Rip It Up / Apr 18 - 24

FREE

Inside: Nantes / Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / Ben Klock ISSUE 1235 / APRIL 18 - 24 2013 / RIPITUP.COM.AU

TEGAN+SARA

“Kurt Vile distils thousands of hours spent with classic American guitar music into one very singular and sublime vision.”

PITCHFORK (BEST NEW MUSIC)

Kurt Vile WAKIN ON A PRETTY DAZE

Iron & Wine The new album GHOST

ON GHOST

Super Wild Horses The new album CROSSWORDS

Available at:

Blackwood Sound • Clarity Records • Rev Music Semprinis Music • Title

www.remotecontrolrecords.com

junior_CFSMA34242

Spend $200. . d r a c t if g 0 2 $ a g Ba $20

Winter’s the season to shop at the Myer Centre.

Bag free gift cards this April and if you’re style savvy, enter our Blogger Competition.

You could bag $3000 of winter fashion threads and stage a social media takeover! mit T13/486 Terms & conditions apply. SA Per Find out more at .au myercentreadelaideshopping.com

Be in the now.

SA’s largest

Editor’s Note// Having followed the Quin siblings over the past decade – from triumphing at the Governor Hindmarsh in 2006 despite bouts of mid-set vomiting, through to a bristling, fan-assisted rendition of Call It Off at HQ in 2009 – I initially felt the strangely impersonal upbeat glitz of 2013’s seventh album Heartthrob undermined the power of their former works. The yearning rock that had helped build a large Australian fanbase appeared to have been swept away by eddying pop currents; the spirited and independent voices of the twin rebels apparently lost by a new ‘If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em’ rhetoric.

It might have initially seemed strange that the loveable, smart-arse 32-yearolds who’d previously forged musical allegiances with indie acts including Death Cab For Cutie, Jim Ward and Against Me! were now hanging out with Kelly Clarkson’s collaborator Greg Kurstin, but Tegan & Sara are no fools. Last year their memorable 2012 dance collaboration with Californian producer Morgan Page, Body Work, quickly eclipsed the popularity of the pair’s own back catalogue of music videos on YouTube and Vevo. Body Work’s proof that a huge, untapped audience existed beyond the pair’s usual alternative radio and hipster blog realm got the Quins thinking about a musical shift: Heartthrob is the result.

While initially disconcerting, repeat listens proves Heartthrob shares something with subversive pop masters such as ABBA, Madonna or Robyn.

Despite their despair being hidden by an upbeat sheen, Tegan & Sara have retained a deviously heartbroken element to their songs. As their wistful, poetic idol Leonard Cohen might muse, ‘hallelujah’.

Scott McLennan Rip It Up Publishing Editor

THE HOTEL

with Scott McLennan

The Mixtape//

Office Jukebox

Scott McLennan Primal Scream – More Light (First International)

1. Pink Floyd – The Fletcher Memorial Home 2. Morrissey – Margaret On The Guillotine 3. The Specials – Ghost Town 4. Elvis Costello – Tramp The Dirt Down 5. Suede – Shipbuilding 6. Tears For Fears – Sowing The Seeds Of Love 7. Hefner – The Day That Thatcher Dies 8. The The – Heartland 9. Billy Bragg – Thatcherites 10. Frank Turner – Thatcher Fucked The Kids 11. The Beat – Stand Down Margaret 12. The Jam – A Town Called Malice

Rip It Up’s random weekly compilation.

Maggie Wake Up ennan

by Scott McL

Nina Bertok Letters To The Sun – Letters To The Sun (Obese)

“We played two last minute winery gigs with Neil Young and Crazy Horse and were then told he wanted us to go over to New Zealand with him. Meeting Neil was a fucking trip - it was like meeting Jimmy Page or Jimi Hendrix or someone like that.”

Gareth Liddiard es The Dronw ie interv

Lachlan Aird The Postal Service – Give Up (Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition) (Sub Pop)

Page 17

HOTEL METRO.COM.AU

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

THURSDAY 18TH APRIL NATURE LOVES COURAGE FEATURING BIEGE ABRASION, LAST DAYS OF KALI + SONATINE FROM 9PM FRIDAY 19TH APRIL RULE OF THIRDS ALBUM LAUNCH, PEAK TWINS, VAGINORS + WIREHEADS + TOTALLY DJS WITH MC MAGIC JOHNSON FROM 9PM SATURDAY 20TH APRIL RAYON MOON(VIC), MOUNTAIN BLOOD, BATPISS + SIMFUCKERS FROM 9PM

SUNDAY 21ST APRIL FORMAT DJS FROM 4PM TUESDAY 23RD APRIL ACOUSTIC CLUB FROM 8PM WEDNESDAY 24TH APRIL DAMNED MEN, BEFORE THE AFTERMATH, THUNDERCLAW + DJ SONNY BENET FROM 9PM COMING SOON 26/4 NEBRASKA 27/4 STOLEN YOUTH 4/5 AINSLEE WILLIS LUNCH & DINNER 7 DAYS A WEEK COOPERS ON TAP

THURS 18 APRIL

FRI 26 APRIL

9PM/ $10/7 ON THE DOOR

9PM/ $10 ON THE DOOR

SIMON HUDSON BAND + LUKER + 1

KAURNA CRONIN EP LAUNCH + JESSE DAVIDSON + THE BAKERS DIGEST

FRI 19 APRIL 9PM/ $20 + B.F THRU TRYBOOKING.COM

SUN 28 APRIL

HEATH CULLEN ‘THE STILL & THE STEEP’ ALBUM LAUNCH + KIM DELLAVEDOVA

4PM/ FREE!

SAT 20 APRIL

TIMOTHY NELSON & THE INFIDELS + AMANDA MERDZAN

9PM/ $10 + B.F THRU OZTIX.COM

MON 29 APRIL

SHAUN KIRK EP + DVD LAUNCH

8PM/ $10/5 MEMBERS

SUN 21 APRIL

COMA AUTUMN SESSIONS: STEVE MAGNUSSON + 3

4PM/ $20 + B.F THRU OZTIX.COM

JORDIE LANE + MYLES MAYO

TEL: 08 8443 4546. 39 GEORGE STREET, THEBARTON 5031 SA. WHEATSHEAFHOTEL.COM.AU GET THE WHEATY APP FOR iPHONE AND ANDROID

8

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

Online//

What’s on our site this week.

Win//

Head to ripitup.com.au to enter.

Yacht Portland’s electro pop stars Yacht will be playing at Rocket Bar on Thu May 9 and we have two double passes to the show up for grabs. Having last toured Australia back in 2009 when they also appeared at Meredith Music Festival, Jona Bechtolt and Claire L Evans have since expanded to include Bobby Birdman and Jeffrey Jerusalem. While the singles Le Grudon and Second Summer are getting plenty of airplay, Yacht actually have five albums under their collective belt, the most recent being 2011’s Shangri-La. Enter your details at ripitup.com.au for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Thu Apr 25.

Depeche Mode Similarly to the ska music cruelly inserted over the final 10 seconds of Game Of Thrones S03E03 earlier this week leading to unanimous hysteria at my group viewing, there are individuals in the music industry that have also been misbehaving. British buzz artist Jai Paul made headlines this week when he mysteriously released his debut album onto BandCamp, only to later report on his official Facebook that the ‘album’ was actually a series of demos uploaded without permission by someone that wasn’t him.

Was it all a stunt for publicity? Regardless, you can listen to the awe-inspiringly good demos on our website, which make us think that despite the hiccup his forthcoming album will be quite delicious.

In other unrelated and random news, Psy has released another obnoxious big budget music video for his new single Gentleman, Parkway Drive have announced their 10th anniversary tour and the Wheaty has a world-beating iPhone app. We’ve also got some ticket giveaways waiting in the wings, so make sure you ‘Like’ us on Facebook for your chance to snap some up.

Pioneers of the post-punk era, Depeche Mode have gone on to become one of modern music’s most influential groups, and now they return with 13th studio album Delta Machine. We have five copies of Delta Machine up for grabs, thanks to Sony Music, so log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Thu Apr 25.

MUSIC/ART/COMEDY/LEISURE

181 HINDLEY ST 8211 6683

THURSDAY 18TH SPIT SYNDICATE, JACKIE ONASSIS

The Black Seeds Reggae/dub group The Black Seeds, renowned for their live shows, are playing the Governor Hindmarsh on Thu Apr 25 and we managed to score a double pass, a copy of their latest release Dust And Dirt and a T-shirt to give away to one lucky reader. Get entering at ripitup.com.au for your chance to win this awesome prize pack from one of New Zealand’s hottest acts.

Competition closes at midday on Tue Apr 23.

FRIDAY 19TH

SEVENTEEN FIFTY SEVEN EP LAUNCH, THE VALKYRIES DUO, NICNIC ANSELL

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

Editor Rip It Up Publishing Scott McLennan / scottmclennan@ripitup.com.au Associate Editor Rip It Up Publishing Nina Bertok / ninabertok@ripitup.com.au Arts Editor Robert Dunstan / robertdunstan@ripitup.com.au

5XQGOH 6W &LW\ ÇŽ

Digital Editor Miranda Freeman / miranda@ripitup.com.au Photography Andreas Heuer, Andre Castellucci, Kristy DeLaine, Sia Duff

thu 18 fri 19 sat 20 sun 21 mon 22 tue 23 wed 24

it's a hoax, jimmy meegan and alphabette crystal forehead with emu green circles matt barlow and naomi keyte ben david and the banned bitches of zeus djs curtis

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

Contributors Mad Dog, Ryan Lynch, Luke Balzan, Rob Lyon, Miranda Freeman, Sam Reynolds, Michael Wickham, Catherine Blanch, Karina Carroll, Sharni Honor, Peter Lanyon, Owen Heitmann, Melissa Keogh, Ilona Wallace, Lucy Campbell, Kat McCarthy, Cyclone, Lachie Aird, Winston Reed and Texjah

Graphic Designer Suzanne Karagiannis / suzanne@ripitup.com.au Advertising Phone 7129 1030 Advertising Manager Charlotte Chambers / charlottechambers@ripitup.com.au Advertising Executives Nerida Foord / neridafoord@ripitup.com.au Oliver Raggatt / oliverraggatt@ripitup.com.au Administration / Accounts / Subscriptions 7129 1030 Administration Kate Mickan / katemickan@ripitup.com.au

Managing Director Manuel Ortigosa Distribution Passing Out Distribution Company

AND

CROWN

ANCHOR

THU 18 BAND ROOM - BEN DAVID AND

ISAAC GRAHAM

FRONT BAR- DJ ANTFACE

WORDS (NSW), DECLERATION (VIC), REACTIONS AND FEATHERWEIGHT DJ AZZ FROM 1AM

SUN 21 SUNDAY RUBDOWN MON 22 HELLO LOVER TUE 23 FRONT BAR- DJS STEVIE

AND DUNCAN

FRI 19 FRONT BAR - CARLA LIPPIS FROM 5PM WED 24 GEEK WITH DJ TRIP

BAND ROOM- ANGELS OF GUNG HO AND THE TRAILS THEN RIDE INTO THE SUN DJS

BAND BOOKINGS CROWNANDANCHORBANDS@GMAIL.COM

WEDNESDAY 24TH RUFUS, MOTEZ

COMING SOON

Printing Bridge Printing Office Deadlines Editorial: News, Gig Guide, Local - Thursday 5pm prior to publication date.

Display Advertising: Bookings - Wednesday 5pm prior to publication date.

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

RIP IT UP 196 GREN FELL ST / 8223 3212

BIG SCARY, CAITLIN PARK, SWIMMING

Art Director Sabas Renteria / sabas@ripitup.com.au

General Manager Luke Stegemann / luke@ripitup.com.au

SAT 20 THE WEIGHT, MARK MY

SATURDAY 20TH

25/4: HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGARY 7/5: OM 10/5: STEERING BY STARS 17/5: JINJA SAFARI 18/5: KRISTA POLVERE 31/5: THE BEARDS 19/7: GOLDFIELDS WWW.JIVEVENUE.COM

Level 8, 33 Franklin St, Adelaide SA 5000 P// 08 7129 1030 F// 08 7129 1058 Published By Rip It Up Publishing Pty Ltd ACN. 101 152 336.

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

9

This Week //

Your fast guide to this week’s best entertainment

Buzzcocks

Shaun Kirk

Stu Larsen

See the legendary English punk band when they play Fowler’s Live on Wed Apr 24 with Adelaide’s Molting Vultures while remembering that the following day is a public holiday for most.

Experience the much-feted Aussie blues artist when he hits town to launch his live CD and DVD, The Wick Sessions, at Thebarton’s Wheatsheaf Hotel on Sat Apr 20 (with AP D’Antonio) and Glenelg Surf Club from 3pm on Sun Apr 21.

Catch the rootsy Australian artist when he rambles into town to play Grote St’s the Promethean on Thu Apr 18 with Japan’s Natsuki Kurai as well as locals Tim Moore and Sam Brittain before he heads off on an overseas tour with Passenger.

Gina Yashere

Big Scary

Jordie Lane

Witness the hot American comic, fresh from appearances on The Jay Leno Show, The Lenny Henry Show and The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien, at Frome St’s Rhino Room on Thu Apr 18 and Fri Apr 19.

Doing some big, scary indie pop at Jive on Sat Apr 20 with help from Sydney’s Caitlin Park and local band Swimming at which the Melbourne-based duo will be previewing songs from forthcoming album, Not Art and also playing new single, Phil Collins.

Fresh from playing the sold-out A Band On Boat inaugural event, catch the Melbourne-based singer songwriter at Thebarton’s Wheatsheaf Hotel from 5pm on Sun Apr 21 with help from a solo Myles Mayo.

Speeding along this week...

RULE OF THIRDS – experience the local Goth punks when they launch their new album, Peak Twins, at Grote St’s Hotel Metro from 9pm on Fri Apr 19 with help from Vaginors and Wireheads along with Totally DJs with MC Magic Johnson.

X – be sure to mark the spot when the legendary Melbourne punks led by Steve Lucas hit Thebarton’s Forresters & Squatters Arms on Sat Apr 20 with The Pro Tools and Fear & Loathing.

BRITISH INDIA – see the Melbourne-based indie pop garage rockers when they roll into the Governor Hindmarsh on Wed Apr 24 to launch their fourth album, Controller, which has the band at the height of their powers.

RECORD STORE DAY – taking place at Dillons Music, Clarity, Mr V, Rock Therapy, Title, Inbound and Blackwood Sound (with Hilltop Hoods) on Sat Apr 20, so pop along as each store is hosting some special events to celebrate the day.

MAKE IT HAPPEN...

CERTIFICATE & DIPLOMA COURSES IN:

SOUND PRODUCTION ELECTRONIC MUSIC PRODUCTION LIVE SOUND PRODUCTION

ENROL NOW

HELP VET FEEA-BLE AVAIL ide.sae.edu

.adela Visit: www 8 8215 7800 0 : Call

SYDNEY - MELBOURNE - BYRON BAY - BRISBANE - ADELAIDE - PERTH

10

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

News //

with Ilona Wallace

More news at ripitup.com.au.

Flash Gordon Bringing his beard and vintage guitar, Andy Gordon is on the road to Adelaide.

Working with Syd Green and Tania Bowra, Gordon has completed a new album, The Reverent Jorfy. Rootsy, cool and quiet, Gordon will be supported by Tristan ‘Dick Dandy’ Newsome when they roll into the Promethean on Wed Apr 24.

Cabaret Sauvignon Get your festival faces back on, Adelaide – it’s the Cabaret Festival’s turn. Between Fri Jun 7 and Sat Jun 22, arts fans have the opportunity to see 161 shows by 411 performers, including 250 local artists.

Artistic Director Kate Ceberano says she

is “borderline hysterical over the program”.

The full program is now available online, featuring acts by Kristin Chenoweth, Molly Ringwald and Bourgeois & Maurice (pictured). For more information check adelaidecabaretfestival.com.au.

BONJAH are preparing a new album, have dropped the lead single Evolution and are coming to a town near you.

Catchy and cool with a Gin Wigmore twinge in his voice (those New Zealanders, tsk), Glenn Mossop and the rest of the Bonjah crew will be in Adelaide on Fri May 3, performing at the Governor Hindmarsh. Tickets are available through Moshtix.

Hello (Again!) Kitty There’s no break being taken by this Kitty Kat, with a return to Adelaide already planned. Comedian Flanagan will venture back to the wine state for six nights (Fri May 3 until Sat May 11) across the suburbs and some regional centres. Winner of this

year’s BankSA Top Comedy Award at the Fringe, Flanagan explained, “I’ve never won anything. This is awesome. I’m moving to Adelaide. You people obviously get me.”

Check her website kittyflanagan.com for full details.

Are you interested in a career in Building & Construction?

Who Am You? You Am I are turning 20. In recognition of their long partnership, the band is heading out on the Hi Fi Daily Double Tour. It will feature back-to-back performances of early albums Hi Fi Way and Hourly, Daily. You Am I will perform at the Thebarton Theatre on Fri Jul 12.

Cheap Shots Brisbane punk band Call The Shots (previously known as Autumn Heartache) have been listed in Dolly Magazine’s top 10 hottest bands. If this isn’t enough to make you want to see them, the lead singer, Josh Setterfield, has a Pokémon tattoo. If you’re devoted, they’ll be devoted back; Setterfield says their “fans mean nothing less than everything in the world”. Catch them (and new EP When Everything Goes Wrong) for $20.20 at Fowler’s Live on Sat May 11. Call The Shots are supporting Masketta Falls at the afternoon show, which kicks off at 2pm.

The band behind radio single Silhouettes, THE AERIALS are setting off on an EP tour for their new release Firefights. The boys will play at the Ed Castle on Fri May 17.

Turning 22 this year, THE BELLRAYS are hitting the nation with a huge tour and a huge sound, partying June away with the release of their 16th record Black Lightning. The garage/ soul group will keep the Queen’s Birthday long weekend rolling on at Enigma Bar on Tue Jun 11. Black Lightning will be released on Fri May 17 through Sultan Sounds; tickets to the tour are available through OzTix and MoshTix.

Complete an Accelerated Diploma & Cert IV in building and construction in 12 months

Start your career as a junior paraprofessional in estimating, scheduling, site supervision or project management

Supported by Skills for All. One off admin fee, no HELP Loan

Reconsidering your tertiary choice?

Partially or fully completing a trade? :RUNLQJ LQ WKH LQGXVWU\ EXW QHHGLQJ D TXDOLÀFDWLRQ" Deciding what to do now that school is over?

Join the mid-year intake for Master Builders College.

REGISTRATIONS FOR THE JULY MID-YEAR INTAKE ARE OPEN NOW! Contact Bernie Fitzsimons on 0427-123 -131 or EÀW]VLPRQV#PEDVD FRP DX

COLLEGE

12

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

RIPITUP.COM.AU

READ RIP IT UP DIFFERENTLY.

Interviews//

Find more interviews online at ripitup.com.au

Tegan & Sara McLennan tt o c S by

Hungry Heart Although Canadian duo Tegan & Sara have previously notched up collaborations with artists as diverse as Against Me!, Tiësto and Kaki King, it was still surprising to see Sara Quin’s name pop up last year in the songwriting credits on fellow Canadian pop star Carly Rae Jepsen’s debut Kiss. With the Call Me Maybe star sharing management with Justin Bieber, surely a track with the Bieb himself is the next obvious step?

Oh my God, I would do it in a heartbeat,” Sara says with a patriotic gasp. “I’ve never met him but I love his voice and I think he’s fantastic.

His records are super-cool and I’m very interested in the production, so I think he’s great. Let’s be honest, he does exist in a slightly different world to what we’ve ever existed in, but if I was Bieber I would probably have fancy cars and a monkey, too.”

By the time the Quin twins were Justin Bieber’s age, the duo had released two albums, distributed three studio demo tapes and signed to Neil Young’s Vapor Records.

Taking their acoustic guitars on a DIY slog through Canada and the United States, their early musical forays were vastly different from Bieber’s realm of pet monkeys and paparazzi tantrums. Despite the vast chasm between the two Canadian acts, the sisters have found themselves listed on the Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber website as “the world’s cutest Biebians”.

“I am deeply proud of that!” Sara laughs.

“

14

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

“The truth is that I get a lot of my hair and style inspirations from the ‘90s – Linda Evangelista in Vogue magazine or Demi Moore in Ghost – so it was really funny when Bieber came out and everyone was talking about his hair and making lesbian references. I thought it was hilarious, because we’re all copying supermodels from the ‘80s and ‘90s but now it looks like we’re copying his style! I don’t mind if people think I’ve got a Justin Bieber look.

Sounds good to me – where’s my monkey?”

While they’re yet to enter the realm of Auto-Tune and Nicki Minaj collaborations, the effervescent synth pop of Tegan & Sara’s seventh album Heartthrob is a surprising evolution for the duo. Greg Kurstin, a musician who’s formerly lent his glossy pop charisma to acts including Kelly Clarkson, Marina & The Diamonds and P!nk, succeeded Death Cab For Cutie’s Chris Walla as Tegan & Sara’s producer of choice.

“Justin Bieber’s records are super-cool and I think he’s great. If I was Bieber I would probably have fancy cars and a monkey, too.”

“What I thought was cool about Greg is that we felt if we were going to transition into making a pop record, why not make it with someone who’s been in the indie world but also the pop world. He’s worked with pop artists such as Kelly Clarkson and Kylie Minogue but I also thought he really killed it with Marina & The Diamonds, Foster

The People and The Shins. Greg did eight of the 10 tracks on the record and it was an incredibly collaborative and artistically satisfying process.”

While the popularity of Heartthrob’s upbeat lead single Closer has exposed Tegan & Sara to a new breed of fans, the move away from the sounds of former albums such as So Jealous and The Con hasn’t been without consequence.

Given long-term supporters Triple J have opted not to playlist the album, have Tegan & Sara made other sacrifices in the name of moving in a fresh direction?

“You know, we’re not looking at them as sacrifices,” Sara says. “We deeply respect Triple J and I want to believe that they still respect us as a band, but the music we are making at the moment just doesn’t fit the format. I totally appreciate that, I really do. For us we felt we’d maxed out our opportunities and exposure with certain mediums and we started to think about ways to access people who maybe hadn’t had the opportunity to hear our band.

“We still respect Triple J and we do whatever we can to keep connections with people from our past who were early supporters of our project, but I also want to look towards the future and for the first time in our career we are accessing people who are unaware of niche radio stations and magazines and online blogs. We are looking at it as a positive situation where we are reaching more and more people… our goal was to making something that was exciting for the fans that have been with us for a long time but also create a new fanbase and cross over into new markets.”

Sara says she’s been taking masochistic delight chatting to long-term Tegan & Sara fans bewildered by Heartthrob’s pop flourishes.

“This is going to sound crazy, but I get excited when people challenge us. When someone says to us, ‘Oh man, I liked you when you wrote folk songs’ I get so excited: ‘Let

Damon Days Sara Quin was en route to last weekend’s Coachella Festival when she spoke with Rip It Up – and she couldn’t wait to witness some British music royalty.

“We are driving out to Palm Springs for Coachella - I’m really excited to be on the same night as Blur and Stone Roses, so I’m excited to check them out. I am a fan of Blur’s [final album] Think Tank, it’s one of my favourite albums of all time. I’ll be so sad if they don’t play songs from Think Tank. It’s such an honour when we are at these types of events and can speak to people about how their careers have influenced our lives. We love to soak it up – it’s very cool.”

me convince you!’. It’s like setting up a date – wining and dining them to show them why it’s going to be at the top of their playlist all year long. Seriously, a part of me when we made this record was excited about the thought of the hardcore fanbase going, ‘Wait! Why did you change?’ or ‘Why are you changing the sound now?’. Part of me wanted to be challenged, so we went into this knowing that it was worth the risk. This is a different record and a bit of a different vibe, but for fans of The Con or So Jealous there’s still so much for them to connect to at the live show. Whether you like the sound of the record or not, I firmly believe we can convince any Tegan & Sara fan that these songs are great. I really believe that.”

WHO: Tegan & Sara WHAT: Heartthrob (Warner) WHERE: Thebarton Theatre (with Clubfeet) WHEN: Tue May 7

CUSTOM-MADE E TOU T RIN NG PRESENTS

BOOK YOUR RIP IT UP

INDIE BAND ADVERT w. SPECIAL GUESTS

& HIGHTIME • FO T TICKETS ON O SALE FEB 13TH FROM WWW. W.MOSHTI M X.CO OM.AU & WWW. W.VENUETIX.COM.AU PH. 8225 8888 ALSO O PERFORMING AT GROOVIN N THE MOO FESTIVAL NATIONALLY

NE EW ALBUM IV OUT NOW

WWW.THE EBRONXXX X.C .COM OM

AND SAVE UP TO

$260 CONTACT OUR ADVERTISING TEAM FOR AFFORDABLE ADVERTISING OPTIONS. 08 7129 1075 / OLIVERRAGGATT@RIPITUP.COM.AU

Interviews//

Find more interviews online at ripitup.com.au

Hex Introduction Hour Although The Delta Riggs haven’t been plying their wares for too long, they have certainly carved out an iconic path.

Playing their first show in 2010, the band have seen the highs and lows of pouring blood, sweat and tears into the art of rock. assist Michael ‘Monty’ Tramonte admits that the slow build-up of The Delta Riggs’ fanbase has helped them to stay focused on the realities of being a musician while crystallising their future direction.

“We seem like we’ve been a band for ages only because we know each other so well,” Tramonte drawls. “We live in each other’s pockets, we drive together to shows in Albury or to a residency show in Melbourne, it ties you together and yet tests the relationship. You do all that and then play a good show to no one, or to a whole bunch of people who quite clearly

B

couldn’t give a fuck if you were there or not, and then you’d go back to living together. It became this manic, fun time but it could have fallen apart so easily. It’s good to have had it so early and come out the other side though, because now it’s built the foundations to the point that now with some of the band living in Melbourne, as soon as we get together to practise or play it’s immediately locked in, it’s second nature. It helped us tenfold to progress quickly; rather than be hurt or pissed off it all holds a great degree of sense.”

Debut record Hex.Lover.Killer comes after the one-two punch of the two Talupo Mountain Music EPs, recorded over two sessions out at Peats Ridge.

“Elliott [Hammond, vocals/keys] came up with Hex.Lover.Killer title one night. ‘Hex Lover’ sounds like ‘Ex-Lover’, and there are a lot of references to failed love, and the pun works well with what we are trying to get across with the music. Each word then symbolises a theme content-wise, as well as gives an insight

The Delta Riggs Telford

by Brendan

Scream In Blue TIM LAWSON & ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE PRESENT

“A MARVEL OF STAGE MAGIC” The Australian

28 APRIL – 26 MAY

FESTIVAL THEATRE WITH DAVID HOBSON, RACHAEL BECK, ALAN BROUGH AND GEORGE KAPINIARIS

Book at SEASON 2O13 ADELAIDE

FESTIVAL CENTRE C E L E B RAT I NG 4O YEARS

16

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

.net.au

The Delta Riggs’ Michael Tramonte talks about supporting Primal Scream during their east coast tour in December.

“The Primal Scream shows were fucking amazing. Playing to an old British rock crowd that still fit well with us, and the Primal Scream guys were all lovely guys who just love playing music. [Frontman] Bobby Gillespie just floats around drinking coconut water, all dainty and fragile but also super friendly, a true legend. It helped to make sense of what we are trying to do as musicians.”

to what it sounds like too. There is nothing too deep about us or the album; it’s something that resonates with all of us.”

Tramonte says Hex.Lover.Killer’s recording found the band’s sound evolving from the EPs. “A few of the songs have been around for three or more years, since before the Talupo Mountain Music times, yet when the four of us came at them again this time they naturally fleshed out to what they are now. In that regard there is perpetual changes – we have the harder punk rock that saw out much of the EPs, then there is some soul creeping in there… Everything that we are influenced by and listen to, we cram into one album, and we are comfortable with that.”

Snaring support slots for the likes of Divine Fits, Primal Scream and the Jim Jones Revue has allowed The Delta Riggs to access a cross-section of discerning music lovers and systematically melt their faces off. The seemingly disparate shows have taught Tramonte and the boys a great deal on how to come together as a tour de force live performance.

“We had spent the best part of a year playing and touring up and around regional areas, to earn our stripes so to speak, and it feels like we are reaping the rewards of that. We played to five people in Albury one time. We did so much of that shit and it didn’t knock us out, although we don’t really talk about those shows anymore. The cliché stood, the hard work was paying off. Triple J started pushing us more, and the EPs did fairly well, then we started being offered shows.”

Tramonte was awed to support Britt Daniel and Dan Boeckner’s band Divine Fits earlier this year.

“I have been a massive Spoon fan since forever, so it was certainly daunting,” Tramonte laughs.

“That was among their Laneway Festival run, so there was time for us to breathe in between the sideshows. To play with Britt Daniel, I was so stoked. He was really nice, and the show at the Corner in Melbourne was one of our best.

“I think we can fit alongside anyone – some people say we’re a blues band, other people think we are a hard rock’n’roll band. We have learnt to slot alongside anyone, without a true shape of what we are I guess, and that avoiding of pigeonholing is really important.”

WHO: Delta Riggs WHAT: Hex.Lover.Killer (Inertia) WHERE: Rocket WHEN: Fri Apr 19

Interviews //

Seeing Through Fog

International Record Store Day It’s not lost on The Drones’ Gareth Liddiard that the Adelaide launch of I See Seaweed on Sat Apr 20 will neatly coincide with International Record Store Day.

The release of The Drones’ sixth studio album, the eight-song I See Seaweed, has brought unprecedented media attention to the Melbourne band as it seems there is hardly a newspaper or music magazine left in the country yet to highlight their recent exploits.

It’s all been a bit over the top really,” Gareth Liddiard, the band’s songwriter, guitarist and vocalist, says of the glowing album reviews and feature articles in national magazines such as Rolling Stone and Rhythms.

“It’s always a surprise when you finish an album and that happens, because you never know what it’s like because you’ve already heard it too many times. You just don’t know what people are going to think of it.

“But we’ll take all those good reviews and stuff,” he adds with a laugh. “And we did listen to it again the other day before we rehearsed for the tour and I reckon there’s eight good songs on there.”

Liddiard formed The Drones in Perth in 1996 as an outlet for his songs before moving to Melbourne in early 2000. Since then quite a few musicians have passed through their ranks and they have recently added keyboard player Steven Hesketh to the fold.

“Well Stevie has played on some of our albums and occasionally toured with us as well,” Liddiard says. “So it just seemed like a natural thing to do because he fits in perfectly. He’s been a mate for something like 10 years anyway and it also frees up Dan [Luscombe] to just play guitar on stage and not worry about playing keys.”

The Drones, whose second album, Wait Long

By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By, won the inaugural Australian Music Prize in 2006, very recently toured New Zealand with Neil Young & Crazy Horse.

“That all came about rather quickly because we’d done two last minute winery gigs with Neil and Crazy Horse up in northern New South Wales and were then told he wanted us to go over to New Zealand with him as well,” Liddiard says. “So it was just mad as The Drones had never been over there before. And, of course, we got to meet Neil and that was a fucking trip because it was like meeting Jimmy Page or Jimi Hendrix or someone like that.

“And you know how people say that The Drones are a lot like Crazy Horse, well when you hear the two bands together, you soon realise we are nothing like Crazy Horse,” he adds. “We sound like a feral Velvet Underground kind of thing and they sound like a huge, monolithic pyramid or something. They have such a massive sound.”

Liddiard and The Drones’ bass player Fiona Kitschin recently recorded an album with guitarist Spencer P Jones and former Beasts Of Bourbon and Hoodoo Gurus drummer James Baker, released last year under the name Spencer P Jones & The Nothing Butts.

“That came up pretty good,” Liddiard says of the album. “So we did a few shows around the place around the time of the release. Nothing major though.”

The I See Seaweed album cover is a simple one that just features the title with The Drones’ name nowhere to be seen.

“Yeah, but we’re not the first band to do that,” Liddiard reasons. “The original release of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures didn’t have any words on the cover at all. There was absolutely no information, which I always thought was pretty awesome.”

Liddiard is uncertain of future plans following their national tour.

“Things just tend to crop up though – a bit like the Neil Young thing – so we’ll just see what happens,” he concludes. “But we might head over to Europe again in July or August. We’re just trying to figure that out at the moment.”

“

“All our albums have come out on vinyl with the exception of Wait Long By The River,” he says. “And this [quarterly] magazine called Smith Journal, which is a bit like Frankie but for guys, recently wanted a list of my favourite LPs. They then asked me to courier over the actual album covers.

es The Dron unstan

by Robert D

“So it’s my LP covers they printed,” Liddiard laughs. “And the Black Flag album [The First Four Years] that’s in there is the very first record I ever bought. So after having it for 20 years or something, it was really cool to see the cover in a magazine.”

'R \RX XVH (FVWDV\ W\SH VXEVWDQFHV" Researchers from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre would like to speak to people who use drugs when they are out. Face to face interviews will be conducted between April and May. The interview takes around one hour and is held at a convenient location for you. Interviews are anonymous and confidential.

You will be reimbursed $40 for your time.

Contact Rachel on (02) 9385 0256, email saedrs@unsw.edu.au or SMS details to 0410 847 033 (you do not have to use your real name).

WHO: The Drones WHAT: I See Seaweed (MGM) WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh (with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard) WHEN: Sat Apr 20 RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

17

Interviews// It’ll Be Alright If you’re thinking of partying with Nantes when they hit town this Saturday, then maybe consider taking out life insurance.

After recounting a couple of death-defying events, keyboardist/guitarist Josiah Eastwood asks lead singer David Rogers, “Can you think of any stories that don’t involve death?”… here was the foldback suspended over the drummer, which fell off its chains. “It made this thunderous crash in the middle of one of the songs and I thought he was dead. That was pretty bad,” Eastwood says.

“Last time on the Gold Coast, we nearly died in the ocean. We got swept out to sea and had to get saved by lifeguards before we slammed into some rocks,” he laughs. “That was pretty bad.”

Eastwood caps off his tales of hardcore mishaps: “There was this one time when we were in

T

Find more interviews online at ripitup.com.au

Queensland with Northeast Party House and we broke into this pool. We jumped off this massive diving board; I hit the water and everything was fine, and then I found a bunch of blood coming out of my mouth. I had split a piece of my gum that connected it to my lip. So I tore off a good amount of my mouth. And then Zach, the singer from Northeast, jumped in shortly after and hit the water and almost passed out. We had to pull him out and keep him alive. That was pretty intense.”

He sounds a little bewildered by their adventures, concluding, “I guess we’re a little bit immortal.”

In between all of these madcap stunts, Nantes have managed to make it alive to the end of their debut record, BeingsBeing. The brainbaby of creative duo Rogers and Eastwood, the album is a fantastic first long-play release. It’s a sweet electric indie rock jam that ebbs with energy and flows on a chill wave.

The constant flux is intentional and something the pair really wanted to explore.

Eastwood explains that the music he and Rogers listened to growing up was much darker than the band’s pop side suggests.

“We tried to use that [contrast] quite deliberately.

So, you’ll hear something that’s quite poppy, quite happy and quite easily-digestible, and then the

Nantes llace

by Ilona Wa

Video Helps The Radio Star The video clips being projected onstage during Nantes shows have been pulled from Josiah Eastwood’s hard-drive, where he stores the relics of his other job as a filmmaker. All of Nantes music videos are Eastwood’s work.

When he left school, he went straight into the video business, creating the company Nuclear Films with his brother Matthew. His brother focuses more on commercial work, whereas Josiah likes directing creative videos like music clips. Eastwood loves being able to combine his passions for film and music and adds that it’s nice to “still be able to earn [his] bread while on the road”.

Secret Sounds Presents

TUE-24-SEP

HQ

(LIC. ALL AGES)

TICKETS ON SALE MON-18-MAR FOALS #1 ALBUM HOLY FIRE OUT NOW

TICKETS: OZTIX.COM.AU & 1300 762 545

message or the tone that comes after it is something a little bit harder to swallow. That’s the point of Nantes, that juxtaposition between the two.”

Nantes emerged from some songs that Rogers had written and wanted to record.

“He wanted to learn the process,” Eastwood says. The original pair added a few additional members to their line-up (currently they are touring with Mathew Gardner, Benjamin Morgan and Timothy Adamson), but the two are the centre of activity. Someone with whom Nantes fans may not be familiar is Simon Todkill, their producer.

“He’s not part of the official line-up,” Eastwood says, but adds fondly, “he’s probably the third part to our little creative nucleus... He’s the engine.”

Todkill is one of the reasons behind the creative visual set-up that Nantes are using on this tour. Projections of film clips and art are being managed by Todkill as a way to bring him out of Studio 301 and on the road.

There is one song from the album that they can’t bring on tour. Awayk/Dream is slow and complexly constructed, but Eastwood says it’s definitely one of the more interesting tracks on BeingsBeing.

“Originally that song was a really bright and happy song and completely different, but when we were polishing it off, we weren’t really liking it; it wasn’t fitting with the album, so we slowed down every single track on that thing in a live playback at half-speed. Once we had that locked down, we took those elements and built on top of that and created this more ethereal song, [with a] really chilled, relaxed vibe.”

After the tempo of the song was switched, myriad personal touches were squeezed into it.

“There’s some recordings of some pretty personal family stuff and some medical situations and stuff that [Dave] had recorded on his phone that he threw in there. So that one’s a little bit more personal; it’s one we’re all a little more attached to.”

FOALS.CO.UK | SECRET-SOUNDS.COM.AU WHO: Nantes WHAT: BeingsBeing (Deadhand/MGM) WHERE: Ed Castle (with Battleships) WHEN: Sat Apr 20

18

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

Interviews //

Kidding Fiddlers

Talking Bottom It was much-discussed online last year, but what actually happened to the new version of TV’s Bottom that Adrian Edmondson was working on with old mate and longtime collaborator Rik Mayall, in which their 50something Eddie Hitler and Richard Richard were to get grossly funny on a desert island somewhere?

While Adrian Edmondson, star of The Young Ones, Bottom and the like, is known as a funny guy, he’s quick to point out that his band The Bad Shepherds isn’t explicitly intended as a comedic act. “Although we are doing it, at times, with a wry smile,” he says. “But no, it’s not a comedy act - and it never has been.”

Adrian n so Edmond ad & The B ds Shepher

he band formed in 2008 after, sources claim, Edmondson ‘accidentally’ bought a mandolin.

“I got drunk!” he admits of the surprise purchase. “It’s quite easy, you know: you go out for drinks before Christmas and then you wake up the next morning with a mandolin... I have made it out to be more accidental than it was, so the truth is that I actually collect instruments, and I did buy the mandolin without thinking about it too much. When I worked out how to play it the idea was born.”

The idea, of course, is that the band take punk hits and anthems and give them a folk or Celtic makeover. The strange thing is that several tunes, including The Model by Kraftwerk, The Clash’s White Riot and a medley of Ramones hits, actually sound like they were just dying to be performed and recorded like that.

“Yeah, that’s what we think too, you know that’s what we hope! I had this mandolin, and I started working out chords and chord shapes, and I started just playing songs that I liked, and I realised quickly that there was a different tone to the songs for me. When you’re not a teenager anymore, and you’re treating them as a folk song, suddenly they sort of measure up as actual folk songs. They hit a lot of the same thematic notes as folk songs… Or that’s my theory, but I suppose that the band isn’t about theory: it’s about how we happened upon this, and it works, and we love it.

“There are some similarities between punk and folk too: they never write songs in the first person - it’s never, ‘Ooh, I love you, baby, ooh, lah-de-dah’, although there’s nothing wrong with those songs too - and they’re both always social comment or they’re a long ballad or they’re a protest song.

And folk is often songs that reflect upon your community… And those punk songs in the ‘70s were like that, like modern folk songs, and the way that we do them, we think, delivers something new.”

Some out there have also suggested that there’s something unexpected about Edmondson ‘suddenly’ turning musical, but he’s actually always been guided by the art: remember, for example, that The Young Ones series offered breaks for Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Madness and Motörhead, and that he and missus Jennifer Saunders sing Bob Dylan’s This Wheel’s On Fire over the opening credits of Absolutely Fabulous.

“If they’d offered a Doctors’ course in music when I went to university, then I would have done it, but they didn’t, and so I did a Doctors’ course in drama. And I got away with it!”

Edmondson and the band are currently working on the third Bad Shepherds album, but there are certain rules about cover versions. While you might don’t have to seek permission from the estates of Joey Ramone or Joe Strummer, “you do have to pay them!”.

“You pay for the publishing, but no, you don’t need their permission to cover the songs. I think, however, that if we were more popular then we might run into trouble, because, really, we do fuck about with the songs in quite a big way. But we do credit them and pay them, and they’re all happy as they get their little shiny penny.”

So what can audiences expect from the live show?

“We choose what’s in that set from stuff that we like on any particular day. We’ll have finished the new album before we come to Oz, so we’ll be doing some songs from that… I don’t know what you’ll all be getting, as it changes. I don’t even know what to expect myself !”

T

by MDB

“I scotched that. I pulled the plug! It’s very complicated, but really I pulled the plug on the whole fucking thing about 10 years ago, and then it came back and I was a bit flattered but, after I started work, I realised my mistake. We’re not the same people that we were and it just doesn’t work anymore. Rik’s mightily pissed off and hasn’t spoken to me since. As you can imagine.”

SUPPORTED BY

WHO: Adrian Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Sun Apr 28 RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

19

Beats// Incoming

Yacht Hailing from Portland, indie/dance duo Yacht are coming back to Australia. Made up of Jona Bechtolt and Claire L Evans, the pair’s signature sound is electro-funk meets disco-punk, with five full-length albums under their belts, the last two having been released on DFA Records. They’ve toured around the world with bands like LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Hot Chip, Architecture In Helsinki, Dirty Projectors, Vampire Weekend and Chairlift, and they’ll be playing tracks from their back-catalogue as well as new tunes like the single Second Summer.

Yacht play at Rocket Bar & Rooftop on Thu May 9.

Tommy Trash

Q+A With Jackie Onassis

Ministry Of Sound’s international electro superstar Tommy Trash is coming back to Australia for his own headline tour in early June after a string of successes across the globe as both a DJ and producer. Having collaborated and remixed for some of the biggest names in dance – including Tiesto, Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Aoki, Swedish House Mafia and Deadmau5 (the latter seeing him nominated for a Grammy last year) – Tommy’s body of work also includes two consecutive number one Beatport records, as well as topline billing at the biggest festivals around the world (Coachella, Tomorrowland, Stereosonic, just to name a few). This year he landed a Las Vegas residency at Hakkasan and will release the new single Reload in May.

Comprising of MC Kai and DJ/producer Raph, in just a few short months Sydney hip hop duo Jackie Onassis have gone from nothing to playing UK festivals, winning over US tastemaker Zane Lowe and hijacking the Triple J airwaves. Get familiarised with the guys ahead of their Adelaide shows.

Crystal Balling kicked off a lot of your success so far…

Raph Zarkov: I think it’s just that it’s loud and a lot of fun. It’s about letting go of any problems in your life and doing it up for the night, which I think a lot of people can get into.

Tommy Trash plays at HQ on Sun Jun 9.

Mosca Genre-defying artist and BBC Radio One host, Mosca, is returning to our shores for a national tour this month. Purveyor of deep house, tech house, grime and just about everything in-between, Mosca first caught the world’s attention after dropping his debut Square One EP on Night Slugs and subsequent tracks on labels Rinse, 3024 and most recently the Eva Mendes EP on Hypercolour last June. Mosca also hosts his In New DJs We Trust show every week on BBC Radio One, where he showcases the best of underground dancehall, grime and garage tunes. Supporting him will be Nan & Betty, Skippy and Zej Burton.

Mosca plays at Sugar on Fri Apr 26.

Are there any plans for a full-length album in the near future?

Kai Tan: Back in November, we released a free EP called Holiday, which has [second single] Smoke Trails and Crystal Balling on it. Back then it was basically just our close friends who’d heard our music. We announced it a week before we released it and just put it out there in the wind, so we’re stoked with the response it’s gotten. In the future, we’re going to be releasing another EP before we drop an album – we’re testing a couple of the songs from it live on this tour!

You’ve already got some big-name fans like Zane Lowe – how did that happen?

Kai: It’s so unreal that Zane Lowe has been spinning us on BBC Radio One, that definitely came as a surprise. A mate of his heard our tune and recommended it to him, it’s crazy but it all came together that simply.

CD Reviews

When did you guys realise you had something special that could actually attract attention in the hip hop scene?

Kai: We also went to school with the boys from Spit Syndicate and Horrorshow. When we showed them a couple of tunes we’d been working on they had some very nice things to say about them and started really talking publicly about us which was a really positive start.

Raph: I guess also getting the Triple J play also made us think “Hmm, maybe we really have something here”.

Apparently you’re heading back to the UK again this year...

Raph: We’ve got a bunch of shows in London that should be fun. I’ve heard great things about Club NME, as well as the Great Escape Festival in Brighton. We also plan on heading back a bunch of times this year if they’ll have us back!

Cosmin TRG

Tyler The Creator

Lil Wayne

Gordian

Wolf

I Am Not A Human Being II

(50 Weapons)

(Sony)

(Sony)

Cosmin Nicolae’s second album might be named after an ancient myth but the new LP from the Romanian in Berlin doesn’t reach the heights that will leave people discussing it in myth-like terms for decades to come. The new album from the talented techno and experimental producer, who used to release more dubstep tinged sounds on labels such as Hessle Audio and Tempa, contains some beautiful moments, some scintillating and moving tracks but the overall album listening experience isn’t entirely satisfying.

The best tracks are stuck in the middle of the record. Defeated Hearts Club powers up with techno grace while Divided By Design wonderfully uses background water effects (a la Cornelius’ Drop) as a background tool for an ambient techno masterclass.

But the overall album is too clubby for an experimental album and too experimental to satisfy as a club album. Cosmin has a foot in both the experimental and club camps and is left with a record that doesn’t satisfy on either counts.

Jeff Spicoli

He’s a walking, talking contradiction that Tyler, The Creator – the selfproclaimed leader of the Odd Future pack. Despite the fact his new album Wolf features the freshly-out-of-the-closest Frank Ocean (also of the OF clique), the rapper/producer has no qualms about dropping the ‘faggot’ bomb throughout the 18 tracks featured on the record, all the while using the album as a form of self-therapy or some kind of exorcism of demons that have clearly haunted him for many, many years (as an example, Jamba, featuring Hodgy Beats, focuses on Tyler’s daddy issues and a lack of a fatherly presence in the young man’s life). The guest list gets even more impressive, also including Erykah Badu on Treehome95 and Pharrell Williams on Ifhy (among other collaborators), while the tracks themselves are impressively fresh (often times just plain amusing to listen to), blending in a mix of jazz, old-school hip hop and even a bit of indie rock. A welcomed addition to the record collection.

Simone Keenan

So modesty ain’t a phrase Lil Wayne is familiar with, that’s just an established fact, but there comes a point where the egomaniacal posturing just becomes plain old irritating, especially when your cred is on the downward spiral. What you get on IANAHB2 is a whole lotta drug references (from weed to purple pills, you name it), lame dick jokes and (now-mandatory) pussy-eating references all the while Lil Wayne proclaims to the world that he is “God” and, as per album title, that he is “Not A Human Being”... Except he kind of is, as has recently been proven after the rapper almost died from a string of epileptic seizers that left him hospitalised and pretty much on his deathbed. What’s most surprising about IANAHB2 is how bored and utterly uninspired Lil Wayne actually sounds in his delivery which makes it incredibly hard to believe anything he raps about, while even the beats themselves are shockingly simple.

Also including guest appearances from 2 Chainz, Soulja Boy and Drake, IANAHB2 is far from revolutionary.

Simone Keenan

20

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

You also seem to have an extra show in Adelaide at the end of this tour – what’s the occasion?

We just love Adelaide!

Jackie Onassis play with Spit Syndicate at Jive on Thu Apr 18, and solo at the Ed Castle on Thu May 4.

Calendar/ 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 Chardy & Ember (HQ) Wed Apr 24 Nari & Milani (Apple Bar) Fri Apr 26 Derrick May (Electric Circus) Fri Apr 26 Mosca (Sugar) Sat Apr 27 Otto Knows (HQ) Sat May 4 Walden (HQ)

with Nina Bertok

Interviews

New York lyricist supremo Pharoahe Monch (AKA Troy Jamerson) is again touring Australia, where he has a loyal base. He first performed here at 2008’s Good Vibrations.

“It’s really dope,” Jamerson says from the road in New Zealand. “I’ve been fortunate to work with M-Phazes and Hilltop [Hoods], so it gets better every time and I just love the vibe.”

Jamerson, a Queens native, has long created intricate and socially relevant hip hop. The art school kid started out in the lit-hop combo Organized Konfusion with Prince Poetry. After a trilogy of cult albums, he went solo with 1999’s now classic Internal Affairs, home to Simon Says, on Rawkus. Yet Rawkus was absorbed into Geffen and Jamerson left in limbo. Diddy’s sometime ghostwriter finally resumed with 2007’s brilliantly expansive Desire, out through Wu-Tang Clan discoverer Steve Rifkind’s SRC. He next presented 2011’s conceptual – and independent – WAR (We Are Renegades).

For his latest tour, Jamerson is highlighting another album project, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), which originated as an EP. It’s the sequel to the figurative WAR. “It’s like what happens to people who experience trauma during war and have to be acclimated back into normal society. Life after the (WAR) LP, so to speak.”

As for details?

“I can only say that I’ve formed a company with long-time partner Lee Stone and we form a production team called 13M3N and the stuff we’ve done is sick. Many people don’t know I produced Simon Says as well as a lot of tracks on Internal Affairs and Desire.”

Talib Kweli will guest.

Jamerson is unsure when the album, due on Duck Down through his own WAR Media, will drop. But he’s already aired the single Damage. It again examines the impact of guns, following his earlier songs Stray Bullet (with Organized Konfusion in 1994 and said to have inspired Nas’ I Gave You Power, ironically off his poppier It Was Written) and Desire’s When The Gun Draws. Damage is

e Pharoah Monch

By Cyclone

pertinent given President Obama’s recent campaigning for gun control reforms in the US. American MCs are conflicted on the gun issue. Gangsta rappers – cue 50 Cent – glorify them. Where does Jamerson stand?

“There should be stricter laws. ‘Do you think the wider US will ever accept reforms?’

I’m actually clueless. People love their guns.

It’s the automatic weapons – that’s the issue.”

PTSD alludes to Jamerson’s experience with depression, which is something few MCs have ever raised, one exception being Geto Boys’ (admittedly extreme) Mind Playing Tricks On Me. “I’m not sure why that is.” Jamerson has often spoken, too, of his asthma struggles.

On WAR Jamerson secured beats from the Aussie M-Phazes. Will they reunite?

“We are trying to hook up again, yes.”

Beyond that, Jamerson professes to have heard little Australian hip hop.

Perhaps the most surprising input on WAR came on its introduction, The Warning, with iconic UK actor (and sometime DJ/ musicmaker) Idris Elba from HBO’s cred The Wire and the BBC’s Luther. Elba has appeared in films like Prometheus and will portray Nelson Mandela in the upcoming bio-pic Long Walk To Freedom.

“He was interested in me working on a mixtape with him. We met in LA. He’s a huge fan.”

Jamerson has expressed a desire to write and direct himself.

“I’m currently writing a few short film ideas now.”

What is the most interesting thing he’s seen recently?

“I’ve really been into a series called The Walking Dead. I love zombies.”

There’s more optimism surrounding hip hop today than three years ago. Jamerson

k Ben Kloc

by Cyclone

Berlin techno DJ Ben Klock may enjoy an enduring association with the mythic Berghain club, but it is a mix-CD for London’s Fabric that has established him globally. Now the German is returning to Australia for his third – and most high-profile – tour.

On his inaugural visit way back in 2007, Klock admits that he was “not so well known”, playing to smaller crowds. Next he toured in 2011 with pal Marcel Dettmann, touching down in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.

Interest had grown.

“The scene is not as big as in Europe for this kind of music, of course, but we really enjoyed it.”

Klock, who studied the piano in childhood, was DJing in the ‘90s. The one-time acid house fan would spin jungle – and trip hop – before committing to the more Teutonic house and techno. An original resident at Berghain, he’s aired music on the club’s Ostgut Ton label – including 2009’s debut album, One – as well as Ellen Allien’s BPitch Control. In 2006 he launched his own imprint, Klockworks.

Today Klock, who possesses the chiselled facial features and buff physique of a European model, is celebrated for his dark post-minimalism.

While October’s Fabric 66, which succeeds

his Berghain 04 mix, was praised by critics, Klock is unsure if it’s generated opportunities.

“I wouldn’t say it opened new doors, because my career was steadily going and going and going. This was just like another step.” The DJ is in high demand. “I have a crazy travel schedule like never before this year. Sometimes I play more days in a month than I don’t play – so I have, like, 15 or 16 shows.”

Either way, he was gratified by the response to his Fabric. Klock is “kind of a resident”, at the UK venue.

“I play three or four times a year there.”

Fabric 66 underscores Klock’s affinity with underground techno, but it’s unusually varied, encompassing tunes from the likes of Detroit ‘godmother’ K Hand, Luke Slater’s Planetary

agrees. In fact, when it comes to favourite hip hoppers, there are “too many to name”, but he does mention Kendrick Lamar (“of course”) and Quele Chris.

Jamerson’s work with Organized Konfusion has lost none of its potency, the lyrics unparalleled. In the past its members have expressed doubt about any reunion. But Jamerson is in contact with Po. “I just recorded a song for his new project with producer Oh No.” Jamerson is back in Adelaide to perform.

“It should be compelling, super-lyrical, high-energy... Quality.”

WHO: Pharoahe Monch WHERE: Rocket Bar WHEN: Thu Apr 18

Assault Systems and Mathew Jonson. It also takes in Burial’s Raver, a vestige of the DJ’s old jungle influences. But, though he’s remixed Dutch maven Martyn, Klock isn’t necessarily digging the new post-dubstep techno of Brits Blawan, Pariah and Untold.

“I follow that a little bit, but I can feel that it comes from a different angle. It’s good because it brings some fresh energy or fresh ideas to the techno scene, but it’s a bit of a different background. I grew up with the ‘90s techno sound and all this history... My D&B background is really only at the very beginning. When I started playing in ‘94 or ‘95, I played a little bit of D&B for maybe a year and then I changed to techno. Since then, I don’t follow D&B or anything in that direction anymore. I think it’s good that there comes this wave, but it’s still a different path.”

Such is his DJ calendar that Klock has had little time for the studio of late. He’s limited himself to remixes (his biggest yet being Depeche Mode’s Peace in 2009).

“I hope to do a 12 inch soon but, to be honest, I really don’t know when I should schedule this.”

Klock will co-headline with the Motor City’s charismatic techno innovator Derrick May on select Australian dates. Detroit techno has long been tipped for a comeback.

“I don’t think that it was ever gone,” Klock proclaims. “Maybe for the masses, yes... There is this term ‘Berghain techno’, which is always related to this relentless machine or steel [or] cold beats or something – which is not really what reflects Berghain. At Berghain, we also always play a lot of Detroit and very melodic stuff and pads and emotional stuff. So for us it was never gone.”

WHO: Ben Klock WHAT: Fabric 66 (Balance/EMI) WHERE: Fowler’s Live WHEN: Fri Apr 26

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

21

On Tour //

Check out The Guide at ripitup.com.au

Tour Guide/ THU APR 18

THU MAY 9

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

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

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) X (Vic), THE PRO TOOLS & FEAR & LOATHING @ Forresters & Squatters Arms RAYON MOON (Vic), MOUNTAIN BLOOD, BATPISS & SIMFUCKERS @ Hotel Metro 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 @ Wheatsheaf ALUKA (Vic) @ Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre SHAUN KIRK (Vic) @ Glenelg Surf Club THE STRING CONTINGENT (Scot/Aus) @ The Artisan Café (Blackwood)

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) & ABBEY HOWLETT @ Glenelg Surf Club TIMOTHY NELSON & THE INFIDELS (WA), AMANDA MERDZAN (WA) & THE BAKERS DIGEST @ Wheatsheaf

TUE APR 30 TOOL (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

THU MAY 2 THE BRONX (US), DZ DEATHRAYS (Vic) & HIGHTIME @ Fowler’s Live JOSH PYKE (Syd) @ Grace Emily MEL PARSONS (NZ) @ Café Troppo

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

SAT MAY 4 MEL PARSONS (NZ) @ Hotel Elliot (Pt Elliot) OWL EYES (NSW), COLLARBONES & MAMMALS (Syd) @ Governor Hindmarsh EMMA LOUISE (Bris) @ Fowler’s Live

SUN MAY 5 MEL PARSONS (NZ) @ Wheatsheaf D AT SEA (Vic), CHASING GHOSTS & MILLIE TIZZARD @ Enigma (all-ages)

TUE MAY 7 NORMA JEAN (US), VANNA (US) & SAFE HANDS @ Fowler’s Live TEGAN & SARA (Can) @ Thebarton Theatre BLACK SABBATH (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre OM (US) @ Jive

WED MAY 8 TURIN BRAKES (UK) & THE BAKERS DIGEST @ Governor Hindmarsh FLUME (Syd) @ Thebarton Theatre

THU MAY 9

by Cyclone

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS (US) & DARK FAIR (Vic) @ 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

SAT MAY 11 MASKETTA FALL (Vic) & CALL THE SHOTS (Bris) @ Fowler’s Live (from 2pm and licensed all-ages) FABULOUS DIAMONDS (Vic) & WHITE HEX (Vic) @ Crown & Anchor HOBBS’ ANGEL OF DEATH (Vic), TZUN TZU, ALKIRA & HIDDEN INTENT @ Enigma

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

WED MAY 15 EVERMORE (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh

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 AERIALS (Bris) @ Ed Castle

Amy Macdonald wasn’t even born when Bryan Adams launched his career, but the Scottish singer songwriter will be the rocker’s special guest on this month’s Australian tour.

“When my sister and I were younger, my mum would always play Bryan Adams, so I’m definitely a fan,” the down-to-earth Macdonald enthuses. “It’s so incredibly exciting for me to open up for such an amazing artist.”

Macdonald is partial to ‘80s power rock, having covered Bruce Springsteen’s Dancing In The Dark. However, it was an obsession with the Britpop Travis that prompted her to master Dad’s guitar. The UK – and Europe – was captivated by the grand Gaelic guitar pop of 2007’s debut, This Is The Life, especially the title track. The album hit number one in the

UK months after its release. Macdonald made a fan of Paul Weller, with whom she toured.

The Modfather allowed the disbelieving young star to use his Surrey studio as she prepared 2010’s A Curious Thing – and he played guitar on it.

“It’s always really amazing when you meet people like that who you have looked up to and then they’re just so nice and so easy to chat to.”

Last year Macdonald returned with the assured, if reflective, Life In A Beautiful Light.

“When I started, I was a teenager and I didn’t have a clue what I was doing,” Macdonald laughs. “I think just with three albums, and it being five years now, I feel more comfortable with who I am and with my music and what I do. So, although I don’t think there’s any drastic change from the sound that I had at the beginning, I think that I definitely have matured a bit with my music.

I feel like there’s more to write about now.”

In later years guitar pop has been marginalised

by EDM and urban. Macdonald now finds herself repping a new alternative – rock.

“I think that it definitely feels like there’s a lot less guitar music,” she says. “For someone like me, it’s more difficult now because the radio want to play all their electronic stuff, whatever’s hip, and it’s harder to get guitar music played. But there’s always a place for that, and there’s always bands out there doing guitar music – and that’s like me. I wouldn’t ever want to change who I am or what kind of music I do just to try to fit in. Hopefully, one day it’ll turn ‘round again and it’ll be back to all the similar styles to me that aren’t on the radio a lot.”

interesting and sounded like a fun thing to do, but also because we’d never particularly loved recording in the studio. I guess as a vocal group we travel around with each other and inevitably we end up spontaneously busting out Destiny’s Child songs in various locations when no one else is around. Through that, you really notice how different each space is and what that does to the song.”

Working with producer Nick Huggins (Mick Turner, Kid Sam, Otouto), the group impressively recorded everything, save a couple of vocal lines, on location.

“I think it was a bit of a producer’s wet dream because I think producers also do that thing where they walk around places and go, ‘Wow, this would be amazing to record in here’, so he was really excited by it so that’s what we did. It saw us going to tram depots, swimming pools, World War II bunkers, farmyards and yeah, all kinds of places; it was a lot of fun.”

Heading out nationally to show off Space, Aluka are seasoned performers who have performed alongside Lisa Mitchell and Clare Bowditch.

“When we started out, people generally just didn’t know what they were witnessing a lot of the time. It was very satisfying then to see those people, within 30 seconds of us starting, just go kind of silent and their beers just slightly tip until they’re nearly pouring on the floor. People obviously know us a bit better now, and so I think people come to our shows just knowing that we’re gonna have a lot of life. We love performing, so it will be fun!”

WHO: Amy Macdonald WHERE: Adelaide Entertainment Centre (with Bryan Adams) WHEN: Wed Apr 24

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

Aluka

by Tyler M cLoughlan

COMING UP 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) SUN MAY 26 MATT CORBY (Syd) @ HQ MON MAY 27 BOOMTOWN RATS (Ire) & MENTAL AS ANYTHING (Syd) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre THU MAY 20 THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh FRI MAY 31 KAKI KING (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh SUN JUN 2 MIKE STERN BAND (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh MON JUN 3 JAZZGROOVE MOTHERSHIP ORCHESTRA (Syd) @ The Promethean

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

22

Amy Macdon ald

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

It was through happy coincidence that Annabelle Tunley, Rachael Head and Sally Mortensen became an a cappella trio while studying a diploma of music together five years ago.

Though Tunley admits there may have been a little female defiance in the decision to stick together for an assignment rather than recruit the services of a “blokey, boy drummer or boy bass player”, they soon found a shared love in the challenge of approaching a blank canvas with limited resources. With this month’s debut album release, Aluka show how ditching the studio has extended a further level of creativity to their sound.

“We came up with the idea of marrying each song to a unique recording environment, and I guess that idea resonated with us because it was

WHO: Aluka WHAT: Space (Independent) WHERE & WHEN: A Band On Boat on Sat Apr 20 and Nexus Arts Centre on Sun Apr 21

The Guide //

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

Thursday 18th ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Bill Parton Trio (8.30pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi & Shaggy (7pm) CAVERN CLUB – band night CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Ben David and Isaac Graham. Front Bar: DJ Antface DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Trivia Night (7.30pm) DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) DUKE OF YORK – Beer Garden: DJ Mitchy Burnz.

Front Room: Speakerboxx and DJ Skinny B ED CASTLE – Band Room: live bands (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm) EMU HOTEL – karaoke party (9pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – It’s A Hoax, Jimmy Meegan and Alphabette

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – OPEN MIKE NITE GILBERT STREET HOTEL – OTTO’S JACKET (7.30PM) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Gumbo Room Blues Jam featuring Bluescasters and Third Foot Dance Academy GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Tim Guy GRAND BAR – OMG HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sam (8pm) HOTEL VICTOR – Jason Akermanis JIVE – Spit Syndicate and Jackie Onassis MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) NORWOOD HOTEL – Open Mic Night PJ O’BRIENS – DJ G-Rillz PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango ROCKET BAR – 8 Bit Kidz featuring resident DJs Stubanger, Hank & Osk and the Powderoom Posse SUGAR – ITDE Deejays and interstate/international

THE LION HOTEL – Clearway TONSLEY HOTEL – Jake Daulby (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Simon Hudson Band and Luker +1 (9pm)

WHITMORE HOTEL – RAINBOW JAM SESSIONS (7.30PM)

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – THE ONE WITHIN, BLOOD RED RENAISSANCE AND PRIORITY ORANGE GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main

WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

Friday 19th

Room: Weekend Warriors Gala Open Mic Competition. Front Bar: Astro Cobalt GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Green Circles

ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Dino Jag

ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs

with Slingshot Dragster

Solo (7.30pm)

ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: Jaki J (10pm)

GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays

ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Chloe Castledine &

GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Lodestone (7.30pm)

The Cast (9pm)

HATS: AUBURN – Spectrum (8pm)

AUSSIE INN HOTEL – karaoke (8pm)

HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Show Us Ya Hits

SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – The Satellites and

AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm)

HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire

The Saucermen

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm)

HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Josh Moore (8pm)

SETTLERS TAVERN – Wildcard (8pm)

BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and

HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Dimitra (7.30pm)

SOUTH ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – Heath Solo

Suckerpunch

HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs

BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Rock The Boss (8pm)

IRISH CLUB – Shamrocks ‘n’ Shenanigans Live

BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ

Acoustic Sessions (7pm)

CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and

JIVE – Seventeen Fifty Seven EP Launch

STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance.

guests

LIMBO – DJs

Downstairs: DJs play retro

CLOVERCREST HOTEL – East

LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm)

SUGAR – TGI Funky with Ben Alibi and HMC

COMMERCIAL HOTEL: TWO WELLS – Dale Roberts

Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman

SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJs

(8pm)

LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee

TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests

CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm)

MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music

TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio

Ride Into The Sun DJs. Band Room: Angels Of Gung

MARION HOTEL – Graham Lawrence (6.30pm)

Flamenco (7.30pm)

Ho and The Trails

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

TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – DJ Wolfman (9pm)

DOCKSIDE TAVERN – The Rustlers (7.30pm)

show (2am)

THE ELEPHANT – The Buzz

DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs Derek Lang, Eric Falcon and Lukky K DUBLIN HOTEL – Slyde

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8PM)

SOUTHWARK HOTEL – DON MORRISON

THE GOODY – Ch@t Room

METROPOLITAN HOTEL – RULE OF THIRDS

ED CASTLE – Causing Hammock with Less Than

THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: John McKay (4.45pm) Sonic Divas (9pm) Chrysler Bar: Broken Theory

Three (10.30pm)

MICK O’SHEA’S – Riley Duo

(9.30pm)

ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs

NORWOOD HOTEL – Three Star General (9pm)

TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Acoustic Reign (8.20pm)

Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests

OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One: The Happy Leonards

VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs

ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs

OFFICE ON PIRIE – DJ Jess (4.30pm)

WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Heath Cullen album launch

EMPIRE POOL LOUNGE – DJ (8pm)

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

with Kim Dellavedova (9pm)

EMU HOTEL – The Incredibles (8pm)

RED SQUARE – DJs

ESPLANADE HOTEL – Acoustik

REGATTA’S RESTAURANT – Blues Avenue (5.30pm)

EXETER HOTEL – Troy Harrison

REX HOTEL – karaoke

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Crystal Forehead with Emu

RHINO ROOM – Empire Rising with Ill Equipt and Streamlyne

WINDSOR HOTEL – karaoke (9pm)

FINDON HOTEL – karaoke

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

WOODCROFT TAVERN – Kickback (8pm)

ROCKET BAR – Abracadabra featuring resident DJs

ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Skot, Ryley and Track Team

guests

WHITMORE HOTEL – BOUT TIME

The Shiny Brights DJs

SYDNEY MUSIC AUSTRALIA PRESENT

EP LAUNCH Live at Jive 19th April with special guests The Valkyries Duo feat. Rachel Cearns Nicnic Ansell (Spiralling Sight) Tickets available through Moshtix & at the door RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

23

The Guide // Saturday 20th

DUKE OF YORK – DJ Mitchy Burnz, DJ Parry, DJ

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: The Drones

SUGAR – Prince Aaronak, Driller, Derek Lang plus a

Skinny B and MC Scotty

with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. Front Bar:

host of international guests

ED CASTLE – Plus One Saturdays with live bands and

Pretty Ugly

SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle

ALMA TAVERN – MetroRetro

party DJs (9pm)

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Ghyti & The Philanthropic

TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests

ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J. Upstairs:

ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs

Orchestra with Naomi Keyte and Jungle City

TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs

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

Junior, Dancespace and friends

GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays with DJs and

THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment

ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar + Arena: Agent 99

EMU HOTEL – Carefactor (8pm)

MCs

THE PRODUCERS BAR – She’s The Band, Profiteers,

Lounge Bar: Blue Lagoon (9pm)

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Green Circles

GRENFELL 110 – Triumvirate Ents presents: Weekly

Costanza and The Ivory Peacocks (9pm)

Summer Sessions featuring DJs Ragz, Jesse Proverbs

TONSLEY HOTEL – Redline (8.30pm)

and John Spencer and Daly (10pm)

VALLEY INN – karaoke

HACKNEY HOTEL – DJ

VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – Rumours

HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – The Tom Jones Show

WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm)

HIGHLANDER HOTEL – The Buzz

WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Shaun Kirk EP & DVD launch with AP D’Antonio (9pm)

BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – karaoke with Gemma BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – The Bluff (8pm) BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – STEVE LUCAS AND X, THE PRO TOOLS AND FEAR & LOATHING

CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests

FOWLER’S LIVE – Devil’s Playground featuring A

HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm)

CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: The Weight, Mark

Dead Silence, Arcadia, Like Wolves, The Sky Will

HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm)

My Words, Decleration, Reactions and Featherweight

Know, Days Of Deceit, Doc Oc, Tina Gray, We Ate The

HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly

then DJ Azz

Search Party, Dead By Midnight, Seven Acts Of Mercy

HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Bar 180: Lucas

CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with

(3pm)

Day (7.30pm) The Front: Ground Zero (8.30pm)

Nicole (8pm)

GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm)

HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips, Tinker

WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm)

and Bangwel (8pm)

ZHIVAGO – High Heel DJs: Skot, Terrence, Osiris and

HQ – Ministry Of Sound Electro House Sessions Tour

Gumshoe

featuring Chardy and Ember

Sunday 21st

DRAGONFLY – rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and everything in between

GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ MARKY POLO (8PM)

WHITMORE HOTEL – THE RED HOT BLUES BAND (9PM)

JIVE – Big Scary, Caitlin Park and Swimming KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke LAKES RESORT HOTEL – The Hitmen

ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Latin Fever Party (6pm)

LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex,

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt

AJ and MC Renard (10pm)

BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon

2GH 7R 1RQVHQVH

MARINA SUNSET BAR – DJs playing the best in

BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – The Rocking Stones

house and electro

(4pm)

Enter the Gromboolian Plain…here you’ll be enchanted by beings with luminous noses, hysterical ears and impossible adventures. Edward loves it here, and so will you when you see the world premiere musical opera, Ode To Nonsense, presented

by Adelaide-based theatre company, Slingsby.

MARION HOTEL – Franky F (5.30pm) Fave Freeman

CROWN & ANCHOR – Sunday Rubdown

& The Reason (8.30pm)

DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris

MARS BAR – VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show

DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Russell

(2am)

Stewart

MICK O’SHEA’S – Flaming Sambucas

ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm)

MOUNT GAMBIER RSL – Lily & The Drum (8pm)

EMU HOTEL – Mark (2pm)

OLD SPOT HOTEL – Dawn Raider (9pm)

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Matt Barlow and Naomi Keyte

PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – The

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – SUNDEE MADNESS GILBERT STREET HOTEL – TARA CARRAGHER & RICHARD COATES (2PM)

Long Run

The show hits Her Majesty’s Theatre from April 26 and Fringe Benefits members can get tix for just $29!

See fringebenefits.com.au for more.

PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Smarty Boys RAMSGATE HOTEL – Adelaide’s best cover bands RED SQUARE – DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and

1RW D )ULQJH %HQHÀWV PHPEHU" ,I \RX·UH DJHG ² YLVLW IULQJHEHQHÀWV FRP DX WR MRLQ ,W·V IUHH

Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan

GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays featuring

ROCKET BAR – Bananas: Track Team and Japeye

Shaun Kirk and AP D’Antonio

SANDBAR – requests with DJs

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Club C. Front Bar: Vaudeville Vibes (5pm)

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SESSIONS

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Jo & Camille’s Shit Disco GRAND BAR – bands, DJs and MCs

4 MAY

ABSOLUTELY 80’S

THIS MONTH AT THE WHITMORE HOTEL

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

24

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

18 25 MAY

SUNNY COWGIRLS

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

Thu 11 Rainbow (Saloon) Fri 12 Magazines Sat 13 The Haggards Sun 14 Sympathy Orchestra

Sun 21 Jake Nickolai Mon 22 Closed Tue 23 Raw Jam Wed 24 Ryan Smith

Mon 15 Closed Tue 16 Raw Jam

Thu 25 Rainbow Fri 26 Shambolloks

Thu 18 Rainbow Fri 19 Bout Time Sat 20 Red Hot Blues

Sun 28 Dominic Mon 29 Closed Tue 30 Raw Jam

APRIL

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

The Guide // HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – NPL Poker

ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jam Night

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

(6.30pm)

(8pm)

(7.30pm)

LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – Velvet

SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon

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

MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring

THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and

Box?!)

live acoustic music

Paul Vallen

EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music

MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits

WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Wheaty Whiskey featuring

Exchange (7.30pm)

MICK O’SHEA’S – Shannon Lloyd

Silent Stills (6pm)

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Curtis

OVERWAY HOTEL – Urban Cover (2pm) RAMSGATE HOTEL – acoustic session (4pm) Tom

FINDON HOTEL – Muso’s Jam hosted by Streaker

WHITMORE HOTEL – CLOSED

Tuesday 23rd

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – WEDNESDAY NITE DYNAMITE WITH DJ DYNAMITE

Kurzel & Ed Trainor fortnightly rotation (7.30pm)

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SOLOISTS

BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson

FOWLER’S LIVE – Buzzcocks

SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Hoy-Hoy!

CROWN & ANCHOR – DJs Stevie & Duncan

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room:

ST BEDE’S HALL: SEMAPHORE – Semaphore

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

British India. Front Bar: Open Mic Night

Record Fair & Music Sale No. 4 presented by Mr V

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Bitches Of Zeus DJs

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Craig Atkins with James

Music (10am)

GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by

Abberley

SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans

Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm)

HIGHWAY – The Combi Room

TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Adelaide

HQ – Flashdance

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

Ukulele Appreciation Society Uke Night

JIVE – Rufus and Polographia

(5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm)

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Pub Cinema

KENSINGTON HOTEL – Uke ‘n’ Play beginners to

WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday

MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm)

advanced ukulele (7pm)

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

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

MARION HOTEL – Graham Lawrence (6.30pm)

WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi &

SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and

MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection

Shaggy (8.30pm)

Driller

PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm)

WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Jordie Lane, AP D’Antonio

THE LION HOTEL – Acoustic Sessions

SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm)

and Myles Mayo (4pm)

TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Ryley (8pm)

SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with

WHITMORE HOTEL – Jake Nickolai and Liam Og ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs: Zooma, Skot and Ryley

Monday 22nd CROWN & ANCHOR – Hello Lover

Margi (7.30pm)

WHITMORE HOTEL – ACOUSTIC RAW JAM

SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular and Mr Whiskas THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill

WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

TONSLEY HOTEL – quiz night (7pm)

Wednesday 24th

TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Wednesdays (7pm)

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Ben David & The Banned

WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Buxton Ales Tap Takeover (6pm)

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Balcony Bar: Lord

ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Ark Goes Greek

Stompy’s Tin Sandwich

(8.30pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: The Incredibles (10pm)

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam

BOTANIC BAR – Gemma

HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ultimate Quiz with

CROWN & ANCHOR – Geek with DJ Tr!p

Graham Lawrence (7pm)

l r favourite loca A Q&A with ou bartenders.

WHITMORE HOTEL – RYAN SMITH WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music ZHIVAGO – ANZAC Spirit DJs: Finn, Skot and Ryley

Name: Courtney Venue: The Whitmore Hotel Come here If you like: Live music.

Your drink: The Hills Pear Cider.

Must try: $10 pint and parmi every Wednesday.

Coming Up: Animalia by Ella Boylan opens Sat May 4.

RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy

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

GIG GUIDE

THURSDAY APRIL 18 FRONT BAR: GUMBO ROOM

BLUES JAM + SHADES OF BLUE

FRIDAY APRIL 19

saturday APRIL 20

WEEKEND WARRIORS

GALA OPEN MIC THE DRONES NIGHT CONCERT

FRONT BAR: ASTRO COBALT SALOON: IRISH SESSIONS SATURDAY APRIL 20 wed APRIL 24

BRITISH INDIA

MIDGE URE THE VOICE OF

ULTRAVOX FRIDAY APRIL 26

THE DRONES + KING GIZZARD &

THE LIZARD WIZARD

FRONT BAR: PRETTY UGLY FRONT BAR: PUB SCRABBLE SUNDAY APRIL 21

CLUB C FRONT BAR: VAUDEVILLE

VIBES AT THE GOV: FASHIONISTAS

WEDNESDAY APRIL 24

FRI APRIL 26 MIDGE URE THE VOICE OF ULTRAVOX SAT APRIL 27 A NIGHT OF VAN MORRISON SUN APRIL 28 ADRIAN EDMONDSON & THE BAD SHEPHERDS THURS MAY 02 FOSSIL ROCK- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FUNDRAISER FRI MAY 03 BONJAH SAT MAY 04 ALL OWL EYES AGES WED MAY 08 TURIN BRAKES THURS MAY 09 THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS FRI MAY 10 STICKY FINGERS SAT MAY 11 HOLLYWOOD GUN CLUB WED MAY 15 EVERMORE THURS MAY 16 SETH SENTRY FRI MAY 17 DANCE, DANCE, DANCE FRI MAY 24 SAN CISCO SAT MAY 25 SOMETHING FOR KATE SUN MAY 26 DAYBREAK MUSIC FESTIVAL

BRITISH INDIA

+ HORROR MY FRIEND + THE LOVE JUNKIES FRONT BAR: OPEN MIC NIGHT

da Mon

1O

$

y

s Schnitty

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH HOTEL www.thegov.com.au

59 PORT ROAD HINDMARSH T 8340 0744

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

25

Snapped //

Find more social pics online at ripitup.com.au

rays DZ Deathket at Roc photos by r Andreas Heue

Birdy at atre n The Thebarto photos by e Kristy DeLain

26

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

Snapped //

ys st Sunda Spit Roa ace The at Gr ment Establish photos by e Kristy DeLain

Friday labla at Casab photos by r Andreas Heue

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

27

Culture //

Films / Food / Fashion / Art / Reviews

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang The Australian production of the family-oriented stage musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, winner of Best Musical at the Variety Awards in the UK in 2003, is heading for Adelaide following a hugely successful run in Sydney. he production has a strong cast, with opera singer David Hobson playing Caractacus Potts, Rachael Beck as Truly Scrumptious and Alan Brough, of television’s Spicks And Specks, in the role of Baron Bomburst, the tyrannical ruler of Vulgaria.

Also in the cast is George Kapiniaris, the comedian who has become a household name due to a series of television commercials for the RAA, who is playing a Vulgarian spy.

“I’d never really planned to do it,” he says, “but I auditioned because Roger Hodgman [former artistic director of Melbourne Theatre Company and director of television shows such as Blue Heelers, Packed To The Rafters and Secret Life of Us] is the director and I was keen to see what he’d be like to work with. I’d always had great respect for him as a director so it was really like I was auditioning him.

“So I’d been planning my next Fringe show and thinking of doing a big comedy tour and suddenly I’m in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. But it’s been great because while I’ve been in a few musicals before – I was in The Rocky Horror Show back in 1996 with Dale Ryder, Annie Jones and Kamahl – this is quite a traditional musical. And it’s a film I had seen as a kid and really loved.

It’s also a film I saw more than once.”

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang had begun life as a novel for children written in 1964

by Ian Fleming, who also authored the James Bond books. It was made into a film in 1968 with a script, loosely based on Fleming’s book, by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes and a score by Robert and Richard Sherman, who had also written the music for the Mary Poppins film.

The plot revolves around eccentric professor Caractacus Potts, played in the movie by Dick Van Dyke, who invents wacky machinery, but when he comes up with a revolutionary flying car, the sinister Vulgarian government become interested in it and resort to much trickery to get their hands on the amazing vehicle.

“And it’s almost the star of the show,” Kapiniaris says of the car. “It’s just amazing and when it flies across the stage there’s always a huge gasp from the audience. And from the cast too. It’s worth something

T

28

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

like just over a million dollars so it’s pretty high-tech. But we’re not allowed to tell people how it works – that’s in the contract – but I couldn’t tell you how it works if you asked me. I just know it does and that it’s just awesome.

“But there’s also a lot of props on stage.

And we’ve got people walking backwards to make it look like the car is moving and people on motorbikes with sidecars. And there are dogs as well who sometimes chuck a tantrum and don’t wanna go on.

But we just give them some Schmackos and away we go.

“But it’s also a great cast and very wellrounded because they can all dance and can all sing,” he adds. “It’s actually quite hard work for me to keep up. But because my role is a comedic one, which is my forte and so is almost tailor-made for me, it’s been great because while doing that I’m also learning a lot about musicals. I do a huge vaudeville number where I sing and dance.

So it’s been a huge challenge.

“And my foil, as the other Vulgarian spy, is Todd Goodard, who has a musical theatre background,” he concludes. “So it’s a lot of fun.”

Vile Villain Mt Gambier-born Sir Robert Helpmann played the evil role of The Child Catcher in the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and has since been named as one of the 50 Most Vile Movie Villains.

Tyler Coppin, who portrayed Helpmann in the successful stage production Lyrebird: Tales Of Helpmann, plays the role in the current stage production.

“So Tyler is just made for the part,” George Kapiniaris says, “because he lives and breathes Sir Robert Helpmann. And my son, Pete, who is four, loves playing The Child Catcher bit in the film over and over again so I took him to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and to meet Tyler backstage. And while it all seemed to go okay, Pete had a nightmare about it that night.

“In fact The Child Catcher gets booed off the stage by the end of the night,” he laughs. “But that just means that Tyler is doing his job properly.”

WHAT: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang WHERE: Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: From Tue Apr 30

Film //

Find more film reviews online at ripitup.com.au

Quick Flicks

Kon-Tiki (M) Co-directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg and simultaneously shot in English and Norwegian (no two guesses which version is showing here), this study of the 4300-mile, 101-day raft journey dangerously undertaken by Thor Heyerdahl (Pål Sverre Hagen) in 1948 to prove that Polynesia was populated by South Americans, not Asians, was a labour-of-love for all, and proves to be most entertaining.

Disappointing his long-suffering wife Liz (Agnes Kittelsen), Heyerdahl assembles a motley group of (suicidal?) sorts (especially Anders Baasmo Christiansen’s journo

Herman Watzinger) and proceeds upon the voyage despite every warning about extreme weather, marauding sharks, the weaknesses of the raft itself and more, as the directors (and passionate producer Jeremy Thomas) follow them for what must have been a fairly frightening shoot.

Drawn from Heyerdahl’s book and doco of the same name, this has fine performances, exciting set-pieces and quite a sense of humour, but what perhaps most distinguishes it is the surprising decision to depict him as a visionary basket-case.

Mad Dog Bradley

Adelaide Cinémathèque 2013 Mercury Cinema

Oblivion (M) This seriously expensive Tom Cruise vehicle from co-writer/co-producer/director Joseph (Tron: Legacy) Kosinski, fancies itself the Ultimate Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi-er, and it could have been that if it wasn’t overlong, vaguely incoherent and featured not only ideas pilfered from Solaris, La Jetée and many other pics, but another odd Cruise dye-job as well. In a far future, after the destruction of the Moon and Earth, a ‘mind-wiped’ Jack Harper (TC) patrols the ‘lifeless’ world (well, America), watching for the ‘Scavs’ that led to this destruction and afraid to tell his mission partner (Andrea Riseborough) that he remembers things he shouldn’t. When he discovers a crashed spaceship and Julia (Olga Kurylenko), his mind and humanity kick in (he has total recall, you might say), and he realises what we probably suspected all along - especially if we saw that sci-fi epic released here in 2009, directed by the son of that famous rock star (and better not mention its title, as we’ll give the whole game away).

But Cruise and Kosinski hope you didn’t read that, so please start forgetting… now.

Mad Dog Bradley

The suddenly-oh-so-timely retrospective Thatcher’s Britain commences smashing the state at the Mercury Cinema on Thu Apr 18 at 7.30pm with director Ken Loach’s rarely-screened Looks And Smiles (1981, M), and continues with director Stephen Frears’ My Beautiful Laundrette (1985, M, and a ‘Special Import’) on Mon Apr 22 at 7.30pm, director Peter Greenaway’s legendary The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover (1989, R) on Mon Apr 29 at 7.30pm and, finally, director Mike Leigh’s still-deeply-troubling Naked (1993, M, and another ‘Special Import’) on Thu May 2 at 7.30pm.

All Cinémathèque-related details: mercurycinema.org.au.

Opening But Unrated Cheerful Weather For The Wedding (M), from co-writer/director Donald Rice, is an English costume drama with a spiffing cast that includes Downton Abbey fave Elizabeth McGovern, Felicity Jones, Zoë Tapper and many others.

Escape From Planet Earth (PG)

Scary Movie 5 (M)

Thérèse Desqueyroux (M)

Co-writer/director Cal Brunker’s satirically-flavoured animated sci-fi-er is amiable enough, although the plot’s probably a bit overcomplicated for tinier monsters, um, rugrats. A show-off alien astronaut from Baab named Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser’s voice) thinks he’s indestructible, but his harried brother Gary (Rob Corddry’s voice) at Mission Control does all the work and tries to advise him not to zoom off to the ‘Dark Planet’. And, when Scorch goes anyway, finds out that it’s (duh) Earth, gets kidnapped by General Shanker (William Shatner) and hauled off to Area 51, Gary tries to save him, although he’s, of course, apprehended too, and must work with other incarcerated aliens (like Jane Lynch’s one-eyed lizard-ish giant Io) make the titular escape.

With a surprisingly negative view of the military, subtle in-jokes about Peter Jackson, James Cameron, The Beatles and so forth, and some nice vocal work, this also sneaks in a couple of naughty gags for dragged-along adults, like an astronomically quick quip about ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ (look it up, kids).

Mad Dog Bradley

In the seven years since the last Scary Movie graced our screens, spooky films have become popular again so, after the recent spate of freaky popcorn-sellers, the overflogged parody flick is obviously back too, replacing Anna Faris with Ashley Tisdale and moving away from the fun, and easily mockable, Screams and I Know What You Did Last Summers that were tortured first and now focusing on Paranormal Activity, a franchise which began respectably enough but now gets ever more tainted with every bi-annually churned-out sequel, the parallel really making it a perfectly relatable target for the Scary Movie treatment.

Sometimes with a bit of space between sequels there’s time for improvement, but gone are writer David Zucker’s Flying High and Police Squad! glory days, where spoofs were made purely to be funny. Now they’re just predictable, eye-rollingly crass drivel that, inexplicably, someone is apparently still paying money to see? Scary indeed.

Kat McCarthy

Title character Thérèse (Audrey Tautou) is a well-off but withdrawn young woman who marries the brother of her best friend, more in the interest of social expectation and prosperity than love, and is left feeling stifled by the family she doesn’t relate to and the expectations upon her that she has no interest in fulfilling, while she resents the passion and excitement that sister-in-law Anne has found without her.

A victim of too much source novel and not enough film reel, wrong turns are plentiful here, with subplots that seem to be going somewhere fizzling out as disappointing red herrings. A story centered around an emotionally detached lead character is rarely a wholly enthralling one - but at least this is visually attractive, not totally without intrigue and a decent final legacy of writer/ director Claude Miller, who has been making films since the late ‘60s, and who passed away earlier this month.

Kat McCarthy

Director/co-producer/star Robert Redford’s political, ‘60s/’70sthrowbacking dramatic thriller The Company You Keep (M) stars him alongside (deep breath) Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper, Terrence Howard, Stanley Tucci, Richard Jenkins, Anna Kendrick, Brendan Gleeson, Brit Marling, Sam Elliott, Lochlyn Munro and Stephen Root.

No (M), director/co-producer Pablo Larrain’s bold, 1988-Chile-set, Pinochetintensive drama, toplines an excellent performance by Gael García Bernal (thereby rather redeeming himself after The Loneliest Planet).

The portentously-titled Olympus Has Fallen (MA), from action-gravitating director Antoine Fuqua, offers Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Aaron Eckhart, Dylan McDermott, Rick Yune, Angela Bassett, Melissa Leo, Cole Hauser and Australia’s own (and toolong-unseen) Radha Mitchell.

And, finally, The Other Son (Les Fils De L’Autre) (M), from co-writer/ director Lorraine Levy, is a drama more character-driven than harshly political with Emmanuelle Devos, Pascal Elbé and so forth.

*30/ ."/ t .*%/*()5 -"6/$) t */ % 0/ &9*."9 "%&-"*%& 4 -"3(&45 4$3&&/ TUESDAY 23 APRIL ( 12.01AM WEDNESDAY 24 APRIL ) BOOK YOUR SEAT ONLINE NOW AT PALACENOVA.COM

RUNDLE ST | ADELAIDE SA | 8232 3434

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

29

Food //

with Miranda Freeman

Email miranda@ripitup.com.au

Beer & Brewer Degustation Beer & Brewer magazine is celebrating its 24th edition with an issue party and beer degustation on Tue Apr 30 at the Earl Of Leicester in Parkside. The night will also launch the Best 100 Beers booklet, which will include the results of the Beer & Brewer Awards 2012 across Australia and New Zealand. The evening will kick off with welcome drinks in which Beer & Brewer readers will be able to enjoy quality homebrew and craft beer and cider, followed by a fivecourse beer degustation dinner matched by 10 beers from 10 breweries. Some of the contributing breweries include Brewboys, Coopers, Hofbrau and Vinaceous. Tables of 10, 14, 16 or 20 are available.

WHAT: Beer & Brewer Degustation WHERE: Earl Of Leicester, 85 Leicester St, Parkside WHEN: Tue Apr 30 from 6pm – 10pm TICKETS: $80 from the venue

LOCAL LIBATIONS

Minestra

d’Arenberg Blending Bench Are you one of those people who presses their nose to the wine list and just really can’t decide what you want? The Blending Bench at d’Arenberg in McLaren Vale is an interactive workshop allowing you to craft your own wine blend. Don’t worry, you’re not going to have to go and pick a few tonnes of grapes – the crew at d’Arry’s have already done that for you, picking, crushing, fermenting, foot treading and basket pressing the grapes during the vintage season. Now comes the fun part, a chance to express your personal wine taste by creating your own personal d’Arenberg wine.

Within one session winemakers will guide you through the hands-on blending process to craft a wine from three barrel samples of The Dead Arm shiraz, allowing you to then bottle a 750ml sample of your favourite blend to name. Each session runs for 90 minutes and costs $60 per person including a bottle of your best wine. A minimum of four people per group is required, or join the Sunday noon sessions where there is no minimum. Bookings are required, book now via cellardoor@darenberg.com.au.

30

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

‘Minestra’ is a traditional Italian soup, usually ly spruced up with beans and rice and whatever vegetables are in season at the time, which are then stewed. It slots in somewhere in between zuppa and minestrone. It’s also the moniker for Prospect’s latest Italian eatery Minestra, a nook of a place boasting delicious smells and Calabrian cooking based upon owner Sandy Cenin’s grandmother’s recipes. This place is probably going to be your saviour during winter. er.

Minestra is big on homegrown produce, most of their dishes featuring seasonal vegetables sourced locally. This you’ll be able to try by poking your head in from Wednesday during the week from 7.30am. And they’re pretty serious about garnering local fruit and veg too. If you are something of a vegetable patch heavyweight (ie you’ve got marigolds planted, your housemates call you ‘Slugterminator’) thee team at Minestra would love it if you would donate any leftover greens to their humble storefront. As the more unforgiving months edge closer and closer, there’s nothing we’ll be looking forward to more than a steaming bowll of hot soup. It’s a hug in a bowl. We need moree hugs. We need this.

WHAT: Minestra WHERE: 123 Churchill Rd, Prospect WHEN: Wed – Fri from 7.30am INFO: facebook.com/minestra.food

B Y SH A N E E T T RIDGE PRO U DLY AVA IL A B L E AT T H E K IN GS

WAYWOOD WINES 2010 NEBBIOLO, MCLAREN VALE I hate the term food wine. Always have.

Although it pains me to admit it... It does have relevance as a selling point in a state which is renound for producing massive fruit explosions that would make even the heartiest beef bourguignon cower in terror. So as the days become shorter and the pizza delivery guy starts to become part of the family lets find you some booze that revels in the company rich food and shit t.v. First cab off the rank, Waywood Wines 2010 Nebbiolo. Give it a couple of minutes in the glass and lovely floral notes start to sing.

Front palate is primary fruit dominated but with clairty. Nothing is lost in the mid section where dried herbs and earthy tones join the converstation and give you enough time to devour a anchovy smothered slice of greatness.

Where W here D Dat? at?

A bitter Americano cocktail, mac and cheese balls and jalapeno poppers from new underground American diner Jack Ruby, open now at 89 King William St. For more food posts, follow us on Instagram @ripitupmag.

Film Meets Food Ahead of its October launch, the Adelaide Film Festival is teaming up with Kangaroo Island’s FEASTival this month to present a special evening of film and food with the ‘FilmFood’ dinner. Australia’s leading native food chef, Andrew Fielke, will join Adelaide Film Festival director Amanda Duthie as they deliver a rustic Australian menu alongside a lineup of classic Australian short films including rom-com Steam Boat, coffee documentary Cup Of Heaven and animated piece The Donut Hunters. The ‘FilmFood’ dinner will be held at Kingscote Wharf on Kangaroo Island on Sat Apr 27 from 7pm. Tickets are available now through Venuetix.

The finish is delicate in a drop which is light, bright and just damn good fun. So next time you’re glued to the couch having episodes of ‘The only way is Essex’ forced upon you make certain you have a bottle handy not only to halt the self loathing but to enjoy with the best the delivery guy has to offer. Cheers

TH E K IN GS B A R D INING. C O M

Fashion //

Email lachlanaird@ripitup.com.au

with Lachlan Aird

Evo Does Not Contain v2.0

300ml, $39.95

The crux of the Evo Does Not Contain campaigns are that Evo products are not going to fix your life and solve your problems – it’ll just give you really great hair. To display this, they have once again enlisted some of the finest talent to bring you one of the most entertaining and visually stunning campaigns going around. Strippers, ice swans, twins, paint people and lobsters all make appearances in the 2013 reboot of Evo Does Not Contain.

There’s even a video to get the full experience at evohair.com. However, now that we think about it, having really great hair can help you in many aspects of your life you haven’t even considered – so in a roundabout way, Evo does help you make friends, find lovers and get jobs.

Evo Fabuloso To test out whether Evo really does have all the secrets of the haircare trade, try the Fabuloso range of conditioners. Each conditioner is suited to enhancing a certain colour, covering everything from chestnut to mahogany to purple red to caramel to light beige to platinum blonde. Bolster your tone and keep your hair colour brighter as the weather gets gloomier. Something has to make this city shine.

Evo Fabuloso range is available from Evo stockists or evohair.com.

Vintage Has A New Level Kirsty Irwin AW13 Lookbook Taking a somewhat different path than Nick Hornby did, About A Girl is the new collection from local girl Kirsty Irwin’s eponymous label. The collection, fronted

by Kirsty’s sister Megan of IMG Models, is grungy without being too heavy-handed.

Quilted leather pants and bomber jackets are signature pieces that balance out the patent

black skirts and short-sleeved hoodies. These rich textures are complemented by neutral colours; with white, black and charcoal used most regularly, but a bold stripe and tomato red ensure feature for those wary of a tooneutral palette. About A Girl is available from Stylelab by Wild Child and e-boutique from kirstyirwin.com.

The Red Cross Vintage store on Rundle St is expanding its premises to a second storey above their current store at 284 Rundle St. This means they’ll be stocking even more vintage gems, with the profits going to assist the Red Cross and all the important support they provide. To celebrate, they’re having a shindig for the public in new store from 7pm-9pm on Fri Apr 19, with nibbles and drinks by Felici, and a door prize for best-dressed and special discounts on the night.

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

31

Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04 The habit of taking on battles with those who aren’t going to budge is best put in the bin. If things aren’t going your way, pack up all your rationales and go fishing. The moment all the fun has gone means it’s time to take note and set about finding it again. Let go of your grip.

Taurus 21.04/20.05 There comes a point where it’s appropriate to let go of stubbornness.

If somebody is blocking you, it may be that they are doing so for good reason. The moment you let go of the fight and acceptance starts to surface then understanding is bound to follow. Take it easy.

Gemini 21.05/21.06 A river flows freely because its banks are solid. Life is holding you in such a way that you can move freely. It’s your foundations that allow you to fly. See if you can be both – rock solid and as breezy as a wind sprite. Hold this paradox. Know where support is coming from.

Cancer 22.06/22.07

Leo 23.07/22.08 There have been some pretty wild adventures unfold of late. They are tailing out. Soon, the sun will go into Taurus and you’ll be feeling lots of solid ground under your paws. If there’s anything you’ve still got to get out of your system, get to it – with awareness! Seize the now.

Virgo 23.08/22.09 Adventure time was good – but now your nerves are a little on edge.

It’s nearly time to come to ground and return to the land of simple pleasures. When adrenaline is the driving factor, exhaustion follows.

Extract yourself from situations that are no longer nourishing.

Art //

Email miranda@ripitup.com.au

with Miranda Freeman

Tooth & Nail Store

Libra 23.09/23.10 By the time the sun has made its annual run through Aries, you are generally a trifle jangled. Though you feel you have lived culture, sophistication and social harmony have gone to the wind. This is a necessary initiation but it too has to come to an end. Re-harmonise.

An artist warehouse, exhibition gallery and yoga class compound – if you didn’t think multidisciplinary art space Tooth & Nail could get any more useful, think again, as they’ve just opened a brand new front-of-house art supplies shop. The Tooth & Nail Store is a specialty art supplies shop with a focus on printmaking, selling a variety of imported and local products. Some of their wares include Gamblin relief ink from the USA, Germanmade lino cutting tools and rubber brayers, screen printing chemicals, Murakami photo emulsion from Japan, Fotec stripper gel from Switzerland and citrus screen cleaner – AKA all the things to get a screen printer foaming at the mouth. The store will be open Monday to Friday from 10am – 5pm. To place interstate orders, give them a buzz.

Scorpio 24.10/21.11 The Taurus moon at the beginning of the week insists in no uncertain terms that you don’t forget where you came from, or what got you where you are. Honour your roots without letting them dominate future proceedings. Relationship is offering wisdom that is worth receiving.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12

WHAT: Tooth & Nail Store WHERE: 26–28 Coromandel Place, Adelaide WHEN: Mon – Fri from 10am – 5pm INFO: toothandnail.net.au

This is a time for letting go. With the sun in Aries, it’s been a fairly frenetic journey of letting go. Remember that letting go is always only one half of the journey of regeneration. It’s not an end in itself. Don’t get so addicted to removing the old that you forget to let the new in.

Capricorn 22.12/19.01 You are being very supportive of the sensitive bits in yourself and others and no friend at all to those who try to storm the battlements brutishly.

Aggression is simply not requested, required, appropriate or in any way helpful. Continue with your defence of the underdog.

JMW Turner, Disaster At The Sea

The Taurus moon at the beginning of the week gives you the certainty that things will change. The fire will soon go away. It has been making you extremely uncomfortable. The past has been holding you in a pattern that has run its time. Speak about creative possibilities.

with Sudhir

Aquarius 20.01/18.02 Slowly life is bringing you to the feeling of influence and empowerment that you thought should have been here months before. Your foresight was right but impatience has been getting in the way of the natural organic flow of karma. Wield your influence with brilliance.

Pisces 19.02/20.03 Sorting out anything that needs to be sorted out is not going to happen by having flamboyant tides of thought that never make it into action. As ever, your job is to distinguish vision from wishful thinking. Listen to those who are hinting at the need to be rock steady.

Suburban Camping Project Fontanelle Gallery 26 Sixth St, Bowden Sun Apr 21 - Sun May 19

Patrick Wundke’s Suburban Camping Project started out as a simple idea – to go camping in the city where you live. Beginning in the hilly streets of Chilean town Valparaiso, the project has since lead to a series of negotiations and conversations over the use of strangers’ private suburban lawns and the occupation of ‘vacated’ or common urban terrain. Wundke will present his performative work at Fontanelle this April, featuring the tent, sleeping bag and mattress that were used over the process of the project.

Opening: Sun Apr 21 from 6pm – 8pm

Turner Up Late Following in the footsteps of the successful Saatchi Up Late event in 2011, this winter the Art Gallery Of South Australia will again transform itself each Friday night with a combination of live music, free flowing drinks, tours, celebrity talks and special evening viewings of its Turner From The Tate exhibition with Turner Up Late.

Witness the making of JMW Turner’s dazzling masterpieces up close while listening to grooving beats from local DJs and eating delicious foods.

The events will take place on Fri Apr 26, Fri May 3, Fri May 10, Fri May 17 and will run from 5.30pm – 10pm. Tickets are available from BASS and cost $10 - $25. Bookings are essential.

ART AFTER DARK t MUSIC t MINI-MARITIME TOURS t BAR & FOOD

FRIDAY NIGHTS 26 April – 17 May, 5.30–10 pm A RT G A L L E RY O F S O U T H AU S T R A L I A

artgallery.sa.gov.au/turner

PRESENTED BY

PRINCIPAL SPONSOR

Exhibition admission price applies. Purchase tickets at the Art Gallery or through

32

. Tickets on the door subject to availability.

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

International Exhibitions Insurance Program

ORGANISED BY

Reviews //

Find more reviews online at ripitup.com.au

Culture

DVD Reviews

Smashed

Two Little Boys

Red Dawn

Rev: Series 2

Sony / MA / 78 Mins

Hopscotch / MA / 101 Mins

Roadshow / M / 90/94 Mins

Roadshow/BBC / M / 416 Mins

Co-writer/director James Ponsoldt’s modest drama (with surprising tinges of comedy) seems like it might be a fingerwaving exercise, but this is actually a finely-played study of addiction that refuses to judge its characters. The Hannahs, schoolteacher Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and layabout Charlie (Aaron Paul from TV’s Breaking Bad), are a married couple whose bond is built upon their mutual love of alcohol, and while early scenes are staged as almost funny, as he passes out during sex and she keeps wetting the bed, obviously things are becoming dangerous, and Kate is starting to get annoyed with the rich but aimless Charlie.

When she blacks out after a hit of crack with a stranger and, in a discomfitting plot thread, vomits during a wicked hangover in front of a class of small children and then goes along with their mistaken belief that she’s actually pregnant, she finally decides enough is enough and is encouraged by sweetly square colleague Dave (a nice performance by Nick Offerman) to attend AA and dry out, which leads to the expected rift between her and Charlie - and the always seriously scary need to make amends. This release features commentary by Ponsoldt and Winstead, and more.

Mad Dog Bradley

NZ co-writer/director Robert Sarkies’ winningly uneasy comedic drama shares a few themes with the American Superbad, as we explore how strong and beneficial - and sometimes co-dependently damaging certain long-term male bonds can be, only here the tone is wryer, darker and more ‘bogany’. In a muted late-‘80s timeframe Nige (Bret McKenzie) burns himself with a meat pie during a late-night drive and accidentally runs over visiting Norwegian soccer star Jeurgen (Filip Berg), which forces him to turn to his longtime mate Deano (Aussie funnyman Hamish Blake) for help.

However, Nige and Deano have recently fallen out after 15 years of friendship (cue flashbacks to their schooldays accompanied by that titular Rolf Harris song), and their attempts to cover up the crime are tinged with increasing bitterness, especially when, later on, an unlikely plan is hit upon, and they travel to beautiful, secluded areas of the Catlins coast with Bret’s new, pothead pal Gav (Maaka Pohatu) in tow, much to Deano’s displeasure. Strongly (and daringly) played by McKenzie, Blake and the unknown Pohatu, this has been criticised for its uncomfortable tone and not-entirely-nice characters but, well, that’s the bloody point, bro! Special features include interviews, deleted scenes and more.

Mad Dog Bradley

Stuntman-turned-director Dan Bradley’s long-delayed (filmed in 2009) and pretty dire remake of director John Milius’ pretty dire original flag-waver from 1984 couldn’t feature an invading Russian/Cuban army for obvious reasons, and apparently, in the first cut, instead featured nasty Chinese soldiers, until someone at the studio realised that that might harm the international box office, which meant that the aggressors were changed to everyone’s favourite new baddies: North Koreans. A bunch of tedious high school-ish aged (yeah, right) kids must unite to save their small town (and therefore, symbolically, America) when military forces parachute in one morning and start a nationwide campaign of relocation, reeducation, shooting-up and hammy acting, as alienated brothers Jed (Chris Hemsworth) and Matt ( Josh Peck) join assorted other young ‘uns (including Josh Hutcherson, Adrianne Palicki and another Australian, Isabel Lucas) in the woods and somehow manage to turn themselves into a feared mob of avenging adolescent gun-toters, who regularly take on the foreign enemy in between lots of angsty drama. And it’s very strange hearing a pre-Thor Hemsworth banging on about all that pro-USA nonsense when, of course, we all know that he’s a trueblue Ocker, mate.

Mad Dog Bradley

The acclaimed second series of creators Tom Hollander and James Wood’s fave is even wryer and sharper in its character comedy, although it isn’t anti-religion, as some have suggested, but, instead, a study of how difficult it can be to live as a man of faith in a demanding and chaotic modern world, with the scripts adoring Hollander’s sweetly flawed Anglican Reverend Adam Smallbone as much as they mock him. And the supporting characters are even more keenly observed, including: boozy, bad-mouthed, rifle-happy hanger-on Colin (Steve Evets); Archdeacon Robert (a very funny Simon McBurney), who keeps lumping Adam with huge taxi fares; local junkie Mick ( Jimmy Akingbola), amusing but quietly heartbreaking; and Adam’s missus Alex (Olivia Colman), a lawyer, who’d love to have a child if only her beloved husband had five minutes alone with her. And there are guest stars too, like the ubiquitous Geoffrey Palmer in the expected Christmas episode, an excellent Richard E Grant in a small role as a cashed-up former cocaine addict - and just who is that in a brief bit as the Bishop of London? A big enough star to have had Hollander and Wood, as they note in the selected commentary, “panicking”.

Mad Dog Bradley

Bookshelf

Love You, Mum Alana Wulff / Random House / $14.95

Wulff ’s vaguely aesthetically pleasing but pretty forgettable tome is a series of gooey pronouncements supposedly written by children of all ages about their caring, sharing, all-forgiving, ever-lovin’ mums, and it’s the sort of thing that’ll be ooh-ed and aahed over for 10 minutes on Mother’s Day and then promptly lost for good.

Mums are told that their offspring will do their homework after a movie, promise; that mums are so cool that they can survive horrendous wardrobe choices; that they’re dearly loved, but nevertheless forbidden to check out their kid’s Facebook profile; that their guilty daughters are soon to visit and take them out for dinner and on shopping sprees; and that they’re their child’s heart, life, inspiration, guiding light - and so on. You know exactly what to expect - and get ready to awwwwwwwwww.

MDB

Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen’s now-classic 1891 play Hedda Gabler has undergone a contemporary adaptation by Joanna Murray-Smith and will be presented

by State Theatre Company Of South Australia as their next production with Melbourne’s Alison Bell, currently seen on ABC’s Laid, playing the lead role.

Young Adelaide actor Kate Cheel will be taking on the part of Thea Elvsted alongside a strong ensemble cast that includes Cameron Goodall (as Hedda’s husband), Nathan O’Keefe (Eilert Lovborg), Terence Crawford ( Judge Brack) and Carmel Johnson (Aunt Julie) under the direction of Geordie Brookman with a soundscape by DJ Tr!p.

“It’s in good shape,” Cheel says during a break in rehearsals. “And it’s also lots of fun with Cam and Nathan and the rest of the cast. We’re having a really good time.

“And my character, Thea, is like Hedda’s foil because she’s having an affair with Eilert, a former lover of Hedda’s. So she’s in a bit of a crisis and goes to Hedda and her husband, George, for help. She needs their help because Eilert is a reformed alcoholic with a lot of trust issues.

“And George, Hedda’s husband, has his own issues as well. And Judge Brack is a friend of the family who once had a relationship with Hedda and is still in love with her. So there’s some tension with all that.”

Although the play was written well over 100 years ago, it still resonates today due to the social issues it raises.

“And Hedda’s also such a complex

Stage l

e Kate Che

nstan

by Robert Du

character who is shrouded in mystery,” Cheel says. “But from what we’ve perceived – and we were discussing this at rehearsal the other day – Hedda is just a very frustrated and very miserable woman. And while she seems to have a kind of power over people, it’s not because she’s particularly powerful. People just imbue her with power because that’s the way they think she is.

“And for Hedda, the way the play ends is final and honest even though society doesn’t accept that as a choice. What she does is not looked at as being a positive thing to do.

But for Hedda it’s the only obvious choice although it’s hard for everyone else to accept it as a lucid decision.”

Cheel, who will appear in Windmill’s Big Bad Wolf in July before likely heading overseas, has previously worked for State Theatre in Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters and Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie.

“So I’ll have done three classics now but always seem to play someone who cries a lot,” she laughs. “I always seem to be playing the most hysterical, fragile character in the play.

I’d actually like to do a part where I don’t have to cry three times a night.”

There will be a Red Carpet performance of Hedda Gabler on Fri May 10 at which audience members can mingle with the cast following the show. Wednesday evening performances and Saturday matinees boast a pay what you can deal (with a valid Healthcare card), with $25 rush tickets also available for anyone at the door an hour before the show starts.

WHAT: Hedda Gabler WHERE: Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Fri Apr 26 until Sat May 18

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

33

Your guide to the student experience.

Enjoying your mid semester break, then?

Great, awesome, don’t want to hear it.

What I have been hearing about a lot recently is the debate over the National Broadband Network. While I’m in no way a technology fanatic, if I don’t have the internet when I want it I will be bored/ unemployed/lost/dead. And I can’t see that changing. While I don’t understand the nitty gritty of the Labor V Liberal plan from a technological point of view, I do know that as someone who will no doubt be using the internet more and more throughout their (hopeful) career in new media, the faster the internet the better. Even throughout my degree, my reliance on being online increased to the point where entire courses in my final year were run through the internet, with current reforms to the education system hinting that more learning will be focused online. And like all internet users, I’m impatient. I want an NBN - whatever that may be – now. Or yesterday. Thanks, Canberra.

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

Peace, Lachie

UniSA WinterFest

with Lachlan Aird

Out Of The Zoo

Brrr! It’s cold in here. Entrenched in the Adelaide university tradition is the annual pilgrimage to the snowfields. WinterFest is UniSA’s annual ski trip, offering a frozen wonderland of challenges, excitement and partying. It’s like Narnia but with more attractive foreign ski instructors and beer. The troupe will be housed at the Altezza Luxury Apartments at Falls Creek Ski Resort in Victoria, with overflow at the Silverski Lodge. You’ll be on the snow for six days and five nights and since there’s an expected turn out of 50, no matter what your level of skiing/ snowboarding mastery (you may still be at the endangering yourself and others level) there’ll surely be someone to hang out on the slopes with. But just to be sure, non-UniSA friends and partners are also welcome. Just watch out for those pesky kids at the Milo skiing school zipping through the courses with their low centres of gravity. Urgh.

WinterFest runs from Sat Jul 20 until Sat Jul 27. The total cost for full time students is $1528 for return bus fare, accommodation, ski/board hire and lift tickets to be paid on staggered dates prior to departure with a $250 deposit ASAP to secure your spot. For more info visit unione.unilife.edu.au.

In a Madagascar-like escape, a giraffe, panda, tiger and orangutan have busted out of their Frome Rd enclosures and are hiding in the CBD. Kinda. Splash Adelaide and the Adelaide Zoo have teamed up with local artists, including Emma Hack, the renowned local artist who has a penchant for body paint (Gotye and Kimbra included), to paint statues of some of the zoo’s most famous residents.

You can see the last animal, the tiger, being painted by Narisha Cash in Hindmarsh Square from 11am-2pm on Thu Apr 18. Then, from Mon Apr 22 until Fri Apr 26, go out and find the painted animals, wherever they may be hiding, in the CBD. Let Splash Adelaide know who you saw and where you saw it for your chance to win zoo visits or an opportunity to get interactive with the zoo’s big cats, primates, pandas and giraffes in the zoo’s hands-on experiences.

For details see splashadelaide.com.au.

1.

2.

West Bar They say to try and avoid mixing business with pleasure, but when you literally live at uni, it’s a hard combination to avoid. To christen the new West Bar at UniSA, which has had some major renovations and has just been reopened, UniSA invited the college students to test it out. Given that the first weeks of uni are the hardest in terms of adjusting to new regimes and coursework for anyone, since many of these kids have started from scratch – for some, in a new city or country - they sure needed a drink (or

two). All reports were a big thumbs up for the West Bar’s new retro design, with ongoing plans to house live music, games nights and art exhibitions as well as its duty as a student watering hole pleasing many. While a few drinks can keep the stress, chaos and delusion of uni life (temporarily) at bay (temporarily), just try not to get too ‘West’d’ at the West Bar. Try to try, at least…

3.

West Bar is located at 58-60 North Tce, UniSA City West Campus.

Top 3 iPad Cases I’ve sold m bring Fas y soul to social m t Times o edia to n Faceboo k and Tw line. Add me to itte info as it happens r to get all the . Or just my colle adm cti baby slo on of YouTube cli ire ths. Or b ps of oth.

@FastT imesRIU faceboo k fasttime .com/ sripitup mag 34

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

While studying, your iPad is your best friend (and occasional worst enemy). It can help you be more organised and efficient as well as making you look super busy, even if you’re just mooching off the free wi-fi to fuel your internet shopping addiction. Unfortunately, we all can’t afford one, so those who can better take care of them. Here are some picks for the best covers to keep your iPad safe, without losing its cool factor.

1. LifeProof nüüd, $129.95 Waterproof, snow-proof, dirt-proof and can withstand a four-foot drop. Apparently.

2. Crumpler: Flock Of Horror, $135 For those who would rather carry their iPad unsheathed but protected. A smaller version of a laptop bag with an inbuilt iPad sleeve.

3. iBallz, $24.95 They make your iPad bounce, look hilarious and have trademarked the name ‘iBallz’. Ick.

Reviews //

Find more reviews online at ripitup.com.au

Culture

CD Reviews

Scottie’s Singles

Listen Now:

Esben & The Witch

Pulp

Wash The Sins Not Only The Face (Remote Control/Matador)

After You (Rough Trade/Remote Control)

It seems appropriate that Jarvis Cocker, a man who once sat wide-eyed in a trolley in the video for Britpop’s finest dancefloor study of class warfare, returns with the Common People-esque line ‘From disco to disco, from Safeway to Tesco’. While not oozing the venom of Pulp’s timeless 1995 hit, After You is a deliciously arch offering. Cocker’s breathless expulsion of the title alludes to both gentlemanly etiquette and ungentlemanly predatorial lusting, with James Murphy’s funky production never quite sure if it’s reaching for Giorgio Moroder cool or Groovejet bounce. Internationally released as a one-off single for Record Store Day, it’s hard to imagine vinyl is the stained raincoated frontman’s only enduring fetish. Get yourself a taste of seven inches of Cocker.

CD Of The Week

Listen Later:

Mama Kin Rescue (Independent)

Despite sharing a bed and a couple of tin lids with Johnny Butler, Mama Kin’s new single is free of patchouli-scented dreadlocks and Save Ningaloo stickers peeling off its rear windscreen.

Like Clare Bowditch injecting some rich and soulful keyboards into her repertoire, Rescue is marvellously regal. Stand back, children Mama’s getting funky tonight.

Andy Bull

Daughter If You Leave (Remote Control/4AD)

Imagine meeting the spouse of your dreams; utterly perfect in their existence.

Now let me present to you the musical equivalent.

It might be too early to call it, but let’s

Keep On Running (Island/UMA)

When it comes to doggedly gunning for a music career, Andy Bull has had more bites of the cherry than a Pacman bonus round and tried more angles than a geometry professor. Whiney soul, weedy folk and coattail collaborations with beloved poppets such as Lisa Mitchell have achieved little, with his vocal style more divisive than a Torrens footbridge. Keep On Running breaks the third wall by addressing the musician’s struggle, but his tryhard whimper proves something any etymologist could tell you: there’s a hairline difference between Bull’s hit and bullshit.

Gay Paris Ash Wednesday Boudoir Party (MGM)

Queers Of The Stone Age?

Will.I.Am Feat Justin Bieber That Power (UMA)

I can’t believe Justin Bieber discarded his monkey Mally in Germany the other week - just look at the sad, lost eyes on this tragic little creature. Yup, Mally’s definitely better off without him. Bieber’s now got himself tangled in some monkey business with Will.I.Am, the Forrest Gump of pop dreck. They go together perfectly in an Edgell can, but this Peas and corn blend tastes awful. Quite frankly, the Oh My Dayum YouTube remix of a fat dude eating a burger is a better demonstration of modern musical talent than this Power failure.

36

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

Live Review

throw it out there anyway (I’m feeling strong): English trio Daughter’s If You Leave is set to be one of the best albums of 2013. There. I said it. No turning back now.

There is a prominent raw vulnerability to Elena Tonra’s vocal stylings that is as likely to make you cry as it is to make you fall in love. Drummer Remi Aguilella’s beautifully rich percussion comes from a completely unexpected angle, adding a whole different dimension to the record. The three-piece collectively bring absolute mastery of their individual form to the table; combinations that transform a good record into a great one, reaching its full potential.

If You Leave whatever you’re doing right now, go put on some Ugg boots (just because I’m really into Ugg boots at the moment) and listen to this album. It’s guaranteed you won’t be disappointed.

Lock up your daughters - if they sound anywhere near as good as Tonra, they will be snapped up, never to return. This is the album you’ve been looking for.

Sharni Honor

If you know anything about Esben & The Witch, you know you’re generally in for a challenge when listening to their music. First album Violet Cries almost sounded like the trio themselves would struggle to comprehend their ability. The power of Rachel Davies’ vocal is at times overwhelming, like the energy of PJ Harvey overlapping the emotion of Chan Marshall.

Luckily, the Brighton, UK band have found their feet on second album, Wash The Sins Not Only the Face.

Basically, everything good about Violet Cries is realised in much more detail.

Much of the lyricism, for example, now has meaning, influenced by the likes of Sylvia Plath and Salvador Dali. It is genuinely lovely to hear Davies’ voice brought to life on tracks like Deathwaltz, backed by a similarly new-found vigour from bandmates Daniel Copeman and Thomas Fisher. Wash The Sins is consistently enthralling, as storytelling (When That Head Splits) and raw energy (Despair) combine to keep your headphones on longer than the debut.

The more expansive elements of their sound remain, with the slower moments finally feeling like they fit together in context and maintaining interest levels far longer than prior releases.

This is the sound of a band fulfilling their ambition, making ambitious music and being rewarded for some very ambitious risk-taking.

Sam Reynolds

Birdy, Lewis Watson and Lakyn Thebarton Theatre, Wed Apr 10 Photos by Kristy DeLaine Review by Lachlan Aird

Birdy is an apt name for the acclaimed 16-year-old Londoner, as she has the presence and disposition of a fragile baby bird. Given her innocence, it’s hard to buy into the life experiences she has borrowed from an impressive catalogue of hurt, lovesick and angsty indie pedigree. Without any real cohesion between Birdy and the material she covers, the proceedings simmer along like a glorified version of Young Talent Time.

For Birdy’s lack of personality and stage presence, her support acts, The Voice’s Lakyn Heperi, and Lewis Watson - an Englishman who looks and sounds like the love-child of Ed Sheeran and Harry Styles (the horror) with a helmet of hair you just want to (violently) tussle - make up for it. The boys, armed with acoustic guitar and their best Matt Corby impersonations, are fuelled onstage by the constant shrieks and actual tears of the sea of tween girls as they diligently record the entire set with their phones, no doubt corrupting the sound with their own heaving sobs. Lakyn’s version of Call Me Maybe and Watson’s cover of Big Jet Plane invoke the heaviest flow. Watson loses all credit earned by his passable original material when he takes an

Reviews // Quick Ones

Aluka

Civil Civic

Night Moves

Space

Rules

Colored Emotions

(Independent)

(Remote Control)

(Domino)

Throw your instruments to the wind, people. It’s out with the old and in with the a cappella.

At the moment it seems Melbourne is just vomiting out talent. Well not literally, since that is gross, but the female threepiece Aluka are the latest to catch the ear with their debut. These guys are presenting a uniquely modern take on the barbershop band with much more cool credibility.

Offering absolutely stunning technical understanding of vocals, this threesome’s voices combine to create really clever and interesting tracks. Lack of instruments brings some limitations to the diversity, which begins to show near the end of the record, but overall it’s something new, fresh and different. Why not take a chance and throw it out there? Kudos for creativity, ladies.

Seeing Space recreated live would be a whole different game of cricket - what a spectacle of intriguing talent to see on stage. And what better way to see them play than on a boat? These guys have been added to the line-up of A Band On Boat, a sensational new Adelaide initiative to bring the old Popeye to life without excess spinach. Lend an ear to these beautiful blends and set sail on the smooth river of sounds.

Sharni Honor

There are a lot of strange events surrounding the release of Civil Civic’s debut album Rules on Australian shores.

Australians Aaron Cupples and Ben Green, the duo behind Civil Civic, live in London and Barcelona respectively.

Having met overseas, they’d never toured here in their four years together prior to performing at Melbourne’s All Tomorrow’s Parties and Adelaide’s Crown & Anchor recently. They released Rules overseas in late 2011 - to much praise, it must be said - but its Australian release nearly 18 months later feels both bemusing and slightly frustrating.

With a reliance on programmed sounds through their limitations as a duo, Civil Civic make the most of their ability. The immediacy of opener Airspray is equal parts odd and engaging, with steel drums, dance influences and hard rock elements setting the scene for what’s to come. At times, the hooky nature of songs like Street Trap and It’s Krill can prove to be so annoyingly catchy you wonder what they’d offer with some potent lyricism on top of them.

You’ll encounter more ups and downs on Rules than a game of Snakes & Ladders. The influences of Cupples and Green are evident, and Civil Civic is a band we should be proud of. Even if we’re a bit late to the party.

Sam Reynolds

You’ll notice that the title of this album is Colored Emotions, not ‘coloured’. I find this oddly pleasing. Maybe it’s because it plays on my inert US patriotism, as my forefathers dismissed the tyrannical rule of the Redcoats by kicking their ass and prominently waving the middle finger around by changing the way we spelt various words. Fuck all those extraneous ‘u’s, you damn British bastards!

Minneapolis’ Night Moves are distinctly American. With their Skrillex hair and paisley cowboy shirts they look like they jumped straight out of an Urban Outfitters catalogue. On their debut album harmonicas wheeze, guitars twang and the croons of vocalist John Pelant swirl together in a neo-psychedelic, country western mash-up.

While Night Moves don’t exude originality, they do make up for it somewhat with their enthusiasm. The songs on Colored Emotions are well crafted, however it seems as though when the boys were pilfering bands that had come before them they forgot to read the chapter on writing memorable hooks.

Ryan Lynch

Young Dreams Between Places (Modular)

With technology changing so frequently these days, making music doesn’t have to be any harder than plugging your laptop in and playing around with some programs. So surely it’s nice to know that bands like Norway’s Young Dreams are putting so much effort into their music and making such wholesome sounds? Unfortunately not on this occasion, guys.

You might relate to this Bergen collective if you’re comfortable with acts like M83 or Miike Snow.

But unlike those bands, Young Dreams spend so much time forcing their vision to come out that it ultimately feels false. Not to say that Between Places is overwrought or pretentious, just that by exploring every known musical boundary, Young Dreams have lost sight of who they are. You’ll find far better dreams in your sleep.

Sam Reynolds

Ooga Boogas Instagram break mid-set, with anyone who isn’t a pre-pubescent girl hoping the koala that launches onstage is actually a drop bear.

The crowd is somewhat calmer as Birdy takes the stage, with applause and shrieks noticeably more obligatory than impassioned. Opening with an even slower version of The XX’s Shelter, it is clear from the outset that Birdy hasn’t felt the same loss and desperation embedded in the lyrics. Her voice is more powerful than her 2011 debut album suggests, and her piano-playing near flawless, but it’s her band of guitarist, keyboardist, drummer and cellist who raise the performance with explosive jams - particularly on The National’s Terrible Love - and fill the gap left by Mumford & Sons on their collaborative song for Pixar’s Brave’s Learn Me Right. Birdy’s version of Bon Iver’s Skinny Love is near offensive to those who experienced the perfect original on the same stage last year, but draws the greatest interest from the crowd.

While she doesn’t butcher any of her covers, she doesn’t improve on the originals. Her one original song Without A Word is promising enough to hope that in the future there may be more substantial original material from Birdy.

While I’m not suggesting she needs to make a comeback via Adele-like heartbreak or leave a Taylor Swift man-eating trail of destruction in her wake in order to be interesting, for now we have heard enough of what she can do with other people’s music and look forward to seeing her make her own. She definitely has the potential.

Ooga Boogas (Aarght)

The press sheet that came along with this record literally said this: Some quotes regarding the music on the album: “Well, that was... a journey.” - Xavier “Many of my favourite albums are double albums, but that was way too long.” - Dave “ You guys don’t know what the fuck you’re doing.” - Jensen It’s painfully obvious that this Melbourne band doesn’t take themselves too seriously, and if you’re anything like me, this should immediately pique your interest. The fact that they had no problem putting whatever their smart-arse friends had to say without context is a testament to the band’s testicular fortitude.

What’s even better is that the record isn’t half bad. All of the songs are awash in ‘80s new wave vibes, but are garage-y enough to all sound sort of the same. Initially this bothered me, but once I stopped over-analysing it, I decided not to use it as a coaster.

Ryan Lynch

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

37

Local //

with Lachlan Aird

Email lachlanaird@ripitup.com.au

Local News Horro My Frienr d

by Lachlan A ird

Horror My Friend have been moving from strength to strength since first making their mark in 2011 with their debut EP Shivers And Spines. While embarking on a major support tour for British India, Rip It Up chats with Tom Gordon on what’s next for the band and their perception of Adelaide’s music landscape.

“Adelaide has been pretty isolated in terms of its music scene for a long time,” Gordon says. “Other than bands like Fire!

Santa Rosa, Fire! and Wolf & Cub, it’s hard for bands to get a lot of exposure outside of South Australia.”

Gordon doesn’t lament this fact too negatively, noting a changing trend where Adelaide’s musical talents are becoming more widely recognised.

“I can definitely see it picking up. I think it’s really cool to see bands like Bad//

Hilltop Hoods At Blackwood Sound

Dreems and Sincerely, Grizzly who do work really hard get the exposure that they deserve. There are so many other bands who deserve national exposure as well.”

Gordon also mentions that Adelaide bands are starting to make their own imprints internationally.

“Ride Into The Sun are getting exposure, but not just in Australia. They’re headed over to America for the Austin Psych Fest – that’s huge.”

Conversation turns to the state of Adelaide’s music scene after asking Gordon about Horror My Friend’s trend of releasing winning singles, rather than EPs or fulllength releases. Since their debut EP Shivers And Spines heralded their arrival in 2011, Horror My Friend’s follow-ups have been Triple J-spun singles, last year’s Lifeblood and new single Birds. Is this the secret to finding success as an Adelaide band?

“When we first started the band we didn’t really know anything about the actual music industry,” Gordon admits. “We straight away put out an EP without really thinking about

it. They were just the first five songs we ever wrote and nothing really happened.”

To wise up, they looked to their peers.

“We saw a bunch of other bands around Adelaide who have been around a bit longer or been in other bands like Bad//Dreems and Sincerely, Grizzly who were putting out singles. It seemed to work for them so we thought we would give it a go. It seems to have worked pretty well for us too.”

The production line of singles is almost at its end for now, though, but there’s still plenty of new material to be heard as they support British India.

“We’re itching to put out something a bit more substantial now. Putting out singles you don’t really get to try something a bit different and I don’t think it’s as fun as putting out an EP.” WHO: Horror My Friend (supporting British India) WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Wed Apr 24

n Seventeeen Fifty Sev

While Sydney Music Australia would suggest that the Adelaide band have swapped their allegiance for our bully bigger brother, Burgan assures this isn’t the case.

“We’re still very much focused on Adelaide and want to be representative of Adelaide bands. We want Adelaide bands to be more recognised.”

In a strange twist of fate, joining forces with Sydney Music Australia is on the right

38

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

Keen Must Die EP Launch Punk/rock trio Keen Must Die will be launching their upcoming EP at Nexus on Fri Apr 19. In the eternal battle of ensuring your releases are distributed to the public in fresh and viable ways, the band have decided to release the EP on a USB business card, instead of the usual CD. Alex Dyson from Triple J particularly enjoyed the saxophone solo at the end of key track, So Far Gone.

Green Circles Album Launch

ird

by Lachlan A

It was a family connection that first put Seventeen Fifty Seven in touch with Willie McCracken and his burgeoning music mentorship program, Sydney Music Australia. A few years down the track Seventeen Fifty Seven have polished their sound and are ready to unleash their debut self-titled EP. Rip It Up chats with drummer Liam Burgan about the band’s journey and outlook for the future.

To celebrate Record Store Day, a day to champion the value that record stores add to the music industry and society, the Hilltop Hoods will be holding an in-store signing at 2pm at Blackwood Sound. Before their arrival, live music will be on offer from 11.30pm-1.15pm by Brillig, The Wild Things and Geordie Little. There’ll be specials all day, and if you bring along the most embarrassing LP in your collection, you could score yourself a $40 voucher.

track to doing exactly that. Sydney Music Australia isn’t poaching local talent for the dark side, but rather focuses on mentoring and nurturing young bands into becoming viable forces in music. As McCracken and his partner in crime Paul Lavender are originally from South Australia, they have a special interest in tapping into the South Australian talent pool. “[McCracken] is managing us out of Sydney,” Burgan explains. “It’s a great experience seeing that side of the music business. We’re both starting up and it’s great to be the first band on their roster.

We’re starting to see people other than those that are in South Australia to get behind South Australian bands now. It’s exciting.”

Burgan hopes that this kind of cross-state relationship will help South Australian bands reach audiences in other states and open up new opportunities.

“Adelaide is obviously a smaller city so it has fewer venues compared to the rest of Australia. If other states and entities got behind the growing family in South Australia of alternative rock bands I think

Adelaide will turn into one of the best places to play in Australia. I’ve been hearing a lot lately that Adelaide is going to be the next Seattle. Something’s waiting to happen here and we feel it’s going to be grungier.”

The first step to pioneering this movement is by launching their highly polished debut EP at Jive on Fri Apr 19, which they hope will be a show with a point of difference.

“We didn’t want the EP launch to be the typical one where we get two other rock bands who sort of sound the same to support us. We wanted it to be a bit more of a memorable experience, so we have a DJ and VJ set and acoustic duo of Rachel Cearns and Dusty Lee Stephenson supporting us. We’ll perform some songs that aren’t on the EP as well; we have plenty more to come.”

WHO: Seventeen Fifty Seven WHAT: Seventeen Fifty Seven EP Launch WHERE: Jive WHEN: Fri Apr 19

With their month-long Friday night residency at the Grace Emily Hotel almost at an end, with only a couple of shows on Fri Apr 19 and Apr 26 to go, Green Circles will also be throwing in an extra show at the Exeter on Sat Apr 20. The shows are to launch their new album, Mr Cocking’s Descent, which actually alludes to Robert Cocking’s 1837 fatally unsuccessful parachuting attempt and not anything below the belt.

Bad//Dreems’ Caroline Music Video The latest single from Bad//Dreems is just about as short and sweet as they come.

Dom Alessio premiered the new clip for Bad//Dreems on his Triple J blog ahead of Bad//Dreems being named as one of the Top Five SA Bands To Watch. The clip, featuring the band getting up to some shenanigans and harmless mischief, was made by Tom Stevens of the band Kids With Teeth, which continues the evolving bromance between Adelaide bands.

Y B R E D R E L L O R E D I A L ADE 2013

BOUT 2 PRCIluLb A 7 2 T SA earses v Mile Die

Wild H

OOR AT THE D BLE)

15GROUND

$

10LAIDE SHOW

$

+BF E PRE-SAL

(IF AVAILA EN CHILDR UNDER 5

FREE!

5 762 54 TI C K E TS THROUGH: E) R 1300 LE ACE GAT AVAIL AB M.AU O LOTHING O C C E .

V SE TERR X I LI ZT IC & UGH RO W W W. O R THRO R V MUS TE M N : (E S , ET M UTL OPEN 6P THESE O DOORS

ADE

FOR MORE DETAILS HIT: WWW.ADELAIDEROLLERDERBY.COM.AU

coolaz customised drink holders 速

Multiple point-of-sale devices available!

www.coolaz.com.au Engage fans with social media

Provide exclusives & drive traffic

Signable fan memento

100% made in Mornington, VIC. (03) 5976 8600 10 multiple point-of-sale devices available

We also make drink holders for engagements, weddings, bucks/hens, birthdays... and any other event, occasion or party!

THE BLANK CANVAS Brought to you by

A R T

+

FA S H I O N

As part of A Night of Fashion at The Art Gallery, Attitude Magazine is launching The Blank Canvas.

This is an amazing opportunity for emerging artists and designers to showcase their talents to an engaged audience including experts in the fields of Art and Fashion at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

SUBMIT A SKETCH OF A DRESS TO BE PRODUCED AND SHOWCASED AT A NIGHT OF FASHION AT THE ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA ON SAT 7 SEPTEMBER

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS •

Black or cream calico must be used as the base material •

Up to three additional materials may be used to create your piece • If selected you must be able to produce the finished garment for display by Wed 28 August •

Email info@anightoffashion.com.au for an application form

FINALISTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN THE JUNE EDITION OF ATTITUDE MAGAZINE AND THE WINNER ANNOUNCED

BY ART GALLERY DIRECTOR NICK MITZEVICH. THE WINNING DESIGN WILL RECEIVE: $500 CIBO CASH PRIZE $300 PREMIER ARTS SUPPLIES VOUCHER ENTRIES CLOSE ON 22 MAY 2013 A NIGHT OF FASHION AT THE ART GALLERY FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT WWW.ANIGHTOFFASHION.COM.AU