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The Mixtape// Over the past seven years, Scott McLennan has edited Rip It Up magazine. His work has always been characterised by his sharp tongue, his electric wit, his inability to compromise or suffer fools, and his huge but unpredictable enthusiasms for artists as diverse as U2, Nine Inch Nails, Tori Amos and Taylor Swift. Along with his wideranging tastes, Scott brought an encyclopaedic knowledge of popular music history to every sentence he wrote. This ability to contextualize both new and re-issued material established his writing as the equal of any in the country. He was, and is, a true original. As he moves on to the next phase of his career, the Publishing Division of the Global Intertrade group of companies thanks Scott for his peerless work, and wishes him all the very best in the future.

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1. Taylor Swift – I Knew You Were Trouble 2. Katy Perry – Firework 3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps 4. PJ Harvey and Thom Yorke – This Mess We’re In 5. Radiohead – Planet Telex 6. Lana Del Rey – At The Races 7. Regina Spektor – Fidelity 8. Tori Amos – Cornflake Girl 9. Nine Inch Nails – Wish 10. U2 – Until the End of the World 11. Coldplay – The Scientist 12. Blur – Song 2 13. Marina & The Diamonds – I Am Not A Robot 14. Billy Joel – We Didn’t Start The Fire 15. David Bowie – Where Are We Now? 16. Pulp – Common People 17. Primal Scream – Loaded 18. Lindsay Lohan – Edge Of Seventeen 19. Bruce Springsteen – We Take Care Of Our Own 20. Bon Jovi – Always

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Legendary General Cypher Raige (Will Smith) returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his e 13-year-old son, Kitai (Jaden Smith). When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai’s a ccraft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in d tthe cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile tterrain to recover their rescue beacon. Only at the movies Thu Jun 13. Log onto ripitup. a ccom.au and enter your details for your chance tto win one of 10 double in-season passes.

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The visiting Canadian singer-songwriter will be playing at the Wheatsheaf Hotel on Thu Jun 6 with supports by locals Rin & The Reckless and Delia Obst.

Indulge your theatrical side with the launch of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, with a host of international and national guests, including a musical version of Shane Warne and performances by Glee cameo stars.

Ash is back at the Governor Hindmarsh on Fri Jun 7, this time bringing with him Scott and Andy from The Living End for a heavier set than his usual folk fodder.

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The self-proclaimed best comedian in the country is doing the rounds again, tackling various locations around South Australia this week, spraying his naughty brand of adult comedy.

Punk, rock and soul fans at Engima Bar on Tue Jun 11 will suffer from Infection when Californian group The BellRays take to the stage.

With his debut album still in the iTunes Australia Blues Charts after a year, Owen Campbell returns with his new album The Pilgrim, which has already entered the charts from pre-sale alone. Catch Owen at Norwood Live on Fri Jun 13.

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ROBOTOSAURUS – Robotosaurus will join forces with Totally Unicorn for a night of hard rock and creatively-conceived band names.

STEVE VAI – The American three-time Grammy winning guitarist, songwriter and producer will be in town on Tue Jun 11, taking to Her Majesty’s Theatre.

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reward his lazier, second-rate mates, Josh Pyke is heading out on a national album tour. Open to everyone, The Beginning & The End Of Everything tour recognises the release of his fourth album. The first spot on the tour is Adelaide, with Pyke performing at The Governor Hindmarsh on Thu Aug 16.

‘Oh, Ricky, you’re so fine’, sing The Voice viewers. Let the swooning commence.

Equipped with a ‘greatest hits’ album and a decade since his last Australian tour, Ricky Martin is dancing out of his spinning TV host chair and hitting the road. For five nights only, Ricky will be reviving the ghosts of pop music past, promising old hits, new music and … “surprises”. Tickets range from $99+bf upwards for his show at Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Thu Oct 10. For tickets and more information, visit ticketek.com.au.

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Hit Me Baby One More Time Hits & Pits Festival has announced its lineup for round two, after last year’s punk success.

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Australian songbird Katie Noonan is teaming up with stellar guitarist Karin Schuapp for a string of dates around the nation. Adelaide is the one lucky city treated to two shows on Fri Jul 26 and Sat Jul 27 at the Festival Theatre’s Dunstan Playhouse. The pair will be performing tracks from their collaborative cover album, Songs Of The Southern Skies. The album includes versions of songs by Gotye, Gurrumul, Cold Chisel, The Easybeats and Nick Cave. Tickets for the tour are available through Bass.

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Grammarzons and bibliophiles, your time is coming. For four days this July, Adelaide will come together to celebrate the power of language at a new festival, WORD ADELAIDE. Hosting the fest is Little Britain’s Matt Lucas, but appareances will also be made by ABC radio’s guest linguist and emeritus professor, Roly Sussex, the bassist from Pink Floyd, Guy Pratt, and many more. Aside from lecture and panel-style discussions, there will also be freestyle MC, short story and poetry reading competitions. The program will run at a range of venues between Thu Jul 15 and Sun Jul 18. Full details can be found at wordadelaide.com.au.

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Apocalypse Now Following the recent passing of Australian music great Chrissy Amphlett, many were left asking where the next great Australian female export would come from. One article in particular riled up Perth musician Abbe May, who set the record straight about where contemporary music is in this country. peaking with Rip It Up ahead of the release of sophomore album Kiss My Apocalypse, May explains why the reaction to Amphlett’s death in the context of the Australian music industry stirred up such a passionate online response.

“Comparison is violence, especially when you bring it into somebody’s artistic work. If somebody came out today and was like, ‘I’m the next Chrissy Amphlett’, and they did all the things that Amphlett did, they would be vilified for copying her. I think it’s time to let go of the past and whip out those songs when it’s time, that’s great. The reason I had a problem with that article, and I didn’t mean any personal attack on the journalist, but she clearly had no idea what was going on in the Australian contemporary music industry. All she could talk about was the Baby Animals, Killing Heidi, and Chrissy Amphlett.”

This is clearly an important issue for May, whose musical output is very much focused on showcasing her personality in new and refreshing ways, suggesting that there is much to look forward to rather than back upon.

“If you’re going to comment on where’s the next Chrissy Amphlett, actually go and check out a few gigs, go and have a look at what’s being played on community radio and

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Triple J, because there’s some amazing female musicians out there. I would like to have read an article that said something along the lines of, ‘Chrissy Amphlett was one of the great Australian female performers and writers of our time. Here are a few of the great up and coming writers of our time’. It didn’t have to be this negative, poorly written thing about there being nothing out there, because that’s bullshit.

There’s so much good music in Australia.”

Some of that goodness comes in the form of Kiss My Apocalypse, the follow-up to May’s debut album Design Desire. The decision to change her sound on this release was largely centred on some rather life-changing events.

“This was written about a relationship that was very, very intense. It was more a love affair than a relationship; we didn’t have any of the mundane aspects of the relationship life, which are very comforting but can kill a bit of the passion. Often the people that fuck you the best love you the worst. And that’s something that I learnt, that it wasn’t exactly love, it was passion and lust. So I think that’s why when the shit hit the fan, which is what Kiss My Apocalypse means, it took so long to recover because I was so deeply invested in this person. Sometimes you meet people that just really lock you in, and I’m not in any way a victim of this because I made my choices. But it was definitely a life-changing connection, and it ended badly.”

Refining every element of Kiss My Apocalypse became essential for the Perth performer, who became disillusioned by the amount of blasé entertainers during the production of this album.

“I got a bit tired of the whole, ‘I’m in a band man, and I don’t even care if you listen to my music and that’. To me, you do care if people listen to your music, and you’re not fooling anyone. I’ve always thought with art that it was education, and enlightenment through

entertainment. You look at any of the great paintings; people look at them and are moved by them because they’re beautiful. And the person who painted them tried to make them beautiful. You must be deliberate, and you must also get people’s attention. I think to say that you don’t care is the biggest amount of bullshit I’ve ever heard. The idea of calling yourself an ‘artist’ is really wanky and is born out of being insecure I think.”

This newfound edginess resulted in such provocative song titles as Karmageddon, Tantric Romantic and Sex Tourettes. May explains that the name of each song was carefully considered prior to the album’s release.

“Quite often I’ll write the lyrics after I’ve written the title of the song. It gives you some guidelines and some boundaries within that writing process, so that you’re not just in noman’s land going, ‘Oh my god what do I write about?’ Instead it’s like, ‘Well, here’s the title, so let’s write within that’. With the titles I was very careful about using alliteration and puns, because I think a title can draw you into a song.

If you look at the back of the CD you might see Karmageddon or Tantric Romantic and think, ‘There’s a pull’, and it just rolls of the tongue.”

“I either made this record or I became that woman who was drinking herself to death at the bar because she was broken-hearted.”

May believes this album may not have seen the light of day had her emotions taken a completely different turn.

“It’s certainly very dark. It was born out of a period where I was a bit pissed off and I was a bit bitter and really unhappy. So I either made this record or I became that woman who was drinking herself to death at the bar because she was broken-hearted. Luckily I chose to make the album and I think that was the smartest

Same Love Abbe May has recently come out supporting same-sex relationships and sexual freedom. She explains to Rip It Up how this, along with her own experiences, inspired Kiss My Apocalypse.

If you look at the subject matter of the album, it’s about sexuality basically. I’m talking about the oppression of natural sexualities by religions, especially through the cover. I think I really wanted to confront that whole religious attitude of being very anti-accepting of gay marriage, of gay sexual lifestyles, all that kind of thing. I want to fight the oppression of any kind of sexuality, as long as it’s between consenting adults.

move in terms of longevity of life and my career. It’s a very cathartic album which I think is where the darkness comes from; it’s how I got the anger out. I’m glad I did because I’m not angry anymore. I’m quite happy, I’m freshly in love, and I’ve got the greatest musical and visual collaborators that I’ve ever had.”

These collaborations will be on show when May takes Kiss My Apocalypse on the road this month, including a stopover at the Governor Hindmarsh on Sat Jun 15.

“I’ll have my new drummer Nick Johnson, my brother Doug, who I’ve played with for 15 years, and my producer Sam Ford on bass synth and electric bass. And me up front shaking my gold hotpants like Kylie Minogue on ketamine. It’s gonna be a fun doompop show; it’s really dark, really heavy, very intense, but also fun. It’s a groovy little set and we mean every single second of it.”

WHO: Abbe May WHAT: Kiss My Apocalypse (MGM) WHERE: Governor Hindmarsh (with The Chemist) WHEN: Sat June 15

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

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A Deal With God Brisbane songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke warns Rip It Up she loathes “bullshit” interviews that sensationalise her quotes, yet proceeds to spill the beans on her recreational drug use, weird nervous tics and teenage propensity for turning boyfriends gay. Lie down on the couch and start from the beginning, Ms Miller-Heidke…

My first kiss was terrible,” the 31-year-old singer recalls. “I remember the tongue thing – and it’s the sort of thing I have to demonstrate in person because there’s a visual image that goes with it – but I nearly spewed.

It was the first of many boyfriends who turned gay.”

Because of that kiss?

“Well, I’m sure the kiss didn’t help…”

A year on from the release of her heartfelt and atmospheric third album Nightflight, MillerHeidke is bringing tales of teenage pash tragedies

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and other tragicomic anecdotes to the Flinders St Baptist Church for the latest Heavenly Sounds tour. Given her witty stage banter has a habit of turning a brazen blue, will Miller-Heidke be adjusting her set for this sanctified locale?

“I don’t have that many rude songs,” MillerHeidke protests. “The show will have to be tweaked slightly, but not too much. The main rude song I do is The Facebook Song, and that’s been in retirement for a while now anyway. My shows have been more sophisticated recently.”

Songs like Little Eve’s Little Adam and Curiouser’s God’s Gift To Women both suggest God has made errors, though, which might be deemed sacrilege to the faithful.

“Shit, I hadn’t even thought about this. I guess that means we can’t do those songs either! I didn’t realise how much blasphemous material I had.”

Establishing herself as a gifted opera singer while studying at the Queensland Conservatorium Of Music as a teenager, Miller-Heidke has since indulged in canny musical diversification, but routinely returns to the classical realm. Rip It Up speaks to Miller-

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Heidke days before she returns to London to appear in the English National Opera’s Sunken Garden.

“There’s a big filmic component that’s integrated into the live action, so there are three or four live opera singers and three that have been filmed. The audience are given 3D glasses and will see the filmed singers interacting with the live performers. My role is entirely on film, so it’s definitely going to freak me out being in the audience and watching myself in 3D.” According to Secret Garden’s press release, MillerHeidke plays Amber, a “glamorous young socialite”.

“She’s an art school drop-out who takes recreational drugs,” Miller-Heidke says. “I wouldn’t say they’ve typecast me, but I probably have done more recreational drugs than your average opera singer.”

The ARIA-nominated singer has found global success with output including Curiouser’s platinum-selling single The Last Day On Earth (a 2009 number one) and her atypical 2011 sideproject Fatty Gets A Stylist (featuring the track Are You Ready?, currently soundtracking Tim Tam commercials), but Miller-Heidke still feels she inhabits the musical periphery.

“Having not had Triple J support, it’s forced me to think about my art in a different way and I did become a different artist because of that, so I wouldn’t change things. I had to make something that would stand out beyond that very insular theme. It’s very hard to do – some bands’ whole careers are propped up on Triple J and then when that goes they’ve got nothing, so it’s good to be independent from that.”

Given her past appearances in Adelaide have included anecdotes about bikini waxing and covers of Britney Spears, Rage Against The Machine and Eminem, it’s always difficult to guess the route a Kate Miller-Heidke show will take. The performer promises new material at her Heavenly Sounds show.

“I’ve got nearly enough material for another album, which I’m going to record later this year, so this will be a great opportunity for me to sing them in a bit. There will be a few brand new ones, quite a lot from Nightflight and quite a mixture from the back catalogue as well.” …But no tongue.

WHO: Kate Miller-Heidke WHERE: Heavenly Sounds, Flinders St Baptist Church WHEN: Fri Jun 14

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Interviews// They Will Fay Milton, the drummer for new post-punk-rock outfit Savages, shares some insight with Rip It Up into the literary meaning behind Savages’ sentiment and why it’s important to acknowledge that you shouldn’t need to acknowledge that they are an all girl rock band. hile researching Savages online, it’s reported frequently how the band’s name was inspired by brutal and dark representations of human nature in literature, namely William Golding’s Lord Of The Flies and J D Salinger’s Cather In The Rye. It is this attitude that has instilled in the band since.

“The band started with the name and then the band followed,” Milton says.

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“That is the nuts and bolts of it.”

Savages’ relationship with literature is prevalent from the opening seconds of Silence Yourself, namely with opening track Shut Up sampling dialogue from John Cassavettes’ film Opening Night.

The scene is a confrontation, with one character interrogating the other to know, ‘How old are you really?’ and was, of course, used by Savages for a specific purpose.

“Cassavettes was an interesting director as he always strived to do what he wanted to do rather than sell-out or follow the norms of what a Hollywood director should be doing or themes they should be using to make money.

It’s a really interesting film because [the character, Myrtle Gordon] was really trying to express herself in the way she wants to express herself and the playwright and all the other people are trying to make her act in certain ways and she can’t put her heart and soul into it because it’s not being done in her way.

It was a reflection of how we operate.”

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No Faces Savages have joined the growing trend of bands who are asking their audience to not watch their shows through the screens of their phones. Fay Milton discusses this as a positive for all concerned.

"For people it’s a liberation from your phone. You know you’ve had a good evening when you haven’t looked at your phone for six hours. You need to break away from your phone when you want to experience something in that moment.”

As Savages continues to prosper, you can expect more literary references within their music.

“Literature is always going to be an inspiration. We will have completely different references from everywhere really, including literature and life experience.”

Although with a name like Savages, Milton muses over whether or not “dark” is the right term to describe their music, but perhaps their darkness resides in the lyrics songwriter and frontwoman Jehnny Beth writes.

“I don’t think it was a conscious decision to make dark music. I don’t really see how our music is dark, but it probably is. We didn’t set out to be dark, but lyrically we did have a prerequisite to not write any love songs and if we are going to write about love and sex and that kind of thing treat it from a very straight forward perspective. Instead we try and look at it from the women’s perspective and try and pervert that a little bit and take a different view.”

Milton does consider that perhaps their surroundings, being industrial London, has something to do with their darkness.

“I don’t think any of us set out to make dark music but we are reflecting our surroundings.

It’s been raining in London for two years basically and we’re surrounded by machinery and noise and all that stuff and it’s not a complaint at all. I love London and I love that grit that it has and it reflects that darkness. It’s a happy dark though as well, you know? Well maybe not happy, but sexy...”

Speaking of sexy, it seems trivial to bring up that Savages are a band made up entirely of women.

“I think it’s interesting that whenever people do bring up genders, they bring it up in a way to say that it isn’t worth bringing up.

It seems like an oxymoron. We’ve grown up in a world where we’re free from the time when you need to explore being a female and fight for it. We are just being people, not women.

It’s a really good freedom to have and I think it comes across, especially when people say that they don’t need to mention that we’re women.”

WHO: Savages WHAT: Silence Yourself (Remote Control)

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Jeff Mills Considered one of the most brilliant techno DJ/producers in the world, Jeff Mills is returning to Australia this month. While Mills usually averages around 100 shows a year, his projects go further than just techno, having collaborated with Mad Mike Banks in the collective Underground Resistance, representing the more political leanings of Detroit techno, as well as starting up his own imprint Axis in 1992, thereby maintaining his independence and producing his own compositions inspired by science fiction. The standard-bearer for mixing on three decks, Mills holds a notion of music as an art-form and last year celebrated the two decade anniversary of Axis Records with a book and compilation of some of the best music released over the years. Don’t miss him at Sugar this month.

Jeff Mills plays at Sugar on Fri Jun 7.

Tommy Trash

P.Smurf Q+A

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

His lead single I Heard The World Screaming is tearing it up on Triple J at the moment, so what better time for Melbourne MC P.Smurf [Daily Meds] to launch his debut solo EP than now...

What have been some highlights this year?

Playing at the Adelaide Fringe Festival with our crew Sketch The Rhyme was definitely a highlight.

Releasing my solo EP [The Story So Far] and now being able to perform and tour it live has been amazing. And working on new material with Daily Meds and Reverse Polarities is keeping me extremely busy.

Tommy Trash plays at HQ on Sun Jun 9.

Ty British rapper Ty (signed to Tru Thoughts in January this year) has built a reputation on his original style, his lyrical frankness and his honest portrayals of everyday life. So far, he has released four successful albums and received a Mercury Prize nomination for 2003’s Upwards, while his lifelong love of hip hop has seen the South Londoner gain skills in sound engineering and production, leading to collaborations with Scratch Perverts, Talib Kweli and Arrested Development. Ty is also known for his work as a spoken-word artist and was asked to perform and host workshops for the British Council earlier this year, which culminated in the conclusion of a 35-year halt on international performers in the Sudanese town of Port Sudan. He is also a member of the HipHop Shakespeare Company, running youth workshops and showing influences and work of Shakespeare in today’s music scene.

Ty plays at Rocket Bar on Sat Jun 29.

The lead single I Heard The World Screaming is doing really well on the radio as is the quirky video – tell us about them...

I’m pretty much telling a story about balancing your work/artistic life with your personal relationships. Music is my art, hobby, passion and also my work, although it doesn’t always pay the bills, so I need a day job as well. The video was a mash-up of ideas from myself, Dean Wells and Nicholas Carr. Dean wanted to use his newlyfound VHS style camera techniques, Nick loved Skippy and I was keen to work with just myself and a green screen. We all like taking the piss as well and wanted to skew away from your typical hip hop clips, so we thought we’d give something different a go.

CD Reviews

How are the launches going so far?

I just finished up in Melbourne and Sydney, which were both great shows. I have got some amazingly talented supports on all the gigs, especially Adelaide with Dialect, Prime and Social Change all getting down. Expect a jam-packed, high energy, hour-long set of me and DJ Cost tearin’ shit up. Lots of raps, cuts and fat beats.

How different is this solo project to Daily Meds?

Daily Meds is a lot more focused on socially and politically charged lyrics, whereas my solo music was a good chance to get out more of a personal side. Daily Meds is also very ‘future beat’ orientated, with Roleo handling all the production.

I love making music and feel like I have a lot to give, I do appreciate many different styles of hip hop and enjoy working within them.

Robert Babicz

Daft Punk

Sandwell District

The Owl And The Butterfly

Random Access Memories

Fabric 69

(Systematic)

(Colombia)

(Fabric)

Owls are awesome. If you’ve ever been lucky enough to see one in the wild, you were no doubt filled with a sense of being fortunate enough to be in the presence of something with an aura of magic about it. If you were hot-boxing a car parked on a dirt road with no street lights for miles and trees that leant over the road like craning giants and on the arm of one of those giants was perched a soft, grey owl with bright, attentive eyes; then you probably sat there in awe, not wanting to move. Butterflies share some of this magic too, though are a delicate and ephemeral entity; their life’s journey focussed by a need to meet their soul mate, whilst they flitter on the whimsy of the air’s movements. I guess when you consider all this, for an album of organic tech sounds with exquisite and involving production, the title is pretty well thought out.

Robert Moregravy

Forget Get Lucky, because if we step back from the standard accessibility of Daft Punk’s superb, but inevitably trivialised through over-saturation singles, what remains (as always) is music of a very high calibre. What truly stands out about RAM is that it was recorded in a studio by musicians; so every drum hit, bass note, guitar chord and key played sounds incredible. For me, the standout tracks are as follows... Giorgio By Moroder; this joint is musically fantastic and an historical homage to disco’s godfather himself as it builds and builds with synths reminiscent of Cerrone’s Supernature, arriving at a crescendo of strings, oscillating 303 and licked guitars. Much like Tom and Ed, the records made by Guy and Thomas are getting notably more mature and more musically rounded with each release – the number of vocoder-voiced makeout tracks here cannot be over-looked but they are suitably luxurious in their execution. Thanks for the memories.

Texjah

Even for an epitaph, this one is moodier and darker than expected.

Two-thirds of UK techno label/collective Sandwell District, Function and Regis (label partner Silent Servant is not part of compiling Fabric 69 although his A Path Eternal opens the mix), team up for a morose, yet at-times compelling, journey that could be the trio’s swansong as Sandwell District is supposedly no more. The tracklist looks superb on paper with a who’s who of techno selected: Plastikman, Surgeon, Carl Craig, Planetary Assault Systems, Laurent Garnier, etc. But the soundscape-layered opening takes too long to step out of its atmospheric humdrum before the dancefloor friendly techno starts in the form of the aforementioned names, as well as Markus Suckut’s haunting Hunt and Untold’s spellbinding Motion The Dance. For dark and atmospheric techno boffins... So, Sandwell District fans, basically.

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P.Smurf plays at Rhino Room on Fri Jun 21.

Calendar/ 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) Fri Jul 12 Clubfeet (Rhino Room) Sat Jul 13 Juan Atkins (Sugar) Sat Jul 13 Bliss N Eso (Entertainment Centre) Fri Jul 26 Funk Volume Tour Feat Dizzy Wright & Jarren Benton (Fowler’s Live)

with Nina Bertok

Interviews

A decade ago, Pedro ‘Busy P’ Winter, a Parisian DJ and Daft Punk’s thenmanager, started Ed Banger Records.

The label not only launched the electropunk Justice but also led a second wave of French dance music -- the socalled ‘noise’ revolution. Now Winter is marking Ed Banger’s anniversary with the compilation XXX -- and a global tour. No wonder he’s feeling “super duper fine”.

Winter was determined that the commemorative package should comprise allnew - and “exclusive” - tracks.

“I’ve always been scared of Best Of albums,” he confesses.

Ed Banger fans can easily find the classic tunes online. So he challenged Ed Banger stars such as Mr Oizo to submit “the music for tomorrow”.

“You can hear that we are a bit fed up with the bangin’ and noisy music.”

Ed Banger is routinely identified with noise but, Winter stresses, the label has long offered “a diversity of sound” with releases by anyone from Uffie to Breakbot to Laurent Garnier, France’s techno ‘godfather’.

“I’m not gonna complain,” he says nonchalantly. After all, Justice, Ed Banger’s biggest act, did break-out with the “noisy” Waters Of Nazareth. Yet, like Ed Banger, even Justice have “changed” direction.

“It takes time to showcase your music – and I’m not in a rush.”

Winter has his issues with contemporary dance.

“What disappoints me is this big EDM circus.”

He doesn’t consider Ed Banger a part of the (US) EDM movement.

“This is the problem with America - they put everybody in the same bag and they don’t know their history,” says Winter, himself initially inspired by Chicago house. The Frenchman is “happy” that, while Justice

Currently celebrating a big milestone for the Darkbeat collective, DJ and brand founder Daniel Banko (Rollin Connection) reveals he has huge plans for his ever-growing Darkbeat empire which, just prior to its 10th anniversary, has also launched a record label. To raise a toast to an amazing past and to mark the start of an even brighter future, the imprint has just released its first ever three-CD album, (Darkbeat’s 10 Anniversary Compilation).

“What’s really exciting for me is getting this compilation out officially,” Banko enthuses.

“It’s coming out under our own label, Darkbeat Recordings, which is even more exciting, and that marks out 10th anniversary.

It’s just exciting times in general right now because we are also preparing to do an Australia-wide tour for the CD straight after, so it’s all happening.”

Featuring himself on Disc Two, Banko joins one of Australia’s biggest DJ exports, Anthony Pappa and Darkbeat resident Phil K across the three CD affair, with tunes that cover the ultimate night out – from the beginning, to the peak and finally, the wind-down.

“Anthony [Disc One] really wanted to do something a bit different with his disc than what people would normally expect from him – it’s more music close to his heart. It’s more house and it has a funkier beat instead of the normal big, pumping main-room sound that he would be normally playing. It’s a mix that really stands the test of time, it’s not going to date musically any time soon. I’ve got the peak of the night covered with the second CD, which takes you through everything from club-ish stuff to more deep house, tech-house, techno and progressive. Finally, there’s Phil

Busy P

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headline major US festivals with their live show, he can DJ in a small Paris club. He’s “free” - in contrast to “all those big-name DJs” playing “crap music” to 40,000 people who know no better.

Winter managed Daft Punk from 1996 to 2008, resigning when running Ed Banger became too demanding a job. He loves their disco comeback Random Access Memories, but doubts that it’ll alter the course of dance.

“I think the album they have done is a big fuck-off to the EDM sound! This is what makes me smile, this is why I love this album - because I think it’s a big ‘What’s wrong with you world, what’s wrong with you America, with this big dance circus you’ve created?’

But, after that, I don’t think this album will influence the electronic music producer today... I don’t think [young producers] will be influenced by Daft Punk – and I don’t think

Daft Punk will change anything. I don’t think [RAM] will change anything because this album they are doing has nothing to do with electronic music. It’s not an electronic music album.”

Winter hasn’t discussed the motivations behind RAM with his old robot allies.

The mogul has been influential in unexpected ways. Word is that he turned Kanye West on to Bon Iver’s auto-tuned Woods. The MC subsequently hooked up with Justin Vernon for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. True?

“I’ve read this, too, but I’m not sure!”

Winter responds. His famous rap buddy does love asking for music tips. What’s more, A-Trak definitely was the one who convinced 'Ye to sample Daft Punk on Stronger.

Winter cut back on gigging following the tragic loss of DJ Mehdi, his “best friend”, tour

partner and studio collaborator. Mehdi’s 2006 Lucky Boy was Ed Banger’s inaugural album -- and trailblazing with its sophisticated blend of electro-house and hip hop. Only lately has Winter resumed production, with a single, Still Busy, due in July.

“The energy’s back,” he says. Winter will wrap Ed Banger’s 10th anniversary tour in Australia come spring. However, he’s resolved to be less busy with international gigs in future.

“I’m gonna spend more time in the studio, less time on the road and more time with my little girl. I’m a daddy now. So I need to set up my time in a good way to manage to do all this.”

about us in other parts of the world, which will hopefully help make the brand global.

We have a lot of local guys in Australia that make good music and DJ really well, so we believe they deserve a chance because there aren’t many opportunities going around.

Personally, one of the things that I want to get more involved in this year is working on more productions, DJing and putting a lot more time back into that side of things myself.

It was always done out of a passion and love of good music and DJing anyway. Darkbeat is completely based on our love of music and both the highlights and lowlights pay off at the end of the day when you see so many

people happy and enjoying themselves each night. People trust us to rock the party and they know that they’ll get a good time. We even started a side-project brand called Trust Us on the basis of, ‘You know who we are and what we do, you can trust us, you know you’ll have an amazing time’. Good memories stick with everyone over the years, it’s an awesome feeling when you know that everyone is there for all the right reasons.”

WHO: Busy P WHAT: V/A – Ed Rec Vol X (Warner)

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by Nina Be

K who is one of Australia’s best DJs and he’s done a disc that is more an after-hours soundtrack which is a bit of a different take on the way he’s thinking musically at the moment. It’s more of a slow-mo feel and away from the main-room sound.”

Following on from the anniversary compilation, Banko claims the imprint aims to continue releasing albums which feature local and international artists side-by-side.

With records available both in Australia and overseas, Darkbeat hopes the approach will give DJs exposure in parts of the world where they may still be quite unknown.

“That way it helps with people finding out

WHO: Daniel Banko WHAT: Darkbeat’s 10th Anniversary Compilation (Darkbeat Recordings)

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Tour Guide/ THU JUN 6

SAT JUN 22

THE CHEMIST @ Grace Emily TIM CHAISSON @ Wheatsheaf Hotel

KINGSWOOD, RACHEL CEARNS & THE VALKYRIES & SURVIVING SHARKS @ Jive Bar OBIE TRICE @ Governor Hindmarsh

FRI JUN 7 – MON JUN 10 HOOT! ADELAIDE HILLS JAZZ FESTIVAL: SNARKY PUPPY, DAVID HELBOCK TRIO, JAMES CARTER TRIO and more @ various Mt Barker locations

FRI JUN 7 ASH GRUNWALD WITH SCOTT AND ANDY FROM THE LIVING END @ Governor Hindmarsh

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

WED JUN 26 BILL ODDIE @ Adelaide Town Hall

FRI JUN 28 THE SUPERJESUS & JACKSON FIREBIRD @ Governor Hindmarsh THE JANOSKIANS @ Thebarton Theatre TIGERTOWN @ Wheatsheaf Hotel

SAT JUN 29

Hoodoo Gurus

THE SUPERJESUS & JACKSON FIREBIRD @ Governor Hindmarsh ADAM HILLS @ Thebarton Theatre

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MON JUL 1 P!NK @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

TUE JUL 2 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

P!NK @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

THU JUL 4 P!NK @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

FRI JUL 5 P!NK @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre SOMETHING WITH NUMBERS @ UniBar KIRIN J CALLINAN @ Jive Bar CLAIREY BROWNE & THE BANGIN’ RACKETTES @ The Gov

SAT JUL 6 TUE JUN 11 THE BELLRAYS @ Enigma Bar STEVE VAI @ Her Majesty’s Theatre

THE TONGUE @ Rocket Bar

TUE JUL 9 FEAR FACTORY @ HQ

THU JUN 13

WED JUL 10

OWEN CAMPBELL @ Norwood Live ADELAIDE BURLESQUE FESTIVAL @ Nexus Cabaret BRUCE MATHISKE @ Star Theatre

LA DISPUTE & PIANOS BECOME TEETH @ Fowler’s Live YOUTH OF TODAY @ Enigma Bar

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

SAT JUN 15 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 ABBE MAY @ Governor Hindmarsh

Died Pretty and The Moodists.

The guitarist is also pretty certain that another Hoodoo Gurus album is unlikely.

“That last album [2010’s Purity Of Essence] was a real struggle and a tough one to make,” Shepherd admits. “We’re grown up now with different ideas, so it all turns into friction in the studio. And where would any new songs find their way into our live set? We now have such an extensive catalogue of material, we always feel morally compelled to do Bittersweet, Tojo, What’s My Scene, A Thousand Miles Away, The Right Time, I Want You Back along with all the others,” he concludes. “So we don’t really have any room for new songs.”

an Italian karaoke game machine, but Marc admits that karaoke isn’t really his scene.

“Singing to yourself in the shower, is that karaoke? I do a lot of that. Nah, it’s got to be public, hey?” he muses. “On Hindley St, there used to be a karaoke bar. I walked in there once and I got really, really dirty looks.

I seriously thought I was going to get killed.

People take this shit seriously, don’t they? It felt like I was stepping on their turf and I was going to get stabbed.”

Dark karaoke memories aren’t the only secrets the Lucchesis are hiding: the bloodrelated leading men also have a surprise sibling who works on the band behind the wings.

“It’s our sister,” Lucchesi reveals. “I feel a bit protective of her and I don’t want her to see the things that bands get up to on tours. I like to try and protect and shelter her. That said, if I’m ever in trouble and can’t think of a bridge or an outro, I go to her. She’s full of ideas.”

The album zings with life and uplifting energy. However, the songs are more than just bright pop tunes. Strangest Dream, in

particular, has a fairly disturbing genesis story.

It began one night in London, when Marc “took something [he] probably shouldn’t have”.

“I honestly through I was going to lose my mind. I thought that I’d lost it and that I’d ruined my brain … It sounds like a pretty, happy, summer tune, but it’s not. It’s dark. It sounds like a modern-day version of Love Is In The Air, but it’s about me losing my brain.”

As for which girl the Vaudeville boys are dancing for?

“By ‘the girl’, we mean ‘the girl combined’.

Every girl forms this one girl. It’s just girls.

It’s about being young and dumb and that everything that you do is for the attention of a girl.”

WHO: Hoodoo Gurus (with Lime Spiders) WHERE: Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Sun Jun 9

BALL PARK MUSIC, EAGLE & THE WORM & JEREMY NEALE @ HQ

FRI JUL 12 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 THE ANGELS @ Governor Hinsmarsh

SAT JUL 13 ENABLER & URNS @ Enigma Bar BLISS N ESO @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre THE ANGELS @ Governor Hindmarsh

Vaudevi ll Smash e

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TUE JUL 16 A DAY TO REMEMBER @ Thebarton Theatre

ANDREW STOCKDALE @ Governor Hindmarsh

WED JUL 17

THU JUN 20

TODD RUNDGREN & DAVEY LANE @ Governor Hindmarsh

FRI JUL 19 MASKETTA FALL @ Black Market

SAT JUL 20 WAVVES @ Ed Castle SLEEPMAKESWAVES @ Crown & Anchor

FRI JUN 21

SUN JUL 21

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

SPEELMAKESWAVES @ Crown & Anchor

They’ve just released their first album, Dancing For The Girl, and are coming home to Adelaide this Sat Jun 8. Funk, disco and pop good-time tunes are all wrapped up in the glittering Vaudeville Smash packaging. Frontman Marc Lucchesi is pepped up, cheerful and glad to have the album out and about.

WED JUL 24 ATLAS GENIUS @ Rocket Bar

THU JUL 25 THELMA PLUM @ Grace Emily LAURA MARLING @ Flinders Street Baptist Church

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“It was completely out of our hands,” Hodoo Gurus’ guitarist Brad Shepherd says of the Dig It Up! cancellation, “so we decided to put together our own gig because Adelaide people have always been very supportive.

“We thought that by also bringing Lime Spiders with us would go some way towards making up for having to can Dig It Up!,” he adds.

Lime Spiders are a bunch of likeminded Sydney garage rockers whose 1984 single, Slave Girl, was later covered by American

band Goo Goo Dolls.

“I used to go and see Lime Spiders a lot when they were down at the Southern Cross Hotel in Surry Hills, which later became Strawberry Hills,” Shepherd reveals.

“Southern Cross was a venue that catered for the inner city crowd in the early ’80s. It had indie music before it became indie music. It was quite underground and not the type of music you’d hear on radio. I liked what Lime Spiders were doing because it was ’60s garage rock infused with a ’70s punk energy. It was the stuff I was into. Lime Spiders were also one of the highlights of the recent Dig It Up! in Sydney.”

Shepherd is unsure if another series of Dig It Up! shows will be mounted next year.

“I think we’ve reached the end of our wishlist of bands we’d like to play with,” he says of touring alongside acts such as Red Kross, The Sonics, Flamin’ Groovies, The Fleshtones,

THU JUL 11

WED JUN 19

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

To make amends for not bringing their Dig It Up! extravaganza to Adelaide this year, Hoodoo Gurus recently announced a gig at the Governor Hindmarsh at which they will be joined

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“An outrageous fun-filled disco romp,” Lucchesi says when asked what Adelaide can expect at the Vaudeville gig. “We’re very energetic; it’s a bit of an explosion. People dance, our songs are catchy so people will be singing ‘em and it’s a lot of fun.”

Originally from Adelaide, and once part of fabled 2000s group Pornland, the band now live in Melbourne. Three Lucchesi brothers (Marc, Dan and Luca), multi-instrumentalist Nic Lam and keyboardist James Bowers make up Vaudeville Smash. The name comes from

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Front Bar: Gumbo Room Blues Jam + Bluescasters GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The Chemist’s GRAND BAR – OMG HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Cloak & dagga HQ – Riot Society hosted by Uberjak’d JETTY BAR – Lounge Bar: Jayarassic (8.30pm) LIGHT HOTEL – SCALA Live (8pm) MARION HOTEL – Marion Cue ‘n’ Brew: 888 Poker (6.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – DJ G-rillz (9pm) PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango PROSPECT TOWN HALL – Club5082: The Give Aways, Brat86, Exit, Dirty Boulevard and Ripcord (7pm) ROCKET BAR – Wild Things with No Sweat and Ash & Li (9pm) SUGAR – Jazz Pancake with locals and guests THE LION HOTEL – Clearway (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Chrysler Bar: Seth & Andrew (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Tim Chaisson & Rin & The Reckless (9pm)

ADELAIDE CASINO – Chandelier Bar: Jacqui Lim (6pm) ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: DJ Jaki J (9.30pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BARTLEY TAVERN – Broken Theory (8pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Saloon Bar: Peter ‘Spida’ Everitt (8pm) Front Bar: Body Swerve – Jimmy Barnes Tribute (8pm) COVE TAVERN – UK Blitz (8pm) CROWN AND ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) Band Room: Postwar, Nebraska and Cables then Ride Into The Sun DJs DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs DUBLIN HOTEL – Undercover Duo (7pm) DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – E’nuf Said DUKE OF YORK – Tom & Rose (7pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs EMU HOTEL – Full Circle (8pm) ENFIELD HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (6pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Tom J Williams (8.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Mitchell P Ward and guests FINDON HOTEL – karaoke (8.30pm) FINSBURY HOTEL – Harvest (8pm) FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – Bistro: Beat Freak Fridays. Band Room: Join The Amish, Trash, Gangreenous Penis and Sedulous Rouse FOWLER’S LIVE – Northlane GLENELG PIER: PIER ONE BAR – Transit (9pm) GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Band Room: Ash Grunwald with Scott and Andy (The Living End) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Satan’s Cheerleaders, The Baskervilles and Ricochet Pete GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Andrea Dawson (5pm) and Rock The Boss (8pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Wild Card (9pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOTEL RICHMOND – Live Band: Kopy Kats

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HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs IRISH CLUB – Shamrocks ‘n’ Shenanigans Live Acoustic Sessions (7pm) JETTY BAR – Lounge Bar: James Abberley (9pm) LIGHT HOTEL – Black Market (9pm) LIMBO – DJs LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee (9pm) MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Bart’s Bar: Graham Lawrence (6.30pm) MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S –Killkenny OFFICE ON PIRIE – DJ Jess (4.30pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – 2 Up Duo (8pm) PLAYFORD TAVERN – Wire & Wood (8pm) PRODUCERS BAR – Pink Noise Generator, Mischief The Cat, Rocketeers & Full Contact Safari (8.30pm)

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Shane Warne: The Musical Cab Fest regular Eddie Perfect is back at the annual festival with an updated production of his popular Shane Warne: The Musical. As a satirist, actor and singer, Perfect is, err, perfectly suited to a cabaret festival’s program... or is he? ddie Perfect, The Age, 2008: “There’s this fakeness about cabaret. People are performing songs by people like Tom Waits and Nick Cave and I really like both those artists’ music, but when a cabaret artist does their songs it’s like they’re saying, ‘Look, there’s some good stuff in Nick Cave and Tom Waits but I know that it’s a bit too full-on for you to grasp ... so what I’m going to do is sanitise it and perform it in a theatre where you’re sitting in nice seats and you can get a champagne at the bar. If you can’t get your arse to the Forum to see Nick Cave perform you don’t deserve to hear it.”

“That’s a great quote!” laughs Perfect. “I stand by it. It’s really hard when you work in a medium that has horrible connotations - I

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guess people will be aware of that in lots of industries. Recently Sam Simmons got in a lot of trouble for calling prostitutes ‘prostitutes’ instead of sex workers and a lot of sex workers were really upset about the label and the connotations. I didn’t see that coming.

Cabaret is more of a genre description than a job description, so what I saw as my job when I was starting out in cabaret, which, for better or worse, was what my medium was called, my brand of cabaret was a reaction to what people perceived cabaret to be.

“I hate everything about cabaret when it’s out-of-work performers singing songs from the Great American Songbook – Cole Porter and Gershwin songs – to a crowd of people their parents’ age who want to be able to eat cheese and drink wine in the theatre, it’s not too loud and they go away thinking the performer has a lovely voice. To me, there’s no reason why cabaret, like stand-up comedy, shouldn’t be direct and powerful and provocative and disturbing and meaningful, but it wasn’t that and people didn’t perceive it as that. If I wanted to do a cabaret show I had to fight against that label as I didn’t want people thinking my show was me singing Cole Porter songs and talking about my middle-

class existence. I write songs and I wanted to be original, I’m not about putting on a feather boa and singing Tom Waits covers. I still stand by that, but I’m less involved in actively trying to change the term ‘cabaret’ – I just don’t use it anymore.”

Currently starring in Channel Ten’s Offspring, away from the screen Perfect is known for his political comedy and satirical musicals, which include Keating! The Musical and, of course, the updated one about Australia’s favourite boofhead and tabloid star who was also the greatest leg spinner the world has ever seen.

“My objective was to make people look at Shane Warne again and possibly change their minds, but to also see him as a human being with an interesting story. There’s no doubt about it that he’s lived a fucking crazy life.”

Warne originally hated the idea of the musical but once Liz Hurley’s sidepiece saw it, he gave Perfect the thumbs up.

“I never thought he’d come, so when he did come and I met him afterwards it felt like the world’s dodgiest, most elaborate technique to meet someone – spend three years writing a musical about them just so you get to meet them. It was strange but it was great to get his

tick of approval. He loved it and he really came on board in a way we never expected he would and he really supported the show when he didn’t have to. He liked the way I portrayed him on stage despite the fact there was stuff in there that should have made him uncomfortable – it made me excruciatingly uncomfortable performing it knowing he was watching it.

“Shane’s been really supportive and I’ve added a prologue that looks at the last seven years, since you can’t really do this and not put it in – it would be disappointing. I kind of feel I know the temperature of things that are acceptable and things that aren’t. A way to tell the story of things that need to be addressed – Liz and his physical transformation. I think he’s going to be okay with it, but the good thing is that he has this faith that the way I’m telling it is interesting and honest. An honest portrayal is better and way more interesting than a packaged press release glorifying Shane. It’s his obstacles and failings that make him interesting.”

WHAT: Shane Warne: The Musical WHERE: Her Majesty’s Theatre WHEN: Wed Jun 5 – Sun Jun 9

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2nd annual Queen’s Birthday public holiday celebration English inspired food all day English Beers on tap Gurry backing it up for an all English tune fest Sex Pistols, Stones, Bowie and Beatles… probably a little Rod Stewart for ya mum!

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Drawing from F Scott Fitzgerald’s hatedby-high-schoolers novel by co-script-adaptor/ co-producer/director Baz Luhrmann, this has already been trashed by critics (damn ‘em!) as ‘overly extravagant’ and the such, but to hate a Baz pic for that is like sitting through World War Z and complaining that there are too many zombies. A story told by a broken Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) to a friendly doctor ( Jack Thompson), we initially follow Nick as he works on Wall Street in the roaring days of 1922 and dotes after cousin Daisy (Carey Mulligan), whose husband Tom Buchanan ( Joel Edgerton) is an old friend of Nick’s and, of course, has a mistress (Isla Fisher, wonderful as Myrtle Wilson). When Nick meets the mysterious, preposterously wealthy Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), who lives in the mansion next door to Nick’s Long Island abode and hosts ludicrously expensive shindigs, the two become friends but, naturally, there’s more at play here.

Hidden romantic agendas? Check. Painful passions? Check. Extreme visual (and 3D) opulence? Check. Heavy messages about how money doesn’t buy you happiness - and all that jazz? Check.

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‘Luhrmannised’ up the wazoo, this has one of this director’s amazing casts (including various Aussies putting on Yank accents), many of whom deliver the theatrical performances for which ‘our Baz’ is famed. Yet the biggest problem here is that the quartet of Leo, Tobey,

Carey and Joel are stuck with such pain-inthe-arse characters. And all the amusingly anachronistic soundtracking, gorgeous production design and cinematic gloriousness here can’t make up for that, old sport.

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Still Mine (M)

Sinister (MA)

A Haunted House (MA)

Also known as simply Still, Canadian writer/ director/producer Michael McGowan’s drawnfrom-fact drama features fine performances from James Cromwell (in his early ‘70s but playing a character who’s pushing 90) and the rarely-seen Geneviève Bujold (also playing 10ish years older), as well as a welcome lack of senior-citizen sentiment. Married for over six decades, Craig (Cromwell) and Irene Morrison (Bujold) have spent the whole time living in (and living off ) a farm on the Fundy coast in New Brunswick. The place is in need of repair and so the strapping Craig decides to build a smaller homestead across the road at the same time that Irene shows signs of dementia. When he finds himself targeted by a by-the-book government inspector who objects to just about everything to do with the new place, Craig realises that he must take on the local bureaucracy singlehandedly, as Irene’s condition worsens and we build to a courtroom finale that we’ve already seen hinted at just after the opening credits.

While the performances by the supporting players here are all terrific, there’s no doubt that this is really all about Craig and Irene, and Cromwell (a player who fought his way up to the top of the character actor heap over 40 years) and Bujold (who seemed to almost give up on Hollywood after a time in the ‘70s/’80s limelight) are both excellent. And while there are suggestions that it might get into darker territory, like Sarah Polley’s Away From Her, this is more about how hard it can be to love someone for such a long time - and what it’s like to be as stubborn as a damn mule.

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While co-writer/executive producer/director Scott Derrickson’s horror opus proves quite creepy and somewhat sadistic in its early stages, it’s no real surprise that it falls apart badly into the final act, leaving you wondering what the devil happened. Muck-raking true crime author Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke, a stranger to such scary stuff ) moves into a house where a shocking crime was committed (don’t worry, as we see it in scratchy, ‘snuffy’ form over the opening credits) with long-suffering wife Tracy ( Juliet Rylance), psychologically tender teen son Trevor (Michael Hall D’Addario) and precocious little daughter Ashley (Clare Foley).

Only Ellison knows the house’s sinister (there’s that word again) history, and it’s he who finds a box of filmstrips in the attic that reveal a series of hideous crimes over an almost 50 year period, all captured with that disturbing ‘found footage’ edge and all featuring the same mysterious figure, which, of course, is soon looming out of Ellison’s computer screen when his attention is diverted elsewhere.

With strong playing by James Ransome as a hapless cop (senior officers dislike Ellison as his previous book mocked the police), Vincent D’Onofrio in an oddly uncredited bit and Hawke himself as a boozy scumbag more than willing to traumatise and endanger his family at every turn, this is significantly nastier than director Derrickson’s ‘true story’ The Exorcism Of Emily Rose and just plain better than his dopey remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still.

And yet it still, like all too many freaky flicks, goes to absolute hell at the end.

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Having gradually lost control over the increasingly out-of-control Scary Movie films, the Wayans brothers try to usurp Scary Movie 5 with their own take on the ‘found footage’ parody, in turn ripping off the Paranormal Activity franchise and proving twofold that there are no new ideas in Hollywood.

Representing the Wayans onscreen is younger brother Marlon as Malcolm, who is taking the next step into Relationship Hell as his girlfriend, Kisha, moves in. After she kills his dog, fights with his housekeeper, and develops full blown paranoia about ghosts, Malcolm begins to doubt if living with Kisha is really that great, and when things start going bump in the night, and Kisha confesses to making a deal with the Devil, Malcolm calls on a priest, a psychic and a couple of cable TV ghost hunters to save his girlfriend and, more importantly, his sex life.

So, how is A Haunted House different from Scary Movie 5? Apart from being filmed on a tenth of the budget and having far fewer names on the billing, it also (mostly) does away with the excruciating and irrelevant pop culture herrings, sticking to the Paranormal Activity plots in a way that’s almost respectable.

A frighteningly crass take on ‘found footage’ films or a horrifically off-colour metaphor for the ‘moving in’ stage of a relationship, the special effects are decent but the disgusting jokes are old, and once they start repeating, they seem even older. It’s better than SM5, but that still isn’t saying much.

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Farewell, My Queen (Les Adieux À La Reine) (M), director Benoît Jacquot’s French-language filming of Chantal Thomas’ novel, is a slightly speculative historical drama set - and actually filmed - at Versailles with Léa Seydoux, Virginie Ledoyen, Noémie Lvovsky, Xavier Beauvois and Diane Kruger as Marie-Antoinette.

Fast & Furious 6 (M), from series regular director Justin Lin, reunites the whole damn cast for London-set, FX-heavy vehicular hi-jinx, and features Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Luke Evans, Tyrese Gibson and Chris Bridges/Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges/’Ludacris’.

And Ping Pong (G) is apparently director Hugh Hartford’s documentary study of The World Over ‘80s Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia.

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The 16th Spanish Film Festival, presented by Estrella Damm, kicks off with a bang on Thu June 13 when the Opening Night pic, Cesc Gay’s A Gun In Each Hand (Una Pistola En Cada Mano), screens at Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas. Featuring a starry Spanish cast (Ricardo Darín, Luis Tosar, Javier Cámara, Eduardo Noriega and others), A Gun In Each Hand is “a witty and brutally hilarious portrait of 40-something men and the changing gender roles of contemporary Spanish society”, while the Closing Night selection, on Sun June 23, is a classic; Luis Buñuel’s Tristana (1970), with Catherine Deneuve and all of that director’s trademark surrealism. And, in between these two events, the festival features 20 other standout Spanish and Spanish-speaking Latin American titles, so check out all you need to know and more at spanishfilmfestival.com.au and palacecinemas.com.au.

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Sweet Tooth

In recent months Adelaide has seen a boom of new eateries pushing the envelope of saccharine. Here’s a round up of the most recent dessert bars to help push you that one step further to your next appointment with the dental hygienist.

Sir Café Situated up the narrow stairway across from Vego & Love'n It is Rundle St’s newest nocturnal dessert bar, Sir Café. It’s a small space, only being able to seat around 20 patrons, but once you’re in you can stay late into the night kicking back on antique furniture and feasting on Japanese-style patisserie treats. Speaking of treats, some of Sir Café’s menu items include the green tea cheesecake, chocolate fondant cake, mango panna cotta, washed down with specialty coffees and teas. Staying true to their title, some of the desserts even come decorated with a little chocolate powder or icing sugar moustache. Yes, sir.

WHAT: Sir Cafe WHERE: Level 1, 238A Rundle St, Adelaide WHEN: Tue – Fri 3pm – 11pm, Sat – Sun 3pm – late INFO: cafelikeasir@gmail.com

St Louis House Of Fine Ice Cream And Dessert

Le Carpe Diem Co-owned by a native Parisian and her Adelaide-born husband, Le Carpe Diem on Charlick Circuit is offering a much-needed alternative to the gruel of the Pancake Kitchen with fresh, French-inspired crepes. Made with buckwheat flour, which means they’re gluten free, Le Carpe Diem boasts a variety of sweet and savoury crepes as well as some pastries, in-house baked macaroons and cakes. Most exciting of all, however, is the concept of ‘Bolee’ – a serve of crepes washed down with a ‘bolee’, a mixture between a coffee cup and a bowl, of 2% French cider. C’est bon!

Since officially opening in April, St Louis House Of Fine Ice Cream And Dessert has lured weary travellers needing a sugary pick-me-up far and wide. Open every day of the week early in the morning and late into the night, if you’ve got the cavity-inducing cravings head along to their Gouger St store to try their churros, Argentinian-inspired dolce de leche, chocolate noir waffles or chocolate banoffe, a dessert hybrid between a banana split and toffee.

WHAT: Le Carpe Diem WHERE: 42 Charlick Circuit, Adelaide WHEN: Tue – Fri 7.30am – 5pm, Sat 8am – 3pm & Sun 9am – 3pm.

INFO: 8123 7488

WHAT: St Louis House Of Fine Ice Cream And Dessert WHERE: Gouger St WHEN: Mon – Sun 7.30am – 11pm INFO: 8212 2621

The Sea & Vines festival will return to our southern wine region this Fri Jun 7 – Mon Jun 10, the annual event features some of McLaren Vale’s best wineries teaming up with noted restaurateurs to dish up a top notch combination of plonk and food plates over the long weekend. Here are some of the places where you’ll be able to eat and drink all day long. Check out our full list online at ripitup.com.au.

Taste Baguette An offshoot of their Adelaide University bakery, Taste Baguette recently opened a sister shop next to Zambrero’s on Rundle St. The wee shopfront is an alluring sight, adorned with an industrial décor complete with a quaint, leafy garden and seating area out the back. Head on down for a coffee, a croissant, a sourdough bread or a freshly-baked pastry.

WHAT: Tasty Baguette WHERE: Rundle St WHEN: Mon – Fri 6.30am – 6pm, Sat Sun 7am – 6.30pm INFO: 8232 3398

Coriole & The Grace Establishment

Angove & Andre’s Cucina And Polenta

Wirra Wirra & Two Brothers

As Coriole winery unscrews the caps of it’s latest Chenin Blanc, visitors will be able to feast on sliders cooked up by Norwood restaurant Grace The Establishment who will be setting up camp on the Sunday and Monday. Woodside Cheese Wrights will also be there offering cheese tastings and the crew at Coriole will have wood oven pizzas on the go.

Angove is teaming up with Andre’s Cucina and Polenta over the long weekend to fill the vineyard with the aromas of fresh and rustic Italian dishes. Divided into a series of stations, the team behind Andre’s will be running four ‘open kitchens’ dedicated to making gnocchi, polenta, assagini misti and bomboloni (Italian donuts). They’ll be cooking on the Sunday from 12pm.

Local caterers Two Brothers will be dishing up Greek treats at Wirra Wirra vineyard over the Sunday and Monday, serving up plates of beef meatballs with black olive sauce and skordalia, braised chicken and currant pilaf, white bean and vegetable soup with spiced yoghurt and apple and rhubarb pudding.

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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04

Scorpio 24.10/21.11 The Pisces moon at the beginning of the week opens the gates on a week of flow.

Even if difficult things are flowing, the very fact of motion makes life healthy and alive.

Who knows, the flow could be ecstatic and happy. That is an option. Celebrate the beauty of coming unstuck.

Virgo 23.08/22.09 There are two streams of intelligence in our beings.

One is cognitive, conscious and intellectual. The other is instinctive, felt and often silent. It is the latter that life is asking you to access now – and communicate. The hunches you have, are to be taken seriously.

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A tiny shopfront amongst the car park and shopping complexes of Gawler Plc has been given a dramatic makeover. Get close enough and you’ll see you’ll see a vividly-hued sugary wonderland, full of crystalline mountains, glittering mounds and sparkling lights. The ‘wonderland’ is an installation called Pleasure Grounds, slowly built as part of Come Out Festival by acclaimed creative Pip & Pop, AKA Tanya Schultz, in collaboration with five local Adelaide artists.

“I was inspired by creation myths, stories about the beginning of the world from different cultures. I also love stories about paradise and utopia, particularly the mythologies about lands made of food,” Tanya tells Rip It Up of the Pleasure Grounds piece. “There’s a French story in particular that talks of streets lined with pastry, roofs made of barley sugar, and I think I was inspired by those kinds of thoughts.”

Created using over 300kg of dyed caster sugar, Pip & Pop’s artistic method involves carefully funneling sugar to create intricate ‘landscapes’.

These are then bolstered by various objects, pipe cleaners and lights. For Pleasure Grounds, Schultz enlisted the nimble fingerwork of local artists Jemimah Davis, Alex Bishop Thorpe, Bridgette Minuzzo, Amy Joy Watson and Aurelia Carbone to help out, resulting in a smorgasboard of Schultz’ signature style with incorporated machinery, gadgets, balsa wood and folded paper. The installation will be open to the public until Wed Jun 12.

The harder you try to discipline yourself to go in a particular direction, the more life throws banana skins under your efforts.

There is so much action in your opposite – Gemini – at the moment, that you are going to have to adapt not enforce. Find the lightness of awareness.

Capricorn 22.12/19.01 The Pisces moon at the beginning of the week connects you with some sense of there being a grand cosmic plan in place, even if all the more mundane ones are coming slightly unstuck. It is the overview that makes all that’s under ones nose make sense. Be sure to have one.

Leo 23.07/22.08 With the Sun in Gemini, your heart is sailing like a small boat in a strong wind. The adrenaline that comes from skimming across the waves exhilarates you. Though you have big things to do, foundations to dig, life is gifting you the kind of enthusiasm that will make it easy.

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Sagittarius 22.11/21.12

Cancer 22.06/22.07 Mercury has entered Cancer.

Mercury is the planet of curiosity. The Sun is in Gemini, which is the sign of curiosity.

It’s pretty clear where this is going to lead. Don’t just get interested; get thoroughly immersed. There is huge intelligence in your feelings.

Extract it brilliantly.

with Miranda Freeman

Though Venus is still in airy Gemini, there is so much feeling around that it’s not proving all that easy to take wing. The harmony you are to find this week involves lots of feeling. It’s a deep harmony, not a high harmony. Resolve some of the stronger contradictions in your soul.

Gemini 21.05/21.06 We are flying through the heart of Gemini territory. One doesn’t walk as a Gemini. One skips and runs and gets lost in every fluttering butterfly that crosses one’s path. The world is a very interesting place. No-one knows that better than you.

Feed your curiosity good food.

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Libra 23.09/23.10

Taurus 21.04/20.05 Venus is heading for the sign of Cancer. This will drop you down into a deeply emotional place, where connection means the world to you. The most creative aspect of Cancer is the ability to get totally emotionally immersed. Do your hesitating now. That’s your way to get ready.

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Mars has just entered Gemini, which could make you move up into your head, or it could unleash the kind of curiosity and wonder that creates Nobel prize winning breakthroughs.

Clearly the latter option is preferable. The golden key is to be sure not to second-guess yourself.

with Sudhir

WHAT: Pleasure Grounds WHERE: 38 Gawler Plc, Adelaide WHEN: Until Wed Jun 12 INFO: carclew.com.au

Aquarius 20.01/18.02 The fact that the Sun is in Gemini opens all sorts of options for you. Life is moving at a tremendous pace. Changes that you once imagined in quiet moments, are now in full and dramatic swing. The good thing is that doors are opening everywhere. Centre yourself.

Pisces 19.02/20.03 The Moon is in your midst at the beginning of the week. She fires you up and gives you just the courage you need to take the creative leap that can shift you into new territory. This new territory is more honest, more powerful, more connected and possibly a little controversial.

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Kab101 Locally born and bred artist Kab101 has long served as a figurehead of the Adelaide graffiti community, an internationally renowned artist of unique style and precision. This June, for one week only, Kab101 will showcase some of his latest artistic developments into calligraphy and script, invoking forgotten visual language through the integration of geometric and textural structures. Over 20 new works will be on display at CBD warehouse venue Published Arthouse alongside some of his best retrospective pieces, including a giant wall installation. There will be live tunes on the night from special guests Perish & Filthy Rich, so head on down to tip your hat to a graffiti legend.

WHAT: Published Arthouse WHERE: 11 Cannon St, Adelaide WHEN: Sat Jun 8 – Sat Jun 15 from 11am – 5pm daily OPENING: Fri Jun 7 from 6pm – 10pm

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The Guys: Bombers Away

Stussy Grizzly Sweater, General Pants Co, generalpants.com.au, $99

Step away hoodie. Step away cardigan. The bomber jacket owns the joint now. Dated back to the US Army Aviation in the early 1900s, the bomber jacket has remained an iconic piece of clothing in many culture forms, from the military all the way to high school jocks in American films and James Dean’s sex appeal in Rebel Without A Cause.

Jackpot Jumper, Alice Mccall, shop.davidjones.com.au, $269

Cable & Silk Jumper, Sass & Bide, sassandbide.com, $320

Sequin Polka Dot Knit, Witchery, witchery.com.au, $129

Rip It Up’s Winter 2013 Fashion Guide Mel Keogh, one of Rip It Up’s more image-savvy contributors (the rest of you know who you are) has put together a solid survival guide for 2013 winter fashion. You’ll be able to find Mel’s complete guide for guys and girls online at ripitup.com.au, but in the meantime, take a look at some of the top picks to save yourself – and the eyes of the discerning public – this winter.

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The Alter bomber, Ksubi, ksubi.com, $559.95

Letterman Bomber Jacket, Topman, topman.com, $70.45

Bomber jacket, Barney’s Original, ASOS, asos.com.au, $100.27

The Girls: Knits Time Remember Miranda Priestly’s rant in The Devil Wear’s Prada about Andy’s ugly lumpy blue sweater fished from the bargain bins? Well this season cool cats haven’t been caught without some sort of chunky jumper. They’re more casual than a jacket or blazer and can be dressed up or down thanks to statement necklaces. Chuck them over a cute dress or peek a studded collar out the top – less librarian and more chic.

Wolf Jacket, Stussy, General Pants Co, generalpants.com.au, $139.95

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DVD Reviews

The Bay Hopscotch / MA / 81 Mins

Another ‘found footage’ horror, this is surely the first film of this irksome sort coproduced and directed by a long-acclaimed filmmaker: Barry Levinson, late of What Just Happened and renowned for films like Rain Man and Good Morning, Vietnam. There’s also a reason for the events here to both exist and look clumsy, as TV journo Donna Thompson (unknown Kether Donohue) recounts events from a terrible July 4 celebration in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, and shows, via Skype and other means, the raw footage she filmed that day, which, somehow, wasn’t confiscated by the military and a government trying to cover up how serious the area’s pollution has become.

Appearing in interviews and as part of the gory action once the scary stuff starts, Donna is on hand when it becomes clear that a mutated parasite has got into the water supply, no matter what the straight-out-ofJaws major might say, while the plight of a young couple out for a cruise with their baby is intercut with the increasing mayhem. And although some might be expecting spooky, Paranormal Activity-ish thrills here, what this most relies upon is our very human fear of being devoured from both the outside-in and the inside-out.

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Bookshelf James Rose / Footprint / 105pp

Rose’s entry in the Devil’s Advocates series that explore horror classics is one of the more illuminating studies upon Tobe Hooper’s 1974 shocker, and sincerely attempts to get to grips with why it still exerts such a freaky, sweaty grip.

Repeating facts that fans already know (such as how Hooper’s original ideas came when he imagined buzzing up a saw in order to get the hell out of a crowded Texas mall at Christmas), this then offers insight into the film’s production and its history with censors (especially in the UK), runs through the plot with emphasis on bad omens, the family and those tumultuous ‘70s. It finally gets into Freud’s notion of the ‘uncanny’ (or ‘unheimlich’), its relationship to Chain Saw, as well as a look at the sequels, remake and prequel to the remake (but not the most recent reinvention, Texas Chainsaw 3D, although there’s surely no way it’ll be showing three dimensionally on these shores).

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Roadshow/ PG / 317 Mins

Celebrated as one of the greatest of all classic Whos, and certainly one of Jon Pertwee’s key adventures, this slightly padded seven-parter from 1970 intrigues, due to its then-unusual alternate reality storyline and atypically apocalyptic aspect, despite some Woolworths-level production values.

The Earthbound Doctor is fiddling with the TARDIS’ isolated console at the same time that an improbable drilling operation overseen

by UNIT is taking place and has just about reached the outer edge of the planet’s crust (and yes, this plot does play with that ‘drilling into Hell’ urban legend/conspiracy theory that won’t go away). Professor Stahlman (Olaf Pooley) is so desperate to obtain the energy source ‘Stahlman’s Gas’ that he’s willing to unwisely cut corners and behave like a right arsehole, and strange forces not only unleash ‘Primords’ but also send the Doctor into an alternate universe in which his UNIT colleagues, including the Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney having a fine time), Liz Shaw (Caroline John) and Sergeant Benton ( John Levene), are militant fascists at a later and even more dangerous phase of the operation, with natty uniforms and nasty demeanours much discussed in another wealth of special features docos, commentaries and so on.

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Vehicle 19

Madman / R / 98 Mins

Madman / MA / 83 Mins

Polish-French co-writer/co-producer/ director Malgorzata Szumowska’s intimate drama is built upon a fearless performance

by Juliette Binoche and lots of wouldbe-confronting sex scenes, but ultimately doesn’t quite know whether it’s coming or going. Anne ( JB), a Parisian journo for Elle magazine, lives none-too-happily with her chilly husband Patrick (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) and two sons, but when she starts penning a piece on a prostitution ring run by students, and meets ‘Lola’ (Anaïs Demoustier) and Alicja (the Polish-French Joanna Kulig), the carnal cat’s well and truly let out of the bag. And Szumowska starts splintering the narrative, as we’re invited to wonder if some of the sweaty scenes here, especially into the second half, are really happening or are the work of Anne’s increasingly liberated/fevered mind.

Szumowska becomes, of course, unsure if she’s meant to be condemning all this fleshflashing, or just having a good old-fashioned wallow in it. With striking use of music by both Mahler and Irreversible director Gaspar Noé (a little piece entitled We Fuck Alone), this is worth it for Binoche’s performance and the similarly spirited playing from the let-it-all-hang-out Demoustier and Kulig.

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Awfully cute American star Paul Walker has been criticised for his supposedly dull performance in this Johannesburg-shot actiony thriller/drama from writer/director Mukunda Michael Dewil. However, he’s actually pretty strong in it, with his expressive blue eyes and Fast And The Furious baggage put to good use (and he also executive produced, which helped the unknown Dewil greatly). Shot almost entirely from within, or close by, the rental car of the title, this has hapless American Michael Woods (Walker) comes to South Africa in an attempt to reconcile with his exwife, and yet is the victim of a very cinematic mix-up and is soon mistaken for an assassin.

He finds a gun and more in the vehicle, and is eventually a wanted man, with a striking view of Jo’burg (and a few pointed references to the phantom of Apartheid) and some cool Hitchcockian tricks along the way. And yes, the idea of Rear Window from a car isn’t quite new (the Aussie Road Games did it in 1980), and some of the plot is slightly silly (and a little hysterical after a while), but it scarcely matters, as this is one of the best and speediest straight-to-DVD titles in some time.

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Cabaret Fringe Festival

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While Adelaide Cabaret Festival takes over Adelaide Festival Centre and Her Majesty’s Theatre from Fri Jun 7 until Sat Jun 22, Cabaret Fringe Festival is already in full swing and will continue doing so until the end of the month.

The open access festival began in 2006 as a platform for independent creators and presenters to stage their own work and has steadily grown to the extent that the event now has 14 venues on board for 2013. This year’s festival, which will include performances on the iconic Popeye on the River Torrens, also welcomes CARA at Woodville as well as McLaren Vale’s The Singing Gallery, Frewville’s Arkaba Hotel and Lou Keating Community Hall at South Brighton as participating venues. Regular Cabaret Fringe Festival performing arts spaces such as Grote St’s La Bohème (the festival’s spiritual home), The Promethean, Whitmore Hotel and Nexus Cabaret will once again be hosting many of the festival’s performances. The festival will also be offering some cabaret classes and workshops as part of its program for 2013.

Cabaret Fringe Festival, which kicked off in fine style on Sat Jun 1 with an opening night soiree at La Bohème, boasts 40 different show which include Songs Only A Mother Could Love (La Bohème at various times from Wed Jun 12 until Sun Jun 16) presented by Adelaide Cabaret Festival and Cabaret Fringe Festival regular Libby O’Donovan (pictured) who will be

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Doctor Who: Inferno Special Edition

presenting a fun-filled night of stories and songs that mothers around the world sing to their kids.

Tickets are already selling quickly for performances of Take Five: The Dave Brubeck Story (at The Promethean on Sat Jun 22 and Sun Jun 23 at 8pm) which will feature noted saxophonist Andy Firth with The Brendan Fitzgerald Quartet, while another festival highlight will be New Coat Of Paont: The Songs Of Tom Waits (at The Promethean on Wed Jun 26 at 8.30pm) featuring vocalists Alison Coppe, Aaron Nash, Michael Ciaramella, Giovani Clemente, Luke Ferguson and David Mazarelli presenting the intoxicating songs of legendary American singer songwriter Tom Waits.

The Soul Box, 252 Hindley St, will be hosting a number of Cabaret Fringe Festival events including a variety show at 9pm on Fri Jun 14, Sat Jun 22 and Sat Jun 29 at which patrons can expect magic, music, dance and

comedy while enjoying an array of cocktails and food platters. Sarah Lloyde, who has been a contestant on television’s The Voice and Australian Idol, will team up with pianist Matthew Carey to present My Destiny (at Nexus Cabaret on Thu Jun 27 and Fri Jun 28 at 8.30pm) which tells, in story and song, of how the 25-year-old was bullied at school in Broken Hill and of the songs that have shaped her life.

And young cabaret enthusiasts have not been forgotten as The Musical Adventures Of Popeye And Olive will take place onboard The Popeye as it cruises along the river at various times from Sun Jun 9 until Sun Jun 30.

WHAT: Cabaret Fringe Festival WHERE: Various venues WHEN: until Sat Jun 29 cabaretfringefestival.com

Fast Times//

with Samuel Smith

Your guide to the student experience

I hear the cries of exhausted uni students everywhere I go. It’s week 12 and we’re all snowed under with final assignments, praying for the holidays.

Unfortunately this means that at the moment, university events calendars are a little lacklustre. Still, I’ve managed to pry myself away from my own ever-growing pile of assignments to bring you a few events and student deals that will hopefully make these next two weeks a bit more bearable.

In other news, UniSA’s recent Unijam prompted a huge amount of discussion and debate about the future of UniSA. For two days, fantastic ideas flowed freely from the minds of academics, students, staff, and business leaders from all over the world. Hot topics included campus life, the learning environment, UniSA’s place in society, and UniSA’s global connections. Results will be published on the Unijam website in July.

UniSA Pirate Party

Appleton Institute University Sleep Study If you’re a guy who enjoys doing nothing for long periods of time, you’re in luck.

Appleton Institute Sleep Laboratory is looking for male uni students aged 18-35 to take part in their latest sleep study. All you’ve got to do is pry yourself out of bed, head to Appleton Institute’s Greenhill Road laboratory and, well, sleep. For 12 days.

Without access to clocks, telephones, mobile phones, the internet, live television and/or radio. Thankfully the researchers at Appleton Institute Sleep Laboratory realise that this won’t exactly be the most fun experience you’ve ever had, so they’ll be giving each successful participant $1440 compensation.

Oh, and for peace of mind, the study has been approved by the Central Queensland University’s Human Research Ethics Committee.

If you fit the criteria, and the idea of getting paid to do absolutely nothing appeals to you, contact a.kosmadopoulos@cqu.edu.au for more info.

Argh me hearties, shiver me timbers, walk the plank, something about a parrot.

Get your pirate jargon ready for the UniSA Rowing Club’s Pirate Party. The swashbuckling evening of drinking and tomfoolery will celebrate the beginning of a new era for the club, but you don’t have to be part of the rowing rabble to attend – everyone’s invited.

The vessel for the evening will be the Adelaide High School Boatshed on Victoria Drive, and departure will be at 6.00pm sharp on June 14. Your boarding pass will set you back $25, and will also entitle ye scurvy dogs to all the BBQ meat your stomachs can handle, two free drinks, pizza

and nibbles. The captain will provide the crew with further drinks including beer, cider, scotch, vodka and (of course) rum, at a generous cost of $5.

Crew members will be entertained by a ye olde pirate DJ who’s bound to get the sea shanty shaking, along with a sword fighting competition, a mysterious hunt for Captain Blackbeard, and a photo booth to capture all the best piratey moments.

Tickets are $25 dollars and can be purchased through the UniLife website or at facebook.com/ groups/unisarowing.

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Drowning In Student Deals I’m not going to lie, I think I’ve found the Holy Grail of student deals. Student Edge is a website that provides us students with a ridiculous amount of free stuff. They’ve got pages and pages of discounts for stores such as David Jones, Myer, Baskin Robins, JB, Sumo Salad, and Toni&Guy. This is not a 10 percent off Blu Tack at Cheap As Chips situation, these deals are actually good.

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Edge also provides you with a huge range of competitions and advice on careers, casual jobs, tertiary study, and university life in general. Much like their student deals, Student Edge’s comps mean business. They’re currently giving away movie passes, Logitech prize packs, and laptops.

To take advantage of these deals and (potentially) win these prizes, all you’ve got to do is sign up at studentedge.com.au for your free Student Edge card.

In my spare time I: Read linguistics blogs and dream of a better life. Oops, that sounded sad.

Something I currently love: Arrested Development.

Something I currently hate: Waiting for people in the selfserve checkout.

CLUB SPOTLIGHT Adelaide Philosophy What’s the meaning of life? Can plants feel pain? Why am I failing university? Deep thinkers, brain bashers and inquisitive minds, the Adelaide University’s Philosophy club wants to help you get the bottom of your conundrums. The club meets every Wednesday night at 7.00pm in the Adelaide University Napier building, Room 108. Philosophical discussion flows, questions are posed, drinks are poured, and nibbles are nibbled.

The club often hosts lecture and Q&A sessions with well-known philosophy experts, followed by pizza and an

informal opportunity to mingle. If you’re philosophically inclined, this is a fantastic opportunity to learn about some fairly full-on issues in a relaxed, pressure-free, friendly environment. Past topics have included moral relativism, atheism, evolving an adapted mind, the difference between ourselves and chimpanzees, and the potential threat of computer intelligence.

If you want to know more, head to the club’s Facebook page at facebook.com/adelaidephilosophy or attend one of their meetings.

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Culture CD Reviews

CD Of The Week

Singles

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Jools Holland & His Rhythm And Blues Orchestra

Daughter Human (EMI)

The Golden Age Of Song

Of Monsters And Men have created monsters. They’ve carbon-copied themselves The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers-style to create replicas all over the world, spreading their female-fronted jaunty bango-happy folk to all corners of the earth. In this respect, there’s nothing Human about Daughter’s single at all. The London-based trio even have Monsterous names to boot – Elena, Ignor and Remi. Nanna and Raggi of the Icelandic group/mothership not only take the cake in the name game, but also in terms of infectious lyrics and big band beats.

(Warner Music UK)

Plastic Souvenirs British India (Controller)

British India often walks a thin line: their singles yo-yoing between effortlessly cool indie rock and whiny hack territory.

Plastic Souvenirs almost makes it. The guitar strumming works, the lyrics are everything you want them to be. But then a clusterfuck of a chorus hits you. Front man Declan Melia repetitively wails, 'Don’t you hang up. Don’t you hang up on me my friend'. Ugh, stop. Plastic Souvenirs will have you slamming down the phone and calling the cops.

Miracle Mile Cold War Kids (Dear Miss Lonelyhearts)

Catchy, slightly annoying head banging goodness. Upbeat indie rockers, Cold War Kids pull off the uplifted, spirited track that is Miracle Mile. Eerily similar to Vampire Weekend’s Walcott, this single is definitely worth a listen. Put it on repeat, kick off your shoes and dance the night away to this majestic forceful temptress of a song.

Isjaki

Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires Of The City (Remote Control)

One thing that we’ve learnt in recent times is that vampires bring in the dollars. Buffy tragics would like to believe they had something to do with it, but Twihards are the likely responsible culprits, with sexy naked Southern hick and 90210ish vampires taking the reigns

since. Rising at a point when Kristen Stewart was cast to be her boring vacant self, Vampire Weekend asked us who gives a fuck about Oxford commas (nerds and editors, that’s who) and have glamoured us since then with their happy-go-lucky pop jaunts.

Their third and best album yet, Modern Vampires Of The City, doesn’t need to rely on the lucrative name of certain supernatural beasts to be validated. While the name Vampire Weekend sounds something like a Marilyn Manson side project, the band have plunged their fangs squarely into the jugular of fans of alternative rock with this album. While the album has the same jaunty and boppy feel of their self-titled debut and 2010’s Contra, it sounds much more grown up, without taking itself too seriously. With their new best pal Steve Buscemi and a new clip for the excellent Diane Young that features a saxophone bong at a raucous Last Supper attended by Santigold and Sky Ferreira, Modern Vampires Of The City solidifies Vampire Weekend as some of the most original music makers of our time. It may not be supernatural, but let’s hope it’s immortal.

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Okay, Jools Holland we get it. You’ve got yourself a red-hot list of famous friends.

But this time we’ll let you gloat because to be frank your latest collection of some of the best artists in the music biz is simply stunning.

Not to be passed off as another money hungry ‘best of ’ collection, this jazz, swing and blues album, The Golden Age Of Song, features a lineup of musical treasures covered by favourites such as Tom Jones, Joss Stone and Ruby Turner as well as fresher faces Florence Welch and Paloma Faith.

Along with the exclusive studio recordings, the album features live recordings from Holland’s previous annual Hootenanny shows, including the much-hyped Don’t Go To Strangers by Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller. Surprisingly, it’s the newbies who really steal the show with Jessie J delivering Oleta Adams’ Get Here flawlessly. The eccentric Paloma Faith does Etta James’ Something’s Got A Hold On Me justice with her unique vocals blasting alongside Holland’s impeccably showy orchestra.

The Golden Age Of Song is a groovy get up of timeless classics reinvigorated by old and fresh faces and is sure to have more than the grannies up and boogying.

Melissa Keogh

Kaki King Live Review

Governor Hindmarsh, Fri May 31 Review by Ilona Wallace Pics by Kristy DeLaine

Sigur Ros (Kveikur)

Contrived, ethereal sound? Check.

Dripping with pretention? Check. Makes you want to make out with a stapler? Almost definitely. Iceland natives, Sigur Ros performs the migraine-inducing single entirely in Icelandic. This might be the track’s only redeeming feature. The final topping on the shit sundae that is Isjaki is the cover art: a black and white image of a man sporting a Klu Klux Klan hood. Did you not learn that that is a no-no in PC school, Sigur Ros?

Dizzee Rascal Feat.

Bun B & Trae Tha Truth H-Town (Liberator)

I only listened to this because sometimes it’s fun to make yourself feel better by surrounding yourself with things that are truly, laughably atrocious. This made me feel great.

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One part comedy show, one part educational demonstration, one part musical spectacular.

Kaki King and her Adelaidean support Vorn Doolette were thoroughly entertaining and played the Gov like it was a loungeroom filled with old pals.

Doolette befriended the room with simple and silly acoustic ditties. German Intern was a particular favourite as the crowd hissed with rain stick impressions at Doolette’s instruction. His set closed with his ‘pre-apocalyptic’ dream of last-chance sex at the end of the world. Doolette connected easily with the crowd and the humour had everyone settling in for a happy evening.

King quietly settled into the sparsely-set stage and, after a quick greeting, flew into Great Round Burn from her new album Glow. Utterly focused, she flawlessly executed the incredibly intricate song. Despite missing the album’s string quartet embellishments, the solo performance never felt lacking.

Glow’s instrumental songs were exciting things to hear from such a creatively and technically accomplished musician. Streetlight In An Egg was another fine, enthusiastic track that bounced as she slapped, tapped and strummed her way through.

A decade on from the release of her first album,

Reviews // Quick Ones

Warning Birds Battle Plans

Iron & Wine

The Magnets

Alkaline Trio

Ghost On Ghost

All This Time

My Shame Is True

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On his fifth album Iron & Wine (aka Samuel Beam) is like a kid in a candy store. He can’t decide which delicious treat he should get and so he grabs as many as he can carry. This result is Ghost On Ghost, where Beam attempts to evolve his sound yet again by telling himself that gluttony isn’t a mortal sin.

Iron & Wine began as the bedroom recording project of a man armed with only an acoustic guitar and four-track recorder. With each subsequent release, Beam has attempted to up the ante, subtly introducing more complex arrangements, layering his sound with a wider variety of instruments and ideas. Excited by the new opportunities that recognition afforded him (i.e. money), Beam’s vision became more grandiose, which resulted in a loss of focus.

While 2011’s Kiss Each Other Clean was a self-indulgent mess of an album, Ghost On Ghost sees Beam reigning it in to make a more concise and affecting record.

Although it’s a step in the right direction, the album is going to be hit or miss with fans of Beam’s older material.

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Instruments, who needs ‘em? Not The Magnets. This extremely talented a cappella six piece are the best in the business at covering the UK’s most iconic hits using nothing but their mouths. For dinky di a cappella fans, All This Time is a glorious listen full of sweet harmonies, cool beatboxing stints and that swooning English charm.

They cover something for everyone, including classics such as David Bowie’s Changes, and an extremely impressive rendition of Dire Straits’ Romeo And Juliet and Madness’ It Must Be Love all mixed in one. These talented Brits who are renowned for their electrifying live performances also showcase two of their originals, Running Around and What You Gonna Do, which are just as funky as the classics they cover.

A minor deflation in All This Time is the Rolling In The Deep cover, as vocally it doesn’t quite conquer the emotion possessed by its original creator, Adele.

But you get that.

Whether or not a cappella covers or British pop is how you roll, it’s a given any taste will appreciate the talent and skill possessed by this spectacularly gifted gang.

Imagine all those saved guitar picks and broken drum sticks.

Melissa Keogh

The Elvis Costello-punning My Shame Is True (rejected titles: Harmed Forces and This Fear’s Model) is Alkaline Trio’s ninth studio album, and recalls the best of their back catalogue. Lead single I Wanna Be A Warhol embodies ‘gloom with a view’ punk, with co-vocalist/guitarist Matt Skiba ensuring a sheen of misery despite the song lacking their common gothic themes.

Similarly, chiming church bells lend an air of grand majesty to the stabbing riffs of I’m Only Here To Disappoint, sung by bassist Dan Andriano.

Kiss You To Death begins slowly before an avalanche of drums leads into the staccato guitar lines that counterpoint the mournful vocals. The Temptation Of St Anthony is an archetypal track, but the following I, Pessimist is thrashier and could almost be a different band – an impression only reinforced by the dominant presence of guest vocalist Tim McIlrath (Rise Against). This track ensures the middle of the record exudes vitality and saves the band from simply retreading old ground.

Only Love saps some of that momentum, but The Torture Doctor kicks it back up a notch, with a stop-gap ‘Hey! Ho!’ embellished chorus. It’s one of the album’s best tracks, alongside the infectious opening cut, She Lied To The FBI. The trio are in good form again. No Shame here.

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Everybody Loves You, this tour was a miniature retrospective. Close to half the set came from Glow, but the other half was drawn from a selection of her back catalogue.

She sang only twice, during Jessica and Sunnyside. Both songs were about different Jessicas, but neither was about the Jessica she recently married. While her voice added a beautiful touch, vocals weren’t necessary. King made her instruments speak for her.

In between the music, she shared fantastic anecdotes about her personal history. She laughed about her misinterpretation of the Australian term “white goods” in reference to her song Kelvinator. She talked passionately about her marriage and how it had changed her life.

She shared her fears and flaws without letting the whole evening descend into a therapy session.

The audience left the show with a niche musical education as well, drawn from the explanations of her many guitars. One, the Vo96, had been modified with a transducer pickup to turn the guitar into a pseudo synth (with varied success). Another she had adapted herself, adding a false bridge to turn a regular guitar into an imitation Japanese koto. King laughed about how the unique design of a seven-string guitar meant that sometimes she got lost among the fanned frets. Naturally, she then played perfectly.

The set was long; without the chatty banter between songs, the night could have dragged.

King kept everything lively and had everyone on her side. A brilliant, astounding, heartwarming show to chase away the winter blues.

(MGM)

Warning Birds are well on their way to proving their worth on the indie rock scene with their gruff vocals, twanging guitars and impeccable strings and piano talents ticking all the criteria. What wins them more points is their ability to tell stories yet to be told. The boy-meets-girl-and-then-it-goesbelly-up narrative is overdone. But a forbidden romance between a high school kid and his teacher – the cheeky Sally will tell you about that one. Other themes explored include domestic abuse in Dark Places, which is impressively written and based around front man Sam Carmody’s experiences living next door to a highly dysfunctional family.

A surprising standout on Battle Plans is the EP’s opener View From The Tower, a beautiful piano and strings piece that is luring and emotive, despite it being purely instrumental and only lasting just over a minute. Watch this space for these birds are bound to take flight.

Melissa Keogh

Leona Lewis Glassheart (SYCO Music/RCA Records)

The UK’s mini version of Mariah Carey is back with her third studio album, Glassheart, in which the pop songstress has attempted to channel her inner dance diva.

There are delicate infusions of dub step all the way through, most significantly in Come Alive and Glassheart, which sounds like one of Britney Spears’ latest tacky numbers. Electronics aren’t the only additions, the mood is darker and more broody than those sickly love songs Bleeding Love and Better In Time that had us staring teary eyed into the distance for most of 2008.

Shake You Up opens with a blunt “Kill Me. It takes a lot to kill me,” and moving through Favourite Scar and When It Hurts, it becomes clear somebody’s toyed with this diva’s heart and she ain’t happy.

But the glass isn’t all shattered thanks to Un Love Me and Songbird, which contain all the ingredients we first stumbled across when Lewis cleaned up British X Factor in 2006.

Melissa Keogh

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Long Weekend Fun Not shuffling off on a long weekend getaway? Think you’re stuck around town, bored, baking a birthday cake for the Queen? Think again. Here’s just a few ways to celebrate dear Liz’ 87th.

Pink Noise Generator EP Launch

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by Ilona Walla ce Jungle City – two brothers and a longtime friend – took out the SA Regional Final of the Global Battle of the Bands back in May. The group, along with second-place winners Pistenbroke, will be heading to Sydney in August to compete in the Australasian final. Their unique instrumental focus and high energy won the day, but Brenton Wilson, guitarist, says they entered more or less on a whim.

“When we entered it was just like, ‘We may as well, there’s not much to lose’,’ Wilson explains. “I’m not a big fan of band competitions because it’s a bit of a weird thing for music to be competitive, but we figured we may as well give it a shot and it turned out pretty good.”

Brenton, his older brother Luke on drums

and their friend Kaileb Rothwell on bass, all came from Alice Springs originally but made Adelaide their home. The move to Adelaide was a musical one, with Kaileb and Brenton relocating with an old band they used to be in.

Jungle City have an interesting instrumental focus in their music, adding vocals as an extra, rather than an integral, part of a song.

“It’s just more fun for us to play,” Brenton says. “I just want to play the guitar, really.

The singing’s kind of necessary to keep the song going or to make it an actual song, but it’s all the in-between stuff that we enjoy playing more.”

The sound can be attributed to their parents, who really kicked off their musical obsessions.

“We would listen to music in the car, like on family holidays. But when Luke, our drummer and my older brother as well, started playing the drums, Dad gave him Led Zeppelin to listen to.”

The sound has stuck and the boys have found that people of their parents’

generation seem to connect well to the music they write a bit better than people their own age.

“Interestingly, the older sort of age group respond really well to our music,” Brenton says. “I find that really interesting. They listened to the bands that we were really heavily influenced by and they hear that in our music.”

Jungle City have already completed one full-length record, although you have to come to a gig to get a copy. Without waiting to find distribution channels for the first record, they’ve already begun work on the second LP, which they’re hoping will be released this year.

“It’s pretty much taking up all of my time at the moment,” Brenton says of the new album. “It’s sounding pretty cool.”

WHO: Jungle City (with Filthy Lucre and Temple) WHERE: Jetty Bar, Glenelg WHEN: Sat Jun 8

Producers Bar are hosting the launch for Pink Noise Generator’s debut EP, Dancing With The Knife. Claimed as post-punk revivalists, the EP is just shy of 25 minutes, with 10 of those minutes dedicated to title track, as well as live show favourite Always In The Crowd For Me. The launch includes supports by Full Contact Safari, Mischief The Cat and The Rocketeers playing an acoustic set, as well as DJs Lil Lady and Princess Nell Nell. Entry is $5, EPs are $10 from 8.30pm Fri Jun 7.

Snow Party Messrs groupies will flock to The Highway on Sun Jun 9 for one of their notorious snow parties, where frontman Josh Moore will be performing a DJ set along with DJ Tim Bos feat. Kiki. As promised, the snow party will feature real (but fake) snow along with live ice carving. Beanies encouraged.

Just don’t get your tongue stuck on the ice.

Joseph Duigan At Ed Castle Plus One at Ed Castle are hosting a giant line-up for Sat Jun 8. Local hip hop juggernaut Joseph Duigan will headline the night along with Jordon Ruru, Marcus McFly, Butterthief and DJs Bottlerockets, Ghosty, Feats Of Strength and Sno Drop.

Doors from 9pm.

Lewi McKirdy Art Art Tour Local newcomers West Thebarton Brothel Party, which is basically as nasty as it sounds, will be starting out the night for the Lewi McKirdy Art Art Tour on Sun Jun 9.

Considering Melbourne’s Bareback Titty Squad is also on the line-up you can be sure you’re in for a pretty debaucherous night. Be around at 10pm for free Jagermeister shots, with $4 drinks before 11pm and $5 drinks all night and $15 entry.

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Sea And Vines Festival Fresh off the high seas from appearing on A Band On Boat, A young Timberwolf is cantering through the trees of Adelaide, howling his music into the wind enticing all those who hear. Man behind the wolf is Chris Panousakis.

With guitar on his back and fire in his eyes, he throws his Physiotherapy degree to the wind to focus on his musical endeavors.

“I’ve had 17 years of education straight with no breaks and that’s enough!” he declares. “Physio is dead to me this year!

It doesn’t interest me half as much as music does. Let’s say in 10 years time if Timberwolf dies in the arse it’s probably time to pack it in and return to Physio…

Although I might nab a cheeky job in aged care in the meantime 'cause I am broke!”

Such a chirpy young character as he giggles loudly, flashing his big cheesy grin.

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Although it appears as this seemingly cuddle-worthy creature has a bit of darker side, a side of immense frustration for a certain social group of people - drivers that cannot pick the correct windscreen wiper speed when it rains.

“You dippy!” he yells. “It’s not raining and your wipers are cranking full speed. Or what about when it is raining and people’s wipers are not even on. You are not seeing out of that windscreen! You are not. Don’t pretend like you are. Don’t be casual, don’t be too over the top, just choose the appropriate speed!”

After a little spontaneous tangent, we are back on track and talking names. Aside from having such a tongue curling title as a human, there appears to be some alternate reason why Mr Panousakis has opted for the façade of a candid native.

“The name Timberwolf, sort of comes from assimilating myself to an animal. I write all my songs at night, I sing at night and I sing a lot of falsetto, so its kind of like singing to the moon. I was like, ‘What does that? A wolf does!’”

Bang. But where oh where has this creature been hiding?

“In my bedroom,” he giggles.

“Literally in my bedroom. I kept it to myself until I was happy with what I was doing. I wanted make it like, this is Timberwolf from the get go, a bluesy take on folk rock. Straight up.”

Stay tuned for the wolf-beast’s single launch of Into The Cold taking place within the first week of winter. Coincidence? I think not. Following this shortly after, his EP Man And Moon will float along the Adelaide sound waves. After having a cheeky listen to this collection of tunes, it definitely marinades in the ear holes well, almost too well some would say. Keep your eye on this bumblebee, great things are floating his way.

WHO: Timberwolf WHAT: Man And Moon EP Launch WHERE: Secret Kingswood location WHEN: Fri Jun 7 TICKETS: mail@timberwolfmusic.com

Oh boy. It’s really happening again. All things delicious and intoxicating about McLaren Vale are joining forces once more for the Sea And Vines Festival.

If you’re a little puzzled about where to start with planning your weekend, D’Arenberg, one of McLaren Vale’s most significant wineries since opening in 1912, is just one of the wineries opening its doors wide for the masses of punters descended on the region for the long weekend.

From 10am-5pm from Sat Jun 8 to Mon Jun 10 you can peruse their award winning wines at their source and take home a bottle (or a case) for later.

On Monday there is a $5 fee for wine-tasting (bargain) but if you buy a bottle of wine, then the fee gets redeemed (double bargain).

While at Rip It Up after our weekly deadline we joke we need to “drink all the drinks!”, but perhaps considering what’s on offer at Sea And Vines, we might need to tone our mantra down a little. “Sample all the drinks!”? Doesn’t quite have the same ring to it…

WHAT: Sea And Vines Festival WHERE: Businesses around McLaren Vale WHEN: Sat Jun 8 – Mon Jun 10

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