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It’s been a tricky few years for the Big Day Out, with Australia’s biggest touring festival going through a state of flux in order to try and find the perfect way to remain relevant and viable some 22 years after it started. Having one of its 2014 headliners – ‘90s Britpop legends, Blur – pull out a few short months before the festival was not exactly a blessing, with promoters reeling to find suitable replacements. Fear not, salvation came in the likes of Deftones, Beady Eye and — this week’s cover stars — The Hives. We speak with the Swedish rockers about why they’re often called upon to save the day, what outfits they’ll be wearing for this visit and why they’ve been driven to touring instead of creating new albums (p10). We also speak to fellow Big Day Out participants, Brazil’s CSS (p13), Canada’s Half Moon Run about the broken bones and tour mischief that comes with sudden fame (p11) and French chanteuse Lou Doillon ahead of her first appearance in Adelaide as a part of the Adelaide Festival Centre’s Sessions program (p12). In need of some down time? You’ve come to the right place. We’ll rescue you.

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Two bands have announced rescheduling due to surgery: the re-formed post-hardcore group Daughters and Adelaide’s Funkoars. Last year, Daughters thrilled fans by announcing they would tour Australia as part of their reunion celebrations. Unfortunately, vocalist Alexis Marshall dislocated his shoulder a few months ago and requires surgery. The only time available coincided with the Australian tour, so shows have been postponed. New dates will be announced within the next two weeks. Fans who have tickets to the Thu Jan 16 show at Enigma are advised to hang on to their passes. Trials (Funkoars) had to have a “light” procedure that clashed with their show scheduled for late December at HQ. The hip hop outfit will instead take the stage at the Gov on Thu Feb 20, with all previous tickets valid for the new date (or eligible for a full refund). Tickets are still on sale through OzTix.

INHEARTSWAKE Celebrate Skydancer Project Brisbane band INHEARTSWAKE is about to head out on The Skydancer Tour around the nation. The 20-date tour takes in festivals, Masonic halls, tennis clubs and regional centres; they’ll play three SA stops from Mt Gambier to Adelaide to Renmark between Fri Jan 31 and Sun Feb 2. The tour has a special, feel good twist as it comes at the end of their Skydancer campaign to raise money for three international and Australian causes: Red Dust, the Seventh Generation Fund and Hardcore Help. The band issued the following statement: “We started The Skydancer Project to connect with and support indigenous communities around the world. We wanted to make a difference on a global scale, and our aim was to do this through supporting grassroots organisations that we felt were doing important work. “What we’ve achieved with the Skydancer Project is perfect synergy, with everyone involved benefitting mutually. We got to release our new song, the fans got new music and we were able to raise awareness and much-needed funds for important and worthy causes. A massive thank you to everyone involved!” Ultimately they raised $3000 for the charities, and now plan to say thank you to fans with this immense national tour. For full ticket information and local supports, check out inheartswake.oztix.com.au.

It has taken Austria’s Mother’s Cake nearly six years to release a debut album—February’s release Creation’s Finest really couldn’t come soon enough for European progrock fans. To send the album into the world with a bang, Mother’s Cake are heading on their first Australian tour, with Adelaide as the kick-off. Tickets to the Enigma Bar show on Wed Feb 12 are available from Mon Jan 13 through OzTix.

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They recently released the strip club video for their new single Tear It Down (featuring glitter vomit and a mirrorball suit) and now The Aston Shuffle are coming our way to celebrate. They’ll play the Royal Croquet Club (Fringe venue, Victoria Square) on Fri Feb 21, before skipping off for half a dozen further shows around the country. The national support act is Thief, the electro-pop project of Sydneysider PJ Wolf. Ticket information for Adelaide is still to be announced.

Fat-Stacking Bennies Melbourne’s The Bennies have just come back to Australia and are ready to tour again, only six months after their last national sprint. They’ll kick off their Knights Forever tour with an Australia Day show in Brisbane before scooting south to Adelaide for a gig at Enigma on Fri Jan 31. The four-piece has just spent time in China and Japan, touring their “reggae-infused punk rock delivered with all the subtlety of a sideboob in a selfie”. Although only released in November 2013, their second album Rainbows In Space has received high praise and plenty of airtime on national radio. Triple j’s Short.Fast.Louder program is presenting the Knights Forever tour, throwing their support behind the stoner rockers and their guests, Apart From This. Tickets to the Enigma show are available now through Moshtix.

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Formed in 1979, The English Beat only toured Australia for the first time in 2012 and they’ve already planned a follow up. The Dave Wakeling-led lineup will hit Adelaide on Wed May 21. Tickets to the Gov performance are available through Moshtix.

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To The Rescue When Britpop headliners Blur withdrew from the Big Day Out in late November, a suitable replacement had to be sourced. This came in the formation of Californian metal stalwarts Deftones, Liam Gallagher’s Beady Eye and Swedish rockers The Hives. Nicholaus Arson from the latter discusses with Rip It Up why heroism is a higher prioirty than making new albums.

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As a great live band it’s a call that we quite often get. ‘Who will come to save the day?’ The Hives!” explains Arson about the phone call they received asking them to fill the void on the line-up. “We’ve been called in to save the day many times before. We’ve become known for it. We’re the no-brainer call. We’re on speed dial for every tour promoter in the world.” The Hives were a surprise announcement mainly due to promoter AJ Maddah divulging to the online rumour mill that there would be “one English and two American bands” booked to replace Blur. Arson laughs that they aren’t often mistaken as an American band, as most people think they sound “Irish or Norwegian – or Swedish”, although could understand that their sound is much like American rock’n’roll. Furthermore, Arson isn’t confident if the chosen replacements are apt for fans of Blur. “If you want to see Blur you might be a bit put off by The Hives, Deftones and Beady Eye – but what the hell. Obviously it’s a good replacement since we’re on it.” While dripping in sarcasm, the truth remains that The Hives are a reliable touring band. Taking the interview backstage in New Jersey after supporting P!nk, they have

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appeared in Australia three times since 2011 for Splendour In The Grass, Falls Festival, Big Day Out and a swag of sideshows. Arson proclaims in a mock Australian accent that they’re “stoked to come back” and praises Australia for its beauty, beaches and Moreton Bay Bugs, although he does have one gripe. “It’s always too hot. We’re from Sweden we can’t take that kind of heat! We never

“If you want to see Blur you might be a bit put off by The Hives, Deftones and Beady Eye – but what the hell. Obviously it’s a good replacement since we’re on it.” adapt to the weather. We fight the weather. We’ve done Coachella in 41 degrees in leather. You just drink water and you’re fine.” Last time they were in Australia The Hives sported tops and tails, a very formal arrangement for their signature black and white stage costumes. This time around Arson divulges that not only will, their stage crew will be returning as ninjas but that their

attire this time around will be a little more festive. “Now we’ll be sporting El Mariachi wear. We’re totally bringing up the heat!” Arson says cheerfully. Besides maracas, sombreros and tassels, there is potential for something else new in The Hives set at Big Day Out – fresh material. “We have new songs in the works but I don’t know if we have the time to rehearse them. We’ll see about that. It will be great if we could manage it.” This would mark the first new material for The Hives since their 2012 album Lex Hives, which broke a long drought after 2007’s The Black And White Album. Arson explains that while touring is their priority at the moment, with the band using the time between touring cycles to rehearse and record, the wait for the sixth album won’t be as long. “We’ll be faster this time around. Finishing up the last record we had lots of problems with our old bookkeeper and auditors so we were in tonnes of financial trouble. And also tonnes and tonnes of court trials as a result of the bookkeepers. It’s why it’s taken a lot of energy and it’s still messing with us at a point in our lives where it’s ridiculous. It’s been five years since we fired them; it’s pretty horrible.” What could have been a disaster for The Hives has instead become a blessing – especially for fans – as it means the band are more determined than ever to tour as much as possible and make new music. “The good news is The Hives train keeps on rolling and speeding towards greater speed. That’s the good part. One of the reasons why we have been touring so much is the financial aspect. We were touring a lot before that as well, so it’s not a huge

WWNAD? Rip It Up asked The Hives’ Nicholaus Arson what bands he would choose to replace Blur on the Big Day Out line-up (if they were already on the bill, of course). “If I had a big budget I’d book AC/DC and if I had a small budget I’d book FIDLAR. I like FIDLAR; they’re a great American band. I don’t know how much FIDLAR charge these days, but I’m guessing they’re cheaper than AC/DC.”

difference for us.” While touring to pay off debts is the mission, when it comes to a new album, quality is still the key. “We always want to be fast to make records and I’m still in good hopes that we can be faster with this record. I just don’t want to put out a record either; I want it to be great. If the record is not great then we need to put it aside until a certain point in time when it becomes brilliant. I always have the belief we set the bar pretty high with the quality of our records. I think we have a lot to live up to. If it’s time we need then we’ll take it.” Aside from their own expectations, do they feel the pressure to improve on each album from their fans? “You mean if we can improve? I think all of our records have been fucking brilliant. If you can go beyond fucking brilliant then we will try and do that.” WHO: The Hives WHAT: Big Day Out WHERE: Bonython Pk WHEN: Fri Jan 31

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Howl The Moon An enormous 2013 saw this Montrealbased four-man wolf pack howl their tunes to the moon and beyond the stars. From playing a few gigs around their hometown, Half Moon Run are on the upward spiral after a year of playing some of the biggest festivals and supporting some of the biggest artists known to man: Mumford And Sons, Of Monsters And Men, Lollapalooza, Glastonbury, City And Colour and Mikhael Paskalev, to name a few.

hen speaking to Rip It Up Isaac Symonds, (vocals, guitar, mandolin, keyboard and percussion) worked out that this little band has played approximately 168 shows in 2013 alone. Amid all the touring hooplah, these boys have still managed to squeeze in some surfing, activating hotel fire alarms and deconstructing the Australian vernacular: “When I first heard ‘Sweet as!’ I wondered… ‘Sweet as what?’”. After a huge year of achievement comes reflection. “Now that I’ve had a week or so off, the year’s achievements are starting to sink in. Dylan [Phillips], Conner [Molander] and myself all went to the same high school, but at different times. We all sort of knew each other. Devon [Portielje] responded to a Craigslist ad in Montreal…poof!” From not knowing each other from a bar of soap, these guys are now live in each other’s back pockets day in day out. “You know,” Symonds continues, “we sleep in the same hotel and share a bed almost every night of the year. It has definitely taken time to adapt to this unnatural situation. The four of us share a brotherlike friendship.” Like brothers, they are indeed getting up to copious amounts of mischief on tour. “One time Devon accidentally activated the fire alarm in a hotel. It must have been 3am and the whole hotel evacuated. There was no one at the front desk for at least 45 minutes. Pretty funny actually. Another time, Conner broke Devon’s rib in a drunken fight somewhere in France but you know, the show goes on.” Although fun and games aren’t apparent all of the time, Symonds fills us in on some of the downfalls of being a year-round vagabond. “It is just such an unsustainable lifestyle; you get fat, you get drunk, feel horrible most the time, you are always tired and never see family or friends. But personally, it’s always been a dream to hit the road. The best part is simple — you get to see the world, and it’s your freakin’ job!” It appears as though the French-Canadian city of Montreal was quite the place to foster such talent. “Totally! The cold weather will keep you inside long enough to go a bit crazy…[A band project was] just what was needed.” Fast forward three years and the boys have succinct systems about how they work, trying to not get overwhelmed by the hype. “Generally speaking we operate on a day-by-day basis, focusing more on logistics and whatnot.” With this in mind they have a few things they’d like to get better at next time round. “Take more pictures and figure out a problem before it happens; be proactive. Something we really want to avoid is resulting to writing bad, boring, done-before music. I feel as though this must be common amongst us musicians. Speaking of writing, after the 2013 tour madness, getting fat and drinking too much, the boys are really looking forward to taking some time out and getting pen to paper. “We all have the creative itch and we’re ripe to write some new songs.”

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When the boys are back down under for another serve of Vegemite sandwiches and warm waves they will explore every nook and cranny of the country with a few textbook surf spots on their list to check out. “I personally love boarding sports; I have put some serious hours into skateboarding, longboarding and snowboarding. Naturally, my first time in Oz I had to go surfing; it was much harder than I thought! I give the credit to Dylan though; the guy is crazy about surfing.” It’s not all dolphins and sunsets as Symonds was to discover. “I was body boarding this one time, and a huge wave came out of nowhere. Suddenly it was super shallow; I did the ‘scorpion’ into the sand. I was almost paralysed, I couldn’t move and waves were crashing over me. Eventually someone saved me and I’m alive to tell the story!” WHO: Half Moon Run WHERE: Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Fri Jan 17

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Interviews// Can’t Quite Place It For Lou Doillon, the daughter of singer and fashion muse Jane Birkin and film director Jacques Doillon and half-sister of actress and Lars Von Trier muse Charlotte Gainsbourg, her famous family has provided a privileged yet tumultuous life. Doillon speaks with Rip It Up about her transition into becoming a musician with her debut album Places.

laces is a beautifully melancholic collection of songs that Doillon recorded in 10 days in a studio down the road from her home in Paris. It’s a simple and honest album, which is exactly what Doillon aimed to achieve. The last thing she wanted to do was “impress” anyone, which is why she chose to record in English. “I love to be moved; I hate to be impressed,” Doillon says. “I didn’t want my music to go through this obsession that the French have to impress. Also, only the French would understand me and I had a desire – well, more a curiosity – to see how universal feelings could be. I realised that in many ways going on stage in a different place is like meeting with a boy for the first time. In a wonderful way, the snog is the same; it’s just how we get to each other is different.” Adelaide will have its own chance to court Doillon on stage when she is here for Sessions at the Adelaide Festival Centre on Thu Jan 16. Just over a year ago, however, this would not have been possible. For years Doillon kept her music a secret, with Birkin eventually fearing she was becoming “not mad – but slightly recluse”. It was a friend of Birkin’s – French musician Étienne Daho – who coaxed Doillon through a powerful emotional connection to share her music. “In a way love is always what changes everything,” Doillon claims. “It was in the kitchen where I picked up my guitar and showed him some songs and he did the glorious thing

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of falling in love with me, in the musical sense. It was very sweet how he convinced me to record an album because he thought it was so odd how I wanted to keep my music as my private garden. He said the only interest in music is to share it. There’s something dreadfully wrong to want to do music that no one is going to hear. I thought that he was absolutely, fundamentally right.” It seems strange that Doillon would be so private considering her well-established career as an actress and international model, being the spokesmodel for Givenchy and Anthony Vaccarello. As Doillon explains, “the real blessing” in her life is music, as acting and modelling just add more layers to society’s misconceptions about her. “I was raised with this very strange relation to the world. Since I was an infant I can’t go anywhere with my mum or my family – and since I was 15, with myself — without people stopping their conversations or hushing down because my family is a strange form of royalty in France. My mother was very kind and famous; she was loved by everyone, and so was Serge [Gainsbourg], and so is my sister Charlotte, but that was already a little bit too much. By the time I came along people didn’t want to hear about me and so, funnily enough, I was stuck in a weird teenagehood where I didn’t know who I was and at the same time everyone was looking at me. I’ve spent the last 25 years of my life trying to excuse myself for not being the person [people] thought I was or trying to be the person [people] think I might be.” “The French being the French, and that’s what I love about them, the first thing they want to do is chop the heads off royalty – and that’s where I come along,” Doillon continues. “I can’t really reproach it; the whole world is getting worse and worse – and in France it’s especially bad. Daughters and sons of celebrities are favourite meat.” It’s a vicious insight, embalmed by the recent news after this interview that Doillon’s half-sister and Birkin’s eldest daughter, Kate Barry, allegedly committed suicide by falling from her Parisian apartment’s balcony. The modern tragedy of the Birkin/Barry/Gainsbourg/Doillon empire is a complicated one. Above all the opulence and romance that they represent, there has hung a permanent shadow, which now darkens with Barry’s death. Within this context, it can

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help explain why Doillon has gravitated so strongly towards music: it allows her heady life to become simpler. “I see many people trying so hard and I think they’ve just missed the point,” she says on fame and success. “It’s the same with anything in life. If it’s more simple; it will actually work.”

WHO: Lou Doillon WHAT: Sessions WHERE: Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Thu Jan 16

Beats// "On this record we pushed ourselves to do something different and to try to create something in a different way — and, in that sense, I'm really fulfilled, I feel really happy about it," Luiza Sá, CSS' guitarist/drummer (and a sometime DJ), enthuses. "Now I don't even know how our new songs are gonna sound, I don't even know where we're going — it's just a great feeling. I think it's great to not know." This summer Sá and singer Luísa "Lovefoxxx" Matsushita plus bandmates Ana Rezende and Carolina Parra, originally booked to play November's cancelled Harvest festival, are joining the Big Day Out. Punters will hear their latest material, Sá assures. "We've been doing around six or seven new songs and changing them every show." CSS' future was in doubt when Cintra, whom Sá acknowledges as "a driving force", split in 2011. However, they found a new guru in American David Sitek, the TV On The Radio muso also overseeing Oh Land's cred Wishbone. Sitek became a CSS fan on catching their performance at a private party. Much later, he'd learn that the quartet, then in LA, were searching for producers and so contacted them. It took just one song for them to click. "It was better than I could have expected," Sá says. "Our relationship grew like he's my family — and I'm sure that goes for all

the girls in the band. He's just a wonderful human being. He has no rules, but he really makes you comfortable and pushes you to do new things. He's also just interested in making the best music we could make." To their surprise, Sitek often stripped back the music. He'd likewise encourage CSS to explore their hip hop influences following the reggae detour of their previous outing, La Liberación. CSS came together as friends in São Paulo over a decade ago. Their full name, Cansei de Ser Sexy, was inspired by a Beyoncé quote, translated as "I got tired of being sexy". To this day, Sá wonders if the diva knows of CSS. "Maybe she's heard of us - I'm not sure if she went all the way to listen to us. I hope so! We're all big fans of hers." CSS generated an online buzz, only to be identified with the nu-rave phenom. Nevertheless, 2005's eponymous debut was issued on the post-grunge Sub Pop. CSS were quirkier than other nu-ravers, writing songs such as Meeting Paris Hilton. Sá admits that CSS' subsequent albums, beginning with Donkey, didn't always convince critics, but she's unperturbed. "I'm really proud of all the records - you know, they reflect that moment." CSS have survived the whims of indie hipsterdom. And they endured personnel changes early on, with bassist Iracema Trevisan the first to resign in 2008. Sá herself raises the matter of Cintra's departure and its impact. The now bona-fide girl band had to step up on Planta. "I think there's a lot of evolution personally for me and probably Carolina and Ana more so on this last record than the other ones, because Adriano left the band and he was the main songwriter and producer. So it really changed the way we worked. It became kind of a more

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Brazilian indie-electro outfit CSS made an impressive, if low-key, comeback last year with Planta, their fourth album. They even veered off into alt-urban, the single Hangover the kinda thing that might appeal to their idol Beyoncé. Indeed, CSS had to reinvent themselves after producer/multiinstrumentalist Adriano Cintra suddenly quit.

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collaborative effort — in the way we needed each other more." Sá laughs off dramatic reports of Adriano's leaving because he was CSS. "It really is not a long story. He wasn't happy and some things happen and he quit the band. There wasn't even a lot of struggle or conversation — it was like a decision that he

made really fast… Maybe he likes the idea of making it into a huge story, but it's not really!" WHO: CSS WHAT: Planta (Inertia), Big Day Out WHERE: Bonython Pk WHEN: Fri Jan 31

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We’ve all got them. Mix CDs which we’ve cherished for years, decades even, which are as much a journey through sound as they are markers on our listening lives. Mixed albums such as Come Get It I Got It by David Holmes, Ante Perry’s Flashing Disco mix, and Marcus Intalex’s FabricLive all come to mind as timeless and worthy of repeated listening due to the forethought put into their creation. And now comes Bonobo’s (AKA Simon Green) sublime LateNightTales mix; a sweet concoction of languid, dreamy and headnodic beats and moments. The album transcends the ‘DJ mix’ format in favour of a musical pastiche which gives insight into what inspires/informs Green’s own creations, with selections ranging from neo-classical to ethereal electronic and spiritual jazz. Fans of Bonobo will revel in this journey, and those who can appreciate a trip down a soulful river of sound and mood will savour every intoxicating moment. texjah

The brilliant underground DJ-Kicks series will turn 20 next year, an amazing run that has seen the !K7 compilations cover the spectrum of club music and beyond. Though DJ-Kicks hasn’t the brand recognition of the days before podcasts and SoundCloud, it still delivers with quality artists such as Maya Jane Coles, Maceo Plex and Photek some of the more recent compilers. Barcelona’s John Talabot follows his excellent LP Fin with a melancholy collection of house and techno, which feels personal – a high compliment for a mix compiler. John Talabot’s beautiful exclusive track for the mix, Without You, sums up his DJ-Kicks excursion with a haunting groove, ethereal vocal and a glorious splash of acid. Surround this with slow burn techno tracks such as Pye Corner Audio’s Zero Centre, Young Marco’s remix of Michael Ozone’s Hetrotopia and Alex Burkat’s wonderful Shower Scene and you have the ultimate collection of techno for the melancholy of heart. Jeff Spicoli

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Marcel Dettmann Berlin techno legend Marcel Dettmann was faced with arguably his smallest ever crowd when he visited Adelaide for the first time on a Thursday night back in 2010. But the tiny dancefloor gathering made up for the lack of numbers by energetically getting down and letting loose to one of Berlin’s finest techno icons all night long. Since only a select few witnessed that night, the good news for Adelaide’s techno faithful is that Dettmann is returning to Adelaide, playing Sugar on Sun Feb 23. There will no doubt be a heaving dancefloor awaiting the Ostgut Ton and MDR artist, and original Berghain resident, when he returns. The appeal of techno in Adelaide has increased since that Thursday night three-anda-half years ago, as has the appeal of Dettmann, who released his second album Dettmann II last year. He is one of the artists responsible for the famed raw Berghain scene/sound that made the club and Berlin the Mecca for clubbers, DJs and producers with a gang of underground classics to his name (Quicksand, Helix and Duel) as well as his famed Berghain 02 compilation.

Funkagenda After celebrating their six-year anniversary late last year, local techno and house crew TechPhonics will bring in their seventh year with one of tech house’s biggest names – Funkagenda. The Toolroom Records and Funk Farm artist has a gang of Beatport number one anthems to his name, and is one of the finest exponents of the big room sound. Catch Funkagenda at Mr Kim’s on Fri Jan 24 with Matt Abstrax, Heath Robertson, Eric Stephens, Nik C, Tom N Tys and Talor Roberts. RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au

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Tour Guide/ FRI JAN 10

THU FEB 20

SAT JAN 11

FRI FEB 21

BABYLON CIRCUS @ Adelaide Festival Centre SCUMFEST: HIGHTIME, HYDROMEDUSA, GOD GOD DAMMIT DAMMIT, A SECRET DEATH & more @ Old Queen’s Theatre THE APE @ Governor Hindmarsh

TUE JAN 14

PARAMORE @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre YELLOW BLUE BUS @ Adelaide Festival Centre

WED JAN 15

FEFE @ Adelaide Festival Centre

THU JAN 16

THE FUNKOARS @ Governor Hindmarsh THE ASTON SHUFFLE & THIEF @ Royal Croquet Club

SAT FEB 22

A DAY ON THE GREEN: HUNTERS & COLLECTORS, YOU AM I, SOMETHING FOR KATE & BRITISH INDIA @ Leconfield Wines, McLaren Vale WIRE @ Jive

SUN FEB 23

MARCEL DETTMANN @ Sugar

TUE FEB 25

LOU DOILLON @ Adelaide Festival Centre

DOLLY PARTON @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

FRI JAN 17

FRI FEB 28

THE BOYS OF SUMMER TOUR: BLESSTHEFALL, LIKE MOTHS TO FLAMES & THE COLOR MORALE @ Fowler’s Live JOHN GRANT @ Adelaide Festival Centre HALF MOON RUN @ Governor Hindmarsh

SAT JAN 18

FLAMENCO ARETI @ Adelaide Festival Centre YOUNG LIONS @ Blue Bee Room

THU JAN 23

VINCENT’S CHAIR @ Adelaide Festival Centre

FRI JAN 24

SARAH BLASKO @ Flinders St Baptist Church PILOTFEST: URTEKK, QUESTION QUESTION, ODDESSA, BROKERS & more @ Adelaide Festival Centre

SUN JAN 26

HENRIK SCHWARZ @ Sugar

FRI JAN 31

BIG DAY OUT: PEARL JAM, SNOOP DOGG, ARCADE FIRE, MAJOR LAZER & more @ Bonython Park THE BENNIES @ Enigma Bar

THU FEB 6

THE NATIONAL @ Thebarton Theatre ROSIE O’DONNELL @ Festival Theatre

FRI FEB 7

ED KOWALCZYK @ Her Majesty’s Theatre LEMURIA @ Crown & Anchor LANEWAY FESTIVAL: LORDE, HAIM, JAGWAR MA, WARPAINT, CHVRCHES, DANNY BROWN & more @ Hart’s Mill, Port Adelaide

SAT FEB 8

THE LOCUST @ Enigma Bar DIANA KRALL @ Festival Theatre

SUN FEB 9

THE NECKS @ Governor Hindmarsh

TUE FEB 11

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E-STREET BAND @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

WED FEB 12

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E-STREET BAND @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre MOTHER’S CAKE @ Enigma Bar

FRI FEB 14

PETE MURRAY @ Bird In Hand Winery JEFF MARTIN & SARAH MCLEOD @ Grace Emily Hotel

SAT FEB 15

PETE MURRAY @ Bird In Hand Winery

BLISS N ESO & HORROSHOW @ Clipsal 500

SAT MAR 1

SOUNDWAVE: GREEN DAY, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, ALICE IN CHAINS, A DAY TO REMEMBER & more @ Bonython Park EMPIRE OF THE SUN & KIMBRA @ Clipsal 500

SUN MAR 2

BRUNO MARS @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre DANIEL O’DONNELL & MARY DUFF @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre KEITH URBAN, GUY SEBASTIAN & BOOM CRASH OPERA @ Clipsal 500

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WED MAR 5

LIONEL RICHIE & JOHN FARNHAM @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre DAN SULTAN @ Garden Of Unearthly Delights

FRI MAR 7

NEKO CASE @ Fowler’s Live

THU MAR 13

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE & NINE INCH NAILS @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre SUICIDE GIRLS @ HQ

FRI MAR 14

KATE MILLER-HEIDKE @ Garden Of Unearthly Delights

SAT MAR 15

KATE MILLER-HEIDKE @ Garden Of Unearthly Delights NEIL FINN @ Thebarton Theatre

TUE MAR 18

MICHAEL JACKSON HISTORY II SHOW @ Her Majesty’s Theatre

WED MAR 19

ALAN DAVIES @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

THU MAR 20

ILLY @ Governor Hindmarsh

FRI MAR 21

THE ANGELS @ Jive

SAT MAR 22

THE ANGELS @ Jive

SUN MAR 23

JURASSIC 5 @ Thebarton Theatre

THU APR 3

JOHN BUTLER TRIO @ Thebarton Theatre LUCA BRASI @ Crown & Anchor Hotel

SAT APR 12

MICHAERL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD @ Governor Hindmarsh

TUE MAY 6

MICHAEL BUBLE @ Entertainment Centre

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The Ape is a new project fronted by the infamous Tex Perkins and aptly supported by Raul Sanchez (Magic Dirt, Muffcake and The River Of Snakes), Gus Agars and Pat Bourke. On the music scale it’s somewhere between The Beasts Of Bourbon and The Cruel Sea as Tex Perkins explains.

After wishing each other a Happy New Year, discussion ventured towards New Year’s resolutions. “Ah, I might do that around Chinese New Year. I believe we’re just finishing the Year Of The Snake and moving in to the Year Of The Horse. It sounds like a good year too, so it’s been the Dragon, the Snake and the Horse. I like those animals and I’m prepared to go with the Horse; the Snake has done me well.” One of the things that the Year Of The Horse will have in store is the exploration of his latest project, The Ape. “I’m a pretty excitable young fellow and I get excited about all sorts of things. The Ape is designed to embody a bit of excitement, which is what it is all about. Simple, fun rock‘n’roll is the realm of excitement and probably the funnest band I’m in and that includes The Cruel Sea. It kind of lies in between The Beasts Of Bourbon and The Cruel Sea, which for me is a far more physically intense experience and The Cruel Sea has far more of a good time feel.” It has been well documented that the songs for The Ape have been around for at least six years but how did Perkins pull together this band or were obvious members staring him in the face? “I think so; I’ve worked with all these people. When some of these songs first

got demoed, getting on to eight years now, Raul was involved and so was Pat, but not in a form of a band. They came in and played parts of tracks that were already half recorded. The individuals have been contributing here and there to The Ape songs but it wasn’t until about this time last year that I actually put together the band that would become The Ape. The band needed to be put together to play those songs and then I would go to Gus again, as he is my go-to rhythm ace. I did have a bit of a think about it but inevitable it was always going to be Raul, Pat and Gus.”

“We’re a very harmonious bunch and get along famously.” Raul Sanchez is a gun guitarist, what were the initial jam sessions like with him? “Raul, Adalita and the rest of Magic Dirt would bump into us a lot on tour and festivals then by coincidence I lived near Raul about ten years ago when I was living in Melbourne for a while. I used to visit him and we would do four track recordings back when people had four track tape machines. "It’s funny it was only 10 years ago putting a cassette tape in the classic Tascam and it would become a four track recorder. The stuff we recorded was really kind of out there, funny stuff and generally just making a racket spending an afternoon that way.” These sessions, however, were not the most prosperous. “There were many afternoons spent with Raul and I don’t think there was anything that we could actually take back to our respective bands or use. It was what it was and purely for the fun of it. I had a long

history with Raul just mucking about so it was great to finally create music that we could finally let the world hear. I had no idea what it would be like to work with Raul more than just play with Raul, if you see the difference. We’ve been mates for a really long time but what I did know was that I really liked the guy and spending time with him and that is sort of a key element of all the members of The Ape. We’re a very harmonious bunch and get along famously.” Perkins then explains his reasoning behind some of the hip hop loops that appear on their self-titled album. “For a long time the whole construction of these songs was that I had a few loops in a hip hop style and I was writing trashy, riffy guitar things over the top of them and thought that was an interesting combination. "That was the idea I wanted to pursue for a long time that’s why I liked players coming in and doing parts rather than needing to be a band," says Perkins. "For a long time I thought it needed to stay that way until I realised what I was going to do with these songs. They existed as demos for a long time and because of their nature I didn’t know how to bring them to the stage. The demos were used as a reference point but it wasn’t until I approached it as a band with a construct of loops and riffs that it really came to life. It’s what needed to happen but I was stuck in my old perception of what it was for a long time.”

WHO: The Ape WHERE: Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Sat Jan 11

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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

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BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia

ADELAIDE CASINO – Chandelier Bar: Jacqui Lim (6pm)

OFFICE ON PIRIE – DJ Jess (4.30pm)

(7.30pm)

Sonic Divas (10pm)

PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Time

BRECKNOCK HOTEL – Breakaway Sing-A-Long

ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: DJ Jaki J (9.30pm)

PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Acoustic Session (6pm)

AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm)

PRODUCERS HOTEL – After Four Fridays Garden

BAROSSA WINTAL HOTEL – Andy Mac (7.30pm)

guests (4pm)

MARS BAR – guests DJs plus drag shows MICK O’SHEA’S – Fleurieu Joe (7pm)

NORWOOD HOTEL – Eleven Days (9pm)

ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs

Machine (7.30pm)

Session (8.30pm)

ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Dimitra (7.30pm)

DJ (9pm)

CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Endless Heights,

BACCHUS WINE BAR – Tempus Vex Duo

Grooves with DJs Justice and DrDamage plus special

Antface

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm)

RACQUETS SA – 60/40 with DJ Lee (8pm)

DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm)

Suckerpunch

BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ

RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ SNAKE & DJ RUPHEO (9PM)

CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm)

RED SQUARE – DJs

BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty

CAMEO BAR – Cameoke with Andy

Starvation, Legions and Featherweight. Front Bar: DJ DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Trivia Night (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)

BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and

CAMEO BAR – DJs Lars, Lenny and guests

Band Room: Forward, Teargas, Hydromedusa, Rule Of

REX HOTEL – karaoke (8pm)

Thirds, Crisis Alert and Simfuckers plus DJ Adam

ROB ROY HOTEL – DJ Smiley (8pm)

ED CASTLE – Full Tilt live bands and party DJs

ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Acoustic

Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8pm)

EMU HOTEL – Stiff William

One More Mile

(6pm)

DJs play retro

EXETER HOTEL – karaoke (9pm)

SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJs

Tango

FINDON HOTEL – karaoke (8.30pm)

TAPAS ON HINDLEY – ﬂamenco shows by Studio Flamenco

SUGAR –Local DJs and guests

The Streamliners, Steve Brown Band and Sam Brittain

TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – Transit (9pm)

HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire

THE GOODY – Ch@t Room

IRISH CLUB – Shamrocks ‘n’ Shenanigans Live Acoustic

TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Troy Harrison (4.45pm) Two

ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm) EMU HOTEL – karaoke (9pm)

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Meg Bells, Bob Hookway &

Jordan Walker and Daniel Jenkins

GRAND BAR – OMG

HIGHWAY – DJ Alli (8pm)

HOTEL RICHMOND – All Vinyl DJ (6pm) HQ – Riot Society hosted by Uberjak’d LIGHT HOTEL – SCALA Live (8pm)

MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – DJ Jak

PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ ROCKET BAR – Wild Things (9pm) THE LION HOTEL – Clearway (9pm)

WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Sessions (7.30pm)

DUKE OF YORK – Tom & Rose (7pm)

ROCKET BAR – Cats at Rocket (9pm)

ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs Capt N

Sessions (7.30pm)

ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs

SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Blind Dog Taylor &

ENFIELD HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment

STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance. Downstairs:

ESPLANADE HOTEL – Redline (8pm)

SUGAR – SHGZ: Fridays at Sugar

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Stable Vices

TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Roots Night with

(7.30pm)

HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Triple X (9.30pm)

THE ELEPHANT – Unknown To Man and DJ G-Rillz (8.30pm)

HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs

THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment

Sessions (7pm)

Hard Basket (9pm) Chrysler Bar: Red Henry (9.30pm)

JADE MONKEY – The Sweet Decline with West Thebarton Brothel Party, Sitara and The Smile Hooks

VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs

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ZHIVAGO – Hello DJs: Terence, Track Team and Gumshoe

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CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with

HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips and

Nicole (8pm)

guests (8pm)

DJ Parry. Upstairs: DJ Skinny B, MC Scotty and guest DJs

JIVE – Gosh! with DJ Craig

ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs

LA BOHEME – Saturday Night Soiree (7.30pm)

DUKE OF YORK – Front Room: DJ Mitchy B. Beer Garden: ED CASTLE – Live bands and party DJs (9pm)

LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Redline (9pm)

ENCORE NIGHTCLUB – resident DJs and guests (9pm)

and Venus Sly Trap (9pm)

EXETER HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment

ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J plus Bongo

KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke

Junior, Dancespace and friends EMU HOTEL – Hell On Heels

SATURDAY 11TH

JACK RUBY – Soul Social – live band and vinyl DJs (8pm)

LAND OF PROMISE HOTEL – Trench Effect, Black Picture LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundﬂex, AJ and

(7pm)

MC Renard (10pm)

GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm)

electro

EXETER ON RUNDLE – The Scarlet Ives GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ Marky Polo (8pm)

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: The Ape – Tex

MARINA SUNSET BAR – DJs playing the best in house and MARION HOTEL – Franky F (5.30pm) One Planet (8.30pm) MARS BAR – guest DJs plus a drag show

Madness with Alex. Upstairs: DJ Ed Law (9.30pm)

Perkins

MICK O’SHEA’S – Fever (9pm)

BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson

MCs

PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Harry & The

BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ

HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm)

CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: The Timbers with

HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly

BACCHUS WINE BAR – Plush: The Band

GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays with DJs and

BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – karaoke (9pm)

HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Frenzy (9pm)

CAVAN HOTEL – Karnival with live bands (9pm)

HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm)

Thom Lion and Timberwolf plus DJ Azz

HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Jest (8.30pm)

NORWOOD HOTEL – Three Star General (9pm) Hitmen (8.45pm)

PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Midnight Specials (8pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Alien 8 (10.30pm)

PRETORIA HOTEL – Zkye & The Guyz (9pm)

RAMSGATE HOTEL – ADELAIDE’S BEST COVER BANDS RED SQUARE – DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan

ROCKET BAR – Rocket Saturdays (9pm) SANDBAR – requests with DJs

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic sessions

SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – Animal House (9pm) SUGAR – ITDE DJs and interstate & international guests SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle

SESSIONS 2014 Adelaide Festival Centre Sessions returns in 2014 with a belter of a line-up, showcasing artists from the USA, France, Spain, New Zealand and Australia. The strong contingent of Australian talent is bolstered by a diverse line-up of international stars including Daptone worldbeater Lee Fields, genre-blending UK group The Correspondents and French sensation Féfé (pictured). Sessions runs until January 24.

TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests

TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Troy Harrison (7.30pm) TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs

THE ELEPHANT – The Elephant and DJ G-Rillz (9pm)

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THE LION HOTEL – Absolut Saturdays: Wasabi (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Boris Loves To Boogie (8.30pm) VALLEY INN – karaoke

VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – Rumours WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – Rave On (8.45pm)

WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm)

ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs: Bottle Rockets, Osyris, Anthony and Skot Holder

SUNDAY 12TH ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School

BACCHUS WINE BAR – All About Her

BENJAMIN ON FRANKLIN – Souled Out Sessions with DJs Dave Collins and Jason Lee

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon

CROWN & ANCHOR – all ages show

DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris

DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Harvest (3pm) ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) EMU HOTEL – acoustic set (2pm)

ESPLANADE HOTEL – Undercover Duo (4pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Magnetic Garden

GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays (3pm)

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Dance! Dance! Dance!

GRAND BAR – bands, DJs and MCs

HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – 888 Poker (6.30pm)

JADE MONKEY – Chester Winchester and Aidan ‘Jazzy’ Jones (3pm)

LIGHT HOTEL – Vonni’s Big Arvo

LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – Let It Roll

MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music

MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – Killkenny (2pm)

OLD CLARENDON INN – Captain Black (4pm)

PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Two Hard Basket (2.30pm)

PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Justin Parker (4pm)

PRETORIA HOTEL – Little Soho Duo (2pm)

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

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ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Funk & Soul

DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Dan’s Open Mic

Sessions (7.30pm)

Night (7.30pm)

SEMAPHORE PALAIS – Frenzy (4pm)

EMU HOTEL – DJ night (8pm)

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic soloists

DEEP BLUE CAFÉ – Rob McDade (6.30pm)

SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – The Don Morrison

EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music

Band (4pm)

Exchange (7.30pm)

TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions

FINDON HOTEL – Muso’s Jam hosted by Streaker

SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans

THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) Quinny, Parko & Friends (6pm)

TONSLEY HOTEL – Jake Nickolai (2pm)

WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Mick Kidd

WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi & Shaggy (8.30pm)

WHITMORE HOTEL – Hurtin’ Four

ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs: Anthony, Ryley and Gumshoe

EXETER ON RUNDLE – DJ Curtis

TUESDAY 14TH

FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – karaoke (7pm) HIGHWAY – The Combi Room

AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7pm)

HQ –NeverLand

CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: DJs Stevie & Duncan

MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Bitches Of Zeus DJs

ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jazz

Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm)

SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm)

PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm)

Margi (7.30pm)

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TONSLEY HOTEL – Tonsley Trivia (7pm)

TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – DJs Ryley & Apex (8pm)

WHITMORE HOTEL – Maddy Arthur

BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson

LIGHT HOTEL – Open Mic Night (8pm)

DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm)

PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm)

GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron

Sessions (7.30pm)

MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm)

SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with

ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – cover band

SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular

SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and

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FINSBURY HOTEL – karaoke (8pm)

THE LION HOTEL – Zkye and Damo (7.30pm)

TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Wednesday (7pm)

WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm)

WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

Q&A WITH OUR FAVOURITE LOCAL BARTENDERS.

CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Luke Carlino EXETER ON RUNDLE – Carla Lippis

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 SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon

THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and Paul Vallen (8pm)

WHITMORE HOTEL – Raw Jam Session

WEDNESDAY 15TH ARKABA HOTEL – Latino Grooves Salsa Classes (6pm) BOTANIC BAR – Gemma

CENTRAL DISTRICTS FOOTBALL CLUB – Quiz Wiz

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THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill (9pm)

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First Look At New Laneway Site After years of problems with overcrowding and stage access, the St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival is set to embark on a new era in Adelaide. The historic precinct of Port Adelaide will host the festival for the first time in 2014 at Hart’s Mill, on the banks of the Port River. Rip It Up caught up with Laneway Director Danny Rogers to get the lowdown on the new site, and went for a guided tour with local festival producer Craig Lock (pictured).

aneway’s ethos has always been about thinking ahead and moving forward. In 2010 they were forced to make a tough decision and abandon Caledonian Lane – the festival’s original site in Melbourne – for a bigger venue outside the CBD. In 2011 they became the first major Australian festival player to break into the Asian market, launching Laneway Singapore. That same year they hosted an event at SXSW and curated a stage at Field Day in London. It comes as little surprise then that the festival organisers have selected Port Adelaide – an area recently outlined as a future cultural hub by former Thinker-In-Residence Martin Elbourne – as the new home of Laneway in Adelaide. Elbourne’s involvement with the festival is no coincidence, either. “Martin and I have been colleagues for years,” explains Rogers. “I reached out to him and mentioned that Laneway was on the lookout for a new location and that it was at that point where if we don’t find a new site that is on par with the other cities then I don’t think I’ll be able to hold it there again. He responded within about two minutes saying, ‘Mate, I’ve already found the site.’” While Elbourne’s suggestion of Port Adelaide got the ball rolling, it was local

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Laneway producer Craig Lock who pinpointed the site at Hart’s Mill. Right on the riverfront, the new festival location dwarfs its predecessor, allowing ample room for five stages and (fingers crossed) eliminating the possibility of overcrowding.

“Not since we moved to Footscray in Melbourne have we been met with such enthusiasm from the locals.”

“Yeah, that definitely shouldn’t be a problem next year,” laughs Lock, who also co-owns local music company 5/4 Entertainment. “We’re really excited to be involved with the festival again and I think the new site is incredible, and incredibly unique. No one else would do a music festival here… they just wouldn’t. I think people will really enjoy it.” As festival-goers enter the new-look Laneway from Nile St, they will be greeted by the two main stages to their left, which will operate alternately à la Big Day Out or Soundwave. Smack-bang in the middle of the site will be the monolithic Hart’s

Mill, although punters will only be able to appreciate the impressive Victorian building from the outside. “We’re gonna light it up and stuff, so we’ll certainly feature it,” explains Rogers, “but it’s a derelict space at the moment. There’s a really cool shed next to it that we’re going to use for some cool stuff, so you’ll still feel like it’s a part of the festival.” Behind the mill and its “really cool shed” will be a third stage just metres from the waterfront. Hang a right at the end of Mundy St and follow the tree-lined promenade – likely to feature food and market stalls – all the way to the Nelson St bridge and you’ll arrive at the fourth stage. And tucked around the corner from there will be the festival’s trump card: a fifth stage in the Waterside Workers Hall, the home of Vitalstatistix Theatre Company. The indoor stage will be curated by local arts crew Format. All in all it’s set to be a massive step up from the pokey laneways of City West campus, and a hugely impressive coup for Rogers and his team. Coupled with the festival’s star-studded line-up – which includes global chart-topper Lorde, sister act HAIM, Chvrches and ‘next-big-thing’ Vance Joy – it’s unsurprising that reaction to the festival has thus far been overwhelmingly positive. “Ticket sales are stronger than they’ve ever been,” says Rogers. “We’ve already sold more tickets to the Adelaide show than we have any other year. We’ve sold 3,300-3,400 tickets already, which is incredible. The most tickets we’ve ever had on the site in Adelaide is 3,200 and this year if we sell out we’ll have just over 6,000.” With constant talk of ‘vibrancy’ and an urgent need to revitalise some of Adelaide’s less trodden paths, Laneway’s move to Port Adelaide couldn’t come at a better time. And with the Hart’s Mill site itself set to be developed in the coming years, Rogers is confident he’s found Laneway’s new

Leave Them All Behind While the 2014 instalment of Laneway is set to kick off in a matter of weeks, Danny Rogers is already looking at potential acts to grace his festival in 2015. One of 2012’s most hyped acts in particular is sticking out for him at the moment. “I’d love to get someone like Grimes on the festival, that’d be fun. She’s got a new album coming out so we’ll see what happens. It’s all very early and I usually try and book as late as possible (but) if there’s anything that I really want early on then I’ll jump in and make an offer and see how we go.”

permanent home in Adelaide. He is extremely grateful to his new landlords. “Not since we moved to Footscray in Melbourne have we been met with such enthusiasm from the locals,” he gushes. “I don’t think I’ve had one negative comment to deal with. When you do this for a long time, you get councils and people that don’t have the vision for what you’re trying to do and don’t understand what you’re bringing to the precinct. You get over it pretty quickly. But you also really appreciate the ones that come at you with open arms because it’s a big deal.” Emerging arts hubs, expanding music festivals, cooperative local government – maybe things are really starting to change in Adelaide. Whatever the case, 2014 looms a pivotal year for Rogers’ Laneway Festival as it takes root in a new home in the City of Churches. Or should we say, City of Chvrches. WHAT: St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival WHERE: Hart’s Mill, Port Adelaide WHEN: Fri Feb 7

Film // The Book Thief (M) AAAa Australian author Markus Zusak’s 2005 novel The Book Thief is given prestige international treatment (it’s an American/German coproduction filmed in Germany with Australian, English, French and German players). The result is a finely-played WW2 drama with a little awkwardness and a central literary device that doesn’t quite work. Narrated by Roger Allam, we follow Liesel (Sophie Nélisse from Monsieur Lazhar), an orphan adopted by a family in a small German village in 1938 that finds herself a little distanced from the stern Rosa (Emily Watson) but warming to the funny Hans (Geoffrey Rush), who encourages her to read a book she

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finds in a graveyard and, later and dangerously, one she pulls from a bonfire at a Nazi rally. When the family decides to risk everything by hiding a Jewish lad named Max (Ben Schnetzer) in their cellar, he and Liesel become close due to their shared love of books, as the war gathers strength outside and grows closer. Directed by Brian Percival, who eases lovely work from Nélisse, Rush, Watson (making Rosa far more than the two-dimensional figure she surely seemed in the script) and Nico Liersch as a boy smitten with Liesel, this isn’t specifically concerned with the Holocaust (which might upset some audiences) but more about the need to read (and understand), and how sometimes that can become a revolutionary act.

Outdoor Cinema Auchendarroch House Lawns, Mount Barker Coming up at this special Wallis Cinemas summer film festival: the first ever Home Alone (Thu Jan 9); Walking With Dinosaurs: The Movie (Fri Jan 10); and the accept-no-substitutes original The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Wed Jan 15). All details: wallis.com.au.

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Stranger By The Lake Saving Mr Banks (PG) (R) AAA AAAa

Muscle Shoals (PG) AAA

French writer/director Alain Guiraudie’s lowbudget queer drama is an intriguing, unsettling character study. Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps), an aimless, empty young man, drives to the same lakeside every day, a gay beat where men go to meet, swim, sunbathe naked and enjoy sexual encounters in the nearby woods. Here he meets and strikes up a friendship-of-sorts with the older and sadder Henri (Patrick D’Assumçao), who says that he’s there not for thrills but simply as he’s lonely, and the rather predatory Michel (Christophe Paou, who looks distinctly like Freddie Mercury), who’s obviously a dangerous individual, although this doesn’t matter to Franck, especially as the sex is so damn hot. Never leaving the isolated location and with uneasy detail that doesn’t distract from the main plot (like talk of a giant fish that might be waiting to attack swimmers), Guiraudie’s film eventually turns scary when a body washes up and a detective ( Jérôme Chappatte) starts snooping around and asking probing questions about why the guys know and care so little about each other. It finally builds to a climax that moves daringly from frightening to over-the-top to eerily existential. (One of Mercury Cinema’s Summer Scoops. Details: mercurycinema.org.au)

Many have already raved about this effort from the Disney corporation, and how it distorts the truth about the relationship between ‘Uncle Walt’ and PL Travers (AKA Helen Lyndon Goff), and yet it is enjoyable – as long as you accept that it’s sheer fantasy. In 1961, the London-based Travers (Emma Thompson) was short of cash, and after 20-plus years of wooing she agreed to journey to Hollywood to meet Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) and discuss turning her book Mary Poppins into a movie, provided there was no animation, no songs, and more. For two weeks Disney pulled out all the stops, and she found herself arguing with songwriters Richard and Robert Sherman ( Jason Schwartzman and BJ Novak), sending back outrageous gifts and putting up with Walt’s wiliest tricks, as flashbacks kept intruding about her youth in Australia (somewhere in California), where she’s played by Annie Rose Buckley. Colin Farrell is fine as her drunken dad Travers and Rachel Griffiths turns up as the housekeeper who… well, you know (particularly if you’ve seen the trailer, which gives away everything). Directed by John Lee Hancock (of the also shamelessly fictionalised The Blind Side), this is worth it for the performances, especially those from Hanks and Thompson, who prove charming, despite the fact that Disney was infamously pushy and, ahem, weird, and Travers was, dare it be said, a nasty old bag.

While it may initially sound like a medical condition or an obscure Lynyrd Skynyrd lyric, the town of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, is home to the renowned Fame Studios, where a group of white guys were integral in creating the R&B sound of the late 1950s and making stars out of the likes of Arthur Alexander, Etta James and Duane Allman. From studio founder Rick Hall, members of Fame’s in-house bands, and stars like Bono, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge, who recorded When A Man Loves A Woman at Fame, and Aretha Franklin, who should have recorded R-E-S-P-E-C-T there, this anecdotal history of the studio celebrates the success of the artists and the music, and touches on segregation and Rick Hall’s personal struggles, without looking at anything in minute detail. You’ll learn more from the studio’s Wikipedia page, and the third act veers way off-course, but the music and pictures are a shot of nostalgia that make it worth a look. With 2013 saturated in films celebrating backing vocalists, One Direction, Pussy Riot and other recording studios, Muscle Shoals comes too late for the year of the music documentary, but true R&B fans won’t want to miss this grassroots look at history as it was being played. (One of the Mercury Cinema’s Summer Scoops. Details: mercurycinema.org.au)

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Coming up this week at the Moonlight Cinema: the Grease Sing-A-Long (Thu Jan 9); Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 (Fri Jan 10); Prisoners (Sat Jan 11); Thor: The Dark World (Sun Jan 12); Delivery Man (Tue Jan 14); and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (Wed Jan 15). All details: moonlight.com.au.

Opening But Unrated Free Birds (G), a 3D animated family flick from Jimmy (Horton Hears A Who!) Hayward, features voice roles by Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Amy Poehler, Colm Meaney, Keith David and George Takei – and an awful lot of gobbling turkey jokes.

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Jauma Wines & Fino LongTable Lunch Jauma’s head winemaker James Erksine will host a long-table lunch in collaboration with Willunga’s Fino restaurant this Sat Jan 18 in a celebration of local and left-of-field produce. With his wife Denise, Adelaide Hills-based Erskine pushes the boundaries of the Australian wine scene by embracing natural, unfiltered and cloudy wine styles with his renegade label Jauma Wines. Join Erskine alongside David Swain and Sharon Romeo of Fino for an afternoon of tasting from a wild-inspired lunch menu and the latest Jauma summer releases, including the 2013 Blewitt Springs Chenin Blanc and Seaview Cabaret Franc. Tickets cost $85 a head.

WHO: James Erskine (Jauma Wines), David Swain and Sharon Romeo (Fino) WHERE: Fino, 8 Hill St, Willunga WHEN: Sat Jan 18 at 12.30pm COST: $85 per head includes four courses and matched wines BOOK: finowillunga.eventbrite.com.au

Schutzenfest Shcutzenfest is back for 2014, with the 51st annual German celebration returning to its stomping grounds of Bonython Pk on Fri Jan 10 andw Sat Jan 11. With its history dating back to medieval times, the Schutzenfest, or ‘shooting festival’, has long been celebrated in German towns. Given Adelaide’s German heritage, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to also celebrate the occasion – usually with copious amounts of steins! The South Australian German Association has been hosting the Adelaide Schutzenfest since 1964, seeing it grow to become the second largest of its kind in the world and the largest ethnic festival in the southern hemisphere. This year you can expect over 40 stalls serving traditional German food and beverages, souvenirs, cultural heritage displays, children’s entertainment, ‘strong arm’ stein

lifting and bratwurst eating competitions. Tickets cost $20 through Venuetix, or children under 14 get in for free. WHAT: Schutzenfest WHERE: Bonython Pk, Thebarton WHEN: Fri Jan 10 from 4pm – midnight & Sat Jan 11 from 12pm – midnight TICKETS: $20 via Venuetix

Downtown HDCB With vacant spaces on Hindley St nowadays being a dime a dozen, one new eatery to open its doors has decided to embrace its divey surrounds rather than shun them with a fancy refurbishment. Brought to you by the same people behind Jack Ruby, it’s called Downtown HDCB – a self-proclaimed “dive bar and hot dog joint in downtown Adelaide”. Dishes included sticky USA ribs for $15, a bucket of fried chicken with bourbon caramel for $20 and, much like its underground predecessor on King William St, jalapeno poppers – this time flavoured with tangy Russian dressing. The more daring diner may order the ‘Suicide’ wings for $15, which we’ve been informed are “fucking hot”, or you could opt for the Downtown’s specialty – hot dogs! With eight selections to choose from, each

hot dog has been playfully named after a pop cultural figure. Some choices include the ‘Brigitte Bardot’ – a venison dog, braised red cabbage, red onion and mustard ($14) – and the ‘Gordon Ramsay’ – a porchetta and chilli dog, truffle potato puree, onion gravy and peas ($12). More exciting ‘dogs include the ‘Diego Maradona,’ which boasts spicy chorizo as its base, or the vegetarian-friendly ‘Steve Jobs’, beefed up (not really) with a veggie pattie, scrambled egg, tomato and Srirancha. Wash it all down with their selection of local and international beers, including Moritz and Coopers. Or, if you’re short on time, just go ahead and order yourself a carafe of ‘Singapore Slurry’…

WHAT: Downtown HDCB WHERE: 99 Hindley St, Adelaide WHEN: Wed – Thu 12pm – midnight, Fri 12pm – 2am & Sat 4pm – 2am INFO: 8212 7334

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Gemini 21.05/21.06

Mercury moves out of earthy Capricorn and into airy Aquarius this week. Life picks you up on a thermal and takes you back to the airy heights where you feel comfortable. The general atmosphere is one of creative friction. Difficulties arouse inspiration, not discombobulation.

Mars is helping you to hold your ground. Even though he’s anchoring you in your gut and giving selfrespect, others aren’t shifting from their positions either. There’s no need to enter into any conflict, no matter how tempting. Create something special from all this shared strength.

Scorpio 24.10/21.11

The moon in Taurus momentarily illuminates your beauty, strength and wisdom. Such moments of grace surface when we let go of our resistance and relax into life as it is. Use this break in the weather to remember that there is always light and open skies behind the cloud cover.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12

It won’t pay to get too attached to any emotional funkiness that happens to overtake you. Come out of it as quickly as you can. The more fluid your feelings, the faster happiness kicks in. With Jupiter in Cancer, life is giving you an object lesson in the creative currents of emotion.

Cancer 22.06/22.07

When you look around you and see that no-one is going to budge, no matter how hard you state your case, the option of going fishing looks very good. Even if you don’t do it literally, do it metaphorically. When life is not being logical, live it poetically. It’s ok to choose ease.

Virgo 23.08/22.09

Sometimes all the foresight in the world can’t stop events from playing out the way they are going to play out. Rather than pull your hair out at the stupidity, be on hand to offer kindness and guidance when it is required. Stay light in this. There’s no need to wear hobnailed boots.

Brave Brave features three local artists whose work has been described as ‘calligraphic street art’, ‘outsider art’ and ‘haunting contemporary gothic art’ – Kab 101, Stephen Langdon and Adam Murakami. Kab 101 is an internationally renowned pioneer of the Adelaide graffiti community, continuing to take great strides with his meticulous pattern murals. Langdon, a largely self-taught artist, expresses his own spirituality through a kaleidoscope of imagery and materials, using timber, sandstone and other

unloved treasures on canvas and board. Murakami explores the cinematic and literary themes of the narratives and psychology of a contemporary Gothic. Curated by Carollyn Kavanagh, Brave will be held inside Pirie St’s unique exhibition space, Art Pod, until Thu Jan 23.

WHAT: Kab 101, Stephen Langdon & Adam Murakami: Brave WHERE: Art Pod, 25 Pirie St, Adelaide WHEN: Until Thu Jan 23

Capricorn 22.12/19.01

With four planets in Capricorn, you aren’t going to be prevented from making your mark. Make it a beautiful, transformative, elegant mark. Bring whatever it is that you have been creating, out into the public eye. If it’s good, it’s bound to spark a degree of controversy. Roll with that.

Leo 23.07/22.08

Slowly you are starting to make sense of the events of the last few weeks. There is some kind of order underneath the surface after all. This realisation opens your heart – and when your heart is open, others feel subliminally invited to open theirs too and come close. Find your smile.

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Libra 23.09/23.10

Taurus 21.04/20.05

The moon sets you up for flow. You are slipping down the river of life while others are clambering over rocks and ridges. As you slip effortlessly through heavy traffic, be aware that this is a gift of circumstance. You still need to keep your eyes open to prevent any snags.

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Kab 101

No matter how hard you push your case, there are going to be equal and opposite forces pushing theirs. The most productive outcome is a growing general sense of mutual respect. Nobody is going to fall into the trap of being a pushover. You might be surprised by your own moves.

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Aquarius 20.01/18.02

Mercury arrives later in the week, lifting your spirits. This revitalises your sense of where all this is going. It got a bit muddy in there for a while. Mercury, on a good day, is the planet of pure insight and awareness. Dare to take the veil of borrowed knowledge from your eyes.

Pisces 19.02/20.03

You are the refuge that others are seeking. It’s not that you are doing anything particularly special. It’s more the way that you are not doing anything and relaxing in your being, that is attractive to those who are habituated with stress. Be the place of rest that others need.

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Aries 21.03/20.04

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Plasticus Victorian artists Carolyn Hanna and Vanessa White will present an interdisciplinary collaborative performance and installation titled Plasticus at FELTspace later this month. Drawing from dance, painting, video and the plastic arts, this work is a collaboration between two artists who have spent their lives since high school as close friends though only recently as artistic collaborators. This long term friendship between Hanna and White is a tangible ingredient in this work which touches on intimacy, internal body imagery, visual

art, humour, absurdism, dance and performance practices that explore the experience of the body in the world. Go to the opening night on Wed Jan 15 from 6pm to see White and Hanna in their dynamic performance, accompanied by music by ‘Bird. In.Hand.Lane’. In the back gallery, recent UniSA Honours graduate Tom Borgas will be presenting 200 White Cubes (Striped), an immersive installation of interactive sculptural units.

WHAT: Carolyn Hanna & Vanessa White: Plasticus WHERE: FELTspace, 12 Compton St, Adelaide WHEN: Wed Jan 15 – Sat Feb 1 OPENING: Wed Jan 15 from 6pm

Fashion//

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with Lachlan Aird

PoshProjects

Posh-Projects are a Koreanbased retailer who specialise in crafting accessories that are both functional and artistic. Using Italian leather, they have created a new spin on common products, including leather ID cardholder necklaces (just like a passport holder except you won’t hate wearing it), leather wallets that completely enclose your iPhone, keyholder straps and skins for your iPhone made of cement. An experimental take on all the classics. posh-projects.com

CoinYe

Muji In Melbs Muji – the Japanese stationery, interiors, health products and apparel specialists – have finally landed in Australia, launching their flagship store at Chadstone Shopping Centre in Melbourne. Noted for their high quality products, affordable prices and quest to make products as minimal and aesthetically-pleasing as possible, Muji has been soothing the anxiety of stationery freaks and those who refuse to work without the perfect pen and paper combination. With over 7,000 products to choose from, the anxiety is most often in the selection process. Hopefully this will inspire further Muji stores across Australia (ie. please come to Adelaide I need a new biro). muji.com

The online fashion of the moment is in non-traceable currency (cyptocurrency) and the latest to launch takes its inspiration from Yeezus himself – Kanye West. CoinYe West will launch on Sat Jan 11 via an anonymous party who have chosen Kanye as their muse as he has “always been a trendsetter, and he’s always keeping things unique”. Current forms of cryptocurrency include Bitcoin, Litecoin, Peercoin, Namecoin and Dogecoin – named after the loveable Shiba Inu ‘Doge’ meme and – just like anything on the internet – the possibilities seem limitless. The controversial online currency has kept many people wary, although early investors have benefited greatly with a single Bitcoin skyrocketing to around $1,000 in value during 2013. For more info and a guide to secure yourself a CoinYe, head to coinyewest.com.

HER X Opening Ceremony Spike Jonze’s new film Her (out Thu Jan 16) sees Theodore Twombly ( Joaquin Phoenix) fall for his newlypurchased operating system (voiced by Scarlett Johannson) and will surely be the hippest love story of the year. Coincidentally, one of the hippest online shopping destinations, Opening Ceremony, have teamed up with Her to create a capsule men’s collection based on Twombly’s wardrobe. Shearling jackets, button-down shirts, high-waist trousers, colour blocking tracksuits and sweaters with pockets perfectly shaped to fit iPhones are just a few of the characteristics from the collection for those seeking something perfectly versatile and a little bit left-of-centre. Or if you’re just a really big Spike Jonze fan. openingceremony.us

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Culture

DVD Reviews

Abducted

The English Teacher

Hopscotch / MA / 95 mins

Roadshow / M / 87 mins

Lucy Phillips and Glen Scantlebury’s lower-than-low-budget horror/sci-fi oddballer features an annoying cast, lots of running around in the dark and a mystery that’s only barely explained – and seriously dumb. A married-couple-to-be, Jessica (Tessa Ferrer) and Dave (Trevor Morgan), drive around California on a pre-wedding holiday, have sex in cheap hotels and aimlessly video everything they do before being abducted by guys in what look like biohazard suits in Griffith Park (which seems to be under the Hollywood sign but probably wasn’t, as it would have cost too much). They’re then locked in a cell in a sort of underground asylum and, after many days of arguing, agonising and overacting (during which both remain clean despite the absence of showers), the pair get separated and experimented upon for some disturbing reason or other, with ideas liberally stolen from the Saws, Skyline and even, perhaps, the Ozploitation epic The Chain Reaction, before a climax that’ll leave you sorely wanting to lock up the directors. MDB

AAA The first feature by TV-intensive director Craig Zisk, this low-key character piece is enjoyable mostly due to Julianne Moore’s star performance, here doing her wallflower routine instead of one of her mums (see The Kids Are All Right, What Maisie Knew and Carrie). Accompanied by an irritating and unreliable narration, we meet Linda Sinclair, a 40-something, terminally single and romance-fiction-adoring English teacher in small-town Pennsylvania whose world’s turned upside down when one of her former students, Jason Sherwood (Michael Angarano), returns home after failing in New York. Jason has a rejected play under his arm, and Linda decides that it’s truly wonderful and that the school must stage it in its full and uncut form, resulting in some funny stuff regarding staff and student concerns about some of its themes (sexuality, suicide, defying your parents), an amusing turn by Nathan Lane as namedropping drama teacher Cal Kapinas and the appearance of Jason’s dad Tom (Greg Kinnear), who you’d assume Linda would go for in a big way. And, if so, well, fail!

Gambit

Paranoia

Roadshow / PG / 85 mins

Icon / M / 106 mins

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

Aussie director Robert Luketic thinks that this filming of Joseph Finder’s novel has socio-political themes and a ‘70s mistrust of faceless corporations, and yet it’s ultimately too dumb to take seriously even as cheesy fluff. Adam Cassidy (Melburnian Liam Hemsworth) works in a Manhattan tech business for scumbag boss Nicholas Wyatt (Gary Oldman). When he gets himself and his pals fired, and they get drunk with Wyatt’s money, Adam is blackmailed by Wyatt (and his dastardly offsiders, including Australia’s own Julian McMahon as a goon). Adam’s mission: to infiltrate the realms of Wyatt’s nemesis Jock Goddard (Harrison Ford) and steal the old dude’s newest technology, a scheme complicated by Adam’s blossoming friendship with Jock and incessant flirtation with co-worker Emma (Amber Heard, vaguely good in a ludicrously clichéd role). Notable for featuring Ford in a part rejected by Kevin Spacey (and looking as pissed-off as ever), Luketic’s pic is so po-faced it’s almost unintentionally funny – almost – even if Liam’s dull, the script’s hokey and Oldman’s such a villain that he drinks tea with an English accent.

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Bookshelf

1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die Robert Dimery (ed) / Murdoch Books / 960pp

The latest edition of this glossy doorstop of a book (one of a seemingly endless stream of ‘1001 [somethings] You Must [something] Before You Die’ tomes) journeys from Enrico Caruso’s O Sole Mio (1950) to David Bowie’s Where Are We Now? (2013) and includes contributions from an army of writers that veer from the academic to the technical to the trivia-crammed to the jokey to the bitchy. And surely your iTunes needs more Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Kinks, Supremes, Who, Four Tops, New York Dolls, Abba, Buzzcocks, XTC, Queen, Kraftwerk, Stranglers, Laurie Anderson, Cure, Pixies, New Order, Nick Cave, Oasis, Björk, Nirvana, Moby, Blur, Gorillaz, Goldfrapp, White Stripes, Kaiser Chiefs, Coldplay, Elbow and, um, Lana Del Rey? MDB

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Lowground

Stage

Adelaide songstress Casey Thomson, whom some may recall from the band Crusader Rabbit, has written a piece, Lowground, based on the well-known Rapunzel fairytale and will present it as part of Adelaide Fringe 2014.

Thomson, who will play the role of the witch, has also enticed singer songwriters Courtney Robb and Simon Peter to play the roles of Rapunzel and the love-struck prince respectively, while Jonathan Crouch will serve as the narrator with multi-instrumentalist Ray Smith, of local band Sympathy Orchestra, as the show’s musical director. Lowground, which takes its name from the opening song that also features again later in the show, has been some years in the making. “I’d written a song some years ago about a witch and then a lady approached me about using it for a kid’s pantomime,”Thomson says. “She then disappeared into the ether but I still liked the song and wondered how I could use it. Then, using her idea, I thought about writing more songs based around a theme. “I actually found that having a theme to work on was easier than just doing my normal songwriting,” she continues. “You have the characters already set and just go from there. But it’s not really a musical – there’s no acting or dancing as such – as it’s more of a narrative which

Casey Thomson tan by Robert Duns

will be done by Jonathan Crouch who also sings a song as well,”Thomson adds. Simon Peter and Courtney Robb agreed to be involved in the project two years ago. “Courtney was surprised that I wanted her to play Rapunzel and that I would be the witch,” Thomson laughs. “She’d said, ‘But you’re too sweet to play the witch’. So I replied, ‘All the witch has to do is sit in the tower but it’s Rapunzel who gets all angsty’. And Courtney has that edge. The fairytale also has different endings – there’s one that suggests Rapunzel is actually a hero – but I picked the one that would work best for us.”

Lowground will be staged in the basement of what used to be the Higher Ground venue in Light Sq. “It’s a quite intimate space and has lots of poles,”Thomson says. “But we thought we could use the poles as part of the forest. So it will work well.” WHO: Castle Productions WHAT: Lowground WHERE: 9 Light Sq WHEN: Sat Mar 1 and Sun Mar 2

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Your guide to the student experience

Your Guide I’m Claire Foord, an emerging artist, Visual Arts & Education grad. I show and sell my artwork here in Adelaide and have travelled to Canada, USA and Germany exhibiting. Right now I’m teaching, art-ing and writing. If you’ve got anything you think I should share in Fast Times hit me up on instagram #clairefoord_artist or facebook.com/ClaireFoordArtist.

It’s A Deal have you got two bucks? Then dinner is on you. Head to The Hotel Tivoli for $2 tacos, Monday nights from 5.30pm, 265 Pirie St, Adelaide.

Want Your Voice Heard In Parliament? Are you under 24? Do you have an interest in politics? Well, the YMCA Youth Parliament might be just right for you. YMCA SA has developed and educated in more than 1,000 people in the SA Parliamentary system through the Youth Parliament program and provides an opportunity to develop public speaking and leadership skills in a unique forum. Last year’s recruits have said just how much confidence they gained and what an opportunistic platform it provided. It’s not just about public speaking – with Youth Parliament you can learn about voting procedures, parliamentary etiquette, leadership and bill writing in a professional, supportive and exciting environment. In a team you identify issues that are important to you and with training can learn how to develop a bill. You can even gain knowledge of correct etiquette procedures for the Parliamentary process and present the bill in Parliament House. The YMCA offers a training weekend and a full sixday residential this July. The residential includes three days of sitting in Parliament House. The bills passed during Youth Parliament are then formally presented to the Minister for Youth. Malwinka Wyra, the 2014 Youth Governor for Youth Parliament, said, “It is great to be a part of a program that actually makes an impact. Not many people may realise but Youth Parliament presented a bill about a plastic bag levy in 2003, bringing the issue to the attention of Parliament, which has now become law. Now that’s showing the potential impact Youth Parliamentarians can have.” Last year 69 people participated in the YMCA 18th Annual Youth Parliament Week. In doing so, they debated 14 bills and two motions of public importance. The program is managed by the YMCA of South Australia and supported by the State Government through the Office for Youth. Applications to join YMCA SA Youth Parliament 2014 are open to individuals and teams until March. For more information or to apply, go to sa.ymca.org.au.

Free Fitness The Australian Institute of Fitness are loving the outdoors and want to liven up your lunch break with a FREE fitness session. Keen? Get you exercise gear on and head to Light Sq on Wed Jan 29 at 11am for your free one-hour group session.

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CD Reviews

CD Of The Week

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Ernest Ellis

y with Jimm

Byzantine

Crystal Antlers

Shine Like Me

Nothing Is Real

(Spunk)

(Innovative Leisure/Create/Control)

Ernest Ellis hardly blew anyone away with the release of two sub-par albums a couple of years back. His hype preceded him, and he didn’t have the songs to back it up. Having taken some time out to re-assess things, the Sydney native has returned with a new lease on life, or something. Shine Like Me sounds a million miles from the pensive, overwrought indie filler he once espoused. Instead, he channels The Eels and Edward Sharpe to create a neo-gospel stairway to redemption. Ernest Ellis used to be lacklustre. Now he’s shining.

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Del The Funkee Homosapien Land Of Immediate Rap Hits (Independent)

After years of inactivity, Del The Funkee Homosapien struck last year with the longawaited follow-up album by Deltron 3030, a group he fronts alongside Dan The Automator and Kid Koala. Now he’s catching up for lost time, self-releasing a whole solo album – Iller Than Most – for free online. Land Of Immediate Rap Hits is the album’s lead track and is reminiscent of his playful, stream-ofconsciousness delivery characterised by his Gorillaz collaborations. A solid come back, but an immediate rap hit this ain’t.

t:dy t:wns

James Vincent McMorrow Post Tropical (Dew Process)

AAAAa There are very few practical applications of falsetto – once you discover you can wail at earsplittingly high pitches, you can either stop or become a musician. McMorrow chose the latter. His second album, Post Tropical, proves he made the right decision.

Sweet Fantasy

The Correspondents

(Air Punch)

t:dy t:wns (we presume that’s pronounced ‘tidy towns’, but who the fuck knows) is the solo project of Melbournian muso Peter Joseph Head, who is preparing the release of two collaborative albums in 2014 – Brotherhood, featuring an all-male ensemble; and Sister Act, one for all the ladies. Sweet Fantasy is the first song lifted from Sister Act and guest stars Kiwi artist Hula Hope doing her best disaffected ‘80s pop star schtick to the tune of a jangly ‘60s guitar pop ditty. These anachronistic styles look certain to remain prominent and popular in 2014.

Silversun Pickups Cannibals (Dangerbird/Warner)

It’s been eight years since Silversun Pickups released their immortal debut single Lazy Eye. Eight long years of Silversun mediocrity. Seems all that crap was worth preserving, as the California band are set to release their Singles Collection soon. Cannibals is the obligatory new track to appear on the career retrospective and, in a ‘bold new step’ for the band, features synthesizers. It otherwise sounds like every other Silversun Pickups song

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The record begins with the smooth, grooving Cavalier – it’s a seafoam song that crashes and sloshes with unpredictable results, all undercut by a swelling beat and McMorrow’s seagull shrieking. The album is confident. Although McMorrow’s voice trembles with vulnerability, it’s well-practiced and skilful. He has banished any acoustic elements that could see him labelled as a folk, or nu-folk, or superfolk artist. He’s creating the sounds that define this decade: deep beats, electronic clap tracks, mashed-up overlays, scattering harmonies, fanfares and slide guitars all over the place. He’s an Irish one-man Sigur Ròs. Dig the poetry out of his trilling vocals. The tone of Post Tropical is a distinctive blend of hope and melancholy as he weeps, clear and heartbreakingly, ‘Sometimes my hands don’t feel like my own, I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.’ This isn’t tea-and-crumpet music – it’s a thunder-stealing record that demands you pay it full attention. Ilona Wallace

Crystal Antlers have so far struggled to find their place in the music world. It can be hard when every hipster and his glasses-wearing dog is doing the whole indie/punk/psych thing and every second band seems to have the word ‘crystal’ in it. But after two albums of toeing the water, the Californian band have stripped back and dived in. First, they’ve shed two members to leave them as a fit and fiery trio – there are no synths, keys or extraneous guitars on Nothing Is Real. Secondly, they’ve dispensed with the psych and focused more earnestly on the indie/punk side of things. The result is Crystal Antlers’ sharpest and most cohesive album to date. Opening track Pray rumbles with all the hallmarks of post-millennial indie rock; it has the grunt to match The Walkmen and the best squalling guitar solo since Yuck’s first album. Rattlesnake is a softer blow but still carries weight through its stomping chorus. From this opening salvo the album ricochets between breakneck ferocity and hard-edged rock, all the while buzzing with lo-fi intensity. With such a strong vision on Nothing Is Real, it’s hard to imagine how, or exactly why, Crystal Antlers haven’t always sounded like this. Jimmy Byzantine

Live Review

Space Theatre, AFC, Sat Jan 3 (Photos by Jennifer Sando) (Review by Lachlan Aird)

AAAA From the buzz they created at WOMADelaide last March, it was no surprise that London electronic duo The Correspondents returned to Adelaide to a packed Space Theatre for Sessions at the Adelaide Festival Centre. Bursting on stage in true explosive form, the enigmatic bespectacled frontman Mr Bruce had the crowd either jumping around or standing transfixed to the stage, with DJ Chuckles standing behind him as silent sentry, overlooking the controlled chaos in front of him. Constrained in a floor-length military jacket with sequin detailing, Mr Bruce still managed to dominate every inch of the stage through his perfectly-timed calisthenics and enviable dance moves, which seem to have only improved since WOMADelaide – although the fact a 40 degree sun wasn’t shining in his eyes may have had something to do with it. From merging swing music with rap that nearly transcended into jibberish, The Correspondents moved through a high energy set including key tracks including the singa-long friendly Whatever Happened To Soho? ,

Reviews // Quick Ones

The Salvadors

Mogwai

Young Lions

Lady Gaga

Rave Tapes

Burn

ARTPOP

(Independent)

(Spunk)

(Shock)

(Interscope/Universal)

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A few months ago Mogwai announced their return with Remurdered, a dark, postindustrial single that as much as anything highlighted the post-rock stalwarts’ continuing ability to surprise, even in the twilight of their careers. Another thing it also regrettably highlighted was just how far the Glaswegian outfit have been overtaken by their contemporaries. Remurdered might have been a curveball by Mogwai’s standards, but in a different light could be viewed as a nothing better than a rejected Fuck Buttons album track. The rest of Rave Tapes – Mogwai’s eighth studio album – reads from a similar script. They may have reinvented themselves in part, but it’s akin to buying a Nintendo 64 when all the kids are jamming online on their PS4s. It has retro value, sure, but so does the leisure suit and VHS player – just because it’s retro doesn’t mean it’s good. This is pretty well displayed on Simon Ferocious, one of the best tracks on Rave Tapes and yet sounding so much like something Death In Vegas might have done 10 years ago. Following the success of their last album Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, you might have expected Mogwai to bow out on a high. After this rather bland offering, they might wish they had. Jimmy Byzantine

Releasing a full-length album within 12 months of forming is an audacious move for any band, but Brisbane’s Young Lions show no sign of trepidation on any of the 10 tracks on their debut, Burn. The five members deliver a confident, polished post-hardcore platter in a similar vein to Story Of The Year and their ilk. This anthemic alternative rock swells and soars, hitting hard but also showing restraint where it’s needed. Zachary Britt has a powerful set of pipes that he’s not afraid to show off, but Matt Gibson’s drumming might be the most distinctive element of their sound – whether for better (his work behind the kit gives The Runner And The Fighter an absolutely enormous sound) or worse (the blast beats in opener Before The Storm at first listen seem to belong to another song entirely). Blood And Water is a ballad that stands in contrast to the riffage of Non-Believer, which is a blessing as the other tracks can be a little too similar in their dynamics. It’s a formula that pays dividends for them, though, and honestly it works so well over the course of the album that it’s hard to begrudge them re-using it. Owen Heitmann

It’s a shame that the misfired $25 million marketing campaign for ARTPOP has overshadowed what actually is a very fine pop album. While we all smirk that its commercial failing means Lady Gaga has been put back in her box/egg/womb/ spaceship/whatever, ARTPOP is actually much more palatable and dancefloorfriendly than the explosively successful Born This Way – and miles above The Fame. ARTPOP curiously travels through several acts: extraterrestrial openers Aura and Venus move into R&B-influenced songs about sex and drugs (Sexx Dreams, Jewels N’ Drugs), to commentary on fashion (guilty pleasure Donatella, Fashion!) and her struggle with drugs (Mary Jane Holland, Dope), before closing with an ode to herself with Gypsy and Applause. At 15 tracks there are only a few noticeable missteps, which in pop is a triumph. ARTPOP’s downfall is its relatability (or lack thereof ): Lady Gaga is the key subject. While she muses on the title track that ‘My ARTPOP could mean anything’, it leaves us wondering what exactly we were meant to get out of it amid the selfindulgence. Lachlan Aird

current single Fear In The Light and The Last Time, which Mr Bruce warned has “got a bounce to it”. Once the military jacket was shed for one of Mr Bruce’s key costumes – a black and white jumpsuit that looks like something that would be created if The Mighty Boosh and Ziggy Stardust designed an outfit for Louis XVI of France – the set melted into a more intense jungle flavour, with DJ Chuckles offering some “filthy” beats to finish on a high. The affection that The Correspondents have for Adelaide was palpable, with Mr Bruce tenderly thanking the crowd for making their final show of their mini-Australian tour (which included Falls Festival dates) so memorable. He was equally thankful to be able to get in a quick stage dive, which he lamented he hadn’t been able to do so far on the tour. Another high for Mr Bruce came when he returned to the stage one final time, proclaiming that “I certainly wasn’t going to leave without two minutes of hardcore fucking jungle”, which perhaps teased the crowd for something more substantial, but in essence topped off a tight, spontaneous and energetic set. Given the success of their Adelaide shows and strong fan base, you can be sure that this won’t be the last we’ll see of The Correspondents, so we’ll patiently wait for more elaborate costumes, wild dance moves and bird calls to come.

The Salvadors EP

There was more than a little bit of love in the room when The Salvadors played their last show in Adelaide last December. Their parting gift comes in the form of a brand new EP reminding us why they came to be so loved in the first place. Far from the sugary pop of Atacama Disco, the selftitled release departs South America and takes its lead from places closer to home (Sydney, Encounter Bay). The mood is sombre and the ideas perhaps not as fleshed out as they could have been, but the spirit is still strong. In a bittersweet send-off, The Salvadors represents what could have been, rather than what never was. Jimmy Byzantine

Sunbeam Sound Machine Sunbeam Sound Machine EP (Dot Dash/Remote Control)

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TRE // 2 SPACE THEA E T H E A D E L A ID R E ’S T N F E S T IVA L C E B . HU L IV E M U S IC

- 24 JANUARY

On his second EP, Melbourne resident Nick Sowersby – AKA Sunbeam Sound Machine – reinvents himself as a chilled out, Bored Nothing-esque bedroom producer , evolving greatly from the nervy, lo-fi sounds of his debut One. He seems to have carried a whole new record collection’s worth of influences on this release, ranging from Youth Lagoon (Whistle While You Wait), to Grizzly Bear (Cosmic Love Affair) and Tame Impala (I Dreamt I Saw You In A Dream). Much like Bored Nothing, there are still some edges to be smoothed, but also much like Bored Nothing, this guy is one to watch. Jimmy Byzantine

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Local Picks

Let There Be Folk The Grace Emily is hosting Let There Be Folk this Sun Jan 12, featuring some of Adelaide’s newest and best acts of the acoustic persuasion: Sam Brittain, Tim Moore, Heath Anthony, Ry Kemp, The Skeleton Club and Todd Sibbin (pictured). This will be one of Brittain’s few gigs over the coming months as he works on his album; Todd Sibbin (& The Arcadian Driftwood) are also preparing for the "early 2014" release of their LP A Set Of Knives, A Pair Of Pens. Doors open at 6.30pm; $10 entry.

fest m u c S Q&A

Scumfest is breaking loose this Sat Jan 11 at the Old Queen’s Theatre. It’s a twostage, 12-hour explosion of creative talent featuring local artists, local bands and local booze. Organiser Steve Pitkin (Melt Frank Productions, God God Dammit Dammit) shared with Rip It Up the behind the scenes action and belief that led to the DIY festival’s second coming.

What is Scumfest? To put it simply, Scumfest is a local and interstate collaboration/connection of artists, bands, screenprinters and record labels. A showcase of raw talent with no specific genres or themes; just as long as it gets dirty. There are a large number of struggling artists and musicians out there that put their blood, sweat and filth into what they build and this is a chance to represent themselves within a strong community of people doing the same thing. What is the philosophy behind Scumfest? Awesome Bands. Community spirit. Selfexpression. DIY. Collaboration. Breaking down segregation and genre barriers. Beer and wine. Appreciation. All of this with an obvious focus on making things happen and getting the creative ball rolling in good ol’ Adelaide. What was involved with curating the festival? In recent years I gained a strong passion for live production, so that has been my major focus so far this year. But of course, in the process, there are a plenty of ins and outs. We had a few line-up issues to begin with, date changes and clashes, you know how it goes, it’s never peachy, but I think we got there in the end. The Old Queen’s Theatre has been great, and I can’t imagine moving the festival anywhere else. Was it hard to establish a festival like Scumfest in Adelaide? A good friend of mine, Kegan Daly, started up Scumfest in Adelaide in 2006. It was an awesome, rowdy punk festival filthying up venues around town. It ran for only two years and bowed out. My plan was to bring it back but in collaboration with art exhibitions, stalls, record labels and distros. In a city thriving with artists and music but lacking venues and spaces, all it takes is reaching out and communicating with each other, and together, we can build something great. So no, it’s not that hard.

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What role do visual arts play in the festival? I feel the same amount of passion can flow out onto a canvas as it does into a microphone, and the art scene in this city is incredible. I think there should be a visual arts exhibition at every gig. Does this Scumfest have any affiliation with the UK Scumfest? None at all, but we have briefly discussed some kind of collaboration… who knows? What has been the best part of establishing the festival? My friends and this community have been great in offering a helping hand, which I really appreciate. The enthusiasm in general from local and interstate bands and artists has been wonderful. RTD Clothing and the Two Jakes have been amazingly supportive and the presence of some new independent record labels fills me with a new confidence for this struggling industry. Thank you to everyone who has gotten involved. Are you worried about the heat getting in the way of a good party? Never. The more heat the more sweat, the more sweat the more stench. This is Scumfest after all. Can punters BYO food or drink? We’re not licensed for BYO drink but food is fine—although we will have burgers and BBQ spicing up some wicked foodages. What’s next? Scumfest 2015! I’m also hoping to squeeze in something a little different around springtime this year. Line Up: God God Dammit Dammit / Hydromedusa / A Secret Death (QLD) / Hightime (pictured) / Grenadiers / Irie Knights / Se Bon Ki Ra / She’s The Band / Agonhymn (VIC) / Fresh Kills/ Jackals (NSW ) / Baker’s Digest / Racoon City Police Department / Abbey Howlett / Scum Vegas / Weed Town / Black Deity (QLD) / Crypt / Inwoods / Crow Eater WHAT: Scumfest 2014 WHERE: Old Queen's Theatre WHEN: Sat Jan 11 Tickets: $20 at the door, with entry from midday.

Voros Album Launch It’s been a long road to this album for metal five-piece Voros. The band emerged from the ashes of Double Dragon and A Red Dawn, and in 2012 brought out their first record: The Sky Burial EPs: Pt I. In 2013, parts two and three were released, and at The Cavern this Fri Jan 10 they will celebrate all three parts coming together as an album. Supports on the night will be locals HEADBORE and Imminent Psychosis, plus Victoria’s Hadal Maw. Doors from 8.30pm.

Charlie Monsoon The Worldsend will be smashed with a tidal wave of power rock on Fri Jan 10. Charlie Monsoon are coming to play, and the trio don’t do things by halves. On warm-up duty are two other Adelaide favourites: Exploding Plastic Inevitable and Til The Break. It promises to be a fastpaced evening of genre-bending excellence. Doors from 9; free entry.

Roots Night 6 Back by popular demand, the Gov’s Roots Night is returning on Fri Jan 10. Who’s on the list? The Streamliners (pictured), Steve Brown Band and Persia & Blues Royale. Roots Night is a fantastic way to sample a slice of the folk, rockabilly, blues, funk, soul and “other” music on offer in Adelaide. This will kick off the event’s third year—and here’s to many more! Doors from 7.30pm and tickets available at the venue and through OzTix.