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Rip It Up this week has scoured the universe, and managed to discover wormholes that led us to more exciting Australians that K-Rudd has on his advisory team. Apart from our chat with American punk pioneers MDC (p13) and Michigan DJ Mayer Hawthorne, all our interviews this week are with Aussies of various music genres at various points in their career. We managed to bring Pluto Jonze back down to earth long enough to chat about his debut album, Eject (p12).

While his main focus so far has been on Australian audiences, since Eject is picking up in Holland, he has his eyes set on Europe next, so be sure to get down to Rocket Bar on Fri Aug 16 to catch him while you can. Also from another planet, we caught up with the stalwart Aussie punk rock band Cosmic Psychos, who’re releasing their own film about their 30 year voyage, Blokes You Can Trust (p14).

On the other end of the spectrum, we caught up with two emerging Australian touring acts, Spender and Vance Joy. See them this time around before they launch into the stratosphere. Speaking of otherworldly experiences, also catch up on what happened at Spin Off (p15), when a swag of Splendour In The Grass castaways invaded the Thebarton Theatre for one night only, infecting the crowd with their contagious beats.

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The Mixtape// Rip It Up’s random weekly compilation.

The Clash – London Calling Placebo – Song To Say Goodbye Michael Jackson – Beat It Black Sabbath – Changes Jeff Buckley – Last Goodbye Tracey Chapman – Fast Car Fleetwood Mac – Go Your Own Way Incubus – Drive Angus & Julia Stone – Big Jet Plane Queen – Don’t Stop Me Now Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Green Day – Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

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“It always breaks my heart to hear about tragedy in Detroit.

It’s a city that is really dear to me and really close to me always. I always try to represent Detroit in everything that I do.”

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Mayer Hawthorne – Where Does This Door Go (Stones Throw)

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RÜFÜS – Atlas (Sweat It Out)

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A little nostalgiac but a little bit sinister, gorgeous group TULLY ON TULLY are heading out on a national headline tour to promote their debut EP, Weightless. Catch them on Sat Aug 10 at the Ed Castle’s Plus One.

Wakey Wakey In Hearts Wake are about to scuttle off for a European tour, but they’ve already promised to return before the year is out. The hardcore group has booked their return alongside one of the biggest bands in the genre, Amity Affliction. Tickets to the show (which also includes Chelsea Grin and Stick To Your Guns) on Fri Oct 25 at Thebarton Theatre are available through Venuetix.

BEYONCÉ has announced an additional show for Adelaide on the Mrs. Carter World Tour.

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The Urban Mytheatre Company’s production of Macbeth (directed by Nick Garsden) continues at the Goodwood Institute Theatre until Sat Aug 17.

Upbeat Sydney young guns Glass Towers will power pop their way to the Grace Emily on Thu Aug 8 with debut album Halycon Days signed, sealed and delivered.

Hosted by Ella Hooper (Killing Heidi, The Verses) Telstra Road To Recovery presents Bob Evans at the UniBar on Thu Aug 8 for a free show that also features Kelly Menhennett, Courtney Robb and six emerging local acts from 5pm.

Speeding along this week...

MDC Veteran hardcore punk pioneers MDC will cause some anarchy at Fowler’s Live on Wed Aug 14 as part of their first Australian tour.

VANCE JOY After penning a five-album deal with Atlantic Records earlier in the year, this could be you last time to catch Vance Joy in intimate mode when he hits Jive on Wed Aug 14.

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Along with Pearson Sound and Ben UFO, Pangaea runs the on point Hessle Audio imprint, which is at the forefront of the UK club sound, which merges dusbtep with house and techno. Pangaea plays Sugar on Sat Aug 10.

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From Another Planet Describing his sound as if the “‘60s happened on another planet”, Lachlan Nicholson purposefully meant for Pluto Jonze’s music to sound out of this world. Nicholson welcomes Rip It Up into the Pluto Jonze universe with open arms.

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erhaps the most important thing to know about Pluto Jonze is that his debut album Eject is 100 percent self-produced by Nicholson. This isn’t an easy feat for the Sydney musician, but it has allowed him to reach new creative ground.

“It’s kind of been the story of my music career, but I think it’s because I’m a bit of a control freak as well,” Nicholson begins.

“Rather than relying on other people I always wanted to do the best I could to get the result I wanted.”

This self-reliance can be traced back to Nicholson’s background as a score composer, producing scores for friends’ independent films. This eventually led to him winning the 2009 Tropscore competition and inspired him to create standalone tracks, revisiting the same hook from Tropscore on Same Perfume. While he plans to continue pursuing film scores concurrently with Pluto Jonze, Nicholson finds films and visuals an inspiring element.

“If you have an image or scene in your head from a film it can sometimes be easier to write a song to it. It’s nice to take rather than having a blank canvas all the time.”

Sometimes his imagination would surpass his expertise, which meant that Nicholson needed to self-learn new instruments.

Nicholson is confident that Eject benefits from not turning to professionals to fill the gaps in his knowledge.

“I think your failings, quirks or bad techniques, whether singing, playing or arranging, can become a part of the sound.

If you make a mistake in recording, or you don’t have the electric guitar around and need to make an acoustic guitar sound like an electric guitar, it can make it sound different to everyone else. Maybe that’s why [Eject] sounds a bit different to other records? I have a bit of a DIY approach in the studio.”

This unique creative approach has led to Eject being of the most interesting releases this year. The album is a collection of 12 synth-pop tracks that each have distinct personalities, including the Air and Beckinspired title track, which features spoken word verses that came about by experimenting with Mac Speech. However, Nicholson didn’t set out to try and break new sonic ground on purpose, instead working on each song individually and select the ones that best fit most coherently. For narrative purposes, there is the common theme of the cathartic nature of escapism.

“I guess I am an optimist,” Nicholson muses.

“I try and see the best in situations and people.

I don’t think the album is a truly accurate reflection of my outlook though, because I did choose the songs that have this escapist mentality and suggest that escapism is a positive thing – ejecting is good. There are some songs that were left out that were good but didn’t fit the album’s philosophy. There is some darker stuff that I may revisit. The next album may have slightly more of that colour, but I don’t know that.”

‘Colour’, along with ‘flavour’, are interesting words that Nicholson uses frequently throughout the conversation to describe his

Shot Out Of Our Rocket Lachlan Nicholson is excited to bring Pluto Jonze back to Adelaide.

He explains to Rip It Up why our city gets his adrenaline pumping.

“I witnessed my first live gunshot ever in Adelaide. There was some bikie brawl on the streets outside Rocket Bar. No one was hurt; some guy just fired a shot into the ground. My drummer and I were the main witnesses, so we had to go to the police station at like, 4am – it was a shocker.

We came back for Fringe the following year and that was lovely. We didn’t get shot at once.”

music. It’s clear that Nicholson appreciates music as a complete sensory experience and one to help explain his feelings and experiences... even if those experiences are ones that are instigated through illicit substances.

While there’s no secret that album opener Hispendanongonajelanguiro (Capiche?) is about an experience on mushrooms, not all his songs are an autobiographical account of being on drugs. He does, however, think including your personal experiences in music is imperative to good music.

“That’s the only thing you’re going to write about better than any else in the world. I think maybe apart from one or two exceptions, the album isn’t madly biographical. I just like hooks and melodies... sometimes I feel like I’m not even writing the songs, they’re just things that cross my path or come into my head that are pre-written, or that I’ve misheard. I guess they are the things that will strike the biggest chord and are things that resonate with your life best.”

Although Pluto Jonze isn’t a moniker to try and separate Nicholson from certain recreational activities, there’s no denying that drugs are inherent within the project. In fact, they inspired the namesake.

“I love Disney cartoons,” Nicholson sheepishly admits. “Actually, the original name was Pluto Goneski. That came from trying to describe,” he pauses, apologising that this anecdote is going to make him sound like a “massive drug addict”, “an experience quite a while ago where I felt like my head was on another planet. I felt like I was on Pluto. I was gone. I was Pluto Goneski. I thought that kind of sounds like a person’s name – like a Eurovision pop star, so I went with that for a while but it just started to sound like something not nice, like something you would hurl up; it didn’t have a nice flavour to the sound. So I thought if there was this European dude trying to Anglicise his name due to racism in the music industry or whatever, he might change it to Goneski-Jonze. I love Spike Jonzes’ film also, so, that’s where the name change happened.”

WHO: Pluto Jonze WHAT: Eject (Stop Start/EMI) WHERE: Rocket Bar WHEN: Fri Aug 16

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We Never Went Away MDC (Millions Of Dead Cops) are one of American’s most politically vocal hardcore punk bands. Rip It Up speaks to lead singer Dave Dictor about all things controversial and how this pioneering hardcore punk band established the Austin music scene.

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unching away on hommus and crackers, Dictor recalls how MDC came up with their questionable band name.

“We were playing with Black Flag in California and the police were being horrific.

They were beating up on kids horrendously. We started saying, ‘Millions of dead cops!’ [Cops are] the watch dogs for the multi death corporation.

“The Supreme Court is very, very conservative,” Dictor explains on United States justice. “They basically said corporation is people and freedom means corporations doing whatever they want, so we are part of the reaction against all that. A lot of things we have said over 20 to 30 years, people are responding to us and responding to what we have to say.”

With a number of lineup changes and mass culture adjustment in the mid-’90s, MDC were all but completely written off.

“In the mid-’90s everyone went to Green Day, Rancid and kind of lighter-hearted punk rock. We never went away, and now global warming is getting related and the friction in political things going on in US between

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were benefits against the Ku Klux Klan who were attacking Mexican migrant workers. The scene was political in the right direction... it was a warm nurturing scene.”

MDC maintain their passion through their music and views on the world. And Dictor’s message is as relevant, if not more so today than it ever was.

“You can build a wall and try and hide from that fact but people get around walls and people are very angry. We have to take it down a notch with all the anger in the world and we can’t feed it by going to war with it and calling it names and dropping bombs and drones. We have to come together- work out a way we can make it together as a human race.”

WHO: MDC WHERE: Fowler’s Live WHEN: Wed Aug 14

“I’m really just happy that people are thinking a little less blindly about their patriotism.”

The Tea Party and people who hate Obama, people see us a way ahead of the curve. We’re getting a lot of love, friendship, radio play, touring, respect and numbers. It’s enchanting to be at it for 33 years and feel like you’re doing it as good as you’ve ever done.”

Very few hardcore bands expressed political agendas with their music when MDC started out on the scene, Dictor’s leftist ideas and lyrics exposed everything they believed to be evil from homophobia, capitalism, sexism, meat-eating and general American culture.

“The whole hardcore movement was about really feeling it. Really feeling the passion in a way that punk was starting to feel dispassionate and sarcastic. Hardcore said we don’t want to go that way. We want to be hardcore punk.

We are against starvation in the world, we are against animal cruelty and we’re going to step it up a notch and not write silly little bland songs, were going to try and put it in their face.

I’m really just happy that people are thinking a little less blindly about their patriotism.”

When Dictor first heard of the highly publicised homophobic behaviour in the hardcore scene, he couldn’t help but share his views.

“It’s sad and stupid. I think now more than ever, especially with people under 30 in this country, they more accepting of gay people and marriage. Those people creating anti-gay Facebook pages and websites are a dying cause and they’re trying to say we shouldn’t have cars, we should only have horses. They will become less and less. People can come up with a webpage and talk a lot a hate, but it doesn’t mean anyone is going to their parade.

“The Austin music scene is the greatest music scene in the world,” Dictor continues. “There

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Blokes You Can Trust Legendary Australian punk trio Cosmic Psychos, who will play Big Day Out in 2014, have just released a documentary, Blokes You Can Trust, and have also announced a quick Australian tour which will be followed by the band’s first American jaunt in many years.

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he trio, which formed at high school, boast a fuzzed-out, wah wah-driven style that features a distinctly Australian sense of humour. Early recordings somehow found their way to the US in the ’80s and Cosmic Psychos thus influenced such bands as Nirvana, The Melvins and Mudhoney. They can now also count Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder as a friend as well as an early fan.

The 90-minute, crowd-funded Blokes You Can Trust

documentary was put together by Matt Weston and features interviews with Eddie Vedder and assorted members of Mudhoney along with Steve Albini, Butch Vig and L7’s Donita Sparks as well as other luminaries including Wally Meanie of The Meanies and Ray Ahn of Hard-Ons. Blokes You Can Trust will now enjoy special screenings around the country as well as also being shown in the US as part of the band’s upcoming tour.

“Yeah, about every 10 years something exciting happens for us,” bass player and lead singer Ross Knight says from his farm in rural Victoria. “The great thing about the documentary is that we didn’t have much involvement. Matt just did a few interviews with us and then put it together. But it’s a great reminder of just how much fun we’ve had over the years by just being in a band. I don’t know why everyone doesn’t play in a band.

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Cosmic Animation Cosmic Psychos’ Blokes You Can Trust documentary contains a number of amusing animated scenes that were put together by Lluis Fuzzhound, a Melbournebased Illustrator and musician.

“They’ve come up really well,” Ross Knight agrees. “It was a stroke of genius because we had so many funny stories, as all bands do, but not many were filmed at the time. So using animation to show those were a great idea.

People should just watch the documentary for what it is, have a laugh and a bit of a giggle and don’t take anything too seriously.”

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“Everyone seems to like the finished thing. But whether people like it or not doesn’t matter to us because we’ve been shit-canned for years. It’s just to show what the band is all about.”

Knight is bemused by those who suggest Cosmic Psychos were a huge influence on the Seattle grunge scene.

“I’ll take it because we used to go over there and hang out with those guys,” he recalls. “But we were the clowns sitting in the corner with lampshades on our heads and running around with our pants down. Whether we were an influence or not I dunno – it’s got me buggered – but we certainly made ’em all laugh.

“They were just mates back then and we were all in the same bucket of poo,” Knight adds. “And it’s still the same today.”

An interesting feature of the documentary is the revelation that L7’s Donita Sparks stole the chorus of Cosmic Psychos’ Lost Cause for her band’s Fuel My Fire.

‘Yeah, Donita drunkenly rang me from the US and played their version over the phone one evening,” Knight recalls. “But she’d called when it was about 3am here and I was still half asleep.

So I just said, ‘Okay, look, whatever’. I couldn’t bloody tell if it was the same chorus or not.”

Fuel My Fire was later recorded by UK dance act The Prodigy for their 1997 album The Fat Of The Land with Knight and Cosmic Psychos receiving a songwriting credit.

“Funny shit, eh,” Knight laughs. “That was all quite amazing. It was very odd though but just shows what can happen in music. I’m just glad to still be part of it and that the band’s still goin’ after all these years.”

WHO: Cosmic Psychos WHAT: Blokes You Can Trust (Umbrella) WHERE: Palace East End Nova Cinema WHEN: Thu Aug 8 WHERE: Fowler’s Live WHEN: Sat Aug 17

Live Review// Spin Off While there was no Lana Del Rey this year to hypnotise fans and draw in the curious, Spin Off once again offered some cherished memories for those who went to rival the splendour that was on offer at Splendour.

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ownsizing to the more approrpiately-sized Thebarton Theatre shouldn’t be viewed as a negative, as instead the trusty ol’ Thebby was able to deliver more on atmosphere. The crowd let themselves down by being unprepared for a winter festival — combatting the cold with singlets, butt-shorts and flower crowns — when really what was on offer was a showcase of excellent bands.

Local bands Console Warriors and Archers were quick off the blocks to open the festival as the winners of the Spin Off Local Band competition. Dune Rats, those unstoppable stoner pop kids from Brisbane, charged on stage, steaming through their radio friendly hits Red Light Green Light and Stoner Pop. They are the kind of band you wish you could be in, but know that your parents would kill you, if liver poisoning doesn’t first.

Another Brisbane band, The Jungle Giants, were up next, allowing the punk kids a bit of a break while the indie popsters took to the barrier, heads bobbing along to Mr Polite and She’s A Riot. While still fresh to the music scene, there is much promise in this four-piece — be sure to see their name further up the line up in no time.

The hype surrounding FIDLAR was justified; they blitzed their polished set and charmed the crowd with their coy sense of humour, introducing themselves as every other band on the line-up except themselves. A surprise guest appearance from Dune Rats, who launched themselves into a roaring crowd left one punter with a broken nose and helluva story. Having surf rock bands on the line-up enables the crowd to loosen up, winning over the crowd for certain when they played their version of Nick Cave’s Red Right Hand, which they played that morning for Triple J’s Like A Version, leaving even the most pretentious indie kid with their flower crown askew.

Things calmed down for Snakadaktal, who celebrated the release of their debut album Sleep In The Water that day. They stretched out their grasp on the crowd and taking them for a ride with their ambient new material, quickening pace for dancier tracks Hung On Tight and Dance Bear.

Alas, it proved too slow for some. While not the most lively band on the line-up, they are one of the most promising, setting themselves apart as a poised and polished offering in Australian pop music.

Chet Faker, while tardy, builds atmosphere through the power of his voice, piano and beard. Seated at the piano for the duration of the set, Faker shows his professionalism and confidence in his excellent material from Thinking In Textures, although a more diverse (and longer) set peppered with new material is what the crowd yearned for.

Few surprises were offered for Passion Pit, although frontman Michael Angelakos was in finer form than his last appearance in Adelaide for Parklife 2012, with the

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Gossamer-heavy set gelling with a more informed crowd this time around. Manners favourites Sleepyhead and Little Secrets still made an impact, although Take A Walk, I’ll Be Alright and Constant Conversations had the crowd stomping along.

Even the harshest critics would concede that Icelandic seven-piece Of Monsters And Men delivered, charming the crowd with a refined and elegant set. Relying purely from My Head Is An Animal except for one track, Violent Storm, there were only a few times where it was obvious they were going through the motions. Never before has a song that’s predominant lyric is ‘la la la’ been as engrossing as their rendition of Yellow Light, but perhaps it was just the mesmerising confetti. While not the most explosive band in the world, there’s a reason why they’re still so popular and everyone at Spin Off saw the evidence.

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Triple J’s House Party Triple J’s House Party is heading our way once again, with Saturday night radio show host Nina Las Vegas leading a line-up that will hit the road with a massive national club tour. Bringing over some of our favourite tunes and mixing them up with new club joints and party jams, the line-up will also feature Flight Facilities, Cassian, Tyler Touche and Wave Racer. Catch Triple J’s massive House Party circus at a bigger venue this year – HQ on Fri Sep 6.

RA The Rugged Man Q+A With Grey Ghost

Controversial New York legend RA The Rugged Man has earned a reputation for combining the authenticity of his undeniably rugged life with lyrical skills feared by nearly all of his hip hop peers, beginning his whirlwind career at the age of 12. Known for out-of-control shows that have seen him previously banned from performing in the US, RA has pioneered the indie-rap hustle, pressing his own vinyl singles and racking up one of the most impressive resumes in rap history. Catch him as part of the Legends Never Die Tour at the Gov on Sun Sep 22.

Muso, filmmaker, graphic artist and former member of Melbourne beat experimentalists The Melodics, Grey Ghost has just released the follow-up to his debut self-titled EP – The Elixir EP.

Illy Celebrating the release of his single On And On, Illy will hit the road next mouth, set to be joined by fellow Oz hip hop lads Tuka, Allday and Elemont. On And On is the first taste of Illy’s upcoming album which will be the first release from Illy’s own record label ONETWO, set for release by summer and produced by M-Phazes. Given Illy’s track record of successful singles (including It Can Wait with Owl Eyes and Heard It All), as well as huge shows and support slots, big things are expected for both the new album and tour. Catch him at The Gov on Fri Sep 27.

CD Reviews

Tell us about The Elixir EP...

I feel it’s really personal lyrically – tracks like Long Way Home talk about some really dark places I’ve seen. Back To Life talks about the idea of starting again from scratch, which is what I had to do before a long time ago.

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Has it really been 10 years since the birth of Ed Banger, you ask? Fuck yeah, it has.

And what a 10 years at that, as the label took a flamethrower to French Touch to give the world the leather jacketed, cigaretteburnt and cool-as-fuck attitude of French Noise. Thrust forth into the world came the heavy thump of Justice, the still intricately twisted madness of Mr Oizo, the brash attitude of Busy P (who runs the label), others like cross-over sensation Uffie, the timeless sound of Cassius, Mr Flash and DSL. So it's no surprise that these cats and a few others of note make their presence felt on what is actually a pretty damn good compilation. There's sexy disco from Mr Flash dropping Reckless, Krazy Baldhead's analogue slowgrind My Soul Is Like A Tree, my fave, Brian Vision MMXIII by Justice, and the old skool fun of Feadz Coleslaw43.

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A ‘chillout’ album doesn’t necessarily have to be a must-have for the red hot summer season – it’s just as vital for the (current) gloomy, muggy, rainy, miserable days of winter (while you’re at home curled up on the sofa with a cup of hot chocolate, of course). Ministry Of Sound’s longest selling series brings us a three-disc collection of down-tempo house, electronica and some acoustic gems spanning the last 15 years – from Coldplay, Beth Orton and Angus & Julia Stone, to Groove Armada, Kaskade, Passion Pit and Florence + The Machine. It’s a nice little trip down memory lane overall (make sure you check out Peter Bjorn And John's Young Folks, Sneaker Pimps' 6 Underground and Amy Winehouse's Back To Black), cementing some of the tracks as truly ‘classics’ in all sense of the word.

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The quality of Oz hip hop just seems to keep growing with each release, and this tag-team offering from Known Associates (AKA Broken Tooth Entertainment’s Maggot Mouf and Ciecmate) is definitely another feather in the genre’s cap. The latter’s beats on Ashes To Dust are seriously up there with some of the best producers in the country, the album being dominated by loads of catchy melodies, positive vibes and – yep – even harps, but the wicked little trouble-inducing track Short Shorts is one of the stand-out moments on the record.

There is undeniable chemistry between Maggot Mouf and Ciecmate across the songs, the two having locked themselves away in the studio over the course of two years to bring us Ashes To Dust, and if this one’s anything to go by, their next offering will be among the more anticipated ones to come in the genre.

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Your sound is described as ‘alt-hip hop’ – can you elaborate?

I'm constantly itching to create something that hasn't been heard before. I often feel like music can be so derivative and everyone is just copying each other and what's cool at that moment. I get excited by artists who push boundaries and genuinely make me go, 'Shit, I've never heard anything like this... ever." I work from scratch with producers who help me create the songs. We really delve into new sounds and styles and mix genres you wouldn't usually associate with hip hop.

Tell us about your previous music project...

I worked for many years as the frontman of an experimental five-piece hip hop group called The Melodics and we released four EPs and an album. We did a lot of touring and festivals, etc. I learnt so much about songwriting, live shows, the recording process and management, and just about a million other things. It put me in a great position to start my own solo project.

Grey Ghost and Mantra play at The Ed Castle on Sat Oct 26.

Calendar/

Fri Aug 9 Ego (Cats @ Rocket Bar) Fri Aug 9 Masif Hard Dance Icons 2013 (HQ) Sat Aug 10 Pangaea (Sugar) Sat Aug 17 Dialectrix (Rocket Bar) Tue Aug 20 Urthboy (Town Hall) Fri Aug 30 Owen Howells (Sugar) Sat Aug 31 Alliance Tour (Rocket Bar) Sat Aug 31 Alison Wonderland (Electric Circus) Sat Sep 7 The Roll Call Tour (The Gov) Thu Sep 19 Rudimental (HQ)

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House heads will know James Curd for his ever-changing Greenskeepers project. Now he's conceived a new supergroup, Favored Nations, with Surahn "Sid" Sidhu, formerly The Swiss' bassist, and Morgan Phalen, who previously fronted and played guitar in the New York hard rock band Diamond Nights (he also sang on Justice's Audio, Video, Disco).

And the Chicago DJ/producer is orchestrating Favored Nations in his adopted home of Adelaide.

Curd has been living here for nearly three years.

"My girlfriend is from Adelaide and her family lives here," he says. "I think it's a great lifestyle in Adelaide – and I liked it more and more each time I visited... Good weather, health care [and] education, great studios and low crime all add up to a beautiful place to focus on music and family."

Curd maintains a low profile in the city.

"I DJ a bit in Adelaide at Mr Kim's but, for the most part, I play interstate and overseas. Adelaide is my home base for my family and studio. I also do some music work in film in Los Angeles, so I end up travelling a lot for that, DJing and now Favored Nations."

Curd met Phalen at the bar during a show

by Justice affiliates Jamaica in LA. "A mutual friend introduced us that night. We had a good time talking about music, going to see bands, and what the crowd expects to see and hear at a show – as opposed to what we would like to see and hear... It was a fun night and the start of a three month work trip for me, so we became

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friends over that time and started writing music together."

Back in Adelaide, Curd brought in Sidhu.

"I've known Sid for a long time. He is one of the most talented musicians I've been in the studio with – and he is a great guy. Since I arrived in Adelaide, we always wanted to work together, but we didn't know what direction we wanted to take. Once I came back from LA, we had a studio session and I asked him to join up with Morgan and I." Working together in the studio (and sometimes remotely over the Internet) the trio have come up with the three-song Blame Game EP – which Curd describes as "a small introduction to the band." (Check out the video for the title-track, shot in Sweden, where Phalen's girlfriend lives.) "We spent a lot of time and energy developing our sound, but we also want to explore different tempos, styles and textures while keeping our own

signature. We want listeners not to know what to expect exactly, but to expect it to be our sound at the same time."

Favored Nations has been categorised broadly as indie-dance, nu-disco and synthpop – despite Phalen "sneaking in" distorted guitars. "The word I always come back to is 'nostalgic'. It has a '70s feel, but more because of the sounds and Morgan's voice, rather than the style," Curd says. Joey Waronker from Thom Yorke's Atoms For Peace plays drums and provides additional production.

Curiously, Curd doesn't envisage Favored Nations issuing an album any time soon.

"We already have enough music to release an album, but we like the idea of small EPs. We think it's more fun for us and everyone involved to have more releases over a period of time, instead of one full album all at once.

When we have enough EPs released, we will package them nicely in addition to some new

WHO: Favored Nations WHAT: Blame Game (etcetc.)

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This year has seen the return of blueeyed R&B types Justin Timberlake and Robin Thicke. But the flyest of them all may yet be Mayer Hawthorne. The neo-soulster has just dropped Where Does This Door Go, which he's touting as "a summertime album". It's also his first foray into the new 'avant' soul epitomised by Frank Ocean.

The singer's 'real' name is Andrew Mayer Cohen, but he's abandoned the 'Andrew' and adopted the 'Hawthorne' from his old street address in the Michigan college town of Ann Arbor, a Detroit satellite.

"Mayer's good, man – that's my name," Cohen drawls as he picks up the phone.

Cohen started out as an instrumentalist, DJ and producer, hip hop his thing.

In 2006 he relocated to Los Angeles to further his career as a beatmaker.

Cohen dabbled in soul so he could sample it without paying for clearances. Peanut Butter Wolf of Stones Throw Records heard Cohen's efforts and encouraged him to cut an album – the result was 2009's A Strange Arrangement.

Cohen never imagined himself as a vocalist.

"I got a really late start on that one," he says. "I never sang in any of the other bands that I played in, really. I was never the singer – I was always the DJ or the bass player or the drummer." However, he's made a fan of Kanye West.

Cohen has matured on Where..., led by the single Her Favorite Song.

"I've come a long way in a short amount of time, definitely," he ponders. "It's crazy to even have three albums. I feel like that's an accomplishment in itself. I think one of the main things is that I actually learned how to

songs for a proper album release."

Greenskeepers, best known for their novel electro-pop hit Lotion, put out a third album, Live Like You Wanna Live, in 2010 that was little promoted. Curd affirms that they're still extant, yet his cohort Nick Maurer has apparently moved on.

"I have a folder on my desktop that I'm slowly building up labelled 'GK'. When I have enough material, I'll focus on it and see where it takes me... A future album will be more like [2004's] Pleetch and have a lot of guest singers and musicians. I'm completely focused on Favored Nations right now, though."

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sing a little bit for this new album!"

This time Cohen teamed with some intriguing personnel, among them Pharrell Williams (on three songs), Warren "Oak" Felder (Miguel's producer), and Brit Kid Harpoon ( Jessie Ware). Kendrick Lamar raps on Crime.

"I met with probably, like, 30 or 40 different producers before we narrowed it down to the four or five that actually worked on the album. In the end I chose the guys who I thought were the most creative and the guys who would push me to do something different that I had never done before – the dudes who could also understand where I was trying to go."

Nevertheless, for Cohen "the magic word" in the studio is "fun".

"I threw every other rule that I had out the window and the only rule that I kept was that it had to be fun."

Cohen regards Where... as an especially personal outing. Indeed, little is known of the singer, who's somehow managed not to become a 'celebrity'.

"I think this is definitely the most 'Mayer Hawthorne' record ever. My personality and my history and a lotta info, a lot of my character, comes out on this record like it never has before. These are stories mostly from my youth – and [with] this album there was a major focus on storytelling. I tried to really tell the most vivid stories possible.

Pharrell said it's like a book. I think of it more as like a film. But people who listen to this album, I think you get a really good feel for who I am – and that's a really great thing.

That's what makes the best albums."

Detroit, in decline since the late '60s, has been described as a city hit by a "slow motion Katrina". In fact, it has just declared for bankruptcy. Cohen still feels

an affinity with the Motor City, which has given the world Motown, The Stooges, Jack White, techno, Moodymann, J Dilla and Eminem. He himself loves, and listens to, Detroit ghetto-tek.

"I wrote a song about [Detroit] on my last album [2011's How Do You Do] – it was called A Long Time," Cohen says. "It always breaks my heart to hear about tragedy in Detroit. It's a city that is really dear to me and really close to me always. I always try to represent Detroit in everything that I do. I was sad to hear it [of the bankruptcy] but, hopefully, that can be a new start of something good."

WHO: Mayer Hawthorne WHAT: Where Does This Door Go (Caroline)

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Tour Guide/ THU AUG 8

GLASS TOWERS @ Grace Emily Hotel

FRI AUG 9

CLARE BOWDITCH & SPENDER @ Governor Hindmarsh GUTTERMOUTH, HIGHTIME, THE LIZARDS & WALK THE PLANK @ Fowler’s Live EGO @ Rocket Bar S IS FOR SPACESHIP @ Enigma Bar

SUN AUG 11

THE YEARLINGS & LITTLE WISE @ Wheatsheaf Hotel

WED AUG 14

MDC @ Fowler’s Live VANCE JOY @ Jive Bar EGO @ Pier Hotel, Pt Lincoln

THU AUG 15 - SUN AUG 18

WORD ADELAIDE FESTIVAL: MATT LUCAS, KITTY FLANAGAN, GUY PRATT, LEO SAYER & more @ various locations

THU AUG 15

TUE SEP 10

ANBERLIN & THE MAINE @ Governor Hindmarsh JIMMY BARNES @ Gawler Princes Park SNAKADAKTAL @ Governor Hindmarsh FOR THE FALLEN DREAMS @ Fowler’s Live MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS @ Uni Bar STONEFIELD @ Jive Bar

SAT SEP 14

JIMMY BARNES @ Port Elliot Showground BIG SCARY @ Uni Bar JACK CARTY @ Jive Bar

SUN SEP 15

TONIGHT ALIVE @ Governor Hindmarsh

TUE SEP 17

PARKWAY DRIVE (all ages) @ Governor Hindmarsh

WED SEP 18

FRI AUG 16

THU SEP 19

SAT AUG 17

DIALECTRIX @ Rocket Bar COSMIC PSYCHOS @ Fowler’s Live TROUBLE WITH TEMPLETON @ Ed Castle ED KUEPPER @ Governor Hindmarsh

MON AUG 19

DON McLEAN @ Thebarton Theatre

TUE AUG 20

PAUL KELLY & URTHBOY @ Adelaide Town Hall

FRI AUG 23

BLOODS & OSCAR KEY SUNG @ Rocket Bar

PARKWAY DRIVE @ Governor Hindmarsh PARKWAY DRIVE @ Governor Hindmarsh THE PREATURES @ Jive Bar

FRI SEP 20

THE PAPER KITES @ Jive Bar THE DRONES @ Fowler’s Live

SUN SEP 22

AMANDA PALMER & THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA @ Thebarton Theatre

MON SEP 23

ONE DIRECTION & 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

TUE SEP 24

JAPANDROIDS @ Ed Castle

THU AUG 29

THU SEP 26

SWERVEDRIVER @ Governor Hindmarsh

WED SEP 4

CYNDI LAUPER @ Festival Theatre

FRI SEP 6

THE CAT EMPIRE & HIATUS KAIYOTE @ Thebarton Theatre VOLUMES @ Fowler’s Live DIRT FARMER @ Rocket Bar CHICKS WHO LOVE GUNS @ Jive Bar

SAT SEP 7

THE SNOWDROPPERS @ Jive Bar

SUN SEP 8

CASTLECOMER @ Grace Emily Hotel

JASON BYRNE @ Her Majesty’s Theatre

WED OCT 2

THU OCT 3

JINJA SAFARI @ Uni Bar DISCLOSURE @ HQ

FRI OCT 4

HERE AND NOW FESTIVAL: 50 LIONS, SEARCH AND DESTROY, CRISIS ALERT & LEVEL @ Enigma Bar

Fresh from Splendour In The Grass festivities, Vance Joy is taking some time out with his mates in Melbourne, playing Frisbee and doing normal things. He chats to Rip It Up about the not-so-normal things, like the first time he heard himself on radio, the sultry Julia Stone, and his somewhat metal interior. Read on if you dare.

SAT OCT 5

SOILWORK @ Governor Hindmarsh TWELVE FOOT NINJA @ Fowler’s Live

SUN OCT 6

REGURGITATOR @ Governor Hindmarsh

THU OCT 10

RICKY MARTIN @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES @ Fowler’s Live

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ILLY @ Governor Hindmarsh HOTEL RACE FATALISTS @ Hotel Metropolitan UK SUBS @ Enigma Bar

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ALL TIME LOW & ALL YEAR ROUND @ HQ

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likes of Clairy Browne and Gotye when he’s on stage at the Gov on Fri Aug 9, he will be joining Clare Bowditch.

“It’s just the two of us that will be on stage together. I sing her songs with her and also get to do a half-hour set of just my material.

I’m sort of supporting and being her band.”

This goes against the normal supporting/ touring act dynamic, which is a concept that Bowditch has built in to her Winter Secrets tour since last year’s sell-out season with Lanie Lane.

“It’s a really cool idea; it’s more interesting for the audience. It’s a slightly conversational show, there’s audience participation and we do a couple of covers. It’s a real kind of night with Clare and Tommy – or supported by Tommy – or Spender, I should say. I need to remember to refer to myself in the third person.”

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RIHANNA @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

THE BELLIGERENTS @ Rocket Bar BULLUSIRA & DIVA DEMOLITION @ Enigma Bar KIERAN RYAN @ Ed Castle HIGH VOLTAGE @ Governor Hindmarsh ALISON WONDERLAND @ Electric Circus

Having tracks that feature Clairy Browne and Gotye seems to be no small feat for an emerging artist. Spender reveals that a longstanding career as a touring musician for a host of projects means he has been able to snare a few favours from some of Australia’s best.

“To put it all in perspective, I’ve been doing quite a lot of music for about 10 years in various different things,” Spender reveals.

“I’ve made some good friends. Clairy Browne is one of my dearest, oldest friends. We used to be housemates and she went to high school with my wife. We used to do gigs as kind of a duo like The Kills where I would play guitar and she would sing and we had some sounds and beats. Just as we started to get offered a

lot of gigs her band [Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes] became really big and I became busy also.”

Making true of the tired saying that it really is who you know to make it in the industry, Spender was able to work his connections in order to snare Gotye to appear on his track, Hotel Home.

“I know Wally [de Backer, AKA Gotye] just by being a part of the Melbourne music community for 10 years or so... that’s showing my age! My drummer who played all the drums on my EP just joined Wally’s touring band. I hadn’t spoken to Wally for a while so I contacted him and said, ‘Hey, I’ve got this song’ and we went from there. I’m getting guest artists to perform the material, as well as my myself, to show off the fact that I’m mainly a producer now so the best way to do that is to mainly get people to sing your tunes, although the focus gets taken off you by not being in the limelight. I sent it over and he really liked the song and we arranged a recording date and that was that.”

While Spender won’t be joined by the

WED SEP 25

ONE DIRECTION & 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

FRI AUG 30

On the eve of the release of his debut EP, Modern Pest, Rip It Up catches up with Melbourne producer (Tommy) Spender, about his upcoming Clare Bowditch tour and how he roped in some other famous friends to join him on the EP.

FOALS & ALPINE @ HQ ONE DIRECTION & 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre SURES @ Ed Castle

TUE AUG 27

THE GO SET & THE REAL McKENZIES @ Grace Emily DEAD LETTER CIRCUS, CLOSURE IN MOSCOW & SLEEP PARADE @ HQ

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BERNARD FANNING & VANCE JOY @ Thebarton Theatre JOSH PYKE @ Governor Hindmarsh OBEY THE BRAVE @ Black Market BRITISH INDIA @ Uni Bar PLUTO JONZE @ Rocket Bar

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The last time this beast was in the city of churches he supported the joyous Julia Stone. In a church. Classic Adelaide.

“The best on stage moment was when I got to sing a duet with Julia Stone. She invited me up to sing Santa Monica Dream, which was really cool. God she's gorgeous,” he scoffs. “I was like…” He pauses intensely before sighing and changing the subject. It's okay, Vance. We feel the same.

Vance Joy will be back in Adelaide for his own headlining show at Jive Bar on Wed Aug 14 before supporting Bernard Fanning

at the Thebarton Theatre the following night. Much of this success is off his breakout single Riptide from his debut EP, God Loves You When You're Dancing. If you haven't heard the sensational folky pop tune Riptide by now, you must literally be living under a rock.

“I guess it's on commercial radio now, so a lot of people would be listening to it. I'm so grateful that I even wrote that song, like wow,” admits the astonished young lad.

If he was astonished by that, imagine the first time he heard his sounds on radio.

“Zan Rowe played it on Triple J and that was crazy! I got a call and my dad was like, `Yo, you're on the radio' and we all ran around the radio and I just caught the last like 10 seconds of the song and then Zan was like, `That's Vance Joy from Melbourne'. Far out, it was so cool. I think you only get that moment once.”

In regards to his lyricism of that very song it can be confirmed that Vance is no longer afraid of the dark, but definitely

dabbled with these emotions in his younger years. “Yeah, The Exorcist did a number on me,” he chortles. In regards to that other great common fear, dentists: “It's okay, I'm not like one of those people that have never been to the dentist.”

Phew.

Let's be honest. He's a bit of a sexy beast.

Aside from his epic musical endeavors and spunky bone structure. it turns out he's also a man of steel. Well, sort of.

“Yeah I've got a bolt in my foot, like a metal screw. It's not that big. Actually, maybe make it sound bigger than it is.”

Vance Joy — part man, part robot.

“Yeah, that's it!”

Chicks dig it.

WHO: Vance Joy WHAT: God Loves You When You're Dancing (Liberation) WHERE & WHEN: Jive Bar, Wed Aug 14 & Thebarton Theatre, Thu Aug 15

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HOTEL RICHMOND – All Vinyl DJ (6pm) 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 G-rillz (9pm) PORT NOARLUNGA BOWLING CLUB – Chris While, Julie Matthews & Maggie Rutjens (7pm) PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango ROCKET BAR – Wild Things (9pm) SUGAR – Jazz Pancake with locals and guests THE LION HOTEL – Clearway (9pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm)

ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Bill Parton Trio (8.30pm) Top Of The Ark: Yalumba Rare & Fine Dinner (6.30pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty BRECKNOCK HOTEL – Breakaway Sing-A-Long Session (8.30pm) CAFÉ TROPPO – The Café Series: New Orleans Street party (6.15pm) CAMEO BAR – Cameoke with Andy CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: The Rocketeers, The Informers & Pink Noise Generator. Front Bar: DJ Antface 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 – The Viennas & Leaping Felix FOWLER’S LIVE – Alesana GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Band Room: Exhumed.

Front Bar: Gumbo Room Blues Jam with The Flying Geronimos GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The Glass Towers & Archers GRAND BAR – OMG HIGHWAY – DJ Alli (8pm) HOTEL METRO – A Bold Display of Guitar: Sam Leske, Cam Blokland & Stefan Hauk (9pm)

FRIDAY 9TH ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: DJ Jaki J (9.30pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Dino Jag (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Juggernaut BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – DJ Lars & Guests COVE TAVERN – DJ Anton The Party Guru (8pm) COWANDILLA SOCIAL CLUB – karaoke (8pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Issac Graham & The Great Unknown, The Hard Aches, Rin & The Reckless, Dilettantes & DJ Adam. Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs

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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 – Pearly Gates THE ELEPHANT – DJ Jak (9pm) Triple X (9.30pm) THE GOODY – Ch@t Room THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL – Chrysler Bar: Kopy Catz (9.30pm) Tavern Bar: Katrina Caton (4.45pm) Flaming Sambucas Duo (9pm) VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs WEST BAR – Koolta, Purpose, Kullas & Byronic, DJ Amayze & Guests (7.30pm)

WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Timberwolf, Banjo Jackson Trio & Causing Hammock (9pm)

WHITMORE HOTEL – THE HEALERS (8:30PM) WILLUNGA FERN FOREST NURSERY – Neil Murray & Howard James (7.30pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – Three Humped Camel ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Skot, Track Team & Ryley

SATURDAY 10TH ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J plus Bongo Madness with Alex. Upstairs: DJ Ed Law (9.30pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Sporty’s Bar: Unknown To Man (10pm) Top Of The Ark: New Romantics (8.30pm) BAROSSA REGIONAL ART GALLERY – Neil Murray (7.30pm) BLUE GUMS – Will Metzer Duo BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Shawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – karaoke with Gemma (9pm) BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Dance on (9pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Tracer, Angels Of Gung Ho, MadClassic, Matt Stillert, Riot Runners & DJ Azz CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with Nicole (8pm) DRAGONFLY – rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and everything in between DUBLIN HOTEL – Theo (3pm) 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: Tully On Tully & party DJs (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends ENIGMA – Infiltrator ENCORE NIGHTCLUB – Resident DJs & Guests (9pm) EXETER HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (7pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Little Wise GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ Marky Polo (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Band Room: Live N Local: Tabula Rasa, Ice On Mercury, Lipsmack & Paleface. Front Bar: Strange New Folk GRACE EMILY HOTEL – We Do This, Battlehounds & That No Good Thief GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays with DJs and MCs HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Kopy Catz (9pm) HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm) HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm) HOTEL METRO – Echo. End, Pistrol Schrimp & Rum Corps (9pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – The Front: 888 Poker (8.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips and guests (8pm) JACK RUBY – Soul Social – live band and vinyl DJs (8pm) KERSBROOK TAVERN – The Artistocrats KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Acoustik (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) The Hi Topps (8.30pm) MARS BAR –VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am)

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The Guide// SUGAR – ITDE DJs and interstate & international guests SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Craig James (7.30pm) TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE ELEPHANT – DJ G-rillz (9pm) Transit (9.30pm) THE LION HOTEL – Absolut Saturdays: Wasabi (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Two Hard Basket (8.30pm) VALLEY INN – karaoke VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – Rumours WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Guitar Workshop with Cal Williams Jnr (1.30pm) Anthony D’Antonio, Courtney Robb & Simon Peter (9pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – Blue Comets (8.45pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm) ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs: Bottle Rocket, Osiris, Gumshoe

NORWOOD HOTEL – Eleven Days (9pm) OLD SPOT HOTEL – Panic Switch PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Frenzy (8pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Midnight Special (8pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Tubesteaks (10.30pm)

RAMSGATE HOTEL – ADELAIDE’S BEST COVER BANDS RED SQUARE – DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan RIVERSIDE HOTEL – Rock The Boss ROCKET BAR – Rocket Saturdays: Selah, Lauren Rose, Big Bubba, Griff & Faint One (9pm) SANDBAR – requests with DJs SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic sessions SEBEL PLAYFORD – Acoustically Raw (8pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – Agent 99 (9pm)

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SUNDAY 11TH ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School ARKABA HOTEL – Adelaide Comedy: Schnitz & Giggles (4.30pm) BACCHUS BAR – The Harmonics (5pm) BENJAMIN ON FRANKLIN – Souled Out Sessions with DJs Dave Collins and Jason Lee BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Zepporama – Led Zeppelin Tribute CROWN & ANCHOR – All Ages Show DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUBLIN HOTEL – Live Music (3pm) DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) EDINBURGH HOTEL: MITCHAM – EMU HOTEL – ‘Bout Time ESPLANADE HOTEL – Dino Jag (4pm) EUREKA TAVERN – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (12pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Magnetic Garden GLENELG PIER – Acoustik (2pm) GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays: Johnny McIntyre (3pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Band Room: The Textettes Band GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Heath Anthony & Thom Lion GRAND BAR – bands, DJs and MCs HIGHWAY – Wasabi HOTEL METRO – Format DJs (4pm) HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – The Front: 888 Poker (8.30pm) LIGHT HOTEL – Vonni’s Big Arvo MARINA SUNSET BAR –Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits PLAYFORD TAVERN – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (5pm)

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SAILMASTER TAVERN – Justin Parker (2pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic soloists SEMAPHORE PALAIS – Agent 99 (4pm) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – The Dirty Roots Band (4pm) SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) Quinny, Parko & Friends (6pm) WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm) WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi & Shaggy (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Yearlings & Little Wise (4pm) ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs: Zooma, Skot & Ryley

MONDAY 12TH CROWN & ANCHOR – The Dunes Acoustic EXETER ON RUNDLE – Ben David Acoustic GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Rear Admiral Stand Up Comedy. Balcony Bar: Lord Stompy’s Tin Sandwich GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ultimate Quiz with Graham Lawrence (7pm) MARION HOTEL – Bart’s Bar: Scrabble 101 (6.30pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Complete Trivia (7pm) RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jam Night (8pm) SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and Paul Vallen (8pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – COMA Special Event: Origami (8pm)

TUESDAY 13TH AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: DJs Stevie & Duncan

The Guide // DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Bitches Of Zeus DJs GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH –Front Bar: Uke Night with Adelaide Ukulele Appreciation Society GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Improv Cabaret HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – KG’s Complete Trivia (7pm) HOTEL METRO – Acoustic Club MARION HOTEL – Cue N Brew: 888 Poker (6.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm) SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller THE LION HOTEL – Zkye and Damo (7.30pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – TA Tuesdays: DJ Ryley & Guests (8pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Spineless Wonders: A Short Evening of Tall Stories (7pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Acoustic Raw Jam (7:30pm WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm)

WEDNESDAY 14TH ARKABA HOTEL – Salsa Classes (6pm) Salsa Afterparty (9pm) BOTANIC BAR – Gemma CENTRAL DISTRICTS FOOTBALL CLUB – Quiz Wizz Trivia (7.45pm) CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7pm) CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Geek with DJ Tr!p DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Dan’s Open Mic Night (7.30pm) EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music Exchange (7.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – DJ Curtis FINDON HOTEL – Muso’s Jam hosted by Streaker FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7pm) FOWLER’S LIVE – Millions of Dead Cops

GLENELG FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia (7.30pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Band Room: National Science Week with The Bad Astronomer. Front Bar: Open Mic Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Simon Peter & Erik Parker HIGHWAY – The Combi Room: Kiki Solo HOTEL METRO – DJ Pogan (9pm) HQ –NeverLand JIVE –Vance Joy KENSINGTON HOTEL – Uke N Play @ The Kensi (7pm) LIGHT HOTEL – Open Mic Night (8pm) MARION HOTEL – Adelaide Comedy: Health Franklin’s Chopper (8pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm) SEAFORD HOTEL –karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with Margi (7.00pm) SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular and Mr Whiskas THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Tonsley Trivia (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – TA Bar: Trivia Wednesdays (7pm)

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The Language Of War A massive freestyle MC competition, The Language Of War, will celebrate the art of rhyming and freestyling as part of Word Adelaide.

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rganised by former Hilltops Hoods manager and current manager of Pulling Strings, PJ Murton, The Language Of War will deliver many freestyle bouts in a boxing ring atmosphere at Thebarton Theatre featuring heavyweight competitors (MCs signed to labels or who are award winning competitors), middleweights (MCs from national freestyle organisations) and flyweights (emerging MCs). Murton says the response to the competition and event has been “overwhelming” as support has come from across the nation.

“The idea was originally developed some two or three years ago, after a concept for a different type of competition was brought to my attention by a very well respected Adelaide MC,” Murton explains about the origins of the competition. “Earlier this year, I was contacted by Jane Intini, the creative director of the Word Adelaide festival, and asked to submit a proposal for a live music event and, more specifically, a freestyle competition for hip hop MCs. The idea of a festival based around ‘words’ was so unique, it had my attention in an instant. I also jumped at the

chance of working with Jane, who I consider to be the best publicist in South Australia and an opportunity that I simply couldn’t miss.”

The Language Of War will explode at Thebarton Theatre on Fri Aug 16 with The Tongue, Purpose, Social Change and Manaz ILL the four heavyweight contestants. Local kings Delta and the Funkoars will deliver super heavyweight showcase performances while Simplex (Terra Firma) will host and referee the event and MC Fatface will be the master of ceremonies. The event has a prize pool of more than $12,000 in cash and prizes with some of Australia’s finest freestylers in town to compete. Thebarton Theatre will be transformed into a boxing ring atmosphere, where words, and not fists, will be the main event, as Murton explains.

“Thanks to the inspiring enthusiasm of Thebarton Theatre’s staff, the venue is being transformed from the usual performance mode to be completely themed around boxing. A master of ceremonies, beatboxing referee, boxing gloves, hand wraps and a grueling back-to-back performance schedule that starts the minute the doors are open.

The backstage area has been converted into

Purpose a training room and the traditional ‘sound checks’ have been replaced with competitor weigh-ins.”

While flyweight entries are closed due to an overwhelming response, the flyweight heats will be held at the Reynella Enterprise and Youth Centre on Tue Aug 13, Grote St’s The Promethean on Wed Aug 14 and the Northern Sound System in Elizabeth on Thu Aug 15. Murton says that freestyle competitions have been evolving over the last decade but this one is different.

“This unique competition format has an underlying and organic artist development focus, whilst the intention was also for open entries, so the general public could be engaged. The large cash prize purse has also certainly helped to attract international attention. Each of the individual competition ‘bouts’ consist of three rounds: Round 1 is a cappella, with lyrical content being required to include the ‘Language Of War’ theme, Round 2 is performed with a beatbox accompaniment and with the same theme and Round 3 is complementary, which is the opposite to how most current battles are executed.”

This is more than just an event with Murton viewing it as a chance to increase future collaborations and industry development.

“As far as I can ascertain, the 100 percent Australian hip hop content being used is also a first and I saw a chance to highlight the amazing talent Australia has to offer plus any excuse to get MCs from around Australia together, can only increase the possibility for future collaborations and industry development.

Rules Of Combat Traditionally MC battles have a tendency to slip towards un-PC throwaway comments. Murton says since this competition is a celebration of the art of MCing and language there will be lines competitors can’t cross.

“This competition if definitely not a ‘battle’, although it was developed to challenge the various levels (or weight divisions) of competitors and to highlight the pure lyrical skills involved with improvisational rapping. The rules and regulations for lyrical content are quite strict and were put in place to address certain stigmas, often perceived as being quite negative.”

“The judges were carefully chosen to represent a broad range of freestyle MCs, with a proven competition history, while the main consideration being for a high level of integrity. To keep the momentum flowing at the events, we also have Eloquor, Kimence, Chase, Evolve, Joseph Duigan and Marcus McFly doing brief performances to offer a break in the competitions and more importantly to showcase a variety of artists with different levels of experience. One thing to note is that the majority of acts has either recently released music or will be in the near future.”

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Film // Cosmic Psychos: Blokes You Can Trust (M) AAAa Matt Weston’s doco chronicling improbable Ocker rockers the Cosmic Psychos (still thriving after properly forming in 1984) is very enjoyable, with the Psychos themselves revealed as yarnspinning, beer-chugging, very funny and unapologetically yobbo.

Getting going after a period as Spring Plains once frontman Ross Knight came on board, the members are interviewed in their homes (Ross is filmed in a shed adjoining his family’s farmhouse as his divorce looms) and discuss the formation of the band, their ‘80s success as pub/cult faves and how it

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all went big-time into the ‘90s. And the friends they made during those years of American touring turn up for chummy chats: Eddie Vedder remembers the game ‘Coin Up The Khyber’; Butch Vig says the Psychos were always professional despite the booze; the Melvins wonder how Ross and Co could put away so much grog; and L7’s Donita Sparks explains how the Aussie band made real money from a complicated co-writing credit, and how she and Knight have a longstanding, loving relationship. Intriguing and even enlightening if you don’t know the Psychos’ music (and you could be forgiven if you don’t), this reveals Knight as a true-blue philosopher, and is also notable for fondly recalling a time when the indie scene really meant something and was, you know, strewth, cool!!

AICE Israeli Film Festival This year’s AICE Israeli Film Festival celebrates its 10th Anniversary at the Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas from Thu Aug 15 until Tue Aug 20. With awardwinning documentaries, challenging dramas and audience-pleasing comedies on offer, the festival presents the best of Israeli film, and highlights include director Beni Torati’s Opening Night film The Ballad Of The Weeping Spring, Eran Riklis’ Zaytoun and Dror Moreh’s The Gatekeepers. For more info see palacecinemas.com.au.

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This feature début from Nat Faxon and Jim Rash gets away with a slightly low-budget look due to a wonderful ensemble cast (who must have all been paid peanuts). Withdrawn teen Duncan (Liam James) loathes Trent (Steve Carell), new boyfriend of his mum Pam (Toni Collette), and is suffering through a summertime holiday at the beach with Trent’s snotty daughter Steph (Zoe Levin) and frequent visits from neighbour Betty (Allison Janney). Betty’s son Peter (River Alexander) is suggested as a pal for Duncan, and he’s certainly drawn to her daughter Susanna (AnnaSophia Robb), and yet the surprise here is that he winds up spending all his time at the ‘Water Wizz’ theme park with Owen (Sam Rockwell in fine, familiar form), Caitlin (Maya Rudolph), Roddy (Faxon) and the gang, and realising that he isn’t the loser that Trent suggests. And while you might assume that that impressive ensemble would dominate proceedings here, surprisingly this is all seen through near-unknown James’ eyes, and he makes Duncan a credible, even likeable ‘hero’ even while his inexpressive sullenness drives you mad.

The last entry in the ‘Cornetto Trilogy’ from co-writer/star Simon Pegg, co-writer/director/ Edgar Wright and producer/star Nick Frost is the most ambitious (after Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz) and just about the darkest, most emotionally resonant and most subversive too. Five onetime schoolmates unite as 40-somethings at the request of screwed-up Gary King (Pegg) to recreate an unfinished 12-strong pub-crawl from 1990 in their old stomping-ground of Newtown Haven, and there’s: real estater Oliver (Martin Freeman); family-man Pete (Eddie Marsan); construction boss Steven (Paddy Considine); and bitter lawyer Andy (Frost against type). However, the town’s changed more than they have, and their boozy mission, with Oliver’s sister Sam (Rosamund Pike) sometimes in tow, is eventually threatened by the revelation that bodysnatcher-ish sci-fi is in the air, a discovery that makes them rethink their views on friendship, humanity and yet another pint as they try and make their way to The World’s End (pub). Offering intricately-detailed direction from Wright, cool cameos and brilliant use of music, this nevertheless should irk many for reasons that can’t quite be discussed here.

While most of us are familiar with his version of Hallelujah, and the circumstances around his tragic death, Naked In New York director Daniel Algrant presents to us a moment in Jeff Buckley’s life, before he was ‘Jeff Buckley’, when he was simply ‘Tim Buckley’s son’. In 1991 Jeff (Penn Badgely) was a budding musician struggling with the preceding reputation of his father and his personal feelings about the Tim Buckley he knew. After reluctantly agreeing to participate in a tribute concert to his father, Jeff turns pied piper and takes the event’s gopher (Imogen Poots from The Look Of Love) on a hipster adventure around town, as he alternates between running away from and moving towards his father’s legacy. Badgely is an impressive singer and bears a decent resemblance to Buckley, and if he doesn’t pull off an exact impersonation he, at least, provides a sturdy, sympathetic re-enactment.

The atmosphere of Algrant’s film is detached, as though filmed underwater, which is fitting for Buckley’s mood, but gives little in terms of background information or meaningful connections – which makes it perfect for the hipster crowd. Hallelujah.

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Opening But Unrated The Bling Ring (MA), drawn from some kind of fact by writer/director/producer Sofia Coppola (her first outing since the dire Somewhere), is a dark LA drama starring Emma Watson and Leslie Mann.

Gambit (M), a remake of the 1966 comedy, is directed by Michael Hoffman, offers a script by, apparently, Joel and Ethan Coen, and has a cast that includes Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Tom Courtenay, Alan Rickman and Stanley Tucci.

Director Louis Letterier (better-known for spectaculars like the Clash Of The Titans remake) handles the playfully comedic Now You See Me (M), toplining Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Mélanie Laurent and Common.

Producer/director Michael Bay takes time off from Transformers sequels with the dark comedy Pain & Gain (M), and assembles Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Tony Shalhoub, Ed Harris, Rebel Wilson, Ken Jeong and Peter Stormare.

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Low & Slow American BBQ The former Little Big Cheese Co has recently embraced meat – so much so that they have undergone a total transformation and emerged as a brand new food truck called Low & Slow American BBQ. With a menu inspired by American eats, some of Low & Slow’s quick bites include pulled pork sandwiches packed with slow-smoked pork shoulder, apple slaw and BBQ sauce with onion rings, ribs, brisket and veggie platters beefed up with Texan smoky beans. At the moment the truck hangs around the Wheaty on Sundays, but you can keep fully up to date with their movements at facebook.com/LowSlowAmericanBbq

Drink + Dine + Design Focusing on South Australia’s reputation for great food and wine, JamFactory is seeking innovative product design ideas aimed at enhancing the dining experience for its annual design award Drink+Dine+Design.

The $2000 award is open to all emerging

On Fri Aug 2 Public CBD launched their brand new Freestyle Fridays share plate menu, inspired by head chef Stewart Wesson’s recent travels to Europe.

Throughout the evening guests were treated to an array of share platter nibbles put together using fresh, local produce,

including the miso-glazed Waygu wrapped in thinly-sliced daikon, Hungarian fried potato bread with dill and cheese dip and fresh oysters in finger lime juice. Other new additions also included the confit and smoked pork belly, coal-charred king prawns with green chilli harissa and the roast pumpkin fagonttini with raisins, sage and fromage blanc. You can taste all of these new dishes with Public’s new Freestyle Fridays menu, which will kick off every Friday from 5pm – late. For more info, head to publiccbd.com.au.

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designers, including current students and those who have completed a design training or study program in SA in the last five years. Judges for 2013 include JamFactory CEO Brian Parkes, UniSA Professor Joanne Cys, The Adelaide Review design writer Leanne Amodeo and Rohan Nicol.

Last year’s award was won by ceramicist Wayne McAra, who crafted a porcelain B4 platter (pictured). Applications for the 2013 Drink+Dine+Design award close Mon Sep 9. Head to jamfactory.com.au for more info.

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It is a tricky time for keeping the pans of your scales anything remotely like centred. There is a flood of feeling around. Because of your sensitivity, you are likely to be tapping into it. There is also a lot of frustrated fire, that wants to exert its will and burn brightly. Hold both.

Gemini 21.05/21.06

Mercury remains in Cancer – and you remain in emotion and feeling, rather than logic and clarity. This has been going on for some time now and it is likely that you are becoming a little impatient with yourself. It is when this impatience drops that clarity will come. Be kind.

Cancer 22.06/22.07

There are powerful waves, currents and swells, moving through you and your life.

Though you might want to push yourself through with the force of sheer will, it’s not possible. Life is asking that you put aside your agenda and go at its pace. Deep feeling is likely here. Dive in.

Leo 23.07/22.08

The sun is well and truly in Leo. It is lighting you up – but because of all the other things that are happening, probably not in the way you imagined it would. Rather than fighting against anything that is blocking you, search for its deeper meaning. A rock can become a stepping stone.

Virgo 23.08/22.09

The presence of Venus in your sign mellows things significantly. While others are wrestling with various versions of existential conflict, you are able to dip into a cul-de-sac of exquisite harmony. This is possible because you are more open to feeling your feelings than others imagine.

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Provisional States is a seminal showcase featuring the works of seven South Australian artists in a reflection of precarious environments, with the CACSA Parkside estate serving as a key example. Provisional in this context suggests ‘contingent’, ‘tentative’, ‘conditional’, ‘dependent’, ‘ephemeral’, ‘experimental’, ‘interim’, ‘limited’, ‘makeshift’; all descriptions apropos to past CACSA contemporary of 2010 and 2012 and the unfulfilled desire to present once again in 2013 a critical and generative project within the CBD realm. The exhibition will be followed up with Provisional States (Part Two) in November, where the involved artists will respond to the characteristics of the CACSA bluestone building. Alongside Provisional States, Julia McInernery will be exhibiting her latest work The Meadow in the Project Space.

Scorpio 24.10/21.11

The light of the Leo sun annoys you. You like being in the shadows – it’s safer there – and here comes life with a blazing spotlight, inviting you onto centre stage. This is never going to work without some serious psychological gymnastics. Go where there’s like-mindedness.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12

Your love of truth is a beautiful thing – but it also gets you into interesting pickles. By encouraging others to drop their walls and come out with what they feel, a tidal wave has been unleashed. Now you must deal with the repercussions of the very honesty you invited.

Dreamwalker is a solo exhibition by Caitlin Millard that takes you by the hand and leads you on a mythopoeic adventure. Drawing inspiration from dreamlike states and the subconscious, Millard has made real a cast of characters from her imagination through a series of watercolour paintings. A surrealistic body of work filled with critters, creatures and just a few tapirs, Dreamwalker invites you into an ethereal universe with a tale or two to tell.

Somehow you are a lynch-pin for all the very strong goings on that are unfolding right now. It is your presence that is holding both the wilfulness and the willingness being displayed, in place. Do all that you can to keep everyone involved grounded, careful, openminded and kind.

WHAT: Caitlin Millard: Dreamwalker WHERE: Espionage Gallery, Suite 1, Level 2, 93 Rundle Mall, Adelaide WHEN: Thu Aug 15 – Sat Aug 24 OPENING: Thu Aug 15 from 6pm

Aquarius 20.01/18.02

Relationship is where you are poised – and relationships of all kinds are presently in a spectacular state of flux.

Hopefully you have enough of an overview and easy access to exactly the right amount of wisdom, to be able to remember lightness and laughter. This is true rebellion.

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WHAT: Provisional States / The Meadow WHERE:CACSA, 14 Porter St, Parkside WHEN: Until Mon Aug 26

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Capricorn 22.12/19.01

From The Locker Of Phineas Baker From The Locker Of Phineas Baker is a travelling selection of works from the collection of English philanthropist, Phineas Baker. Monsters and masks and myth and misappropriation serve as underpinning themes in this series of works curated by Delana Carbone, with the showcase featuring a range of reconstructed paper works, stencils on canvas and simulated artifacts from artists Wir Tanzen, Helga Blotensnatch and Inmate 357. The exhibition will be launched at The Mill with live performances from Spotaneous and a well-stocked bar to boot.

Pisces 19.02/20.03

Love is holding you to your vision. It’s easy to imagine romance. It’s something else to hold a relationship in place, when the reality of two egos kicks in. Love is the water that eventually wears away the rock of separation. Life is giving you the courage to go deeper again.

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Libra 23.09/23.10

Taurus 21.04/20.05

The masculine fire signs and the feminine water signs are in a mighty standoff. You are by no means in the middle of it, but you are affected. Neither blind ambition, nor extreme passivity, are likely to deliver. Life is inviting you to deepen your sense of what truth is. Be wise.

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Caption: Julia McInerney, The Meadow, 2013

The Leo sun warms your heart. It inspires you to be yourself, be courageous and to do all that’s possible to shine. Shining, however, still isn’t proving all that easy. There is a huge swell of emotionality that will require some highly elaborate surfing skills. Let go of rigidity.

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WHAT: From The Locker Of Phineas Baker WHERE: The Mill, 154 Angas St, Adelaide WHEN: Thu Aug 15 – Tue Aug 20 OPENING: Thu Aug 15 from 6pm

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Androgyny Shirley Manson from Garbage has the right idea when it comes to gender stereotyping, although rock music isn’t the only industry that celebrates the fluidity of gender. Elite fashion designers have been flirting with androgynous styles for decades now and that concept has slowly been trickling into the mass retail market.

Whether it’s your thing or not, it can’t be denied that at least it makes for a more interesting palette and diversified fashion landscape. We took a closer look at Ruby Rose’s latest campaign for JAG’s Androgyny collection, yet here are some other 2013 designer campaigns that don’t put rules on who can wear what.

1) Comme Des Garcons – Florals aren’t just for the girls.

2) Rick Owens - Dresses for the boys.

3) Saint Laurent Paris – Heidi Slimane in menswear.

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Australia’s denim stalwart JAG for their S/S 13/14 campaign have jumped on the androgynous bandwagon, recruiting the face of the brand Ruby Rose to model both the men’s and women’s clothing. How did they achieve this? Take a look at our behind-thescenes photos and find the collection when it hits JAG this spring.

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E.S.T Terrarium Table Local designer Emma Sadie Thomson (E.S.T) has moved a focus from her accessory line that started in 2011 to a collection of products for apartment and styling. In particular, Thomson has a range of terrariums, the loveable and virtually immortal succulents that look at home in any living space. For something out of the ordinary, check out Thomson’s signature Terrarium Table, which is set to move the little green critters out of the nooks and crannies and take prime positioning as a statement piece for your home. emmasadiethomson.com.au

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Director Jonathan Levine (who also adapted Isaac Marion’s novel) always tries different things (previously the sociological horror All The Boys Love Mandy Lane and the hip-hoppy The Wackness), and here follows up the flawed cancer drama 50/50 with a satirical undead rom-com (well, why not?). A zombie (Nicholas Hoult) who can’t remember his name staggers around a decimated world and amusingly narrates, has a home at an abandoned airport and fondly listens to John Waite’s Missing You. After meeting Julie (Teresa Palmer) and secretly eating her dull boyfriend’s brain (oops!), he then winds up saving her from the ravening hordes and, just maybe, the pair not only start swooning but bring about a change in the zoms around them, something that really annoys Julie’s dad Grigio ( John Malkovich), the vengeful ruler of the walledin, human-only city who doesn’t quite realise what Shakespeare play they’re tampering with. Not too horrific, despite a few early attacks and munchings, this is worth it for the music, the genre joking, Palmer’s cool performance and Hoult’s committed turn as ‘R’, easily the sweetest zombie in all cinema.

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Untangling The Web Aleks Krotoski / Guardian Faber

Academic/journalist Krotoski’s study of how the so-called ‘cybernetic revolution’ is affecting us isn’t quite the negative and scary tome you might assume, although it isn’t exactly all sweetness and light either.

With chapters devoted to how easy access to ‘everything’ provided by the internet has the potential to make us fat, bitchy, childish narcissists, and then proceeding into ponderings upon the ‘warping’ effect online ‘life’ might be having on children, relationships etc. This cautiously cautionary work surprisingly offers a little humour, and yet Aleks does indeed eventually worry that, without a doubt, the web is making everyone just a bit DUMB. MDB

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Shortly after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan back in March 2011, no less than dinosaur rockers Aerosmith (formed in 1970, believe it or not) decided that, despite the serious danger posed by the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, what the region really needed was the five of them onstage and rocking the hell out — and, really, the question must be asked: hadn’t Japan suffered enough? Opening with Steven Tyler and co. belting their way through Draw The Line, we proceed into an epic line-up of their classics, including Love In An Elevator, Livin’ On The Edge (in more ways than one), No More No More, Toys In The Artic, Sweet Emotion, Boogie Man, SOS (Too Bad) and more, as the guys swagger and stagger about, and the crowd goes wild (maybe a mild form of radiation poisoning had already set in?). And we build to, of course, the grand finale, a Run-DMC-free version of Walk This Way and you could be forgiven for wondering why the Rolling Stones get all the bad press for looking old, leering and living-dead-like.

Writer/director Brandon Cronenberg, son of the culty David, makes his feature début with a low-budget effort that hopes to combine the gooiness of dad’s early films (like Videodrome) with the cerebral aspect of his recent outings (like Cosmopolis) alongside a sledgehammer attack on the craziness of modern celebrity (as if we needed to be told that it was ludicrous). Syd March (the pasty, ill-looking Caleb Landry Jones) works at a clinic straight out of David’s pics at which obsessed fans can be injected with the viruses that are currently making their spoilt idols sick. He’s also pirating the viruses by smuggling them out in his own body (cue ghastly sequences where he sweats and gasps endlessly), and when he’s given the disease that winds up killing Hannah Geist (Sarah Gadon of David’s A Dangerous Method), he must unravel a series of mysteries before he too carks it, in a plotline that’s so pretentiously desperate to be obscure and ‘Cronenbergian’ that it’s difficult to work out what the heck’s going on half the time, or why we should care if Caleb’s Syd’s drowning in his own mucus.

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We speak with Kitty as she sits in her car, puppy asleep in the seat beside her.

“Word Adelaide is the first festival of its kind so I think we're all [the performers] happily anticipating exactly what's going to happen once we get there,” she begins.

“For me, it's perfect that it's in Adelaide; I think Adelaide is great in the way you embrace everything. While the Fringe was happening, you also had the Festival, Clipsal and Soundwave; everyone goes to everything!

I think it's great to have this Word festival kicking off in Adelaide. Who knows? It may be another one of those things that may take off in other cities as well.”

The typically Australian pastime of yarn spinning is not just to tell a story but is also an art form in constructing a tale between the teller and the audience. The storyteller weaves and conjures visuals in the minds of the listener while playing with the rhetorical and sometimes flamboyant delivery of the tale.

“Spinning a yarn is not something people do much of these days; short of maybe comedians and musicians,” Flanagan muses.

“Just sitting and talking and telling a story

AAa Damn huge in the UK, if not here, this filming of Byrne live at London’s Hammersmith Apollo captures the somewhat agro guy at his most Irishmocking — but that’s okay, it seems, as he’s, in case you hadn’t somehow noticed before, actually Irish himself (and he’s equally hard on the English, the Scots and so on — and on). Beginning with wannabe-Riverdancing, the increasingly sweaty stand-upper proceeds into: a funny if nasty anecdote about doing a gig with Adam Hills for an audience of deaf punters; a demonstration that Scottish people are more miserable than the Irish as they have salt rather than sugar on their porridge (?), before a gag about a group of Scots in heavy training for a breakfast buffet; and an elaborate you-probably-had-to-be-there joke set-up involving Hot Butter’s Popcorn, a series of pairs of fluffy-tipped drumsticks and audience members’ groins. And we build to what has been called an ‘amazing’ finale, although it isn’t really, and mostly just involves (spoilers?) a skipping-rope or two.

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has become much less of a pastime, possibly because of television and the internet, and it's not just about listening to your grandad banging on about the old days, because that can be really boring [laughs].”

Flanagan tells us about Yarn Spinning with special guests `spinners of nonsense' songwriter John Schumann [Redgum], comedian and actor Eddie Bannon, Sheridan Stewart [ex-Triple M] and ABC morning announcer Ian Henchke.

“This is an event where people can get up for eight minutes to tell their own stories and spin their own yarns. They can talk about things they love, things that annoy them; anything they like really. Performers will be judged by the audience and prizes will be given. I'm sure it's going to be a lot of fun, just don't be hampered by facts when spinning a yarn.

“The other show I'm doing is called In Their Own Words,” she adds. “It's all about the

power of words — and obviously I believe in them because without them I wouldn't have a job [chuckles]. I think stand-up comedy could be pretty boring without words.

“Having said that, if what someone is saying is really interesting but not necessarily a laugh a minute, I find that far more entertaining and enjoyable than watching someone up on stage slamming out the `did you hear the one about…?' jokes every thirty seconds; it's just exhausting,” she chuckles. “I'm looking forward to performing at a more relaxed pace so I don't want anyone heckling me.”

WHAT:Word Adelaide Kitty Flanagan WHERE: Governor Hindmarsh Hotel WHEN:Thu Aug 15 from 7.30pm

Fast Times// For many of us, uni’s been back in full swing for over a week. Slowly but surely we’re readjusting our body clocks, begrudgingly allowing alarms to wake us up at ungodly hours, catching public transport that is often late or non-existent (shudder) and spending big bucks on textbooks.

Luckily though—as I mentioned last week—this semester is packed with some seriously good events to look forward to. In this week’s Fast Times: All the info you’ll need about UniSA’s long-awaited 2013 masked ball, how to start your own radio show at the University Of Adelaide, details on the University Of Adelaide’s upcoming engineering quiz night, as well as dates, and locations of UniSA’s constantly mobile (and all-round excellent) Unibazar.

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Adelaide University Engineering Society Quiz Night Whether you’re a mathematical braniac, a general-knowledge genius, a stickler for celeb gossip, or a relentless Grammar Nazi—no one can resist the challenge of a good quiz night. Friends become foes, foes become… well… even greater foes, as your knowledge of all things relevant and irrelevant is put to the ultimate test.

UniSA Masked Ball Unfortunately my preconceived ideas about masked balls stem from a Gossip Girl episode my sister forced me to watch during the holidays. From what I can remember a lot of rich people got angry at each other, a girl threw a drink at someone and then lots of people cried.

Luckily the UniSA Masked Ball has absolutely nothing to do with Gossip Girl, and although I cannot vouch for its greatness, I know a whole heap of people who can. A lot of my friends have attended the ball in the past: all of whom thoroughly enjoyed the night, praising the venue for its ‘classiness’, the food and drink for their ‘deliciousness’, the masks for their ‘mysteriousness’, and the night as a whole for its general ‘awesomeness’.

The University Of Adelaide’s Engineering Society also happens to love a good quiz night, which is why they’re staging quite possibly the biggest, best (probably messiest) quiz night of the year. The quiz night of all quiz nights will take place at 7pm on Fri Aug 16, but as the Engineering Society’s Facebook page warns, book your tickets ASAP because they’ll sell out fast.

The venue for the evening will be the Dom Polski Centre on Angas St, with 30 tables and accompanying drink packages on offer.

Fork out $150 and you’ll get a standard table of up to 10 people, and a four hour drink package. If you’re prepared to dig deeper

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into your bank account, $250 will award you with a prime position VIP table of up to 10 people and… wait for it… wine table service.

This means that your table will come with its own alcohol slave who will be constantly providing you with drinks throughout the evening; you won’t have to lift a finger.

Dislcaimer: if you can’t hold your alcohol this could actually be pretty dangerous.

As an added bonus, this year’s quiz night is themed. A list of possible themes for your table can be found on the Engineering Society’s Facebook page. Personal favourites include: pimps and prostitutes, Lego, fruit, Farmer Joe, and the colour green.

To book tickets, email aues@auclubs.com. au with the type of table and the theme you would like, as well as the amount of people on your table. Bank details will be provided

by The Society, and booking confirmation will occur once the money is received.

For more info check out the Adelaide University Engineering Society’s Facebook page.

Radio Adelaide Training Night Radio Adelaide is Australia’s first community radio station and is constantly looking for people with new ideas, viewpoints, and music tastes to join the team. There are tonnes of ways you can get involved either on air or behind the scenes, so if you’re a media student looking for some real-life industry experience, this is pretty much your Holy Grail. Radio Adelaide keeps a constant eye out for new broadcasters, community broadcast groups, audio producers, radio hosts, administrative assistant, and work experience students. You’ve got nothing to lose by giving it a go.

To get involved, you’ll have to complete a range of training courses. These differ depending on what you want to do (no surprises there). Some of the many courses offered are the Basic Radio Skills course, the Radio And Online course, the Skills For All course and various specialised courses depending on what areas you’re interested in. These range from about $200 to $500, which in my opinion is pretty good value, considering the opportunities they give you!

This year the ball will be held at the landmark heritage listed Adelaide Town Hall from 7pm ‘til midnight on Sat Sep 7. For a small fee of $60, you’ll be lavished with food and wine; dancing, live entertainment, mystery, and (according to the UniLife website) romance.

Tickets have just been released, and are predicted to sell fast, so head to unione. unilife.edu.au to secure your place!

However, before you jump the gun and book a place in any of these courses, you’ve got to attend an info evening at the Radio Adelaide studio on North Tce. At the info session, you’ll find out more about the range of courses on offer, making it easier to pick the one that suits you best. After that you’ll be able to subscribe and enrol, and will ultimately be on your way to radio superstardom.

To find out when the next info night is running, contact radio@adelaide. edu.au or call 8313 5000. For more details about training sessions, head to radio.adelaide.edu.au/training.

Uni Bazaar

Catch The Bazaar at City East campus on Sept 3 and Oct 15.

This semester Uni Bazaar is back in action, rotating through UniSA’s Magill, City East, City West and Mawson Lakes campuses every Tuesday from July ‘til October. Each Tuesday from 11am, The Bazaar will transform one lucky UniSA campus into a bustling hive of activity.

Clothing stalls, food and drink stalls, specialty market stalls, live entertainment and DJs will be at your fingertips, virtually seconds away from the confines of your tutes and lectures.

Head to City West campus on Aug 27 and Oct 8.

Whatever you’re in the mood for, Uni Bazaar will have it covered, so keep your eye on the following dates to make sure you don’t miss out on the action at your campus.

If you’re at Mawson Lakes, keep your eyes peeled on Aug 20, Sept 17 and Oct 29.

Magill students can get involved on Aug 13, Sep 10 and Oct 22.

For pics, details, write-ups, and news, check out the Facebook event at facebook.com/unisaunibazaar/.

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While Snoop Lion pens albums for children (fo shizzle?), leave it to some other young guns to pick up the slack – enter Nelly, Nicki Minaj and Pharrell with Get Like Me. While the rhyming power players have essentially recreated Drop It Like It's Hot all over again (not to mention a curious hat tip to bottom feeder Tila Tequila and her cringe worthy debut Fuck Ya Man, not sure which dark corner of the internet they dug that one from), Get Like Me's minimal, tribal beat with Nelly's husky verses, Pharrell's come-hither vocals and Minaj's bitchy cameo is executed with such finesse that you can't help but give it repeated spins. Get attitude.

Emiliana Torrini Speed Of Dark (Rough Trade/Remote Control)

We've not heard much from Icelandic songstress Emiliana Torrini since her boppy, love-drenched hit Jungle Drum in 2009, but after a brief interim, brooch-wearing indie chicks with bobs will be thankful to have their herald back with her latest single Speed Of Dark. Trading her signature of upbeat indie for something a little darker, Speed Of Dark marks a surprising new detour into electronic music for Torrini, with the newie embracing a synth-driven sound that calls to mind something along the lines of The Knife's less-mindfucked cousin.

Daughn Gibson Me Moan (Inertia)

AAAA If you’ve ever intentionally inhaled a balloon full of nitrous oxide in an attempt to get high for 30 seconds, then you have an idea of what American crooner Daughn Gibson’s voice sounds like. Those of you who baulked at the sight of drugs and instead just engaged in binge drinking that led to countless

Iluka Glory Days (Liberation)

While youthful Sydney crooner Iluka is still in her Glory Days, her pack-of-Winnie-Bluesa-day voice certainly gives her music a kick that other aspiring popsters just wouldn't be able to produce. A plodding backing beat with synth overtones comprises this latest single, with Iluka appropriately showcasing her whisky-stained vocals over the top for a delicious musical melange of Janis Joplin and EDM.

Dizzee Rascal I Don’t Need A Reason (Liberator Music)

Dizzee Rascal’s latest hit calls to mind the trouble he allegedly caused backstage at an Adelaide dance festival in 2011, with rumours of ol’ Diz running from the festival site only to be found later hiding in a hardware store: ‘All I do is flex, I don’t need a reason.’ You’ve gotta admit though, those sausage sizzles are worth flexing for.

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bad decisions and regrets, huffing on some nitrous oxide essentially cuts off all oxygen to your brain. The resulting sense of euphoria is accompanied by the feeling of all of your senses gradually turning themselves back on, kind of like when you turned on an old computer monitor and it had to “warm up” before displaying Windows 95 in all of it’s CRT glory. As the WAH-WAH-WAHs wash over you, everyone around you suddenly sounds like James Hetfield of Metallica.

While Gibson’s ridiculously low baritone voice is initially jarring, Me Moan is a delightful trip down a dark, twisted American highway. Gibson’s heavy use of samples in conjunction with his ability to meld country and electronica, results in a patchwork of familiar, yet alienating sounds. This somehow perfectly compliments the haunting imagery his lyrics evoke. While Me Moan is a refreshingly unique listen, Gibson’s voice is bound to irritate some, and those who stick around may be turned off by the gritty, gut-wrenching reality he portrays.

Ryan Lynch

Soul legend Mavis Staples and producer Jeff Tweedy follow their Grammy-Award winning collaboration You Are Not Alone with the haunting gospel soul of One True Vine, another remarkable late-career album from the former singer of The Staple Singers. Staples’ working relationship with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy has kickstarted a revival for the former Stax singer whose career has experienced many peaks and troughs since starting out in her family’s gospel band back in the ‘50s and whom later soundtracked the protest and civil rights movement with tracks such as Respect Yourself. The 74-year-old is blessed with one of popular music’s greatest voices and while her voice is a lot coarser than it once was, Tweedy writes and arranges a sparse, spiritual and mature collection of songs, which perfectly suits Staples’ still powerful instrument.

With this, and You Are Not Alone, you can feel the two Chicago residents have more than just a musical connection – call it spiritual or intellectual – something just gels when they record together. Tweedy’s own compositions such as Every Step and Jesus Wept are among the highlights while the Funkadelic cover Can You Get To That is a leftfield surprise. An amazing record, which surpasses the first Staples and Tweedy collaboration and then some.

David Knight

Cold War Kids Live Review

Governor Hindmarsh, Thu Aug 1 (Photos by Kristy DeLaine) (Review by Sharni Honor)

AAAa It was a rather mixed bag of a crowd with beers, beards and even some blue hair as everyone’s eyes glistened toward that stage expectantly.

Sydney’s Cabins sprouted up on that platform, accommodating for the most fruitful forms of indie rock, bringing some epic energy and letting it hover there in time for the kids of the Cold War to get involved.

Cold War Kids strolled out on stage with lead singer Nathan Willett looking like he just stepped off a windy par-3, looking schmick in a polo and golf hair. It wasn’t until mid set that the chest hair poked out and his piercing twinkled beneath the lights that the true rock star elements began to shine.

There is officially nothing coldish or warish about these guys, bringing such an upbeat set that sent the crowd having a right ol’ jig about the beer soaked floor. The kids kept a really consist set dynamic throughout, whilst keeping the energy at a high, there were minimal peaks and troughs without much variation in terms of pace.

The set list did however manage to keep everyone

Reviews // Quick Ones

Surfer Blood

Savages

Pythons

Silence Yourself

(Warner)

(Remote Control)

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Nearly three years since the release of their acclaimed debut Astro Coast, Floridan outfit Surfer Blood are back with their hotly-awaited sophomore effort, Pythons. A quick summation is this – if Astro Coast was a surfboard, Pythons is a boogie board.

This time the four-piece have seemingly traded surfboard wax for hair wax, the new collection of tunes holding tangible punk, rock, grunge and even Tropicana influences (for the latter, skip down to track 8 Needles And Pins). This is inherent from the opening tune Demon Dance, which combines ‘90s grunge with momentary screamo sections. Surprisingly, this added grit actually provides a clean, more upbeat listen than Astro Coast’s distorted soundscapes did. Lead single Gravity, for example, staunchly launches into So-Cal punk before bouncing back with buoyant guitar hooks, whereas Squeezing Blood’s tinkering bridge moments also provide a highlight. There’s also moments where lead vocalist John Paul Pitts bemoans of teenage angst, with Blair Witch singing, ‘Looked in the mirror today / then I got scared away’. This underpinning high school reference seems to continue on in other parts of the record, with album closer Prom Song (complete with catchy cow bell) hinting at an unrequited break-up.

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Ferocity returns to post-punk music in the shape of London female quartet, Savages. The quartet take their musicmaking very seriously, with this debut clearly thought out to ensure it is powerful without being abrasive. Uncomfortable opening track Shut Up sets the furious pace of the album that rarely relents throughout.

Having said that, the music is still enjoyable; in a purging-all-your-pent-up-rage-by punch-dancing kind of way. The band have divulged that they didn’t set out to write love songs, and have certainly succeeded.

There isn’t a hint of affection in lead singer Jehnny Beth’s howls, allowing the angst and hurt to melt through. The vocals are understated and echoy throughout, siting side-by-side to the instruments, which drills home every facet of the album. Silence Yourself, while dark, is not a hateful album, or a token display of an all-chick rock band.

It is instead an honest and raw display of what you can produce when you know your shit and stick to the brief. She Will is a shrill highlight, where Hit Me is a punchy ode to a masochistic porn star in the same punkish vein as Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Art Star.

Marshal Dear builds the album is a climatic close, with a piano and saxophone to soften the blow as we return to our everyday lives, slightly short of breath.

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guessing with their decision to smash out all the hits early, with Audience, Miracle Mile and Hang Me Up To Dry out of the way in the first half. It was surprising just how many hits these guys have, just when you perplex and scratch your chin as to what song could possibly come next — wham-bam! — another sensational tune that keeps you bopping around like an uncoordinated maniac. Speaking of uncoordinated maniacs, I had the pleasure of viewing a middle-aged man, presumably an awkward dad, swinging his arms around like Eminem in 8 Mile. Definitely losing himself in the music, the moment. Owning it.

Never letting go.

There was some interesting chemistry on stage, it just felt like they were getting right up in each other’s George Foreman throughout the entirety of the performance. The bassist and lead guitarist appeared to be having a jousting match up on stage, thrusting their instruments to and fro, on several occasions it nearly poking some eyes out. It wasn’t until I stopped being encapsulated by this medieval fencing match that I took notice of the ridiculously minimal banter. It wasn’t until the encore that they took a breath and gasped, `So how you guys feeling?!’ It’s a bit late for feeling talk isn’t it? But as a result of post Splendour come down, they probably didn’t even know what city they were in. Understandable.

Jack Carty & The Casual Psychotic The Predictable Crisis Of Modern Life.

(Inertia)

AAA For an album titled The Predictable Crisis Of Modern Life, there is absolutely nothing predictable about this record.

If you consider yourself to know what Carty’s got in store, think again. It’s a very peculiar collection of sounds and blends of style. Each track forms like a National Geographic audio book, I thought David Attenborough was gonna pop out at one stage. After such a strapping success with Break Your Own Heart, he has momentarily dabbled in a different direction, dealing with vocal phrasing and atmospheric beats, stepping away from his man-with-guitar image to team up with The Casual Psychotic. It’s a cheeky collaboration, Extending out of each of their shells into completely new territory, kind of like hermit crabs.

Carty shows again his epic ability as an extremely capable songwriter with great intelligence lurking beneath the shadows. This one leaves you hungry for what he is going to do next. As a songwriter he continues to improve, as a musician he continues to gain momentum, what a fascinating creature he will be to see progress in the musical seasons to come.

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Grmln Empire (Carpark Records)

AAAA Grmln is taking the world by storm with its latest album, Empire. Japaneseborn frontman Yoodoo Park smashes out garage punk apathy effortlessly.

With a touch of ‘90s pop punk in their angst-ridden choruses, the ratchet rockers nail the moody bedroom rock vibe perfectly. While the poorly chosen name is hard to say, the music is not hard to listen to. The album’s stand out track is unquestionably Blue Lagoon.

Noise rock heavy and delivering hook perfection, Blue Lagoon conveys the forever-relevant message that one shouldn’t dwell on the past and rather should live in the moment. Teenage Rhythm also hits it out of the park, the track oozing energetic teen head banging. Grmln shows their ability to be consistently great in Empire, with each track more than holding its own.

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Cub Scouts Paradise (Independent)

AAA It’s been a busy few weeks for indie pop band, Cub Scouts, with the five-piece playing Splendour In The Grass and releasing their swishy new EP, Paradise.

The EP starts strong with Paradise, a track with obvious ‘80s influences and a swirly buoyant sound. This is the first song and peak of the EP, Paradise giving female vocalist and bass player, Zoe Davis a chance to flaunt her ethereal, melancholic voice. The seductively pleasant tunes are attention grabbing, reminiscent of The Griswolds and Thelma Plum. Cub Scouts continue to soar, showing off their range in Shuffle by portraying a darker and more meaningful side to the usually energetic pop lovers. Unfortunately, the band quickly loses their momentum with their sound petering off into unimaginative flatness. Save yourself the frustration and ‘accidently’ delete Pool! and Write You A Letter.

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Matt Stillert seeks a life of global adventure and for the past eight months has traded his life in Adelaide for one living out of his van on the east coast. In essence, he is a true nomad of no fixed address.

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hilst his gutsy solo blues performance earned him a spot on this year’s Bluesfest line-up, he is back in Adelaide to perform two special shows with his wailing rock trio, Madclassic.

“Since leaving Adelaide and heading for New South Wales and Queensland, life has been a constant adventure,” Stillert reveals. “I've been chasing gigs from Byron Bay, to the Sunshine Coast and everywhere in-between.

“Every morning I wake up at a different beach or forest set amongst the incredible wildlife. It’s been great to start from scratch in an area where I am pretty much unknown and play to crowds

that have never heard my sounds. I've had a lot of fun watching their reactions which have given me a fresh musical drive.”

Tim Foster (bass), Dave Phillips (drums) and Stillert are Madclassic and they first begun exploring their live show at Billy Bob’s BBQ one Monday night at the Grace Emily. What evolved was a sound full of mountainous riffs, thundering drums and bellowing vocals.

“There's lots of material that I play with Madclassic that I don't play solo,” Stillert says.

“When I'm writing a song, sometimes I won't be able to pull it off without the help of a rhythm section. I've always had my solo thing on the go and the boys have spent some time travelling and playing in other bands, so we have always just played together when we can. The band is 100 percent for the fun and love of music without involving the tension and pressure of big goals.”

Given the inspirational landscape Stillert finds himself in, it’s no surprise he has been writing a whole host of new material, including new single Son Grateful. He has just finished

recording the track with its release scheduled for late September.

“I feel that with the recording of Son Grateful I've captured my raw live sound far more than on previously recordings. For the next 10 months I will continue playing up and down the east coast before I head to India in mid-2014. I love Adelaide, but I want to experience the rest of the world too. When I travel abroad, I would like to leave the guitar behind and let a new instrument find me possibly a sitar, flute or one that’s not traditional to the blues.”

Since launching the first single, Into The Cold, to a sold out crowd in his backyard, Chris Panousakis AKA Timberwolf is preparing for the launch of his stand out debut EP, Man & Moon. For fans of Fleet Foxes, Boy & Bear, The Middle East and Jeff Buckley, Triple J have suggested you all should ‘get amongst this’. As Panousakis navigates his rise as one of Adelaide’s most promising exports this year, he has a flair for writing timeless songs inspired by his fascination with post-midnight behaviours. Releasing the EP with a full band, Timberwolf will be joined

by Causing Hammock and The Banjo Jackson Trio at The Wheatsheaf Hotel on Fri Aug 9 from 9pm. Tickets through Oztix.

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Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre and Kurruru Youth Performing Arts are teaming up to present a series which celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians. The line-up features Bec Gollan, one of South Australia’s most well loved young performers, Big Sexy with his unique take on West Coast R&B, rap and gospel, Unknown Remorse, one of Adelaide’s premier hard rock/metal bands and the inimitable CASM soul band. This music series aims to represent the wonderful diversity in local contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander music with the next show on Sat Aug 10 at Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre from 8pm.

WHO: Madclassic, The Bakers Digest and Irie Knights, Madclassic, Tracer, Angels Of Gung Ho, Riot Runners and Matt Stillert WHEN & WHERE: Fri Aug 9, The Producers Bar & Sat Aug 10, Crown And Anchor

Timberwolf EP Launch

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Live N Local At The Gov The Gov is a huge supporter of local emerging bands and was recently recognised as The Best Entertainment Venue at the 2013 AHA Awards. On Sat Aug 10 they have announced a huge line-up of good ol’ fashion rock music for their Live N Local Series.

Featuring the likes of Tabula Rasa, Ice On Mercury, Lipsmack and Paleface, it’s going to be a night of hard-hitting, uncontrollable head banging. Known for tearing up venues on Adelaide’s south coast, the bands’ street teams have been hard at work plastering posters up and down our streets like the days gone by. Doors from 7.30pm.

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