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This Edition// Perhaps influenced by the oncoming winter chill, this week’s issue focuses on trading sickly sweet pop crooners for some acts who tackle music with a bit more of a thornier approach. On the cover you’ll see a band perfectly representing this idea, Babyshambles. Hailing from the seedy squalor of the contemporary Brit punk scene, the off-and-on again Babyshambles (p8) have made headlines over the past decade for all the wrong (and right) reasons, their ethos perhaps best summarised with this sage lyric from frontman Pete Doherty; “You smoke your cigarettes down to the bone”. Having recently reemerged with a new album in the works, we took the time to chat to the band to find out more.

Speaking of reemergence, metal titans Fear Factory (p10) have similarly returned from the shadows to revisit their revolutionary industrial metal record Demanufacture. The band will be crisscrossing Australia come July to perform songs from the album that made them famous, alongside perpetuating their eternal ponderings about ‘man vs. machine’. We wonder if frontman Burton C Bell has cottoned onto the new Instagram video feature yet?

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On Saturday local label Pilot Records wheeled out the smoke machines and put four of its best artists on-stage in celebration of its first birthday. Menagerie, Urtekk, Question Question and newcomer Oddessa all took turns to suitably fill hip CBD warehouse Published Arthouse with waves of dreamy, electronic soundscapes, disappointing none along the way. Read our live review of the full event online at ripitup.com.au.

In other ‘on the line’ news (to directly quote The Internship), this week we’ve got an exclusive Q&A with The Superjesus support band Jackson Firebird, album and ticket giveaways for The Red Paintings, a live review of Martha Wainwright and the brand new, Triple J-touted Oisima track Everything About Her.

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Your fast guide to this week’s best entertainment

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You’ll be Sorry if you miss these guys as they swing by UniBar on Thu Jun 27, showcasing songs from last year’s The Late Blue along with hits from 2010’s Gilgamesh including Time To Wander, Jona Vark and The Piper’s Song.

Relive the best post-grunge Australian rock that the ‘90s and early ‘00s had to offer when newly-reunited The Superjesus stop by the Gov on Fri Jun 28 and Sat Jun 29.

Sydney's Lancelot, the guy behind breakout single Spoken Word, will heat up Rocket Bar when he performs on Thu Jun 27.

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To celebrate the launch of Heartland, the Art Gallery Of South Australia are hosting another Departure event on Fri Jun 28, encouraging those who love art as much as they love a party to buy a ticket and come along.

Local painters and human canvasses are encouraged to hit The Red Paintings up on their Facebook to be a part of their “creative circus”. Head along to be a part of the orchestral art rock experience at Fowler’s Live on Sat Jun 29.

P!NK is once again setting up a mini-residency at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, playing Mon Jul 1, Tue Jul 2, Thu Jul 4 and Fri Jul 5. This time’s she’s telling us all about The Truth About Love. It’s like she never left.

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THE COMEDY OF ERRORS – William Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identity is beginning its season at the Dunstan Playhouse this week in a collaboration between the State Theatre Company and the National Shakespeare Company, beginning on Fri Jun 28 and finishing on Sun Jul 14.

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SINCERELY, GRIZZLY – This local trio have been busy on the road supporting a range of acts including ... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead. Catch them as they stop by for a show at the Ed Castle on Sat Jun 29.

INK... PAINT... LENS – The Hughes Gallery is launching its latest free exhibition on Fri Jun 28, ending on Sat Jul 20, featuring artists Krista Jenkins, Veronica Calarco and John Panayiotou.

ADAM HILLS – Freshly returned from the UK and performing his first solo show in three years, Adam Hills explains what his definition of Happyism is on Sat Jun 29 and Sun Jun 30.

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You Better Belieb It Do you Belieb in life after love? Justin does. No longer attached at the lips to Selena Gomez, the young star is able to put his mouth back into the singing game. Justin ‘I’m A Belieber’ Bieber recently glossed over driving offences and suspected drug use with an exciting announcement: Usher’s baby bad boy is coming to Adelaide. The Bieber Believe tour will hit the Entertainment Centre on Thu Dec 5 with tickets available through Ticketek from Mon Jul 1.

Flying High Melbourne indie group The Paper Kites are on the rise. They have a debut album States due out in August and have just released the lead single, St Clarity. The

Ben Salter (The Gin Club, Giants Of Science, The Wilson Pickers) has been picked up by ABC Music. The signing comes with a new seven-track EP, European Vacation, ready for release on Fri Jul 12. To whet your appetites, the first single Semi-Pro Gamer is available now. Ben Salter will perform in Adelaide at the Metro on Sat Jul 20.

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À Rebours With a frontman as enigmatic as Pete Doherty, the short history of Babyshambles has been a rollercoaster of ups and downs. Doherty’s substance abuse, personal relationships and runins with the law made him a permanent fixture in tabloids around the world. The band’s line-up was subject to numerous changes, with drugs almost always the catalyst for departure. It seemed as though Babyshambles were destined to be but a footnote to Doherty’s bizarre behaviour and charlatan lifestyle. abyshambles’ lack of output since their critically acclaimed 2007 second album led some to speculate the demise of the band.

This theory was bolstered with the release of Doherty’s solo album in 2009 and the departure of drummer and co-songwriter Adam Ficek in 2010.

The future of Babyshambles looked bleaker still when Doherty was jailed for six months in 2011 for cocaine possession. Despite these setbacks, Babyshambles have announced that their long-awaited third album will be released in September. In the meantime, an extensive tour will see them visit Australia for the first time as part of 2013’s Splendour In The Grass and stops in all of Australia’s capital cities.

Rip It Up recently had a chat with Babyshambles bassist Drew McConnell to talk about the new album, the tour, his group’s legacy and if he believed that Pete Doherty’s

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drug-laden escapades had overshadowed the accomplishments of the band.

“You know what? Seven years ago… I would’ve said yes. To be honest, we really haven’t had that kind of trouble recently.

We’re all a bit older now, you know? The tabloids have grown bored of waiting for Peter [Doherty] to do something stupid. He hasn’t done anything outrageous in a while...

We’re very much focused on the music. We’ve made a new album that we’re really excited about. It’s just fallen out at quite a pace. The tabloid attention is something of the past.”

A spot on this year’s Splendour In The Grass line up has prompted Babyshambles’ first tour of Australia, including a slew of sideshows that will see them hit all of Australia’s capital cities. The decision to do shows in cities traditionally passed over was an easy one for the band.

“You don’t go on a holiday and stay in the hotel for a week. Since we were there we wanted to get out and about and see the sights... It’s like a 14 hour flight, so we might as well make it worthwhile.”

Despite reports that Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty had recently shocked fans in Italy by appearing confused in a rambling performance, McConnell assures Australian fans that they can expect to get their money’s worth.

“It’s honest to god rock’n’roll music. There is no artifice, we really feel what we do, so I think that comes across.”

Babyshambles first album, Down In Albion, was a loose patchwork of gutter poetry and DIY punk music while their second album, Shotter’s Nation was more melodic and concise. McConnell explains his take on his band’s long awaited third LP.

“There’s elements of both albums in it.

I kind of see it as this pulsating orb with nodules on it, and each nodule is kind of like a facet of the band. As we’ve grown, each nodule has grown too. It’s like every element of Babyshambles, but more of it. We’ve kind of gone deeper, and further down the path of each side of our personality. I think that our song-writing has matured. I know that is sort of a stock thing to say, but we’re a bit older.

There’s still the Babyshambles sort of raw edge to this album, but there is definitely an evolution going on. When you’re living within the formation of an album as it’s finding its feet, it’s hard to say, it’s hard to talk about.”

"The tabloids have grown bored of waiting for Peter [Doherty] to do something stupid. He hasn't done anything outrageous in a while..."

Thematically, the lyrics of Babyshambles are raw and gritty snapshots of modern life.

Ranging from the abstract to the brutally honest, McConnell describes how songs are developed and cultivated by the band.

“It varies from song to song. Some songs just kind of come out like a story, like something will have happened to us, like an event that we find ourselves talking about...

The opening song on [the new] record is called Fireman. It is just this brutal punk song, and that’s a story of something that happened to us while we were in Portugal.

Then there’s other songs that start with the music. Unstookie Titled was just this big long jam that kind of sprawled into this one phrase that Peter started singing to us, ‘ You smoke your cigarettes down to the bone’, and then that was the core from which everything came.

Love Music, Hate Racism Babyshambles has been actively involved with the Love Music, Hate Racism campaign for a number of years. The music-oriented campaign involves holding concerts to spread an anti-racist message.

“It’s an organisation that comes from Rock Against Racism from the ‘70s. It’s just a movement of like-thinking people in the music industry who want to try and keep people aware that racism is a problem in society. It’s a cancer that you have to keep trying to combat; it’s fighting ignorance.

Right now it’s more relevant than ever with what’s happening with the English Defence League and a lot of the antiMuslim sentiment that’s occurring. We’ve been doing shows for them and hopefully we will continue to work with them for as long as they are around. It is something that we believe in very deeply.”

It was more of an abstract thing, even in our own minds. The process varies wildly, and you just allow things to develop.”

As an aside, McConnell really wanted to discuss the personal effect of Australia’s recessionproof economy on his most recent visit.

“I have been once to Melbourne and to Sydney. It was nice. I liked it, [but] it was expensive. There’s like no recession there, [it] hasn’t really hit Australia. I bought like a can of Coke from a 7-11 and it was like seven dollars...I couldn’t believe that.”

WHO: Babyshambles WHERE: HQ WHEN: Mon Jul 29

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Return Of The Machines When Los Angeles four-piece Fear Factory unleashed their second full-length album Demanufacture back in 1995, nobody suspected in the least just how groundbreaking the occasion would be. Not only did the revolutionary record spawn an entirely new genre called ‘industrial metal’, but it earned vocalist Burton C Bell and his band their first ever gold certification – and all thanks to their die-hard Australian fanbase halfway across the world. Almost two decades later, the metal titans are bringing Demanufacture back to the people who helped make it the game-changer that it was, and it’s a privilege only our side of the world will get to experience this July.

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This is going to be the first time ever that we will be playing Demanufacture completely in its entirety,” Bell announces. “We’ve never done anything like this before. We figured we

really wanted to give Australia a very special concert as a ‘thank you’ for the support that we got from you guys in the early days. Australia was the very first country to truly embrace Fear Factory and because of you guys, we earned our very first gold record for Demanufacture.”

And we ought to feel free to give ourselves a good ‘ole pat on the back for it too, Bell suggests, because it was forward-thinking Australian metal fans who foresaw the impact the album was going to have on music. Although Bell agrees that other factors, such as the right time and the right place, were an important factor in Demanufacture’s success in the mid-‘90s, a lot of it came down to the open-mindedness of the Aussies and the Brits.

“In the UK the album went silver,” he adds. “But I know it did amazingly Down Under. It’s still a pleasant memory for us to this day. I think a lot of it also came down to the whole vibe of the record, the aggression of the music, the lyrical content too. The most incredible thing about it was that we were just pouring out our creativity, putting our passion into notes and writing from our hearts.”

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One Of A Kind Metal Hammer magazine recently claimed that “Demanufacture was so far ahead of its time that bands are still failing to rip it off convincingly today,” and Fear Factory vocalist Burton C Bell definitely agrees with the compliment. “I could name a handful of bands that come to mind when you talk about ‘industrial metal’ but I don’t think anyone really belongs in that same category as us. Not quite. We get asked about Rammstein and Ministry and maybe even some of the newer bands, but I don’t really see it. And even if I did, I don’t really want to name any names. I think what we do is pretty unique and we plan to continue doing it our way.”

Most of all, Demanufacture was plain and simply a product of its environment and inspired by actual events occurring in the band’s hometown of LA at the time. However, according to Bell, it was significantly influenced by both the vocalist’s and guitarist Dino Cazares’ obsession with science fiction and futuristic, man-versus-machine concepts... That’s right, Fear Factory is pretty much one hell of a long soundtrack to the Terminator movies – and that’s coming from Bell himself.

“Dino and I used to live together during this time. We were just a couple of friends who liked to listen to the same kind of music and watch interesting movies, like really futuristic stuff, science-fiction, apocalyptic themes – basically, Terminator and Iron Man. We discussed these concepts and sounds and the idea of man becoming machine. We were actually seeing these technological advances happening right in front of us, it was all really happening! On top of that, this was the period of the Rodney King beating in LA and then there were the riots – you could cut the tension in the air with a knife. Nobody trusted anybody, everyone was on edge, and then there was widespread homelessness because of a really devastating earthquake hit LA in ’94...”

And even though the nightmare came and passed, one vital aspect that concerned Bell and his band remained – the battle of man versus machine. Interestingly enough, as the singer points out, it’s actually a theme that has become more relevant today than anyone could have ever dreamed of back in the 1990s.

“We released an album last year called The Industrialist which is written from the perspective of the machine that has gained a sense of self and accumulated memories but the manufacturer is searching him out to disassemble and shut him down. Technology is so advanced that it’s not really that far-fetched that man and machine could merge. The fact that we’ve so easily dedicated a whole album concept to the perspective of the machine says a lot, I think.”

WHO: Fear Factory WHAT: Demanufacture Tour WHERE: HQ WHEN: Tue Jul 9

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Here, Here This will mark the fourth Australian tour in five years for La Dispute. Brad VanderLugt confesses to Rip It Up about the love-affair the band have with our country and the people down here.

It’s worth noting that there are many La Dispute fans out there who would love nothing more than to pick at the brains of the band members. To sit down and listen to their latest release, Wildlife, in its entirety is to subject yourself to one of the most emotionally devastating musical experiences of your life. hese guys get labelled as ‘posthardcore’ quite often, but don’t worry, this is not your regular modern blend of hardcore where you get the growling vocals followed by the dime-a-dozen breakdown and a hit of cheap, sugary-sweet vocals swooping in through the chorus.

This group is raw, urgent and intense and, considering the prominence of their rise to fame, it is certainly fair to argue that they are among the elite in their genre. Considering that title, Brad Vander-Lugt [drums/keys] reveals that the group never had any grand illusions of making it big – it just happened.

“I just went to college as I expected myself to. I was there for two years and then the band started taking off! I decided to put that on hold, but some of the guys, like Chad [Sterenberg, guitar], he finished school, so there’s varying degrees of experience that we have, but you know, it was unexpected. I don’t think it’s anyone’s dream job or anything, but we definitely enjoy what we do. We’re very thankful for what we’ve accomplished, that’s for sure.”

As teenagers, it was as good a time as ever to be into that particular style of aggressive music. While the band still remain true to that sound, Vander-Lugt admits his music tastes have broadened and his longing to experiment with different sounds has grown.

“I think when we started, seven years ago now, that [post-hardcore] was the style of music we all clung to,” he explains. “I think now, though, as we’ve gotten older, we still, well, I know I still really appreciate aggressive music, but I have a larger pallet for what I enjoy and what I take influence from – I think we all do. Now it’s just become a matter of challenging ourselves artistically and musically with what we appreciate now and how we can take different impulses from different types of music and try to bring that into the band. I think it’s imperative to push forward.”

It was this growth and musical maturity that allowed the band to stretch its ambition with Wildlife, which was released in 2011 to a flourish of positive reviews. The album follows themes such as abandonment and death and, according to Vander-Lugt, was a release entirely pre-conceived.

“Wildlife was very deliberate and we knew exactly what we wanted each song to sound like, as well as what we wanted the record to be as a whole, before we even started writing.

Our first record, in terms of creating it, was sort of the opposite; we wrote all the songs first and then Jordan [Dreyer, vocals] came up with the themes after. I guess when it comes to getting our next record together, we might try to do a mix of those two methods, or maybe something completely different. It is a collective effort, it’s not just one person writing the songs, we all come together and add our two cents, add and subtract appropriately and make the final product together.”

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“We really enjoy the people Down Under. Some of my best friends live in Australia; it’s a beautiful country.

And the shows are incredible – to me, everyone is really excited about music in Australia and that’s really wonderful about that community, especially in this genre of music. Whatever you want to call it, there seems to be a real passion there. We love it, we love seeing that and I think that’s what gets us coming back year after year. We’re excited!”

WHO: La Dispute WHERE: Fowler’s Live WHEN: Wed Jul 10

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Illy In celebration of the release of his new single On & On, Illy has announced a headlining tour for September, set to be joined by fellow Australian hip hoppers and support acts Tuka, Allday and Elemont. On & On is the first taste of Illy’s still unnamed album, which is set for a summer release. The album has been produced by M-Phazes, who has previously worked with the likes of Kimbra, 360 and Bliss N Eso, and will be the first release from Illy’s own record label ONETWO. Given Illy’s track record of successful singles, including It Can Wait with Owl Eyes, Cigarettes and Heard It All, big things are expected for the single, album and tour. Pre-sale tickets are available to those who subscribe to Illy’s mailing vist via illyal.com, with general sale available on Mon Jun 24 via Oztix and Moshtix.

Illy plays at The Gov on Fri Sep 27.

Q+A With Cosmo’s Midnight

Citizen Kay Off the back of his thumping tune Yes!, buzzing Canberra hip hop artist Citizen Kay is hitting the road this July to celebrate the release of his dynamic new EP, Vision. Widely dubbed as the ‘White Stripes of hip hop’, Citizen Kay has been making waves in his home state and nationwide over the past few months, having already supported major international acts like Matt & Kim. Citizen Kay will embark on his own run of headline shows next month which will see him supported by Beat Club, Jackie Onassis and The Psyde Projects.

Tickets are available through Moshtix and at the door.

Over the past year Sydney-based twin brother duo, Cosmo’s Midnight, have been taking cues from low-end house, lush beat work and the local ambient electronic scene to create a sound that’s uniquely their own. This month they’re bringing their debut EP Surge to our town.

Last year you won Flume’s Sleepless remix competition, tell us more about it...

We were pretty confident with that remix and we were super proud of it when it was done. Winning was great, as we’d never won a remix competition before, so it was an immense ego boost and worked as a kind of validation that we were seen as decent producers.

Citizen Kay plays at Rocket Bar on Sat Jul 20.

Dialectrix Regarded as one of the most prolific MCs and hip hop performers in the country, Sydney’s Dialectrix has just dropped his third album and is embarking on a national tour across Australia to launch the critically-acclaimed The Cold Light Of Day. Vocal guests include the legendary Def Wish Cast, P-Smurf, Chip Fu, Momo from Diafrix and a verse from the dexterous 2Buck. Dialectrix’s live show will see him backed by DJ 2Buck on the turntables and will feature special guests at each show. The Cold Light Of Day is out now through Obese Records.

Dialectrix plays at Rocket Bar on Sat Aug 17.

You’re heading to Adelaide in support of the new EP Surge – what are we in for?

Hopefully your experience of the EP will be different to that when listening to it on headphones at home.

We want it to be immersive and flowing, but also have elements that make it feel more like a performance and less like a DJ set, because ultimately we will be performing for you. We won’t stick to one genre, style or BPM so it should be a bit of a journey. Be ready for some unreleased up-tempo and down-tempo bangers!

CD Reviews

Tell us about more about the release...

We approached the EP as though it was an album, we really wanted it to have thematic content and have a good structure and framing and somehow we pulled it off completely by accident. We made the four tracks very individually, not thinking about how they would slot into an EP at the time so we very lucky when there was some decent cohesion between the four.

What’s it like working so closely with your twin brother?

It’s never been an issue really; I think being siblings is awesome as gets rid of all that annoying tiptoeing that you experience when you collaborate on a tune with an artist. You can be brutally honest and get to the best possible product as soon as possible.

Mobilee

Jon Hopkins

Kanye West

Back To Back Volume Seven Presented

By Rodriguez Jr

Immunity

Yeezus

(Domino)

(Def Jam)

How similar are you musically?

Cosmo studied guitar while I (Pat) studied classical piano, although I don’t think this has much of a bearing on our music. We both studied music theory in first year uni, which has been a huge help in sketching out ideas and writing more technically embellished tunes. We do have different stylistic approaches to music, but we blend and merge these ideas into something that sounds complete and distinctive. Our previous project was Cosmo&Paat, which was a mish-mash of progressive house/electro/dubstep/indie-pop. While we were writing tunes as Cosmo&Paat we were already working on Cosmo’s Midnight tunes and when the time came it felt a natural progression from one thing to another.

(Mobilee Recordings)

This fine-ass, double disc compilation of deep-fathomed techhouse reminds me of one night when a bunch of us took double-dips at a party. A clique of us ended up in the garage, on a beat-up lounge, which became an intergalactic transporter. Our journey through the psychedelic realm was led by a Juice Records compilation, a lava projector, and when someone discovered an industrial sized roll of clear plastic wrap and proceeded to unravel what seemed like an eternity of the stuff, we danced in a twinkling sea of reflective, crunchy glass that floated around us like dry water whilst we lost ourselves in the plastic equivalent of a foam party.

There were chairs that became strange animals, friends that became free agents of chance, and walls that became frames to an invisible mental circus. Long live techno.

Texjah

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Intriguingly, the older Jon Hopkins gets the more dancefloor friendly his albums seem to be. Not that Immunity is a four-to-the-floor call to clubbing arms; rather the first half of the album is an upbeat slap to the face before it finishes with an impressive ambient rub down.

The Brian Eno protégé’s fourth album is Hopkins’ most energetic with some serious sounding techno tinged tracks accompanying his luscious soundscapes.

The classically trained producer (for acts such as Coldplay and David Holmes), remixer (Imogen Heap, Four Tet) and soundtrack composer (Monsters and The Lovely Bones) follows his breakthrough solo record Insides with his most impressive LP to date. Immunity shifts to top speed early with the breathtakingly pounding Open Eye Signal before the cinematic start to Breathe This Air gets raided by some UK bass, Hopkins style. But it is the ambient half that impresses, as Hopkins’ cinematic close to the album is moving, beautiful and completely accessible – a rare trifecta in this day and age. Majestic.

David Knight

While much of West’s back catalogue centres on his egomania, Yeezus rewrites the definition, stepping over Patrick Bateman as the newly-evolved ‘American Psycho’. Considering West has collaborated with nearly everyone relevant in modern music since 2010’s near-perfect My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and has joined the world’s most vapid family, comparing himself to (and featuring) God, is the next logical step for someone that has made a career commentating on political and social norms. Thematically it pokes at old wounds for the sake of provocation, touching on lynching, racial inequality and the dangers of new money.

Yet we forgive Yeezus for its musicality, as it is diverse and at times is – dare I say it – poignant. This is prevalent during Blood On The Leaves, which triumphs, perhaps, because it’s the track most like those on Fantasy. For an album that is steering West further towards the dancefloor, driven by the robots who dominate it, this isn’t an ascension to divinity for Yeezus, but rather a resurrection.

Lachlan Aird

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

Calendar/ 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) Sat Jul 6 Phil Kieran (Cuckoo Bar) Sat Jul 6 Brokers (Ed Castle) Thu Jul 11 Yuksak (Rocket Bar) Sat Jul 13 Juan Atkins (Sugar) Sat Jul 13 Bliss N Eso (Entertainment Centre)

with Nina Bertok

Interviews

Clubfeet could be the only indie-dance band to have ‘Melbourne/Capetown’ in brackets after their name. Two of the five members hail from South Africa.

“They go back there on an infrequent basis,” confesses Bennington le Bruce (programming, synths, percussion and backing vocals) of frontman Sebastian Cohen and bassist Yves Roberts, “but enough to make it feel like we’ve got some quasi-international status – which is always fun.”

Ironically, while the video for Clubfeet’s latest single, Cape Town, was shot in the so-called ‘Monaco of Africa’ (like Solange’s Losing You!), le Bruce has never visited.

“I’m the only member who hasn’t been to Cape Town, unfortunately! I’m dying to construct some excuse to go over there.

Hopefully, we get to tour some stuff in the not-too-distant future.”

Indeed, Clubfeet, rounded out by Montgomery ‘Monty’ Cooper (keys, programming and backing vocals) and elusive drummer Vivian Croft, even have a label in South Africa. Le Bruce fantasises that the band are “some Rodríguez sensation” there.

Le Bruce (“just call me Ben, if you want – it’s probably easier,” he offers) is at Melbourne airport, flying to Sydney. He’s happy to escape his hometown’s subzero morning temperatures.

“I wanna get to the beach,” he enthuses.

Starting this Friday in Canberra, Clubfeet will tour in support of their second album, Heirs & Graces, which dropped in January, and the aforementioned Cape Town.

Clubfeet have aired an impressive amount of music in just three years. The group, an Aussie Hot Chip, originated as “a lounge room project” in Melbourne, being “a bunch of mates stuffing around, having fun with music.” They’d tap directly into ‘80s (new

Clubfeet

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wave) influences.

“The common link between us boys in the band is that we all were born around the same time – and that ‘80s scene is something that we were brought up with, and in, so it’s something that’s part of our DNA, as opposed to something that we’re trying to connect to by referencing what other people have done. But, having said that, we’re definitely inspired by artists that were writing music in the ‘80s.”

Le Bruce cites everyone from Peter Gabriel to Prince to the Pet Shop Boys. However, Clubfeet are also indebted to '90s dance (mind, they've covered the Brit-pop James).

Clubfeet’s music generated an early buzz online. They secured a US label deal with Dominique Keegan’s Plant Music, releasing 2010’s debut, Gold On Gold. Pitchfork praised it as “instantly charming”. Clubfeet then had to figure out how to perform their music live – which they did for 2011’s CMJ Music

Marathon in NY. “I guess in writing the new songs for Heirs & Graces, there was some consideration as to how we’d make it work live, but still without letting go of the electro indie-dance aesthetic, which was really strong on the first album. So there’s a bit of a mixture of both [genres] in Heirs & Graces. It starts quite bandy and ends up being quite electronic towards the end.”

Cohen pulled out his sax for some retro ‘80s kitsch.

These days Clubfeet’s players tend to write independently since Cohen and Cooper are residing in Sydney. They’ve already begun new material, further developing their sound.

“There’s nothing that really says it has to be this way or that way,” le Bruce says. “If I have to map out a trajectory for the music, I reckon it’s probably erring towards electronic.

It’s definitely going in that direction with the next crop of stuff that we’re gonna do. But

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He counts DJ Premier as a devoted fan and he’s not afraid to “take a good jab at Kanye” – now New York MC PackFM is returning to Australia for the second time after the superstar reception he received the first time around last year. Since then, he’s released a mixtape and a handful of singles, some of which are also peppered with – no joke – his stand-up comedy routine. Yep, a jack of all trades, this one is.

“[Rumoured album] The Human Highlight Reel hasn’t been released yet,” he explains, “but I have decided that it will be my final solo album. Before I can even get started on that, though, I have to get a few ideas out of the way that won’t fit in with the concept of the record. Since I was last in Australia, I put out a mixtape, Featured Material Vol. 4, which features appearances from heads like CunninLynguists, J-Live, Skyzoo, Homeboy Sandman, Tonedeff and a few others, as well as a few tracks produced by S.2 from Sydney.

It also features snippets of a live stand-up comedy set I did. I could be wrong, but I think it’s the first time a rapper has released an album featuring his own stand-up. I’m also currently working on a project called The

Speaker King, which will feature a few more personal cuts that you wouldn’t normally find on a PackFM CD.” While the new material continues to pour out, it was the 2010 album I Fucking Hate Rappers that saw PackFM make headlines and raise some serious eyebrows when the MC controversially took a swipe at some big names and their not-so-positive influence on the state of hip hop culture. Luckily, the greater majority saw the real message behind the track, whereas the rest simply took it at face value, unfortunately...

“Well, I knew the title alone would spark some sort of controversy, but a few things I said on the record were misinterpreted,” PackFM states. “Actually, a lot of things were.

we might drop in, I donno, an acoustic guitar jam somewhere along the way. I don’t think you should preclude yourself from doing any kind of music. It really just comes down to what you’re vibing off at the time.”

In downtime Clubfeet have remixed others, most notably Crystal Fighters’ Wave.

Clubfeet, who lately toured with Tegan And Sara, will be bringing a fresh live show to Adelaide, le Bruce describing it as “a party on stage”.

“I was actually brought up in Adelaide, so it’s gonna be fun. I’ve never played at the Rhino Room, so I’m looking forward to that!”

WHO: Clubfeet WHAT: Heirs & Graces (Illusive) WHERE: Rhino Room WHEN: Fri Jul 12

However, the people who got it, they really, really got it. People thought that I was dissing Common and Lupe and J Dilla and Kanye...

Well, I kind of did take a good jab at Kanye...

But overall, the statements I made weren’t disses towards those artists as much as they were observations of their roles in the current state of the culture. And there were more people who understood than didn’t. I felt the message on the record was plain as day.”

And while PackFM himself is not necessarily against commercial leanings within the hip hop genre, it’s artists’ widespread tendency to compromise their integrity once that happens which is cause for concern.

“If the opportunity came along, of course I’d take it,” he begins. “Reaching a larger audience is never a bad thing. The bad thing is compromising your artistic integrity, which I could never ever do. I don’t mind being considered ‘underground’ as far as demographic goes. I’ve accomplished a lot in this time I’ve been around, I’m proud of my career, not one regret there. If I’m considered underground, so be it. I could be not considered at all.”

The key to it all, according to PackFM, is “’relatability’ – if that’s even a word!,” he laughs.

“I think I just made that word up! But I try to let people feel like we all have something in common. When I rap about relationships with women, I don’t try to say, ‘I’m a mack or a pimp’, I rap about the awkward interactions most dudes have with girls. I mention having a day job in a lot of my raps. I don’t want to put up a divide between me and the listeners when the truth is we’re probably in the same boat.”

WHO: PackFM WHAT: A Night Of Live Hip Hop (Til The Break, Everyday With Realizm) WHERE: Enigma Bar WHEN: Fri Jul 5

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On Tour //

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After supporting big name British India earlier in the year, Perth band The Love Junkies have had a real taste of the touring life and are heading east to flog their new album Maybelene. It hasn’t been easy getting the record out the door, however, with the band under considerable financial pressure according to frontman Mitch McDonald.

“We’re about to head over east for our own headline tour, which is pretty cool, for the album. That’s pretty much it, really, just time now to rack up more shows.”

It’s been a particularly exciting time getting Maybelene finally out after working on the release for quite a while, McDonald adds.

“It has taken so long to get the damn thing out and it was a huge relief to finally get it out the door and on the shelves. It feels like we can finally move forward.”

As for a lot of bands, money has played a big part in terms of being an obstacle, according to McDonald, who claims it’s all been well worth it for a quality album.

“Mostly [it’s been] financial fuck ups and we were in a lot of debt. It took a really long time to come up with the money to get things mixed and mastered. We really wanted to do it properly being our first album. You can’t really expect to make money off your first album, especially when you need to distribute it and rely on selling it over the internet. It was a bummer it took so long to get the album out because these songs were written almost two years ago.

We’ve got another album worth of material to get out, which we’re excited about, but we can’t get too far ahead of ourselves which has already happened. It’s just the way it is, unfortunately.”

The Love Junkies’ sound has continued to further evolve, too, according to McDonald, who claims the band is still very much searching for its musical identity...

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by Rob Ly on

“I think it has changed, I think it has grown up a bit. Some of those songs I wrote when I was 19 and it seems like that was forever ago.

The new songs are still young and we’re still finding our identity.”

Next time around, McDonald claims things will be approached in a different way. For one, the band hopes to have less financial stress to worry about so they can focus solely on the music itself. For now, the main priority lies with the upcoming tour.

“Um, [we would] avoid debt at all costs!

I know you have to get into debt with these

things but we needed to have a better game plan rather than just sitting on it for another year and a half. This is our second trip after supporting British India. Adelaide was my favourite show over east and, out of all the crowds, they were the most receptive to what we were doing. Everyone was getting down and having a good time, so it will be interesting to see what happens this time round.”

And, as McDonald points out, touring with Grinspoon later this month will be another feather in the cap.

“It’s pretty cool and nice to have all these things to look forward to. We’ll go back home after this tour to write more material, release it and hopefully tour more with a view to making this our job.”

WHO: The Love Junkies WHAT: Maybelene (MGM) WHERE: Ed Castle WHEN: Sat Jun 29

The Guide //

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Thursday 27th ADELAIDE UNI BAR – Gypsy & The Cat ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Bill Parton Trio (8.30pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – The Floors DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Trivia Night (7.30pm) DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) DUKE OF YORK – Downstairs: DJ Jon E (9pm) DJ Skinny B (1am) Beer Garden: band of the week plus DJ Dave Parry (9pm) ED CASTLE – Band Room: live bands (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Animal Shadows

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – OPEN MIKE WITH KRITA GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Doc White (7pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Gumbo Room Blues Jam: Jesse-Deane Freeman Hammond Trio GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Ben Ottewell (Gomez) GRAND BAR – OMG HIGHWAY – DJ Alli (8pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Cloak & dagga HQ – Riot Society hosted by Uberjak’d LIGHT HOTEL – SCALA Live (8pm) MARION HOTEL – Cue N Brew: 888 Poker (6.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – DJ Jak (9pm) PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango ROCKET BAR – Wild Things (9pm) ROYAL COPENHAGEN BRIGHTON – The Café Series (6.30pm) SUGAR – Jazz Pancake with locals and guests THE LION HOTEL – Clearway (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Chrysler Bar: Brad Iverson (8.30pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm)

Friday 28th ADELAIDE CASINO – Chandelier Bar: Jacqui Lim (6pm) Sonic Divas (10pm)

ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: DJ Jaki J (9.30pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Matterhorn (8pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) Band Room: Pimpin Horus, Pink Noise Generator, Love Cream, The Lost Giants & Ride Into The Sun DJs DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs DUBLIN HOTEL – 2 Up Duo (7pm) DUKE OF YORK – Tom & Rose (7pm) ED CASTLE – Red Light Sound & The Reason (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs ENFIELD HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (6pm) ENIGMA – Bar 3: Relying On Luck, Existential Deception, Cortisol & Pumpometer ESPLANADE HOTEL – Acoustik (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Postwar FINDON HOTEL – karaoke (8.30pm)

JETTY BAR GLENELG – Lounge Bar: Shambolics (9pm) JIVE – Heston Drop, Gemini Downs & The Byzantines LIGHT HOTEL – Black Market (9pm) LIMBO – DJs LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee (9pm) MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Bart’s Bar: Jake Nickolai (6.30pm) MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – E’nuf Said OFFICE ON PIRIE – DJ Jess (4.30pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Gerry O (7.30pm) PRODUCERS HOTEL – After Four Fridays Garden Grooves with DJs Justice and DrDamage plus special guests (4pm) RACQUETS SA – 60/40 with DJ Lee (8pm)

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – BAND ROOM: MONOKA SODA, SUBTRACT S & SONATONE. BISTRO: EMBERVILLE, DAYS OF DECEIT, ALL THAT I’M ASKING, HOLLOW EYES & DOWN WITH THE SHIP

RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ SNAKE & DJ RUPHEO (9PM)

FOWLER’S LIVE – Bassland GLENELG PIER – Unknown To Man (9pm) GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Band Room: The Superjesus & Jackson Firebird (7pm) Front Bar: Appalachian Fridays with Old Time Fiddle Tunes GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Satan’s Cheerleaders, Creatures Non The Less & Cucumber Riot GRAND JUNCTION HOTEL – Hart Burn (6pm) HALFWAY HOTEL – Troy Harrison (7pm) HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – Eleven Days (8pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Flight69 (9.30pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOTEL RICHMOND – Dino Jag Trio HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs IRISH CLUB – Shamrocks ‘n’ Shenanigans Live Acoustic Sessions (7pm)

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RED SQUARE – DJs REGATTA’S BISTRO – Blues Avenue (5pm) REX HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Elektrik Feel Duo (6pm) DJ Smiley (8pm) & Bogan Bingo (8pm) ROCKET BAR – Cats First Birthday at Rocket: Tokimonsta, Cosmo’s Midnight, Olympic Ayers, It’s A Hoax with DJs Whiskers & Ross, Joe Andrew, Mike Wills, Sno Drop & Acey (9pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8pm) SOMERTSET HOTEL – Van Demons Band (8pm) SOUTH ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – Heath Solo (6.30pm) STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance.

Downstairs: DJs play retro SUGAR – SHGZ: Fridays at Sugar SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJs TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio Flamenco (7.30pm)

TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – DJ Wolfman (9pm) TEA TREE GULLY GOLF CLUB – Linda McCarthy (7pm) THE BRIGHTON BAR – The Numbskulls, The Lizards & Suburban Standoff (8pm) THE ELEPHANT – DJ Grillz (9pm) Frenzy (9.30pm) THE GOODY – Ch@t Room THE LION HOTEL – The Macaroons (8pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Chrysler Bar: Broken Theory (9.30pm) Tavern Bar: John McKay (4.45pm) Luv2Luv (9pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – TA Bar: Acoustic Reign (8.20pm) VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs WARRADALE HOTEL – Ash Gale & Sarah Lloyde WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Tigertown & The Starry Field (9pm)

WHITMORE HOTEL – THE TEXETTES WOODCROFT TAVERN – Full Circle (8pm) ZHIVAGO – Day Of Dead Party Weekend: Finn, Terrence & Ryley

Saturday 29th ARAB STEED HOTEL – Russell Stuart (8pm) ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J plus Bongo Madness with Alex. Upstairs: DJ Ed Law (9.30pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Sporty’s Bar & Arena: One Planet (10pm) Top Of The Ark: Clearway (8.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – karaoke with Gemma (9pm) BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Flight69 (10pm) BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ

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The Guide // CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CAVAN HOTEL – Emerald (9pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Quiet Steps, Nebraska, Weightless, Alpha Beta Box & DJ Azz CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with Nicole (8pm) DRAGONFLY – rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and everything in between DUKE OF YORK – Front Room: DJ Mitchy B. Beer Garden: DJ Parry. Upstairs: DJ Skinny B, MC Scotty and guest DJs ED CASTLE – Plus One: Sincerely, Grizzly (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace & friends ENIGMA – Bar 3: Fortune From Tragedy, Articles For Action & Hunter Four EXETER HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (7pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Cassie O’Grady, Heath Anthony, Fire For A Day & The Skeleton Club

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – EXERTHUR, REALMS & EVOLUTION, HARLOTT, OVERPROOF GROOVE, HEADBORE & VOROS FOWLER’S LIVE – The Red Paintings GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ Marky Polo (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Band Room: The Superjesus & Jackson Firebird (7pm) Front Bar: The Royal Gala (9pm) & Pub Scrabble GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Filthy Lucre, Causing Hammock & Stomp The Orange GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays with DJs and MCs HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Mr Buzzy (10pm) HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm) HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Bar 180: Black Fedora Jazz (7.30pm) The Front: Sophie May Fly (8.30pm)

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HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips and guests (8pm) JACK RUBY – Soul Social – live band and vinyl DJs (8pm) JETTY BAR GLENELG – Lounge Bar: Pat & Kaela (3pm) DJ Dizzy (9pm) Front Bar: Til The Break & Escapism (9pm) JIVE – Gosh with DJ Craig (11pm) KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke (9.30pm) LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Troy Harrison (9pm) LAND OF PROMISE HOTEL – Monscherie, Bitchborn & Guess (9pm) LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ and MC Renard (10pm) MARINA SUNSET BAR – DJs playing the best in house and electro MARION HOTEL – Bart’s Bar: Franky F (5.30pm) Two Hard Basket (8.30pm) MARS BAR – VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – Masterpiece MYPOLONGA FOOTBALL CLUB – Mick Kidd

SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Andy Gray (7.30pm) TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE ELEPHANT – DJ Jak (9pm) Alien 8 (9.30pm) THE LION HOTEL – Absolut Saturdays: Wasabi (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Swapsides (8.30pm) VALLEY INN – karaoke VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – Rumours VINE INN: NURIOOTPA – Rock The Boss (9pm) WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm) WARRADALE HOTEL – Dusty Lee Duo WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Anna Smyrk & The Appetites (9pm)

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Satellite Boy There’s no doubt that writer/producer/ director Catriona McKenzie’s feature début Satellite Boy was made for little money and under fairly difficult conditions, but the first thing she wants to make clear during the following interview is how much she values the commitment and passion of her cast and crew.

The really beautiful thing is that we didn’t have a lot of money, we didn’t have a lot of resources and, really, there wasn’t a lot of time at all, but we chose the crew for their talent and their temperament… And everyone just bunged in and worked hard. If a camera track had to be laid down then everyone got involved, and when it had to be pulled up then everyone helped. It was great.”

McKenzie also acknowledges that making a feature was much different from her previous work on shorts and TV. “I did five or six shorts and some ads… And then I was invited to do the third installment of Redfern Now. But doing Satellite Boy wasn’t like TV. It was more like going back to those short films: the buck stopped with me, it was my company with David Jowsey and I put

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everything on the line with him. There had to be guarantors, collateral… And that’s the main difference: you do TV and you get paid properly, and it’s a job. When you do film it’s more risky.”

The finished script and film of Satellite Boy also differ greatly from her initial ideas.

“Originally it was a bit more conventional, with a love story between a boy and a girl, and it was set in Alice Springs. I’d gone through the Aurora Script Workshop and really it was all ready to go and everyone was happy with it.

Then I thought about it and just went, “Argh, I don’t want to do it!” I decided that instead I wanted to do something more distilled and archetypal… I wanted the audience to feel the story, and so I started again. I wanted the story to be about a grandfather and his grandson. And I was lucky.”

Catriona was even luckier that David Gulpilil was able to appear in the film as the grandfather.

“He’s so iconic, and in an allegorical film, not a realist film, he can always bring that certain magic… Walkabout was just such a touchstone film for me, and that was David’s first film when he was 14 or 15, and then here he is in my film. For me it was like having Robert De Niro or Meryl Streep in my film, and having little Cameron Wallaby be able to work alongside him and learn from him was just magic…. There’s also a direct reference to

Walkabout in my film: when the boys go from the red dirt onto the black bitumen.”

It also transpires that Gulpilil was in pain during the shoot but refused to let it hamper the production.

“He had a very, very sore foot… And there were times that we’d be having to walk these amazing distances, and we had to carry him in a ‘king chair’ as he was in such terrible pain.

But then I’d yell, ‘Action!’, and he’d be so courageous and brave and just summon up all of his energies and go for it.”

And what about the casting of the unknown Wallaby as Pete and Joseph Pedley as Kalmain?

“I packed up my Sydney flat and took my two-and-a-half-year-old and we went on a flight to Broome. I grabbed my casting director and we just threw our swags on top of the car and our kids in the back and started driving… We drove everywhere and camped on the side of the road… We went to all these communities, and we were in Fitzroy Crossing and there was this kid playing under a tree, and that was Cameron Wallaby… Then we got to Wyndham and we met Joseph, who was playing football at the time. We workshopped the two of them with other boys but, in the end, they were the best and only combination.”

Catriona has been travelling with the film for about six months now, and is loving it.

“I remember the premiere in Berlin before 1000 people, and with all these kids and families in attendance. At the end they were all on their feet, cheering and stamping and

About The Walkabout…

Catriona McKenzie calls Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout (released in 1971 and coming in between Performance, co-directed by Donald Cammell, and Don’t Look Now) a ‘touchstone film’, and it was for many viewers, especially in the ‘70s and ‘80s when it somehow became a popular pic to screen for schoolchildren learning about Australian and Aboriginal history and culture. Upon reflection this seems rather startling, given that the film is often very frightening, offering genuine violence against animals (and, less graphically, against its characters) and features its three young stars (Gulpilil, Jenny Agutter and Lucien John aka Luc Roeg) naked in scenes that would never be allowed in any movie these days.

clapping, I got up in front of them all and looked down and saw Cameron. He was just shining with amazement. There he was, having never been outside Australia or seen snow or anything. I’ll take my memory of that with me forever.”

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Monsters University (G)

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Given Pixar’s recent reluctance to produce original stories (Brave really doesn’t count), it wasn’t surprising to hear the gang from Monsters Inc was reappearing. It is interesting to note that this is the first time the Pixies have tackled a prequel, taking us back to where it all began for the college versions of Mike, an overeager bookworm who knows all the theory on being a Scarer, but who just can’t manage to be scary himself, and Sulley, a laidback and effortlessly scary monster, who lacks the discipline to learn the difference between scaring well and scaring right. The pair is too mismatched to get along in the beginning, but when both their futures depend on the annual Monster’s University Scare Games, an alliance is formed to make the most of their differences.

Placed side by side with Monsters Inc, this is a pale imitation, lacking the sentimentality that one would generally expect of a prequel and generating some embarrassing continuity errors, while the tenuous links between the two films seem under-considered. As a standalone Pixar film, however, it ticks all the right boxes: it’s cute, entertaining, incredibly detailed, and John Ratzenberger is present and accounted for.

Disney’s saccharine family values take a backseat here, allowing Pixar’s trademark zany comedy to return full force, and helping Monsters University slip seamlessly into the middle of Pixar’s impressive stack of achievements. Rest assured, the Pixies do indeed have some sparkle left; it’s probably just been hiding under your bed.

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Badges Of Fury (Bu Er Shen Tan) (TBC), from Chinese director Tsz Ming Wong, is a crime thriller offering sour old Jet Li. In The House (Dans La Maison) (MA), the latest from French writer/director François Ozon (his first outing since Potiche/Trophy Wife, and adapting Juan Mayorga’s play The Boy In The Last Row/El Chico De La Última Fila), is a psychological drama starring Fabrice Luchini, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ernst Umhauer and Emmanuelle Seigner (AKA Mrs Roman Polanski, of course).

The latest from workaholic director Michael Winterbottom is the biopic The Look Of Love (MA), a portrait of porny English entrepreneur Paul Raymond with Steve Coogan, Imogen Poots, Anna Friel, Tamsin Egerton, Shirley Henderson, David Walliams and a blinkand-you’ll-miss-them Matt Lucas and Stephen Fry.

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The 25th Reich (MA)

Despicable Me 2 (PG)

Drawn from Max Brooks’ book (although it has nothing in common with the thing except undead hordes), this Marc Forsterdirected epic was set to be the disaster of the decade before a final act was reshot at great expense, and the result is a tense, subdoomsday-type saga that goes for a wide audience and therefore should upset zom purists requiring graphic gut-munching. An unsettling opening credits sequence warns that scary things are afoot worldwide (so what else is new?), but Philadelphians seem not to care much, and Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), wife Karin (near-unknown Mireille Enos) and their daughters (Sterling Jerins and Abigail Hargrove) are in the traffic jam from this one’s trailer when the fast-acting, running-zombie plague hits and chaos ensues, in a sequence on a scale never featured in Zombie Cinema before. Gerry’s UN background means that he’s rescued, but preferential treatment then dries up and he’s basically blackmailed into travelling to South Korea, Israel and beyond, in order to find some kind of cure, and the controversial new material kicks in just before Brad and Co wind up in Cardiff and his hairstyle noticeably changes.

Not as saturated in FX as feared (the Israel setpieces have been cut back) and with that last 40 minutes proving a pleasantly creepy climax (or anticlimax?), this too-late-for-2012 Apocalypse pic has a performance by Pitt with much heart (no, really), a first half that really kicks and an ominous message about how Mother Nature does not give a fuck about us or we her.

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This eccentrically ambitious, reportedly troubled low-budget production from Aussie director Stephen Amis (who helped adapt the script drawn from JJ Solomon’s novel and worked as producer and executive producer when the money ran out) proves a curious but sometimes winning combination of Sam Fuller-inspired WWII drama, Aussie travelogue, cryptozoological conspiracy epic, anti-American comedy, wild science fiction and, finally, ‘Nazisploitation’ actioner. In 1943, a quintet of Yank soldiers are scouring the outback for escaped pumas lost in a PR mess-up and dragging along what they think is a radio transmitter, but, in fact, is a timetravel device (some of the details are a bit sketchy). After too much uneasy character development (and some problematic accents), said technological thing-y is activated and the group are zapped about in time, firstly to 50,000 years previously and the path of animated marsupial lions and giant mosquitoes, and then to 2243 and an alternate reality (or something) in which Nazi UFOs and worse threaten mankind.

The release of last year’s Iron Sky must have annoyed Amis no end, and yet this is less a crazy contemporary satire than an elaborate mash-up that ropes in everything from Judy Garland gags to a bit of dreadfully gratuitous gay-rape stuff to a final joke seemingly borrowed from Buckaroo Banzai that promises a sequel that might never happen - but you never know, mein Fuhrer.

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Co-directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud return for this three-years-later sequel and manage some nifty jokes, cool star vocal turns and sweetly sloppy sentiments about family ‘n’ stuff. Gru (voiced by Steve Carell again) occasionally fancies supervillainy, but most of the time is content being doting dad to Margo, Edith and Agnes, and perfecting a range of jams and jellies, so when he’s summoned by Anti-Villain League boss Silas Ramsbottom (Steve Coogan) he at first refuses to help before being smitten by agent Lucy Wilde (Kristen Wiig vocalising a different character from the first film). And their investigations take them to a mall where a feared baddie is residing, and potential nasties include camp wig-specialist Floyd (Ken Jeong) and paunchy lothario Eduardo (nearly voiced by Javier Bardem, actually voiced initially by Al Pacino - and then rerecorded by Benjamin Bratt!), before we get into some amusing business with Gru’s overall-wearing, gibberish-speaking minions and build to an elaborate finale that’s perhaps a bit overstuffed with plot.

With Russell Brand almost stealing it again as Dr Nefario and Wiig having fun too, this overdoes the cuteness somewhat with its kiddie trio, but then again, it is going for a family audience and needs something gooey to offset the PG-Rated ‘scary’ bits. And the always underrated Carell is very amusing and charming as the ever-weirdly-accented Gru, a character that originally belonged to a long line of selfloathing figures like The Grinch, and really just needed someone to love him. Awww…

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Man Of Steel (M), another Superman reboot this time directed by Zach Snyder (of Sucker Punch fame - but don’t hold that against him), toplines Immortals’ Henry Cavill alongside Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Richard Schiff and, in the role once filled (as in FILLED!) by Marlon Brando, Russell Crowe.

Seniors On Screen Mercury Cinema

Director Paolo (Night Of The Shooting Stars) Tavani’s is-it-a-documentary-ornot? Caesar Must Die (M) screens at the Merc on Fri June 28 at 11am. Details: mercurycinema.org.au.

Willsy’s Choice: Ghost Selected Wallis Cinemas

No less than 1990’s Ghost (M), with Patrick Swayze (yikes!), Demi Moore (yikes again!) and an Oscar-winning (no, really) Whoopi Goldberg is ‘Willsy’s Choice’ in later June and throughout July at selected Wallis Cinemas. Details: wallis.com.au.

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Jack Ruby

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So far Adelaide hasn’t really touched on the American food craze apart from a bevy of new burger bars. Basement restaurant Jack Ruby, however, has reinvigorated Adelaide’s current slider trend with an exciting new detour into restaurant-quality fast food inspired by the grassroots days of southern USA. With an interior akin to the Mississippi juke joints of the ‘40s, Jack Ruby’s fit-out combines dusky lanterns with sleek wooden floors, comfortable black booths and a timber bar. Sitting atop you’ll see a carnival-style popcorn machine cooking away, which your nose immediately detects upon entry.

We start our meal with a complimentary serve of the popcorn and some Americanos, just one of the drinks off their expansive cocktail menu, closely followed by a handful of smaller dishes from their ‘Appetizers’ menu. After trying some black bean and corn tacos we stuck into the scorched corn and quinoa salad, served loose on a chopping board sprinkled with shaved pecorino, peppercorns and pomegranate seeds.

This one is a winner, with the savoury of the quinoa balanced nicely with the sweetness of the pomegranate. Furthermore, it makes you feel a little bit better about the other indulgent dishes you just ordered.

I was excited to try the kingfish ceviche, which is one of the most popular dishes on the menu. Traditionally raw fish cooked in lemon juices with minimal ingredients, Jack Ruby’s variant was a little overpowered by coconut milk, but still made for a tasty snack in between mains alongside the unashamedly delicious poutine with pulled pork and mozzarella and mac ‘n’ cheese balls.

Jack Ruby’s strength is definitely their meat, cooking juice-dripping slabs of steak to perfection. The New York 300g strip sirloin was a delicious feast, served on a giant chopping board with healthy dollops of parsnip puree, king brown mushrooms sautéed in tarragon butter and, for tradition’s sake, a side of crunchy onion rings. We didn’t have the stomach room to order the Texan T-Bone or the Kentucky fried quail (KFC), but if the sirloin is anything to go by these are next on my list.

Last but not least, if we’re talking American food you really can’t go past a good slider. Jack Ruby’s trio of sliders – including a pork belly burger, a cuttlefish burger and a cheeseburger – for $20 is a great deal for the Friday night grazer two cocktails in, or just an easy menu option if you can’t decide.

Once you’ve finished eating, it’s time to hit up the bar for one of those spiked shakes…

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WHAT: Jack Ruby WHERE: 89 King William St, Adelaide WHEN: Mon – Thu 11am – midnight, Fri 11am – 3am & Sat 12pm – 3am INFO: jackruby.com.au

Free After Work Tasting Plate At The Gov It’s an ingrained human quality that we are attracted to freebies, which is why you should get down to the much-loved venue the Gov from Mon – Fri with a group of friends to try one of their free tasting plates. The deal is that you bring along a minimum of five chums after work (ensuring you book before 2pm on the day at 8340 0744) to try some of the chef ’s choices of antipasto items like olives, sundried tomatoes, chorizo, crusty bread and feta cheese while sitting next to a roaring fire.

The tasting plates are available from 4pm – 7pm. If you’re still hungry, there’s a whole host of other sweet deals at the Gov including the $10 schnitzels on Mondays and two-for-one pizzas on Tuesday. Head to thegov.com.au for more info.

The Food Forest The Food Forest is a 15-hectare property in Gawler, developed by Annemarie and Graham Brookman and their children. The Food Forest is certified organic, and markets their products directly to the Adelaide Farmers' Market on a weekly basis. Today, the Food Forest has over 160 varieties of organically certified fruit and nuts, wheat and vegetables, free-range eggs, honey, carob beans, native foods, nursery plants and timber. Come along and tour the Food Forest to see how it works.

WHERE: 1 Clifford Rd, Hillier WHEN: Thu Jul 25 from 10am – 12pm TICKETS: $70 / $40 for Food SA members INFO: foodforest.com.au

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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04 As the sun goes into the watery sign of Cancer, fiery rams have got their work cut out for them.

Water and fire in combination are not designed for thrills and exhilaration. The only way to work this one out is to find a delicate balance between deep sensitivity and excitement.

There’s a delicate balance going on between fire and water at the moment – between brash passion and deep sensitivity.

In one way or another this will create the circumstances for your heart to open. At first it might feel like a loss of power.

In fact it is just the opposite.

Virgo 23.08/22.09 Peeling away all pragmatic concerns and getting in touch with the wellspring of feeling at the very centre of your being, will turn out to be more pragmatic in the long run. If you are in tune with where your soul wants to go, you’ll take a less circuitous route. Trust it.

David Kelly, Tuol Sleng 1, 2007 (detail)

With the sun diving into the sensitive waters of Cancer, you get the sense that there is power in places inside that you thought were fragile. Your selfperception may well be turned on its head here. Things that you thought betrayed weakness, turn out instead to be your strength.

Confronted

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 The nearly full moon is riding strong in Sagittarius, giving you the sense that your horse is galloping beneath you. Life is powering along like a wild thing. Keep your balance. Keep your hands on the reins – and trust the empowerment at your disposal. Craft a masterpiece.

Rita Hall, I Once Had A Vision, 2013

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Capricorn 22.12/19.01 Life is dancing through you.

There is no particularly logical reason for this being so. There doesn’t have to be. Events that normally throw you, don’t.

Catch hold of the sense that you are on track – and that you are essentially heading for healing and wholeness. Love deeply.

South Australian artists Rita Hall and David Kelly explore issues of personal displacement and humanitarian injustice in Confronted, held at Light Square Gallery. While both have contrasting styles – Hall works with charcoal and ink and relies on minimalism to convey a sense of alienation, and Kelly paints richlytextured oil works encompassing elements of nature – the two artists both tap into the idea of consequences from two disparate journeys which, though disconnected by time, place and context, represent a search for resolution of critical issues. The exhibition is open to the public now.

WHAT: Confronted: David Kelly and Rita Kelly WHERE: Adelaide College Of The Arts, Light Square WHEN: Until Thu Jul 25

Aquarius 20.01/18.02 For reasons unbeknownst to all, life has you sitting in the position of observer. There’s a smorgasbord of theatricality happening all around you, but you aren’t so caught in any of it, that you become the lead actor.

This is a gap – between letting go and coming closer.

Aleksandra Antic, Infinite Digression (detail)

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Pisces 19.02/20.03 You are the holder of an interesting hand of cards.

There are opportunities for deep loving flow, there are opportunities for feistiness and conflict, and there are opportunities for throwing everything in the air and dancing your way through a wild hootenanny of spontaneity.

Aleksandra Antic, White Noise (detail)

Echo Echo is a mixed media exhibition by Aleksandra Antic inspired by the mythological story of a mountain nymph who was condemned to only ever repeat the words of others. By making the parallels with her experience of the migration and the boundaries of a second language, Antic explores the figure of Echo within the wider context of contemporary challenge of communication and connectedness with others. The exhibition will be opened by program director Olga Sankey.

Echo: Aleksandra Antic is showing at Artspace Gallery at the Adelaide Festival Centre from Wed Jul 3 until Sun Aug 25.

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Scorpio 24.10/21.11

Cancer 22.06/22.07 The sun moves into Cancer, giving you the feeling that you are coming home at last. It’s more a feeling in the ether, than something triggered by any particular event. There are all sorts of peripheral cosmic proceedings afoot, designed to encourage you to be yourself.

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Venus is travelling right next to Mercury. This is a confluence of love and insight. You are in emotional waters but with these two by your side, there is clarity and understanding, where there normally would be muddiness and befuddlement. Navigate unfamiliar territory well.

Gemini 21.05/21.06 Life is certainly putting it to you. The Sagittarian moon invites you to stick to the plans you’ve put on the table.

Fortunately Mars is in your sign, offering you the kind of power you need to accelerate through this corner. Honour the feeling in your belly without being derailed.

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Libra 23.09/23.10

Taurus 21.04/20.05 The changes that are unfolding are dramatic and real. There’s a part inside that is seriously daunted by the challenge.

Somehow you are going to have to acknowledge your sensitivity and vulnerability, without losing your innate sense of the rightness of what is unfolding.

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Want to showcase your talent and sell your wares to the more than 27,000 people at this year’s Port Festival? The Port Festival Artists Market, one of the showcase features of the Port Festival, is currently seeking artists to display their works held over the weekend of Sat Oct 19 – Sun Oct 20. In 2011 the markets represented more than 100 artists, and aims to showcase even more for this year’s event. As well as the Artists Market there will be performances, activities, exhibitions, seafood and on-water activities to complete the program. Applications close at 5pm on Fri Jun 28. For more info head to portfesival.com.au.

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For Honda Presents A Night Of Fashion At The Art Gallery Of South Australia With Attitude Magazine this year, local artists and designers have been invited to create their own pieces of wearable art for The Blank Canvas. This initiative allows the finalists to showcase their designs at the event, with the winner, who will receive $500 cash courtesy of CIBO Espresso and a $300 Premier Arts Supplies voucher, being chosen on the night

by Art Gallery director Nick Mitzevich.

Here are the winning sketches, who followed the directive to use black or cream calico as a base, with up to three other materials. We look forward to seeing how these designs come to life in time for A Night Of Fashion on Sat Sep 7.

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LIBBY SPRING

A bold design incorporating a cobra-like hood to a simple dress design helps bring the fashion and art worlds together.

Silk dupion, silk georgette and wadding to forge this origami-inspired gown.

E M I LY P E S C O D Will use unique vintage photographs joined together by metal rings to create her dress.

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Satin and velvet will help bring together this structured gown.

Will bring cotton netting, knotted calico, bamboo veneer and steel together to form their design.

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Culture

DVD Reviews

Amour Paramount Transmission / M / 117 mins

Dancing On The Edge Roadshow / Ma / 364 mins

Writer/director Michael Haneke’s previous films have been some of the most confronting in recent cinema (think of The White Ribbon, Hidden, both Funny Games and The Piano Teacher), and while this Palme-d’Or-winning effort seems a change of pace, there’s no doubt that he’s behind the camera, what with its long, uncomfortably intimate scenes and almost brutal emotion. Longtime-married Parisian music teachers Georges and Anne ( JeanLouis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, giants of French Cinema now in their 80s, like their characters) are observed enjoying a piano recital one evening, and that night and the morning after Anne’s strange behaviour leads to the discovery that she’s had a stroke. Undaunted, the next act has her learning to deal with partial paralysis, but then another ‘attack’ leaves her almost completely incapacitated, and a final third or so details the painful, even gruelling attempts by Georges to care for her, as daughter Eva (Haneke regular Isabelle Huppert) falls apart and we build to a finale betrayed by the opening sequence.

This auteur’s pics, until now, have explored self-harm, self-hatred, Nazism and more, but this deeply devastating work is about the most human issue of all: we’re all headed for the scrapheap.

MDB

Falling Skies: The Complete Second Season Warner / M / 404 mins

Stephen Poliakoff created, wrote and directed this five-part ITV series, and while it’s another of his slightly sour historical dramas (see also Glorious 39), this is redeemed by strong casting, a sense of humour and, contrary to reports, pretty cool music (even if there’s an anachronistic edge to it all). Stanley Mitchell (Matthew Goode) is a music writer in 1930s London who works for the earliest incarnation of Music Express, has an on-off thing with assistant Rosie ( Jenna-Louise Coleman, Doctor Who’s recent ‘Mystery Girl’) and thinks jazz is the way of the future. When he befriends Louis Lester (Chiwetel Ejiofor), frontman for a struggling group, the pair become friends as Stanley pushes The Louis Lester Band into the spotlight and attracts the attention of a posh potential backer (Anthony Head), a mysterious American millionaire (intimidating John Goodman), shadowy Lady Lavinia Cremone (the rarely-seen Jacqueline Bisset) and others, particularly when TLLB starts listing royalty amongst its fans. And while some have criticised this for supposedly unlikely aspects (and incorporation of actual historical figures), there’s no doubt that it’s most entertaining - and that Ejiofor is very cool indeed. Extras include commentary by Poliakoff, Goode and others, and more.

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Bookshelf

The Comedy Of Errors

Creator Robert Rodat’s alien invasion drama still frequently feels a bit too po-faced and humourless, and yet that’s not surprising as, if the world was half-destroyed by extraterrestrials tomorrow, you’d probably find it hard to crack jokes (oh, and spoilers ahead too!). Three months after respected humanist and historian Tom Mason (co-producer Noah Wyle) went with the ‘skitters’ aboard their chief craft and met with a weird, elongated giant boss creature, he mysteriously returns with semiamnesia and rejoins ‘The 2nd Massachusetts’, the band of survivors which still number his bickering three sons, medic Anne Glass (Moon Bloodgood) and her grieving young assistant Lourdes (Seychelle Gabriel), Captain Weaver (grizzled Will Patton) and Pope (scene-stealing Colin Cunningham), leader of some sorely untrustworthy bikers. They continue to fight back against their attackers, which number two-legged war droids (which look rather like ED-209 from Robocop) and multi-legged beasts that suggest some hybrid of crab, centaur and Predator, and here intriguingly seem less scary and more than a touch sympathetic as they screech with alarm before their heads are blown off. Special features on this three-disc set include commentaries, animated trailers, behind the scenes stuff, featurettes and more.

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Paranorman

Sony / Pg / 92 mins

Writer/co-director Chris Butler and co-director Sam Fell’s problematic kiddietargeted epic’s proven controversial for its ‘adult’ content, and yet there’s nevertheless much here to enjoy, including a cool voice cast and a handful of twists that prove surprisingly dark - and really rather moving.

The zombie-obsessed Norman (voiced

by Kodi Smit-McPhee) is a kid who can see dead people (natch), although those around him in his ‘cursed’ town think he’s just weird, and he’s regularly beaten up by a bully (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) and keeps running away from chummy chubbo Neil (Tucker Albrizzi). When crazy Mr Prenderghast ( John Goodman), a local loon who knows that something supernatural’s afoot, dies in a sequence unwisely played for laughs, the stage is set for the rising of the dead, the wrath of a mythical witch and meaty messages about friendship, forgiveness and how corpses can have feelings too. From Laika Entertainment (the production company behind Coraline), this is a bit too creepy (and convoluted) for younger children, and yet they’ll like it anyway. And hey, they’ve seen far nastier stuff, whether at home, at the cinema, on YouTube, at school… Special features include commentary by Butler and Fell, and more.

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by Robert Du Australia and Bell Shakespeare, Australia’s national Shakespeare company, have combined forces to mount William Shakespeare’s The Comedy Of Errors for a two-week season in Adelaide before the play embarks on an extensive national tour.

The Shadow Tracer Meg Gardiner / Penguin / 358Pp / $29.99

Gardiner has been labelled ‘the next suspense superstar’ by no less than Stephen King (his quote’s splashed across the back cover, natch), and this seriously readable page turner is certainly thrilling and entertaining enough to see you past more than a lick of ludicrousness. Sarah Keller is an Oklahoman ‘skip tracer’ who specialises in tracking down people hiding (or trying to hide) ‘off the grid’ and doting on her five-year-old daughter Zoe. When a school bus crash lands Zoe in the hospital and tests reveal that she’s not Sarah’s daughter at all, the pair must, of course, go on the run, using all of the evasive tactics Sarah’s learnt over the years in order to stay one step ahead of a drug-deranged Doomsday-ish cult who have a complicated grudge against her, and sound rather like Charles Manson’s ‘Family’ might if they were the stars of TV’s Breaking Bad. MDB

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Rip It Up speaks to Elena Carapetis, a graduate of NIDA who has since appeared in many plays for various companies as well as many television series, who says The Comedy Of Errors is a contemporary version.

“Think Kings Cross in Sydney or Hindley St on a particularly crusty night,” she laughs.

“The director, Imara Savage, took her cue from lines in the play when Antipholus of Syracuse wonders if he’s in heaven or hell. Is he awake or dreaming? Mad or well-advised?

“The play has the feel of one of those nights when you are out and everything becomes a bit surreal and lots of crazy stuff happens,” Carapetis adds. “We’ve all had a night or two on the town like that. So while the original text is still there, it’s a modern farce with the actors using mobile phones and all that.”

The Comedy Of Errors, one of Shakespeare’s earliest and shortest works and based on two Roman comedies by Plautus, tell the farcical tale of two sets of identical twins, Antipholus of Syracuse and Antipholus of Ephesus and their servants, each named Dromio. They have all been separated in a shipwreck many

years previously, but are thrown together in the hamlet of Ephesus where their identities cause much confusion.

“Rehearsals are going really well because it’s a combination of lots of fun along with really hard work,” Carapetis says. “It’s a cliché, but Shakespeare’s texts are always so dense that you really need to get deep into that to transmit it to the audience. There can be five ideas within the one line and then there’s the permutation of all those ideas and images.

“But it probably doesn’t help that I haven’t done any Shakespeare since drama school,” she adds with a laugh.

The performance on Fri Jul 5 will be a red carpet affair at which younger people can obtain reduced-priced tickets with the work being followed by an after-party at which patrons can freely mingle with the cast.

“It’s a great way to attract younger people

to the theatre,” Carapetis says. “Those who go to a red carpet event get to realise that theatre doesn’t need to be a stuffy thing where you have to dress up and be formal. It’s been good to see that a lot of the red carpet nights sell out. It’s a great initiative.”

Following its Adelaide season, The Comedy Of Errors will travel to Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Hobart as well as many regional centres.

“All up we will be playing in over 30 different venues around Australia,” Carapetis concludes. “That’s pretty good for a play.”

WHAT: The Comedy Of Errors WHERE: Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Fri Jun 28 until Sun Jul 14

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Your guide to the student experience

Over the next few weeks, Fast Times will be focussing on a fantastic range of short winter courses run by TAFE SA's Adelaide College of the Arts. Short courses usually run for a maximum of one semester, and are an excellent opportunity for anyone who’s short on time (i.e. all of us) to get a quick fix of quality learning.

Course durations vary a lot, which is excellent. Other study commitments to consider? Social life beckoning? Parttime work calling? Not a problem. Some courses only run for a few hours, others run full-time over a few weeks, while others run one night per week over a longer period of time. With such a wide range of study options, you’re pretty much guaranteed to find a course that you can work into your schedule.

If you’re wondering what you get out of these courses, wonder no more. Some short courses will give you credit that you can use towards further study, at the end of some you’ll walk away with an industryspecific award or registration, while others will provide you with invaluable skills, knowledge and experience.

For information on fees, how to enrol, and course dates, check out tafesa.edu.au.

Urban-utan Short Film Competition Film makers, listen up. The Adelaide Festival Centre’s GreenRoom and the Media Resource Centre want you to be part of their OzAsia Festival Short Film Competition. The competition closes on Fri Aug 2 but fear not; there’s still plenty time to get your ideas flowing and cameras rolling.

The competition is open to film makers aged 16-20, there will be a generous range of prizes on offer, and up to 12 finalists will have their film screened as part of the GreenRoom Short Film Competition, shown at the Mercury Cinema on Tue Sep 17.

And now, the entry requirements. Your film must incorporate the contrast between old Malaysia, new Malaysia, and Australian culture. This means that you will have to specifically make reference to a Malaysian tradition, as well as a modern Malaysian street culture. Your film should be no longer than seven minutes, and must be submitted to the GreenRoom in DVD format.

If you’re up for the challenge, head to adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au for more details!

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WINTER SHORT COURSES: DANCE Towards the end of July, TAFE SA AC Arts will be running rampant with short dance courses, perfect for those with an active mind and body, but limited time.

Dance For Dancers begins on Tue Jul 30 and will run from 6pm - 8pm every Tuesday for eight weeks. One of two courses run by independent dancer, teacher, and choreographer Larissa McGowan, Dance For Dancers aims to help professional dancers of all styles maintain peak performance, improve technique, and perfect their form. Be warned though, this class is for experienced dancers. If you don’t think you’re up to pro standards, try out Dance Dance Dance, listed to the side.

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Wednesday for six weeks. Choreography Class will help dancers discover new qualities, levels of dance, polarities and elements of movement, as well as new ideas on how to create dance pieces.

This class will also be led by Larissa McGowan, and is ideal for school teachers, private studio dance teachers and independent dancers.

Dance, Dance, Dance is an open class for all ages and all styles of dance, not to mention a great opportunity to release your pent-up inner dancer (no matter how terrible/amazing that may be). Lead by Alison Currie, the class aims to encourage, explore and familiarise new dancers with the world of dance, while also helping intermediate dancers perfect their style.

Dates and times are TBA, but keep an eye on the AC Arts TAFE SA website for details.

Other courses include Choreography For Kids A And B—guaranteed to channel your kids’ energy into something other than causing havoc, and Luna Eclipse—a no experience required burlesque class, lead by Miss Tassel Twirl (enough said). Dates and times for these classes are TBA, but again, keep an eye on the AC Arts TAFE SA website for details.

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What originally drew you to dance?

The fact that dance is so physical but at the same time allows so much creativity and creative input always really excited me.

What’s the highlight of your dance career?

The first time you step out on stage as a professional dancer is always exciting, but personally it’s not been one particular event. For me it was gaining the ability to recognise how I actually got to where I was and how much I’d grown.

What type of dancers are your short courses aimed at?

The dance part of my courses will be very contemporary based; it’s really a free form that can allow the mover to take any path that they want, and draw on skills they’ve learnt through their own dancing.

What do you enjoy about teaching the courses?

I learn from the people I’m teaching, just as much as I hope they learn from me.

I have interest an all forms of creative movement, and I want enjoy challenging how people think and perceive dance.

What do you hope people will get out of the dance courses you’re leading?

I hope people come out feeling really open and energised. A lot of the time we get bogged down with what’s right and what’s wrong, but I want people to see dance as more of an individual exploration.

Any advice for aspiring dancers?

Understand what makes you different from other people in how you move. You’ll stand out if you can identify those things and develop them.

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Culture CD Reviews

CD Of The Week

Singles

Chelsea Light Moving

Vampire Weekend

Chelsea Light Moving

Unbelievers

(Matador)

(Remote Control)

‘I’m not excited, but should I be.’ Damn right you should be. Even the hardest to please will be impressed by Ezra Koenig and his cohorts’ latest single as they nail yet another poptastic rock ballad. It has just the right amount of quiet, crashing cymbals, synth, flute and understated guitar. It’s the kind of song that you wish you could leap out of your office window to go frolic in the autumn leaves of a rolling park, doing cartwheels and star jumps with joy. Given that I’m on the eighth floor, it’s raining outside and I haven’t done a cartwheel since my seventh birthday I might just flick this song to repeat and be content with that.

Owl Eyes Night Swim (Illusive)

On first listen the title track from Owl Eyes’ debut can be dismissed as being pretty dumb. It’s so simple. Constant, synthetic drum beat, lyrics about swimming in the night sung in Brooke Adamo’s husky babe voice. After listening to it again, its simplicity is its strength. While other artists are trying to overcomplicate their music lyrically and structurally, wise ol’ Owl Eyes is taking things back to basics. The result is an infectious dark pop number that sits comfortably above the surface, thankfully not trying too hard to make a big splash and sinking as a result.

Nightswim’s dreamy melody will carry you through the cold depth of winter to a warming spring. Take the plunge with Owl Eyes now.

Big Scary Not Art (Intertia)

Not Art is a step into maturity for the Melbourne duo. The band has experimented with a plethora of sounds in recent years that dance between fuzzy garage-rock, pop and achingly simple instrumentals. Not Art seperates Big Scary from their formative EPs and is

more in line with 2011's excellent debut Vacation, yet has an added depth that extends this beyond the normal soft poprock fodder. This newly tuned sound was first introduced to listeners through their first single, Phil Collins, which seemed like a strange choice at the time due to its soft, lo-fi drone. However, it all makes sense in the context of the rest of Not Art, with its twang. Hello, My Name Is opens the album much like Vacation’s Gladiator, but drummer Jo Syme creates an even greater impact to the lolloping softness before Tom Isanek imposes his signature wavering croons.

Luck Now rolls in the biggest change for Big Scary’s sound, introducing drum machine and synth over the beats and vocals, yet – in true Big Scary fashion – remains understated. Moreover, the recurring presence of Syme’s vocals is a welcome addition, particularly on bluesy Why Hip Hop Sucks In ’13. Soulful tracks return Big Scary to Vacation territory at the end of the album, with Lay Me Down a particular poignant moment before Final Thoughts, With Tom And Jo bids farewell to an excellent album by two excellent musicians.

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The other day, while scanning the virtual wasteland that is Facebook, I stumbled upon a photo of a friend of mine reading a book titled, Dude, So You’re Going To Be A Dad. The laundry list of obligatory comments were garden variety gushes of sappy sentiment and congratulations. This got me thinking about all of the people I know who are married or who already have children. Am I that old already?

Apparently.

I managed to take some solace in my fleeting youth by listening to the self-titled debut of Thurston Moore’s new band, Chelsea Light Moving. Sonic Youth’s indefinite hiatus was allegedly brought on by a mid-life crisis that culminated in Moore boning some homewrecker 20 years his junior. Most believed that this would mark the end of Moore’s creative output as he devolved from a seminal guitarist to sad sugar daddy.

Luckily, Moore didn’t hide himself away to quietly sob over the accomplishments of days gone by. Chelsea Light Moving is a screeching affirmation that he can rock just as hard as artists half his age. While guitars are dissonant and heavy, Chelsea Light Moving is not a rehash of Sonic Youth. It is a looser affair, carefree and uninhibited.

Maybe Moore is simply suffering from dementia but, regardless of motivations, he gives hope to all of us who aren’t quite as nimble as we used to be.

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The Novocaines Freedom Please (Independent)

Howling ‘Freedom Please!’ at the start of every line of a song’s verses is one way to drill your message home. Perth garage punk rockers The Novocaines present Freedom Please as a tight and well-oiled number, which doesn’t leave much room for mucking around at a swift 2:38. Although once you get through it, you realise you couldn’t take on much more of the high-octane onslaught. You may even wish it was just one second shorter, to, y’know, tie in with that movie.

Editors Ton Of Love (Pias)

Editors have always been one of those pretty vanilla rock bands. They’re nonconfrontational and make music that is listenable in a similar stream to new Foo Fighters material, but without the driving force of any great personalities. Ton Of Love shows some almost Arcade Fire moments in the darkness of its indie rock, but then by the end it’s pulling the reigns back into the mainstream. Given it’s almost been six years since their last album, it doesn’t look like this aging dog has been learning much at new trick school.

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Live Review

I Killed The Prom Queen, House VS Hurricane & Buried In Verona Uni Bar, Thu Jun 20 Review By Michael Wickham Photos By Jennifer Sando

It was a weird sort of night when Buried In Verona, House VS Hurricane and I Killed The Prom Queen all played at the Uni Bar for East Coast Rampage on Thu Jun 20. It’s the beginning of one era for BIV, the end of HVH and the rekindling of Prom Queen.

Despite all these bands being at different stages of their careers, they all had the same destructive mindset.

Even though Buried In Verona were the first band of the big three to play – they were arguably the best of the night. The singing was clear and record quality and all of the music was in time – which is no small feat when there are six people on stage and they were playing as energetically as they did.

It was a bittersweet moment when House VS Hurricane took the stage – they can still put on a great show and sounded good, but at the same time it was sad to know that they are only playing one more show in Adelaide.

Despite the fact that they are breaking up soon and don’t any reason to continue to

Reviews // Quick Ones

Dirty York

Hanni El Khatib

Andrew Stockdale

Feed The Fiction

Head In The Dirt

Keep Moving

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It is a really good moment when you pick up a CD for the first time that you have no idea what it’s about, or have any preconceived ideas, and have your socks knocked off. One word to describe Dirty York: awesome! The band themselves have talked up their brand of big ol’ fashioned rock‘n’roll and justifiably so, as they carve out a niche that has afforded them to tour Europe, as to date, they have largely been ignored in their home country. It’s game on right from first drop as the Dirty York swagger comes out on Be Home Alive. My immediate reaction was, ‘Holy fuck am I listening to The Black Crowes in amongst other influences of Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones’. The opener sets the standard, which the rest of the album lives up to with so many other great moments, including the southern rock vibes of Stiches In My Pocket and the bitchin’ Can’t Wait To See Ya. Dity York ain’t no one trick ponies either, with plenty of tricks left in the kit bag to make the live experience an awesome one. Loved it!

Rob Lyon

Hanni El Khatib is a singer songwriter based in Los Angeles which probably doesn’t mean a hell of a lot until you throw in The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, who produced, hijacked and co-wrote this album with El Khatib, in to the mix. The comparisons to The Black Keys are as obvious as a punch to the face. Having said that, it isn’t so much of a bad thing if you want another Black Keys carbon copy.

El Khatib has been known to describe his music as being for anyone who has ever been shot or hit by a train laying on the elements of garage and blues. Honestly, I didn’t get that vibe on the first or second listens but it is a solid album thoughout.

The big question for me is wondering if Auerbach was taken out of the mix if this album would still be any good. Family is a real romp stomper to get things going and Nobody Move carries on that intensity.

There’s plenty of awesome riffage in Pay No Mind and there are plenty of other classic moments such as Sinking In The Sand and Penny, which will attract the attention of unsuspecting punters.

Rob Lyon

The demise of Wolfmother will forever become one of Australian rock’s greatest cautionary tales of how to not let ego get in the way of talent.

While Stockdale is touting Keep Moving as his self-produced solo effort, the album suffers by Stockdale’s inability to shake off Wolfmother. Perhaps the fact that the remaining members of Wolfmother who still speak to Stockdale are still onboard has something to do with it. While the musicality is decent, it isn’t as impacting or memorable as Wolfmother, making Stockdale look lazy, rather than honest.

Unsurprisingly, Keep Moving doesn’t move in a different direction to Wolfmother. For the parts that don’t sound like a sub-par Wolfmother album, instead sounding like a sub-par folk-rock album, as a harmonica is teamed over Stockdale’s tinny wails and down-played guitars. The 17 track album tries and make up for too little too late, with lyrics, form and impact that pale in comparison to any song on Wolfmother’s self-titled 2005 debut.

While songs like Standing On The Corner and Country may pinpoint the direction where Stockdale was trying to keep moving towards, it seems there’s still a while to go – or at least trim the fat.

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grow their fan base, they gave it their all.

New singer Dan Casey fits in perfectly with the band and his vocal style changed their musical style a bit too – they sound more like a hardcore band and are less progressive, which translates to a much, much heavier show.

Finally I Killed The Prom Queen took to the stage and it has to be said they were a little disappointing. They have become a bit like the John Farnham of hardcore – they continue to tour on old music and quite frankly seem to be passed their best.

The main problem is that most of the songs they played were off Music ForThe Recently Deceased and former singer Ed Butcher has a much different voice to their current singer, Jamie Hope. He can hit the highs but can’t get close to the low growls that dominate that album.

That being said the one song they played off of When Goodbye Means Forever was done really well because (another former) singer Michael Crafter’s voice is much closer to Hope’s.

I hope that Prom Queen aren’t passed their best and when they finally release some new music and write some songs with the current line-up it will match their skill set. They still have the talent to play great music but with all the lineup changes and behind the scenes drama fans have to be hopeful they can finally get it together.

Thelma Plum Rosie (Independent)

With Indigenous Australian in her blood and Brazilian in her upbringing, this little plum is a cultural cocktail of exotic goodness.

Thelma Plum was singing before she could talk, most probably whilst still inside the womb. Her voice is like a soothing spell of silvery curiosity, hosting pipes like no other. As a rather fresh faced and wide-eyed specimen to the scene, Plum brings Rosie, a cracker of a six track EP. At the tender age of 18 this little stone fruit is a definite old soul writing songs from a different era altogether. Rosie meanders through the good times and the bad, balancing Plum’s dynamic shift to make for a compelling journey through the forest of Thelma’s deepest desires.

The Triple J-played and catchy as all hell track Around Here is all sunshine, but just when you think that it’s the sweetest tune to ever dance with your cochlea’s, the big f-bomb gets dropped approximately seven times in the bridge. You sneaky devil, Thelms.

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Manu Chao Radio Bemba Baionarena (Warner)

I’ve been a fan of Manu Chao for longer than I can remember, with Manu being one of the main reasons I found myself with an affinity for music of a global persuasion. I still fondly remember chilling out in Europe as some of my hippy friends played me a copy of Chao’s first album Clandestino. Originally released in 2009, Baionarena has just scored a local release, and I’m pretty pleased to note that Manu’s finally making an impression here in Australia (and thus hopefully he’ll appear at WOMADelaide soon!). Baionarena is a massive collection of music, featuring two discs with 33 tunes, and a DVD. All the Manu Chao classics are here, like Mr Bobby, La Primavera, Rainin’ In Paradize, Merry Blues, Bienvenida A Tijuana (with the classic catch-cry, ‘Welcome to Tijuana, for tequila, sex, or marijuana!’), and of course, Clandestino. This is a sonic diorama and is a whole load of fun.

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by Alice Frase r Stop! It’s Time To Play / Pause / Play Held on the last Thursday of every month, Adelaide music blog Play / Pause / Play has spearheaded an informal drinks and networking opportunity for local musicians, managers, bookers, publicists, graphic designers, film makers and related creative types. On Thu Jun 27 head to Ghost Ships (Crown & Anchor balcony) from 6pm for your monthly dose of email exchanges and number swaps with local industry identites.

It has been three years in the making and now local folktronica artist, Naomi Keyte, is celebrating the release of her debut EP, Edge Of Morning. This seven-track speaks of life’s transformations, where the songs reflect the transitional highs and lows of everyday life. Rip It Up sits down with the leading lady for a chat about her debut release.

Since returning from Melbourne in 2010 where she studied contemporary and jazz performance, she’s played the stages of Laneway and Big Day Out touring as a member of Goldbloom and The Transatlantics. Why did it take three years for her solo works to evolve?

“Sitting with a body of work, crafting it and being considered in what you do with it isn’t a bad thing,” Keyte reveals. “It is so valuable to know what you want and how to control your sound. The tracks have definitely solidified over time and the way

they have been recorded is the way they are meant to be. It’s taken me a while to feel comfortable with a release, but this record is a timely statement.”

The songs transform the melodic vocal and guitar loops of Keyte’s live show, into complex and powerful arrangements. With a vision to create this record on her own she enlisted the help of Format mastermind, Pat Lockwood, to assist with the recording.

Naomi says that he was the “perfect person” to help her do that.

“Essentially this whole record was recorded in my bedroom. We had time to work on each song and didn’t have the pressures of studio time, money or stress. Because of this, we were able to experiment during the process making this an incredible learning experience for me. At one point my housemate, who is from the band Swimming, came in to my room to record some hand claps.”

As a listener, the exquisite track balance takes you on a journey where you strive to understand your own experiences and the small ways in which we aim to find balance.

Keyte's fascination with dawn and dusk led

her to the title, Edge Of Morning.

“They are really beautiful times of the day and are symbolic of an ethereal atmosphere.

The whole record is about polarities and I feel that dusk and dawn are those transitional times of light and dark and in a thematic sense, transition from a melancholy feeling to a more uplifted feeling. In life there is always going to be both.”

Drawn to the aesethic pleasures of the German and Scandanavian landscape, Keyte will spend the next 12 months overseas where she will continue her studies of the German language and write her first full-length album before returning to Australian shores in 2014.

“For this trip I’m going to take my EP, my loop pedals and buy myself a new guitar.

I plan to perform, listen to and write as much music as possible.”

WHO: Naomi Keyte, No Art (Syd) and Menagerie WHAT: Edge Of Morning EP Launch WHERE: The Hotel Metro WHEN: Fri Jun 28 at 9pm

Hip Hip Hooray, Cats At Rocket Turns One One year ago Friday nights at Rocket Bar & Rooftop underwent a major revamp.

With Adam Cope at the helm, this indie club night has grown to attract the likes of Gold Panda, Flume and Bleeding Knees Club along with five internationals, 75 touring acts and a seriously loyal following of party starters. On Fri Jun 28, Cats At Rocket will unleash a birthday line-up nothing short of ridiculous!

TOKiMONSTA (USA) is leading the way along with Cosmo’s Midnight (Syd), Olympic Ayers (Syd), It’s A Hoax along with a host of resident DJs. Doors at 9pm.

First Resident Showcase At The Mill The Mill on Angas St is proud to present their first official resident showcase. Now housing 47 micro-businesses and artists, there will be 40 plus of them on show this Fri Jun 28. Kicking off at 6pm, head along to immerse yourself in a world of performance, dance, photography, spoken word, art, sculpture, fashion, music and jewellery featuring the likes of Naomi Murrell, Fascination Street, Vege Threads, Greenstar Design Studios, The Analogue Laboratory and many more.

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