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Some 12 months later, a lot has changed: he’s an ARIA and iTunes charttopping artist, internationally recognised and globally in-demand beatsmith, and (let’s face it) a bit of a heartthrob ‘posterboy’, too.

Despite the fame that’s come his way of late, one thing about Harley Streten remains the same: he’s just as humble now as he was this time last year, before the hype took over, before his self-titled debut album went gold, before his signing to UK and US labels and before he wiped One Direction right off that iTunes pole position. Chatting to the ever reserved and grounded Streten ahead of his first ever national headlining tour (a feat in itself, no doubt), the young producer airs his future plans with collaborator Chet Faker (and reveals yet another talent – the saxophone!) and takes a trip down memory lane (okay, so it’s been 12 months...) to where it all started – with a box of Kellogg’s cereal. True story.

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This year’s Splendour In The Grass headliners include Frank Ocean, Of Monsters & Men and Laura Marling, but which of those international artists, if any, will jet down for a secondary stint at Spin Off Festival?

Following last year’s successful debut, the Adelaide mini-festival will return on Fri Aug 2 at the new venue of Thebarton Theatre. While it’s a smaller venue than last year, don’t be confused into thinking that the all-ages event will have less bands!

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Melbourne Ska Orchestra Assembled from some of Australia’s preeminent names in ska and reggae and fronted by inimitable frontman Nicky Bomba (Bomba, Bustamento, John Butler Trio), the soaring popularity of the Melbourne Ska Orchestra is seeing the band fast becoming a fixture of Australia’s musical landscape. Now, after more than a decade of sold-out shows, the MSO has come together to produce an album and we have two copies up for grabs. Log onto ripitup. com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Thu May 9.

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Celebrating their first studio album in five years, IV, LA hardcore outfit The Bronx will descend on Fowler’s Live with DZ Deathrays and Hightime. Unfortunately without the mariachi instruments that escorted The Bronx at the 2012 Big Day Out.

The Art Gallery Of South Australia exhibition Turner From The Tate gets the nocturnal treatment, with guests now being able to experience Turner’s celebrated maritime artwork on Friday evenings until Fri May 17 from 5pm-10pm.

Those who got in early to pre-order Josh Pyke’s forthcoming album The Beginning And End Of Everything will reap the benefits of their eagerness. Pyke will be previewing the album at an intimate Fan First gig at the Grace Emily Hotel on Thu May 2 at a gig only accessible through the album’s pre-order.

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After the recent release of her debut album Nightswim, and music video for lead single Closure, Owl Eyes is touring with Collarbones and Mammals. You can catch her at the Governor Hindmarsh on Sat May 4.

After the release of Vs Head Vs Heart, Brisbane chanteuse Emma Louise will be in town, playing on Sat May 4 at Fowler’s Live. Joining Louise are emerging Australian talents Thelma Plum and Patrick James. Doors at 7pm.

Get a little bit Closer to the Canadian twins when they hit the Thebarton Theatre on Tue May 7 as a part of their Groovin’ The Moo sideshow tour and in celebration of their latest album, Heartthrob. Doors at 7pm.

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BLACK SABBATH - If you feel a cold chill come over Adelaide on Tue May 7, it may very well be due to Black Sabbath’s presence in town. Hopefully no animals will be harmed when Ozzy and the gang perform at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.

NORMA JEAN - Fans of metalcore have a treat in store for them on Tue May 7 when Atlanta’s Norma Jean hit Fowler’s Live along with Vanna and Safe Hands.

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BIG WALLS TOUR - Urban art continues to take over the streets of Adelaide as the Oi You! Adelaide Urban Art Festival kicks on. On Fri May 3 at 6pm and Sat May 4 at 11.30am and 4pm you can head along on a Big Walls Tour of the best urban art spots in Adelaide. Tours are free, leaving from the Festival Centre Plaza.

JACKIE ONASSIS - Sydney hip hop duo Jackie Onassis, the guys behind Crystal Balling, will be causing a ruckus at the Ed Castle on Sat May 4. Tickets are available at the door.

19-20 TV’s favourite funny man is joined on stage by his four piece band and a string quartet performing a new collection of songs, punctuated by Paul’s grotesque and wildly funny stories of life in The Dark Garden.

ALCHEMY Armed with a sharp wit and silky smooth vocals, Australia’s stunning soprano siren traverses the worlds of opera and popular culture like no other.

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Featuring the music of Elton John, Leo Sayer, Billy Joel and The Kinks Tommy Bradson’s nostalgic trip down Reg Livermore lane will make you laugh, cry, clap your hands, stamp your feet, thrill to his music and chill to your bones.

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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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About as far from a valley girl as you could get, Totally Unicorn have paired up with Robotosaurus to bring a raucous, wild gig to Animal House on Fri Jun 21. They promise “debauchery, drinking, and nudity in excess”. Okay. The tour supports their upcoming split release Together Alone.

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An Evening With Joan Baez The latest announcement of ‘An Evening With…’ reveals Joan Baez at the heart. It has been a quarter of a century since the folk icon has played on Australian soil. She will perform a short string of concert dates around the country, aided by her son, Gabriel Harris, and multi-instrumentalist Dirk Powell.

Say hello (loudly, he’s 67 now) to the man behind American Pie, the inimitable Don McLean. The melody-driven storyteller is coming to Australia, armed with 19 studio albums’ worth of material. To celebrate his long and delightful career, McLean will reach Adelaide on Wed Aug 21. He will play at Thebarton Theatre and be joined by singer songwriter Catherine Britt.

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Fifty-four years after her first appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, Baez is taking some time to reminisce over the legacy she has left to aspiring musicians and keen fans alike.

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rebellious spirit when MDC (AKA Millions Of Dead Cops, Multi Death Corporation) hit Fowler’s Live on Wed Aug 14. The punk group formed in 1979 and, despite a fiveyear hiatus in the late ‘90s, they’ve spent the last few decades spreading their punkdrunk love around the world. Check out metropolistouring.com for tickets.

When you see that a steampunk bigband leader is coming to town, you get your goggles on and you get excited. Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra are celebrating 10 years in the biz with an Australian tour and some guests (including Darcy James Argue, the steampunk band king). JMO is a large ensemble, comprising 17 members playing five saxophones, five trumpets, four trombones, guitar, bass and drums. It’s a big sound that “beams out a supernova of energy and sound”. The extraordinary performance will reach the Promethean on Mon Jun 3. Full details can be found at mothershiporchestra.com.

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Holdin On For A Hero If this was a fairytale, it would be the ‘rags-to-riches’ kind when it comes to one of Australia’s most internationally in-demand artists – 21-year-old beatsmith, Flume. In just 12 short months, the Sydneysider has managed to secure an unbelievable four spots in Triple J’s Hottest 100 countdown, sign record deals around the globe, blow away the Yankee industry types at this year’s South By Southwest showcase and lock in his own first-ever headline tour across Australia. nd if you don’t think that’s pretty incredible, then get this: his selftitled debut album beat out One Direction for the number one position on the iTunes chart... Yep, it seems there is some hope for humanity after all.

So, once upon a time there was a boy with a Nutri-Grain cereal box containing a musicmaking program...

“I’ve always had a fascination with creating music but I didn’t know how to do it and then this cereal box came along with a program in it,” Harley Streten reveals. “It was pretty surreal because by the time I figured it out I was thinking, ‘I can’t believe this, this is great, you can actually make music like this’.

It was the start, as simple as it is. From then on, I just got better and better programs and became more aware of how everything really worked. Basically, there was a cereal box and there was a CD inside of it. It was the type of program that would let you make music

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in whichever style you wanted – pop, rock, dance, whatever.”

It may have been just a simple little “crappy program” but it sure did lay some long-lasting foundations for the then-11-year-old Streten who pretty much instantly realised music was what he was born to do. Less than 18 months since releasing his game-changing single Sleepless, Flume is a bona fide superstar in his native Australia – and well on his way to converting the rest of the world too.

“The response from overseas so far has been amazing,” Streten says. “I just got back from America and that was pretty cool – I just wanted to see how it would go over there for me. I wasn’t too sure about it at first because it’s been the weakest so far with how people have received my music, which is not really bad. I’ve been doing the much bigger venues and much bigger crowds in Europe and the UK rather than America, I haven’t had much trouble selling out shows in Europe. Doing South

By Southwest was a pretty good experience, though, even though looking back on it, the whole thing was just totally hectic and a massive blur the whole time. I had to do nine shows in 12 days, so I’d get up, do two shows a day, do a bunch of press and talk to the media, which was actually a lot of fun. I ended up meeting a lot of people and I made quite a few contacts, though I doubt that it’s going to be anything that will make a massive change.”

Besides, Streten’s not too fussed whether it does or doesn’t anyway – it’s Australia that he’s still squarely focused on and it’s making records rather than conquering foreign lands that is the ultimate goal for the young producer. It’s been less than six months since Flume’s debut album reached our ears in full, but Streten is already well on his way to following it up with a bunch

of brand new tunes – this time with good pal, Chet Faker, no less.

“We do write well together, really well,” he claims. “We bounce off each other, it’s really easy for us. It’s strange because we’ve only spent a short amount of time together but we’ve managed somehow to get a huge amount of really strong material going. We’ll see what happens, it’s too early to say much more than that, but I can say that we’ve already got some music happening. I also play the sax on one of the tracks we’ve made. I’ve been playing the sax from Year 3 to Year 12... It’s nice to be able to do something different before I get into making the next album because the last thing I want to do is have the second album sound the same or similar to the first one. I don’t want it to get contaminated by pressure from other people – or myself – either. What I’m proud of the most about this album, though, is that it seems to have reached kids that would never have listened to other artists who make music like me. I’ve been really surprised to see kids who listen to One Direction get into my music as well, it’s like it’s really crossed over, which is good.”

But most importantly, Streten is satisfied with the album. In fact, considering what a “perfectionist” he claims to be, it’s amazing the record didn’t take much longer to hit the shelves and iTunes, according to the beatmaker.

“It could have taken longer because I wanted to make sure I was completely happy with it,” he says. “I’m definitely a perfectionist – that’s something that I’ve learned about myself. What’s kind of difficult about releasing your own music is that it’s basically your own soul, you’re putting that out there into the world, you’re letting other people kind of judge it and you know that

More Than You Thought ‘So what’s so special about this Flume, anyway?’, you say? Well, before you write him off as just another flash in the pan, consider this: Flume’s self-titled debut album – released last November – not only earned itself some serious critical acclaim around the world but, in addition to reaching number one on the Australian iTunes charts (and booting Harry Styles and co from pole position), the record also debuted at number two on the ARIA Album Chart. Four of Flume’s tracks (one of which was a remix) also made it into the Triple J Hottest 100 for 2012 (Holdin On reached number four, making it the highest Australian song charted), the success of the tracks eventually leading to Flume’s album being boosted higher on the ARIA Album Chart – at number one, to be precise. It was the first electronic album to do so since Sneaky Sound System’s 2 back in 2008.

not everybody is going to like it, obviously.

Some people do. I remember when I first started getting a few little blog write-ups last year, which I was stoked about – then FBi and Triple J came along and got behind me.

I wouldn’t have thought that such a slowburner like Sleepless would do what it’s done.

I thought, ‘Okay, well maybe it’ll be big for a little while then it’ll have its day after it’s been smashed on Triple J’... I guess it wasn’t just a phase. It’s lasted.

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Turin Brakes

Planet Xerox It is with no amount of ego that Olly Knights from Turin Brakes refers to his band as having achieved a cult-like status. Genuinely humble, the folk singer songwriter is simply stating an undeniable fact. The kind of dedication their fans show is usually reserved for boy bands or the dead. hile the band have sold more than a million records worldwide, they’ve never recorded a number one single or album. They do, however, have a connection with their audience that reaches beyond chart success.

“We are incredibly lucky to still be making a living doing what we love,” Knights admits, “We have friends in other bands whose bubble burst and couldn’t keep going. It’s not

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like we’ve smashed up the charts. We’ve just been quietly in our own bubble.”

Knights says he would be a “richer man” if he knew what made certain music resonate with the masses but feels fortunate to have survived leaving a major record company and finding sympathetic indie distributor, Cooking Vinyl.

Stepping out of the machine and into their own realm has probably only helped to cement the band’s hero worship, but Knights believes the adoration is much more about what they do rather than how they do it.

“A lot of people talk about our fans and their dedication and I think what people are drawn to is the musicianship. If you are accomplished in mainstream music, that is not necessarily a good thing. It can be a real negative. We are proud of the fact that we play regularly and are improving all the time.

I think people almost hold that up as a reason to love the band; they talk about the realness.

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The Crowd Of Turin Olly Knights has promised the Australian tour will offer a good dose of classic Turin Brakes, but there will also be a sneak peek of music they are just about to record. The band are heading into their studio in Wales to record their sixth full-length album.

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“We’re going into our studio for two weeks to record,” Knights says. “When we come to Oz it will be having just finished that so we’ll be weaving the new stuff in and out.

It’s been 10 years since we’ve been there so there will be a lot of back catalogue work but we always try to make our set very broad.”

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the pop side which is so orchestrated and manufactured, now more than ever. I’d like to think we stand in opposition to that.”

Australia is a signed-up member of the Turin Brakes fanclub. On any given day their Facebook page fills up quickly with messages of adulation from around the world including requests for visitation. Knights is aware it has been almost 10 years since they last visited our shores.

“It was the middle of summer and we freaked out – we didn’t know what to do,” Knights jokes of the heat. “We’re really proud that we can get all the way out there finally to the other side of the world. Some bands can do it every few years but it’s a big thing for us on a personal level. I think you can get lost if you do it too regularly. But it’s nice to think that we’re still going and apart from the UK, the Aussie fans have been the most vocal about wanting to see us. It’s a really nice feeling.”

For a band that is often known for changing direction from album to album, one would think that bringing it all together live could be difficult, but Knights insists there is a strong consistency.

“The albums are pretty eclectic but the way we play live fuses it all together. It still feels like it is all a part of the same picture and gives a complete and whole idea of who we are as a band.”

As for their new work, Knights reveals they are heading off on yet another new route.

“The next album is going to be very ‘70s with a lot of folk and rock influences. We’ve listened to a lot of music from that era. There’s been a great psychedelic thread running through it all.”

Unfortunately the phone line to the UK drops out just as Knights was defending his use of the word 'psychedelic', but he does manage one piece of reassurance for fans: “Don’t worry, you should all embrace it, we’re still Turin Brakes.”

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Giants Of Science

Why Are The Ocean Levels Rising Up? John Linnell says some Australian cities (but not this one, sob) will see TMBG perform both a straightforward show with new Nanobots tunes plus a host of oldies and another, separate event where the duo and their band will do the entirety of their album Flood from 1990, which is still, as purists typically claim, their best all-overensemble-piece of tunes. And, if you really, really want to catch Birdhouse In Your Soul, Lucky Ball And Chain, Dead, Minimum Wage, Letterbox, They Might Be Giants (as in the song itself), Road Movie To Berlin and the rest performed here, and in sequence, well, there might still be time to get a furious Facebook page going. Or maybe not…

You could be forgiven for thinking that They Might Be Giants’ John Linnell would be at his home in New York for the following phone interview, but no, he’s “in Charlottesville, Virginia, and we’ve just finished a show here”.

We just did a show at the college, where Thomas Jefferson did some of the architectural planning work. It’s a truly storied place.”

Just how many shows will the geeky duo have notched up when this current tour comes to an end?

“Ooh, I don’t know, a million maybe? This tour’s taking a long time and we’re really hitting a lot of territories. It’s reminiscent of the tours that we did in the early ‘90s, where we wound up spending pretty much half of the year on the road.”

But Linnell’s not exhausted, and he’s very enthusiastic about coming to Australia.

“It’s always great to come there, as the climate’s nice… And there are amenities there of the British Commonwealth variety, you know, like the breakfasts you get, like at these greasy-spoons in Sydney. They call it an English breakfast, but I’d rather consider it an Australian breakfast…

Always very nice and very comforting.”

TMBG are touring to promote their latest album, Nanobots, the 16th in a 31-year career.

“That is correct. We’ve been performing and writing songs and recording for more than 30 years now, and so we are getting very comfortable doing this job. But we are trying to keep things interesting and make things feel new, and we want to write new songs and not repeat ourselves.

It is difficult and challenging to keep the standard up, but John [Flansburgh, TMBG’s other half ] and I are both very happy with Nanobots.”

Linnell is also somewhat bemused when he hears about his entry on Wikipedia, which features odd, fannish detail about how TMBG songs are typically about subjects including “the personification of inanimate objects”.

“Our songs are about far more subjects than those. I don’t know who wrote that… But I suppose that it isn’t entirely off-beam too, as we’ve had people describe us far less accurately than that.”

When the band is in Adelaide, Flannell states that they’ll be doing “a handful of songs” from Nanobots.

“We’ll also be doing a selection of old songs, like ones from Flood. I suppose that a third of the show will be new stuff from Nanobots, while the rest will be old catalogue.”

So we can expect newies like You’re On Fire, as well as Ana Ng and Birdhouse In Your Soul and Boss Of Me? “It’s like you’ve actually seen our playlist! I reckon that we’ll be playing virtually every song that you just named, if not all of them. And from the new album we’ll also do Tesla and Lost My Mind… You know, we’re actually still learning stuff !”

And what about the mysterious tracks on Nanobots that are very short, like Sleep, Destroy The Past, Decision Makers and the six-secondlong Hive Mind? Do you classify those as songs - or maybe song fragments?

“They are songs! I think of them as songs. I’m thinking that they might be insulted if you didn’t think of them as complete songs. We like to challenge people to think of what a song is and what it can actually be.”

While I’d hate to end on a dark note, I must ask: as none of us are getting any younger, does all this touring and performing, well, take it out of you a bit?

“Yes, we’re both in our 50s now, and so it is a little more challenging to look after yourself while you’re touring. But we’re conscious of that, and we’re not burning the candle at both ends and we’re concentrating on doing good shows. We’ve always been clean-living people and we haven’t been destroying ourselves… So yes, I do think that we can go on doing this for a while yet.”

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Harlem Globetrotters US comic, writer and actor Marlon Wayans is in transit during the following phone interview, driving his car to his LA home in order to “pack up and quickly get on a plane to New York for some shows”.

We’re here to talk about these said shows he’s performing in Australia with his brother Shawn, but first we need to ask an important question. xactly how many Wayans brothers (or even just Wayans siblings) are there?

There are at least four famous, often collaborating bros - him, Shawn, Keenen and Damon - but how many more are there around the place?

“There’s 10!” Wayans says. “I count 10! I think one died, but I count 10! And my sister Kim is an actress too… It’s a big family, and now I’ve got 35

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or 50 nieces and nephews, or something, and a lot of them are wanting to do this too, which is really pretty crazy.”

Okay, so the Adelaide show itself: what can we all expect? Sketches? Characters? Stand-up and improv? Monologues and observational stuff, maybe?

“It’s like stand-up comedy, and I suppose that it involves some monologues, yeah, and it involves some characters too. It’s a very physical show, and we don’t go on together: I go on first, and I’m probably just going to piss everyone off, and then Shawn’s going to come on and probably just be really funny.”

And there’ll be lots of bad language, I take it?

“Oh yeah, terrible language, of course, as I’ve got a really filthy mouth. Shawn’s a lot more articulate than I am, and I curse so much because, I don’t know, I suppose that I’m just so goddamn ignorant! I should have gone to school more and picked up some more vocabulary, but then I know that, although I can’t always use the big words, I

Slightly Silly Activity A Haunted House, a nutty parody of (mostly) the Paranormal Activity films that Marlon Wayans wrote, helped produce and starred in, has been popular in the US, and now looks set to get a cinematic release here in about a month. And it’s just been announced that a sequel is on the way, as Marlon cheerfully explains.

“Yes sir, that has been popular. And yeah, that was just me, as I just got tired of having to split the cheques! It’s just hard to split a cheque with all my brothers, as I suppose that we’d all end up with about 50 cents each! And yep, I’m writing the sequel right now - writing all the way to New Zealand!”

can always use the four-letter ones.”

When asked about his frequent claim that there really was nothing else he could do with his life except work in the movies and be a comedian, Wayons gets a little (just a little) more serious and honest.

“I really just had nothing else that I had prepared for in life! If this had failed I would just have been a really funny bum! I would have been like a homeless guy who performs on the street!”

For someone who had no real ‘life plan’, he’s been enormously successful, worked as an actor, writer, producer, musician and comedian and appeared in the movies, on TV and much more.

“And I’m still doing it after 25, or even 30, I suppose, years in the game. I’m just so excited, as I’m still doing my thing, and I’m going to be touring Australia and New Zealand even though, really, I’ve only been doing stand-up for about two-and-a-half years now. It’s just very exciting for me, the whole thing!”

He also notes that while, in the movies, he and his brothers are known for crazy comedy like White Chicks and Scary Movie (“The first one!”), he has also very much enjoyed his forays into more serious pics, including roles in Darren Aronofsky’s traumatic Requiem For A Dream and Joel and Ethan Coen’s uneasy dark comedy remake of The Ladykillers.

“I’ve been very fortunate to have done those in my career… I was so disturbed by Requiem For A Dream that I had to keep on calling my mom up while we were making it and saying, ‘Mom! Mom! I love you!’… And the Coens are very nice guys, and they let me go in there and have some fun with the character. And it was interesting to see their dynamic, as they’re brothers too, of course.”

So about this brothers business: isn’t it unusual that siblings get along and work with each other so well? It’s not always like that in families.

“Well, we all grew up together in the projects, and so I suppose that we’re all close by default.

You share a twin bed with someone for 16 years and you’re automatically close, just by default.”

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

ShockOne plays at HQ on Fri May 24.

Walden

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Returning from the USA, Sydney native Walden has been dubbed a ‘musical prodigy’ by those who have witnessed his live sets around the country. His remixes of smash hits like Zoe Badwi’s Accidents Happen and Cobra Starship’s You Make Me Feel have contributed to the young-gun’s reputation, with artists like Marina & The Diamonds, Paper Crows and Estelle all lining up to get the remix treatment from Walden. With his sound best described as a dash of Avicii, a pinch of Deadmau5 and a heavy helping of Wolfgang Gartner, Walden injects his own originality into his mixes and live sets. Entry is $10 before 11pm.

Will Bryte (AKA Brian Lloyd) be the first indigenous Australian hip hopper to break the US? The industrious MC has just dropped his second album, Bryte Side Of Life, reuniting with Downsyde beatmaker Dazastah. Raised by white foster parents due to his mother’s health problems, Lloyd struggled to find his own identity. Today he’s in a good place: Lloyd just got married.

Walden plays at HQ on Sat May 4.

You moved from Brisbane to Perth. How come?

Wilkinson From the leafy suburbs of South West London, Ram Records’ Wilkinson first discovered his passion for dance music at age 14 and in his final year at college tried his hand at making beats. A few years later he secured himself his own studio and, after fine-tuning his production skills, passed on some tracks to Hospital Records (which led to his first release on Hospital Records’ Sick Music 2 compilation). In 2010 three of Wilkinson’s songs featured on Andy C’s Nightlife 5 album, with releases including Moonwalker/Samurai, Refuge, Get Into It and Everytime/Overdose earning him fans in Skream, MistaJam and Chase & Status. At the 2012 National D&B Awards, Wilkinson won the Best Breakthrough Producer award and released the mighty Automatic that year, followed by the hit record Need To Know which topped the iTunes Electronic Chart.

Wilkinson plays at HQ on Thu May 2.

I was hanging with some good friends, but also some less than reputable characters. We were doing what graffiti artists and rappers do – kinda hanging out and we were drinking a lot and we smoked a bit of weed, too. But I was in this tight circle, this repetitious kinda thing, where I wanted to try to get out of it and get serious about my music career. So I decided to move over to Perth and visit my sister – she asked me to come over, they paid for my flight and everything... I got to go to Perth and go to a place called Abmusic College, where I got to learn the music business and start drumming – I’m a drummer now as well. Yeah, it just took off from there!

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The biggest thing that I learned from Full Stop is you don’t have to take life so seriously all the time... I was very politically-minded when writing my music. Bryte Side Of Life is all about the brighter side of life. There are a few quirky tracks (laughs) – and then there’s some stuff about my past in there and the concerns that I have for Indigenous Australia and also the welfare of other countries.

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I was very disappointed to miss Steffi when she played Cuckoo last year and hearing her exquisitely controlled mix for Panorama Bar only heightens this disappointment. The long-time Panorama Bar resident and creator of the deep house anthem Yours installs six exclusives in-between underground Berlin sounds for the latest mix for the Ostgut Ton camp, which now rivals the almighty Fabric in repping underground house and techno to the world via compilations. Following an atmospheric intro (Palisade’s 18:30 and Endian’s Doze) Steffi builds the journey with some standard deep house sounds before letting some acid cruise in and control the journey thanks to BLM’s The Nest and Fred P’s Project 05. Then it’s party time with early morning house such as John Barera & Will Martin’s Reality, Juergen Junker’s Post Reunion and DJ Skull’s classic Don’t Stop The Beat. A wonderful mix. I will not miss Steffi the next time she rolls into town.

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When Snoop first announced his ‘transformation’ from ‘tha Doggfather’ into reggae singer ‘Snoop Lion’, people laughed. When he released Reincarnated, they stopped – though not because the album is necessarily that good but because this was clearly no gimmick. So here it is, all 12 tracks of it (or 16 if you get your hands on the deluxe version), and while its saving grace is the (no surprise here) production courtesy Major Lazer’s Diplo and the vocal talents of Angela Hunte (Here Comes The King, So Long and Get Away), it does get pretty bizarre at times too (no surprise there either). On Ashtrays And Heartbreaks Snoop teams up with Miley Cyrus... Enough said. On Fruit Juice (featuring Mr Vegas) he takes a leaf out of Sesame Street as he muses on the benefits of juicing and consuming fruit in order to improve one’s health. Rita Ora, Drake, Akon, Busta Rhymes and Chris Brown all make an appearance on Reincarnated too, which, apart from reggae, also dips its toe into dance, pop, R&B and hip hop... It’s interesting, to say the least.

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Eventually, at some point in my career, hopefully sooner than later, I’d love to go over to Queens, New York, The Bronx – I’d like to go to the East Coast. I’d just love to travel all around America... I definitely have aspirations to travel to America and do a few shows.

Bryte Side Of Life is out through Too Solid/MGM.

Calendar/ Sat May 4 Walden (HQ) Sat May 4 Jackie Onassis (Ed Castle) Sat May 4 Nukewood (Red Square) Fri May 10 Ryan Riback (Red Square) 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) Sat May 25 DJ Helena (Red Square) Thu May 30 Kissy Sell Out (Apple Bar)

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“When I started this album it was the same time when my second son was born, a year-and-a-half ago, and it’s taken the same amount of time for him to grow as it has for me to finish the record. That’s how I see it. It’s been like a project and it’s been a very exhausting one. I put all my eggs in one basket and I’ve given this my all, invested every dollar and spare minute into making it come to life... I was thinking the other day, ‘I’ve made this album – so I can die now and I’d be happy’.”

Featuring production from Simplex (Terrafirma), Pokerbeats and Jase (Beatheadz) – as well as Pelsoczy’s long-time collaborator and good friend 76 – From The Oceans Of Karana reflects the MC’s firm belief in eastern philosophy and unique outlook on life and humanity in general. It makes for an album that’s unlike anything we’ve yet heard from the Oz hip hop circuit and, according to Pelsoczy, aren’t likely to come across again. At least not from him, anyway...

“I don’t think I could recreate something like this again, it’s too exhausting!” he laughs. “The album is extremely spiritual, it’s based on eastern philosophy. It’s broken up into three parts – based on the Hindu Tridev – and inspired by the three Hindu gods. The first part of the album is about

‘creation’, which is the god Brahma, the second is about ‘preservation’, which is Vishnu, and the third is about ‘destruction’, which is Shiva. At the start of every part there is a foreword from an old man who is a Hindu mystic. Part one is about the creation of the universe and how everything is light expressing itself, like subatomic particles, though with a spiritual twist. We all have access to true potential, we’re all vibrating light and have the pure potential to become anything we want. Part two is about preservation and it looks at life in the ‘right now’. There is even a track about the invasion of Australia by the British Empire. The final part is about destruction which looks at how we place too much trust into technology and how it’s going to turn around and bite us on the arse one day.”

In some ways, taking on a “project” like From The Oceans Of Karana has been a 360 experience for Pelsoczy, serving as a realisation that often your first instinct in life is the correct one.

“When I look back I realise that the first proper song I made was about nine years ago, a track called Trippin,” he recalls. “That particular song was actually exactly what I’m doing now! The whole spiritual thing and questioning where our place is in the world.

People weren’t feeling it at the time, though, and I wasn’t getting much love or respect for it. I went on a journey after that song and tried the more grime-y, raw, angry and aggressive sort of stuff – and now I’ve done a complete 360 and gone back to what I’m all about. ‘Eloquor’ means ‘to express oneself ’, ‘to shout out’, so it made sense for me to want to go back to the true reason why I wanted to be an artist in the first place.”

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Germany’s Kris Menace (AKA Christoph Hoeffel) has cool Australian connections. The Presets’ Julian Hamilton is singing on his first fully vocal album, Features, along with French electroclasher Miss Kittin, Chicago house icon Robert Owens and Daft Punk ally Romanthony. But the colourful electro-house DJ (and occasional live performer) is unable to tour.

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Melbourne MC Eloquor (AKA Donny Pelsoczy) returns this month with his third album From The Oceans Of Karana – a spiritual journey detailing the cycles of creation, preservation and destruction as executed by a trio of Australia’s top producers. It’s a concept album that the rapper compares to his youngest child in many ways, claiming that “Now I’ve made this album, I can die happy”.

Hoeffel was meant to hit Oz six years ago, but faced immigration issues.

“The problem was that my visa was refused,” Hoeffel reveals, who has an old police record for possessing “a little bit of marijuana”. “I was really honest when I filled out the visa application – when they asked me, ‘Have you ever been convicted of drugs?’ I was like ‘yes’.”

Possibly because ‘Kris Menace’ was already on the event posters, something bizarre happened next.

“The promoter asked another guy and he played the tour in my name – and I wasn’t even aware of this,” Hoeffel laughs. “People posted on the MySpace and Facebook page pictures of the other guy and [they were] writing crazy things and girls wrote stuff like, ‘Thank you for last night.’ I was like, ‘What the hell?’ So it was quite funny.”

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Frankfurt, introduced his alterego in 2005, collaborating with Lifelike on the cult Discopolis, which aired on Alan Braxe’s Vulture Music. The prolific Compuphonic label boss A&Red the ambitious Features himself, calling on his large circle of acquaintances for guest vocals.

“It was really quite simple,” he says. One album highlight is Hamilton’s progressive disco Higher Love – as good as anything on The Presets’ Pacifica.

“I’ve met him in Frankfurt and I’ve done a remix [of My People] for the guys. I knew that they really liked some of my earlier records because, whenever I got some charts or some feedback from Modular Records, there was some Kris Menace stuff in it. I was really honoured.”

Hoeffel sent vocalists a selection of instrumentals, allowing them to pick one and lay down a song. He then completed the production.

“It was really important for me to work just with artists who are also writing their own lyrics – because most of the time, when you have a great vocalist, they have a team of songwriters in the back. I really wanted to do an authentic pop record this time... The record feels really original.” Hoeffel was surprised

by Kittin’s Hide, the starlet singing rather than ‘rapping’, compelling him to transform it into an aerial beat ballad. Hoeffel has “a new band project” with Simian (and The Black Ghosts) frontman Simon Lord and Features’ Golden Ratio is the first taste of an album due later this year. Indeed, the DJ is committed

to the LP format in an otherwise ephemeral dance music culture.

“I really see it more like an art project.”

Hoeffel, also producing the DFA Records-affiliated Black Van, veers into techno soul and deep house on Features. But he’s thrilled that Daft Punk are leading a revival of “the old disco sound”.

Still, Hoeffel has long dabbled in pop. Recently he remixed Lana Del Rey’s Blue Jeans. Before that, he tweaked Kylie Minogue’s Get Outta My Way. “I was invited to write some pop songs for Kylie’s album [2007’s X],” he says. “But, actually, it didn’t work out that she took one of the demos.”

Today underground producers like Hoeffel’s compatriot Boys Noize are producing pop – and rap.

Hoeffel’s activity is limited by his not being able to enter the US. But he’s not into “hype” projects, anyway.

“I don’t know if I wanna go that really kinda commercial road because then there are pop writers involved – and then other people. I’m not sure if it would be something I would be interested in, because I did a lot of productions and commercial stuff in Germany back in the days. I hate to deal with too many A&Rs – too many people who just wanna put their stuff into it and everybody knows better... I think I’m really over that thing.”

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

MATT CORBY @ HQ

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

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

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

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 RACHEL LEAHCAR @ Space Theatre

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

THU MAY 20 THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT @ Governor Hindmarsh

SUN MAY 26 MATT CORBY @ HQ

THU MAY 30 THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT & DOUBLEBLACK & KING OF THE NORTH @

FRI MAY 31 KAKI KING @ Governor Hindmarsh BLEEDING KNEES CLUB & SURES @ Rocket Bar

SUN JUN 2

MON JUN 3 JAZZGROOVE MOTHERSHIP ORCHESTRA @ The Promethean

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

THU JUN 6 THE CHEMIST @ Grace Emily

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

FRI JUN 7 – MON JUN 10

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

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

FRI JUN 7 – SAT JUN 22 ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL: IDINA MENZEL, KRISTIN CHENOWETH, MOLLY RINGWALD, DARREN PERCIVAL, SHANE WARNE: THE MUSICAL and many more @ Adelaide Festival Centre

SAT JUN 8 NORTHLANE, STRUCTURES, STRAY FROM THE PATH & STATUES @ Fowler’s Live ROBOTOSAURUS & TOTALLY UNICORN @ Animal House VAUDEVILLE SMASH @ Jive

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

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 JUN 11

TUE MAY 14

FRI JUN 14

TENACIOUS D, BARRY MORGAN & SASQUATCH @ Thebarton Theatre

WED MAY 15 EVERMORE @ Governor Hindmarsh

THU MAY 16 FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND @ Fowler’s Live SETH SENTRY @ Governor Hindmarsh THE RUBENS, WALK THE MOON & ALI BARTER @ HQ

FRI MAY 17 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 TOM WEST @ The Grace Emily Hotel DANIEL CHAMPAGNE & THE BEARDED GYPSY BAND @ Semaphore Workers Club

WED MAY 22

OWEN CAMPBELL @ Norwood Live ADELAIDE BURLESQUE FESTIVAL @ Nexus Cabaret

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

going on four years now,” Cisneros explains.

“It’s a godsend to be able to play every song from the albums live, there is so much more that can be achieved now. They are adapted still – there are songs that we have written as Om that could never be done in the same fashion as they were on the record.”

Adviatic Songs may not have as many riffs as previous outings have suggested, but the ones that do exist are perfectly calibrated to the mood and atmosphere each song painstakingly sets up. It wasn’t a difficult decision for Cisneros to change that direction of the music – the music chose it for him.

“I think that the riffs are definitely better on this than on any other Om album,” Cisneros enthuses. “There is an avoidance of that traditional metal riff, the basic repeated melody. The music has evolved, and we as musicians evolve with it. We are closer now to saying what we are collectively trying to say with our music, and that’s the goal. We follow the path through life and we evolve along with

it. We’ve started working on the next record, just writing, but the energy in the music is really good right now.”

The exploration of tones and percussive mediums that Om exhibits intertwine with Cisneros’ cryptic lyrics to denote a constant sojourn of the soul, a melding of matter.

Cisneros is adamant that regardless of which musical bent takes his focus – the re-emergence of Sleep now another trajectory from that such exploration will never be finished; the creative wellspring never fully tapped.

“I think art and music is always a reflection of that path, that first ground, the heart of the individual,” Cisneros espouses. “Right now that path has led me to be sitting here, talking to you.”

WHO: Bonjah WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Fri May 3

Om

by Brendan Telford

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

WED JUN 19 ANDREW STOCKDALE @ Governor Hindmarsh

THU JUN 20 ARTURO SANDOVAL @ Governor Hindmarsh EAST COAST RAMPAGE: I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN, HOUSE VS HURRICANE, BURIED IN VERONA & SAVIOUR @ Uni Bar

FRI JUN 21 RAY BEADLE @ Governor Hindmarsh IN HEARTS WAKE, COUNTERPARTS, THE STORM PICTURESQUE & STORIES @ Fowler’s Live

WED JUN 26 BILL ODDIE @ Adelaide Town Hall

SAT JUN 29

THE SUPERJESUS @ Governor Hindmarsh

THE SUPERJESUS @ Governor Hindmarsh

Nobody knows the constricting paradigms of genre pigeonholing better than Al Cisneros. After announcing the hiatus of his genre-defining sludge metal outfit Sleep 10 years ago, his presence under the moniker Om has been at odds with the music being crafted.

TUE JUL 1 P!NK @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

TUE JUL 2 P!NK @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

THU JUL 4 P!NK @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

FRI JUL 5 P!NK @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

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“We’re planning to finish the album off in June and tour that later in the year. Before then there will be another single soon and we’ll promote that as we did with Evolution.”

Has the Bonjah sound changed much over the last couple of years since the last album Go Go Chaos?

“I think we have, it’s just a natural thing between albums as it has been a while between drinks. Naturally I think you’re always going to have different influences and your likes are going to change. We wanted to keep it simple as the last couple of albums have a few slow tempo songs and we wanted to keep it up for the next album, really pushing ourselves to do something different and capture that live energy.”

SAT JUN 15

FRI MAY 24

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)

“We’ve just started the first leg of the tour in Queensland promoting the new single Evolution before heading back down to Melbourne, playing some festivals,” Mossop explains. “That should take us up to the end of May.” Is there a story behind the single Evolution?

“There is a bit of a story I guess - it was inspired by Regan [Lethbridge, guitarist] and Dan [Chisholm, drummer] meeting a

girl at one of our shows in Rye, Victoria. She came up to them and had been travelling for a while and prior to that she was in a pretty bad place and ended up leaving to travel, finding life and our music. It was humbling knowing that our music took her to a place where she is happy in her mind and her heart. That’s the story that initially inspired it lyrically, then it grew from there.”

Did you have much involvement in making the film clip?

“We knew we wanted it to be black and white, capitalising on the harsh lighting.

A friend of ours is into all of that and production, he knows the song and us very well. We loved the concept he came up with and we liked the way he filmed it, keeping it really quite raw. I think the filming took on more of the music side. The way it was produced rather than the lyrical content took on the embodied sound of the song.”

Is an album far off ?

THU JUN 13

FRI JUN 28

SAT MAY 25

The next couple of months will be busy ones for Melbourne-based band Bonjah as they promote their new single Evolution and do a quick lap around the country. After playing the Big Pineapple Festival in Maroochydore, Rip It Up catches up with frontman Glenn Mossop in Brunswick Heads ahead of the tour’s next show.

THE BELLRAYS @ Enigma

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

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MIKE STERN BAND @ Governor Hindmarsh

WED MAY 8

THU MAY 9

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Given that Om’s ambient drone is steeped in global psychedelia that incorporated elements from various genres and cultures, the band’s diversity makes the idea of labels obsolete.

Om has now solidified into a three-piece, with Chris Hakius having been replaced by Emil Amos (Grails, Holy Sons) on drum duties and Rob Lowe (Lichens) on mellotron, and this combination is most prevalent on latest record Adviatic Songs, their most complex and intricate offering to date.

“We have effectively been a three-piece

WHO: Om WHERE: Jive WHEN: Tue May 7

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THE LION HOTEL – Clearway TONSLEY HOTEL – Jessie & Charlie (8.30pm)

ADELAIDE TOWN HALL – Musica Viva presents Morgenstern Trio and Christopher Moore (7.30pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Adelaide Comedy featuring Jim Jeffries (7.30pm) Lounge Bar: Bill Parton Trio (8.30pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty CAVERN CLUB – band night CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Postwar, Dogs Are Better Than Cats and Canidae. 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 (9pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – The Dean Project, Bob Hookaway and Thom Gardiner

WHITMORE HOTEL – RAINBOW JAM SESSIONS (7.30PM)

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – OPEN MIKE NITE FOWLER’S LIVE – The Bronx

GILBERT STREET HOTEL – SWEET BABY JAMES & ROB EYERS (7PM) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Fossil Rock Habitat For Humanity Fundraiser. Front Bar: Gumbo Room Blues Jam – Bluescasters Special Guitar Jam Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Josh Pyke 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

WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

Friday 3rd ADELAIDE CASINO – Chandelier Bar: Jacqui Lim (6pm) Sonic Divas (10pm) ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: Jaki J (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Take 5 (9pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Emerald (8pm) BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Clearway COOPERS ALEHOUSE – Absolute 80s Presents Brian Mannix, Dale Ryder and Scott Carne CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) Ride Into The Sun DJs. Band Room: Crank Yankers with Red Apparition, The Venice Whalers and Youth & Wonder DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Lodestone and Acoustic Blonde (7pm) DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs Derek Lang, Eric Falcon and Lukky K DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Copy & Paiste 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 – Whiskey Harbour (8.30pm) ENFIELD HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment ESPLANADE HOTEL – E’nuf Said EXETER HOTEL – Remedy EXETER ON RUNDLE – The Shambolics and The Santa Maria’s

FINDON HOTEL – karaoke

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS S ARMS HOTEL – REV JESSE CUSTER, FAT GUY WEARS MYSTIC WOLF SHIRT, PETER BROCK AND GANGRENOUS PENIS GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Bonjah. Front Bar: The Honey Pies’ Jon & Tony Unplugged GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Spasms with Jungle City GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Dukes (6pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Stellar HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire 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 MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Graham Lawrence (6.30pm) MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – Mojo Trio OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Michael Venner Band OFFICE ON PIRIE – DJ Jess (4.30pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Troy Harrison Duo PRODUCERS HOTEL – After 4 Fridays with DJs Justice and DrDamage plus special guests (4pm) RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ Snake & DJ Rupheo (9pm) RED SQUARE – DJs REX HOTEL – karaoke ROB ROY HOTEL – All About Her (6pm) DJ Smiley (8pm) ROCKET BAR – Abracadabra featuring resident DJs The Shiny Brights DJs

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8PM) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – A Tribute To Cream (9pm) SETTLERS TAVERN – The Ride (8pm) SOUTH ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – Gerry O 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 COVE TAVERN – The Rustlers (8pm) THE ELEPHANT – Animal House and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY – Ch@t Room THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Johnny G (4.45pm) One Planet (9pm) Chrysler Bar: 4 Play (9.30pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Acoustic Reign (8.20pm) VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs VILLAGE TAVERN – Rock The Boss WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Beggars (9pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – Stiff William (8pm) ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Finn, Bottle Rocket and Skot

Saturday 4th ALMA TAVERN – MetroRetro ARAB STEED HOTEL – Bonz ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J. Upstairs: Bongo Madness with DJs Ed Law and Scotty (10pm)

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The Guide // ARKABA HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Top Room: The Hi-Topps (9pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Idle Saints (9pm) BOTANIC BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke with Gemma BRIDGEWAY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Whiskey Harbour (8pm) BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ CAMEO BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CROWN & ANCHOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kitchenwitch, Ricochet Pete and Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Band plus DJ Azz CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke with Nicole (8pm) DRAGONFLY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and everything in between DUKE OF YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Mitchy Burnz, DJ Parry, DJ Skinny B and MC Scotty ED CASTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Plus One Saturdays with live bands and party DJs (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends EMU HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dirty Harry

EXETER HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Jonny Star Family Entertainment EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acid Mountain and Funeral Moon FINDON HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Clearway

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; MEATBEATERS, BRISTOL SCALE AND BILLION DOLLAR BUMS FOWLERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LIVE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Emma Louise GARAGE BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs (10pm)

GILBERT STREET HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ MARKY POLO (8PM) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Main Room: Owl Eyes with Collarbones and Mammals (all ages) Front Bar: Pub Scrabble and Rob Scott & The Big Smoke GRACE EMILY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Silent Duck GRAND BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Destination Saturdays with DJs and MCs

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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; Ex Men HIGHWAY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Griff (9pm) HOPE INN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke (7pm) HOTEL RICHMOND â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Sly HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bar 180: Lucas Day (7.30pm) The Front: Kill Shot (8.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips, Tinker and Bangwel (8pm) HQ â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Walden KERSBROOK TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Colin Heinjus (8pm) KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke LAKES RESORT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Troy Harrison LEFT HAND CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A Tribute To Cream (8pm) LONDON TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ and MC Renard (10pm) MARINA SUNSET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs playing the best in house and electro MARION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Franky F (5.30pm) Two Hard Basket (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; One Planet NORWOOD LIVE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Absolute 80s Presents Brian Mannix, Dale Ryder and Scott Carne OLD SPOT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mike Venner Band (9pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wild Ones PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Good Company PJ Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;BRIENS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Alien 8 RAMSGATE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Adelaideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best cover bands READING ROOM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Anthonie Tonnon and Banjo Jackson (7.30pm) 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

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ACOUSTIC SESSIONS SEAFORD HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Agent 99 (9pm)

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SEBEL PLAYFORD â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Black Caviar SETTLERS TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Finn (9pm) SLUG â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kopy Katz SUGAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Prince Aaronak, Driller, Derek Lang plus a host of international guests SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ playing retro and requests TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Redline TEQUILA REA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE ELEPHANT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Unknown To Man and DJ G-Rillz THE LION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; live entertainment VALLEY INN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke VICTORIA HOTEL: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;HALLORAN HILL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rumours WALKERS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Sessions (9pm) WINDSOR HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Jump â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jive WOODCROFT TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke (8pm) ZHIVAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; High Heels DJs: Terrence, Osiris, Ryley and Gumshoe

Sunday 5th ALMA TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday School BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Voodoo Slang (4pm) CROWN & ANCHOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all ages show (5pm) DOG & DUCK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cry Wolf ED CASTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) EMU HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mark (2pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Russell Stuart EUREKA TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Jonny Star Family Entertainment EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Faction

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; EAST TEXAS FILM CLIP SHOOT GILBERT STREET HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; THE FIDDLE CHICKS (2PM) GLENELG SURF CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; La Mar Sundays GOVERNOR HINDMARSH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Main Room: Vaudeville Vibes hosts Dr Sketchyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hollywood Glam Sketch Fest. Balcony Bar: Finn: The Last Of the Travelling Minstrels

The Guide // GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Back Ice GRAND BAR – bands, DJs and MCs HIGHBURY HOTEL – Paul Stubbings HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – NPL Poker (6.30pm) LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – Muddy Road MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – E’nuf Said OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Dino Jag Acoustic PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Unknown To Man Duo RAMSGATE HOTEL – acoustic session (4pm) Tom Kurzel & Ed Trainor fortnightly rotation (7.30pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN – Troy Harrison

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SOLOISTS SEMAPHORE PALAIS – Mr Buzzy SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Let It Roll SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) DJ Junior (5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm) WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm) WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi & Shaggy (8.30pm) ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs: Zooma, Skot & Ryley

Monday 6th CROWN & ANCHOR – Brenton Manser, Caitlyn Lesiuk with Matt Ward EXETER ON RUNDLE – Sparkspitter and guests GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ultimate Quiz with Graham Lawrence (7pm)

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

Tuesday 7th ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Adelaide Comedy featuring David Smeidt and Nick Cody (8pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: DJs Stevie & Duncan. Band Room: Cranker Comedy DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Bitches Of Zeus DJs FOWLER’S LIVE – Norma Jean with Vanna and Safe Hands GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted

by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Music Works: The Dynamic Day Gig GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Improv Cabaret HILTON HOTEL – KG’s Complete Trivia JIVE – Om MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker PORT NOARLUNGA RSL – Acoustic Rendezvous (7.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm) SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller THE GOODY – Complete Trivia THE LION HOTEL – Acoustic Sessions TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Ryley (8pm)

WHITMORE HOTEL – ACOUSTIC RAW JAM WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

Wednesday 8th ARKABA HOTEL – Salsa class (6pm) after party (9pm) BOTANIC BAR – Gemma CENTRAL DISTRICTS FOOTBALL CLUB – Complete Trivia CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Geek with DJ Tr!p DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Dan’s Open Mic Night (7.30pm) DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Bento (What’s in Yo’ Box?!)

EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music Exchange (7.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Curtis FINDON HOTEL – Muso’s Jam hosted by Streaker FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – Complete Trivia

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – WEDNESDAY NITE DYNAMITE WITH DJ DYNAMITE GLENELG FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Turin Brakes with The Bakers Digest. Front Bar: Weekend Warriors Open Mic Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Mary Webb HIGHWAY – The Combi Room HQ – Flashdance KENSINGTON HOTEL – Uke ‘n’ Play beginners to advanced ukulele (7pm) MARION HOTEL – Adelaide Comedy featuring David Smeidt and Nick Cody (8pm) 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 TONSLEY HOTEL – quiz night (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Wednesday (7pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

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Drift Myles Pollard plays Andy Kelly in co-writer/co-director Morgan O’Neill and co-writer/co-director/co-producer Ben Nott’s ‘70s-flashbacking Aussie surfing drama Drift, and his casting as the character was always guaranteed because he was a producer on the film right from the get-go - and was partly responsible for it actually coming to life.

It was Tim Duffy [credited as a co-producer] and I who initiated this project about seven years ago,” Pollard says. “I met Tim in New York and he had the very first original draft of the script of Drift, and I read it and I loved it and I said, ‘Well, why don’t you let me produce it?’ And so we set up a company with Ben too, and we worked on the script and started to attract producers, and then about three years ago we submitted the script to Sam [Worthington], who responded positively, which was great.

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pretty busy at the time, as he was off working on these small, independent films, one of which was called Avatar and one of which was called Terminator: Salvation, and so a few years after that, maybe about six years into the project’s development, he finally came on board.”

Pollard laughs when asked if, as a producer, he had to audition for himself ?

“One of the perks of being a producer on a film, mate, is that you can secure yourself a leading role. That was actually always one of the reasons behind me doing this: from the beginning it was about creating an opportunity for me in terms of acting. I knew when I read it for the first time that I wanted to be involved in it as an actor, and I was also very lucky to have Michele Bennett and the other great producers there to help.”

It’s also worth pointing out that Andy Kelly, brother to Jimmy (portrayed by Xavier Samuel, who was also a bit hard to pin down at the time as he was committed to those small, independent Twilight films) and mate to coolly hippie JB (Worthington), is perhaps the hardest role of the three to play, as Jimmy’s rebellious and JB’s Zen but Andy’s the responsible one, the businessman and the actual adult.

“It would have been nice to have had more liberating aspects to his character, but I was playing the more disciplined, ambitious, conservative and rigid one of the group, you

know, and it really had its advantages and its disadvantages.”

As for Drift’s plot, Myles explains that “really it’s just a big soup, basically, of all the myths that exist around surfing, all thrown together in a fictionalised way”.

“There were young men in the ‘70s who lived in small country towns and had to fight to make better lives for themselves and, in the process, put together lifestyle/surfing business and became pillars of the surfing industry, but we did basically create these characters to tell that story. There were no characters ripped out of the pages of history, and it was more a series of people and events put into a big collage.”

And then there’s the excellent surfing sequences featuring the actors.

“We did a lot of surfing for the film, but the critical surfing had to be done with stunt doubles as I, particularly, could never look that graceful!”

Pollard is keen to talk about some of the other projects he’s been working on since Drift wrapped.

“I did a little film called Thirst recently, which was wonderful, and the director, Robert Carter, sold his house to make it…

And I just worked with Miranda Otto and Rose Byrne on The Turning, which is a film version of Tim Winton’s collection of short stories. And that was fantastic too… I’m really

Myles Pollard Versus Who? It’s always a little embarrassing when you get something wrong during an interview but, when you’re talking to Myles Pollard, it’s really not a problem. So when I ask what it was like appearing in the wellreceived satirical-horror/gore-comedy Tucker And Dale Vs Evil a few years back, he amusingly responds with, “Yeah, I wasn’t in that, no. Someone’s put it up on my IMDB page and I don’t know who it was, but it’s wrong. I’m constantly telling people that I wasn’t in that when they say, ‘Hey, you were in that film! Which character did you play? One of the hillbilly kids?’ But it wasn’t me! I’d love to say that it was me, as it’s a pretty good movie - but it wasn’t!”

just trying to keep chipping away, so that I can build up some momentum - and then take on Hollywood.”

WHAT: Drift WHERE: Selected cinemas WHEN: Now screening

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The Paperboy (MA) Precious auteur Lee Daniels here adapts Peter Dexter’s novel (with help from the author himself ) and directs, and the result is a lurid, scarily sexual drama that ultimately leaves you wondering what exactly its message is intended to be (other than life can really suck). Recounted in flashback by long-suffering maid Anita (Macy Gray), this transports us to Lately, Florida, in 1969, and follows the plight of young and horny Jack Jansen (Zac Efron) when his reporter brother Ward (Matthew McConaughey) returns to town with associate Yardley Acheman (David Oyelowo) to investigate the murder of a sheriff and, perhaps, the framing of Hillary Van Wetter (a loathsome John Cusack cast strikingly against type). They team up with Charlotte Bless (Nicole Kidman), whose trashy, masochistic edge has led to her becoming

controversially engaged to Hillary, and the quartet start digging up the past, and the dirt, with Jack almost beside himself with lust for Charlotte, particularly after a wildly overheated sequence where they all first meet Hillary and the prisoner and his would-be girlfriend both reach amusing orgasm without actually touching each other.

While there’s, of course, much here about the casual and ugly racism of the time, and powerful detail about family loyalty and a ‘don’t mess with the swamp’ aspect, Daniels’ film has nevertheless been most discussed for its sex stuff, with every character having some sleazy secret or a scene devoted to their raunchy pleasure and/or sheer humiliation (as well as the now-infamous ‘jellyfish’ bit). And the cast are daring indeed, with Efron shining, Kidman uncomfortably strong and Cusack so grotesque you want to strap him into the electric chair yourself.

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Quick Flicks

Adelaide Cinémathèque 2013 Mercury Cinema

The retrospective Antonioni The Great (debatable) commences at the Merc on Mon May 6 at 7.30pm with Michelangelo’s L’Avventura (1960, R), continues with La Notte (1961, PG) on Thu May 9 at 7.30pm, and concludes on Mon May 13 at 7.30pm with L’Eclisse (1962, R). Details: mercurycinema.org.au.

Audi Festival Of German Films Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas

Showcasing a slate of films from inspiring thrillers to wry comedies and critically-lauded dramas, this year’s festival comes to the PN from Wed May 8 until Mon May 13. Details: goethe.de/ ozfilmfest and palacecinemas.com.au.

Beyoncé: Life Is But A Dream Event Cinemas Arndale And Marion

Song For Marion (PG)

Iron Man Three (M)

Haute Cuisine (M)

English writer/director/bit-player Paul Andrew Williams has, until now, concentrated on low-budget pics about drugs, crime and blackly comic bloodthirsty horror (check out London To Brighton, The Cottage and Cherry Tree Lane), but with this superior character piece he also demonstrates an amiable knack for the old-fashioned tear-jerker too. Marion (Vanessa Redgrave) is an ailing senior who loves being part of a local choir for elderly folks led by the young and lively Elizabeth (Gemma Arterton), but Marion’s grumpy husband Arthur (Terence Stamp) refuses to watch their jolly rehearsals and sits outside smoking as they belt out Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy and Motörhead’s Ace Of Spades in funny, almost a cappella fashion.

When Marion’s condition gets worse and she (and no need for spoilers, as the title tends to give it away) dies before the film is barely half over, Arthur not only finds himself driven to become part of the group and find his repressed voice but, more trickily, attempt to reconcile with his bitterly alienated son James (Christopher Eccleston, terrific in his unsentimental sequences with Stamp).

With fine playing throughout by a pro cast (Arterton is lovely as an ordinary girl instead of yet another kidnapped heiress or witch hunter), this is notable for featuring a rare performance by the always pretty picky Stamp, who’s never been paired with Redgrave onscreen before and proves unafraid to portray Arthur as, initially, a right old bastard.

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The fourth outing for Robert Downey Jr’s ‘Iron Man’/Tony Stark, if you count last year’s The Avengers (and he does, as his psychological tenderness in the wake of that one’s events is a major plot point), is even more expensively spectacular, and yet there’s also a harsher edge due to the change in directors, with the first two films’ helmer/co-star Jon Favreau opting to be executive producer/co-star, and co-writer/ director Shane Black taking over and bringing along some of the nastiness of his previous outings (like his début as writer/director, the ruthlessly funny Kiss Kiss Bang Bang). After an OTT 1999 flashback, we cut to a troubled Stark fiddling with Iron prototypes (and being scolded by the Paul Bettany-voiced computer ‘Jarvis’) before we get into the business of his quest to show ‘Pepper’ Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) that he loves her just as a bin-Ladenlike terrorist named ‘The Mandarin’ (Ben Kingsley) makes his presence felt to the world and a former geek named Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) turns up looking cool and wanting Stark’s support for weird and dangerous technologies. And, later, in the most effective scenes, a vulnerable Stark must work to save Pepper with help from James Rhodes (Don Cheadle) and his Iron Patriot/War Machine, and others, as Paltrow’s character goes all tediously damsel-in-distress-like (although the filmmakers have ludicrously claimed that they were being ‘feminist’ in their treatment of her).

With a few good jokes, another committed performance by Downey (and a fine one by Kingsley), and individual set-pieces that, in 3D or 2D form, must have cost zillions, this is still great fun, regardless of sequelitis and whether you’re a freak-flag fanboy or not.

‘Simple home cooking’ is a term uttered with reverie across the world, despite the attempts by reality television to condemn anything beyond Michelin standard, but where simple Australian food may mean lamb chops and Vegemite sandwiches, simple French cooking involves foie gras (mashed duck innards) and truffles (fungus), and these are the constants that remain between the present and past of Hortense Laborie (Catherine Frot), a strong-minded cook at the end of a year-long stint at a research base in Antarctica, who once worked in the Elysèe Palace as the private chef for the French president ( Jean D’Ormesson).

To a viewer completely unprepared for what lies ahead, the opening scene, introducing an Australian film crew on a ship heading towards Antarctica, may be misleading from the film’s actual tale of Hortense’s exploits in the presidential sculleries. Likewise, those expecting the palatial atmosphere may be similarly thrown, but over time it becomes clearer that these starkly opposing settings are intended to build a subtle commentary on the contrasting notions of appreciation, resourcefulness and satisfaction.

Frot, D’Ormesson and their supporters perform believably in what is nothing more than the story of a cook doing her job, and while nothing specifically happens, there is still a rather ironic message to be found if one looks hard enough. This will hardly be anyone’s first choice for a piece of enthralling entertainment, but being both a ‘harmless little French film’ and a food film, there is certainly an audience out there to appreciate it.

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If you fancy catching “a multi-faceted portrait of this 16-time Grammy Award-winning singer, businesswoman, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, wife and mother” then get along to the above cinemas on Wed May 8 at 7.30pm.

Details: eventcinemas.com.au.

Opening But Unrated The Big Wedding (MA) is a dark familial comedy remake of a French hit written, co-produced and directed by Justin Zackham and starring Amanda Seyfried, Robert De Niro, Katherine Heigl, Robin Williams, Susan Sarandon, Ben Barnes, Diane Keaton and Topher Grace.

Drift (M), a ‘70s-flashbacking Aussie-surf pic from co-directors Ben Nott and Morgan O’Neill, features Sam Worthington, Xavier Samuel and Myles Pollard.

Co-writer/co-producer/director Thomas Vinterberg’s rather confronting Danish-language drama The Hunt (MA) toplines the great Mads Mikkelsen.

And little is known about director Lee Hwan-Kyung’s comedic/dramatic Miracle In Cell No 7 (TBC), except that it’s another (South) Korean production.

Seniors On Screen Mercury Cinema

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Adidas Originals X Opening Ceremony When two fashion-forward colour-happy innovative companies get together, there’s no denying the amount of batshit awesome unleashed on the general public. This is the result of Adidas Originals’ collaboration with Opening Ceremony, with their second collection recently landing online. Much of the collection takes inspiration from traditional tennis apparel (think polos, cardigans, shortyshorts, flared skirts) but with a lethal injection of modern streetwear.

Plenty of stripes, leopard dots, gradients and geometric prints comprise the collection, which makes some definite streetwear statements with sneaker wedges, polo onesies and cut-out bra leotards as well as some functional sportswear. No coincidence ‘love’ is a tennis term, here. adidas.com.au

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Just as fashion is cyclic, so is time. The time for Round She Goes, an awardwinning market of premium women’s clothing, has come round again. For one day only the German Club Hall will be filled with over 50 stalls brimming with women’s pre-loved designer label fashion, quality vintage clothing, jewellery and accessories. Some of the favourite stores for the Adelaide leg of the travelling festival, Yellow Bird, Not Lost Boutique, Vintage Dames, Goska Vintage and Picnic For Tea will be attending as well as a pop-up nail art salon. Get in early for freebies from Yelp Adelaide, and to snatch up all the bargains. Obvi.

It only comes round twice a year, so make some time this weekend to get nested into all the offerings at Bowerbird Bazaar. This time around there’s a Friday night bar for the late-night shoppers and all the delicious noms you can nom to inject some atmosphere into your shopping experience. As always, the market is bursting with a vast selection of unique and often handcrafted furniture, lighting, accessories, stationery, glass, ceramics, jewellery, visual art, clothing and more. The next one isn’t until November, so be sure to swing by. Also, it’s conveniently held the weekend before Mother’s Day (hint friggin’ hint).

WHAT: Round She Goes Market WHERE: German Club Hall, 223 Flinders St WHEN: Sat May 4, 10am-3pm ENTRY: $2

Mai-Loui Boutique Official Grand Opening Mai-Loui Boutique re-opened its doors on Wed Apr 24 with a new location and vibe at 90A Glen Osmond Rd, Parkside. As with all good news, there was a party to celebrate the insurgence of this leading women’s fashion destination.

Mai-Loui Boutique Opening on Fri Apr 24 / Photos by Jake Boylon

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WHAT: Bowerbird Bazaar WHERE: Stirling Angas Pavilion, Wayville Showground WHEN: Fri May 3 4pm-9pm, Sat May 4 & Sun May 5 10am-5pm ENTRY: $2

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Public

Food Review

I first ate lunch at Public a couple of months after its opening and walked out with a pretty ordinary taste in my mouth. Despite having a fantastic interior with a European metro station feel, the service was average and the cheese gnocchi was so over-seasoned I couldn’t finish the dish. I’ve since heard mixed reviews, but decided to give Public another try as I know that new establishments suffer a few teething problems and I didn’t want to write off this CBD venue after one bad dining experience. Thankfully, my second visit was worlds apart from the first one.

Friendly wait staff seated us with no fuss despite it being a busy workday in the middle of lunch service. Drinks from a well-selected beverage list landed on our table within minutes, and our waiter was spot on in the timing to take our food order.

Starters included the Swiss mushroom and feta arancini balls ($6), beef carpaccio with rocket, parmesan and radish ($12), lemon and cracked pepper haloumi ($9.50) and the pork and mushroom cabbage rolls ($9).

All really tasty dishes, well presented and generous sized servings. My only critique was that someone in the kitchen seemed a little heavy-handed with the aioli, with large squirts of the thick creamy condiment threatening to overpower the flavours.

Onto the mains and I was pleased to see that the cheese gnocchi had been removed from the menu and replaced with gnocchi with basil, feta, cherry tomatoes and olives ($22). The menu also featured a delicioussounding braised rabbit, tomato and chestnut tagliatelle ($24), but I just couldn’t go past ordering the pappardelle with wild mushroom, sage, parmesan curd and crispy onion ($19) and was more than happy with my selection – a classic winter-warming combination of flavours.

At this point I began to wish I had hollow legs, because a tempting list of mains including 12-hour braised beef ribs with butter-poached Moreton Bay bug tails (a modern day ‘Surf & Turf ’) would have been next on my menu. Instead I decided to take away a couple of display cabinet desserts and some of their fantastic coffee to get me through the afternoon. Made in-house, the jaffa cake and lemon cheesecake looked and tasted like they’d been shipped direct from a high-end Parisian patisserie, served on gold bases and sold for a ridiculously well priced $5 each. Delicieux!

Photos by Andre Castellucci / andrec.net

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WHAT: Public WHERE: 12 Franklin St, Adelaide WHEN: Mon – Thu 7am – 5pm & Fri 7am – 12am INFO: 8231 8151 / publiccbd.com.au

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MOCANDUNDA RIESLING, CLARE VALLEY, 2011

Clever Little Tailor Previously a vintage store, there’s nothing old hat about what now occupies 19 Peel St in the city perhaps aside from its 1920s-inspired lantern hangings. Having spent the majority of the year being stripped back, hammered and re-fitted, recently the city space reopened as the West End’s latest hip and high-end drinking den – a place called Clever Little Tailor.

While it’s a small space, accommodating for only around 60 or so people, once you’ve nabbed yourself a booth on the upper mezzanine or a table downstairs you’ll happily be ordering cocktails late into the night. Eschewing old school furniture with a contemporary interior, the inside all exposed red brick and hanging ferns, Clever Little Tailor’s vibe is geared towards quality drinks and a relaxed atmosphere.

With three craft beers on tap from breweries like Mountain Goat, Feral Hop Hog and Four Pines and a small wine list that changes often, they also make simple cocktails with a nod to the classics. There’s no list for that, so you’ll need to know what you want. There’s also a small selection of food, including smoked almonds, duck rillettes, prosciutto and more from the new Lucia’s charcuterie in the Central Market.

While it’s on the pricey side, their negroni made with French-distilled Dolin vermouth is an absolute ripper.

We recommend you get your mouth around it.

WHAT: Clever Little Tailor WHERE: 19 Peel St, Adelaide WHEN: Mon – Sat 4pm – late INFO: cleverlittletailor.com.au

Riesling is cool. Fact. Not one for trends and fads she quietly goes about her bussiness solidly each year and honestly it’s only us consumers which often forget her grace and ellogance which those at the top of their game are able to pump out each vintage.

Clare Valley is the champion region in Australia for the variety and welcome the new kid on the block. There is alot to like about Mocandunda. Fresh, floral with a really lively minerality. The nose is quite generous, think lemon myrtle and thyme. The palate is busy yet subtle. Varietal flavours of Bickfords lime and fresh lemon sit up one end and are balanced with a hint of honeycomb at the other and all are held together buy a clean and focussed acidity.

Mocandunda wants you and a decent wack of king fish to get together. You eat and she’ll do the talking.

Cheers.

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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04

Life has the hunt for equilibrium unfolding in the journey of work and self-expression. This is a lovely patch of practicality, tinged with a love of beauty and a curiosity about the hidden depths that mastery and excellence can open up. Give yourself greater access to yourself.

Scorpio 24.10/21.11 Moonlight is in your heart, home and in whatever other movies you’ve got running.

Take away a little sunlight, add a full-ish moon and the whole world becomes mysterious. All the forces that would demystify existence have to take a back seat today. Be proudly inexplicable.

Gemini 21.05/21.06 Though the situation has changed significantly, there’s still heat under your collar. It’s going to take some discipline and intelligence to match your ideas to a new reality. While you were protesting, changes happened that make a lot of what you were thinking passé.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 Slowly life is bringing people back. Aloneness, letting go, regenerating and shedding old skin can only go on for so long. Everything renews and refreshes. It’s your ‘one on one’ relationships, of all kinds, that are due to do the work of refreshing your soul. Be graciously intimate.

Cancer 22.06/22.07 The fullness of the moon in lovely mysterious mischievous Scorpio inflames a seam of hidden passion. There’s a tilt to your hat and a shine to your shoes. Danger and excitement aren’t normally your forte but now... maybe. The close proximity of Saturn keeps you safe.

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Libra 23.09/23.10

Taurus 21.04/20.05 The full moon has just passed.

It has added some yin to your yang, some reflection to your vitality. With Venus and Mars by your side, you are a force to be reckoned with on the dancefloor.

Your foundations couldn’t be more solid. Be solid and soft, shallow and deep.

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Emma Hack High Tea In celebration of the final week of her pop-up gallery in Hyde Pk, body painter Emma Hack is throwing a high tea on Mon May 6 and Tue May 7 to allow locals an insight into her life as one of Adelaide’s leading artists. With a décor created by Atmosphere Events, women will be able to book intimate tables of four and sip Moet Imperial while listening to an inspiring artist talk from Hack. Hey – she might even dish out details of painting Gotye and Kimbra’s naked bodies in the Somebody That I Used To Know music video.

Tickets are $75 and are limited, so get in quick.

Alhambra, Granada, by Emma Hack

Though the centre of power and attention has changed, your mind might not have caught up with it.

Be sure you are living present day dramas and not yesterday’s. Once you realise your mistake, move on like greased lightning. Thoughts can be wild. Tame them with awareness.

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WHAT: Emma Hack Pop-Up Gallery WHERE: 124 King William Rd, Hyde Pk WHEN: Mon May 6 & Tue May 7 from 1pm – 3pm TICKETS: emma@emmahackartist.com

Capricorn 22.12/19.01 A NIGHT OF FASHION AT THE ART GALLERY

There’s a lot around that could make you dance in a second flat, providing you let it in. The full moon in Scorpio is opening up a spring of poignancy in the deeper recesses of your heart. If a tear comes to your face, it will be a tear of gratitude. Open the blinds. Let the sun in.

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Leo 23.07/22.08 Vitality comes the more you celebrate being housed in this lovely guesthouse called the physical body. Ground yourself in all its simple pleasures. The senses are in the here and now.

Being sensual and alert is a sweet journey to bliss - and when we are blissful, ease reigns.

Virgo 23.08/22.09 Life is good. Thesun is in Taurus, bringing pragmatism and joy closer than usual. The Moon is in Scorpio, ensuring that there’s a magical transformative edge to even the most mundane of activities. Mercury in Aries is keeping the fires of bravado burning. Soak it all up.

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Aquarius 20.01/18.02

A R T

Expansion and growth is a given.

All you have to do is relax. The Aquarian habit is to get so locked in to those wonderful ideas about how life could be, that what’s in front of your eyes gets veiled by inappropriate disappointment.

Break the habit. Let the moon open you up.

Pisces 19.02/20.03 Slowly your strength is rising.

The full moon that just passed helped. The shift of the sun into Taurus gives you a subliminal sense of there being great reachable possibilities around.

When the positive is in town, ride it for all it is worth. Your tribe is serving you well.

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A Striking Resemblance By night Sean Desmond Kemp works as a musician in local band Surviving Sharks, by day he dabbles in clay and caricature as an artist. Next Sat May 11 Kemp will put on a solo exhibition inspired by art and music upstairs at the Grace

Emily Hotel with A Striking Resemblance. The exhibition will be launched with live performances from musical guests from 9pm, including Bastard Sons Of Ruination, Koral and Surviving Sharks.

Entry for the shows will be free.

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FA S H I O N

Attitude Magazine is seeking creatives with an eye for fashion to enter The Blank Canvas, an opportunity to show off your artistic talent on a garment that will walk down the runway at A Night Of Fashion at the Art Gallery Of South Australia. To enter the competition, submit a sketch of a dress to be produced for A Night Of Fashion on Sep 7.

Black or cream calico must be used as the base material and up to three additional materials may be used to create your piece.

If selected, you must be able to produce the finished garment for display at the event by Wed Aug 28. The dress must fit a sample size 8 mannequin. If you win, you could walk away with a $500 cash prize courtesy of Cibo and a $300 Premier Art Supplies voucher. To enter email info@anightoffashion. com.au for an application form.

Entries close Wed May 22.

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Culture

DVD Reviews

The Fades: Series One

Paris-Manhattan

I, Anna

Just Like A Woman

Madman / PG / 80 Mins

Paramount Transmission / MA / 93 Mins

Madman / M / 84 Mins

Writer/director Sophie Lellouche’s romantic comedy takes a cue from Play It Again, Sam (that rare Woody Allen movie which he didn’t direct), only here it’s a poster of the early ‘70s Woody himself, not Bogart, who’s handing out romantic advice. Alice (Alice Taglioni) is preparing to take over her family’s pharmacist business and continually turning to the fantasy Allen (who speaks in grabs taken from Manhattan and other pics), especially when it comes to questions of relationships, something she tends to do badly (a big-hair flashback, where we see Louis-Do de Lencquesaing’s Pierre go for her but wind up with her sister Hélène, is particularly absurd). When Alice meets security expert Victor (French actor/singer Patrick Bruel), every possible contrivance is thrown at the pair to keep them apart, and yet Lellouche still struggles to get the running-time up to feature-film length.

Many will already know (or easily guess) what Paris-Manhattan’s late-on ‘secret’ is but, unfortunately, it takes so long to get to that point, and Taglioni’s Alice is so irritating and given to preposterous tricks (as when she lends Woody DVDs to a gunman during a hold-up), that you’ll find it hard to care what the hell happens in the final act.

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TV-intensive director Barnaby Southcombe adapted this strange, slightly disturbing and yet somehow unsatisfactory London-noir thriller from Elsa Lewin’s novel, and there’s no mystery as to how he got Charlotte Rampling to star as Anna Welles (duh! She’s his mum!). A tricky plot has her attending an evening of speed dating (where she’s given cheeky romantic advice by Joan, as played by now-80something former Bond girl Honor Blackman), apparently going home with one of the nastier blokes and then, perhaps, implicated in his murder, after which copper Bernie Reid (Gabriel Byrne) becomes vaguely obsessed with her, despite his uneasy suspicions that she’s not telling him the full truth about that night.

And we’re gradually allowed more insight into Anna’s fractured perspective, as she chats to daughter Emmy (Hayley Atwell) and her little granddaughter, we’re offered portentous hints that something terrible has happened/might happen/whatever, and she’s very flattered by Reid’s potentially romantic attentions (and no surprise there, as Byrne has rarely been this charismatic). With a narrative that feels confused and a little improbable under Southcombe’s direction, this is still worth persevering with, if only to watch old pros Byrne and Rampling go at it (so to speak).

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French director Rachid Bouchareb went to America for this perhaps eccentric-atheart but amiable drama with some dark edges and welcome feminist concerns.

Unhappy Chicago native Marilyn (Sienna Miller) loses her job and runs out on her partner on the same bad day, and her plight is contrasted with the similarly sad Mona (Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani), whom she vaguely knows from her local supermarket and who also has her own (and somewhat scarier) reasons for wanting to leave town. And, of course, these two women wind up on the road across middle America in Marilyn’s car and making money on the side from their shared talent for bellydancing (naturally) as, back home, the police start investigating Mona’s disappearance and our heroines become fugitives without quite realising it. Despite lovely work from Miller and Farahani, and dedicated, wellintentioned handling from Bouchareb, this nevertheless feels a little strained at times, with incidental characters who feel like ‘types’ (especially sleazes and rednecks) and, here and there, a vague sense of political correctness. And yet it’s still enjoyable enough - and certainly isn’t the sort of story you’re liable to see anywhere else at the moment.

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Roadshow/ABC / MA / 394 Mins

This BBC3 drama/apocalyptic-horror series was produced in 2010 and evidently was intended to run to more than one season - and yet this is the only one so far, for some reason (ratings, probably, although perhaps creator Jack Thorne didn’t quite know how to keep the plot going). Nevertheless, fans of the freakier form should still appreciate this tale of outcast teen Paul (Iain De Caestecker) who, in one of those depressing realistic English-TV urban cityscapes, is plagued by dreams and visions of ‘Fades’, the otherwise-invisible spirits of the dead, all around him. His cheeky mate Mac (Daniel Kaluuya, almost too funny) and would-be girlfriend Anna (Lily Loveless) aren’t entirely convinced by his claims, but when a particularly nasty Fade named Polus (Ian Hanmore) manages to break into this world and sets about making our reality, you could say, Fade-friendly, the stage is set for a sort of low-budget smallscreen hybrid of The Sixth Sense and 2012 - but only if all the characters lived in housing estates and survived on the dole. Features extra scenes, deleted scenes, outtakes, eight featurettes and Mac Explains, where Kaluuya’s character tries to make sense of some of the storyline’s loopier elements.

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Dice World: Science And Life In A Random Universe Brian Clegg / Icon / 274pp / $24.99

Prestigious scientist, author and blogger Clegg (of recent titles including Inflight Science and The Universe Inside You) here tackles the concept of randomness in the universe (this one anyway), and while his tone is accessible, understandable and even a little humorous at first, once we launch into, of course, statistics (or, indeed, a whole damn chapter called Statistical Substance), it’s hard not to feel like your head might explode. And yet the more smarty-pantsed out there might still like to try to get to cerebral grips with the dangers of intellectual fallacies (‘ludic’, ‘gambler’s’ and more), questions of classic versus chaotic randomness, whether there’s anything to the notion of the so-called ‘Butterfly Effect’ (the short answer: no) and a beginner’s guide to the whole loopy notion of the quantum. Wow! That is, like, so random!

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2 One Another Stage

Sydney Dance Company premiered their latest work, 2 One Another, in their hometown late last year before taking it to Melbourne where it also received glowing reviews. The company, which began life in 1969, is now bringing it to Adelaide for a much-anticipated run.

Sydney Dance Company has not presented their wares in Adelaide since 2009 and artistic director and choreographer Rafael Bonachela suggests it’s due to the amount of international touring they now undertake.

“It has been too long since we came to Adelaide,” he says, “so we are really looking forward to it. And 2 One Another is a piece that really shows off the company as individuals because while there are 16 dancers involved it’s not really an ensemble work because they all get to show off their different characters and personalities.”

The work, which features a soundscape

by Nick Wales, design by Tony Assness and text by poet and writer Sam Webster, celebrates relationships, interactions and the beauty of the human form.

“I’d been with the company just on three years when I first started thinking about 2 One Another,” Bonachela says. “And I thought it would be nice to make a work that was inspired by the dancers and all their different qualities and how they relate to one another. So it began with some creative development where we spent a lot of time together, not only in the studio but also while we were on tour.”

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Sydney’s Nick Wales, founding member of electronica group CODA and who often works with Sarah Blasko, was engaged to work on the score.

“I’d been following Nick’s work because he’s a very talented composer but for 2 One Another I wanted to use some of my favourite music,” the Spanish-born artistic director says. “For example there’s some very, very early Spanish medieval music in it, but I wanted Nick to piece it all together. So he put all the pieces I’d chosen together but has also interspersed it with 20 minutes of his own compositions.”

Bonachela also says that poet and photographer Sam Webster quickly became an integral part of the making of 2 One Another.

“Because I wanted the work to be inspired by the dynamics of the dancers, I’d invited Sam to come to the workshop studios

to observe and then just write about it,” Bonachela explains. “At the time I had no idea it would be useful in any way, but Sam came up with some brilliant writing that really connected to what we were doing.

“So there became a very big interaction between the poetry Sam was writing and what the dancers were doing. We then took his poetry and reinterpreted it to movement.

“So Sam’s poetry has now ended up in 2 One Another as part of the soundscape,” he concludes. “And it’s been a very fruitful association because a lot of Sam’s writing enabled me to really structure the work.”

WHAT: 2 One Another WHERE: Her Majesty’s Theatre WHEN: Tue May 8 until Sat May 11

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Your guide to the student experience.

When it comes to charity initiatives such as Live Below The Line, people tend to fall into two categories: the doers and the supporters. I, am not so proud to say, am an avid supporter.

I’ll cheer anyone on from the sideline, throw them some cash where I can and beam at them proudly as they attempt things I know I can’t. One year while in high school I attempted the 40 Hour Famine. I barely got through it. In retrospect it seems like a walk in the park compared to Live Below The Line.

I’ve had hangovers that have forced me to swear off food for two days, but never have I subjected myself to the discipline and willpower involved in living off only $2 a day. So far it looks like I’ll yet again be a sideline benefactor, but you never know, the guilt that my housemate will be taking part might overpower me yet. So if you will be living the week with a full belly, think generously about those who are more selfless. And hungry.

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

Peace, Lachie

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Try Karate For Free As my TV heroes moved from Power Rangers to Buffy The Vampire Slayer (so tragic) I was never game enough to enter the bad-arse world of martial arts myself. But, so it turns out, it’s never too late to start. The UniSA Karate Club are inviting adult beginners to test out karate during May for free as a form of getting fit and making new friends (by trying to beat the crap out of them). Given how flexible, co-ordinated and strong you need to be to pull off basically any move that is remotely awesome, karate could be exactly the type of fitness you are looking for to see results without having to put up with the ‘roided drongos at the gym. What’s more, punching and kicking are excellent ways of relieving stress from group assignments gone awry and exams that won’t go revise themselves. Just try not to use your wicked moves on people in a learning environment… That potentially may not bode well.

The UniSA Karate Club operates out of the UniSA Magill Sports Centre. For class schedules visit downloadkarate.com.

Live Below The Line If you see people look like they’re struggling that little bit extra hard during the week, it may have something to do with them participating in Live Below The Line (then again, it may not). For those who look a little more tired and hungry than their usual perky selves because they have embarked on Live Below The Line are not participating in a sadistic ritual or crash-course savings attempt, but rather trying to fully appreciate what it’s like for those who live in extreme poverty. Live Below The Line is an incentive run through the Oaktree Foundation where people attempt to live off just $2 a day, which is regarded as the extreme poverty level in Australia.

When you think about the sacrifices that these people are giving up for five days, it’s surely worthy of your support. You may have seen some of these people spamming up your social media newsfeeds, but they’re doing so for a worthy cause. Seriously consider donating to these people as they embark on fundraising in a truly challenging and rewarding way. Try and feed yourself for $10 a meal, let alone $10 for a working week. I’m hungry just thinking about it.

Live Below The Line runs from Mon May 6 – Fri May 10. For more info visit livebelowtheline.com.au.

Tertiary Studies and Careers Expo You may very well need to be a super sleuth in order to solve the mystery of how one finds one of these elusive ‘careers’ everyone keeps going on about. If doing your own dirty work seems like a hard time, the Tertiary Studies & Careers Expo is a good place to start. They’ve collected all the resources you’ll need in one place for you so you’ll be able to explore your options for tertiary studies or subsequent careers a lot more in depth than how you might fare trying to find the same information online.

The expo will feature local, interstate and overseas education providers and support

agencies, some of which you may have never considered before. Aspects like career opportunities and pathways, entry requirements and study options vary widely between institutions and constantly change, so get involved, ask questions and find out the solution to the mystery of what you want to do with your life.

The Tertiary Studies & Career Expo will run on Sun May 12 from 10am-4pm and Mon May 13 from 9.30am-1.30pm at the Adelaide Convention Centre. Entry is free.

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Well, you’re going to have to be creative to get one. Literally. Carclew are at it again, giving a much-needed financial boost to emerging artists and creative wanting to pursue their career. There are four scholarships worth $12,500 each (that’s $50,000 in total) that need to be adorned on someone who has got the right stuff. The scholarships are separated into different creative fields, being the Colin Thiele Scholarship for Creative Writing, BHP Billiton Scholarship for Film and New Media, Dame Ruby Litchfield Scholarship for Performing Arts and Ruth Tuck

scholarship for Visual Arts. Past recipients have even gone on to be nominated as a part of the Channel 9 Young Achiever Awards due to how their scholarship funding has helped their success. To be eligible, you need to be 26 or under and have demonstrated excellence and dedication in your chosen field, with plans to continue in the future.

For more info and application details visit carclew.com.au. Applications close Mon Jul 15.

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Culture

CD Reviews

CD Of The Week

Scottie’s Singles

Listen Now:

Milk Music

Daft Punk

Cruise Your Illusion (Spunk)

Get Lucky (Sony)

Forget Midnight Oil – when it comes to music videos set in the Aussie outback, David Bowie’s Let’s Dance takes the cake. That anachronistic pub scene where Bowie is playing guitar while wearing white gloves? The riff was actually the work of production master Nile Rodgers, a man also responsible for some of Duran Duran, INXS and Madonna’s finest ‘80s moments. Now the ultimate disco dude is back, uniting with Pharrell Williams and French Autobots Daft Punk like the ultimate musical Voltron on Get Lucky. If this is the sort of funky digital love Skynet has in store for us when the robots take over, I’m looking forward to Judgement Day.

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Austra Home (Domino/EMI)

Photos from her CBE presentation with the Queen last month suggest the pounds of love have caught up with reclusive goddess Kate Bush, with shallow critics suggesting she’s more Boombalada than Babooshka these days. Not to worry – Katie Stelmanis from Canada’s Austra does a similarly swell trade in introducing Kate Bush to Meat Loaf. Combining the Gothic resplendence of the video to I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) with fantastical accompaniments (flutes, congas and brusque tribal calls), this haunting preview of June’s Olympia suggests it’s the album of the year for those who couldn’t stomach Shaking The Habitual.

Laura Mvula Sing To The Moon (Sony)

Thank. God. For. Laura. Mvula. This self-confessed Disney addict and former gospel singer is a much-needed fresh breath of pure, musical air.

Mvula’s debut album, Sing To The Moon, is an adventurous collection

of exceptional music full of light orchestras and dreamy vocals. The UK artist’s sound is like no other, with each song possessing something different, whether it is her echoing crooning on Like The Morning Dew or the whimsical xylophones of Green Garden. Hints of her gospel singing past can be heard in the soulful Father, Father, one of the most emotional tracks on the album.

The single responsible for her seemingly overnight success, She, is more stripped back than the others, allowing Mvula’s vocals to flourish.

Although many of the tracks bring up delicate wafts of Amy Winehouse and Adele, it’s clear Mvula is playing ‘her own damn tune’. She tells us just that on That’s Alright, firing up her angelic innocence with sassy vocals and tribal percussion.

Many tracks from Sing To The Moon conjure up scenes from old romantic movies and deliver a sound that generally only old vinyl records offer. There’s nothing flashy about Laura Mvula, but her gentle subtleness makes her stand out like an outstretched butterfly, fluttering among a cloud of moths.

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“What’s the point of having a record label in fucking 2011?” was the question (statement?) championed by Olympia, Washington’s resident slacker rock revivalists Milk Music. While I’m sure that they were confident in the answer two years ago, 2013 made them change their tune, signing with American label Fat Possum.

While Milk Music have always been proponents of the DIY approach to making music, some of the shit that goes along with being in a band is too tedious and boring to bother with. You can’t fault them for lightening their load, but you can fault them for making a mediocre record.

Despite the glaringly obvious Guns N’ Roses reference, Cruise Your Illusion is not full of wicked guitar solos of blow-yourfucking-socks-off proportions or the teased hair of Welcome To The Jungle’s music video.

Instead, it is a more melodic take on Milk Music’s crunchy, fuzz-laden punk origins.

While the bluesy, classic rock shift may result in a technically impressive record, it doesn’t do enough to separate them from all of the other bands mining their local secondhand record shops for inspiration.

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Kelly Rowland Kisses Down Low (UMA)

‘Nothing can compare to when you kiss me there’… Phew! You don’t have to be Kelly Rowland’s old mate Nelly to realise that it’s getting hot in her(r)e – Kisses Down Low proves the Destiny’s Child singer has turned into the female R Kelly of poon tunes. You won’t get steamy diving forays like this on Celebrity Splash.

Cascada Glorious (Central Station)

When Cascada slapper Natalie Horler sings ‘Tonight we can be glorious’ on their latest Euroslag hit, I can’t help but imagine trashbags on Hindley St at 3am performing their own wonky renditions while fake tan runs down their leg, vomit specks decorate their décolletage and burger wrappers cling to their arse after a brief laneway rendezvous with a guy named Goran off his head on Pond Cleaner. Unless you’re the sort of gal who finds Courtney Stodden overdressed, this glory hole is one to avoid.

Avril Lavigne Here’s To Never Growing Up (Sony)

Avril Lavigne opens her new single with the line ‘Singing Radiohead at the top of our lungs’. With this in mind Avril, I’ll defer to Thom Yorke’s back catalogue for an impeccable response: ‘We hope that you choke’.

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Bryan Adams & Amy Macdonald Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Wed Apr 24 Review by Scott McLennan Pics by Jennifer Sando

In 1991, Bryan Adams’ album Waking Up The Neighbours was equidistant between the romantic melodies of Roxette and the everyman rock of Bon Jovi. It’s no wonder commercial radio went mad for it. Co-penned by super-producer Mutt Lange, barely an hour of commercial FM radio over the summer of ’92 didn’t include hit singles such as (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, Can’t Stop This Thing We Started and Thought I’d Died And Gone To Heaven for the stonewashed masses to sing along to.

Belatedly bringing Waking Up The Neighbours’ 20th anniversary tour to Australia, Canadian rocker Adams apologises for his irregular visitations and promises to make up for it with a lengthy set.

“There’s been a lot of road between this gig and the last,” Adams says of his eight-year absence.

“We’ve got some catching up to do.”

Despite now enjoying a revered career as an international photographer (capturing amazing portraits of everyone from Lindsay Lohan and The Queen through to Lana Del Rey and Mick Jagger), Adams has lost none of the romantic rasp that made him a superstar, slipping impressively easily back into his role of husky paramour like donning an old suede jacket. Looking lean in a

Reviews // Quick Ones

Depeche Mode

The Bronx

Tim Guy

Delta Machine

The Bronx

Dreaming Of A Night Mango

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(White Drugs/Shock)

(Independent)

The Messengers The Messengers EP

If EDM stood for Essex Doom Messiahs, Depeche Mode would be kings. More than 30 years since their sole appearance in the Australian top 10 with the chubby-faced leather larking of Just Can’t Get Enough, the group remain one of the most influential purveyors of synthbased rock.

Despite being forefathers for acts such as Linkin Park (listen to the creeping digital lurk of Blackout), Muse (the brooding percussion and insistent keyboard melody of Map Of The Problematique) and Unkle (the sneering groove of Blade In The Back), Mode material since the mid-‘90s has been routinely underwhelming. Etched with familiar motifs, Delta Machine also finds the British high priests of Gothic electro pushing forward. Angel’s spooky bass hum sounds like an electrified Area 51 fence crossed with the baptismal glories of I Feel You, Should Be Higher has the same swaggering tempo of Personal Jesus and the guarded narrative of Broken revisits Little 15. Like the industrial chamber music that has won acolyte Trent Reznor Academy Awards, Delta Machine is exploratory and enticing while offering crackling pangs of nostalgia. Alone even sounds like Bowie’s Art Decade given a modern buffing.

If Secret To The End’s lyric (‘The final chapter in the contract expires soon, we’ve come to the end’) does indeed signify this is Depeche Mode’s fade-to-black moment, it comes at a time when they’ve finally got the balance right.

Scott McLennan

The Unholy Hand, the opening track of The Bronx’s fourth self-titled album, takes you straight back to the visceral hardcore punk thrill of their debut self-titled album (2003). It’s certainly miles away from the two mariachi albums they’ve released as their alter egos Mariachi El Bronx.

However, the record is dominated by the more measured hard rock that they’ve flirted with since their second self-titled album. Matt Caughthran’s voice still generally sounds as rough as sandpaper, but elements such as the more expansive chorus of Along For The Ride point to a slight mellowing. Not that they’d ever admit it, with Style Over Everything declaring ‘I shoot to kill, I don’t fuck around’.

This is also the first time I’d accuse the idiosyncratic band of sounding like anyone else, with Pilot Light pinching a few dynamics from Rocket From The Crypt, while the quiet/loud Torches could be Weezer. Penultimate track Life Less Ordinary also comes out of left field, with its stripped back guitar-and-vocals approach making it the closest they’ve come to a ballad, but conversely manages to sound uniquely themselves.

The Bronx still pack a punch, but now they mix their uppercuts with crosses and jabs – and a few swings fail to connect.

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daggy skivvy, Adams clutches his golden Gibson and kicks into House Arrest with minimal fuss.

As the 53-year-old bolts through Kids Wanna Rock, Can’t Stop This Thing We Started and Thought I’d Died And Gone To Heaven, older fans in the audience feel collective pangs for carefree days listening to these pub jukebox staples. Adams adds his own wistful reminisces before Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?, mentioning the times he’s wandered into Mexican restaurants and heard mariachi bands performing the Don Juan DeMarco soundtrack tune. “It could be my most romantic song I ever wrote,” he admits.

Back To You and Summer Of ’69 sound great, while the swooning juggernaut (Everything I Do) I Do It For You takes Waking Up The Neighbours’ live tally tonight to five. There hasn’t been this many Mutt Lange co-writes aired in the Adelaide Entertainment Centre since Def Leppard were here in 2011.

While his support act Amy Macdonald would have made for a ballsy sidekick in lieu of Mel C on When You’re Gone (her earlier cover of Bruce Springsteen’s Dancing In The Dark smoulders with the perfect level of desperation), Adams instead pulls Wine Centre worker Ivana out of the crowd to sing the 1998 hit. While she doesn’t attempt the original’s additional vocal flourishes, she makes Adams laugh when her arse waggling on his guitar mutes his chords.

No fireworks, no confetti and no gigantic runways into the crowd. While Adams offers a fairly orthodox performance, it’s this effortless approach that ensures the songs remain the focus and are coming straight from the heart.

This guy! Stop it with your lush sounds!

Dreaming Of A Night Mango makes you want to move to Melbourne. Well not enough to actually make you pack your bags and change your address, but it definitely lends a thought to the idea.

After spinning tales of Melbourne, Guy has now opted for a new style of living, amid the sheep in New Zealand, seeking inspiration from the lush greenery that the sensational country offers. This cheeky little record meanders through acoustic tales and just when you think it may have the potential to be your stock-standard album, bang woop: some cheeky clarinet gets involved, the depth of the lyrics hit home and you find yourself swallowed deep into Guy’s subconscious, where you shall exist for the remainder of the record.

Guy’s true blue Aussie accent shines through and, when cast against some intriguing tracks, the combination forms a really unique sound.

When was the last time you dreamt of a night mango? Bet you’ve dabbled in some evening watermelon, but night mangoes are a whole different can of worms. Maybe your time is now.

Sharni Honor

(MGM)

Love a little bit of ‘60s soul mixed with some old school Britpop?

That’s pretty much The Messengers’ debut EP down to a T. These Melbourne natives take a fresh take on older sounds and bring them full throttle into the 21st century.

Single A Song For Courtney, which has been heard on Triple J, is stellar, with a thumping, delightful organ riff.

Groovy Beach Boys-esque We Can’t Get Along makes you feel like cranking out all those classic ‘60s dance moves - you know, like The Twist and whatnot… Moving on… You can picture a trucker blasting Whiskey as he drives down the highway, On The Run is a funky soul-packed track and In Your Shoes brings it home with haunting, echo-filled vocals that gets you in your heart places.

If The Messengers’ EP is anything to go by, I can’t wait for the debut album.

Karina Carroll

The Steve Miller Band Complete Greatest Hits (EMI/Capitol)

Formed in 1967 and still going strong(ish) in one form or another, Miller and co’s best-known tracks collected here include their big ‘70s/‘80s hits, like the jolly Take The Money And Run and Jet Airliner, the dated-sounding Fly Like An Eagle, Rockin’ Me (actually Rock’n Me, but she’ll be right), the originally-rather-ruder Abracadabra and probably his most-discussed offering, The Joker (also sung, sort of, by Homer Simpson and others and what exactly is ‘The Pompatus Of Love’ anyway?). Otherwise there are moderately famous tracks (Jungle Love), songs that sound suspiciously like he’s plagiarising himself (My Dark Hour) and more incorrect titlings, like the old B-side Shubada Du Ma Ma, which is actually properly called Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma, just in case anyone’s interested.

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by Lachlan A ird

Writing a new album can be a stressful and emotional time for any band, but for Steering By Stars, their sophomore album The Cold Embrace reflect a dark and emotionally strenuous point in the band members’ lives.

After seeing the documentary’s teaser, it reiterates how heavy things were for the band, and the catharsis that is embodied within The Cold Embrace. It seems only natural that the finished product would differ significantly to the band’s debut Cables.

“It’s a very different sounding album, but I think we’re a very different sounding band now. Cables was very post-rock and this is not a post-rock album at all. We look back at it and see the songs on Cables as sketches and fragments of songs. On this album we wanted each of the songs to be selfcontained from beginning to end. Cables was more of a journey from start to finish where each song blended into each other, so picking out each of the songs in isolation didn’t work so well, but this album you can.”

WHO: Steering By Stars WHAT: The Cold Embrace album launch (with Sincerely, Grizzly and Swimming) WHERE: Jive WHEN: Fri May 10

Carclew’s Off The Couch Q+A After 17 years of incredible service to emerging South Australian musicians, Carclew’s Off The Couch program is being held for the final time.

Naturally, they are going out with a bang, holding a mini-music festival at Carclew House, featuring past Off The Couch performers and emerging talent. Rip It Up threw a few questions at Off The Couch co-ordinator Alice Fraser and team members Ursula, Shannen, Hannah, Ella and Gabby about what we can expect from Off The Couch’s last huzzah.

How has Off The Couch helped local musicians for 17 years?

Since 1995 Off The Couch has provided performance and development opportunities for more than 2,500 young and emerging musicians and event coordinators, reaching a total audience of 67,000 live music enthusiasts. From the program’s reach in regional areas to the live shows here in Adelaide, it’s fair to say the impact has been widespread across the emerging arts sector.

How does Off The Couch involve people other than musicians?

Off The Couch brings together young people who are keen to learn more about the live music and events industry. The team meet weekly in the months leading up to the event and each week there is a guest at the workshop including event and music industry leaders and local up-andcomers who impart their wisdom to the team.

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Sparkspitter Support OM Local experimental art-pop project Sparkspitter and funk-jazz fusion Rendezvous With Rama have landed themselves a supporting slot for Om. For the uninitiated, Om is a genre-bending mix of Gregorian chant, ambient metal with stoner rock and psychedelic metal.

Given the mathematical philosophy behind much of Sparkspitter’s music, you can expect these two bands to create a truly religious experience for fans of experimental music and those looking for something a little bit abstract.

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“Every person in the band was having big changes in their life in terms of relationships and careers,” vocalist and frontman Lachlan James Wilson says. “For me personally, writing the record I really threw myself in there. I was not in a good place at the time.”

Relationship issues and the fact that two of the band members now live in Melbourne scratch the surface of what Steering By Stars had to overcome while making The Cold Embrace.The band’s rehearsal and recording sessions were closely recorded by Optic Factory Productions, which will result in a

documentary about the band making The Cold Embrace. For a band already undertaking such heavy material, why make it so obvious and document it?

“I think we had an interesting story to tell,” Wilson says. “I obviously had a lot to write about and express musically, lyrically and vocally, so it was a really personal artistic venture. We wanted to spoil the audience by giving them the story behind the record and not just the record itself.”

Wilson notes this idea of sharing the story of the album is a novel one, given the largely impersonal nature of the modern digital music landscape.

“With music now mainly being online, everyone feels pressured to pump out new material every couple of months or so.

When you release an album, unless you’re blown away by it, a lot of the music gets lost in the ether. If you can try and make it as personal for people who connect with it as it is for the artists, it shows really powerful personal nature. We aim to do it in every part of the creative process.”

If their description of their music as “cowboy ballads, sea shanties and delicious dark folk tales” isn’t endearing enough, the fact they used the term “May the 4th be with you” in a press release for their upcoming show at the Wheatsheaf Hotel on Sat May 4 should be telling enough.

Brillig have gained a lot of traction overseas for their home-grown take on folk Americana and alternative acoustic music.

Brillig will be hitting the stage with Rev Spud McGeek, bringing their sometimes melancholic, sometimes uplifting but always emotional music from 9pm.

Archives Young Love (Independent)

If Off The Couch is ending, how will Carclew be supporting young musicians in the future?

Off The Couch has been one of Carclew’s longest running programs and was first introduced to combat a lack of performance opportunities for young and emerging musicians. Seventeen years later, the music industry has experienced rapid growth. With the new business models operating today there are now a variety of performance opportunities for developing musicians and bands.

Carclew have introduced Fifth Quarter, an initiative that assists all artists in business and career development. Carclew will continue to work closely with early career musicians to develop the business skills they need to realise a sustainable career as an artist. Along with Fifth Quarter, Carclew also offer a range of grant

and scholarship opportunities to pursue professional artistic development.

How is this Off The Couch different to the previous events?

Previous Off The Couch programs have consisted of a series of gigs held at various venues around Adelaide. This year we are running a mini-festival fittingly on the site where it all began, Carclew House.

One event. A one-off. One. Never again.

Unique and sentimental, we may even cry, which we’re pretty sure hasn’t happened before.

WHAT: Carclew’s Off The Couch Farewell WHERE: Carclew House, 11 Jeffcott St WHEN: Sat May 4, 3pm-10pm ENTRY: Free

The explosive debut EP from local post-hardcore outfit Archives may be brief, but succeeds in whetting appetites for what’s to come in the future.

The EP is a cohesive flow of four tracks, which is advantageous as it allows title track Young Love to stand above the others, but detrimental as the other tracks are pushed aside as a pre- and postscript to the leading single. The lyrics are vastly morose and pessimistic, which can help explain the screamed lyrics, which are poetic to the point that they come across like a post-hardcore haiku. Title track Young Love is the standout and rounds out the EP, with meshing of the echo, guitar riff and percussion swelling to a big finish for the album. Wisely, closing track A Home For The Incurables is more of a coda than stand-alone track. The decision to have Tom Baker of California mix the record (Baker has mixed for 30 Seconds To Mars, Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie) pays off in how he manages to build the EP to ensure Young Love remains its pinnacle. Hopefully this isn’t a one-off polished effort from Archives, but instead a sign of more substantial and impressive things to come.

Lachlan Aird

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