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The OzAsia Festival has nestled nicely into Adelaide’s festival calendar offering a unique program of dance, music, art, theatre and food. After headlining with the wonderful film composer Tan Dun (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero) last year, OzAsia gets hip in 2013 with Malaysian urban pop singer Yuna as one of its star attractions. Signed to Verve, and having worked with producers such as Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, Yuna is an artist to watch. To catch her at the Space Theatre will be a rare chance to watch a unique singer just before she blows up, as her first album on Verve is due next month. Read her interview on p10. Away from OzAsia, the Arctic Monkeys speak about their new album AM and boiling hot days in Adelaide (p11) while the Midnight Juggernauts discuss their third album Uncanny Valley on p13. There’s been a lot of discussion about Peel St lately, and the street’s new eatery called, ahh, Peel St is reviewed on p23.
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Yes, we know you’re at the point of wanting to punch the head of the next person who proclaims, ‘Spring has sprung,’ but this week has really signalled the onset of the fun, summery months. With lots of festivals coming up on the horizon, keep your eyes on ripitup. com.au for our annual and regularly updated festival guide. In other news, this week we’ll also feature two exclusive live reviews of Mark Of Cain and the Triple J House Party. Head to ripitup.com.au for full articles, reviews and more.
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The psychedelic rock throwback of the Findlay sisters returns to Adelaide as Stonefield are set to smash Jive on Thu Sep 5 with new single Put Your Curse On Me and more from their debut album, due next month.
Back with a new LP Steal The Light, Australia’s favourite global music fusion act, The Cat Empire, returns to Adelaide to play the Thebby on Fri Sep 6.
Adelaide’s hard rocking legends The Mark Of Cain, who reminded us how good they are with their comeback album Songs Of The Third And Fifth late last year, perform at the Gov on Fri Sep 6.
Speeding along this week... Anberlin Florida’s favourite Christian rockers Anberlin will lift the Gov’s spirits on Tue Sep 10.
Castlecomer Sydney five-piece Castlecomer play the Grace Emily on Sun Sep 8.
Empire The Spiegelworld spectacular Empire opens its four-week season on Thu Sep 5 at Rymill Park.
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Golden Era’s rowdy troublemakers, the Funkoars, will be joined by labelmates Vents, Briggs and K21 at the Gov on Sat Sep 7 to celebrate the latest Golden Era mixtape.
Nina Las Vegas brings her annual house party tour to HQ with fellow Aussie party starters Flight Facilities and Cassian on Fri Sep 6.
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Brilliant Australian blues outfit The Snowdroppers, who thankfully sound nothing like Blues Hammer (for those who have seen Ghost World) will be at Jive on Sat Sep 7.
Brief Encounter The State Theatre and the UK’s Kneehigh team up to present Noel Coward’s classic Brief Encounter at the Dunstan Playhouse from Tue Sep 10.
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With their powers combined, Tom Busby and Jeremy Marou are BUBSY MAROU, and they’re going on tour. The Farewell Fitzroy tour is named after their second album (due out Fri Oct 4 through Warner). Big hopes are riding on the record, as their critically acclaimed debut was nominated for APRA, Deadly, NIMA and Queensland Music awards. Grab tickets through Moshtix to see the duo live at Fowler’s Live on Fri Nov 29.
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The Preatures are teasing us. A new EP release, Is This How You Feel? has landed at our fingertips, pushing their debut album just a little further out of reach. Plans are apparently in motion to get an LP going, but for now we’ll take the five songs and the constant tours. Check out the new tunes at Jive on Thu Sep 19. Tickets are available through Moshtix. The sun is out, birds are singing—what better way to celebrate spring than with some Baby Animals? The long-lived Australian rockers have just released This Is Not The End (their first album in 20 years), so the group is on tour to celebrate. Spring chickens and old dogs will unite at their Thu Oct 24 show at the Governor Hindmarsh. Tickets are available from the venue and thebabyanimals.com. Pre-orders are also being taken on the website for a live concert DVD, just in case you can’t make it to the gig.
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Gorgeous Lil Eskimos With album Wastelands due out on Fri Sep 30, Eskimo Joe have announced a national tour. South Australians are extra lucky—the Perth group will be making their southern appearance at Gorgeous Festival in McLaren Vale on Sat Nov 23. Already on the line-up for the twoday food, wine and music fest are the John Butler Trio, Blue King Brown and local ensemble Gemini Downs. Tickets and further information can be found at gorgeousfestival.com.au
Alive & Well Best mates* of Benji Madden (Good Charlotte), Sydneysiders Tonight Alive are about to release their second album. With help from Madden and through collaborations with Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus, the Australian pop-punk group have taken on the international scene and won. Touring their home country this spring, Tonight Alive originally had plans for an 18+ show in Adelaide. Underagers revolted and the gig has been moved to all-ages venue the Governor Hindmarsh. Unfortunately this has pushed the concert from a Saturday night slot to Mon Sep 16. National support D At Sea will also not appear at the Gov, but Hands Like Houses will remain on the bill. Tickets to the show are still available through livenation.com.au. *possible exaggeration.
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SAT SEP 14 BIG SCARY MUSE frontman Matt Bellamy is happily married to Kate Hudson, with whom he has had a son, Bingham Bellamy. Little Bingo will have to say goodbye to daddy for a while though—his father’s band is off on an enormous international tour, stopping at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Wed Dec 4. The English alt-rock group has a reputation for dazzling, enormous live shows, so hopes are high for entertainment value. Joining Muse for the 2nd Law tour are Birds of Tokyo. The Australian supports released their fourth album this year, and you will have heard lead single This Fire. The track was the most-played song on Australian radio between January and June this year. Sounds like a challenge, Somebody That I Used To Know. Tickets to the concert are on sale through Ticketek.
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Yuna
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Malaysian Cool OzAsia bound Malaysian singer Yuna is on the verge of breaking through the underground with her delicate soulful pop that has seen her work with Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo and championed by Def Jam’s Russell Simmons.
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urrently recording her second album, the former law student issued her first EP for the legendary Verve imprint, the Sixth Street EP, earlier this year. Yuna, who divides her time between Kuala Lumpur and Los Angeles, will make her Adelaide debut with her two OzAsia appearances. “I really don’t know what to expect,” Yuna explains from Los Angeles. “I’ve never been to Adelaide before. I’ve heard a lot about this festival [OzAsia] and people rave about it and Adelaide. There are a lot of Malaysians there who say, ‘Oh, come out to Adelaide. Come. You’ll love it. It’s cool.’ I’m Malaysian, I’m making music in LA but I have fans that are Malaysian and American but I didn’t know I had fans in Australia. I’ve never performed there, so I can’t wait to go and hopefully surprise myself with the fans who are going to come to the show.” Yuna released her self-titled debut EP in Malaysia in 2008 before going on to win many AIM Awards (Malaysia’s music awards) in the following years. She was picked up by New York’s FADER label and released her debut album in 2012, which saw her work with Guy Sebastian and The Neptunes’ Pharrell Williams. The album’s smooth jazz pop mixed with an urban sensibility sounded like Feist,
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Sia and Alicia Keys jamming in a late night jazz cafe. With her soft yet powerful voice, the album was punctuated with the singles Live Your Life and Lullabies with Yuna working with Pharrell on the aforementioned track. She collaborated with Chad Hugo (Pharrell’s Neptunes and N.E.R.D. partner in crime) for her upcoming album, which will be her first on Verve, the home to Natalie Cole, Carla Bruni and Andrea Bocelli. “They both have similar but different
“Yeah, I worked with Pharrell and I worked with Chad Hugo.” styles,” Yuna says of Chad and Pharrell. “It was really fun to work with both of them. I mean who else could say something like that? Yeah, I worked with Pharrell and I worked with Chad Hugo,” she laughs. “It was really exciting for me. Working with Pharrell was really cool because I got to be in Miami and be in the studio for five days. With Chad we didn’t have much time together but we managed to come up with a couple of songs and one of the songs we worked on is one of my favourites and one of the strongest songs
on the album. I’m excited about the response. Chad loves the song, I love the song and the label loves the song. So, I hope everyone’s going to love the song.” Her Verve signing is also a brave move by both Verve and Yuna, as of late Verve is renowned for their vocal jazz standards. “They’re famous for all these amazing jazz artists and when they first signed me, I thought, ‘Oh cool, does this mean I have to do a jazz record?’ That was my background, kind of. I used to do a lot of singer/songwriter music with just a guitar and me. I’ve been doing a lot of pop music for the last two years that I’ve been out here and it’s something I really enjoy making. They were like, ‘Oh no, we love your sound and you’re free to do whatever you’re comfortable with’. I’m excited to be signed to them and they are really supportive of the music I want to make and so far recording and everything else has been really good.” Her upcoming album will see her experiment with traditional Malay instruments as she discovered her soul and R&B side with the Sixth Street EP. “I want to explore more of that field and also want to experiment with traditional instruments. With Malay traditional music, there are a lot of amazing instruments that I feel not a lot of people know a lot about and it could be a fun thing to experiment with and that’s exactly what I want to do with this album. “I want to use these traditional instruments and make them pop. I was inspired by Paul Simon and when he went to Africa and released this amazing album [Graceland] by using African influenced music and melodies.” But the traditional Malay instruments and the new album aren’t likely to be previewed at
Malaysian Indie Scene Yuna says the independent music scene took Malaysia by storm a few years ago. “A lot of kids were coming up with new music and embracing technology and social networks and promoting their music online and by guerilla promoting instead of looking for a record label,” she explains. “Back then they were stuck with the formula of producing the same pop ballad sound that was so famous. A lot of kids wanted something new and fresh and I was one of those kids. I joined a bunch of festivals and independent gigs all organised by young kids who were passionate about music. That took off for a little bit but died down after that.”
her OzAsia performances. “The shows will be the usual shows I perform because the album won’t be out until October. I still have some new music from the EP and that’s pretty exciting, as I’ve never performed songs from the EP outside of America before, so it’s great to be able to do that in Adelaide. I’ve never been to Adelaide before, so I will be performing a lot of songs from my first album as well.”
WHO: Yuna WHAT: OzAsia Festival WHERE: Space Theatre (Festival Centre) WHEN: Fri Sep 13 and Sat Sep 14
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In The AM
Coming Together Last year Arctic Monkeys played at the London Olympic Opening Ceremony, covering The Beatles’ classic Come Together after their own I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor. Cook divulges that event director Danny Boyle couldn’t refuse their version after hearing it.
Ahead of the release of their fifth album, AM, Arctic Monkeys’ guitarist Jamie Cook bombards Rip It Up with his thick Yorkshire accent to chat about AM, the next chapter in the Monkeys’ saga.
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ood news team, Adelaide has certainly been seared into the Monkeys’ memory. Literally. “That’s the hottest I’ve ever been in my life,” Cook says with disbelief, remembering the 40-something degree temperatures that met them for their appearance at Adelaide’s 2009 Big Day Out. “We couldn’t even leave the hotel except to go play. You can’t cope with that, you just break down.” Adelaide’s infamous heatwaves haven’t stopped the band from wanting to return to Australian shores, with Cook interrupting with an emphatic “Yes!” before the question on whether we could see the Arctic Monkeys return to Australia for the 2014 summer could be completed. “Definitely,” Cook affirms. “I don’t think there’s anything booked in yet, but we love coming down there. Don’t worry about that, we’ll definitely be back soon.” Arctic Monkeys’ still-unconfirmed-yetimminent return will coincide nicely with AM’s release, which suits Cook just fine. “We’re only playing two songs off the album at the minute, but it’s going down great and fitting into the older stuff really well. We’d love to play a lot more newer stuff but it would mean it all ends up all over the internet. That’s not a bad thing but then by the time the album comes out there would be no surprise. We’ve had to hold back a little, which is a bit of a pain.”
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“He was like, ‘Oh, you gotta do that,’” Cook laughs. “We didn’t realise at the time that Paul McCartney would be playing straight after us and would be standing next to the stage. That made it all the more terrifying than it was already – especially for Nick playing that bass line.”
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“Don’t worry about that, we’ll definitely be back soon.” The new material Cook is excited to start playing refines the greasy pop and swagger that Arctic Monkeys have epitomised for the last decade. “I think maybe it’s not as serious as the last two [albums], but yeah, we’re getting better at playing and in the studio. We’re not having to learn as much every time.” Joining the band yet again in the studio is friend of the band Josh Homme of Queens Of The Stone Age, having previously helped coproduce 2009’s Humbug. “[Homme] came down to town and we hadn’t seen him in a while so he wanted to come hang out with us and listen to a few songs. A few tequilas later he ended up singing on some songs [One For The Road and Knee Socks], which is great; they sound amazing. It’s definitely a favourite part of the album – his voice is great.” Another surprise was the decision to include standalone single R U Mine? on the album, which Cook confides would have been an “awful shame” to have left it off. Unsurprisingly, album opener and lead single Do I Wanna Know? set the tone for AM, although Cook personally also can’t wait to start playing No. 1 Party Anthem live. “Do I Wanna Know? was one of the first songs that we did for this record and I don’t think we have done anything like it before. We are really proud of that one. It’s a great song.”
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Keep On Drivin’ Catching up on some much needed “home time” while his band mates are surfing around the globe; Winston McCall from Byron Bay metalcore outfit Parkway Drive checks in with Rip It Up ahead of the band’s 10 year anniversary tour.
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It’s really weird to be in this position for 10 years, twice as long as we thought. We supported Mindsnare’s 10th anniversary and now we are having one. Where does the time go?” Over the past decade, Parkway Drive has enjoyed sold-out success around the globe, headlining major music festivals with two gold-certified albums. On the anniversary tour, the band will be playing a setlist comprised of material spanning over their career, including some old favourites.
“It’s a weird thing for us to be playing all these old songs again,” McCall admits.“The tour we are doing is really retrospective. It spans pretty much the entire existence of the band. A hell of a lot of these songs we haven’t played in eight to nine years.” So how did a group of guys from Byron Bay in surfer get-up playing metalcore become so popular worldwide? “I think it has been about timing. We happen to be a band creating a style of music that at the time was very new but it was something that people really wanted to hear. And we created it in an isolated area, being Australia. That led to us being able to go overseas and being something fresh over there. This was around the same time the internet exploded,” McCall recalls. “It was such a mission to get bands like Mindsnare and Toe To Toe’s music originally because the channels were so slim and since the internet — it was just boom
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– anything you wanted came at the touch of a button. You didn’t have to write a personalised letter to the band asking for a dubbed cassette or something of their music. We literally happened right at that excitement period with the internet, it was like a storm of events for Parkway and we are very aware of that.” Still inspired after 10 years? “Yeah, it’s nice. The weird thing is we really didn’t expect to. And it’s not as if we are over it, we just put everything into the record and are so spent that we are literally saying ‘Ok, we are now out of ideas. We have nothing. How the hell are we ever going to do something again?’ And it’s always refreshing to be able to get past that and write something new with more ideas.” After the anniversary tour, the band has also signed on for this year’s Australian leg of the Vans Warped Tour in November. “We love Warped. We’ve done Warped twice in the States and it’s a really unique and fantastic tour. It’s really awesome to be able to do it here. When Warped originally came in the ‘90s, that was the show. Now to be part of that tour and be part of that legacy in Australia, we are really honoured.” Parkway have a strong dedicated young fanbase and McCall says the band are aware of the importance of their all-ages shows. “For us, all ages shows are imperative. Not because they’re good and heaps of people come out to them but because we appreciate the fact that there are people younger than the age of 18 who really like our music and should be given
“A hell of a lot of these songs we haven’t played in eight to nine years.”
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the chance to experience our shows because I think we have always been a live band. We know what it’s like to want to see a band, you don’t even want to drink, but because you’re not of age, you can’t get in and it’s purely frustrating.” McCall tells us they are looking forward to playing at the Gov as it brings back fond memories for them. “It’s gonna be interesting. Different energy and really small rooms so they are more personal. We’ve had some wild gigs at the Gov so I’m very interested to see how this goes down. Plus, we are playing very, very old songs. I don’t know what it’s going to do to the crowd. We won’t be playing just hit singles, it’s playing all those songs that one person yells out ‘Play this!’” WHO: Parkway Drive WHAT: Ten Years Of Parkway Drive Tour WHERE: Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Tue Sep 17 - Thu Sep 19
Beats// “The whole concept behind the album is based in a bit of fantasy and a bit of reality, too,” he explains. “The reality part relates to this problem that musicians and artists face, where all you want to do is come up with the best possible creation, and you never quite really reach that point because you’re only human. The fantasy part springs from this idea of a world where people create robots who are as humanlike as possible, almost unrecognisable as machines, but then the final result just freaks the humans out, they’re put off by their own creation, maybe even scared of it. So I guess the album is full of contradictions in that way. It’s like, you’re searching for perfection but you’re never happy with it even if you reach it, it’s like a little bit of self-sabotage and a little bit of self-loathing.” Complicated concepts, mind-bending paradoxes, and spaced-out visions – that’s what Midnight Juggernauts have returned with on third album, Uncanny Valley. According to Szekeres, the term itself refers to the field of robotics and 3D computer animation where technology is made to resemble humanity, only to leave our species repulsed by our own creation... It’s heavy stuff, so how the hell does one even come up with it?
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The impossible search for perfection is something most artists are very familiar with. Either you never quite reach it or, once you do, you find yourself utterly repulsed by it... Well, Midnight Juggernauts do, anyway. But then again, they are weirdos, as Daniel Stricker of the Melbourne trio points out.
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“Loads of time on our hands,” Szekeres laughs. “Nah, seriously, it’s more to do with the fact that, for once, we actually didn’t impose any kind of deadline on this album. I honestly now think it’s the way to go. The more time you have, the more creative you can allow yourself to be. The more time you have to come up with these crazy concepts, and the crazier it is, the more interesting it is, I think. It helped that we were involved in other projects while we were making this album – we started recording some of it in Melbourne and Sydney, then we took part in this ACMI project in Melbourne where we were doing film scores, and after that we had these leftovers of tracks that we just threw into this album.”
The bits and pieces were then properly assembled and transformed into a fulllength record in the majestic settings of Loire Valley, France. Putting the finishing touches on Uncanny Valley in a formerchurch-cum-recording studio, Midnight Juggernauts found themselves with an album that walks a fine line between brilliance and indulgence. And while it ain’t quite perfection, it’s pretty damn close... “As much as there’s this concept of technology in the album theme, we actually tried to isolate ourselves from things like phones and computers and social media as much as possible,” Szekeres adds. “You’re in the French countryside, how the hell could you be on Facebook? Our music has
always been very inspired by landscapes, the environment, and very visual things. This church converted into a studio in France was the perfect setting for writing and recording. It was very refreshing isolating ourselves from technology and focusing on music and nothing else. Sometimes you just need to block yourself from the outside world to get a bit of perspective. We were in the middle of this amazing field which had a pretty lake – you don’t find better visual inspiration than that.” WHO: Midnight Juggernauts WHAT: Uncanny Valley (Remote Control) WHERE: Adelaide Uni Bar WHEN: Fri Sep 13
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The Game Factory Floor
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The raw throwback electronic sounds of the UK’s Factory Floor are intriguing at first but it gets a tad wearisome over the course of a 10-track album. Labelled by many as post industrial, the antiquated sounds of Factory Floor have more in common with early, and I mean really frigging early, Detroit techno cuts with some drone sheen. The London trio, who issued their first mini album in 2009 and released their first single (Fall Back) for DFA earlier this year, are onto an intriguing sound but for revivalists to stand out they have to offer a new twist or energy to the old cuts and Factory Floor adds nothing to Kraftwerk, the Belleville Three or the magnitude of ‘80s electronic cuts from pop hits to industrial standards. Worth investigating but the originators have more to offer than these electronic music anthropologists. David Knight
The archives of Derrick Carter and Luke Solomon’s legendery house music imprint Classic continues to get mined by DJs with Honey Dijon selecting some of her favourite moments from the transatlantic imprint along with six exclusive joints. A longtime Classic associate, Miss Honey Dijon compiles a mix that definitely reps the Classic sound; it’s not too ‘boompty boomp’ focused and mixes deep cuts with jazzy tracks that bridges Chicago, London and Europe. The big Classic joints such as Isolee’s Beau Mot Plage, Metro Area’s Pina and Blaze’s Lovelee Dae all appear in remix form to its benefit but this mix series, considering this is the fourth volume, is starting to lose its appeal. Though this may be the strongest of the four, there hasn’t been an essential Classic Through The Eyes Of mix that lives up to the imprint’s formidable title. Jeff Spicoli
LA rap legend The Game returns to Australia to kick off his highly anticipated 10-city national concert tour, Jesus Piece. The MC and Dr Dre protégé will play HQ Complex on Sun Sep 8.The Jesus Piece tour will also feature a full film crew, who will be capturing all the on stage and backstage action at each show. The Game is credited for bringing West Coast rap back when he exploded onto the scene in 2005 with his album The Documentary. His current album Jesus Piece was released in 2012.
Anthony Pappa & Sean Quinn Australian clubbing legends Anthony Pappa and Sean Quinn will play RedLove for a night to remember on Fri Oct 4. The progressive and tech house sounds of Pappa meant he was one of the first Aussie DJs to go international thanks to his Freefall hit Skydive, well-received DJ mixes for brands such as Balance and Renaissance and residencies across the globe. Sean Quinn, on the other hand, is one of Australia’s best-known trance identities. Supports: Damage, Solace and Gootz. RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au
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MON SEP 23
SPIEGELWORLD PRESENTS EMPIRE @ Rymill Park
ONE DIRECTION & 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
THU SEP 5
TUE SEP 24
FOALS & ALPINE @ HQ ONE DIRECTION & 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER FRI SEP 6 @ Adelaide Entertainment THE CAT EMPIRE & Centre HIATUS KAIYOTE @ SURES @ Ed Castle Thebarton Theatre VOLUMES @ Fowler’s Live LAMB OF GOD & MESHUGGAH @ DIRT FARMER @ Rocket Thebarton Theatre Bar STONEFIELD @ Jive Bar
MAIDS, CHICKS WHO LOVE GUNS, HORROR MY FRIEND, SINCERELY, GRIZZLY @ Jive Bar THE MARK OF CAIN @ Governor Hindmarsh HOUSE PARTY: NINA LAS VEGAS, FLIGHT FACILITIES & CASSIAN @ HQ
SAT SEP 7
THE SNOWDROPPERS @ Jive Bar THE MARK OF CAIN @ Fowler’s Live THE FUNKOARS @ Governor Hindmarsh
SUN SEP 8
CASTLECOMER & ASHLEIGH MANNIX @ Grace Emily Hotel
TUE SEP 10
ANBERLIN & THE MAINE @ Governor Hindmarsh
THU SEP 12
JIMMY BARNES @ Gawler Princes Park
FRI SEP 13
SNAKADAKTAL, ARCHERS & OISIMA @ Governor Hindmarsh FOR THE FALLEN DREAMS @ Fowler’s Live MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS @ Uni Bar LANIE LANE @ The Promethean
SAT SEP 14
JIMMY BARNES @ Port Elliot Showground BIG SCARY @ Uni Bar JACK CARTY @ Jive Bar PIGEON @ Rhino Room RECOIL VOR @ The Cavern
SUN SEP 15
LOREN KATE @ The Cheese Factory Gallery, Meadows
MON SEP 16
TONIGHT ALIVE & HANDS LIKE HOUSES @ Governor Hindmarsh
TUE SEP 17
PARKWAY DRIVE (all ages) @ Governor Hindmarsh
WED SEP 18
PARKWAY DRIVE @ Governor Hindmarsh
THU SEP 19
PARKWAY DRIVE @ Governor Hindmarsh THE PREATURES @ Jive Bar RUDIMENTAL @ HQ
FRI SEP 20
THE PAPER KITES @ Jive Bar THE DRONES @ Fowler’s Live
SAT SEP 21
OLAFUR ARNALDS @ The Promethean SURES @ Ed Castle LOREN KATE @ The Black Cockatoo Arthouse, McLaren Vale MELBOURNE SKA ORCHESTRA @ Governor Hindmarsh
SUN SEP 22
AMANDA PALMER & THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA @ Thebarton Theatre LOREN KATE @ Wheatsheaf Hotel R.A. THE RUGGED MAN @ Governor Hindmarsh THE CANNANES, SUMMER FLAKE & THE MONIES @ Hotel Metropolitan
WED SEP 25
ONE DIRECTION & 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre XAVIER RUDD, DONAVON FRANKENREITER, NAHKO & MEDICINE FOR PEOPLE @ Thebarton Theatre
THU SEP 26
RIHANNA @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre FRI SEP 27 ILLY @ Governor Hindmarsh HOTEL RACE FATALISTS @ Hotel Metropolitan UK SUBS @ Enigma Bar THE WOO HOO REVUE @ Nexus Arts Centre
SAT SEP 28
AIMEE FRANCIS @ Jetty Bar Glenelg
SUN SEP 29
AIMEE FRANCIS @ Grace Emily Hotel
MON SEP 30
JASON BYRNE @ Her Majesty’s Theatre
WED OCT 2
SWERVEDRIVER @ Governor Hindmarsh
THU OCT 3
JINJA SAFARI @ Uni Bar DISCLOSURE @ HQ
FRI OCT 4
HERE AND NOW FESTIVAL: 50 LIONS, SEARCH AND DESTROY, CRISIS ALERT & LEVEL @ Enigma Bar LURCH AND CHIEF @ Rocket Bar DAVEY LANE @ Jive Bar AVERSIONS CROWN & FEED HER TO THE SHARKS @ Blackmarket THE ROYAL JELLIES @ Ed Castle
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ended up missing the ball, kicking the ground, and shattering three bones in his foot. It was priceless.” As they debut to Adelaide crowds as a part of The Jam Room's Some Folk In Spring, they're pumped. “We've never been [to Adelaide] before and so we have no idea what to expect, which we find really exciting. We find that sort of challenge really appealing, we believe fully in the power of first impressions, so we play harder than ever in those situations. In a sense we Best moments of the tour so far? A broken feel more comfortable playing in other cities, foot is the first thing that comes to light. Oh boy. maybe because we've left all the other worries “Definitely Joey, our keyboard player, breaking and responsibilities we have behind, back in his foot." Kennedy affirms. “We were out playing Sydney, so we're just focused on leaving a lasting a bit of basketball on the Gold Coast, and the impression on any audience we can get our ball somehow ended up over one of the highest music into the ears of!” fences ever made, and outside the court (not This of course is all in honour of their latest naming any names as to how it got out there). EP Lone Survivor, although it's not all that new Joey then tried to kick the ball back over that to them. extremely high fence from ground level. He “We actually recorded it in July last year Castlecomer, not the town in Ireland of which these lads were named after but the Sydney musicians, who are spreading their pop rock sounds, hounding their harmonies across the nation like wildfire. Pat Kennedy is the dude behind the drums and takes some time away from dad jokes and laughing at his band mate's misfortune for chats with Rip It Up.
and have been holding it back, so to us it's not new any more — we have to keep reminding ourselves that people have only just heard these songs for the first time! That's not to say that we're sick of them; we still love them, and love playing them live.” With four out of the five of these lads being cousins, and the final contestant, Joey a fabulous mate from birth, these guys know each other like the back of their hands. And some. They've definitely grown accustomed to each other's bad habits. One of them being, telling dad jokes. “You know when you start doing something as a joke, and it's funny because you know how unfunny it is? And then it gets past that point and now we actually think dad jokes are funny. It's terrible.” WHO: Castlecomer WHAT: Some Folk In Spring WHERE: Grace Emily Hotel WHEN: Sun Sep 8
SAT OCT 5
SOILWORK @ Governor Hindmarsh TWELVE FOOT NINJA @ Fowler’s Live
SUN OCT 6
REGURGITATOR @ Governor Hindmarsh NAYSAYER & GILSUN @ Rhino Room
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RICKY MARTIN @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES @ Fowler’s Live BRING ME THE HORIZON, OF MICE & MEN & CROSSFAITH @ Thebarton Theatre HOT CHOCOLATE @ Governor Hindmarsh
FRI OCT 11
JAY HOAD @ Governor Hindmarsh SAT OCT 12 NGAIIRE @ Jive Bar HORRORSHOW @ Governor Hindmarsh CLOWNS @ Crown & Anchor
FRI OCT 13
ELEVENTH HE REACHES @ Crown & Anchor
TUE OCT 15
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL MICHAEL JACKSON THE IMMORTAL WORLD TOUR @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
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While Dirt Farmer frontman Stu Barlow is relieved the band’s hometown of Albury has evolved beyond catering solely for its strong “heavy metal scene”, Rip It Up learns the quintet have their sights set on LA. Albury, the geographically fence-sitting town that balances above the Victorian-NSW border on the north side of the Murray River, has a fresh and very well-defined export. Enter slackerrock band Dirt Farmer, who are now based in Melbourne, but, according to lead man Stu Barlow, their regional heritage can be heard in the band’s music. “I think you can hear a bit of, well, not country, but I guess a regional sound coming through in our music. There’s no synthesisers or anything and there’s three guitars, and we listened to a bit of country music growing up in Albury.” Exactly what country music? Well, Barlow’s band’s moniker may just give you a hint: Dirt
Farmer was the title of The Band drummer Levon Helm’s 2007 solo album. The boys are also fans of The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, the latter who played and toured with The Band. “We always used to listen to The Band and watch The Last Waltz… our parents were always into that and played us older music,” Barlow confirms, adding that their listening habits were unusual given that Albury’s renowned for its strong “heavy metal scene”. “It’s pretty unfortunate,” he continues, “that we didn’t start playing until we were in Melbourne, because every venue in Albury caters to heavy metal.” With their forthcoming She Shakes Tour taking them to regional areas including their hometown’s cross-river city, Wodonga, Barlow says no hostility lingers. “We’re going back in a couple of weeks. We’re going to a new venue that sounds really good. It’s not heavy metal at all. I think the scene’s changed in Albury, which is good to see.” She Shakes is the second single to be taken from Dirt Famer’s second EP Delilah Lightning. The
band’s self-titled EP features a track titled Delilah Lightning and, when asked whether Delilah or Johnny Marble really exist, or are simply convenient metaphors or storytelling vehicles, Barlow responds vaguely, saying, “I guess they’re based on real people, but I don’t like to give too much away [in case] they’d listen and know the song was about them.” But then, as if Barlow suddenly remembers the source of inspiration has already been revealed to the man himself, he’s willing to reveal a little more on the subject of Johnny Marble: “It’s about this 70-year-old bricklayer I used to work with when I was landscaping and he was a really old, grumpy guy, but he had a heart of gold. We didn’t know him that well but we decided to write this story about him… we told him and he told his grandchildren, and they’re our biggest fans now!” WHO: Dirt Farmer WHERE: Rocket Bar WHEN: Fri Sep 6
The Guide// THURSDAY 5TH ADELAIDE UNI BAR – Midnight Juggernauts
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
CLUB 5082 – No Ambitions, Hunting Colours, Shut Up Rupert, Exit and Pimpin Horus (7pm)
CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Young Offenders, Thrashboard, City Lights Divide and Stomp The Orange. 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 – Meg Bellew
GILBERT STREET HOTEL – The Timbers (7pm)
GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Gumbo Blues Room Jam featuring the Bluescasters
GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Sam Brittain with Timberwolf and Tim Moore
GRAND BAR – OMG
HIGHWAY – DJ Alli (8pm)
HOTEL RICHMOND – All Vinyl DJ (6pm) HQ – Riot Society hosted by Uberjak’d LIGHT HOTEL – SCALA Live (8pm)
MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – DJ G-Rillz
PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango ROCKET BAR – Wild Things (9pm)
SUGAR – Jazz Pancake with locals and guests THE LION HOTEL – Clearway (9pm)
WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm)
FRIDAY 6TH ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs
ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: DJ Jaki J (9.30pm)
ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Bonz (8pm) Top Room: Rock Circus @ The Ark (8pm)
AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BACCHUS BAR – OD Duo (8.30pm)
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm)
BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch
BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ
CAMEO BAR – DJs Lars, Lenny and guests
CHRISTIES BEACH RSL – The Red Hot Blues Band (8pm) CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Clearway
CROWN & ANCHOR – Carla Lippis (5pm) Greenthief, Rachel Cearns & The Valkyries, Encarta and Igor plus 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
EMU HOTEL – Eleven (8pm)
ENFIELD HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment ESPLANADE HOTEL – E’nuf Said
EXETER ON RUNDLE – Vic Conrad & The First Third, Dennis Crude Band and Dom Trimboli FINDON HOTEL – karaoke
GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Mark Of Cain. Front Bar: Old Time Fiddle Tunes/Irish Sessions GRACE EMILY HOTEL – GT Stringer
GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Jordan Beinke (6pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Frunky Monks (9.30pm)
HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire
HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs
IRISH CLUB – Shamrocks ‘n’ Shenanigans Live Acoustic Sessions (7pm)
LADY DALY HOTEL – Moss (8pm)
LIGHT HOTEL – Black Market (9pm) LIMBO – DJs
LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman
LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee
MAD MOUSE ALLEY – Disparo, Funeral Moon, Trash and Fur Beach
MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music
MARION HOTEL – Graham Lawrence (6.30pm)
MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am)
MICK O’SHEA’S – Peter Jenkins Duo (7pm)
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DJ Jess (4.30pm)
PORT NOARLUNGA RSL – Linda McCarthy (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
ROB ROY HOTEL – Point 05 (6pm) DJ Smiley (8pm) ROCKET BAR – Cats at Rocket (9pm)
SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8pm)
SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Lost Romaldo Groove (9pm)
SOUTHWARK HOTEL – Tara Carragher
STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance. Downstairs: DJs play retro
SUGAR – S.POOF 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 – The Incredibles (8pm) THE ELEPHANT – Kinetik and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY – Ch@t Room
THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment
TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Katrina Caton (4.45pm) One Planet (9pm) Chrysler Bar: The Fix (9.30pm) VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs VILLAGE TAVERN – Unknown To Man
WHITMORE HOTEL – DAN WHITE & TOM LAWSON (7.30PM)
SATURDAY 7TH ARAB STEED HOTEL – Troy Harrison
ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J plus Bongo Madness with Alex. Upstairs: DJ Ed Law (9.30pm)
ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar + Arena: Unknown To Man (10pm)
BACCHUS BAR – R&B & Reggaeton Fiesta with DJs (8.30pm) BLACK COCKATOO ARTHOUSE – Playpen Monthly
Event featuring Tribal Percussion Ensemble, Chris Finnen, Tom Redwood & Friends plus DJ Musical Sherpa (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – DJ TKA
BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Broken Theory (8pm) BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ
CAVAN HOTEL – Karnival with live bands (9pm)
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 with live bands and party DJs (9pm)
ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends
EMU HOTEL – Rocking Stones (8pm)
ENCORE NIGHTCLUB – resident DJs and guests (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – Stiff William (8pm)
ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Finn, Terrence and Ryley
ENIGMA – The Eternal
EXETER HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm)
GASLIGHT TAVERN – Disparo, Blockade and FVCK GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ Marky Polo (8pm)
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SUGAR – ITDE DJs and interstate and international
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Castlecomer, Ashleight Mannix and Myles Mayo
ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jam Night (8pm)
HIGHWAY – Wasabi
THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and Paul
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GRAND BAR – bands, DJs and MCs
Briggs and K21. Front Bar: Victoriana Gaye
SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle
HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – 888 Poker (6.30pm)
GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays with DJs and MCs
TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Craig James
Golden Era Roll Call Tour featuring The Funkoars, Vents, GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The Monies with Green Circles HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Planet Square HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm)
SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Nikko & Snooks (7.30pm) TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE ELEPHANT – Triple X and DJ G-Rillz
HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm)
THE LION HOTEL – Absolut Saturdays: Wasabi (9pm)
HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly
HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Everybody Talks (8.30pm)
HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips and guests
TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Audio Zoo (8.30pm) VALLEY INN – karaoke
VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – Rumours WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm)
KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke LAKES RESORT HOTEL – The Hitmen
LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ and MC Renard (10pm)
MARINA SUNSET BAR – DJs playing the best in house and electro
MARION HOTEL – Franky F (5.30pm) Boris Loves To Boogie (8.30pm)
MARS BAR – VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am)
MICK O’SHEA’S – One Planet (9pm)
OLD SPOT HOTEL – Zepporama and Kaleidoscope Eyes (9.30pm)
PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Good Company
SEMAPHORE & PORT ADELAIDE RSL – The Great Southern Ocean Music Benefit: The Curve, Spirit Of
RED SQUARE – DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan
TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions
MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker
Parko & Friends (6pm)
SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up
Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm)
THE LION HOTEL – Zkye and Damo (7.30pm)
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WHITMORE HOTEL – Acoustic Raw Jam
WHITMORE HOTEL – Old Dogs Can (4pm)
WEDNESDAY 11TH
SUNDAY 8TH ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School
ARKABA HOTEL – Top Of The Ark: Schnitz & Giggles featuring Luke Heggie (4.30pm)
BENJAMIN ON FRANKLIN – Souled Out Sessions with DJs
DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm)
GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm)
GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Anberlin with
SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic soloists
Appreciation Society
SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans
HILTON HOTEL – KG’s Complete Trivia (7pm)
THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) Quinny,
PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm)
WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi & Shaggy
Dave Collins and Jason Lee
BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Michael Venner Band (4pm) DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris
DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Point 05 (3pm) ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) EMU HOTEL – Jordan & Brendan (2pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Bonz
Dr Sketchy’s
SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – Animal House
CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: DJs Stevie & Duncan
GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Improv Cabaret
Gumshoe
GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Vaudeville Vibes and
SEBEL PLAYFORD – Black Magic
BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson
SEMAPHORE PALAIS – Frenzy
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SEAFORD HOTEL – Agent 99
AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia
ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs: Bottle Rocket, Osiris and
GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays with Sitara
SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic sessions
PLAYFORD TAVERN – Jonny Star Family Entertainment
Front Bar: Uke Night with the Adelaide Ukulele
WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm)
GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Otto’s Jacket (2pm)
SANDBAR – requests with DJs
OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Redline
TUESDAY 10TH
The Maine, William Beckett and Masketta Fall.
EUREKA TAVERN – Jonny Star Family Entertainment
ROCKET BAR – Rocket Saturdays (9pm)
MICK O’SHEA’S – E’nuf Said
SAILMASTER TAVERN – Mitch
BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon
RAMSGATE HOTEL – Adelaide’s best cover bands
MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits
WINDSOR HOTEL – Jump N Jive
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt
Alondray and Billy February (7pm)
acoustic music
WHITMORE HOTEL – The Red Hot Blues Band (9pm)
BACCHUS BAR – Swap Sides (4pm)
PJ O’BRIENS – Frenzy
MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live
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RAMSGATE HOTEL – acoustic session (4pm) Tom Kurzel and Ed Trainor fortnightly rotation (7.30pm)
(8pm)
JACK RUBY – Soul Social – live band and vinyl DJs (8pm)
LIGHT HOTEL – Vonni’s Big Arvo
SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon
GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Some Folk In Spring featuring
ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs: Zooma, Skot and Ryley
MONDAY 9TH GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Rear Admiral Stand Up Comedy. Balcony Bar: Lord Stompy’s Tin Sandwich advanced class
GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam
HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ultimate Quiz with host Graham Lawrence (7pm)
PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Complete Trivia (7pm)
RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy
and Driller
TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – DJs Ryley and Apex (8pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia
ARKABA HOTEL – Latino Grooves Salsa Classes (6pm) BOTANIC BAR – Gemma
CENTRAL DISTRICTS FOOTBALL CLUB – Quiz Wizz Trivia (7.45pm)
CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7pm) CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia CLOVERCREST HOTEL – karaoke
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 – Curtis
FINDON HOTEL – Muso’s Jam hosted by Streaker
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The Guide // FINSBURY HOTEL – karaoke
FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Open Mic Night
GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Sean Tyner
HIGHWAY – Spring Sessions with Craig Aitkens HQ –NeverLand
KENSINGTON HOTEL – Uke ‘N’ Play beginners to advanced ukulele. Listen and learn to play (7pm) LIGHT HOTEL – Open Mic Night (8pm)
MARION HOTEL – Adelaide Comedy featuring Bev Killick (8pm)
MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection
PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm)
SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with Margi (7.30pm)
SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular and Mr Whiskas
THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill (9pm)
THE SOUL BOX – Busker’s Box Open Mic (7.30pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Tonsley Trivia (7pm)
TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Wednesday (7pm)
WHITMORE HOTEL – SIMON PETER (6PM)
WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music
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Adelaide Film Festival A club, a drive-in and special events across the state will add much spectacle to the diverse collection of local and international film part of the 2013 Adelaide Film Festival.
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he recently released 2013 program showcases one of the strongest line-up of film in the event’s 10-year history with highlights including the opening night feature Tracks (starring Mia Wasikowska, who is in another AFF screening film, the Australian premiere of Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive), international films such as the documentary Seduced And Abandoned and the long-awaited Alan Partridge movie, Alpha Papa. Then there are the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) funded films, such as the world premiere of Rolf de Heer’s Charlie’s Country, Warwick Thornton’s The Darkside and 52 Tuesdays by Adelaide filmmaking collective Closer Productions, directed by Sophie Hyde. Away from the screen and the Festival will have its own clubhouse at Little Miss Miami, where filmmakers, fans and actors can interact and participate in forums. There will be events and screenings at Port Adelaide and Elizabeth as well as rural areas and a drive-in set up at the Adelaide Showground to screen Grease
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and the remake of the Ozploitation classic Patrick (the original is one of Quentin Tarantino’s favourite Aussie flicks). Film critics and At The Movies hosts David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz will also be in Adelaide as patrons and to film a live episode of their popular ABC show. “We are proud to be presenting such distinctive work in this year’s program,” Adelaide Film Festival Director and CEO Amanda Duthie explains. “The local industry and delivery of such fine work is a testament to the calibre of our industry here in Adelaide – from the writers to post production, from the bold storytelling to the extraordinary locations around the state. The films from the investment fund are always highly anticipated from the international festival circuit and national cinema audiences.” The 2013 program of AFF funded films looks incredibly strong, with new films from de Heer, Thornton (who directed Samson And Delilah) as well as two films from the team behind the documentaries Shut Up Little Man! and Life In Movement, Closer Productions, who will premiere
52 Tuesdays and I Want To Dance Better At Parties at the AFF. The biennial Adelaide Film Festival may be the youngest of all the national film festivals (beginning in 2003) but Duthie says that it already has a “remarkable reputation internationally with award winning films premiering over the years”. These include Snowtown, Look Both Ways, Shut Up Little Man! and Samson And Delilah. Adelaide director Scott Hicks is the recipient of the Don Dunstan Award (after Judy Davis in 2011, Jan Chapman, 2009 and Rolf de Heer, 2007). The Shine and Snow Falling On Cedars director will be celebrated amongst 100 feature length films, 55 Australian films, 28 world premieres and 47 Australian premieres. Duthie, who replaced Katrina Sedgwick as AFF Director, said the festival was a “collective vision” when asked how much she influenced this year’s program. “The team behind the festival is incredibly experienced – in fact they have worked on a variety of festivals and I never have. So I couldn’t have got to this launch point without the collaboration of Associate Director Adele Hann, Marketing Manager Lucy Markey and Sponsorship Manager Sarah Sutter. Plus we have a very clever team who can contribute ideas and elements across the program. Curating is a personal thing – of course it is – but it is also informed by the desire to be open to the new: new filmmakers, new ways of storytelling, stories that challenge you as well as ones that can get a big audience laugh.” The former head of arts and entertainment at ABC Television says
Program Highlights Opening Night Film: Tracks Don Dunstan Award: Scott Hicks Closing Night: A Story Of Children And Film AFF Investment Films: Charlie’s Country, The Darkside, 52 Tuesdays, All This Mayhem, Muriel Matters, Welcome To Iron Knob, Ringbalin, The Boy Castaways, Tender, I Want To Dance Better At Parties. Australian Highlights: Once My Mother, Sons And Mothers, The Broken Shore, The Vasectomist, One-Eyed Girl, The Dead Speak Back. International Highlights: Only Lovers Left Alive, Bastards, Alan Patridge: Alpha Papa, Omar, The Act Of Killing, Blue Ruin, Michael H, Human Scale, Stranger By The Lake, Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
it seems timely to consider the Adelaide Film Festival as an annual event. “I can’t wait to work on establishing October as another go-to season on the annual arts calendar and to be doing this every year – not every two years – would be brilliant.”
WHAT: Adelaide Film Festival WHEN: Thu Oct 10 to Sun Oct 20 MORE: adelaidefilmfestival.org
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nutty, boozy, James Brown-loving Uncle ‘Purple’ (Thep Phongam, one of the only professional players here), Ahlo is inspired to travel through a countryside torn apart by a ‘secret’ war to ‘The Rocket Festival’, a genuine annual Laos tradition that was reportedly as dangerous to film as it looks. Spurred on to make this pic by his eye-opening experiences directing the ABC doco Bomb Harvest, Mordaunt’s outing manages to be quietly angry, movingly sad, sweetly human and wonderfully celebratory, with Sitthiphon (or just ‘Ki’ to his friends) managing yet another extraordinary child performance that goes off like, well, you know.
AAAA Australian writer/director Kim Mordaunt’s Lao-language drama is one of the year’s true surprises, with a cast of mostly unknown and untested actors, a beautiful landscape never before seen in the cinema, and a striking and fascinating final act. Ten-yearold Ahlo (Sitthiphon Disamoe) has always felt cursed and been treated as such by those around him. When his village’s population is duped into moving into a shantytown and tragedy happens along the way, he feels even more to blame for it all. However, when he meets nine-year-old orphan Kia (Loungnam Kaosainam) and her
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Mercury Cinema Disastrously Successful! kicks off after you’ll first read these words, Thu Sep 5 at 7.30pm, with The Poseidon Adventure, and continues with The Towering Inferno on Mon Sep 9 at 7.30pm and Earthquake on Thu Sep 12 at 7.30pm. Details: mercurycinema.org.au
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The first of two Steve Jobs biopics due to hit the screen looks over the life of the late Apple exec in connection with his beloved company, from the birth of Apple in his parents' garage, through the turbulent years with Lisa, Jobs' ousting from the company, and his return with the ground-breaking introduction of the iMac. With a hot temper, authority issues and questionable social ethics, Jobs is not presented as a likeable character, while the flitting from big event to big event, conveniently overlooking details and picking up or dropping characters wherever necessary has the film coming across like Jobs' Greatest Hits rather than a detailed biopic. Where Jobs does excel is in the attention paid to visual detail, capturing the nostalgic clothes and decor of the late seventies and the impressive lookalike cast, including Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak and of course Ashton Kutcher as Jobs himself. Kutcher's investment in his part is obvious, and while it's hard to say if he accurately captures Jobs' day-to-day behaviour, there is no denying he has his mannerisms down pat. Justifying the pro-Apple camp just as much as the anti, Jobs looks great, but is lacking in quality of content. Just like a true Apple product.
Korean director Chan-wook Park (of the Vengeance trilogy and the vampiric Thirst) makes his American début with this sometimes ludicrous drama penned by actor-turnedscripter Wentworth Miller and starring players who communicated with Park on the set via an interpreter (and you’ll wonder what’s more to blame: Park’s inability to speak English – or Miller’s inability to write it). In a big, secluded, only-in the-movies house we find India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska), who’s grieving prettily over the death of her dad (Dermot Mulroney) as her weird, pinched mum Evelyn (a weird, pinched Nicole Kidman) stands around looking chilly. And during dad’s funeral India meets Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode), who muses to Evelyn that India’s ‘of age’, as the plot tries to find some way to distract us from the glaringly obvious ‘twist’, with lots of inane (and wannabe ‘unPC’) subplots, Wasikowska pouting endlessly and Jacki Weaver getting barely a look-in (and seeming totally bewildered – and she’s not the only one). Although that synopsis (and the trailer and title) suggest that this one’s another Park vampire epic, this isn’t the case (um, spoilers?), and instead we simply explore assorted craziness before, an hour in, the much-praised Wasikowska endures an unbelievably silly shower scene that would have made Janet Leigh blush.
This sequel to 2010’s comedic actioner is even livelier and more exciting (even if it is CGI-stuffed), with that prestigious ensemble surviving the ‘stunt casting’ and obviously having much fun. It’s been a while since the first Red and retired CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is spending his days with Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker), but after Frank’s old pal and crazy colleague Marvin ( John Malkovich) ‘dies’, Frank and Marvin find themselves on a hit-list and targeted by feared contract killer Han Cho Bai (Byung-hun Lee) and their old friend and MI6 operative Victoria (Helen Mirren in the role that upset her toffee-nosed fans). When they realise that they must both trust a KGB agent (Catherine Zeta-Jones as Katja, Frank’s ex) and free a long-incarcerated mad scientist (Anthony Hopkins as Bailey) in order to locate a bomb apparently hidden in the Kremlin, the gang find themselves in quite a pickle, as new director Dean Parisot allows his classy cast plenty of time and room to crack jokes and actually act. With Zeta-Jones and Hopkins both funny and all the expensive action scenes you could possibly need, this is certainly enjoyable, no matter how knowingly silly it gets (or how confused the final act threatens to become). But Red 3? Cut it out!
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Opening But Unrated Writer/director Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine (M) stars Cate Blanchett, Sally Hawkins, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, Louis CK and Andrew Dice Clay (!) NSW-native director Robert Luketic’s thriller Paranoia (M) offers Liam Hemsworth, Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Amber Heard and Richard Dreyfuss Producer/director Shane Salerno’s doco Salinger (TBC) has lots of interview subjects discussing JD, including Edward Norton, John Cusack, Martin Sheen and Judd Apatow And the actioner White House Down (M), from blockbustery producer/ director Roland Emmerich, has Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Richard Jenkins, James Woods and Jake Weber Robbie Williams: Take The Crowd Stadium Tour Event Cinemas Marion and Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas This chronicle of Robbie performing screens at Event Cinemas Marion on Thu Sep 12 and Sun Sep 15, and at the PN between those dates too. Details: eventcinemas.com.au and palacecinemas. com.au
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Adelaide’s food and wine renaissance is blowing my mind. Restaurants, cafes, small bars, pop-ups and food trucks are opening all across town and it’s actually becoming difficult to keep up. Gone are the days of chain coffee shops and average cafes dishing out plates overloaded with mediocre food – in its place is a cultural revolution. Slowly but surely Adelaide is cementing itself as a culinary destination, one foodie district at a time. The latest block to undergo a huge transformation is smack bang in the middle of the CBD. While Hindley Street may suffer from a bad reputation, the laneways running off of it are changing attitudes and attracting night owls with a tempting bunch of bars and eateries. For those of you yet to catch on, I’d like to introduce you to Peel Street. Opening its doors only two short weeks ago, Peel Street (conveniently on Peel Street) is a very funky bar and eatery. It demands attention with its striking industrial interior, but softens the blow with a casual dining atmosphere and rustic dishes. To be honest, I’ve heard that the opening weeks have been a little bumpy for this new venue – namely upstairs renovations causing some dining room havoc and service staff taking a little while to get used to their new surroundings. While these teething issues may have upset a few eager diners, it turns out that two weeks was the exact amount of time for the cool kids at Peel Street to get their stuff together and serve me some delicious food and drinks, with a slightly nervous but efficient service and a smile. I’d planned an early dinner with an after work crowd only to discover that the kitchen doesn’t start serving meals until 6.30pm. Luckily their drinks list is great, and we managed to fill the hour sampling from the bar while getting excited about the dishes listed ‘on the concrete’ and ‘on the blackboard’. The concrete menu features smaller bites, including roasted Jerusalem artichokes, pears, hazelnuts, blue cheese, fennelglazed orange, dried olive and chilli, and some tasty-looking southern fried chicken with lashings of lemon mayo. There for dinner, we decided on a selection of dishes from the blackboard menu. I’d heard delicious rumors about the spiced pear, goat’s curd and fried walnut toastie ($8.50), which went down a treat as entrée during the slight wait to get our mains. The Middle Eastern twist on contemporary dishes is a wonderful change from many other venues around town claiming ‘modern Australian’ cuisine. The Peel Street kitchen has some talented chefs working their magic with usually powerful and pungent Middle Eastern ingredients, including preserved lemons, sumac and chermoula. While Middle Eastern flavors are the backbone of Peel Street’s dishes they are not afraid to mix it up, with influences from different parts of the world like Nam Jim and Kasundi also being introduced. We started off with a wonderful dish featuring orechiette pasta with cuttlefish, peas, cavolo nero and speck ($29) followed closely by the chargrilled chicken with roasted carrots
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and a mild but flavorusome kasundi ($27), which was one of the best chicken dishes I have eaten in a long while. The turkey meatballs may seem like an odd choice, but this in itself is a reason to order it. Specialty dishes on new menus are a good way to test the expertise in a kitchen, and this dish accompanied by preserved lemon, peas, silverbeet and risoni ($27) was certainly worth the risk, turning out to be the surprising highlight of the meal. All of the dishes at Peel Street are robust enough to fill you up and are perfectly plated to share with a group. A range of display cakes including homemade custard tarts, cakes and ‘potted’ muffins seem to make up the dessert menu, but I’m hoping that this is only a short term plan as I’m certain this kitchen could put their Middle Eastern spin on some delicious treats.
WHAT: Peel Street WHERE: 9 Peel St, Adelaide WHEN: Mon – Fri from 7.30am – 5pm for lunch and Fri & Sat from 6.30pm for dinner INFO: peelst.com.au
The Hungry Hippo Is Open Have you ever woken up on a Friday and thought, ‘It’s the end of the week, I want to go on an all-night coffee bender and play board games with my mates?’ The team behind The Hungry Hippo did, and that thought (seeing as they are more respectable humans than anyone in the publishing industry) inspired them to open a late-night board game café of the same name, which officially opened last week. Alongside snacks, desserts and drinks, The
Hungry Hippo has hundreds of board games on deck to cater for all nerdy requirements, whether that be a giant Jenga match, a dusty Monopoly set or a six-hour battle for the universe in Twilight Imperium. At the moment they’re open Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, but are looking to extend their hours. For more info, head to thehungryhippo.com. WHAT: The Hungry Hippo WHERE: 414 Milne Rd, Redwood Pk WHEN: Thu 7pm – 11pm, Fri & Sat 7pm – late INFO: thehungryhippo.com
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Stars// Art// with Sudhir
Life is asking you to let go, to begin the process of regeneration. Being prone to swinging between fasting and feasting, it is important that you go about any cleaning out that you have to do gently. This is not the moment for wild extremes. Regeneration is a natural process.
Gemini 21.05/21.06
Finding yourself in a key position between two camps at loggerheads, you will have to dig down deep to find a way to turn volatility into creativity. There are no pat, or clever answers. Wholeness is the clue you’re looking for. Pragmatism and imagination are complementary.
Cancer 22.06/22.07
The Moon begins her week in Cancer. This always cheers you up and energises you. You are indeed a creature of the moon. This month she comes in like a full king tide, bringing a feeling of expansion with her. Watch old limits be swept out to sea – and for new horizons to open.
Leo 23.07/22.08
The sun is now in Virgo. You are off the cosmic hotplate. Life is crazy enough, without having to carry the weight of taking the lead role as well. Though you are supposedly standing back and laying low, Mars is still in Leo, so your adrenal levels will be high, even as you rest.
Virgo 23.08/22.09
Life is intense. You are a well-strung bow getting ready to shoot a marvellous creative arrow into the world at large. Too much tension and you start to crack. Too little tension and there’s no power in your shot. This is a strong time for balancing forces. To get it right, stay playful.
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Taurus 21.04/20.05
Venus is in Libra – but she’s not making life easy for you. She’s not a nice, airbrushed goddess, sent to sooth and pamper. She is full-blooded, knows what needs to happen and will do what’s required to get you where you need to go. Love has you in the perfect pickle. Be brave.
Scorpio 24.10/21.11
There are still wild currents flowing through all the water signs. Life has uncorked the bottle and is letting the spirit, passion, power and feeling flow. You are out of your hiding hole. Though that implies transformation, it will bring the usual collection of misunderstandings. Be real.
Arte Magra Arte Magra: From The Opaque features 11 of South Australia’s leading contemporary artists and three collaborative pairs in a showcase inspired by the Italian Arte Povera movement in the ‘60s. The Arte Povera movement was defined by a period of upheaval in cities through Italy from 1967 – 1972, in which artists took a radical stance and began to attack established institutions through their creations. Curated by Mary Knights and Domenico de Clario, Arte Magra aims to replicate this era, but with ‘established institutions’ being the confines of a fourwalled gallery rather than government bodies.
Sagittarius 22.11/21.12
This is not the comfort zone - and yet you do recognise it as real, important and key to your development as a whole human being. There is a vulnerability to the Centaur. He/she in myth, is part mortal, part immortal. It is time to tune into the sensitive bit. Grow in new ways.
From Sep 5 until Oct 5, an abundance of abstract, conceptual works from artist like Akira Akira, Jude Walton, Annika Evans, Matthew Bradley, David Cross and Bridget Currie will ‘break through’ what has become the hegemonic format of being shown in a gallery and be put on display all across the city. From shops to alleyways to footpaths, head to aeaf. org.au and download the map to see the locations of all the works.
WHAT: Arte Magra: From The Opaque WHERE: AEAF, Lion Arts Centre, North Tce, Adelaide WHEN: Thu Sep 5 – Sat Oct 5 OPENING: Thu Sep 5 from 6pm – 9pm
Capricorn 22.12/19.01
Though there’s some powerfully difficult challenges around, you are also being gifted with the solutions. Together this is all designed to blow your mind and deepen your experience of life on earth – and that’s what we are here for. Quickly pull yourself out of any self-created holes.
Jason Sims, Fuse (detail), 2013 by Pippy Mount
Show your colours. Your friends are open. Your pride will inspire them. That doesn’t mean that all the conditions surrounding you are smelling of roses. It means that when times are tough, it is your friends, your community, your tribe, that will reinforce your strength. Buddy up.
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Libra 23.09/23.10
Jason Sims & Nana Ohsenorge
Aquarius 20.01/18.02
To stay healthy and on track, life is suggesting that you balance your pragmatic concerns with your need for sensitivity. To go like a bull at a gate is not going to deliver the appropriate effect. It will take courage to face both feelings and practical matters. That you have, in spades.
Pisces 19.02/20.03
With the sun in Virgo, your role in life is brought into sharp definition. There being a booster jet behind all the water signs at the moment, you are flowing like a swollen river. Listen to the voices that are saying to stay grounded. Keep your feet planted in delicious ordinariness.
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Since 2009 Jason Sims has been producing an evolving series of abstract light boxes to create the illusion of a seemingly infinite void. His latest body of work, The Space Between, further explores this idea, combining articulate sculptures with fluoro neon lighting. In the back gallery, Sydney artist Nana Ohnesorge will be showing Rooted. Drawing inspiration from mythology, Ohnesorge’s paintings and sculptures thread together dream-like narratives with depictions of historical Australian figures in a response to Australia’s fraught relationship with its Indigenous history.
WHAT: Jason Sims: The Space Between / Nana Ohnesorge: Rooted WHERE: Hugo Michell, 260 Portrush Rd, Beulah Pk WHEN: Thu Sep 5 - Sat Oct 5 OPENING: Thu Sep 5 from 6pm – 8pm
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Rundle St Welcomes Tigerlily It seems no coincidence that as we celebrate the return of spring, we also celebrate the opening of Adelaide’s own Tigerlily store. Rundle St East has a new member of its family, the much-celebrated Australian brand Tigerlily, which has been a staple to Australia’s sun-soaked fashion since Jodhi Meares created it in 2000. With the new store comes a whole new season of Tigerlily’s extensive range – think new swimswear, kaftans, accessories, dresses, skirts, shorts and all things associated with spring, summer, the beach and being outside. Judging by the way social media exploded after the temperature crept above 20 degrees recently, it looks like Tigerlily will be in for a very excitable – and fashionable – entrance to Adelaide. Shop A 257 Rundle St Adelaide, tigerlilyswimwear.com.au.
WINNER! Burnside Village A Night Of Fashion Competition When tickets for A Night Of Fashion went on sale, gold sponsors Burnside Village offered those purchasing tickets to win a $1000 wardrobe from Burnside Village to wear on the night. With stores including parade headliners Carla Zampatti and Willow at their disposal, it gives an unfair advantage to the lucky recipient to vie amongst the best dressed on the night. Well, we caught up with the lucky winner, Claudia, and found out she plans to spend her prize on a classic dress for the night, and has looked seriously hard at some pieces in the new Willow collection. Claudia did confess that she is no stranger to Burnside Village, which is her local, yet also likes to peruse some of Adelaide’s specialty boutiques including Sooki and Nicki Belle. Claudia is heading to A Night Of Fashion for a girls’ night out, with a brand-spankin’ new wardrobe to top it off. burnsidevillage.com.au.
WIN! Cloud Nine Set At A Night Of Fashion Heading along to A Night Of Fashion on Sat Sep 7? Well, not only will you have the opportunity to see the beautiful designs and models styled to perfection for the spring/ summer season, but you can win the chance to take the runway look home with you. Cloud Nine, as gold sponsors of the event, are giving attendees the opportunity to win a $995 prize pack, which includes the two key tools used for the Cloud Nine styling team to achieve the sleek, feminine runway look – the Cloud Nine Standard Iron and Original Wand. Both products are finished in a unique gold trim and are a part of a limited edition collection. These products come in a handcrafted wooden box, complete with vanity mirror and individuallynumbered plaque. To win, all you have to do is fill out the entry form available on arrival at A Night Of Fashion and deposit it in the Cloud Nine entry barrel. au.cloudnine.com
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This directorial début from screenwriter Ted Koland looks a bit cheap and feels vaguely uncertain, and yet there’s some pleasing heart here, as well as a star-making (hopefully) performance by Addison Timlin (who looks like a sweetly suburban version of Evan Rachel Wood or even Chloë Grace Moretz). Scott ( Justin Long) and Kristin ( Jess Weixler) are enjoying their wedding at a Vegas hotel and enduring the kindhearted, drunken shenanigans of Scott’s old pal and best man ‘Lumpy’ (Tyler Labine, who specialises in this sort of nice but boorish role). When Lumpy dies suddenly the melancholy pair find themselves compelled to journey to snowy Minnesota to track down ‘Ramsey’ (Timlin), a mysterious figure who, it seems, meant something to the guy, as sad secrets are brought to light. Some striking casting worth mentioning: Shelley Long, of all people, as Scott’s fussy, eccentric mum Gail; Aussie Frances O’Connor, now old enough (just) to play Ramsey’s hopeless mum Jaime; and the creepy-looking Evan Jones as Ramsey’s horrible stepdad Winston, who you’re invited to loathe – but also understand.
This first effort from writer/director/ producer Justin Zackham is actually a remake of a hardly-known French comedic drama (Mon Frère Se Marie), and features a fine cast forced into all sorts of silly, randy nonsense. The impending wedding of adopted Colombian lad Alejandro (Ben Barnes) leads to the gathering of his extended family, including loudmouth dad Don (Robert De Niro), Don’s first wife (Diane Keaton) and (of course) current second (Susan Sarandon), Alejandro’s uptight doctor brother (Topher Grace) and recently-jilted sister (Katherine Heigl), as well as the parents of bride-to-be Missy (Amanda Seyfried) and, to everyone’s surprise (or maybe not), some of Alejandro’s ‘real’ family, including Madonna (Patricia Rae), who likes to skinny-dip at the worst possible moments. For every plus here (Keaton’s subtle performance, appealing playing by Seyfried and Barnes), there are plenty of grating problems: De Niro’s irritating ham; Robin Williams’ turn as the priest; and a desperate need to be childishly crude and ‘naughty’, with lots of ‘family values’ moralising sitting uncomfortably with elaborate jokes about cunnilingus.
Danish writer/director/co-producer Thomas Vinterberg’s latest features Mads Mikkelsen in one of his greatest and most fearless performances, and light years away from his oddly awkward turn as the titular character in TV’s Hannibal. With echoes of Vinterberg’s Festen (The Celebration), this has Mads as Lucas, a small town kindergarten teacher getting over a terrible period where he’s been fighting with a vengeful ex for custody of his son Marcus (Lasse Fogelstrøm), and enjoying the early stages of a new relationship with Nadja (funny and sweet Alexandra Rapaport). When little Klara (Annika Wedderkopp) tells Lucas that she loves him, offers an uncomfortably lingering kiss (a very delicately-handled scene) and then feels spurned by him, she concocts a story that apparently involves him exposing himself to her and the other kids, which leads to visits from child psychologists (and some remarkably leading questions), word getting out and other parents in the community aching for revenge, with even Klara’s Dad Theo (Thomas Bo Larsen) turning on his pal in scenes that truly sting. And whose side are you on anyway?
Co-writer/director/producer Ariel Vroman’s study of contract killer Richard Kuklinski benefits greatly from Michael Shannon’s performance as the notorious hitman who murdered 100-plus people over 20 years without his wife and daughters knowing. Richard is introduced in New Jersey in 1964 as he romances Deborah (Winona Ryder), and we pick up at various points throughout the years, especially when his job pirating porno movies for Mob kingpin Roy Demeo (Ray Liotta) leads to his first gun-toting work and, later, when he proves unemployable and takes up with ‘Mr Freezy’ (Chris Evans), who uses an ice cream truck as a cover for gigs as a gunman, poisoner and more (and, it’s heavily implied, sells the corpses for reasons best not thought about too closely). While the crime clichés are there, Vroman’s cast more than distracts you, with Stephen Dorff nicely pathetic as Kuklinski’s incarcerated brother, Robert Davi as the criminal superior and James Franco cameoing as a small-time sleazebag. And then there’s Shannon, who’s increasingly typecast as baddies and heavies – but he does play them awfully well.
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A Tap On The Window Linwood Barclay / Orion
The fearsomely workaholic Barclay’s latest doorstop of a novel is very readable, with occasionally dodgy prose and strange passages more than compensated for by a sense of sadness, making this less some rollicking murder mystery than a melancholy study of human frailty. Cal Weaver, a grieving private investigator in Griffon, New York State, unwisely decides to give a lift to a frightened teen (the mysterious Claire) one rainy night and is later blamed for her disappearance, with the town’s seemingly corrupt police force on his case, along with the showboating mayor and a small army of bored kids who don’t take kindly to their continued persecution by bullying adults. And if you think that all this can’t end well then, well, no shit, Sherlock MDB
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Korea’s Yegam Theatre Company enjoyed much success when they brought Jump to OzAsia Festival in 2010, with audiences and critics loving the show that featured a cast of gymnasts, acrobats, Tae Kwon Do and Tak Kyun masters who all had perfect comic timing.
The hilarious, often slapstick production has enjoyed acclaim all over the world and is now returning to OzAsia Festival as the revamped Extreme Jump!. “We’re very excited to be coming back,” the show’s producer, Cara Han, says, “and while it’s the same characters in the show, we have made a few changes. For example, we’ve added some new choreography to the martial arts section. And there are some different performers. “Because we don’t use any words, we have been able to tour it around the world for the last eight years,” she adds. “It’s been great to see the show develop over the years.” Jump began life in Seoul in 2003 before taking on Edinburgh Fringe Festival the following year and then enjoying sell out runs on London’s West End as well as on New York’s Broadway. “It was originally called Crazy Family,” Han laughs, “but we soon changed the name to Jump. And doing so well at Edinburgh Fringe was a big help because from there we were able to develop a brand. The audiences loved it and we
Cara Han tan by Robert Duns
also got such great reviews in Edinburgh that it created a lot of interest [in the show] and we were soon being asked to tour Jump to lots of different places.” Han, who constantly travels with the company, says they enjoyed their debut Australian tour in 2010. “OzAsia Festival was fantastic,” she enthuses. “The Australian people were very receptive and gave us a great response. To be honest, we were not quite sure how we would go, but we got lots of great reviews and everyone seemed to love the show. It was quite amazing actually and made us very happy. “The show is suitable for people of any age. It’s a very easy to understand story and people really love the slapstick comedy combined with the martial arts. It’s great to see whole families coming along and everyone enjoying it.” The show’s continued success has meant
that Yegam Theatre Company has had little time to develop any new work, although Han suggests a new creation will soon be up and running. “We still have lots of touring with the current show coming up but we have another show called Breakout. "It’s a dance comedy show with martial arts and is a story about prisoners, hence the title,” Han concludes. “We will be opening it later in the year and I will also be talking to the people at OzAsia about maybe bringing Breakout down to the festival at some stage.” WHAT: OzAsia Festival WHO: Extreme Jump! WHERE: Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Sat Sep 28 and Sun Sep 29
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Short Art Courses At ACSA Adelaide Central School of Art is an independent, not-for-profit, accredited HEP school that offers intensive training for students looking to develop careers as practicing artists. The school is currently offering a diverse short course program with courses ranging from the popular introductory drawing and painting classes to techniques of the old masters. All classes in the short course program will be held in ACSA’s new campus in the Glenside Cultural Precinct. At the moment if you enroll in a short art course by Sat Sep 21 you’ll receive a 10 percent discount, so there’s no better time to hone your brush-wielding skills than now. For more information, contact the school on 8299 7300 or info@acsa.sa.edu.au.
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By Josh Basford
The Final Countdown So Adelaide, we’ve entered the final, painful trimester as collectively we prepare to give birth to our new Prime Minister – and against all odds it appears it will be a natural one. The biggest events on the political calendar this week were undoubtedly the second and third leaders’ debates. Although the second was lauded by sections of the media as “finally a real barney” that delivered “unscripted debate,” there was less real debate and more desperate grabs for populist appeal with both leaders light on policy and heavy on slogans. Essentially they were of the same intellectual quality as Lady Gaga’s new single Applause, and just to clarify, that isn’t a compliment. The only real news this week is the Coalition launching the costing for its paid parental leave scheme, with most economists agreeing that it is poorly designed and will cost significantly more than projected. Sensing that large parts of the electorate are unsure about the feasibility of the policy, Labor immediately went on the attack, triumphantly declaring it had found a $10 billion hole in the costing. However, in an all too familiar cycle, Labor’s attack quickly lost its sheen when the Treasury came out and said that Mr. Rudd essentially misquoted the facts and figures. Whether or not there are questions for the Liberal party to answer on their costings, Labor once again botched the message. Abbott also officially launched his education policy (which is Labor’s education policy), and did so at a school that labels homosexuality as an “abomination”. Nice touch. Of course this was all a terrible misunderstanding, not at all designed to appeal to sections of the community that are fearful of gay marriage, Asians, soy milk, their reflection and common sense. Of coooourse it wasn’t. Not to be outdone, Rudd also surprised his own party by alluding to the fact that there is a foreign invasion in the form of investment in this country, and that we needed to be more “conservative” in giving our land to foreign powers. Whether or not this makes sense – and there are good arguments to suggest it does – what is telling here is that Kevin didn’t consult with his party. He is reminding the electorate of ol’ evil Kev at a time where the Labor party desperately needs to find a new way out of their own political grave. With just a few days until the election, this is the Coalition’s game to lose, and it looks like a new conservative dawn is upon the Australian horizon. Election day is on Sat Sep 7. To find your local polling place, head to aec.gov.au.
WIN! Big Opening Night Out For OzAsia What is better than catching some of the best that this year’s OzAsia Festival has to offer? Catching it for free? Dang right. OzAsia is having a social media treasure hunt or sorts to give punters the chance to win a big opening night for the festival. You will win a double pass to see Malaysian indie-pop singer-songwriters Guba and Yuna (this week’s Rip It Up cover star, no less) when they perform on Fri Sep 13. The winner will also be invited to the Made In China, Australia exhibition opening, along with an Asian-inspired platter and two glasses of O’Leary Walker vino to wash down. Winning is an easy two-step process. 1. Choose Your Weapon: Follow @ OzAsiaFestival on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook. 2. #Selfie: Snap a photo of yourself with the Korean Dalma lantern which is in the Santos window display at 60 Flinders St, tag @OzAsiaFestival and hashtag #ozasia. Social media competitions are fast replacing the pesky ’explain 25 words or less’ method. And the best part, multiple entries per person during the promotional period will be accepted – so clear some of that phone data to better your chances. Competition closes at 5pm Mon Sep 9. For full details head to ozasiafestival.com.au.
Meet The Makers Of JamFactory Campaign Help a mate and stock up on that much-needed good karma. The JamFactory, a non-for-profit arts institution that allows artists who work in ceramics, glass, furniture or metal to complete a competitive two year associate program while undertaking commissions. In December, the current nine associates want to head to Melbourne to take part in the Big Design Market to further help kick start their careers interstate. It seems these days all good opportunities come at a price, so the artists have turned to Pozible to ask the public to help contribute to their funds – a stand at the exhibition alone costs $3,400. By helping them reach their $5,000 target (to help with accommodation, travel and set up fees) by contributing whatever you can, you could also help buy yourself a very special piece of limited edition art made from the specialist areas within the JamFactory. Head to pozible.com and search for the ‘Meet The Makers Of JamFactory’ campaign.
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CD Of The Week
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Byzantine
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Berzerk
The Weight Of Your Love`
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Like a renaissance man drawing from the classical era for inspiration, the real Slim Shady returns armed with two classic samples on new single Berzerk. Billy Squier’s The Stroke and Beastie Boys’ Fight For Your Right get brilliantly mashed up by Dr Dre and Rick Rubin to provide the perfect backdrop for Eminem’s unexpectedly awesome return. Vocally Mathers is sharper than a Stan-ley knife, declaring his intent to ‘Take it back to straight hip hop/and start it from scratch’ by way of disses to Khloe Kardashian and K-Fed. Berzerk is an ‘80s throwback that launches Eminem back to the future.
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Nine Inch Nails Everything (Polydor/Universal)
Trent Reznor does pop. It’s almost like Bob Dylan going electric, or Metallica making an album with Lou Reed, or Silverchair doing whatever they did after Neon Ballroom. It just doesn’t sound right. Except in this case it works. There’s still a heavy, industrial vibe to Everything, but there’s also a melody, and a hook, and the closest thing to rainbows and unicorns Nine Inch Nails have ever produced. Reznor sings: ‘I have become something else.’ You sure have, Trent.
Bitch Prefect Better Next Time
Violent Soho Hungry Ghost (I Oh You)
AAAA ‘Why does everything you say sound hollow?’ – it’s a question we’ve all asked of Violent Soho at some point. But when posed outwardly on In The Aisle, the lead single from Violent Soho’s third album Hungry Ghost, a long-looming change in the band seems complete; all that hollowness has finally been filled.
The signs had been there for a while – recent singles Neighbour Neighbour and Tinderbox suggested that after an overly derivative beginning Violent Soho were finally finding their own voice. Getting signed to I Oh You certainly didn’t hurt. Whatever fairy dust the Melbourne imprint sprinkled on their Brisbane brothers has worked on Hungry Ghost. Or maybe it’s simply a case of the rest of the music world catching up. Violent Soho have always worn their ‘90s influences on their sleeves and only now does that seem to have become on trend. Hungry Ghost effuses those influences more than ever, but what was once a palette obsessed with grunge has developed to explore different terrain. Lowbrow alludes to the best bits of Foo Fighters and Dinosaur Jr, OK Cathedral is a shoegaze ballad dressed as a rock song, while Gold Coast is more akin to NOFX than Nirvana. Every time Violent Soho broaden their horizons, it’s a triumphant step forward. There’s no looking back now. Jimmy Byzantine
What is this neutered shit? What happened to you guys? How did you go from an absolutely brilliant debut to this tuneless drivel? Remember back in 2005 when you were just a band that really, really liked Joy Division? Don’t you recall your decision to make moody, atmospheric guitar driven rock? This...I don’t even know what this is. I even forgave you for In This Light And On This Evening. I appreciated the fact that you guys were trying something different. In fact, I actually enjoyed some of those gothic electro numbers (not that I admitted it to anyone). But this album is painfully dull. By track three I was paying more attention to MasterChef on my television than I was listening to your album, and I despise cooking shows. With a passion. What’s shocking is the fact that you clearly set out to make an album full of stadium-ready anthems, the types of songs that have legions of fans belting out choruses in unison. But nearly every song plods along, failing to entice or excite. Congratulations, you’ve managed to make 40 minutes feel like an eternity. Now I know why your guitarist called it quits. Ryan Lynch
(Bedroom Suck)
Sometimes you wonder if the good really is worth all the bad; if the light at the end of the tunnel is worth sticking around for. It’s this sense of baseless optimism Bitch Prefect explore on Better Next Time, a down-and-out tale of family ties, alcoholism and losing at the track. The downtrodden jangle carefully treads that fine line between despondency and hope, meandering from discordant verses to philosophical choruses. An unpromising beginning here turns out to be worth the wait after all.
Tkay Maidza Brontosaurus (feat. Bad Cop) (Independent)
It’s a long journey from the Zimbabwean heartland to Adelaide’s northern suburbs, and one that no doubt makes for a great story. But it’s not one that Tkay’s prepared to share on new cut Brontosaurus. Instead she opts for short bursts of cutting rhymes in the vein of MIA or Azealia Banks between big beat choruses. There’s a huge talent brimming under the surface that is unfortunately stifled by Bad Cop’s rather heavy-handed production. You can’t help but feel the best is yet to come from this home-grown teenaged prodigy.
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Governor Hindmarsh, Wed Aug 28 (Photos by Andreas Heuer) (Review by Rob Lyon)
AAAA It’s been a long wait for the return of Irish rockers Ash to Adelaide, but the gig was everything it should have been and a whole lot more. Locals made plenty of noise to get Ash to Adelaide, after being denied on the initial tour announcement, and were rewarded for their persistence by eventually being included. Local supports The Santa Marias and Surviving Sharks made the most of their opportunity to play in front of a bigger crowd, but it was Ash that fans had a hankering for. The majority of the show had a strong leaning on the 1996 album 1977, which is undoubtedly one of the best indie albums of the ‘90s. So from start to end it was 1977 in earnest, kicking off with Lose Control followed by Goldf inger. Some punters down the front had Stormtrooper masks. which caught the attention of frontman Tim Wheeler, who thought that was really cool and dedicated Girl From Mars to them (the
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Roger Vs. The Man
The Community Chest
Eddie Spaghetti
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Top Of The Hour
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Black Pearl
Arggggghhh sailors, ye Black Pearl is ‘ere. Set sail Australians, Roger Vs. The Man are all aboard. Despite the somewhat misleading title, I am dreadfully happy to inform there is nothing pirate about this release, so don’t stress your walnuts little earthlings. It’s a record that just comes out of nowhere. Upon getting lost in the initial acoustic dwellings of the intro to this release, the instrumental explosion midway through is enough to punch you in the sternum and throw you across the room. The sounds erupt into a controlled chaos with a bit of jazz, rock, classical and generally festive elements combining to form a really unique and catchy recipe of tunes. If it were a quiche, I would eat it happily. Roger Lock is the guru behind these clever dabblings and he is sticking it to the man, 16 men in fact, all contributing copious talent to form this collection of groove tunes. From the land of the bridge, these Sydneyians are bringing the goods, being quite the frequenters on the festival circuit and channelling a chilled lovechild of The Cat Empire-dating-Blue King Brown kind of vibe. Ye will walk thy plank if ye miss out on this release. Sharni Honor
Star Wars reference means a bit more for Darkside Lightside). Wheeler reflected on it being a long time since they’ve been in Adelaide, which ironically followed after I’d Give You Anything. There was also talk of the disasterous show in Adelaide supporting Garbage back in 1996 with broken guitars and other equipment failures. Kung Fu was awesome and was dedicated to legend Jackie Chan, but the big applause was reserved for Oh Yeah. It isn’t until you hear such a great album played in its entirety that you can appreciate all its glory and splendour. Angel Interceptor was another great moment and album closer Darkside Lightside, which spans 16 minutes on the album, was cut short to a reasonable five minutes to keep the fans happy, according to Wheeler, who wished that there were more Stormtroopers. A few went nuts for Jack Names The Planets and a special bonus for Adelaide was the Helen Love cover Punk Boy, which was “played a lot in the set back in the day”, wrapping it up with A Life Less Ordinary. The encore was simply brilliant as the band tore it up playing hits Orpheus, Shining Light and Burn Baby Burn. Great show, great band and more should have been there to see it.
AAa I’m not sure about here in Australia, but back in the States the 1995 movie Empire Records was a cultural phenomenon. The coming-of-age tale about a bunch of interchangeable teenage stereotypes working at an independent record store was like a rite of passage for every suburban white kid in America. I was 10 the first time I saw it, and I can remember viewing the film as a kind of pubescent Holy Grail, a blueprint that outlined the infinitely cool life experiences that would come from finally graduating from middle school. Looking back on the movie now as an adult, I can see why it was not well received by critics. The film is one terrible cliché after another, populated by bland, two-dimensional characters. Of course music plays a significant role in Empire Records, although most of it is of the disposable ‘90s variety where everything kind of sounded the same. Any song on Top Of The Hour by Perth band The Community Chest would fit right in on the cheesy Empire Records soundtrack which, depending on how high you regard nostalgia, might be a good thing. If you are one of those nostalgic types, chances are you think gluing coins to the ground is art as well. Rex Manning
The Value Of Nothing
AAAA For the uninitiated Eddie Spaghetti was a part of the infamous American rock group The Supersuckers, who were self-proclaimed as the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world. That sort of vibe carries over into his new long player The Value Of Nothing, where he enlists the help of one real Texan bad ass by way of Jesse Dayton (collaborator with the likes of Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Rob Zombie) to make this record a more fair dinkum, authentic country record. If Anyone’s Got The Balls is a ripper, reflecting on how lame mainstream rock has become with plenty of wise-assery on tracks such as Fuckin’ With My Head. People Are Shit packs plenty of punch and Eddie Spaghetti calls a spade a spade here. When I Go, I’m Gone sees a rather subdued Eddie Spaghetti in contrast to some of the other tunes on show, especially compared to the ragged Waste Of Time. For me the power chords in Empty get the chocolates for best on show. Adelaide really did miss out big time when he toured the east coast not that long ago and maybe next time a road trip is in order. Rob Lyon
Kaurna Cronin Pistol Eyes EP (Independent)
AAAA Local little lion man Kaurna Cronin is back and larger than life itself. He brings Pistol Eyes to your ears, a glorious little EP full of wonder as he continues to prove an exceptional songwriter. Take a listen to explore some beautiful soundscapes that encapsulate the essence of nu-folk, traditional folk and beyond. Cronin leads a nomadic lifestyle, wandering wherever the music blows him, charming everyone in his path with his likeable sounds and down-to-earth persona. As an artist he continues to grow, moving towards a bigger, more signature sound. The female component of his band, Adelaide’s Delia Obst, provides the perfect balance of contrast as their voices gel like peanut butter and jelly. Sharni Honor
The Peep Tempel Modern Professional (Wing Sing Records)
AAAa Much like the business world itself, there’s a cruel, calm chaos to The Peep Tempel’s Modern Professional. From the start it pulsates with an incessant urgency, building on the rockabillymeets-garage framework of their 2012 eponymous debut album. The title track blisters like an early Rakes track with the edges left unsmoothed, while The Incarceration Of Lester Moore takes Lemmy’s White Limo for an off-road joyride through the Wild West. Things finally settle down on Dark Beach, but by then you’re fast approaching deadline and a five o’clock shadow. Modern Professional is a record that needs to be filed and on your boss’s desk before the end of the day. Jimmy Byzantine
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It’s taken 10 years and more than 1000 shows but finally the piano pop-rock outfit, Bill Parton Trio, are making their long awaited break away from the creatively challenging cover scene to release their selftitled debut EP.
Rip It Up chats with the brutally honest leading man William Parton about the release and the band’s forthcoming national tour. “It took quite a long time before we were firmly set on the direction that we wanted to take as a band,” Parton reveals. “I started seriously writing the songs back in 2007 and so the songwriting, work-shopping, test driving and pre-production stages have taken a while. It took us a heap of time to develop and get the BPT sound right. Basically, in the interests of being true to ourselves, we wanted a product that we didn’t hate, weren’t embarrassed by, could believe in and represented our artistic premise.”
As for how the current band came to be, it all began at Parton’s high school where he was a banjo player in a seven-piece Dixieland band. This was an obvious case of, tell me more! “‘I first met Andrew Partington [drums] through the music scholarship program at our high school where we both played in a Dixieland band. After this band dissolved we went on to form a three-piece instrumental piano trio. At the time, the repertoire mainly revolved around a mix of traditional and mainstream jazz as well as a little bit of funk and Latin. The band hardly performed and we mostly just jammed. But overtime this eventually evolved to become the Bill Parton Trio as we know it today.’ The launch is Parton’s first time playing at Jive and it’s also his first national tour. Joining him on the road is Sydney’s Nathan Leigh Jones and Melbourne’s Artist Proof. “Funnily enough I came across Nathan Leigh Jones’ single Day After Day a few years ago when it appeared in my Facebook feed,” Parton says."I absolutely dug this track and was instantly a fan.
When it came time to tour, I hit him up to see if he wanted to come on the road with us and it all unfolded from there. As for Artist Proof, Nathan Leigh Jones and Bill Parton Trio, the constant element is the piano and how prominent it is in all of our respective sounds. As a result it’s made for a really cohesive ticket.” Like it or not, piano pop-rock has a phenomenal worldwide market, so it’s no surprise Parton cites Coldplay, The Beatles, Keane, The Fray and Thirteen Senses as the band’s biggest influences. Like so many Adelaide bands, Parton has the UK in his sights for 2014, but as for his ultimate pipedream, he’s “pretty sure that nothing could top being mentored jointly by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Black Market Turns Three Known for their grandiose themed shows, punk parties and massive crowds, Mike Porcano from Halo Music Group says, "I have a feeling that this Friday night will more than likely take the cake and bring in our biggest numbers to date." He is of course referring to one of the state’s biggest alternative club nights Black Market in the lead up to its third birthday. Boasting an all star line-up for the night including The Getaway Plan and locals Move To Strike, Archives, Walk The Plank and Pete Broadway, get yourself down to the Colonel Light on Fri Sep 6 from 9pm for your dose of sweat, tears and punk party attitudes.
WHO: Bill Parton Trio WHAT: Bill Parton Trio EP Launch WHERE: Jive WHEN: Fri Sep 13
Melvin Chang launches EP, Seasons
Kaurna Cronin Single Launch Kaurna Cronin is a troubadour at heart, and along with his band, they have consistently produced some beautifully intimate songs over the past 12 months. Off the back of their European Pistol Eyes
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tour which saw the band perform in Berlin, Ireland, Copenhagen and Holland, they will be returning home to release their latest single Fearless. Cronin suggests, "the track is for all the non-psychics out there. It reflects on a time of confusion, passion and change." With their combination of traditional folk and contemporary
sounds, coupled with a natural ability to capture and inspire, Sam Brittain and Jesse Davidson are joining this mighty evening of nu-folk. With promise of edgy harmonica, country jams and ethereal vocal harmonies to boot, get yourself down to the Wheatsheaf on Fri Aug 6 from 7.30pm. Tickets through Oztix.
Melvin Chang writes stories of travel, nature, love and experiences in the simplest of melodies. He is set to release his debut EP Seasons on Mon Sep 9 in the stunning surrounds of Mondiali Cafe in Unley. Chang is a silent achiever who has been a staple on Adelaide’s buskers’ circuit, with regular sets at Fork On The Road, many of the state’s best markets and on the city streets. Joining Chang for the launch are Sofie and young cabaret star, Alice Jervis but with just one guitar and a harmonica, his mellow acoustic tunes will speak the sounds of the seasons. Tickets through Eventbrite.
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