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Not at Splendour In The Grass? Oh, how I feel your pain. Not to worry, as Adelaide have taken matters into their own hands in the form of Spin Off, our very own festival dedicated to bringing Splendour acts to our fair city. To get you pumped for Spin Off and to curb that FOMO feeling from Splendour, we caught up with the headlining acts of Spin Off, Of Monsters And Men and Passion Pit. Given that both were only here recently, with Monsters for this year’s Laneway and PP for last year’s Parklife, they both have assured us that they will come bearing new and unseen gifts to Australian audiences, in the form of brand spanking new stage shows, set lists and – quite possibly – songs. While we may not get the same amount of side shows as our more privileged brother cities, getting behind something like Spin Off is important for Adelaide music and a great concept both bands can’t wait to be a part of. Ian Hultquist of Passion Pit hopes that by the end of this tour, Australia’s fanbase for Passion Pit is equal to that of the US, as the band’s always found a strong rapport with Aussies. I think come next Friday, that proportion will teeter over the edge. Advantage, Adelaide. Lachlan Aird
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Mayer Hawthorne – Where Does This Door Go (Universal)
The Mixtape// Rip It Up’s random weekly compilation. 1. Snakadaktal – Hung On Tight (Liberation) 2. Archers – Old Parades (The A&R Department) 3. Of Monsters and Men – King And Lionheart (Universal) 4. Passion Pit – Cry Like A Ghost (Columbia) 5. FIDLAR – No Waves (Mom + Pop) 6. Console Warriors – Jitterblood (Independent) 7. Chet Faker – I’m Into You (Remote Control) 9. The Jungle Giants – She’s a Riot (Amplifire Music) 10. Dune Rats – Pogo (Independent)
“Touring for months on end is not an easy thing to do and you definitely need to be in a good mental state to be able to handle it.”
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While we’re on the topic of Spin Off, next week we’ll be sending in our very capable crew of film dudes to interview some of the best and brightest acts at this year’s mini-festival. Stay tuned for that episode of Rip It Up TV in the coming weeks, and if you see us mincing about Thebarton Theatre on the day, show us your pearly whites! Keep your eyes on ripitup.com. au for a review of Splendour In The Grass too.
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Adelaide’s favourite deep funk and soul act are taking an extended break after six years and two internationally released albums. Catch The Transatlantics for the last time (for a while, anyway) when they play Jive on Sat Jul 27.
Perth’s hard rocking proggers Karnivool will kick out the jams at The Thebby on Tue Jul 30 to perform tracks from their latest album Asymmetry as well as old favourites.
The Cuban ballet sensation Ballet Revolución returns to Adelaide for a limited run at Her Majesty’s finishing on Sat Jul 27.
Speeding along this week... KATIE NOONAN AND KARIN SCHAUPP Singer Katie Noonan and classical guitarist Karin Schaupp will perform songs from last year’s album Songs Of The Southern Skies at the Festival Centre’s Dunstan Playhouse on Fri Jul 26 and Sat Jul 27. WORLD’S END PRESS Tim Goldsworthy-endorsed Melburnian outfit World’s End Press play the Ed Castle on Sat Jul 27.
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Snakadaktal have achieved a lot since winning Triple J Unearthed High in 2011. With EPs and tours under their belts, they’ve finally laid down enough tracks for a full LP, Sleep On The Water, which is due out Fri Aug 2. See them live at the Governor Hindmarsh on Fri Sep 13.
Jumpsuit Fan Battle The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus are playing god with this new tour: rather than deciding where to play, they’ve chosen to sit back and watch as their fans battle it out to bring them to their town. While most ‘battles’ are between towns in driving distance of each other, Adelaide is up against Perth and Hobart. Fair? You decide. At least this time RJA fans will have to blame themselves for the band’s sketchy touring schedule. Right on. The potential Adelaide show is Sat Nov 16. You can vote for your hometown by pledging the ticket cost at redjumpsuit.giggedin.com – if the show goes to another state, you won’t be charged for the ticket.
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From Raggi To Riches As he is force-fed a donut from a band mate an hour before a show in Seattle, Ragnar ‘Raggi’ Pórhallsson of the Icelandic six-piece folk ensemble Of Monsters And Men, takes some time to chat to Rip It Up about how the band are enjoying their time on the road, their role as pseudo-diplomats as well as the state of Iceland’s music industry.
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hile bites of donut and some slips in his English punctuate our conversation, Pórhallson comes across just like so many of the Nordic backpackers that Australians bump into, especially if on a customary pilgrimage across South East Asia. While sandy feet, sunburnt skin and a beery afternoon haze on a Thai island would encourage anyone to be at their most relaxed, it is near impossible to find the difference between this Icelander and those you find on holiday. Some responses make you certain he is taking the piss, but it actually just reflects the blunt humour and laissez fare attitude that seems inherent to Nordic people. Pórhallsson’s modesty on the success of Of Monsters And Men is genuine, with the frontman unable to pinpoint exactly why the world has taken so kindly to their blend of folk pop, with it reaching number one in Australia. “It’s a hard question to answer,” begins Pórhallsson. “Maybe we’re all just similar people?” It’s an off-handed response that could easily be analysed more prolifically, yet Pórhallsson hasn’t had too much time on his hands lately to deliberate the band’s exponential rise to fame. As Of Monsters And Men grows following the release of their accessible debut
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My Head Is An Animal, with the band already kicking around some ideas for their follow-up album, the band are also executing diplomatic responsibilities. While touring the world, the six-piece are in a prime position to present Iceland, a country of few more than 320,000 people as an international force. While still remaining humble, Pórhallsson is aware that the band are acting as Icelandic ambassadors. “I think we have started feeling that way more and more. It’s an honour to represent our country and the people there to other countries.” For such a small nation, Of Monsters And
“I was going to be a basketball player, but I’m fairly small, so that didn’t happen for me.” Men aren’t the first Icelandic act to break it globally. Sigur Rós and Björk are perhaps Iceland’s most celebrated, with Pórhallsson noting that while he doesn’t relate to Björk’s music in particular, he does find her as a person and what she has achieved to be very inspiring for himself and all Icelanders, although he is still yet to meet her in person. The rise of Of Monsters And Men is
particularly poignant given the crushing nature that the Global Financial Crisis had for Iceland. All three of the country’s major privately owned commercial banks collapsed, causing political and economic turmoil which led to Iceland suffering the largest financial crisis by any country in history relative to its size. While Pórhallsson wasn’t impacted too traumatically from the meltdown (“To lose money you had to have money – so it didn’t really affect me”) he has noticed a change in the outlook of Icelanders following the country’s efforts to get back on their feet. “The focus has kind of turned towards music and the arts in Iceland and enjoying those things that you don’t need a lot of money to buy.” This is a profound statement considering the changing state of music sales and consumption worldwide, with the global music industry constantly being regarded as struggling against the pressures from the accessibility of digital piracy. Pórhallsson offers that the opposite is happening in Iceland. “When we look at the music business in Iceland and the bands coming out now they’re some of the best bands that Iceland have ever seen. I don’t think the music industry has ever been as good there. Bands are getting records in Iceland for album sales. I don’t think bands have ever sold as many records as they do now in Iceland, which is great.” The band are sharing their success though, always opting to take Icelandic acts on the road with them to support their tours. This ranges from the folk male singer Mugison, who is much-celebrated in Iceland yet still virtually unknown to outside audiences, to more emerging artists they feel deserve more attention.
Mackle-who? When asking Raggi Pórhallsson how he felt about Little Talks being pipped of the number one hottest song of 2012 according to Triple J by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ Thrift Shop, Rip It Up may have discovered the only person on earth who has never heard the song before. “Oh, it’s rap song? I like rap. I like rapping... I’m not very good at it though. I’ll have to find it and listen to it.”
This willingness to help out their talented countrymen may stem from Pórhallsson’s unintentional fall into becoming a musician, which he declares just “came about” after he was asked by fellow Of Monsters And Men co-founder, Nanna Bryndis Hilmarsdóttir, the girlfriend of his best friend, to help expand her solo material. When asking what he would be doing if he wasn’t a musician, if his answer is meant to be dripping with sarcasm, his tone of delivery was so genuine it is too difficult to discern. “I was going to be a basketball player, but I’m fairly small, so that didn’t happen for me. I wasn’t going to be a musician but it’s pretty cool... Yeah, I like it.”
Who: Of Monsters And Men What: Spin Off Festival Where: Thebarton Theatre When: Fri Aug 2
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Shredding Queen Former-Adelaide-girl-turned-internationalsuperstar, Orianthi, phones in fresh off the stage with Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson. Currently on the Masters Of Madness tour covering the US, UK and Europe, it’s just another day in the life of the young guitar prodigy already touted by industry pros as a legend.
for what Michael Jackson was looking for. I thought they were crazy because I’m a blues guitar player and not a shredder! Once I got that gig and had rehearsals, I actually turned into a shredder, which is kind of funny... It was a crazy process working over those three months and still feel blessed that I got that opportunity. I was sad recently because I realised that it’s been four years since he passed and it all still feels like not that long ago. It just doesn’t feel real to me, it’s like a dream, you know? Michael inspired so many people with his music and he changed lives that way, his songs will live on forever. His music just has that joy, every one of his songs has that childlike thing that just makes you want to jump up and dance. Nobody could ever top that.”
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nd she kind of is, given that this 28-year-old sensation has already graced the cover of the coveted Guitar Magazine, had her own display unveiled at the iconic Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel, and got handpicked by Michael Jackson himself as resident “shredder” on the ill-fated This Is It Tour. Now she’s unleashing her very own brand of “voodoo rock blues” with third album Heaven In This Hell. “I had a blast with Dave Stewart [producer], he was an amazing collaborator, we had so much fun in Nashville,” Orianthi enthuses. “It’s just something I really needed to do, to get out of me, I call it my ‘voodoo rock blues’, which is where I’m at now. The next record will be totally different, though, I’m always thinking ahead. Right now this is what I’m really into, and even though the common thread is the voodoo blues, every song still has a different personality of its own and it’s still pretty eclectic. With Heaven In This Hell I’m actually going back to my roots, which was definitely much more blues-ier and more rock when I first picked up the guitar years ago. Back then I was obsessed with Santana and
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I realised that it’s been four years since he [Michael Jackson] passed and it all still feels like not that long ago. It just doesn’t feel real to me, it’s like a dream, you know?” Jimi Hendrix and, because that’s what initially inspired me, I wanted to go back to the organic sound where I came from.” And while she’s certainly come a long way since those days, it hasn’t been an easy ride even for someone as talented as Orianthi. According to the guitarist, even the best have to work their way up and overnight success is all but a myth. “It’s not like I said one day, ‘Yeah, I wanna go to American and make it’ – the reality is that I actually had recorded two records in Adelaide before any of this happened. I had to make those records to be able to come over to America and have something to show people. So many people just expect it’s going to happen for them just by moving to LA or something, but there is so much hard work to be done at home before any of that is even possible. You have to remember that there are so many good musicians in the world. Having a product – which includes writing it, recording it, putting it out there and performing it – is what it’s about. Not having your own sound and not knowing who you are will trip you up.” The latter was all the things Orianthi wasn’t about when the King Of Pop himself, the late Michael Jackson, invited her to be his lead guitarist as part of the huge spectacle that was to be his This Is It Tour. Tragically, Jackson passed away, and though everyone involved was devastated by the news, according to Orianthi it was a bitter-sweet experience. “I remember being in the recording studio when I got an email telling me I would be perfect
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They’ll Be Alright The cloud of doubt that hung over Passion Pit when their second album Gossamer was released last year has been lifted, with keyboardist and guitarist Ian Hultquist affirming to Rip It Up that the band are back on track.
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adly, at a time that is usually the happiest for a band, Passion Pit were forced to cancel a string of shows in the US to support the release of Gossamer in July last year because of personal problems encountered by Passion Pit founder Michael Angelakos. Angelakos is bipolar, which has understandably caused some hardship for the band, although it didn’t come as a surprise to Hultquist. “I’ve known Michael for six or seven years now and
I’ve known about his situation since I met him,” says Hultquist, opening up on how the rest of Passion Pit has coped with their leader’s condition. “We’ve all kind of been coping with it since we’ve been in the band. [The cancellations last year were] fine because we just wanted Michael to get better and be back in the place where we could all have fun together. And he got there, so, that was that. Everyone has their problems and their own personal issues. We’ve always been open with each other about making sure that everyone gets the time they need to be ready to do this. Touring for months on end is not an easy thing to do and you definitely need to be in a good mental state to be able to handle it... Right now I could honesty say we’re all in a really good place and we’re all happy being in the band. I’m not worried about it at all.” Gossamer is an eerie insight into Angelakos’ mental
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state, with some tracks likes Take A Walk, I’ll Be Alright and Where We Belong making it painfully obvious the stress and personal toll that Angelakos has endured. The darkness within Passion Pit’s pop is inherently Angelakos’. “Michael’s been the songwriter since day one. I never joined the band to write Passion Pit songs, I just wanted to play them, which has been the way it’s been set up since Passion Pit started. I’ve always been really fascinated and interested with Michael’s music and I couldn’t be happier with where he went with Gossamer. I think it is an amazing album and I really look forward to seeing what he ends up doing next.” While Angelakos is the heart and soul behind Passion Pit, with him “doing the records for the most part on his own”, Hultquist’s role is to “tear the songs apart and put them back together and turn them into a live show”. This came about by approaching Angelakos after he performed the Chunks For Change EP at a solo show. “It was something that was so different to anything I was doing before that,” says Hultquist on the appeal of Angelakos’ music. “I just thought it would be fun to try and figure it out. We all spent months and months together trying to learn synthesisers and turn electro pop into a live band. It was an interesting experience.” Things have been good for Passion Pit for a while now, making it to Australia to join the Parklife 2012 tour and returning this year for Splendour In The Grass, Spin Off and a headlining sideshow tour. Hultquist is sure that the new material is helping Passion Pit’s rise with Gossamer boasting the “biggest response to one of our records coming out”. One show in particular, where Angelakos said onstage, “Seven months ago they told me I’d never fucking tour again, and now we’re here at Madison Square Garden” a blizzard also hit New York. It was a landmark moment for the band. “It was a crazy, amazing night which I absolutely have to pinch myself to believe happened. It was beautiful. There were some people who were unable to come but for the most part you couldn’t tell, it was completely packed and it was such an iconic venue to be in. It was pretty special... At the end of the show we did drop down white confetti, which kind of looked like the roof had opened up and the storm had taken over – but it was just confetti.”
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New Beginnings
Bernard Fanning by Steve Bell
Some people view the glass as half-empty, some see it as half-full, but what if you’re not sure that you even want the glass at all? Bernard Fanning takes Rip It Up through the massive life changes and soulsearching that he eventually poured into his second solo album, Departures.
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hen Brisbane rock behemoth Powderfinger finally pulled up stumps on their incredible voyage at the tail end of 2010, frontman Bernard Fanning was inevitably faced with the decision as to what to do next from a career perspective. Should he follow on with the rock aesthetic that had characterised his popular day job for so long, or pursue the folk leanings that had made his top-selling solo debut Tea & Sympathy — released amidst a Powderfinger hiatus back in 2005 — so successful, or perhaps even go off on an entirely new tangent? Before such important decisions were made, however, there was some life to live. “I had a few months off,” the affable musician smiles. “We finished in October and I went overseas, just had some time off from music. My dad was crook so I went straight into that, and he ended up dying a few months after the `Fingers finished. He’d been sick for a while — he had dementia, so he’d been crook for a few years — but that came a few months after the ‘Fingers finished. So I had time off, but it wasn’t tropical paradise time off.” A break had been well-deserved — the final months of Powderfinger had been all gruelling road time, naturally compounded by the emotional strain of losing a loved one — but it wasn’t long before Fanning was plotting the course for what would become his sophomore solo effort, Departures. The crux of the album was formulated in Madrid, where Fanning had relocated his with his Spanish wife Andrea and their daughter Gabriella (and where son Freddie was subsequently born). “Once I got to Madrid I just had like a month of fluffing around and getting organised, then I went and bought some speakers and got set up. I didn’t know what I was doing though; all I knew was that I wanted to learn how to use GarageBand properly and also to do some drum programming and loops and stuff. I wanted to write stuff that was actually funky and had groove,” he laughs. “It took a while — it’s completely different — but I loved it, and it does make you write in a different way.” This new style of composition had a notable effect on the end product, the soul-flecked electronic flourishes of Departures — abetted by strong vocal turns and banks of harmonies — still sounding resolutely Fanning, yet somehow miles removed from anything that he’s released before. Was it conscious to move away from the disparate sounds of Powderfinger or Tea & Sympathy? “More Tea & Sympathy,” he proffers. “I was thinking about it as a solo artist, so I wanted it to be different to Tea & Sympathy. Not because I wanted to be perverse or be a dickhead about it, but I knew that if I wrote a record like that again, then I’d be `that guy’, and I just didn’t want to be `that guy’ always.” Even the decision to record Departures in LA at the prestigious Sunset Sound studio with acclaimed producer Joe Chiccarelli (My Morning Jacket, The Raconteurs) was
an attempt to move out of a comfort zone. Fortunately, with so much change afoot in Fanning’s creative processes, whether or not he alienated his substantial existing fanbase with these new directions wasn’t even on his radar. “Even that consideration is a complete road to ruin. Thinking about what people think of your songs before you’ve written them... there’s so many things to be paranoid about. Especially having been in a band as popular as Powderfinger, there’s already a certain amount of negativity that gets directed toward you from within the music community,” he smiles. “But if you were going to worry about that at the beginning of the process, you’d go insane.” WHO: Bernard Fanning WHAT: Departures (Universal) WHERE: Thebarton Theatre and Day On The Green, Peter Lehmann Wines WHEN: Thu Aug 15 and Sat Nov 16
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Classixx LA-based duo Classixx are playing Adelaide's Cats At Rocket on Fri Sep 27 as part of a special Listen Out sideshow. The Kitsune Records twosome, comprised of electro protégées Michael David and Tyler Blake, will be performing tunes from their recent debut album Hanging Gardens, which was released in May this year. Since forming in early 2005, Classixx have been one of the pivotal players in the everchanging Los Angeles electronic music scene, marking a fresh change from the noughties' high-octane electro with something a little smoother and disco-inspired.
Word Adelaide Freestyle MC Competition Word Adelaide is hitting the streets this Aug 15 –18 to celebrate the spoken word – including rhymes. As part of the event, a Freestyle MC Competition will be held at Thebarton Theatre on Fri Aug 16 for MCs to compete in a capella, beatboxing and instrumental rounds for the chance to win $12,000. Competitors for the event will be divided into heavyweight, middleweight and flyweight competitors, with acts including The Tongue, Purpose, Social Change, Manaz III, Rapaportand Dliver. The event will feature showcases from Delta, Funkoars, Chase and Eloquor, with MC Fatface as master of ceremonies and SA expat Simplex on hosting duties.
Q+A With Koolta Tell us about your upcoming mixtape...
Midnight Juggernauts Melbourne electronic trio Midnight Juggernauts are heading out on a national tour this August and September to launch their new album Uncanny Valley.The record is Midnight Juggernauts’ third studio effort, serving as the long-awaited follow-up to Dystopia and The Crystal Axis. The band are set to kick off their on-the-road stint in Newcastle on Wed Aug 14 before wrapping things up in Adelaide. On the tour they'll be joined by shock rocker Kirin J Callinan, Perth’s Usurper Of Modern Medicine and Fascinator. Midnight Juggernauts and supports will perform at Adelaide's Uni Bar on Fri Sep 13.
PT and I are headlining, with a few sneaky guests in our set, plus MCs Kullas n Byronic, DJ Amayze and production duo Artis, who produced one song on the mixtape. We got some exciting stuff in the works for the night visually too.
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Once this new mixtape is released I'll be getting very busy in the studio on the sophomore album. I've got some guest verses and production popping up on a variety of local releases over the second half of the year. I've already got a bunch of new solo material since finishing this mixtape with DJ PT. So expect to hear new tunes...
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Magna Carta...Holy Grail
Where Does This Door Go
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If you can forget the irony of Kurt Cobain’s lyrics being used in an album released as a Samsung app, you might enjoy listening to this album. With a host of big names on Magna Carta...Holy Grail, Jay Z teams up with Justin Timberlake on the opening track Holy Grail which is a pop song ruined by the karaoke-style singing of Smells Like Teen Spirit. Picasso Baby, proves the album is a mixed bag. With a heavy and simple beat, reminiscent of some of his earlier albums, Jay Z boasts of his fame and wealth, takes shots at mainstream media, and generally complains about problems only the one percent face. Magna Carta...Holy Grail does have some solid beats and hooks, reminiscent of Jay Z's earlier albums, and this can be attributed to Timbaland who produced the record. Other than that, it appears that Jay Z is simply running out of things to rap about, but hey, $600 million will do that to you. Ned Raggatt
If you liked Mayer Hawthorne’s last album, How Do You Do (2011), you’re definitely in for something different on his latest full-length effort. Gone are the days of homages to the great Motown classics and the retro-soul sound of the ‘60s – it’s in with the ‘70s funk (check out Reach Out Richard – produced by Pharrell Williams) and an extra dose of heavy bass and hip hop (Her Favourite Song). Injecting even a little bit of ‘90s R&B (The Only One), Where Does This Door Go features not only guest appearances from Kendrick Lamar but also the likes of John Hill (P!nk, Santigold), Jack Splash ( John Legend) and Greg Wells (Adele, Ozzy Osbourne) on production duties, meaning that (for the first time) Hawthorne himself gives the knob-twiddling a miss on this release. It’s not what you’d expect but it’s still worthy of a listen. Simone Keenan
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The launch will be packed with guests, who can we expect?
Any other exciting projects in the works for 2013?
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It’s called All I Need's A Heartbeat. It's a free download release plus 50 limited edition CDs. My good friend DJ PT blends each track and adds some crazy cuts. There are 10 original songs plus three remixed songs from last year's debut album. This isn't a mixtape full of throwaway verses and jacked beats. It features entirely original production from myself and an array of guests. I wanted to explore a lot of new sounds and themes with the music.
Koolta launches All I Need’s A Heartbeat at West Bar on Fri Aug 9.
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AAAA Cocoon is the Law & Order of techno. Reliable, slightly predictable but if it’s on, you won’t turn it off. Even if one of the discs on here is a new signing Alejandro Mosso’s mix of his productions and remixes, it’s not like when (the then) relatively unkown Omar-S did the same for Fabric (or to go back further when Ricardo Villalobos did it). With that in mind, Cocoon Ibiza is the SVU of Cocoon compilations, as the double-disc offering strays from the formula yet serves up a fantastic deep house and techno selection from Ilario Alicante with his mix. If this is the sound of Ibiza, then clubbing is in good shape as London and Detroit collide with highlights such as Benjamin Damage’s 010x and Omar-S’ It’s Money In The D. With his mix, Mosso shows why he was signed by Cocoon, as the South American’s all-Mosso selection grabs from the get-go. This episode is a classic. David Knight
Calendar/ Thu Jul 25 Rick Wilhite (Sugar)
Fri Jul 26 Funk Volume Tour Feat Dizzy Wright & Jarren Benton (Fowler’s Live) Sat Jul 27 Kerser & Rates (Fowler’s Live)
Fri Aug 9 Masif Hard Dance Icons 2013 (HQ) Sat Aug 17 Dialectrix (Rocket Bar)
Sat Aug 31 Alliance Tour (Rocket Bar)
Sat Aug 31 Alison Wonderland (Electric Circus) Sat Sep 7 The Roll Call Tour (The Gov) Thu Sep 19 Rudimental (HQ) Fri Sep 27 Illy (The Gov)
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British D&B DJ/producer duo Brookes Brothers are back with another anthem in Carry Me On – featuring Chrom3, the R&B singer heard on Dizzee Rascal's Dance Wiv Me and Holiday. And the siblings are now labelmates with Perth's ShockOne (AKA Karl Thomas) at Futurebound's Viper Recordings.
"We've known Karl for a long time," Dan Brookes enthuses. "Karl's come over to our mum's house in London and all sorts." The younger Brookes is speaking from the road in Wellington, New Zealand. Next he'll hit Australia. Phil has stayed at home. "It's just me – my brother is actually looking after the base camp," Dan jokes, surprisingly articulate for one battling jetlag. "He's manning the fort while I do all the hard work!" The Londoners surfaced in 2005, issuing music on Danny Wheeler's W10. They'd then air Someone/Promise on the Liverpool-based Viper the following year. "It all happened for us a bit too easily," Dan admits, albeit gratefully. "I'd come straight out of university and we already had some releases going on. To be honest, I've never done anything except for produce music for a living. So it wasn't like we were struggling for ages and ages to make it in the scene." However, Brookes Brothers have had their setbacks (as alluded to on the 12 inch Hard Knocks/Mistakes). The pair's 2011 eponymous debut, boasting a prestigious Robert Owens cameo, was delayed by their then label, Breakbeat Kaos, which Adam F runs with DJ Fresh. "It was ready to go in 2010 and, for whatever reason, the label spent a year giving us release date after release date and
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constantly pushing it back and back and back – which was obviously very frustrating for us." Brookes Brothers lost momentum, and faith, though Breakbeat Kaos did unleash last year's big single Loveline. The brothers also needed to build up their confidence. "It did take a couple of years for us to sort of learn the ropes. Even when we wrote [the UK Top 20 hit] Tear You Down in 2008, I felt like we were still getting our stuff together in the studio and learning what we were doing." The two share an easy dynamic, Phil the writer and Dan the engineer, but their roles are fluid. Brookes Brothers are associated with the liquid funk sound – something Dan doesn't challenge. But, as music-makers, they're developing their approach beyond the use of synths and the occasional sample. "We're just trying to expand and
Not only has he (real name Ryan Farrington) managed to release an album as part of duo Letters To The Sun, he was also responsible for the remix of Flume’s Bring You Down which went viral in the process and inspired him to pursue a solo career now more than ever... Not that he’s a newbie by any means. “That was nuts,” Farrington says of the remix that earned 12,000 hits within just 24 hours. “I was all over Flume’s album when it came out and I wanted to remix a track from it, but I wanted to go with something a little less obvious than the singles. I had a good listen to the album and Flume was such a tease on Bring You Down because there’s no real heavy drop in the original – but all I could hear was some big drums on that thing! So I thought I’d have a mess around with it and I uploaded it the following day. When it got 12k plays, I was like, ‘Well, that escalated quickly’. Flume was in Europe at the time but his manager contacted me saying they liked the remix. I thought it’d get a few plays, maybe 400 in the first week being that Flume is huge, but since then it’s hit number six on Hype Machine and it’s had 60,000 plays.” According to Farrington, it all “kinda surpassed my expectations”. The truth of the matter is that Bring You Down was just another notch in the already growing success the up-and-coming producer had experienced over the last few years. What lead him to pursue his production career
that's down to, I'm not sure, really. I think people want a little bit of maybe an antidote to the dubstep explosion. D&B is generally quite different to dubstep, although it does share characteristics. So when the market gets swamped with all the dubstep, I think people want a bit more D&B – and crave a bit more D&B." Dan will bring some of this underground fervour to Adelaide. "You can expect a really honest hour-anda-half of good D&B music coming from the right place and [the] dancefloor – which is what we all like, isn't it?"
WHO: Brookes Brothers WHAT: Carry Me On (OneLove) WHERE: HQ WHEN: Fri Aug 2
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Coming from the unlikeliest of places – Launceston, Tasmania (population 106, 153) – DJ/producer Akouo has been a true success story of 2013.
grow, really, in terms of our sound – and incorporate more elements... like some more live elements," Dan says. Plus they're writing 'songs'. Not that Brookes Brothers necessarily aspire to crossover like ShockOne in Oz. "We're not looking to be the biggest artists in the world!" At any rate, Brookes Brothers are currently plugging Carry Me On, selected by Radio 1's Zane Lowe as a 'Hottest Record In The World'. Their second album will drop through Viper in the first half of 2014. Dan is unsure if today's D&B resurgence was precipitated by the rise of dubstep. "I think the dubstep explosion definitely helped electronic music grow on a whole but, having been in D&B for the last eight years pretty solid, to me it felt like D&B has always had a constant presence within the dance music scene," he ponders. "But there has been a resurgence recently – and what
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all the more in 2013? It’s as simple as right timing, he claims. “I’m just having some time off from working with other people for now and I’m focusing on my own stuff. I feel like I’m on my own journey by myself right now and it feels right for me. I’ve been a part of four groups – Altrueism from 2004 to 2007, Loose Cannons from 2008 to 2011, JNA [ Javs & Akouo] from 2009 to 2010, and more recently Letters To The Sun [with Coin] for the last year. I also produced tracks for Australian rappers like Chance Waters, Class A and Elf Tranzporter. I started out making sample-based hip hop but the whole time I had these weird things... Beliefs or whatever about music production. For instance, only using drums I’d recorded myself instead of synths. These things really held me back until about 2011 when I started letting go of these
stupid ideas about what music should and shouldn’t be.” Despite having “mad love” for everyone he’s had the chance to work with, Farrington confesses he finds collaborating particularly frustrating, one of the reasons being restrictions to his musical freedom. “From Michael Jackson to Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Nine Inch Nails to Biggie – I went through listening to them all and it’s only natural that if you spend so much time studying these artists, some of their music and traits of cultures they stem from are gonna rub off on you. I like hip hop for its drums and freedom of expression, folk for the melodies, UK garage for the basslines, jazz for the chords and dub for the effects. I like to incorporate a little of everything in my music.” Old enough to care about the finer parts of music history, but young enough to be into
new waves of music, Farrington claims he’s in a pretty sweet spot right now in terms of direction. The sonic result is his recent EP Hurcha, the release which has inspired him to hit the road for a national tour. “I’m really just hoping to introduce my sound to some new people, meet some likeminded crew and eat dumplings! There’ll be more remixes, compilation tracks, EPs and singles on the way. I’ve also just finished a beat for Allday. This year everything feels right. I’m finally making music I haven’t been in the right headspace to make an luckily people seem more interested than ever.”
WHO: Akouo WHERE: Rocket Bar WHEN: Thu Jul 25
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Tour Guide/ THU JUL 25
THELMA PLUM @ Grace Emily LAURA MARLING @ Flinders Street Baptist Church AKOUO @ Rocket Bar
FRI JUL 26
KATIE NOONAN & KARIN SCHAUPP @ Dunstan Playhouse SIMON MELI @ Jive JAGWAR MA @ Rocket Bar
MON AUG 19
Katie n Noona
DON McLEAN @ Thebarton Theatre
TUE AUG 20
PAUL KELLY & URTHBOY @ Adelaide Town Hall
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TUE AUG 27
JAPANDROIDS @ Ed Castle
THU AUG 29
THE GO SET & THE REAL McKENZIES @ BJÖRN AGAIN @ Grace Emily Festival Theatre DEAD LETTER CIRCUS, KATIE NOONAN & KARIN CLOSURE IN MOSCOW SCHAUPP @ & SLEEP PARADE @ HQ Dunstan Playhouse WORLD’S END PRESS @ FRI AUG 30 Ed Castle THE BELLIGERENTS @ PSUEDO ECHO @ Rocket Bar Governor Hindmarsh BULLUSIRA & DIVA
SAT JUL 27
TUE JUL 30
KARNIVOOL @ Thebarton Theatre
THU AUG 1
COLD WAR KIDS @ Governor Hindmarsh
FRI AUG 2
DEMOLITION @ Enigma Bar KIERAN RYAN @ Ed Castle
SAT AUG 31
HIGH VOLTAGE @ Governor Hindmarsh ALISON WONDERLAND @ Electric Circus
THE BOOTLEG BEATLES @ Governor Hindmarsh SPIN OFF FESTIVAL: OF MONSTERS AND MEN, PASSION PIT, SNAKADAKTAL, CHET FAKER, FIDLAR, THE JUNGLE GIANTS & DUNE RATS @ Thebarton Theatre
TUE SEP 3
SAT AUG 3
FRI SEP 6
APES @ Ed Castle JIVE’S 10th BIRTHDAY: THE BEARDS & JACKSON FIREBIRD @ Jive Bar PLUDO @ Governor Hindmarsh
TUE AUG 6
JOAN BAEZ @ Festival Theatre
THU AUG 8
GLASS TOWERS @ Grace Emily Hotel
FRI AUG 9
CLARE BOWDITCH @ Governor Hindmarsh GUTTERMOUTH, HIGHTIME, THE LIZARDS & WALK THE PLANK @ Fowler’s Live EGO @ Rocket Bar S IS FOR SPACESHIP @ Enigma Bar
SUN AUG 11
THE YEARLINGS & LITTLE WISE @ Wheatsheaf Hotel
WED AUG 14
MDC @ Fowler’s Live VANCE JOY @ Jive EGO @ Pier Hotel, Pt Lincoln
THU AUG 15 - SUN AUG 18
WORD ADELAIDE FESTIVAL: MATT LUCAS, KITTY FLANAGAN, GUY PRATT, LEO SAYER & more @ various locations
THU AUG 15
BERNARD FANNING & VANCE JOY @ Thebarton Theatre
FRI AUG 16
JOSH PYKE @ Governor Hindmarsh OBEY THE BRAVE @ Black Market BRITISH INDIA @ Uni Bar PLUTO JONZE @ Rocket Bar MDC @ Fowler’s Live
ALL TIME LOW @ HQ
WED SEP 4
CYNDI LAUPER @ Festival Theatre
THU SEP 5
MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS @ Uni Bar THE CAT EMPIRE & HIATUS KAIYOTE @ Thebarton Theatre VOLUMES @ Fowler’s Live
SAT SEP 7
THE SNOWDROPPERS @ Jive Bar
SUN SEP 8
CASTLECOMER @ Grace Emily
Songs Of The Southern Skies, which features such guests as The Living End’s Chris Cheney, Clare Bowditch, Iva Davies and Gurrumul, highlights such songs as Nick Cave’s Into My Arms, Cold Chisel’s Saturday Night, Vince Jones’ Rainbow Cake, Icehouse’s Man Of Colours and Crowded House’s Into Temptation while also including a piece by classical composer Elena Kats-Chernin written especially for the duo. “It was two years ago now that Karin and I toured Songs Of The British Isles and because it went so well, we thought we’d follow it
up with something else,” Noonan explains. “And this time we thought we’d make it a celebration of songs by Australian and New Zealand talent. “The whole idea behind the record, as well as shining a light on some great songwriters we admire, Karin and I also wanted to blur the boundaries between the pop, folk and classical worlds. So when Gurrumul kindly guested on his song, Baywarra, I thought it would be great to also get Chris Cheney, one of Australia’s greatest rock guitarists, to play on that song as well. “Then Karin and I started to think about who else we could get on there,” she adds. “So that’s why Iva Davies, Whirimako Black and Clare Bowditch ended up on Songs Of The Southern Skies.” Noonan and Schaupp promise to play all 16 songs from their new album when they perform in Adelaide. “It’s a concert in two halves,” Noonan explains, “so we’ll be doing two 45-minute
sets. But we decided not to do anything from Songs Of The British Isles as this is a celebration of songs from Australia and New Zealand. “We’ve also been using a local choir wherever we’ve played which works really, really well,” she adds. “It’s usually a choir from a primary school as it’s all about getting young kids involved.” Will there be a third album some time down the track? “Quite possibly,” Noonan decides. “And the idea would be choose another geographical location for the next one with Brazil and Portugal being the most obvious ones.”
which will coincide with the release of their video clip Believe off the recently released album Pretty Well Over The Bay, Skape almost entirely composed the album on his own. “But it definitely wouldn't sound the same without the input from the others; nearly every song sounds a little different to when I would present it to them at rehearsals.” Completing the line-up of this “homoerotic punk rock” band is Jay Swensen on drums, Jacob Fry and Stefan Caramia on guitar/vocals and Dominique Rae on bass, who also is the talent behind the album art. The recording of their album, which was produced by Adam Round, led to “hilarious but drunken decisions” being made. “It was dangerous. When we were left alone in the studio things just got very silly, very quickly. There are `50s doo-wop harmonies, Mal (Clarke - The Sleepy Jackson) smashing dramatic upright piano over a theramin, and just so, so many vocal harmonies. I think he likes that he can get away with weird sounding shit with us.”
But it's not always fun and games in the studio as Skape explains tension grew and some bad news meant for a stressful time. “We were all kind of tracking our parts separately as we all had to cling to shifts at our shitty day jobs. Basically the entire time myself and my friend Niko Day from the band New Erotic were in the middle of a huge self-destructive bender and were drunk and high for the whole process, which caused some tension. That mixed with the fact that Dom found out she had cancer right about the time Stef was tracking his solos meant for a pretty fucking insane couple of months. But she is better now! And has a very punk haircut finally.”
WHO: Katie Noonan & Karin Schaupp WHAT: Songs From The Southern Skies (Kin Music) WHERE: Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Fri Jul 26 and Sat Jul 27
TU SEP 10
ANBERLIN & THE MAINE @ Governor Hindmarsh
THU SEP 12
JIMMY BARNES @ Gawler Princes Park
FRI SEP 13
SNAKADAKTAL @ Governor Hindmarsh FOR THE FALLEN DREAMS @ Fowler’s Live
SAT SEP 14
JIMMY BARNES @ Port Elliot Showground BIG SCARY @ Uni Bar JACK CARTY @ Jive Bar
SUN SEP 15
TONIGHT ALIVE @ HQ
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TUE SEP 17
CELTIC WOMAN @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre PARKWAY DRIVE (all ages) @ Governor Hindmarsh
WED SEP 18
PARKWAY DRIVE @ Governor Hindmarsh
THU SEP 19
PARKWAY DRIVE @ Governor Hindmarsh THE PREATURES @ Jive Bar
FRI SEP 20
THE PAPER KITES @ Jive
SUN SEP 22
AMANDA PALMER & THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA @ DIALECTRIX @ Rocket Bar Thebarton Theatre COSMIC PSYCHOS @ Fowler’s Live MON SEP 23 TROUBLE WITH ONE DIRECTION & 5 TEMPLETON @ Ed Castle SECONDS OF SUMMER ED KUEPPER @ @ Adelaide Entertainment Governor Hindmarsh Centre
SAT AUG 17
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Singer Katie Noonan and classical guitarist Karin Schaupp were last in Adelaide together to present Songs Of The British Isles. Such was its success, the unlikely duo have now recorded a full-length CD, Songs Of The Southern Skies, and are currently touring it around the country.
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One band that everyone should definitely give their attention to this year is Perth's own FAIM. FAIM's unique sound has been described as “electric theatric punk rock” and with a loyal following, the band never ceases to disappoint or completely shock their fans during their live shows.
Rip It Up caught up with frontman, Noah Skape, for an insight on broken instruments, self-destructive benders and other naughtiness. “I would have to kinda act out as I was singing to get the message across.” Skape explains. “That combined with the fucking ADD throughout the group has turned the live show into a sort of manic rush of movement, energy and sex and violence. Usually people start laughing until I'm naked, masturbating. Sometimes it gets awkward”. Ahead of their upcoming winter tour
WHO: FAIM (with The Lizards and Ben David) WHERE: Crown & Anchor WHEN: Wed Jul 31
The Guide// THURSDAY 25TH 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) CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Derryn Lynch Mob & The Lizards (9pm) 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) ENIGMA – DJ Timmy Truth (11pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Shaolin Afronauts Spectacular FLINDERS STREET BAPTIST CHURCH – Laura Marling
FOWLER’S LIVE – Bleeding Through GILBERT STREET HOTEL – The Timbers Duo (7pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Gumbo Rooms Blues Jam with Billy Bob & Jesse-Deane Freeman Hammond Trio GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Thelma Plum & Dan Parsons GRAND BAR – OMG HIGHWAY – DJ Alli (8pm) HQ – Riot Society hosted by Uberjak’d JETTY BAR GLENELG – Lounge Bar: Jayarassic (8.30pm) LIGHT HOTEL – SCALA Live (8pm) MARION HOTEL – Cue N Brew: 888 Poker (6.30pm) PETER LEHMAN WINES TANUNDA – Peter ‘Spida’ Everitt & Gowan Twins PJ O’BRIENS – DJ G-rillz (9pm) PORTABELLO RESTAURANT – Linda McCarthy (7pm) PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango ROCKET BAR – Wild Things (9pm) SUGAR – Jazz Pancake with locals and guests THE LION HOTEL – Clearway (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Chrysler Bar: Lucas Day (8.30pm)
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FRIDAY 26TH ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: DJ Jaki J (9.30pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Paul Bonsor (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BARTLEY TAVERN – The Crew (8pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – The Ride (8pm) CAFÉ KOMODO – Nikko & Snooks (7.30pm) COVE TAVERN – DJ Anton (8pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (8pm) Band Room: Army Of Champions, The Burning Sea, Little Killing & Ride Into The Sun DJs DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs DUBLIN HOTEL – Unknown To Man (7pm) DUKE OF YORK – Tom & Rose (7pm) ED CASTLE – Full Tilt live bands and party DJs ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs ENFIELD HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (6pm) ENIGMA – Ciecmate & Maggot Mouf (Bar 2) Fresh Kills, XY Clinic, Joe Head Joe & Kill The Fungus (Bar 3) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Remedy (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Wave Racer FINDON HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) FOWLER’S LIVE – Dizzy Wright GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Band Room: James Abberley & Ciaram Granger (8pm) Front Bar: Old Time Fiddle Tunes GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Post War & Systemaddicts GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN– Thelma & Louise (6pm) HALFWAY HOTEL – Troy Harrison (7pm) HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – The Gap (8pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Emerald (8pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOTEL RICHMOND – Dino Jag Trio (8pm)
HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs IRISH CLUB – Shamrocks ‘n’ Shenanigans Live Acoustic Sessions (7pm) JETTY BAR GLENELG – Lounge Bar: Craig Atkins & Kicking Beyond Matter (9pm) JIVE – Simon Meli & The Widowbirds and Angels of Gung Ho (8pm) 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 (9pm) MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Bart’s Bar: Katrina Caton (6.30pm) MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am) OFFICE ON PIRIE – DJ Jess (4.30pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – 2 Up Duo (7.30pm) PRODUCERS HOTEL – After Four Fridays Garden Grooves with DJs Justice and DrDamage plus special guests (4pm) RACQUETS SA – 60/40 with DJ Lee (8pm)
RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ SNAKE & DJ RUPHEO (9PM) RED SQUARE – DJs REX HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – DJ Smiley (8pm) ROCKET BAR – Cats at Rocket (9pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8pm) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – The Red Hot Blues Band (8pm) SOMERSET HOTEL – Zepporama: The Australian Led Zeppelin Experience (8pm)
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The Guide// STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance. Downstairs: DJs play retro SUGAR – SHGZ: Fridays at Sugar SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJs TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio Flamenco (7.30pm) TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – DJ Wolfman (9pm) THE ELEPHANT – DJ G-rillz (9pm) Frenzy (9.30pm) THE GOODY – Ch@t Room THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL – Chrysler Bar: 4-Play (9.30pm) Tavern Bar: Mitch (4.45pm) Two Hard Basket (9pm) VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Sam Brittain, Joe Murphy & Halfway To Forth (9pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Lily & The Drum WOODCROFT TAVERN – Stiff William (8pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – Stomp The Orange & City Lights Divide (9pm) ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Finn, Bottle Rocket & Ryley
SATURDAY 27TH ARAB STEED HOTEL – Troy Harrison (8pm) ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J plus Bongo Madness with Alex. Upstairs: DJ Ed Law (9.30pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar: Agent 99 (10pm) Top Of The Ark: The Incredibles Christmas In July Disco Extravaganza (8.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Shawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL –karaoke with Gemma (9pm) BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Wild Card (8pm) BRIGHTON BAR – Midcoast Revival: Mayweather, Shapes Divide, Walk The Plank, EXIT & Desert Crooks (7pm) BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CAVAN HOTEL – Bodyswerve: The Jimmy Barnes Experience (9pm) CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Greg Hart’s Johnny O Keefe Show
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CROWN & ANCHOR – Crank Yankers & DJ Azz CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with Nicole (8pm) DRAGONFLY – rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and everything in between DUKE OF YORK – Front Room: DJ Mitchy B. Beer Garden: DJ Parry. Upstairs: DJ Skinny B, MC Scotty and guest DJs ED CASTLE – Plus One Saturdays: World’s End Press & party DJs (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends EMU HOTEL – Zepporama: The Australian Led Zeppelin Experience (8.30pm) ENCORE NIGHTCLUB – DJs Archie B, SayWhat, Lars & TS & MC Sellout EXETER HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (7pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – The Ocean Party & The Working Girls (5pm) Joe Head Joe & Pink Noise Generator (10pm) FINDON HOTEL – Harvest (9pm) GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ Marky Polo (8pm) GLYNDE HOTEL – Girls Next Door (7.30pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Band Room: Pseudo Echo & Squeaker (8pm) Fireplace Room: Pub Scrabble. Front Bar: Stolen Apples GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Kelshy & Hawking GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays with DJs and MCs HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm) HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Bar 180: Black Fedora Jazz (7.30pm) The Front: Kinetic (8.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips and guests (8pm) JACK RUBY – Soul Social – live band and vinyl DJs (8pm) JETTY BAR GLENELG – Lounge Bar: Reuben & Nina (3pm) DJ Stu (9pm) Front Bar: Isaw & The Lizards (9pm) JIVE – The Transatlantics, Max Savage & The False Idols & The Hushes (8pm) GOSH! with DJ Craig (11pm) KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke (9.30pm) LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Dino Jag Duo (9pm) LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ and MC Renard (10pm)
MARINA SUNSET BAR – DJs playing the best in house and electro MARION HOTEL – Bart’s Bar: Franky F (5.30pm) Daze Gone By (8.30pm) MARS BAR –VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am) OLD SPOT HOTEL – Iris (9.30pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Fever (8pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – One Planet (8pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Unknown To Man (10.30pm) PORT ADELAIDE NAVAL ASSOCIATION – Linda McCarthy (7pm) PORT NOARLUNGA FOOTBALL CLUB – Fragmenta, Red Leather Riot, Thursday’s Friend & Hidden Intent (8pm) PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Live @ The PA: Big In Chicago (8pm)
RAMSGATE HOTEL – ADELAIDE’S BEST COVER BANDS RED SQUARE – DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan ROCKET BAR – Rocket Saturdays (9pm) SANDBAR – requests with DJs SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic sessions SEAFORD HOTEL – Animal House (9pm) SEBEL PLAYFORD – Black Caviar (8pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – Kopy Catz (9pm) SUGAR – ITDE DJs and interstate & international guests SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Gerry O (7.30pm) TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE BARKER HOTEL – Yass Duo (8.30pm) THE ELEPHANT – DJ G-rillz (9pm) Triple X (9.30pm) THE LION HOTEL – Absolut Saturdays: Wasabi (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Katatonic (8.30pm) VALLEY INN – karaoke VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – Rumours VINE INN: NURIOOTPA – Point 05 (10.30pm) WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Guitar Workshop with Cal Williams Jnr (1.30pm) The Mid Winter Ball: The Baker Suite & Lucifer’s Lounge (8pm)
The Guide // WINDSOR HOTEL – Rave On (8.45pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – Cherry Grind, Nostics & Lipsmack (9pm) ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs: Skot, Terrence & Gumshoe
LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – Five Sided Circle MARINA SUNSET BAR –Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Bart’s Bar: Marion Sunday Legends with Swanee (6.30pm) MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits PLAYFORD TAVERN – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (5pm)
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RAMSGATE HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SESSION (4PM) TOM KURZEL & ED TRAINOR FORTNIGHTLY ROTATION (7.30PM)
WHITMORE HOTEL – RED HOT BLUES BAND
ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School ARKABA HOTEL – Top Of The Ark: Adelaide Comedy with Justin Hamilton (4.30pm) BENJAMIN ON FRANKLIN – Souled Out Sessions with DJs Dave Collins and Jason Lee BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Emerald (4pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – All Ages Show DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUBLIN HOTEL – Theo (3pm) ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Unknown To Man (4pm) EUREKA TAVERN – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (12pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Lost City Presents GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Steve Lennox Duo (2pm) GLENELG PIER – 2 Up Duo (2pm) GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays: Sam Brittain (3pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Band Room: Dr Piffle & The Burlap Band, Monsieur Swing & The Bakers Digest. Front Bar: Les Gitans Blancs GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The Low-Fi Cowboys, Michael Plater & Goldentone GRAND BAR – bands, DJs and MCs HIGHWAY – Wasabi HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – The Front: 888 Poker (6.30pm) JETTY BAR GLENELG – Lounge Bar: Pat & Dale (3pm) DJ Dizzy (8pm) JOINERS ARMS HOTEL – Barry Ion Platinum Plus (3pm) KERSBROOK TAVERN – Lily & The Drum (2pm) LIGHT HOTEL – Vonni’s Big Arvo
SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic soloists SEMAPHORE PALAIS – Zkye High (4pm) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Muddy Road (4pm) SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) Quinny, Parko & Friends (6pm) THE SINGING GALLERY – Spiral Dance (2pm) WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm) WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi & Shaggy (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Band Room: Hurricanes & Max Savage (4pm) Front Bar: Two Birds Taco, Three Way 3-Ways with Jayne Lewis & Dani Allen (4pm)
WHITMORE HOTEL – DOMINIC ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs: Zooma, Gumshoe & Ryley
MONDAY 29TH CROWN & ANCHOR – Matt P Ward & Friends EXETER ON RUNDLE – The Ooby Doobies: Songs of Creedence Clearwater Revival GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Band Room: Rear Admiral Stand Up Comedy. Balcony Bar: Lord Stompy’s Tin Sandwich GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ultimate Quiz with Graham Lawrence (7pm) MARION HOTEL – Bart’s Bar: Scrabble 101
PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Complete Trivia (7pm) RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand: Open Mic Comedy ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jam Night (8pm) SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and Paul Vallen (8pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – COMA Special Event: COMA Emerging Artists (8pm)
CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7pm) CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Faim (9pm) Front Bar: 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 FIRST COMMERICIAL HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7pm) GLENELG FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia (7.30pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Open Mic Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Brenton Manser HIGHWAY – The Combi Room: Melvin Chang HQ –NeverLand LIGHT HOTEL – Open Mic Night (8pm) MARION HOTEL – Cue N Brew: Adelaide Comedy with Ryan Coffey (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) TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Tonsley Trivia (7pm0 TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – TA Bar: Trivia Wednesday (7pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Wheaty Whisk(e)y 10th An-
TUESDAY 30TH AUSSIE INN – Complete Trivia (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: DJs Stevie & Duncan DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Thunderclaw DJs GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GOODWOOD PARK HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Adelaide Ukulele Appreciation Society GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Kino Adelaide HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – KG’s Complete Trivia (7pm) MARION HOTEL – Cue N Brew: 888 Poker (6.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – The Harmonics (8.30pm) SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller THE LION HOTEL – Zkye and Damo (7.30pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – TA Tuesdays: DJ Ryley & Guests (8pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Acoustic Raw Jam WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm)
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Blood And Ice Cream Six years after Hot Fuzz the final installment of the Blood And Ice Cream Trilogy, The World’s End, reunites the UK dream team of director Edgar Wright with the onscreen duo of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
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hile there are plenty of laughs, the final film of the unofficial trilogy explores darker themes about real life than Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, as it shows the effects of continuing to live like a 21-year-old looking for the next party. Simon Pegg stars as Gary King, an unemployed loser, whose life peaked at 18. He persuades his old school chums back to their hometown to complete a pub crawl to end all pub crawls – 12 pubs in one night – which finishes at the drinking hole, The World’s End. Like the trio’s previous films (Shaun... and Hot Fuzz), The World’s End is a genre film (this time sci-fi) where the comedy derives from the characters. The film also explores themes such as friendship, maturity and the world moving on without you. Co-written by Wright and Pegg (just like the previous films), The World’s End is loosely based on a script Wright wrote as a 21-yearold, which he revisited after reading a review of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Superbad. “I literally read a review of Superbad and thought, ‘I had a script about teens drinking’,” Wright explains. Wright then changed the premise to adults trying to recreate that night. He told Pegg about it and they came up with the story.
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The World’s End is a darker comedy than the previous Blood And Ice Cream films. Pegg’s character Gary isn’t exactly likeable as he desperately holds onto the past while his four friends (played by Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan and Frost) have moved onto successful careers and don’t really care for Gary. “It’s been six years since Hot Fuzz and we wanted to do something where we were at least honest about the fact that we’re a little older and deal with some themes we wouldn’t have dealt with six years ago,” Wright explains. “We can’t pretend to be 26 forever and sometimes when I watch some American comedies – where actors pretend to be manchildren forever and act like they’re stoned on the couch – where in reality they’ve got wives and kids,” he laughs. “I felt like with this movie we wanted to do something where it’s a film about five friends, four of them grown ups while one of them absolutely wants to be a teenager again. Essentially it’s a film about him [Gary] trying to travel through time with the magic potion that is alcohol.” Even though the film contains a lot of drinking (it’s about a pub crawl after all) the trio behind the film don’t really drink anymore and have matured, especially Frost,
who as a person isn’t like his loveable pot dealing, binge-drinking slacker character Ed in Shaun Of The Dead. He’s married with a child and has basically quit drinking. His World’s End character Andy Knightley is a grumpy (for a reason) but successful lawyer. Frost thinks Andy is the closest character to him out of all the projects he, Pegg and Wright have completed including the TV show that brought the trio together Spaced. “When we made Shaun Of The Dead, Ed was probably the closest character to who I was at that point. In terms of Danny Butterman for Hot Fuzz, he really was fiction, you know, I’ve never been like Danny [a cuddly man-child]. There is a childlike innocence to me at certain points and I think as an actor, even if it’s only one percent of yourself in that role, you need to bring some of yourself to that for it to be true.” It’s as if Pegg and Frost have switched characters for this film, as Frost plays the straight man, the heart of the film while Pegg
“Essentially it’s a film about him [Gary] trying to travel through time with the magic potion that is alcohol.” is the offsider (albeit the central character). Wright says in the 15 years he has known Frost he has moved from acting like his character in Shaun... to becoming a loving husband and father. “I like this idea that the character is somebody who has put all of that behind
him,” Wright says. “He doesn’t drink anymore, he’s not the rugby boy brawler anymore, but then that spirit gets uncorked. It was a way of showing he’s changed, that he’s actually responsible whereas Gary (Simon’s character) is like the villain of the piece, he’s a man obsessed about driving his knights to their certain doom.” Given that this is the last of the Blood And Ice Cream films, was there any sadness associated with completing the trilogy? “It didn’t feel sad at all,” answers Frost. “I think, if anything, we were happy we got to finish something. What we do in terms of making films in Britain is fairly rare in that not only have we got to make one film but we’ve made three films and people have responded really well to them. We feel very lucky that we’ve had a chance to do that but in terms of the Blood And Ice Cream trilogy this now means there’s a chance for us to do something completely different. We won’t be shackled by the restraints that we have set ourselves for the criteria of these three films.” Wright would like to continue on film projects with Frost and Pegg but doesn’t know if they will be comedies. “We haven’t really discussed it to be honest. We only finished it [The World’s End] three weeks ago. So, I think sometime during the press tour we’ll be on a plane somewhere and someone will go, ‘Hey, I’ve got an idea’.”
WHO: Nick Frost and Edgar Wright WHAT: The World’s End (Universal) WHEN: Opens on Thu Aug 1
Film // Before Midnight (MA) AAAa This follow-up to Before Sunrise and Before Sunset from director/producer/co-writer Richard Linklater and stars/cowriters Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy proves quite unlike the first two outings, and is surely the one we all suspected (or feared) would eventually come along, as it’s revealed that the wicked world has had its way with Hawke’s Jesse and Delpy’s Celine. In Greece on holidays with their little twin daughters, the pair are at first seen in long, semi-improvised scenes as they discuss sending Hawke’s teen son back to his ex, the pressures waiting for them back home and the cosmic forces that bought them together. But obviously the stress of domestic arrangements, her work and more are bubbling beneath the surface, and when they wind up in a hotel room together and alone (after one
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of Linklater’s long, funny/ cutting walking sequences), it all comes out in what must be amongst the most daring and scarily believable fights between lovers captured in modern cinema, and one in which both actors allow themselves to look dangerously vulnerable and, at times, childishly horrible. Adding a dose of melancholy 40-something reality to the romantic mix, this is no ‘date movie’, and anyone expecting something swoony might be surprised – and a bit unsettled. And whatever next? Before 2am? Before Divorce? Before Rehab?
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Mercury Cinema The second half of 2013’s Adelaide Cinémathèque at the Mercury Cinema kicks off with a newly restored print of Alfred Hitchcock’s glorious North By Northwest (1959) on Thu Aug 1 at 7.30pm. And all Cinémathèque details are, as always, at mercurycinema.org.au. Already Released And Rated Cloudburst (MA) *** The Heat (MA) **1/2 Much Ado About Nothing (M) ****1/2 Pacific Rim (M) ***
Only God Forgives (MA)
This Is The End (MA)
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Danish writer/director Nicolas Winding Refn’s follow-up to Drive features star Ryan Gosling in almost silent, emotionally constipated form, and offers the same stillness and existential ponderousness taken to absurd extremes. Julian (Gosling) is a drug-smuggler in Bangkok’s underworld of murderers, corrupt cops and the like (not that this is entirely clear for some time as, you know, no one actually says anything, and nothing essentially happens). When his sadistic brother Billy (Tom Burke) is killed after carving up a prostitute, Julian is called into vengeful action by his visiting Mum Crystal (Kristin Scott Thomas as you’ve never seen her before – and might never want to again). Wandering around dark hallways in tiresomely wannabe-DavidLynch fashion, beating up strangers and trying to save targeted children, Gosling’s Julian eventually gets close to the feared Chang (frightening Vithaya Pansringarm), and if you think that this can’t end well then you’d be bloody well right. Featuring a view of Thailand so negative you can’t believe that he was ever allowed to film there, Refn’s preposterously violent effort intercuts torture with karaoke in a fashion that’s funny when it should be shocking, and ends with perhaps the most ludicrously gross moment seen in arthouse cinema in years (and apparently this was Gosling’s contribution to the script, bless him).
Drawn from the short Jay And Seth Versus The Apocalypse, this exceedingly unlikely comedy (from Hell), as co-written, co-produced and co-directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, is a guilty pleasure indeed, in which a small army of stars play ‘themselves’ and happily confirm that, yep, they’re a bunch of obnoxious, drugged-up, childish pussies. ‘Jay Baruchel’ visits pal ‘Seth Rogen’ in LA and is talked into attending a party at a mansion belonging to ‘James Franco’ in which we also find ‘Jonah Hill’, ‘Craig Robinson’, a coked-out ‘Michael Cera’ and many others, all improvising like mad as horrible ‘alternate reality’ versions of themselves. When an apparent earthquake turns out to be no less than the beginning of the Biblical Armageddon, James, Seth, Jay, Craig, Jonah and a grotesque Danny McBride are trapped and at each other’s throats, with elaborate gags about severed heads, urine-drinking, demonic rape and Emma Watson (very cool as ‘herself ’) thrown in to nicely preposterous effect. A disaster-movie-cum-horror-flick that revels in all the expected full-throttle bad language and gruesomely off-colour humour you’ve come to expect from this crowd, Rogen and longtime collaborator Goldberg’s improbable brainchild is one of the year’s most extreme comedies and yet, nevertheless, it’s also pretty damn funny – if not quite, um, rapturous.
Having built his reputation with the ‘torture porn’ Saw franchise, director James Wan delivers a story without the animal traps and surgical instruments, but one that is just as unbearable in the scary stakes. Set in the days of classic, Exorcist horror, when demonologists Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) Warren were travelling America, lecturing on their experiences with the paranormal. Known for their investigations at Amityville, the Warrens are invited to investigate some creepy disturbances in the home of a New England family, and a new nightmare begins. Written by brothers Chad and Carey Hayes (House of Wax, Mysterious Ways) and inspired by The Warrens’ actual case files, this part ‘found footage’ flick, part classic horror ticks all the scary boxes, but it unfortunately ticks most of the cliché boxes as well. The ‘real investigation/haunted house’ idea is a classic for a reason, but this sub-genre is ready for a fresh approach and it’s disappointing that James Wan wasn’t the one to give it to us. Although bringing something new to such an overdone story proves a difficult task, it’s easy to respect what Wan has done, bringing retro scares to a retro story. There is no original horror here, but it’s still pretty damn scary.
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The Conjuring (MA) AAAa
Opening But Unrated Behind The Candelabra (M), directed by Steven Soderbergh (for HBO immediately after Magic Mike and Side Effects) and based on Scott Thorson’s coauthored memoir, features Matt Damon as Scott, Michael Douglas as Liberace and Scott Bakula, Eddie Jemison (one of Ocean’s Eleven) and Debbie Reynolds. Co-writers/co-producers/codirectors Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte’s French comedic drama What’s In A Name? (Le Prénom) (M) toplines Patrick Bruel (nice in Paris-Manhattan) and Valérie Benguigui. And The Wolverine (M), star/producer Hugh Jackman’s sixth (until now) screen shot at the anguished character, is directed by James Mangold (he of Knight And Day and the 3:10 To Yuma remake) and has ‘Our Hugh’ alongside Will Yun Lee and Famke Janssen’s Jean Grey (um, spoilers?).
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Exchange Specialty Coffee Having opened last Tuesday, a small corner shopfront on Vardon Ave is making a big buzz in Adelaide’s east end. It’s called Exchange Specialty Coffee. The name of the place kind of speaks for itself. Helmed by Tom Roden, who used to work at infamous London café Workshop Coffee Co, Exchange is all about making specialty coffee accessible to the public. The shop is designed to facilitate conversations about coffee, this serving as the ‘exchange’. Exchange’s minimal interior is all about form
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and flow, with a communal bench space and two front counters. The ‘filter coffee’ counter is on the left and the ‘espresso coffee’ counter on the right. With their sleek beast of a Synesso machine brewing up all the coffees throughout the week, they will also feature ‘guest’ espresso coffee each month, with the ever-changing espresso line-up currently featuring Seasonal and Guatamalen La Perla and Puerta Verde coffee. Head on down and try one of their ‘coffee flights’, which includes an espresso and a cappuccino made from the same coffee shot.
WHAT: Exchange Specialty Coffee WHERE: 12 – 18 Vardon Ave, Adelaide WHEN: Mon – Fri 7am – 5pm & Sat 8am – 4pm INFO: exchangecoffee.com.au
For the sandwich: Butter Sliced rye bread Sliced Swiss cheese Corned beef, thinly sliced Sauerkraut Russian dressing For the Russian dressing: 1/3 cup of mayonnaise 1 1/2 Tbsp Tomato Sauce 1 1/2 teaspoons prepared horseradish 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce Salt, to taste Freshly ground black pepper, to taste Method 1. Butter one side of bread, placing the buttered side down on a large piece of wax paper. Top each with a slice of Swiss cheese and then divide half of the corned beef among them.
Paracombe Winery’s Reuben Recipe The annual Winter Reds Festival weekend will return this Sat Jul 27 – Sun
Jul 28, the festival seeing cellar doors all across the scenic Adelaide Hills stoking their wood ovens and filling glasses to the brim with the finest regional vintage. Paracombe Winery will be dishing up Reuben sandwiches over the weekend in celebration of their namesake, fivevarietal blended wine ‘The Reuben’. They’ve shared the recipe with Rip It Up, check it out:
2. Using paper towels, squeeze out excess moisture from the sauerkraut. Divide the sauerkraut among the sandwiches and top each with one tablespoon of Russian dressing. Add another layer of corned beef and a second slice of Swiss cheese to each sandwich. Top with the remaining bread slices; butter the side facing out.
The Free Beer Show As part of National Science week, the team at The Other Side Of Science, a student body at the University Of Adelaide, will be running a show featuring the most interesting scientific aspects of the drink that is universally loved around the world: beer. So, love beer? Presenting The Free Beer Show, where the show is free but the beer is not…well, sort of. The Free Beer Show will unveil the secrets of beer that you never knew existed, in which you can try an 8000-year-old ancient brew from Egypt, learn how to really fix a hangover or uncork the superiority of wine drinkers with their guide to pretentious beer-drinking. Register your interest and head along to the free event at the Belgian Beer Café on Mon Aug 12, Tue Aug 13 and Thu Aug 15 at 7pm. Adults only!
WHERE: Belgian Beer Café, 27-29 Ebenezer Plc, Adelaide WHEN: Mon Aug 12, Tue Aug 13 & Thu Aug 15 REGISTER: thefreebeershow.eventbrite.com
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Though you are in a position of strength, the past is a large presence over your shoulder. It will be easy to fall into comfortable habits, if you aren’t watchful. To be creative is less comfortable, but much more interesting and satisfying. Stay with it – and be open to all sorts of options.
Gemini 21.05/21.06
All meaningful perception is happening through instinct and feeling at the moment. Emotions are a hair’s breadth away. Be focussed on community, understanding that this is an emotional time and that silence and watchfulness might be more appropriate, than lots of words.
Cancer 22.06/22.07
The sun is in Cancer for only a few more days. If there is anything unresolved, now is a good time to put it on the table and sort it out. Though there are some tricky stories in the air, you still have access to the kind of emotional flow that can wash such difficulty out of the way.
Leo 23.07/22.08
Venus is your refuge. She is the goddess and planet of delight. And there’s your clue. If things aren’t falling into place quite the way you imagined they would, seek out every single available source of simple delight. It could be a waterfall. It could be a sunset. Feed your heart.
Virgo 23.08/22.09
Life is quietly humming along. Even if there’s a lot of noise on the surface, something inside you is purring along unaffectedly. This humming place is really important. It’s your place of sanity and centeredness. If you can find it, chances are those around you will be benefitted.
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Libra 23.09/23.10
It is important to find your foundations. You can feel a wobbliness in your whole being when they are not there. At the moment a lot of emotional intelligence is required. Part of knowing that, is knowing that what is needed, is a little vulnerability. Strengthen your sensitivity.
Scorpio 24.10/21.11
It is hugely important that you don’t get caught in repeating old habits. It will be a breakthrough into new territory, that puts a substantial smile on your face – and in your belly. You have a whole lot of support. You will only come to know it by communicating. Don’t isolate.
Sagittarius 22.11/21.12
The moon starts her week in Sagittarius. This wave of lunar energy may make you feel more emotional than usual. Or it may inspire you to trust your feelings and instigate your next adventure. It is a good time for birthing things, though birth is certainly quite intense.
Capricorn 22.12/19.01
It’s going to take all your groundedness to see off the challenge of the temptation to be hot-headed. Before you get frustrated, ask yourself whether what you are getting frustrated about is worth a wave of tension. Carry your wishes and dreams lightly. Be gentle with yourself.
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Taurus 21.04/20.05
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Group Show While the bottles of nosh usually disappear within the first hour, a row of red stickers at any opening exhibition is something less common. Hugo Michell Gallery on Portrush Rd aims to combat the young art collector’s fear with its latest exhibition Group Show, a collaborative showcase featuring works from 15 of our best contemporary artists priced between $500 to $1500 – meaning if you really love the artwork, you could, realistically, take it home. Featuring Ghost Patrol, Sam Songailo, James Dodd, Narelle Autio, Paul Sloan, Troy Innocent, Rip It Up 2013 Young Artist winner Amy Joy Watson and a heap more, the showcase will be held in the front and back gallery until Sat Jul 27.
Caption: Paul Sloan, Untitled, 2013
The moon is in fiery Sagittarius early in the week. This gives you the impetus to either get to the truth, or if that isn’t easily forthcoming, go fishing. For the rest, there is too much emotion around for you to feel entirely comfortable – unless you can make feeling your adventure.
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WHAT: Group Show WHERE: Hugo Michell Gallery, 260 Portrush Rd, Beulah Pk WHEN: Until Sat Jul 27
Aquarius 20.01/18.02
Relating is foremost in your mind. There is plenty of emotional intensity around. Your job is to find ways to express yourself that turns turmoil into something a whole lot more fruitful. Perhaps you can offer an overview, or maybe you can show a way to bridge sky and earth.
Pisces 19.02/20.03
Though there’s tension at the beginning of the week, it soon changes and you are back in the slipstream. There is still a plethora of planets in water signs, which suits you to a tee. It means that life is likely to flow. It means you can move, rather than constantly navigate obstacles.
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Caption: Jemimah Davis, Sillicone Nozzles, 2013
Aries 21.03/20.04
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Fluorescence Contemporary art prize finalist Jemimah Davis’ work explores the combination and distillation of formal properties, such as light, colour, rhythm and repetition, embedded within found and commonplace objects. These ideas serve as the basis for her 2013 SALA exhibition Fluorescence, a showcase of brightly-hued, illuminated sculptures crafted from everyday ‘stuff ’ found in the studio,
the home, op shops and hardware stores and imbued with a new aesthetic and meaning – using materials like glue, thousands of straws, silicone nozzles and hundreds of patty pans. Head along to the opening night on Wed Aug 7, from 6pm.
WHAT: Jemimah Davis: Fluorescene WHERE: Urban Cow Studio, 11 Frome St, Adelaide WHEN: Wed Aug 7 – Sat Aug 31 OPENING: Wed Aug 7 from 6pm – 8pm
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Simon Meli At Midwest Trader Midwest Trader has long been associated as the city’s prime vintage denim, leather and Americana destination. Now, it has another feather to add to its cap – celebrity meet and greets. This Friday, The Voice finalist Simon Meli – the guy with the long hair on Team Ricky who sang songs such as The Rolling Stones’ Sympathy For The Devil and Elton John’s Tiny Dancer – will be in town to perform at Jive with his band, The Widowbirds. This not only affirms that Meli is more than just the usual disposable reality TV star, but is also a legend, taking time out of his day to meet some of his Adelaide fans and supporters. In fact, Simon has been
The Little Berry Markets The way things are going, next Sun Aug 4 is either going to be drizzly and grey or bright and brisk. Either is the perfect climate to head for a leisurely drive to Rosemount Estate in McLaren Vale to check out the Little Berry Markets. The Rosemount Estate Cellar Door is hosting its next Little Berry Market, which will feature live music by local band The Hushes, as well as vintage and artisan vendors
&OW Winter Range Andorwith, a grassroots fashion brand, has expanded from a limited run of tees and muscle tops into a new collection for winter that includes trusty crew neck sweaters. The crews come in both men and women fits in charcoal and heather grey, with the ladies range featuring a longer cut to ensure they fit the body without compromising fit in the shoulder, although the best part is that this way your girlfriend doesn’t have to steal your jumper – she can have her own. The 80 percent cotton and
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touring with The Widowbirds since before The Voice, with their debut album Shenandoah as well as new material to share when they play at Jive Bar on Fri Jul 26 for the Moment In The Sun tour. Tickets for the show are $12 + BF from jivevenue.com and Moshtix. Given Midwest Trader’s expertise in vintage denim, including stocking loads of American-imported Wrangler, Lee and Levi’s denim press-stud shirts and denim jackets, it seems like a haven for Meli and any fan of rootsy blues rock.
WHAT: Simon Meli meet and greet WHERE: Midwest Trader, Ebenezer Pl WHEN: Fri Jul 26, 2pm
and street food... Oh, and wine (of course). Wine improves every situation, and bargain hunting is no exception. If this isn’t your first Little Berry expedition, you’d be happy to know that the stalls change with each market, so you’re sure to find something new.
WHAT: Little Berry Markets WHERE: Rosemount Estate Cellar Door, McLaren Vale WHEN: Sun Aug 4, 10am-4pm
20 percent spandex ensure your mum won’t shrink the shit out of it, and will continue to be the comfiest thing on hand until summer comes. The designs are hand-printed at the Glenelg studio, which is run by brothers Daniel and Dominic Smith. In a short space of time Andorwith have infiltrated our neighbours, having their designs stocked in Kiki Studio in Victoria’s Brunswick and Geelong, yet are still available at Zero down Glenelg and at their online store. Andorwith.com
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Upside Down
Zero Dark Thirty
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Icon / MA / 157 mins
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Beware any movie that announces that its unknown director, in its own trailer, is a ‘visionary’, because that’s a euphemism for ‘he spent heaps of money on a ridiculous movie we don’t understand and can’t sell’. Said director here is Argentinian Juan Solanas, and this FX-stuffed Canada/ France co-production is another lumbering redo of Romeo And Juliet, albeit one set in a twitty fantasy/sci-fi situation that’s so relentlessly obvious in its ‘symbolism’ you’ll be giggling from the start – before boredom takes hold. Two close-together worlds exist with different gravities, with the upper world rich and snotty and the lower poor and exploited. First up we’re introduced to ‘lower world’ Adam ( Jim Sturgess) as he meets, via a mountain peak, ‘upper world’ Eden (Kirsten Dunst). After his apprehension by guards and an apparent accident we cut 10 years into the future, after much ponderousness and husky Sturgess voice-over, to a time when he sees her on a TV (and amnesiac?) and sets out to find her above, breaking accepted laws and bringing into play a fantastically ludicrous anti-gravity cream that has a tendency to burst into flame.
Director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal’s follow-up to their bitterly divisive The Hurt Locker is again not what it might appear: whereas Locker was less about war than what it is to have a death wish, ZDT is less about the true-life search for Osama bin Laden than the red tape one woman must wade through to prove that a mean old bastard is living in suburban Pakistan. Maya ( Jessica Chastain, perfectly cast as a character that suffers from ‘artistic license’) is a CIA agent introduced in 2003 observing the torture (sorry, ‘interrogation’) of a terror suspect and then, over a period of years, sticking to her conviction that bin Laden’s hiding in plain sight, while butting heads with the blokes who run the chaotic operation, who are torn between the fear of making fools of themselves and wanting to blow shit up. The first two-thirds of the drama details her fighting with superiors (particularly Kyle Chandler’s Joseph Bradley and James Gandolfini’s CIA Director), gaining support and watching as friends depart (and die), before we finally get to the SEAL-storming stuff which proves effective, given that we know exactly what’s going to happen.
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If I Tell You… I’ll Have To Kill You Michael Robotham (Ed) / Guardian Faber / 319pp / $24.99
Aussie crime writer extraordinaire Robotham assembles 20ish of his colleagues and asks them the big questions: How did they start in the genre? How do you get published? And what are the secrets, um, if any? The results are often fascinating: Peter Corris muses that there’s nothing else for him to do in this life but write; Kerry Greenwood gets rosily autobiographical and Leigh Redhead admits that a background as a stripper helped her understand seediness. There do seem to be golden rules, including research, writing schedules and refusing voices of doubt (including your own). MDB
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Jack The Giant Slayer
Warner / M / 100 mins
Warner / M / 114 mins
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Steve Carell stars in director Don Scardino’s comedy - and has trouble convincing as a bastard. In a 1982-set flashback we see how Burt found his calling via a magic set and video by Rance Holloway (Alan Arkin), and how he and weird friend Anton became ‘Burt Wonderstone’ (Carell) and ‘Anton Marvelton’ (Steve Buscemi), Vegas legends who now find themselves bored and turning against each other, especially as Burt’s become wildly egocentric. When the break-up comes, and Burt gets fired by boss Doug ( James Gandolfini), our penniless hero must first turn to their latest assistant (Olivia Wilde) and start performing at the only place that’ll have him: an entertainers’ retirement home where, of course, Arkin’s aged Rance turns up to steal scenes. Or does he? In fact, the best performance here is surely from Jim Carrey, who appears as Steve Gray, a ‘street magician’ given to selfharming stunts for the cable show Brain Rapist, which is an obvious send-up of Criss Angel's Mind Freak.
An epic fairy tale from producer/ director Bryan Singer, this has a pleasing cast upstaged by giants designed to be as grotesque as possible. Jack (Nicholas Hoult) was obsessed with giants as a lad (the opening scene has him read a story involving unfinished-looking CGI). As a young man he’s ordered by his uncle to sell a horse, but at the market he instead runs into Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson) and royal Elmont (Ewan McGregor) and manages to swap the horse for beans given to him by a fugitive monk. Naturally, Jack’s uncle throws the beans away at the same time that Isabelle escapes the castle rather than have King Brahmwell (Ian McShane) make her marry nasty Roderick (Stanley Tucci). Soon she’s riding the beanstalk (so to speak) to the land of the giants of lore, and Jack, Elmont, Roderick and others must climb up to save her. Once all this plot’s out of the way, you’re free to enjoy the loathsome giants, grubby, dribbling, nose-picking uglies with horrible breath, vengeful attitudes and star voices that prove weirdly unrecognisable.
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Ballet Revolución enjoyed its world premiere across Australian in 2011 and is now returning to once again delight audiences with an explosive display of contemporary ballet from some 20 young Cuban dancers set to the music of artists such as Ricky Martin, Prince, Shakira, Beyoncé and others played by a live band.
When the company first toured Australia two years ago, however, few knew how successful it would become. Ballet Revolución has now played the world, with sell out seasons in cities such as London, Frankfurt, Paris, Vienna and Zurich. “We really had no idea how it would go the first time we toured Ballet Revolución,” Brisbane-born choreographer Aaron Cash, an original member of Tap Dogs, laughs. “We were just throwing stuff up against the wall to see what stuck but, as it’s turned out, the show has been a huge success.” Ballet Revolución begins with a short, traditional ballet piece before suddenly exploding into a non-stop contemporary dance extravaganza. “We’ve not reinvented the wheel by any means,” Cash concedes. “What we have done is created a high-energy show that is very entertaining. And the dancers are simply amazing.”
The choreographer then goes on to say that this show will be slightly different to the one that came to town two years ago. “There’s a couple of brand new pieces and it has also evolved over the last couple of years. We’ve tightened it and tweaked it, as you do, and the performers have also grown as well. We’ve also polished it up a lot since that first tour – everything from the costumes down to the lighting effects. We’ve also added some dancers because it’s a pretty gruelling two-hour show for them. And the band now sounds even better too.” What helps make Ballet Revolución such a success is the eight-piece band that features some fabulous players under the direction of bass player Oscar Hernandez. “It’s exactly the same band as last time.
I don’t think I’ve ever been involved with a show where the musicians don’t get a bit bored after three months and wanna leave, but these guys have all been really content to stay on. So they are obviously still enjoying it as much as the dancers. They are such incredible musicians. Our trumpet player, Thommy Garcia Rojas, has worked with The Afro-Cuban All Stars and The Buena Vista Social Club and also with Wynton Marselis when he went to Cuba.”
WHAT: Ballet Revolución WHERE: Her Majesty’s Theatre WHEN: Continues until Sat Jul 27
Fast Times// Musicians, walkers, chefs, rally drivers, opera singers, dog groomers, strawberry pickers, film buffs and video gamers – this week’s Fast Times is for you. While we may be full-time students, many of us have full-time interests, hobbies and passions to contend with as well. Sure, a lot of us may be counting on our degrees for full-time work in the future, but sometimes it’s our hobbies and passions on the side that give us the most fulfillment, enjoyment, and – potentially – rewards. This week I’ll be covering the 2013 International Songwriting Competition and the Layne Beachley Aim For The Stars 2014 Grant – two incredible opportunities that could turn your hobbies into full-time careers, in no time at all. For anyone with the drive, and passion to do something different; if there’s a will, there’s a way.
2013 International Songwriting Competition If you’ve got a knack for songwriting (whether you’re a music student or not), but have never tested out your talents, now’s your chance. The 2013 International Songwriting Competition is an incredibly diverse competition on a world-wide scale, with the ability to launch you straight into the music industry. As the name implies, the comp is open to applicants all around the globe. While yes, this means that competition will be particularly fierce, it also means that the prizes on offer are a seriously big deal. The competition will give away more than $150,000 in cash and prizes (shared among winners), including an overall Grand Prize consisting of $25,000 (US) cash and $30,000 in prizes. The competition is open to amateur and professional songwriters, and offers applicants over 22 categories to enter. These include Adult Contemporary, Blues, Children’s Music, Dance/Electronica, Lyrics Only, Music Video, Performance, R&B, and Rock.
Fitzy’s 5 *Disclaimer* Before you dismiss this section entirely, please rest assured that Fitzy’s 5 has absolutely nothing to do with SA’s favourite AFL player turned D-grade celeb/A-grade idiot—Ryan Fitzgerald. Instead, Fitzy’s 5 is one of Adelaide’s most popular annual fun runs/walks (up to you). On Sun Aug 4 participants will run/walk five kms around the streets of Adelaide, past the River Torrens, Adelaide Oval, and through the North Adelaide parklands, raising money for the Royal Adelaide Hospital’s Research Fund and cancer research at the Hanson Institute. Fitzy, in this case, refers to South Australian dual Olympian, long-distance runner David Fitzsimons who passed away
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Layne Beachley Aim For The Stars 2014 Grant Layne Beachley is pretty cool. As well as dominating every surfing comp she entered, and being living proof that destiny exists (her last name contains the word beach and she’s a world champion surfer. Come on guys), she’s also a huge advocate for education and women’s rights. In 2003 Beachley launched the Layne Beachley Aim For The Stars Foundation. The aim of the foundation is to provide Aussie girls and women with financial and moral support, in order to help them reach their academic, sporting, community and cultural goals. The foundation has given away $500,000 over the past nine years, shared between 270 applicants. So, if you’re a woman aged between 12 to 26, Layne wants to help you out. She urges any hard-working female who is committed to pursuing her passion and needs financial support, to apply for the grant in 2014. If you’re a student, this is a great opportunity to get funding for further studies
and exchanges. But as Beachley states, you don’t have to be studying to take advantage of the grant. In the past, grants have been awarded to aspiring ballerinas, opera singers, marine scientists, divers, rally drivers, chefs and hockey players. The foundation has transformed dreams into reality for women of all ages in a huge range of areas. To apply for the grant in 2014, you’ll need to fill out and submit an application form to the Layne Beachley Aim For The Stars Foundation. As part of your application form, you’ll have to mention why you deserve to receive sponsorship, what your goals are and how you plan to achieve them and how the grant will assist you in achieving your goals. With this, you’ll have to submit a resume, give evidence of your commitment and dedication to your goal, and give two references to support your application (school principal, coach or member of relevant association).
For more information on the grant, entry requirements, and to apply, check out aimforthestars.com.au.
According to its website, the International Songwriting Competition “has the most prestigious panel of judges of all the songwriting and music contests in the world”. Judging your songwriting abilities in 2013 will be Josh Turner, Dido, Kate Miller-Heidke, Nas, Selena Gomez, members from Garbage, Joshua Redman, as well as big-time music industry executives including presidents from Universal Republic, Capitol/Virgin, Columbia, Alligator, MTV, VEVO and Nickelodeon. To say you’ll be playing with the big guns is a huge understatement. Sixty-eight winners will be selected and entrants will be judged on creativity, originality, lyrics, melody, arrangement, and overall likeability. You can send your entry through the mail, or submit it online. Songs can be submitted in CD or MP3 format, and must be accompanied by two lyric sheets. Entries must be submitted by Wed Sep 18.
For more information on submission, entry requirements, fees and rules, check out songwritingcompetition.com.
from non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Named after David Fitzsimons, Fitzy’s 5 aims to raise awareness of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, as well as raise much needed funds to support vital cancer research. It’s also just a great excuse to get away from the computer and start exercising.
Fitzy’s 5 will take place on Sun Aug 4 at the Torrens Parade Ground. Registration will set you back $27 if you’re an adult. Children under 14 can expect to pay $10 and family packages (2x adult, 2x children) can be purchased for $60. Enter online at athleticssa.com.au before Mon Jul 29 to avoid late fees.
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Waste (Ivy League)
Specter At The Feast
Indie pop Sydneysider band, Sures showcase their talent to a profound effect in their latest track. Interspersed with a summer side feel, the melodic guitar work and haunting vocals overwhelm the listener. Rocking a smooth indie vibe with a slight and understated raw edge, Sures’ have peaked in this two minute and 47 second awe-inspiring sensation. With undeniable momentum and an inherent dance-ability, Waste is an ear tingling pleasure.
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The Dillinger Escape Plan One Of Us Is The Killer (Party Smasher Inc)
There is nothing worse than a hipster apathetically sighing, ‘I liked their early work’. American mathcore band, The Dillinger Escape Plan contends with this for world’s worst sound. The track begins in an ocean of dull and despite desperate and futile attempts of revival, remains boring through and through.
Tythe Careless Woman (Pias)
Tythe is seemingly a mystery. With an internet presence on the smaller side of the musical scope and a mere 490 likes on Facebook, Tythe is almost an unknown entity. Perhaps that’s for the best, with her latest track Careless Woman aching for some lyrical assistance. The electronica style beats are decent and evocative, but the lyrics. Oh the lyrics. Careless Woman is deeply and painfully repetitive. This track is a weaker version of Daft Punk’s Around the World. Do the world a favour Tythe, keep the pedestrian nonsense to 2009.
Oxford & Co. Love Is Gone (Independent)
Indie folk enthusiasts Oxford & Co. evoke a plodding Johnny Cash inspired melody in their latest track deliberating on the lament of a broken heart. The talented duo delivers a soaring chorus with a refreshing yet familiar edge. Laden with modern electric undertones, the tune displays an ever-present country flair. Similar to Mumford and Sons meets She & Him, Oxford & Co. will dredge up your inner melancholy but leave you smiling.
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Karnivool Asymmetry (Sony)
AAAAa Karnivool’s highly anticipated third album, Asymmetry has proved it’s been worth the four-year wait, with the boys from Perth delivering a heavy hitting, extremely diverse record that is sure to set them apart from the rest of the progressive rock scene. Evolving on their previous album,
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Sound Awake, Karnivool have adopted a darker, heavier sound, with less emphasis on hooks and rhythm. A harsh dissonance exists between distortion-laden gutiar, eerie and melodic vocals, and the powerful, dominating drums of Steve Judd. All these factors combine to show that it is is their most complex, and most satisfying record to date. The title of the first track, Naschash, which is Hebrew for ‘learn by experience’, is a fair summarisation of where Karnivool’s journey has come since their birth in 1997, while songs like AM War and The Refusal provide bone shattering, heavy rock, the album takes a slower turn on on the back half. The second half is slower, stripped back and much more reflective than anything Karnivool have done before. Sky Machine and Aplha Omega provide a huge contrast, with these seven minute epics showing just how much Karnivool have evolved in the last four years. Ned Raggatt
It seems like the sun is setting on the career of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, which is unfortunate because they’ve released consistently good albums over the journey, despite the highs and lows experienced by the band. Right from their debut there was a touch of class about this band and without a doubt on the verge of a major breakthrough. Album number seven, Specter At The Feast, was released under the band’s own label Abstract Dragon and serves as the perfect tonic to support mourning the loss of the father of bassist Robert Levon Been, who had a significant influence on the band. BRMC definitely were reinvigorated with drummer Leach Shapiro’s inclusion, who brings a fresh edge. The brooding mood that reigns over Fire Walker is full of the usual BRMC fare but its the second track Let The Day Begin that is the most exciting (originally a cover of Michael Been’s former band The Call). Other memorable moments include the likes of Lullaby and Some Kind Of The Ghost which are true to form in the BRMC play book. There are no moments of regret as this album proves to be one of their strongest to date and will get the thumbs up from fans. Rob Lyon
Wavves & Bad// Dreems Ed Castle, Sat Jul 20 (Photos by Jennifer Sando) (Review by Katie Bryant)
AAA Crashing down like an ocean of cool, Californian surf rock outfit, Wavves, brought a ferocious edge to their sold out show at the Ed Castle on a damp Adelaide evening. Supporting local act Bad//Dreems took the crowd in, mesmerising patrons with a chilled and dark pop vibe before Wavves vibrantly took to the stage. But the salt-water triad had some difficulty rolling into shore, with technical complications plaguing the the set. Struggling to get through the first few songs, the lo-fi noise rock unit persevered until the unelicited, lengthy foreplay was over and the night had truly begun. From there, the surf punks skyrocketed into a sexy complaint rock swell. The crowd were frenzied: throwing shirts, shoes and themselves sporadically around the room in a true ‘I don’t give a fuck’ manner. The tone intensified with the punk rock mentality hijacking the small, relaxed venue. Sweet buckets of feel good complaint rock filled the humid room. The sound, although
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You Am I
Frank Turner
Cloud Control
Kirin J Callinan
Tape Deck Heart
Dream Cave
Embracism
Sound As Ever (Superunreal Edition)
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English troubadour Frank Turner’s fifth LP opens with Recovery, a jaunty sing-a-long that sounds so happy it’s easy to overlook bleak lyrics such as ‘I’m as lost as lost can be’. But that sense of despair becomes increasingly obvious over the course of the album, which was written in the aftermath of a serious relationship collapsing. The Way I Tend To Be and the instantly familiar Losing Days both let you down gently, folksy melodies offsetting melancholic introspection. When Plain Sailing Weather hits, it’s clear that this is Turner’s grimmest album – and this is someone who has previously made a song about a friend dying from cancer sound upbeat. ‘Now I’ve fucked up every little goddamn thing,’ Frank howls, and Tell Tale Signs and Anymore reflect on the breakup with similar candour. The latter is particularly intimate, with Turner backed just by a mournful acoustic guitar. While there are moments of lightness – such as the campy Four Simple Words, or the celebratory Oh Brother – the overall tone is reflected in The Fisher King Blues: ‘We were born without meaning, we will die without reason, and the world will not shrug all that much at our passing.’ Owen Heitmann
As with most airy, manic pixie dream girl style rock, it can go wrong very quickly. Alternative Sydney rockers Cloud Control manage to fool the listener for the first six minutes and 14 seconds of Dream Cave. It’s a cruel and taunting turn of fate that the album starts off so well and then explodes into blandness. It’s like ordering a chocolate cake feast, having a taste of that sweet rich heaven and then it being callously snatched away and replaced with saltines. The album suffers from sporadic mood swings, but if you wade through the pain of tracks like Island Living you’ll find morsels such as Happy Birthday to sustain your indie-rocking self. Dojo Rising really is the star of Dream Cave. It hits the mark in the world of dreamy, smooth alternate rock. Live in blissful ignorance; pretend Dream Cave is an EP and not a 11 track disappointment. Cloud Control is the love child of Vampire Weekend and The Temper Trap. But unfortunately Dream Cave is the spoilt, whiny brat that didn’t live up to its parents’ expectations and in all honesty should have been aborted. Katie Bryant
Callinan explores a unique flavour in Embracism, discovering a sound that hasn’t been touched in recent past. But that’s probably for the best as the sound is shit. Callinan preaches the message of ‘Let’s embrace difference’. It’s a sincere sentiment and one that endears him to his audience. But maybe the gravelly singer would have better spent his time writing a Tweet instead of a clusterfuck of an album. Callinan is famed for being a provocateur having performed in a lace nightie and reportedly attempting to induce a seizure with Kris Moyes as a part of their combined set at the Sugar Mountain festival. Without the distraction of controversial antics, Callinan’s sound is unbearable in its dullness, over indulgence and seeps unrelenting idiocy. The album has an ever-present industrial tone with a theatrical edge. The gravelly melodic vocals do have a semblance of talent within, but the poorness of writing vastly overshadows this. Victoria M. is the most bearable of Embracism. But if you’re a masochist as Callinan claims to be himself, put Scraps on repeat. Katie Bryant
Well, this is the album that heralded the beginning of a remarkable career of one of Australia’s finest bands.Remastering has made the album sound brighter but still rocks just as well as it did before. The breakthrough single Berlin Chair, Adam’s Ribs and Jaimme’s Got A Gal have all stood the test of time and are hallmarks of the live set. It is hard to top the previously unreleased acoustic versions of Rosedale and Trainspottin’ and the David Bianco remix of Berlin Chair, which was included on the US version of the album. The dynamic live set recorded in Seattle shows the intensity and rawness of the band on the verge of conquering the US. There are some awesome moments on Sound As Ever with the title track proving to be one of their best rock out tracks and Ordinary in all its remastered glory a superb ballad. Rob Lyon
still pitchy from technical difficulties, remained true in rocker spirit, serving as a faultless headbanging soundtrack. Whilst Wavves might not be the next rock god assemblage, the US mad men guarantee punters a good time. Front man Nathan Williams delivered a raw yet polished vocal, every syllable dripping with an urgent intensity. However, lyrically Wavves leave a lot to the imagination having a tendency to mournfully and perhaps intentionally limit themselves to surf rock simplicity. Highlights of the set include the illustriously angst-ridden performance of original track Green Eyes and a cover of Sonic Youth’s 100%. The popular Sail To The Sun off their latest album Afraid Of Heights was also a stand out. The finale was one to be contended with; the band’s every movement seeming to blaze with a mad roar. The unapologetically angry racket blasters left nothing behind, literally tearing up the stage into oblivion. Guitars unforgivingly smashed drums. The lead vocalist and lion lookalike bassist ferociously enacted their surfy ways, indulging in a dramatic bout of crowd surfing. The vigorous double act even went so far as to pull unknowing yet eager fans onstage. The crowd could not be satiated, responding with endless chants of “One more”, to which Williams unironically and in true noise rock form replied, “We can’t. Everything’s fucking broken”.
Polo Club Live For Tonight (Independent)
AAAA Melbourne hip hop boys Polo Club bring something unexpected to the Aussie rap scene in Live For Tonight. Undeniably easy to listen to, the four track EP is astounding in its universal likability. The four-piece group are known for their smooth yet charged blend of hip hop layered with electronic finishes. Having shared the stage with rapper greats such as Ghostface Killah and Roots Manuva as well as supporting new school innovators such as Das Racist and Theophilus London, the Melbourne players are well on their way to making a name for themselves. Listen out for silver-tongued lyrics and rad beats on the track, She’s a Pro featuring Tali Gal-on as guest vocalist. Katie Bryant RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au
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Since they first began jamming in the summer of 2012, Bad//Dreems have toured nationally with Children Collide, celebrated three stand-alone single releases and recently came in at number 13 on Triple J's Unearthed charts for the most played tracks in 2013.
Fresh from band practice at Fish Shop Rehearsals in Port Adelaide, guitarist Alex Cameron discusses the mystery-laden tales behind their debut EP, Badlands. “The whole of the Badlands thing – is Adelaide,” Cameron reveals. “This is the side of Adelaide that’s really interesting. On the surface it’s quite conservative and a little sleepy, but when you dig a little deeper you find out about all of these bizarre happenings and murders. I guess the band’s dark twist would have something to do with me. I’m definitely the weirdest in the band. I’m obsessed with true crime and I spend lots of my spare time reading books about different
murders and watching the crime channel.” Reflective of the mundane, morbid and somewhat nostalgic tales from Adelaide’s dark side, Badlands is a result of sessions with producer Woody Annison (Black Cab, Rocket Science) that includes debut single Chills, which was recorded with Jack Farley (Twerps, Beaches) and Johnny McKay (Fascinator, Children Collide). Bad//Dreems’ latest single Hoping For, though, could be seen as the band’s nostalgic ode to their relationships of the future and possibly a reflection of those in the past. “I guess it’s a song about admitting your faults to other people and promising them that in the future you will be able to change your ways. Everyone at times lets the people closest to them down. We don’t give them the time or love they deserve and the song is saying, ‘I know this, but in the future, when I’ve sorted all of my problems out, I’ll be there for you’.” The single’s video clip follows this story and is about heading out to the country, shedding your trappings and discovering yourself.
“It was interesting when it came out,” Cameron reveals. “Some people have liked it, but some people have said, ‘Ooh they’re just taking the piss out of bogan culture trying to be people that they’re not’. This certainly was not the intention at all." Bad//Dreems work closely with people who share the same idea about getting out and making it happen. All too casually, Cameron reveals he has plans to start his own label. “Listening to music is an obsession. I tend to listen to music that is put out by people in a relatively small music community and all of the music we like, has risen with the same attitude. Right now, I think the best stuff in world is here. It’s a damn good time to be involved with Australian music.”
After six years together, soul/funk outfit The Transatlantics have announced they’re taking an indefinite break from live performances.
From releasing their debut record in 2010 on a UK label, to performing on the stages of Big Day Out, Falls Festival, Playground Weekender, Parklife and many more, the hiatus comes with great opportunity to pour some creative energy into their new and existing projects. From their days as a residency band at Rocket Bar’s Sookie Sookie club night, to their 2007 performance alongside Eddie Bo, the band’s history is rich with memories. This is your chance to see them one last time at Jive on Sat Jul 27, tickets are available via Moshtix.
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MusicSA is South Australia’s peak contemporary music body. Their official site retains a unique mix of content for entertainment, for assisting bands with their careers, and for industry connections. To celebrate its 10th year, the site is announcing the launch of several new activities. This includes a new partnership with industry blog play/ pause/play in revamping the gig guide and SA Band Buzz, introduction of new resources for artists and the industry, more news about MusicSA itself and new columns that celebrate SA music industry leaders and 'bands-to-watch'. The site is certainly a go-to destination for aspiring industry.
WHO: Bad//Dreems, Summer Flake and Ocean Party WHAT: Badlands EP (Mirador Records) WHERE: Hotel Metropolitan WHEN: Sat Jul 27
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Midcoast Revival at Brighton Bar Celebrating the glory days of yesteryear on SA's mid-coast, Nathan Grey of Shapes Divide and Tommy Woolcock of Mayweather are bringing them back. Together they reminisce the days which saw The Bearded Clams tear up Seaford Soccer Club, Testeagles smash it at Porties Footy Club and Clowns Of Decadence at St Vinnies. Those days are set to be re-lived with a huge show at Brighton Bar on Sat Jul 27. Featuring the likes of Mayweather, Shapes Divide, Walk The Plank, Desert Crooks and Exit, The Midcoast Revival reassures us that the glory days are certainly not lost.
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