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Editor’s Note// Chatting with Jordi Davieson from San Cisco made me realize just how young popular artists are getting. Still too young to drink in the US, it resonates just how accessible fame, popularity and all that go along with it now are. San Cisco didn’t have a Mickey Mouse Club or marketing juggernaut to propel them into global fame like Britney and Justin of the ‘90s. They didn’t go on X Factor – the only nationwide democracy they’ve endured is Triple J’s Hottest 100. Really, all the band have had to do is make quality music and use the mighty internet to spread the word. Davieson even let slip that some of the new tunes that are in the works for San Cisco will mainly be constructed by iPad Apps, meaning basically anyone, anytime, anywhere can make music worthy of an international tour. The same idea is being undertaken overseas with MS MR also divulging that almost the entirety of their album, Secondhand Rapture, was made using a computer, keyboard and microphone. MS MR harnessed social media to its fullest potential; Tumblr addicts were chewing through their precious data usage on MS MR’s tracks before anyone knew who MS MR actually were. Well, this makes it all sound so easy, doesn’t it? Actually, both bands, no matter how different they may be, haven’t just been able to whip up some digital trickery and book themselves on international festival line-ups. Hard work, perseverance, sacrifice and talent are still as relevant as ever in the music industry. It’s just that now the playing field appears more diversified and accessible as ever, meaning school kids from Freo can now compete with digital creatives from New York. So, who wants to teach me to use GarageBand? Lachlan Aird Editorial Assistant
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Call out to your brothers and rally for Matt Corby’s return to Adelaide, performing on Sun May 26 at HQ.
Off the back of their new single Chase The Sun and accompanying single, local goal-kickers City Riots will be preforming on Fri May 24 at Rhino Room.
The Ed Castle on Fri May 24 will be graced with Chance Waters as he tours his acclaimed sophomore album Infinity.
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The local lads will top and tail their national tour for Caroline, the first a gig at the Ed Castle on Fri May 24.
All this week you can find an array of art-related workshops and activities at the Come Out Festival, especially tailored for schools and families.
Speeding along this week... NATIONAL WALK SAFELY TO SCHOOL DAY - Combat child obesity by walking your kids safely to school on Fri May 24 for National Walk Safely To School Day. There’s even an App for it!
A DECADE IN THE PHOTO PIT - Local photographer Rodney Magazinovic is celebrating ten years behind the lens at some of Adelaide’s biggest concerts with a retrospective photography exhibition at Suzie Wong’s Room.
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Welcome Back Wendy After 12 years, Wendy Matthews will return in August with a new album of original material, The Welcome Fire, with each song a collaboration with another fine artist (Megan Washington, Josh Pyke, Rod McCormick and more). Her credentials span decades and every corner of Australian
Surrender To Victory is a majestic album title from a man who calls himself The Tongue. Xannon Shirley, as he is in real life, will be celebrating his third hip hop album release with a tour that will reach Rocket Bar on Sat Jul 6.
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music, so this tour offers a rare chance to hear an iconic Australian voice. Before the album is released, Wendy will be performing three nights in South Australia: Fri May 24 at Café Palazzo North Adelaide, Sat May 25 and Sun May 26 at The Beachhouse Café, Encounter Bay.
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Kiddie Bon Bon Bon Jovi are really doing whatever they want on the Because We Can Tour. Kid Rock has been announced as national support, marking the American rocker’s first Australian tour. Rock’s 2008 album Rock & Roll Jesus stayed in the US charts for 100
weeks; his ninth studio album, Rebel Soul, was released last November and includes hits like Chickens In The Pen and Redneck Paradise. Tickets for the tour go on general sale on Mon May 20, with tickets starting from a low $35+BF.
Björn To Be Wild If fandangled new tunes are getting you down, why not take a shuffle down Tribute Lane with two spectacular cover acts to grace our stages in coming months. Arriving first are Björn Again, the world’s greatest ABBA tribute act, on Fri Jul 27 at the Festival Centre. As Benny Andersson himself said: “Fans had better make the most out of Björn Again, because that’s the closest they will get to seeing ABBA.” Rounding out the faux-fame, the Bootleg Beatles will then perform pop’s greatest hits at the Governor Hindmarsh on Fri Aug 2.
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Sickness Hits The Seekers Judith Durham, singer in The Seekers, has been diagnosed with a small cerebral haemorrhage. While she undergoes tests, The Seekers’ Golden Jubilee Tour has been postponed until further notice. Adelaide
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dates affected are Sat May 25 and Sun May 26 at Adelaide Entertainment Centre. Tickets will remain valid for rescheduled dates when they are announced.
Adelaide deathcore group I EXALT has been announced as local support for the Thy Art Is Murder Hate Across Australia Tour. I Exalt will join national supports Cattle Decapitation, King Parrott and Aversions Crown when they appear at Fowler’s Live on Sat Jun 15.
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Yes, Molly Ringwald from ‘80s hit films Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club makes her Australian stage debut at the 2013 Cabaret Festival.
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A comical deadpan performance of hard-hitting electronica dance metal rock, reflecting on compelling stories of archives, collections, pets, childhood imaginings and human frailty. you’ll laugh, you’ll cry…you’ll ROCK!
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Mistress of Ceremonies for current New York hotspot The Darby, Lady Rizo combines vintage arrangements and theatrical explorations of pop and original songs.
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Life’s A Beach After taking a short break in their hometown of Fremantle before flying out to London that afternoon, Jordi Davieson, the lead vocalist and guitarist of Australia’s much-loved goal kicking kids, San Cisco, takes some time to chat to Rip It Up about the band’s recent overseas exploits and where San Cisco can improve. avieson speaks to us after a lengthy gallivant across the United States, playing their own headlining sell-out shows as well as supporting the likes of The Vaccines. In fact, the Awkward EP debuted as the fourth most added track to alternative rock radio in the US. This was news to Davieson. “Really, is it? That’s pretty cool,” he says matter-of-factly. One theory that San Cisco are favouring so well in American is due to their name, although Davieson assures me this is a happy coincidence, although he ranks San Francisco was his favourite city after New York. “I didn’t know that I’d like San Francisco that much or that we’d ever end up there as San Cisco,” Davieson confirms. “[The name] wasn’t deliberate.” Davieson is aware, however, of the crucial nature of the college radio market in order to break the lucrative but notoriously fickle American market. Davieson does comment on how American radio is quite different to the radio gigs they’re used to back home. “Some of [the radio stations] are super flashy with their sound effects; the presenters
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talk so fast and are so excited about something that isn’t even really that exciting. Then there are some that are just really boring and they just seem bored the whole interview. There are a few ones that are pretty cool and chilled out… Although I haven’t really found a radio station that’s like Triple J.” Davieson’s fondness of the Australian radio station is not just a case of not wanting to bite the hand that feeds them, but there is genuine affection between the two. So much so, the band sampled the congratulatory phone call that breakfast presenters Tom Ballard and Alex Dyson gave the band upon claiming the seventh spot for Awkward in 2011’s Hottest 100 on the track Wild Things. It’s these early tracks off the Awkward EP that San Cisco are currently promoting internationally, although Australian fans have had over a year to digest them. By now they’re surely bored of their older songs like Awkward?
“We feel like we’ve learnt a lot from the first one and we feel we can do the next one a lot better. We have so much room to improve.” “Yeah!” says Davieson without hesitation, although he quickly corrects himself. “I guess we get sick of the songs pretty quickly, but that’s what makes us write new songs.” Their self-titled debut is a surprising mixed bag, which includes more dance-happy tunes that can be classified as a modern take on ‘50s and ‘60s rock like Fred Astaire and Lyall, but
Wild Things, Indeed. also some unexpected darker undercurrents on tracks like Stella and Toast. Many of the songs have a more reserved, darker trimming to them, showing an evolution in the band’s sound. This disparity between the songs’ tone across the album can be explained due to the band still being a work in progress who are just finding their feet. “I’m really happy to have the album out there and give people a good introduction into what we’re trying to do. We’re already really excited about writing the next album though. We’re already getting a few tracks and ideas down.” While their return to Australia for the Beach Tour won’t necessarily mean we will get to hear any of the new tracks that are in the works, Davieson confirms that decision isn’t due to nerves that lightning may not strike twice for their new material’s reception. “No. We feel like we’ve learnt a lot from the first one and we feel we can do the next one a lot better. We have so much room to improve. There’s nothing on the first album we don’t like, but they are just the sort of songs we were writing during that point in our personal music careers. We weren’t ready for the recording process to be so intense so we weren’t as prepared as we would like to have been. I still think they’re good songs and are good to listen to.” San Cisco’s new material may take a bit of a different turn from what they’ve put out before purely due to such a drastic change in situation and environment. The band are constantly writing and working on new sounds while on the road, so this is sure to heavily influence the new material. Songs like No Friends, which address the bullies and tormenters of adolescence seem far below the worries of a
San Cisco are the latest youthful cohort to traipse overseas with their infectious tunes. Babyfaced frontman Jordi Davieson is also the youngest of the group, although youthfulness isn’t always an advantage on tour. “I’m 19 and everyone else is 20, so I’m the baby. None of us can drink in the US, which is bullshit. We just have hipflasks. It’s going to be bullshit because we’re trying to time it so we’re in New York for Scarlett’s 21st. They’re all going to be 21 and I’m going to be chilling out at home still 19. I need a fake ID. I should put a call out on Facebook…”
band reaching international success. “It’s funny because now we don’t really have any friends. We’re never home,” Davieson laughs. “I don’t really see any of these people that bother me, they were at school. I don’t really see anyone anymore.” The people Davieson spends all his time with these days are his band members. How are these young adults that have known each other since school getting along? “When we first started touring it was a real struggle. We were always at each other. Now we have it down to an art form. We know when to leave each other alone and rev each other up. You get to know each other very well.” WHO: San Cisco WHAT: The Beach Tour (with Millions and Chaos Chaos) WHERE: Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Fri May 24
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Inner Mind Workings In the lead up to the release of their debut album Secondhand Rapture, Lizzy Plapinger and Max Hershenow, the New Yorkers behind dark synth-pop duo MS MR, take some time with Rip It Up to chat about their obsession with new media networks and why until very recently, their true identity was still very much a secret. t seems a bit of a contradiction to try and promote a band by letting people know very little about the people behind the music, but it’s a strategy that Plapinger and Hershenow are still adamant was the right for them. “If anything we feel more validated and vindicated than ever that we made the right decision,” says Plapinger. “We had a very clear cut trajectory from the start and made a very conscious decision to start anonymously.” Their cleverly crafted game plan relied heavily
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on online blogging website, Tumblr, a platform that easily allows for its users to post and share images and multimedia. MS MR would trickle out the tracks that would eventually make up their debut EP, Candy Bar Creep Show. Flowing with the symbiotic relationship between the band and their Tumblr, the name is also a line from Bones, as well as the name of their Tumblr page. Those who ‘Tumble’ then bounced the tracks back and forth and shared them all over the internet. Besides making their music viral, there were other benefits to this scheme that were important to the band. “We make pop music and we’re very proud of that, but sometimes with pop it becomes more about the personality behind the music rather than the music itself. That’s not something we’re really interested in. To be able to put out the music and have people come to it for the right reason was incredibly important to us. It’s allowed us to develop ourselves behind the scenes so that by the time we were coming out it happened very organically and naturally. It’s nice to now provide faces to the music,
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Hurricane Adelaide Given the crowd troubles that plagued the Laneway Festival this year, which was MS MR’s first taste of Adelaide, it felt only polite to apologise for any bad taste that may have been caused. Thankfully, it didn’t play a part in the decision for MS MR not to have an Adelaide sideshow for Splendour In The Grass. “I remember that show! We were in this small corner room [Fowler’s Live] and it was really, really hot so we had to strip down quite quickly. I think the sweatier we are during a performance – the better it is. It forces us to get really wild about it. The Adelaide show was a really fun show, actually,” says Plapinger. Phew!
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although I don’t think it’s become all about us now - it’s still all about the music. In that way it has been handled very professionally.” Hershenow does acknowledge that they were playing a dangerous publicity game. “Staying anonymous definitely had the potential to backfire on us. We were playing with fire a little bit, making a bigger deal of it than it needed to be. We were lucky that it turned out exactly how we imagined.” This kind of manipulation of the internet will surely be one that Media Studies students can use as a case study to explain the infiltration of new media on traditional forms of distributing music. Looks like that isn’t a coincidence either. “I studied Media and Max was an Urban Studies major, so we were pretty across [new media].” Surely seeing the hype surrounding who is behind MS MR elevate would mean they felt pressured to make themselves more interesting to meet the public’s expectations? “No!” they both laugh. “I think we are already quite interesting and unique individuals in our own right without trying too hard,” Plapinger continues, assuring me that she’s been colouring her hair, continuing the tradition of Kate Winslet’s character in the film Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, since she first dyed it blue in high school. “For us it’s about finding the balance between letting people in and giving them new insight into the music without overshadowing what we’ve done and always putting the music in front of ourselves.” For the social experiment that the Candy Bar Creep Show EP became, it was always intended to act as an introduction to what MS MR constantly refers to as “the project”. They promise that while they may not release music exactly in the same way in the future, their love affair with digital media is certainly just beginning. “We have such a deep relationship with Tumblr I can see us using it in some capacity for the rest of our career,” Hershenow says. “I’m on it right now!” Plapinger laughs.
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Musical Catharsis Get What You Give is dedicated to the memory of lead singer Jonathan’s brother, Ryan, who passed away unexpectedly. The album deals explicitly with the tragedy on White Light, how has Vigil found performing the track?
Californian metalcore crew The Ghost Inside have been kicking around just shy of a decade, but according to vocalist Jonathon Vigil, it wasn’t until Get What You Give that the band felt legitimate. n the internet age, where music blogs need to tell you at least once every fortnight that a new band’s demo tape of mash-ups is the most poignant expression of musicality that you’re ever liable to hear for the rest of your worthless life, bands seem to come and go at an alarming rate. There seems to be scores of acts becoming overnight successes, but The Ghost Inside is not one of them. The band slogged it out, doing the touring rounds for a few years and a pair of albums under the moniker A Dying Dream before switching over to The Ghost Inside and doing another couple of records. Without a label for album number three, the band’s hard work caught the eye of seminal punk label Epitaph, and eventually a deal was inked. “I think our band was kind of legitimised in a lot of people’s eyes when we got signed to Epitaph. Before that there were a lot of people who seemed to think, ‘The Ghost Inside are alright but I don’t really know what they can do’. Now we’re on Epitaph it seems to be people more saying, ‘Oh yeah, The Ghost Inside? That band’s awesome. They’re on a good label so we’ll put them on this tour. We’ll help them out’.” That’s got to be a bummer though, right? Putting in all that work, releasing great records in 2008’s Fury and the Fallen Ones and 2010’s Returners, capturing all that acrobatic riffery and songwriting that deftly reworked the metalcore song dynamic, and then having the gatekeepers of the music business brush you off, dismiss you, and basically just not give you the time of day? “Sure, it’s frustrating that people didn’t see the band as legitimate or whatever even though we’d been around and had paid our dues. It helped our drive more than it frustrated us. It helped us want to get signed to that great label and a desire to push as hard as we could, but there have been times where it has felt like we’ve missed out on some stuff because people didn’t see us in a certain light. We just kept working hard and we’ve been able to do some pretty cool things in our career. We’re just going to keep at it so we get the chance to do more cool stuff with the band,” Vigil says. Like their slow ascent to legitimacy, The Ghost Inside’s approach to touring, especially in Australia, has been an effort of incremental gains and dogged determination. The band was happy to put in the work and slog it out as they worked their way up bills with the crème de la crème of Australian hardcore. Now, thanks to Get What You Give, they’ve finally found themselves in a headlining slot. “We’ve done a lot of really awesome support slots in Australia, so we’re stoked to finally get the chance to headline and play all of the songs that we didn’t get the time to play on all of those tours. And we thought that we should make that into more of an event by getting a great line-up all around for the show.” Talking to Vigil, it becomes apparent that the band’s ethos is something like ‘nothing’s easy so you better just get it done’. Whether that’s tearing your soul out onstage night after night, or dogging it out on the road for years to get to a good spot, the band willingly accept that they’ve gotta do what they’ve gotta do. “We just put everything we have into this band. This is our lives, and our livelihood, so it’s nothing that we want to half-ass. We’ve got to go on stage and play these songs with our heart and soul; really give it everything that we’ve got. And I think when people see us, they know that we’re doing it for the right reasons and are not just onstage because we want to be rockstars.”
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“Sometimes it can be pretty difficult… My younger brother passed away, kind of just out of the blue, and we’ve been playing [White Light] on this last tour and it’s been pretty difficult some nights. Some times it can take a lot out of you, getting that emotional in front of that many people… But it’s one of our more popular songs. To not play it would be a bummer for a lot of kids.”
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Mining The Depths In advance of its release, Trouble Will Find Me, the sixth album for The National, is being roughly painted as a rocking set. After the sombre, elegant Boxer (2007) and opaque, claustrophobic High Violet (2010), this time the Brooklyn-based quintet are calling it everything from “free-wheeling” to “fun”. But listening to Matt Berninger’s chronicles of various anxieties —from social situations to parenthood, drowning, dying, and a lack of faith— it’s hard not to notice how much the dark lyrics contrast with the album’s supposedly more upbeat nature. It’s pretty strange. It’s like we’ve made a fun record about dying,” laughs Aaron Dessner, The National’s guitarist, who handles composition of the band’s music with brother/co-guitarist, Bryce. “There is a
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lot of references to passing, to the afterlife, to heaven, whether [Berninger] believes in it or not. For me, he seems to be exploring this idea that as you get older, you get more responsibilities. You have children and start to think more about how your time here is not just your own life. The impact you have is felt in other people. When he says, ‘we’ll all arrive in heaven alive’, I think what he means is that even when you pass, your children are still alive, your friends are still behind, the things that you’ve made are still there. It reappears throughout the record in different ways; like, ‘I’m secretly in love with everyone I grew up with’. This idea that you’re connected to everyone you’ve ever known, that you leave a trace behind even after you’ve gone. I think all these thoughts emerged later, because at first we thought we were making this fun, bouncy record with lots of multi-layered drum-parts that give it this almost ‘dancey’ appeal. But, ultimately, when the lyrics start to emerge, you notice that there are all these references to death, even some seemingly
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suicidal references.” Working on Trouble Will Find Me, Berninger was “in a much more prolific state-of-mind.” The band felt the songs come “flowing, and loose, and natural, and confident.” That stands in stark contrast to the LPs that preceded it. “Boxer and High Violet were both very difficult records to make,” Dessner freely admits. “There’s the story, which is true, about how we literally made 100 different versions of [High Violet’s] Lemonworld. There were a lot of inter-personal tensions when we were making High Violet. It feels like it’s there on the record. But then the High Violet touring cycle turned out to be unexpectedly joyous. It was actually fun. By the end we were enjoying being in the band and felt very thankful for what we’d accomplished. There had been a lot of dark feelings brewing over the years. There were a lot of personal problems between us —nothing dramatic, but still very persistent. Finally, it was like we all got over those things at the same time.” Dessner attributes much of that to the unexpected success of High Violet, which hit the top five all over Europe and North America. After early years of well-documented disappointment, struggle and unpopularity, now The National could play more sparingly in concert halls, and spend more time at home with their budding families. After they’d all grown to resent the dynamic within their band —and in some ways, the band itself— playing their shows after High Violet reawakened that love for the band as a unit. “We embraced the chemistry of the band, rather than trying to fight it. We just ran with it,” Dessner says about the lead up to Trouble Will Find Me. “It wasn’t an album without its difficult moments —I nearly lost my mind towards the end, as usual— but they didn’t define the recordings. Things just happened so spontaneously. It was almost like the beginning of the band, when we used to just write songs. Something did click with this record. That chemistry came back. It was happening easily, which gave [the album] this feeling of coming full circle - back to where we began. It’s refreshing, but oddly nostalgic.” WHO: The National WHAT: Trouble Will Find Me (Remote Control)
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The Reverend Horton Heat, a rockin’ trio from Texas who play a revved-up form of country music and rockabilly and are just as likely to have their followers swing dancin’ as they are to have ’em slam dancin’, are currently on a much anticipated Australian tour. head of their eight-date Australian visit, Rip It Up speaks to guitar slinger and vocalist Jim Heath (AKA The Reverend Horton Heat) who begins by saying that there’s no particular reason for the tour other than the fact they “love playin’” and also have an affinity for Australia. “It’s not like we have a new album to promote or anything,” Heath says from home in Corpus Christie. “We kinda tour all the time anyway. It’s what we do. Australia is my favourite foreign country, so any reason to go down there is good with me. “The food’s great and you guys have got really good beer,” he quickly continues. “I love the Australian countryside. You guys have got something really special down there, so that’s always fun with us being on the other side of the globe. The people are great too. We’ve met a lot of great people down there and even though your roots are with England, Australians seem a lot more gregarious and adventurous than any English people we’ve met. You guys are kinda like the people from Texas. “Everything is clean and everything works well so, for us, it’s a very relaxing experience to tour Australia,” Heath adds. “I remember when we first toured down there, I slipped into a bar in Melbourne on a night off and heard this band playin’ some pure, authentic honky tonk music like you’d hear in Texas, but even better. They had everything going for ’em – a guy twangin’ away on a Telecaster and a great pedal steel player. I felt right at home. I was real impressed.” Former drummer Scott Churilla, who left a day job along with a girlfriend in Houston to first join The Reverend Horton Heat in 1994, is now back with the band, while Jimbo Wallace has been slappin’ upright bass with the trio since 1989. Aside from touring duties, the trio are currently working on what will be their 11th album. It will be their first for punk label Victory Records and follows a three-album stint with Yep Roc, who rather cheekily released the best of, 25 To Life, following the band’s departure. “Right now it’s really, really hard because I’m kinda feelin’ a bit burnt out,” Heath, who owns a Ford hot rod he rarely gets to drive, says of the recording process for the trio’s upcoming album. “But we’re working hard on it. We finished off three songs earlier today and I’m thinking we’ve got about nine ready to go with three more in the works. We’re going to be playing at least two of the new songs on the Australian tour.” Heath, who says most of his buddies are either musicians, mechanics or vintage furniture restorers, goes on to say that the trio usually include at least one song from each of their 10 albums at live performances. “It can be a challenge,” he laughs. “We usually start with something from the first album and then one from the second and so on and then just go from there. We kinda loosen up from there and we’re not afraid to play the songs people wanna hear. Everything kinda goes out the window after we’ve got those first 10 songs out of the way.” Joining The Reverend Horton Heat for their Adelaide show will be Melbourne’s Doubleblack (a rockabilly trio that includes guitarist Matt Black of The Fireballs and Fez Perez, as well as Travis Dempsey, the former drummer of The Living End) and King Of The North, an explosive Melbourne duo featuring former Adelaide boys Andrew Higgs and Danny Leo.
The Reverend Horton Heat were featured in the 1994 film Love And A .45, a road movie which starred Gil Bellows, Renée Zellweger and Peter Fonda and the soundtrack included The Flaming Lips, Mazzy Star, Butthole Surfers, Meat Puppets, Kim Deal, Roger Miller and Johnny Cash. “The guy who made the film, Carty Talkington, I knew from junior high school days, although he was a year or so below me,” Jim Heath says of Love And A .45, that had The Reverend Horton Heat playing The Devil’s Chasin’ Me in a strip club. “It was a fun experience and Renée Zellweger was just a young thing at the time so it was fun hangin’ out with her. It was one of Renée’s very first movies, so that was cool.”
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TOKiMONSTA Real name Jennifer Lee, TOKiMONSTA has been recognised and praised by both tastemakers and the media for her eclectic music taste and her penchant for vast textural landscapes which see her fusing vintage sensibilities with progressive inclinations. LA Weekly ranked her as 2010 number one female DJ in Los Angeles, while Resident Adviser named her one of their ‘Breaking Through’ artists, claiming she was a DJ to keep an eye on. TOKiMONSTA is also the first female to join Flying Lotus’ label Brainfeeder and counts Coachella, Sonar Barcelona, DEMF, WMC, Electric Zoo, South By Southwest and Decibel Festival as some of her most notable performances. In April this year, she released her second album, Half Shadows, through Ultra Records. TOKiMONSTA plays at Rocket Bar on Fri Jun 28.
Clubfeet
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Clubfeet have announced a 10-date national tour alongside Sydney-siders, Panama, which is sure to be a one hell of a dancefloor throwdown. Ever since their 2013 breakthrough thanks to the release of sophomore album, Heirs And Graces, the Melbourne-via-South-Africa five-piece have had enormous success with hit singles Heartbreak (featuring Chela) and Everything You Wanted, alongside new single Cape Town which has also strengthened Clubfeet’s international fanbase. The track is one-part emotional breakdown and one-part a shimmering late-night sweat-out, which both pays homage to their quasihomeland and serves as an ode to desperate nights out on the rebound. Catch them for an intimate show at Rhino Room.
Following a long winter in the recording studio, genre-agnostic producer Mailer Daemon has unleashed his debut EP, Gravitas, with lead single and trap-rap anthem, Always On The Grind, featuring the talents of Thundamentals’ Jewson, The Tongue and P Smurf...
Clubfeet play at Rhino Room on Fri Jun 12.
Obie Trice Detroit rapper and protégé of Eminem, Obie Trice, is returning to Australia for the first time since touring with Heatwave 2012. With his fourth studio album, The Hangover, scheduled for release in June, his Aussie fanbase will be the first that gets to hear the new material. As the original Shady Records artist, Obie went on to set up his own label, Black Market Entertainment, in 2010 and is expected to distinguish his own style yet again on the forthcoming album. The Hangover Tour will be his debut national headliner and will also feature material from his ARIA certified gold album, Cheers, as well as his entire backcatalogue which includes the 2012 record Bottoms Up and Shady Records collaborations. Adelaide rapper Mastacraft will be the national supporting act. Obie Trice plays at The Gov on Sat Jun 22.
CD Reviews
Rudimental
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Life
Home
Universus
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Life is a very appropriate title for this record from the Melbourne outfit; because it is quite literally bursting at the seams with the stuff. With its strong flavours of Talking Heads and early Roxy music, this record has a playful coolness. This is the kind of thing you might hear at a party and think, ‘This shit is pretty out there', yet it has such a dance-ability and celebratory vibe that it proves somewhat irresistible. The songs have lots of floor tom and strong funky vibes and there is veritable cornucopia of various instruments utilised, which bring the joy aspect into full swing, like the steel drums, which really rollick along with brassy horns, keys and reverbed vocals. To the casual listener, the album would likely feel a tad overbearing, but at the end of the night, all that assshaking, spilt wine cooler and the lamp that got broken from a wayward flailing arm wouldn’t matter, because Life is something that just happens and why wouldn’t you want to get involved? Richard Boner Staboni
Dare you to listen to Home in its entirety and not come out of it with a big stupid grin on your face. This East London lot are all about spreading the joyous vibe and radiating the love (check out the aptly-titled Feel The Love featuring John Newman). Their message is mostly a positive one mixed with a style that is probably best described as a poppy take on D&B. It’s infectious and exhilarating but at times also chilled-out and emotional (especially when Emeli Sande makes an appearance on More Than Anything and Free), which means this album is frighteningly close to being flawless from track one through to 12. Rudimental clearly don’t believe in fillers, preferring to craft each song into an absolute cracker, keeping your head nodding, toes tapping and booty shaking from beginning to end. Mighty impressive for a debut album. Simone Keenan
“Fourteen billion years ago, there was nothing,” begins the intro to Universus, “No stars, no galaxies, no planets, or people. Then suddenly, without warning, everything exploded into existence. The universe was born”... And so we’re off on a futuristic journey through space and time, which references things like Singularity (The Monochord Of Creation), Chaos Theory, Infinity’s Silence, Age Of Enlightenment and Light Cycles. Except the problem is that – despite ranking number one on iTunes’ dance chart – ShockOne’s debut album just ends up channelling Pendulum circa 2010. That doesn’t mean that this 14-track ‘opus’ (by the genre’s standards, anyway) isn’t good by any means, but it does mean that the brostep whoppers, heavy wobbles and epic drops aren’t exactly fresh to the ears. Check out Home and Universes, the two tracks featuring vocals from Reija Lee, as well as the aggressive smasher Lazerbeam (featuring Kyza). Simone Keenan
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You have quite an interesting background (American/Persian/Malaysian) – how much has it influenced your sound? My dynamic cultural upbringing has made me open and accepting of various styles and approaches. I feel that I’m highly sympathetic to various art forms and have an understanding of its form, its function and its fan base, even when it’s beyond my musical taste or preference. I feel that it is a skill that great producers develop, as they are able to identify what makes an artist great – and being able to accentuate it and make it even better. I feel that my cultural diversity has made me an empowered, experienced and educated producer. What first inspired you to give music a go? I grew up playing in alternative, punk, and postrock bands in high school. At the same time I was producing techno and jungle on DOS-based trackers such as Impulse Tracker and Scream Tracker. As the ‘00s came around, I began to focus more on beat-making skills, evolving them into producer skills, which have evolved into mix engineer skills, which has evolved into MC skills. My initial inspiration would definitely have to be my big brother, setting the groundwork of my taste and style.
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Gravitas has had a great response from Triple J already, how do you feel about it? I’m really stoked on this EP, I feel that it is so unique and progressive. I’m really proud of the balance of alternative rock, hip hop and EDM that we bring to the table. People will get to see Oz hip hop in a new light, taking in the best of a range of influences and putting together in a cohesive and cutting-edge package. It took a lot of faith to put this vision together and I’m very appreciative of all the support people have shown, from artists to the media. I’m keen to drop my next EP! Stay tuned for more exciting Mailer Daemon adventures.
Gravitas is out through MGM.
Calendar/ 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) Fri May 31 Bass Kleph (Red Square) Fri Jun 7 Dash Berlin (HQ) Sun Jun 9 Tommy Trash (HQ) Sat Jun 22 Mobin Master & Tate Strauss (HQ) Sat Jun 22 Obie Trice (The Gov) Fri Jun 28 Tokimonsta (Rocket Bar) Sat Jul 6 The Tongue (Rocket Bar)
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Melbourne electro-house DJ/producer Mobin Master has a new single, Dreams, a ‘versus’ with Tate Strauss featuring Russian dance divette, Polina and they’re bringing the song to the people, rather than merely winging it to influential DJ mates or quietly posting it on Soundcloud. These days DJs rarely promote singles directly to the media, which is why Master and his Safari Music cohort Tate Strauss are doing just that. “There’s an ocean of music out there at the moment [so] there’s a few things you have to do in order to get heard – and I believe it’s to be unique, have good sound quality and it needs to have publicity,” Master says. He knows about hit-making. His reworking of Robin S’ ‘90s house classic Show Me Love with Adelaide’s Karina Chavez spent a record-breaking number of weeks in the ARIA Club Charts – and blew up globally (Pete Tong championed it). And bigname DJs are already supporting Dreams. Germany’s Thomas Gold has played it on a radio show, as has Master’s sometimecollaborator Laidback Luke. Ironically, the initiator of the song was Polina herself. The singer, who’s recorded with the likes of Kaskade, David Morales, and Tiësto & Steve Aoki, wanted to develop an old vocal she had lying around. Master and Strauss were hooked up with her by an Italian record company. Master, known to play a keytar during his DJ sets, is a maverick in other ways. He’s also a medical specialist (Master studied radiology in Adelaide). Playing in a rock band as a teen, Master, raised in the Baha’i faith, couldn’t let go of music. “It was always my passion since I was a child. I actually wanted to do music over anything else – and then my father said, ‘Have a back-up plan’. I guess medicine ended up being overkill with regards to a back-up plan!” Master launched Safari Music in 2007 with his then-partner Hess, who’d introduced him to the turntables. Hess has since moved to Los Angeles, with Strauss, a mutual friend,
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stepping in. Today Safari is one of Australia’s most high-profile ‘EDM’ labels. “It’s evolved into something new. We’ve signed up a lot of young fresh artists. We’re doing a lot of techno or more electro and ‘Melbourne sound’ and a little bit of big room, but mainly slamming sort of mainroom tracks.” The label currently has a hit in the Beatport Dubstep Chart with a trap remix of Contiez’ Trumpsta (featuring Treyy G). As for that ‘Melbourne sound’ Safari is counterculturally branding? “It’s very simple,” Master enlightens. “The basis of ‘Melbourne sound’ is a kickdrum and an offbeat bassline... Or it could be also summarised as hard house slowed down to 128.”
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The Safari team are touring behind Central Station’s Wild Nights 2013, Master touting their contribution as “a serious hands-upin-the-air festival mix”, which opens with (“unsurprisingly”) a Festival Mix of Dreams. That Master is into tougher sounds may throw those old-timers who still associate him with soulful house after Show... “I always change. I always evolve. What I find difficult – and everyone finds difficult – is, if you’ve had a hit in a certain genre, or you’ve done a lot of big songs in a genre, as soon as you start on a new genre, it takes a long time for people to believe and to listen and understand that it’s the same artist. I’m trying to get away from that. It’s not bad to have a hit, but sometimes it ends up being a little bit of a stigma as well.”
There’s little mystery behind Dialectrix’s new album title, The Cold Light Of Day. Made during some particularly bleak times in the Sydney rapper’s life, the third LP is certainly a recount of dramatic events but it’s by no means a plea for sympathy. In fact, the only plea here is for people to understand the importance of hardships in life and the lessons that they bring in disguise. “The name of the album has to do with all the life dramas happening around me recently, which were outside my control,” the MC – real name Ryan Leaf – says. “I had a close family member die at the same time that my son was born. The birth itself was a pretty complicated one, so it was just a crazy time period and not a particularly happy one. As much as I tried to omit that out of my music, it was impossible. The main thing for me was not to exploit that, though, which a lot of people seem to do. There are so many songs where artists are just milking sympathy out of people – they have something small happen to them but then they make up a crazy song about how amazing it was. I’d rather talk about the
His music taking off, Master has had to cut down his hours as a doctor from 40 to 30 per week. At one stage he was DJing interstate and abroad on weekends, only to start his ‘day job’ at 8am on Monday. “I was in a filthy mood on Monday mornings – and it was quite difficult to deal with because they’re 10-hour days as well.” Master now splits his week – and uses “downtime” on planes to plan his sets and podcasts. “I do manage – and I sometimes have a day off !”
possible meaning of it, like, ‘Why did that happen? Let’s try to make some sense out of it’.” Because, as Leaf agrees, at the end of the day it’s much better to grow than dwell – nobody wants to be miserable forever. And that is something other artists should take note of, according to the rapper. “The Cold Light Of Day seemed a really good title to me because the album is about how you’ll grow through this process. At the time, you may have no idea what the lesson is, you just go on and try to deal with the shit day by day. I think one of the lessons was to take the bad times and turn them into something good – for me this shit made me want to get immersed in the music-making process. It became more like inspiration to me instead of just a platform to vent. I can see when someone is rapping about shit and completely exaggerating their situation – like First World problems. I can tell when it’s contrived and it pisses me off. I was very careful not to end up exploiting all the hardships that I’ve gone through in life because I know that no matter what, there’s always going to be someone else out there who’ll be like, ‘Oh shut up, my life has been even harder’.” Interestingly enough, the last six months have also proven to be the most productive in a long time, following two years of
WHO: Mobin Master & Tate Strauss WHERE: HQ WHEN: Sat Jun 22
least productivity for Leaf. He describes it as a “black and white situation” but explains his belief that everything happens in good time and precisely when it’s meant to. “A lot of it was because Plutonic Lab, who did all the production on the album, was out of action for a solid year because he was touring the world and playing American, European and Australian shows. I had a child in the meantime as well, so it was a very hectic period. Once Plutonic came back from overseas and I acclimatised to fatherhood a bit more, we got straight into it. The great thing about working with Plutonic is that he’s got so much experience, he’s worked with so many different artists, so he’s familiar with pretty much everything that’s been tried before. That means that he was pushing me really hard with this album, like, ‘Dude, everyone else has done this, do something different, go somewhere different with it’. The Cold Light Of Day is so much more experimental than anything I’ve done. It’s pretty unconventional in terms of technique and the way other albums in this genre are made.” WHO: Dialectrix WHAT: The Cold Light Of Day (Obese)
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LUCIE THORNE @ Grace Emily
ANDREW STOCKDALE @ Governor Hindmarsh
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) LUCIE THORNE & SARAH CARROLL @ Singing Gallery CHANCE WATERS @ Ed Castle CITY RIOTS @ Rhino Room
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) BAD//DREEMS @ Ed Castle
SUN MAY 26 MATT CORBY @ HQ LUCIE THORNE @ Wheatsheaf Hotel
THU MAY 30 THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT, DOUBLEBLACK & KING OF THE NORTH @ Governor Hindmarsh
THU MAY 30 BEFORE CIADA @ Cavern Club
FRI MAY 31 KAKI KING @ Governor Hindmarsh RASA DUENDE @ Nexus Cabaret THE BEARDS @ Jive
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
RAY BEADLE @ Governor Hindmarsh IN HEARTS WAKE , COUNTERPARTS, THE STORM PICTURESQUE & STORIES @ Fowler’s Live FRENZAL RHOMB, CRISIS ALERT & HIGHTIME @ Uni Bar LAURA IMBRUGLIA @ Crown & Anchor
WED JUN 26 BILL ODDIE @ Adelaide Town Hall
FRI JUN 28 THE SUPERJESUS @ Governor Hindmarsh THE JANOSKIANS @ Thebarton Theatre TIGERTOWN @ Wheatsheaf Hotel
SAT JUN 29 THE SUPERJESUS @ Governor Hindmarsh ADAM HILLS @ Thebarton Theatre
MON JUL 1 P!NK @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
TUE JUL 2 P!NK @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
MIKE STERN BAND @ Governor Hindmarsh
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MON JUN 3
P!NK @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
JAZZGROOVE MOTHERSHIP ORCHESTRA @ The Promethean
FRI JUL 5
KAMELOT, MONTARCH & QUIET CHILD @ Governor Hindmarsh SOMETHING WITH NUMBERS @ Fowler’s Live FRI JUN 7 – MON JUN 10 HOOT! ADELAIDE HILLS JAZZ FESTIVAL: SNEARKY PUPPY, DAVID HELBOCK TRIO, JAMES CARTER TRIO and more @ various Mt Barker locations
THU JUN 6 THE CHEMIST @ Grace Emily TIM CHAISSON @ Wheatsheaf Hotel
FRI JUN 7 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 Bar
SUN JUN 9 STEVIE WRIGHT, THE FAB FOUR & LUCKY SEVEN @ Cavern Club HOODOO GURUS & LIME SPIDERS @ Governor Hindmarsh
TUE JUN 11 THE BELLRAYS @ Enigma Bar STEVE VAI @ Her Majesty’s Theatre
THU JUN 13
P!NK @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
SAT JUL 6 THE TONGUE @ Rocket Bar
FRI JUL 7 KIRIN J CALLINAN @ Jive Bar
WED JUL 10 LA DISPUTE & PIANOS BECOME TEETH @ Fowler’s Live YOUTH OF TODAY @ Enigma Bar
and a collaboration with Pieta Brown that will hopefully be released in 2013. “It’s a pretty interesting collaboration, partly because we’ve formed this new band while one member is in Australia and the other member is in the States. We’ve had a few logistical challenges to deal with but it’s pretty exciting project.” Aside from her recording work, Thorne keeps a rigorous touring schedule. She performed in Adelaide last Saturday and will be playing three more days in SA this weekend, including a special stop at the Singing Gallery in McLaren Vale. “It’s been quite a few years since I’ve played at McLaren Vale,” Thorne says. “The first time I played there, I was put on to the venue by friends of mine – the beautiful, Adelaide local treasures The Yearlings.” She explains that the appeal of McLaren Vale stems from her love of regional centres. “I love going to smaller towns and playing,” she says. “I love the variety of venues, too. Of course it’s fun to play festivals and concert
settings, but playing the local community or church hall, or even a backyard, lounge room or dingy pub – there’s always a surprise element to it which is really fun.” Small-town life has an attraction outside of venue space. Thorne rents a “sweet little shack on the edge of the Bega Valley” where she goes to relax. Although she admits to having a “very strong hermit streak” she juggles another, more social personality while on tour. “I guess that’s why I do love my little hideaway shack,” she says. “That’s where I get to embrace my hermit. When I’m out on the road I try to channel the social me and make it last as long as I have to until I know I’m going to be by myself again for a while.”
WHO: Something For Kate WHERE: Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Sat May 25
YOU AM I @ Thebarton Theatre THE HOODIE WEATHER TOUR: THE NEVER EVER, NINE SONS OF DAN, A SLEEPLESS MELODY WAY WITH WORDS & WITH CONFIDENCE @ Fowler’s Live CLUBFEET @ Rhino Room
SAT JUL 13 ENABLER & URNS @ Enigma Bar BLISS N ESO @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre
TUE JUL 16 A DAY TO REMEMBER @ Thebarton Theatre
WED JUL 17 TODD RUNDGREN & DAVEY LANE @ Governor Hindmarsh
Lucie Th orne by Ilona W allace
FRI JUL 19 MASKETTA FALL @ Black Market
SAT JUL 20 WAVVES @ Ed Castle SLEEPMAKESWAVES @ Crown & Anchor
SUN JUL 21 SPEELMAKESWAVES @ Crown & Anchor
THU JUL 25 THELMA PLUM @ Grace Emily
SAT JUL 27 BJÖRN AGAIN @ Festival Theatre
MON JUL 29
THE BOOTLEG BEATLES @ Governor Hindmarsh SPIN OFF FESTIVAL: OF MONSTERS AND MEN, PASSION PIT, SNAKADAKTAL, CHET FAKER, FIDLAR, THE JUNGLE GIANTS & DUNE RATS @ Thebarton Theatre
THU AUG 1 COLD WAR KIDS @ Governor Hindmarsh
FRI AUG 2
TUE AUG 6 JOAN BAEZ @ Festival Theatre
WED AUG 14 MDC @ Fowler’s Live
THU AUG 15 BERNARD FANNING & VANCE JOY @ Thebarton Theatre
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still sticking with us and we’re still finding new listeners and new people coming to our shows. It’s just all really positive, wonderful stuff and we’re [so fortunate]. At the same time we also feel like we’ve been able to tick off all these monkeys that were on our back, or baggage, or whatever... After being in a band for nearly 20 years all this stuff gets placed on you. You carry around this reputation and all these judgements and prejudices. I’m making it all sound really terrible - it’s really not that bad. But, y’know what I mean, it’s really good when you can shrug all that off and go, ‘Y’know what? It doesn’t matter. We can do whatever we want. We’re so fucking lucky.”
FRI JUL 12
FRI JUN 14
THY ART IS MURDER, CATTLE DECAPITATION, KING PARROT & AVERSIONS CROWN @ Fowler’s Live (licensed all-ages) DAVID BRIDIE @ Barossa Regional Art Gallery BREAKING ORBIT @ Enigma Bar CATTLE DECAPITATION @ Fowler’s Live
If you’ve heard Leave Your Soul To Science, Something For Kate’s record of 2012 and their first LP in six years, then you’ll know that the Melbourne trio are happy. The lyrical content might not give up that notion, with Dempsey again traversing across a broad range of themes, but sonically, the band have never sounded more stirring and inspired. “I’m really happy to hear that,” a genial Dempsey responds, his voice offering the same smoky rasp that floats across the threesome’s catalogue. “A lot of people would make jokes or doubt that a Something For
Kate record was capable of doing that, so I’m really happy to hear that you find it uplifting. We all feel the same way; we feel that way about all our records, but particularly this one. We had a great time writing and recording it, and we’re having a great time playing it live. It sounds really cheesy but this whole thing has been a real feel good kinda thing.” Debuting at number five in the ARIA charts, Leave Your Soul To Science, recorded in Dallas, Texas with producer John Congleton, is yet another triumph to mark down in the annals of a band who have nothing left to prove yet everything still to offer. Even after the number one records, the platinum sales, the sold-out tours, such a response still enraptures Dempsey no end. “We’re incredibly fortunate and lucky that we’ve had the career that we have,” the frontman modestly understates. “We’re incredibly lucky to have this audience that’s
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An uplifting Something For Kate album could once have stood as a joke. But as Paul Dempsey admits to Rip It Up, they’ve felt that way about all their records – it’s just nice the secret’s now out.
BALL PARK MUSIC, EAGLE & THE WORM & JEREMY NEALE @ HQ
OWEN CAMPBELL @ Norwood Live ADELAIDE BURLESQUE FESTIVAL @ Nexus Cabaret BRUCE MATHISKE @ Star Theatre
KATE MILLER-HEIDKE @ Flinders St Baptist Church DAVID BRIDIE & THE PILLS @ Governor Hindmarsh OWEN CAMPBELL @ Coopers Alehouse (Wallaroo) BAD//DREEMS & THE PREATURES @ Rocket Bar
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“In Eastern Europe, especially somewhere like Romania, the touring circuit isn’t crowded with Australian folk singers,” Lucie Thorne laughs. She’s toured there three times and keeps going back for more. “I’m forging the new frontier in Australian folk touring,” she says. “Over there, you’re a pretty special and rare breed; there’s a high novelty factor for everyone involved.” Her first tour of Romania was in support of a hardcore punk band, which was “a fairly incongruous combination”, but she says it was a hoot and Europe never lost its lure. “The heartening thing is a lot of the time it goes surprisingly well, even if its not quite what you expect.” ‘Heartening’ is a good word to describe Thorne. She’s cheerful, laughs a lot and talks about her music with a comfortable passion. She’s excited by her current projects: a solo album due next year
WHO: Lucie Thorne WHEN & WHERE: Thu May 23 at the Grace Emily, Fri May 24 at the Singing Gallery McLaren Vale, Sun May 26 at the Wheatsheaf Hotel
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Thursday 23rd
Friday 24th
ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Bill Parton Trio
ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs
and DJ Lumeire
(8.30pm)
ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: DJ Jaki J (9.30pm)
HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE –
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia
ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: The Big Bash 2
Dimitra (7.30pm)
(7.30pm)
(7.30pm) Lounge Bar: Blue Lagoon (9pm)
HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs
BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty
AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm)
IRISH CLUB – Shamrocks ‘n’
BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – karaoke (7pm)
BARTLEY TAVERN – The Rustlers (8pm)
Shenanigans Live Acoustic Sessions
CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm)
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm)
(7pm)
CLUB 5082 – Plastic Explosion, Ziggy McKenzzie,
BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and
LARGS PIER HOTEL – Ex Men (9pm)
Hannah Yates, The Tour Guides and Canephopra
Suckerpunch
LIMBO – DJs
SUGAR – TGI Funky with Ben Alibi and HMC
(7pm)
BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Damage Inc (8pm)
LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm)
SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with
CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Lorna McKenzie
BRITISH HOTEL: PT ADELAIDE – Urban Cover (8pm)
Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman
DJs
and guests. Front Bar: DJ Antface
BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ
LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke (9pm)
TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests
DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Trivia Night (7.30pm)
CAVERN CLUB – Metal Night with Obsidian Aspect,
MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music
TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio
DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm)
Miazma (NT), Day of Wrath and From Birth to Burial
MARION HOTEL – Graham Lawrence (6.30pm)
Flamenco (7.30pm)
DUKE OF YORK – Downstairs: DJ Jon E (9pm) DJ
(8.30pm)
MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag
TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – DJ Wolfman (9pm)
Skinny B (1am) Beer Garden: band of the week plus DJ
CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Angels Of Gung
show (2am)
THE ELEPHANT – Kopy Catz (9.30pm) and
Dave Parry (9pm)
Ho CD launch with Palace Of The King (Vic) and
MICK O’SHEA’S – Enuf Said
DJ G-rillz (9pm)
ED CASTLE – Band Room: live bands (9pm)
Seventeeen Fifty Seven plus Ride Into The Sun DJs.
MANNUM COMMUNITY CLUB – Alkira EP Launch
THE GOODY – Ch@t Room
ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm)
Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm)
with Frankenbok, Headbore and Gorlapse
THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment
EXETER ON RUNDLE – Jackson Wright and Miss
DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs
OFFICE ON PIRIE – DJ Jess (4.30pm)
TONSLEY HOTEL – Chrysler Bar: Clearway (9.30pm)
Fellows
DUBLIN HOTEL – Theo (7pm)
PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Acoustik (7.30pm)
Tavern Bar: Mitch (4.45pm) and Two Hard Basket
DUKE OF YORK – Tom & Rose (7pm)
PLAYFORD TAVERN – 2 Up Duo (8pm)
(9pm)
ED CASTLE – Full Tilt live bands and party DJs
PORT NOARLUNGA CHRISTIES BEACH RSL –
TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Acoustic Reign (8.20pm)
ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs
Linda McCarthy (8pm)
VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs
Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests
PRODUCERS HOTEL – After Four Fridays Garden
WHITMORE HOTEL – Crossin’ The Gulf (8pm)
ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs
Grooves with DJs Justice and DrDamage plus special
WOODCROFT TAVERN – Cherry Grind (8pm)
ENFIELD HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (6pm)
guests (4pm)
ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Finn, Bottle Rocket and
ESPLANADE HOTEL – Troy Harrison (8pm)
RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ Snake & DJ Rupheo (9pm)
Gumshoe
GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Gumbo Room
EXETER ON RUNDLE – Dennis Crude and Magic
RED SQUARE – DJs
Blues Jam with Mike Festa Blues Band hosted by Billy
Mutton
REGATTA’S BISTRO – Blues Avenue Duo (5.30pm)
Bob
Saturday 25th
EXETER HOTEL– Acoustica (9pm)
REX HOTEL – karaoke (8pm)
GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Sarah Carroll & Lucie Thorne
FINDON HOTEL – karaoke (8.30pm)
ROB ROY HOTEL – Myles and Paul (6pm) plus DJ
ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J plus Bongo
Smiley (8pm)
Madness with Alex. Upstairs: DJ Ed Law (9.30pm)
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – MOOROOK ANIMAL SHELTER BENEFIT
ROCKET BAR – Abracadabra featuring resident DJs
ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar: BR Bruzzy (9pm)
The Shiny Brights DJs
Lounge Bar: The Cast featuring Chloe Castledine
SAILMASTER TAVERN – Slyde (8pm)
(9pm) Top Room: The Incredibles Extravaganza
ROCKET BAR – 8 Bit Kidz featuring resident DJs
FOWLER’S LIVE – The Ghost Inside
SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8PM)
Stubanger, Hank & Osk and the Powderoom Posse
GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm)
SUGAR – ITDE Deejays and interstate/international guests
GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: San Cisco
SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Blues Katz
BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – karaoke with Gemma (9pm)
THE LION HOTEL – Clearway
with Millions and Chaos. Front Bar: James Abberley
SETTLERS TAVERN – Stef Hauk Band (8pm)
BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Dawn Raider (8pm)
TONSLEY HOTEL – Acoustic 4-Play (8.30pm)
GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The Honey Pies
STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance.
BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ
WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions
GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Dale Roberts (5pm)
Downstairs: DJs play retro
CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and
(7.30pm)
and Voodoo Slang (8pm)
STAMFORD PLAZA: CASCADES – Jacqui Lim (5pm)
guests
Alien 8 (9.30pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – OPEN MIKE GILBERT STREET HOTEL – THE FIDDLE CHICKS (7PM)
GRAND BAR – OMG MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – DJ G-rillz PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango
(8.30pm) ARAB STEED HOTEL – Theo (8pm) BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson
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The Guide // CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Greg Hart’s Neil
FOWLER’S LIVE – New Dead #4 Metalfest
JIVE – Sitara EP launch with Annie Siegemann and
VINE INN: NURIOOTPA – Point 05 (9pm)
Diamond Show
GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm)
Timberwolf
WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm)
KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke (9.30pm)
WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Emily Davis & Friends (9pm)
LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Acoustica (9pm)
WHITMORE HOTEL – Brad Fooks (8pm)
LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex,
WINDSOR HOTEL – Blue Comets (8.45pm)
AJ and MC Renard (10pm)
WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm) ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs: Chaps, Hemilove and Ryley
CROWN & ANCHOR – The Fables (Syd) CD launch plus The Scarlet Ives and DJ Azz CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with
GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ MARKY POLO (8PM)
Nicole (8pm) DRAGONFLY – rotating DJs playing techno, house,
GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Something
MARINA SUNSET BAR – DJs playing the best in
disco and everything in between
for Kate plus Courtney Barnett. Front Bar: Pub
house and electro
DUKE OF YORK – Front Room: DJ Mitchy B. Beer
Scrabble Saturdays plus Filthy Lucre.
MARION HOTEL – Franky F (5.30pm) and Two hard
Garden: DJ Parry. Upstairs: DJ Skinny B, MC Scotty
GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Ambush Marketing with Boys
Basket (8.30pm)
and guest DJs
of Summer and Thomas Pynchon
MARS BAR – VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show
ED CASTLE – Plus One Saturdays with live bands and
GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays with DJs and
(2am)
ADELAIDE SAILING CLUB – The Sunnyside (3pm)
party DJs (9pm)
MCs
MICK O’SHEA’S – Midnight Specials
ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School
ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs
HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – Sonic Divas (8pm)
NORWOOD LIVE – The Sunny Cowgirls CD Launch
ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Latin Fever Party
Junior, Dancespace and friends
HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm)
(6pm)
(8.30pm)
EXETER HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (7pm)
HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm)
OLD SPOT HOTEL – Black Aspirin (9pm)
BENJAMIN ON FRANKLIN – Souled Out Sessions
EXETER ON RUNDLE – Iheart
HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly
PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Street
with DJs Dave Collins and Jason Lee
HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Black Fedora
Talk (8pm)
BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Acoustic Blonde (4pm)
Jazz (7.30pm)
PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – UK Blitz (8pm)
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt
HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips and
PJ O’BRIENS – Streaker (10.30pm)
BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon
guests (8pm)
PORT NOARLUNGA FOOTBALL CLUB – Stray Dog
BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Whiskey Harbour (4pm)
Strut, Dark Faction and Bushkill Park (8pm)
CAVERN CLUB – GBOB Finals with Fable, Exit,
RAMSGATE HOTEL – Adelaide’s best cover bands
Jungle City, Devils Crossroad, As Daylight Dies,
RED SQUARE – DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs,
Rampage, Equilibrium, Pistenbroke and Balls Deep
Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and
(3pm)
Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan
CHRISTIES BEACH SLSC – Rob McDade (2pm)
ROCKET BAR – Bananas: Track Team and Japeye
CROWN & ANCHOR –All Ages Show (5pm)
SANDBAR – requests with DJs
DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Mick Kidd and Friends
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – KAMIKAZE, AXARIA AND RED LEATHER RIOT
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Sunday 26th
DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris
SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SESSIONS
DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – E’nuf Said ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Theo (4pm)
SEAFORD HOTEL – Kopy Catz (9pm)
EXETER ON RUNDLE – Brad Cameron and Lost City
SEBEL PLAYFORD – Acoustically Raw (8pm)
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GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays (3pm)
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Monday 27th
WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm)
Sisters. Front Bar: Vaudeville Vibes Delirium
CROWN & ANCHOR – Brenton Manser and Caitlyn
Emporium’s Fairytales – Talent Quest
Lesiuk with Matt Ward
Wednesday 29th
GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Courtney Robb and Thom Lion
EXETER ON RUNDLE – Sparkspitter and guests
GRAND BAR – bands, DJs and MCs
GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Balcony Bar: Lord
ARKABA HOTEL – Salsa Classes (6pm). Salsa After
HIGHBURY HOTEL – Acoustik (2pm)
Stompy’s Tin Sandwich
Party (9pm)
HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – 888 Poker
GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam
CENTRAL DISTRICTS FOOTBALL CLUB – Complete
(6.30pm)
HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ultimate Quiz with
Trivia (7.30pm)
HQ – Matt Corby
Graham Lawrence (7pm)
CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7pm)
LA BOHEME – Paper Plane Album Launch (6pm)
MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm)
CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia
LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – Five Sided Circle
OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar:
(7.30pm)
MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring
PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB –
CROWN & ANCHOR – Geek with DJ Tr!p
live acoustic music
Complete Trivia (7pm)
DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Dan’s Open Mic Night
MARION HOTEL – Marion Sunday Legends with The
RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy
(7.30pm)
Brewster Brothers (8.30pm)
ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jam Night
EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music
MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits
(8pm)
Exchange (7.30pm)
MICK O’SHEA’S – Crywolf
SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon
EXETER ON RUNDLE – Curtis
OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Black Caviar
THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and
FINDON HOTEL – Muso’s Jam hosted by Streaker
(2pm)
Paul Vallen
FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7pm)
Tuesday 28th
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – WEDNESDAY NITE DYNAMITE WITH DJ DYNAMITE
Music Festival with Heather Frahn & The Moonlight
WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music
Tide, The Timbers, Monkey Puzzle Tree and Germein
RAMSGATE HOTEL – acoustic session (4pm) Tom Kurzel & Ed Trainor fortnightly rotation (7.30pm) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – The Harmonics (7.30pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Adelaide Comedy: Who Me (8pm)
SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SOLOISTS
AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7pm)
GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Open Mic Night
BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson
GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Bittersweet with Sleepless,
CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: DJs Stevie & Duncan
Mag Bells and Sofie Bozetti
SEMAPHORE PALAIS – Mr Buzzy (4pm)
DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm)
HIGHWAY – The Combi Room
SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – The Flyers
EXETER ON RUNDLE – Bitches of Zeus DJs
HQ – Flashdance
SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans
GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by
MARION HOTEL – Adelaide Comedy: Who Me (8pm)
SUZIE WONG’S ROOM –
Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm)
MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection
TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions
GOODWOOD PARK HOTEL – Complete Trivia
PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm)
THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) DJ Junior
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Oi You! Urban Art Festival A few years ago two young artists made newspaper headlines when a mural they painted on Rundle St was erroneously removed a few hours later by council workers. It was a disheartening moment for Adelaide’s street art scene, but fast-forward to 2013 and the city has more than made up for the mistake with a voracious new appetite for aerosol artwork. nter Oi You! Urban Art Festival, an inaugural street art event put together by the Adelaide City Council in collaboration with curator George Shaw and festival organiser and artist Matt Stuckey. The festival launched on Fri Apr 19 with an exhibition of original Bansky prints and has since enjoyed overwhelming public interest from Adelaide residents, luring hundreds outside for walking tours, film screenings and art giveaways. Recently, the festival initiated a series of large-scale public murals to be painted throughout the CBD, by acclaimed artists in the line-up including Everfresh member Rone and Sydney’s Beastman. For the first time, Adelaide’s laneways
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are bustling with foot traffic, and festival organiser Matt Stuckey is optimistic of Oi You!’s reception. “I feel Adelaide’s street art culture has reached a level where we’re able to regularly invite interstate artists to our city and have this amazing exhibition of international works,” says Stuckey. “I hope Oi You! Adelaide has served as a bit of a wake up to the potential we have here.” A major leg-up for the continuation of Adelaide’s street art culture would be more “forward-thinking” property owners, Stuckey suggests. “The biggest hindrance to street art booming in Adelaide is building owners. There is an almost feudal system in place where property owners are able to dictate what happens, be it street art, live music, whatever,” he says. “Through Oi You! and my own works I’ve met some really enthusiastic, supportive, forward-thinking property owners, though. We need more of them.” Homegrown artist Vans The Omega (pictured) is one of Australia’s leading graffiti technicians, having transformed walls all over the world for over two decades with his trademark style of elaborative, abstract patterns crafted with aerosol paints. As part of Oi You! Vans painted a staggering 10m high mural behind Her Majesty’s Theatre entitled
Heaven, yet he hopes for even larger ‘canvases’ in Adelaide for himself and his artist brethren. “I want to paint 20 story buildings, I’m not satisfied doing small works, and I want to do it in Adelaide,” he says. “I think there’s a lot of people that would be willing to step up and paint murals in the city if they are given the space to do it. There’s so much incredible talent in Adelaide, it just needs to be utilized. There’s always been small events that have been organized by small pockets of the graffiti community, the stencil community and the street art community, but everyone’s kind of looked after themselves or their groupings. There hasn’t been that much that is an all-encompassing event on [the scale of Oi You!]. This has really brought a new flavor to Adelaide, which we need.” The success of Oi You! follows a number of council-endorsed street art projects held over the past two years, including a 14 artist collaborative mural in Topham Mall and a huge artwork covering the Morphett St bridge by Californian graffiti legend Above. It’s projects like these that provide rather than hinder that are slowly, but surely, reshaping public perceptions of graffiti. “There’s no difference in my eyes [between street art and graffiti],” offers Vans The Omega. “I think it’s mass consciousness created by people like Bansky that really
encourages the general public to like one thing and not the other. The general public can understand a cute little picture pasted on a wall, but they can’t understand a tag and how long it takes to develop a hand style. There’s all these things that make graffiti and tag ‘harmful’, but it might just be a lack of understanding.” Stuckey holds similar views, and hopes that festivals like Oi You! may shine a different spotlight on graffiti and contemporary, urban artwork. “I don’t get stuck on nomenclature - the difference that I care about is the difference between art and vandalism,” he ruminates. “I don’t care so much what a piece looks like or what tools have been used to create it, I’m more interested in the intention behind it. Was it an act of creation or destruction? Most of the artists I know, whether they call themselves graffiti artists or street artists or just ‘artists’, really care about public space. Their work is created out of a genuine desire or compulsion to improve and humanise spaces, whether the owner agrees or not.”
WHAT: Oi You! Urban Art Festival WHEN: Until Sun Jun 2 around Adelaide INFO: facebook.com/oiyoustreetart
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A Place For Me (MA) Known elsewhere under the less catchy but still pretty fitting title Stuck In Love, writer/ director Josh Boone’s début is a low-key drama featuring a name cast who can’t exactly have been paid much to appear. The Borgens are a family in various crises. The dad, William (Greg Kinnear), is a one-time-wonder author who’s been creatively blocked since his wife Erica ( Jennifer Connelly) left him three years ago. He sometimes half-stalks her while also playing fuck-buddies with married neighbour Tricia (Kristen Bell, who always turns up in this sort of thing these days). His daughter Samantha (Lily Collins) is an aspiring writer who sleeps around, refuses to talk to her Mom and hates nice guys, until she meets the awfully sweet Lou (Logan Lerman of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower). Finally, his son Rusty (Nat Wolff ) hopes to specialise in fantasy novels, while also quietly adoring classmate Kate (Liana Liberato), who looks like she’s the stuff of broken hearts right from the word go. There’s much here to enjoy: lovely playing, with Kinnear never better, Connelly surviving a vaguely improbable aspect and Collins bitingly funny. There’s also a literary focus that allows for quotes from Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver, as well as a focus on Stephen King and his mighty epic It (which is, of course, basically all about dealing with your past and facing your fears). However, the darkish hue to the proceedings might limit it slightly in commercial terms, but actually makes it feel rather more like, you know, life. Mad Dog Bradley
Opening But Unrated Dead Man Down (MA), Danish director Niels Arden Oplev’s dark American dramatic actioner stars his original Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Noomi Rapace, alongside Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard, Dominic Cooper, Franky G and the great Isabelle Huppert.
The Hangover Part III (MA), the supposed final entry in the hugely popular and roughly comedic series is again co-written and directed by Todd Phillips. It features that original foursome (Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha, Ed Helms and hammy old Zach Galifianakis) along with regulars Ken Jeong, Jeffrey Tambor and Heather Graham (as Jade the stripper who hasn’t since the first film) and new players including John Goodman, Melissa McCarthy and more.
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Director Brad Anderson’s films all have a nasty edge and tend to divide audiences (don’t ask 90% of horror fans what they thought about his inexplicable Vanishing On 7th Street, for example), but this is probably his closest thing to a proper mainstream audiencepleaser - even if it does feature some pretty serious violence. Jordan Turner (Halle Berry), a veteran 911 operator in LA, takes a call one night and makes the mistake of getting personally involved. When the girl she was trying to save from a prowler later turns up dead she has a semi-breakdown and is shifted to more of an administrative role (when, in actuality, she would surely have been pensioned off - but anyway). When teenager Casey Welson (child star Abigail Breslin now grown-up) is abducted at a mall and shoved into a car’s boot, the bad guy of the piece (Michael Eklund) fails to see that she has a second mobile phone, and sure enough, it’s Jordan who takes the 911 call by unlikely chance. She becomes personally involved once again when she realises that she’s dealing with the same psycho (no spoilers necessary, as all the reviews happily point this out). With another whopper plot (see also Anderson’s Session 9, The Machinist and Transsiberian), this one’s saved by a strong turn from Berry, a convincingly panicked performance by Breslin and, as one of the more incompetent screen villains in some time, Eklund, who remains menacing even after we learn that he adores Culture Club’s awesomely ‘80s anti-classic Karma Chameleon. Mad Dog Bradley
While there’s no doubt that Dwayne Johnson is one major hunk of man, stuntmanturned-co-writer/director Ric Roman Waugh’s mostly agreeable drama is easily the first movie he’s ever appeared in where he looks almost like a regular guy, mostly by keeping his shirt on. His John Matthews is a construction businessman divorced from Sylvie (Melina Kanakaredes) and now married to Analisa (Nadine Velazquez from Flight) whose semi-estranged son Jason (Rafi Gavron) is arrested for receiving a bag of ecstasy. This prompts John to turn to ambitious DA Joanne Keeghan (Susan Sarandon) for some kind of reduction in what could be a 30 year prison sentence (that is if his son refuses to ‘snitch’).In the credibility gap upon which the whole movie’s built, John is then offered a deal where if he brings down a bigger fish in the drug industry then Keeghan will see to a pardon. This leads John to an ex-con employee ( Jon Bernthal from TV’s The Walking Dead) who provides access to the realm of a smallishtime dealer (Michael K Williams as Malik) and, eventually, a feared figure in the criminal underworld, as played by, of all people, Benjamin Bratt. Free of lame humour, this has good work from Barry Pepper (as a DEA agent with a bizarre goatee), Bernthal and Sarandon. Dwayne’s arse-kicking action-star status is played against you, meaning that this is surely to be the only flick ever in which one of his characters clashes with a bunch of punks and has the crap kicked out of him. Mad Dog Bradley
Portuguese Cinema takes two steps forward and one step back in this two-part story of life, love and loss. It promises whimsy, but takes a long time to get started and leaves a big hole in its storytelling. Part one, Paradise Lost, introduces Pilar, a solitary woman who finds herself floundering after the young Polish girl she was expecting for the holidays opts to spend time with friends instead. Called on for help by her neighbour Aurora, an ailing senior with a gambling addiction, Pilar sets out to find an old friend, but it eventually becomes apparent that this isn’t Pilar’s story at all: it’s the story of Aurora, whose past in Africa is the subject of part two, Paradise. Writer/director Miguel Gomes (with Mariana Ricardo’s writing help) has written a detailed story, which blends drama, romance and ironic comedy, while Rui Poças’ blackand-white cinematography helps to support both the isolation of Paradise Lost and the nostalgia of Paradise. However, the tale is incomplete and overdrawn, with a third act desperately needed. The different timelines makes it hard to say specifically what’s missing - the beginning, the middle or the end - but Pilar’s perspective, and the sharp turn between her story and Aurora’s, both need some further explanation. With the missing piece in place, Tabu could have been something quite special, but the long build-up and sudden finish may leave you feeling robbed by what ultimately adds up to no more than a wistfully quirky work-inprogress. Kat McCarthy
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And The Reluctant Fundamentalist (MA), from Indian director Mira Nair (and a US/UK/Qatar co-production), is a tensely topical drama based on Mohsin Hamid’s book and top-lining Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland, Martin Donovan and Om Puri.
The War Of The Worlds: Alive On Stage! Palace Nova Eastend Cinema, Event Cinemas Marion and Hoyts Tea Tree Plaza
Jeff Wayne’s legendary rock opera take on HG Wells’ classic novel, performed live at London’s O2 Arena on December 15 last year, is a stunning multimedia extravaganza. Wayne himself conducts, a holographic Liam Neeson is the narrating journalist, Jason Donovan is Parson Nathaniel and Kerry Ellis, Ricky Wilson and more feature. It screens in HD on Sat May 25 and Sun May 26 only at the above cinemas. It’s 138 minutes long, with a 20 minute intermission, and everything else you need to know can be found at www.palacecinemas.com.au, eventcinemas.com.au and/or hoyts.com. au. Don’t forget: the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one…
Food // Seasonal Garden Café
Food Review d by Paul Woo
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Cafes generally announce new “seasonal” menus every few months to make the most of fresh produce and to keep up with food trends, but most of us know that seasonality of fruit and vegetables does not strictly align to our calendars and neither should seasonal menu changes. The Seasonal Garden Café in Hahndorf has adopted a grow-and-eat policy and their menu changes almost daily, dependent on what is available in the café garden or from local producers, growers, and farmers markets in the surrounding Adelaide Hills. The kitchen is always working on new and exciting dishes to make the most of daily deliveries of fresh produce and you will almost never eat the exact same dish twice. The café sits on the main strip of Hahndorf in an old cottage, complete with pot belly fireplace, rustic furniture and a cute little courtyard garden. You’ll feel like a guest in owner Sylvia Hart’s country retreat as she bustles around the kitchen preparing your meal, with the mouth-watering smells of her latest home-cooked dish wafting through to the dining area. Being a regular visitor to the hills, I’ve dropped into the café a bunch of times to enjoy their fantastic breakfast, usually starting with a platter of fresh fruit before moving onto the organic granola and finishing up with the heavenly fig and walnut toast topped with goats curd. The only things better than these three breakfast dishes is their perfectly brewed fair trade coffee and the prices on the menu. While there are plenty of eateries around the place proclaiming “organic” produce, it almost always adds to the cost of your bill. The menu at the Seasonal Garden Café is ridiculously well priced and you certainly get more than you feel like you’ve paid for, with breakfast options from $6 to $12 and lunch mains under $15. Every Saturday night is ‘leftovers’ night. Of course, we aren’t talking about reheating yesterday’s dinner, but rather a brilliant concept where they turn all of the unused produce from the past few days into a gourmet meal for a cheap and cheerful $10. The day we visited was typically late autumn with a crisp chill in the air, but determined rays of sunshine poured through the café windows. The menu on the day featured vegetable quinoa burgers and pumpkin soup, sided with salad options including apple and blue cheese with roasted almonds, watercress and broccoli or fresh celeriac with carrots, lemon and herbs, reflecting the quintessential match between the menu and season. Delicious.
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WHAT: Seasonal Garden Café WHERE: 79 Main Rd, Hahndorf WHEN: Mon – Sun 8am – 5pm INFO: 8388 7738
CheeseFest Returns Beloved South Australian festival CheeseFest will return to Rymill Park this Sat Oct 26 – Sun Oct 27 to host Adelaide’s ultimate gathering of cheese appreciators, curd creators and local chefs in a celebration of all things cheese. This year’s CheeseFest will see a record number of gourmet cheesemakers setting up camp in the city central parklands to talk, taste, demonstrate and share all things delicious cheese, from ash chevre to smelly blue to fruit brie. CheeseFest will kick off with a twilight launch on Fri Oct 25 before wrapping up on early evening, Sun Oct 27. Cheese lovers will have two days to get their fill of some of Australia’s best cheese alongside South Australian-produced wines, ciders, beers and dishes prepared by a range of ‘Eat Local’ restaurant. Most importantly, they’ll get to eat all the cheese. The full program for CheeseFest 2013 and ticketing info will be released in the coming weeks. WHAT: CheeseFest 2013 WHERE: Rymill Pk/Mullawillaburka, Adelaide WHEN: Sat Oct 26 from 12.30pm – 7pm & Sun Oct 26 from 11am – 5pm INFO: cheesefest.com.au
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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04 There’s plenty of drive in your engine. There’s also all the energy you need to follow up on something that has been coming and going without getting nailed to the floor. Be earthy, physical - and as you are so, be aware that this earthiness brings you into the here and now.
Gemini 21.05/21.06 Though the sun is in Taurus, bringing life to ground, you have Venus and Mercury in your sign. The goddess of love is dancing with the mischief maker. This is a sure-fire indicator of romantic adventures that could go anywhere. It’s just as well you are a lover of the unknown.
Cancer 22.06/22.07
Life gets too sleepy and safe if it is consistently pleasant. To really get to know who you are and taste all that life has to give, there needs to be some discomfort and some fire. This is a time for really getting to know who you are. If someone invites you to dance, then dance.
Scorpio 24.10/21.11 Someone is trying hard to drive you back into the past. That is definitely not where you want to go. You will have to dig your heels in to stay on track. Though this might be interpreted as resistance, it’s actually you remaining true to the wisdom of your special storyline.
Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 Relationship is the hot spot. No matter what relationship – it doesn’t matter. By connecting, parts of us come to the fore that we just can’t see if we behave like rocks and islands. There’s incredible strength in bonding. To accept alienation is to be disempowered. Relate.
Capricorn 22.12/19.01
Subterraneous Screen Printers and Espionage Gallery are teaming up this Thursday for Organic: A Tee Shirt Exhibition, a showcase featuring the works of 14 local and interstate artists on 100 percent cotton shirts, posters and recycled records sleeves printed using waterbased inks from Permaset. The
artists involved include Sindy Sinn, Rebecca Murphy, Mike Watt, Allan Mawer, Kaitlin Beckett, Creature Creature, Cameron Brideoake, Harry Plane, Gary Seaman, Joshua Smith, Mustachio, Peter Fong, Rene Campbell and Duncan Berg. The opening night on Thu May 30 will feature a bunch of cold stubbies
What you are looking for might be further away than you were thinking. So, think further outside the box. Travel further than you had imagined. Read deeper than you had planned. Explore the meaning of ‘far and wide’. There’s something new to know. It’s up to you to find it.
Pisces 19.02/20.03 The strongest, most healing act at this time, is to take a position, be able to respond. Trust that you have support. You do. Your strength is underestimated. When you move, you have the power of the ocean behind you. That’s not to be trifled with. Don’t let anyone confuse you.
unDisclosed is a travelling art exhibition celebrating the works of 20 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from regional, remote and urban communities. Featuring the works of artists like Tony Albert, Vernon Ah Kee, Bob Burruwal, Michael Cook and Naata Nungurrayi, the 2013 edition of unDisclosed highlights the diversity
and richness of contemporary Indigenous art practices today across a broad spectrum of mediums including canvas and bark, sculpture, weaving, new media, photo media, video, printmaking and installation work. The exhibition explores the spoken and unspoken, the known and the unknown and what can be revealed and what cannot. The
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Aquarius 20.01/18.02
Virgo 23.08/22.09 With Mercury in Gemini, communication is getting interesting. It is what will liberate you, set you free. Engage for all you are worth, knowing full well that one half of good communication is listening. To hear what others are really saying, will be pleasantly surprising.
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Life is one big shamanistic ritual, designed to enthuse, awaken and heal our souls. There are a lot of situations coming through that are confronting you with having to regenerate. Every time it looks like you are on stable ground, another challenge comes. Go with it adventurously.
Leo 23.07/22.08 Your passions are running high. You can attribute this wave of feeling to the rising moon. She’s rising in your chest as well as in the night sky. Be strong and you will expand, dance and play. Watch out not to get bogged in battles that are not worth fighting. Keep it hot and light.
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The moon starts her week in Leo. This should galvanise your pride. A healthy pride allows us to stick up for ourselves when we need to. Be prepared to call on this fire if you have to. To do so would be an act of self-love. The trick is to keep it playful. Be strong and non-serious.
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Libra 23.09/23.10
Taurus 21.04/20.05 There is plenty of possibility available in this moment. To harness it you will have to tap into that part of you that is lion-hearted, that knows what’s special inside and is prepared to channel it. Old habits are insidious. They will take over if you aren’t watchful. Be watchful. They’ll go.
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New Goot As always, Josh Goot’s latest collection is promising to raise the standard in how you can welcome back texture, colour and print into your life. With influences from grand architecture, the marbling and kaleidoscopic colours team together to make garments that are as impressive as the buildings they are inspired from. Look online and instore at Muse Boutique as the new collection trickles into Adelaide. thestyleset.com
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Body Double Umbrella Entertainment / R / 110 Mins
Made after co-writer/co-producer/ director Brian De Palma went to war with the US censors over the original cut of Scarface, this deliberately pervy effort from 1984 is the stuff of legend (De Palma wanted to cast actual porno stars and feature them having real sex just to piss off those who sought to cut his previous film), but it still looks rather silly today. De Palma uses typical Hitchcock rip-offs in a way that even Sir Alfred might have thought a bit much. Struggling Hollywood actor Jake Scully (dull Craig Wasson) is fired from a cheap vampire movie due to his claustrophobia (Vertigo, anyone?) and, after then leaving his partner, meets Sam Bouchard (Gregg Henry) and winds up housesitting in a tackily ‘80s joint that looks like Troy McClure’s from The Simpsons. Here he becomes obsessed with a scantily-clad woman (Deborah Shelton) who dances in an apartment nearby, as he spies at her through a telescope (Rear Window, per chance?). He eventually, tries to save her from a leering psycho who (spoilers not necessary) infamously kills her with a power drill in a preposterous, you-willbe-shocked sequence. And then Melanie Griffith gets involved as porno actress ‘Holly Body’ - but let’s not go there. MDB
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History’s Greatest Mysteries And The Secrets Behind Them Bill Price / Murdoch Books/ 256pp / $29.99
Price’s run-through of old faves, a few curlers and more contemporary conundrums is interesting, as, unlike other ooga-booga entries in this field, he applies logic, science, ‘Occam’s Razor’ and actual facts to these puzzlers and dares to suggest what’s truly inexplicable and what’s sheer twaddle. Fifty mysteries are grouped into seven categories: ‘Unexplained Event’ (The Roswell Incident); ‘Unknown Purpose’ (Stonehenge); ‘Fact Or Fiction?’ (King Arthur); ‘Real Or Fake?’ (The Loch Ness Monster, which Price thinks is poppycock); ‘Missing Persons’ (Amelia Earhart and the usual suspects); ‘Unknown People’ (the intriguing ‘Hobbits Of Flores’, for example); and ‘Unsolved Crime’ (particularly Jack The Ripper, which he wisely says must remain a mystery 125 years later, and after so much rot has been written about it all). MDB
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Haven: The Complete Third Season Hopscotch / M / 533 Mins
The third series of this Canada-shot dark fantasy (expanded from Stephen King’s The Colorado Kid) is starting to wear a bit thin, and yet the cast oddly seems more at ease. Possibly delusional FBI Agent Audrey Parker (Emily Rose) continues the love triangle with Police Chief Nathan Wuornos (Lucas Bryant), who can intermittently physically feel these days, and cocky, if ‘cursed’, Duke Crocker (Eric Balfour), who’s still concerned about the identity of that ‘Tattooed Man’. The major plot arc about who exactly ‘The Colorado Kid’ is forms a background to weirdness-of-the-week stories about troubles including aliens, time travel, a mysterious mass coma and (in the two-part Magic Hour) a surprisingly sad study of sibling grudges. New characters intrude (Dorian Missick as a Boston cop, Bree Williamson as a nosy psychiatrist, Kate Kelton as a local with troubles slightly similar to Rogue’s in the X-Men films) and we build to some rather nasty stuff about a ‘skinwalker’, a shape-shifting creature from Amerindian legend that finally sends this into the horror territory it’s been flirting with for far too long. Special features include a 40 minute making-of featurette. MDB
I Am Eleven
Samsara
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Melbournian director/producer/editor/ cinematographer Genevieve Bailey’s documentary was borne of pain, and yet it’s a study of hope. Chronicling the lives of 23 11-year-olds in 15 countries (Bailey chose 11-year-olds as she remembers being most happy at that age), we’re introduced to: proud Aboriginal Jamira home in Australia; Remi, an intellectual lad in the south of France; Japanese Rika, who laughs often but fears nuclear war; Londoner Billy, funny and cluey whether he’s on the ‘autism spectrum’ or not; and others from Sweden, the Czech Republic and beyond. Common themes develop: some ponder intolerance, there’s talk of education, fears of growing up, love and how these things aren’t as difficult as we make them. While perhaps Bailey’s pic is a little overlong, it’s still a lovely doco that demonstrates that - to coin a phrase - kids do say the darnedest things. Remi states, “I’m not a citizen of France, I’m a citizen of the world” and Thailand-residing English boy Jack offers, “It doesn’t matter which religion you’re from because they all have the same sort of meanings in the end.” Special features include a Where Are They Now? piece on the kids and more. MDB
It’s been 20 years since writer/director/ cinematographer/editor Ron Fricke’s Baraka, a non-narrative study of religion, and either he or the world’s got older and crankier since then. This follow-up is far scarier, and more in the style of the original culter Koyaanisqatsi and its sequels. While Baraka featured a message, albeit an ambiguous one, Samsara instead obviously means something – and that something is alarming. Defined as ‘birth, death and rebirth’, this opens with monks at India’s Thicksey Monastery creating a wonderfully intricate artwork, and then moves on to the wonderfully intricate artwork of the earth itself, and how (although it’s never quite stated) humanity is destroying it. Volcanic ash suggests the violent creation of the planet, and then we’re globetrotting, with footage captured in an Ethiopian village, a São Paulo cathedral, Burma (from a balloon) and flood-ravaged New Orleans. We travel further, before people, their strange behaviours and indulgent contemporary lives begin to intrude. Some tricky crosscutting fumbles once or twice in an attempt to make a point, yet you’ll certainly remember the moments where Fricke’s subjects gaze directly at us, as if suggesting our shared responsibility - and blame - in this whole gloriously terrifying mess. MDB
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Come Out Festival 2013, a youth and family-orientated biannual event that will have its 40th birthday next year, is currently taking place around Adelaide as well as in several regional centres and will run until Fri May 31. Come Out’s creative director, Michael Hill, has assembled a fine series of performances that includes some overseas and interstate guests alongside high-profile local companies such as Urban Myth, who will be presenting the world premiere of Sean Riley’s new play, The Visitors, at Goodwood Institute from Thu May 30 until Sat Jun 8. “I think it’s a great program,” Hill enthuses. “There’s a good mix of international and interstate companies alongside some brilliant local people. I like the fact Come Out is going far and wide this year with lots of activities happening in places such as Whyalla, Roxby Downs and Coober Pedy.” Black Violin (pictured) is coming all the way from the US to present Black Violin With Drums at Adelaide Town Hall on Thu May 23. “Kev Marcus and Will B are brilliant sting players who fuse classical music with hip hop in a totally unique way and they are also bringing their DJ and drummer with them,” Hill reveals. “So that’s going to be one of Come Out’s big highlights because they will blow the roof off Adelaide Town Hall. They are also doing a couple of workshops at Space Theatre.” Western Australia’s The Pinjarra Project will present three performances of Bindjareb
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Pinjarra at Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, over this coming weekend. “That’s a work I’m very excited about,” Hill says. “It’s about the Pinjarra Massacre of 1834. Come Out coincides with Reconciliation Week and Bindjareb Pinjarra takes that event as its starting point, so it’s a reflection on the past and its repercussions on contemporary Australia. At the same time, it’s very, very funny and the actors create a real relationship with the audience. They even take suggestions from the audience and then improvise. It’s wonderful.” As part of Come Out, which boasts several free entry events such as Kids’ Own Publishing, Patch Theatre Company are mounting two performances of the world premiere of The Moon’s A Balloon. “It’s a beautiful, beautiful work full of colour, movement and light that really explores visual theatre,” Hill states. “Patch are really setting trends around the world in that area.”
Switzerland’s Tricksterp will also present two performances of .h.g. in Adelaide Festival Centre’s Banquet Room on Sun May 26. “.h.g. is an immersive, promenade performance where audience members are taken through one at time wearing headphones with a narrator taking them through the installation,” Hill explains. “It’s based on the Hänsel And Gretal fairytale and the audience wanders through nine separate instillations. It’s going to a wonderful experience. It was a massive hit at Edinburgh’s Imaginate Festival last year, so we really wanted to get the company over here for Come Out.”
WHAT: Come Out Festival 2013 WHEN: Until Fri May 31 INFO : comeoutfestival.com.au
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with Samuel Smith
Your guide to the student experience
Unfortunately May is kind of like a weird, depressing twilight zone for us students. Everyone’s exhausted, holidays have become nothing but a distant dream, winter looms menacingly around the corner and although the semester feels like it’s kind of already over, final assignment due dates are starting to rear their ugly heads. Please, before you give up hope entirely, hear me out. If you can manage to pry yourself out of your bed/ snuggie/onesie/muumuu, there’s actually a whole heap of stuff going on around Adelaide at the moment that’s worth checking out.
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Cosplay Crazy This month, Adelaide seems to have gone cosplay crazy. For those not familiar with the term, cosplay is the act of dressing up as a character from a work of (more often than not, Japanese) fiction. On Sat May 11 cosplayers flocked to UniSA for Otakelaide – one of Adelaide’s most popular anime, video game and pop culture conventions. Later in the evening, The Producer’s Bar on Grenfell Street hosted Neko Nation – a cosplay clubbing night featuring Japanese music, DJs, and gaming competitions. For me, the highlight of the evening was watching a fully grown man in a pink cat costume attempt, and fail, to do the worm on the d-floor. The action continued on Fri May 17, when Chinatown turned Japanese - and completely fucking crazy - for Harajuku No
Yoko – a street party packed with fashion from Japanese-inspired local designers, as well as cosplay, anime displays, DJs, Japanese food and merchandise. If grown adults in amazing yet slightly risqué costumes is your kind of thing, I’ve got good news - there’s a very easy way to break into the cosplay scene. The UniSA based Adelaide Cosplay and EGL (Elegant Lolita Dress) club is currently looking for new members. The group has ovr 350 current members, holds regular events and meet ups, and hosts the annual cosplay event – Otakelaide. Contact the club on Facebook by searching and adding Adelaide Cosplay & EGL Club, through the UniLife website or email cosplay@unilife.edu.au.
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Helpmann Academy Inaugural Portrait Prize Competition Young artists, listen up. The Helpmann Academy want you to be part of their inaugural Portrait Prize Competition. It doesn’t matter where you study, what your medium is, or how much experience you’ve got under your belt; applications are open for everyone. The purpose of the exhibition is to give South Australian artists their own Portrait Prize, encouraging artists to think beyond the realms of the human face. As a bit of an incentive, 5000 sweet, sweet dollars worth of prizes will be up for grabs. First place will win $1500 and
second will win $500. The winner of the Derivan Prize of Excellence will walk away with $1000 worth of products, while the winner of the Helpmanm Academy Emerging Artist Award gets a cool $1500. Finally, the winner of the Friends SA School of Art Peoples’ Choice Award gets $500 and the ProLab Imaging winner pockets $500. Phew, that’s a lot of cash. The exhibition will be held at the Art Gallery Of South Australia on Sunday June 23 at 2pm. Entries close Fri May 31, so get in quick! RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU
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Scottie’s Singles
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Ayahuasca: Welcome To The Work
Fade Away
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Daft Punk aren’t the only French dudes who know how to kick funky dancefloor arse like it’s still 1983. Like The Human League working with Vangelis on the score to a lost ’80s sci-fi fantasy, Vitalic’s new single Fade Away could only be more enticing if it soundtracked an Ewok versus Gelfling version of Aliens Vs Predator. Yubnub.
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Archers Old Parades (Independent)
Sometimes making it through the office’s unruly box of unreviewed singles is like hacking your way through the thicket of a big ‘70s muff. It’s a bloody tangle down there, but sometimes it’s worth it. Like the psychedelic answer to Dr Livingstone, Archers’ recent single Old Parades has only just been rediscovered after eons in box wilderness. With cascading Lindsey Buckingham arpeggios and a tribal groove, it’s a panoramic vista from the local lads. Plus, I can’t go past a CD cover featuring a collage of a magnificent eagle soaring over tits. Note to self: Eagle Tits may well be the ultimate band name ever. Majestic.
Bad//Dreems Caroline (Mirador)
Speaking of local bands with trippy CD collages, Bad//Dreems are rocking a darker cut and paste aesthetic on the sleeve of Caroline, with Leon: The Professional and Lemmy Kilmister both anachronistically included in the black and white art. Rather than the ragged drubbing of Motörhead, the tune itself is filled with the ambitious pluck of The Vaccines at their best. Kicked out in the space of 130 seconds, Caroline is as short and sharp as Tyrion Lannister.
Two Door Cinema Club
The Postal Service Give Up (10th Anniversary Edition) (Sub Pop)
Times change. In the booklet for The Postal Service’s sole album, 2003’s Give Up, frontman Ben Gibbard looks like a fat loser virgin. A decade later the Death Cab For Cutie singer is the only person in the world who’s experienced marriage
to delish Zooey Deschanel - even if the thrill was a fleeting one. One of Sub Pop’s best-sellers alongside Nirvana and The Shins (who offer their own cover of We Will Become Silhouettes on the bonus disc here), Give Up has proved far more enduring than Gibbard’s wedded bliss. An act equally as likely to cause frothing among Pitchfork geeks as inspire anaemic commercial knock-offs (yes, Owl City, we’re looking at you), the reticence of Gibbard and his fellow Postal worker Jimmy Tamborello to force out a sequel ensures there’s a romance and mystique to the project’s small musical yield. The Postal Service’s finest moments are peerless classics; the unique Such Great Heights manages to be both dreamy and urgent at the same time. While its parent album is twee in places, there are some deceptively experimental (well, for a bunch of indie kids on Sub Pop) glitch moments. Backed by Tamborello’s production, Gibbard’s vocals are still a delight as they float listlessly by, unburdened by gravity and just out of reach. Sorta like the potato chips in The Simpsons episode Deep Space Homer, then. Scott McLennan
Now that this curly headed ferret has sold his soul to become a mentor on The Voice, a show title that sends an excruciating pain down the fingertips just to type, it seems like a pretty darn good time to release an album. Poof ! There it appears on my desk. I think little Ben must be thinking what I’m thinking. Cause I sure am B2. Here it is. Ayahuasca: Welcome To The Work sounds like a wizard casting some freaky spell. Which is almost right on the money as it turns out part of this album was inspired by a hallucinogenic South Amercian tea. Looks like Mr Lee has had an epiphany with this release marking as his ninth solo effort. He’s turned to the yogis, to the free spirited form, to eat only vegetables and dust whilst not wearing shoes kind of thing. It appears to be working, resulting in a rather left of centre release for this bearded sparrow. He dabbles with spacey atmospherics and a new style as his own life contorts to reflect a change of how his internal clock ticks, somewhat anticlockwise to the way he his life has led until now. Sharni Honor
The Gaslight Anthem Live Review
HQ, Fri May 17 Review by Owen Heitmann Pics by Andreas Heuer
Handshake (Kitsune/Pias)
The worst part about last month’s Jimmy Kimmel video tripping up Coachella hipsters by discussing fake bands was the fact the faceless Valley Girl interviewer bizarrely name-dropped the very real Two Door Cinema Club in between promoting Williamsburg’s The Chelsea Clintons and Lollapalooza highlights Dr Schlomo & The GI Clinic. Given its laboured by the same formulaic indie jingle jangle we’ve heard a gazillion times before, it’s unlikely Two Door Cinema Club’s latest single Handshake will keep the flower-tressed airheads and headdressdonning posers raving for long. For the time being, I’ll stick to spinning a ultra rare split 7” featuring über-cool bands Get The Fuck Out Of My Pool and Obesity Epidemic instead.
Sean Kingston Feat Chris Brown & Wiz Khalifa Beat It (Sony)
Just when you thought Chris Brown couldn’t be any more repulsive, the little turd features on a song called Beat It. What an unabashed little dickslap.
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In the queue before the doors opened, I bumped into the former bassist of defunct local outfit, SA Waste. It was a reminder of the first time I saw The Gaslight Anthem, before The ’59 Sound catapulted them into greater public awareness, when they played at Enigma Bar with SA Waste as support. It also served as a stark contrast to this time around. The New Jersey band is now practically a household name and there was no local support at all. Not that I was at all unhappy with Dave Hause as an opening act. He has a great voice and a catalogue of catchy, heartfelt melodic folk punk songs. Hause belted out solo songs such as Heavy Heart and Prague (Revive Me), as well as reinterpreting a couple of songs from his band The Loved Ones, including The Bridge). It was no surprise that The Gaslight Anthem didn’t play my favourites. I strongly favour their first album, Sink Or Swim, and the band has steadily moved away from that sound over their three subsequent LPs. However, it was a bit of a shock that they didn’t play their current single, Here Comes My Man – certainly an odd move from a publicity perspective. With that exception, the set-list was much as was to be expected, drawing heavily from The ’59 Sound and their latest album, Handwritten, as well as a
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Charli XCX Primal Scream
Jordan Miller
The Little Stevies
More Light
Cold Lights On Curious Minds
Most Requested
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Despite rascal bassist Mani skiving off to make a mint with the reunited Stone Roses, it’s business as usual in the Primal Scream camp. Nine-minute opener 2013’s title might infer new rules of engagement, but Bobby Gillespie’s breathy rhetoric about 21st century slaves, television propaganda and a peasant underclass suggests it’s more like a magical Kevin Shields remix of Swastika Eyes with bonus saxophone. It’s no coincidence the opening salvo is reminiscent of XTRMTR’s lead single from 1999: More Light’s psychedelic whirls sees the UK stalwarts paired with producer and fellow Krautrock fan David Holmes for the first time in more than a decade. River Of Pain’s experimentalism means its finale sounds equally in thrall to freeform jazz, sitar mantras and classic Disney soundtracks, while Culturecide’s deranged amalgam includes recorder solos, glam vocal unions and lyrical catch-cries that resemble the buzz terms of a Stanley Donwood artwork. Other highs include Goodbye Johnny coming on like a socialist Bryan Ferry fronting Trotsky Music, the gauzy Tenement Kid delivering a hit of space junk and the dark Stones groove of Elimination Blues featuring the peerless Robert Plant. Bobby Gillespie’s idioms and catchphrases sometimes thunk like untethered crates of vegetables falling off the back of a truck, but More Light underlines Primal Scream are a band still hungry for evolution. Scott McLennan
Even though the cover may appear like a text book for a third year med student studying anatomy, there is no science to Jordie Miller’s recipe for making sweet, sweet music. After six EPs, one full length bad boy under his belt and over 1000 shows down, this little Tasmanian devil is not a fresh face to the scene. The strapping young lad presents his second album, Cold Lights on Curious Minds, throwing around that cold light all up and around some intriguing thoughts and questions that remain unanswered. The album’s plush, earthy pop folk makes for a soothing listen but perhaps tries a little too hard to make for a bigger sound. Miller would benefit from stripped back folk, more similar to that of his live show. Nevertheless it makes for a chilled selection to crank through earphones on the tram, as you sit between a screaming three-year-old and a smelly man that rambles to himself about rabbits in business suits. As entertaining as that could be on a Wednesday afternoon, Jordan Miller makes for a far more intriguing listening, and probably doesn’t smell half as bad. Sharni Honor
Imagine being in a band with your sister. I personally would drop kick her in the nostrils after a little while, but it appears The Little Stevies have it down. Sisters Sibylla and Bethany Stephen combined with close friend Robin Geradts-Gill have proceeded to take the country by storm with their catchy folk tales of life and love. In 2013, they bring Most Requested to the table, which is an album of exactly that. It’s like a huge collage, a broth of 300 ingredients across their repertoire from shows played over the past three years. This release also marks as simply something to keep their musical flag flying whilst taking the time to do silly life orientated things like uni degrees and having babies. This little cracker provides insight into what this three piece do best - put on an absolute ripsnorter of a live show; one that has you swaying, boogying and chuckling like its nobodies business. The humorous chemistry on stage feels like a casual back deck barbecue on stage with a few instruments kicking around. This record puts you in that mindset - making you feel apart of something extraordinary and as though those jokes are made just for you. Cute. Sharni Honor
smattering of tracks from American Slang. With a touring guitarist on stage making the band a five piece, all the crowd favourites like Great Expectations, Handwritten, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, “45”, The ’59 Sound and Meet Me By The River’s Edge got an airing. Frontman Brian Fallon was looking more foppish than expected, and broke up the set with occasional banter about Australian sharks, Jersey Shore, and comparisons between the physical attractiveness of Australian and American cops. However, for the most part they were simply a finely honed rock band giving the audience what they wanted to hear. I think I was flagging more by the end of the show than anyone on stage, with drummer Benny Horowitz being a powerhouse in particular. Apart from Blue Dahlia (a bonus track from the Handwritten deluxe edition), it wasn’t until the five song encore that the band really threw any curveballs. At the point when most groups save for their biggest hits, we were treated to rarity She Loves You and a cover of Bob Dylan’s Changing Of The Guards (although somehow they managed to make it sound exactly like a Gaslight Anthem song). Of course, they finished the night with two more tracks from The ’59 Sound: Here’s Looking at You, Kid and The Backseat. It appeared that HQ had a near capacity crowd, and on the back of this performance and how it was received, I won’t be surprised if the band makes the leap to an even bigger venue next time they come to town.
True Romance (Warner/Atlantic)
Given the pair’s equally delectable way with electro pop (not to mention their comparable darkhaired European beauty), it’s no wonder Marina & The Diamonds refers to her tour support Charli XCX as her ‘evil baby sis’. Debut album True Romance sounds like it’s flown in on a Concorde from 1986, bringing with it a meshing of the era’s more perennial flavours including Madonna’s True Blue, Depeche Mode’s Black Celebration and Talk Talk’s The Colour Of Spring. Her sporadic singles and mixtape dispatches over the years might have reduced True Romance’s impact, but Charlotte Aitchison still has a few surprises among the tinsel. Sharing the bright electro sass of Icona Pop, the upbeat Take My Hand and soaring Set Me Free are matched by later, darker moments. Marina better watch out – no one’s putting this baby in the corner. Scott McLennan
Walk Off The Earth REVO (Columbia)
Anyone with a bit of facial hair and a ukulele can pull off the folky pop gig these days with the likes of Fun. and Mumford & Sons popularizing and exploding the scene like petrol on a campfire. But not many of these folky wannabees can incredibly play Goyte’s Somebody That I Used To Know on the same guitar at the same time, consequently reeling in over 150 million YouTube views. Walk Off The Earth can and thanks to a recent major record deal they’ve brought us their third overall album, REVO, acronymic of their motto; Realise Every Victory Outright. The album displays the band’s exceptional instrumental abilities, with ukuleles and strumming guitars setting the Californian summer scene in No Ulterior Motive and Summer Vibe. Lead single, Red Hands is livened up with the intriguing blend of Sarah Blackwood’s velvety vocals and her fellow band members’ slight gruffness. Melissa Keogh
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Acoustic, bluesy vibes marked Dusty Lee & The Angels Of Gung-Ho when they formed in late 2011. Six months later, they adopted a “psychedelic rock/grunge” flavour and started to become the band they are today. Dusty Lee has since chopped his name from the band’s and humbly explains that his favourite songs on their Fire In The Sea EP are ones that the band built together. “The tracks which probably ended up being the best ones on the EP were the ones where I’d have a little idea for a song, then take it to the band and we’d form the whole thing around it,” he says. “That was cool. It shows that the best songs that we do are the ones that we collaborate on.” Electrify Me is one of these and is a distinctive favourite at their live shows.
“It’s got the most balls,” Lee laughs. “To me, it’s got a bit of a [Black] Sabbath vibe in the way that it’s a bit darker and a bit slower. Also, I think that the way I sing in the verses is not the way that you’d expect me to sing. People have their comfortable melodies and comfortable ranges that they sit in usually, and this is just completely different.” A special event, the Fire In The Sea launch will also feature Palace Of The King, a Melbourne band led by Tim Henwood of The Superjesus. The Angels Of Gung-Ho supported The Superjesus on their first reunion show last year and have continued to keep in touch with the Adelaide cult icons. “It’s all about building friendships and working out what other projects are involved. Especially with bigger bands reforming, they’ve got other projects they’ve been doing in between.” In this way, they discovered Henwood’s new band and invited them along to do a
split headliner for the launch. “It’s just about keeping in touch and we definitely need connections on the east coast. Someone like Tim Henwood – he’s a bit of a godfather over there. He knows cool bands and good venues, plus he’s a good guy so we’re really excited to be playing with him.” In the near future, Lee is looking forward to playing The Gershwin Room at The Espy in Melbourne in support of The Superjesus’ Resurrection Tour. “If that sells out,” he says, “I will just jizz in my pants. It’s a bit of a dream come true.”
Plus One 4th Birthday Bash For four years, the Ed Castle has been hosting some of the best up-andcoming acts at their Saturday night Plus One events. Sat May 25 marks their anniversary, so they’ve planned an enormous evening of good music and good times. Head along to party with Bad// Dreems, Archers and the West Thebarton Brothel Party.
WHO: The Angels Of Gung-Ho (with Palace Of The King, Seventeen Fifty Seven and Rachel Cearns & The Valkyries) WHAT: Fire Of The Sea EP launch WHERE: The Crown & Anchor WHEN: Fri May 24
Sitara EP Launch Erin Fowler is the busiest girl in the world. Not only has she been up to her ears in The Mill preparations, she’s also had time to record an EP with her sister Tess. Their band Sitara will be launching their EP at Jive this Sat May 25. Head along to see their beautiful new clip for In The Water.
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These siblings have been playing together since Daniella was 14, Stephanie was 11 and Josh was 10. Originally from Melbourne, they moved to Adelaide while still kids in order to be closer to their father’s family (“You can’t leave the nonnas behind!”) Now adults, they’ve dropped their old name (The God Made Famous Band) and are striking out as CaliforniaCousin. Already, they’ve travelled to the USA and Canada, and played three nights in Jinja, Uganda’s second-largest town. Although they went large-scale early on, the family keep things down to earth with school visits and regional tours. Their style is “still developing”, but they love experimenting. “We do this cover of a Johnny Cash song and I’ve written some raps to it,” Danniella says. “[Kids] love it when we’re all working
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together and adding a rap. Then they love the songs where it’s just loud drums and loud guitar; really fast-paced music. We’re trying to persuade them to like softer songs, but they just want it to be the same volume the whole way through. They just want it fast-paced and crazy. We love that too.” They were young when they started, which is why they like to encourage school kids to embrace their talents. “Of course we love entertaining,” Daniella says. “The heartbeat of our band is really to inspire kids to take on their gifts. It might not be in music; it might be in something else, which is totally cool. It’s pretty scary sometimes to have something that you really want to do, then actually go out there and take risks.” Supportive parents meant that CaliforniaCousin realised their potential young. The next step is being recognised as adult musicians rather than children. Playing to 30,000 people on a football field in Uganda remains Daniella’s career highlight, although a particular food
memory really gets her gushing. “They’ve got really good chicken - not kidding. The people over there are really nice as well. They’d invite us over to lunch and they had chicken and potatoes and this other vegetable that looked like an unripe banana. It was green. We were like, ‘Aw. Look at that unripe banana,’ but it was actually a vegetable and it tasted awesome. “They handed us this chicken and it was really scrawny, and I was like, ‘What the heck? It’s so scrawny!’ We’re used to really beefed-up chicken over here. Then we tried it and was like, ‘Aw my gosh, this is the most amazing thing I’ve ever eaten!’ We actually found a Nandos over there and it was the best Nandos I’ve ever had. So, if you’re ever thinking of going, yeah, have the chicken.” WHAT: Midnight Madness WHO: CaliforniaCousin (with Breaking Tradition, Heston Drop and Indiago) WHERE: The Cumberland Arms Hotel WHEN: Fri May 31
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