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It’s always a nice surprise when international artists fondly remember Adelaide – and don’t just pretend to. This week we were proud as punch to hear that Adelaide has been seared in Grouplove’s memory as the place where they had the biggest night of their tour. Through their description, which you can read on p 12, it seems to us that they made it to none other than Supermild after their gig at the Gov last year – and can’t wait to be back for another longneck after next year’s Big Day Out. This week we also caught up with Icelandic songstress Emiliana Torrini, who gave some special insights into what Tookah is all about (p 15). It doesn’t seem to be common knowledge that Torrini is also responsible for penning our Kylie Minogue’s 2003 hit Slow. Torrini spoke fondly of Kyles, calling her a “real talent”, although noting that she “doesn’t always get the credit that she deserves”. We think she’ll be okay.

We also caught up with Regurgitator (p 14), who had a pretty unglamorous time creating new album Dirty Pop Fantasy, unless of course you count having a curtain to separate you in a single bedroom in Hong Kong luxury, Magic Dirt’s Adalita, who is continuing her solo aspirations with All Day Venus and comic book creatives 12 Foot Ninja.

There are some strange tales hidden in this week’s issue. Read on if you aren’t afraid of digging a little deeper into some of your favourite artist’s mind (and – in the case of Emiliana Torrini – spirit).

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At just 25, RiRi has 12 number one Billboard singles and 150 million album and single sales to her credit. But more importantly she’s no longer with that Über-douche Chris Brown.

Catch the Rude Boy and Umbrella singer at the Entertainment Centre on Thu Sep 26.

Popular Irish comedian Jason Byrne will drop past for a good dose of ‘craic’ at Her Majesty’s Theatre on Mon Sep 30.

English band Swervedriver, part of the classic Creation Records roster, will blast their entire 1991 classic debut album Rise at the Gov on Wed Oct 2.

Speeding along this week...

Aimee Francis The Sydney-based Aimee Francis will play her second of two Adelaide shows at the Grace Emily Hotel on Sun Sep 29.

Nought The latest ADT production Nought is the brainchild of Adelaide dancer Daniel Jaber. Peep the talented local’s work at the Samstag Museum on Thu Sep 26 and Fri Sep 27.

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With his latest single On & On, Melbourne rapper Illy is a new man with a new label ONETWO and an album around the corner. Catch Illy at the Gov on Fri Sep 27.

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The self-described “bearded lumberjack from rural Germany” will showcase the freshest club cuts from Black Forrest when he plays Sugar on Fri Sep 27.

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Known for calling themselves “one of the angriest bands on earth”, OCEANO are just about to hit Adelaide for the first top on their Australian tour. Going round the country with the furious group are Aversion Crown and Feed Her To The Sharks. Local supports have just been announced, with Tina Gray taking out the Adelaide spot.

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Macklefuture Macklemusic Macklefest Macklemore & Ryan Lewis are everywhere and they’ll be everywhere for a little bit longer. Heading the FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL line-up for 2014, the Thrift Shop duo will be poppin’ tags at the Adelaide Showgrounds on Mon Mar 10. Joining the Macklefriends are Deadmau5, Phoenix and Knife Party. Rudimental will be back after their recent sold-out show, Tinie Tempah and 2 Chainz will be along for the ride, and Baauer will be shaking his one-hit Harlem self all over the place. Tickets are $155+bf and go on sale Tue Oct 1 at futuremusicfestival.com.au

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This Modern Love After convincing us in 2011 to Never Trust A Happy Song, Grouplove are back — and this time they’re Spreading Rumours. When Rip It Up chats to the Californian indie pop quintet’s producer, drummer and unofficial leader, Ryan Rabin, we discover that while some things have changed between albums, the essence of the band has remained.

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ne thing that is consistent between the albums is that there is at least one track you don’t feel too sure about typing into Google along with the group’s name. For Never Trust A Happy Song it was Naked Kids; for Spreading Rumours it’s Schoolboy... Are they trying to put us all in jail?

“Yeah, you don’t want to do that at a nice financial job, do you?” Rabin laughs. “We didn’t really think about that at all – it was something that came to our attention after the fact and we just thought, ‘Well, there’s going to be a lot of fans who may be in trouble on the internet’ – but it’s too late now.”

Despite the risks, those that have perservered with Grouplove will by now be aware of their energetic rock pop aesthetic, although Rabin divulges that the band are trying to explore new dimensions within the songs as well.

“What we’re doing [on the US promotional tour] is playing two nights in every city where we do one electric night and one acoustic night.

The electric night is the traditional Grouplove show — very energetic and a big spectacle — where on the acoustic night we can switch it up a little bit and be a bit more intimate to showcase the softer side to some of the songs. We can be a bit more casual with the crowd as well, which is liberating because we haven’t been able to do that before.”

This approach will keep things fresh for the

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band, who went straight from being “on the road for three or four years” to recording the album whilst all sharing a house together... but not just any ordinary house.

‘The studio that we chose for this album came as a packaged deal. It was a house in the Hollywood Hills that had a studio in it. We once again had no privacy from one another – we basically folded up the tour bus into the house.

The house was beautiful and used to be owned by the head of Motown [Berry Gordy Jr] and the Jackson Five and a whole lot of Motown acts used to stay there. They’ve updated it so there’s no soundproofing whatsoever. If one

“The biggest night we had on tour was in Adelaide.

I don’t know if that’s a reflection on Adelaide or the night we had, though.” person is awake downstairs everyone can hear what they’re doing so there was no down time creatively. At some point in the night someone’s going to be playing piano or up listening to a record. When you’re trying to sleep there’s no way to escape that. It was a 24/7 creative process.”

While this sounds more like a recipe

for disaster, it instead gave the Grouplove kids, who Rabin emphasises all have “different personalities”, a chance to work as a “tighter unit”.

“The first album we only had a few shows under our belt and we recorded it piece-bypiece in my little apartment in downtown Los Angeles. This time around I tracked pretty much everything live, where we didn’t have the ability to do that last time. I think it really captured the energy that we were building from coming off the road after three years of touring and I think you can hear that in a lot of the songs and it’s something that we’re super proud of.”

For the band, this makes Spreading Rumours a more “cohesive, collaborative” album. Rabin speaks of his bandmates with such genuine affection and admiration it makes you think that perhaps their band was named out of innocence after all.

“I don’t think we’ll ever have a break from each other,” Rabin says confidently. “We talk about it and how maybe when the album’s done Hannah and Christian can go on a romantic vacation and I can hang out at a lake and Andrew can surf in Mexico – but it never happens... At the end of the day we all live within one mile of each other within Los Angeles as well.”

The mateship inherent in Grouplove has translated to some fun times on the road, with their stopover in Adelaide last year having a lasting impression.

“The biggest night we had on tour was in Adelaide. I don’t know if that’s a reflection on Adelaide or the night we had, though.”

We’ll take that as a compliment.

The story goes that after refusing to take their tour manager’s recommendation for a “quiet bar with a bottle service type of thing”, and with support band The Head & The

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Earlier this year we caught Grouplove on the soundtrack for HBO’s Girls with their track Everyone’s Gonna Get High. Did they ever consider putting the track on Spreading Rumours?

“The Girls soundtrack wanted to have exclusive songs if it hasn’t been prereleased,” Rabin explains. “It was actually a part of the recording off the first album – we didn’t consider any of the extra tracks that weren’t used for this album because we had so many new tracks to choose from... That’s still a fun one to play live — particularly for younger crowds.”

Heart on their side (there was a “Quiet bar!

Loud bar!” chant), Grouplove saw themselves at a “bar where when you walk in you go down some stairs and then you go to the back and there’s a great little outside patio area” that served “some big beer really cheap”. Sounds to us like none other than Supermild, yet Rabin wasn’t even sure that he caught the name.

“All I know was that was the best night on the tour for sure.”

So is he looking forward to coming back for the Big Day Out in 2014?

“Oh man, I don’t think we’ve ever been so excited to come back to a place before.”

Catch you at Supermild for a Coopers longneck, then, Rabin.

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Interviews// Dirty Talk After a recent jaunt to the “steamy and dirty” streets of Hong Kong, Regurgitator are back in Australia this week to show off their latest album Dirty Pop Fantasy - a record steeped in ‘80s nostalgia and unashamed pop reference.

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alling from Mongkok, where most of the album was recorded, frontman Quan Yeomans divulges to Rip It Up about how putting together Dirty Pop Fantasy really lifted the veil - or in this case, the curtain - as to what an intimate recording experience can be for the seasoned music veterans.

“Ben [Ely, bassist] actually came over and lived with me for a month, in a single room, with a curtain between us, in a nine-story Chinese building where we had walk up nine sets of stairs every day. We got along for the most part. The snoring was pretty difficult at first, but I worked out a way of putting a fan next to my head and leaving that on and then wearing earplugs at the same time. We’d never really done that before, apart from being on tour. There wasn’t even solid doors between us, so there was no masturbating and no girls allowed up there or anything.”

From this sweaty cabin fever the moniker for the album evolved. That is, after several other “ridiculous” alternatives - one of which involved the band doing ‘double-speak’ to the media to coincide the release.

“We had ridiculous ideas all the way through. During the last week of mixing, because it was going to be a double album, we decided that everything had to have a double name, AKA: ‘mountain mountain’ and ‘brain brain’. And then we were thinking that when we’d talk to press we’d do double-speak. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to do that, but it’s really hard for your brain to do. So we did that for a little while in the car and then gave that up. And then Dirty Pop Fantasy popped up. It suits the album. It’s a very pop album.

It’s a very strange record that bounces all over the joint, which is what we kind of wanted I guess.”

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Despite the band getting older and preparing for the birth of new babies, there’s a quintessential DIY element to Dirty Pop Fantasy that harks back to Regurgitator’s days as weirdo ‘90s figureheads. Yet the most exciting influences here are those from a decade prior to that; from the Breakfast Club-esque drum pads in Made To Break to the fist-pumping, synthedup crescendos in Home Alone Stoned. According to Yeomans, repeated listens of the Drive soundtrack are partly responsible for the ‘80s vibe.

“We’ve always been a fan of new wave bands like The Cars and Devo. They influenced our music a lot over the years. We were also listening to the Drive soundtrack a lot at the time,” he offers.

Don’t misconstrue cheesy pop for frivolous lyrics, however.

My Little Terrorist, for example, is hardly a left-of-field love ode.

“It’s probably the most politically-orientated track on the record,” Yeomans explains. “I think it came from an idea of this society that we live in and the way that words like `terrorism’ and `terrorist’ are used, and having awareness and where you fit into the ecology of global politics. And it’s also taking the piss out of it, and letting people know that it’s a word concocted by powerful groups to scare people, and that deep down you yourself can be a passive terrorist and do passive terrorist acts by being unaware or using your consumerist power to buy certain things.”

Speaking to Rip It Up on the eve of the election, Yeomans offers his two cents on the state of Australian political affairs.

“Oh my god, it seems like such a ridiculous, farcical thing.

Politics are so abstract and retarded. I met Peter Garrett a few years ago… he’s such an amazing guy when you meet him.

And just the shit he has to go through in a system like politics - to have someone that powerful subdued by so much red tape and bullshit. It’s so anti-administrative. Which is what politics should be about, politicians should be administrators of the people.”

WHO: Regurgitator WHAT: Dirty Pop Fantasy (Valve Records) WHERE: Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Sun Oct 6

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Across The Cronut Universe Dirty Pop Fantasy has been described as another ‘universe’ in the Regurgitator saga. What would be the primary element of this universe?

“That’s really tough, I haven’t had any coffee yet. I woke up this morning and had a cronut - have you heard of a cronut? There’s only three places in Hong Kong where you can get them. I had to call up and organise it. So maybe cronuts would be the element of the Dirty Pop Fantasy.”

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Meeting Tookah Seeing Emiliana Torrini perform live, like when she last toured here in 2010 for The Falls and Southbound Festivals, you become immediately aware of how seriously she takes her craft. Speaking from her newly returned to homeland of Iceland, Torrini shares with Rip It Up some tender insights into her new album Tookah.

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any of the festival goers who came to see Torrini on a sweltering day at Busselton’s Southbound Festival were there for one reason – to hear her 2009 single Jungle Drum. Torrini doesn’t mind being known by many for just one song, which stands as an anomaly when compared to much of her other delicate and atmospheric material.

While she laughs that it is just the “reality” that some people only come to see her for one song, Jungle Drum represents something more hopeful for Torrini as an Icelander.

“It’s always nice to have a little connection through that song. It’s almost like the universe was teasing me. I’ve been writing a lot of songs and then I make a really silly, fun love song and that becomes really huge. I thought it was so funny because it was during the crash [Iceland’s financial crisis in 2008 which amounted to the largest financial collapse any country has ever suffered]. It wasn’t a really nice time, but it was the perfect song to come out at that time.”

Another song that Torrini thinks has a timely release is the first taste of Tookah, Speed Of Dark. While it is the lead single, Torrini finds it hard to pick out her songs track by track, instead experiencing the album as a journey.

“I just really wanted that song to come out in the summer while the sun was still out and I was in the mood to be dancing and having a light time. It was also the perfect little advertisement for

the record I guess.”

Tookah can almost be considered a concept album, as its songs revolve around Torrini’s own notion of what a Tookah is.

“It was just something that I made up as I was improvising the song. As I sang that word I kept having this feeling of bliss.”

Torrini explains she can become “quite hallucinatory” while writing music, and Tookah inspired images of times in her life when she’s felt her spirit split into several factions, and that the central, core energy — her Tookah — was what helped her to “bring the splits back to one again”. Torrini believes we are all born with a Tookah (“It’s like the Christmas tree, where life and experiences are the decorations”) and while “it seems hard to connect to sometimes” it’s “always pure and always with you”.

Another aspect of Tookah that Torrini is proud of is the album’s artwork. Torrini used the clay shapes layered on Sunny Road music video director Arlene Taylor’s photography to create a similar effect.

“I had this idea that represented the spirit of Tookah. One time I saw my spirit split in my mind’s eye and saw these two profiles facing each other. They were completely black and lined with

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“As I sang that word I kept having this feeling of bliss.” silver. In the middle of it was this bright shining light, which is Tookah to me. It’s about duality – the good and the bad. I used the clay shapes to depict Tookah between these two dualities – the two profiles.”

It’s clear that Torrini has exposed a lot of herself on Tookah, with her Icelandic homeland, her partner and son being the signature of the track, Home. Torrini’s return was unexpected, with her English partner taking her back to Iceland for his dream job.

Given the way Iceland has changed since Torrini last lived there before the crash, where her family lost almost everything, she has an embalmed outlook.

“You are very brave when you’re in other countries doing what you do. Icelanders are very uncompromising in what they do as we always have this thing in the back of our heads that we can go home and we’ll be fine. When the crash happened it wasn’t the safety net anymore.”

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Will she be leaving Iceland soon for a tour?

“I hope so. We’ll just take it slowly for now. I think it will be quite a rare affair because of my son. I’m going to be away for almost a month so I’ll see how he handles that. I definitely want to come play in Australia again – it’s one of the most fun things I’ve done.”

WHO: Emiliana Torrini WHAT: Tookah (Remote Control)

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We Are Family Suits, fishnets, corsets and ties aren’t costumes wellmatched to the outback heat, as The Woohoo Revue found out recently on their first trip to Darwin. Stripped to waistcoats (and pants, guitarist Dannie McKenzie is quick to add) and with the horn players in even less, the raucous Melbournites soldiered on.

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It was something of a challenge, being 35 degrees and a million per cent humidity; it’s probably not the best environment for dance music,” McKenzie says of Darwin. “But everyone was fine; everyone completely saturated themselves in beer and sweat and it was very memorable in that way.”

The Woohoo Revue has been touring almost constantly over the last five years. They rack up close to 100 shows a year, but the intense schedule never dulls the power of their performance. ‘High energy’ doesn’t give their roaring, swinging, folk-and-brass clash justice. Music inspired by Balkan wedding bands, plus vaudeville-Victorian costumes and extremely talented musicianship crash together in The Woohoo Revue and explode over every stage they touch. At first, they weren’t sure what reception their style would get.

“We launched our first album in December 2008, and we played at three o’clock in the morning,” McKenzie begins.

“We were expecting a fairly sedate crowd at that point, but from the first note, everyone just went spastic. People were catching falling speaker stacks, spilling over the foldback wedges on the stage, and crowdsurfing and stagediving — not the sort of thing you’d expect from a, dare I say it, folk band.

“Someone smashed their head open on the foldback wedge, turned around and sprayed blood all over the crowd, went to first aid, got a few stitches in his head and came straight back. Couldn’t get enough. The excitement and the passion — everything that is inherent in the

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music and what we fell in love with in the first place — is just so infectious. It really is about whipping everyone into a state.”

From their bloody beginnings to now, the frenzy has hardly let up. They’ve said goodbye to one violinist (whose brother, celebrated artist Sam Wade, designs the band’s album covers) and welcomed a new one: Sarah Busuttil.

At the end of a gig, she selects a tall and sturdy gentleman from the crowd to lift her onto his shoulders and carry her about on stage. Little did they know, there was something special about the man she chose at The Joynt in Brisbane.

“There was this older lady dancing up the front,” McKenzie says, and there’s still a hint of disbelief in his

“She was going hard, out-dancing a lot of the young guys. After the gig, our drummer comes up to me and goes, ‘You know Joan Baez was in the crowd?’ And that was her—dancing up the front!” voice. “She was going hard, out-dancing a lot of the young guys. After the gig, our drummer comes up to me and goes, ‘You know Joan Baez was in the crowd?’ And that was her — dancing up the front!”

The Baez adventure didn’t end with a sighting — it turned out that Sarah has plucked Baez’s son out of the crowd to carry her around. And then, the following weekend, Baez and The Woohoo Revue happened to be playing gigs in the same place, and Joan rushed in to see them play again, once more dominating the front row.

“Then, we went back to the hotel and the Woodstock documentary happened to be on, and the first thing that pops up is Joan,” McKenzie laughs. “Stalker.”

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together their second album, Moreland’s Ball, last year. The first song they wrote reminded Sarah of the waltz in the Addams Family, and the concept escalated from there.

“We were trying to come up with a theme for the album and to take a step forward from the artwork and imagery that we’d created on the first album New Animals, and the idea we came up with was ‘Moreland’s Ball’.

Moreland was the character and the host of the party, and all the other song titles were names of the guests who’d been invited.”

It is a decadent affair, beautifully illustrated by Wade on the album cover.

The game for dedicated fans is to work out which character in the artwork represents which song.

WHO: The Woohoo Revue WHERE: Nexus Cabaret (with Bortier Okoe) WHEN: Fri Sep 27

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Today Australian hip hop is a huge commercial force. Iggy Azalea is a global pop star, 360 has appeared at Lollapalooza and Seth Sentry guested on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. But could Melbourne's erudite MC Mantra (AKA Robert Tremlett) - who, outside Australia, has only gigged in China - benefit from the inroads made by Iggy?

"It's awesome when any Australian hip hop artist is blowing up overseas, but I don't know if their success would have a roll-on effect to other Australian hip hop artists or not because they are so unique," says Tremlett from Byron Bay, where he's touring with Seth. In fact, Tremlett is uneasy with the very category of 'Australian rap'.

"I've never considered myself 'an Australian hip hop artist'," he says. "I've only ever tried to consider myself 'a hip hop artist'."

The "unique" Iggy, an expat, has copped flak for her Americanisms.

"I started rhyming in an American accent, too, just because it felt way more comfortable for me," confides Tremlett, exposed to US rap growing up. "I was embarrassed by my accent. I felt like it didn't belong in a hip hop song." That changed by time the he came to the fore with the pioneering outfit Equills. Tremlett subsequently led the well-loved hip hop live band Illzilla.

The MC went solo with 2010's Power Of The Spoken on Obese Records. Now aligned with Ten To Two, he deems his third album, Telling Scenes, already in the Australian Top 20, his most artistic foray - although it still contains "some bangers" like the lead single Loudmouth and input from boom-bap beatmakers such as Resin Dogs' Dave Atkins.

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"I had a really clear idea of what I wanted to do initially with Telling Scenes," Tremlett reveals.

He cut the title-track, with its emotive classical sample, early. "The rest of the record didn't end up sounding like that - [though] we got some traces of that on the album. But what it did do was just kickstart the whole writing process and get me thinking about every aspect of the songwriting - not just writing sick rhymes over beats, but really getting my hand dirty and sculpting a sound."

Indeed, Tremlett worked with his friend Juleiaah (AKA Kisshead), who's been teaching him to sing and play piano.

"I've been experimenting with a lot of different kinda styles of songwriting. I've been sitting at the piano and writing songs, which are just me playing piano and singing. Not many of these songs are making it onto my record but, just by doing that and practising

those things and getting better at those things, that's really helped my songwriting when I am doing pieces for my record." Cameo-ing on the album are ex-Demigodz rapper Louis Logic, soulstress Kylie Auldist, and cabaret performer Simone Page Jones.

Tremlett will headline his own national tour through October. By the last date in Adelaide, he'll have been on the road for months - but the MC has learnt to pace himself.

"I kinda got used to performing every week when I was younger and we'd just be able to smash the party after the show! We'd never sleep.

It was just a constant party. I feel like it never really took that big a toll on my shows - but it's a different kettle of fish now. I'm very careful about taking care of myself and always try to eat right, get a lot of sleep and rest up - 'cause you get sick. As an MC, your voice is your livelihood so, as soon as that's gone, then you're screwed."

While Tremlett has been "cagey" about performing new tracks on tour with Seth, that won't be the case this time.

"I'll be trying to get as much of the new material in there as possible," he assures. "That said, there's always gonna be heads at the shows who wanna hear the old shit - and there's songs that I'd pretty much get crucified [for] if I don't play... But I always like to do some one-off shit as well. I like to throw in some surprises maybe some freestyles or some exclusive bars or whatever. I like to keep it pretty fresh."

WHO: Mantra WHAT: Telling Scenes (Ten To Two Records) WHERE: Ed Castle WHEN: Sat Oct 26

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Janelle Monae

Holy Ghost!

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Janelle Monae brilliantly took the influence of soul music’s greatest (Stevie Wonder, Prince and Michael Jackson) and injected it with a radical Broadway sound on her debut album The ArchAndroid. Her future theatrical twist on urban music was unexpected, revolutionary and dazzling, a pity the album’s second half petered out after such a magnificent opening.

This is not the case for album number two.

With an army of guests, Monae delivers a looser, more traditional urban sound featuring hit after hit (including the singles QUEEN and Dance Apocalyptic) on the opening half before a ‘70s soul and funk inspired personal second stanza kicks in, which includes the golden age Stevie Wonder vibe of the genius double act It’s Code and Ghetto Lady. The Electric Lady might not be as experimental as expected, but the amount of quality spread across this 19-tracker justifies the call that Monae is the most important artist in urban music today.

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Like their throwback '80s peers Chromeo, Holy Ghost! haven’t been able to capture the magic that made their early singles retrofied masterpieces. Hold On, Static On The Wire and I Will Come Back were brilliant slices of '80s pop for modern times. Their debut album followed soon after, but unfortunately the best tracks on Holy Ghost’s selftitled LP were the previously heard singles. With their second album, Holy Ghost! have still not managed to top their early work, as Dynamics is a limp outing that is slick and catchy in parts but it contains no grunt, no sense of urgency – it just jet skis like a tourist in the background of a Michael Mann TV show. This is a disappointing album from not only Holy Ghost! but the DFA label, that have released a trio of underwhelming of albums in the past month.

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The Electric Lady

Dynamics

Oliver $ & Jay Lumen Moodymann sampling Berlin-based house player Oliver $ will join big room Hungarian DJ and producer Jay Lumen for a two-room takeover of Electric Circus and Mr Kim’s. The double-international billing takes place on Fri Oct 11 with Melbourne’s TBIB and locals including Jorge Watts, Dancespace and Ezee-G.

Flako Project: Mooncircle’s Flako will drop past Adelaide as part of his first Australian tour.

Championed by cats such as Hudson Mohawke and The Gaslamp Killer, Flako is a globally influenced beatmaker who dropped the acclaimed The Mesekelt on Project: Mooncircle in 2011. Catch Flako at Cuckoo on Fri Oct 4 with Oisima, How Green and Pilot DJs.

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Tour Guide/ THU SEP 26

RIHANNA @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

FRI SEP 27

NORTHEAST PARTY HOUSE & THE CREASES @ Governor Hindmarsh PAUL DEMPSEY & OLYMPIA @ Fowler’s Live WOLF & CUB @ Ed Castle

ILLY @ Governor Hindmarsh HOTEL RACE FATALISTS SUN OCT 20 @ Hotel Metropolitan PRINCE RAMA @ Format UK SUBS @ Enigma Bar THE WOOHOO REVUE @ Nexus Arts Centre TUE OCT 22 FALL OUT BOY & BRITISH INDIA @ SAT SEP 28 AIMEE FRANCIS @ Jetty Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre Bar Glenelg EVERY TIME I DIE @ Fowler’s Live SUN SEP 29 AIMEE FRANCIS @ Grace Emily Hotel

MON SEP 30

JASON BYRNE @ Her Majesty’s Theatre

WED OCT 2

SWERVEDRIVER @ Governor Hindmarsh

THU OCT 3

ROB SCHNEIDER LIVE @ Her Majesty’s Theatre

THU OCT 24

BABY ANIMALS @ Governor Hindmarsh

FRI OCT 25 – SUN OCT 27

FLEURIEU FOLK FESTIVAL: JORDIE LANE, THE SEALS, THE BORDERERS, SQUEEBZ & MORE @ Willunga

FRI OCT 4

FRI OCT 25

SAT OCT 5

IN HEARTS WAKE @ Thebarton Theatre SAMPOLOGY @ Rocket Bar DIESEL @ Governor Hindmarsh KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD @ Jive Bar

SAT OCT 26

MANTRA @ Ed Castle KORPIKLAANI @ Governor Hindmarsh JAE LAFFER @ Jive Bar

SOILWORK @ Governor Hindmarsh TWELVE FOOT NINJA @ Fowler’s Live THE SPOILS @ Wheatsheaf Hotel

MON OCT 28

SUN OCT 6

THU OCT 31

REGURGITATOR @ Governor Hindmarsh NAYSAYER & GILSUN @ Rhino Room

THU OCT 10

RICKY MARTIN @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES @ Fowler’s Live BRING ME THE HORIZON, OF MICE & MEN & CROSSFAITH @ Thebarton Theatre HOT CHOCOLATE & SEAN KEMP @ Governor Hindmarsh

FRI OCT 11

JAY HOAD @ Governor Hindmarsh

SAT OCT 12

NGAIIRE @ Jive Bar HORRORSHOW @ Governor Hindmarsh CLOWNS @ Crown & Anchor

FRI OCT 13

THE CRIBS @ Uni Bar

WED OCT 30

TOMMY TIERNAN @ Norwood Concert Hall 5IVE @ HQ

FRI NOV 1

LIGHTNING BOLT @ Jive Bar STONEFIELD @ Fowler’s Live

TUE NOV 5

BEYONCE @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

WED NOV 6

BEYONCE @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

THU NOV 7

THE ZEP BOYS @ Governor Hindmarsh DREAM ON DREAMER @ Uni Bar N’FA JONES @ Rocket Bar

FRI OCT 18

LOON LAKE @ Rocket Bar

SAT OCT 19

SPIT SYNDICATE @ Enigma Bar THE JUNGLE GIANTS,

THE ZEP BOYS @ Governor Hindmarsh

SAT NOV 9

SUN NOV 10

CALL THE SHOTS @ BlueBee Room BLOOD BROTHERS @ Crown & Anchor

FRI NOV 15

DAN SULTAN @ Governor Hindmarsh

SAT NOV 16

JON ENGLISH & THE FOSTERS BROTHERS @ Governor Hindmarsh THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS @ Uni Bar

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each song,” Stevic explains.

The band recently broke the record for the highest amount crowdfunded for a music video and have released a new tour scrapbook video for the single Shuriken, documenting on-tour experiences over the last 12 months.

“I usually come up with the concepts.

I draw lots of little pictures, like a comic book, and then I have the task of figuring out how to pull it off in reality. One thing is coming up with an idea and the other thing is executing it. I’ve been doing that for videos up until this point. If I survive the latest music video, I may do it again.”

Ninja use a lot of technology that requires constant updating of equipment and Stevic tells of the sacrifices that need to be made in order to produce quality material and go on lengthy tours.

“Right now I’ve just put my personal and most favourite guitars up for sale because I

need the money to pay for new equipment and the US tour. I need to be realistic about certain things, it just costs shit loads of money to tour the states, which is what we will be doing later in the year.”

It’s okay though, the boys have come up with a side project in order to finance their musical aspirations.

“We were talking about doing a side project where we do a Man Power kind of show on the off side where we strip. We will use the cash from that to finance. I’m not sure how many people would be into seeing that though.”

Only one way to find out.

WHO: Adalita WHAT: All Day Venus (Liberation) WHERE: Grace Emily Hotel WHEN: Thu Oct 3

PITBULL & KE$HA @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre THE DAMES @ Wheatsheaf Hotel

WED OCT 16

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL MICHAEL JACKSON WORLD TOUR @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

for All Day Venus.

“Perhaps the subject matter that deals with toxic relationships, which is something I hadn’t written before. I have a new awareness of myself growing in to an adult.”

Being in Magic Dirt for so long meant that picking band members proved difficult, however.

“Putting a band together was really daunting as I’ve never had another band.

Auditioning members who were all great players [and having to say no] was bullshit and I really hated that part... I felt tender, perhaps a little vulnerable, outside of Magic Dirt by letting people in and trusting them with my music. I’m starting to thaw out a bit and let people in. It feels strange but I’m starting to warm to it.”

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Adalita is happy with how her follow-up solo album has turned out. “ I’m really happy with it. It was a lot of intense hard work over the last couple of years.

It has been full on writing songs, choosing songs and the song writing process took a while until I hit a really nice purple patch.

Then I had to choose bands members and this whole auditioning process was weird for me.

It was hard knocking people back — that bit was hard. Finding a producer and studio took a while, tracking and checking all the sounds was super intense. It was very long, long, long hours and we were literally pulling our hair out

to get everything sound right. We got through it and we were very happy in the end. To have it finally here, I got a copy in my hands just the other day, feels pretty incredible.”

Purple patch? Are you tough on yourself ?

“I’m not tough on myself but I have been writing songs my entire life and I find it relatively easy. It comes to me fairly quickly but with this process it just took a couple of batches of songs to get to the really good stuff, which sometimes happens. I moved around a lot between Sydney and Melbourne being a bit of a gypsy for a while, but I wasn’t settled so I was having to write on the fly.

It was a really interesting time unearthing some of the good stuff, but when I got there it was really good. I had to come up with a couple of singles; I had songs but nothing single-worthy. Trust Is Rust was the first single-worthy song and from there I felt a lot of pressure come off.”

While Adalita confesses she has always "worn my heart on my sleeve my whole career", there's a new facet to her songwriting

VIOLENT SOHO @ Uni Bar GUS G’s FIREWIND @ Fowler’s Live BON SCOTTS @ Grace Emily Hotel

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL MICHAEL JACKSON THE IMMORTAL WORLD TOUR @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre THE HANDSOME FAMILY @ Grace Emily Hotel CIRQUE DU SOLEIL MICHAEL JACKSON WORLD TOUR @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

Magic Dirt frontwoman Adalita returns with another cracking solo album, All Day Venus. To commemorate the occasion there’s a special gig planned at the Grace Emily Hotel (the only show on tour with Adalita playing solo). Adalita talks more with Rip It Up about making the album.

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ELEVENTH HE REACHES JESSICA MAUBOY @ @ Crown & Anchor Adelaide Entertainment Centre

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JINJA SAFARI @ Uni Bar DISCLOSURE @ HQ ADALITA @ Grace Emily Hotel HERE AND NOW FESTIVAL: 50 LIONS, SEARCH AND DESTROY, CRISIS ALERT & LEVEL @ Enigma Bar LURCH AND CHIEF @ Rocket Bar DAVEY LANE @ Jive Bar AVERSIONS CROWN & FEED HER TO THE SHARKS @ Blackmarket THE ROYAL JELLIES @ Ed Castle OCEANO @ Black Market

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Fresh off the plane from a three week holiday in Fiji, Stevic from Melbourne rock outfit Twelve Foot Ninja sits down with Rip It Up to chat about the their original video concepts and the sad sacrifices some musicians need to make.

They are one of the most talked about bands this year with the release of their 2012 album, Silent Machine. The band released one digital track and one digital comic every week for 12 weeks and then releasing the physical edition of the album. So what’s the story behind the comics?

“It’s basically a story. The lyrics are written from the story created and then the comic coincides with the lyrics. It’s a 72-page comic book comprising of 12 individual six-page comics that correlate to

WHO: 12 Foot Ninja WHERE: Fowler’s Live (with Quiet Child and Red Light Sound) WHEN: Sat Oct 5

The Guide// THURSDAY 26TH ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Bill Parton Trio (8.30pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty BRECKNOCK HOTEL – Breakaway Sing-A-Long Session (8.30pm) CAMEO BAR – Cameoke with Andy 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 – Rolo Tomassi GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Nikko & Snooks (7pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Calexico, Quarry Mountain Dead Rats and Depedro. Front Bar: Gumbo Room Blues Jam with Mike Festa

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Coops & The Bird and Emily Davis GRAND BAR – OMG HIGHWAY – DJ Alli (8pm) HOTEL METRO – Gypsy By Night, Pumpometer & Bushkill Park (9pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – All Vinyl DJ (6pm) HQ – Riot Society hosted by Uberjak’d JOINERS ARMS – Open Mic Night (8pm) LIGHT HOTEL – SCALA Live (8pm) MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – DJ Grillz (9pm) PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango ROCKET BAR – Wild Things (9pm) SUGAR – Jazz Pancake with locals and guests THE LION HOTEL – Clearway (9pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Sessions (7.30pm)

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ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: DJ Jaki J (9.30pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Dino Jag (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BAROSSA WEINTAL HOTEL – Troy Harrison (7.30pm) BARTLEY TAVERN – The Crew (8pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Hemi Pacer (8pm) BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – DJs Lars, Lenny and guests DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs DUKE OF YORK – Tom & Rose (7pm) ED CASTLE – Full Tilt live bands and party DJs ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs EMU HOTEL – Body Swerve (8pm) ENFIELD HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (6pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Tom J Williams (8pm) FINDON HOTEL – karaoke (8.30pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Illy with Tuka, All Day and Elemont. Front Bar: Old Time Fiddle Tunes Irish Sessions GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Four Kings Loud and Tabula Rasa GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Steve Gower (6pm) HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – Van Demons Band (8pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Hard Rock (8pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs IRISH CLUB – Shamrocks ‘n’ Shenanigans Live Acoustic Sessions (7pm) JETTY BAR GLENELG – Lounge Bar: Ciaram Granger (9pm) JIVE – Full Contact Safari & Archers (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 MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music

MARION CULTURAL CENTRE – Mingle live acoustic music (5pm) MARION HOTEL – Katrina Caton (6.30pm) MARS BAR – guest DJs plus drag shows MICK O’SHEA’S – E’nuf Said (7pm) OFFICE ON PIRIE – DJ Jess (4.30pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – 2 Up Duo (7.30pm) PLAYFORD TAVERN – Two Hard Basket (8pm) PRODUCERS HOTEL – After Four Fridays Garden Grooves with DJs Justice and DrDamage plus special guests (4pm) RACQUETS SA – 60/40 with DJ Lee (8pm)

RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ SNAKE & DJ RUPHEO (9PM) RED SQUARE – DJs REGATTAS BISTRO – Blues Avenue (5pm) REX HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Myles & Paul (6pm) DJ Smiley (8pm) ROCKET BAR – Cats at Rocket (9pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN – The Rose (8pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8pm) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – The Dirty Roots Band (8pm) SOMERSET HOTEL – Superheroes (8pm) SOUTHWARK HOTEL – Squirrel Grip 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 – Animal House (9pm) THE ELEPHANT – DJ Grillz (9pm) Michael Venner Band (9.30pm)

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The Guide// THE GOODY – Ch@t Room THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment THE SOUL BOX – Busker Vs Busker Open Mic (8.30pm) THE TONSLEY HOTEL – Chrysler Bar: 4 Play (9.30pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Graham Lawrence (4.45pm) Flaming Sambucas Duo (9pm) VERVE BAR & KITCHEN – Sue & Ken VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Heath Cullen & Friends and AP D’Antonio (9pm)

WHITMORE HOTEL – Hoy-Hoy 8:30pm WOODCROFT TAVERN – Push (8pm) ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Finn, Terence and Hemilove

SATURDAY 28TH ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J plus Bongo Madness with Alex. Upstairs: DJ Ed Law (9.30pm)

ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar + Arena: DJ Wolfman (after the AFL Grand Final) Idle Saints (9pm) Top Room: The Incredibles Extravaganza (8pm) BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Girls Next Door (6pm) BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – DJ Tka (9pm) BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Iris (8pm) BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAVAN HOTEL – Karnival with live bands (9pm) CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with Nicole (8pm) DRAGONFLY – rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and everything in between DUKE OF YORK – Front Room: DJ Mitchy B. Beer Garden: DJ Parry. Upstairs: DJ Skinny B, MC Scotty and guest DJs ED CASTLE – Live bands and party DJs (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends ELIZABETH TAVERN – Dimitra (5pm) EMU HOTEL – Body Swerve (8pm) ENCORE NIGHTCLUB – resident DJs and guests (9pm)

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ENIGMA – NJE album launch EXETER HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (7pm) GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ Marky Polo (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Sticky Fingers.

Front Bar: Luke Ryan & Heath Webber GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Rachel Cearns, The Valkyries and These Blessed Bones GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays with DJs and MCs HIGHLANDER HOTEL – The Buzz (9pm) HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm) HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Black Fedora Jazz (7.30pm) 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: Pat & Dale (5pm) DJ Stu (9pm) Front Bar: Blakesaben 3 and Filthy Lucre (9.30pm) KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Troy Harrison (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 – Franky F (5.30pm) Flaming Sambucas (8.30pm) MARS BAR – guest DJs and drag shows MICK O’SHEA’S – Show Us Your Hits (9pm) NORWOOD HOTEL: FINN MACCOOLS – Eleven Days (9pm) OLD SPOT HOTEL – Rolling Stones Tribute and Janis Joplin Tribute (9pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Mascara (8pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Harvest (8pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Transit (10.30pm)

(11pm) ROCKET BAR – Rocket Saturdays (9pm) SANDBAR – requests with DJs SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic sessions SEAFORD HOTEL – Point 05 (9pm) SEBEL PLAYFORD – Misjif (8pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – Streaker (9pm) SUGAR – ITDE DJs and interstate and international guests SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Mitch (7.30pm) TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE BARKER HOTEL – Angelo Pash (8.30pm) THE ELEPHANT – Tube Steaks & DJ Grillz THE LION HOTEL – Absolut Saturdays: Wasabi (9pm) THE SOUL BOX – GlamourZONE: Drag Show (8pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – One Planet (8.30pm) VALLEY INN – karaoke VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – Rumours WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Sacri Couri (9pm)

WHITMORE HOTEL – Alycia Budd & Abbey Howlett 8:30pm WINDSOR HOTEL – Rave On (8.45pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm) ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs: Chaps, Hemilove, Gumshoe and Ryley

SUNDAY 29TH

RED SQUARE – DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan

ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School ARKABA HOTEL – Top Of The Ark: Schnitz & Giggles Comedy with Peter Berner (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 – Smokin’ Crocs (4pm) DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Mick Kidd and Friends Open Mic DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Corey Stewart (3pm)

RHINO ROOM – Miss Fellows and Rainy Day Women

ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm)

RAMSGATE HOTEL – Adelaide’s best cover bands

The Guide // EMU HOTEL – E’nuf Said (2pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Andy Mac (4pm) EUREKA TAVERN – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (12pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Kelly Breuer (2pm) GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays (3pm) GOODWOOD INSTITUTE – Goodwood Institute Community Markets (10am) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Boomstars 4 Kids (afternoon show) Gig To Conquer Cancer Fundraiser featuring @ Sunset, Ash Gale and Something To Rescue (7pm) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Squeaker, Aimee Francis, The Motive and Gliding GRAND BAR – bands, DJs and MCs HIGHWAY – Marcus Toop Duo HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – 888 Poker (6.30pm) JETTY BAR GLENELG – Lounge Bar: Adam Moffatt (3pm) DJ Dizzy (8pm) LIGHT HOTEL – Vonni’s Big Arvo LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – Smoke ‘n’ Mirrors MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Marion Sunday Legends featuring Swanee (6.30pm) MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – Tongue & Groove (2pm) OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Black Caviar (2pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Troy Harrison (4pm) PLAYFORD TAVERN – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (5pm)

Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm) WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi & Shaggy (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL –Brillig Duo (4pm)

RAMSGATE HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SESSION (4PM) TOM KURZEL & ED TRAINOR FORTNIGHTLY ROTATION (7.30PM)

TUESDAY 1ST

SAILMASTER TAVERN – Photo Booth (2pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic soloists SEMAPHORE PALAIS – Zkye High (4pm) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – The Satellites (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 SOUL BOX – Australian Academy Of Rock Showcase (3pm) WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday

WHITMORE HOTEL – CRIPPLE CREEK 4PM ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs: Zooma, Gumshoe and Capital D

MONDAY 30TH GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Rear Admiral Stand Up Comedy. Balcony Bar: Lord Stompy’s Tin Sandwich beginners class GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ultimate Quiz with Graham Lawrence (7pm) 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: Keijzer/Mulder Quartet & Mulder/Pulford Nonet (8pm)

AUSSIE INN – Complete Trivia (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: DJs Stevie & Duncan DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm) GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GOODWOOD PARK HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Uke Night with the Adelaide Ukulele Appreciation Society GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Improv Cabaret: A Scene

From Nothing HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – KG’s Complete Trivia (7pm) MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm) PORT NOARLUNGA & CHRISTIES BEACH RSL – Acoustic Rendezvous Open Mic (7.30pm) SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller THE LION HOTEL – Zkye and Damo (7.30pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – DJs Ryley & Apex (8pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Acoustic Raw Jam WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm)

PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm) SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with Margi (7.30pm) SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular and Mr Whiskas THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill (9pm) THE SOUL BOX – Busker’s Box Open Mic (7.30pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Tonsley Trivia (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Wednesday (7pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

WEDNESDAY 2ND ARKABA HOTEL – Latino Grooves Salsa Classes and after party (6pm) BOTANIC BAR – Gemma CENTRAL DISTRICTS FOOTBALL CLUB – Quiz Wizz Trivia (7.45pm) CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7pm) CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm) CLOVERCREST HOTEL – karaoke (7.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Geek with DJ Tr!p DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Dan’s Open Mic Night (7.30pm) EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music Exchange (7.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Curtis FINDON HOTEL – Muso’s Jam hosted by Streaker FINSBURY HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – Complete Trivia GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Swervedriver.

Front Bar: Open Mic Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Jayne West and Liv Watson HALFWAY HOTEL – KG’s Complete Trivia (7.30pm) HIGHWAY – The Combi Room HQ –NeverLand JETTY BAR GLENELG – Lounge Bar: Curly Temple DJs (8.30pm) KENSINGTON HOTEL – Open Uke Night (7pm) LIGHT HOTEL – Open Mic Night (8pm) MARION HOTEL – Adelaide Comedy Live & Local (8pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection

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The Turning Robert Connolly doesn’t flinch from my first question during the following phone interview: is The Turning, the cinematic project he instigated (or “curated”) as drawn from Tim Winton’s volume of short stories, actually a movie – or would he maybe call this collection of 17 short films something else entirely?

“It’s innovative, in the way that Tim’s book is innovative, and yes, I would call it a ‘movie’,” the director says. “It is being received as a cohesive work, although it is also an ‘event’, a unique cinema ‘event’ where you see the 17 stories and you get an intermission and a programme… A jigsaw puzzle of parts that add up to a whole, and a very collaborative work too.”

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I came up with the idea and I brought everyone together”, he continues, “but, having said that, I did allow everyone a lot of freedom too. I didn’t overwhelm anyone’s creative vision with my own and left the filmmakers to do what they wanted to do.”

Did the initial idea, right back at the beginning of the whole project, have to be approved by Winton?

“I did take the idea to Tim to see what would happen. I asked him what he thought and he said that it was such a crazy idea that he’d give it a go.”

When it came to enticing 16 directors (the 17th was Connolly himself, with Aquif ier proving to be his contribution), he says that it wasn’t difficult as they all thought it was “so bold and interesting that they really wanted to be involved, which was a really very strong place to start from.

“People wanted to be involved, and once the word got out, I got very, very excited at the possibilities… And I didn’t just want

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it to be film directors too: I wanted artists, photographers, even choreographers.

Stephen Page [Sand] and Yaron Lifschitz [Immunity] are renowned choreographers, and I loved what they both did.”

Robert also notes that the 17 stories (which feature in the same order as the book) have a diversity of tones, as we move from regret and remorse to sexy longing to angry defiance to cathartic comedy – and beyond.

“It is amazing, and that’s the strength of Tim’s work. But it was also to do with having all those different filmmakers and different voices involved… It gave it that great flavour. It’s like going to an art gallery, or going to a Paul Kelly concert where different bands perform their favourite Paul Kelly song in their own style. It was a diversity united by Tim Winton.”

And there are tricks that work beautifully: Connolly’s Aquif ier and Jub Clerc’s Abbreviation are silent (“You’d think that as it comes from a literary work they’d be full of dialogue?”), Marieka

Walsh’s Ash Wednesday is animated and Justin (Snowtown) Kurzel’s Boner McPharlin’s Moll is constructed like a documentary about the notorious titular character.

“That’s all to do with the artistic freedom and the diversity of voices again…

Tim Winton’s words allow those kind of visions… And I also think that his vision of the Australian landscape is extraordinary.”

We only have time to discuss a few of the actors, but Robert is very proud of Rose Byrne’s performance in Claire McCarthy’s The Turning itself (“It’s an incredible revelation, a great actress in a careerdefining role”), but he also enthuses about the stars of Simon Stone’s Reunion (Cate Blanchett, Richard Roxburgh and Robyn Nevin), Susie Porter in Ashlee Page’s On Her Knees and several others. He has more kind words about actors-turned-débutdirectors Mia Wasikowska (Long, Clear View) and David Wenham (Commission, featuring Hugo Weaving): “Yes, their work is terrific too, and I think that both of them will be directing again soon.”

Noting that he doesn’t think that The Turning’s three-hour running time is an issue (“No one has a problem when an evening at the theatre is that long”), Connolly agrees that this project is a tough act to follow and says that his next trick will be something totally different: a movie for children called Paper Planes.

“We start filming this Christmas and it’s going to be ready for Christmas 2014.

[Something] completely different; shaking things up. It has been a huge effort to get The Turning done, so this will be something totally new. It’s a story about a boy from the bush who travels to Tokyo

There You Go, Bringing Politics Into It Again!

Robert Connolly has been labelled a director of ‘political movies’ in the past, including The Bank, Three Dollars and Balibo, so how does he feel about this and is it even a problem?

“Why are we so worried about movies that might actually mean something?

Why do people have to make these things so black and white?... Everyone says they don’t like politics in movies and then along comes this year’s winner of the Best Picture Oscar, Argo, with Ben Affleck, and no one seems to have a problem with that! And everyone goes to see it when a few years ago no one would have dared make such a movie… It’s very dangerous to start labelling what should and shouldn’t be made based upon a movie’s political themes.”

to compete in the world paper-planethrowing championships. I hope that it fits into that great tradition of Australian kids’ movies, from Storm Boy to BMX Bandits! And I’ve got young children now, so pushing myself into something new like this is going to be good.”

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Quick Flicks

Lucas’ Damaged Goods; Susie Porter is terrific in Ashlee Page’s On Her Knees; and Tony Ayres' Cockleshell wryly captures a tale of desperate teenage love and horniness. Then there’s Claire McCarthy’s The Turning itself, with a gorgeously sad and funny performance

by Rose Byrne, Mia Wasikowska’s troubling Long, Clear View, Simon Stone’s lovely Reunion (with Cate Blanchett, Richard Roxburgh and Robyn Nevin), David Wenham’s Commission (with Hugo Weaving), Justin (Snowtown) Kurzel’s Boner McPharlin’s Moll – and more. Not everything quite comes off here (Shaun Gladwell’s Family feels strained and Yaron Lifschitz’s Immunity is fussy), but what does works brilliantly. While other Aussie films painfully stretch to include ‘themes’, this is that rare cinematic effort that is genuinely about everything.

AAAAa Drawn from Tim Winton’s short story tome, this multi-written-anddirected effort is more ‘event’ than movie, with 17 short films over three hours (with an intermission) interweaving in challenging, mysterious and very moving fashion.

With continuing characters played by different actors as we leap about chronologically, and the tone shifts from human drama to character comedy to a quintessentially Aussie darkness, there are highlights throughout: Marieka Walsh’s animated Ash Wednesday is the curtain-raiser; Warwick Thornton’s Big World is a subtle study of the past you can’t change, as is project instigator Robert Connolly’s Aquifier and Anthony

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Writer/director Pedro Almodóvar’s latest isn’t a tragedy (like his All About My Mother) or a dark outing (like his The Skin I Live In) but proves to be one of his crazy, sexy, gayas-all-get-out comedies. In a sort of raunchy, Spanish variation on Flying High!, a flight to Mexico experiences problems with the landing gear and, while most of economy class has been drugged, those in business class fear that they’re facing death as the plane searches for a place to land. Three flamboyant stewards (the very funny Javier Cámarra, Raúl Arévalo and Carlos Areces) try to distract them with alcohol, mescaline and a miming routine to the Pointer Sisters, but they’re unconvinced: a virgin psychic (Pedro fave Lola Dueñas) worries; a nasty businessman ( José Luis Torrijo) complains; and a not-so-secret sex worker (Cecilia Roth, another Pedro pal) thinks that it’s all part of an assassination plot against her for seriously Almodóvarian reasons. Some fans have had problems with this return to PA’s earliest, nuttiest, bitchiest pics, but there’s still much here to enjoy, from the cameos by Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz, to the typically wild colour scheme, to the endless fellatio giggles to the exciting climax (so to speak).

And, of course, it’s all as camp as a row of Barcelonan tents.

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This second in a guaranteed series of PJ pics is marginally better than 2010’s original, with replacement director Thor Freudenthal managing a few gags and less lumbering self-importance.

Percy (Logan Lerman), son of Poseidon, resides at Camp Halfblood, and shortly after discovering that he has a goofy Cyclopean half-brother named Tyson (Douglas Smith), the place’s protective forcefield is compromised by a rampaging robotic bull, and Percy realises that the drearily nasty Luke ( Jake Abel) isn’t as dead as we thought. And Perc, defying the orders of Mr D (Stanley Tucci), joins with Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario), satyr Grover (Brandon T Jackson) and Tyson to stop the fulfillment of yet another prophecy involving the resurrection of the fearsome Kronos by travelling first to Washington and then the ‘Sea Of Monsters’. Cherry-picking odds and sods of Greek mythology, modern paranormal nonsense and assorted silliness apparently straight from Rick Riordan’s novel, this has little in the way of serious characterisation (although Tucci almost gets a laugh and Nathan Fillion tries hard as Hermes) but, as the title promises, plenty of CGI monsters that prove appealing in their CGI sort of way, including a friendly hippocampus, a grumpy giant Cyclops voiced by Ron Perlman and no less than Charybdis (look it up).

Pieced together by Simon Cowell from a group of X Factor solo rejects, the meteoric rise to fame of working class boys Niall, Zayn, Louis, Harry and Liam was as close to overnight as you could get. A documentary about their lives today may seem to have limited appeal, but the fact that Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) is directing adds an extra level of intrigue to those with no direction. Spurlock takes a unique approach to this part-concert, part-tour diary, generously featuring all the 1D ‘classics’ along with some semi-rocking covers, while exploiting 3D effects to make the concert scenes as involved as possible, calling in a neuroscientist to explain the power of dopamine in 1D fans and casting aside the boy-band stigma to showcase an endearingly lively group of friends who camp together, trash each other’s dressing rooms and pants each other on stage. Whether you want to admit it or not, the boys are gorgeous and their songs are catchy. A cinema full of Directioners is a terrifying place to be, but it’s a funny and surprisingly well-rounded film which offers a fun and sincere insight to the boys comprising the most non-conformist boy-band yet, who struggle with fame, hate dancing with a passion and are completely incapable of taking anything seriously – not even their careers.

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Mary Meets Mohammad Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas Mary Meets Mohammad (PG), a doco about Tasmania’s first detention centre, screens for one night only at the PN on Sun Sept 29, with director Heather Kirkpatrick present for a Q+A. Details: palacenova.com.au.

Opening But Unrated The East (MA): Co-writer/coproducer/star Brit Marling’s terrorist drama, co-written/directed by Zal Batmanglij and features Alexander Skarsgård.

Lovelace (MA): Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s ‘Linda Lovelace’ drama, with Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Robert Patrick, Chris Noth, Bobby Cannavale and James Franco.

Disney’s animated Planes (G): with voices by Dane Cook, Stacy Keach, John Cleese, Val Kilmer and Sinbad.

Runner Runner (MA): Director Brad Furman’s suspense drama offers Ben Affleck, Gemma Arterton and Justin Timberlake.

Stories We Tell (M): writer/director Sarah Polley’s mysterious familial documentary.

OzAsia Festival Mercury Cinema For info regarding the final OzAsia film offerings see ozasiafestival.com.au and mercurycinema.org.au.

Reel Anime 2013 Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas For all of this year’s Reel Anime info see palacenova.com.au.

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Jenny’s Bakery First there were cupcakes, then macarons, and now the ‘cronut’, which is basically taking over the world one mouthful of buttery deep fried goodness at a time. Jenny’s Bakery is pioneering this internationally renowned treat right here in Adelaide, and while the French may not be too happy about this bastardisation of their national dessert, we most certainly are.

Daily ranges of cronuts fill the glass cabinets at Jenny’s and are generally sold out by lunchtime. With delicious flavours including salted caramel, lime coconut, cookies and cream and a twist on the classic lamington, it’s

no wonder. For a flavour sensation that will pretty much blow your doors off they have even teamed up with SA confectioner Robert Menz to bring you the Fruchoc cronut: a delicious, chocolate cream-filled wonder topped with the fruity chocolate sweet we have all come to know and love.

Cronuts aside, Jenny’s bakery is well known for their other baked goods – sweet or savoury. Entering the Glen Osmond shop is a treat in itself, with the smells of freshly baked cakes and pastries bringing back childhood excitement.

Eager customers line the counter ordering lunch from the ladies scurrying around behind it. A little reminiscent of a school cafeteria, albeit a bit more refined. While the expected pies and pasties are available, the range of quiches, savoury muffins and

focaccia’s packed full of fresh ingredients really grab your attention. Fresh cut rolls and sandwiches are made to order, as well as some brilliant coffee and freshly squeezed juices.

So many options made it quite a challenge to place my order, but in place of simply asking for one of everything I decided on a bacon, cheese and asparagus muffin, served with a side salad and followed closely by the salted caramel cronut, the Snickers’chocolate tart and, of course, one of the Fruchoc cronuts for good measure.

My final selection became first course, pushing aside the savoury for the alluring first bite of this heavenly treat. Spongy and gooey at the same time, the Fruchoc cronut was everything it promised to be, and then some. Not wanting to lose momentum I moved onto the salted caramel cronut. It

was here that I was presented with one of my most difficult decisions to date: Which one was more delicious?

Buzzing from a sugar rush, things calmed down when I moved back to the muffin, which while perfectly good was nothing compared to the recently discovered love of my life. Then just when I thought my day could not get any better, I tasted the Snickers tart.

WHAT: Jenny’s Bakery WHERE: 81 Glen Osmond Rd, Eastwood WHEN: Mon – Fri 8am – 5pm & Sat 8am – 3.30pm INFO: jennysbakery.com.au

play from 4.30pm to 7.30pm. After that, when things could get less sophisticated, the back dining is cleared and turned into a dance floor and a DJ plays until late.

WHAT: Mylk Bar WHERE: 57 Flinders St, Adelaide WHEN: Mon - Thu 7am - 10pm, Fri 7am - 2am & Sat 5pm - 2am INFO: facebook.com/MylkBar

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Mylk Bar is the next trendy bar to hit Adelaide. Replacing the old Jackpots, it is in the heart of the business district, appealing to businessmen and women. Its bold, blackand-white-striped exterior influenced by the old-fashioned milk bars of the ‘60s and ‘70s stands out on the otherwise dreary strip. Its interior is modern and elegant.

It would be hard to find something you didn’t feel like on the lunch menu, including sandwiches, wraps, pasta, fish, steak, and

they even try their hand at the gourmet American foods, with pulled pork buns, barbecue ribs and chilli dogs. They know how important your time is, and will deliver your food so you can get back before your lunch break is over.

Mylk Bar isn’t just for those in suits.

From 5pm they serve tapas and pizzas, and there are plenty of boutique beers on tap and South Australian wines to choose from. On Friday nights, live jazz bands

Gorgeous Festival 2013 Bar List Gorgeous Festival in McLaren Vale is a journey of the senses that marries music with some of the best food and wine of the region. This year, alongside headline acts like John Butler Trio and Eskimo Joe, patrons will be able to enjoy a variety of stand-out red, white and sparkling wines with the 2013 Gorgeous Festival Bar List. This year’s plonk line-up will feature releases from wineries like Maxwell, Settlement, Oliver’s Taranga, Serafino, Wirra Wirra, Dowie Doole Hooley Dooley, Yangarra, Chalk Hill, Sellicks Hill and Paxton. Held across two days from Fri Nov 22 – Sat Nov 23, tickets to Gorgeous Festival are available now via gorgeousfestival.com.au.

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Stars// Aries 21.03/20.04

All that you have to let go of is dead weight. It’s your problems that are falling away. It’s old habits of thinking that keep you trapped in uncreative cycles that are ready to fall from your being like autumn leaves. The familiar isn’t everything. The unknown is a beautiful place.

Gemini 21.05/21.06

This is a moment for perspective. Being focused more on truth itself than any specific goals, you can see the wisdom in taking a gentler position, a gentler perspective. Harmony and sensitivity are profound, powerful and hugely appropriate. This is not imposed harmony, it’s real.

The sun moves into Libra this week. It’s not only heading towards birthday time, it’s the end of one cycle and the beginning of another. That bodes well for cleaning out, for figuring out what’s essential, true and creative, and what’s not. Listen to the wise voice of your organism.

Scorpio 24.10/21.11

There’s a lot happening in Scorpio. The most interesting is the meeting between Venus and Saturn. This feels like all that’s been thorny and difficult is receiving a soothing, loving touch. This is not before its time. Grace comes when thirst is real. Let this be a new foundation.

Virgo 23.08/22.09

The sun is at the tailend of its cycle through Virgo.

This is a last chance to tidy up anything that is unfinished, undigested, or incomplete. There is light. That means it’s possible to see things that you can’t always catch. Use the moment to identify solid creative options for the year ahead.

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Double Exposure This October Fontanelle Gallery will play host to a number of ‘displaced landmarks’ as part of Lisa Harms’ latest exhibition Double Exposure.

Collected from sites all over the world, including everything from her backyard in the Adelaide Hills, a bus shelter on North Tce, a front deck in far north Queensland, a river bank

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12

Be articulate with your feelings. If you aren’t, you’ll hear all sorts of clanging noises disturbing the atmosphere. To get this right, express your emotions in a creative way. Articulate doesn’t only imply words. Music is a language. Colour is a language.

Movement is a language.

in Italy, a library in Amsterdam and even rural England, Double Exposure will exhibit a series of significant fragments while following a ‘script’ of a conversation. Each fragment indexes in Harms’ ongoing idea of feeling for the edges of ‘home’.

WHAT: Lisa Harms: Double Exposure WHEN: Sun Oct 6 – Mon Nov 11 OPENING: Sun Oct 6 from 6pm

Capricorn 22.12/19.01

Venus is crossing the path of Saturn in Scorpio.

You are affected. This is a key moment. It’s a time when thorny issues that have been dogging you are softened and healed. Goats can be habitually stoic. Venus is no fan of such a path. She gentles this habit and sets you right.

Leo 23.07/22.08

Mars is taking you by the hand and leading you towards your friends, community, tribe. There’s no healing in isolation. Alienation leads to a lack of confidence.

It’s a ploy to keep people powerless. Reinforce who you are. Hang out with people who strengthen your self-respect.

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Libra 23.09/23.10

Cancer 22.06/22.07

The moon starts her week in Aries, passing in front of electric unpredictable Uranus.

This makes you nervous. It’s likely that life is presently encouraging ‘actual’ change.

Your fear will see it as a wrecking ball moving through your comfort zone. That’s an overreaction. It’s liberation.

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Lisa Harms, Upsidedown, 2013

Taurus 21.04/20.05

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Aquarius 20.01/18.02

Testing reality inevitably leads you to testing relationships. Are they measuring up, or not? Now’s the time to find out. If they are, then you will dedicate yourself to them with even more of your revolutionary passion. If not, then it’s time to set them straight - in action not ideas.

Pisces 19.02/20.03

When life is flowing, when feelings are flowing, when creativity and imagination are flowing, we are healthy. Health is your meditation now. Health implies the whole of your being, not just your body.

Mind, feeling and spirit are included too. Get yourself in synch with your organism.

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Rohan Fraser, Monolith Of An Age (detail), 2013

As the moon eases off after provoking all sorts of intensity, so you adjust yourself to a straight road. There’s been lots of corners. Though you have plenty of power at your fingertips, if you overlook your sensitivity or anybody else’s, life will certainly let you know. Be whole.

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Get FUC’d This October

Wyld Stallyns Wyld Stallyns features the work of four South Australian artists: Johnnie Dady, James Dodd, Rohan Fraser and Glenn Kestell.

Each of these artists works in a distinct and different discipline from thickly applied paintings to ornate sculpture. In their works, the artists explore ideas of identity, rebellion and dystopia. Johnnie Dady’s work suggests the performance inherent in making, whereas James Dodd’s paintings of holes in chain-link fences allude to transgressions across boundaries. The paintings by Rohan Fraser draw upon mythology, nostalgia and the detritus of his subconscious to become disaster-pieces, while Glenn Kestell deals with identity in his practice, particularly the societal idea that material wealth is conducive to a male’s success.

WHAT: Johnnie Dady, James Dodd, Rohan Fraser & Glenn Kestell: Wyld Stallyns WHERE: Adelade Central Gallery, 7 Mulberry Rd, Glenside WHEN: Until Fri Oct 25

The Festival Of Unpopular Culture will return for its third year running this Oct 17 - 20 to deliver a unique program of underground music, visual art, live performance and forum discussions.

Held in partnership with the Festival Of Ideas, the Festival Of Unpopular Culture puts into practice some of the theories and ideas that have emerged from Adelaide’s subcultural landscape since the turn of the century. This year, guests will turn their attentions to the idea of a ‘post-cultural’ world, the prioritisation of leisure over entertainment and the evident failure of environmentalism.

Offbeat, heretical, half-serious, proudly elitist and unashamedly populist, FUC aims to blur the lines between highbrow and pop culture.

The closing night of the festival on Sun Oct 20 will feature a performance by New York psych band Prince Rama at Nexus Cabaret.

They will be supported by Melbourne’s Terrible Truths and local minimalist outfit Swimming.

Aside from live music, a number of panels and forum discussions will also take place in venues like Little Miss Miami and the Freemason’s Hall on North Tce. Check out some of the program highlights below.

Fashion// Rip It Up caught up with the founder of B GOODS, local Production Designer and Stylist, Anny Duff.

I started my label because...

B GOODS began as a creative pursuit between jobs as an art director and then I really fell in love with design as a process. I realised there was a lot more I wanted to say creatively but I didn’t have an outlet where I had the reins and could really build my own aesthetic. Sustainability has always been at the forefront of my design process and I also wanted this to translate in the range, which is made from 100 percent hemp linen and ethically-handmade in Indonesia. A percentage of profits will go towards providing education, shelter, food and medical supplies in Singaraja, Bali.

The best part about designing is...

The limitless possibilities that come with discovering new materials, like hemp (a miracle plant), or seeing old things in a different light, like my collaborative label GOODS COLLECTIVE, which currently has a line of homewares made out of upcycled bottles.

And the hardest part is...

Putting a dollar value on your creative designs.

I’m my own worst critic and I’ve always struggled

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with knowing when to focus and refine what I have done rather than take on more design projects.

When I’m not designing, I’m...

Sleeping.

In the future you can expect me to...

The dream is to build awareness about sustaininability not only in fashion but as a lifestyle choice. I’ve met and collaborated with some amazing innovative young people that are just as passionate about ecological design and we can always be doing more.

B GOODS B GOODS is one of the new success stories to come from The Mill, combining handmade limited edition accessories with sustainable clothing. Their aim, together with colleagues and fellow residents of The Mill, Vege Threads, is to combine the fashion conscious with affordable ecological alternatives. The label has strong ethical foundations and only uses organic and environmentally-friendly materials.

They are transparent in their manufacturing in order to be responsible to the environment and promise to consumers that every item is created with quality and care.

Doesn’t sound half bad to us. bgoodslabel.com

Kinky Curly Straight’s First Birthday Salon owners Uros and Mojca Mikic celebrated a successful year of their Magill Rd salon at the National Wine Centre.

The Kinky Curly Straight team took the opportunity to show the guests what they were capable of – launching into their Spring/Summer 2013/14 hair collection. It’s been a busy year for the salon who have won Best New Salon Design and six other awards at the International Hairdressing Society awards. The salon is also pioneering the move towards creating eco-friendly hair salons in Australia, using recycled aluminium foil, disposable eco towels and renewable electricity helping them to become a 100 percent certified carbon-neutral business.

Here’s to many more to come.

Kinky Curly Straight, 123A Magill Rd, Stepney.

Photos by Phebe Rendulic

B GOODS: Anny Duff

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Chasing Mavericks Hopscotch / PG / 117 mins

AAa Inspired (ahem) by a true-ish story, this surfing drama has excellent wave footage (not surprising considering the danger the crew and actors faced) alongside ridiculous dramatics, lame dialogue and clichés aplenty. In 1987 the pre-teen Jay Moriarty, a Santa Cruz wave enthusiast, is saved from drowning by legendary Frosty Hesson (Gerard Butler). In 1994 we catch up with Jay (he’s played at this point by the humdrum Jonny Weston) and watch as he idolises Frosty, discovers that the ‘Mavericks surf break’ is a real place and demands that the senior wave-rider teach him how to tackle this dangerous swell.

Directed by Curtis Hanson until he fell ill and was replaced by Michael Apted three weeks before shooting’s end, this has all the script fluff expected ( Jay has a hopeless mum played by Elizabeth Shue, adores a blonde who’s always out of reach and worries about a druggie pal) and awkward playing by everyone except Butler, who just looks annoyed. And as well he might too, as he was nearly killed during production when a 20-footer dumped on him (so to speak).

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Not drawn from a Thomas Harris novel, this series from creator Bryan Fuller takes place before the events of Red Dragon (filmed under that title and as Manhunter), The Silence Of The Lambs and Ridley Scott’s Hannibal (where the confusion begins), and follows the plight of Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) when he was under the psychiatric care of the preincarcerated Dr Hannibal Lecter (Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen). The academic Graham has an almost supernatural ability to see through the eyes of a killer and it’s this that keeps him involved as a consultant with the FBI under the command of Behavioral Science Unit head Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne).

This leads to him cracking up further and further as they pursue the ‘Minnesota Shrike’, a serial slayer who engages in shocking acts of violence and murder that provoked much concerned comment when this was first telecast (although Lecter is no slouch either, of course). And perhaps the strangest issue here is that the great Mikkelsen seems so uncomfortable – and even constipated.

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Dead Line Chris Ewan / Faber

Ewan’s first novel Safe House worked as a page-turning mystery due to a likeable protagonist, an unusual setting (the Isle Of Man) and a surprising climax, but this follow-up missteps due to its sweaty, rageaholic hero, an ugly Marseilles background and a sometimes overwritten feeling. A fragmented narrative has pro hostage negotiator Daniel Trent chasing mean millionaire Jérôme Moreau only to have him kidnapped virtually under his nose, and when Trent’s called upon to communicate with the baddies, he of course reveals (no spoilers necessary, as it’s given away everywhere) that he needs Moreau in order to hopefully work out where his vanished fiancée has got to. And considering the striking way that Ewan describes their randy sexual relationship it’s hardly surprising that Daniel would miss her too.

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Hannibal: Season 1 Revolution: The Hopscotch / MA / 546 mins Complete First AAA Season

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Hopscotch / MA / 672 mins

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Creator Eric Kripke’s apocalyptic-ish series feels like Falling Skies without the aliens and suffers from that show’s humourlessness, along with dreary casting and (despite the rating) little audience-pleasing violence or nastiness. All technology is turned off in the pilot episode (cars won’t drive, planes fall from the sky, computers and phones won’t work, and so on), and we flash backwards and forwards from what happened shortly after this event to 15 years in the future when Danny Matheson (Graham Rogers) is taken from his dark ages-like village by militia leader Major Tom Neville (Giancarlo Esposito essentially reprising his Breaking Bad villain) for reasons that become clear as we go along (if you can wait that long). Danny’s sister Charlie (the dull Tracy Spiridakos) leads a group that includes her estranged Uncle Miles ( Billy Burke) and comic relief (sort of ) Aaron (Zak Orth) to find Danny and, perhaps, solve the mystery of ‘The Blackout’, although it doesn’t really happen in this 20 episode-strong series and might instead into its second. Or (yawn) maybe not.

(Spoliers ahead!) The third series of the biggest thing on TV maintained a devoted audience despite many problems: budget cuts, instigator Frank Darabont’s firing, the deaths of popular characters (like Jeffrey DeMunn’s Dale and Jon Bernthal’s Shane), dodgy acting (even star Andrew Lincoln hams slightly) and so much yakking that it’s almost a relief when the putrefying undead show up. With Lincoln’s Rick, Sarah Wayne Callies’ Lori, their son Carl (Chandler Riggs), Scott Wilson’s Hershel (who somehow survived a zombie bite by having his leg amputated in a controversial breaking of the rules) and the rest holed up in a prison, the main thrust here is their ongoing feud with ‘The Governor’ (English actor David Morrissey), who rules over a walled (sort of) town nearby.

Andrea (Laurie Holden), separated from our heroes, now knows that The Gov’s a loon, and the toing and froing as the two sides do battle comprises most of the action, in between attacks by ‘walkers’ and at least one serious twist that left fans raving and drooling.

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Super Everything OzAsia Festival will come to a close on Sun Sep 28, although there are still quite a few shows to enjoy including Super Everything, a production from the UK’s The Light Surgeons that uses musicians from Malaysia and also incorporates live projections.

The work, first staged in 2011, came about when the Malaysian office of the Arts Council England invited The Light Surgeons to make a new collaborative project in Malaysia.

“That all began back in 2010 when we made a trip to Kuala Lumpur for research purposes,” Christopher Thomas Allen, who formed The Light Surgeons alongside like-minded others back in the early ’90s, says.

“We met a lot of different people and got involved in what was happening in Malaysia in regards to social and political issues. We went back to the UK and started work on it.

The title, Super Everything, was a bit of a joke because we wanted to make a kaleidoscopic piece that was quite broad and didn’t just focus on one thing. Malaysia is an interesting country as it has a modern outlook that mixes that up with lots of different cultural traditions.

“We wanted something that would transcend Malaysian audiences – something that would really cut across everything and

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take a good look at society as well as individuals and how they define themselves as people.”

Production began in 2011 that included several return trips to Malaysia.

“We filmed all those trips as a documentary in lots of different places including the eastern peninsula of Malaysia, although we were unable to go to some places due to a limited budget,” Allen reveals.

“We also began a lot of collaborative work with Malaysian musicians, particularly Hands Percussion and gamelan orchestra Rhythm In Bronze. It’s pretty exciting for us to be coming to Adelaide, as we have not worked with them since we first put it on.

“Super Everything has developed a lot since that first performance,” he adds. “That was in September of 2011 in Kuala Lumpur for Design Week and then we took it to India and then New Zealand.

“We’ve also got Ng Chor Guan, who does some amazing stuff on the theremin, involved,

as well as getting some string players and added some new video bits [to it]. I guess you could say that Super Everything is continually evolving.

“It’s essentially quite complex because we have projections showing on two different surfaces. And one of them is a transparent screen that the audience can see through.

We also play around with a lot of shadows, as we were really interested in the history of Malaysian shadow puppets.

“While there is a lot of material already prepared and there is also a narrative, it’s like live cinema because it’s all edited on the spot with lots of improvisation,” Allen concludes. “And we trigger visual and audio samples as well.”

WHAT: OzAsia Festival WHO: Super Everything WHERE: Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: until Sun Sep 28

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Your guide to the student experience

Your Guide I’m Claire Foord, an emerging artist and Visual Arts grad. I show and sell my artwork here in Adelaide and have travelled to Canada, USA and Germany exhibiting. Plus, I’m a student too. I’m studying, teaching, arting – and now – writing. If you’ve got any hot tips, deals, campus activities or info you want to me know about and share, hit me up on Instagram #clairefoord_artist or Facebook /clairefoord_artist.

$60,000 Up For Grabs In The Fleurieu Art Prize Congrats to all the entrants in this year’s art prize. The finalists have been announced and among them are Helpmann Academy graduates, School Of Art, Architecture And Design past students, UniSA tutors and ACSA lecturer James Dodd. If you’re an artist, and painting is what you do, get on it for next year.

James Dodd’s work Groote Eylandt Overhang, shortlisted for the prize, centres around a Dutch named landscape in Arnhem Land. When chatting with Dodd he talks of his interest in the rich history in the Gulf

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Aqua Man Sculptor Nicholas Uhlmann explores the vital and extremely significant force of water through form and function in his exhibition Ex Aqua showing at Light Square Gallery, Adelaide College Of The Arts until Wed Oct 30.

Who feels like chicken?

Get on this bargain. The Saracens (Carrington St, Adelaide) Wednesday Wing Night. With half a kilo of chicken for $8 you can’t go wrong, even on a student budget.

Of Carpentaria and how this work has captured a new history in the making. Included in his work are the urban markings of contemporary indigenous youth in this place of spiritual significance. Dodd has an interest in the way in which people engage with the urban landscape. His work is unconventional and a fresh take on the traditional pictorial representation.

Dodd talks of entering work for prizes as an essential part of being an active artist.

“Prizes are a great way to openly engage with the art scene and brings opportunities of exposure,” says Dodd.

“Being shortlisted gives your art a sense of elevation and brings about a high quality judgement on what you do.”

While The Fleurieu Art Prize, Archibald and Wynne Prize are up there for cash collection, there are so many prizes that you can get your work considered for. Dodd recommends the Fremantle Arts Print Award (fac.org.au) and Whyalla Art Prize (countryarts.org.au) as a couple of others to be part of.

Good luck to Dodd and all the finalists. Check out more of the work of this awesome urban artist at james-dodd.com For those visual artists studying, emerging and established get in the know for the next prize round. The Fleurieu Art Prize is open to painters of all mediums of any landscape from around the world, in any style. Keep an eye on artprize.com.au for details of 2015 entry.

Opinion

It’s (Still) A Man’s World

By Josh Basford

Well it seems our new Prime Minister thinks himself nothing if not highly capable. In what is surely the most delicious definition of dramatic irony since Kevin Rudd asserting that he wanted to “end the divisiveness” in the Labor party, Tony Abbott has taken it upon himself to assume the mantle as the Minister For Women’s Affairs. Allow me to highlight the irony. The man who is known solely to millions of people around the world as a ‘chauvinistic pig’ is now the Minister Of Women. ‘Ho’ I here you say, ‘lay off, it’s not that ironic. That’s just some woman’s speech.’

Well for those still unsated, what better proof and testament than scripture from the man himself: “What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up, every year…” Thanks to Tony, women can finally understand the carbon-pricing scheme through its impact upon their ironing.

Interestingly, Tony thinks he has more to give than merely running the country and looking after our women-folk. The new Prime Minister also takes on the role of Indigenous Affairs; a diabolically difficult role that would occupy the sum attention of any mere human, whilst also heroically heaving national security; deregulation and relations with state government in to his Pandora-esque war chest of responsibilities. It would be naïve to think that Tony will personally oversee all of his portfolio responsibilities, but this highlights an interesting trend of ‘consolidation’ occurring under the new government’s brief but busy tenure which has lead to some massive trimming and sometimes wholescale butchering of ministries. Mental Health and Science have suffered most controversially with these responsibilities somewhat schizophrenically assigned to other Minister’s here and there. For Tony this represents a ‘simplification’ of overly bureaucratic and complicated government. For those looking for a proverbial whistle to blow on the new Government’s hidden agenda there has already been much to shrill about.

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The Cairos

Wolf & Cub

Obsession

Heavy Weight

(Island/Universal)

(Dot Dash/Remote Control)

You’d be forgiven for thinking The Cairos had dropped off the planet – we’ve barely heard a peep from them for over a year. They’ve obviously been using that time wisely. Obsession sees the Brisbane band upping the stakes, moving beyond the lightweight pop of their debut EP and integrating rockier flavours to create a meatier end product. Singer Alistair Richardson is haunted by angst and confusion, navigating his sombre lyricism through a maze of guitars, drums and violins. The Cairos have grown up.

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The Killers Shot At The Night (Universal)

Brandon Flowers has always had a penchant for melodrama, and there are few who can heighten the emotions better than M83’s Anthony Gonzalez. Teaming up for new Killers single Shot At The Night, the pair come close to producing that knock-out blow of emotional climax but fall agonisingly short. It should all come together in the chorus, but after a successful build-up things go limp. Recreating an ‘80s power ballads with no sense of irony was always going to be hit or miss.

Seagull Ruby (Two Bright Lakes/Remote Control)

On his third album, Seagull – aka Chris Bolton – promises to take us on a journey of joy, heartbreak, mania and toil. On lead single Ruby he has already achieved all of this. Bolton’s delicate guitar play evokes the mastery of a young Elliott Smith and when accompanied by his Thom Yorke-ish vocals and the trandemark offkilter percussion of Kishore Ryan, Seagull takes flight. Locked in a strange vacuum of time, Ruby will give you chills, make you smile and bring you to tears.

Justin Timberlake TKO (Sony)

It’s hard to tell if this track is a clever curveball or an abject pop failure. At seven minutes in length, TKO is more a statement than a single. At this point in his life though you wouldn’t think he’s got much left to prove. The first part of his 20/20 Experience double album did generate lacklustre sales, only managing Gold status in Australia.

With part two out this week, maybe he’s aiming to go one better. Because you know what’s cool?

A Platinum album!

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Arctic Monkeys AM (Domino/EMI)

AAAAa While the simply put AM may seem like a lazy choice for the Arctic Monkeys’ fifth helping, what hides within AM proves to be exceptionally considered and put together. The opening drum kick of Do I Wanna Know? sets the pace for the sleazy rock that follows. The entire album is a

seductive romp; with frontman Alex Turner playing the oversexed James Dean-ish anti-hero masterfully, never once losing control of his croons – even when up against a guest appearance

by Queens Of The Stone Ages’ Josh Homme on Knee Socks.

Perhaps the reason why the band’s ego hasn’t escalated to a Gallagher brothers level of irritating is the way that AM is so full of questions rather than assertions. Do I Wanna Know?, R U Mine? and Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High? suggests an untapped vulnerability where they are asking rather than telling.

While the album’s imagery is staunchly black-and-white, it would be wrong to try and apply the twelve tracks to a world of colour – the best way to appreciate AM would be in a film noir time capsule of quaffed hair, mod suits, lit cigarettes and flirty smirks.

The balance of sex and softness marks the Monkeys’ best yet – even though the plea of I Wanna Be Yours at the close seems impossible for anyone to object.

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There was always a sense that Wolf & Cub were straining to fit a certain mould on their first two albums. Songs were forced into irregular shapes and everything was just a bit too stylised. But after a lineup change and four years to contemplate this incongruity, the once Adelaide-based band have re-emerged with their finest work in Heavy Weight.

The album succeeds in its ability to take chances and explore avenues foreign to its predecessors. Nowhere else in the Wolf & Cub canon could a song like All Through The Night with its airy falsettos and dreamy soundscape fit in so well.

The curveballs continue on tracks like What More Could I Say, a disco-inflected number resonant of Mick Jagger’s brief foray into the genre, and the epic closer Got A Feeling, which takes the band’s emotional catharsis of the past four years to its logical conclusion.

While much of the old Wolf & Cub remains on Heavy Weight, from the rumbling bass of Shut Me Out to the axle grease distortion of I Need More, there’s a fluidity and relaxed state of mind governing them now where there was once rigidity and a mistrust of their own abilities. A heavy weight has indeed been lifted.

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The Preatures Live Review

Jive Bar, Thu Sep 19 (Photos by Jennifer Sando) (Review by Sharni Honor)

AAAAA Sydney’s The Preatures are the real deal. Holy smokes. What a gig. What a display of pure, bona fide talent. Get set for these guys to sky rocket into stardom, after this extraordinary display at Adelaide’s humble Jive, it proves that they have absolutely got what it takes for their magic to spread like wildfire.

Adelaide’s Bad//Dreems barreled onto the stage, appearing like lumberjacks as they threw their instruments into their garage indie rock, commencing full immersion into their brilliantly tight sound, with bone grinding vocals keeping a captivating stage presence.

Onward with the utter explosion that is The Preatures and their rock and roll magnificence.

Guitarist and vocalist, Gideon Benson was a definite ringer for a young Johnny Travolta walking straight of the set of Grease and onto the stage of Jive. His onstage persona was of a similar caliber, acting as if he was the absolute bee’s knees up there. Isabella Manfredi, thankfully, took a different approach, and boy, what an absolute goddess. Everyone — both man and

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Tonight Alive

Boy & Bear

Babyshambles

The Other Side

Harlequin Dream

Sequel To The Prequel

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(Island/Universal)

(Parlophone/Warner)

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Sydney-siders Tonight Alive are just what the doctor ordered; that is if you are a depressed teenager with a flair for the dramatic. The pop-punk magnates are good, but their sound can be at times off-putting and bear an uncanny resemblance to prototypal alternative rocker noise. Like My Chemical Romance in the early 2000s, the wailers have a tendency to produce a sound that is so often emitted from the smaller Soundwave stages. The energetic fivepiece obviously possess musical ability: the instrumentals are sharp with a heavy electric guitar presence. Jenna McDougall kills the vocals, bouncing between haunting howls and cutting riffs. Like All Time Low with a rockin’ lady edge, Tonight Alive seem to be pop-punk to a tee. Yet the band’s second studio album is overproduced and lacks a raw emotive edge. The glossy sound mixed with an overindulgent whine becomes a bit much for even the most self-pitying listener.

Similar to a sloth craving intercourse, the tracks sometimes produce high-pitched bleats that erode the eardrums in an excruciating manner. Highlights include The Ocean and Lonely Girl. But after a while, each pained lyric and keep-on-going-itgets-better attitude blends into a lengthy, wallowing teen anthem.

Katie Bryant

Boy & Bear are back in business with Harlequin Dream, a ripper follow-up to their breakthrough debut Moonf ire.

There is little doubt that we’ll see much of these lads over the next twelve months despite burgeoning success overseas. They will probably only take time out to count the loot.

Boy & Bear are Australia’s answer to Mumford & Sons, taking them on at their own game and doing it so well despite trying valiantly to shrug off this tag. The band can look proudly at this well-rounded album typified by the first single Southern Sun, which has touches of Fleetwood Mac. Producer extraordinaire Wayne Connolly’s (You Am I, The Vines, Powderfinger, Silverchair) influence is significant, and there are plenty of great moments on offer on this album. The acoustic ballad A Moment’s Grace is a real stand-out and sees a shift in the mood of the album, while the likes of End Of The Line, Back Down The Black and Real Estate are all great tunes. Closer Arrow Light wraps things up nicely, tying up loose ends.

Boy & Bear have delivered and will continue their road to greatness.

Rob Lyon

The first song Babyshambles released was called Babyshambles. Simple, to the point, it epitomised all the controlled chaos, vocal pirouetting and knife-edge lyricism Pete Doherty was renowned for before the smack ruined him. Since then Babyshambles have become characterised by the latter half of their name, with a string of line-up changes, cancelled tours and disappointing albums jaundicing a once great musical dynasty.

The latest misstep in this farcical downward spiral is Sequel To The Prequel.

In it Doherty stumbles through a series of indie rock clichés without ever sounding as properly engaged or vital as he once was. Nothing Comes To Nothing is a cheap La’s rip-off that unsurprisingly comes to nothing, Farmer’s Daughter meanders through similar no-man’s-land territory with no suggestion that it knows where it’s going, while Penguins is a sad lyrical indictment on a man who once won a British Council-sponsored poetry competition: ‘We could see monkeys/We could see snakes/We could see penguins/Ah, penguins are great’. Maybe we expect too much from Pete? Maybe it’s hard to judge Babyshambles through the lens of The Libertines’ legacy? Whatever the case; the Arcadian dream, it’s over.

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woman — fell in love with this little fox; her likeable persona, her animated facials and her unbelievably sexy vocals. Not to mention her wonderfully intense eye contact with the crowd bringing the already intimate venue to an even more engaging place.

There seems to be a demeanor with bands these days where it’s too cool to fall in love with the crowd. Manfredi had absolutely no shame when it came to this. She personally serenaded members of the crowd, while rambunctious others ruffled her hair, desperately reaching at her to graze her arm; anything to get a slice of the magical display.

The show absolutely peaked with their hit, Is This How You Feel? — an absolute belter of a tune.

There was not a stagnate toe in the house as the movers and shakers of the crowd kicked it up a notch.

“I don’t ever want to leave!” Manfredi gasped as she reached out at the outstretched hands, holding every one of them. She looked around.

“Oh. My band is gone,” she laughs, “how about one more song?”

The crowd goes wild, leaving the lads no choice but to pop back on stage for a final ripsnorter of a tune.

It was thrilling, suprising and energetic. It was everything a live band should be and more. It was the absolute gig of the year.

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Lipsmack Kinsvictim EP Launch

Honor

Bianca Feo and Jack Cooper make up the duo, Coops And The Bird, bringing their own species of genre to the table. They call it 'battle folk'; smooth acoustic dwellings and dynamic lyricism with underlying rumblings of triumph. The time has come to celebrate the almighty unveiling of their latest video clip for Crow.

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he attendees won’t be the only foreign eyes to view the clip on the night. Coops And The Bird are also going to enjoy the almighty element of surprise.

“We still haven’t seen it,” Cooper begins. “I hope we get to see it, not like the day before.

But it’s not like we’re gonna go, nah, change this and that. I just want to be prepared for it.”

Reasonably fresh to the scene these guys are trying to navigate their way through the ever-confusing, ever-changing music scene.

Feo comments, “We are kind of steering blind. I’ve come to accept that this is what life is like. 50 percent of the time, things aren’t always going to work out.” she pauses, “60 percent of the time, it works every time,” and the two erupt in to giggles.

The brother-sister chemistry oozes across the table as the two banter back and forth.

How these kids are not related is beyond me.

“I could tell you the really boring story of how we met or I could tell you the fun version. We met in a Cirque du Soleil audition. I got in. Jack didn’t.” When questioning the truthfulness of this statement she jests with a sly grin, “I am a fabulous acrobat. Can’t you tell?”

The official story of their meeting may never truly be revealed but there is some truth behind the discovery of their name.

“Well Jack’s last name is Cooper, which got me thinking of Bird Coops. Then it just came, funny though because Poops And The Turd works rather well also. We love it. Ladies and Gentlemen, ‘Poops And The Turd!’ Jack, we

should dress all in brown one night, and we could get little turd hats.”

After poop tangents, they’re back on track.

“I hate birds,” Feo reveals. “Their fluttering in my vicinity makes me feel very panicked.”

Cooper links it all together. “It works because Bianca is scared of birds but it could also be the songbird perspective. As a duo we were always kind of anxious about starting something and getting our music out there and even for Bianca to sing in front of people.

So it’s kind of like Batman, cause Bruce Wayne uses bats as he was scared of them when he was young. He embraces those fears to move into that new part of life. So she’s basically Batman.”

WHO: Coops And The Bird and Emily Davis WHAT: Crow Film Clip Launch WHERE: Grace Emily Hotel WHEN: Thu Sep 26

National Award Nomination For The Gov One of Adelaide’s favourite venues, the Gov, has been announced as one of five finalists for the AHA National Awards for Excellence in the category of Best Entertainment Venue! "We'd say there have been well over 12,000 bands perform at The Gov over the years, and so many of them left us with great memories,” owner Jo Tonkin reveals. “Machine Gun Fellatio once decided they would finish a show by emptying two huge bags of chicken feathers onto the crowd using industrial size fans – our cleaners have never forgotten that one. A certain artist (who we won't mention) once cried under the piano during their performance.

Though perhaps the craziest gig we've ever had was when The Living End performed seven nights straight. I think our staff deserve a trophy for making it through that week!"

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Sundy, Paraskevi and Shivon are Lipsmack and these three girls are wild about rock'n’roll. Their onstage attitude rivals that of Axel Rose, they wear more leather than you can poke a stick at and they are downright incredible live. Their Kinsvictim EP launch is on Fri Sept 27 at the Prom and is sure to be a hellfire of wireless guitars, stage jumping and sticking it to the man.

Joined by locals Cherry Grind and Jungle City, you better embrace your inner rock'n’roll spirit and prepare yourself for a lesson in head banging.

Full Contact Safari Take You Down The White Path Full Contact Safari are about to catapult onto the stage and into your ears with their debut EP, The White Path. A work in progress over the past 12 months, the five-piece will be joined

by Kingston Downes and Archers on Fri Sept 27 at Jive to launch their EP. Enigmatic front man Zach Hender-Hill reveals that, "the excitement amongst us is beginning to bubble uncontrollably."

With one of the most energetic live shows about town, you’ll be hit with full contact rhythms and dark, brooding tales from deep within the human psyche.

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