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Editor’s Note// As Arya Stark might say, "Winter is coming". Now that we’re evading frigid beer gardens and nippy al fresco dining in favour of hearty meals and snugs warmed by open fires, entertainment fiends could do worse than looking to the cinema for some alternative hot options over the coming months. In 2009 director JJ Abrams took Star Trek, a franchise routinely mocked by non-believers (think: The Simpsons’ besmirching via Comic Book Guy’s tubby foibles), and affectionately rebooted it with chutzpah, grandiosity and humour. Abrams has since signed on to similarly navigate the Star Wars empire back on course, but first he’s delivered Star Trek Into Darkness, another illogically well-crafted homage to the crew of the USS Enterprise. If Oblivion and Iron Man III haven’t already sent action and sci-fi fans into paroxysms in recent months, there are plenty more ridiculously explosive juggernauts just around the corner. Zack Snyder’s Man Of Steel looks set to do for Superman what its producer Christopher Nolan did for Batman via his Dark Knight Trilogy. Director Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim and Will Smith’s post-apocalyptic After Earth are two other futuristic, pyro-heavy options hitting the big screen soon. Cinema-goers looking for something a little classier in the next few weeks might wish to opt for The Great Gatsby (or maybe Fast And Furious 6?), but personally I’m crossing my fingers this month’s The Hangover III finishes the trilogy off with a bang… or at least features Mike Tyson singing some more Phil Collins.
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Lately Adelaide has been painted red – or, rather, sprayed. The inaugural Oi You! Urban Art Festival officially opened three weeks ago, and has since slowly transformed Adelaide into a heaving, vibrant lattice of murals from some of the world’s best street artists, including Rone’s recent piece on Bank St (pictured).
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklynborn mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the illgotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and – if he has his way – every wire bet placed west of Chicago. A small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling) come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart. Log onto ripitup.com. au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five copies of Gangster Squad on DVD. Competition closes at midday on Wed May 15.
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In other exciting news, art space The Mill will officially launch next Fri May 17. The newly opened, gargantuan, two-storey Angas St warehouse, put together by two bright young thinkers, boasts the capacity to house up to 44 practicing artists alongside a gallery space up the front. We talked to co-founders Amber and Erin about their journey from getting the keys to completely booking out their artist residencies - you can read that online too. In other news, we are looking for a super sweet digital editorial intern. If you think you’ve got the writing chops, head to facebook.com/ripitupmag for more information on applying.
A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change in London in the ‘50s, Call The Midwife offers a gripping insight into a world that is so drastically different from how we live now. Based on the best-selling memoirs by Jennifer Worth, Call The Midwife is set to become a favourite in the period drama realm. Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five box sets consisting of series one and two. Competition closes at midday on Wed May 15.
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Tame Impala
They Might Be Giants
Gung Ho
The Perth psychedelic juggernauts will take to the Thebarton Theatre on Thu May 9 as a part of a national tour in between their international touring commitments. No more fears of only going backwards. No, sir.
As a sideshow for Groovin’ The Moo, They Might Be Giants will pay Adelaide a visit for the first time in over a decade, performing at the Governor Hindmarsh on Thu May 9.
The Brisbane indie pop outfit named after the ‘90s US television series are making their way to Rocket Bar on Fri May 10. Joining them are Bored Nothing and StepPanther.
Tenacious D
Rachel Leahcar
The Time Of My Life Tour
The comic rock duo that boasts Jack Black as one half of its arsenal is heading to the Thebarton Theatre on Tue May 14, supported by Damien Power and Sasquatch.
Catch one of Adelaide’s strongest contestants from last year, Rachael Leahcar as she performs her first headline concert in her hometown at the Space Theatre on Thu May 9.
Silver foxes of Australian rock, Daryl Braithwaite, Joe Camilleri, James Reyne and Ross Wilson, will descend upon the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Fri May 10. Lock up your mums.
Speeding along this week... YACHT - Portland’s indie/dance duo returns to Adelaide to fill Rocket Bar with disco-punk tracks from their five full-length albums on Thu May 9.
MASKETTA FALL & CALL THE SHOTS Melbourne pop rock five-piece Masketta Fall are heading to Fowler’s Live on Sat May 11 to celebrate the launch of their debut EP, Something Beautiful.
ADELAIDE CINEMATHÉQUE - Adelaide Cinemathéque, now in its 26th year, continues its festival of classic films from around the world. Get in quick before its program concludes with L’Eclisse on Mon May 13.
MOTHER’S DAY - Don’t freaking forget! If you’ve still got some time up your sleeve until Sun May 12, spoil mum with a Mother’s Day lunch at the Adelaide Casino, choosing between either a buffet lunch or four-course tasting menu in North.
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Dinner And A Show Spin Me Right Round Splendour’s little sister Spin Off is going to strut her stuff once more this year, with a decent slice of the main festival’s top acts and Of Monsters & Men and Passion Pit headlining the mini-fest. Representing Australia at Spin Off 2013: Flume’s homeboy Chet Faker, Brisbane’s finest stomp-pop group The Jungle Giants and the always blissed out Dune Rats. LA’s FIDLAR
(or Fuck It Dog, Life’s A Risk) round out the line-up so far. Spin Off will take place at Thebarton Theatre on Fri Aug 2. Spin Off mailing list subscribers can get pre-sale tickets now, with tickets going to general sale on Fri May 10 through Venuetix. Considering Splendour sold out in under an hour, you’ll want to snap up Spin Off tickets as quickly as you can.
Prepare to broaden your horizons – Rasa Duende is coming to town. Catching the WOMAD crowd in a post-festival slump, Bobby Singh (tabla), Adrian McNeil (sarod) and Damian Wright (flamenco guitar) will play creations from their forthcoming album Improvisations at Nexus Arts on Fri Jun 21. As a further incentive to see the show, the first 50 ticket-holders will be treated to a 40-minute live cooking demonstration: Hindustani food with a Spanish flavour flair. See topshelf.com.au/ rasaduende for ticket details.
The Living Ash Mayday Mayday Bored with ‘standard’ and ‘cool’ music, Abbe May decided to write her own. The result is Kiss My Apocalypse, a sex-drenched travel through time to the sad end of the
‘70s and the Enya end of the ‘80s. You can hear her retro-porn rock with a Bat For Lashes twist on Sat Jun 15 at the Governor Hindmarsh.
Blues roots and a dash of Australian punk? Why not? Ash Grunwald is hitting the road with The Living End’s Scott Owen and Andy Strachan for a nationwide tour this June. Owen and Grunwald have been friends for years and their wives play together in a band, Mr Cassidy. The Governor Hindmarsh will play host to the trio on Fri Jun 7. Aside from a heavy cover of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy, it is yet to be revealed what musical treats await your ears.
Bon Voyage For the first time in 18 years, Bon Jovi will be arriving in Adelaide on Wed Dec 11, set for a stadium show at AAMI. Tickets for the Because We Can tour start at a polite $35 + bf, which is a nice early Christmas treat for BJ fans. The concert promises all the hits you know and love, plus new tracks from their latest album What About Now. Support from Telstra means that customers of the telco can snag pre-sale tickets from Mon May 13 (there’s still time to switch your provider if you’re super keen). Regular humans can purchase tickets through Ticketmaster from midday on Mon May 20.
Taking time off from teenage hi-jinks and super hardcore pranks, THE JANOSKIANS are waving their #NotABoyBand anarchy flag and are ready to conquer Adelaide. Tough like 5ive versus Westlife, The Janoskians offer up more leather, studs and backwards caps than fellow Australians Five Seconds Of Summer. Although Twitter-organised fan flashmobs have leant the Janoskians an “unpredictable mystique”, you can bet your bottom dollar they’ll be on stage at Thebarton Theatre on Thu Jun 27. To prepare yourself for the performance, get listening to their latest single Best Friends.
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Thirty Years Of Cyndi Cyndi Lauper’s first album She’s So Unusual sold 16 million copies and had four top five hits in the Billboard 100: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Time After Time, She Bop and All Through The Night. This year, Lauper is
celebrating her very first successes in her 30th anniversary tour. Catch Cyndi performing every track from She’s So Unusual live on stage at the Festival Theatre on Wed Sep 4. Tickets are available through BASS.
They’ve just finished a sold-out tour with Dead Letter Circus and now BREAKING ORBIT are heading out on their own. The Silence Seekers tour will focus on their latest single of the same name, taken from their debut album. Breaking Orbit will play at Enigma Bar on Sat Jun 15.
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Yep, Jep & Dep Darren Cross (ex-Gerling) has linked up with Jessica Cassar to form Jep & Dep. Bluesy with drawling nasal vocals and slow,
marching music, Jep & Dep haven’t been around for long but have nailed down an EP Through The Night. Head along to the Exeter on Fri May 17 to hear it. Darren Cross solo will support Jep & Dep, and then the pair will sprint around the block to Ghost Ships for a DJ set.
Seven-piece bands are generally reserved for swing dance halls and people with a lot of horns to get off their chest. VOLUMES are a little bit different, with all their members working to combine metal, rap, jazz and more to form their loud and particular sound. Two lead vocalists also dive into the mix to add an extra layer of creative tension. Having just released their debut album Via, this is a fine time to head along to hear what Volumes are trying to create. See them at Fowler’s Live on Fri Sep 6.
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Corby Comes Home Taking Out The Thrash Even though they’re from Virginia – the least punk-sounding of all the US states – Municipal Waste is as grungey and garagey as the name suggests. The American crew is
zipping around the country this winter and will be playing an all-ages gig at Fowler’s Live on Thu Jun 20. Wolfpack will be supporting, with further special guests to be announced.
Done with Europe and the US for now, Australian Idol contestant Matt Corby is coming back to tour his home country. Corby will use the tour dates to preview his long-awaited debut album. Joined by Grace Woodroofe, the pair will acoustically delight crowds at HQ on Sun May 26.
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Star Trek Into Darkness Star Trek Into Darkness has more than its fair share of secrets and spoilers, and actor Karl Urban (AKA Dr Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy) amusingly states that, strictly speaking, there are so many that he doesn’t really know what to start talking about first during this interview. I’d like to make a joke about how the secrets make it impossible for us to talk about the film,” he begins, “but I’m afraid that I can’t do that because I’m not allowed to talk about it!” But hang on, no, he is allowed to talk about it, so first off: was there always going to be a sequel to producer/director JJ Abrams’ ‘Origins’ tale/general reboot of Star Trek back in 2009? And did Urban originally sign up for more than just the one movie? “Nothing is ever certain, of course, and that is particularly true in the world of film. And if the first film hadn’t worked and hadn’t struck such a wonderful reception then we wouldn’t be having this conversation! But the first film was a massive hit everywhere and that gave us the mandate to go on and continue the journey… When we all signed on to do the first film we actually all signed on to do three of them, so there was no debate about me doing this one, as I had to.” Urban also fondly remembers watching the original Star Trek television series as a kid during the ‘70s, back in his childhood home in New Zealand, and even admits to being a bit
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of a fanboy. “I loved the original series, yes, of course. You know, I grew up in a period when George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were making their first movies and, really, that was all very much up my alley, and I do think that JJ was hugely influenced by filmmakers like that and that movement in general.” But he didn’t rewatch the original episodes after being cast and study the original Bones (as played by the late DeForest Kelley).
“When we all signed on to do the first film we actually all signed on to do three of them, but the first film was a massive hit everywhere and that gave us the mandate to continue the journey…” “I watched the original episodes with my son about two years before I found out that JJ was rebooting it, but when the time came around for me to actually do the first film, and indeed this film, I didn’t feel the need to go back and watch them all again. I suppose that by a process of osmosis I had absorbed the character and the archetypes and all the relationships. I suppose that I was delivering the essence of what DeForest had done, but I was also trying to give a fresh and individual interpretation of it as well.”
Urban also rejects the notion that Kelley’s Bones is in any way a secondary character to Captain James Kirk and First Officer Spock, and that he tends to rather stand in the background in the original series (and the resulting movies) while Kirk goes all heroic (and gets all the babes) and Spock offers all the best quizzical, pseudo-philosophical one-liners. “That’s not exactly an accurate description, I don’t think, no. How these characters came about was that Gene Roddenberry, who created the series in the ‘60s, was faced with the dilemma of how he was going to externalise what’s going on internally during the times when Captain Kirk is debating about whatever predicament that the crew was in. And so he created these two opposing characters, with Spock representing logic and science and rational thought and McCoy representing humanity and emotion and passion. And when these characters are put together, and they put their cases to Kirk, he would take in both arguments and then set a course of action... And McCoy did have girlfriends during the series!” Urban (who actually gets the first line in the whole movie: “Someone had to, so it might as well have been me!”) also praises Abrams for the general “realism” of the new Star Trek, despite the wealth of FX and visual trickeries. “One of the great things that JJ has done with this is that many of the sets that we were all working on were actually built, and if there is a green screen then it’s usually at the back of a ginormous set. For the opening sequence he actually built this entire red [spoiler details deleted!]… And he also built more of
A Creeping Sense Of Dredd Karl Urban’s other great science fiction outing in recent times was, of course, his starring role as the titular figure in director Pete Travis’ Dredd last year, as drawn from the somewhat infamous (and certainly often misunderstood) 2000 AD character. So does Urban think there will be a sequel to that one? “I do think that that’s a long shot. I’m very proud of that film but I think that it was really only originally conceived as a oneoff… But it’s got amazing staying power, and it’s extraordinary how much I’m talking about it, even with the Star Trek fans!”
the actual Enterprise than ever before, and so all those elements were really there, and therefore little had to be left to the actors’ imaginations.” And, while it’s hardly a scoop, especially as Into Darkness is obviously going to be another humungous hit: will there be a third Abrams Star Trek? “I could lay a bet on this film being a big hit, yes… Certainly I really enjoy making these movies, and I have a great time working with this cast, and with JJ, and so, of course, if he and the rest of them want to make more movies then yep, please count me in!”
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Junk In The Trunk Calling from his sofa in London at the “ungodly hour” of 9am, guitarist Hugh Harris is usually the “getting up and having a purpose” type, but with his current, more relaxed Kooks-schedule, there’s no reason he can’t sleep in. His unbroken morning voice concurs. ast in the country for Splendour In The Grass in 2012, Harris says The Kooks are “ecstatic” to return Down Under. “We have the best time down there, it’s insane. Everyone loves it.” Prior to their first tour of Australia, the band weren’t sure what to expect and had some preconceived ideas about what Australians would be like. “I’m half-Australian, and I was a bit nervous about the [debut] trek when we went there and whether the guys would get beaten up
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by bogans or jocks, or whether they’ll not get beaten up and just like have the best time on the beach,” he jokes. “And luckily the latter happened and we all fell slightly in love.” Harris adds a touch of seriousness as he explains his experience at Falls Festival, which the band first played in 2008. “Especially in Lorne, there was a real treasure trove of aggression. I thought surfing people were supposed to be quite relaxed and hippie-d up, but they’re not.” Though we can’t claim Harris as one of our own – he has given us permission to claim half of him – he goes on to admit that Australia is his favourite place to tour, as it allows him to see his family in Corryong, Victoria. Or as he likes to tag it, “the middle of nowhere”. “I have cousins, I have aunties, uncles [who all live in Australia]. My dad’s Australian. My sister lives in Melbourne. So, yeah, the best tour for me is going to Australia because I get to see family.“ Harris would love to unleash new material on
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The Keytar, The Secret Hugh Harris jokes The Kooks might be travelling in a completely new direction on their forthcoming fourth album. Or not… “I was thinking of swapping my guitar for a keytar at one point but I realised I’d have to shoot myself in my face if I were to do that, from the shame,” he laughs. “But it’s mainly about the songwriting and melody for us whether that’s on a keytar or a gee-tar, it’s irrelevant for us, really. There’s more modern stuff on this music but there’s also guitar stuff.”
this tour, since it has been nearly two years since their latest offering, Junk Of The Heart, but there’s something preventing them from doing so. “I really, really would love to play some new songs. It’s going to be really difficult for us to go back to the old ones, but we’re not really finished with the new album yet. So, if we did – which all of us would be up for – they wouldn’t really be the right versions. But we may play one or two new songs, yeah. I’d really love for that to happen. I’ll be pushing for it.” With an EP or single expected to drop in the middle of the year, Harris believes the new music has reinspired the band. “We’re working really spontaneously. We’ve got songs down already and it’s sounding very fresh and very exciting, but it’s hard to talk about music. It’s very difficult to explain to somebody what music sounds like. For me, it’s something that has kind of given me a lot of energy, and I think I can probably say the same about all of us. We’ve sort of found our feet again.” The last thing Harris wants The Kooks to become is a band exhausted with their art. “I’ve seen bands at festivals on stage, completely disinterested in what they do and completely kind of like, not there, not engaged with their music. And for us, we don’t want to get to a point where we get sick of anything. Like, that’s the importance of evolution. You know, if you’re not enjoying something then you know, change it, make it yours.” And this evolution has gone beyond their music. With a strong fanbase, The Kooks have utilised their power for good and philanthropy, choosing to donate a portion of their ticket sales to charities like the Kato Fund, which advocates human rights and equality. “It means a lot to the world, especially in countries like America, where it’s just such a modern country yet it has such dated rights. It means a massive amount to us. But I mean combining music and politics is always a dangerous thing, but having said that, if you do have a voice and an audience you should try and use it for a good cause. If you have an audience then you have a voice and you can use it for the right reason.” WHO: The Kooks WHERE: Thebarton Theatre WHEN: Fri May 10
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I’m A Belieber Funeral For A Friend drummer Pat Lundy is a self-confessed “windup merchant”, using his fandom of Justin Bieber to irritate his bandmates. He suggests his riling plays an important part in the band’s explosive live shows.
Funeral For A Friend tub-thumper Pat Lundy, who joined the Welsh posthardcore/melodic hardcore crew last year, has the unique perspective of having been a fan of the band, then losing touch with them musically before eventually reconnecting with their new approach. Luckily the latter happened at the time they had an opening on the drummer’s stool. his enabled Lundy, previously of English metalcore outfit (and former Funeral For A Friend touring buddies) Rise To Remain to slot neatly into the ranks. “[ Joining the band] was unexpected, because I’d heard through the grapevine that Ryan [Richards] was leaving, but I didn’t know when and how it was all going to roll out,” he explains. “One day I got a call from Bouch [Richard Boucher], who plays bass and he asked me to come out to Cardiff, because I live in London, to do an audition. Rise had toured with Funeral a whole bunch, so I knew them real well, and we all really got on from like the very first tour. I was crazy young and learned a lot from those guys. So it has worked out in a weird kind of way, like the universe was aligned. It was all in the timing.” Considering he was only enlisted mid-last year, how much songwriting input did he have on the latest record, Conduit? “Well, it was weird, because the drums had been tracked by their previous drummer. When I joined, they asked before I’d said anything really, they were like, ‘Right, we’re going to put you into the studio and you’re gonna track the drums again’. I guess I was able to change a lot of the dynamics in the drums and add a lot of my own fills, but within what they’d done already. On the next record obviously I’ll be a part of the entire writing process, so that’ll be a treat.” Despite being a fully-fledged member, Lundy can still adopt a pseudo-outsider’s viewpoint when evaluating the band’s career. “I think the music changed drastically when [2003 debut] Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation came out. They lost me as a fan, but yeah, it all worked out, the band is in a good place. Everyone’s really stoked, ‘cause when you’re really excited about the music that you’ve made, going out and touring it isn’t ever going to be a chore. No matter how hectic the schedule, you’ll just love it, because the shows will always be rad, you’ll all be enjoying what you’re playing and vibing off on-stage.” Lundy also hints that Funeral For A Friend’s recent output is more along the lines of what he himself enjoys musically. “When I started Rise I was really young, and when I was young, I was into really aggressively offensive, horrible music,” he laughs. “Not horrible, but the kind of growling stuff that I guess related to me at that age. As I’ve got older I’ve got into more and more stuff, and I would definitely say that Funeral now is more of the demographic of what I would be into. I suppose I grew up on hardcore as well, so straying from metal doesn’t seem like too weird of a thing for me to do. While I’m able-bodied, I want to fuck my body up playing really hard shit, playing really fast and whatever. I don’t want to join a jazz band yet, you know what I mean? I guess I knew that they were convinced of a new, heavy dynamic and it felt right to be a part of it.” Having spent almost the entirety of 2012 recording their new album, Funeral For A Friend return to Australia, where the quintet has amassed a strong fanbase. Their upcoming run is their most extensive visit Down Under to date. “I guess when you get into the swing of things it’s kind of like, ‘tour mode’, we call it, when you get into a rhythm of touring. It’s nigh on impossible to break that unless you have more than a fortnight off… I don’t think that’s even happening at all this year.”
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“It’s just laid-back; we all take the piss and just have fun. I get the guys pissed off all day long; play music that they hate and just throw stuff at them. Get them all pissed off, unplug their iPod chargers and shit - real twisted stuff. So when they get on-stage, they kick right into gear and just let it all out.”
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I Wanna Be A Zorb If you’re ever in the UK and you happen across a televised weather report, you might see coverage of the Scottish town of Stornoway on the Hebridean Isle Of Lewis. The idyllic coastal township is one with a rich seafaring history. Dating back as far as 5000 years, the island has been an important part of sea travel and trade. resent day Stornoway boasts a marina, moorings for pleasure craft, a small shipyard and three large piers for commercial traffic, firmly rooting the town in its nautical days of old. Throughout history, man has had a fascination with the sea. The beauty of the open ocean has enraptured many with its mystery and danger. For four friends growing up in the landlocked area of Oxford, England, the town of Stornoway encapsulated their ideals and
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eventually became their adopted name. Rip It Up chats with Rob Steadman, one of the founding members of Stornoway, to discuss the band’s new album, op-shopping, and why they chose to name themselves after a sleepy little island community. “The name is not literal, none of us come from or live in Stornoway: Brian [Briggs, guitar] has Irish roots, Jon [Ouin, keyboards] is from London and my brother Oli and I are from South Africa. We all live in Oxford and make our music there. The name is metaphorical. For us it captures a romantic sense of isolation and exploration.” While it may be easy to classify Stornoway’s sound as folk-driven indie pop, for a band that grew up in the predominately residential and industrial area of Oxford, their preoccupation with all things nautical is a bit perplexing. “Brian [Stornoway’s singer, lyricist and guitarist] has long held a strong affinity for all things maritime, and the rest of us all share in this love of the outdoors and adventure.” Stornoway’s big break came with the release of
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A Brief History of Zorbing The first zorbing site was established in Rotorua, New Zealand by David and Andrew Akers. Also known as: globe-riding, sphereing and orbing. ‘Zorbing’ entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2001. Zorbing facilities can be found on the Gold Coast in Queensland. The longest zorbing ride recorded was 570 metres. The fastest zorbing ride recorded was 52 kilometres per hour.
their first single, Zorbing, back in 2009. Zorbing is the term given to the act of climbing inside a giant inflatable hamster ball and wilfully rolling down a steep hill, something these adventure seekers had never done prior to writing the song. “It was well after the song was written and released that we were invited to Zorb in Devon. You can choose to ride in a dry Zorb into which you are strapped, or, you can all jump in to a Zorb filled with soapy water, which during the course of our ride down the hill we all drank unwillingly by the gallon.” While their debut album was steeped in American folk, the band’s newest outing, Tales From Terra Firma, marks some subtle but noticeable departures. The lyrics are larger in scope and more abstract, and the band have provided evidence of sonic experimentation. “As with everything we do, it was a natural evolution that came about through life changes. It might seem obvious but we feel that when you have new things to say, you end up saying new things. [For example, the song] Hook, Line, Sinker is indeed a departure for us, but we felt it was a good example of how we’ve developed since the last album in terms of instrumentation and style.” Speaking of style, in almost every press photo and promotional video one can find, the boys of Stornoway seem to have a strict fashion policy. Their proclivity for flannel and plaid could even be described as a uniform. Rip It Up enquires about the band’s love affair with these patterns, and whether or not flannel and plaid encapsulate the spirit of the band. “We just have bad dress sense! And shop exclusively at charity shops - those well-known emporia of plaid and flannel.” The album art for the band’s new album, Tales From Terra Firma, reminds us of the box art for an old Nintendo game called Little Nemo: The Dream Master, which was based on an animated Japanese movie called Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland. Rip It Up asks if any of the bandmates had played the game, and suggested that Adventures In Slumberland might be a good title for their third LP. “As a band we had an idea of the image we wanted for the front cover, which artist Kirini Kopcke and I worked to realise. We haven’t played that game. I only ever played backgammon - do you think this could be a good album title?” WHO: Stornoway WHAT: Tales From Terra Firma (4AD/Remote Control)
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Interviews// Soul Brothers Sticky Fingers’ inception began like most Aussie acts – playing gigs, assembling demos and essentially looking around for that elusive break that can prop up a promising young band into believing something bigger exists. But it wasn’t until the band of misfits took matters into their own hands that they actually began to see the first signs of success. You can kind of tie in the origins of the band back to Newtown Festival and a bunch of milk crates,” Paddy Cornwall, the group’s bassist and seemingly head troublemaker, laughs. “We wanted to play the festival and got knocked back five years in a row, so on the third year, we went and got 500 milk crates and built a make-shift stage in our friend’s backyard, which overlooked the festival. We then hired a sound system and unofficially headlined it.
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That was in 2010 and the organisers actually saw us play that gig and invited us back the following year for a prime spot on the main stage.” Had it not been for that forced headline place at the Newtown Festival, the band would have never met their future collaborator, Dann Hume. “He was in the crowd and saw us play and was under the impression he was watching this famous band he hadn’t heard of,” Cornwall chuckles. “We had lots of mates up the front, going wild and singing every word – he expressed to us later that he had a sense of missing out on something. He contacted us after that and said he wanted to work with us. We were touched but didn’t have many dollars, [but] he said he could make something work because he liked the band so much. We sent him Caress Your Soul and Clouds And Cream and he thought they were amazing, he really understood the sound and talked us into doing an album.” It was the song Caress Your Soul that eventually did place Sticky Fingers loudly and proudly on the musical radar. It was one of the biggest Australian alternative hits of the year, receiving a thrashing on Triple J and landing in at number 61 on the station’s Hottest 100, attracting 200,000 clip views and
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generally making a mark. “It was interesting the way it happened, to be honest,” Cornwall explains. “When we first started working on what was to become the album, it was only going to be a five-track EP and Caress Your Soul wasn’t even going to make that cut. The song started off almost as a little warm-up thing in the garage and when we started jamming it out in the studio a little faster, the engineer who recorded it came and listened to it and it sort of started to make sense. I guess we didn’t really hear it as a pop song before that and then it just came together really well in the studio.” With a proper hit under their devilish belts, Sticky Fingers began to eye the recording of a full album. “I guess having lots of friends in lots of different bands, we were all very aware of the idea of releasing an album too early, it can be released into an abyss and no one is going to give a fuck. We had the idea that we didn’t want to burst the bubble, we wanted to get that attention first and then release the album, even back to that DIY gig. That was the first time we started developing a bit of a fanbase that extended beyond our circle of friends.” Caress Your Soul is everything a debut should be, solidifying their swiftly growing reputation as one of the country’s must-see live acts. “I think one thing we’ve been lucky enough to realise early is to know what to focus on as a band. Don’t even bother inviting the people from Big Day Out to your gigs because, if you’re good enough, they’ll naturally come to you in a roundabout way too. The way we see it, if we don’t get asked to play those festivals or whatever this year, then we’ll just be headlining next year.”
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The Tongue Having just released his third and most compelling album, Surrender To Victory, The Tongue will be heading on the road for a national headline tour, backed by the beats of super-producer Cam Bluff. The Sydney rapper’s live show is coanchored by DMC champion DJ Skoob, making this one of Oz hip hop’s most dynamic duos, with the MC having also played most of the biggest Australian festivals including the Big Day Out, Groovin The Moo, Good Vibrations and Come Together, just to name a bunch. Most recently, The Tongue joined Mac Miller during his east coast tour, with his own upcoming headline jaunt set to include a host of special guests from across his extended family around the country. The Tongue also recently made history as the first international hip hop act to play in Cambodia at the Tiger Translate Festival, so don’t miss him at Rocket Bar as he covers both his new and older material. The Tongue plays at Rocket Bar on Sat Jul 6.
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Although Juan Atkins’s music has been embraced all around the world – and particularly in Europe – exposure in his native US has been limited, despite the DJ originating in Detroit (his first and only American hit being the 1983 electro classic Clear, released as part of the duo Cybotron). From 1985 a series of important records on Metroplex under the name Model 500 started coming out and continue to do so today, while Atkins has also been putting out albums, remixes and collaborations on Belgium’s R&S Records, Germany’s Tresor as well as others. The Model 500 12”s laid the blueprint for Detroit techno and although much has been made of his pioneering early work, Atkins has also continued his efforts in progressing electronic music far into tomorrow. Providing one of the best introductions to Detroit techno, Atkins’ live sets are where the real magic happens – catch him at Sugar in July.
The brainchild of Jonathan Bates of M83/Mellowdrone, Big Black Delta have been creating serious buzz overseas, counting Jay-Z as a mega-fan following their remixes of the likes of Daft Punk and M83. With their new single Side Of The Road already earning rave reviews, Big Black Delta have just released their debut self-titled album via OneLove.
Juan Atkins plays at Sugar on Sat Jul 13.
Jeff Mills Considered one of the most brilliant techno DJ/producers in the world, Jeff Mills is returning to Australia next month. While Mills usually averages around 100 shows a year, his projects go further than just techno, having collaborated with Mad Mike Banks in the collective Underground Resistance, representing the more political leanings of Detroit techno, as well as starting up his own imprint Axis in 1992, thereby maintaining his independence and producing his own compositions inspired by science fiction. The standard-bearer for mixing on three decks, Mills holds a notion of music as an art-form and last year celebrated the two decade anniversary of Axis Records with a book and compilation of some of the best music released over the years. Don’t miss him at Sugar in June. Jeff Mills plays at Sugar on Fri Jun 7.
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The follow-up to 2009’s gamechanging Guns Don’t Kill People... Lazers Do saw Diplo lose his Major Lazer counterpart Switch, but pick up producers/DJs Jillionare and Walshy Fire. Free The Universe features some wacky collaborations with basically everyone that’s relevant in modern popular music, from Santigold, Peaches, Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend to Bruno Mars and some blasts from the pasts including Shaggy and Ms Dynamite. All the collaborators are true to their musical form (Peaches aligns WikiLeaks with bodily fluids – obviously) although Koenig succeeds in trying something new, nailing reggae track Jessica. The album would please people of any musical taste. No matter whether you agree or not with Diplo dipping his fingers in all the music pies (collaborating with the likes of Beyonce, No Doubt, Usher and Snoop Lion on their releases) Free The Universe is as addictive as some of the substances Santigold refers to in You’re No Good, but less dangerous to your health. Lachlan Aird
Yes, you’re a ladies’ man, LL Cool J, but the further you go with the rapper’s first album in five years, the cheesier it gets. Authentic kicks off with the Salt N Pepa-sampled Push It, with LL proclaiming he’s “A bastard, and I’ve got the game mastered”... Except he’s really not, which you discover a few tracks later. He’s actually kind of a... sweetheart. Sometimes the material gets so loveydovey that it makes you cringe (Between The Sheetz) and the addition of Seal on Give Me Love doesn’t help the corniness in any way whatsoever. Authentic’s saving grace comes in the form of Earth Wind & Fire on the funkalicious Something About You (Love The World) which proves to be one of the more mature efforts. After all, James Smith is now 45 years old and not even he can be bothered impressing the younger generation: “Never try to sound like a rapper I raised” (Bath Salt). Simone Keenan
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Side Of The Road has been getting amazing reviews, tell us about the track... The track was just something I wanted to hear that relaxed me. Forgiveness in sound. A simple pop song that had width to it sonically. I’ve learned I have no bearing how something is received, so I’m of course stoked people are checking it out. Tell us more about the rest of the album – what was a direct influence on it? Depression, boredom, fear, violence, acceptance. None of that stuff is too bright, but that’s what I was going through during that last period of time. Saw and went through some shit that has forced me to reckon with the present. A lot of songs to have visceral moments too. Hoping babies be getting made.
!!! !!!’s fifth album features the band’s best cover art and album title to date but more importantly (and surprisingly) the bold album name continues the Sacramento band’s run of consistently brilliant funkified dance-punk since second album Louden Up Now. !!! will never surpass the frenetic epic of a single that introduced them to global audiences (2003’s Me And Giuliani Down By The School Yard (A True Story)) but !!! have consolidated to become the best album band to emerge from the dance-punk craze of the noughties. Single Slyd is an instant classic with an ass-shaking bassline, sped up vocal samples, house beat and strange vocals from Nic Offer. This album is full of basslines that will lead you to the dancefloor (especially Get That Rhythm Right, Californiayeah and One Girl/One Boy) while none reach Billie Jean heights (what song could?), the basslines drive the album to giddy heights with musical thrills, pills and bellyaches. Jeff Spicoli
What was your main intention for this project when you started it? I had recently just finished doing Mellowdrone stuff. We had been dropped by our second major label and I decided to deliver gear and hang in nine-to-five land. After a year or so of inactivity, I just naturally began making songs again. Just ‘cause. I’ve never been able to sit at the beginning of something and set parameters or write a manifesto of intentions. I don’t have the minutes for that. Just make shit and leave.
What’s your connection to M83? Mellowdrone was my band and my songs and production. It was just a younger period of time and soundscapes for me. The business surrounding it is what tired me of it. During some down time, I got a call from a mutual friend asking if I’d fill in on guitar for M83. Went on the road with them and became friends with Anthony, Loic and Morgan. Good dudes. Everyone has the same sense of humour. All of them have been incredibly supportive and have even taken BBD out on tour with them.
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Calendar/ Fri May 10 Ryan Riback (Red Square) Sat May 11 Hook N Sling (Apple Bar) Thu May 16 Seth Sentry (The Gov) Fri May 17 Sampology, Kilter, Slamagotchi (Rocket Bar) Sat May 18 Fishing (Ed Castle) 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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Azealia Banks might learn something from Rudimental. The Hackney, London D&B quartet – Leon Rolle, Piers Aggett, Kesi Dryden and Amir Amor – are premiering with an album, Home, only a year after their breakthrough single, Feel The Love. They haven’t been distracted by side-projects, endorsements or beefs. However, Rudimental have toured solidly. In 2012 Rolle and Aggett flew the flag Down Under with a DJ tour. They then brought Rudimental’s band set-up to Future Music Festival. They’ll return in September. Rudimental are surely “lovin’ Australia”, enthuses Rolle (AKA DJ Locksmith). Rudimental are not another live laptop act (they even have a trumpeter). “We’re all musicians – we’ve all grown up playing instruments,” Rolle, who programmes beats and hosts the show, says. “Kesi and Piers have grown up playing the keys, I’ve grown up playing keys as well [but] I’m more on the DJ side and Amir plays guitar and bass... We’re not just like a DJ/electronic outfit.” Aggett and Dryden studied music technology in Leeds. When Rudimental blew up with Feel..., there was scant info about them online. In fact, they’d first aired Deep In The Valley back in 2011. “A lot of people actually think that Rudimental just came about as soon as they heard Feel..., really, but we’ve been going for six to seven years strong.” Or longer. “Piers and myself and Kesi grew up with each other, since we were in nappies, so we’ve known each other all our lives. We shared two loves, music and football, but we realised that we weren’t as good as we thought we were at football (laughs) and [so] we thought we better move into music – and, lucky enough, we got a break.” Bumping into Amor two-and-a-half years ago, they remixed Ed Sheeran (Drunk in addition to Lego House). “We just thought, this really clicks.” Amor was in. Rudimental were staggered that the cred and underground Feel... should
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debut at number one in the UK (having gone top five in Australia, it’s now triple-platinum here). Still, they knew it was a killer track when Dryden shared his demo (his rough vocals were later redone by Newman). “We absolutely went nuts to it – we actually trashed our own studio ‘cause we were like, ‘This song is amazing!’ But we do that twice a week when we make a new track. So we thought, ‘Yeah, we like it, we’ll just see how it goes’. We didn’t really think that it was gonna be as big as it was.” Rudimental followed with Not Giving In, featuring Newman again – plus Alex Clare, Amy Winehouse’s old chef boyfriend who had a sleeper hit with the Major Lazerhelmed, Too Close. Home reveals Rudimental’s scope, Rolle believes. “Certainly, the album’s given us an
opportunity to show the world what we’re really about. Obviously, you’ve heard the two so-called hits, Not Giving In [and] Feel The Love, so people probably think that the album’s gonna run along in that direction, which is so far from the truth – it’s gonna be really eclectic.” Home “references” their collective musical influences and histories. (Rolle himself jokes about his “granddad’s iPod”, which has songs by Earth, Wind & Fire, Dr Dre and Lauryn Hill on it.) As such, the LP mixes in house, hip hop and “even reggae” – all with urban vocals. Indeed, Rudimental have worked with singers both unknown (Waiting All Night’s Ella Eyre) and recognisable (‘femcee’ Angel Haze). Emeli Sandé sings on two tunes – “a no brainer” according to Rolle. “She’s an amazing person.” Rudimental have accepted surprisingly few remixes – and only to “up” their profile. Their
Imagine the pleasure in beating out both Logi-loving crooner Michael Buble and all those amateur karaoke types from The Voice on the national ARIA album charts. It certainly doesn’t happen very often – especially when you’re a home-grown D&B act and especially when it’s your debut album that’s smashing them all right out of the gate... You may have heard of Perthborn DJ/producer ShockOne and you’re about to get to know him a lot better.
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Currently dominating the iTunes and ARIA Charts (at number one and number two, respectively), Karl Thomas is buzzing following the release of his first ever artist album Universes. Three long years in the making, the record has already spawned hit singles Crucify Me and Chaos Theory and, at the moment, it seems he’s simply unstoppable. “In retrospect, really, the reason it took me three years to finish it is because when I started the album I didn’t really consider myself to be a good enough producer to attempt something like this,” Thomas says candidly. “I wouldn’t settle for anything less than what would make me totally proud of myself. If I was going to release something, I wanted
album has been the focus. “It’s all about trying to establish ourselves.” Rolle reveres Labrinth, “a genius” who sings, plays instruments, produces and sets fashion trends (“something that I could never do!”). Rudimental remixed his Express Yourself. Yet, while Rudimental themselves would “love” to produce other acts, again, they’re holding off. “You can get lost in that, I reckon!” Rolle says. And, instead of revelling in their good fortune so far, the group are already contemplating album number two. “If you soak it all up, you can get left behind so easily in this game.”
it to have some kind of significant impact on the world. Altogether, I wrote something like 50 songs and I could have easily put out an album a year ago, but I didn’t feel that every single one of those tracks was something I would be completely proud of. I guess I just wanted to take my time and do the best job I could.” Which Thomas obviously has. Despite the album’s skyrocketing success, the producer claims he faced some moments of struggle which resulted in something of a love-hate relationship with a select few of the tracks... “I couldn’t bring myself to listen to it for about a month after I finished it,” Thomas laughs now. “At the best of times I am not very good at listening to my own music, I am my own worst critic to the point of being completely dysfunctional. In my entire career, I’ve never had a moment where I’d written a song and gone, ‘Yep, this is it, I’ve got a number one on my hands’. Working on this album, one day I’d be like, ‘This could be alright’, then the next day I’d be like, ‘This is completely shit, I’m gonna start again’. I guess I had a weird moment where I just thought, ‘Okay, it’s been a while, I guess I’ll listen back to it...’ And it sounded different as I sat there listening to it with a friend and with a completely fresh mind and ears. At one point I actually thought, ‘Oh my God, this sounds pretty good’... There were even some moments where the
WHO: Rudimental WHAT: Home (Warner)
hairs on the back of my neck stood up! It’s unbelievable that I still have an affection for it three years later. It’s unexpected. It’s refreshing.” If only a full-length album could survive people’s short attention spans, all would be okay, Thomas claimed he reasoned to himself. While he now admits that making a D&B record was a risk in many ways, he also adds that he is more than looking forward to following Universus up with a sophomore. “The electronic scene moves too fast that you just can’t predict where dance is going or where it’s going be in six months, let alone a whole year. All the time, you see new genres pop up, completely explode and then just disappear – and then nobody wants to even touch it because it’s just not cool anymore. I did consider that, obviously, you have to, but I realised pretty much straight away that with my music it’s not about trends. I write songs, regardless of their genre. If it’s a good song, it doesn’t matter whether it’s dubstep or D&B – as long as it stands the test of time, that’s all that matters. That was the angle with which I approached this album. I had to have a good bunch of songs to work with, first and foremost, the rest would all fall into place.” WHO: ShockOne WHAT: Universus (OneLove) WHERE: HQ WHEN: Fri May 24
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Tour Guide/ THU MAY 9
THU JUN 6
YACHT @ Rocket Bar TAME IMPALA @ Thebarton Theatre RACHEL LEAHCAR @ Space Theatre THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS & DARK FAIR @ Governor Hindmarsh
THE CHEMIST @ Grace Emily
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
FRI MAY 10 – FRI JUN 21 NEXUS WORLD MUSIC SERIES: BEARDED GYPSY BAND, ZEPHYR QUARTET, TIM MOORE and many more @ Nexus Cabaret
SAT MAY 11 MASKETTA FALL & CALL THE SHOTS @ Fowler’s Live (from 2pm and licensed all-ages) FABULOUS DIAMONDS & WHITE HEX @ Crown & Anchor HOBBS’ ANGEL OF DEATH, TZUN TZU, ALKIRA & HIDDEN INTENT @ Enigma
TUE MAY 14 TENACIOUS D, DAMIEN POWER & SASQUATCH @ Thebarton Theatre
WED MAY 15 EVERMORE & ADAM MARTIN @ 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) FISHING @ Ed Castle
SUN MAY 19 DEFTONES @ HQ TOM WEST @ The Grace Emily Hotel DANIEL CHAMPAGNE & THE BEARDED GYPSY BAND @ Semaphore Workers Club
WED MAY 22 A BREACH OF SILENCE & BORN OF OSIRIS @ Fowler’s Live
FRI MAY 24 DESTROY MUSIC: THE GHOST INSIDE, EMMURE, ANTAGONIST AD & HAND OF MERCY @ Fowler’s Live SAN CISCO, MILLIONS & CHAOS CHAOS @ Governor Hindmarsh (licensed all-ages)
SAT MAY 25 SOMETHING FOR KATE & COURTNEY BARNETT @ Governor Hindmarsh THE NEW DEAD METALFEST #4: PSYCROPTIC, THE AMENTA, NE OBLIVISCARIS, FRANKENBOK, OUROBOROS, THE SCHOENBERG, BLACK LIKE VENGEANCE, CLOSED CASKET and many more @ Fowler’s Live (all-ages)
SUN MAY 26 MATT CORBY @ HQ
SUN MAY 26 MATT CORBY @ HQ
THU MAY 30 THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT, DOUBLEBLACK & KING OF THE NORTH @ Governor Hindmarsh
FRI MAY 31
ASH GRUNWALD @ Governor Hindmarsh
FRI JUN 7 – MON JUN 10 HOOT ADELAIDE HILLS JAZZ FESTIVAL: DAVID HELBOCK, SNARK PUPPY, THE JAMES CARER ORGAN TRIO, SARAH MCKENZIE, GRACE KNIGHT and many more @ Mt Barker 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 HOODOO GURUS @ Governor Hindmarsh
TUE JUN 11 THE BELLRAYS @ Enigma
THU JUN 13 OWEN CAMPBELL @ Norwood Live ADELAIDE BURLESQUE FESTIVAL @ Nexus Cabaret
FRI JUN 14 KATE MILLER-HEIDKE @ Flinders St Baptist Church DAVID BRIDIE & THE PILLS @ Governor Hindmarsh OWEN CAMPBELL @ Coopers Alehouse (Wallaroo)
SAT JUN 15 THY ART IS MURDER, CATTLE DECAPITATION, KING PARROT & AVERSIONS CROWN @ Fowler’s Live (licensed all-ages) DAVID BRIDIE @ Barossa Arts & Convention Centre BREAKING ORBIT @ Enigma Bar
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 MUNICIPAL WASTE @ Fowler’s Live
FRI JUN 21 RAY BEADLE @ Governor Hindmarsh IN HEARTS WAKE, COUNTERPARTS, THE STORM PICTURESQUE & STORIES @ Fowler’s Live FRENZAL RHOMB @ Uni Bar
Follow The Sun was laid down on portable recording equipment that travelled all around the world. Hume continues his story from Jerusalem: “We got in a taxi and the driver was like, ‘Ah yeah, this happens all the time’. We drove past where the bomb had blown up, and it was a bus station. It had been swept clean and there were people waiting for the next bus.” After a chance meeting, the band was invited to share Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath meal, with a local rabbi at his home. The band
travelled to Morocco, where Peter’s brothers and bandmates Jon and Dann incited the fury of some locals by refusing to pay for directions. In Madrid, they waved from a rooftop at a man playing guitar in a courtyard, and the stranger ended up recording classical Spanish guitar over the top of We Will Meet Again on the album. “It was more than getting some world music flavour for the album,” Hume says. “It helped us define for ourselves what Evermore’s sound was.” Four albums in, Evermore are comfortable with the music they make, though wanted something simpler for Follow The Sun. “On our last record Truth Of The World, some of those songs were very hard to play acoustically; they were pretty dense. So, we were really keen to do something that connects back to the Crowded House, Beatles-y style: just a song that sounds good without all the production.” Despite all their travels, the Hume brothers never forget their childhood in small-town
New Zealand. Nearly 15 years on, Hume is glad they’ve “grown up” but remembers fondly the country town life they led as a budding band. “We thought we were great because we didn’t actually see any bands,” Hume laughs. “We never got to see live music. We had VHSes of the last Crowded House performance outside of the Opera House; I used to watch that over and over again.” While Peter no longer owns a TV, his music is being blasted worldwide as HBO’s promo theme tune. “I’ve seen bits of Game Of Thrones on YouTube… I want to like HBO things, but they’re a bit too violent. It’s really good storywriting but they chuck in full-on nudity and decapitations… I can deal with the storywriting without the other two.”
fresh off the plane and driving up the Great Ocean Rd in Victoria. “So I suppose once I had control over that, it was almost like a rebellion. I wanted to do stuff that was deeper and darker, had more layers to it, and musically as well.” That freedom came with her previous and third album, 2010’s Merchants And Thieves, which she released on her own label after being dropped by RCA, which signed Thom after I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker had gone viral and made her an internet sensation back in 2006. Flesh And Blood saw Thom hooking up with Rich Robinson of The Black Crowes, whom she met out of the blue in LA – Thom has been living with American guitar gun Joe Bonamassa for the past three years and several of the songs on the new album relate to their love affair – and who, after listening to her latest batch of songs, invited her down to Nashville to record. “What he did for me,” Thom says of
Robinson as a producer, “was really take me out of my shell. It was a refreshing thing for me because it was a whole new set of musicians, new producer, new environment, new everything, so none of the history was there and none of the familiarity so we were all very much strangers in a room trying to make a record together. There’s something really cool about that because you’re all there for the same reason. “He really pulled me out of my comfort zone and I think that was a really good idea. He was deliberately antagonising me to get a really good performance out of me, so there was a lot of psychology behind it as well. So he was very good in that respect and he got to know me very quickly.”
WHO: Evermore WHAT: Follow The Sun (UMA) WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Fri May 15
Sandi Th om by Michael Smith
BILL ODDIE @ Adelaide Town Hall
FRI JUN 28 THE SUPERJESUS @ Governor Hindmarsh THE JANOSKIANS @ Thebarton Theatre
SAT JUN 29 THE SUPERJESUS @ Governor Hindmarsh
MON 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
SAT JUL 6 THE TONGUE @ Rocket Bar
WED JUL 10 LA DISPUTE & PIANOS BECOME TEETH @ Fowler’s Live YOUTH OF TODAY @ Enigma Bar
THU JUL 11
SUN JUN 2
YOU AM I @ Thebarton Theatre
MIKE STERN BAND @ Governor Hindmarsh
SAT JUL 13
FRI JUL 12
ENABLER & URNS @ Enigma
WED JUL 17 TODD RUNDGREN & DAVEY LANE @ Governor Hindmarsh
WED JUN 5 KAMELOT, MONTARCH & QUIET CHILD @ Governor Hindmarsh
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“We flew in and a bomb had just blown up quite close to where we were staying in the Old City.” Usually when bands talk about what happened while recording an album, it’s a lot of sitting in a studio, thumb-twiddling and repetitive reworking. Evermore’s bassist Peter Hume has a slightly different tale to tell.
WED JUN 26
BALL PARK MUSIC, EAGLE & THE WORM & JEREMY NEALE @ HQ
JAZZGROOVE MOTHERSHIP ORCHESTRA @ The Promethean
by Ilona W allace
FRI JUN 7
KAKI KING @ Governor Hindmarsh RASA DUENDE @ Nexus Cabaret
MON JUN 3
Evermo re
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Right, first up wipe any preconceptions you might have about Scottish singer songwriter and multiinstrumentalist, Sandi Thom, based on that breakthrough single, I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair). That was seven years ago and she’s just released her fourth album, Flesh And Blood, which sees her drop any ‘pop’ pretentions you might have expected and allowed the soulful rock and blues singer to step out. It’s this part of her that saw Brian May compliment her as “the real deal” after they shared a superstar bill at the Royal Albert Hall last October. So how did she come to reinvent herself, if you will, on the new album? “It was really a case of being let loose from the confines of a pop major label that restricts you to certain criteria,” Thom explains,
WHO: Sandi Thom WHERE & WHEN: Trinity Sessions on Fri May 10 and Auburn’s Courthouse Cultural Centre on Sat May 11
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Thursday 9th
Friday 10th
ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Bill Parton Trio
ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs
with Big Richard Insect
(8.30pm)
ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: Jaki J (10pm)
GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Area
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia
ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: The Shizzle (9pm)
51 (5pm) Broken Theory (8.30pm)
(7.30pm)
AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm)
HALFWAY HOTEL – Troy Harrison
BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty
BARTLEY TAVERN – Bon ‘n’ All (8pm)
HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Kopy Catz
BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – karaoke (7pm)
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm)
HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps
CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia
BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and
and DJ Lumeire
CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Something To
Suckerpunch
HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sam
Rescue. Front Bar: DJ Antface
BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Eleven (8pm)
HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE –
DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Trivia Night (7.30pm)
BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ
Dimitra (7.30pm)
DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm)
CARMINE’S RESTAURANT – Dino Jag Duo (8pm)
HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs
DUKE OF YORK – Downstairs: DJ Jon E (9pm) DJ
CAVERN CLUB – Metal Night featuring Devonera,
IRISH CLUB – Shamrocks ‘n’ Shenanigans Live
Skinny B (1am) Beer Garden: band of the week plus DJ
Headbore, Cyclosa, Strength Of A Bear, Asylum
Acoustic Sessions (7pm)
Dave Parry (9pm)
Butchery and Born Of Dust (6.30pm)
JIVE – Steering By Stars EP launch
ED CASTLE – Band Room: live bands (9pm)
CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis
LADY DALY HOTEL – Three Star General (8pm)
ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm)
(5pm) Ride Into The Sun DJs. Band Room: Vaginors,
LIMBO – DJs
EXETER ON RUNDLE – Sean Desmond, Hana
Radlock, Deathmob and guests
LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm)
Brenecki and Ryan Underhill
DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Peter Jenkins Duo (7.30pm)
Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman
DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown
LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee
DUBLIN HOTEL – Happy Leonards Duo
MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music
DUKE OF YORK – Tom & Rose (7pm)
MARION CULTURAL CENTRE – Mingle: live acoustic
ED CASTLE – Full Tilt live bands and party DJs
music (5pm)
ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs
MARION HOTEL – Georgy K Acoustic (6.30pm)
Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests
MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag
Main Room: Sticky Fingers GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Subtract S
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – OPEN MIKE NITE GILBERT STREET HOTEL – ERIK PARKER (7PM)
ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs
show (2am)
GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: They Might
ENFIELD HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment
MICK O’SHEA’S – Point 05
Be Giants with Dark Fair
ESPLANADE HOTEL – Tom J Williams
OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Harvest
GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Coops & The Bird with
EXETER HOTEL – Fractal
OFFICE ON PIRIE – DJ Jess (4.30pm)
Rachel Cearns & The Valkeries
EXETER ON RUNDLE – Winter People and Heymus
PORT DOCK BREWERY – Buzz Campbell with East
GRAND BAR – OMG
FINDON HOTEL – karaoke
Texas and The Memphis Suns (8.30pm)
MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) 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
PRODUCERS HOTEL – After Four Fridays Garden
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – THE CLAUSE, SEDULOUS INTENT, MIDNITE, GUANTANAMO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE BOOTLEG AFTERPARTY, SLIMEBALLS AND KAMIKAZE
guests
Grooves 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 – Zkye & Damo (6pm) DJ Smiley (8pm)
THE LION HOTEL – Clearway
FOWLER’S LIVE – Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo
ROCKET BAR – Abracadabra featuring resident DJs
TONSLEY HOTEL – Andy Story (8.30pm)
School Of Medicine
The Shiny Brights DJs
WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions
GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm)
SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8PM) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Chris Finnen’s Electric SETTLERS TAVERN – Rock The Boss (8pm) STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance. Downstairs: DJs play retro SUGAR – TGI Funky with Ben Alibi and HMC SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJs TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio Flamenco (7.30pm) TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – DJ Wolfman (9pm) THE ELEPHANT – Michael Venner Band and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY – Ch@t Room THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: John McKay (4.45pm) Sonic Divas (9pm) Chrysler Bar: The Incredibles (9.30pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Acoustic Reign (8.20pm) TRINITY SESSIONS – Sandi Thom and Kelly Menhennett (8pm) TWO WELLS HOTEL – Dale Roberts (8pm) VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Sweet Baby James & Rob Eyers (9pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Cats Pyjamas WOODCROFT TAVERN – Iris (8pm) ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Gumshoe, Track Team and Ryley
(7.30pm)
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The Guide // CROWN & ANCHOR – White Hex, Fabulous
Saturday 11th
Diamonds and Major Crimes then DJ Azz CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – LYME DISEASE AWARENESS BENEFIT FEATURING MOVIE SCREENING, PISTENBROKE, THE DIRTY CHINS, PIANIX AND FABLE
ROCKET BAR – Bananas: Track Team and Japeye SANDBAR – requests with DJs
ADELAIDE SAILING CLUB – Sea Breeze & Blues
Nicole (8pm)
featuring My Giddy Aunt (3pm)
DRAGONFLY – rotating DJs playing techno, house,
ARAB STEED HOTEL – Craig James
disco and everything in between
ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J. Upstairs:
DUKE OF YORK – Front Room: DJ Mitchy B. Beer
FOWLER’S LIVE – Masketta Fall
SEAFORD HOTEL – Rockweiler
Bongo Madness with DJs Ed Law and Scotty (10pm)
Garden: DJ Parry. Upstairs: DJ Skinny B, MC Scotty
GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm)
SEBEL PLAYFORD – Misjif
ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Blue Lagoon (9pm)
and guest DJs
GAZA SPORTS AND COMMUNITY CLUB – High
SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – Amberlight
Sportys Bar + Arena: The Incredibles (9pm)
ED CASTLE – Plus One Saturdays with live bands and
Voltage and The Gap (8.30pm)
STAMFORD PLAZA: CASCADES – Jacqui Lim (7pm)
BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson
party DJs (9pm)
BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – karaoke with Gemma
ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs
BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ
Junior, Dancespace and friends
CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests
ENIGMA – Hobb’s Angel Of Death, Alkira, Tzun Tzu
CAVERN CLUB – Rock/Hip Hop Night featuring
and Hidden Intent
GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Hollywood Gun
TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Black Caviar
Causing Hammock, Ten Thousand, The Pursuit, The
EXETER HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment
Club with special guests The Babes and Cherry Grind
TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs
One Within and Icyu (7pm)
EXETER ON RUNDLE – Monkey Puzzle Tree
GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Pub Art with Sean Desmond
THE ELEPHANT – Triple X and DJ G-Rillz
Kemp plus Surviving Sharks, The Bastard Sons Of
THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment
Ruination and Koral
TONSLEY HOTEL – Boris Loves To Boogie (8.30pm)
GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays with DJs and MCs
VALLEY INN – karaoke
HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Clearway
VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – Rumours
HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm)
WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm)
HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm)
WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Melanie Horsnell Album
HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sam
Launch (9pm)
2 One Another
HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Acoustic Reign
WINDSOR HOTEL – The Beavers
(7.30pm)
WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm)
Sydney Dance Company bursts onto stage in Adelaide this weekend with their spectacular production, 2 One Another. Featuring 16 of the company’s hottest dancers, this contemporary performance is dynamic, exhilarating, deeply personal and highly physical.
HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips and
ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs: Chaps, Hemilove and
guests (8pm)
Ryley
KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke
Sunday 12th
SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SESSIONS
SUGAR – Prince Aaronak, Driller, Derek Lang plus a
GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ MARKY POLO (8PM)
host of international guests SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests
LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Dino Jag Duo (9pm) LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex,
Showing at Her Majesty’s Theatre until this Saturday 11 May, Fringe Benefits members can get tix for just $30! Go to fringebenefits.com.au for details.
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AJ and MC Renard (10pm)
ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Heidy De Ruyter
MARINA SUNSET BAR – DJs playing the best in
(11.30am)
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BEDFORD HOTEL – Mick Kidd & Friends
MARION HOTEL – Franky F (5.30pm) The Hi-Topps
BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Big Cheese (4pm)
(8.30pm)
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt
MARS BAR – VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am)
BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon
MICK O’SHEA’S – The Party Cats
BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Steff Haulk Band (4pm)
OLD SPOT HOTEL – Wild Card (9pm)
CROWN & ANCHOR – all ages show (5pm)
PJ O’BRIENS – Animal House
DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Emily Smith Duo (1pm)
RAMSGATE HOTEL – Adelaide’s best cover bands
DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris
RED SQUARE – DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs,
DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Acoustically
Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and
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ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm)
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The Guide // ESPLANADE HOTEL – Redline EUREKA TAVERN – Jonny Star Family Entertainment
Monday 13th
EXETER ON RUNDLE – Magnetic Garden CROWN & ANCHOR – Brenton Manser with Caitlyn
GILBERT STREET HOTEL – STEVE LENNOX (2PM)
WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music
Wednesday 15th
Lesiuk and Matt Ward EXETER ON RUNDLE – Sparkspitter and guests
ARKABA HOTEL – Salsa class (6pm) after party (9pm)
GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam
BOTANIC BAR – Gemma
GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays
HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ultimate Quiz with
CENTRAL DISTRICTS FOOTBALL CLUB – Complete Trivia
GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Andy’s Shit Disco
Graham Lawrence (7pm)
CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia
GRAND BAR – bands, DJs and MCs
PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB –
CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia
HIGHBURY HOTEL – Fractal
Complete Trivia
CROWN & ANCHOR – Geek with DJ Tr!p
HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – NPL Poker (6.30pm)
RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy
DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Dan’s Open Mic Night
LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – Let It Roll
ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jam Night
(7.30pm)
MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring
(8pm)
EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music
live acoustic music
SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon
Exchange (7.30pm)
MARION HOTEL – Franky F (11.30am)
THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and
EXETER ON RUNDLE – Curtis
MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits
Paul Vallen
FINDON HOTEL – Muso’s Jam hosted by Streaker
MICK O’SHEA’S – The Borderers
Tuesday 14th
FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – Complete Trivia
MIDDLEBROOK ESTATE – Bill Parton Trio (12.30pm) OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: 2 Up Duo
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – WEDNESDAY NITE DYNAMITE WITH DJ DYNAMITE
PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – One Planet
ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Adelaide Comedy
RAMSGATE HOTEL – acoustic session (4pm) Tom
featuring Harley Breen (8pm)
Kurzel & Ed Trainor fortnightly rotation (7.30pm)
AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia
SAILMASTER TAVERN – Russell Stuart
BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson
GLENELG FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia
CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: DJs Stevie & Duncan
GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Evermore
SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SOLOISTS
DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm)
GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Samantha Cauliflower with
EXETER ON RUNDLE – Bitches Of Zeus DJs
Pete Wilson
GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by
HIGHWAY – The Combi Room
SEAFORD HOTEL – Full Circle (7pm)
Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm)
HQ – Flashdance
SEMAPHORE PALAIS – The Incredibles
GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Pub Cinema
MARION HOTEL – Adelaide Comedy featuring Harley
SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – The Streamliners
HILTON HOTEL – KG’s Complete Trivia
Breen (8pm)
SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans
MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm)
MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection
TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions
PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm)
PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm)
THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) DJ Junior
SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and
SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm)
(5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm)
Driller
SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with
WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday
THE GOODY – Complete Trivia
Margi (7.30pm)
Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm)
THE LION HOTEL – Acoustic Sessions
SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular
WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi &
TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Ryley and guests
and Mr Whiskas
Shaggy (8.30pm)
(8pm)
THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill
WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Melody Feder and The
WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Spineless Wonders
TONSLEY HOTEL – quiz night (7pm)
Bluejay Belles (4pm)
Presents: A Short Evening Of Tall Stories (7pm)
TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Wednesday (7pm)
WHITMORE HOTEL – Diggss & Daggzz
WHITMORE HOTEL – Acoustic Raw Jam
WHITMORE HOTEL – Brett Monten
ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs: Zooma, Ryley and
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Rramp: The Collector, The Archivist, The Electrocrat Rramp: The Collector, The Archivist, The Electrocrat is a beguiling infusion of original electonica metal rock music, stories, anecdotes, dance and humour. It’s not your run-of-the-mill cabaret show but no less fascinating. Accompanied by exquisite animations from Ahmarnya Price, the tall ladyof-the-house (Christine Johnston), her personal assistant and dancing Archivist (Lisa O’Neill) and the Electrocrat (Peter Nelson) will take you on a bittersweet journey like nothing you’ve seen before at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. any would know Christine Johnston as the quietly-spoken Eve of The Kransky Sisters. Yet, as we discover, there’s so much more to Johnston than the religiouslyoppressed younger sister of Mourne. “The Kranskys are very character-based, but Rramp is much closer to me personally… kind of. The Collector is that stricter side of me,” Johnston suggests in a smooth ‘What are you wearing?’ voice that make us both laugh. “I’m really enjoying performing with Lisa and Peter again. When you find chemistry with other artists, it’s really
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valuable to be able to continue working with them without having to interpret the aesthetic or what you are thinking.” What does Rramp stand for? “Nothing actually! For many years I’ve wanted to have a band. Secretly, I’d love to have a heavy metal band,” she shares. “We were originally called Ramp – until we discovered a band in Europe of the same name so we just added the extra R. It gives it that real roll-of-the-tongue sound; maybe I should have added a few more!” Rramp co-creators and co-writers Peter Nelson and Lisa O’Neill have worked on many projects with Johnston, including her children’s show Fluff. “Lisa has a dance and acting background and is very organised, so it was natural that she became the Archivist,” Johnston explains. “Peter is an amazing musician who has a history with punk bands throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s. I found the word ‘technocrat’ in the dictionary and from there we invented the word Electrocrat. Peter is just one of those brilliant brains that work with electronica while mixing it all in with live music. “The beautiful animations by Ahmarnya are very simple – which is what I love about them – but there is depth within that simplicity that brings everything together.” Johnston suggests that Rramp is more about collecting memories than objects. “The songs we’ve written are either stories from our pasts, each one having an element of truth about them, or things that I’ve
collected over the years; like tax receipts and my friendship with my chooks as a child. We wanted to put it in a framework that would allow us to perform the songs while expressing the characters’ relationships.” Your character looks like the stern Schoolmarm who is just a little scary. How did you find her? “Funnily enough, she has always been there,” Johnston confesses. “I was a friendly, shy person growing up, so I guess it’s strange that I now perform on stage, but that’s what happens when you cloak yourself in something that gives you more confidence. The Collector is a part of me but the part that can freely perform.” Tell us about the songs. “Some songs are epic stories put to music,” she explains. “I’ve always admired the way Laurie Anderson writes stories to music and animation, and have loved the theatricality of heavy metal bands. Our music is not heavy metal; it has elements of many musical influences including the extreme style of Massive Attack that goes from small to big sounds. I just love that I get to play the guitar. I used to play it all the time to the chooks in the chicken pen.” Rramp has already been performed in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart and Johnston is really looking forward to being in Adelaide again. “It’s definitely not a mainstream show,” Johnston happily declares. “When I create something, I like it to be accessible where
Collection Box In a case of art imitating true life, Christine Johnston is as much a collector as her Rramp character. “The Collector, who lives in a big dark house, had a dream of forming a band and therefore collected these two people as part of that dream. In reality, I am a collector of quirky things – although some may call me a hoarder. “I like unusual and interesting things that represent something in the past; strange objects like odd toys, old bones, rusty wheels, old weird machinery, religious images, very old paintings, weathered handmade things from people in their sheds; things with stories, history and long-forgotten memories.”
you can listen to the stories and relate to it. It’s a very personal story for me. As a woman growing older and playing music, I think it’s important to have truth in what you do and not be anything else.” WHAT: Rramp: The Collector, The Archivist, The Electrocrat WHERE: Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Wed Jun 12 until Fri Jun 14 at various times
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Star Trek Into Darkness (M) While his franchise-rebooting Star Trek (2009) was much-adored, even by the die-hardest of diehard fans, director/co-producer JJ Abrams’ follow-up is, in fact, even better, with a now-established cast shining, some cool new additions, a sweet sense of humour, a plot that isn’t half-strangled by needing to set the stage, and serious secrets that, nevertheless, have surely been betrayed all over the net by the time you read this. A spectacular curtain-raising sequence introduces the young Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), ‘Bones’ (Karl Urban) and the rest of the crew, as well as that nonsense about the ‘Prime Directive’, and then we’re into the plot proper, with Kirk demoted by Pike (Bruce Greenwood) just as nasty John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch)
makes his presence felt with a series of terrorist attacks that lead Kirk and co to track him to his hideout on the Klingon homeworld (and yes, this is before the Klingons turned goodies and got all mushy). Admiral Marcus (leathery Peter Weller) then becomes a main player, and the storyline becomes genuinely impossible to discuss, sorry to say. English actor Cumberbatch is strikingly malevolent as the villain here (his performance has already been singled out as either ‘magnificent’ or ‘crap’, depending upon the misinformed source), but he’s matched by Quinto (who again almost out-Spocks Spock), Zoë Saldana’s Uhura, Simon Pegg’s near-OTT Scotty and even Pine, whose Kirk is tougher here than in the first flick (and also gets to bed more babes in Shatneresque fashion). And then there are those secrets, but you could get court-martialled and thrown out of Starfleet for talking about them here - or anywhere. Mad Dog Bradley
Quick Flicks
Adelaide Cinémathèque 2013 Mercury Cinema
The retrospective Long Time Love commences at the Mercury Cinema on Thu May 16 at 7.30pm with Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes From A Marriage (1973, M), and continues with François Ozon’s rarely-screened 5 X 2 (Cinq Fois Deux) (2004, MA) on Mon May 20 at 7.30pm, Stanley Donen’s cult fave Two For The Road (1967, PG) on Thu May 23 at 7.30pm and, finally, Michael Haneke’s much-praised Amour (2013, M) on Mon May 27 at 7.30pm. All Cinémathèque details can be located at mercurycinema.org.au.
Opening But Unrated The Hunt (MA)
Drift (M)
The Big Wedding (MA)
Danish writer/director/co-producer Thomas Vinterberg’s latest features Mads Mikkelsen in one of his greatest, most sensitive and fearless performances, and light years away from his current and rather awkward turn as the titular character in TV’s Hannibal. With echoes of Vinterberg’s Festen (The Celebration) (in which the past and mercifully unseen sexual abuse was nonetheless very real), this has MM as Lucas, a small town kindergarten teacher getting over a terrible period where he’s been fighting with a vengeful ex for custody of his son Marcus (Lasse Fogelstrøm), and enjoying the early stages of a new relationship with Nadja (funny and sweet Alexandra Rapaport). When little Klara (Annika Wedderkopp), confused and upset over her parents continual arguments, tells Lucas that she loves him, offers an uncomfortably lingering kiss (a delicately-handled scene that should attract a great deal of controversy) and then feels spurned by him, she concocts a story that apparently involves him exposing himself to her and the other kids, which leads to visits from child psychologists (and remarkably leading questions), word getting out and other parents in the community reacting with horror and aching for revenge, with even Klara’s dad Theo (Thomas Bo Larsen) turning on his pal in scenes that truly sting. Refusing to judge but also careful to demonstrate how everyone here feels justified in what they do (with Theo’s rage actually all about how he feels guilty about ignoring his child), Vinterberg’s film is certainly difficult but, still, one of the year’s best, and rawest, dramas. And whose side are you on? Mad Dog Bradley
While co-director/executive producer Ben Nott, co-writer/co-director Morgan O’Neill, producer/original-script-supplier Tim Duffy and co-producer/star Myles Pollard have heavily suggested that this ‘70s-flashbacking Aussie surfing drama is based on some sort of true story it, in fact, is almost completely fictional, but that doesn’t really matter, as this is nevertheless superior to other, drearier Ocker sporty pics of late (like the ill-fated Save Your Legs! and Blinder). An opening flashback has the Kelly family escaping a violent dad and putting down roots far away in a small town on the WA coast where, years later, the 20something Jimmy (Xavier Samuel) and Andy (Pollard) fight like siblings do, dote on mum Kat (Robyn Malcolm), fear a life of tedium at the local lumber yard (and, therefore, turning into their father) and hit the waves all the time. And, of course, this love of the ocean becomes the driving passion that leads the pair, with help from Kombidriving pothead JB (Sam Worthington) and Hawaiian lovely Lani (Lesley-Ann Brandt), to set up a surfing business on the main street, despite the industry being in only its earliest stages and everyone in town doubting that they can do it, from the stereotype-snobby bank manager to a gang of drug-dealing bikers (led by Miller, as played by Steve Bastoni in a scummy, scary performance). With strong work from Pollard and Worthington, amiable rebelliousness from Samuel and some cool wave-riding (yes, it’s mainly done by stuntmen, but who cares?), this is most enjoyable, and hopefully isn’t set for a commercial wipeout. Mad Dog Bradley
Good writing saves a predictable comedy of minor errors when Ellie (Diane Keaton) and Don (Robert De Niro, playing somewhat against type) prepare for the wedding of their adopted son, Alejandro (Ben Barnes, AKA Prince Caspian), but there are a couple of small hitches to overcome ahead of the big one, starting with the arrival of Alejandro’s Colombian birth mother, a devout Catholic who has no idea that Ellie and Don have been divorced for 10 years. To avoid upsetting biomummy, the pair agree to fake their marriage for the weekend, which paves the way for another problem: Don’s long-term girlfriend, Bebe (Susan Sarandon), and, meanwhile, their two other children (Katherine Heigl and Topher Grace) have relationship troubles of their own. Whether a victim of bad editing or bad directing, the events of writer/director Justin Zackham’s reimagining of the Swiss film Mon Frère Se Marie are poorly orchestrated, with badly cut scenes and underdeveloped characters, while the chemistry between most of those characters is wooden, despite the classic, and usually dependable, cast (rounded out by Robin Williams and Amanda Seyfried). Luckily for his shortcomings as a director, Zackham has repeatedly proven himself as a writer (The Bucket List) and provides his characters with snappy dialogue that demonstrates a solid rapport, even when the cast don’t quite pull it off, and makes the chaos leading up to the happy nuptials easily watchable, regardless of how clichéd the story is. Predictable and forced, but still funny what more could you expect from a wedding? Kat McCarthy
Evil Dead (R), Uruguay-born cowriter/director Fede Alvarez’s Americanproduced, super-gory, surprisingly successful remake of Sam Raimi’s legendary 1981 horror classic, stars Jane Levy, Lou Taylor Pucci, Shiloh Fernandez and Jessica Lucas (and yes, it wasn’t going to open in Adelaide cinemas at all before that unholy Facebook outcry). The distinctly dark drama The Place Beyond The Pines (MA), from Blue Valentine main-man Derek Cianfrance, offers that film’s topliner Ryan Gosling alongside Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Rose Byrne, Ben Mendelsohn, Bruce Greenwood and Ray Liotta. And Spring Breakers (R), the sweaty, sleazy, nasty latest from scary indiescene writer/director Harmony Korine (scriptwriter-only of Kids and writer/ director of Gummo and Julien DonkeyBoy), features James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and the director’s sometimesnaked missus Rachel.
Rockshow: Wings Over America Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas & Event Cinemas Marion
Rockshow, a remastered 1980 concert film chronicling the American leg of Paul McCartney and Wings’ 1976 world tour and apparently featuring 30 songs from four different concerts (as well as a contemporary interview with a reflective Macca too), is screening at the Palace Nova Eastend and Event Cinemas Marion on Thu May 16. All details: palacecinemas. com.au and eventcinemas.com.au.
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Winter Reds Festival The Adelaide Hills wine region will once again bask in midwinter glow this July as wine lovers head to the hills for a weekend of wine, food and fireside ambience at the 2013 Winter Reds Festival. Taking place from Fri Jul 28 until Sat Jul 29, cellar doors throughout the region will open up to the public this winter to show off their local produce, culinary talent and fire-starting skills. This year punters will be able to experience a number of different events and activities, including a wine and chocolate pairing, a cheesemaking and wine master class and an American barbecue smoking experience at the Longview Vineyard smokehouse. For more information, head to adelaidehillswine.com.au.
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Having opened last Friday, Tijuana Showgirls is the west end’s newest bar in what is soon to be a wave of new liquor licensees. Under the wing of the same hospitality group responsible for Ruby Red Flamingo, Mesa Lunga and Lucky Lupitas, Tijuana Showgirls is a basement bar with Latin American themes with specific party vibes. With a drinks list geared towards recreating traditional Tijuanan cocktails, notably the ‘Paloma’ made with tequila and grapefruit soda, other menu items include ‘slushitas’, cheap jugs, US brewery beers and American fries with various salsa and salts to choose from. Most intriguing of all is the ‘Boarder Bar’, a bar underneath the stairs where you can get a beer or tequila shot from a cage suspended from the roof. It’s open Friday and Saturday nights from 8pm – 3am. Go poke your head in.
You know, people really don’t play board games enough. Some of the best dinner parties I’ve ever been to over the years included three bottles of red and Articulate – a ‘describing’ board game with hilarious, and sometimes terrifying, results. Enter The Hungry Hippo, a brand new board game café for you to finally dust off your useless knowledge skills that you’ve been saving for the annual Trivial Pursuit family battle at Christmas time. Opening in the next month or so, The Happy Hippo will feature tasty drinks and snacks and local tunes alongside hundreds of games for patrons to play for just $5 per person. They’ll be throwing two soft openings on Fri May 17 and Sat May 18 from 7pm until late and are looking to open regularly within the next month.
WHAT: Tijuana Showgirls WHERE: Hindley St (next to Off Ya Tree) INFO: tijuana-showgirls@gmail.com
WHAT: The Hungry Hippo Board Game Café WHERE: 10/414 Milne Rd, Redwood Pk INFO: thehungryhippo.com
The Loft The Loft Wine Bar is a new space down Gouger St for patrons to enjoy local, independent and hard-to-come-by wines alongside standout imports. These are accompanied by a small menu, which includes dishes like Coffin Bay oysters cooked in seven different ways, soft shell crab, scallops, antipasto and shared cheese plates. Opening for the public soon. WHAT: The Loft Wine Bar WHERE: 1/128 Gouger St, Adelaide INFO: loftbar.com.au
STEAM EXCHANGE BREWERY ‘ TRUFFLES ’ Every now and then Steam Exchange Brewery down in Goolwa will release very small batch ales outside their staples. The Truffles comes around once or twice a year and is well worth hunting down. A bourbon-infused dark ale you say? Correct. All your Christmases have come kicking and screaming through your door at once. Dark chocolate on the nose with a palate of black cherries and ground coffee, Truffles is a velvet monster. Impossible to match this decadent drop with food, it’s a course in itself. So when you find yourself at the end of the night, make this the ‘one for the road’ while you head home to listen to some Gareth Liddiard. Cheers.
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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04
There’s a clash going on between the forces that want to get on with the job and those that want to explore all the feelings involved in deciding what the job is in the first place. To get involved may well chew you up. Don’t go where the heat is. Stay as objective as you can.
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Libra 23.09/23.10
Clashes always make you feel uncomfortable. There are feelings flying. Antagonists and protagonists are mutually entrenched. It’s not half as bad as your fear would have it. The air is being cleared. The basement is being cleared. Soon clarity and resolution will dance.
Simon Terrill, Crowd Theory, 2013
The more you stick to your practical sense of solution, the more others find reason to whirl around in a spectacular dance of extraneous emotion. The more you go for pragmatism, the more you seem to generate resistance. This is not your intention. Seek a silent resolution.
There’s plenty of pressure being applied in your direction by the four planets in Taurus. They are insisting that you drop what you are feeling and get on with the job. It’s not as simple as that. You will have to honour your feelings, even if there is inconvenience. Keep the faith.
Sagittarius 22.11/21.12
Gemini 21.05/21.06
Mercury has moved out of fiery Aries into what you would have imagined as placid Taurus. But placid it is not. There is an incontrovertible relationship between your clarity and other people’s emotional reactions to your clarity. Offer these complications the patience of Job.
In The Beginning‌
From your position on top of the hill, looking down at those who appear to be caught in a fray, there is a perspective well worth sharing. Make your point before feathers fly. Do your best to inject some levity. It will be tricky. Denial won’t work. Bring your talents to the fore.
Adelaide Central School Of Art is enjoying 30 years of graduate artwork this month and is celebrating the milestone with a collaborative throwback exhibition aptly entitled in In The Beginning‌. Featuring works from established artists like Peter Baka, John Hinds, Kay Lawrence, Leo Neuhofer, Christopher Orchard, Anna Platten, Rod Taylor and more, the event will take place at the art school’s new home in Glenside Cultural Precinct. ACSA founder Rod Taylor will open the event on Sat May 18 followed by a series of artist talks, taking place
Capricorn 22.12/19.01
Cancer 22.06/22.07
The moon is in Pisces, flooding you with feelings that bring no clarity, even if they do bring some kind of emotional relief. Uncork all the stoppers that prevent you from getting in touch with what you feel. Once the river is flowing freely, clarity and understanding will follow.
on Tue May 21 (Rod Taylor), Wed May 29 (Christopher Orchard), Thu Jun 6 (Anna Platten) and Wed Jun 12 (Kay Lawrence). Each artist talk will commence at 12.15pm.
The sun in Taurus is nailing reality to the floor. This is not a moment for dancing across the heavens in a golden chariot, as is your wont. Now is for taking care of all that is right there in front of your nose. To resist is excruciating. Ease the tension by saying a big ‘yes!’.
Crowd Theory
If you find yourself in the referee’s jacket this week, it’s because that’s exactly the role you need to play. Others have locked horns in such a way that it will take a far-sighted person, who honours individuality, freedom and authenticity, to help the dust settle. Be fair.
Until Fri Jul 5 Samstag Museum Of Art will host a selection of noted photographer Simon Terrill’s spectacularly immersive images from his Crowd Theory Adelaide project, a performance event held in Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga in February this year. Inviting volunteers who had an attachment to the Square, on Wed Feb 27 volunteers assembled with a prepared ‘pose’ and held it for an hour under film lights, smoke machines and a musical sound track. Captured via a large format camera set high on a platform positioned in the middle of the Square, the end result of the hour-long process is a stunning mural-sized photograph and project archive. Having also shot in Melbourne and Sydney, Simon Terrill’s Crowd Theory series aims to expand upon accepted definitions and perception of the word ‘community’ through this random orchestration of bodies in site-specific venues, and what, really, a crowd is.
Pisces 19.02/20.03
From where you are looking, the whole world feels like it is going through a reality check – and you are more than happy that it is. Things haven’t been feeling quite right. A process of adjustment was clearly required. Here it is! You know well that health will come of it.
WHAT: In The Beginning‌ WHERE: Adelaide Central School Of Art, 7 Mulberry Rd, Glenside WHEN: Mon May 18 - Sat Jun 15 OPENING: Sat May 18 from 3pm – 5pm
From where you are looking, the world looks good. Someone dared to take a strong position and now the consequences are surfacing, in all sorts of spectacular ways. Though slightly purgative, this process is really important. It is bringing the truth to the surface. It is healing.
Aquarius 20.01/18.02
Leo 23.07/22.08
There’s no one more geared to seeing the grand scheme of things as yourself. If anyone is going to offer a cosmic chuckle that helps others chuckle, it is you. This is all dependent on you staying on the surface and not shooting down into the shadows. Stay present and responsive.
WHAT: Crowd Theory WHERE: Samstag Museum Of Art, 555 North Tce, Adelaide WHEN: Until Fri Jul 5 from Tue – Fri 11am – 5pm and Sat 2pm – 5pm
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The cosmetic and soap range that doubles as a warrior for the environment also acts as an emergency go-to if you’ve forgotten all about Mother’s Day and need something stat. Given that all Lush products are handmade, environmentally-sound and against animal testing, their cosmetics are a great idea for a mum who is fussy when it comes to the cosmetics she uses. If your mum is already all over Lush like a fungus that rhymes with Lush and starts with a ‘T’, then catch her out with somet hing from their range that is specially made just for Mother’s Day. Lush have a range of handmade, environmentallysound products especially for Mother’s Day that are as adorable as they are delectable. The danger is that given that they are super duper adorable, if you give your mum The Washing Up Fairy, The Mum or The Mumkin bath products she may never use them for fear of spoiling them. Mum’s is still on the shelf from last year. Sigh.
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If Mum reads this before Sunday, I’m sorry for you finding out that I got you a pair of these in advance. However, it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise given you sent me texts saying how cold your feet were along with your shoe size and where I might be able to buy them... These bad boys are actually the shit. A pair of these guys is like dipping your feet into warm marshmallow prepared by Cupid himself. Not only are they deliciously comfortable, Emu Australia is also Australian based, owned and operated (unlike the sneaky Ugg Australia, which is actually American) and only use the best premium sheepskin and Merino wool products. There’s a buttload to choose from, but if your mum is anything like mine you’ll probably want to go for the Stinger range, which you can submerge in water and wash under the tap.
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2 The Emu Australia range is available from Uggs & Kisses, 18 Ebenezer Place. muaustralia.com
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If your mum is a “cool mum not a regular mum” then indulge her in something from the latest collections by Trilby Pheonix. The online retailer specialises in some specialty jewellery that infuses oriental and tribal qualities without going completely over the top. Hamsa diamond pendants hand-made in LA, 14 carat gold skull rings with diamond eyes and neon spiked panther head rings round out some of pieces that your mum might not necessary choose herself, but would love to show off to all her friends if gifted with love. Or, if it’s too out there, maybe she’ll give it to you instead? Isn’t that the lucky dip of Mother’s Day? trilbyphoenix.com.au
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A Night Of Fashion At The Art Gallery With Attitude Magazine is on the hunt for local designers to design a dress with a base material of cream or black calico. Once your sketch gets the thumbs up, you get to make your dress and have it on display in the Art Gallery Of South Australia atrium during the event. The winning design will be chosen by Art Gallery director Nick Mitzevich, with the winner receiving a $500 cash prize courtesy of Cibo Espresso, $300 Premier Arts Supplies vouchers and editorial in Attitude. The best part is that it’s free to enter, so if you’re an established or budding designer, or a magician on a sewing machine, this is your chance to give yourself the break you deserve, and dip your feet into the fashion and art industry of Adelaide.
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DVD Reviews
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel Madman / G / 86 Mins
Co-written, co-produced and directed by Diana Vreeland’s granddaughter-in-law Lisa Immordino Vreeland, this study of the Harper’s Bazaar editor’s life has much ‘faction’ (Diana’s combination of fact and fiction), but proves great fun anyway. Using archival interviews and taped discussions that George Plimpton once tried to turn into a biography, we hear of Vreeland’s life, how it spanned key moments of the 20th century, and wonder how much is true: as a kid she did live in Paris during the ‘Belle Époque’, experienced the ‘Roaring Twenties’ in New York as a young woman and then married and relocated again to Europe where her friends included Coco Chanel, but she didn’t know Buffalo Bill or wave at Charles Lindbergh as he flew past. Still, this hardly matters, as you’re here for the fashion, and once we get to New York again and Diana begins work at HB and becomes its powerful editor, the glamour starts, as: she discovered models including Lauren Bacall, Twiggy and Anjelica Huston; she advised Jacqueline Kennedy; she gave Mick Jagger a big break; she was fictionalised/factionalised for the Audrey Hepburn-starring Funny Face; and she simply refused to let dreary old reality have its way. Special features on this release include deleted scenes. MDB
Bookshelf Lost, Stolen Or Shredded: Stories Of Missing Works Of Art And Literature Rick Gekoski / Profile / 284pp
Gekoski’s latest tells the tales of (in) famous art and literary works lost (and sometimes found), misplaced, pinched and just plain destroyed, with his warm and eccentrically witty tone making this surprisingly unpretentious and unstuffy. Learn about: the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa (and how crowds then stared at the Louvre’s bare wall); the nicking of ‘New Zealand’s greatest painting’, the Urewera Mural; Graham Sutherland’s unflattering portrait of Winston Churchill that drove Lady C to burn it, as was also the case with Lord Byron’s raunchy memoirs and the hideously un-PC diaries of the ghastly Philip Larkin; and the musical library of Guido Adler, irreparably torn to shreds by Nazis, and the rediscovered fragments of the multimedia (for the time) library at Herculaneam, lost after the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. MDB
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Liberal Arts Icon / PG / 97 Mins
Searching For Sugar Man
Straight A’s Roadshow / MA / 85 Mins
Madman / M / 83 Mins
The second film from writer/director/ producer/star Josh Radnor (of TV’s irritating How I Met Your Mother) has been compared to Woody Allen’s best pics, but this feels less clumsy and generally wittier and more soulful. Jesse ( JR), a 35-yearold would-be academic and author stuck working as a New York college admissions adviser, is invited to attend the retirement dinner of Peter Hoberg (Richard Jenkins), his favourite professor, and journeys to Ohio with mixed feelings. And after some tough, wry detail about Hoberg’s fear of losing his marbles and Jesse’s realisation that he’s a bit of a failure, he meets Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen), the highly intelligent and very cool 19-year-old daughter of Hoberg’s friends. And, of course, this leads to a long, old-fashioned correspondence by letter and, eventually, his return to the campus, as Radnor’s character grows increasingly uneasy about what to do with this potentially most powerfully romantic situation. And, unlike Woody, who would have cracked easy sex jokes and gone for simple resolutions, Radnor instead goes for a mood of uncertainty, meaning his film feels far more like real life, even if Alison Janney overacts in support and Zac Efron has a silly cameo as a stoner spouting existential nonsense. MDB
Director Malik Bendjelloul’s documentary was a hard one to discuss last year, but since this compelling if deceptive pic met with success, its mystery has been diluted (especially if you often check national tour schedules). Rodriguez was a Detroit singer who released the album Cold Fact in 1970 that, despite fabulous reviews, wasn’t a major US hit. After its 1971 followup Coming From Reality the performer seemingly vanished, leaving questions unanswered. Who was he? Why did he never record again? Did he commit suicide? Bendjelloul and others were on his trail for decades, especially when it became clear that he had been hugely popular in South Africa during ‘70s Apartheid, where his soulful songs had been interpreted as revolutionary ballads, as well as later, when their passionate quest hit cyberspace in the earliest days of the internet. And while you already know, or can guess, what eventually happened, Bendjelloul’s cinematic chronicle is intriguing enough, and reminds us again of the power of online communication, the all-consuming passion of being a fan and the strange nature of any artwork, and how once it’s public property, it can be taken to mean anything to anyone at any time. This release includes a featurette and live footage as special features. MDB
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Director James Cox (of the underrated Wonderland, with Val Kilmer very fine as a druggy John Holmes) handles this odd, fairly unsatisfying drama, which features a strong cast in perplexing form. In a big fancy family house in Shreveport, uptight Katherine (Anna Paquin) looks after business-suited eight-year-old son Charles (Riley Thomas Stewart), precocious sixyear-old daughter Gracie (Ursula Parker) and her dementing (or is he merely ‘faking it’?) father-in-law (Powers Boothe), while husband William (Luke Wilson in standard form) is off on business and, perhaps, thinking of being unfaithful. And riding (as in on a horse) into this uneasy situation comes Scott (hairy Ryan Phillippe), long-lost brother to Will and onetime ex to Katherine, which leads to some bonding between him and the kids, various scholastic dramas, renewed attractions and the revival of some old grudges, especially when it emerges that he ‘speaks’ to Will’s dead mom and that, apparently, Katherine somehow never stopped loving him. And for a film that’s crying out for expert playing, this unfortunately offers Paquin almost overacting, Wilson underacting to the point of dozing off and Phillippe straining to alter his preppy look and image - and failing. MDB
Stage Review
Mad March may have well and truly marched off into the distance, but Adelaide audiences are still being well served with some fantastic theatre productions. Ode To Nonsense, a family-friendly coproduction by Slingsby and State Opera based on the works of Edward Lear, won glowing reviews during its recent, all too short run at Her Majesty’s Theatre, while Dust, a work staged by Melbourne’s Jumbuck in conjunction with Adelaide’s Urban Myth and Born On A Monday Choir and featuring singer songwriter Mark Seymour, was well-received during its short sold out season at Old Queens Theatre. Hedda Gabler, State Theatre’s latest production, features a great ensemble cast of Alison Bell, Kate Cheel, Cameron Goodall, Nathan O’Keefe, Carmel Johnson and Terence Crawford and is a must-see for those wanting to see how a classic Ibsen play from over 100 years ago can be seamlessly transformed into a contemporary work when placed in the hands of Joanna Murray-Smith. Ibsen’s tale of the troubled Hedda Gabler and her relationships set in modern times also means the protagonists communicate by sending text messages via mobile telephones and use phrases such as ‘blast from the past’. On Fri May 10 there will be a Red Carpet performance of Hedda Gabler, which then continues at Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, until Sat May 18, at which audience members can mingle with the cast immediately following the show. Wednesday
by Robert Dunstan evening performances of Hedda Gabler and Saturday matinees also have a pay what you can deal (with a valid Healthcare card) while $25 rush tickets will also be available at these performances to the general public an hour before the show commences. Festival Theatre is also playing host to the blockbuster, family-orientated stage musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Based on Ian Fleming’s book for kids and the popular 1968 film that starred Dick Van Dyke, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a delightful romp for young and old that features some slapstick (George Kapiniaris plays one of the Vulgarian spies), songs, dance and, of course, a flying car – a stage prop valued at over a million dollars – which makes its first magical appearance just prior to intermission. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang also has a strong cast with opera singer David Hobson as crack-pot inventor Caractacus Potts and musical theatre star Rachael Beck as Truly
Scrumptious alongside a revolving cast of child actors. Alan Brough, from television’s Spicks And Specks, handles the role of the evil Baron Bomburst with Tyler Coppin in menacing form as The Child Catcher. The score by Americans Richard and Robert Sherman is not quite as memorable as the one the brothers penned for Mary Poppins, but audiences will leave the theatre with the musical’s title song running through their heads. The two-hour piece does, of course, have a thin and unbelievable plot, but those who abandon any sense of reality will have an enjoyable night at the theatre and children will find Chitty Chitty Bang Bang a feast for the senses. WHAT: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang WHERE: Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Until Sun May 26
Your guide to the student experience. Whoever coined the phrase “why do all good things come to an end?” (Nelly Furtado, yeah?) has summed up how I feel at this exact moment, given that this issue marks my last Fast Times. I’m just lucky that I’ve been able to bring you Fast Times each week for as long as I have, especially considering it is approaching a year since I was a student myself. As much as I will miss this special little page, I am confident that now is the perfect opportunity (just after uni graduations, ironically) to pass the baton over to someone who is still very much in the thick of the student experience and can bring you more campus news from ground zero itself. Treat him kindly. Moving on isn’t always easy but it’s almost always the best decision. Just like Joss Whedon’s decision to finish Buffy after season seven, ending on a high note is always the way to go (and not causing a scene like Kevin Spacey in American Beauty). Whether it’s to new jobs, new relationships, new cities or exiting student life into the real world, moving on has to happen to keep things exciting and relevant. Hell, it’s not even like I’m moving on too far. I’ll still be kicking around Rip It Up. You can’t get rid of me that easily. Sucked in. Help the new guy out and send through any student news, events, info or deals to fasttimes@ripitup.com.au, Tweet @ FastTimesRIU or Poke facebook.com/ fasttimesripitupmag so he doesn’t quit in his first week from having nothing to write about. It’s been the best. Ever. Peace, Lachie.
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Jam At UniSA UniSA cares about its students so much that it has set up an online conference for their staff and students to discuss their feelings and needs to help the university prosper in the future. The project is called Unijam, and is now taking registrations for the jam until Tue May 28, for the jam to take place on Wed May 29 and Thu May 30. If you’re a little confused by the name, a jam in this context refers to an online brainstorming event and ideas generator, not a delicious preserved fruit spread. Your responses will not be anonymous so be careful about how any decisions to use bad words and KEEP THE CAPS LOCK ON. Check in to the Unijam website regularly to see as the schedule becomes updated, so you can pinpoint exactly when to join the jam to speak to the personal relevant who can help your quandary. If you have an opinion you want voiced to the powers that be, be sure to register and get involved in this perfect example of how a liberal democratic society can care for its people. Lucille Bluth was right! To register and for more info visit unisa.edu.au/unijam.
Things I Did Instead ION Of Writing Fast Times T A N I AST R C O R P TIP
While trying to bring Fast Times each week, I accidentally sometimes ended up on websites that weren’t all that conducive to writing about higher education. And I regret nothing. Behold, my (not so hidden) digital vices. May they forever distract and chew up precious internet data usage and time. My gift to you.
Microanalysis At Carclew If we had to pick a winner between the science and art world for the Microanalysis exhibition at the Carclew Foyer Gallery this month, we’d have to say the art world has won out (again) but by a microscopic margin. Ha! One of Carclew’s resident emerging curators Jemimah Davis is presenting her first exhibition, which showcases the work of two South Australian young artists, Zoe Woods and Sam Trevaskis. Zoe’s work takes inspiration from what it’s like to experience nature through a microscope’s lens, whereas Sam looks at the relationship between the natural world and the constructed one through an abstract representation of camouflage. Microanalysis marks the first in the Carclew Foyer Gallery exhibitions for the year, which champion not only up-and-coming artists, but also give valuable field experience to people training to become curators. You don’t need a microscope to see what the resulting benefits of these kinds of experiences could be. No, sir. WHAT: Microanalysis WHERE: Carclew Foyer Gallery, Carclew House, 11 Jeffcott St, North Adelaide WHEN: 9am-5pm Mon-Fri, until Thu May 30.
Pugstumes Kim-Jong Un Looking At Things
Pugs + costumes. What could be better? Nothing. Exactly. Great for sourcing your next iPhone wallpaper.
Pretty much exactly what it is. The successor of Kim-Jong Il Looking At Things.
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Animals Being Dicks Gifs edited to make animals from all corners of the animal kingdom looking like total jerks. animalsbeingdicks.com
A sturdy collection of every meme, video, gif or pointless image that the internet can throw up. Good for obscure finds for those who are hard to please.
Channels the voice of Suri Cruise and disses Hollywood’s young families and choice of clothing. Makes invading the privacy of celebrity’s children very okay.
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CD Of The Week
Scottie’s Singles
Listen Now:
Josh Ritter
The National
The Beast In Its Tracks (Warner)
Demons (Remote Control)
With a voice lower than Rolf Harris’ approval ratings, if The National’s frontman Matt Berninger’s vocals were any deeper he’d need to be accompanied by a canary in a cage every time he opened his mouth. Like Leonard Cohen crossed with Alan from The Hangover, the first taste of sixth album Trouble Will Find Me finds Berninger troubled by subterranean homesick blues (‘When I walk into a room, I do not light it up. Fuck…’) and dropping the best lyrical reference to alligators in the sewers since Radiohead’s picturesque Fog. Perhaps the greatest thing about its parent album is the noble restraint it conveys, with Demons seeing Berninger backed – but never overshadowed - by some great cello, keyboards and backing vocals that act like reassuring hands on his shoulder. New York, I love you (when you’re bringing me down).
Listen Later:
Paramore
KT Tunstall
Paramore (Warner)
Feel It All (EMI)
Always something of an industry outsider, Scottish performer KT Tunstall’s latest single Feel It All suggests she’s been hiding away on a cactus-strewn gulch in Arizona. After a few fallow years of musical crop failures, Tunstall has unhitched her black horse from the cherry tree and rides back into town baring a countryflavoured variant on Leiber & Stoller’s Love Potion No 9. There’s a soft beauty to Tunstall’s voice that would have seen her duking it out with Linda Ronstadt in the ‘70s charts, but today’s synthetic and droid-like music realm will probably leave her in the dust. Consarn it.
When exiting Paramore members Josh and Zac Farro released a statement in late 2010 complaining that the band had become a commercial venture with frontwoman Hayley Williams as its photogenic centerpiece, it was as baffling as Angus T Jones from Two And A Half Men’s foolish rant that his show was brain-numbing filth. Dude, we all know
Tool
Polly Scattergood Wanderlust (EMI)
Considering their individual quirks are intended to resolutely separate them from the music masses, it’s rather amusing how many female artists deign a visual shroud of glitter, feathers and quirky eye make-up to be the best tactic to flaunt originality. Honey, that territory has been marked out more times than a lone sapling in a dog park. As a strident fan of electro pop gals from the British Isles I desperately want to love Polly Scattergood’s lush synth swathes, but Wanderlust is like watching a re-run of our favourite show from 2005. The best bit is the fact it sounds like Kylie Minogue covering Goldfrapp’s Black Cherry. The worst bit is the fact it sounds like Kylie Minogue covering Goldfrapp’s Black Cherry.
Bombs Away Drunk Arcade (Central Station)
If the admittedly catchy LMFAO are the talking trout of music fads, digi-wankers Bombs Away are the Tamagotchi – annoyingly needy digital bleeps that make you wish they’d just die. The longer I’m in the entertainment industry, the less I find it entertaining.
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– now why don’t you just retreat to your lavish trailer and count your filthy cash? You don’t need an excavator to unearth Paramore’s conclusive responses to the Farro slight on their eponymous fourth album. The lyrical hooks of boisterous Now and Interlude: Moving On deliver impressive blows, but the real victory for the stripped-back three-piece isn’t in snotty ripostes. It comes via the diversity and vivacity of Paramore - and the class with which it’s all executed. There’s a lot of ground covered over Paramore’s hour of power, with the livewire spark of pop queens such as Cyndi, Gwen and Katy echoing through Williams’ delivery. There are similarly enticing musical developments since 2009’s Brand New Eyes, with the punk playfulness matched by a bruised but unbowed stance. Closing proclamation Future builds from subtle acoustic textures into a Thricestyle juggernaut, emphatically blowing the Farros’ accusation of pigeon-holed puppetry out of the water and offering a tempting suggestion of the dogged trio’s next chapter. The three parallel lines on the CD are more than just haphazard etches, they’re a statement of intent: indefatigably upwards with a shared vision. Scott McLennan
This scallywag Josh Ritter is pumping out albums like it’s going out of fashion, bringing yet another delectable offering to the table. From his previous raw tellings of 2010’s So Runs The World Away, Ritter makes subtle steps toward a bigger sound. Dwelling in Adelaide during his teenage years, this lad is now a regular name thrown around on the international music scene. The intriguing cover casts strong reflections of what the record achieves; the burning holes in the shirt exposes the nakedness of Ritter’s thoughts as his life becomes unravelled at the pull of a thread. After Ritter’s marriage fell to pieces, he unlocked the vault of where his deepest secrets are kept. These are songs that galloped out of his soul and onto the page, into his guitar and onto a cracker of a record. The Beast In Its Tracks makes for a very raw album in that its edges are not sealed. These songs exist as they were written, which ensures a beautiful accessibility as the album has all the bullshit removed. Look at him on the cover with his brooding stare and ripped shirt. My dear, the only beast in the tracks is you, you big crazy mammal. Sharni Honor
Live Review
Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Wed May 1 Review by Nina Bertok Pics by Andreas Heuer
For the uninitiated, here’s the thing about Tool: everything – I repeat everything – is to be taken with a grain of salt and strictly tonguein-cheek when it comes to serial Jesus-tease Maynard James Keenan and his band of musical prodigies (drummer Danny Carey’s technique employs the Fibonacci sequence). This means that when you rock up at the Entertainment Centre tonight and find that the support act is indeed a DJ busting out the latest Daft Punk track, you’re a little surprised but it ain’t exactly a shock to the system. That’s just Tool... However, when the song which kicks off this hugely-anticipated show (after its last-minute cancellation the night before) sounds absolutely terrible to say the least, you wonder whether Keenan is living up to his reputation and purposefully fucking with you just ‘cause it’s really fun... Instrumentally, Vicarious sounds bloody brilliant, with Carey, guitarist Adam Jones and bassist Justin Chancellor in top form as always, but it’s Keenan’s barely-audible, gravelly, distorted (partly due to the use of a megaphone, mind you) voice that induces some obvious cringing among the audience who look mighty worried that this is what they’re in for for the remainder of the show. After all, the
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Shout Out Louds Optica
Kaki King
Scott Walker
The Black Angels
Glow
Bish Bosch
Indigo Meadow
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From looking at Glow’s cover, amateurs might expect Kaki King to be a powerhouse rock chick with her blue steel stare and some general filthy ‘tude, but once you press play Glow enters a completely unexpected realm of beautiful guitar. From rock chick to instrumental guru in mere seconds. In such a lyrically-dependent world, it’s rewarding to float on over to Kaki King’s Glow, an instrumental breath of fresh air. You never know what to expect from King, with the lauded 33-year-old US guitarist delivering a rock-infused record one minute and a sustained folk and rootsy record the next. Sixth album Glow definitely meanders down the roots path. The beauty of this record is that it removes the complexity of layered lyricism and illusions of meaning and strips the experience right back. It might be light on lyrics, but in terms of composition it’s a different kettle of fish; Kaki serves complexity on a dinner platter with a side of fries. She implants delightfully intricate details into her sound, proving her incredible ability as a guitarist. Take this album as an offering, fully interpret the meaning for yourself, immerse yourself in an ocean of sound and gaze on as the sea creatures dance to a wondrous wash of guitar tunes. Sharni Honor
American singer Scott Walker was a pop superstar during the ‘60s and meandered in the wasteland of ‘middle of road’ easy listening in the ‘70s before promptly falling off the face of the Earth for the next 20 years. And when I say “fell off the face of the Earth” I mean that he boarded a homemade rocketship to Alpha Centauri and promptly jettisoned himself into a black hole of 2001: A Space Odyssey proportions. When Walker returned to Earth, he promptly started making weird ‘albums’ that defied virtually every known musical convention. Walker’s work is so bizarre, I am hesitant to even refer to it as music, and I find it difficult to objectively evaluate what can only be classified as experimental. Do I like it because it is challenging and different? Or do I hate it because it causes panic attacks and occasionally makes me shit my pants with an overwhelming sense of dread? Devoid of melody or structure, Bish Bosch is an incredibly challenging piece of avant-garde expression. There are no words to describe this album, but there is one track called SDSS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter), more than one scatological reference and the lyric, ‘I’ve severed my reeking gonads, fed them to your shrunken face’, so... yeah. Ryan Lynch
It was strange that The Black Angels were considered dark horses at last year’s Harvest Festivals. The band had, after all, released three albums and ridden high on a wave of neo-psychedelia, of which they were an instrumental part for the past decade. Now with the release of that pivotal post-tour album, we should all be bracing for an onslaught of black leather and dark shades, right? The problem with Indigo Meadow is that it sounds like it was written a decade ago. That initial psychedelic buzz generated by the likes of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and The Von Bondies hangs around this album like that pot-smoking couch surfer that just won’t move on. That’s not to say it doesn’t make for some good songs. Lead single Don’t Play With Guns fires with both barrels; vocalist Alex Maas evoking Patti Smith at her fiery, political best in a pseudo anti-firearm anthem. The Day too draws heavily on one of their key influences — The Velvet Underground — to generate one of the album’s highlights. But from there Indigo Meadow settles into a tempo and style that it struggles to build upon. It’s not that drawing influence from the past is a bad thing — such a sentiment has been disproved innumerable times. But when your sound has grown stale within its own subcultural movement things need a re-evaluation. The problem is it’s hard to see where they go from here. It’s a grey area. Jimmy Byzantine
postponement has been due to Keenan’s illness, which makes it all the more concerning... What a relief and massive surprise then that the very next song (Opiate) sees Keenan at his earthshattering best, his vocals absolutely electrifying as he continues to plough through material from Undertow, Aenima, Lateralus and 10,000 Days (which is about how long it’s been since they released the album of the same name). No sign of any new material tonight either, despite some previous speculation among hopefuls, which makes a few question the reason behind the current tour in the first place (a farewell? Or maybe Maynard just never even left the country since his shows with Puscifer and A Perfect Circle earlier this year...). In true weirdo style, he produces a chicken/rooster (not real!) which sits on his arm throughout Jambi and Forty Six And 2, offering a little comic relief just in case you’ve started taking it all too seriously by this point (a big no-no in the Tool camp), though the mind-bending visuals on the screen behind the band are nothing to snigger at... Trance-inducing patterns, holographs, insects, embryos, skeletons and eyeballs flash at you while the laser show is the stuff of legends when it comes to Tool – at various points it literally transforms into a series of DNA spirals. There is also confetti. For the ‘cuteness factor’, I suppose. Thanks Maynard... The venue is nowhere near full for this show (again, possibly due to last night’s cancellation) but when Keenan asks the audience, “How many of you are really here?” (read: not fucking with your phone, etc.), the answer is, without question, every single one of us.
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Here are a couple of facts about the band Shout Out Louds: 1. They are like a twee-pop version of New Order. 2. The singer sounds like Robert Smith. 3. They are from Sweden. Let me address some of these facts: 1. I don’t care if Bernard Sumner is a mediocre singer, New Order are awesome. A bassist of Peter Hook calibre is noticeably absent here though. 2. The Cure rules, but this wannabe is just making me wish he was Robert Smith. 3. While I’ve never been to Sweden, I imagine it as a magical place where fluffy white snow blankets the countryside, men are manly and the women are at the apex of feminine beauty ideals. Conclusion: Shout Out Louds craft catchy, puppy love songs. Unfortunately my Swedish fantasy isn’t enough to elevate Optica from sugar pop purgatory. Ryan Lynch
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark English Electric (BMG)
Formed in 1978, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (or OMD) had a trendsetting, synthesiserdrenched hit with their fourth single, Enola Gay, in 1980, and then offered goofy ballads for the soundtrack to 1985’s Pretty In Pink - and really should have left it there. And yet here they are re-forming after more than a decade and turning out this altogether dire, 12-strong selection of cheesy tracks, including: the bland intro, Please Remain Seated; the tediously epic, retro-synthesiserheavy Metroland; the especially ‘80s-sounding Helen Of Troy; the would-be spooky and sci-fi-ish Our System (another waaaay too long ditty); Kissing The Machine, with more dopey synth and lamely altered vocal work; and, as a finale, the fittingly-titled, if deeply irritating, Final Song. Evidently hoping to sound a bit like Daft Punk, this demonstrates conclusively that OMD are just plain daft. MDB RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU
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Melody Feder by Lachlan A ird
After being brought up on a strict diet of country music talent quests and mandatory cowboy boots and hat, Melody Feder has shunned the stereotypes and broken out on her own, much to the dismay of the Australian country music purists. Feder’s rebellion has paid off, with her second release Walk That Wire benefitting from a more mature, wellrounded sound. Following Feder’s debut EP Dirt Roads And Diamonds, a traditional Australian country offering, Feder threw herself a curveball and relocated to New South Wales’ Central Coast (which she affectionately refers to as ‘Hillbilly Heaven’) and Austin, Texas, where she wants to settle long-term, to source new inspiration. This experience kick-started the series of events that Feder has taken to set herself apart
from the music scene that she grew up on. “A lot of people who are in country music, we tend to bring out music really young and sound really similar. We all grow up going to talent quests and are a part of this scene where we all go to Tamworth Country Music Festival and write songs together. Because of this I think that everything that comes out of the Australian country music scene sounds quite similar and manufactured. It wasn’t until I went to America and started becoming exposed to the Americana sound that I realised that this is the kind of music that I should be making.” The talent quests are just as intense as they sound. “You wear your boots and your cowboy hat and everyone sings the same songs. It’s like the Australian version of Toddlers And Tiaras. When I started wearing whatever I wanted I was crucified by the judges because I didn’t look country and I was never going to make it in the industry if I didn’t wear a cowboy hat. It’s so oldfashioned. Most Australian country artists
don’t even wear cowboy hats.” Apart from country music talent quests, Feder has also been a part of other national competitions. She was a finalist in the 2011 Telstra Road To Discovery and made it to the boot camp leg of X Factor in 2010. Those days are now behind her as Feder embarks on her new Americana-infused sound. “It was a fun experience and it was interesting but I wouldn’t do it again. I do think that [those competitions] can be detrimental for young teenagers who want to be singers. They look at these competitions and think it’s the only way to be singers, they don’t go out and write songs and learn to play guitar or join a band. They just learn to sing and go on The Voice or whatever. In that way I think it’s detrimental to original music and the development of young artists.”
Since 2008 the Cabaret Fringe Festival has offered an open access platform for independent artists to stage their work. 2013 is no exception, with a huge variety of artists, many of them local, staging everything from classic cabaret to contemporary works to children’s shows from when the festival launches on Sat Jun 1. This year will also see more venues involved than before, spreading throughout the East and West Ends of the CBD as well as venues in Fullarton, Parkside, Woodville, Brighton and McLaren Vale. One of the main attractions this year is Annie Siegmann in Girl On The Drink: From Gutter To Glamour In Satire And Song. The show explores a theatrical representation of Annie’s real problems with alcohol, exploring the highs and lows that she’s experienced on her journey. As with all things cabaret, dark humour is always in vogue, with ukulele-accompanied song Drink Along To David Attenborough a promised show highlight. Girl On The Drink will be showing at La Boheme on Sat Jun 15, Thu Jun 20, Sat Jun 22 and Sun Jun 23. To see the full program for Cabaret Fringe Festival and book tickets visit cabaretfringefestival.com.
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Thomas Pynchon EP Launch Thomas Pynchon was known for his dense and complex novels and the four-piece band that pay homage to his name hope to be known for their dense and complex lo-fi sound. Keeping the gimmick of an abstract name well and truly alive, their aptly named debut EP Thomas Pynchon is available for free download through their Bandcamp. They’ll launch the EP at Hotel Metropolitan on Sat May 11 with The Wild Things And Me AD.
WHO: Melody Feder WHAT: Walk That Line EP Launch WHERE: The Wheatsheaf WHEN: Sun May 12
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New kids on the block Dirt Playground are also doing new things regarding progressive hard rock. By infusing elements of psychedelia and world music, Dirt Playground are making some exciting new sounds and are launching an exciting new light show to go with their live set. They’ll be launching at Soul Box on Sun May 12 with doors at 6.30pm and supported by Lipsmack performing an acoustic set.
Menagerie Signed To Pilot Records Folk music gets an electric shock in the hands of Maximilian Hardy AKA Menagerie. After diligently writing, home-recording and gigging over the past two years, being selected by Triple J Unearthed and Gotye to attend songwriting courses in Sydney and supporting the likes of Jordon Ireland (ex The Middle East), Hardy has been signed to Pilot Records. Stay tuned for more details on when we can expect his debut album to drop, which will steer deeper into an electro/hip hop direction than his previous work.
Zephyr Quartet A Rain From The Shadows (Independent)
Nexus Music Series The third release from Zephyr Quartet, A Rain From The Shadows, is a cross-pollination between music and poetry. Much care has been taken to involve a number of Australian and international poets, including American-based Gary Soto, South Australia’s Rob Walker and Iraqi-born, Adelaide-based Yahia Al-Samaway and translate their words into musical score. Poems were also formed based on the string quartet's original pieces, penned by the likes of Nicki Bloom, Mike Ladd and Finegan Kruckemeyer. The result is a pleasant escape for both poetry and instrumental music enthusiasts. For general music fans, this is an interesting way to see how musicians and writers can inspire one another to create something that is true to both their art forms. Even though the majority of music is inspired by art or experience in some form, it is rare to be able to see the source of inspiration so overtly and follow the artists’ journey to reach the end result. In this way, A Rain From The Shadows is novel in the way it creates a holistic experience, which will surely engross many fans of classical music and poetry alike. Ensure to get the physical CD, complete with track-by-track poetry booklet to capture the whole experience.
From Fri May 10 to Fri Jun 21, world music will once again take pride of place in Adelaide, this time for the World Music Series. The Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre will again host the diverse and varied program following the overwhelming response to the event’s first year in 2012. Adelaide’s own Bearded Gypsy Band, Zephyr Quartet, Snooks La Vie, Mark Ferguson and the 18-piece Crump Cake Orchestra, Adelaide’s biggest funk band, are just some of the acts on the line-up that will be playing dates throughout the season. If you need to unwind, readjust your perspective or simply aching for WOMADelaide to return, be sure to check the Nexus World Music Series out. For more information and to book visit nexus.asn.au.
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