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Editor’s Note// “I hate everything about cabaret when it’s out-of-work performers singing songs from the Great American Songbook to a crowd of people their parents’ age who want to be able to eat cheese and drink wine in the theatre.”

When Rip It Up chatted to Shane Warne: The Musical star Eddie Perfect ahead of last Saturday’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2013 launch, he voiced agitation at the comfortable and bland performances that often fall under the cabaret banner.

Considering Weimar’s influence on many modern stage artists, it’s disappointing performers often eschew the passionate intellectualism and activism of that era’s stage shows. A great cabaret bill should include a few cheeky thorns in the lion’s paw. In lieu of an insightful charge into uncharted and electrified waters, we’re often treated to bourgeois retrospectives paying tribute to classic songs that have had every last nuance squeezed from them.

In his opening speech on Saturday night Premier Jay Weatherill announced the 2013 event would be “edgy and confronting”. I’m not sure I’d agree that a handful of transvestites, a couple of tits and a lot of old tat could really be seen as breaking down performance boundaries, but what’s more confronting was the merciless nepotism Artistic Director Kate Ceberano has engaged in by roping in countless South Pacific affiliates for solo shows.

Funnily enough, my dissatisfaction during the launch somewhat evaporated the moment Ceberano arrived on stage reclining on a bed and giving the audience a flashback to the come-hither moves of her saucy Bedroom Eyes music video.

Expect CabFest ticket sales among 40-something males to hereon skyrocket.

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Among the news on the web this week, you’ll find us investigating the freshly released program for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2013. The highlights and big names are only the tip of this 161-show iceberg, complete with Broadway stars and Molly Ringwald. If the idea of another festival season is making you nauseous, then take a break and read our live reviews: all of the fun with none of the crowds. Phew.

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Your fast guide to this week’s best entertainment

Sleep Parade

Finding Harold Bloom Tour

Joe Satriani

Heading over from Melbourne armed with their latest single, Sleeping With The Enemy, and playing Enigma Bar on Sat Apr 13 alongside San Marcos, Filthy Lucre and Fell At Ten.

See Mary Webb, Michaela Burger and Kelly Breuer, three fantastic local singer songwriters, when they play Thebarton’s Wheatsheaf Hotel from 8pm on Fri Apr 12 to kick off an extensive national tour.

Experience the legendary left-handed American guitarist from 7.30pm on Mon Apr 15 at North Tce’s Elder Hall at which he will be conducting a guitar masterclass for the first time in Australia presented by Thump Music.

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Teen Rush

Hayward Williams

Catch the Brisbane-based thrash party duo ahead of their national tour with US band The Bronx when they play Rocket Bar on Fri Apr 12 as part of their Teenage Kickstarts tour.

Taking place on Tue Apr 16 as an all-ages, alcohol free, school holiday event at the Governor Hindmarsh with Adelaide pop group At Sunset (pictured) and New Zealand’s Titanium along with Kristina and DJ Lavrax.

Witness the rootsy US singer songwriter when he plays Thebarton’s Wheatsheaf Hotel from 5pm on Sun Apr 14 with The Yearlings as well as playing regional gigs in Willunga (Fri Apr 12) and Tanunda (Sat Apr 13).

Speeding along this week...

CHRIS BAILEY TRIBUTE CONCERT – taking place at Thebarton Theatre on Wed Apr 17 with The Angels, Jimmy Barnes, Diesel, Ian Moss and many more as a tribute to the late Angels bass player.

THE ROSHAMBOS – see the Brisbanebased indie pop trio at Rundle St’s Exeter Hotel with Dr Desoto on Fri Apr 12 and at North Tce’s Cavern Club on Sat Apr 13.

RORY ELLIS – back in Adelaide from country Victoria to further promote the release of his bluesy sixth album, Twisted Willow, and playing Clarence Pk’s Church Of The Trinity from 6pm on Sun Apr 14.

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

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Comedian Chris Tucker, who featured alongside Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook, is making his way to Australia for a stand-up tour. To brush up before you see him live, check out his starring role next to Jackie Chan in the Rush Hour film trilogy (soon to be a quadrilogy) or spots on ‘90s show Def Comedy Jam. Tickets for Tucker’s Sat Jun 15 show at Thebarton Theatre are on sale now through Venuetix.

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Thank Ewes Cheerful indie pop quintet Ball Park Music are getting ready to scuttle back into the studio at the end of the year, so are heading

out this winter for a final headline jaunt, titled The Thank Ewes Tour. With sheep in tow (hopefully), the Brisbanites will play in Adelaide on Thu Jul 11 at HQ. Bassist Jen Boyce enjoys having her head shaved on stage - perhaps a farewell shearing party is on the cards… Tickets are available through OzTix.

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Silverstein have announced local supports for their Australian tour. Adelaide will be treated to a massive four-set show, kicking off with A GHOST ORCHESTRA and Seconds Before Sunrise. Sydney band Sienna Skies are national support. Catch them all at Fowler’s Live on Sat Apr 16.

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Ash Wednesday Boudoir Party Calling on “merry-makers” to join them, Gay Paris are striking out on tour. Come catch the blues with Adam ‘Six Guns’ Simpson, Lachlan ‘Ol Black Tooth’ Marks, Dean ‘Slim Pickins’ Podmore and Luke ‘Wailin H’ Monks.

Starting in Baulkham Hills, NSW, the 25date trip will spread the sounds of Gay Paris’

new album The Last Good Party. Two South Australian dates are planned - the first at Enigma on Fri May 17, and the second at Jetty Bar, Glenelg on Sat May 18. Prepare yourselves for these gentlemen - they’ve spent a lifetime focusing on “self-aggrandising arrogance, excess and tight trousers”.

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Dig It Up! Cancelled Dig It Up! has been cancelled in Adelaide. Unfortunately, “a less than desired outcome” means that appearances by organisers Hoodoo Gurus, plus Flamin’ Groovies and Peter Case Band, will no longer go ahead on Sat Apr 26. Ticketholders are invited to collect a full refund from the point of sale, or are able to attend the Melbourne Dig It Up! on ANZAC Day (Thu Apr 25). Melbourne will play host to the aforementioned acts, plus Blue Oyster Cult, Buzzcocks, The Stems and The Moodists. Details on the interstate event can be found at digitup.net.au.

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Thom Thumb Scottish songstress Sandi Thom is back. The 2006 one-hit-wonder woman who brought us I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In

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My Hair) has planned a long tour of Australia’s niche venues. South Australia will welcome her to two shows in Adelaide and the Clare Valley.

Thom has released four studio albums and one ‘best of ’ compilation. Her latest record Flesh And Blood came out in 2012 overseas, with this tour following its Australian release.

Fresh off a tour with Butterfly Boucher, Melbourne folktronica damsel and Spirit Of Youth Award 2012 winner CAITLIN PARK has been announced as national support for Big Scary’s upcoming tour.

Local outfit Swimming will join Park and Big Scary at Jive on Sat Apr 20. Tickets for the show are available at moshtix.com.au.

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Only By The Night Label dramas look like the obvious reason for the delayed release of Owl Eyes’ debut album Nightswim, but YouTube cats can also shoulder some of the blame. Owl Eyes (AKA Brooke Addamo) suggests late nights in the studio saw her attention inevitably turning to feline follies.

I love Googling cats doing stupid things,” Addamo admits. “I find it funny how people have time to put these cat videos together featuring weird songs over the top, but I guess I’m the one watching them though – what a loser!”

In between multiple views of her favourite YouTube video (a sloth soundtracked by R Kelly’s I Believe I Can Fly), the 22-year-old Melbourne songwriter also used the site for Nightswim research. Drawing on as many influences as possible, Addamo went on musical explorations into far-flung video realms with her studio collaborators Styalz Fuego and Jan Skubiszewski.

“Just like I’d go on YouTube and start looking up weird cats and then you find other things, we were going on these weird tangents with music, too. Sometimes in the studio things can get a bit stale so you need to find something to pep yourself up – it was kind of like a coffee! I wanted to listen to as much music as I could and when you’re in the studio late at night you tend to go on a lot of YouTube spirals and Spotify spirals.

We were also listening to a lot of European pop and Fleetwood Mac and I also went to a lot of electronic gigs like Mt Kimbie and

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Justin Martin. I think the album was a mix of everything that was pouring out of me and also the music that I surrounded myself with.”

Like Fleetwood Mac’s Tango In The Night reconfigured as Swedish indie pop, there’s a warm and dreamy wash to Nightswim’s crystal visions. The road to the debut has been far from easy for Addamo, with the former Australian Idol contestant splitting from major label Warner last year after two scene-setting EPs. “I think we just parted ways over a few differences. Warners are a big label and they have a lot on their plate, so looking after a smaller artist might have been a bit more difficult. I’m with Illusive now under Mushroom and I’m very happy to be with a young and vibrant team. Everyone’s really committed and excited about the project.”

Despite being buoyed by the positivity surrounding the label switch, Addamo says finishing the album wasn’t an easy process.

When Nightswim’s first immaculate taste Love Run Dry dropped in September, the album was still scheduled for a February release.

“I’m a perfectionist, so I held the album back a few times for my own musical reasons,” Addamo admits. “I just felt like I wasn’t ready yet and a few songs needed a few more touchups. I think the project you are working on is never going to be finished in your own mind, but you’ve got to put a deadline on it and say to yourself, ‘This is the finish line’. It’s been a long journey but I’m really proud of what’s come out of it.”

Although Love Run Dry is only included on Nightswim as a bonus track, it’s been acting as something of an international calling card for Owl Eyes. UK reality soap Made In Chelsea featured the song during an

episode, with more syncs still to come.

“Having a really great publishing team like Mushroom means that your songs get out to places you don’t even know. I have friends texting me telling me my music’s been on this show or that and I’ve had a lot of love on Australian TV shows. Apparently my poster was in the Neighbours diner one time, which was pretty funny. Apparently the actors were pretending they were going to go to my gig or something.

“I’ve been in shops and shopping centres and my songs will start playing, which is also kind of weird,” Addamo continues. “You get this excited feeling but you don’t want to say anything to the assistants as you don’t want to feel like an idiot. I just do a little dance and think it’s pretty cool.”

After modelling headdresses and feathered epaulettes for previous videos and shoots, the cover art for Nightswim features Addamo dressed like a shower curtain covered in enoki mushrooms.

“Natasha Fagg, who is an RMIT student in Melbourne, created this PVC material with beautiful hand-beaded shoulders on it. It was very hard to wear and I kept getting very hot, so it’s not practical to wear out to the shops but it was a nice performance piece. I love working with young and fresh designers - it’s a really creative thing to sit down with someone from a different field of creativity and nut out your ideas. I really love fashion and wearing outfits that feel like a costume – it makes you feel good if you have a great outfit on! You emphasise that on stage and it’s really great that I’m able to work with people like this.”

With an eye for quirky couture as well as an ear for alluring pop, Owl Eyes may well prove to be our next Kimbra-sized export.

Queen Of Diamonds Like a dark and sexual Lana Del Rey tune, Owl Eyes’ new song Diamonds In Her Eyes features the lines, ‘I’ll put on my best for you, I’ll undress myself for you, I will do unthinkable things for you’. What exactly does Brooke Addamo have in mind?

“I’m going to leave that up to the listener as I don’t want to spell it out,” Addamo laughs.

“Then there would be no mystery in it. You need to keep it intriguing and let listeners figure it out. Listeners can make it up in their own mind. I have my own thoughts, but I want to keep it open to the listener, keep it exciting and keep it mysterious.”

Nightswim hasn’t even reached stores yet, but Addamo is already fielding some exciting international offers.

“Since finishing the album some amazing opportunities have already come to me, although I can’t talk about them yet. Yes, it involves overseas, so it’s a really exciting time.

Once you finish your project and put it out into the world good things can happen, so it’s really encouraging. For this album I really wanted to focus on working with people I’m comfortable with in Australia, but next year for my next album I’ll definitely venture out and there has already been talk of collabs and stuff. I think collaborations can be really exciting for an artist and an interesting adventure.”

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Wild Is The Wind Silverstein’s 2012 album Short Songs was career-defining. Together with its 11 original songs, the album featured 11 covers of the artists that inspired the band to form as teenagers in Ontario, Canada back in 2000. Reinterpreting songs from Green Day, Descendents and NOFX reinvigorated a band a decade into their existence and seemingly at a crossroads.

It felt great to do that,” the band’s singer and chief songwriter Shane Told reflects. “It felt good to not give a fuck. We just wrote those songs in the same way we would have written them when we were 16. We didn’t care about structure, we just wanted to make them exciting and fun and something that we’d want to listen to. I think it cemented the fact that we’re in this band because we love music, we love playing music and we love each other. That’s why we’re here.

We’re not here because it’s our job or because it’s how we make money to pay our bills, we do this because we love it. When we made that record it reminded us of that.”

Despite the fresh approach it created, the record came at a cost for the band, seeing the departure of long-time guitarist Neil Boshart.

“With Short Songs he really wasn’t into it nearly as much as the four of us were,” Told says, holding nothing back. “He wrote just one song on that record and a lot of it he wasn’t even around for. We started talking about what we wanted to do with this new album and we realised that he wasn’t on the same page as us.

The real reason it all went the way it went was because he seemed to have a growing attitude and didn’t seem happy with anything that we

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were still happy with. We still all love travelling and touring other countries; the whole grind that is what we do and what we do most of the time. He seemed very over it and it was affecting his performance and his general attitude. I think he understood that we had to let him go so we could continue.”

With a new outlook and new guitarist, the band released their sixth studio album This Is How The Wind Shifts in February of this year.

An ambitious concept record, each song on the album has a Sliding Doors like parallel track that tells the same story in a different light.

“We did a concept record for A Shipwreck In The Sand back in 2009 and that record almost killed me. That record was really difficult. I was losing sleep over it and it was a huge struggle.

As much as I love that record, I couldn’t get myself to do another concept record until now.

I forgot the pain of it, I guess.”

While the struggles remained the second time around, Told has no regrets, with the end justifying the means.

“When we were doing this record I was agonising over the idea and the concept and making sure everything worked, more than actually writing it. It was extremely difficult all the way around but I’m so happy with how it came out and I wouldn’t change a thing.”

Given the thematic nature of the record heavily relies on listening to each song in chronological order, Told says the album still translates in a live setting.

“The record has a lot of power to it. It’s a pretty heavy record but also an emotional record. I think those elements play well together live.”

Throughout April the band will hit the road for their This Is How The Wind Shifts world tour, taking in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Switzerland, Australia and Hawaii, all in the space of 24 days.

“We start this tour in the Ukraine and

Belarus and both those countries I’ve never been to, so that will be cool.

“It’s like anything though,” he pauses, nonchalantly.

“We’ve been to Germany so many times now and we’ve seen a lot of that country, so when we go there it’s pretty much just like going anywhere else for us, it’s not that crazy anymore. Every time it’s like, ‘What haven’t we seen?’ and if we’ve seen everything it’s like, ‘Let’s just hang out then’.”

Silverstein have toured Australia multiple times, including two Soundwave Festival performances and a headline tour less than 10 months ago.

Vocalist Shane Told reflects on their travels Down Under.

WHO: Silverstein WHAT: This Is How The Wind Shifts (Roadrunner) WHERE: Fowler’s Live (with Sienna Skies, A Ghost Orchestra and Seconds Before Sunrise) WHEN: Tue Apr 16

“I think this will be tour number seven,” Told says, pausing to count each tour on his fingers. “It’s crazy to think now Australia is like our second home and it’s so far away. But it’s a beautiful country with beautiful people, so we always enjoy coming there.”

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Alright, Still What a life! When Rip It Up catches up with Daughter’s Elena Tonra, the songwriter and vocalist is just hanging out in Istanbul like it’s no big deal. Amid exploring the streets and prepping for their show in the Turkish city in the evening, Tonra takes some time for a muffled chat down the phone about her London band’s rise. ith the recent release of their stunning and exposed debut If You Leave, Daughter are right in the middle of busy times.

“It’s a relief that it’s out now ‘cause we’ve worked on it for a long time,” Tonra admits.

“It’s definitely a personal record, so it’s a bit daunting sometimes that people are exposed to my random thoughts,” she giggles, “just telling everyone everything.”

Personal is an understatement, given If You Leave exposes Elena’s innermost thoughts.

Every track follows a new path of exploration into the deepest depths of the 23-year-old’s delicate emotions. With such a personal record now floating around the globe, Tonra finds it hard not to take reviews personally.

“I really have tried [not to read reviews] but there’s always the fascination. I have been slightly naughty and gone against my word, and have looked at a few, but then I’ve had to be like ‘Noooo!’,” she proclaims. “I deleted Twitter and all these things off my phone, ‘cause I know that I will do it. You can start judging yourself based on what other people have said about you.

I’m not overly confident and I think if I read to many negative things I think I would curl up and never leave the house!

“You make an album for a year and it is

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quite emotionally draining and then after a week [of it being released] people are just tearing it apart and you’re like, ‘Aww for fuck’s sake!’,” she continues with a laugh. “It’s just better not to read anything ‘cause it’s really destroying, especially for your creativity.”

What began as one-woman band quickly expanded, all stemming from Tonra’s dislike of performing live.

“Performing solo was… well, I didn’t really enjoy it. I found it quite difficult, it just wasn’t very exciting. I wanted to work with other people because I had a bigger sound in my head that was not achievable with just the one guitar.

“I can’t say I’m the best guitarist either,” she laughs, “and that’s very limiting I think.”

Tonra found her ‘other people’ to work with while studying.

“I met Igor [Haefeli] and Remi [Aguilella] in college, but Igor first. What was great about him was that he was very much into production and into tracks. It was just very interesting the way his mind worked. He’s got some really cool ideas and I just think we work really well together.”

All that was missing was a bit of drum action. It appears that like-minded souls apparently really do attract.

“Ah Remi, bless him,” Tonra reflects fondly.

“In college everyone got assigned to a band, and he was the drummer for everyone in the class. So I had to do this task and I have no ability to write music, I don’t understand it.

So everybody had to write scores and I just didn’t really do it. The performance day came around and I was like, ‘Ahhh shit’, so I just went, ‘Right, guys - kind of wing it’ and it was great actually. Remi was amazing, he played this beat that completely suited the song, we still use it now. So from that moment on I was like, well, we need to be with someone who doesn’t mind coming up with stuff at the last minute and I like that in a person.”

Bam. You’ve got yourself a band.

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by Sharni H pauses to apologise: “I have a tendency to talk a lot of rubbish for a long time!”. Then Tonra is straight back on the talk train, delving into the likelihood of these charming Brits sailing the high seas to come and visit Australia.

“Well,” she hesitates, “there’s nothing confirmed but we are really trying and we really want to. I would absolutely love it. Even if I have to come over by myself and stay in someone’s living room I will do it! So hopefully, but there’s nothing confirmed as of yet. It’s a strong maybe.”

I smell a plane ticket in the air, don’t you?

WHO: Daughter WHAT: If You Leave (Remote Control/4AD)

Come Out Of Your Cave Daughter vocalist Elena Tonra has a few ideas for some smaller, more exotic gigs.

“Playing in a cave would be really cool,” she chuckles. “I don’t know many caves, so I haven’t picked one. I don’t know if there would be some kind of risk with that. You probably wouldn’t be able to play too loud. What if it caved in and everyone was trapped? It would be the shittest gig ever!”

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Time And A Word Jon Anderson had been the voice of British progressive rock band Yes since they formed in 1969 but when he became too ill to tour in 2008, he was quickly replaced by David Benoit, a Canadian singer with Yes tribute act Close To The Edge, and has never been asked back. nderson remains philosophical about it all, however, and now tours in solo mode presenting the many classic songs he sang with his former band which still continues to tour and record with new singer Jon Davison, following a recommendation by Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins.

Anderson, who dropped the ‘h’ in his Christian name in 1971 following the release of The Yes Album, says audiences at his

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intimate shows can expect an evening filled with the songs he is known for.

“I’ll be playing guitar, ukulele, dulcimer and piano and singing the songs I wrote for Yes,” he says. “So it’s the ones people know – songs such as Owner Of A Lonely Heart, Long Distance Runaround, Starship Trooper, All Good People, Roundabout and plenty more. It’s all the famous ones. And I’ll also be talking about when I first met Vangelis and sing some of the songs I recorded with him. And people really love it. I was down in Brazil and Argentina just a month ago and everyone loved it and it’s great to be able to travel the world doing this.”

The singer also remarks that touring in solo mode is a much different proposition from trekking around the world with Yes. “Well it’s basically just me now,” Anderson chuckles. “I did 35 years [of touring] with Yes and we always had about 15 road crew and about 20 tons of equipment. And while a lot of it was enjoyable, I sometimes used to think,

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Happy And Grumpy Another long-time member of Yes, who no longer tours with the band, was keyboard player Rick Wakeman.

Anderson and Wakeman have since toured and recorded together.

“Rick and I had always got on really well and [when touring] with Yes, my wife Jane and I and Rick always had our own SUV which we called the ‘happy car’,” Jon Anderson laughs.

“The SUV carrying the other members of Yes was known as the ‘grumpy car’. And in 2007 Rick and I did a very successful UK tour together. And then we made an album [2010’s The Living Tree] and toured that.

“So there’s now some talk of Rick and I doing an album with Trevor Rabin [the one-time Yes guitarist and now composer for such films as Snakes On A Plane]. Rick’s doing some music so I’ll send that off with some vocals on it to Trevor and he may put some guitar on it if he’s not too busy composing another film score.”

‘Gosh, there must be an easier way of making a living than this’. So the solo shows came out of me becoming very sick and having to have a break from touring with Yes. So when I got better I decided to try doing some solo gigs. And it now seems like such a natural thing to do because it’s just me on stage in front of a small audience and it’s also a great experience for me.”

The singer recently released Open as a longform digital download.

“I’m still very interested in doing long pieces [of music] because I want to go on a journey when I create,” Anderson reveals. “So I am now working on another one which should be ready soon. I still love making music and was working on some indigenous America music only this morning.

So maybe I’ll put out some more digital material to see what people think and then maybe do an album. I just feel blessed that I still enjoy making music and that I still sing every day.”

Anderson, who has recorded several albums with Oscar winning Chariots Of Fire composer Vangelis and has a passion for painting, suggests he feels no regrets that Yes fell out of favour when punk rock came into vogue in the late ’70s.

“Sometimes you’re up and sometimes you’re down and it’s just the way it is and always will be in the music business,” he reasons. “But punk only became really popular when record companies saw it as a new way of making money.

So the punks became the very thing they were against. But why not go out and make very simple music? There’s nothing wrong with that and it didn’t bother me at the time that people started doing that.

“I’d always thought of myself as a bit of a punk anyway, although the biggest punks I ever saw were The Who in the ‘60s,” Anderson laughs.

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Derrick May & Ben Klock TechPhonics is bringing us their biggest party yet, featuring a massive double bill with one of the originators of techno music straight out of Detroit, paired with a techno innovator from one of the world’s most renowned clubs. While Derrick May needs no introduction, Berlin-born DJ/producer and label owner Ben Klock will be making his way to Adelaide for the first time ever. A long term resident at the legendary German club Berghain (known for its parties that last the whole weekend), Klock plays solid late-night hypnotic techno grooves and his productions on labels Ostgut Ton, Klockworks and more have showcased his signature style. This is bound to be one special party, fusing the sounds from techno capitals Detroit and Berlin, live and in full effect for the Adelaide party crew, with support from Matt Abstrax and PhilDdrumz.

TechPhonics: Derrick May & Ben Klock is on at Fowler’s Live on Fri Apr 26.

ShockOne

Q+A With Letters To The Sun

Hailing from Perth, ShockOne has been one of the hottest names in bass music since releasing The ShockOne EP [2009], which featured the chart-topping Polygon and received major airplay worldwide. The EP’s three D&B tunes achieved the top three spots on Beatport’s D&B chart and Adachigahara’s Theme stayed at number one for over a month. In 2013 ShockOne is back in storming form with his debut album Universus, featuring the first single Crucify Me (which also hit number one on Beatport D&B), as well as the second single Relapse which has over one million views on YouTube. Don’t miss him live at HQ.

Made up of MC Coin [Coin & Taku] and Akouo [Javs & Akouo], Letters To The Sun have quietly been building a cache of sounds that blend neo-soul, rap and eclectic rhythms while drawing influences from the likes of J Dilla, Pete Rock and Erykah Badu. Shaped and moulded on opposite sides of Australia, the pair have just dropped their selftitled debut album via Obese Records.

ShockOne plays at HQ on Fri May 24.

Purpose

How have you found working on an album from two different parts of the country?

Purpose, the mind and talent behind the now infamous If The City Had A Voice mixtape, is no newcomer to the Oz hip hop scene with his roots in freestyle/battle rap and a background in representing Adelaide successfully nationwide early on. It lead him to the US with a coveted spot in the Scribble Jam MC tournament at the age of just 17. Last month saw him release his highly-anticipated self-produced debut album Where It Starts through MGM, the record taking an honest look into the mind of a multi-faceted artist and personality, including the singles We Will Be Heard, Alive and Comin Home getting airplay on Triple J. Performing alongside Purpose will be a stellar bill of up-and-coming talent, including Prime, Koolta, Mase N Mattic and Grifters Inc with full band Tandem Run.

We’re both from two of the most isolated places in the world – Akouo is based in Tasmania and I’m in Perth – but it works. The album was actually finished last year because mastering took a while. Being so isolated, we do things differently compared to what other people are doing, including what we listen to. You probably wouldn’t hear it in most of the underground hip hop circles either. Our favourite artist is a French group called Hocus Pocus – their rapper/producer 20syl features on our album. They’re huge, they’re constantly selling out European stadiums. They’re amazing.

Purpose launches Where It Starts at The Gov on Fri Apr 12.

How did you find the process of making your first full-length?

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We ended up with 25 songs by the end of it and just cut back, so the process was really easy actually. Akouo would send me a beat, we’d talk about it, come up with a concept, I’d send him back the draft and it’d be ticked off as complete – next. Last year we released an EP but those were the tracks that didn’t make this album. We put it out for free then we released a bunch of singles as well as some covers, like Dock Of The Bay and Pumped Up Kicks.

Are you already considering a follow-up?

Various Artists

Zombie Disco Squad

The Knife

Fut.Ur.Ism

Classic Through The Eyes Of

Shaking The Habitual

(Ministry Of Sound)

(Classic)

(Inertia)

‘Scuse my assumption, but surely a record flying the banner of ‘futurism’ should be a collection of tunes which push barriers, challenge perceptions and basically turn shit upside-down? That being said, this is not a bad compilation by any stretch (it’s actually got some pretty sweet tracks on it), but if anything, there are a lot of tracks within which are more NOW.ISM than anything. All the same, you get some great joints spread over two discs with over 40 tunes all up.

There is some choice slo-groove with Chet Faker’s I’m Into You, Glass Animal’s lovely and soulful Cocoa Hooves and the awesome Jacques Greene remix of Radiohead’s sublime Lotus Flower. Disc two ups the tempo with some fine cuts kicking off with Latch’s catchy Disclosur, and epitomising the not-so-futurism aspect here is Tensnake’s Mainline- a decidedly Felix-meets-acid house workout. If all I can question here is the title of the compilation, then I guess I’m in good company, even if it is minus the moonboots and hovering cars. texjah

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Derrick Carter and Luke Solomon’s transatlantic imprint Classic is one of the all time great house labels.

Beginning in 1995, the label started at number 100 with each release counting down before it vowed to finish when it got to zero. It did that in 2005. Now it is back in the digital sphere with Zombie Disco Squad (Nat Self ) the third DJ to hunt through the archives to mix an all-Classic compilation. Lighthearted, jazzy and fun, Zombie Disco Squad’s favourite Classic moments aren’t mine (maybe Matt Tolfrey and Severino took all the best jams for the first two mixes?) but the mix does reflect the lively spirit of Classic without showcasing the deep soulful house that balanced the liveliness (especially with the new remixes). And why anyone would chooses two Style Of Eye joints over a glut of Classic house standards I’ll never know.

Jeff Spicoli

It’s been seven years since The Knife released their last proper album Silent Shout, so it’s little wonder that diehard fans have literally been counting down the days, months and years for Shaking The Habitual to arrive. And chances are, if you’re one of them, terms like ‘revolutionary’ and ‘ambitious’ will very quickly come to mind. If you’re not, ‘selfindulgent’, ‘random’ and ‘inaccessible’ are more likely to be your choice of words because Shaking The Habitual is one tough, abstract listen that will leave most people baffled if not completely alienated. A Cherry On Top is a sweet (yet creepy) exception to 90 percent of the album’s material, which is nightmarish white noise (Crake) when it isn’t just 20 minutes of ambient gloom and vocal echoes (Fracking Fluid Injection, Old Dreams Waiting To Be Realised). Yes, weird can be cool – but there’s a fine line... Shaking The Habitual: a grand masterpiece, or just over-the-top wank?

Your call.

Simone Keenan

We’re working on the follow-up but it’s going to be an EP. It’ll be a bit different to the album because our style has changed a bit since we finished this record. It’s the same vibe, it’s very soul influenced.

We’re going for an EP because, we were speaking with Taku about it, and he agreed that people’s attention spans are too short for albums these days. It’s a pity because the old-school style of 15-minute song and LPs was cool. Now, people just want short, quick and fast.

Letters To The Sun is out now through Obese.

Calendar/ Fri Apr 12 Potbelleez (HQ) Fri Apr 12 Tigerlily (Red Square) Sat Apr 13 The Twins (HQ) Sat Apr 13 The Only (Red Square) Thu Apr 18 Torro Torro (Apple Bar) Thu Apr 18 Pharoahe Monch (Rocket Bar) Thu Apr 18 Spit Syndicate (Jive) Sat Apr 20 Diafrix (Rocket Bar) Sat Apr 20 MOS Electro House Sessions (HQ) Wed Apr 24 Nari & Milani (Apple Bar)

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Now in its eighth year, the Hilltop Hoods Initiative has seen its first ever female winner in Gold Coast MC Chelsea Jane [Bredhauer] who also just dropped her new EP, Queen Of The Hill. Well on her way to working on a debut fulllength album with producer Mules Mecca, Bredhauer’s win is all the more impressive considering she’s been rapping for less than two years. And while she’s very much a new-comer to the scene, she’s determined to seize this rare opportunity and make her mark on the world of Oz hip hop.

“Mules and I submitted three tracks to the comp,” Bredhauer says of her Hilltop Hoods Initiative entry, “because we wanted to show them a variety of different flows and content that we could do. They weren’t even fully mastered or mixed, not a hundred percent anyway – nothing like the EP is right now. We purposefully gave the tracks an old-school feel because we knew the judges were probably more fond of that as opposed to commercial sounding stuff – plus, my voice isn’t commercial anyway so I couldn’t have pulled that off even if I tried. I think they really loved the production because Mules does an amazing job and I think they liked the content. Mules has said to me before that I’ve got the flow of someone who’s been rapping for a long time, so that probably had something to do with it too!”

In fact, Bredhauer was only recently introduced to hip hop as a genre – which makes her win all the more incredible. With a distinct tone and flow, as well as a natural talent with words, Bredhauer has managed to very quickly gain admiration from her peers through her involvement as a guest judge at Got Beef MC rap battles in Adelaide and Sydney in 2012.

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accidentally via Twitter last year, Bredhauer says being a female MC has so far been a bitter-sweet experience.

“I didn’t think I’d win [the Initiative] because it’s been all guys until now. Being a female MC gets you attention, but holding that attention is a different story! I was watching a doco on Melbourne hip hop and there was an episode on female MCs which featured Class A and she was talking about how girls get disregarded in Australian hip hop. As the first female MC winner of this competition, it’s been an absolute honour – but I’ve copped a lot of hate before too.

It’s especially bad in this country but that’s

just motivated me. Queen Of The Hill shows that I’m serious and the album is going to be another step-up from that.”

Singing the praises of her collaborator and producer Mules on both her EP and upcoming album, Bredhauer claims the chance meeting between the two occurred via Adelaide’s own MC Prime... Sort of.

“I hadn’t been rapping for very long at all and I remember when Prime released his album Good Morning [2011]. There was a track on that album called 8am and I was completely in love with it! I told him that on Twitter and Mules – who I didn’t know at the time – jumped in straight after and said ‘Yeah, some awesome producer did that...’

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Brit house DJ/producer jozif (Jozif Goodwin) was destined for an artistic career, with his father a drummer and mother a ballerina. And he, too, might have become a dancer.

“It’s funny,” Goodwin reveals, “because my mother and I used to do dance routines together to Michael Jackson and Prince and Madonna.”

The Londoner has mixed the first volume in a new Balance series that will see him tour Australia this month (alas, he’s bypassing Adelaide). He describes the spin-off Balance Presents... as a counterpart to Global Underground’s defunct NuBreed.

“They’re giving the new fellas a bit of a go at it,” Goodwin says, a fan of James Holden’s

Balance 005. Balance Music’s Tom Pandzic allowed him total freedom, the one proviso being that he sticks to a single disc. That freedom was crucial.

“I quite like the idea that everybody should just be able to do whatever they want,” Goodwin says, “’cause, particularly when it comes to DJing stuff, for me it’s all about that moment. I don’t have one sound or one set of records that I play.”

In the middle of the enterprise Goodwin lost a friend. He abandoned his “funky, discoey, party-type of set” for something deeper, groovier and more downbeat.

“I’m a very emotionally connected person,” he says. Goodwin considered not disclosing the sad back story, but he’s too honest.

For him, the mix’s key tracks are Charles Webster’s Butterfly and Steffi’s Sadness, yet he also mixes in tunes from Silicone Soul, Ian

Pooley and himself.

Goodwin has “always loved” Webster’s output and, coincidentally, the two played together in Amsterdam a few months back.

At dinner, Goodwin was impressed by the deep houser’s wide knowledge, Webster discussing London’s architecture. Most “DJs”, Goodwin says archly, tend to chat about their latest debauchery.

Though a young Goodwin busted moves with his Royal Ballet dancer mum, Dad wasn’t keen on their children entering the tough-going music business. He’d worked as a drummer-for-hire from 15, eventually quitting to run a music shop. Goodwin Sr encouraged his three sons to attend university.

“I wish that he’d taught me how to play drums when I was a kid!” Goodwin laughs. “I wish I was learning drums rather than doing dance steps to Thriller.”

My reaction was, ‘Who’s this guy, tell him to go away!’Then I realised Mules was the one who produced the track. That’s how he first heard of me! Eventually we decided to start a project together. When it came to this EP, I literally shut down my entire life and decided it would be out in March, just to see what sort of response I might get. Now that I’ve won the Initiative I’m glad the EP is out there so that when the album comes out people know about me at least.”

WHO: Chelsea Jane WHAT: Queen Of The Hill (independently)

The High Wycombe native, now nearly 35, was initially obsessed with aggressive electronic dance genres – techno, D&B and “broken beat stuff ” like The Prodigy. He began “messing around” with turntables, borrowing acid techno records. By the late ‘90s, Goodwin was a pro hard house DJ. (He was booted out of uni along the way.) But he tired of the music.

“I got to a point where I was just like, ‘All these records sound the same!’.” At a party, Goodwin heard a DJ spin US house and garage in the lounge – and was converted.

Thirteen years on and Goodwin, a We Love... Space resident, has aired music through Wolf + Lamb, Crosstown Rebels and Culprit. He also presides over Fist Or Finger with Tyrant’s Craig Richards. Their label is wholly DIY – with no fixed schedule.

Goodwin admits that releases have been scant but FOF has around four “ready to go”. Meanwhile, he has other upcoming projects, including a contribution to a 10year anniversary comp from Silicone Soul’s Darkroom Dubs. There’s even talk of him collaborating with Sasha.

“We were gonna do some stuff a while ago, but he then started doing the Involver thing.”

Goodwin, who cites Sasha’s GU 013: Ibiza as another favourite mix package, admires the progressive house pioneer’s ability to reinvent himself – and innovate. However, like Richards, Sasha has an “old school passion” for playing records.

Goodwin is not so much as dismissive of as bemused by newer (superstar) DJs caught up in the “hype” – or party lifestyle. Recently big name DJs have been accused of pre-programming sets – which bewilders Goodwin, who privileges crowd interaction. Such shortcuts are surely selfdefeating, he says.

“To me, the most important thing is just making sure that everybody has a good time.”

WHO: jozif WHAT: Balance Presents jozif (Balance/ EMI)

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Tour Guide/ FRI APR 12

TUE APR 30

HAYWARD WILLIAMS (US) & THE YEARLINGS @ Wirra Creek (Willunga) THE ROSHAMBOS (Bris) & DR DESOTO @ Exeter Hotel DZ DEATHRAYS (Bris) @ Rocket

TOOL (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

SAT APR 13

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

THE ROSHAMBOS (Bris) @ Cavern Club 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

FRI MAY 3

SUN APR 14

SUN MAY 5

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

MON APR 15 JOE SATRIANI (US) @ Elder Hall

TUE APR 16 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

WED APR 17 THE ANGELS, JIMMY BARNES, DIESEL, IAN MOSS, GANGAJANG, JAMES REYNE, DON WALKER, PHIL SMALL & SWANEE @ Thebarton Theatre

THU APR 18 ZUCCHERO (Italy) @ Thebarton Theatre JOSH GROBAN (US) @ Festival Theatre STU LARSEN (Qld) & SAM BRITTAIN @ The Promethean TIM GUY (Vic) @ Grace Emily SPIT SYNDICATE (Syd) @ Jive PHAROAHE MONCH (US), DIALECT & DJ SANCHEZ @ Rocket Bar

FRI APR 19 THE DELTA RIGGS (Vic) & STILLWATER GIANTS (WA) @ Rocket HEATH CULLEN (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf

SAT APR 20 THE DRONES (Vic) & KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh JORDIE LANE (Vic), ALUKA (Vic) & TIMBERWOLF @ A Band On Boat (Sold Out) NANTES (Syd) @ Ed Castle DIAFRIX (Vic) & MIRACLE (Syd) @ Rocket BIG SCARY (Vic), CAITLIN PARK (Syd) & SWIMMING @ Jive SHAUN KIRK (Vic) & AP D’ANTONIO @ Wheatsheaf

SUN APR 21 JORDIE LANE (Vic), MYLES MAYO & AP D’ANTONIO @ Wheatsheaf ALUKA (Vic) @ Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre

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

THU APR 25 THE BLACK SEEDS (NZ) @ Governor Hindmarsh THE MORNINGS (Tas) @ The Cavern HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGARY (Vic), THE PREATURES & THEM SWOOPS @ Jive

FRI APR 26 GUY SEBASTIAN (Syd) @ Thebarton Theatre (sold out) MIDGE URE (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh BANE (US), HOPELESS (WA) & MACHETE @ Light Sq

SAT APR 27 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

SUN APR 28 ADRIAN EDMONDSON & THE BAD SHEPHERDS (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh HARMONICA SAM & THE DOMESTIC BUMBLEBEES (Swe), THE SATELLITES & DICK DANDY & HIS WINGMEN @ Port Dock Brewery THE MORNINGS (Tas) @ Raglans Backpackers TIMOTHY NELSON & THE INFIDELS (WA), AMANDA MERDZAN (WA) & THE BAKER’S DIGEST @ Wheatsheaf

AINSLIE WILLS (Vic) @ Hotel Metro BONJAH (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh

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

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

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

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THU MAY 9 YACHT (US) @ Rocket Bar TAME IMPALA (WA) @ Thebarton Theatre

WED MAY 8 TURIN BRAKES (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh FLUME (Syd) @ Thebarton Theatre

THU MAY 9 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 SANDI 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 GUNG HO (Bris), BORED NOTHING (Vic) & STEPPANTHER (Syd) @ Rocket Bar

Livingstone Daisies are a Melbournebased rootsy rock, harmony-driven outfit made up of guitarist Liz Stringer, bass player Cal Walker, guitarist Van Walker and drummer Michael Barclay.

They have just released their debut album, Don’t Know What Happiness Is, and are currently touring it, but it all came about when they heard of a beach shack in Victoria that was about to be pulled down and renovated.

“So we thought we’d get together and go there and record a bunch of songs for posterity,” Van Walker says. “So we went and did an album of jangly pop songs using the fact that we are all singers. But we never released it although we will now put it out later this year. And it was while we were doing that we all found out we were all fans

of [Scottish band] Teenage Fanclub, with their loud guitars meshed with some beautiful harmonies.

“We then heard that the shack never got pulled down so we went up again and did Don’t Know What Happiness Is,” he continues.

“And that’s songs I’d since written primarily for the group to record. And it’s so great writing for a band with four members who all sing. And then we thought, ‘Why not do a few gigs doing this sort of stuff as opposed to all our solo projects?’ So that’s how it’s all come about.”

The album, which is neatly divided into four songs on Side A and four on Side B for future release on vinyl, closes with the lengthy workout I Still Believe In You. “That’s a song I’d written ages ago and tried to record a few times but never totally finished it,” Walker, who reveals that the band’s name came from irreverent UK comic book Viz, explains.

“So we had another go at it and actually used some of the wah wah guitar that I’d recorded before and it fitted perfectly although [producer] Steve Fraser never thought it would.

“And what sounds like a spacey organ is actually Liz’s guitar run through a thing called an octave generator that some guy living down the road brought up to the shack.”

The duo of Walker and Stringer will open for Livingstone Daisies during this run.

“We’d have loved to have a local act on with us but it’s just not financially possible, so we’re kinda being our own support,” Walker concludes.

WHO: Livingstone Daisies WHAT: Don’t Know What Happiness Is (Popboomerang) WHERE: The Wheatsheaf Hotel WHEN: Sat Apr 13

SAT MAY 11 MASKETTA FALL (Vic) & CALL THE SHOTS (Bris) @ Fowler’s Live (from 2pm and licensed all-ages)

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

Tim Guy

WED MAY 15 EVERMORE (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh

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THU MAY 16 FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND (Wales) @ Fowler’s Live SETH SENTRY (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh THE RUBENS (Vic), WALK THE MOON (US) & ALI BARTER @ HQ FRI MAY 17 THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM (US) @ HQ GAY PARIS @ Enigma SAT MAY 18 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 DANIEL CHAMPAGNE (Vic) @ The Singing Gallery (McLaren Vale) SUN MAY 19 DEFTONES (US) @ HQ DANIEL CHAMPAGNE (Vic) & THE BEARDED GYPSY BAND @ Semaphore Workers Club WED MAY 22 A BREACH OF SILENCE (Bris) & BORN OF OSIRIS (US) @ Fowler’s Live FRI MAY 24 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)

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Tim Guy is a Melbourne-based musician who is heading to Adelaide to launch his latest offering, Dreaming Of A Night Mango, and will be hitting town with his band.

Guy travelled a lot with his family when growing up and the bug remained, as he has since led a somewhat itinerant life having spent time in most parts of Australia as well as briefly living in New Zealand.

It was in New Zealand that he met singer Bic Runga, who signed Guy to her label for the release of Blazey.

“It was something that never really got an official release because it was just something I was selling at gigs,” he reveals. “But I’ll always have an association with Bic due to what she did for me. She also took me out on tour with her

around New Zealand and that was fantastic.”

The musician’s new album, Dreaming Of A Night Mango, was recorded over a period of time, with one song penned while he was living opposite Pentridge Prison in Coburg in 2011.

“I had a home studio looking out directly across the road to the prison and it’s just such a big, looming, oppressive grey building that it kinda helped keep things a bit real,” Guy says.

“But you often find yourself thinking about the stuff that was going on inside when it was a prison.”

Dreaming Of A Night Mango offers a variety of styles within the rootsy singer songwriter genre.

“A lot of people are saying that but it’s something I’ve always tried to do,” Guy says.

“If you don’t do that it would sound too flat and you don’t want to be doing the same thing over and over again on an album.”

The closing song, Everyone But Me’s Got A

Radio Song, is a clever piece of irony given its radio-friendly nature.

“That’s a funny one because it’s a song that only took 15 minutes to write,” he laughs.

“I had a chord progression I’d put onto my mobile phone and had a studio booked with my drummer to do another song. But we just whipped through Everyone But Me’s Got A Radio Song after I’d quickly written a chorus and some words with no intention of even putting it on the album.

“But I then thought if it didn’t go on the new album it wouldn’t likely end up anywhere,” Guy concludes with a laugh.

WHO: Tim Guy WHAT: Dreaming Of A Night Mango (Lost & Lonesome) WHERE: The Grace Emily WHEN: Thu Apr 18

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Thursday 11th

Friday 12th

ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Bill Parton Trio (8.30pm)

ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs

Time

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm)

ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: Jaki J (10pm)

HALFWAY HOTEL – Dino Jag Solo

BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty

ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Take 5 (9pm) Top Of

(7pm)

CAVERN CLUB – band night

The Ark: The Big Bash all ages (8.30pm)

HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – Dale Roberts

CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia

AUSSIE INN HOTEL – karaoke (8pm)

HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Gerry O

CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: live music. Front

AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm)

(5pm) Red Henry (9.30pm)

Bar: DJ Antface

BARTLEY TAVERN – Funky Monks: Red Hot Chili

HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps

DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Trivia Night (7.30pm)

Peppers Show (8pm)

and DJ Lumeire

DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm)

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm)

HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sam (8pm)

DUKE OF YORK – Beer Garden: DJ Mitchy Burnz.

BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and

HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Dimitra

Front Room: Speakerboxx and DJ Skinny B

Suckerpunch

HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs

ED CASTLE – Band Room: live bands (9pm)

BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – East: Cold Chisel Show

IRISH CLUB – Shamrocks ‘n’ Shenanigans Live

STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance.

ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm)

BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ

Acoustic Sessions (7pm)

Downstairs: DJs play retro

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Hana Brenecki, Abbey

CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and

JIVE – Orelia, The Sweet Decline and The Byzantines

SUGAR – TGI Funky with Ben Alibi and HMC

Howlett and Megs Bellew

guests

LIMBO – DJs

SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with

CAVERN CLUB – Squeaker, 4 Kings Loud, The Sun

LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm)

DJs

& The Sky, Verona Lights and Jungle City (all ages –

Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman

TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests

8pm)

LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee

TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio

CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis and

MARBLE BAR – Uni Night with DJs

Flamenco (7.30pm)

Ride Into The Sun DJs. Band Room: Crank Yankers

MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music

TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – Wildcard

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Gumbo Room

DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Acoustic Blonde

MARION HOTEL – John McKay (6.30pm)

THE ELEPHANT – Triple X and DJ G-Rillz

Blues Jam – Shades Of Blue

DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs

MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag

THE GOODY – Ch@t Room

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Sam Britton

Derek Lang, Eric Falcon and Lukky K

show (2am)

THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment

MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm)

ED CASTLE – Full Tilt live bands and party DJs

MICK O’SHEA’S – Utopia Duo

TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Mitch (4.45pm) Dave

NORWOOD HOTEL – Open Mic Night

ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs

OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Ex Men

Freeman & The Reason (9pm)

PJ O’BRIENS – DJ G-Rillz

Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests

OFFICE ON PIRIE – DJ Jess (4.30pm)

TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Acoustic Reign (7.30pm)

PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ

ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs

PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Black Caviar

VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs

Tango

EMPIRE POOL LOUNGE – DJ (8pm)

RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ Snake & DJ Rupheo (9pm)

WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Michaela Burger, Mary Webb

QUALITY HOTEL: TIFFINS ON THE PARK – Jazz On

ESPLANADE HOTEL – Tom J Williams

RED SQUARE – DJs

and Kelly Breuer (8pm)

The Park featuring Jacki Cooper & John Morrison with

EXETER HOTEL – Redline

REX HOTEL – karaoke

WINDSOR HOTEL – karaoke (9pm)

George Golla and The Journey album launch (7.30pm)

EXETER ON RUNDLE – The Roshambos

ROB ROY HOTEL – Woolsey (6pm) DJ Smiley (8pm)

WOODCROFT TAVERN – Eleven

ROCKET BAR – 8 Bit Kidz featuring resident DJs

FINDON HOTEL – karaoke

ROCKET BAR – Abracadabra featuring resident DJs

ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Skot and Lucas

GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – About

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – TRANSVAAL DIAMOND SYNDICATE

The Shiny Brights DJs

Stubanger, Hank & Osk and the Powderoom Posse SUGAR – ITDE Deejays and interstate/international guests THE LION HOTEL – Clearway TONSLEY HOTEL – Katrina Caton (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Write Like A Woman: UN

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – MR GASMAN, PISTOL SHRIMP, ADOLOH SASQUATCH AND SET GUN TO GO BACKWARDS

WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

SAILMASTER TAVERN – Bodybeat

Saturday 13th

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8PM) ALMA TAVERN – MetroRetro SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – The Lonely

ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J. Upstairs:

GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm)

Cosmonauts

Bongo Madness with DJs Ed Law and Scotty (10pm)

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Purpose

SETTLERS TAVERN – Flight 69

ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar + Arena: Triplescore.

Women Fundraiser (7pm)

WHITMORE HOTEL – RAINBOW JAM SESSIONS (7.30PM)

SOUTHWARK HOTEL – BILLY BOB & JAMIE JONES

album launch. Front Bar: Stock Exchange

Lounge Bar: Lounge Sweet (9pm) Top Room: Rock &

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Green Circles with The True

Roll Rendezvous (9pm)

Detective

SYDNEY MUSIC AUSTRALIA PRESENT

THIS MONTH AT THE WHITMORE HOTEL Thu 11 Rainbow (Saloon) Fri 12 Magazines Sat 13 The Haggards Sun 14 Sympathy Orchestra Mon 15 Closed Tue 16 Raw Jam Thu 18 Rainbow Fri 19 Bout Time Sat 20 Red Hot Blues

EP LAUNCH Live at Jive 19th April

B A REAL LPUFOOD, A E WITH R INE LIST A GREATSWOF LIVE & LOT MENT ENTERTAIN Sun 21 Jake Nickolai - Liam Og Mon 22 Closed Tue 23 Raw Jam Wed 24 Ryan Smith Thu 25 Rainbow Fri 26 Shambolloks Sun 28 Dominic Mon 29 Closed Tue 30 Raw Jam

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The Guide // THE ELEPHANT – Kopy Catz and DJ G-Rillz

BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson

EXETER HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment

HIGHLANDER HOTEL – The Incredibles

BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – The Tom Jones Show

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Leitmotiv Limbo, Ben

HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm)

THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment

BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – karaoke with Gemma

McLaren and Daniel Heath

HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm)

TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Boris Loves To

HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly

Boogie (8.30pm) Chrysler Bar: Jest (9.30pm)

HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Acoustic Reign

VALLEY INN – karaoke

HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips, Tinker

VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – Rumours

and Bangwel (8pm)

WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm)

BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – DAY OF WRAITH AND GUESTS

CAVERN CLUB – Shooting Star Festival fundraiser for the Mary Potter Foundation featuring bands and artists

GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm)

KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke and

WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Livingstone Daisies (9pm)

(1pm)

GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ Marky Polo (8pm)

Rockweiler

WINDSOR HOTEL – Wild Ones

CROWN & ANCHOR – iHeart, The Villenettes and The

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Opa! Front

LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Remedy

WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke and The Australian

Aves plus DJ Azz

Bar: Transvaal Diamond Syndicate

LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex,

Elvis Show

CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The Roshambos with Angels

AJ and MC Renard (10pm)

ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs: Chaps, Hemilove and Ryley

Nicole (8pm)

Of Gung Ho

MARBLE BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I <3 MB with DJs and MCs plus

DRAGONFLY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; rotating DJs playing techno, house,

GRAND BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Destination Saturdays with DJs and

national and international guests

disco and everything in between

MCs

MARINA SUNSET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs playing the best in

DUKE OF YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Mitchy Burnz, DJ Parry, DJ

GRENFELL 110 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Triumvirate Ents presents: Weekly

house and electro

Skinny B and MC Scotty

Summer Sessions featuring DJs Ragz, Jesse Proverbs

MARION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Franky F (5.30pm) The Hi-Topps

ALMA TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday School

ED CASTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Plus One Saturdays with live bands and

and John Spencer and Daly (10pm)

(8.30pm)

BACCHUS BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Lily & The Drum (4pm) The

party DJs (9pm)

HACKNEY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ

MARS BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show

Harmonics (5pm)

ELECTRIC CIRCUS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Arcade Disco with resident DJs

HENLEY BEACH FOOTBALL CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dino Jag Trio

(2am)

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dave Hunt

Junior, Dancespace and friends

(8pm)

MICK Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SHEAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Masterpiece

BOTANIC BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Eric The Falcon

OLD BUSH INN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Mighty Night Owls (8.30pm)

BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wildcard

OLD SPOT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bon â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; All

CROWN & ANCHOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all ages show

PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Fever

CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Healers

PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Harry & The

(3pm)

Hitmen

DOG & DUCK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris

PJ Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;BRIENS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Frenzy

DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Fern Black

RAMSGATE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Adelaideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best cover bands

ED CASTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm)

RED SQUARE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs,

EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Magnetic Garden

Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and

GLENELG SURF CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; La Mar Sundays National

Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan

Youth Week Celebration featuring 50 In The City and

REX HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ TKA

Icyu

ROCKET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bananas: Track Team and Japeye

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Main Room: An Intimate

SANDBAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; requests with DJs

Evening With Jon Anderson â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Voice Of Yes. Front

'= 'HDWKUD\V DZ DZ DZ! Thrash/punk/party duo DZ Deathrays are on one helluva national tour this month, stopping

by Rocket Bar this Friday 12 April from 9pm. The pair will be supported by buzz bands, Archer and Kids With Teeth.

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Bar: Vaudeville Vibes

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

GRACE EMILY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Shit Disco GRAND BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; bands, DJs and MCs HIGHBURY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Gerry O

SEBEL PLAYFORD â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Misjif

HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; NPL Poker

SEMAPHORE RSL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Lily & The Drum (7pm)

(6.30pm)

SLUG â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Agent 99

LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Shades Of Blue

SUGAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Prince Aaronak, Driller, Derek Lang plus a

MARINA SUNSET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunset Sessions featuring

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host of international guests

live acoustic music

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SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Shuffle

MARS BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; VJK classic video hits

TALBOT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ playing retro and requests

MICK Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SHEAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Eâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nuf Said

TEQUILA REA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bongo Madness with guest DJs

OAKS PLAZA PIER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pier One Bar: Redline

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The Guide // RAMSGATE HOTEL – acoustic session (4pm) Tom Kurzel & Ed Trainor fortnightly rotation (7.30pm)

Tuesday 16th

SAILMASTER TAVERN – Bonz

CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Sportsman’s Night featuring turing

ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Adelaide Comedy

Jason Akermanis (7pm)

featuring Gina Yashere (8pm)

CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Auxilla, Archives ves

AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia

and Dave McGuire. Front Bar: Geek with DJ Tr!p

BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson

DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Dan’s Open Mic Night

SEMAPHORE PALAIS – House Arrest

CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Cranker Comedy.

(7.30pm)

SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Dead Lucky

Front Bar: DJs Stevie & Duncan

DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Bento (What’s in Yo’

SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans

DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm)

Box?!)

TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Thunderclaw DJs

EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music

THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) DJ Junior

FOWLER’S LIVE – Silverstein

Exchange (7.30pm)

(5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm)

GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Curtis

TRINITY SESSIONS – Rory Ellis with Kaurna Cronin (6pm)

Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm)

FINDON HOTEL – Muso’s Jam hosted by Streaker er

WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Teen Rush

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Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm)

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WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi &

Bar: Adelaide Ukulele Appreciation Society – strumming

Shaggy (8.30pm)

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WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Hayward Williams and The

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Pub Cinema

Yearlings (4pm)

HILTON HOTEL – KG’s Complete Trivia

ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs: Zooma, Ryley and

MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm)

GLENELG FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia

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PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm)

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PORT NOARLUNGA RSL – Acoustic Rendezvous (7.30pm)

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SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller

Talor Roberts. Front Bar: Open Mic Night

THE GOODY – Complete Trivia

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Brenton Manser

THE LION HOTEL – Acoustic Sessions

HIGHWAY – The Combi Room

TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Ryley (8pm)

HQ – Flashdance

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SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm) pm)

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ARKABA HOTEL – Salsa class (6pm) after party (9pm)

TONSLEY HOTEL – quiz night (7pm)

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TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Wednesday (7pm) pm)

WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Coma Autumn Sessions

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State Theatre Company of South Australia presents

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if you are 25 years of age or under and craft stories, tales, yarns and plays ... ... get writing and enter your one-act play into The Flinders University Young Playwrights Award

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The two lucky winners will each get a week’s workshop with a gang of professionals including a director and actors who will help you develop your play to be showcased in the Space Theatre for your friends as well as industry professionals. Also up for grabs is $1000 cash and a five-play subscription to State Theatre Company’s 2013 season.

deadline 5.00pm 26 April, 2013 For more information and entry details visit: statetheatrecompany.com.au

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Warm Bodies Teresa Palmer is in LA during the following phone interview, although she was, of course, in Adelaide only a few days ago. “Yeah, I only got here yesterday. Strange…” Ah well, surely we can talk about her role as Julie in Warm Bodies just about anywhere. o what was it that initially caught Palmer’s attention way back in the first stages of the film’s casting? An interest in making a zombie movie?

The film’s romantic elements? Or maybe being a fan of director Jonathan Levine (who also adapted Isaac Marion’s novel and previously helmed All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, The Wackness and 50/50)?

“I think it was all of the above,” Palmer suggests. “I’ve always been a fan of Jonathan’s, and I’m always after different sorts of work as an actor, and I was also just really excited by the concept: it’s so original and new and exciting, and I felt really connected to it. I loved the characters as they were sassy and funny, but they were also grounded in reality… And I went in for the role of Julie and wound up getting it!”

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So as for this ‘going in’ for the role, how did it work? Did you audition? “I auditioned, yes, and a bunch! I auditioned three times: once with Nicholas Hoult and twice on my own. I had a meeting with Jonathan once too, and I actually had to film myself doing a scene at home too, and my mum read with me, and she was very cute, as she had to pretend to be a zombie. It was pretty surreal, and it came full circle, I think, when we wound up sitting together at the premiere.”

Palmer isn’t quite a major devotee of zombie movies.

“I loved 28 Days Later, which was a really remarkable film and felt edgy and raw and like you were really trapped in that world. I also loved Shaun Of The Dead, which was fantastic…

But I’m not like some major fan of those sort of movies: I mean, I liked Zombieland too, but that’s maybe where it ends. I just went for Warm Bodies because it was new and fresh and pushed the boundaries of the genre.”

Palmer also adored the character of Julie (read: Juliet, maybe?) right from the word go, and liked the way that the script allowed for her to be an action hero, a romantic figure and, in a way, semi-political as well.

“Real life is like that. We’re romantics, we’re warriors, we’re lovers and fighters, and we’re all very layered. Julie’s a very feisty, funny woman, but she’s also capable of love… That genre mash-up thing is very attractive: you’ve got comedy, action, romance and horror, so it’s accessible to a really wide audience, and that’s why I was always kept on my toes.”

She’s also onscreen with Nicholas Hoult’s

zom ‘R’ for much of the running-time, so how was it working with him - and so closely, and with such unusual material?

“It was great! I mean, I couldn’t have asked for a better actor to work with. He doesn’t take himself too seriously, but he does take his work very seriously, which is the ideal combination for a movie actor. He’s just a really joyful person and fun to be around. He was very enthusiastic about the work I was doing and we just fell into this very natural chemistry.”

And while she’s worked with some serious stars before (including Daniel Radcliffe, Adam Sandler and Nicolas Cage), was it nevertheless perhaps intimidating sharing intense scenes with John Malkovich?

“He’s hilarious, a wonderful man,” Palmer laughs. “He’s kooky and smart and grounded and unaffected… He’s a very happy person and has a great sense of humour, and while I was initially intimidated, I then actually met him and had a conversation with him and was immediately eased by his spirit. It was just a blessing to work with him.”

Palmer’s been working on a fair few other projects since the production of Warm Bodies concluded, and yet there’s really only one she wants to talk about to wrap things up.

“After Warm Bodies I did Knight Of Cups, which is Terrence Malick’s new movie. I do most of my scenes with Christian Bale, and it was really just the most remarkable experience for me in my whole career. It brought back my passion for filmmaking and reminded me about what acting means to me.”

Warming Up ‘Adelaide’s Own’ Teresa Palmer can be spotted in Wolf Creek (2005), although her breakthrough performance was in Murali Thalluri’s SA-shot 2:37 (2006) - but what was there between that teen tale and Jonathan Levine’s zombielovin’ Warm Bodies again?

The Grudge 2 (2006): As a schoolgirl nastily ‘grudged’ December Boys (2007): Giving Daniel Radcliffe his first onscreen snog Bedtime Stories (2008): One of the endless stars in a ghastly Adam Sandler fantasy The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2010): Alongside Nicolas Cage in more fantasy I Am Number Four (2011): Yep, more awkward fantasy Take Me Home Tonight (2011): Delayed ‘80s-flashback comedy Wish You Were Here (2012): Sydney psychothriller, worth another look

WHAT: Warm Bodies WHEN: Now screening WHERE: Various cinemas

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Promised Land (M) Star/co-writer Matt Damon nearly directed this thoughtful, both-sides-ofthe-argument drama, but at the 11th hour his Good Will Hunting mate Gus Van Sant came in as helmer, bringing with him that knack for handling tense, thorny political themes. Steve Butler (MD), a salesman for a huge gas company, comes to a depressed small town with business partner Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand) to convince residents to sell up for the rights to drill (and ‘frack’) on their properties.

However, Butler, no villain and a firm believer that he’s doing something good,

is met with opposition, not only from formidable scientist Frank Yates (Hal Holbrook, now into his later 80s), but others including Dustin Noble (co-writer John Krasinski), an environmentalist who bears a striking resemblance to Josh Fox, the man behind GasLand, which covers all the issues here - and for real.

Quietly powerful, this has a fine cast and yet it’s very much Damon’s movie, as he delivers his finest, most subtly nuanced performance yet and, remarkably, actually allows himself to look, ahem, older.

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Opening But Unrated Adventures In Zambezia (G): Director Wayne Thornley’s bird-intensive animated epic. Voices: Abigail Breslin, Jeff Goldblum, Samuel L Jackson, Richard E Grant and Leonard Nimoy.

Sleepwalk With Me (M) Co-writer/co-director/star Mike Birbiglia’s sweetly uneasy, semi-autobiographical comedic/ dramatic character piece was first a play, which explains why, at first, he so jarringly talks right into the camera. His barman Matt Pandamiglio feels that his career has stalled and his longtime relationship with Abby (the excellent Lauren Ambrose) is doomed, and while a surprising twist of fate then has him hitting the stand-up circuit with cynical routines, he’s also, more troublingly, experiencing vivid nightmares which lead to dangerous sleepwalking. And as his onstage rep grows and Abby suggests marriage, these nocturnal wanderings get considerably scarier, and we’re offered privileged glimpses of dreams involving jackals, weird Olympic events and pizza-sauce smotherings.

Walking a fine line between darkly compassionate comedy, biting reality, striking low-budget fantasy and harsh psychological honesty, this modest but most disarming offering from funnyman Birbiglia is one of those pics that unexpectedly grow on you, and leaves you feeling very awake indeed.

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Identity Thief (MA)

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Trance (MA)

Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon guides pal Jason Bateman through another hopelessly average comedy, and this time he also allows co-star Melissa McCarthy to act really, really big in support. Denver-based stuffed-shirt Sandy Patterson ( JB) is alerted, by way of dopey colleagues and dopier cops, to the pricey activities of an identity thief (duh) in Miami, and journeys there to find ‘Sandy Patterson’ (MM), whom he then ill-advisedly tries to drag back to the authorities at home. And this yawner plot set-up leads to lots of wannabe off-colour gags, a small army of pursuing villains (including hairy bounty hunter Robert Patrick) and an expected, if ludicrous, final act in which Sandy/Jason’s icky-sticky niceness might perhaps stop Sandy/McCarthy from being a shrieking psychopath.

Bateman has spoken often about his preference for playing the ‘straight guy’, and he’s tediously straighter-than-straight here, while McCarthy runs roughshod over him while hamming it up so hugely you could just about open a pig farm.

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Director Jonathan Levine (who also adapted Isaac Marion’s novel) always tries different things, and here follows up the flawed cancer drama 50/50 with a satirical undead rom-com (well, why not?). A zombie (Nicholas Hoult) who can’t remember his name staggers around a decimated world, but he also amusingly narrates, has a home at an abandoned airport and listens to John Waite’s Missing You (!).

After meeting Julie (Teresa Palmer) and eating her dull boyfriend’s brain (oops!), he then winds up saving her from the ravening hordes and, just maybe, the pair not only start swooning but bring about a change in the zoms around them, something that really annoys Julie’s dad Grigio ( John Malkovich), the vengeful ruler of the walled-in, human-only city who doesn’t quite realise what Shakespeare play they’re all tampering with.

Not too horrific, despite a few early attacks and munchings, this is worth it for the music, the genre joking, Palmer’s cool performance and Hoult’s committed turn as ‘R’, easily the sweetest zombie in all cinema.

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After a brazen art heist goes awry, inside man Simon ( James McAvoy) is left with a head injury and absolutely no memory of where he hid the painting. When torture tactics fail to jog his memory, gang leader Franck (Vincent Cassel) sends Simon to a hypnotherapist, but Elizabeth’s (Rosario Dawson) agenda reaches beyond simply curing Simon’s amnesia.

Be prepared to sit in the dark, figuratively as well as literally, for most of Danny Boyle’s mind-fuck spin on the heist genre, which hints at the depth of Simon’s problems enough to keep you gagging for answers, but refuses to give more than fleeting glimpses of the bigger picture until the chaotic final reveal(s).

A little less focused than your typical Boyle film, but hardly a concern when his ‘bad’ films are still great, Trance is intricate, punchy and loaded with Boyle’s best trademarks: kinetic imagery, unmitigated brutality and a rocking soundtrack.

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Escape From Planet Earth (PG): Director Cal Brunker’s sci-fi-flavoured anime.

Voices: Brendan Fraser, Jessica Alba, Sofia Vergara, Sarah Jessica Parker and Rob Corddry.

First Position (G): Director/editor/ co-producer/co-cinematographer Bess Kargman’s doco follows aspiring young dancers in the build-up to the Youth America Grand Prix.

For Greater Glory: The True Story Of Cristada (M): Director Dean Wright’s Cristeros War drama, with Andy Garcia, Oscar Isaac, Rubén Blades and many others (at the Regal Theatre).

Kon-Tiki (M): Co-directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg follow Thor Heyerdahl’s dangerous, 100-day, 4300-mile Pacific crossing.

Oblivion (M): Director Joseph Kosinski’s post-post-apocalyptic sci-fi-er stars Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough and Zoe Bell.

Return To Nim’s Island (G): Director Brendan Maher’s pseudo-sequel with a conservationminded Bindi Irwin. Er… crikey?

Scary Movie 5 (M): More yocks, now at the expense of the Paranormal Activity movies, it seems, and with Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen, Anna Faris and (um… spoilers?) Heather Locklear.

Thérèse Desqueyroux (M): Late lamented co-writer/director Claude Miller’s final drama toplines Audrey Tautou. Well, who else?

And The Tower (TBC): Director Ji-Hoon Kim’s flaming Korean disaster movie looks all a bit like The Towering Inferno.

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L’Atelier Gourmand Adelaide, je t’aime. I’m sorry Paris, but it seems I won’t be needing you for a while thanks to a new artisan café that recently opened in Goodwood just next to the Capri Theatre. L’Atelier Gourmand, which translates in English to ‘greedy workshop’, is a bohemian-themed coffee house that pays homage to its Parisian roots in more ways than one while showcasing the best of South Australian ingredients in its French-inspired menu. Chef Guillaume Galvez has brought more than just his accent to town, introducing us to the best of France through a simple but delicious array of sweet and savoury delights.

People often say that you take your first mouthful with your eyes but there is no time for that here, because the second your perfectly toasted ham, cheese and béchamel filled croissant lands on your table you won’t be able to wait. Other breakfast options include the L’Atelier Gourmand special, which consists of a homemade spiced herb pastry topped with Barossa Valley speck, spinach, sun-dried tomato, a poached egg and (more) béchamel sauce, or the saussice lentilles, which includes a kransky and speck combination served on top of a bed of lentils.

An even shorter list makes up the lunch menu, but with dishes including chicken breast marinated in thyme, rosemary and garlic and seared and served with a port caramelised onion and fresh mushroom sauce, or perhaps a medium rare scotch fillet steak served with a sauvignon blanc and peppercorn sauce, I’m not sure that you’ll be complaining.

Like all good French establishments there is always a ‘plat du jour’, and their coffee is some of the best I’ve tried, locally at least. I can only assume that Air France had a sale on when the folks behind this fantastique café were heading over to our fine city, as the dishes here are also very well priced, with brunch options between $5-$15, lunch options $15-$25 and desserts for $10 or less.

L’Atelier Gourmand is a cosy little space with views right into the kitchen where you can hear the staff chattering away in their native tongue and often catch a waft of sweet buttery goodness in the air. So while you’re sitting there enjoying your croque monsieur

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dreaming of lazy days in the Montmartre and you hear a shriek of “Oh, mon dieu!”, don’t be alarmed, it’s likely that they’ve just taken a bite of the brioche perdue with salted butter caramel sauce and berry sorbet and just need a little moment to recover.

WHAT: L’Atelier Gourmand WHERE: Cnr Goodwood Rd and Gilbert St, Wayville (across from Capri Theatre) WHEN: Tue – Sun 9am – 4pm INFO: facebook.com/ lateliergourmandcafe

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Kangaroo Island FEASTival Kangaroo Island’s FEASTival will take place Thu Apr 25 - Tue Apr 30 featuring a menu tailored by MasterChef judge and chef George Calombaris. Using over 14 local ingredients from the island, this year’s menu will include dishes made with goose, abalone, local lamb, marron, samphire (coastal succulent), tetragonia (native spinach) and honey. The launch night of the festival will kick off with pre-dinner drinks at the rambling old historic jetty in Kingscote where guests will be welcomed with cocktails made by local distillery KIS. The five-day FEASTival will host over 17 pop-up events around the island, each one featuring an eclectic range of picnic, dinner, breakfast and lunch menus. Time to load up the car with a picnic rug and a warm jacket and hop on the ferry. Tickets are available now through Venuetix and are selling fast.

For more information head to tourkangarooisland. com.au/kifestival.

Beer Garden Coming At Udaberri Begone lengthy lines and squashy bar conditions! This April popular Leigh St bar Udaberri will open up a brand new beer garden allowing for more patrons – which means you won’t have to wait out the front for an hour to get in on a Friday night.

Having miraculously hauled a giant shipping crate out the back by sawing it in half, the crate will serve as the bar

and main feature in the industrialinspired backyard which will be used as a function area. Opening soon.

WHAT: Udaberri Pintxos Y Vino WHERE: 11-13 Leigh St, Adelaide OPEN: Tue-Fri 4pm-late; Sat 6pm-late INFO: udaberri.com.au

After the failings of Vale DRY and Vale WIT i must admit my confidence in whether the boys from down south could produce a lighter, aromatic style was falling away as fast as the aforementioned left the market place. That said i have been a curious but loyal supporter for sometime and there is alot to like about the original Vale Ale and IPA which are true to style with the unmistakable floral and bright fruit driven flavours that are present in everything they do. So we welcome LGR to the ever critical game of craft beer. Dismissing lagers from the outset is a favourite past time of beer snobs everywhere and to be honest means we drink very little of them. Its a shame.Vale LGR is balanced, dry and with a hint of citrus and spice. It’s just pleasant. It maintains the typical Vale arouma’s and offers enough in length and structure. i’ll avoid using the term ‘sessionable’ and just say after you have finish with your plate of battered fish you’re able to throw back several more and enjoy (just dont think to hard about it).

Cheers.

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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04 The sun and Mars are working together. That’s like a V8 tractor. The desire to get things done is overwhelming - and also generates a large degree of resistance. These two things seem to go hand in hand.

Fortunately the moon keeps you idealistic and dancing.

Heavy lifting.

Taurus 21.04/20.05 Though there is an inordinate push to get things done from the direction of Aries, Rams aren’t known for actually putting in the hard yards. Yours is the grunt that invariably follows through on other people’s inspiration. Value yourself. Put a decent price on your services.

Gemini 21.05/21.06 Where others take the general ‘air of battle mentality’ that is around seriously, you are more inclined to let it flow like water off a duck’s back. If others want to get their knickers in a knot and beef up the drama, that’s their personal hell. Stay content balancing subtler things.

Cancer 22.06/22.07 This is a good time to go to ground. With Mars and the sun going gang-busters in Aries, there’s little chance that the kind of sensitivity you require to thrive is going to be around.

Rather than toughing it out with your brittle shell, find a rocky outcrop to hide under.

Wait it out.

Leo 23.07/22.08 Though you are a fire sign and there is a lot of passion and action going on in other fire signs, the cultured thespian in you is likely to take issue with the lack of subtlety involved.

Essentially Leos are romantics at heart. Draw the line. Call others into order if you have to.

Virgo 23.08/22.09 To watch others ride roughshod over sensitivities to get the job done is intriguing to you.

One has to admit that though there’s a bit of cowboy energy to this piece of theatre, the job is getting done. Testosterone and bravado are impressive at times.

Don’t tidy up after them.

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Libra 23.09/23.10 Fortunately Venus is in Aries, keeping you in line with the generally rampant Aries energy that is head-butting its way into most people’s lives this week.

Behind all your habits of careful consideration, there’s a part of you that is just aching to be decisive and gung-ho.

Scorpio 24.10/21.11 You are not in the slightest bit impressed by all the noise and drama coming from the general direction of your Rambo Ram friends. You found a deep and constructive current to ride last week and you are still riding it. Wisdom, awareness and healing are most important.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 Though you are a fire sign and there’s plenty of horse-power moving over in fellow fire sign Aries, you are more inclined to step back than enter the fray.

When you step back, you can see that much energy is being wasted by aggressively creating resistance. Offer perspective.

The Tunnels Reveals Arts Line-Up There have been whispers of a new underground art space called The Tunnels, and soon Adelaide will be allowed to venture down the trapdoor to see it for themselves. The opening night of The Tunnels’ full visual arts, music and performing arts line-up will arrive on Fri Apr 19 and run until Thu May 2. Located underneath the Adina Grand Treasury building on Victoria Square, The Tunnels is a collaborative project between Artsake Productions and Fascination

Street – the same people responsible for the creative decor of Fringe venue The Depot. The Tunnels will hold two themed exhibitions throughout its two-week tenure, one being Oxygen and the other being Beneath.

All involved artists will craft work inspired by these aforementioned themes, some of the participating painters and musicians including Dan Withey, Ryan Wakelin, Lisa King, Fruzsi Kenez, Kaspar Schmidt, Oisima, Sitara, Delia Obst, Kaurna Cronin and Alphabette. Opening

hours of the gallery will be 11am – 3pm and Friday nights will be open from 6pm – 9pm for members of the public to explore the different rooms.

Head along to the opening on Fri Apr 19 from 6pm.

WHAT: The Tunnels WHERE: Adina Grand Treasury Building, 2 Flinders St, Adelaide WHEN: Fri Apr 19 – Thu May 2 INFO: thetunnels.wordpress.com

Capricorn 22.12/19.01 There is no way you are going to be pushed around by any young upstart with a head full of steam and all the subtlety of a diesel locomotive. Though you might be seen as resistant, in actual fact you have an important point to make.

Protect sensitivity, in yourself and others.

Aquarius 20.01/18.02 The moon begins her week in Aquarius. This fills you with a sense of possibility. It also chimes in with the general sense of adventure inspired by the sun, Mars and Venus being in Aries. Ride the bucking bronco.

Though slightly risky, it will make you laugh and make you feel alive.

Pisces 19.02/20.03 When there is a commotion on the surface, a fish can dive deep.

There is certainly a commotion on the surface. Fortunately there is also plenty of attraction under the surface to keep you from getting fried in the Aries fire. Accept the love offered by deep and dear friends.

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Sam Songailo X Bank St If you’ve wandered down this west end strip lately you’ll notice a wash of blue paint on the road by the time you reach Bank St. That blue paint is a back-breaking new art installation by artist Sam Songailo, a part of a wider strategy by the Adelaide City Council to revitalize the CBD and provide a pedestrian and cycling-friendly link from the River Torrens to the Adelaide Central Markets.

Aside from the standout visual aesthetics, the new look Bank St has brought with it ‘parklets’ – small seating areas complete with public artwork and two-way travel paths for cyclists. Expect to see more of these popping up around the city in the coming months.

Film Sundays At The Art Gallery Spend your lazy Sundays at the Art Gallery Of South Australia with their new Turner-inspired film program. Paying homage to the Romantic period of film, ironically characterised by revolt, selfexpression and a love of nature, cinematic classic including Pride And Prejudice, Bright Star, Jane Eyre and Mansfield Park will screen at 2pm in the Radford Auditorium each Sunday until Sun May 19.

Entry is free. Check out the full program at.artgallery.sa.gov.au.

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Ted Baker Store Launch Ted Baker, one of London’s premium fashio n brands, has ne stled its way into a sh op front in the ne w Rundle Place sh opping destinat ion.

To welcome the label’s first ever store to Adelaid e a launch was held on Thu Apr 4.

Ted Baker Store Launch on Thu Apr 4 / Photos by Jake Boylon

Westfield Marion 45th Birthday Parades Westfield Marion welcomed its 45th birthday along with a new season and its accompanying change of style with fashion parades on Thu Apr 4. Models from Pride paraded the key looks for the autumn/winter season, with many styled by some of Adelaide’s fashion personalities.

Here’s to 45 more.

Westfield Marion Fashion Parades, Thu Apr 4 / Photos by Ella Gamlen

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Taylor Swift – Just For You

The Dinosaur Project

Umbrella / PG / 62 Mins

Icon / PG / 79 Mins

“The lyrics to her songs are like reading a personal diary.” This unofficial Taylor Swift doco features a multitude of bland talking heads from gossip magazines and radio stations offering inane insights such as this while gushing over “America’s sweetheart”.

Cobbled together during the Speak Now era circa 2010, Just For You covers Swift turning down an RCA deal at 15, subsequently signing to independent label Big Machine and her phenomenal international rise via tracks such as Our Song, Love Story and Fifteen. The Nashville pop star herself pops up in grabs from red carpet interviews (“I’m wearing Ralph Lauren!”) and awards shows (although none from the infamous 2009 MTV VMAs where Kanye gatecrashed her speech), but it’s a rudimentary package.

It’s a cut‘n’paste job that relies heavily on promo photos, B-roll footage and inane Swift bits, but like the girl herself it’s safe family entertainment. If your 10-year-old niece already has all the official Taylor Swift singing dolls and the $895 Ashish Gupta T-shirt from Taylor’s new 22 video, Just For You might be a back-up. Just be warned – it’s unlikely to leave you wonderstruck.

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Sweet Damage Allen & Unwin / 336pp / $24.99

The Aussie author of the popular début Beautiful Malice returns with this Sydney-set psychodrama/horror-ish tale that’s just screaming, rather jadedly, to be made into a big cheesy movie.

Surfie-sort Tim Ellison needs to take life more seriously and move out of his onetime-girlfriend Lilla’s place, so with dubious swiftness a room is found for ludicrously low rent in a beautiful old house where he must share with the traumatised, agoraphobic and rather ‘hot’ Anna. When weird things start happening in the wee small hours (mysterious intruders, light vandalism, late-night door-bangings - so to speak), questions emerge as to whether there’s a ghost, Anna is losing it or there’s a conspiracy afoot, although by the time you’ve finished reading this one (it could take less than a slow weekend), you’re surely not likely to care much.

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Or Dinosaur Holocaust? Or This Is Dinosaur Tap? Or The Congo Dinosaur Project? Or maybe Jurassic Activity? Cowriter/director Sid Bennett’s watchable enough, UK-produced ‘found footage’ nonsense has an expedition (from London’s Royal Cryptozoological Society - yeah, right!) setting out to find the Congodwelling ‘Mokele Mbembe’ (a ‘real’ unknown animal like Bigfoot or the Mothman) in an opening sequence that barefacedly rips off Cannibal Holocaust, and their fate is then depicted in the movie you’re actually sitting through after videotapes were supposedly found floating downstream and cobbled together by a team of obviously seriously skilled editors. There’s early silliness in hotel rooms straight out of Holocaust again; a father (Richard Dillane as the famed adventurer) and son (Matt Kane as the lilylivered tech) at odds; a rather cool little dino who’s the first we see and proves the most charming character here; lots of wobbly-cam lifted from Cloverfield, so that we can’t see too much of the FX (and therefore Bennett and co don’t actually have to pay for them); and useful life lessons learnt, including, for example, stopping a canoe in the middle of a river for a closer look at an elasmosaurus is a damn stupid thing to do.

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Kill For Me Sony / MA / 91 Mins

Sony / PG / 87 Mins

Michael Greenspan’s barely satisfactory psychodramatic thriller borrows riffs from all sorts of other movies (including even Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers On A Train) for a plot with a slightly nasty and ugly edge, seriously compromised by hopelessly drab, TV-like handling and dreary, dullard playing. Amanda (Gossip Girl refugee Katie Cassidy) is trying to move on from an abusive relationship, needs to take in a roomie to help pay the rent, and is somehow convinced to allow wild-eyed complete stranger Hailey (Tracy Spiridakos) into her life and, in a wannabe-lurid and generally homophobic subplot, into her bed, despite the fact that Hailey looks deranged and almost Satanic right from the get-go. When Amanda’s lurking ex turns up, Hailey reveals that she has an alkie dad who beat her (and the bruises to prove it), characters start turning up dead and Cassidy and Spiridakos suffer through a lesbian shower scene in which you can feel their extreme discomfort, this should really kick in with some leering, mean-spirited excitement, and yet the unremitting blandness of it all, and the dire dopiness of every character involved, mean that it’s impossible to care about anyone, or who exactly the duh-didn’t-see-that-coming killer might be.

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ASO & Cirque de la Symphonie Cirque de la Symphonie is an American troupe who travel the world performing circus acts accompanied by music performed by a symphony orchestra.

They are currently touring Australia for the first time and will be undertaking two performances in this city with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at Festival Theatre.

Bill Allen, the company’s executive director and producer, says he came up with the concept with Russian-born cofounder and gold medal aerialist Alexander Streltsov, some years ago.

“I’d known Alexander for a long time and he grew up in the circus world and I’ve always been wired to do music,” Allen continues. “And we felt that cirque artists have never really received the recognition they deserve. What they do is fine arts, not unlike ballet dancers, but they have never been treated that way regardless of the amount of training and professionalism they put into it. So we wondered how we could prsent that.

“But it all came together when the late Erich Kunzel, conductor of Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, saw Alex in a Broadway show and thought it was just incredible how someone could just fly out over the audience. So we then got a call asking if we could put something like that together but work with a live orchestra. So it’s gone from there and we’ve now travelled all over playing with some of the best orchestras in the world.

Neil Young Journeys Director Jonathan Demme’s third Young chronicle follows Mr Rust Never Sleeps (at 65) over two performances in 2011 at Toronto’s Massey Hall, a venue of great significance for him, and intercuts his passionate renditions of songs old and new with footage of the man himself driving a 1956 Ford Crown Victoria (with Demme holding the camera in the passenger seat) and visiting key places from his youth in the nearby, downhome town of Omemee.

And the friendly Young’s reminisces of his schooldays, his run-ins with bullies (one of whom convinced him to eat tar), his memories of seeing his dad in a minstrel show and the field in which he slept with nearby chickens sometimes make amusing and ironic accompaniments to the songs that he later performs, including newer, more romantic tunes like Sign Of Love, Rumbling and Leia, and alternately spiritually longing and deeply angry classics like 1969’s Down

By The River, 1970’s Ohio (featuring footage from the Kent State University riots) and (what else?) 1979’s beloved My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue), in which he still contemptuously spits out the words ‘Johnny Rotten’. Special features here include a conversation with Young and Demme, and more too.

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“And we’ve always wanted to come to Australia and since our success we have been considering a lot of international tours,” he adds. “We also know that Australia has a lot of very fine orchestras, so we jumped at the opportunity.”

Allen says the featured music will be light classical works that most audience members will be familiar with.

“There will also be some Latino rhythms,” he adds, “because we do some of Bizet’s pieces from Carmen as well as Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol. So there’s a real mix of uptempo rhythms and people will walk out at the end thinking that the cirque artists were all fantastic but they loved the music as well.”

“And it’s completely different from any other form of entertainment,” Alexander Streltsov reasons. “We’ve called our company Cirque de la Symphonie to give audiences a perspective of what it’s all about. It’s quite different to Cirque Du Soleil, although

several of our performers have worked with them in the past, because we are doing our thing with a full orchestra.

“And through the years we’ve been performing the show, as a performer it’s just fantastic,” he adds. “We all feel that what we are now doing on stage with a live orchestra is the pinnacle of our careers. There is nothing better than to be flying out across the audience and over an orchestra because it’s just such a rush. It’s a real adrenalin boost.

“It’s also a real thrill for the musicians,” Allen concludes. “A lot of them say afterwards that it’s the most fun they’ve ever had playing on stage.”

WHAT: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra & Cirque de la Symphonie WHERE: Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Fri Apr 12 and Sat Apr 13 at 7pm

Your guide to the student experience.

How is it even uni holidays? Didn’t everyone just go back!? Gah! However, as many of you will no doubt be protesting, mid-term breaks are hardly a holiday. Instead, it’s an excuse to laden you with even more work that you can humanly manage, with the expectation that since you don’t have to come on campus, you surely have more time to diligently study. Ha! The mockery. It’s not like you even attended campus much in the last five or so weeks anyway, and that’s probably not due to you being a sloppy student.

With even less funding allocated for tutors, which in turn have causes allimportant tutorials to be cut, it seems unlikely that your tutor would even know your name yet. By the time the final week of the semester rolls around you will be lucky if the ice in the tutorial room has thawed, allowing for more than just a couple of people to voice their opinions. Don’t push your luck though.

And remember, if you have any student info, campus events, news or deals I should know about email lachlanaird@ ripitup.com.au, Like facebook.com/ fasttimesripitupmag or Tweet @ FastTimesRIU and I’ll spread the word.

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Grant Categories: Art On The Street

The Seed Fund From little things big things grow. Dang right they do. In the music industry, the hard part is just finding the right place to catch a break. John Butler first established The Seed Fund in 2005 and – true to its premise - it has continually grown each year to help talented and philanthropic artists realise their potential. Apart from these grants listed to the right, The Seed Fund also helps to support the Australian music community to remain viable, particularly by involving the indigenous music community. Many of the grants are for those who have already partaken in the Seed Management Workshop, which is one of the key initiatives of The Seed Fund since its inception, helping to teach aspiring managers and self-funded artists the tricks of the music trade. To see if you’re just what this organisation is looking to invest in, take a gander at these grant categories and have a look at theseedfund. org in order to apply or join the Seed Management Workshop to qualify in the future.

Supports projects in public spaces for the 2014 Next Wave Festival. Artworks should form a social commentary, communication and inspiration between the artist and general public.

WHO: Australian visual artists over 18 WHAT: Grants up to $5000 / one available INFO: Application close on Wed Apr 17 via netwave. org.au/applications

Money For Managers To supplement emerging managers’ income – either their own or an assistant’s – to support during heavy workload periods, such as album or tour campaigns.

WHO: Managers who have previously attended the Seed Management Workshop WHAT: Grants up to $5000 / three available INFO: theseedfund.org

Publicise It Fund managers (including self-managed artists) to contract a publicist for a promotional campaign. Must be to support a new Aussie EP or album release or a campaign for an Australian release and associated tour.

WHO: Managers who have previously attended the Seed Management Workshop WHAT: Grants up to $5000 / two available INFO: theseedfund.org

Learn To Speak Whale With the announcement that Finding Dory is finally on the way, now is the prime moment to enter the field animation to ensure a solid career in filmmaking (if you hadn’t already caught on: sequels = money). Registrations for CDW Studios term two classes are now open, so be sure to register to pick up all the skills you’ll need. With courses including Introduction To Digital Painting And Theory, Drawing And Painting For Manga And Comics, Introduction To Drawing And Character Design and Creature Design For Films, CDW Studios cover the creative side of all types of digital creative techniques for leisure or potential

careers. The best part is that you don’t need to be a computer or drawing genius to sign up, with most classes pitched for an introductory beginner level. For those who just want to have a bit of a gag or interested in trying the studio out before launching into a course, there are uninstructed life drawing classes on Friday nights from 6pm-9pm, which includes pizza for the cost of $15 a class. These classes are 18+ as yep, the live models are totally nekked.

Awwwwriiiiiteee.

For more info on classes, dates and cost, visit cdwstudios.com.

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Hunting? Lookin’ for a come-up to celebrate the end of term? Well, this one’s fucking awesome. The Adelaide University Union are holding a Thrift Shop Party to start the (un)deserved holidays in the right way. The Killgirls will perform along with a host of DJs at Uni Bar on Sat Apr 13. There’ll be free food from 7pm-9pm with vintage (not virgin) cocktails on offer, as well as a gold coin charity thrift shop and awkward family photo booth. If that’s not super cheesy fun enough, wear your grandpa’s clothes that

smell like R Kelly’s sheets (Pisssssssss) like a cold-ass honkey to win prizes. If you didn’t already know all the lyrics to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ infectious musical abomination, you sure will by the end of this. (Man you hella won’t!)

WHAT: AUU Thrift Shop Party WHERE: Adelaide Uni Bar WHEN: Sat Apr 13 from 7pm TICKETS: GA $10 / AUU Members $5 / Student ID needed for entry

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Scottie’s Singles

Listen Now:

Bob Evans

Savages

Familiar Stranger (EMI/Capitol)

She Will (Matador/Remote Control)

Forget Palma Violets’ lo-fi output that for all intents and purposes sounds like a garage version of Hammer Films’ The Phantom Of The Opera soundtrack – 2013’s most exciting new UK blood comes in the form of Londoners Savages.

Like a brilliant 1981 collaboration between Joy Division’s rhythm section and The Cure fronted by a howling PJ Harvey, She Will is a vivid introductory upper-cut from four black-clad and bleak young females packing more pout than a Kristen Stewart lookalike competition. To quote The Virgin Suicides: “It didn’t matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them”.

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Big Scary Luck Now (Pieater)

If you weren’t already taken by Melbourne duo Tom Iansek and Jo Syme’s messy/mesmerising duality, take a bite of this. Luck Now basically settles the hypothetical question as to what a Thom Yorke and Frank Ocean collaboration would sound like. Answer: bloody awesome.

The Rubens Lay It Down (Ivy League)

With their output resembling a photogenic cross between Matchbox Twenty and The Black Keys, The Rubens are prepped to be this country’s next INXS-sized export. Arriving back from European and American dates just in time to support Bruce Springsteen at Hanging Rock over Easter, the handsome gents dished out a strong set filled with the perfect balance of humility and flair. With the smooth Bill Withers soul of Lay It Down going down easier than the Russian goons in A Good Day To Die Hard, The Rubens are what you need.

Little Boots Motorway (Kobalt)

Four years ago there was a brief spurt of cold yet coquettish UK electro-pop that looked set to save us from the dark arts of The Black Eyed Peas and Glee. In the space of eight months, Britannia birthed debut albums from La Roux, Ellie Goulding and Little Boots, but the hopes the indie kids instilled in these fembots quickly ebbed. Ellie Goulding caught a dud haircut and a nasty EDM infection from her one-time boyfriend Skrillex, La Roux won a Grammy and went to ground and BBC Sound Of 2009 winner Little Boots ended up similarly AWOL. The Blackpool blonde has now returned with second album Nocturnes’ lush yet understated lead single Motorway, with a piano backbone resembling Kylie Minogue tackling an understated tune from Songs Of Faith And Devotion. Booty-licious.

Chris Brown Fine China (Sony)

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Palma Violets 180 (Rough Trade)

It’s hard to think that until late in 2012, Palma Violets had absolutely no internet presence. It’s also understandable upon knowing that the band are genuine recluses. 180 is the number of the studio that the UK quartet

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made their own in September last year.

This space has since held a number of impromptu shows, while giving birth to the band’s debut album, named after their Lambeth home in England.

The raucous, upfront nature of 180 will make you think of groups like The Who and more recently The Vaccines. Yet there is a cold sensation that drives throughout songs like Chicken Dippers and lead single Step Up For The Cool Cats, largely channelled through the wintery synths of Pete Mayhew. It is easy to assume that this album is an all-out rock onslaught, but Palma Violets manage to restrain their harder tendencies throughout 180, making use of some clever lyricism.

For a band that’s made their name on isolating themselves, the expressive freedom spread throughout 180 is most notable, and the standout element of a standout debut album. The final half of eight-minute closer 14 is worth sticking around for; it shows just how much these guys disregard their peers, and depicts a band completely at the height of their youth.

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Bob Evans (AKA Kevin Mitchell of Jebediah fame) returns with an absolute charmer for album number four, aptly titled Familiar Stranger. Continuing on an evolving journey, Familiar Stranger finds Bob Evans moving forwards and penning deep and meaningful lyrics wrapped together with infectious pop melodies.

Familiar Stranger is a move in a new direction for Bob Evans, with the Double Life EP, released a few months prior, a precursor to that. Footscray Park cleverly sets the mood and tone for what’s to follow before Maps picks up the pace. Sitting In The Waiting Room paints a good story while possibly looking back to his youth. Bruises is another that connects strongly, with the listener feeling somewhat empathetic.

There is an upbeat country flavour to Get It Together which proves incredibly catchy and infectious and To Let You Down is another shining moment, with the string instruments taking this one to a higher level.

There is plenty more gold tucked away in the back half of this album just waiting to be discovered. In Another Time, Go (featuring the vocals of San Cisco drummer Scarlett Stevens) and Nothing’s Gonna Save Us From Ourselves all make the highlights reel. The upcoming album tour hitting Fowler’s Live on Sat Apr 27 will be one not to miss.

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Dropkick Murphys, Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, Swingin’ Utters and The Hard Aches Thebarton Theatre, Wed Apr 3 Review by Owen Heitmann Pics by Kristy DeLaine

Given that at least two members of local support The Hard Aches were at a party at my house the previous weekend, I probably should have seen them play, but a 6.20pm start time doesn’t mesh too well with my work hours.

I’d have gladly swapped them for Swingin’ Utters, though. Having originally formed in 1987, you’d think the Californian quintet would have learnt some stage presence by now. Their street punk meets Fat Wreck Chords-style melodic punk sounded good, but there was little enthusiasm evident onstage during their 40-minute set. The guitarists’ feet all seemed to be stuck fast to the ground, and for most of their songs singer Johnny Bonnel looked like he’d rather be anywhere else. Perhaps they all just got out of bed on the wrong side.

Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls showed them how it should be done. I’m on record as saying I prefer the English folk-punk-rock troubadour when he performs solo rather than with his full band, but this night’s performance won me over (although the band version of Long Live The Queen was

Reviews // Quick Ones

Aerosmith

Milo Greene

Foals

Music From Another Dimension

Milo Greene

Holy Fire

(Sony/Columbia)

(Warner)

(Warner)

The Joy Formidable Wolf’s Law (Atlantic/Warner)

Aerosmith have finally delivered on their longstanding promise to return to the studio with their new album, Music From Another Dimension.

Luv XXX kicks things off from the multi-aural intro assault, with a very classic Aero sound, hinting at some of what’s in store. Lead single Legendary Child then takes a leaf out of the Van Halen rulebook, reworking a previously unreleased track to get that classic feel.

When the band unleash all their rocking, rolling glory the album really shines. Tracks like the aforementioned, along with Street Jesus, Lover Alot and the excellent Out Go The Lights all deliver the Aerosmith swagger we’ve come to love.

The Joe Perry lead vocal offering Freedom Fighter is also a ripping little number.

It wouldn’t be an Aerosmith album without a good ballad or three and there are a few on hand here, with What Could Have Been Love being the pick of the bunch for me - a truly great Aerosmith ballad.

Music From Another Dimension may not be the gritty pure rock feast fans of classics Toys In The Attic and Pump may have been hoping for, but it certainly has fun trying to be.

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disappointing). The energy onstage was irrepressible, with the bassist in particularly threatening to outshine Frank during career-spanning gems such as The Real Damage, Reasons Not To Be An Idiot, Try This At Home and Peggy Sang The Blues.

Dropkick Murphys are a reliable tour proposition who draw an established fanbase for their Celtic-influenced punk rock. However, this wasn’t a good night to catch them if you weren’t familiar with or a big fan of their latest album, Signed And Sealed In Blood, as the group drew very heavily from it, giving more than three-quarters of the album an airing. I enjoy the new record myself, but even so, the rest of the 90-minute set also leant strongly towards their more recent material and basically ignored the first half of their career. That said, it’s hard to complain when that means the night features crackers like The Boys Are Back, God Willing, Prisoner’s Song, The Warrior’s Code, Out On The Town and their version of traditional song Captain Kelly’s Kitchen. We were also treated to covers of Stiff Little Fingers’ 78 RPM (my highlight), Swingin’ Utters’ Strongman (with Johnny Bonnel guesting and still managing to look bored) and AC/DC’s Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. To end the first set, the boys brought out Frank Turner for I’m Shipping Up To Boston, and it’s such a hit that they managed to perform it instrumentally and have the crowd sing every word for them. They then followed with a fivesong encore that contained the night’s oldest songs, Barroom Hero and Skinhead On The MBTA – but surprisingly, no Kiss Me, I’m Shitfaced.

The press thingy for this album begins with the line, “Milo Greene is not real.

However, the fictitious character that is Milo Greene is very much alive.” It goes on to say - and I swear to you that I am not making any of this up - “His makers perceive him as an intellectual entrepreneur. In his poised and dignified manner, he keeps things close to the vest.” It goes on and on about how these privileged suburban kids holed up in some cabin and had to rough it to help fuel the creative fire. “We had no TV, no internet, we had a fire going, and we had to hush the dogs.” Holy shit, people like this really exist?

The music of Milo Greene is languid and mushy, and the majority of the lyrics are comprised of fluffy vocal coos, meant to make us feel something. This is not by accident. In fact, the band freely admits that they manufacture more sap than a maple tree.

Milo Greene’s debut certainly sounds like something you’d hear while watching some reality TV whore stuff up the tiramisu on My Kitchen Rules, but its emotion feels as hollow and manufactured as an episode of The Hills.

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For all their expectations, mostly unwarranted, UK quintet Foals have always stayed true when at times that may be hard. Aside from the pressure of the UK press, the band have created a sound that’s inspired a generation of new guitar bands. It comes as no surprise then that third album Holy Fire has been highly anticipated; it’s simply a mark of the band’s influence in modern alternative music.

What was highly uncertain though is exactly what Foals would come up with on Holy Fire. Lead single Inhaler gave an unexpectedly accurate indication: Foals are here to rock. The most noticeable evidence of this comes in the production value; both Flood and Alan Moulder’s expertise provides a level of clarity not reached on Antidotes or Total Life Forever.

Good and bad, as the new direction allows for this change to occur, while older fans may be thrown by the groove-driven bass element creeping in to the band’s sound.

As the group progresses though, this is hardly a bad thing, just different.

Many of the songs on Holy Fire would stand up on previous releases, and the shift towards a funkier sound is not all that hard to deal with. If anything, it shows that Foals still want to have fun.

We should definitely continue to have fun with them.

Sam Reynolds

When The Temper Trap chose Welsh trio The Joy Formidable to support their Australian tour in 2010, surprised looks ensued.

The band however put on a great live show, particularly here in Adelaide, where they proved their worth as a live band. Unfortunately, sophomore album Wolf ’s Law highlights the band’s inability to refine their recordings.

While the group’s sound is clearly ready for stadiums, the album versions consistently seem to drag. Wolf ’s Law is very vast in nature, yet most of the 11 tracks feel like they should’ve finished two minutes earlier. Vocalist Ritzy Bryan struggles to be concise in her delivery, and many songs are left feeling empty and out of ideas. Next time the group visits our shores, don’t feel obliged to know the songs.

You’ll get more out of it that way.

Sam Reynolds

I Am Kloot Let It All In (Shepherd Moon)

With their like-minded production buddies Guy Garvey and Craig Potter (Elbow) on board once more, England’s I Am Kloot are ready to charm everyone again with sixth studio album Let It All In. And if you’re familiar with the trio’s previous work, you’ll know exactly what to expect on this one.

Simple, relatable lyricism is lead singer John Bramwell’s niche.

Masquerade and Mouth On Me are perfect examples of how effective the poetry on Let It All In can be.

The fact that these qualities follow on directly from the group’s 2010 Mercury Prize-nominated album Sky At Night will not immediately change your life. Rather, they will leave you with a very evocative record, accompanied best by a glass of your finest shiraz.

Sam Reynolds

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Wild Oats

by Sharni H onor “I don’t actually eat oats at all,” admits Wild Oats frontman Walter Marsh. “I’ve eaten a few muesli bars in my time though.” It’s an exciting time for the Adelaide three-piece, having released their brand spanking EP Bounty last month, with the official launch now taking place Fri Apr 12 at The Hotel Metropolitan with Melbourne’s The Ocean Party.

Mmm Bounty. Is anyone salivating at the idea of chocolate -covered coconut goodness?

“We tried for a Nestlé sponsorship,” he jokes. “It’s just a really nice word. I love all the connotations and meanings that come with it.”

From supporting Julia Stone’s show at Bird In Hand with one of the most outrageously rowdy crowds for a folk gig, (“There were a lot of drunken mums there,” he says), these guys have come a long

way. This was particularly evident in their performance at Moving Music this year.

“That was really cool. It was a completely different setting and context for us, just having people sprawled out on the grass listening to us. We’d been playing as a three-piece for a good five months. We were a lot tighter as a unit.”

This tightness echoes through the entirety of their EP. “I wrote these songs originally as folk songs but eventually we wanted to try and work them into a three-piece band. They sort of mutated into their own sounds, describable as nice guitar pop with lush layers of synth, keyboard and guitars.”

It appears as though this wasn’t always the dream sound for a young Marsh.

“I listened to The Streets a lot as a youngster and I sort of had this image of myself as a cockney white boy rapper.

Everyone can be really relieved that that never eventuated.”

Dom Alessio is among one of the most relieved, naming them among the SA Bands To Watch.

“This has totally exceeded our expectations, especially with the airplay. It’s nice having friends say that they heard you on the radio” So how does a non-oat-eater derive Wild Oats as a band name?

“I was watching a DVD compilation of sex education films throughout the 20th century,” he says casually, just like it was a rerun of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. “I was a bit of a history nerd and so were my friends and we were watching this DVD that went right through to the ‘60s and ‘70s. There was this one aimed at soldiers, warning them against the clap and stuff from ‘ladies of the night’. It was this really quaint old film and the title cards relating to the plot always used to make this great euphemistic use of ‘Wild Oats’ whenever referring to anything a bit raunchy.”

WHO: Wild Oats with The Ocean Party WHAT: Bounty EP launch WHERE: The Hotel Metropolitan WHEN: Fri Apr 12

To support their debut EP, The Sky Burial EPs: Pt 1, Voros will be playing at Shotz Bar on Fri Apr 12 and a second show at Enigma Bar on Fri May 17. Voros are a five-piece metal outfit featuring former members of Double Dragon and A Red Dawn, and have gotten the ball rolling since forming in mid-2012, with plans to release part two and three of the EP trilogy throughout 2013. Doors at 8pm.

Kaurna Cronin - Run Boy Music Video In the lead up to the Pistol Eyes EP release on Fri Apr 26 at the Wheatsheaf, roots guru and this year’s Rip It Up Hot Six pick Kaurna Cronin has dropped the music video for Run Boy. Filmed by Capital Waste Pictures and featuring some very flexible Nullarbor Nymphs in some iconic South Australian scenery, check out what happens when indie artists go bushbashing on YouTube or the Local section of Rip It Up TV at ripitup.com.au.

Max Madman & The Heck Yeahs Live Album The noise party brought by Max Madman & The Heck Yeahs when they marry vocals, synthesiser, ukulele, piano, organ, keyboards, bass guitar, drums and percussion has been captured live onstage at the Ed Castle and enshrined in a live album. The six track digital album, which was recorded at the band’s first ever headlining show on Thu Nov 22, is available exclusively via the band’s Bandcamp (maxmadman.bandcamp.com).

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by Lachlan A Clarity Records, an independent record store that opened in 2010, which has been filling the hole left by so many record stores that have recently closed their doors, is celebrating its third birthday.

Ahead of their punk/hardcore heavy birthday party at Enigma Bar, Rip It Up chats to Marcel Journet from headlining band The Weight.

Besides a record store with a strong focus in punk and hardcore, Clarity Records also doubles as a record label and have helped bands like The Weight immensely.

“Footy [Matt Horvath of Clarity Records] was really keen to put out our record,” Journet says. “I couldn’t speak more highly of what he has done for the band. He was really easy to work with.”

The record in question was Prisoners Of The Flock, the debut album from The Weight which was released last November. While

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Clarity Records is an independent label, and the band friends with the team, it didn’t mean that the standard of work was relaxed.

“Footy pushed us to put out a superior product, which I’m really thankful for as I think he allowed for the record to be as good as it possibly could. Other labels, especially in hardcore, tend to cut corners and be a bit sketchy about the finer details of things, but Footy wouldn’t allow that.”

The third birthday event also boasts Nebraska, Search And Destroy, Weightless, Racoon City Police Department and Canidae on its line-up, championing local bands in the punk and hardcore scene. The event is all ages and specifically encourages under 18s to come along and experience live music, which was an important part of Journet’s childhood.

“While it’s been a while since I was underage, I can remember the excitement for shows that I don’t really get anymore. I used to get that giddy feeling before they come on, where you don’t worry if they’re sloppy or shit, you were just amped to see whatever they had and forget about high

school and your wanker friends.”

These experiences helped to inspire him to pursue music himself.

“Seeing live bands from Adelaide and interstate made me realise that I could do this as well. It’s fucking cool and teaches you not to be embarrassed. The only way you’re going to get better is by starting somewhere.”

Journet also shares some insight into how important it is to include underage audiences to sustain live music.

“The internet has really fostered this widespread apathy about live music and local music and I think that’s really sad,” he says. “It’s not embarrassing to care about shit, especially local and all ages music. It’s important for kids to get behind it as it makes the future of live and local music more sustainable.”

WHAT: Clarity Records Third Birthday (featuring The Weight with Nebraska, Search And Destroy, Weightless, Racoon City Police Department and Canidae) WHERE: Enigma Bar WHEN: Fri Apr 12

Shooting Star Music Festival The Cavern will be hosting the annual Shooting Star Music Festival on Sat Apr 13, a charity gig where 100 percent of door sales will be donated to The Mary Potter Foundation, which supports specialised palliative and end of life care as well as research and education programs to patients and families. The day kicks off with The Pipes Of Destiny and showcases 13 local and visiting bands and artists before closing with Devils Crossroads.

Tickets are $10 for adults or $5 for 14 to 17-year-olds. Doors open 1pm.

EXCLUSIVE Q&A SCREENING!

To celebrate the theatrical release of his latest creation, director Robert Connolly will be coming to Adelaide to host a preview of UNDERGROUND: THE JULIAN ASSANGE STORY on Thursday April 11 at 7:00pm.

Following the special preview screening, Robert Connolly will open the floor for a Q&A discussion with actor Alex Williams, Christine Assange and the lucky cinema audience!

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