan & Sara were surely aiming for when they released heinous misstep Heartthrob last month, with Recover offering an utterly absorbing and gorgeously hypnotic energy. If this isn’t as flogged to death on Triple J as Major Lazer’s Get Free, I’ll retreat to a shoddily-assembled nuclear bunker under Lake Eyre and put my savings into training an army of Iberian lynxes in preparation for the apocalypse. Chvrches are worth worshipping.

Listen Later:

Phoenix Entertainment (Liberation)

I find it hard to believe it’s a coincidence the Chinese pentatonic intro to Entertainment resembles Siouxsie & The Banshees’ Hong Kong Garden being fast-forwarded on a battered old Sony Walkman - given Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars’ wife Sofia Coppola used the tune to open her Marie Antoinette soundtrack, it’s obviously a household fave. Nonetheless, Entertainment is an adrenalin-charged return from the Parisian answer to a DFA Strokes, with the sublime pre-chorus giving a kick of anticipation for April’s Bankrupt! release. This definitely cuts the (French) mustard.

Birds Of Tokyo March Fires (EMI)

Western Australia’s Birds look set to soar to even greater heights with album number four March Fires, which has already marched right up to the top of the ARIA charts. Testing the water with the 2012 EP This Fire proved successful,

Skipping Girl Vinegar Making Our Way

with this new album continuing on in much the same vein; March Fires’ proliferation of emotional and uplifting songs makes for the perfect pick-me-up. From start to end the album is a solid listening experience, offering more with every additional spin. The strength of March Fires is its consistency and how well it all hangs together, with nothing appearing out of place or disappointing. Some may focus on how much the songs sound the same, but for me this one is about taking in the whole experience rather than selected moments. I’m not sure about the album art, but how could anyone complain with highlights such as potential single of the year Lanterns or the likes of The Others and Liquid Arms, not forgetting the tracks we’ve already heard and loved, This Fire and Boy. While this album has proved a popular move into a different direction for frontman Ian Kenny and his Birds, I hope they don’t completely abandon their rock roots. Rob Lyon

Living up to their name, 2011’s Angles saw The Strokes partially paralysed. Rifts meant recording sessions were conducted with band members in separate studios, promotional photo shoots proved as difficult as breeding phosphorescent unicorns. Exactly two years later, the New Yorkers have shirked interview schedules in favour of a ‘let the music speak’ mindset for fifth album Comedown Machine. The 11-track album proves similarly difficult. With its Boz Scaggs-versus-Amiga grooves, early taster One Way Trigger showcases the divisive nature of Comedown Machine, with frontman Julian Casablancas proving especially intent on playing with new vocal hues. Opener Tap Out sounds like an absurd New Order and Michael Jackson mash-up called Don’t Stop Til You Get True Faith, Welcome To Japan radiates a bemused used-carsalesman funk sleaze and the inspiring Bryan Ferry sounds of Chances should have been the exquisite, dreamlike closer. It may well be the awkward running order that causes Comedown Machine’s initial feelings of discord. Muscle-memory tracks All The Time and Partners In Crime hold onto the tight-jeans-and-shitboxtransistor Strokes of old, while the finale Call It Fate, Call It Karma is a crackly gramophone curio that ends with a fadeout vocal closer to two cats rooting on the patio than Casablancas’ Last Nite howl. Like Robert Scott’s attempt on the South Pole, Comedown Machine is an adventurous yet ultimately frosty affair. Scott McLennan

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If there’s one word guaranteed to inspire a sneer from me faster than ‘YOLO’, it’s ‘bespoke’. What an overused, trite and nonsense catchall. Perennially joyful Melbourne pop folkers Skipping Girl Vinegar are here to rip the term back from the hipsters; with their carefully handcrafted art, baked goods and vintage dresses, they’re practically the musical version of Frankie. Like Doves with a dash of summery Curtis Mayfield soul, the Making Our Way release is even quaintly accompanied by an origami lesson. You don’t have to be a twitcher to marvel at this whooping crane.

Paramore Still Into You (Warner)

Despite being less punk than Colonel Sanders, Still Into You’s pop chutzpah suggests Paramore aren’t stooping to the levels of that tragic chicken-hawker Benji Madden just yet. With cayenne sprite Hayley Williams hitting notes higher than a United Arab Emirates spire, this sounds like Pat Benatar covering Barbie & The Rockers’ greatest hits. Like an accidental Twitpic, this is a perky new shot from the revitalised US three-piece.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Can’t Hold Us (Warner)

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Live Review

Mutemath & Big Scary Fowler’s Live, Thu Mar 21 Review by Lachlan Aird Pics by Andreas Heuer

It is clear from the outset that Mutemath’s first Adelaide concert won’t be a conventional band experience. The band enters from the public entrance of Fowler’s Live, walking in single file to the opening of Odd Soul, with the tightly-packed crowd parting diligently as if in the presence of royalty. The house lights reveal a very Gen X male-dominated crowd, with the fumes of sweat, BO and dad jeans swirling together not helping the feeling of being caught in a sauna sausagefest. The band are dressed like some sort of middle class Village People, with lead singer and keyboardist Paul Meany as a suited-up lawyer, bassist Roy Mitchell-Cardenas as a bespectacled hippie, guitarist Todd Gummerman as flannydonning farmer and drummer Darren King as a token superhero, complete with Superman-shirt. This goobiness only enhances their onstage charm. King is indeed a superhero on a drum kit, providing mind-blowing solos, precision and flare, with his fellow bandmates taking his cues obediently. Moving into Pyrtania and Blood Pressure, the tightness and excellent musicianship from all members never falters before Meany takes a break to thank the crowd for joining them. The band is especially gracious towards support act

Reviews // Quick Ones

They Might Be Giants Nanobots

Biffy Clyro

The Ruby Suns

Opposites

Christopher

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(Inertia)

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New York veterans They Might Be Giants’ latest is (yet) another deliberately, even defiantly, oddball collection of tunes, and includes a few tracks that recall their greatest and rockiest works (and even near-hits), a couple of cuts that seem altogether forced and jadedly weird, and a handful of mystifying bits of stuff that barely rank as songs at all. The opener, You’re On Fire, is a fairly dancey kick-off, while the second offering, the chilly Nanobots, is a darker shot at one of their sci-fi ditties, and the very cool (and rather amusing - and disturbing) Call You Mom is classic TMBG loopiness, but then there’s Tesla, which initially seems like one of their unfashionable but enjoyable biographical outings (think Factory Showroom’s James K Polk) yet, ultimately, doesn’t really work. Hive Mind, Decision Makers and Tick are all mere stings or jokey throwaways (and prove even shorter and sillier than a sweet oldie like Flood’s Minimum Wage), and everything finally ends with the brief Didn’t Kill Me, which features one of the Johns (Flansburgh or Linnell, it’s increasingly hard to tell) singing like Janis Joplin with sinus trouble - and then a good 10 seconds of silence. MDB

Big Scary, who he reveals they met during their Groovin’ The Moo tour last year. This support slot was a prime opportunity for Big Scary to provide an insight into their forthcoming album Not Art, including lead single Phil Collins, to a well-behaved and punctual crowd. Meany then introduces the new material that Mutemath are using on this tour to test out tracks for their fourth upcoming album. This is a special treat for the audience, who become exposed to a darker and synth-heavy sound from the band with Heads Up and Where We Once Were. Swelling codas, swirling psychedelic guitars and piano intros are perhaps not completely flush with King’s desire to move Mutemath in a totally different direction, but it’s definitely a step further into the progressive rock orbit. Mutemath intersperse the new material with familiar tracks including Allies and closer Typical and perform a song that they started writing two nights ago at their Sydney show, Startle. Break The Same proves to be an epic closing encore, with a fairy-light adorned air mattress being used by Meany to crowd surf as Darren King expertly mounts his drum kit while playing during a final rocking send-off. With a set that eclipses two hours, the crowd never once appears bored by Mutemath’s presence as they clap, wolf-whistle, head-bob, dance and – awkwardly – grind throughout. Given the cheers when Meany announces King as a recent new father, it wouldn’t be too surprising if nine months from now there are a few new fathers in Adelaide too, all thanks to Darren King.

Bruce Springsteen Collection: 1973 – 2012 (Sony)

So the real version of this album is 20 tracks long and is stretched across two discs, one disc being named The Land At The End Of Our Toes and the other being referred to as The Sand At The Core Of Our Bones. These titles are taken from a line in the track Sounds Like Balloons, but there’s also an underlying message that isn’t exactly subtle. Sounds Like Balloons also includes the lyric, ‘Ancient Rome, they built that fucker stone by stone, this is not for your entertainment’. Some have speculated that this refers to the album’s painstaking development and strained relationships. It’s an interesting theory, and the chance that the trials and tribulations of a band might be cemented into the grooves of vinyl is an undeniably romantic rock‘n’roll sentiment. The reality, much like life itself, isn’t all that poignant. Opposites flip flops between arena shaking sing-alongs and corny calls to arms that would make Nickelback cringe. As a double album this might have worked, but the abbreviated international experience of the single disc version is confusing. Biffy Clyro has always aimed for the stars, but on Opposites they are a band being pulled in two different directions; the unknown vastness of space one way, or the safety and comfort of the Earth’s atmosphere the other way. Ryan Lynch

People are always giving Ryan McPhun a hard time. I’m always like, wait, the dude has ‘fun’ in his name and you’re giving him shit? Regardless of where you stand, there is no denying that the Kiwi by way of California has rubbed some folks the wrong way. With every release it seems as though McPhun has suffered from yet another identity crisis. As the sole proprietor of the Ruby Suns franchise, McPhun has ensured that each Ruby Suns album has a personality of its own, by experimenting wildly and refusing to settle on a singular ‘sound’. On their first two albums, critics warmly regarded the Suns’ genre-bending pop as innovative and refreshing. On the band’s third album, however, the claws came out. Fight Softly’s hazy, chillwave vibes grated many, and McPhun was labelled a no-talent hack who just copied whatever happened to be popular at the time. As an electro album full of huge hooks and sunny choruses, Christopher is suffering from the same backlash. Despite the fact that Christopher would’ve fared better if it had come out two years ago, he’s got some killer pop songs up his sleeve. The lyrics may be questionable with lines like ‘ You’re a single malt, pure Agave tequila. Anyone else would think I’m your cheerleader’, but these synths are bringing sexy back. Beleedat. Ryan Lynch

Summarising Bruce Springsteen’s 40-year career in one disc is harder than condensing the Harry Potter series down to a single Tweet. The latest Boss compilation engages in more savage pruning than a Jim’s Mowing dude with an aversion to ficus. Like choosing your favourite twin, Collection has opted for The Promised Land over Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Brilliant Disguise over Tunnel Of Love and Hungry Heart over The River. It’s one for Boss virgins rather than those with ultra-rare Japanese pink vinyl versions of Nebraska, but the misunderstood anxieties of radio staples such as Born To Run, Born In The USA and Dancing In The Dark mean there’s still some magic in the night. Collection, you ain’t a beauty, but hey you’re alright. Scott McLennan

Iceage You’re Nothing (Remote Control)

Two years ago I called Danish band Iceage ‘babyfaced emo Vikings’, mainly because all of the band members were still in their teens and screaming angsty shit against a backdrop of two people fighting with chainsaws. They say that with age comes wisdom, and Iceage shows us that along with all that wisdom comes a hell of a lot of pent-up rage. On their second album, You’re Nothing, these Nordic hellspawns are pissed, but they’re not overtly clamouring for the violent collapse of society. Iceage’s debut album, New Brigade, was 12 tracks that clocked in at 24 minutes of frantic, unfocused aggression. You’re Nothing has the same spirit, but is more refined and melodic. It takes away some of their bite, but I still know who I’m going to have my money on if Iceage and One Direction ever face off in the Thunderdome. Ryan Lynch RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

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Life Pilot by Lachlan A ird Considering their demo tracks acquired plenty of interest and fandom – having them selected by Triple J to open Soundwave – heavy metal outfit Life Pilot saw plenty of reasons to re-record the songs for a professional release, Compass. Rip It Up chats with Life Pilot’s drummer, Eli Green, the John Stanier ringin for Mark Of Cain, about their success so far and what it’s like to share the album-making process with another band. Compass is different to most other EPs in that it is not solely the work of one band. Joining Life Pilot on the record is prominent Perth heavy metal outfit, Statues. “Our first show ever was supporting for Statues on their first Adelaide show,” Green says. “We were really impressed with them and invited them over for heavy rock band event Down And Dirty last year. We

then discussed the idea of doing something together and the split just happened naturally after that.” For Green, the greatest benefit of a split record meant that the net could be cast wider to a larger group of people than if it was just pursued by one band. “Realistically you automatically get access to both bands’ fanbase. You double the amount of people who will hear your music and have double the amount of push on the release as there are two bands working together to get the word out there.” Sharing isn’t always the easiest thing at the best of times and when it came to sharing a common theme and sound for the album, challenges arise in the process. “[Making a split record] can be quite taxing. While you have more people pushing the record, you also have more people with input into how it should turn out. In our case it was nine people who all needed to be satisfied with the decisions along the way. Whenever we spoke about names and concepts we needed to make sure every person signed off on it.” How was the long distance relationship?

“When you’re dealing with a state in between the two of you it’s hard to get things working quickly,” Green admits. For fans of Life Pilot the three songs that appear on Compass will be familiar, as they are derived from the successful demo they made last year. The demo even landed at Triple J, featuring on both Short.Fast. Loud and Unearthed programs. Triple J also selected the band to open Soundwave Festival. “It was a dream come true. We’re used to playing small Adelaide clubs for dirty, filthy shows and then we’re on this 50 foot stage with all these people watching us. It was great.” For the next dirty, filthy Life Pilot show, catch their album launch at The Crown & Anchor. WHO: Life Pilot with Safe Hands, Mara Jade, A Ghost Orchestra and One In The Chamber WHAT: Compass album launch WHERE: The Crown & Anchor WHEN: Sat Mar 30

Blenheim Music And Camping Festival Ahead of Blenheim Music And Camping kicking off in the heart of the Clare Valley on Fri Mar 29, Rip It Up fired event organiser Alistair Sandow a few questions on what we can expect from the event. Blenheim is now in its fourth year as a festival, did you first expect it to become an annual event? To have it as an annual event was our goal and so far we’ve achieved it which is great, but we didn’t expect it to grow as quickly as it has. How did you go about selecting the line-up? We attended a lot of gigs in Adelaide and approached the acts that we enjoyed and would try and work something out. We’ve been speaking with The Transatlantics about getting involved for the last couple of years so it’s great to have them on board. Who are you most excited to see this year? Well, I can’t really pick because everyone on the line-up is fantastic – but having bands like The Transatlantics and The Levitators as headlines will be fantastic. What have been the highlights in past years? Everything. Last year was great as we had a more professional approach and had a diverse range of people come along from people in their 60s to teenagers. How did the event become involved with the New Hope Cambodia charity? Tim – one of the guys on the committee – was born in a Thai refugee camp and his family survived the Pol Pot regime. We’ve since all been over to Cambodia and have helped out with the grass roots charity, New Hope Cambodia, so it’s an excellent cause that’s very close to us.

For details see blenheimfest.com.au.

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Format Always Wins With 15 years of music experience under his belt playing for other bands, one of Adelaide’s renowned masters of bass and everything folk, roots and blues, Craig Atkins, is embarking on his first solo effort. Atkins chats with Rip It Up about the journey to becoming a solo artist, and what the future may have in store. “Especially after being in all these other bands and recording for other people’s songs it’s nice to have my own little trial out in the world now,” says Atkins. “It’s been a lot of years coming and I’ve just been waiting for the right opportunity. I’m just thankful that the last couple of years have certainly presented itself for that.” Embarking on a solo career has presented some challenges along the way in changing the dynamic of the creative process. “It’s certainly miles apart from what I’ve

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been used to doing. I miss out on having other people there to bounce off and progress with ideas. It’s always nice to have someone else in the studio to bounce things off so that was a bit of a struggle,” Atkins admits. “But I did get to have a complete vision of how I want everything to sound and get to perform all the instruments myself from the start of recording.” Wait up - if you listen to Light And Shade you are struck with the big band sounds from many instruments. Was Atkins really responsible for all of them? “On Light And Shade in total there was a range of about 13 or so different instruments that were used. There were a few different guitars, bass, ukulele, percussion, didgeridoo and some others. It was a great challenge in that regard to push myself further than I previously have.” This didn’t mean that Atkins had to teach himself how to play other instruments other than his trusty bass, but instead a showcase of some of his lesser-known talents.

“I like a lot of diversity in sound and different instruments. I’ve collected a lot over the years. I have a bedroom full of these instruments and thought that they can either sit there and collect dust or actually use them in the studio.” Don’t expect Light And Shade’s album launch at The Promethean on Sat Mar 30 to have Atkins onstage as a manic one-man band though, playing all 13 instruments at once. “I won’t be playing 13 on the night... Maybe 10?” Atkins laughs. “I’m looking to get some guest musicians to come up and play along with me so that it isn’t just a full set of myself. For the songs where I can’t loop all the instruments together on a track I’ll be having the guest musicians onstage.”

WHO: Craig Atkins and guests WHAT: Light And Shade album launch WHERE: The Promethean WHEN: Sat Mar 30

To commemorate the end of Format Collective’s three-year run on Peel St, a two-day music and art festival/shindig will be held over Sat Mar 30 and Sun Mar 31. Wild Oats, Steering By Stars, Sparkspitter, Doe, Glamour Lakes and plenty more will grace the streets for an all night dance party to remember. Tickets are available online or from Format Zine Shop, with day passes at $20 and weekend passes for $35.

Swimming Album Launch Yes, Tonight is the debut album from local outfit Swimming, who Triple J’s Dom Alessio just listed as one of the ‘Top 5 To Watch’ bands in SA. Yes, Tonight will be officially launched with the help of Naomi Keyte and FIRS at the Metro Hotel and is available from the band’s Bandcamp. Tickets $8 with doors from 9pm on Thu Mar 28.

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