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This Edition// It’s interesting to ponder that exact moment when you graduate from ‘emerging’ to ‘established’. Is it when you notice within yourself that you’re now a seasoned veteran at your craft, or is it when someone else notices for you? This week’s cover stars, Jagwar Ma are flirting on the cusp. With the release of their debut album Howlin, Jagwar Ma are sure to topple over into the comfort of becoming a permanent fixture on festival bills, international tours and radio stations.

This is due to Howlin being such a polished product. However, speaking with Ma, the personal perspective is still very much that of a musician who is just flirting with fame and thankful for whatever opportunities – or flattery from a certain Gallagher brother – may come his way.

Also in this issue, we speak with artists and organisers of Heartland, the Art Gallery Of South Australia’s latest exhibition of contemporary art from South Australia.

Like Jagwar Ma, many of the featured artists are just entering the elusive club for the ‘established’, while others are familiar friendly faces.

Representing the established musicians this week are legendary prog rockers Jethro Tull. Although they have countless shows and multiple releases in their wake, there was a time when they too were just starting out and would have appreciated every compliment, friendly word of advice and cheering fan that came their way.

Hopefully, they still continue to.

with Lachlan Aird

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Snoop Lion (feat. Rita Ora) – Torn Apart Joni Mitchell – Taming The Tiger Kanye West – I Need To Know Leader Cheetah – So Save Me The Killers – Neon Tiger Mumford & Sons – Little Lion Man Duran Duran – Tiger Tiger Def Leppard – Love Bites Beck – Paper Tiger Crystal Castles – Black Panther Jagwar Ma – The Throw Steel Panther – Just Like Tiger Woods

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Other places that you can look forward to drinking beer in include an upcoming new music venue called The Local Human, hidden in the southwest of the city next to the House Of Donkey. They’re currently building the bars of the space all this week, but should be open soon.

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This Week //

Your fast guide to this week’s best entertainment

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Pilot Records’ First Birthday

Frenzal Rhomb

The Shady Records alumni heads to the Governor Hindmarsh on Fri Jun 21 to promote his new album, The Hangover.

Aside from local independent record label Pilot Records celebrating their first birthday on Sat Jun 22 at Published Arthouse, the event will also host the EP launches of Urtekk and Question Question.

No need to cover your ears for fear of a brain-invading parasite any longer, a fully-recovered Frenzal Rhomb are set for UniBar on Fri Jun 21.

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Spin Off Band Camp

The Melbourne rockers are headed for Jive on Sat Jun 22 to relase their new single Ohio and short film, Some Motherfuckers Gotta Pay.

The happiest refugee will perform a live show of his celebrated book from the same title at Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre on Fri Jun 21.

Archers, Console Warriors, Presidio and The Sun And The Sky will battle it out on Sat Jun 22 at the Ed Castle to see who will open the upcoming Spin Off festival.

Speeding along this week...

RAY BEADLE – The gifted guitarist will take to the Gov on Fri Jun 21 before tackling his next studio album.

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GLEN WOOL – Touted as a funnier mashup of Jack Black and Meat Loaf, catch the Canadian comedian as he takes to the Rhino Room on Thu Jun 20 and Fri Jun 21.

CONVERSE GET LOUD - Drunk Mums, Gung Ho and Bad//Dreems will head up the Converse Get Loud Adelaide show, which you need to RSVP via Converse Australia Facebook for free tickets.

BELLUSIRA – The Melbourne rock band will launch their debut album Connection on Fri Jun 21, joined by Tabula Rasa and Imogen Brave.

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JUNE 21

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JUNE 22

It’s Alive!

Metalcore group Every Time I Die has just released a new album, Ex Lives. The death-tinted anger romp will be exhibited in full at Fowler’s Live on Tue Oct 22. Tickets are available through Moshtix or Oztix.

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One-time Australian Idol Wes Carr, under his other moniker of Buffalo Tales, has named his upcoming tour ‘Roadtrip Confessions’. Combining Carr and Roadtrip is a minefield of puns, although Adelaide

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fans will have to make plans for a twoand-a-half hour drive to see him, as Carr is snubbing the city. South Australians will need to head out east to Cobdogla Club on Sun Sep 1 for Carr and his Buffalo Tales.

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They released their greatest album in 1991, disbanded in 1998 and reformed in 2008. Touring for these last five years, SWERVEDRIVER are putting rubber to the road once more, this time in celebration of that 1991 record, Raise. At the Gov on Wed Oct 2, the group will perform the album in full, followed by a second set of ‘old and new highlights’.

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Wonky Karnivool Australian prog rock/metal group Karnivool have just laid down a 67-minute off-kilter album, Asymmetry. Accompanying the lopsided LP is a round-Australia

tour, starting in Adelaide on Tue Jul 30 at Thebarton Theatre. Support on the night will be Sydney’s Northlane. Tickets go on sale Thu Jun 20 through VenueTix or karnivool.com.

Randy Not Guilty Been acquitted of a murder charge recently? Want to celebrate? Well, so does Lamb Of God frontman Randy Blythe, who was found not guilty for the 2010 death of a teenage fan in Prague. Officially guiltfree, Blythe isn’t letting the accident get in the way of his passion. Lamb Of God will be joined by Meshuggah on an Australian tour later this year. Head to VenueTix to grab tickets to the Adelaide leg of Lamb on Thu Sep 24 at Thebarton Theatre.

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Pseudo Echo Echo Echo Hello, ’80s fans! Been feeling like the Australian electro-pop scene has been letting you down? Crying out for some vintage beats and ridiculous hair? Well, hey, here’s

something special, just for you. Psuedo Echo are back on the road, bringing synths and no-wave cool to the Gov on Sat Jul 27.

For a decade, Floridian five-piece ANBERLIN have been doing their thing.

Celebrating their 10-year milestone with an Australian tour, they’ll be bringing their sixth studio album, Vital, and friends The Maine and William Beckert. Anberlin are known for lingering around the merch table after a gig, so the ticket you grab through Moshtix or VenueTix could well be a pass to a meet-and-greet. See the group live at the Governor Hindmarsh on Tue Sep 10.

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Men You Need Although illness has continued to plague Jono Ma, the beat maker from Sydney duo Jagwar Ma, for several months now, it has not impeded the project’s meteoric rise. Amongst the radiant reviews for debut album Howlin, praise is also coming in from music royalty — including Noel Gallagher — who doesn’t say anything nice about anything. Ma speaks to Rip It Up from Sydney, recovering from illness while the rest of Jagwar Ma are in the United Kingdom preparing for shows, including a coveted set at Glastonbury. ishing Ma a speedy recovery opens the conversation.

“Thanks for that. It is going very, very slowly.”

Considering he has been out of action since having to cut their April tour short, Ma is remaining optimistic.

“The response to the record and the band has been so positive and overwhelming, especially considering we started with no expectations.”

Ma is not letting it inflate his ego though, with the grounded musician still being pragmatic about how his musical journey, particularly with Ma’s previous band, Sydney indie outfit Lost Valentinos, has helped shape Jagwar Ma. “I learnt everything with the Valentinos,” Ma explains. “That’s where I learnt to produce, mix music, experiment with integrating electronics into a band situation and all the technical side of how to make music. Those lessons and that knowledge was

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invaluable — it made forming and developing Jagwar Ma really easy and intuitive as it’s experience I’ve already had. The mistakes have already been made.”

While the hype surrounding Howlin would assume that minimal mistakes have been made, with NME bestowing the album an impressive 9/10, Ma still thinks that a band’s popularity is not just reliant on a band’s skill.

“You can never really predict how things will be received or how people will react to music. There’s no way in knowing how someone else will hear it. For example, Lost Valentinos was such an amazing experience and band to be a part of. The music always made me feel amazing when I played it and I put just as much energy into that band that I would put into anything, including [ Jagwar Ma]. It’s just one of those weird voodoo things where Gab [Gabriel Winterfield, vocalist] and I had finished Come Save Me and it just started connecting in a way that the Valentinos hadn’t overseas – London in particular. You just need to take it as it comes and go with the flow.”

This organic approach to music is deeply rooted in Ma’s psyche, explaining how nothing about Jagwar Ma, from its inception to the finished product of Howlin, had been forced.

“I started making a bunch of tracks that had a hip hop approach to making electronic music, using a lot of loops and beats. I wanted it to have that energy of the ‘50s, ‘60s, Motown and soul. I played them to Gab because we were friends and he loved what he heard. I don’t sing or write lyrics that much, but Gab started singing over one of the instrumental tracks as I played it to him and it sounded amazing. That became Come Save Me. We then did What Love really quickly and then The Throw after that. It was really quick.

It wasn’t like, ‘Let’s try this, and then try that’.

I’d made these tracks by myself and then Gab came up with the vocals straight away and they just came together perfectly. That became how we made music. The fusion of styles was really organic.”

This fusion of styles is fast becoming Jagwar Ma’s signature, although Ma is insistent that it wasn’t a premeditated decision, rather just a unifying of his interests.

"I wasn’t an Oasis fan. I always found them slightly on the cheesy side of things."

“It wasn’t a mathematical formula that we applied, to pull music from this era, this era and that era and then mash them together. I was just listening to a lot of music from Detroit and Chicago from the ‘50s and ‘60s. Black music is very much R&B, soul, Motown and a lot of the white kids were being inspired by it, although they were playing the garage, psychedelic stuff. I was just fascinated by how danceable, catchy, energetic and rhythmic it all was – black or white.”

Following Gallagher’s praise for Jagwar Ma, Oasis has been listed by reviewers as a reference, particularly on tracks with long, wavy choruses such as Man I Need. Ma implores that while the Madchester era was definitely on his radar, listing Primal Scream, The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays as key favourites, any direct Oasis influence would come from Winterfield rather than himself.

“I personally don’t hear an Oasis influence in what we’re doing,” Ma explains. “If there is a specific Oasis influence that you can hear it’s probably from Gab’s side of things. He was a big fan growing up... I wasn’t an Oasis fan. I always found them slightly on the cheesy side of things.”

Ma is still very much conscious of the weight that Gallagher’s praise can be for such a young band.

Don’t Look Back In Anger While explaining how he didn’t purposefully avoid Oasis while growing up, Jono Ma gave Rip It Up some philosophical insight into how his “musical journey” has been shaped.

“You can’t pick your musical journey. It picks you. You start with your parents and what they listen to. I had an older brother so I was subject to what he listened to.

That’s kind of how I discovered music for the first part of my life – whatever my brother was into, I was into. There’s so much amazing music in the world you will never have enough time to appreciate it all. Oasis was one of those bands that didn’t come into my journey, even though I was aware of them. I was on a different journey of grunge and punk, then dance and electronic music, then Madchester and post-punk and then getting into some really abstract electronic stuff.”

“It was still flattering for both of us to be praised from someone like that. He’s clearly a brilliant songwriter and a great musician and a driving force behind one of the biggest bands in the world. For him to take notice of what we’re doing musically and consider it influential or inspiring to him – that’s always flattering.”

And so as a non-Oasis fan, what are his thoughts on the Triple J audience crowning Wonderwall as the best song of the last 20 years?

“If I have to pick one Oasis song, [Wonderwall] would be it. I think it’s a brilliant song – it’s flawless.”

WHO: Jagwar Ma WHAT: Howlin (Future Classic) WHERE: Rocket Bar WHEN: Fri Jul 26

Interviews // Around The World

Isle Of Wight 1970 Two songs, My Sunday Feeling and My God, from Jethro Tull’s Isle Of Wight performance in 1970 are included on Around The World Live.

Long-running UK rock band Jethro Tull, who have been a going concern since 1967, have just issued a four DVD set, Around The World Live, which consists of live recordings of their classic songs taken from across the globe. It begins with their appearance at the Isle Of Wight Festival in 1970 and concludes with performances in 2005 in Switzerland. long the way viewers are treated to much unreleased material from concerts in such countries as Germany, Chile, Holland, England and the US. The superbly-packaged release also comes with a hardback book containing extensive liner notes by rock music historian Joel McIver along with photographs from the personal collection of the band’s singer and flute player, Ian Anderson, who tells Rip It Up how it all came together.

“It was realised that there had actually been very little official live material released during the band’s 40-year career,” he says. “So three years ago a German company began to compile everything they could find. With my help we managed to nail pretty much everything that was available, although there was a lot of negotiation required with some of the copyright holders.

Some of them, especially television stations, seem to have quite an inflated view of what such material is actually worth,” Anderson adds with a chuckle.

The singer goes on to say that Eagle Vision Entertainment, a London-based company that has issued many music DVDs since 2000, came on board about 18 months ago. Anderson also suggests that little of the chosen footage took him by surprise.

“For me it’s all just another day at the office,” he says. “It’s what I do so, arguably, it’s just a series of snapshots taken throughout the years and for me personally there’s nothing terribly special about any of the shows. I remembered most of them – some more so than others – but I look back and think, ‘Oh, it was a Wednesday night and there we were playing another gig in Switzerland or we were in Santiago, Chile’.

“That’s not being disparaging in any way,” Anderson quickly adds, “but to me it’s just a snapshot of evolving timelines, receding hairlines and expanding waistlines.”

A highlight of Around The World Live is an intimate, eight-song performance recorded for a Dutch television show in 1999.

“That was a case of having a day off where you just go into a TV or radio station and whack something down with very little preparation,” Anderson says. “They are often done with very little in the way of equipment.

It’s just the bare essentials – the guitars and maybe a set of bongos – but they were always a good test of if the band could deliver the goods in that kind of setting. Some people in the group were often out of their comfort zones at those kind of things. When they were sitting in what was a very bare, often quite small room, they seemed to miss the big lights, the smoke machines and all the other stuff that goes with a big live concert, but I always approached those kind of things as if we were having a bit of a sing-along around a campfire.”

Jethro Tull issued the parody concept album Thick As A Brick in 1972 and since 2012 have been touring it around the world in full for the first time since its release.

“I’m just sorry we won’t be able to bring it down to Australia,” Anderson concludes. “It just wasn’t going to work out. We finally wrap that up in November and then I’m going to record a new studio album – whether it will be as Jethro Tull or a solo record remains to be seen – but I will be hoping to tour that album around Australia some time in 2014.”

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Much of their concert footage from that illfated festival which had featured one of Jimi Hendrix’s last live performances was released a while back, however, as the Nothing Is Easy: Live At The Isle of Wight 1970 DVD. “It was important to include at least some of that Isle Of Wight footage to give Around The World Live some context,” Jethro Tull’s Anderson states. “It was an historical event because, to my knowledge, none of the artists ever got paid apart from one.

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“I don’t wish to speak ill of the dead, but Tiny Tim refused to play until he had his money,” he reveals. “But we realised we weren’t ever going to get paid but thought, ‘Well, we are here anyway so we may as well go ahead and do it out of goodwill’.”

WHO: Jethro Tull WHAT: Around The World Live (Shock/ Eagle Vision)

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Paces Fans of futuristic, electronic trip-hop are in for a treat when Paces rolls into town this August as part of his national six-date tour. Ever since releasing his debut EP The Pact, the beat-maker has been resonating with listeners all around the nation, the EP clocking up an impressive 10,000 listens in the span of just 10 days.

Featuring three original tracks and a remix from Melbourne newcomer W1SP, the title track is best described as a ballad for the future-bass generation, with guest vocals from uber-talented songstress Chela. For those who are yet to see Paces live for the first time, his shows are not merely DJ sets – the Gold Coast producer treats his fans to a full live experience, complete with 808 drums, chopped vocal samples, synths, wonky pianos and harps.

Paces plays at Cats @ Rocket Bar on Fri Aug 9.

Funk D’Void

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Thanks to a string of hits over the years – including Jack Me Off, Bad Coffee and Emotional Content, plus some killer remixes for the likes of Underworld, New Order and Kevin Saunderson – Funk D’Void is probably best known for the end-of-nighter Diabla which bridged house and techno (and got flogged by everyone from Danny Howells to Sven Vath). What’s more, collaborations with such luminaries as Phil Kieran and Sian have resulted in more success, further galvanising his diversity in the techno scene and leading to the arrival of his very own label, Outpost. An in-demand DJ and producer, Funk D’Void was chosen to mix a Balance Series compilation in 2012, proving that he continues to be one of the busiest DJs on the circuit today, as per the last 15 years.

Following their debut single Black Rainbow last year, Question Question are stepping things up with new EP Cry At The Moon. The EP is set to be launched at the Pilot Records’ first birthday celebration this month, alongside fellow label artists Menagerie and Urtekk who are also releasing their debut EP on the night.

Funk D’Void plays at Sugar on Sun Jul 14.

Cosmo’s Midnight Sydney-based twin brother production duo, Cosmo’s Midnight, have been taking cues from low-end house, lush beat work and their local ambient electronic scene, which has led to a sound that is truly their own. Over the last three years, the duo have quietly worked away in their home studio right up until the release of their debut EP Surge which contains four tracks of lush atmospheric beats mixed with warm swirling synths and crisp syncopated percussion, perhaps best highlighted on the single Phantasm featuring Nicole Millar. In 2012, the duo won the Flume remix competition, with their interpretation of the anthem Sleepless being hand-picked by Flume and released with a bundle of international remixes.

Cosmo’s Midnight recently performed their first live show in support of XXYYXX in Sydney and have since also supported the much hyped Cashmere Cats.

Cosmo’s Midnight play at Cats @ Rocket Bar on Fri Jun 28.

CD Reviews

Bliss N Eso

Midnight Juggernauts

Crossing Wires 001

Circus In The Sky

Uncanny Valley

(My Favourite Robot Records)

(Illusive)

(Remote Control)

With the release of Circus In The Sky, it’s now a fact that Bliss N Eso go way beyond merely being some of the most talented artists in Oz hip hop – the Sydney trio are officially among the best musicians that Australia has to offer in general. Even Nas gives his seal of approval (check out the collab on I Am Somebody), the New York rap icon actually making good on all that previous talk of teaming up with the guys and easily featuring as the biggest guest appearance on the whole of Circus In The Sky (there are quite a few: Daniel Merriweather, Drapht, 360, Pez, Seth Sentry and Ceekay Jones). As with previous releases, the message is a powerful one – ‘mind over matter’ and the wonders of ‘creative visualisation’ – but this time it’s particularly prevalent in the tracks, and most likely so because with each successful album that mantra seems to be proving true for these lads. A total of 17 tracks make up the hour-long record which is by no means a strictly-hip-hop-fans-only affair – if you appreciate good music, period, make sure you pick this up.

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Sadly, like 2007’s Dystopia and 2010’s The Crystal Axis before it, Uncanny Valley shines only in places for the Midnight Juggernauts, with the album’s majority at times becoming a swirling, convoluted daydream.

Following the intro that wants so badly to be a song, HCL, the Juggernauts drop their two biggest weapons, both first and second single Ballad Of The War Machine and Memorium. Ballad is a solid effort, with a hook and chorus not rivalled since Road To Recovery.

Memorium doesn’t make as profound of an impact as it does when teamed with its excellent music video, which explores the progression of technology in a geek-gasmic way Kubrick and Lynch would beam at. If anything, the album as a whole is too hypnotic, which is an accomplishment, assuming that effect is the band’s mission. Systematic lifts the final half of the album, but by then you’re swept away in a haze of lazy loops and drone-y synth to climb back to the dance floor.

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How much of a progression is it since Black Rainbow?

In the last year we have been on a musical journey as always. Taking inspiration from the music that life throws at us as individuals and then expressing our muse together. It’s how we communicate. Words are overrated sometimes finding the space in the music that you create is the best way to chat.

How did you hook up with Pilot Records?

We played our first gig at the Crown And Sceptre.

The Pilot boys were there and said we had a “good energy” now we are all family. Pilot Records Australia are the best men in the world. We love them and you should too. There is a teaser vid called Taking Off by a very talented human named Nima from Young Black Youth on YouTube for the South Australian Tourism Commission… Check it out!

My Favourite Robot

With their debut album getting prepped for No.19 Music, the Canadian trio ( James Teej, Jared Simms and Voytek Karab) bust out a mix on their own imprint, which showcases their brand of slow burning dub techno and dark house. While straying into areas such as gloomy disco and atmospheric electro, the trio keeps it ominous and mysterious similar to the label they frequent, Crosstown Rebels. Crossing Wires 001 isn’t for those who like their electronic music uplifting. But it could do with occasional breaks from the sombre 4am backroom selection.

Highlights come from unusual artist selections (for My Favourite Robot anyway) including The Revenge’s Maia and Timo Maas’ Dancing For My Pleasure while Fairmont’s chugging Libertine (Nitin & Clayton Steele Remix) is as lively as Crossing Wires gets.

Jeff Spicoli

How much can you tell us about Cry At The Moon?

The essence of the four track EP are extensions of ideas that were laid down in jam sessions over many moons. They touch on ideas of psychedelia and the deconstruction of pop culture. Though the best way is to get yourself a copy.

What else do you have planned for Question Question this year?

We have recently released a free Black Rainbow remix compilation filled with the talents of local producers such as Joe Miller, No Birds and Adelaide 2013 Spin DJ winner Dubrat. We also have a gig in Melbourne on Sat Aug 10 at The Night Owl with Let’s Be Modern and M-Thirteen which will be pants down too much fun! We are filming with the ever fresh and mind meltingly stimulating Capital Waste Pictures for our Cry At The Moon video on the night of Sun Jun 23, which is said to be a ‘super’ full moon.

Question Question launch Cry At The Moon at Published Arthouse on Sat Jun 22.

Calendar/ Fri Jun 21 P-Smurf (Rhino Room) Sat Jun 22 Mobin Master & Tate Strauss (HQ) Sat Jun 22 Obie Trice (The Gov) Thu Jun 27 Lancelot (Rocket Bar) Fri Jun 28 Tokimonsta (Rocket Bar) Sat Jun 29 Ty (Rocket Bar) Fri Jul 5 Indian Summer (Cats @ Rocket Bar) Sat Jul 6 The Tongue (Rocket Bar) Thu Jul 11 Yuksek (Rocket Bar) Fri Jul 12 Clubfeet (Rhino Room)

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Three years ago the nomadic Brit, based in the US since the late ‘90s, moved to Paris.

“I live there, to be honest, because there’s nothing to do there,” Thaws says. “I’m not really into partying or anything too much.” In Los Angeles Thaws was “too happy almost”.

“I didn’t get much done in the States. I was having too much fun. You’ve gotta work, you’ve gotta make a living. I’m a musician.

I was doing less and less music the longer I lived there. My output was just basically coming to a standstill.”

The lad from Bristol’s Knowle West council estate was raised by his grandmother, his father disappearing before his birth and mother committing suicide. Thaws found another family in the Wild Bunch sound system, which developed into Massive Attack. He was a vocalist on their seminal debut, Blue Lines – and Protection. But Thaws felt artistically thwarted and, when Massive Attack rejected his tune Aftermath, he released it independently. Along the way, Thaws encountered the mysterious Martina Topley-Bird, then a precocious teenager, who’d become his muse, foil and lover (they have a daughter). He signed to Chris Blackwell’s Island Records.

Thaws’ late mother, Maxine Quaye, haunted his dark premiere, Maxinquaye. Critics

Interviews

Tricky (AKA Adrian Thaws) has accepted that 1995’s classic Maxinquaye will always be a touchstone for his work. And, in doing so, he’s furnished a credible 10th album, False Idols – a metacommentary on celebrity culture.

Thematically, it harks back to Thaws’ rap Tricky Kid (a line of which inspired New Zealand band The Naked And Famous’ name). False Idols might be his My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

Tricky

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lauded it. They tagged Thaws’ multicultural, and postmodern, fusion of hip hop, dub, blues, soul, rock and electronica ‘trip hop’ – a label he’d contest. As an MC, Thaws was less interested in environment, or appearances, than the psyche – more trip than hop. He’d manifest his own discordant genre.

Nevertheless, Thaws has revealed that he “was lost for ages”. In 2008 he put out the buzz-worthy Knowle West Boy, with production from Suede’s Bernard Butler and Switch, on London’s Domino Records. Mixed Race followed. Long distrustful of labels, Thaws now says that, while Domino is “a great label”, boss Laurence Bell was interfering, journeying to his studio to listen to demos.

“I’ve been doing this for so long that I don’t think Laurence really should be giving me an opinion whether I’m ready to mix.” As such, recording was “quite painful”. Thaws missed Island, where he could “hang out”.

“I used to go and sleep on the couch

sometimes.” Domino was corporate in comparison. “So I had no home, I haven’t had a home for ages – so that’s what I mean by ‘lost’.”

Last year Thaws and Topley-Bird toured the UK, recreating Maxinquaye live – and even returning to Bristol. ‘Tricky’ has come full circle. Thaws is releasing False Idols on his own label, also called False Idols (he previously had the imprints Durban Poison, briefly home to Grace Jones, and Brown Punk).

“It makes more sense to me.”The biggest guest?

The Antlers’ Peter Silberman on Parenthesis.

Thaws feels centred. He’s again making music without consciously pleasing A&R types.

“I’m evolving now by not thinking – I’m learning not to think again. All my music was done through instinct before.” Thaws is an intuitive experimenter – and transgressor.

“I make my music by being naive and, because I’m naive, that’s why people tell me my time signatures are strange and my beats are strange – and the reason is because I don’t know

Dizzy Wright rtok

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Las Vegas – otherwise known as Sin City – has become synonymous with all things seedy: gambling, gangs, strippers and epic hangovers. That is, until now. Ever since he dropped three releases in 2012 (including debut album SmokeOut Conversations, a promo mixtape and The First Agreement EP), Dizzy Wright (known to his mother as La’Reonte Wright) has been on a mission to put his hometown on the map for other reasons than those which have now become a cliché.

Returning to Australia as part of the Funk Volume Tour alongside label-mates Jarren Benton and DJ Hoppa, Wright may be the imprint’s youngest ever artist but he’s certainly been one of the most active with the follow-up mixtape The Golden Age set for release this year, as well as a sophomore album.

“People ask me why there aren’t many rappers who come from Las Vegas,” he says, “but the answer is because rappers just haven’t made it out of that place. Usually it’s either because they’re not that good or they just haven’t worked hard enough to get out of there and get exposure outside of Las Vegas. Why don’t people know about the Las Vegas hip hop scene? There’s really nothing to know.”

According to Wright, the most challenging part about trying to make a name for himself

has been to figure out a way in which he could both fit in and stand out as an artist.

“Being from Las Vegas makes you almost like a novelty for a little while, people thinks it’s interesting or unusual or whatever. Pretty soon, if you actually listen to the music, I think you realise it’s the music that makes me unique rather than the place I come from. Because there are no rappers coming out of Las Vegas, I had to learn for myself, I had to learn from rappers who were from a lot of different places, so my influences were really kind of mixed. I think that makes me pretty different from the rest out there. And, you know, I’m okay with that, I’m comfortable being that way, because I’m completely myself that way. I don’t really have somebody who I can compare myself to, because there isn’t anybody else who sounds like me.”

what I’m doing. I don’t know the structure of music properly. [But] I need to stay naive. I need not to think too much. I think, when I’m naive, I make my best music – because, when you’re naive, you create something, you haven’t got something to follow.”

Ironically, RZA’s musicality has been similarly queried by those who don’t appreciate its subliminal, textural nature.

Thaws’ albums are more critiqued than most acts, he rues. His music can be overintellectualised.

“For me, this is what I do – it’s like breathing, eating,” Thaws says. “I wouldn’t consider myself talented. I’m just a guy from the street who got an opportunity to make some music.”

WHO: Tricky WHAT: False Idols (!K7 Records)

Founded by rapper/producer Hopsin in 2009, independent hip hop imprint Funk Volume was quick to notice it too. Expectations were high upon signing, as Wright admits, but the pressure was exactly what the young MC needed and thrived on... It didn’t take long for both label and artist to realise this was a dream team.

“One of the hardest things is to try and get people to take you seriously, to convince them that you’re the real deal,” Wright claims.

“Pressure can be a good thing, it pushes you to work hard, but you’ve got to be careful not to let the pressure become too much. I don’t even like to look too far ahead into the future, I try to live every moment and handle every situation that I’m facing at the time. I’ve got a mixtape coming out very soon and I’ve got another album coming out as well, but I’m not thinking about that or talking about that too much just yet because I’m not there yet. When I get to that, I’ll have more to say about it later because all of my projects are based on the moment. For now, I’m focusing on this moment and all the things I have to accomplish right now.”

One of those things being his muchanticipated return to our shores next month, with Wright claiming that it wasn’t exactly hard to fall in love with Australia during his last visit.

“Oh man,” he chuckles. “I remember a lot of things! I remember all the marijuana that was provided! Everybody was very, very generous. It was such a cool place to go, Australia is so refreshing. The best thing was directly flying into summer because before that we’d been in Germany during their winter, so then a couple of days later all of a sudden we were in the middle of a beautiful Australian summer. It was so dope. The fans were so loud, everybody was amazing, I got to celebrate my birthday there and the ladies treated me real nice.”

WHO: Dizzy Wright WHAT: Funk Volume Tour WHERE: Fowler’s Live WHEN: Fri Jul 26

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Tour Guide/ THU JUN 20 ARTURO SANDOVAL @ Governor Hindmarsh EAST COAST RAMPAGE: I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN, HOUSE VS HURRICANE, BURIED IN VERONA & SAVIOUR @ Uni Bar MUNICIPAL WASTE @ Fowler’s Live

Fowler’s Live CLUBFEET @ Rhino Room THE ANGELS @ Governor Hinsmarsh STEVE VAI @ Her Majesty’s Theatre JD LOVE @ The Wheatsheaf Hotel

SAT JUL 13

ENABLER & URNS @ Enigma Bar BLISS N ESO @ Adelaide FRI JUN 21 RAY BEADLE @ Governor Entertainment Centre Theatre Hindmarsh THE ANGELS @ Governor IN HEARTS WAKE, Hindmarsh COUNTERPARTS, THE ESKIMO JOE @ Published STORM PICTURESQUE & Arthouse STORIES @ Fowler’s Live FRENZAL RHOMB, CRISIS WHITLEY @ Jive JD LOVE @ Gaslight Bar ALERT & HIGHTIME @ UniBar TUE JUL 16 LAURA IMBRUGLIA @ A DAY TO REMEMBER @ Crown & Anchor Thebarton Theatre P-SMURF, DIALECT & PRIME @ Rhino Room

WED JUL 17

SAT JUN 22 KINGSWOOD, RACHEL CEARNS & THE VALYRIES & SURVIVING SHARKS @ Jive OBIE TRICE @ Governor Hindmarsh

WED JUN 26 BILL ODDIE @ Adelaide Town Hall

TODD RUNDGREN & DAVEY LANE @ Governor Hindmarsh

FRI JUL 19 MASKETTA FALL @ Higher Ground SWEET JEAN @ Singing Gallery GOLDFIELDS @ Jive RAVEN BLACK NIGHT @ Governor Hindmarsh

THU JUN 27 GYPSY & THE CAT @ UniBar THE FLOORS @ Crown & Anchor

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

SAT JUN 29 THE SUPERJESUS & JACKSON FIREBIRD @ Governor Hindmarsh ADAM HILLS @ Thebarton Theatre LOVE JUNKIES @ Ed Castle

MON JUL 1 P!NK @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

TUE JUL 2 P!NK @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

THU JUL 4 P!NK @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

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

SAT JUL 20 WAVVES @ Ed Castle SLEEPMAKESWAVES @ Crown & Anchor SWEET JEAN @ Barossa Regional Gallery

SUN JUL 21 SPEELMAKESWAVES @ Crown & Anchor SWEET JEAN @ Wheatsheaf Hotel BEN SALTER @ Metropolitan Hotel

WED JUL 24 ATLAS GENIUS @ Rocket Bar

hardcore music scene is moving in, however, Anderson is optimistic it’s “getting bigger and better”. In fact, Buried In Verona recently rereleased their own album as a deluxe version, complete with a live DVD following them on their recent globetrotting stint.

“It brings back so many amazing memories from the last year, I’m sure fans will enjoy a sneak peek into our lives,” he says of the DVD. In several decades time when the members of Buried In Verona eventually shuffle off the mortal coil, what would they like to be buried in?

“I’d choose an underground penthouse with plenty of air flow. Is that allowed? It’s still buried.”

TV are a small part of what I do. I’ve done hundreds now; big lavish ones, even silly ones, and that’s going to be part of the show too.”

However, Oddie doesn’t want to put anyone off by suggesting that that’s all his live show is about.

“I do want to stress that it’s not like a natural history lecture or something. Some of the clips are wonderfully funny and sort of awful. I’m hopeless in water, for example, and I’m terrified of it, not like you Australians.

In one of the films I attempt to go swimming with seals, and looking at it now I look so stupid and it really does make me laugh.”

“There will be Goodies stuff in there, of course,” he adds. “I’ll be looking behind it all and seeing how we arrived at that stage. How did we three get together and do a show like that? And what was there that I did before I got together with Tim and Graeme? That’s never really been covered, you know, as I did have a sort of secret music career.”

Secret? Really, Bill? Surely there were cool tracks by you throughout the show, as The Goodies as a Top-Of-The-Pops-type trio had

a handful of genuine UK hits including old fave Funky Gibbon?

“Yes, some of it was secret, and some of it wasn’t! There are some surprises in there about who I worked with. And yes, I think that we had four or five Top 20 hits, so we didn’t do too badly [chuckles].”

Bill also has to admit, as I mention I always liked his Taking You Back song from the early Camelot episode, that The Goodies have always been more popular in Australia than in Britain.

“I’ve never been able to work out why that is, except for maybe a happy accident of timing…”

Perhaps the fact that the ABC played them non-stop for about 30 years, usually followed by classic Doctor Who episodes?

“Yes, I suppose that that’s probably part of it!” he laughs.

WHO: Buried In Verona, I Killed The Prom Queen, Saviour and House Vs Hurricane WHAT: Notorious: Reloaded (UNFD) WHERE: Adelaide Uni Bar WHEN: Thu Jun 20

KATIE NOONAN & KARIN SCHAUPP @ Dunstan Playhouse SIMON MELI @ Jive

SAT JUL 27 BJÖRN AGAIN @ Festival Theatre KATIE NOONAN & KARIN SCHAUPP @ Dunstan Playhouse WORLD’S END PRESS @ Ed Castle PSUEDO ECHO @ Governor Hindmarsh

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THU AUG 1 COLD WAR KIDS @ Governor Hindmarsh

THE BOOTLEG BEATLES @ Governor Hindmarsh SPIN OFF FESTIVAL: OF MONSTERS AND MEN, PASSION PIT, SNAKADAKTAL, CHET FAKER, FIDLAR, THE JUNGLE GIANTS & DUNE RATS @ Thebarton Theatre

WED JUL 10 SAT AUG 3 APES @ Ed Castle

TUE AUG 6 JOAN BAEZ @ Festival Theatre

THU JUL 11 BALL PARK MUSIC, EAGLE & THE WORM & JEREMY NEALE @ HQ

FRI AUG 9

FRI JUL 12

WED AUG 14

YOU AM I @ Thebarton Theatre THE HOODIE WEATHER TOUR: THE NEVER EVER, NINE SONS OF DAN, A SLEEPLESS MELODY WAY WITH WORDS & WITH CONFIDENCE @

MDC @ Fowler’s Live VANCE JOY @ Jive

CLARE BOWDITCH @ Governor Hindmarsh

THU AUG 15 BERNARD FANNING & VANCE JOY @ Thebarton Theatre

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“[I Am Hate] is a song about the industry giving us hate since Notorious,” lead vocalist Brett Anderson explains. “It’s a song to say we aren’t changing or conforming, no matter what you say. Even from the times we felt the lowest of lows, we are just using it as inspiration to show people that it’s going to take a lot more than talk to end us. We actually can’t wait to track the new record.”

Alongside its fiery message, the accompanying music video for I Am Hate is a bit more literal when it comes to spurting flames. Were there any pyromaniac temptations from the band members during the filming process?

“We definitely love fire, it’s been a part

of the past two video clips we have done,” Anderson admits. “Luckily, we get most of the fire temptations out while testing it so we don’t kill ourselves on one of the takes.”

This month Buried In Verona will perform across the country as part of the East Coast Rampage tour with bands like I Killed The Prom Queen, Saviour and House Vs Hurricane. While Anderson is reluctant to share on-the-road stories from previous group tours – “we don’t want any trouble!” – he’s certainly looking forward to a number of “drunken crazy nights” considering ECR will be one of House Vs Hurricane’s last ever tours following the announcement of their split last week.

“It’s a sad day for the Aussie metal scene, but it also doesn’t surprise me,” says Anderson on House Vs Hurricane’s disbanding. “It’s getting near impossible to be a full-time touring band at our level. There is a thin line between making money and being broke in the scene, and there are a lot more of us on the broke side!”

On the direction that the Australian

FRI JUL 26

FRI AUG 2

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

While most bands would recoil from a bad review, Sydney’s metalcore outfit Buried In Verona have embraced the wayward criticism towards their 2012 album Notorious and channeled it into a brand new single, I Am Hate.

THELMA PLUM @ Grace Emily LAURA MARLING @ Flinders Street Baptist Church

THE TONGUE @ Rocket Bar RIDE INTO THE SUN @ Jive BROKERS @ Ed Castle

FEAR FACTORY @ HQ

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THU JUL 25

SAT JUL 6

TUE JUL 9

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British Bill Oddie can pick an Australian accent on the phone immediately, so despite being a bit “raddled” when Rip It Up calls, he’s more than happy to discuss his Australian tour and what Goodiesloving audiences can expect from this soon-to-be-72-year-old (but hey, who’s counting?) at his Adelaide show.

“So are we talking about The Goonies? I really have to wrack my brain about this sort of thing these days,” he jokes, and then notes that he’s actually best known now for his environmental, conservation, ornithological and related efforts. “I guess that I’ve led a rather schizophrenic life. I really changed direction in the middle. Let’s face it: you simply can’t be a Goody all your life, as you’d wind up hurting yourself !”

Oddie’s comedy labours and other pursuits are, in the end, “all television”.

“It’s not like the wildlife shows I do on

WHO: Bill Oddie WHERE: Adelaide Town Hall WHEN: Wed Jun 26

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AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm)

PRODUCERS HOTEL –

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm)

After Four Fridays Garden Grooves

BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and

with DJs Justice and DrDamage pluss

ADELAIDE UNI BAR – I Killed The Prom Queen &

Suckerpunch

special guests (4pm)

House Vs Hurricane

BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ

e RACQUETS SA – 60/40 with DJ Lee

ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Bill Parton Trio

CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Laura

(8pm)

(8.30pm) Top Of The Ark: Rodney Rude (8pm)

Imbruglia, Wiley Red Fox, Hi, I’m Reclusive Author

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia

Thomas Pynchon & The Wild Things. Front Bar:

(7.30pm)

Carla Lippis (5pm) & Ride Into The Sun DJs

BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty

DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with

CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia

DJs

RED SQUARE – DJs

(7.30pm)

DUBLIN HOTEL – Redline (7pm)

REX HOTEL – Karaoke (8pm)

CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Quinton Evans

DUKE OF YORK – Tom & Rose (7pm)

RHINO ROOM – Glen Wool (8pm)

Front Bar: DJ Antface

ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs

ROB ROY HOTEL – Zyke & Damo (6pm) DJ

DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Trivia Night

Capt N Cook, Mangie & Terror Terror plus guests

Smiley (8pm)

(7.30pm)

ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs

ROCKET BAR – Cats at Rocket: Es Ist Super,

DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm)

ENFIELD HOTEL – Jonny Star Family

The Byzantines, Artist, Gung Ho (DJ set) & Cats

DUKE OF YORK – Downstairs: DJ Jon E (9pm) DJ

Entertainment (6pm)

resident DJs (9pm)

Skinny B (1am) Beer Garden: band of the week

ESPLANADE HOTEL – Slyde (8pm)

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8pm)

plus DJ Dave Parry (9pm)

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Ricochet Pete

SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Red Hot Blues

ED CASTLE – Band Room: live bands (9pm)

FINDON HOTEL – Karaoke (8.30pm)

Band (8pm)

ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm)

FINSBURY HOTEL – Wild Ones (8pm)

STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance.

Thursday 20th

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Echo End

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – OPEN MIKE NITE FOWLER’S LIVE – Municipal Waste GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Sweet Baby James &

RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ SNAKE & DJ RUPHEO (9PM) CROWN & ANCHOR – Mountain Blood, XY Clinic & Eyes More Skull Then Eyes then DJ Azz CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – Karaoke DRAGONFLY – Rotating DJs playing techno,

Rob Eyers (7pm)

And The Sky (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident

SUGAR – SHGZ: Fridays at Sugar

DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends

SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJs

EXETER HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (7pm)

TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests

EXETER ON RUNDLE – The Aves

TAPAS ON HINDLEY – Flamenco shows by Studio

FINDON HOTEL – Clearway (9pm)

Flamenco (7.30pm) TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – DJ Wolfman (9pm) THE ELEPHANT – DJ Grillz (9pm) Triple X

Room Blues Jam with Bluescasters & Third Foot

GLYNDE HOTEL – Karaoke (9pm)

(9.30pm)

Dance Academy

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Band Room: Ray

THE GOODY – Ch@t Room

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Quarry Mountain Dead Rats

Beadle & the Dirty Roots Band. Front Bar: Old Time

THE LION HOTEL – Escapades (8pm)

GRAND BAR – OMG

Fiddle Tunes

TONSLEY HOTEL – Chrysler Bar: Jest (9.30pm)

HIGHWAY – DJ Alli (8pm)

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Satan’s Cheerleaders &

Tavern Bar: Katrina Caton (4.45pm) One Planet

HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Cloak & Dagga

Cameron Bowker

(9pm)

HQ – Riot Society hosted by Uberjak’d

HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ

TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Acoustic Reign

JETTY BAR GLENELG – Lounge Bar: Jayarassic

Lumeire

(8.20pm)

(8.30pm)

HOTEL METRO – Affairs Of Men, Last Days Of

VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs

LIGHT HOTEL – SCALA Live (8pm)

Kali, The Scarlet Ives & FIRS (9pm)

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Heartland In 2012 at the Adelaide Biennial former curator Alexie Glass stated: “Vulnerability is the most political act.” The quote has since carried on as an underlying motto for the Art Gallery Of South Australia’s next major exhibition Heartland, a contemporary showcase of some of South Australia’s best local artists in a heartfelt celebration of home. o-curated by Lisa Slade and Nici Cumpston, the motive behind Heartland is to comment on the idea of ‘place’ both physically and conceptually.

“The inspiration was to seek out South Australian artists to respond to place and identity in innovative ways,” Slade and Cumpston explain. “We didn’t want to limit what the responses could be, nor did we want to limit what type of artists should be responding, hence the intergenerational and intercultural mix presented through the exhibition.”

Backtrack to 2012: Slade and Cumpston are on a pilgrimage to Amata in the Anangu Pitjantjajara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia’s arid northwest. There, the curators are inspired by ‘tjanpi’ - vibrant, woven dry grass sculptures crafted using traditional basketry techniques. It is here that the pivotal

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conversation of a ‘heartland’ begins, the phrase translating in Pitjantjatjara as ‘ngura kurunitja’, or ‘heart and soul of the country’. “[The visit] really galvanized our emerging ideas, and underscored the inherently active nature of the curatorial process when working with living artists,” Cumpston says.

“The installation from Amata for Heartland was really developed by the community in dialogue with us, and the work from the APY lands lies in the physical heart of the exhibition,” Slade adds.

With the seed of an idea planted, Heartland began to take shape after reaching out to all corners of the state for artists of all styles, generations and backgrounds. It wasn’t long before the project welcomed James Darling and Lesley Forwood from the southest, Hector Burton from Amata and Angela and Hossein Valmanesh from Adelaide, further expanding to include many other extraordinary practitioners like Kim Buck, Paul Sloan, Amy Joy Watson, Kate Breakey, James Darling, Wendy Fairclough, Stewart MacFarlane, Ian North, Annalise Rees, Chris De Rosa and Yhonnie Scarce and the Tjanpi Desert Weavers.

The final collection of works in Heartland is expansive and thought provoking.

“Audiences will see familiar parts of the state in Heartland, but they will also be transported and immersed in new experiences and ideas about place,” says Slade.

As well as unique, the sheer diversity of mediums and materials in Heartland makes it a standout contemporary showcase. In his piece Knowing The Interior, multidisciplinary

artist Paul Sloan combines photography, sculpture and six gouaches for a reflective installation on the history of Afghani camelliers in South Australia. Charcoal artist Kim Buck drew a six-foot long, five-panelled work titled Lithology in a metaphysical response to the idea of ‘landscape’ while living in the Blue Mountains.

“I started to see terrains in the figures I was drawing, in the folds of their clothing, the curves of their forms, the compositions of their bodies. There also some kind of indescribable reflection of the mountains in the feel of the figures… they somehow began to mirror the stillness, the grandeur and the deep time of those ancient escarpments,” Buck says.

Thanks to funding from the state government, artists involved in Heartland were paid a small fee to craft completely original works. Young artist Amy Joy Watson, for example, built and sewed a series of lightweight geometric sculptures out of balsa wood, suspending them in air using staggeringly large helium balloons. The aim of the work was to explore balance and gravity with a nod to childhood.

“There is a certain playfulness to the work, or perhaps a reference to a childlike imagination,” Watson offers. “Upon entering the installation you may feel as though you are intruding upon a party, and when you vacate they continue with their games.”

Heartland follows a number of successful contemporary showcases at the Art Gallery Of South Australia including Anna Platten, Parallel Collisions and the world-class Saatchi: British Art Now exhibition. Helmed by

Home On The Range The concept for Heartland invited artists to look within themselves and craft a work representing their own personal ideas of ‘home’. For Kim Buck, that was a difficult one to answer.

“This is a bit of an interesting question for me as at the moment, given that I have lived in three different states and five different houses in the past year and a bit,” says Buck. “As a natural homebody, all the shifting around has been unsettling, but it's also forced me to look beyond the bricks and mortar idea of a home and find it at a deeper level. I guess 'home' is more of a state of being for me now, and drawing or walking is how to get there.”

gallery director Nick Mitzevich, the next big contemporary showcase will come in March 2014 for the Adelaide Biennial.

Heartland will open on Fri Jun 21 and again on Fri Jun 28 for Departure with tickets available now through the art gallery website.

Guided tours will be available daily at 11am and 2pm at the information desk.

WHAT: Heartland WHERE: Art Gallery Of South Australia WHEN: Fri Jun 21 – Sun Sep 8 ENTRY: Free

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Intended by feature-débuting writer/director/producer Catriona McKenzie as a moving salute to Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout (1971) and filmed under difficult conditions, this is heartfelt enough to see you past the awkwardness, and the great David Gulpilil is very fine, if obviously frail, as our titular lad’s Grandad. Young Pete (Cameron Wallaby in his first film) lives with Jagamarra (Gulpilil) in an abandoned drive-in somewhere in the Bungle Bungle ranges (a location that looks genuine but was actually constructed for the shoot), and believes wholeheartedly that his long-absent mum will return for him, no matter what Grandad says. When the pair are ordered to relocate by a mining company (what else?), Pete and his rebellious mate Kalmain (the similarly-untested Joseph Pedley) hit the road to the big city to make

some kind of protest but are soon lost and experiencing their own walkabout, living off the land and setting into play a series of events that look to have been rather chopped-around in the final edit.

Capturing images of some truly beautiful countryside (which also looks scary enough to warrant Gulpilil’s line about how the land can “grab you”), McKenzie’s film features fairly unpolished playing by Wallaby and Pedley, and yet they’re roughly charming anyway. And Gulpilil, speaking English and a seemingly unspecified subtitled Aboriginal language, looks in poor health but nevertheless delivers a beautiful performance as he hunts goannas, wails to the stars and pretty much verbally acknowledges that, yes indeed, he did appear in a movie called Walkabout 40-plus years ago.

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The 25th Reich Mercury Cinema

Director/co-writer/co-producer Stephen Amis’ culty Aussie sci-fi-er The 25th Reich screens at the Mercury Cinema on Fri Jun 21 at 6.30pm, Sat Jun 22 at 7pm, Sat Jun 29 at 7pm and Sun Jun 30 at 4.30pm. Details: mercurycinema.org.au.

Adelaide Cinémathèque 2013 Mercury Cinema

Digging The American Underground offers two screenings at the Merc: the first, Flaming Creatures And Their Friends, on Thu Jun 27 at 7.30pm, has Jack Smith’s ‘notorious’ Flaming Creatures along with shorts by Stan Brakhage, Hollis Frampton and others, while the second, Scorpio Rising And Bringing Others To The Surface, on Mon Jul 1 at 7.30pm, has Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising with Andy Warhol’s Blow Job and more. Details: mercurycinema.org.au.

You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (M) Absolutely no one but now-90 director Alain Resnais could get away with a movie like this, especially one that gets into all the cerebral game-playing and performance-versusreality tricks that also feature in his most (in) famous pics, like (gulp!) 1961’s insufferably incomprehensible epic Last Year At Marienbad.

In a lovely opening montage, a huge cast of prestigious French actors (all playing ‘themselves’) are phoned by butler Marcellin (Andrzej Seweryn) and informed that director Antoine d’Anthac has died and that they must all gather at his home to fulfill his final wish.

And so Mathieu Amalric, Hippolyte Girardot, Michel Piccoli, Anne Consigny, Lambert Wilson, Resnais’ missus Sabine Azéma and others meet to view a video in which d’Anthac (Denis Podalydès) thanks them all for their previous efforts in his stage versions of Jean Anouilh’s Eurydice, and then announces a modern version of the play filmed in a grubby warehouse (a sequence actually filmed by Podalydès’ brother Bruno, as things get awfully ‘intertextual’ - and sorry about that).

And if you can guess that our cast of Parisian players begin mirroring the events on the screen and moving about d’Anthac’s mansion as they again act out Eurydice (and elements of Anouilh’s Cher Antoine Ou L’Amour Raté, if there’s some outside chance of you spotting them), then this could possibly be the colossally overintellectualised and higher-than-High-Art pic for you. But everyone else is advised to run screaming in the opposite direction - and très fast!

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After Earth (M)

A Lady In Paris (M)

This latest from executive producer/ co-writer/director M Night Shyamalan (pronounced ‘Sharm’ and also listed by jokers as ‘Shyamalanadingdong’) is neither as silly as The Happening nor as excruciating as The Last Airbender, yet it suffers terribly from unrelenting self-important humourlessness.

In a convoluted montage which could have been a movie in itself (and nearly was), we learn that the Earth was abandoned 1000 years ago after we messed it up bad (a very ‘70s plot notion) and humanity relocated on Nova Prime, a planet that looks rather like the deserts of California and New Mexico (funny about that) and was happy home to all until fear-feeding frog-crab-lizard monsters turned up and threatened us afresh. Commander Cypher Raige (Will Smith, also a producer and guest director, sort of ), however, helped fight the things with his refusal to give into fear, and a later bonding exercise with his son Kitai ( Jaden Smith, of course) leads to their crash-landing on Earth and Kitai’s 100km dash across the countryside to find a beacon, along the way encountering FX baboons, lions, giant condors and, just maybe, one of the escaped fear monsters brought along for training purposes (oops!).

A family affair, with Smiths and Pinketts throughout the credits, this has been accused of sneaky Scientological subtexts, but proves too damn dreary to bother analysing in serious detail, with Smith Sr and Jr both terminally dull and all the snazzy CGI stuff a yawn too. Stop the world, I want to get off…

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After the passing of her ailing mother, Estonian Anne (Laine Mägi) hesitantly accepts an opportunity to go to Paris to be a home carer for Frida (French darling Jeanne Moreau), a cantankerous old woman who refuses to accept that she needs help, is judgmental towards everyone, particularly blonde immigrants like Anne, and is only interested in the attention of Stéphane (Patrick Pineau), her former toy-boy who still loves her dearly, but who needs to prioritise his own life over Frida’s needs and wants.

Walking the Parisian streets alone, feeling unwanted and uncertain, Anne considers leaving Frida and going home, but Stéphane convinces the two women to give each other another chance and a shaky friendship begins.

Moreau plays the aging aristocrat as well as she does any role, and lead Mägi’s quiet but persevering presence is a solid front, smoothing out the bitterness, denial and sadness of Frida and Stéphane.

Director/co-writer Ilmar Raag’s story of a proud woman reluctant to admit that her best years are behind her is by no means an original concept - the themes of stubborn egos, fading youth and conflicting personalities can be found across a myriad of films from Sunset Boulevard to The Devil Wears Prada - but the French have a way of telling stories about nothing that no one else can touch, and this is no exception. Nothing specifically happens, but a life is presented well, and we are sweetly given just what we were promised; a lady, in Paris.

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Opening But Unrated The animated sequel Despicable Me 2 (G), again co-directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, once more features Steve Carell’s vocals, as well as Kristen Wiig’s, Ken Jeong’s, Steve Coogan’s and Russell Brand’s.

The animated prequel, Monsters University (G), this time directed by Dam Scanlon, offers voices by Billy Crystal and John Goodman (of course) alongside Steve Buscemi, John Krasinski, Aubrey Plaza and Helen Mirren.

World War Z (M), directed by Marc Forster and with very little to do with Max Brooks’ book (except for lots of zombies), showcases Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos and oodles of FX.

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As part of its commitment to provide you with ‘Everything you ever wanted to know about (Russian) Cinema but were too afraid to ask’, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror (Zerkalo) (PG) screens at the Merc on Fri Jun 21 at 11am. Details: mercurycinema.org.au.

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with Miranda Freeman

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Hills Cider Co. Unveils Winter Releases Thank god for The Hills Cider Company, who have have just released a new batch of delicious limited release ciders to make the winter months a little more bearable for us.

The new winter range includes the muchhyped Hybrid Series Honey Mead flavour, a drink inspired by mugs of warm mulled cider heated by the fireside, and the full-bodied Cloudy Oaked Apple. Most tantalising is the Oak Aged Nashi Pear, a cider that has spent

the last three years aging in old Chardonnay oak barrels to give it intense pear flavours with a delicious, woody taste. Only a handful of the Oak Aged Nashi Pear will be released, making it a drink for only the most passionate cider drinker.

All of the handcrafted ciders have been made from 100 percent local Adelaide Hills fruit, free from concentrate flavours and added sugars.

North Restaurant Winter Menu

Winter Menu At Public Public has unveiled a brand new winter menu boasting an impressive range of dishes made from South Australian produce in an eclectic mix of new and old-style cuisine.

Head Chef Stewart Wesson, who was awarded Australian Young Chef of the Year in 2012, has crafted a new belly-warming collection of dishes including the handmade gnocchi with roasted zucchini, almonds, tomato and ricotta-filled zucchini flowers; risotto with peas, pancetta, taleggio and poached eggs and the playful homemade pork shoulder pie with lard pastry served with mac and cheese.

To compliment the meals, Public has also put

a number of snacks on the menu including pickled baby radish with Adelaide Hills goats curd, beef carpaccio with crispy potato and kingfish sashimi.

The prices for the new winter menu range from $6 - $34. You can view the full menu at publiccbd.com.au.

WHAT: Public CBD WHERE: 12 Franklin St, Adelaide WHEN: Mon – Thu 7am – 5pm & Fri 7am – midnight INFO: 8231 8151

Wagyu beef. You see that appear on a menu and you immediately think things are looking up. However until you’ve tried authentic Wagyu beef, which comes with Japan’s seal of approval, you may be susceptible to overpricing. However, since North Restaurant, the Adelaide Casino’s signature restaurant, uses Wagyu beef from South Australia’s Limestone Coast’s Mayura station, which has been providing top quality Wagyu since 1998, there is no danger of being caught with a mouthful of disappointment. The Wagyu rump teamed with a Béarnaise sauce is sumptuously rich and tender, a highlight of North’s new winter menu created by new Chef de Cuisine Ashley Brandom. If steak’s not your thing then the market fish of the day with chorizo,

green beans, chargrilled Australian prawns and romesco sauce may be, the dish tying everything together with full, vibrant colours.

Pushing through to dessert is equally worth it, with the sticky rice with mandarin, coconut and lemongrass ice cream a fresh and clean way to top off one of the most most top quality meals you could enjoy this winter.

WHAT: North Restaurant WHERE: Adelaide Casino, North Tce WHEN: Mon – Thu 9am – 9.30pm, Fri 9am – 11pm, Sat 11am – 11pm & Sun 11am – 9.30pm CONTACT: 8218 4152

Eden Launches Blending Room Marina restaurant Eden has launched a new climate-controlled wine blending room, the first of its kind in-house in Australia.

The blending room has eight stainless steel wine storage tanks, each holding up to 100L of wine purchased directly from the barrel from local winemakers. The wine storage tanks are then connected to an argon gas system, which prevents the wine from oxidating. The blending room will be used for tasting flights, in which patrons can swill the latest releases from local cellar doors.

The new blending room joins Eden’s innovative aquaponics system, which the restaurant and bar use to grow fresh leafy greens for their dining menu. The ingenious system involves a soil bed placed above their fish tank, allowing the nutrients from the tank to be

soaked into the soil fertilising the plants with clean water then funnelled back into the tank.

Alongside growing their own herbs, Eden’s kitchen has a strong focus on home made products with the staff churning their own butter, baking their own bread, rolling their own pasta, curing their own meat and pickling their own vegetables weekly. Head on down and try the new winter menu for yourself.

WHAT: Eden Dining Room & Bar WHERE: Shop 6, Lights Landing, Holdfast Shores, Glenelg WHEN: Tue – Thu 5pm – 11.30pm, Fri 12pm – 12.30am, Sat 8am – 12.30am & Sun 8am – 11.30pm INFO: edendiningroom.com

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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04 The mind is a mischievous servant when the master is absent. The master is a wellintentioned heart that is ablaze with awareness. Without this, the thinking process on its own is prone to leading us on wild goose chases. Watch out for such things. Mercury is being a trickster.

Cancer 22.06/22.07 Life has you hooked into some powerful emotional currents. There are significant astrological allies in the sky egging you on to go deep.

Go deep. Immerse yourself completely in your great loves.

Passion is bound to hit the occasional speed bump. Prepare for all contingencies.

Leo 23.07/22.08

Virgo 23.08/22.09

Scorpio 24.10/21.11 The moon adds a dance to your step. In Virgo, it provides you with the feeling of ground beneath your feet. Life is giving the impression of openness and possibility. Take the arms of your dance partner, stay close and be whisked around the dance floor. Life is intoxication enough.

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Mimby Jones Robinson Mimby Robinson is a local visual artist and wall muralist who has been painting for over 10 years. Having recently returned to Adelaide after decorating the streets of London for a year, this Tue Jul 9 she will officially open an exhibition of her latest works, VagabonDreaming, at Suzi Wong’s Room. Eschewing vibrant colours with triangular patterns, Robinson’s portraiture details intimate moments emphasised through languid brushstrokes, paint drips and a dreamlike wash. The opening night will be accompanied by live acoustic music from Robyn ‘Tricksey’ Hall and Mark Pethick, face painting and lots of delicious food and drink.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 There’s no getting around the fact that this is an astrologically curly week. There’s blessings to the left and chasms with rope bridges to cross to the right.

You are in the thick of it. It is your innate mutability, your capacity to turn on a sixpence, that will be your blessing here.

Capricorn 22.12/19.01

WHAT: Mimby Jones Robinson WHERE: Suzi Wong’s Room, 120 Port Rd, Hindmarsh WHEN: Tue Jul 9 – Tue Jul 16 OPENING: Tue Jul 9 from 6pm – late

As long as you remember that whatever you are going through is part of a grand cosmic self-awareness conspiracy, you will shine. The wildness and hardiness of the goat is legendary. The horn of plenty, the cornucopia, is a goat's horn. Find bounty under all conditions.

Aquarius 20.01/18.02 Somehow, though mud is flying, nothing sticks. You are a living incarnation of one of the new organic versions of Teflon. That doesn’t mean that it’s appropriate to take your eye off the ball. It means that you get to enjoy walking through a busy planetary intersection, unscathed.

Pisces 19.02/20.03 The moon in Virgo will do all it can to wake you from your sleep. Now is not the time to bliss out and disconnect.

Though it’s easy to get lost in a fluffy ball of positivity, there are a few snags under the water that require your full attention to navigate. Be feline - calm and alert.

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Departure At Heartland Show your dedication to our sunburnt country at Departure this Fri Jun 28 as the Art Gallery Of South Australia throws a late night fiesta to celebrate the opening of its most optimistic contemporary art exhibition yet, Heartland. Featuring a bevy of leading local artists showcasing their varying interpretations of ‘home’, Departure At Heartland will allow ticketholders to be among the first to view the works afterhours alongside live music and DJs and inclusive food and drink. There will also be a collaborative art competition and love song dedications. Tickets for Departure At Heartland are available now for $60 ($45 for members) through the Art Gallery Of South Australia website. The event is 18-plus.

WHAT: Departure At Heartland WHERE: Art Gallery Of South Australia WHEN: Fri Jun 28 from 6pm – 10pm TICKETS: $60 / $45 members INFO: artgallery.sa.gov.au

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The moon begins its week in Virgo. This charges you up and pulls your energy deep down into the womb of mother earth.

The earth is where you get your vitality from. Curiosity and communication will both serve you well. Ask questions from a place of innocence.

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This week is a maze. There are openings that will lead you to bliss and happiness. And there are obstacles that will lead to a genuine state of befuddlement.

The best way to navigate all this, is to be aware of the fact from the very start, that you are going to meet both possibilities.

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Venus is in Cancer. This brings to light both the well-spring of emotion that is forming in your heart, and the walls of pride that prevent it from flowing freely.

It’s starting to become obvious that flow rather than pride is the better option to take. Be vulnerable and be open.

Gemini 21.05/21.06 As hard as you’d like to keep it straight-forward and logical, the more emotional it all becomes. It’s time for acknowledging and honouring your buried twin. She is full of feeling and stock-full of emotionality. She is also capable of great happiness, if given permission to be herself.

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Taurus 21.04/20.05 It’s a rather odd and contrary week. There are planetary flows and there are planetary obstacles. Be aware of the obstacles and trust in your capacity to flow around them.

Assume that the flow is bigger than the obstacles. If it’s the other way round, you are bound to get entangled.

with Sudhir

Fashion //

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with Lachlan Aird

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- A NIGHT OF FASHION

Serge DeNime Attitude Magazine Winter Edition Out On The Street In winter we find we have more time on our hands. Whether that be trying to keep warm, incubating under a small mountain of blankets or cancelling plans due to unruly weather, finding things to do and places to go during the colder months can be tricky. Here’s where Attitude Magazine has stepped in with its biggest issue to date. There’s over 100 pages of content, including a feature on leading McLaren Vale and Adelaide Hills wineries, a rundown on some of Adelaide’s favourite coffee destinations, a look at the new faces for 2013 from Pride and Finesse, a photo shoot and interview with international rising star April Tiplady, an interview with New York duo MS MR and a detailed insight into the upcoming A Night Of Fashion At The Art Gallery Of South Australia. Find it on the street or read it online at attitudemagazine.com.au.

Oliver Proudlock – yep, that dude from Made In Chelsea – has his T-shirt line that he has been working on since 2011 to keep him busy when he isn’t causing mischief among London’s social elite. Serge DeNimes' name relates back to the French origins of denim – which was originally called serge de Nimes, and was soon shortened to denim. A recent SDN fashion line was inspired by photographs taken in 1978 that revolve around Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival by Douglas Villiers and his prominent photographer mother Lena Proudlock. Serge DeNimes now boasts T-shirts, sweatshirts and accessories in its range, with the brand supporting charities including Barrier Vasco, which helps support struggling residents of the Rio de Janeiro community and British Heart, Britain’s heart charity. This takes the guilt off thinking you’re helping further support the privileged Chelsea socialites, but rather helping support communities in two very different parts of the world.

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Made In Chelsea At Zhivago Even though Jamie Laing couldn’t make it due to the mumps and being denied entry onto the plane to Australia (a Made In Chelsea/Border Security cross-over special?) his playboy partners-in-crime, Spencer Matthews and Oliver Proudlock still made it to the “pardy”. The event, hosted by Zhivago, saw the Made In Chelsea stars rubbing shoulders with the Adelaide public.

Here’s some of Adelaide’s own from the crowd who wouldn’t look out of place in Chelsea.

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Reviews //

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Culture

DVD Reviews

You Will Meet A Tall For A Good Time, Dark Stranger Call…

Umbrella / M / 98 Mins

Universal / MA / 84 Mins

Godzilla Millennium Series Boxset Madman / PG / 617 Mins

Made before Midnight In Paris and To Rome With Love but lost in his late-70s flurry of activity, writer/director Woody Allen’s multi-character piece is again set in London and explores his favourite subjects: relationships, creativity and getting old. Two married couples create four plot threads: Helena (Gemma Jones) is shocked when her husband Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) leaves her and takes advice from a fraud psychic (Pauline Collins); Alfie finds himself driven crazy by the dim young ‘floozy’ he ends up with, Charmaine (Lucy Punch, a little embarrassing); Helena’s arty daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) also resents her husband Roy ( Josh Brolin), a former literary wunderkind who hasn’t turned out his second novel after decades and, as their bond sours further, she’s drawn to her boss Greg (Antonio Banderas); and Roy, in the thread here that’s most complicated and improbable, both steals a friend’s brilliant manuscript and chases neighbour Dia (Freida Pinto), who doesn’t seem to mind that he’s a miserable bastard. Meaner-spirited than many Allen outings, and with some of his dubious women characters, this is still mostly amiable enough, with particularly fine work from Slumdog Millionaire star Pinto. Is she the one the curious title refers to?

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Bookshelf The Local Wildlife Robert Drewe / Hamish Hamilton / 245pp / $29.99

Drewe’s latest, another interconnecting series of short stories like his universityfavouring The Bodysurfers yet largely autobiographical and considerably lighter and funnier in tone, mostly follows a series of his experiences in the Northern Rivers area of NSW, with a few exceptions (like the seemingly imagined The Fish Taxidermist). Intriguingly-titled highlights include: The Camel Dialogues, one of many depictions of oddball neighbours; the straightforward The Carnal Needs Of The Echidna; Concerning The Paralysis Tick and The Attraction Of Crocodiles, both fearing and celebrating dangerous animals; and The Unfair Lot Of The Drongo, which follows the plight of that dopey bird but also ponders whatever happened to that wonderful Aussie insult (see also ‘galah’). And then there’s Visitors, which leaves you wondering: did Drewe’s barging-in and unnamed ‘friends’ actually wind up reading it, and how did they feel about the biting jokes about their beerguts and piercings?

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This 16-day-wonder from director Jamie Travis is the naughty brainchild of co-writer/co-producer/star Lauren Anne Miller, who enlisted lots of pals to appear in cameos and even gets her husband Seth Rogen to turn up as a foul-mouthed pilot who’s, shall we say, multi-tasking in the men’s. LAM’s rather prim Lauren Powell gets dumped and needs a place to live at the same time that the more outrageous Katie Steele (Ari Graynor) must find cash quick, and a mutual ‘fabulous’ buddy ( Justin Long) unites the pair and regrets it, as both girls remember a party from 10 years back after which Katie came to grief with a cup of urine. However, Lauren and Katie become flatmates, ‘frenemies’, and then chums, as they set up a ‘phone sex’ business and start raking in cash, without seeming to realise that no one engages in such ventures these days given the predominance of free smut online. Ah well, it hardly matters, as this has a raucously rude edge, lovely playing from Miller and Graynor and funny roles for Long, Mimi Rogers and Don McManus as Lauren’s equally uptight parents, and writer/ director/producer/actor/raconteur Kevin Smith as a cabbie getting some rather brazen jollies.

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‘The Original Monster Of Mass Destruction’, the radiation-spawned, citystomping, hugely-popular-for-60ish-years Godzilla, has starred in almost 30 features in Japan alone, and this six-disc set has surely been released to coincide with news of the latest attempt to bring the beast to life in another US version (and the release of Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim too, which owes an awful lot to Godzilla). And while these 2000-and-after films are mightier in scale, more pointed in their anti-Americanism and have considerably more elaborate modern FX, the star himself/herself stubbornly remains an overworked stuntman in a padded monster suit — but, come on, fans would not have it any other way! The films in question: Godzilla 2000, the rebirth and rebooting after the disastrous 1998 American version; Godzilla Vs Megaguirus; the fabulously titled (in English anyway) Godzilla, Mothra And King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack; the third pic with the title Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla (the bastard just won’t lie down!); Godzilla: Tokyo SOS; and the grand ( Japanese) finale Godzilla: Final Wars, in which The Big G pointedly meets the wimpy 1998 New York version and destroys it in seconds. (With trailers, stills and more as special features).

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Love Story Madman / M / 92 Mins

Director/co-writer/topliner/cocinematographer Florian Habicht’s flight of New-York-saturated fancy looks like it was cobbled together out of almost nothing in only a few weeks, which it was, and yet there’s much here that’s engagingly sweet, biting and nutty. Infatuated with a mysterious woman (Masha Yakovenko as ‘herself ’) he sees incongruously carrying a slice of cake on the subway, German/ New Zealander Florian tracks her down and, as the title suggests, they start a goofy relationship. However, there’s more going on here, as this also works as a fictionalisation of that genuine partnership, a deconstruction of the romantic comedy genre and a memorable study of modern attitudes to love and sex, as Florian seeks the advice of multicultural, always unscripted and winningly wise New Yorkers, whose suggestions as to how to keep the ‘plot’ going guide us to a climax, of sorts, that does disappoint just a little (but what did we expect when that’s what always happens in love stories when ‘reality’ keeps intruding?).

Continually commenting upon itself, Habicht’s decidedly uncategorisable and gleefully oddball no-budgeter has been labelled Woody Allen-ish, but it isn’t really — and thankfully. (Special features include deleted scenes, the short film Liebesträume, and more).

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Tainted Love Stage Adelaide’s Spotlight Theatre Company is proudly presenting the world premiere of award-winning playwright Johnny Grim’s latest work, Tainted Love, at Holden Street Theatres in Hindmarsh until the end of June.

The work, which will feature local actors Tina Cini, Theresa Dolman, Maxine Grubel and Joanna Webb under the direction of Spotlight’s Tony Moore, tells the funny tale of four women friends – three of them separated and the other still married – who come together when the married one elects to leave her husband of many years.

Tainted Love is from the pen of Manchester-born playwright Johnny Grim, who now resides in WA where he runs independent theatre company A Lad Insane and who has since had his work staged in his homeland.

“I’d met Tony Moore from Spotlight online and asked if I could submit some of my plays,” Grim says. “Apparently they had a read-through of Tainted Love and everyone loved it. So it’s always good when that happens and a company then wants to stage one of your plays.

“Obviously I told them to go for it and I’m now coming over to Adelaide for the opening weekend,” he adds. “I really need to thank Spotlight first-hand because they have been a great help in getting the play staged in Australia for the first time.”

The play came about following Grim’s success with Profound Moments, a one-act comedy about four women from Belfast that was a big hit in 2011 during a festival

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in Perth of one-act plays.

“People then said I should write a longer play about four different women,” he reveals.

“So I did, but set Tainted Love in a house in Manchester instead of a Belfast pub. And don’t ask me why I set it in the north of England. It just happened that way.”

The play’s press release makes great mention of a garden gnome.

“Well, the woman in what looks to be a very happy marriage leaves when her husband decides to buy a gnome but can’t quite decide which one has the right personality,” Grim reveals. “It’s just a catalyst for her leaving, of course, but what follows is quite funny.”

Tainted Love takes it title from the 1965 Gloria Jones song which became much more well-known when English electronic duo Soft Cell recorded it some 15 years later. It’s not the only play in Grim’s extensive canon that bears the title of a song, however, as others

have included The Last Waltz, A Little Help From My Friends, Stairway To Heaven and Jump.

“I just love music,” the playwright laughingly admits, “and I find that by dropping in a few lyrics or a key line of a song into a play helps make the audience more receptive.

“And it’s just a fun play that doesn’t have any kind of take home message,” Grim concludes. “It’s just a lot of fun and I’m sure audiences will enjoy it.”

WHAT: Tainted Love WHERE: The Arch, Holden Street Theatres WHEN: Thu Jun 20 until Sat Jun 29 at 8pm

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Your guide to the student experience

with Samuel Smith

Dear sweet lord, the holidays are finally upon us. After slaving away all semester, we are now released. All I want to do is sit back, burn all of my uni books (just kidding *nervous laughter*) and relax. Even though I’ll probably just spend most of my holiday watching daytime television, wallowing in laziness, and complaining that I have nothing to do, right now I’m pretty much over the moon.

However if, unlike me, you’re not prepared to let your brain enter a holiday-induced state of zen, I’ve rounded up a range of courses and workshops from Voiceworks and the SA Writers’ Centre, guaranteed to keep your brains buzzing for weeks.

HOW DO I GET PUBLISHED? Voiceworks Workshop

Hey! Student Vox Pop Emily Smith

How do I get published? – the age-old and undeniably terrifying question on the mind of every creative writing student.

A lot of us are nearing the end of our degrees, which unfortunately means that our days of sleeping 'til 12, eating nothing but two-minute noodles, having ridiculously fast metabolisms, and living off our parents may be coming to an end.

For many of us, adulthood is angry, and it’s preparing to bitch-slap us in the face.

Thankfully Voiceworks, in conjunction with the SA Writers’ Centre, want to help soften the blow. On Thu Jul 4, Voiceworks

editor, Kat Muscatt will be holding a workshop at the SA Writers’ Centre dealing with the elusive question: How do I get published? Kat will attempt to answer all/ any questions you’ve been dying to ask about the publishing industry, and will give a brief run-down on how to approach different types of publications, how to tailor your writing to different audiences, and how to avoid many problems that young writers face. Following the workshop, the latest issue of Voiceworks will be launched with readings from local talent. Later on in the evening the floor will be yours, giving

I’m studying: Bachelor of Psychological Science at the University Of Adelaide.

When uni’s over I want to: Live on a tropical island.

In my spare time I: Avoid my parents.

Something I currently love: Thermal T-shirts.

Something I currently hate: The return of the Furby.

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SA Writers’ Centre Courses Over the next two months the SA Writers’ Centre is going into overdrive, holding a whole heap of writing classes on a wide range of topics. Now that holidays are upon us, why not take a few days out of your work/doing nothing schedule to improve your writing skills? While I whole-heartedly recommend copious amounts of Dr Phil, Wife Swap USA, and other daytime television viewing (Teen Mom anyone?), a bit of academic balance surely wouldn’t go astray.

On Sat Jun 22, author Kerryn Goldsworthy will be holding a workshop about place. The workshop will teach you how to construct vibrant, vivid settings, guaranteed to capture your readers’ imaginations. Whether you’re a fiction or non-fiction writer, the ability to write about place is one of the

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you a chance to mingle with industry professionals, like-minded writers, and Voiceworks contributors. There will also be access to a bar (score).

WHAT: How To Get Published Workshop WHERE: Atrium, SA Writers’ Centre, Level 2, 187 Rundle St WHEN: Thu Jul 4 at 5pm INFO: RSVP is essential. Contact admin@sawriters.org.au or 8223 7662

most powerful tools an author can possess.

The workshop will run from 10am-4pm and costs $150.

On Sat Jun 29, Danae Sinclair will be holding a workshop on writing for the web.

Pretty much all of us use the internet, but not all of us know how to write for the web, or for web-based publications. This half-day workshop aims to get you thinking about language and style and their place in the world of online writing. You’ll be exploring the way we read text online, learning how to structure content, and how to refine it so that it appeals to as many readers as possible. The workshop will run from 10am-1pm and costs $80.

On Sat Jul 6, international award-winning journalist and lecturer at UniSA, Renata Provenzano, will be holding a feature writing workshop. Learn how to structure your articles, capture your readers’ attention, and write with your own unique style. Renata will also explain how to develop a story idea, conduct research for your article, interview sources, and pitch to magazines.

The workshop will run from 1pm-4pm and costs $80.

If you’re doing a writing-based course at uni, these workshops will undoubtedly give you the upper-hand. Just imagine the smug looks you’ll be able to shoot your classmates when the HDs start to roll in.

All workshops will be held at the SA Writers’ Centre, and are definitely worth checking out. You can find more info, and details on a load of other workshops at sawriters.org.au.

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CD Of The Week

Singles

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Raven Black Night

The Sun And The Sky

Barbarian Winter

Already One

(Metal Blade)

(The A&R Department)

Adelaide band The Sun And The Sky bring it with their latest single Already One. The track delivers a heavy dose of synth with trademark indie-rocker lament. Already One masters modern pop melodies with just a dash of angst. Singer Pearce claims the song is about “finding that connection with people we love in spite of all the hurt that we inevitably face”. Missed connections are a little bit easier to endure with this as your jam. The Sun And The Sky are the depressive’s answer to British India. Don’t just listen to the track. Go see them. Go see them now.

Midnight Juggernauts Memorium (Remote Control)

Melbourne band Midnight Juggernauts reach ungodly levels of terrible in their new single Memorium. The psychedelic sci-fi garbage overlays the dark synth vibe until it becomes utterly unbearable. The Midnight Jugger-nots manage to capture the sound of unqualified misery. Save yourself the pain, do not listen. If the ‘futuristic’ vibe within this record even remotely resembles the future of the music industry, I’m out.

Laura Imbruglia

Jinja Safari (Independent/Island) 4 stars

What tight little jams these are!

Spicy coconut flavoured jams. Exquisite production makes Jinja’s self-titled debut record twinkle and glow. It’s a glorious layer-cake of incredible, exotic sounds

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that very rarely disappoints.

The self-titled record comes with worldly flavours that don’t seem forced or naff. Overall, Jinja Safari is bright, honest and beautifully executed.

Apple storms into the record with a wake-me-up sense of urgency complete with playful lyrics. Its deeply complex musical scenery tumbles and sways under the cool push of dozens of instruments and vocal quirks.

Just One Thing is like lying on your back in a lake at night: glittery stars above and cool black water below. The lullaby smoothness is coaxed along by a gentle rhythm section and sweet vocals.

Closing the whole affair is the tremendous Bay Of Fires that swells and dances with a smile on its face. The final track fearlessly strides to the finish line in joyful triumph. It’s a heart-stopping end to the record, thrilling with carefree delight.

This record gives and gives again, peaking at the beginning, in the middle and at the end. Jinja Safari will make you happy.

Ilona Wallace

It’s always a good thing when a local band chugs away; doing their thing for many years, and then finally, things comes good. That’s exactly what’s happened to bluesy epic metal act Raven Black Night, who have just got themselves signed to the prestigious metal label Metal Blade, and are seeing the fruits of their labours enjoyed all over the metal world. For their Metal Blade debut, the band has pulled out all the stops, producing a melodic epic metal battle between good and evil, taking the listener on a journey from the depths of grinding bluesy metal to lighter bouts of melodic bliss. The band has included a few older tunes that appeared on some of their earlier independent releases, as well as some rocking new tracks adding to the brilliant opus. Right from the word go, you know you’re in for an epic journey, with dual guitars creating a massive wall of sound that is both classic and familiar as well as refreshing and new. There are elements of all the metal legends here, like Sabbath, Zeppelin, Maiden and more, covering the realms of blues, psychedelic rock, and beyond, all with a hard metal edge. There’s a great balance of light and shade, fast and slow, plenty of solos and never ending riffs, all of which will make you smile.

Luke Balzan

(Ready Freddie/MGM)

Natalie Imbruglia’s indie rocking kid sister brings 1950s crooner back into fashion with her single Awoooh. Think Route 66, swing skirts, vanilla milkshakes and a good dose of heart ache. Imbruglia wails and whines throughout the ditty, accompanied by a rashinducing twang of a guitar track. Imbruglia channels Cheap Trick, whining ‘I want you to want me.’ A horrendous country ballad is not the most effective method of seduction, Laura.

Holy Ghost!

Dumb Disco Ideas (DFA)

Dumb Disco Ideas live up to their name.

The song itself is okay. A throwback to the heyday of pop, it has a beach-party-in-the'80s vibe. However, with Holy Ghost!'s latest nearing eight minutes play time, Dumb Disco Ideas proves that there can be too much of an okay thing.

Preston Pierce C’est La Vie (Homespun Records)

C’est La Vie might not be the worst thing in music history, but it remains a serious contender. This is the creme de la creme of awful. The grotesque combination of an orchestra with white guy rapping offends the ears. This single makes Vanilla Ice look like a lyrical genius. Nuff said.

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Kate Miller-Heidke Live Review

Flinders St Baptist Church, Fri Jun 14 Review by Melissa Keogh Pics by Andreas Heuer

Whether you’re a believer or non-believer, walking into a place of worship can be a humbling, soul-soothing experience.

However, it’s a little hard not to feel slightly nervous when a pop songstress takes a church’s centre stage, as often-mainstream pop is revolved around getting shifty in ‘da cloob’ and being rowdy on the weekends. But knowing Kate Miller-Heidke’s lyrical history there were no raised eyebrows, with the pintsized beauty delivering a breathtaking and pure performance, even changing the line in Can’t Shake It from ‘I execute the moonwalk like I stepped in shit’ to a safer ‘stepped in it’.

Before Kate took to the stage, Sydneysider Brendan Maclean, who recently starred as Klipspringer in The Great Gatsby, opened the show armed with nothing but his voice, keyboard and ukulele talents. Maclean’s performance was highly theatrical and amusing at times, with Stupid and Beat Me To it, which reflect on heartbreak caused by dumb exes, pulling giggles from every corner of the church.

Accompanied by her partner and guitarist, Keir Nuttall, Miller-Heidke then came on sporting a white tutu skirt and a teased ponytail perched on the side of her head.

Kate’s cutesy image was soon diluted with her

Reviews // Quick Ones

Born Ruffians

Kieran Ryan

Stone Sour

Birthmarks

Kieran Ryan

House of Gold And Bones (Part 2)

(Yep Roc Records)

(Spunk)

(Roadrunner Records)

It is almost impossible to admit how perfect the title of Born Ruffians’ third studio album is. Birthmarks is the collection of several musings spawned from time that the band spent together in their rural Ontario farmhouse. This is the place where they, ahem, gave birth, to their debut album Red, Yellow & Blue. More literally though, the album title draws inspiration from matching birthmarks shared by lead singer Luke Lalonde and his girlfriend.

It’s an endearing trait from the frontman, and endearing is probably the best way to describe Born Ruffians on this album. Birthmarks traipses through the galaxy of riffs and vocal chants to try and engage the listener. This is one reason why any slight variation throughout the album is pleasure to the ears. The slinky bass and darting vocal of Permanent Hesitation and the surprising comedown of Golden Promises are the most prominent examples. However, the album’s production, led by Roger Leavens, lends itself to very glossy overtones more suited to the bashful pop that Born Ruffians work so well within.

That endearing element means Born Ruffians get away with more than they should on Birthmarks, lead single Needle a perfectly catchy example. That said, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a cornier title this year.

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Last time we heard from Kieran Ryan, he was preaching some of the most classical lyricism in recent times as frontman for family-duo Kid Sam. He, along with cousin Kishore Ryan, incepted the use of saucepans and metal bowls as instruments, creating a sound that epitomised minimalism. On his own, Ryan finds comfort in a sound that has been institutionalised by messrs Kelly and Forster. Whether it works or not though is initially hard to tell.

The album begins with ambient, mountainous Out Of Africa. It feels like an expeditious introduction into this project for Ryan, who has obviously worked hard on this album since Kid Sam disbanded in 2011. With the help of Myles Wootton of The Panics on production duties, the album contains many quirks and cynical jibes that depict Ryan’s unique brand of storytelling. Longer tracks place the lyrics at the forefront, like Building A Snowman, one of the most emotive tracks Ryan has conjured to date.

If you were a Kid Sam fan you won’t be too disappointed by this album. That said, the balance of musicianship and lyricism is quite different here, clearly outweighed by the former. If you can deal with hearing Ryan over the top of more than two instruments, you’re on a winner.

Sam Reynolds

When Stone Sour first made it big back in 2002 they were just another hard rock band – they weren’t doing anything special and were kind of riding on Slipknot’s fame. Since then they have developed their own identity and have begun writing much more melodic and music as far from singer Corey Taylor and guitarist James Root’s other band – Slipknot. In 2012 Taylor began Tweeting and teasing their newest and riskiest project to date – the two album concept album based around a story written by Taylor himself.

The first part of the story was a terrific album on its own and when you mix the new album in, it becomes great. The songs themselves aren’t really anything special and aren’t anything that Stone Sour haven’t done before. Basically it’s hard rock mixed with a few softer and heavier songs to balance it out.

If you look at the album in its parts it definitely has its moments, but in order to truly appreciate it you have to read the narrative in the booklet and actually listen to and follow the story. This isn’t an album that you put on in the background – this is a really cerebral album and needs to be treated as such.

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operatic quirk as she belted out an angelic warm up hitting notes so high the glass windows seemed to flinch in fear of cracking.

The performance then went on to showcase a variety of songs backtracking from all three of her solo studio albums, including Nightflight tracks The Devil Wears A Suit and The Tiger Inside Will Eat The Child, as well as old favourites Politics In Space and Caught In The Crowd.

Most impressively, this Heavenly Sounds show touched on a variety of themes with each song having a strong underlying narrative, as was the case with the beautiful In The Dark, which told of dealing with death and grief. Red face moments were also touched upon with Kate fittingly introducing Humiliation with the story of her classic Wil Anderson and Adam Hills mix-up after a few too many beers in The Garden Of Unearthly Delights earlier this year.

The beauty and breathlessness of the church’s pretty lights and holy aura soon turned eerie with Sarah – a song recounting the true story of a friend of Kate's disappearance at a music festival.

Except for the odd tambourine bashing, Kate Miller-Heidke proved she’s a no pullout-all-the-bells-and-whistles kind of act, as she was able to wow her audience for over an hour with nothing but the power of her voice. Proving that good things come in small packages, Kate’s small stature does nothing to reserve her huge voice, as heavenly sounds this lady sure makes.

The Men New Moon (Spunk)

A ton of movies have employed the overused ‘twist-ending’. It’s a mindfuck that practically guarantees to leave the audience believing they just witnessed an incredible film.

The sad reality is that many of these films are mediocre stories that have tricked us into thinking they were something, when really they were nothing. We’ve seen it countless times with varying degrees of success: Bruce Willis was dead the entire time, Vader was Luke’s father, Edward Norton was Tyler Durden.

Audiences have become desensitised to the ‘twist’; arguably to the point where we’ve come to expect it. So it’s good to know that music is still one medium that can pull off this sleight of hand effectively. New Moon, the latest offering from American band, The Men, is a record with so many twists and turns it will leave you reeling from an overload of awesomeness. Shifting from post-punk to surf-rock to doowop to country, the record is an auditory chameleon that no one will see coming.

Well, I guess now you will. My bad.

Ryan Lynch

Telekinesis Dormarion (Merge)

Like any person who is younger than me and finds a reasonable amount of success doing something that I would envy, I want to punch Michael Benjamin Lerner in the face.

I find comfort in imagining myself mangling his smug mug with my fists.

Unfortunately I dislike confrontation, so all I have are the tiny pitchforks that are my words to exact my revenge.

Dormarion is Lerner’s third album as Telekinesis, and he has opted for the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach to songwriting. Anyone familiar with Telekinesis will immediately recognise the quiet/loud formula and sensitive lyrics he has employed in the past.

This has earned Lerner comparisons to beta-male favourites Death Cab For Cutie, which is appropriate, since he is Ben Gibbard’s doppelganger complete with scruffy beard and nerdy, thick-framed glasses. So if you’ve got a hard-on for dumpy, slightly overweight hipsters with a heart of gold, this record is for you!

Ryan Lynch

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Local Launches

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by Robert Dun stan Adelaide indie rock band The Rocketeers, who liken their sound to that of British acts Arctic Monkeys, The Wombats and Two Door Cinema Club, are all set to launch their debut single, Manic Pixie Dream Girl, alongside good friends The Byzantines and The Viennas.

Cam McTernan, who plays guitar and sings in the band alongside bass player Leon La Posta, guitarist Dan McPharlin and drummer Jack Thomson, says they formed a couple of years ago when he and La Posta were at university.

“Leon and I were jamming together at music classes and each semester we had to create a one-off band,” McTernan says.

“We always had fun playing together so

we decided to get a band together once we finished uni. While it’s all been quite a steep learning curve, a lot of people have been really positive about what we are doing.”

The Rocketeers engaged the services of well-known and much-respected local producer and sound technician Matt Hills to produce their recording.

“It was funny because Matt had produced a friend’s band, Horror My Friend, and we thought it would be great to work with him,” McTernan says. “While we were figuring out how to ask him, Matt ending up mixing us one night for a gig at the Crown & Anchor and actually asked us if he could produce anything for us.”

The band will launch Manic Pixie Dream Girl at Rhino Room.

“I have always loved everything about Rhino Room – from the paintings on the walls through to the fact that it’s not just a live band room,” McTernan says. “I love that it has lots

of different things going on and is almost like a cultural centre. I feel like when you are lining up to enter the place, there’s a real sense of excitement about a gig at Rhino Room.”

Future plans for the band include possible trips to Sydney and Melbourne and the release of another single and an EP before the end of the year.

“We’d also like to play in Naracoorte,” McTernan concludes with a laugh. “That may sound funny but Jack [Thomsondrums] and I are both country boys who are originally from there and everyone wants us to come back and play.”

Es Ist Super Single Launch WHO: The Rocketeers (with The Viennas and The Byzantines) WHAT: Manic Pixie Dream Girl (Independent) WHERE: Rhino Room WHEN: Sat Jun 22

by Robert Dun stan “The Irresponsibles have always been one of my favourite bands,” the organiser says of the Adelaide act lead by singer Miranda Mazurek and who released their debut album, Let It Out, in 2010. “It’s been good to see them recently do so well interstate.

“Your Motive For have been together for 10 years but going through a pretty big change at the moment. They are in the process of reinventing themselves with a new bass player and a new name, The Motive, but they’ll be playing as Your Motive For at the birthday bash and dragging out some old favourites along with new material.”

There will also be two acoustic acts opening up the night on what will be the shortest day of the year.

“Paul Platt plays in Tomorrow Is, but two members are overseas at the moment,” Bowman reveals. “So Paul has agreed to do a solo set, which will be a first for him. Stu Daniels works

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with a great band called Rocketbox but played one of my acoustic shows a few years back and absolutely blew everyone away with his talent.

What he can do with just an acoustic guitar and his voice is amazing.”

Bowman, who does it all for fun and his love of the Adelaide music scene with the profits being ploughed back into organising the next event, has also been involved in the release of several compilation CDs for the 2009 and 2010 Fuse Festival.

“It’s also nice to see that there’s still a few of my Small Stage Big Songs floating around,” he concludes. “That was recorded live at the Grace Emily with 12 local bands over a month-long period.”

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“Every time I head back to Adelaide I put on another show,” Bowman says, “That’s not happened recently so I’m really looking forward to this one. The Grace Emily is like my second home since I first started going there.”

The four-way bill will feature acoustic acts Stu Samuels and Paul Platt alongside rock bands The Irresponsibles (pictured) and Your Motive For.

Connoisseurs of warm indie dance, Es Ist Super are launching their new single This Release at Rocket Bar on Fri Jun 21. The single is an electro dream of jangly pop rhythms guaranteed to help you forget about the gloomy weather outside and will be a sure-fire winner with hipsters with their collars done up and their manic pixie dream girl counterparts. Joining them for the party will be Gung Ho, performing a DJ set, and live sets by The Byzantines and Artis.

Heston Drop EP Launch

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Martin ‘Rockdog’ Bowman resides in NSW but when he lived in Adelaide he became heavily involved in the local music scene and put on many events. It’s the seventh birthday weekend of his production company, Rockdog Productions, so he’s heading back to celebrate and has organised yet another free entry music bash at the Grace Emily.

Teaming up with Sydney metal band Lord for their Digital Lies album tour, local metal act Alkira will also launch their new EP Red Devil at Fowler’s Live on Fri Jun 21.

Things are looking to explode for Alkira, as they have also scored a local support slot for metal juggernauts Fear Factory when they touch down in Adelaide next month as well as for Municipal Waste on Thu Jun 20 at Fowler’s Live. Along for the ride on Fri Jun 21 are Truth Corroded, Thekillbotfactory, Matronarch, Devonera and Dyssidia.

Sunface is the new EP from local goalkickers Heston Drop, which they’ll be launching at Jive on Fri Jun 28 with fellow local buddies Gemini Downs and The Byzantines. The $10 entry not only allows you to catch the gig but you can also take home a copy of the EP, which features five brand new tracks. If you're busy on Friday, you can still catch Heston Drop at the Tea Tree Gully Hotel, where they will be performing with Young Offenders, Weekday Wolves and Kindergarten Kings.

Affairs Of Men Launch A new inclusion to the local alternative rock scene, four-piece Affairs Of Men, are primed and ready to take the stage. The band will be making their debut at The Metro on Fri Jun 21, with bands kicking off from 9pm. Entry is $6.

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