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The State Theatre Company of SA had a heartbreaking start to its 2013 season with Barry Otto withdrawing (due to exhaustion) from the lead role of their big event first production The Kreutzer Sonata after a few previews. But it’s been smooth sailing for them since. The company’s first year under the father and son rule of Geordie and Rob Brookman (Artistic Director and CEO respectively) has been a successful one with a wide range of audience members enjoying their 2013 program. Highlights of the season thus far include Joanna Murray-Smith’s brilliant update of Hedda Gabler (which included an incredible lead performance from Alison Bell) and the hilarious modern take on Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors.

The State Theatre’s upcoming production is Babyteeth, our cover story, which stars 21-yearold Adelaide actress Danielle Catanzariti in the lead role. Directed by Brink’s Chris Drummond (from a Rita Kalnejais script) this is another must catch State Theatre play. Babyteeth isn’t the only theatre production on, as Urban Myth Theatre’s Macbeth finishes on Sat Aug 17. A dance production caught in the pages of Rip It Up is Shaun Parker And Company’s Happy As Larry (p20), which will be on at the Festival Centre’s Dunstan Playhouse until Sat Aug 17.

Adelaide has some amazing theatre and dance on from now until the end of the year, so keep an eye out on what to see in the pages of Rip It Up. David Knight

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As one of the most influential and experimental Australian musicians of the last four decades, Ed Kuepper never does what is expected, which is true of his upcoming request show at the Gov on Sat Aug 17.

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Veteran yob punkers Cosmic Psychos will showcase 30 years of Aussie rock history at Fowler’s Live on Sat Aug 17, hot on the heels of the cinema release of their doco: Blokes You Can Trust.

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SHUT UP LITTLE MAN! Brilliant local documentary Shut Up Little Man! by director Matthew Bate screens on ABC1 at 10.25pm on Sun Aug 18.

BRITISH INDIA Melbourne’s British India return to Adelaide for the second time this year after fourth album Controller dropped. Catch ‘em at Adelaide UniBar on Fri Aug 16.

BERNARD FANNING After a short hiatus former Powderfinger frontman Bernard Fanning has returned with new album Departures. Fanning plays the Thebby on Thu Aug 15.

Dialectrix Sydney MC Dialectrix drops past ADL to launch his latest album The Cold Light Of Day at Rocket Bar on Sat Aug 17.

Paul Kelly & Urthboy Legendary Aussie troubadour Paul Kelly teams with Sydney MC Urthboy for their surprising co-headlining Australian tour, which lands at Adelaide Town Hall on Tue Aug 20.

Roller Derby The Adelaide Roller Derby’s grand finale jam is on Sun Aug 18 (opens 2pm) at Adelaide Showground with Salty Dolls and Road Train Rollers battling it out to see who is the 2013 champion.

THE LANGUAGE OF WAR Word Adelaide’s hip hop showcase The Language Of War takes place at the Thebby on Fri Aug 16 with acclaimed MCs Delta, Purpose, The Tongue, Funkoars and more.

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To the RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS fans of South Australia: congratulations. RJA ran a ‘fan battle’ to decide the locations of their Australian tour stops, asking people to pledge a ticket purchase as a vote for their city. The City of Churches has defeated Perth and Hobart to win the concert on Sat Nov 16, with the show to take place at Adelaide UniBar. Those who didn’t make the pledge can pick up tickets from Dashtickets.

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You may have found his personal life questionable, his death at 50 tragic or his music the soundtrack to your childhood. Whatever your own thoughts, Michael Jackson isn’t going anywhere. Reborn by Cirque du Soleil, the spectacular of spectaculars The Immortal will commemorate and exalt the King of Pop. The Immortal will be staged between Tue Oct 15 and Thu Oct 17, for a strictly limited season, at the Entertainment Centre. Tickets are currently available through Ticketek.

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“NECROMANCY” (BAR 2) “LS@160BPM” (BAR 3) With five number one albums and over two million sales, MICHAEL BUBLÉ is a national favourite. He promises that his new album, To Be Loved, is his best yet. “I know every artist on earth says that when their new album is coming out but, really, this time it’s true. I swear.

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The Sydney hip hop couple pulled the title for their Money Over Bull$hit tour from the lyrics of latest single Amazing. Swimming in ARIA and Triple J-sanctioned glory, the Australian duo are right to celebrate their success. Come party with the boys at Enigma on Thu Oct 17. The Adelaide gig is all ages, with tickets available through Moshtix.

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Babyteeth State Theatre Company Of South Australia’s next production, Babyteeth, comes from the pen of young Australian playwright Rita Kalnejais and tells the tale of young Milla who has terminal cancer. A soap opera of sorts with many funny moments, the play focuses on the effects if has on Milla’s family and those around her in the inner Sydney suburb of Newtown.

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nder the direction of Chris Drummond, the strong ensemble cast includes Paul Blackwell, Matt Crook, Alyssa Mason, Claire Jones, Chris Pitman, Lawrence Mau and James Min with the 21-year-old Danielle Catanzariti playing the young Milla.

Drummond offered the young actor, who was chosen from over 300 other hopefuls to play the lead in the 2008 film Hey, Hey, It’s Esther Blueburger, the part just over a year ago.

“I’d worked with Chris on the play Land And Sea,” she says of Brink Productions’ world premiere staging of the Nicki Bloom work in May of 2012.

“So Chris then handed me the script for Babyteeth, which is very rare as there is normally an audition process,” Catanzariti continues. “The main thing though was that

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he needed someone who was willing to have their head shaved to play the part.”

Catanzariti says she carefully read the script and then agreed to take on the role knowing that it would mean shedding her long, curly hair.

“But I didn’t even consider that I’d be getting my head shaved when it was the middle of winter,” she laughs. “It’s freezing.

But it has turned out better than I expected.

And I knew I didn’t have anything else after Babyteeth so it wouldn’t matter.”

The actor goes on to suggest that rehearsals are going well.

“Chris is such an amazing director and Rita Kalnejais is such a great writer,” Catanzariti enthuses. “So I think it’s going to be amazing when we take it out of the rehearsal room and onto the stage. The writing is so good because it’s so very funny but so sad at the same time.

I don’t know how Kalnejais makes that work but she does. It makes you think that while life can be funny, it can also be quite sad. But everyone goes through some really terrible things in life and I don’t think there’s anyone who doesn’t know someone who has been touched by some form of cancer.”

The play, which will have a Red Carpet performance on Fri Aug 30 at which young audience members can mingle with the cast following the show, begins at the breakfast table.

“So it’s just a normal beginning to the day but underneath it all someone’s dying,” Catanzariti says. “And the play is set up so that the audience knows from the beginning that Milla is dying. So it follows her journey, but also shows the grief her parents are going through. It’s about how they get on with life while knowing that their daughter doesn’t have much longer to live.”

Well-known Adelaide actor Paul Blackwell plays the role of Milla’s violin teacher.

“Paul plays Gidon, an eccentric Latvian,” Catanzariti reveals. “The funny thing is though, I don’t work with Paul on stage although it’s all beautifully woven into the story. The way the play is constructed is that it’s very cinematic. It’s not too stylised, apart from the ending, so it’s very realistic.”

Milla Danielle Catanzariti says that as a 21-year-old she had to think back to play the role of 14-yearold Milla.

“You really do have to recall what it’s like to be that age,” she says. “I went into the wardrobe department and had to really think about what I wore as a 14-year-old. You don’t know yourself then so there’s a big thing about identity. At that age you often choose clothes that don’t really match because you don’t know who you are.

“That’s also what is so heartbreaking about Milla’s story because she knows that she doesn’t have long to live and has to grow up really quickly,” Catanzariti adds.

WHAT: Babyteeth WHERE: Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Fri Aug 16 until Sat Sep 7

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A State Of Clairty Melbourne indie folk quintet, The Paper Kites, will celebrate their new single, St Clairty, with a debut headlining tour through August and September. Singer and multiinstrumentalist Christina Lacy talks Rip It Up through the sonic beauty and somewhat moodier slant of the band’s new album, States.

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America supporting City & Colour. Yes, City & Colour.

“I think our manager was trying to play it pretty cool before casually floating this idea that, ‘There might be a possibility of supporting a guy called City & Colour in America, do you know him?’” Lacy giggles.

“Let’s be honest, he was definitely trying to play it cool, of course we know him!

We’re still pinching ourselves I guess.

There are plenty of bands that are doing much bigger and better things than us and we’ve definitely not expected to get the opportunities that we have been given. I think for all of us we just love playing music and we love playing it together.”

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WHO: The Paper Kites WHAT: States (Sony) WHERE: Jive Bar WHEN: Fri Sep 20

Sam Bentley [lead singer and songwriter] and I met each other in high school,” Lacy reveals. “It all began in Year 12 music when we helped each other with our major end of year projects. We really enjoyed the process of singing and writing together and we had a few friends asking us to sing at their events. We ended up having such a great time that we decided that we would apply for a local festival in Queensland and surprisingly, we were accepted. Upon our return to Melbourne we decided to get a band together to help us out and this band consists of who the band is now.”

Kicking off with a lone banjo before moving through to a beautiful blend of harmonies, music boxes and horns, it becomes obvious that feature single St Clarity boasts all the alluring textures The Paper Kites are best known for and far more.

“I was talking to Sam about the track the other day and I had to ask him what it was about,” Lacy

“There are plenty of bands that are doing much bigger and better things than us and we’ve definitely not expected to get the opportunities that we have been given.” laughs. “Even when I’m singing and playing the song so often, I’m not always thinking deeply into what it’s about. Sam was telling me how he was writing the track about seeing things from a different perspective and as a result there are definitely some new sounds that we haven’t really used before. In fact, it’s probably a reflection of the whole album, in that there are some songs that are definitely very Paper Kitsey, but it also introduces many more layers, which makes our overall sound more sonically interesting.”

With a knack for creating some incredibly powerful and emotive film clips, earning them a phenomenal online following, the video for St. Clarity was filmed by two time ARIA winning director Natasha Pincus (Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know). It follows a narrative that highlights the beauty found in life’s simple things.

“We have the mindset that music is art,” Lacy says. “This wasn’t always the case but now when we write, we get to think about what this means visually. Sometimes you can just put on a song and listen to it. But sometimes you listen to a song that does a lot more than just gives you a nice sound; it becomes emotional and far more than just a melody and some words. We love working with other people to create the visual side of our music, something we hope enhances the experience of the song.”

Shortly after their Australian tour winds up, the band will catapult into North

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Interviews// Heavy Thoughts The Editors’ fourth album, The Weight Of Your Love, was an album that almost never got made.

The band’s bassist, Russell Leetch, explains to Rip It Up why this was the case.

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ast year, Editors guitarist Chris Urbanowicz left the band. The official reason was listed on the Birmingham band’s website as being “in a decision entirely based upon the future musical direction” of Editors. While reporting infers the split was amicable, Leetch implies that Urbanowicz’s departure was decided for him.

“There was a point where we had a member change, as we had to ask our guitarist to leave, and we did think the album might not happen,” Leetch says, when asked

if the album was worth the wait, being four years in the making. “We thought it might just be easier to knock it on the head and not continue. However, we believe in the songs and it’s a refreshed line-up.

It obviously sounds a bit different to our previous records, but I don’t think there’s anything bad in that.”

Leetch suggests that keeping things simpler helped the band recollect.

“We wanted to make the songs to the point. The last record [In This Light And On This Evening] had lots of synth bubbling away and you had to go past a few layers to get to the songs. With this record we wanted it to be to the point and we wanted people to hear the band playing. Having a new band line-up helped that.”

Coming back from the brink of destruction and essentially starting from scratch, the band members

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also had to readjust the group’s dynamic. How are they going to try and avoid another spill?

“Just try and talk to each other a bit more,” Leetch suggests. “When it gets to the point where nothing’s happening and you’re sitting around and your hair’s getting longer and longer, it’s better just to talk about some stuff.

Obviously we are guys and it’s not going to be that direct, but, to talk about stuff is important.”

While this may bring about images of Editors going through more awkward confessions about their feelings than everyone from The Breakfast Club combined, it was actually just more about the band deciding if continuing being in a rock band is what they really want to do.

“We thought it might just be easier to knock it on the head and not continue.”

“We just got to an age where we’re all in our 30s and it’s like, well, we can stop this, and maybe it could be a good time to do so. We’re getting to that age where life is changing; three-fifths of the band have families now, so your mindset does change quite a bit.”

Having the two new members, Justin Lockey and Elliott Williams, join Tom Smith, Edward Lay and Leetch, who have been working together since the band formed in 2002, helped them to realise a fourth album was what they wanted.

“As soon as we got the two new guys to come in to play with us there was a different mentality and enthusiasm – that was really important. To create music you definitely need to be able to communicate.”

The result is The Weight Of Your Love, which does have a simpler rock quality, which is more reminiscent to R.E.M. and Arcade Fire, which the band list as an inspiration. Given the band’s journey for this album, describing love and a ‘weight’ can be viewed in both a positive or negative way. This is completely intentional.

“I think that’s why the title sums up the album; it can be both ways. I think it makes reference to the cover as well [a mixed-media piece of photography and paint by artist Charles Emerson] where you don’t know if the rose petals are disintegrating or if they’re rising from the water. All parts of that idea are on the record – the good sides and the negative sides – and it’s a topic that we could address at the age we’re at.

We are out of our 20s – we don’t need to be so mysterious now.”

WHO: Editors WHAT: The Weight Of Your Love (PIAS)

Beats// Perhaps Stewart's best recommendation is that victims snuggle down in bed and listen to Flu Season, which he's touting as "headphone hip hop". Stewart drops intricate lyrics over atmospheric '90s boom bap beats (courtesy of Must Volkoff and others). Highlights include Synthetic Love, which deals with addiction, and Fan Mail.

Stewart has developed in "leaps and bounds" on his third album (and first since 2011's Word Merchant).

"I've grown heaps even just as a person, so I think that reflects in my growth as an MC, too. I'm a lot more chill, a lot more mature, hopefully a bit smarter – so I think that just comes out in my new record."

Indeed, prior to Flu Season, he prepared fans for "a bit of a style overhaul." If in the past Stewart has come across as a strident battle MC, with a "gritty approach" and "bleak outlook", then that is partly because he hails from the rough and tumble outer Melbourne suburb of Frankston.

"But it's more so just back then I was a little less known. You're trying to get noticed, so you sort of pack in your bars full of as many words as possible – you're going all aggressive.

It's more like, Look at me!, look at me!, all loud and abrasive."

But Stewart has moved beyond that phase with Flu Season.

"I was like, I just don't wanna write music

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like that anymore. I just want something that reflects my personality a lot more now, which is just a lot more chill."

Stewart also has greater insight into his craft.

"I've always written stuff very dense, very cryptic, very cerebral, which is my personality too, but I think a lot of it was going over people's heads - 'cause it was almost 'overdose of information', when you had the relentless flow mixed with the real dense, cryptic lyrics.

I'll never change how I write, but if I can kinda switch up the delivery, make it a lot more chill, then hopefully people can digest it a little bit more."

Stewart is aligned with the "tight" Crate Cartel fold, but still perceives himself as an outsider.

"I don't consider myself an Aussie hip hop artist or anything. I just happen to be a hip hop artist that lives in Australia. I don't really

The Chic Organization

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Up All Night

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AAAAa With Nile Rodgers and his Chic collective enjoying a late-career resurgence thanks to relentless touring and a little known collaboration with a pair of French robots, the timing was perfect to release a celebration of Chic. This compilation is about Chic and The Chic Organization, where (Nile Rodgers and the late Bernard Edwards) wrote and produced discofied classics for everyone from Diana Ross to Sister Sledge and Debbie Harry. Nile Rodgers Presents The Chic Organization contains nothing but hits, hits and more hits as Chic’s Good Times and Le Freak bumps alongside Ross’ Upside Down and I’m Coming Up and Sister Sledge’s We Are Family. Thankfully some of their clubbing sample tools are included, I Want Your Love, the superb Carly Simon reggae disco excursion Why? and Sister Sledge’s He’s The Greatest Dancer..

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Melbourne MC Fluent Form (AKA Ryan Stewart) has aptly titled his winter comeback Flu Season. "It's been a running pun lately," he laughs. Not that the hip hopper has tips for anyone afflicted by influenza, being "one of those real sooky males" when suffering ailments.

Run The Jewels

AAAA El-P and Killer Mike released two of the best hip hop albums of 2012 with EL-P’s Cancer 4 Cure and Killer Mike’s R.A.P. Music (produced by El-P). The duo continue their incredible run with the name Run The Jewels for their free 10-track album; one of the finest hip hop releases of the year. A straight-to-thepoint and aggressive underground retort to Kanye and Jay-Z’s Watch The Throne, Run The Jewels is more quotable, exciting and fresh than Hova and Yeezy’s collaboration with banging joints such as Sea Legs where Killer Mike spits, ‘There will be no respect for thrones, no master master these bones. Your idols are all of my rivals, I rival all of your idols. I stand on towers like Eiffel, I rifle down all your idols.’ While everyone was watching the throne, El-P and Killer Mike made off with the jewels to the hip hop kingdom.

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focus on what other people are doing. I just focus on me."

He freely acknowledges that his music is less "accessible" than other Australian hip hop.

"I'm not gonna sell as much as the more viable Bliss N Esos and Hilltop Hoods," Stewart says. He has more in common with an MC like the Wu-Tang Clan affiliate Killah Priest. Stewart regards his work as poetry, something to be deciphered. And he's content to be underground.

"I've got my cult following and I'm blessed to even have that. So I don't really worry too much about it. I've got my day job and I've got my music..."

In downtime, Stewart listens to '70s jazz, funk and soul, taking time out from rap. But he does admire New York MC/ producer Ka. In fact, one of his US heroes, Detroit MC One Be Lo, a practising

Q+A With Sebastien Drums French DJ/producer Sebastien Drums (AKA Sébastien Aumiphin) is studio buddies with the superstar Avicii, the pair collaborating on several tracks – including 2010’s Cassius-sampling hit My Feelings For You. But Aumiphin is making moves of his own. He has a label, Work Machine, and plans an ‘artist’ album. Aumiphin, based in Nice, is in Australia for his third tour.

The DJ world is very competitive now with even Paris Hilton having a go at playing. What do you think you’re bringing to the scene?

I’m a big fan of Paris Hilton – maybe one of the best DJs... No, just kidding! It would be better if she could stay around the fashion scene. I try to bring my energy [and] try to do something a bit different in my DJ set – not only playing bootlegs, but doing them live, adding a cappellas, loops, effects... Then, in my productions, I try to add the French touch, which is groove, energy and samples!

Muslim now living in Egypt with his family, cameos on Flu Season's Dose Of Slang.

"He came up with the Royce Da 5'9"s, the Eminems – they're all from the same era. But he was always very underrated – slept-on, I guess you would call it."

Stewart brought One Be Lo out for a show that attracted a tiny crowd - the MC rues that it was "terrible" – but they bonded.

"If nothing else, he was just stoked that some local MC from Australia paid for him to come on a flight, come down here, rock a show.

WHO: Fluent Form WHAT: Flu Season (Crate Cartel/Obese)

What are you playing in your DJ set at the moment?

It’s a mix between a lot of things. I can play every kind of music if there is a groove in a track – I’m always searching for this. But usually it’s a mix between progressive house, electro and house music, adding some classic tracks sometimes.

You’ve worked a lot with Avicii.

What makes your partnership so strong? Do you have anything new coming up?

We met up in Miami three years ago at the Winter Music Conference and we decided to collaborate on one track, then two, three, four, five... When there is a good vibe in the studio, it’s easy to work.

Everything was about groove, energy and melody – we’ve got the same music vision, so it was easy to collaborate! We don’t have any new collabs coming up, but let’s see what happens in the future.

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Tour Guide/ THU AUG 15 - SUN AUG 18 WORD ADELAIDE FESTIVAL: MATT LUCAS, KITTY FLANAGAN, GUY PRATT, LEO SAYER & MORE @ various

THE MARK OF CAIN

THU AUG 15 BERNARD FANNING & VANCE JOY @

Hindmarsh

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Thebarton Theatre

FRI AUG 16 JOSH PYKE @

Governor Hindmarsh

OBEY THE BRAVE @

Black Market

BRITISH INDIA @

Uni Bar

PLUTO JONZE @ Rocket Bar

THE STIFFYS @ Crown

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SAT AUG 17 DIALECTRIX @ Rocket Bar

COSMIC PSYCHOS @

@ Fowler’s Live

SUN SEP 8 CASTLECOMER @ Grace Emily Hotel

TUE SEP 10 ANBERLIN & THE MAINE @ Governor THU SEP 12 JIMMY BARNES @

Gawler Princes Park

FRI SEP 13

SNAKADAKTAL @ Governor Hindmarsh

FOR THE FALLEN DREAMS @ Fowler’s Live

Uni Bar

SAT SEP 14 JIMMY BARNES @

Port Elliot Showground

BIG SCARY @ Uni Bar JACK CARTY @ Jive

Bar

Castle ED KUEPPER @ Governor Hindmarsh THE STIFFYS @ Jetty Bar Glenelg

MON SEP 16 TONIGHT ALIVE & HANDS LIKE HOUSES @ Governor

MON AUG 19 DON McLEAN @ Thebarton Theatre

TUE AUG 20 PAUL KELLY & URTHBOY @ Adelaide Town Hall

THU AUG 22 M. ANTONIO @ Grace

PIGEON @ Ed Castle

Hindmarsh

TUE SEP 17 PARKWAY DRIVE

(all ages) @ Governor Hindmarsh

WED SEP 18 PARKWAY DRIVE @

Governor Hindmarsh

THU SEP 19 PARKWAY DRIVE @

Emily Hotel

Governor Hindmarsh

FRI AUG 23 BLOODS & OSCAR KEY SUNG @ Rocket

Jive Bar

Bar

SAT AUG 24 OSLO @ Ed Castle SUN AUG 25 FOR OUR HERO @

The Promethean KNOTS @ Freemasons Hall

TUE AUG 27 JAPANDROIDS @ Ed

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TROUBLE WITH TEMPLETON @ Ed

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THE PREATURES @ FRI SEP 20 THE PAPER KITES @

Jive Bar

THE DRONES @ Fowler’s Live

SAT SEP 21 OLAFUR ARNALDS @ The Promethean

SURES @ Ed Castle SUN SEP 22 AMANDA PALMER & THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA @

For an album named Rookie, there is absolutely nothing rookie about the latest release from The Trouble With Templeton. The man behind the trouble is Thomas Calder, who is currently suiting up for their Australian tour and their second ever gig in Adelaide. Amid packing his suitcase and watching Australia’s Next Top Model, he chats to Rip It Up.

The truth is out.

“I love Australia’s Next Top Model,” he utters passionately. “I love that show. Like I really do, it’s awesome. I like the American version as well but that’s getting a bit ridiculous, it’s like Season 312.”

One wouldn’t assume this is a guilty pleasure of the mastermind behind the alternative folk outfit, The Trouble With Templeton, whose sound has manifested into something completely unexpected. Rookie is a dramatic evolution from the initial folk dwellings of his first EP, Bleeders.

“It’s a completely different sound; I

don’t think the songwriting has differed dramatically but the sound itself is quite removed. Especially in Bleeders I was playing all of the instruments.”

Now the Templetons have multiplied into a five-piece extravaganza in time for the long awaited follow up.

“I still write all the songs in a very solitary way, I’ll bring a track to the band, with the structure and the lyrics and all that sort of stuff and then everyone contributes their own instruments. Having the band definitely is a big influence on what I do now, I am aware of the space that each of them need to do their best work.”

So with all the work put into reinventing this fresh sound, why call it Rookie?

“It’s mostly about the feeling of the word,” Calder explains. “We have that sort of attitude a lot to most things that we do, how it feels rather than specifically the definition. [It suggests] themes of suburbia, youth, anxiety and excitement all at the same time. I think that just really fits the record.”

Whilst they get set to gallop around the country over two weeks, they are getting amped.

“It’s been a little while for us. But we’re excited,” he admits, a little anxiously. “Touring here [in Australia] is like the only real tactile indication you get of whether people are actually listening to the songs” Calder and co. are trying to not stress about it too much though, showing their wise and somewhat mature motives for the band.

“We are not trying to achieve a bigger audience with each release we put out, we are just trying to make something great by our own standards. We are a very motivated band, we know what we want.”

Some interesting comparisons have resulted from this release that has really got these guys stumped.

"Radiohead keeps coming up a lot, which I find really strange. It’s great, 'cause they are a really amazing band, like, I’d hate to be compared to Nickelback."

“I submitted some demos to the Push songwriters program at VicArts. I was lucky enough to have a few sessions with those guys looking at some demos. I was a lot of fun, I feel really lucky to have met with them and pick their brains.”

Did they end up helping out on tracks for Slingshot Diaries?

“No, but that would have been interesting,” Antinio muses. “The sessions were a great way to learn different writing techniques. This EP was pretty insular; I pretty much wrote and recorded it alone. Greg helped out to shape the overall sound, and we did a co-write on Honeybee, which we wrote at the end of a long studio session.”

Expect to see more of O’Shea on the credits to Antonio’s future releases, with the two already planning to partner up again, with Antonio suggesting that this time around he would “love to take the band into the studio”.

Slingshot Diaries is a polished collection of moody indie rock, although his live performances appear fluid and experimental.

The live shows so far have ranged between anything from a solo act, such as the electric solo shows he was playing in venues around his native Melbourne, to a full band experience.

“I’ve spent the past few months gigging solo electric, trialling new material and ironing out the bugs. Putting a band together can also take a while, but I’m looking forward to having some friends up on stage with me.

Depending on who’s available at the time, it can be a two-piece or a five-piece.”

And what can he promise for the upcoming Adelaide show at the Grace Emily on Thu Aug 22?

“Great songs, dirty guitars and a smile on your face.”

WHO: The Trouble With Templeton WHAT: Rookie (MGM) WHERE: Ed Castle WHEN: Sat Aug 17

Thebarton Theatre

WED AUG 28 ASH @ Governor Hindmarsh MON SEP 23 ONE DIRECTION & 5 SECONDS OF THU AUG 29 SUMMER @ Adelaide THE GO SET & THE Entertainment Centre REAL McKENZIES @ Grace Emily

DEAD LETTER CIRCUS, CLOSURE IN MOSCOW & SLEEP PARADE @ HQ FRI AUG 30 THE BELLIGERENTS @ Rocket Bar

BULLUSIRA & DIVA DEMOLITION @ Enigma Bar

KIERAN RYAN @ Ed

Castle

SAT AUG 31

HIGH VOLTAGE @ Governor Hindmarsh

ALISON WONDERLAND @

Electric Circus

TUE SEP 24 FOALS & ALPINE @ HQ

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

LAMB OF GOD & MESHUGGAH @ Thebarton Theatre

Entertainment Centre

XAVIER RUDD, DONAVON FRANKENREITER, NAHKO & MEDICINE FOR PEOPLE @

Thebarton Theatre

WED SEP 4 CYNDI LAUPER @

Entertainment Centre

THU SEP 26 RIHANNA @ Adelaide

FRI SEP 27 ILLY @ Governor THU SEP 5 STONEFIELD @ Jive Bar Hindmarsh HOTEL RACE FATALISTS @ Hotel FRI SEP 6 Metropolitan THE CAT EMPIRE & UK SUBS @ Enigma Bar HIATUS KAIYOTE @

Thebarton Theatre VOLUMES @ Fowler’s Live DIRT FARMER @

Rocket Bar CHICKS WHO LOVE GUNS @ Jive Bar THE MARK OF CAIN @ Governor Hindmarsh

SAT SEP 7 THE SNOWDROPPERS @

Jive Bar

MON SEP 30 JASON BYRNE @ Her Majesty’s Theatre

WED OCT 2 SWERVEDRIVER @ Governor Hindmarsh

THU OCT 3 JINJA SAFARI @ Uni Bar

DISCLOSURE @ HQ

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TUE SEP 3 ALL TIME LOW & ALL YEAR ROUND @ HQ

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Mike Antonio, or M. Antonio as he’s known, likes the idea of recording thoughts, but never took to a diary in the traditional sense. Instead, he created a bunch of songs, which has become his debut EP, Slingshot Diaries.

To make sure the songs reached their potential, Antonio enlisted the help of producer Greg O’Shea, who has worked with the likes of Feist, Spender and Oh Mercy.

“I’ve known Greg from hanging out in studios around Melbourne,” Antonio explains.

“We’d kept in touch and when I was looking for someone to produce the EP, it all fell into place.

No one else came in the running. The man has passion and conviction in his work. I really like that and think it shows in the tunes.”

O’Shea isn’t the only mentor that Antonio has worked with so far, sharing writing sessions with Jen Cloher (from Jen Cloher And The Endless Sea) and music veteran, Charles Jenkins.

WHAT: M. Antonio WHAT: Slinshot Diaries (Independent) WHERE: Grace Emily Hotel WHEN: Thu Aug 22

The Guide// THURSDAY 15TH ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Bill Parton Trio (8.30pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty BRECKNOCK HOTEL – Breakaway Sing-A-Long Session (8.30pm) CAMEO BAR – Cameoke with Andy CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Pistol Shrimps & supports. 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 – Major Napier & Glamour Lakes FOWLER’S LIVE – Cartel & Lydia GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Brillig Duo (7pm) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Rosie Roberts & Dads Of Anarchy

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Yarn Spinning With Kitty Flanagan. Front Bar: Gumbo Blues Room Jam with Shades Of Blue GRAND BAR – OMG HIGHWAY – DJ Alli (8pm) HOTEL METRO –Shackles, The Weight, I.i, Simfuckers & Starvation From (9pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – All Vinyl DJ (6pm) HQ – Riot Society hosted by Uberjak’d JETTY BAR GLENELG – Lounge Bar: Jayarassic (8.30pm) LIGHT HOTEL – SCALA Live (8pm) MARION CULTURAL CENTRE – Open Mic Cabaret Café (6.30pm) MARION HOTEL – Cue N Brew: 888 Poker (6.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – DJ G-Rillz PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango ROCKET BAR – Wild Things x Pilerats: Giraffage, Leon Osborn, Clunk, Flamingo & Ash&Li & No Sweat (9pm) SUGAR – Jazz Pancake with locals and guests THE LION HOTEL – Clearway (9pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (6pm)

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FRIDAY 16TH ADELAIDE UNI BAR – British India ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: DJ Jaki J (9.30pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Bonz (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Flight 69 (8pm) BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – DJs Lars, Lenny and guests COVE TAVERN – DJ Anton (8pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) Band Room: The Stiffys, God God Dammit Dammit, Udays Tiger & DJ Adam DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs DUKE OF YORK – Tom & Rose (7pm) ED CASTLE – Full Tilt live bands and party DJs ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs ENFIELD HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (6pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Black Caviar (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Body Horror, Stable Vices & Put Downs FINDON HOTEL – karaoke (8.30pm) FOWLER’S LIVE – Wendy Icon GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Josh Pyke.

Front Bar: Old Time Fiddle Tunes GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The Timbers & Lily And The King GRAND JUNCTION HOTEL – Hart Burn (6pm) GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN– Big Cheese HALFWAY HOTEL – Dino Jag (7pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Whiskey Harbour (9pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOTEL METRO – Divine Rip, Fair Maiden, Mountain Blood, Psalm Trio & DJ Chrome Dreams II (9pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – Sound Factory HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs HQ – Ultraglow – Australia’s biggest paint party comes to Adelaide IRISH CLUB – Shamrocks ‘n’ Shenanigans Live Acoustic Sessions (7pm) JETTY BAR GLENELG – Lounge Bar: Pat Ramm Trio (9pm) LIGHT HOTEL – Black Market (9pm) LIMBO – DJs

LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee (9pm) MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION BAY TAVERN – The Harmonics (8.30pm) MARION HOTEL – Bart’s Bar: Graham Lawrence (6.30pm) MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – Tongue & Groove (7pm) OFFICE ON PIRIE – DJ Jess (4.30pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – The Scribes (7.30pm) PLAYFORD TAVERN – Two Hard Basket (8pm) PRODUCERS HOTEL – After Four Fridays Garden Grooves with DJs Justice and DrDamage plus special guests (4pm) RACQUETS SA – 60/40 with DJ Lee (8pm)

RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ SNAKE & DJ RUPHEO (9PM) RED SQUARE – DJs REX HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Myles & Paul (6pm) DJ Smiley (8pm) ROCKET BAR – Cats at Rocket: Pluto Jonze, Hey Geronimo, The Red Lights, The Informers & Cats Resident DJs (9pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN – Gerry O (8pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8pm) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Blue Katz (8pm) SETTLERS TAVERN – The Ride (8pm) SOMERSET HOTEL – Side FX (8pm) SOUTHWARK HOTEL – Mel Pierides STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance. Downstairs: DJs play retro SUGAR – SHGZ: Fridays at Sugar SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJs TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio Flamenco (7.30pm) TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – DJ Wolfman (9pm) THE COVE TAVERN – DJ Anton The Party Guru (8pm) THE ELEPHANT – The Buzz (8pm) DJ Jak (9pm) THE GOODY – Ch@t Room THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL – Chrysler Bar: The Incredibles (9.30pm) Tavern Bar: Troy Harrison (4.45pm) One Planet (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Junior Bowles & Louise Adams (9pm)

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The Guide// WHITMORE HOTEL – SMACKED NINJA (8:30PM) WOODCROFT TAVERN – Daze Gone By (8pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – Mobius Trip & Escapism (9pm) ZHIVAGO – Skream: Hemilove, Terrence and Gumshoe

SATURDAY 17TH ARAB STEED HOTEL – Craig James (8pm) ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J plus Bongo Madness with Alex. Upstairs: DJ Ed Law (9.30pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar: Mr Buzzy (10pm) Top Of The Ark: A Date With Effie (8pm) BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Area 51 (6pm) BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – DJ TKA BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Dawn Rider (8pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – MAPS Music Night: Like Kites, The Aves, Otters Of Ottoway & DJ Azz CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with

Nicole (8pm) DRAGONFLY – rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and everything in between DUKE OF YORK – Front Room: DJ Mitchy B. Beer Garden: DJ Parry. Upstairs: DJ Skinny B, MC Scotty and guest DJs ED CASTLE – Plus One Saturdays: The Trouble With Templeton & party DJs (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends ENIGMA – Levitation Hex, TzunTzu, Imminent Psychosis and Hidden Intent (8.30pm) ENCORE NIGHTCLUB – resident DJs and guests (9pm) EXETER HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (7pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Horror My Friend, Udays Tigers & Archers FOWLER’S LIVE – Cosmic Psychos GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ Marky Polo (8pm) GOMERSAL WINES – Lily & The Drum (11am) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Ed Kuepper.

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GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The SunBirds, Alpha Beta Fox & Hello, Lover GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays with DJs and MCs HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Frenzy (9pm) HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm) HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm) HOTEL METRO – Slam Poetry Contest: Roo Shooter & Sonatine (9pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips & guests (8pm) JACK RUBY – Soul Social – live band and vinyl DJs (8pm) JETTY BAR GLENELG – Lounge Bar: E’nuf Said (3pm) DJ Stu (9pm) Front Bar: The Stiffys, Stomp The Organse & Nicker Teens (9pm) KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – Saloon Bar: karaoke (9.30pm) Main Bar: Rock The Boss (10pm) LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Troy Harrison (9pm) LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ and MC Renard (10pm) MARINA SUNSET BAR – DJs playing the best house & electro MARION HOTEL – Bart’s Bar: Franky F (5.30pm) Two Hard Basket (8.30pm) MARS BAR – VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – Midnight Specials (9pm) OLD SPOT HOTEL – Van Demons Band (9.30pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Flaming Sambucas (8pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – After Five PJ O’BRIENS – Triple X PLAYFORD TAVERN – Dino Jag Acoustic

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 ROCKET BAR – Rocket Saturdays: Dialectrix, Lauren Rose, Big Bubba, Griff & Faint One (9pm) SANDBAR – requests with DJs SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic sessions SEAFORD HOTEL – Velvet SEBEL PLAYFORD – Misjif SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – Broken Theory SUGAR – ITDE DJs and interstate & international guests SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Nikko & Snooks (7.30pm)

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SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Mitch TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE BARKER HOTEL – Sarah Lloyde & Ash Gale (8.30pm) THE ELEPHANT – Amberlight and DJ Jak THE LION HOTEL – Absolut Saturdays: Wasabi (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Sonic Divas (8.30pm) VALLEY INN – karaoke VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – Rumours WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Cal Williams Guitar Workshop (1.30pm) Ghyti & The Philanthropic Orchestra & St Morris Sinners (9pm)

WHITMORE HOTEL – OTTOS JACKET (8:30PM) WINDSOR HOTEL – Twenty Flight Rock WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – The Unknown Artists & King Krill (9pm) ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs: Chaps, Hemilove, Skot and Ryley

SUNDAY 18TH ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar: Boxing On The Big Screen (10am) Top Of The Ark: Juke Box Live with Antonio Villano, Kate Lara & Band (12pm) Heath Franklin’s Chopper (4.30pm) 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 – Black Aspirin (4pm) CROWN & ANCHOR –Racoon City Police Department, Vices, Reactions, Reason To Care & Hindsight DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Fern Black (3pm) ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) EMU HOTEL – Rock Renegades (3pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Andy Gray EUREKA TAVERN – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (12pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Matthew Barlow FOWLER’S LIVE – Attila GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Cal Williams Jnr (2pm) GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays (3pm)

The Guide // GOMERSAL WINES – Lily & The Drum (11am) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Classic Rock with Third Stone and Big Tom’s Blues Band. Balcony Bar: Dirty Bomb Ultimate Poetry Slam, Big 70s Bush & The Irregulators GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Crazy Old Maurice, Joe Caravosso & Kelly & The Brouhaha GRAND BAR – bands, DJs and MCs HIGHWAY – Tom Williams Duo HOTEL METRO – Bubonic Babe & The Monies (9pm) HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – The Front: 888 Poker (6.30pm) JETTY BAR GLENELG – Lounge Bar: Sophie Orchard (3pm) DJ Dizzy (8pm) LIGHT HOTEL – Vonni’s Big Arvo LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – Smoke N Mirrors MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Cue N Brew: Boxing on the big screen (10am) MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – Killkenny (2pm) OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Slyde PLAYFORD TAVERN – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (5pm)

RAMSGATE HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SESSION (4PM) TOM KURZEL & ED TRAINOR FORTNIGHTLY ROTATION (7.30PM) SAILMASTER TAVERN – Andy Mac (2pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic soloists SEMAPHORE PALAIS – Frenzy (4pm) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Blind Dog Taylor with One More Mile (4pm) SOMERSET HOTEL – Simon Skinner Extraordinaire (2pm) 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 – Roller Derby Grand Final

WHITMORE HOTEL – CRIPPLE CREEK (6PM) ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry: Zooma, Ryley and Gumshoe

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CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: 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 METRO – Warp Zone Old School Gaming (7pm) HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Bar 180: Ultimate Quiz with Graham Lawrence (7pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Complete Trivia (7pm) RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand 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) WEST BAR – Battle Of The Bands Heats

ARKABA HOTEL – Salsa Classes (6pm) Salsa After Party (9pm) BOTANIC BAR – Gemma CENTRAL DISTRICTS FOOTBALL CLUB – Quiz Wizz Trivia (7.45pm) CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia 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 FINSBURY HOTEL – karaoke FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – Complete Trivia GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Open Mic Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Sleepless HIGHWAY – Winter Sessions with Alex & Marie HOTEL METRO – DJ Jose Mucho (9pm) HQ –NeverLand JETTY BAR GLENELG – Lounge Bar: Curly Temple DJs Funk & Soul (8.30pm) LIGHT HOTEL – Open Mic Night (8pm) MARION HOTEL – Adelaide Comedy: Live & Local (8pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection (7.30pm) PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm) SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with Margi (7.30pm) SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular & Mr Whiskas THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Tonsley Trivia (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Wednesday (7pm) WEST BAR – Battle Of The Bands Heats

TUESDAY 20TH AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Cranker Comedy Front Bar: DJs Stevie & Duncan DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – DJs J & Nath 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 – Pub Cinema HILTON HOTEL – KGs Complete Trivia HOTEL METRO – Acoustic Club MARION HOTEL – Cue N Brew: 888 Poker (6.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm) PORT NOARLUNGA RSL – Acoustic Rendevous Open Mic (7.30pm) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Proton Pill (7.30pm) SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller THE LION HOTEL – Zkye and Damo (7.30pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Ryley & guests (8pm) WEST BAR – Battle Of The Bands Heats WHITMORE HOTEL – Acoustic Raw Jam (6pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia

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Happy As Larry Following national and international tours, including a season in London’s West End, Shaun Parker & Company’s Happy As Larry is now playing Adelaide.

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he show, which has won a number of awards, combines ballet, break dance, acrobatics and physical theatre to showcase the nine different personality types – the tragic romantic, the perfectionist, the giver, the observer, the advocate, the devil’s advocate, the boss, the optimist and the mediator – with the nine performers each taking on one of those roles.

“Happy As Larry had its world premiere at the Sydney Festival in 2010 so it’s actually taken us three-and-a-half years to get a big Australian tour happening,” Shaun Parker begins. “When I created the work it was very much as an independent choreographer and my company is now only a couple of years old. So I guess when you are first staring out it can take a while to gain momentum.

“You tend to spend a lot of time on the laptop spewing out applications and stuff rather than creating actual work,” he laughs.

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Parker then says the initial seed for Happy As Larry first came in 2007.

“I’d started to look at myself and others around me and felt we didn’t know how to be happy any more,” he says. “It certainly didn’t seem to be as much as we used to. So that was the impetus for putting the work together because I saw all around me this kind of happiness, disorder and confusion.

“Sure, some people have it very hard, but we pretty much live in a society where people have everything. So why is there a feeling that people aren’t as happy as they used to be? Larry is an expedition into that area.”

The show features nine performers.

“They play the nine different character types,” Parker explains. “The central character, Larry, is the tragic romantic who basically lives for experience. He lives to understand people and their pain and their challenges and then tries to turn that into something beautiful. And we all know

someone like that in our lives.

“Larry is a chalk artist so we have a seven-metre by seven-metre spinning chalk box on stage and he begins the work alone with just that and two pieces of chalk. And what he does is to slowly create the theatrical world around him as he introduces each character to the audience.

Without giving too much away, basically he wants to see how they each respond to happiness and how they grapple with the idea.

“And it’s nice to see how the audience latch onto Larry because he’s almost like a narrator,” he adds.

Composer Nick Wales and percussionist Bree van Reyk, who has recently toured with Paul Kelly, created the score for Happy As Larry.

“I’d worked with Nick before and worked very closely with both of them on this show,” Parker says. “So after lots of discussion and working with the dancers, they locked themselves away in a house in the country and came back with this quite incredible score using lots of different instruments and based it on the simple notions of happiness and unhappiness.

So they’ve crafted a very fine electronic soundscape that they’ve mixed with instruments such as harp, glockenspiel, percussion, cello and piano.

“So the music and the dance has

Happy Chappy Shaun Parker is as happy as Larry to be performing in Adelaide as it is a city in which he has spent a lot of time.

“I haven’t been back for 10 years with one of my shows,” he says. “The last time I was there was when I was doing Blue Love with Adelaide’s Jo Stone. That would have been 2002.

“But I lived in Adelaide during most of the ’90s when I was a dancer with Australian Dance Theatre and also singing with Adelaide Baroque as a counter tenor,” Parker adds. “And I also did a work while I was living there in 1998 with Adelaide musician Jo Dudley, who is now living in Berlin.”

become one,” he concludes, “and that’s been wonderful to experience. The sonic experience is just as important as the dancing.”

WHAT: Happy As Larry WHERE: Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Until Sat Aug 17

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AAAA This surprisingly witty, deliciously well-played and sneakily subversive outing from director Louis Letterier (better-known for spectaculars like the Clash Of The Titans remake) freaks out a little into its final act but, nevertheless, ranks as one of the year’s most entertaining pics. A quartet of magician-types comprising street performer J Daniel Atlas ( Jesse Eisenberg), ‘mentalist’ Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), stunt illusionist Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher) and sleight-of-hand huckster Jack Wilder (Dave Franco) are mysteriously united and, later, become notorious after stage acts that seem to strip the wealthy of their cash and redistribute it amongst the audience (and one of the ripped-off zillionaires is Michael Caine’s Arthur Tressler, who’s pretty damn unhappy about it). A harried detective (Mark Ruffalo), an Interpol agent (Mélanie Laurent) and a pro-debunking TV star (Morgan Freeman) are soon on their trail, and we build to the expected final tricks and turnarounds, some of which are betrayed, as usual, in the trailer - but not all. That rare film, American or otherwise, in which the screenplay actually ‘zings’ (as in the interrogation scenes with Eisenberg, Harrelson and Ruffalo, which almost leaps off the screen), this does indeed get a bit overly loopy after a while. But no matter, as it’s still just about sheer magic.

AICE Israeli Film Festival At the Palace Nova right now until Wed Aug 21. All details palacecinemas.com.au.

Adelaide Cinémathèque 2013 Director Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy screens at the Mercury Cinema on Thu Aug 15 at 7.30pm (Love), Thu Aug 15 at 7.30pm (Faith) and Thu Aug 22 at 7.30pm (Hope). Details: mercurycinema.org.au.

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While many loved writer/director/producer Sofia Coppola’s earliest pics (especially Lost In Translation), no one was happy with MarieAntoinette and many loathed Somewhere, and this based-on-fact latest again opts for a cheesy study of fame, and offers characters who almost dare you to like them. Relocated and troubled LA schoolkid Marc (Israel Brossard as ostensibly the ‘hero’ here) meets dreamy Rebecca (Katie Chang) and her bestie Chloe (Claire Julien) and, through them, forms a clique with goofily home-schooled Nicki (Emma Watson) and her ‘adopted sister’ Sam (Taissa Farmiga). And, as the vacuous group’s members crave celebrity, they decide to break into the houses of the rich and overprivileged (Paris Hilton, Megan Fox, Orlando Bloom), a scheme they fulfill with amazing ease and which they enjoy thoroughly until the cops inevitably get involved, as Coppola seems never truly sure if she’s condemning these teenie nitwits, tiredly criticising empty contemporary times or having a good old wallow in all the tedious glamour.

While the cast is okay (with the unknown Broussard and Chang as strong as Watson and Farmiga, best-known for the first series of TV’s American Horror Story), there’s ultimately little power or point to this one, and it winds up almost perfectly dull and unmoving. Like, you know, totes.

This remake of the Michael Caine/ Shirley Maclaine 1966 original seems an odd choice for all involved, from director Michael Hoffman (of the Tolstoy biopic The Last Station) to the stars (who all seem to think they’re in something far funnier) to scriptwriters Joel and Ethan Coen, whose original screenplay was extensively altered (or you’d hope so). Crapped-upon art curator Harry Deane (Colin Firth) is treated horribly by his hated boss Lionel Shahbandar (Alan Rickman, pretty OTT) and hits upon a plan to rip the bastard off by way of a fake Monet, his old mate and master forger ‘The Major’ (Tom Courtenay) and Texan cowgirl sort PJ Puznowski (Cameron Diaz, always specially picked out for the most criticism but just as silly as everyone else here). However, the group’s brilliant plan has its problems and soon we’re supposed to be pleasurably panicking that they’re all going to get sprung – although, of course, you might find yourself siding with Rickman’s Lionel and hoping for their swift imprisonment. Lumbering when it should be light and frothy, this has embarrassing performances throughout, from Stanley Tucci as a foreign (ha ha) art expert to Firth himself, who’s so bland and irritating that you wonder why director Hoffman didn’t just hire someone cheaper from the Colin Firth Impersonators Society.

Proving that fact really can be stranger than fiction, Michael Bay’s latest feature is robot-free and recounts the mostly true events of the infamous (for all the wrong reasons) Sun Gym Gang, led by Danny Lugo (Mark Wahlberg), whose plan to get rich quick during the 1990s led from bungled kidnappings with fellow gym junkies Adrian Doorbal (Anthony Mackie) and Paul Doyle (Dwayne Johnson) to blundering murders in a way that Hollywood would love to take credit for, but Tinseltown had nothing to do with it. From staking out the wrong car, to storming a hospital dressed as surgeons and even returning a bloodied chainsaw to Home Depot, there isn’t a lot to this ridiculous story that is overly dramatised – caricatured, yes, and glorified, uncomfortably so, but not dramatised. Bay’s first name has been mud in the wake of the downward-spiralling Transformers series, and it’s easy to question his decision to forsake the real life victims in making such a stylistic film, but immorality aside he has delivered a snappy, funny and enthralling film that does for true crime what The Princess Bride did for fantasy – you’ll spend more time wondering if the crew are serious than focussing on the film. Unfortunately, in this instance, they really are.

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Opening But Unrated Elysium (M), District 9 writer/ director Neill Blomkamp’s starkly satirical sci-fi, stars Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and 9 star Sharlto Copley.

Frances Ha (M), from Greenberg writer/director/producer Noah Baumbach, is a B+W character piece produced and directed by him, and with a script by him and his star/muse/ gal-pal Greta Gerwig.

Red Obsession (G), a documentary about Bordeaux wines from Aussie cowriters/co-directors David Roach and Warwick Ross, is narrated by, ahem, longtime wine-appreciator Russell Crowe.

The rough and rude comedy We’re The Millers (MA), from Dodgeball director Rawson Marshall Thurber, toplines Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Will Poulter, Emma Roberts, Ed Helms and Luis Guzmán.

Seniors On Screen Director Ken Scott’s French Canadian Starbuck (M) screens as part of SOS on Fri Aug 16 at 11am. All details: mercurycinema.org.au.

Nordburger The names behind The Botanic and House Of Organics have again spun culinary gold, this time with Norwood in their sights and in partnership with MasterChef alumnus Michael Weldon. Continuing the burger trend, what was formerly a fruit and veg grocer on the Parade has now been transformed into one of the east’s most hyped-up burger bars – Nordburger.

Nordburger’s ethos is all about local produce and a simple, patron-friendly menu. Think burgers made from fresh mince from the neighbouring Feast! Fine Foods, hotdogs, shakes, a vegetarian option and fries, free of weird relishes, vegan alternatives or glutenfree listings. That said, you couldn’t really go into Nordburger without tasting their namesake:

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the Nordburger ($7.80). This simple burger combines a juicy meat patty with their special mayo-based Nord sauce, pickles, tomato, lettuce, mustard and ketchup. For something a little beefier, the Cheeseburger with beef, pickles, American cheese and mustard is another tasty option, as is the supersized Bacon Double with double of the same ingredients and a few bacon rashers for $9.90.

Other burger options include the Hotburger for $8.80, with beef, pickled jalapeno, red onion, coleslaw and chipotle mayo, or the vegetarian Mushroom Burger, filled with panko-crumbed Portobello mushrooms, slaw, mustard, ketchup and Nord sauce.

Seeing as American-inspired eats are hot on trend at the moment, Nordburger have also crafted an expansive hotdog menu. Simple eating pleasures can be found in their chilli and BLT dogs, but for something a little more

adventurous, steer towards the Chicago, New York or the Munich dogs. The latter, filled with Vienna sausage, slaw and sauerkraut, comes served with a sprinkle of actual pretzels on top. Man. To wash it all down, the team at Nord’ have a hefty list of milkshakes for you choose from that are more random, and delicious, than you’d think.

The cornflake milkshake really is something to behold, whereas those with a penchant for something sweeter would be better off trying the tasty peanut butter and jelly milkshake. Too many things to eat/drink, not enough time.

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WHAT: Nordburger WHERE: 168 The Parade, Norwood, WHEN: Tue – Sun 11.30 am – 10am INFO: 8331 9923 / nordburger.com

Gourmet Goodie Showbag Can you detect the smell of dagwood dogs and overspoiled children lugging stuffed toys in the air? That’s because the Royal Adelaide Show is just around to corner, returning for 2013 this Fri Sep 6 – Sat Sep 14. Joining the endless line of gimmick showbags is one delightful bag of treats that you won’t want to overlook – the South Australian Gourmet Goodie Bag. Back for its third year, this year’s bag is bursting with local products thanks to FoodSA in a bid to support and promote local brands. This year’s showbag will include treats from Tucker’s Natural, Emmaline’s Country Kitchen, Perryman’s Gingerbread, San Remo, Melba’s, Laucke, Nippy’s, Fruitwise, Bellis Fruit Bars, Mitani and Oxfam, as well as redeemable coupons from Australian Wholefoods, Kytons Bakery, Mexican Express, Bagel Boys, Huon, Coopers, Spring Gully Foods, Bickfords and more. The showbag costs just $25. ‘Carn!

WHAT: Royal Adelaide Show WHERE: Royal Adelaide Showground, Wayville WHEN: Fri Sep 6 – Sat Sep 14

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It is a contemplative, philosophic time for you. There are a few moments here amongst hustle and bustle, to have a good think and feel about what you are up to and why.

Life is being generally supportive and kind. This is largely of your making.

You are up for doing what’s required.

Gemini 21.05/21.06

It’s a tricky time for air signs. There are so many planets in water signs that it’s quite a feat to keep from being drenched with emotion. Thinking is a dancing bird. Feeling often feels like a rude awakening. The Leo sun brings enthusiasm and celebration. This certainly helps.

Cancer 22.06/22.07

The moon begins its week in Virgo. This is a lovely grounding moon. It inspires you to, at the very least, walk around the garden with a heart full of admiration and a cup of tea in hand. It might even take you to the next step, into helping Mother Nature along by tending her plants.

Leo 23.07/22.08

The sun is now midway through Leo. You are starting to feel as you foresaw yourself feeling at this time of the year: bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Your stride has a little strut in it – and so it should. Life is feeding you constant change. As you accept the reality of this, so you party.

Virgo 23.08/22.09

Mercury is in Leo. Your perception and communication is more lion-like. This blows the image of the demure virgin right out of the water. You are feisty, determined and on a mission. Celebrate this change.

There is no room here to pretend to be a lamb. Exercise your roar.

The moon and Venus begin the week together. This is an earthy nourishing love-fest. Life carries affection through. She doesn’t leave you half way down the track wondering why.

There is a lot going on around you that is out of your influence. Use this moment to gather your forces.

Scorpio 24.10/21.11

You are more than happy to exert influence behind the scenes, so it’s a trifle annoying when the limelight points in your direction.

As much as you think you want it, when the reality kicks in, you are not too sure. The same people that make us famous will eventually defame us.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12

Jupiter is steaming through Cancer. Jupiter is your shining light. His job is to open things up, make them bigger, inject enthusiasm and make them prosper.

In Cancer, prosperity comes as the excitement that emerges with total emotional engagement. Be drawn into new territory.

Capricorn 22.12/19.01

Interdependence is such a simple thing. It is astonishing that we have to go through such battles to be independent, and tangle ourselves in knots exposing our dependence, to get there. There is no way to remove yourself from the eco-system that supports you. Let battle mentality go.

Caption: Mark Richards, Window

Taurus 21.04/20.05

Libra 23.09/23.10

Blender Blender brings together works by six South Australian artists living in country areas as part of this year’s SALA Festival. Blender is the first in a series of showcases at the AEAF, with the gallery focusing on the artwork of SA inhabitants living outside of the capital that have typically smaller audiences, fewer professional opportunities and less support from their city-based peers. The exhibition series will allow rural artists to make connections within the metropolitan art scene. The first show will feature

Aquarius 20.01/18.02

Relationship is coming off the boil. It’s not that it’s not important. It is. But it’s not the thing that is presently dominating your life.

Slowly you are being pulled to focus on your work and your health, in new ways. Envision yourself and what you do as a constant work in progress.

Pisces 19.02/20.03

When you are on a roll of emotion, feeling and imagination, the pressure to think and analyse is anathema. The fact is, the left brain has a really hard time figuring out what the right brain is up to. Your poetic spirit can never be reduced to logic. You can however, embrace logic.

Lorry Humphreys and Pamela Kouwenhoven from Mt Barker, Mark Richards and Richard Rigney from Murray Bridge, Allen Sparrow from Pt Pirie and Dagny Strand from Penola. McInernery will be exhibiting her latest work The Meadow in the Project Space.

Where: Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Lion Arts Centre, North Tce WHEN: Until Sat Aug 17

Caption: Deirdre But-Husaim, The Painting

With the Leo sun starting to inspire majestic pride, you are blessed with added confidence. Mars is still navigating the watery rock pools of Cancer, so you need this confidence to keep your passion lit.

The great archetypal journey of Aries involves adding sensitivity to action.

with Miranda Freeman

Caption: Sera Waters, Pudding Blood

Aries 21.03/20.04

Art//

See Unseen Sculptural stitchings, layered paintings and coiled vessels all feature in See Unseen. Each artist is connected by their exploration of the many carefully-crafted layers of thread, paint and clay. In her intricate embroidered works, Sera Waters delves below the known surfaces to darker places unseen. Deidre But-Husaim’s precise and detailed brushstrokes explore the strata between medium and

support, while also recording the relationships between people and space. Helen Fuller’s hand-built formations with their characteristic irregularities express the physicality involved in their creation.

WHERE: Adelaide Central Gallery, 7 Mulberry Rd, Glenside WHEN: Wed Aug 21 - Fri Sep 13 OPENING: Tue Aug 20 from 6pm — ­ 8pm

DEPARTURE Journey from the Renaissance to right now at DEPARTURE: Old Meets New. Choose your own adventure in the Melrose Wing of European Art. Enjoy live entertainment, open bar and food.

Discover the sweet spot where modern meets classical and cutting edge meets traditional.

Art Gallery of South Australia Friday 30 August, 6–10 pm $60 / $45 Members artgallery.sa.gov.au/departure

YOUR CULTURAL JOURNEY STARTS HERE Installation view: Melrose Wing of European Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2013, featuring Thomas Hirschhorn, Twin-subjecter. Photo: Sam Noonan

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A Night Of Fashion: Designer Profiles A Night Of Fashion is only a few weeks away, being held on Sat Sep 7 at the Art Gallery Of South Australia. In the weeks leading up to the event we’ll give you a rundown of exactly who and what you can expect to see on the runway, which will once again be housed within the

113-year-old Elder Wing. Tickets to the parade, which include pre- and post- entertainment and beverages at the Art Gallery, are selling fast, so head to Moshtix to secure yours now. anightoffashion.com.au

Suzy O’Rourke We caught up with the Sydney milliner and found out about her inspirations for the new collection.

Willow 2013 marks the tenth year for Kit Willow as the creative director of Willow. See what has made her brand a force in Australian fashion for the past decade at A Night Of Fashion.

“ This coming season has been inspired by the avant garde designers of the late 1960s, namely Pierre Cardin, Andre Courreges and Paco Rabanne, whose designs were based on ‘futuristic ideas’ and used unique materials and techniques.

I have combined laser cut acrylic frames with symmography string art to create modern shapes with clean lines that have a futuristic feel.”

Collette Dinnigan Dinnigan’s claim to fame as the first ever Australian designer to launch a ready-towear collection in Paris, which she did in 1995, will hold her in good stead for her new collection to grace the Elder Wing catwalk for the first time.

Serendipitous Days Serendipity: serendipitē (n): The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way: “a fortunate stroke of serendipity”.

Also, that 2001 movie with Katie Beckinsale and John Cusack.

Salad Days is turning its luck on your side with Serendipitous Days, an event where the multi-arts space that accommodates for exhibitions, a handmade/vintage store and a cafe will be hosting a shopping and treasure hunting event. You’ll be able to browse through the stalls of pre-loved and vintage fashion, homewares and art to make your fortunate discovery.

O’Rourke also shared her creative background.

Fruzsi Kenez

“My background is actually costume design; I was studying costume for film and theatre when I discovered millinery. Costume has been a great basis for referencing past techniques and materials and twisting them to give my millinery designs a contemporary feel.”

WHAT:Honda Presents A Night Of Fashion At The Art Gallery With Attitude Magazine WHERE: Art Gallery Of South Australia WHEN: Sat Sep 7, 8pm TICKETS: $95 Seated / $80 Standing via moshtix.com.au

TONI Maticevski The Melbourne designer who was responsible for the one-off wedding dress Jennifer Hawkins wore earlier this year. While that gown won’t be gracing the runway, Maticevski’s new S/S ’14 collection will be.

What: Serendipitous Days WHERE: Salad Days Inc., 21 Gilbert Pl WHEN: Sat Aug 17

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DVD Reviews

Hara-Kiri: Death Of The Imposter A Samurai (Ichimei) Madman / M / 95 mins

Scary Movie 5

Sinister

Roadshow / M / 82 mins

Icon / MA / 105 mins

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Feverish, batshit-crazy director Takashi Miike’s follow-up to the gorgeous and graphic 13 Assassins is another historical drama, albeit a far slower and more ominous one, and about as far from psychotic contemporary outings like Audition and the rather revolting Visitor Q as possible. Adapting Yasuhiko Takiguchi’s novel (already filmed way back in 1962), this has a down-and-out samurai (Ebizô Ichikawa) approaching a feudal lord for permission to commit ritual suicide on his estate. And while the samurai contemplates the blade before him, he, at great length, is warned that this had better not be a ‘suicide bluff ’, as we then shift to a past timeframe wherein a former wannabeseppuku practitioner tried to use a promise of killing himself as a means to elicit money and employment - and rather regretted it. Miike’s first film in 3D (although he does little with the overrated format), this should bore fans weaned on wild, Ichi The Killer-type shockers and yet, if you have patience (and, perhaps, a PhD in Japanese history), there’s no doubt that it has real guts.

Documentary specialist Bart Layton’s uneasy chronicle of a stranger-than-fiction tale tries to blur the lines between real interviews, recreations and speculation, and ultimately winds up confusing - and, indeed, seems to suggest that this is a (gulp!) ‘mockumentary’, even if the facts are genuine. Thirteen-year-old San Antonio schoolkid Nicholas Barclay vanished in 1994 and was assumed dead until he turned up, alive and apparently traumatised, in Linares, Spain, in 1997. Layton makes it clear from the start that the guy claiming to be Nicholas was actually 23-year-old Frenchman Frédéric Bourdin, who wanted “to be someone else” and is interviewed throughout. And yet so desperately did Nicholas’ parents want Bourdin to be their son, and so shocking was his story of institutionalised rape and imprisonment at a military base, and so winning was his smile, and so incompetent were the police and FBI investigations, that the whole thing got way out of hand. In the end we’re left pondering weighty questions concerning family, responsibility, guilt, identity and Frenchness.

The mortal horror continues with this barely-feature-length nonsense featuring complicated credits: David Zucker (of the Naked Guns, and also responsible for directing SM 3 and 4) co-wrote, several Wayans brothers executive produced (they kicked this interminable series off in 2000) and Malcolm D Lee directed (if that’s quite the word, as ‘took the blame’ might be more appropriate). A sequence involving Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan parodying themselves and Paranormal Activity threatens to be funny but isn’t, and leads into a bunch of intertwining send-ups of Black Swan (?), Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes (?) and the Guillermo del Toro-produced ghost story Mama, which is the subject of most of the ‘gags’ here and, tellingly, was released in the US in mid-January this year, which suggests that this grotesque sequel’s script was thrown together one weekend, filmed over a few days during the next week and was then let loose into cinemas a fortnight or so after that. It certainly looks it.

The ‘mockumentary’ has been run into the ground well and truly, and yet cowriter/director/executive producer Scott Derrickson’s latest finds a way to combine such cheapjack tricks into a proper narrative, and features Ethan Hawke as a hero who’s daringly anti. A filmstrip catches the moment where four people are hanged and we know we’re in trouble when author/ hack Ellison Oswalt (Hawke) moves into the house where these deaths took place, with wife Tracy ( Juliet Rylance), son Trevor (Michael Hall D'Addario) and little daughter Ashley (Clare Foley). His family are oblivious to the place’s history, and he’s unprepared for the discovery of film cans in the attic and what, in effect, are a collection of snuff movies depicting families being slain via burnings, drownings and even a lawnmower. Not mentioning the find to the family or the police, Ellison becomes increasingly obsessed with solving the mystery of who’s behind the killings, which appear to go back to the ‘60s, as goingson in the house get suitably weird, and a malevolent entity stares at Ellison (and us) from his computer screen.

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Icon / MA / 131 mins

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50 Licks Pete Fornatale / Bloomsbury

Rock writer and Stones expert Fornatale’s glossy tome is a pleasant read, even if it doesn’t really offer anything much that’s new for fans of the 51-year-old band. Nevertheless, there are enjoyable chapters here, as we leap from the genuine fact that Keith Richards originally thought that Satisfaction couldn’t possibly be a hit, to the supposed grudges between the Stones and The Beatles ( John Lennon did gripe that Mick Jagger could be a prima donna but, well, ahem…) to their near-disco years and ‘80s infighting to the group nowadays, pondering whether they are indeed the most popular bunch of senior citizens in recorded history.

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The Broadway and West End sensation Stomp is returning to Australia with its universal language of percussion, dance, comedy and theatre, which features eight performers. .

The award winning show, which first took this country by storm in the early ’90s, is now bigger and better than ever and features new routines.

Angus Little, son of Australian comedian Mark Little, explains all. “My dad was doing a comedy show at The Melbourne International Comedy Festival at the same theatre Stomp was playing on its first Australian tour,” he says from Auckland.

“So he took me to see it – I was only 10 back then – and I fell in love with it. It absolutely blew me away and then when I was 18 I went to an audition as I had moved over to Brighton in the UK where Stomp’s based. I went along with mate who is a dancer to an open audition as a bit of a joke and as something to do without ever expecting to get a part in the show. I just went to see what it was about but they said they’d put me on the books and when I was 20 they contacted me and asked me to audition again.

“So I got the part which surprised me as I was never a drummer or even a dancer as I’d only ever been a comedian and an actor. And a pretty fat one at that,” he laughs. “So I had to get fit really, really quickly.”

Little did, however, take a break from the show a couple of years ago.

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“I just wanted a bit of time out,” he says.

“So I took a couple of years off for body and soul and did some comedy shows. But I really began to miss Stomp because it’s that kind of show. It’s great to be travelling around the world and performing in front of huge audiences.”

Stomp began in 1991 when Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas came up with the idea of using everyday items such as trashcans as percussion instruments and combining it with comedy. The explosive show then became a huge hit at festivals around the world. Little explains that Stomp has been such an ongoing success that there are now currently several versions touring the world at any given time.

“So I’ve toured pretty much everywhere apart from the Americas,” he says. “And this

is the same show that’s just done another big run in London on the West End. It’s a revamped show with new routines, which also makes it pretty exciting for us as performers.

It’s high-octane, longer and funnier, and people can expect the unexpected.

“It’s gone from being a quick, 40-minute piece for comedy and fringe shows that a couple of mates got together for a bit of fun to being something that’s still going 22 years later."

WHAT: Stomp WHERE: Her Majesty’s Theatre WHEN: Tue Aug 27 until Sun Sep 1

Fast Times// The University Of Adelaide Open Day is fast approaching, so this week I’ll be filling you in on all the essential details, as well as everything you’ll need to know when ‘writing yourself off’ at UniSA’s upcoming Journalism pub crawl. Also this week, yet another illuminating vox pop and an insight into one of the SALA Festival’s latest exhibitions.

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University Of Adelaide Open Day For students who have enrolled midyear, semester two 2013 is the start of an entirely new chapter. The University Of Adelaide realises that starting uni is 70 percent exciting, and 30 percent downright terrifying (please don’t quote me on these figures), so they’re running a mid-year Open Day to address any questions or queries that first-time students may have.

UniSA Journalism Pub Crawl

with Samuel Smith

The University Of Adelaide’s mid-year Open Day is this Sun Aug 18 between 9am and 4pm at the University Of Adelaide North Tce campus. For new university students, it’s an invaluable opportunity to take a look around, talk to people, and get a pre-emptive taste of campus life. For high school students and their families, it’s a great chance to get a heads-up on uni life, speak to staff and students, and gain an insight into the university lifestyle.

The grounds will be swarming with academic staff and students, eager to answer any queries you may have about degrees, programs, qualifications, departments, study options, accommodation, living costs and more.

On top of that, there will be 50 information talks running at various times throughout the day. These will focus on specific degrees as well as general university information.

The University Of Adelaide mid-year Open Day is an excellent opportunity for members of the general public to find out more about the University Of Adelaide, and to get a taste of university life in general. If you’re in town this Sunday, make sure you check it out.

What: University Of Adelaide Open Day Where: University Of Adelaide North Tce Campus When: Sun Aug 18, 9am - 4pm

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be seeing more and more pub crawls popping up all over the place. The humble pub crawl acts as a well deserved stress outlet and most importantly an opportunity to kick back, drink up, and enjoy some quality boozefuelled bonding with your fellow uni-goers.

On Fri Aug 30, UniSA’s journalism students will be writing themselves off for what’s set to be one of the biggest university-based annual pub crawls in SA. This year’s tagline—writing ourselves off— should give you an accurate enough insight into what you can expect from the evening. The crawl kicks off at the Austral at 8pm so if you’re after some relaxed pints, a jug or two, or even a quick bite to eat (lining the stomach is always a wise move), head on down and get started early. At 9pm, the night will begin to heat up at Shotz, where you can trade your inhibitions (and dignity) for super cheap drinks, excellent music, and some questionable dancing.

After an hour at Shotz, you’ll be heading to Mansions for a (possibly) more dignified drinking experience, followed by an optional *cough* essential pit-stop at Hindley St Maccas, before finishing the night at the Woolshed, where you can ride a mechanical bull, drink and dance to your heart’s content before eventually stumble into a taxi, exhausted yet fulfilled.

Want in? Get your official Journalism Pub Crawl T-shirt at unilife.edu.au or at a UniLife office now!

Vox Pop: Claire Moreton I’m studying: Arts at Flinders - Drama/ English Double Major

Adorned SALA Exhibition The SALA festival is overflowing with work from talented young artists, many of whom are currently students at uni and TAFE. If you’re a student yourself, the many SALA exhibitions around SA at the moment are perfect opportunities to check out what your peers are doing, network, meet the artists, and enjoy a great night/day out.

This Fri Aug 16 saunter down to Ladybeads on Unley Rd for the opening

of the Adorned exhibition—a SALA photography showcase by Toni-Rose Withall, Emilie-Jade Wartermann, Steph Fuller, and Elle Dawson-Scott, at least two of whom are still studying at tertiary level. The young photographers’ work showcases the uniqueness and individuality of female portraiture: each photographer using a range of different styles, and photographic techniques in their work.

Opening night starts at 6pm and goes till 9pm on Aug 16, and the exhibition runs till Sat Sept 14. For more info, check out ‘Adorned SALA Exhibition 2013’ on Facebook.

When I’m done with uni I want to: Work in a 24-hour chemist, then get promoted to night manager, then buy a private jet and a mansion, in which I will hold parties featuring a whole lotta twerking. Miley Cyrus will not be invited until she stops wearing white leggings and trying to be “ghetto” but Liam Hemsworth can totally come.

In my spare time I: Watch Geordie Shore. I know it peaked at season 3 but I’m a Geordie loyalist for life.

Something I currently love: Ham and cheese croissants.

Something I currently hate: People who don’t like 2 Chainz.

Join us at our beautiful North Terrace campus to discover everything the University of Adelaide has to offer.

It’s your opportunity to discuss study options with staff and get your questions answered.

For more information visit:

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CD Reviews

CD Of The Week

Singles

Arctic Monkeys

Bleached

Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?

Ride Your Heart

(Domino/EMI)

(Dead Oceans)

There were suggestions that Alex Turner had gotten a bit too big for his boots after Arctic Monkeys’ recent headline slot at Glastonbury.

But judging by the first two singles from the Sheffield band’s hugely anticipated fifth album AM, Turner’s narcissism is a boon for us all.

Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High? lacks the bad ass-ery of Do I Wanna Know? but more than makes up for it with a cocksure swagger in Doc Marten high-tops through the mean streets at midnight. Its plodding beat, drugged-up lyrics and foggy bassline shimmer in darkness. If there’s anything wrong with Alex Turner’s boots, it’s that they’re too big for anyone else to fill

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Tully On Tully Weightless EP (Independant)

Melbourne songstress Natalie Foster boasts a touching sincerity with her elegiac indie pop on debut EP Weightless. She hides nothing and wears it all on her sleeve like some torture victim who’s been stripped bare of everything but her resolve.

This is evident enough on Naked, evoking Megan Washington through a thunderous percussion storm. Stay displays a lighter touch but is still riddled with discontent and disillusion. She may be weightless, but Foster carries a heavy burden.

Crocodiles

Fascinator Birth/Earth (Capgun Kids)

AAAa You get the feeling Johnny McKay doesn’t want you to fully ‘get’ his Fascinator side-project. Perhaps it’s a natural response to the more direct, visceral stylings he usually espouses in Children Collide, but there’s something acutely impenetrable about Fascinator’s Birth/Earth.

For starters, it’s not an album but a ‘mini-album’, comprising of last year’s Birth EP and five previously unreleased tracks. Then there’s the bizarre cover art: McKay in a caterpillar costume standing on a railroad. You can’t help but feel this is weird for weird’s sake.

But when you get past the dense conceptual enamel of Birth/Earth there’s much to be enjoyed. McKay’s take on experimental psychedelic rock is like an acid trip at the Holi Festival Of Colours – bright, vibrant and never a dull moment. Where psychedlia can often drift off into spatial nothingness, McKay keeps the attention arrested, with a guitar flourish here or a vocal hook there. New track Girl I Want borrows from the trip hop dens of Massive Attack to create a unique, darkly poppy atmosphere.

Elsewhere, things are kept breezier as on River Legs and the Jane’s Addictionesque Mr Caterpillar.To the surprise of no one, the Children Collide frontman proves himself adept at shifting moods and styles without losing focus.

Jimmy Bollard

I swear, every time I get an album that features a chick on the cover, I scan it for breasts. I don’t know if this is because I am a pervert, but nine times out of 10, there is some level of booby flashing on display.

Sometimes the mammary exposure is a conscious decision, an arty expression of the female form. Other times it’s a more gratuitous, look-at-them-titties depiction.

In the case of Ride Your Heart from LAbased Bleached, it’s an innocent side boob shot, a consequence of shoving yourself out of the window of a moving car.

Ride Your Heart, the debut album from sisters Jennifer and Jessie Clavin, is just as innocent as some inadvertent female exhibitionism. From start to finish, the record is nothing but punchy pop rock songs about shitty boyfriends and unrequited love. Despite all of their tales of rejection and lonely nights, don’t feel bad for these California girls. As their name would suggest, these tales of heartbreak are glossed over with the haze of endless summers, a warm sun and the comfort of greasy In & Out burgers. Ride Your Heart proves that you don’t need a man so long as you have a guitar.

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Cockroach (Shock)

Gritty garage rock the way it once was. Before the skaters kick-flipped it. Before the surfers waxed it. Crocodiles’ secular approach, without the extreme sport association, does justice to the ailing genre. Cockroach grates like a face along a stucco wall. The wailing guitars and Jesus & Mary Chain-like wall of sound rise above any distractions of fad. No frills necessary.

Lisa Crawley Elizabeth (MGM)

There’s a 1950s, Avon lady-like charm to the new single from Lisa Crawley’s second album All In My Head. It’s like sauntering away a summery afternoon, picking up a good commission at every white picketed house successfully serviced.

Vocally reminiscent of Kate Nash, the New Zealand singer brings a suburban sensibility to the fore here on Elizabeth.

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Clare Bowditch & Spender Governor Hindmarsh, Fri Aug 9 (Photos by Jennifer Sando) (Review by Melissa Keogh)

AAAA Clare Bowditch returned to the Gov for her annual Winter Secrets Tour wearing all black, which she confessed was out of mourning for Patrick’s Reid’s death. “Does anybody want to talk about it?” the spirited redhead asked the audience with ‘it’ meaning the dramatic passing that occurred on the Channel 10’s Offspring, in which she plays a recurring role.

Moving through songs from her latest album The Winter I Chose Happiness and her 2010 album The Moon Looked On this mother of three showed she’s about more than her commercial television breakthrough. Even though she was a bit of a dag, dropping the odd F-bomb and stopping to pout and pose for the photographer, Bowditch omits a certain air of elegance and beauty through her radiant voice. By the end of her first song Amazing Life, every audience member in the room had a big goofy grin slapped across their face.

Bowditch appeared humble musician, preferring to be joined on stage by Tommy

Reviews // Quick Ones

The Crystal Fighters

No Joy

Skillet

Wait To Pleasure

Rise

Cave Rave

(Dead Oceans)

(Word/Atlantic)

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If there is one thing that America’s war on drugs taught me, it’s that drugs are fantastic. In my youth, I remember being one of the millions of American children who were subjugated to the anti-drug program D.A.R.E., which was a nifty acronym for Drug Abuse Resistance Education, a somewhat wordy name for an organisation.

Teachers and parents were urged to “dare” kids to abstain from recreational drug use, which was about as successful as you might imagine.

Truth be told, even if the D.A.R.E. program hadn’t unwittingly piqued my narcotic curiosity, there’s no doubt that my friends and I would’ve experimented anyway.

With the legal drinking age at 21, it was difficult obtaining booze, but drugs were another story.

No Joy’s second album, Wait To Pleasure, reminds me of my carefree, wasted youth. The record is a hazy, murky affair that lurches along with the nonchalance of irresponsibility. Every song is awash with distortion and feedback, the perfect allegory for the apathetic ignorance of adolescence. Nostalgia aside, compared to their debut album, Wait To Pleasure is a triumph. The fuzziness is still there but it isn’t self-indulgent, and I can actually make out the words this time. I guess you could say that No Joy grew up a little.

Ryan Lynch

American Christian rock band Skillet are back after their 2009 chart topping album Awake.

The album Rise is essentially a rock opera with a story line, so I don’t advise to download just a track or two. The storyline of the record revolves around a typical American teenager coming of age as he enters into adulthood.

The hostile album fluctuates between angst and anger that comes with being a teen, such as on the hardest-rocking song on the album and first single Sick Of It, (with a hint of Nine Inch Nails) and Circus For A Psycho which is a headbanger of shredding guitars.

Tension breaks with ballads such as Fire And Fury and Hard To Find. Fans might not appreciate some of the newer flavours, but Skillet clearly refuses to rest on their praise.

Overall, Rise is a massive sounding rock record that Christian and mainstream fans alike can appreciate.

Jess Bayly

(PIAS)

AAA I recently got back from Vietnam. I spent a lot of my time in Ho Chi Minh City, and while I would highly recommend a visit, HCMC is utterly mental. With a population of over 10 million people, the city is buzzing with activity 24 hours a day, everyday.

One of the most jarring things any tourist will have to do when visiting Ho Chi Minh is cross the street. About 90 percent of Vietnam’s street traffic consists of motorbikes, whizzing past you among a barrage of shrill horn blasts. Since there are a distinct lack of streetlights, signs or pedestrian crosswalks, getting from one side of the street to the other feels like you got sucked into a game of Frogger. To cross safely you have to summon the testicular fortitude necessary to walk directly into oncoming traffic.

The controlled chaos of Ho Chi Minh reminds me of Cave Rave, the newest offering from The Crystal Fighters. The album is a mish mash of electronica, Spanish folk, indie rock and bubblegum pop. At first it is a noisy, incoherent mess that goes on about the “nature of utopic space” and how it is the “fractal interdimension between the fourth and fifth realms”. Despite it’s hippie new-age pandering, there’s some fun to be had when you let your guard down.

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Spender, a talented producer who recently became an independent artist. Spender gave the audience a half hour solo introductory set, looking much a gentleman in a crisp suit and tie. Spender performed songs from his recently released EP Modern Pest, including the track featuring Goyte, Hotel Home.

When reunited on the stage, Bowditch and Spender worked exquisitely together. Their charismatic banter was like watching two kooky best friends, as they turned ordinary teapots into instruments in Between The Tea And The Toast.

Known for its strong audience interactions, The Winter Secrets Tour lived up to its reputation, with two local competition entrants joining Bowditch on stage as backup singers in a whole-crowd sing-along of You Look So Good.

Bowditch’s passion for supporting unknown and unheard artists then became very clear, as she invited the overall Winter Secrets winner, Kelly Breuer on stage. Kelly’s performance of Bowditch’s current single One Little River was strong and her vocals were beautifully unique. It’s refreshing to know what little vocal gems linger undiscovered in little “Babelaide” – as Clare cutely labelled us.

Spender led the pack in another audience singalong to One Night Upon A Cold Roof Top. Passion was not lacking from the audience who sangalong, wolf whistled and danced across the floor.

Lewis Watson Four More Songs (Warner)

AAA Aside from the likes of The Biebz, many teen YouTube sensations fail to continue the level of hype their initial three-minute clip created, ending in a lukewarm extension and disappointing flop of their career. But for 20-year-old Brit, Lewis Watson, there’s a good chance he’ll stick around. With the concoction of Watson’s buttery vocals, cute lyrics and boyish image there’s no denying this gentle and easygoing collection of indie/folk pop is going to set some teen hearts racing. But beyond the cute freckles and uncanny vocal resemblance to Ed Sheeran surely Watson can only run on releasing small flirts of music for so long. Good thing a full-length studio album is on its way.

Melissa Keogh

Salvia Plath The Bardo Story (Weird World Record Co)

A Michael Collin’s brainchild Salvia Plath is Salvia, psychoactive plant, meets depressive poet Sylvia Plath.

The combination of non-prescribed mood altering drugs and severe mental illness is almost as terrible an idea as listening to The Bardo Story all the way through. Previously known as Run DMT, Salvia Plath is a throw back to the ‘60s and ‘70s where psychedelic alternative rock was thought to be a legitimate music genre. Supposed highlight House of Leaves is slightly more bearable than the other 12 harrowing tracks, but still remains torturous. Salvia Plath is considered to be trippy stoner rock for a reason.

The combination of folk-gone-bad sounds and try hard flute work could only be appreciated a collective who suffers from memory impairment.

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Tom West spends his days in the office as a legal advisor, but is also preparing for the release of his debut solo record, A Spark In The Dark. This is a diverse collection of tunes ranging from your textbook nu-folk arrangements to those that explore some grand, moody soundscapes.

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wo years in the making, the album was quite simply, a labour of love.

“From demos to the finished product it was a really long time, about two years,” West reveals. “I had some distractions and travel along the way, but I'm glad that we're finally here now. I started out with some demos (as you usually do) then myself and Alister Douglas (who kicks around in a bunch of local bands) went and tracked them up in the hills over about three months. We'd usually go up to a shed at my folks place in Balhannah after work a couple of nights per week and all we used a very

small amount of gear and Al's laptop.”

West’s articulation is enviable and his lyrics manage to be clever, endearing and catchy, and successfully avoid cliché and predictability. All the signs of a good lawyer, right? But West is also the front man of Traveller And Fortune, arguably the sisterproject for West’s songs.

“All the songs start out in the same way and then they sort of take their own path,” West says. “Over time it, usually, becomes clear whether the song is better suited to Traveller or a solo track – but sometimes not and I'll end up playing the song across both projects.”

West is certainly no stranger to the local scene and some may find it hard to believe that this is his debut record, but the release has been a calculated process, helped even more by the adventures and opportunities of the past six months.

“I had a great trip to Austin for SXSW earlier in the year and then up to Toronto

again for Canadian Music Fest — I love that place,” West casually replies. “It has been great to spend a little bit of time playing all around the place. Although this tour will be the first time I've played the album songs with a full band so that will be interesting. On one occasion recently I was heckled to play a 'happy song', I promptly played one of the most bittersweet songs in the repertoire.”

With his quintessential quirk, West describes A Spark In The Dark as “a quite diverse folky record”. So whether folky tunes are your thing, or you need advise on your worker’s compensation claim, it’s hard to look past Tom West.

Due to CBD venue Published Arthouse being deemed unusable for public events, Fourwords’ upcoming electronic event Knots will be changing venues .The event, which will feature some big name headliners including Seekae, Kaytranada, Ryan Hemsworth (Can) and Oliver Tank alongside local acts Oisima, Brokers and Lonah, will be relocating to the Freemason’s Hall on North Tce. The event will continue to take place on Sun Aug 25. Sadly falling casualty to Published Arthouse’s fate, is the cancellation of this weekend’s vintage blues event Moonlight VooDoo. Set to take place on Sat Aug 17, failure to find a replacement venue has forced its 11th hour cancellation.

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Blues textured, folk artist Paige Renee Court has won the South Australian heat of the nationally acclaimed Telstra Road To Discovery. This was the second time Court has entered the competition claiming, "she was drawn back to the program because of its amazing opportunities". Shortly Court flies out to an artist boot camp in Sydney which includes some high profile mentoring and a performance in the semi-final at The Great Southern Blues Festival held in Narooma, NSW. To see just how she won over the judges, you can catch her live on Sat Aug 31 at The Portside Tavern.

WHO: Tom West WHAT: A Spark In The Dark (Independent) WHERE: The Metropolitan Hotel WHEN: Fri Aug 30

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Word Adelaide Freestyle MC Comp Rap spans continents and tackles society’s most pressing issues. In a festival celebrating words’ power and meaning, Word Adelaide’s Freestyle MC Competition will see this explosive form of expression shine. Held this weekend on Fri Aug 19 at Thebarton Theatre it’s a standalone competition where MC’s will go head to head in a boxing ring battling it out for their chance to win over $12,000 in cash and prizes. Showcase performers include Adelaide super-heavyweights Delta and Funkoars, while MC Fatface will serve as master of ceremonies and former South Australian, Simplex, will carry out referee and hosting duties.

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