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Dark dirty and oozing charisma Mojo and her band will perform an original collection of songs about recklessness and regret, love and lust, infidelity, death, trains, cars and bad, bad hangovers.

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Editor’s Note// When she arrived onstage at McLaren Vale’s inaugural Gorgeous Festival in 2011, Emma Louise looked like a schoolgirl who’d bunked off class and accidentally found herself in front of a massive audience. Considering she’d been recording music throughout her school years in Cairns, in some ways it seemed the live stage really was her tertiary education system. Dressed in a cardigan and burgundy dress and dwarfed by her acoustic Gibson guitar, the diminutive Queenslander’s performance proved there was a confidence and determination burning intently behind her green eyes.

While her breakthrough single Jungle might have been a standout on that chilly day in McLaren Vale, debut album Vs Head Vs Heart showcases a new musical dimension beyond her initial folk forays. The Cairns-raised musician hasn’t lost the simplicity and honesty of the demos she spent a few years frequently uploading to YouTube like an intimate sonic diary, but her album’s eye-opening textures now resemble Sinead O’Connor collaborating with Washed Out. Vs Head Vs Heart isn’t your average mournful Julia Stone exercise in singer songwriter mewing – it’s an album that demands complete immersion. That it’s the work of a 21-year-old working on her first substantial release makes it even more powerful.

It’s no wonder Emma Louise’s compelling stare on this issue’s cover has such a transfixing power – here is a musician ready to take on the world.

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It’s been a confusing week for Daft Punk fans anxiously awaiting the release of the French duo’s fourth studio album Random Access Memories. Despite heavy airplay from Triple J and being reported on by Rolling Stone, what was thought to be a leak of their highly-anticipated new single Get Lucky featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers turned out to be a fake, stitched together from teaser videos and a previous SNL commercial. Now, however, the real deal is here. Listen to the song and download it on our website.

In other online news, hardcore titans will unite this June with the announcement of the East Coast Rampage Tour 2013 featuring House Vs Hurricane, I Killed The Prom Queen, Buried In Verona and Saviour. The event will land in Adelaide on Thu Jun 20; for more info and ticketing details head to our website. On a more poppy spectrum, we’ve also heard solid word that Spin Off Festival will return for 2013 with a brand new venue and an exciting new band line-up. Keep your eyes on Rip It Up Online for breaking news about that over the coming weeks.

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Melbourne’s Bonjah are currently touring Oz in support of their new single, Evolution, with the tour culminating in Adelaide at the Governor Hindmarsh on Fri May 3.

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The Adventures Of Merlin: Series 5 The epic fifth series of The Adventures Of Merlin sees Camelot at the height of its golden age. With Queen Guinevere and The Knights Of The Round Table at his side, Arthur has never felt stronger. But even as Camelot flowers, the seeds of her destruction are being sown‌ As the forces of darkness gather, only Merlin stands between Arthur and a fate that has been written since the dawn of time. Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five copies of The Adventures Of Merlin: Series 5. Competition closes at midday on Thu May 2.

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Your fast guide to this week’s best entertainment

Hungry Kids Of Hungary

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The Brisbane indie four-piece are in town unveiling the talents hidden within their recently released second album You’re A Shadow when they play at Jive on Thu Apr 25.

The Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Tue Apr 30 will host Tool, whose Australian tour will quench the thirst of fans who are still waiting for new material since 10,000 Days seven years ago.

Selling out both shows on Fri Apr 26 and Sat Apr 27 at the Thebarton Theatre, Guy Sebastian’s single with Lupe Fiasco, Battle Scars, has cemented him as the Australian male artist with the most number one singles.

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The Griswolds

Bane

The iconic Canadian all-rounder will be at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Wed Apr 24, celebrating 20 years since the release of Waking Up The Neighbours. Along for the ride is Scotslady Amy Macdonald.

Pop chameleons and Triple J sweethearts, The Griswolds will be tearing up the Ed Castle on Sat Apr 27 with their charming and infectious tunes on The Courtship Of Summer Preasley Tour.

With five albums behind them and nearly 20 years experience, Bane perform with Melbourne melodic hardcore outfit Hopeless and locals Machete when they perform at Light Square Hotel on Fri Apr 26.

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ADELAIDE ROLLER DERBY - Catch the Wild Hearses and Mile Die Club beat the stuffing out of each other on the Adelaide Showground rink on Sat Apr 27 at 6pm.

KANGAROO ISLAND FEASTIVAL - From Thu Apr 25 to Tue Apr 30, if you pop on over to Kangaroo Island you can expect to return a few kilos heavier. The Kangaroo Island FEASTival’s menu will be supervised by George Calombaris of MasterChef, with over 17 pop-up events around the island for you to wander through and sample/guzzle.

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THE TUNNELS - The Tunnels, Adelaide’s new underground space for arts, music and performing arts will wind up its first line-up on Thu May 2. Until then you can see what lies beneath Victoria Square and enjoy some of the offerings by local artists and musicians including Lisa King, Kaurna Cronin, Delia Obst and Oisima.

RÜFÜS - On Wed Apr 24 Jive host Sydney’s umlaut-happy band of electronic surprises.

The Take Me Tour features the dancefriendly single of the same name. Reports indicate they’ve just wound up finishing the last track for the album, so this surely won’t be the last you’ve heard from them this year.

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Matronarch and Quiet Child will support the band in Adelaide.

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Merdzan On The Dancefloor Folky singer songwriter Amanda Merdzan is heading out on a national tour, billed to reach Adelaide on Sat Apr 28. The Wheatsheaf Hotel will welcome the Western Australian and her new EP The Map Has Been Redrawn.

Trivia: VAUDEVILLE SMASH’s new record Dancing For The Girl was mixed by John Castle, the same man who produced Josh Pyke’s upcoming release. What a busy man. Vaudeville Smash are taking the Castlepolished record on tour this June, following the album’s release on Fri May 3. The Melbourne group will perform at Jive on Sat Jun 8, with tickets available through the venue or Moshtix.

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Bennie Dreadful The Bennies are coming to party with their reggae punk tunes again. They’ll be bringing their new 7” Mushroom Tea. The boys will play at Enigma Bar on Fri May 3, with tickets available through alltomorrowsshoeys.bigcartel.com.

FABULOUS DIAMONDS call the music they create “high-brow, young adult contemporary pop”, so it’s no surprise they’ve chosen the ironic title Commercial Music for their third album.

They’ll arrive in Adelaide on Sat May 11 to play at the Crown & Anchor with equally ironic ‘tropical Goth’ group White Hex.

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Don’t Pyke Out It has been an exciting time for Josh Pyke fans this week. A new album, The Beginning And End Of Everything, has been announced for release on Fri Jul 5 this year. An Angela Anaconda-inspired video was dropped for lead single Bug-Eyed Beauty and plans for an intimate tour were announced. The Fans First dates are to be played in small venues across the country (the Grace Emily here in Adelaide) and tickets are available as a package with pre-orders of the album. The smallvenue gig will be held on Thu May 2, and only preorders through JB Hi-Fi include Fans First tickets.

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THE ARCH MENACES JAPANDROIDS smashed it at Adelaide’s Laneway this year while disillusioned masses were having their faces griddled into the security gate at the main stage. If you missed the show then, you aren’t going to want to lose out again.

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Folk fans will have ample opportunity to see new voice on the block Mel Parsons when she tours Australia. The NZ singer songwriter will perform at Café Troppo on Thu May 2, Hotel Elliot in Port Elliot on Sat May 4 and the Wheatsheaf Hotel on Sun May 5.

One third of The Goodies, a relic of British television, Bill Oddie will arrive in Adelaide on Wed Jun 26. His one-man show will look back at his life as a comedian, TV personality and wildlife enthusiast. Oddie will be performing his show, An Oldie But A Goodie, at the Adelaide Town Hall. Organisers are encouraging punters to really give the Goodie their all: “We are encouraging everyone to dress up as a Goodie and really embrace the Funky Gibbon within!”.

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The Wild Heart Like David Bowie’s chameleonic output of the 1970s, entrancing Queensland songwriter Emma Louise Lobb’s hairstyles have altered with the same efficient pace as her musical advances. fter music videos showcasing voluminous brown locks and mussed, blonde-tinged crops, Lobb has now hacked her plaited bob into a chic DIY thatch.

“I’ve definitely gone through a lot of hairstyles,” Lobb admits, “but I think I change when I’m changing what I’m doing in my life rather than my hair changing with my music. I shaved my head a few years ago after I got a really bad haircut, but my Brisbane hairdresser Lyla Clare picked me up out of the gutter of hairstyles. After I shaved my head, she took me under her wing and she’s been really good.”

The songwriter’s close shaves don’t end there. In 2010 a trip to Byron Bay found Lobb spontaneously getting the side of her head shaved by a beardy tattooist in a Dead Kennedys T-shirt. She then had a row of musical notes tattooed above her right ear.

“That was just something impulsive, but I guess one of the reasons I had it done [in that position] is that if it was a mistake it wasn’t an obvious mistake and I could cover or uncover it when I needed to. My parents are used to me doing silly things like that, but I think they were just glad I didn’t get a galaxy of stars on my forehead. I’ve always done things that are a bit out of the ordinary. I had a phase where I would buy animals and try to hide

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them from my parents - ducks, chickens, mice and rats.”

In an unlikely turn of events, Emma Louise fans can thank one of these impulsive pet purchases for the Queenslander’s burgeoning musical career. After moving from Townsville to Brisbane, Lobb purchased a parrot who became a regular sight during her rent-raising busking expeditions.

“I had a blue Indian ringneck called Henry and he would sit on my shoulder when I used to go busking. I would busk with my bird and it was magical. It was something that we’d do together and it was a really good time in my life. Henry didn’t really listen to the songs – he’d just walk around my shoulders while I played. Henry was my really good friend and he sat on my shoulder for years, but there’s a song on my new album called Cages which is about the heartbreaking time I had to give him away. Two of my good friends look after him now, so I still see him every few weeks.”

Perfectly framing Lobb’s warm, delicate and slightly husky tones, Vs Head Vs Heart draws listeners in with its otherworldly charms. The subtle electronic embellishments enhance her caressing, beckoning vocals and take the 11 songs into bewitching new territory. Debuted on her YouTube channel up to two years ago, album tracks such as To Keep Me Warm and Pontoon now sound markedly different from their stark acoustic incarnations. Rarely posting intimate sketches of new songs these days, Lobb now admits she was exposing too much of her craft with these offerings.

“I have stopped putting demos on YouTube because I think it gives away too much of the songs, but at the time I never felt like I was exposing too much when I was doing

Ginger Ninjas the YouTube demos as I didn’t feel like I had anywhere else for them to go. One of the main reasons I don’t add them anymore is that people can really easily take the audio from YouTube tracks and put them on their iPod, as well.”

Lobb’s evolution on Vs Head Vs Heart makes for a marked shift from her earliest EPs, 2007’s Surrender and 2008’s Autumn Tongues, which were recorded in Cairns.

“When I was 15 or 16 I had no idea about releasing music,” Lobb admits, “so back then I just kind of recorded the songs and would get the CD pressed.”

Despite her musical growth, Lobb retains a restless urge to move forward. The songwriter already seems bored by the impeccable craftsmanship of Vs Head Vs Heart.

“I’m definitely happy with the album, but it’s like a friend who you spend lots of time with and you get tired of. I’m ready to move forward now. I like the album, but I’m ready to move on and think about the next one. I haven’t listened to the album since it’s been pressed. I can’t listen to it all the way through.

“Writing new songs means it’s in with the new and out with the old – the more new stuff I write, the more I feel like I’ve developed. I find that I like to write honestly about real things that are happening in my life so that I do connect with them.”

Already signed to US label Frenchkiss, Lobb’s recent appearance at the globally renowned Texan music showcase South By Southwest gave the Aussie a chance to spread her lush gospel. Even so, it wasn’t all VIP lists and flowing champagne for the young trouper.

“It was very exhausting and I’d pretty much play my gigs then try to find a quiet place or head back to my hotel straight away. I didn’t

Emma Louise tells Rip It Up she’s currently listening to a lot of Aphex Twin. Which other musicians are fans of Cornwall’s boundarypushing iconoclast?

Atoms For Peace – The supergroup’s Thom Yorke, Nigel Godrich and Flea initially bonded over their love of Aphex Twin.

Kanye West – Yeezy sampled Avril 14th on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’s Blame Game.

Jarvis Cocker – Directed early Aphex Twin music videos including the beachside On. Mike Patton – Covered Come To Daddy with The Dillinger Escape Plan.

Skrillex – Has listed Aphex Twin’s Flim as his favourite song of all time.

really see any other bands – I was very focused on keeping myself healthy and not being tired so I could play the best shows I could. We had 10 gigs and all sorts of interviews, so it was super-busy the whole time, but I never want to complain about it. South By Southwest is a useful thing in the industry and you want to play to as many people as you can and get the word out there. It was exciting to play the new album and the new set, too.

“The album’s coming out in America and Germany in May around the same time, so it will be good if I can play a few shows over there.

I’m a tiny fish overseas, so we’ll see how it goes.”

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Dustland Fairytale New Zealand certainly doesn’t have any shortage of reggae bands, and The Black Seeds are definitely one of the best in their class. They’ve wowed audiences in their homeland for some time, before breaking ground here in Oz with their awesome album Solid Ground. fter putting out four great longplayers, the guys decided to break some new ground of their own with their last release, Dust And Dirt, delving into the far more experimental realms of D&B, dub reggae and electronica, while still maintaining the excellent reggae sound that helped gather a faithful fanbase in the first place. After a successful album launch and a plethora of tours and festivals in their homeland across the ditch and beyond, things have been going from strength to strength. “Since then, what have we been doing?� band bass player Tim Jarray begins as he recalls his activities since the release of Dust And Dirt. “We won an award in New Zealand for Dust And Dirt, which was pretty special.

And since then, summer has been every weekend - festivals. It’s been nice to not have the pressure of a release tour or anything. It’s been a beautiful New Zealand summer! It’s something that we all want to be here for; it’s winter overseas, so I’d prefer to be hanging about in my favourite part of the world!�

The band’s latest album certainly signified a new path for the band, departing from the more traditional chilled out reggae sounds on their previous works. Thankfully (and not surprisingly), fans have been quick to come on board.

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“From the New Zealand perspective, it was a positive move on,� Jarray muses. “We’ve gotten older as a band, it’s album number five, and I think the change was something quite new for some people, but for us, it was not so new.

It took two years to make Dust And Dirt, and we’d gone through a lot, and then to present that, it was like what had already happened in a sense. It all went really well; in Europe, the tour we did was out of sight! These days, I think it’s good to be able to be flexible and play different things to surprise people.�

Australia typically isn’t quite the reggae paradise of our Kiwi cousins, but the boundaries being pushed by The Black Seeds have been equally welcome here, too. “From the stage point of view, playing on stage and watching people get into the music is always really satisfying,� Jarray admits. “I haven’t been to a Black Seeds gig ever where, by the end of the night, everyone’s not dancing and having a really good time. What I’ve noticed from the last 10 years of touring in Australia is that the audience has broadened a lot. People are getting into it and enjoying it, and that’s a great thing to see! I’ve spent a reasonable amount of time in Australia, and some of the musicians I met over there were phenomenal, and their awareness and knowledge of music was huge, so I also think that there’s a massive population of people who really know about music and are spreading that awareness throughout the community.�

With a catalogue of five albums to select from each night, the band does enjoy mixing things up a bit by revising some of the old material to fit within the context of the new stuff. “Well, what we like to do is bring in little pieces of the older stuff and mix it into the new things. The older tunes are still really fun to play, and people love to hear them. But you don’t necessarily need to hear the whole song to get that ‘thing’ from that song, you can move on to

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another different piece, and that’s pretty fun too.

We’ve worked really hard, especially on the European tour - you have to be really exciting, and we’ve got a few different tips and tricks. There’s a few pro bands out there, and that’s one of the great things about being on a festival, you get to see other people’s sets and you learn a bit about what tips and tricks you can pick up! It makes things really exciting! For me, I like taking people on a journey they didn’t expect.�

WHO: The Black Seeds WHAT: Dust And Dirt (Remote Control) WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Thu Apr 25

We Be Jammin’ Tim Jarray chuckles when he admits that live shows by The Black Seeds will occasionally take the band’s own members on an unexpected journey. “Yeah, we do like to jam, and wish we could do it more. We’ve got eight people on the stage though, so there’s a fairly regimented outlook on things, otherwise things can go awry!

But we do like to jam. And I think that’s what the last album was all about - having a bit of a jam.�

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Stranger Danger “I kind of got a bit sick of myself after the last Bob Evans record,” WA’s indie music veteran Kevin Mitchell says. “I just wanted to start again, without any kind of consideration to what I’d done before.” t’s a weighty thing to admit your own music was no longer what you were looking for, but Mitchell explains that this is why his Bob Evans project was shelved for a little while. After a new Jebediah record and the collaborative project Basement Birds, Bob Evans is now back, but with a new backbone and a tangy new sound. His fresh release, Familiar Stranger, is more electric than Old Bob, and New Bob is pleased with this.

“It’s fallen somewhere in between what I’ve done previously as Bob Evans and what I’m doing now in Jebediah. It’s existing in that place between the two, which is kind of weird; I wasn’t really expecting that. It was certainly a conscious

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decision to make a record that wasn’t driven by the acoustic guitar so much; one that was driven more by the rhythm section.”

With lashings of electric guitar, keyboards, synths and strings, the record certainly has a fuller, more atmospheric sound, paired with a cheerful pop punch that puts Familiar Stranger at the beginning of a new Evans era.

Mitchell has been around for a long time. His band, Jebediah, formed in 1994 and gained a following with the help of their win at the 1995 National Campus Band Competition. Almost 20 years on, Mitchell still loves touring, but he’s running out of new places to discover.

“I’ll pretty much play anywhere that will have me,” he says with a quiet chuckle. “It’s rare that a place comes up that I haven’t played.”

Mitchell’s current tour reaches out to a few less central locations, including the last stop: Meeniyan, Victoria. The town has a population of just over 1000, but they’re drawing some quiet attention from touring musicians around the country.

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I’m A Real Boy For all of his gentle humour and hesitation, Kevin Mitchell has a strong personality and can be direct when the conviction strikes him. The ‘character’ of Bob Evans no longer exists, with the name only serving as a pseudonym when Mitchell takes a stage solo.

“It was really just in those formative years, a long time ago now, that Bob Evans existed as a kind of character,” Mitchell declares. “Not anymore.”

“Meeniyan’s got a really cool little theatre,” Mitchell says. “I don’t think it’s been going for very long, but I know quite a few people who have gone there and played and said that it’s awesome.

I’m expecting it will be a bit of a highlight.”

For people living outside of Melbourne or Sydney, the brain-drain to the east coast is a real phenomenon; the move to the big cities is seen as necessary by a lot of musicians. Mitchell, who grew up in Perth and only moved to Melbourne four years ago, sees both sides of the story.

“For me, I’ve had a lot of success being in Perth, being in the most isolated city in the world,” he begins. “That’s where I met my Jebediah bandmates, and that’s where we were based for just over 10 years. I certainly didn’t move here [Melbourne] for ‘career’ reasons, however there have certainly been some advantages. They’re really just practical ones: being closer to everything and not having to do that long flight all the time.

“From a creative point of view, it doesn’t really matter where you live – the more isolated the better, perhaps.”

Two hours before every show, Mitchell has dedicated Bob time, when he has no commitments, can have a drink and warm up for the show. The ‘Two-Hour Rule’ is a staple for his performances, but it’s the only habit or ritual he indulges in. Once the two hours are up, he’s just keen for a good time.

“Sometimes I play gigs where people sit on the ground and it’s deadly quiet and everybody’s just gently listening to every song. And some gigs I play are really fucking rowdy, and everyone’s really drunk and they’re yelling out – it’s like a football game.”

All of these gigs are the types Mitchell likes, though he has a cheeky warning for fans waiting to request a song.

“If somebody requests a song, and I don’t really remember it or don’t really feel like playing it, I’ve made a pact that whoever asks for that song has to come up on stage and help me perform it.”

Mitchell says that people are welcome to sing or try their hand at the harmonica, with some surprise talents occasionally emerging.

“Some people are terrible at the harmonica,” he says with a laugh, “and some people are so good that you think that it was a set-up.”

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WHO: Bob Evans WHAT: Familiar Stranger (EMI) WHERE: Fowler’s Live WHEN: Sat Apr 27

Fade To Grey

Saint Midge?

Midge Ure was a key figure in the creation of mid-‘80s Band Aid and everything it encompasses, and yet, of course, most of the time the whole charitable movement is seen as being solely the domain of Sir Bob Geldof, who’s always been very much its public face.

Speaking from his home in Bath (“100 miles west of London”), Midge Ure notes that it’s the area in which Peter Gabriel has his Real World Studios, but that’s not where the re-formed new wave synth innovators Ultravox recorded last year’s Brilliant album…

Ninety percent of that was actually recorded on laptops,” he begins. “It was a key element of coming back to do an album, to see if Ultravox could do it, that we were able to sneak off somewhere and be on our own, and we ended up going to my house in Canada. We had basic set-ups there on laptops, but we still recorded a huge amount of the album there: vocals and everything. It was a good way to do it, as there wasn’t someone always banging on the door and shouting, ‘You’ve got to be out next Wednesday!’.”

Ure is quick to point out that his current solo tour isn’t with any members of Ultravox.

“Neither Ultravox nor I have played onstage for many years… I’m much more flexible than Ultravox, so I can just come down there, hire some equipment and go out and do some shows, but with a view, too, of getting Ultravox down there sometime. It’s kind of understandable that a lot of promoters, you know, they want to have the band come down, but they’re a little tentative, to say the least, about bringing just one person all the way over there, just in case nobody remembers who they are.”

Come on, Mr Ure: everyone remembers who you are! There’s your work with Ultravox (yielding hits like their wonderful Vienna and the dramatic Dancing With Tears In My Eyes) and solo tracks (including the ballad If I Was); your time with The Rich Kids alongside Sex Pistol Glen Matlock (“their original bass player… Yeah, that’s right!”); an association with Thin Lizzy (“Yes! I knew Philip Lynott and did work with them on tour, helping out until they found a replacement guitar player”); your assembly of the short-lived, one-hitwonder New Romantic outfit Visage of Fade To Grey fame; your co-creation of the whole Live Aid thing and even a gig composing the musical score to the original Max Headroom movie!

“That was a long time ago - but yes!”

Ure also recalls how Vienna and Fade To Grey, two fondly-remembered classics and two number one hits from two separate bands, actually came out in the same year: 1981.

“We recorded the Visage album first but it sort of sat on the shelf for a while. I remember I was standing in a sticky, messy recording studio in London with Ultravox and getting ready for a tour with the Vienna album, and our manager suddenly turned up with two bottles of champagne and said, ‘Congratulations!

You’ve now got two singles in the Top 40 and two albums in the Top 40 too!’ Both Ultravox and Visage charted on the same day, which was bizarre, to say the least.”

And how do you recreate the distinctive sound of Vienna and other Ultravox tunes, as well as Fade To Grey and more, on the stage?

“Creating that sound isn’t as hard as you might think. I adapt the song somewhat, so we don’t have a viola player, for example, and I do the solo in the middle with a guitar. We do try to adapt it to keep it fresh for me to perform and for the audience, and it’s the same with Fade To Grey and the other songs: they’re slightly different versions but still immediately recognisable as that song. There’s no problem in recreating the atmospherics, but we do try not to just do a carbon copy of the song… I don’t know if we’ll be doing songs from Brilliant though: I talked to the band last week about it, but right now I’m just not sure, especially as Ultravox as a band may be gracing your shores sometime in the coming years.”

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“If you put Bob and I together in a room you’ll see why that happened, you know: I’m the quiet guy in the corner and he’s the brash, gregarious character, and exactly what you see on television… So he became the focal point, which is absolutely fine, as it wasn’t about self-congratulation or pats on the back or anything but something much, much bigger.”

WHO: Midge Ure WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Fri Apr 26

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Jackie Onassis Fresh from their show-stealing support slot with Spit Syndicate at Jive, up-and-coming hip hop duo Jackie Onassis just can’t seem to get enough of Adelaide already. A second gig at the Ed Castle early next month will see the Sydney pair return before they leave the country altogether in 2013 and take on the UK and Europe, including the Great Escape Festival in May. With international BBC One taste-maker Zane Lowe in their corner, as well as national radio station Triple J back at home, Jackie Onassis’ single Crystal Balling has been a breakthrough hit for the guys and a nice introduction to what the duo can do. Keep an ear out for an EP later this year and catch them at the Ed Castle in the meantime.

Jackie Onassis play at the Ed Castle on Thu May 4.

Kissy Sell Out

Q+A With Untzz

Emerging from the MySpace generation, East London’s Kissy Sell Out has gone on to become one of the hottest club DJs, producers and remixers currently going around. With influences including Sonic Youth, dance producers DFA and early Daft Punk, Kissy turned his hand to DJing at the tender age of 13 after turning his back on Nirvana almost overnight following an introduction to an acid house mix CD. Kissy went on to remix and produce himself, and after many late nights spent building up his graphic design project/imprint San City High, he has managed to signed up like-minded artist from all over the globe, with Kissy being the sole driving force behind the label, operated from his bedroom.

Catch this underground sensation live and intimately at Apple Bar next month.

Riding on the thrill of some serious hype (including praise from Jackmaster, Neville Watson, Dark Sky and Bicep), the arrival of his first vinyl pressings in Australia, and a recent decision to tour Australia in a bus with the Untzz fellowship, Brad ‘Babicka’ Shawyer is unmistakably buzzing with excitement.

He tells us about his love of acid house, analogue fetishism and the mysterious identities behind the new release.

Kissy Sell Out plays at Apple Bar on Thu May 30.

Chance Waters Armed with tracks from his acclaimed new album, Infinity, Chance Waters will be touring across the nation and bringing his infectiously upbeat and thoughtprovoking songs to the Ed Castle on Fri May 24. 2012 was a huge year for the Sydney rapper after releasing his acclaimed sophomore album and having it debut at number 54 on the ARIA Charts. Waters was also nominated for Unearthed Artist Of The Year at the 2012 J Awards, while his video for second single Maybe Tomorrow (featuring Lilian Blue) was voted at number seven in the 2012 Rage Fifty (beating MIA, Alt-J, Grimes and Tame Impala). 2013 is promising to be an even bigger year for Waters, starting with a massive 19date tour.

Chance Waters plays at the Ed Castle on Fri May 24.

CD Reviews

James Blake

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Oh James Blake, can you do no wrong?... To cut to the chase, Overgrown is about as close as you can get to sonic perfection, Blake’s highly-anticipated sophomore being less a second chapter in this incredible artist’s short career, but rather a hybrid of what we’ve come to love about him and the left-of-centre eclecticism that he’s now renowned for. On that note, despite the fact his tunes are often stuffed into the ‘dance’ category, on Overgrown Blake returns as a singer songwriter trafficking in soul, jazz, classical and ambient sounds – with a trace of post-dubstep. Featuring contributions from Brian Eno and RZA, the 10-track collage also incorporates hip hop and R&B flavours, impressively managing to make this kaleidoscope of genres sound cohesive and beautifullyflowing... God knows how, but for some reason it all just works. It’s complex, atmospheric, unpredictable and... Well, simply brilliant. Lead single Retrograde was just the tip of the iceberg.

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Last time these French mysterious types released an album (Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix) back in 2009, they won themselves a Grammy and earned a huge following thanks to their ability to lace oddball, experimental sounds with catchy pop tunes. Fresh from their stint at Coachella, Phoenix have unleashed upon us another gem that doesn’t stray too far from their last effort but manages to remain fresh. Loads of synths and ‘80s vibes can be found on here, with Philippe Zdar of Cassius taking on co-production duties on the album, while the lyrical direction steers towards relationships and a bit of social commentary, without going overboard and becoming preachy. Best examples of the quirkier moments are on the title track Bankrupt! which kicks things off with an unusual, lounge-y style, while Drakkar Noir and Chloroform are probably the least poppy, sticking firmly within the electronic realm. It’s cool and classy and everything Phoenix have built a reputation on.

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Dude walks into a record shop, approaches the counter and says, “Sup, nice day eh? I’m looking for an album which will deliver on my desire for a little bit of variety across the electronic spectrum. So something which has some chunky beats of both mid and upper tempos so I can dance to it, but also has really lush production that I can get lost in – I dig artists like Prefuse73 and Herbert, but don’t want it too fidgetty.

If it has some slo-groove in there it’d be dope too; kinda like Low Motion Disco meets The Twelves. You got anything like that?” The girl behind the counter reaches down and pulls a record from a box so fresh it smells like morning mist being burned off by a bright sun. She smiles and says, “This is exactly what you’re after”.

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You got into analogue very soon into your productions. Did you have any shining lights who led you in that direction?

Yeah I really don’t think I’m even old enough to truly understand the blessing of knowledge and guidance and friendship that came with Surahn when it comes to writing music. Playing at Sugar every week for the last few years under the relatively strict vinyl ethos has been a massive influence on DJing and curating a night.

Tell us how you went about achieving such a raw sound on your EP? Even though there are four of us on the 12”, there is actually a digital track from Mic Mills too, equally as brash as the others. I think at that moment in time we all wrote the tracks after a particularly loose and heavy party we threw. That was a massive influence on the nature of the tracks and production-wise we all share a studio, so the tracks are always going to have a similar flavour. That being said though, Freddie Norwood’s track was written almost exclusively inside the box. I guess it’s just knowing how something sounds and either getting that authentically or trying to replicate it. I think half the time it’s quite hard to tell the difference unless you leave everything completely raw and uncompressed, then it really sounds analogue.

So far you’ve been keeping very quiet about the identities of this group... is that a deliberate choice in the vein of the old egoless technomakers of yore?

I’m not so sure about the mystery thing... A couple of the guys haven’t ever played in clubs before so there is sometimes this element of ‘Who the fuck is this guy?’ when Mic will cut in a record like he’s been mixing for years. Apart from that, I don’t think we’re trying to keep it a secret. I’m using the name ‘Babicka’, it’s actually named after a vodka I grew quite fond of. Alex is using a variety of names revolving around HVCK, AXEL, HVXL. Who knows, he can write so much different music I think he wants to differentiate between everything. Then there are the two wonder boys, Mic Mills and Dass. Then there is Freddie Norwood who really is mysterious. I think he’s like 19 or something, he can spin records so well.

BDOH001 is out now via Untzz Twelve Inch, and BDOH002 is out on Mon Apr 29.

Calendar/ Wed Apr 24 Nari & Milani (Apple Bar) Fri Apr 26 Derrick May (TechPhonics/Fowler’s Live) Fri Apr 26 Mosca (Sugar) Sat Apr 27 Otto Knows (HQ) Sat May 4 Walden (HQ) Sat May 4 Jackie Onassis (Ed Castle) Thu May 16 Seth Sentry (The Gov) Sun May 19 Afrika Bambaataa (Sugar) Fri May 24 Chance Waters (The Ed) Fri May 24 ShockOne (HQ)

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Jamie Lidell may be the godfather of today’s experimental soul – a proto James Blake – but the Brit has transferred to Nashville, his eponymous fifth album sounding more like vintage Prince or an avant Sam Sparro than post-dubstep.

Lidell has always been restless, his previous bases Berlin, Paris and New York. However, the onetime philosophy student has settled Down South, even buying a house.

“I moved to NY first – to do with my now wife,” Lidell divulges. “It was really amazing to be there. But the two of us started dreaming about having a little bit more space... So we moved to Nashville.”

Still, Tennessee’s capital is known for country, not IDM. Lidell doesn’t belong to any local music community, although he’s befriended The Black Keys’ drummer Patrick Carney.

“He’s just a really sweet guy – him and his wife have been great.” There’s no conspicuous Nashville flavour on Jamie Lidell, either.

Instead Lidell revels in P-funk, ‘80s Prince and classic boogie, only the single What A Shame breakbeat-y.

Originally the vocalist in Cristian Vogel’s Super_Collider and architect of the solo techno LP Muddlin Gear, Lidell refined his machine soul on 2005’s Multiply. While his live laptop cabaret shows, complete with looped vocals and beatboxing, proved a cult hit, Lidell’s label, Warp, worried about his wonky pop bid. 2008’s Jim saw him hiring expat Aussie producer Justin Stanley, who began as Noiseworks’ keyboardist and is married to Nikka Costa. By now, Lidell was big news.

Lidell took his time following 2010’s Compass, a collaborative project with Beck on board, believing himself to be in “quite a good position”. Lidell “shook off ” expectations that he’d “carry on doing the soul thing”.

“It almost allowed me to go any way I wanted.” Lidell had fretted that he was being

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“typecast” – or becoming “a brand”. And so he built a studio in Nashville and “had a long hard think”. Jamie Lidell is, he notes, “ambitious” yet focussed. Nevertheless, those audience members who know him for “Another Day and the big hits” look bewildered at recent gigs.

Sighs Lidell, “You can call it ‘alienating the fans’, but I think the people who really know me, they know that I’m into all kinds of stuff and actually get a buzz from hearing something new.”

Lidell has reunited, too, with Stanley. He’s effusive in praising his pal’s “positivity”.

“He just makes you feel like anything’s possible.”

The California-based muso was working with Prince at the same time as Lidell, flying between Minneapolis and Nashville – ironic, Lidell says, since he

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was “trying to make this record that’s very Minneapolis, in a way”.

Lidell presaged contemporary electronic soul with Super_Collider in the ‘90s.

“We were really on our own with that sound – and it really felt like that,” he laughs.

Lidell is aware of Blake, Frank Ocean and TheWeeknd.

“I love all those artists – I think they’re doing really exciting stuff.” And he’s pleased that indie has opened up to soul. When Lidell was younger, indie kids privileged the grit of rock‘n’roll.

“To do anything obviously with soul was, like, really lame.” Yet Lidell isn’t necessarily influenced by the new progressive R&B set.

“I’ve tried to just stay into what I’m into.”

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In his native Australia, Dirty South (known to his mother as Dragan Roganovic) is somewhat renowned for his infectious chart-topping remixes for such big names as U2 and Snoop Dogg, not to mention his infectious singles. In America, Roganovic is fast doing the same...

Having just released his original debut album, The Speed Of Life, the Aussie dance superstar is in the process of transforming his image and building a whole new reputation on the other side of the world thanks to his full-length record. Times are indeed changing for Dirty South...

“I love this album because my mantra has always been to make music for myself, music that I would listen to and that personally satisfies me, and this album has ticked the boxes, so to speak. I criticise myself a lot anyway, even before people get to hear the rough copy, so when I say I’m happy with the result, I really mean it.

Things always got in the way, though, I was always busy touring and doing live shows.

At one point, it seemed like it was never going to happen...”

But it did, luckily. What it took, according to Roganovic, was to literally trick himself into taking the project on, after years of excuses and after a fair amount of self-doubt. However, when the time has come, you simply just know it, according to the producer.

“It was a matter of sort of putting myself into a trap. I’ve been making singles and remixes my whole career and it was a bit disappointing that I hadn’t got to do what I’d always wanted to do – which was an album. Not having enough time to do it was one thing, but on top of that I was

Not A Human Being II) heavily samples the Compass title-track – Lidell should have a feature credit. Years ago he was courted by majors (including Motown), but they were “tentative”.

“I’m a bit of an odd prospect,” Lidell concedes. Ultimately, he’s content to stay independent. “I just wanna make the music I wanna make. I definitely don’t wanna be arguing with some bullshit major label A&R about changing stuff all the time – ‘cause then I would really be trapped. I couldn’t make the music I wanted to make. If I had got successful that way, it’d make me really sad. So I’m happy to be like a boutique brand.”

WHO: Jamie Lidell WHAT: Jamie Lidell (Inertia)

genuinely just scared and anxious about the thought of doing it, so at first I started telling myself over and over that I was going to do an album... Then I started saying it in media interviews. Then I started Tweeting it and announcing it on social media. Basically, I put myself in a spot where I had made all these announcements to the public and they would be able to hold me to it. I literally forced myself to do it, really.”

Featuring Roganovic’s frequent collaborator Rudy (with whom the DJ is currently working on a “very different, indie” side-project Ruben Haze), as well as Los Angeles artist Joe Gill, surprisingly, The Speed Of Life does not feature an extensive cast of guest appearances. Don’t get it twisted though – it’s for no lack of contacts and fans...

“I produced the album all by myself,” Roganovic states, “the only ‘outside’ people were the two vocalists. I worked with Rudy quite a bit on the album because I’m used to it by now, I’ve worked with him forever.

We’ve actually got a side-project coming out very soon [Ruben Haze] which is more based in acoustic, live instruments. I also worked with a guy from LA called Joe Gill who is also amazing. I guess working with friends makes it much more fun, it makes it more organic and much, much easier than it could be. You always struggle with a ‘favourite track’ when you’re talking about your own tracks, but on this album it would be the song The Speed Of Life. It’s the title track but it pretty much sums up what the whole album is about.”

WHO: Dirty South WHAT: The Speed Of Life (Ministry Of Sound)

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Tour Guide/ WED APR 24

THU MAY 16

ANDY GORDON & DICK DANDY @ Promethean BRYAN ADAMS & AMY MACDONALD @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre BUZZCOCKS & MOLTING VULTURES @ Fowler’s Live BRITISH INDIA & HORROR MY FRIEND @ Governor Hindmarsh RÜFÜS @ Jive

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

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

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

SAT APR 27 KING TUFF @ Nexus GUY SEBASTIAN @ Thebarton Theatre (sold out) BOB EVANS, TIGERTOWN & DAVEY LANE @ Fowler’s Live THE GRISWOLDS @ Ed Castle

SUN APR 28 ADRIAN EDMONDSON & THE BAD SHEPHERDS @ Governor Hindmarsh HARMONICA SAM & THE DOMESTIC BUMBLEBEES, THE SATELLITES & DICK DANDY & HIS WINGMEN @ Port Dock Brewery THE MORNINGS & ABBEY HOWLETT @ Glenelg Surf Club TIMOTHY NELSON & THE INFIDELS, AMANDA MERDZAN & THE BAKERS DIGEST @ Wheatsheaf

TUE APR 30 TOOL @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

THU MAY 2 THE BRONX, DZ DEATHRAYS & HIGHTIME @ Fowler’s Live JOSH PYKE @ Grace Emily MEL PARSONS @ Café Troppo

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

SAT MAY 4

THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM @ HQ GAY PARIS @ Enigma AERIALS @ Ed Castle

SAT MAY 18 DRAGON @ Governor Hindmarsh KRISTA POLVERE @ Jive GAY PARIS @ Jetty Bar Glenelg HEROES FOR HIRE, NINE SONS OF DAN & FOREVER ENDS @ Fowler’s Live DANIEL CHAMPAGNE @ The Singing Gallery (McLaren Vale)

SUN MAY 19 DEFTONES @ HQ DANIEL CHAMPAGNE & THE BEARDED GYPSY BAND @ Semaphore Workers Club

WED MAY 22 A BREACH OF SILENCE & BORN OF OSIRIS @ Fowler’s Live

FRI MAY 24 DESTROY MUSIC: THE GHOST INSIDE, EMMURE, ANTAGONIST AD & HAND OF MERCY @ Fowler’s Live SAN CISCO, MILLIONS & CHAOS CHAOS @ Governor Hindmarsh (licensed all-ages)

SAT MAY 25 SOMETHING FOR KATE & COURTNEY BARNETT @ Governor Hindmarsh THE NEW DEAD METALFEST #4: PSYCROPTIC, 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 @ HQ

MON MAY 27 BOOMTOWN RATS & MENTAL AS ANYTHING @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

SUN MAY 26 MATT CORBY @ HQ

THU MAY 30

SUN MAY 5

FRI MAY 31

TUE MAY 7 NORMA JEAN, VANNA & SAFE HANDS @ Fowler’s Live TEGAN & SARA @ Thebarton Theatre BLACK SABBATH @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre OM, SPARKSPITTER & RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA @ Jive

THU MAY 9 YACHT @ Rocket Bar TAME IMPALA @ Thebarton Theatre

WED MAY 8 TURIN BRAKES & THE BAKERS DIGEST @ Governor Hindmarsh FLUME @ Thebarton Theatre

THU MAY 9 THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS & DARK FAIR @ Governor Hindmarsh

FRI MAY 10 THE KOOKS @ Thebarton Theatre STICKY FINGERS @ Governor Hindmarsh APIA TIME OF MY LIFE: DARYL BRAITHWAITE, JOE CAMILLERI, JAMES REYNE & ROSS WILSON @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre SANDI THOM @ Church Of The Trinity JELLO BIAFRA & THE GUANTANAMO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, GRONG GRONG & CENTRAL DELI BAND @ Fowler’s Live BUZZ CAMPBELL @ Port Dock Brewery GUNG HO, BORED NOTHING & STEP-PANTHER @ Rocket Bar

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

TUE MAY 14 TENACIOUS D, BARRY MORGAN & SASQUATCH @ Thebarton Theatre

WED MAY 15

THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT, DOUBLEBLACK & KING OF THE NORTH @ Governor Hindmarsh

As a musician, Kyle Thomas has been a constant presence for the past decade, yet it has been under the moniker of King Tuff that Thomas has garnered his most critical and commercial acclaim.

The sudden fanfare has led to the reissue of his first lo-fi album …Was Dead and the success of its follow-up King Tuff in 2012, but Thomas doesn’t use the name as a smokescreen that separates him from his music.

“I don’t think it’s a persona that I put on as it is just me,” Thomas states. “It started when I was 17, 18 years old; it was my outlet to make rock‘n’roll. My actual name doesn’t sound very rock and roll, so I needed something more exciting. It was my original project back when I was a teenager just playing around, and over the years it kept coming back, popping

up again. I definitely like working with other people and will do that again in the future, but King Tuff is something that I’ve worked out on my own, and I know it works, and will always be available to me.”

The brilliance of King Tuff lay in the effortless straddling of the more flamboyant of 1970s rock movements (T-Rex’s Marc Bolan is an immediate reference that comes to mind) with more modern garage rock stylings.

“With every record you are hoping for a good response, you never know how people will react, so I only want to spend my time writing songs and enjoying playing them,” Thomas states succinctly. “When it came time to record I had about 30 songs, and I wanted to have all of them on there. I wrote these songs years ago, I knew that there were good songs and I put everything into it. It’s hard to work out how well you really are going. Some crowds really dig it, some don’t.

I finally bought my dream amp the other day, so I think I’m getting somewhere.”

That said, Thomas is finding it hard to write since moving from his hometown in Vermont to the bustling climes of Los Angeles.

“I need to go into my own head and form a relationship with my landscape, so I’m finding it hard to do any writing in California right now. I haven’t found my creative flow here yet. I’m not worried – whenever there are good vibes, good things come from that.

Like Australia, I don’t have very much time in between shows, it’s a very quick tour, but I’m keen to see as much of it as I can. And to eat some Australian food, whatever that is. Except for a kangaroo. I could never eat a kangaroo.”

WHO: King Tuff WHERE: Nexus (with Old Mate, Big Richard Insect and Wireheads) WHEN: Sat Apr 27

KAKI KING @ Governor Hindmarsh

SUN JUN 2 MIKE STERN BAND @ Governor Hindmarsh

MON JUN 3 JAZZGROOVE MOTHERSHIP ORCHESTRA @ The Promethean

WED JUN 5 KAMELOT, MONTARCH & QUIET CHILD @ Governor Hindmarsh

THU JUN 6 THE CHEMIST @ Grace Emily

FRI JUN 7 – MON JUN 10 HOOT ADELAIDE HILLS JAZZ FESTIVAL: DAVID HELBOCK, SNARK PUPPY, THE JAMES CARER ORGAN TRIO, SARAH MCKENZIE, GRACE KNIGHT and many more @ Mt Barker

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SUN JUN 9 STEVIE WRIGHT, THE FAB FOUR & LUCKY SEVEN @ Cavern Club

TUE JUN 11 THE BELLRAYS @ Enigma

THU JUN 13 OWEN CAMPBELL @ Norwood Live

FRI JUN 14 KATE MILLER-HEIDKE @ Flinders St Baptist Church DAVID BRIDIE & THE PILLS @ Governor Hindmarsh OWEN CAMPBELL @ Coopers Alehouse (Wallaroo))

After touring with Perth compatriots Tame Impala across the US during February and March, The Growl are now back on home soil. Frontman Cameron Avery talks about the band’s live experiences in the US and the new album What Would Christ Do?.

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

THU JUN 20 ARTURO SANDOVAL @ Governor Hindmarsh

EVERMORE @ Governor Hindmarsh

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FRI MAY 17

MEL PARSONS @ Hotel Elliot (Pt Elliot) OWL EYES, COLLARBONES & MAMMALS @ Governor Hindmarsh EMMA LOUISE @ Fowler’s Live

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

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“It has been really busy and we haven’t been back long,” Avery begins. “I try my best to not let the jetlag get me and I went from the airport to a mate’s place to get stuck into a few beers. It won’t take long to get back in routine, I’ll be alright.”

Was this the first overseas tour for The Growl?

“Yeah, it was awesome. It was different - a very overwhelming reception for us and Tame Impala. We’re just 10 guys from Perth playing to 2000 plus people every night. It was so much fun and we sold all our vinyl. The Tame

guys are my best buddies so it was like a dream come true to travel around with them.”

Is the immediate future focused on overseas touring?

“Hopefully we can get back over there later in the year, particularly Europe. It will be interesting to see how it goes after this Australian tour, but my attention will be working on a new record and continue playing in other bands.”

How do you adjust to smaller clubs after playing the big venues?

“We really like it. There’s something missing when you’re playing to 2000 people as opposed to 200. Those 200 can here you talking between songs, they can smell you and pick up on basically everything. There are a lot of little things on stage that go on that make it interesting to watch.”

Did you notice much difference between Australian and American fans?

“A little bit, but not much. Americans seem to be more conscious of the concept of celebrity and because you’re in a band it’s a big deal. They

are very excitable and the American crowds are lots of fun, especially in the college towns.”

Do you have any stalkers?

“No! I don’t have Facebook or a mobile phone, I keep to myself. There was like one guy who came to seven shows but no one freaks me out… yet!”

How do you describe the new album?

“As a recording project it’s very distorted and hard to describe musically. It has a lot of blues influences and it’s basically a collection of songs I’ve done over the last couple of years.

There’s no real narrative I don’t think. The next album will sound completely different again.”

WHO: The Growl WHAT: What Would Christ Do? (MGM) WHERE: Rocket WHEN: Fri Apr 26

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ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Ark Goes Greek (8.30pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: The Incredibles (10pm) BOTANIC BAR – Gemma CROWN & ANCHOR – Geek with DJ Tr!p DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Dan’s Open Mic Night (7.30pm) DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Bento (What’s in Yo’ Box?!)

EMU HOTEL – Obsession with DJ Jessie J ENIGMA BAR – Mayweather, Like Wolves, At Fates Mercy, Secondhand Squad, Visions, Starscream, Walk The Plank and Archives EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music Exchange (7.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Curtis FINDON HOTEL – Muso’s Jam hosted by Streaker

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: Traveller & Fortune.

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 night EXETER ON RUNDLE – Juno and guests

ADELAIDE CASINO – Chandelier Bar: Jacqui Lim (6pm) ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: Jaki J (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Top Of The Ark: Viva Latino (8.30pm) Lounge Bar: Take 5 (9pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BARTLEY TAVERN – The Crew (8pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Broken Theory (8pm) BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) Ride Into The Sun DJS. Band Room: The Sunbirds DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Transit (7.30pm) DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs Derek Lang, Eric Falcon and Lukky K DUBLIN HOTEL – Happy Leonards Duo ED CASTLE – Full Tilt live bands and party DJs ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs EMPIRE POOL LOUNGE – DJ (8pm) EMU HOTEL – 3 Hump Camel (8pm) ENFIELD HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment ENIGMA BAR – Seconds Before Sunrise CD launch, In Elegance, The Broadside, Empire and Red Light Sound (Bar 2) Mischief The Cat, Like Kites, Pink Noise Generator and Orelia (Bar 3) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Theo EXETER HOTEL – Slyde EXETER ON RUNDLE – Luca Sand, Rachel Cearns and The Valkyries FINDON HOTEL – karaoke

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – WEDNESDAY NITE DYNAMITE FOWLER’S LIVE – Buzzcocks GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: British India with The Love Junkies and Horror My Friend. Front Bar: Open Mic Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Craig Atkins with James Abberley HIGHWAY – The Combi Room HQ – Flashdance JIVE – Rufus and Polographia KENSINGTON HOTEL – Uke ‘n’ Play beginners to advanced ukulele (7pm) MARION HOTEL – Graham Lawrence (6.30pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm) SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with Margi (7.30pm) SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular and Mr Whiskas THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill THE PROMETHEAN – The Reverent Jorfy album launch with special guest Tristan ‘Dick Dandy’ Newsome (7.30pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – quiz night (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Wednesdays (7pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Buxton Ales Tap Takeover (6pm)

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

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – OPEN MIKE GILBERT STREET HOTEL – SAV & MICK G (7PM) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: The Black Seeds with special guests. Front Bar: Gumbo Room Blues Jam with Billy Bob’s Blues Entourage GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Ben Salter GRAND BAR – OMG JIVE – Hungry Kids Of Hungary with Preatures and Them Swoops 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 guests TEA TREE GULLY RSL CLUB – Bonfire featuring Bonnie Lee Galea (1pm) THE LION HOTEL – Clearway TONSLEY HOTEL – Andrew Crowell (8.30pm)

WHITMORE HOTEL – RAINBOW JAM SESSIONS (7.30PM) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – THE FIX, SCABS AND EXPLODING CACTUS

GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Acoustic Blonde (6pm) HALFWAY HOTEL – Troy Harrison HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – The Rustlers (8pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Men In Black HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Josh Moore (8pm) HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Dimitra (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs IRISH CLUB – Shamrocks ‘n’ Shenanigans Live Acoustic Sessions (7pm) LIMBO – DJs LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee MARBLE BAR – Uni Night with DJs MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Shannon Lloyd (6.30pm) MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – E’nuf Said OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Kopy Catz OFFICE ON PIRIE – DJ Jess (4.30pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Two Hard Basket PORT NOARLUNGA FOOTBALL CLUB – Venus Sly Trap, Priority Orange and Phsycodelicassy (8pm) RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ Snake & DJ Rupheo (9pm) RED SQUARE – DJs REX HOTEL – karaoke ROB ROY HOTEL – Usual Suspects (6pm) DJ Smiley (8pm) ROCKET BAR – Abracadabra featuring resident DJs The Shiny Brights DJs

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8PM) FOWLER’S LIVE – Techphonics GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Midge Ure (the voice of Ultravox) Front Bar: Mick & Dave Acoustic GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Green Circles GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays

SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Blues Katz SETTLERS TAVERN – The Bluff (8pm) SOMERSET HOTEL – Wildcard (8pm)

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The Guide // WINDSOR HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – Bon ‘n’ All ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Finn, Terrence and Hemilove

SOUTHWARK HOTEL – TARA CARRAGHER STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance. Downstairs: DJs play retro SUGAR – TGI Funky with Ben Alibi and HMC SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJs TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio Flamenco (7.30pm) TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – DJ Wolfman (9pm) THE ELEPHANT – Crazy Knites and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY – Ch@t Room THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Mitch (4.45pm) Acoustica (9pm) Chrysler Bar: Lipsmack (9.30pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Acoustic Reign (8.20pm) VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs WAKEFIELD HOTEL – DJ Kitten (5pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Kaurna Cronin EP launch with Jesse Davidson and The Bakers Digest

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Saturday 27th ARAB STEED HOTEL – Georgy K ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J. Upstairs: Bongo Madness with DJs Ed Law and Scotty (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Clearway (9pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: The Incredibles (9pm) AUCHENDARROCH HOUSE/WALLIS TAVERN – Troy Harrison BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – karaoke with Gemma BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – High Voltage, Matterhorn, Zepporama and Funky Monks BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Joe Cocker Show CROWN & ANCHOR – Dieselwitch album launch with The Systemaddicts and The El Caminos then DJ Azz CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with Nicole (8pm)

DRAGONFLY – rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and everything in between DUKE OF YORK – DJ Mitchy Burnz, DJ Parry, DJ Skinny B and MC Scotty ED CASTLE – Plus One Saturdays with live bands and party DJs (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends EMU HOTEL – Bodyswerve (8pm) ENIGMA BAR – Necromancy presents Zombie Prom EXETER HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment EXETER ON RUNDLE – Bastard Sons Of Ruination with Arch Menaces FINDON HOTEL – Harvest

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – LOADED BILLY WITH TRASH CITY (10PM) FOWLER’S LIVE – Bob Evans GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm) GASLIGHT TAVERN – Bonfire featuring Bonnie Lee Galea (8.30pm) karaoke

GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ MARKY POLO (8PM)

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GOVERNOR HINDMARSH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Main Room: A Night Of Van Morrison. Front Bar: Til The Break GRACE EMILY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Go Set with Kelshy GRAND BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Destination Saturdays with DJs and MCs GRENFELL 110 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Triumvirate Ents presents: Weekly Summer Sessions featuring DJs Ragz, Jesse Proverbs and John Spencer and Daly (10pm) HACKNEY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ HIGHLANDER HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Animal House HIGHWAY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Griff (9pm) HOPE INN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke (7pm) HOTEL RICHMOND â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Buzz (8.30pm) HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Black Fedora Jazz (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips, Tinker and Bangwel (8pm) HQ â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Million Voices featuring Otto Knows KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke LAKES RESORT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mojo Duo LONDON TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ and MC Renard (10pm) MACCLESFIELD HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Brompton Blues Band (8pm) MARBLE BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I <3 MB with DJs and MCs plus national and international guests MARINA SUNSET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs playing the best in house and electro

MARION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Franky F (5.30pm) Boris Loves To Boogie (8.30pm) MARS BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SHEAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Midnight Specials OLD SPOT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Eleven (9pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Harry & The Hitmen PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; After Five PJ Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;BRIENS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kopy Catz RAMSGATE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Adelaideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best cover bands RED SQUARE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan REX HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ TKA ROCKET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bananas: Track Team and Japeye SANDBAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; requests with DJs

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Go Your Own Way For her debut Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Sydney performer Catherine Alcorn’s show Go Your Own Way casts the spotlight on Fleetwood Mac’s unsung maestro Christine McVie. McVie’s contributions – particularly to the transatlantic act’s diamond-selling 1977 opus Rumours remain lucid, inspired and timeless. espite Fleetwood Mac’s personal worlds crumbling in a haze of marriage breakdowns and substance abuse as they recorded the album, tracks such as McVie’s Don’t Stop and Songbird remain potent.

“They were creating one of the most significant albums in rock history while behind the scenes everything was falling apart at the seams,” Alcorn says. “Christine was a very strong woman, even though her marriage with [bassist] John McVie was breaking up around the same time that Lindsey [Buckingham,

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guitarist and vocalist] and Stevie [Nicks, vocalist] were falling apart. The music always prevailed and they got that material because of the tumultuous times they were enduring.”

Alcorn has been working through Go Your Own Way’s drafts with writer James Millar, with the narrative subtly morphing as more details of Fleetwood Mac’s 2013 tour are revealed. Despite retiring from the band in 1998, McVie has recently expressed an interest in joining Fleetwood Mac for a song or two when they perform in London in September.

“It would be awesome if she does, but there are contingency plans in place [if she doesn’t]. At the moment we’re working off three different possible beginning points and three different ending points. Christine hates to fly, but interestingly she just made a trip to Hawaii and played with [drummer] Mick Fleetwood’s band, then apparently she flew to LA to visit Stevie after that. In terms of the publicity it makes this show so much more current, which is super cool.”

Making her Adelaide debut with her show The Divine Miss Bette during the Adelaide Fringe last year, Alcorn says performing McVie’s music makes for a refreshing change – particularly in the wardrobe department.

“I’ve been performing as Bette Midler for the last year-and-a-half in sequined gowns, so I’m just looking forward to feeling supercomfortable on-stage. I’m certainly not dyeing my hair blonde and recreating the look of her physically, so I’ll be chucking on some boots and a pair of leather pants.”

The vocal change between the brassy Miss M and the more demure McVie are also pronounced.

“There’s a huge difference in vocals from Bette, who is a New Yorker, to Christine, who is very deep and British. She doesn’t really move her top lip very much and talks quite slowly and monotone and doesn’t give much emotion away.

Isaac Hayward, my musical director, and I have been discussing how I’ll sing the songs, since I’m not setting out to sound like her but I want to stay in character within the show. I can’t put any of my own nuances into any of her words.”

Despite her retreat from the limelight, McVie’s musical legacy is enduring.

Posthumous musical success story Eva Cassidy’s cover of Songbird remains a poignant postscript to the ongoing popularity of Rumours.

“I was out doing a spot yesterday at the Grant Burge Winery for 20 minutes and I asked the audience if anyone knew Eva Cassidy. When I sang Songbird it was one of the moments when they were surprised to discover Christine had written it. It’s going to be the signature track of our show as well as being one of the most beautiful songs ever written. It’s been a constant in my life when it comes to ex boyfriends and all those sorts of things. There’s no bravado to the song and it’s just beautiful. I can’t wait to sing it.”

During the Rumours tour McVie would often finish the band’s celebratory shows with a solo piano rendition of the track. Will Alcorn be doing the same?

Pash And Dash Sydney performer Catherine Alcorn’s not even debuted her Cabaret Festival premiere Go Your Own Way yet, but she says she’s already planning a subversive show for next year.

“For years I’ve been asked if I am Kate Ceberano and been asked for an autograph, so it’s funny how the world works [now I’m on her Cabaret Festival bill].

Kate and I were talking about how it would be funny if we did a show together where I am her interior monologue. She says everything that’s politically correct when she needs to and I’m behind her saying the things she’s actually thinking…”

“I do play keyboards, but in this show I think I’m just going to focus on the acting component. I would love to play Songbird on the keys but I don’t want to bugger it up as it’s going to be the highlight of the show! Too much pressure.”

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Film // No (M) Chilean co-producer/director/rabblerouser Pablo Larraín’s political drama (with touches of dark comedy) features a fine performance by Gael García Bernal as young ad exec René Saavedra, who didn’t, at first, quite realise what he was in for when he decided to assist in the bringing down of military dictator Augusto Pinochet back in those radicalised days of far-off 1988.

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figure who thought he was untouchable, craved ‘transparency’ and the approval of the western world, he set up a referendum with a simple ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ vote for or against the continuation of his regime (he couldn’t lose, he thought), and the opposition then sought the assistance of Saavedra to assist with their campaign, and while there’s humour in their TV commercials (consider the many and various usages of the word ‘No’), things get rather scarier as Pinochet’s watchmen make their presence felt, videotapes go missing and Saavedra’s separated wife and

son are threatened.

Shot on U-Matic 3:4 video in order to make it unclear what exactly here is file footage of genuine riots and police actions and what isn’t, and having recently had a little extra publicity after the death of Maggie Thatcher (who infamously praised her elderly pal Pinochet years after these events), Larraín’s film is worth it, due to Bernal’s excellent performance, which more than makes up for the recent pretentious horrors of The Loneliest Planet.

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Opening But Unrated Haute Cuisine (M), from French cowriter/director Christian Vincent, stars Catherine Frot, Arthur Dupont, Hippolyte Girardot and Jean d’Ormesson’s ‘Le Président’, and was a big hit at the Palace Nova’s recent French Film Festival.

Iron Man 3 (M), so soon after The Avengers, is co-written, co-produced and directed by Shane Black in place of the first two films’ executive producer/bitplayer/director Jon Favreau, and features Robert Downey Jr (natch), Gwyneth Paltrow, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Don Cheadle, Favreau (once more as ‘Happy Hogan’) and others.

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Co-producer/director/star Robert Redford’s latest is a political (surprise!) dramatic thriller (drawn from Neil Gordon’s novel) that might misstep a little here and there, and yet, nevertheless, actually asks questions and ponders points in a way that few American film dare. When the fugitive Sharon Solarz (Susan Sarandon), an activist from the Weather Underground who’s been in hiding for 30+ years after a botched bank heist, surrenders to the FBI, an ambitious journalist named Ben Shepard (Shia LaBeouf) starts snooping and finds his way to Jim Grant (Redford), prominent civil rights lawyer, recent widower, dad to a pre-teen daughter - and another Weather Underground member in hiding. When Jim’s true identity is discovered, he goes on the run, as an elaborate plot ropes in incidental characters galore, and they’re mostly played by Redford’s mates in subtle cameos, including Richard Jenkins and growly Nick Nolte as fellow Undergrounders and no less than Julie Christie in the crucial role of Jim/Nick’s onetime love (and there are all the younger names too, like Anna Kendrick, Terrence Howard, next-bigthing Brit Marling - and so on).

Whether RR’s too old, as many have suggested, for the more thriller-ish elements here, there’s no doubt that he’s very fine and still seriously charismatic, and that Lem Dobbs’ screenplay tackles weighty issues in a compellingly ‘grey area’ fashion. What if you could change a troubled past? Would you do it all again? Are there journalistic ethics anymore? Can governments and corporations (as Sarandon’s Solarz states) ever be truly accountable? And whatever happened to the Revolution?

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Co-writer/director Lorraine Levy’s drama might sound like some grasping ‘Issue Movie’ in synopsis, but fine playing, welcome subtlety, a little wry humour and some real heart keep it from cheesiness. When the 18-year-old Joseph ( Jules Sitruk) undergoes routine tests before joining the Israeli army, the unexpected results lead to an investigation and a ‘shocking’ revelation: that on the night that he was born the Haifa hospital was under attack and, in the confusion, he was accidentally switched with Yacine (Mehdi Dehbi), a Palestinian - or at least he thought he was. When the families are compelled to come together, Joseph’s mum Orith (Emmanuelle Devos) is the first to break the ice with Yacine’s mother Leila (Oreen Amuri), but it’s harder for the dads (especially as both have previously fought for what they believe in, or thought they had), and proves more difficult still when Yacine proves a hit with Joseph’s social circle and, it seems, the two lads might become friends, despite the serious problems they’re facing and the many dangers of the West Bank.

Some have accused Levy’s pic of naïvete, and yet this isn’t trying to make bold, heavy political statements, as the director is more interested in the human side of a perhaps unlikely but intriguing plot set-up. And considering the screaming and shooting that another filmmaker could have brought to this material, it’s most pleasing watching Levy’s characters try to deal with a perhaps irreconcilable situation by (gasp!) actually talking about their emotions.

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After a horrific accident occurs on his watch, Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is shunted into a desk job away from the action, which proves fortuitous when a terrorist group storms the White House (SS codename: Olympus), taking the president (Aaron Eckhart) and several others hostage.

Left on the outside, Banning is the best man to get inside undetected and save the president, the country and the day.

With guns blazing and spouting one-liners, Butler revels in being the tough guy and leads a decent cast, with Dylan McDermott and Melissa Leo effectively filling the gaps in the line-up, while clean cut, all-American Aaron Eckhart is a worthy addition to the hallowed list of movie presidents – which he coincidentally does opposite former movie president Morgan Freeman (Deep Impact).

Squeezing in before Roland Emmerich’s similarly themed White House Down, due to hit screens later in the year, director Antoine Fuqua’s (Training Day, Shooter) political thriller is borderline ludicrous, with the 15-minute ‘taking the White House’ bloodbath having an over the top, first-person, shoot-‘em-up video game quality that’s hard to take seriously. In its favour, however, it’s been several years since a good ‘America under threat’ film got the full Hollywood treatment, and at some point everyone needs an explosive, cliché heavy, mindless action flick.

Unforeseeably topical in the wake of the recent Boston tragedy, OHF is a fresh take on the patriotic actioners from the ‘90s, but it’s sure to suffer from the timing. Emmerich’s in with a chance.

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The Paperboy (MA), from Precious director Lee Daniels (this time directing, co-producing and adapting Peter Dexter’s novel with the author himself ), offers Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, John Cusack, David Oyelowo, Scott Glenn, Faizon Love and even Macy Gray.

And Song For Marion (M, and until recently AKA Unfinished Song), from English writer/director Paul Andrew Williams (better-known for nastier UK titles like London To Brighton, The Cottage and Cherry Tree Lane), is a sadly comedic drama with Gemma Arterton, Christopher Eccleston, Vanessa Redgrave, Anne Reid and the great, rarely-seen Terence Stamp.

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The Happy Motel Presents Little Queenie’s ‘50s Dinner Culinary wunderkinds and undisputed leaders of Adelaide’s pop-up eatery movement, The Happy Motel, are teaming up with Common Ground Adelaide on Fri May 10 for a ‘50s-inspired charity dinner of traditional American eats in Little Queenie’s Rama Lama Ding Dong. Taking place at Queens Theatre which will be decked out ‘50s rockabilly style, the dinner will feature a range of American-inspired diner eats including Texan charcoal finger ribs, infinity fries and a trailer park ‘Monte Cristo’ – a deep fried, battered peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Tickets are available now for $150, which includes all food and booze from sponsors like Coopers, Dandelion Wines, Penny’s Hill and Mr Riggs. All proceeds gained from the dinner event will go towards Common Ground Adelaide, an initiative that provides affordable rental housing in mixed community settings to low-income people and those at risk of homelessness.

Tickets are limited, so get in quick.

WHAT: The Happy Motel and A Common Ground Adelaide Presents Little Queenie’s Rama Lama Ding Dong WHERE: Queen’s Theatre, Playhouse Lane, Adelaide WHEN: Fri May 10 from 7pm TICKETS: thehappymotel.com/ commonground

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Something that really irks me is how expensive plastic-wrapped herbs in the IGA are. Instead of spending $3 on rosemary, which naturally grows and occupies the median strips on every major road in Adelaide, here’s a novel idea from Splash Adelaide – pop up patches! These temporary pop-up, self-watering circular vegetable gardens have been steadily growing over the past few months across the city on Pirie St, Whitmore Square and Hutt St to give Adelaide city commuters access to fresh herbs, berries and vegetables. Each of the patches are 100 percent recycled, reused or re-purposed and are completely free to pick. Spinach, rainbow chard, Roma tomatoes, cayenne peppers, chives, zucchinis, the list goes on. Keep a look out and head to splashadelaide.com.au for more information.

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LA LINEA TEMPRANILLO ROSE, ADELAIDE HILLS I’ve stated in previous local libations my unashamed love for the pretty in pink. The youthful, the stylish, the preppy.

Usually sticking to the drier spicier types is the safest way to play. Selling rose on the other hand is often tricky. Alicante bouche the playground bully of wine lists has not lost much momentum and trying to sway its fiercly loyal mob of fans onto to something bone dry is a serious challenge. Put together by a couple of big players in Peter Leske and David LeMire MW La Linea is a rose of structure, class and vibrancy. Bordering on the drier side of the ledger but with some pronouced flavours of rosewater and dark berries it offers plenty to those looking wean themselves of the candied carousel and well played gents. A lively acidity and a slight spiciness throught the mid to back palate give it a complex and lengthy finish. I last enjoyed this tipple alongside a plate of pancetta wrapped octopus and the two hit it off famously so do that.

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The Collins Bar Last week the Collins Bar at Hilton Adelaide celebrated its grand opening with an abundance of alcoholic beverages and eats, including edible soil, smoking bacon cocktails, dry ice meringue shots, vodka mules served in jars and paper bags and absinthe fairy floss – just to name a few. Go and check it out at 233 Victoria Square, Adelaide from 3pm on Mon – Fri and Sunday and 12pm on Saturdays.

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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04 Though the sun has left, the moon is in Leo, making you feel proud of all you have done and all you have been through. As the ship steadies, you have plenty of fuel to keep your general sense of adventure going for a little longer. Tune in though. Slowly ease back on the throttle.

Scorpio 24.10/21.11 With the sun now in Taurus, life will reflect back your habit of intensity in the mirror. Feeling is good. Going for dramatic effect wears thin after a while. It’s also not really as true as you would have the world believe. Pull back on the rhetoric. Be humbled by simple things.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 This is a year of regeneration. As you let go of what life is asking you to let go of, there is both sadness and tremendous respect for the possibilities yet to be feasted upon.

Move through neutral with your eyes open. We are most alive when life provides us with mysterious gaps.

Cancer 22.06/22.07 The moon begins its week in Leo. Having navigated a month of Aries fire, felt all your feelings and come out the other side stronger, you are right to be proud. Strut, prowl and prance like a rock star, in the glow of your own sense of self-satisfaction. Then get grounded.

Capricorn 22.12/19.01 Though there are still a few arguments in the air and a little feistiness on the wind, it’s mostly bluff and bluster.

The game has changed. Go with the changes rather than stay stuck in old battles that no longer have any significance. Life is settling. Settle with it. Find the easy path.

Leo 23.07/22.08 The moon is in Leo. This adds a lot of feeling to your gait. You aren’t just the king or the queen, you mean it! The sun has moved into Taurus, signifying that the game just changed. You have fought a battle and come out wiser.

Now, slowly let your adrenal charge go.

Virgo 23.08/22.09 The sun has moved into earthy Taurus. The moon will soon be passing through earthy Virgo. All your Christmases have come at once. Well, at least the fire and fury have eased substantially. Brush yourself off, get grounded and get yourself back into working order.

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As the sun leaves Aries, you breathe a sigh of relief. For all the growth experiences you have when life is showing its counter-phobic colours, nothing matches the relaxation that comes after all the testing has passed.

Work is important. It is what grounds you. Give it your heart.

Gemini 21.05/21.06 With Mercury lagging behind the sun and staying in Aries, your mind is still fired up. This could make things a little touchy. If life is feeling like the side of a matchbox and you feel like you’re made of phosphorus, it’s time to do a double take. If you aren’t happy, get happy.

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Taurus 21.04/20.05 The sun has entered Taurus, making this your time of the year. The sky just became a little more benign. With Venus in your midst, life is slowly feeding you delight – at the pace required to digest it. Keep your eyes open. Don’t be lulled into a state of entranced turpitude.

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Oi You! Urban Street Art Festival Banksy, arguably the world’s most famous street artist, will be featured as part of the Oi You! Urban Art Festival taking place this April – an event boasting internationally acclaimed graffiti masters, live music, bars, documentary screenings, street art walking tours and up to $5000 of free art giveaways.

The new festival is an Adelaide City Council project in partnership with the State Government, Splash Adelaide and the Adelaide Festival Centre. A total of 22 of Banksy’s famously satirical stencil artworks, which have fetched up to US $500,000 a piece, will be displayed alongside some of the world’s leading urban art megastars including Faile (USA), Swoon (USA), Antony Micallef (UK), David Choe (USA), Paul Insect (UK) and Milton Springsteen (NZ).

The festival will run for a total of six weeks, offering a myriad of different activities including ‘Big

Walls’ street art walking tours, the ‘Scrawl Wall’ – a purpose-built annex that will house the works of budding street artists, street art film screenings and a $5000 art giveaway on the weekend of Sat Apr 27 – Sun Apr 28 in which 38 works of art and 38 tokens will be scattered across the Adelaide Festival Centre plaza.

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put their heads together to secure a city-central location for emerging artists to hone their skills. They’ve since struck gold with a place on Waymouth St right near the YHA, which will house up to six local artists. From 8pm on Sat Apr 27 they’d like you to come and have a sticky beak at their new digs, have a drink and buy some works to contribute to their studio fundraiser. They have a kettle and everything.

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WIN Want to win free entry for you and a mate to Turner Up Late this Fri Apr 26? We’ve got two double passes to give away for the Art Gallery Of South Australia event which will blend live music, DJs, food, drink, artist talks and a nocturnal viewing of the stunning JMW Turner exhibition Turner At The Tate.

WHAT: Oi You! Adelaide Urban Art Festival WHERE: Artspace Gallery & Plaza, Adelaide Festival Centre, King William Rd WHEN: Until Sun Jun 2 HOURS: Wed, Fri, Sat & Sun from 12pm – 4pm and Thu 12pm – 8pm COST: Free, with donations optional

Just as you are placing yourself in a position where you really feel like you can put your vision in place, the sun enters Taurus and insists on immediate delight. It’s hard to get people to focus on the future when they are obsessed with what’s in front of their noses. Pull the reins.

Saturn in Scorpio is providing you with stability. It keeps reminding you that if you be with what is happening in this moment, everything grows organically and is all right. It’s when the mind goes on flights of imaginary fancy that hopes and fears lead us astray. Keep it simple.

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Mint Artist Studios A group of ACSA alumni will unveil a brand new artist domain this month with the official launch of Mint Artist Studios. Since

graduating from the Adelaide Central School Of Art in 2012, local artists Jenna Pippett, Kate Kurucz and Sam Trevaskis have

WHAT: Mint Artist Studios Launch Night WHERE: 119 Waymouth St, Adelaide (entrance off Eliza St) WHEN: Sat Apr 27 from 7pm

Fashion //

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Email lachlanaird@ripitup.com.au

Acne x William Wegman + Dogs = Great OMFG. Dogs in fashion have been removed from the oversized designer bag prisons of their owners and in the clothes themselves (where they belong). Acne have delivered on their namesake of Ambition to Create Novel Expression once again for their SS13 campaign, teaming up with artist William Wegman. Wegman is famous for taking photos of his dogs (in and out of clothes). The campaign pays homage to his most celebrated work with Weimaraners, who even found their way on to Sesame Street. Printed silk shirts, blazers and clogs have never looked so appealing. And with faces that expressive and adorable, human models might be out of a job soon... acnestudios.com

Myer Centre Blogging Competition With #MBFWA out of the way, what’s a blogger to do now? Fear not, the Myer Centre has you covered with their blogger competition. Not only can you score yourself $3000 of winter threads, but you can also snap up the title of the centre’s resident social media editor.

Your first role as social media editor will be, of course, filling the digital landscape with details on all your purchases of apparel, accessories, beauty products and jewellery that you’ve purchased from the Myer Centre with your $3000 gift card.

If blogging’s not your thing, when you spend $200 or more in the centre on apparel, jewellery and beauty before Tue Apr 30, you’ll receive a $20 Myer Centre gift card.

How to enter: 1. Post a winter fashion-related image on Instagram that includes a creative commentary on the outfit by Tue Apr 30.

2. Include the tags #myercentreade #rundlemall #AW13 #bloggercomp in your posts.

3. Sign up as a Myer Centre Adelaide VIP if you aren’t already so that they can contact you.

For conditions of entry and more info see mystercentreadelaideshopping. com.au/bloggercomp.aspx.

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel With more personality in one of her bright red pinkie fingernails than Anna Wintour has in her whole body, Diana Vreeland proved to be one of the key influences over modern fashion, although so few seem to know her remarkable story. This documentary expertly uses interviews with those Vreeland associated

MBFWA Snapshots Attitude Magazine’s editor, Selena Battersby, descended upon Sydney for Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia. Here are some snapshots Selena took from her vantage point in the crowd of shows like Alice McCall, Karla Spetic and Zambesi along with her Highs, Lows and Ones To Watch from a busy week of #farshun.

with (actress Angelica Houston, director Joel Schumacher and designers Oscar de la Renta and Hubert de Givenchy among them) and archive footage of interviews with her to track her life and her career. While ‘eccentric’ is a loathed word when writing about fashion, there really isn’t any better way to describe how Vreeland’s passion, confidence and style defined the fashion and publishing world to the point where it would bend to her will.

Before she was editor-in-chief, Vogue was a magazine for housewives to better their baking and appearance for their husbands.

Thank God she changed that.

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel is out now on DVD from Madman.

Highs: Karla Spetic Toni Maticevski The INXS soundtrack at Zambesi $9 pub lunches Lows: $25 salads at Carriageworks Missing out on Romance Was Born People wearing undies as pants The day after the DAAN party Ones To Watch: Haryono Setiadi Leroy Nguyen Elissa McGowan From Britten

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DVD Reviews

Alex Cross Sony / M / 102 Mins

Drawn from one of (ahem) hack author James Patterson’s endless psychothrillers, this underwhelming effort from director Rob Cohen (who’s far happier with Mummy, xXx and The Fast And The Furious sequels) is particularly let down by drab casting.

Homicide detective Alex Cross (Tyler Perry, a bit weak), a family man surrounded by lots of clichés, gets involved in the case of a multiple murderer who specialises, for one reason or another, in torture and pain, as, it seems, he gets off so much on inflicting it upon himself (and said slayer is played by Lost refugee Matthew Fox, who evidently dropped a huge amount of weight for the role and hit the gym hard, resulting in an appearance so anorexic and ill-looking, it’s hard to believe that he can stand up, let alone run around bumping off the supporting cast). Cross is soon pushed right to the edge of obsession and madness (which rather surprises him, suggesting that he hasn’t seen enough movies) and we’re set for a somewhat ludicrous finale and at least one twist you don’t have to be a mind-reader to see coming. This release includes deleted scenes and a featurette entitled The Psychologist And The Butcher.

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Hindsight Melanie Casey / Pantera Press / 358pp / $29.99

SA-based author Casey’s début novel, the first in a projected series, follows the plight of 28-year-old psychic, Cass Lehman, whose scary ability to experience the fear and pain of others’ deaths has led to her becoming virtually housebound with her similarly supernaturally-blessed/ cursed mum and gran. However, a series of murders leads to her involvement with troubled detective Ed Dyson, who has a personal stake in the case, as they try to track down a killer in or around the fictional Jewel Bay (supposedly near Adelaide, which leads to name-droppings of South Rd, McLaren Vale and at least one local newspaper - but not this one). A little wobbly in some of its early plotting (and editing), but building to an agreeably tense finale, this entertaining read suggests that future adventures for Cass should be nicely mind-bending.

(Released Wed May 1) MDB

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The Perks Of Being Berberian Sound A Wallflower Studio Roadshow / M / 98/103 Mins

Madman / M / 92 Mins

While writer/director/executive producer Stephen Chbosky’s character piece (drawn from his novel) has much charm, it’s also surprisingly troubled, and comes from a core of real pain. Freshman Charlie (Logan Lerman) has had a bad time in his early teens and yet now he must somehow confront the horrors of high school, and after being bullied or ignored during his first weeks he finally summons the courage to speak to show-off senior Patrick (Ezra Miller) and Patrick’s cool stepsister Sam (Emma Watson, continuing in smaller films in the wake of you-know-what). And pretty soon they’re dangerously close, as Charlie becomes part of a clique of proud misfits, attends midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, yearns for Sam (and no wonder) and finds himself more and more preyed upon by his problems. What could have been a simple drama about us-and-them besties is here something far more moving and even unsettling, with wonderfully unaffected playing by Lerman, Miller and Watson, terrific use of music (from David Bowie to Dexy’s Midnight Runners) and a sense of true, unsentimental sympathy for the plight of teenagers - and us all. Both standard and Blu-ray releases have commentary by Chbosky or selected cast, and more.

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English writer/director Peter Strickland’s eerily odd psychothriller-cum-horror is built around an intriguing central performance by Toby Jones, who’s very fine in a rare starring role. His sound editor Gilderoy arrives at an Italian studio in what looks like the 1970s to work on a horror movie (although the producers insist that it’s a historical/ human drama), and after clashing with the relaxed but somewhat strange personnel over expenses and the like, he’s soon into the business of hacking up vegetables to simulate bodies being ripped apart and boiling water to sound like various tortures.

When he grows uneasy with the extreme nature of the film (whether it’s a horror movie or not), this seems to be the impetus for something more uncanny to take effect, and soon mysterious dreams and vandalisms turn to darker, scarier concerns, with the film itself mirroring reality (or maybe actually alive) and Gilderoy unable to trust anyone, including himself. And while Strickland’s been applauded for the creepier elements here, and Jones makes an amiably eccentric ‘hero’, ultimately this tends to fall apart, and leaves you asking that fatal question: “huh?!?” (or maybe “che cosa?!?”). This release features 50 minutes worth of special features including interviews and more.

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Butter Roadshow / MA / 87/90 Mins

Director Jim Field Smith (of She’s Out Of My League) handled this curious comedy which, despite many stars and nicely coarse gags, has been long-delayed by puzzled distributors. In a small Iowan town, a butter-sculpting contest is continually won by master of the art Bob (Ty Burrell), and when the council decide that he should this year be a judge and let someone else have a chance this leads to his freaky, over-driven wife Laura ( Jennifer Garner, almost OTT) having a go. However, the competition’s fierce, and she’s up against a vengeful stripper (Olivia Wilde amusingly slutty as Brooke), a local nutball (Kristen Schaal) and young orphan Destiny (the excellent Yara Shahidi), who’s actually the protagonist here and narrates with many biting ponderings about how weird white people are (although she does like her new foster parents, as played by the rather sweet Rob Corddry and Alicia Silverstone). And while many might find this a bit too peculiar, there’s also much here to enjoy, from choice Republican jokes, to Wilde’s funny (and surprisingly revealing) turn, to an extended cameo by Hugh Jackman as a cowboy car salesman (although the DVD cover would have you believe he’s the male lead, of course).

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Dust Stage

Dust, a play highlighting the dangers of asbestos, has already enjoyed runs in regional Victoria but is now on a national tour with Adelaide as its first stop.

Singer songwriter Mark Seymour, of Hunters & Collectors fame, has written songs for it and will be coming over to perform them as part of the play, which also features two professional actors along with Port Adelaide-based choir Born On Monday led by Rozzy Aylmore.

Working with the team is Maude Davey, formerly of Vitalstatistix, who says Dust came about when Donna Jackson, of Melbourne’s Hubcap Productions, staged a huge community work using Seymour’s songs and some Bobcats on a worksite which was about the collapse of Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge in 1970.

“But when Donna began talking to a few of the workmen, they were all saying how lots of builders were now suffering from mesothelioma after working with asbestos for so many years,” Davey says. “She knew there was a theatre show in it but also thought it would be hard to present with it being such terrible subject matter and with it being so grim.

“She then got talking to a guy who had mesothelioma and had been surprised by his positive outlook on life. He was goodhumoured about it and it was his larrikin, knock-about spirit that captured her attention and gave Donna an idea for the story. Donna then asked Mark Seymour to write some music for it and then toured it

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around regional Victoria.”

A grant has now enabled Jackson and Seymour to tour Dust nationally using different theatre groups and community choirs in each state. In Adelaide Jackson is working with Urban Myth Theatre Of Youth and the Born On Monday choir, while also on board is Jo Stone of Adelaide-based international performance company Stone/ Castro.

“And I’m so glad the Born On Monday choir is involved as I helped them set up when I was involved with Vitalstatistix,” Davey says.

“So I’m really proud that they are still going.

“And Urban Myth will be participating, which will involve about 60 or so of their young performers doing movement and dance which Jo Stone is helping them with.”

Another aspect of Dust is that the performances will also have other components.

“At the beginning of the night there will

be eight tents set up which will each have a different performance or display,” Davey reveals. “So the audience will be able to buy a drink before the show and then wander around the tents. And three of those tents will have local people telling their stories.

“For example, Sue Gilbey, a member of Born On Monday, said that her father died of mesothelioma so she’s going to be telling his story about how he was exposed to asbestos when he was serving in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II. “He was stoking the ship’s boiler room that was just full of asbestos.”

WHAT: Dust WHRES: Old Queens Theatre WHEN: Fri May 3 until Sun May 5 at various times

Your guide to the student experience.

While events like the Student Health Expo can help you get any health issues under control, one of the big ones that affect a lot of people studying is sleep deprivation. Pulling all nighters, staying up to ridiculous hours doing absolutely nothing online and studying beyond our bedtime. We all do it and we all know we shouldn’t. But what’s the alternative? In any given day meeting your study, work, family and social commitments and having time to relax is just not a luxury we have.

So what do we cut out of our lives to ensure we get our proper eight hours?

Exactly. Burning the candles at both ends comes with the territory of trying to do everything at once. Aiming high takes its toll and sadly sufficient sleep is the first sacrifice we have to make for us to reach our potential. Is it worth it? Only time will tell. Hopefully this break you’ve had a chance to catch up on your zzzzzs. I’m jealous. Very.

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

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Hey! Student Health Expo Stressed. Tired. Hungry. Poor. Hungover. These words are those that are all too often associated with the life of a student. As the organisation with your best interest at heart, the AUU are holding an even more beefed up than before Student Health Expo. Held on the Barr Smith Lawns on Wed May 1, the expo promises to teach you everything to get healthy and stay that way, whether your issues are body, mind, sexuality or lifestyle related. If you’ve been feeling a little off your A-game, this is the perfect chance to have a chat with people that know more than the internet and see how your health doesn’t have to come second to your university lifestyle. If they can’t help you themselves, they can direct you to those who can. The Timbers will be performing as entertainment, along with free massages (oh shit yes), apples (to keep the doctor away), spring water (get your eight cups a day) and a Zumba class/demo (for public humiliation). While at uni, have fun and stay healthy. Not in that order.

WHAT: Student Health Expo WHERE: Barr Smith Lawns, University Of Adelaide WHEN: Wed May 1, 10am-4pm

Student St d t Vo Vox Po Pop Vincent Chan I study: Film, TV and New Media at the Queensland University Of Technology. I’m in my final year and I’m still waiting to find out what New Media actually is.

But in my spare time I: watch films, make films. Oh God, it’s actually taken over my life.

I wanted to make films because: anything you could ever dream of could come true through the eye of the camera. You just need buckets of money.

My favourite film is: Children Of Men (2006). There’s a killer one-take shot that goes through a car, which I still to this day have no idea how they filmed.

In the future you can expect me to: be smashing out more music videos.

I’ve already got big things lined up.

Work Time = Wine Time Nup. Not even kidding. Turkey Flat Vineyards are looking for new staff to work at their cellar door. This is the perfect job for someone studying as the hours are flexible, the job is about as far away from homework as you can get, located in the very pretty Tanunda, and your commitment is only limited to a few shifts a month. If you drink wine for reasons other than Goon Of Fortune, select wines for reasons other than the pretty labels or quirky name (although let’s face it, Turkey Flat is pretty up there),

love nothing more than nattering about food and wine all day and would relish entertaining the visitors at the winery, be sure to apply. Heck, if you happen to study Wine Science or Wine Marketing (you lucky things) this would be the perfect opportunity to test out your skills.

Turkey Flat Vineyards is located at Bethany Rd, Tanunda.

For more info or to apply, contact Christie Schulz at christieschulz@turkeyflat.com.au.

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PicSeeder: Vote for CLUCK! PicSeeder is an initiative that gives $50,000 worth of funding to aspiring filmmakers.

Vincent Chen (interviewed above), who jumped ship to Queensland in the hopes that all the big budget films are filmed up there (he’s since found out they aren’t) has been studying at the Queensland University Of Technology and is about to finish his degree.

His final year project is a web-series, CLUCK!, which is about a girl who gives her douchebag boyfriend a live chicken to take care of for a week. If it dies, she’ll dump him.

Unfortunately, the chicken is a maniacally suicidal slaughterhouse escapee seeking

retribution for the oppression of his species.

Think of it like a poultry version of Ted. To pitch the idea, Vincent and his mates have a one-minute rap of the plot on PicSeeder.

If this is something you would want to see being made, get onto the website and vote.

The home ground support may even inspire talent like Vincent to make use of his skills back in his hometown. Just sayin’...

To see the pitch and to vote for CLUCK! head to picseeder.com/entry/cluck Want to make your own film? Find out how a picseeder.com. Entries close Sat May 4.

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CD Reviews

Scottie’s Singles

The Drones

Listen Now:

Selena Gomez

I See Seaweed

CD Of The Week

(MGM)

Come And Get It (UMA)

While commercial radio was busy forcefeeding us LMFAO’s poo juice in 2011, the rather awesome Selena Gomez tune Love You Like A Love Song completely passed them by.

Fools. Far more memorable than the numbskull thunk of Sexy And I Know It, Love You Like A Love Song has now notched up more than 175 million views on Vevo. With Middle Eastern inflections, African drums and a Jamaican patois on the chorus similar to Rihanna’s musical juggernaut Umbrella, Come And Get It is the 20-year-old’s first single since splitting with Justin Bieber. Smart move on both counts, lassie.

Gomez? Bring it on.

Listen Later:

Meg Mac Known Better

Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal

(Independent)

(Sony)

It’s for a very good reason Sydney lass Megan McInerney has been feted on Triple J’s Unearthed site by practically the whole roster of the station’s on-air talent (although in reference to Tom Ballard I use the term ‘talent’ loosely).

Like The Rubens backing Dita Von Teese, the 22-year-old comes across as a stronger and more soulful alternative to Missy Higgins. It’s Mac time now – I’m lovin’ it.

Okay, I admit it. I am not a fan of Bring Me The Horizon. I’ve never got into them, never enjoyed anything they have done and was even left unimpressed when I saw them live. I went into

Little Green Cars

listening to Sempiternal expecting to hate this album, but it is easily one of the best albums I have heard this year.

It seems that BMTH have matured into a style of music more befitting of their talents, in particular Oliver Sykes’ vocal skills. Sempiternal introduces far less screaming, less riffing and much more melody and clean singing. There are still heavy songs on the album – Antivist is a bit of a throwback song - but it is mixed cleverly with their new style.

Like Amity Affliction, Sempiternal features some real heavy synth and a similar guitar sound, but Sykes’ haunting singing style is much better than Joel Birch’s. His skills are emphasised on the atmospheric And The Snakes Start To Sing, an evocative song that features far more detail than anything BMTH have offered in the past.

This is an album by a band at their peak and it will be very hard for them to top. Each song stands out for different reasons, it’s easy to listen to and most of all it’s simply a good album - from beginning to end.

Michael Wickham

The Drones are emerging as one of those much-revered Australian acts that simply cannot be ignored. Admittedly they are an acquired taste and not the sort of music you would put on if you want to relax or dance, but having said that a Drones listening experience is a rewarding one if you stick with it until the album’s end.

My first reaction to I See Seaweed was “What the fuck?”. With The Drones there is no blueprint, there is no formula and this album will really divide music lovers into those who will say this is the best thing ever and those who will never want to hear this again.

I See Seaweed is intense, dark and reflects on the feelings of hopelessness and abandonment throughout the album. The opening title track is an eight-and-a-half minute epic which feels like the start of a mountain climb, with the odd surprise thrown in there to challenge the listener.

Frontman Gareth Liddiard is in fine form and voice – he’s so captivating the listener will be hanging on every word. The addition of Steve Hesketh ( Jet, The Mess Hall) on piano is genius and gives The Drones another dimension to explore, with They’ll Kill You and Nine Eyes a testament to that.

I See Seaweed isn’t always an easy listen, but it’s well worth giving a go.

Rob Lyon

Harper Lee (Liberator)

Little Green Cars aren’t flogging dead horses, they’re flogging Band Of Horses. Which, considering how disappointingly shit last year’s Mirage Rock was, is sorta the same thing.

Methinks this Dublin quintet won’t be winning a Pulitzer anytime soon.

Nicki Minaj Feat Lil Wayne

Live Review

Pharoahe Monch & Dialect Rocket Bar, Thu Apr 18 Review by Nina Bertok Pics by Jennifer Sando

High School (UMA)

Sexhibitionist Nicki Minaj’s latest music video presents more prominent rack than an Ikea space saver catalogue. With a budget bigger than her crackflashing booty, Minaj’s High School features Louis Vitton bags, a Ferrari FF and Lil Wayne rapping about ‘a pussy like an oven’ while preposterously dressed like he’s going trick-or-treating as Hawkeye from M*A*S*H. How apt to find that this visual circus renders the song itself secondary.

Psy Gentleman (UMA)

Two things I’ve happily never seen –Two Girls, One Cup and Psy’s Gangnam Style video. Apparently one is a coprophagic, vomit-inducing online sensation that shows just how deviant modern society has become. The other is just some chicks getting it off with each other or something. Karla and Latifa’s messy escapades pale in comparison to Psy’s latest single, which gushes forth with all the warm force and none of the buzz of a coffee enema.

With one-and-a-half hits to his name, it seems Psy genuinely is this century’s Scatman.

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Hopefully tonight you brought your brains as well as your ears to the Rocket Bar, because witnessing two incredibly gifted MCs and lyrical masters on one stage was going to require both. Adelaide’s very own legend-in-the-making and golden era hip hop enthusiast, Dialect, kicked off the show in amazing form, bringing some serious game with his own brand of versatile and extremely intellectual lyrics far beyond the young MC’s years. Very much in his own ‘zone’ and somewhere off far, far away throughout most of the show, Dialect’s delivery is intense and simply hair-raising - and at times even close to downright menacing... To suggest keeping an eye on this Adelaide rapper is to be telling you something you already know.

A short time later, Queens, New York veteran rapper Pharoahe Monch enters the stage to a welcoming roar that would please a king. His current Australian tour is clearly a hugely anticipated one given that the MC (ranked 26th best of all time) is launching his new album PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), the follow-up to 2011’s WAR (We

Reviews // Quick Ones

Merchandise

Emma Louise

Totale Nite

Vs Head Vs Heart

(Spunk)

(Select Music)

Julia & The Deep Sea Sirens Family Pets

Dick Diver Calendar Days (Chapter Music)

(Independent)

Once, when I was a freshman in high school, I got stoned before English class.

We were reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and I broke out in a fit of laughter at the mention of Titania, for reasons I would rather not mention. I got kicked out of class that day, but my super foxy teacher didn’t throw me under the bus for my indiscretion (thanks Ms Motti!). Long story short, I used to smoke a bit of pot.

My friends and I would often congregate in my buddy’s parents’ garage, where we would get baked and listen to music. Now that I think about it, it was a lot like Eric Foreman’s basement on That 70s Show, except that instead of a laugh track, the music of Spacemen 3, Spiritualized and The Jesus & Mary Chain could be heard in the background.

I suppose if I were in high school now, and had the same proclivity to get high and listen to tunes, Totale Nite by Merchandise would fit nicely into my record rotation. Long story long, head down to any corner on Hindley St, pick up some kush and give this record a spin.

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Are Renegades), and is guaranteed to bring a super-charged, high-octane and lyricallyunmatched live show, for which he’s already earned a reputation and which he delivers with perfection tonight.

Solid storytelling is the key, as legions of loyal Monch followers will attest to, and this is something that the MC is an absolute expert at, having some weird capacity to keep you in a trance-like state from start to finish, as he displays his fondness for his back-catalogue as well as an intense passion for his newer tracks. Also touching on Internal Affairs, Desire and WAR, one of the unforgettable moments of this show came, in fact, from the mind-blowing (to say the least) turntable trickery from DJ Boogie Blind whose skills are (seriously!) more akin to magic than anything else. In what seemed less than an hour, unfortunately, the show was clearly wrapping up, but Monch went out in fine style by saving the best for last with the stomper that is the Godzillasampled Simon Says, commanding the crowd to “Get the fuck up!” (...or was that the other way around?). As one of the loudest shows experienced recently, Pharoahe Monch brought 110 percent, whipped up a frenzy and (like a true professional) left ‘em wanting more. What a privilege to witness a hip hop legend within the intimate confines of such a small venue – this is an underground show in the true sense of the word.

Didn’t your papa tell you to never trust a lady with two first names? Brisbane’s Emma Louise is an exception to the rule.

Once a shy face peering over a guitar, she’s now a quirky lass with a killer voice who’s not afraid to experiment.

Vs Head Vs Heart explores a prominent shift away from her last EP, Full Hearts And Empty Rooms. Expect the unexpected; little Emsie has spread her albatross-like wingspan across her musical endeavours.

Stripes of electro infusions seep through, stealing away from her original image of all lyrics and guitar. These fusions add great substance to her vocals that float over the dreamy undercurrent.

With a record that really responds to the style of music people are listening to in the now, the transition absolutely works in Emma Louise’s favour. Simplistic arrangements are expertly combined to form a collective sound that moves in a truly unique way; in a way Vs Head Vs Heart is a bit left of centre and a really refreshing record.

Vs Head Vs Heart is a record whose sound is entirely echoed by the stunning cover image: delicately beautiful, but quietly powerful. Her head is indeed becoming more and more of a jungle; deep in the Peruvian side of the Amazon rainforest, Emma Louise offers a jungle of exotic sounds and different perspectives.

Sharni Honor

Young Julia Johnson appears to be a distant relative of folk lass Laura Marling, given her fast pace lyrics and brooding undertones. Johnson, a little sprout from Canberra, explores beyond your average boy-meets-girl songwriting, delving into the depths of human emotion with heavy themes lurking beneath.

Family Pets is raw human experience that you can relate to, a concept album that explores a different phase of living with each track. There are some nice dynamic shifts that keep the record going and that unique voice of hers canters across the smooth, finger-picked goodness. A seven-piece makes up the great sirens of this Deep Sea, luring you to deep and dark things with their seemingly sweet melodies. This record really keeps you on your toes with its tracks moving in unpredictable ways, utilising Johnson’s voice as a weapon and battling out the complexities of human sentiment.

Little Surprises is a gorgeous track that snuck into my summer play list and continues to marinade in there through autumn, just soaking in all that folky juice.

With some upcoming touring adventures alongside Husky and Jordie Lane, be sure to keep your corneas on this little dove.

Sharni Honor

The legacy of Melbourne group Eddy Current Suppression Ring will live on for an eternity, it would seem.

Whether it be directly or indirectly, a series of bands, largely backed by Melbourne label Chapter Music, have made their name by replicating the slacker sounds of Eddy Current, while finding their own form of personality.

Dick Diver are one of the strongest exponents of all of these influences.

Produced by Mikey Young, member of the aforementioned band, Calendar Days is the second album from this four-piece, who make the most mundane moments in life seem relatively enlightening.

Gaplife’s reference to Today Tonight and channel-surfing is simply one of many ordinary situations that the band brings to life. Dole-wave is largely uninspiring, but Dick Diver’s instrumentation gives it a new balance, achieving authenticity more effectively than others have.

Sam Reynolds

Underground Lovers Weekend (Rubber Records)

Not since The Go-Betweens’ Friends Of Rachel Worth has an Australian band slipped straight back into top form after such a long delay. Weekend comes 14 years after the Underground Lovers’ last record Cold Feeling, and for their comeback album the criminally underrated Melbourne outfit have combined a range of sounds that made them an eclectic favourite through the ‘90s: classic indie pop and haunting numbers mixed with shoegazing atmospherics and electronic touches.

Upbeat raw pop numbers such as Can For Now and single Au Pair match their early career favourites while the wonderful St Germain would rate as one of the greatest tracks in the Undies canon. Then there is the touching Go-Betweens tribute Riding. Grant McLennan would be proud.

Christopher Sanders

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by Lachlan A ird Even though they are all set to release their debut EP At The Velveteen, SuperCaine are still very much new kids of the block, having only formed late last year. Rip It Up chats with vocalist/guitarist Jasper Morris about how else the band are promising to offer a point of difference from some of the other outfits they’ve been members of in the past.

“In bands that I’ve been a part of before there’s been an element of image and ego over actually working on the music itself,” Morris explains. “We’re trying to be performers rather than trying to make people feel that they should come along to our shows just for the sake of it.

We want to offer something substantial and work hard for people to come and see us and be impressed by us.”

This attitude has seen a flip in the usual routine for emerging bands, with SuperCaine deciding to release their debut EP before they bombard the town with a stack of live shows, instead of the other way round. So what’s the method to their madness?

“With previous bands people really enjoyed our live set but when we were just getting things together we weren’t able to give them something to take home that they could listen to of any decent quality.

We wanted something to give people from the outset.”

Given that Morris had much of the material ready to go since the band’s infancy, getting a debut EP together quickly wasn’t too much of a struggle.

“I had already written all the songs when we got together. We spent a lot of time jamming and we just experimented to see what it’s like to release a record at the birth of a band.”

Finding the right team to bring SuperCaine to life wasn’t too hard for Morris given that he’d played with them

in previous projects, although their musical backgrounds vary. SuperCaine’s guitarist/keys/backing vocalist Jack Cunningham and percussionist Alex Upton hail from Mayqueen, with bass player Anthony Costanzo on bass from Loaded Leopard. The band formed in search of a more sophisticated and textured indie rock sound.

SuperCaine are keen to show how their new matured sound translates to live environments, with the launch of At The Velveteen, which they bill as a “deluxe EP” at the Crown & Anchor on Wed May 1. But what makes it so deluxe, besides the fact it was mixed by Matt Hills of Hillside Recordings?

“We wanted to bring something out that is between an EP and an LP. It’s six tracks and a few of the songs are six or seven minutes long, so it runs for over half an hour in total.”

WHO: SuperCaine WHAT: At The Velveteen EP launch WHERE: The Crown & Anchor WHEN: Wed May 1

Kaurna Cronin

Cronin fills Rip It Up in on the themes behind Pistol Eyes. “[There are] lots of themes to do with eyes. I’ve always really liked eyes; they’re good for looking, but very good to look into as well,” Cronin says as his blue eyes sparkle across the table. “It’s a bit of a gateway into the soul so to speak, so that’s very powerful.

I also just like the look of them.”

Make sure you have a geeze at the epic cover artwork for this EP; a stunning image for the tales that lie beneath those Pistol

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The Sweet Decline And Less Than Three With The Growl Cats at Rocket Bar are all set for when The Growl from Perth kick into town on Fri Apr 26. The Sweet Decline and Less Than Three are slated to support the band who have just toured the world with Tame Impala, launching their debut album What Would Christ Do? The boys from The Sweet Decline are set to release some new songs in the next couple of weeks, so hopefully they test them out on the cool cats in the crowd. Doors at 9pm.

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The Arch Menaces

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Dropping by the Rip It Up office in between strolling about town with his long legs and swooping locks, Kaurna Cronin talks about preparations for the big launch of his EP, Pistol Eyes. Taking place at the Wheatsheaf, Jesse Davidson and Baker’s Digest are setting the mood for this fruity folk affair.

While playing at the Gov to help 3D Radio’s move to their new premises, surf rock trio Diesel Witch recorded their set and have been mixing it since to make sure it’s a top notch quality live album. The El Caminos and The Systemaddicts are on board to help Diesel Witch launch the live album at the Crown & Anchor on Sat Apr 27. Entry is free, and you can pick yourself up a copy of the album there. Doors at 9pm.

With their debut album Primitive Germs showcasing the band’s penchant for garage rock, The Arch Menaces will be performing at the Ed Castle on Thu May 2. After forming in 2011, the four-piece are ready to channel the spirits of garage rock and power pop bands of the past that they esteem as their greatest inspiration. Fans of The Sunnyboys, Hoodoo Gurus and Exploding White Mice, this one’s for you. Doors at 7pm.

Eyes.

Now how oh how does this wise wizard, not yet at the ripe age of 21, find the time for these solo forays amid being at the core of Adelaide bands Jimmy & The Mirrors and Timberwolf ?

“Prioritising,” he answers promptly. “You have the jar of your time. You put in the golf balls, the most important thing, then the marbles, the coffee beans and then you pour in the dirt.”

Easy as pie. So when he’s not in a band, he’s creating unofficial Fringe shows, with this year’s Farm Babes being no exception to the stellar reputation of Fringe fun.

Taking place at the gorgeous oasis of House Of Donkey, it was a week’s worth of unplugged folk music intertwined with a story of finding love at the farm. Cute.

Having the privilege of getting a live goat involved, Cronin sheds some light on the beauties of working with animals.

“Just incorporating live animals into anything is always challenging but also very rewarding,” he says with a sly grin. “The

nights when he does well, you’re like, ‘Oh Emo [the goat], you’re a star!’, and then sometimes he’ll attack and you’ll be like, ‘Oh - could have been better’…”

Cronin isn’t just creating beautiful music, he is creating atmospheres, setting a perfect vibe where good music and good souls combine. His theory is that “[when] you put a picture on a wall, you can’t just put any picture on a wall, it needs to be reflective of the space. I think with music it’s just as important. Playing the right kind of music in the right sort of venue to the right sort of people and creating a whole energy of the place where people can really respect the music.”

WHO: Kaurna Cronin WHAT: Pistol Eyes EP launch (with Jesse Davidson and Baker’s Digest) WHERE: The Wheatsheaf WHEN: Fri Apr 26

Ride Into The Sun Release Lost At Sea (A Love Song) After a successful Pozible campaign to help fund their US trip to play at Austin Psych Fest from Fri Apr 26 – Sun Apr 28, Ride Into The Sun also released new single Lost At Sea. The single was launched at the Promethean earlier this month, but has now made it onto the band’s Soundcloud and Pilot Records’ website.

Stay tuned, there’s talk of more releases and an EP once they return from their travels.

Have a listen now at pilotrecords.com.au or soundcloud.com/pilotrecordsaustralia.

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