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It’s almost that time of year again – the one glorious weekend when you can dispense all your cares, worries and inhibitions at the gates of Botanic Pk and become wrapped in the warm embrace of WOMADelaide. Whether you’ve taken salsa classes all year and scoped the patch of grass that will become your dancefloor for the weekend, or are just excited to walk around barefoot in public and not look like a weirdo, WOMAD appeals to every kind of punter. With a week up your sleeve – and the opening of Adelaide Festival, Soundwave and Clipsal 500 still to get through – add reading our interview with man of the moment Mikhael Paskalev (p16), who was already in high spirits for his WOMADelaide appearance by taking our call while at a friend’s surprise party. For the Opening Party at Adelaide Festival, we have an interview with soul music legend Charles Bradley (p19) and caught up with adopted songbird Kimbra, who has been enlisting some music legends of her own to help out on her new album (p17). She’ll be performing on Sat Mar 1 for the Clipsal 500, sharing the bill with Empire Of The Sun. Extending from last year’s popular Unsound program for the Adelaide Festival, we also speak with Jed Kurzel, one of the mind’s behind Snowtown: Live. As you’re undoubtedly aware, the Fringe is still on, so don’t forget to check out The Adelaide Fix section to see what’s been great – and not so great – and what’s still to come. And don’t forget Pub Grub, the nifty magazine hidden inside Rip It Up this week. It’ll help make sure your pair your Fringe outings with only the finest food and drink.
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Non Stop Non Stop is the new action thriller starring Liam Neeson as an air marshall who springs into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving a series of text messages that put his fellow passengers at risk, unless the airline transfers $150 million into an off-shore account. Thanks to Studiocanal we’ve got 15 double in season tickets up for grabs to Non Stop, in cinemas on Thu Feb 27, so log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Wed Mar 5.
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Head along to Bonython Pk on Sat Mar 1 to catch heavy music's finest festival – including Green Day, Alice In Chains, Placebo and Tony Abbott effigy-decapitating space monsters, Gwar.
Head down to the Torrens Riverbank on Fri Feb 28 to see DJ Harvey perform for the opening night of Adelaide Festival Club, Lola's Pergola.
Whether you're enrolled at UniSA or not, head to the City West campus on Fri Feb 28 to catch San Cisco, Alpine, Miami Horror DJs, Pond and plenty more national and local acts across two stages.
Speeding along this week... An Iliad True Blood and American Horror Story's Denis O'Hare will take to the stage in an updated one-man version of Homer's The Iliad from Tue Mar 4 at the Dunstan Playhouse. Saturday @ The Metro Matt Banham is returning to Adelaide from Sydney to play a one-night-only gig at the Hotel Metro with pals Renezvous With Rama and Home For The Def on Sat Mar 1.
Clipsal 500 Concert Series Go for the races, stay for the concerts. Each night from Thu Feb 27 - Sun Mar 2 see the likes of Keith Urban, Empire Of The Sun, Bliss N Eso, Kimbra and Horrorshow perform with a host of local supports.
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With the documentary festival sweeping through town, be sure not to miss Louder Than Love on Wed Mar 5 at Freemasons Hall, which is followed by a party featuring EMU, Glass Skies and Danger 5 DJs.
Lionel Richie & John Farnham Lock up your mums – these two music icons will be defying retirement and hitting up the Adelaide Entertainment Centre for a double header on Wed Mar 5.
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Punk stalwarts PROPAGANDHI have announced an extensive tour of Australia, their first since the release of sixth album Failed States back in 2012. Proving they haven’t forgotten about their Australian fans, Propagandhi will be hitting our shores at the end of May for a 10-date tour that stops over at Fowler’s Live on Thu Jun 5. Tickets on sale through Moshtix and Venuetix.
Snub Round-Up Who’s skipping Adelaide this week? So many tours float over our heads on the path from Melbourne to Perth, that we’ve decided to do the snub digest this week. Two superstars – the ghost of pop past, ROBBIE WILLIAMS, and the weird aunt of pop future, LADY GAGA – have both announced Australian sprints in their enormous global tours, but Adelaide just didn’t make the cut. Williams’ (touring Perth and the east coast) miss comes as a surprise, as his concert in 2006 brought a record 80,000 fans to Footy Park. If our best efforts couldn’t satisfy Mr Take That, then Gaga’s slight is no real shocker. Starting in Perth, Gaga’s Artrave: The ARTPOP Ball will scoot past Adelaide before doing an east coast dash via Melbourne. The two enormous tours appear to be a slice of Ticketek’s “five big announcements”. Kanye West surprised us all by confirming an Adelaide show – possibly an apology for his Big Day Out withdrawal in 2012 – and now we’re only left waiting for Katy Perry’s Prismatic and Justin Timberlake’s 20/20 World Tour announcements. Will they? Won’t they? It’s all too much.
Former Killing Heidi lady ELLA HOOPER has not only donned the Team Captain hat on ABC’s Spicks And Specks, but she’s been making new tunes. And new track, Low High, comes off her very first solo record, In Tongues, which is due out sometime this year. Produced and recorded by Jan Skubiszewski (The Cat Empire, Owl Eyes, Illy), In Tongues promises to be a sharp and impressive record. Tickets to Hooper’s show at Jive on Fri May 9 are available through Moshtix.
Lions & Tigers & Beards, Oh My! Australia’s foremost beard-obsessed band, THE BEARDS, have announced the forthcoming release of their fourth album as well as a massive 41-date tour of the country kicking off in May. Currently on a tour of the UK, the Adelaide band have kicked some serious goals in recent years, selling out shows in North America, cracking triple j’s Hottest 100 in 2012 and scoring ARIA and APRA Award nominations. But not content with the clean-shaven faces that still dominate the Australian populace, The Beards feel there is much work to be done. “Our previous albums were pretty beardy,” explains bassist Nathaniel Beard in a press release, “but we just felt they didn’t quite fully sum up our affinity toward beards. Now with this new album, we feel like we’ve finally released what will probably go down as the most pro-beard album in history.” No release date has been pencilled in for The Beard Album, although it will likely be out by the time The Beards set off on their biggest ever Australian tour, which steers its way back to their hometown on Sat Aug 2 at the Gov. Tickets on sale from thebeards.com.au/tour.
Yes, Gary, Yes! Singer-songwriter GARY NUMAN has announced an Australian tour kicking off in May. The English musician, widely known for his chart topping hits Cars and Are ‘Friends’ Electric will perform at HQ in Adelaide. Numan, who recently released his 20th studio album Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind) will tour down under and feature highlights from the new album as well as classics from his extensive back catalogue. Numan will perform at HQ Complex on Thu May 29. Tix are on sale now through metropolistouring.com.
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Adelaide favourites SINCERELY, GRIZZLY are kicking off a mini-tour at Rhino Room on Sat Mar 22, in celebration of their latest single Kafkaesque. Supported by Ceres, The Rocketeers and The Storm Will Cover Our Tracks, the local lads will be back in town and on form for a party. The single comes ahead of their debut album, Halves, due out later this year.
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Winners And Losers The pants are off and wines are being tipped. Rip It Up speaks with Norwegian-Bulgarian musician Mikhael Paskalev while he’s at a party, sinking drinks and being jolly. “Currently I’m at a surprise party for one of my best friends. I’m drinking wine and I’m feeling very good,” he laughs. “It’s not as early in the morning as it is in Australia, so that makes it okay.” Don’t need to justify anything to us.
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ikhael Paskalev, the singersongwriter sensation, has swept the globe with his phenomenal tune I Spy and a rather glorious film clip consisting of Paskalev dancing about with no pants. Amid dealing with constant requests to remove his pants in public, he has been swept up in a whirlwind of unexpected madness, with his feet strongly grounded in his native Norway. He speaks of where it all began, Alesund. “It’s a very small town, a fishing village with about 40,000 inhabitants. It’s very beautiful. It’s been given the prize of Norway’s most beautiful town four years in the last decade. I pretty much spent all of my childhood there. I travelled a fair bit with my dad and back to his village where his parents lived.” This just so happens to be the spot he filmed his video clip to Jive Babe – a clip with hats tipped to Tarantino. “I spent a lot of time there, every second year since I was about 9 we would go there for the summer. If I had to pick one place to be for the rest of my life it would probably be in that little village. It’s a place that is completely untouched by tourism – there’s no commerce or posters; music is
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played by people in the street. People don’t have a lot of money but they are all really nice genuine people.” Fast forward to his current state, housed in Scandinavia watching the YouTube views and downloads multiply day by day for I Spy. “I remember I was on a really remote island way up north in Norway and I didn’t have any internet at the time that the music video got posted online. I thought it had between five and 20,000 views at the most and I just got these messages from my management saying, ‘The song and the music video are going bananas!’ and I couldn’t really believe it. I feel as though the song wouldn’t have gotten as much exposure without the music video. I feel happy about that as I had a lot to do with it. It’s a huge part of what I’ve been doing; it’s not just like a director came and told me everything to do; I had a lot of say in things so it definitely feels like a product of myself as well.” For a man that has been received worldwide, this will be his first time to our shores, bringing his alternative folk pop fusion into our summertime with plans to hang around for a while, joining the party
at WOMADelaide. “I’ve always wanted to go [to Australia] but never had the opportunity. It’s just so far away! Normally it would cost me a personal fortune, but now in the name of music I can do it,” he giggles, continuing, “I’ve watched Home And Away, I’ve listened to Silverchair, I know Mel Gibson. I watched one of the reality TV shows on one of the beaches in Australia, about the lifeguards? Yeah, Bondi Rescue! So I know a lot about saving lives on the beaches of Australia,” he laughs. “I’m guessing there are a lot less blonde, very hot girls and less tanned muscular boys than there are on Home And Away. It’s probably not a very accurate description of all Australian people!” Perhaps the diverse cross-section of people that WOMADelaide attracts will give Paskalev a more accurate insight into the Australian population. As we further discuss Australia, it appears as though he has done a bit of research on our kangaroos. “If I understand correctly, the mother has a pouch and carries the baby in the pouch?” Potentially the cutest little giggle to ever be heard down the phone follows; he hesitates and asks with a bashful chuckle, “Can you tell that I’ve had a couple of wines?” What a great time to introduce discussions about his pantless form, with his impeccable legs dancing across our screens. It is apparent that there is a new craze forming to request Paskalev to remove his pants at live shows. “I’m not too bothered about that,” he laughs. “I usually don’t mind taking my clothes off sometimes.” And tonight? “Well it is usually when alcohol is involved, but let’s see how the night ends! Now every time I play gigs people ask me to take off my pants, well, more than usual anyway… I’m not very used to people just asking me
He Loves Balls. Mikhael Paskalev’s debut album is titled What’s Life Without Losers, which is perhaps a nod towards Paskalev’s more competitive side. “I love sports. I was gonna say ‘I love balls’ but I can’t really say that, can I!? That would come out the wrong way. Actually, my girlfriend told me that in my sleep last night I said something like, ‘Yeah, that’s cool I really wanna catch that squash ball,’” he laughs. “We were playing squash a couple of weeks before, so yeah, I was dreaming about catching a squash ball. So, I guess I’m kind of like a dog, chasing any ball that’s around.”
to take my pants off. It usually happens and it’s a bit weird.” The slightly inebriated banter escalates as the background noise begins to increase with sounds of exotic dancefloors and accents as he speaks about his passion for wrestling. “We were finishing a show in Norway and I had been drinking too much whisky and I challenged the rest of the band for a play fight,” he explains. “I like to wrestle when I’m a little bit drunk. Then I got an elbow to the face, landed on top of the bass player and other people landed on top of me. The bass player broke his ribs and I tore my knee. We had to cancel a couple of gigs after that. I was limping for, like, five months.” WHO: Mikhael Paskalev WHAT: What’s Life Without Losers (Dew Process) & WOMADelaide WHERE: Botanic Pk WHEN: Fri Mar 7 – Mon Mar 10
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Breaking Vows Kimbra calls in from her Los Angeles studio, where she has been based since February last year recording the follow-up album to 2011’s acclaimed debut Vows. Last week she completed recording, this week she’s working on mastering. The excitement – and relief – in her voice is tangible.
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imbra’s relocation to LA was more out of convenience than choice. Her busy year touring the world in 2012 meant that her experience with live bands increased, leading her to include heavier band sounds on the new album than there were on Vows. She’s enlisted the assistance on musicians such as Thundercat, Queens Of The Stone Age, Daniel Johns, John Robinson Jr (who drummed on Michael Jackson’s Off The Wall and Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories) and Van Dyke Parks, explaining that being based in LA was an advantage to getting the
industry’s best on board. “The thing about LA is that you have all these amazing musicians and they’re just there and so down to get together. You become a community of people that start to become the palette of the new album. It was really exciting to see that start to take form. People like Thundercat, who I started out doing jams with and then next thing he’s jumping on every song. It felt so right because the collision of his world against what I would do when he played was so unique and the whole record starts to have it’s own little world. “That’s the most exciting part of making albums; when you start to see the little universe reveal itself,” Kimbra relates. “Maybe it’s totally different to what you thought it would be when you started out – but it’s nice to be surprised by the art.” To help rein in this wealth of musical expertise, Kimbra utilised producer Rich Costey, who has mixed for the likes of Mars Volta and Rage Against The Machine, as well as Danish alt rock band Mew, who
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Kimbra mentions is one of her favourite bands. “He’s got an aesthetic for big sound and cinematic records,” she says of Costey. “Over time it started to take shape. It definitely has a real R&B vibe, which Vows explored, but I think its really taken on its own style of sound and I’m so excited to share it – it’s turned out as the type of record I want to make.” Having achieved her goals in the studio, 2013 proved to be a very different year for Kimbra than the year prior, where she played over 100 gigs globally. “Being on the road, really it’s a whole other life than the one I’ve been living for the last year. It’s nice being rooted in one city and actually having a home for the first time in a while. It cultivates a whole different headspace, for sure. You acquire so much inspiration doing that. Even though it’s just a strange existence flying from one city to the other and just throwing yourself into new scenarios every day, even on a cellular level you’re picking up all the stuff to take into the next record. Sometimes you don’t even know it’s been acquired until you’re knee deep in the process and you realise just how much you’ve taken from all that.” A big focus for Kimbra while touring was to ensure that she kept refreshing the 11 tracks on Vows with her band to ensure that they – and the audience – don’t become bored. Kimbra reflects, figuring out that the last time she performed in Australia would have been for the Van Dyke Parks show with Daniel Johns at the 2013 Adelaide Festival and has since then added new twists on old songs. She also reveals that there is “definitely” a debut of some new tracks in the works for Adelaide, with the hope that the album will be released around “May-June, I definitely want to go for the first half of the year”. This may just be perfect timing, as the US have certainly not forgotten New Zealand after Kimbra made waves as a part of Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know, the song that began her international journey. Since the hype that Lorde caused in 2013 arguably even surpassed that, Kimbra is aware that Americans are still very much enthralled with talent from Down Under. “It just seems that eyes are really on New Zealand and Australia. I think Gotye was a part of starting that – ears prick up about music being made Down Under. They say in America that there is something in the water down there,” she laughs. “People are receptive and listening for it.” And yes, she’s met Lorde. “I got to see her show at the Echo – and there were so many New Zealanders and Australians, it was like a reunion. It was so great to see her backstage and congratulate her on a crazy year.” At this rate, looks like Kimbra’s 2014 will be pretty crazy too. WHO: Kimbra WHAT: Clipsal 500 (with Empire Of The Sun) WHERE: Adelaide East End WHEN: Sat Mar 1
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Soul Town American soul singer Charles Bradley will be performing alongside flamboyant New York ensemble Kid Creole & The Coconuts at a free concert in Elder Pk on Fri Feb 28 to officially open Adelaide Festival for 2014.
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t follows the success last year of a free opening night Adelaide Festival concert that had featured Neil Finn and Paul Kelly. With a prediction of perfect weather – 27 degrees during the day and sunny – people in their thousands are expected to flock to this year’s event that will commence at 8pm, although an array of food stalls will be in Elder Pk from 5pm. It’s also BYO drinks and low-slung beach chairs, with the party concluding around 11pm after a spectacular fireworks display. It will mark Bradley’s second Adelaide Festival appearance as the singer took part in the 2012 event, appearing at Barrio with Melbourne’s Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes. Bradley is looking forward to making a return to our shores although he does not care for the long haul. “I love Australia with all my heart,” he laughs, “but I don’t like the long trip. I am looking forward to coming back and making people happy. I have learnt a great thing from all my travelling and that is if you show people love and compassion, they will give it back to you. For me, it’s not about makin’ the money but, as a performer, the love you get back from giving your all when you sing.”
Bradley was born in Florida and raised by his grandmother until he was eight. His mother, who had originally abandoned him just months after giving birth, then took him to New York. Bradley ran away from home at 14 and eventually trained to become a chef. In the late ’60s he began working as a James Brown impersonator after a work colleague had told Bradley he bore a remarkable resemblance to the Godfather Of Soul. In the mid-90s, however, Bradley relocated to New York to reunite with his mother and commenced singing in bars under the name Black Velvet, where he was discovered by Daptone Records’ co-founder Gabriel Roth. Roth set about recording him and issuing the results as a series of vinylonly releases. The 65-year-old singer, whose voice has often been likened to that of the late Otis Redding, was also the subject of Poull Brien’s 2012 feature documentary Soul Of America which made its debut at Austin’s South By Southwest Festival. “The film’s done well,” Bradley announces. “But I was just playing myself and being as natural as I could.” Early last year Bradley released his second album – he didn’t record his debut, 2011’s No Time For Dreaming, until he was into his 60s – and Victim Of Love has been embraced around the world for its retro-yetcontemporary soul feel. Like its predecessor, the latest offering has been released on Daptone, also home to Sharon Jones, and was produced by Tom Brenneck, the songwriter and guitarist for The Bullet and Menahan Street Band. “I’ve found a great home at Daptone,” Bradley says of the label. “It’s like big family. I was supposed to be going back into the
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studio in the next few days but right now my mom is sick and I’m going to have to run errands for her and stuff.” Our interview finds Bradley in his New York kitchen on the eve of Thanksgiving preparing food for the following day’s celebrations. “I’m making my cornbread special,” he says. “I’ve been a chef for many years now so I have some specialties. For the cornbread, I make some chicken stock – my special chicken stock – to make the gravy for the cornbread which we have with turkey.” Bradley expects to be performing songs
from both his albums at the Adelaide Festival opening night party. “I do some James Brown songs too,” he concludes, “because it’s all about giving your audience what they want. Playing in Australia has been one of my dreams come true, so all I can say is a big thank you.” WHO: Charles Bradley (with Kid Creole & The Coconuts) WHAT: Adelaide Festival WHERE: Elder Pk WHEN: Fri Feb 28
SENSES STIMULATED, SOULS NOURISHED IN THE SOUTHERN HEART OF THE CITY.
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calendar talkin’ shite WITH jon Brooks
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heard two of the craziest things this week. Firstly, that TV darling Grant Denyer is alleged to have a $200,000-per-year meth habit, and secondly, that the Fringe Festival should be smaller and curated. Let’s deal with the first issue shall we? If Grant Denyer had a meth problem, Million Dollar Minute would’ve been the best show on TV and really would have lasted for one minute as he raced through the questions with a jaw moving too fast for the human eye to comprehend. Personally, I revel in the idea that someone on meth could host a game show without it being a 9-hour Sudoku contest carried out in a blackened-out loungeroom. Plus, the guy has great teeth, perfect skin and hasn’t mugged the Sunrise Cash Cow. It’s just totally ludicrous. The second, and more important assertion in the context of the Fringe, is that the festival has become too large and there should be a cap on the number of acts and some kind of effort to curate it in future to provide a much more cohesive “festivaliness” to the whole thing. The greatest thing about the Fringe is that it’s open to anyone with $400 and a silly dream. Are there too many shows? Hell yeah. Are acts finding it hard to stand out? Absolutely. Are dreams being crushed? Sometimes. To be honest, this is my sixth time around and I’m having probably the
toughest Fringe I’ve ever faced; it’s a massive battle to get punters through the door but I like to think that’s just a reflection of how many good shows are on this year. And that’s what makes this festival so great; the very fact that an artist can put it all on the line to bring joy to the masses without some disconnected ponce in the rarefied atmosphere of the arts elite deeming the show too mainstream, un-PC, obscure or unpretentious to be a valued part. Fringe is my right-wing indulgence, where the strongest thrive and the market dictates who the survivor is. Because, at the end of the day, sometimes we performers forget who the Fringe Festival is really for – the punters – and it’s not a bad thing to be spoilt for choice, is it? (But seriously, come and see my show, it’s actually pretty good if you hate the government right now.)
Jon Brooks is a former political spin doctor, teenager and bed-wetter. His show Shitegeist is appearing at The Maid from Fri Feb 14 to Sat Mar 15.
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Adelaide Festival Opening Night Party
La Bohème
Elder Park
Danielle Asciak performs the music of Eartha Kitt in this cabaret spectacular. The one-woman wonder promises to surprise and seduce with her cheeky renditions of cabaret’s first lady’s first tunes. It’s not all flirty fun—Asciak explores the darker side of entertainment, looking at rejection and identity, with a bit of belly dancing to lighten the mood.
From 8pm, join Kid Creole & The Coconuts and Charles Bradley for an opening night party that you won’t soon forget. Promising extreme energy and entertainment, these two spectacular acts will perform across three hours for the free event in Elder Park. With plans to go ahead come rain or shine, and food stalls in place from 5pm, there are no reasons to leave.
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Adelaide Writers’ Week
Made In Unley
Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden
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Kicking off this weekend is Adelaide’s premiere literary event, featuring over 80 renowned Australian and international authors. Until Thu Mar 6, Writers’ Week will welcome wordsmiths and their fans to the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden for a program of free events including readings, signings and discussions.
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COMA Presents: JazzFlip! Adelaide’s Best Take On Each Other’s Tunes
Unley is a hotspot for unique, local and hand-crafted goods—and the Unley Museum aims to draw attention to the fringe-suburb’s long history of invention, fabrication and creation. Items in this exhibition have all been made by residents or by businesses in the area, with some coming from family collections, in public light for the first time in years.
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The Wheatsheaf Hotel Sharing is caring. These Adelaide musicians are doing just that. Start your week at the Wheaty in the company of two of our city’s finest jazz groups as they switch sets and have a ball with each other’s music. Mon Mar 3 will see The New Cabal, led by Lyndon Gray, and Mike Stewart’s The Airbenders trade tunes for your enjoyment.
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A Nightmare On Love Street
Bel Canto Bowie
Gluttony – La Petite Grande
La Bohème
Freddy and Carrie are just an everyday couple – who love the most twisted and creepy of things. Inspired by a life spent watching too many gory films, Freddy and Carrie will bring the boxset—but you get to choose the highlights reel. An improvised “choose your own adventure” tale, A Nightmare On Love Street is completely up to the audience. Don’t look behind you …
Two Italian village girls pray for something more than their choral music – salvation comes in the form of a David Bowie record. Whether the musical revelation is a sign of God or the devil, it will be explored in this debut production by Natalie Oliveri and Adriana Sturman. For Bowie – or church choir – purists, this special play may make you question your favourite sounds.
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INTERVIEWS HENRY WAGONS IS A MAN OF MANY TALENTS. AS WELL AS HIS MANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS FRONTMAN FOR HIS BAND WAGONS, THE EFFUSIVE MELBOURNIAN IS ALSO A BURGEONING TELEVISION STAR, HAVING RECENTLY HOSTED A CHANNEL 10 BARBECUE COOKING SHOW, KEEPERS OF THE FLAME. WHILE HE CONSIDERS HIMSELF SOMEWHAT OF A NATURAL ON CAMERA, WAGONS PUTS HIS CAREER SHIFT DOWN TO ONE THING.
“I think I realised I had a knack for television when popular society embraced the beard,” he jokes. “I think there would be no way a mug like mine would be on TV if it wasn’t fashionable to be hirsute at the moment.” And although Keepers Of The Flame showed off a previously unknown culinary side to Wagons’ skill set, don’t expect him to be guestappearing on MasterChef anytime soon. “I don’t have the skills,” he insists. “I’m not the world’s greatest chef but I am a very enthusiastic eater. I’m definitely one of the hungriest musicians out there, that’s for sure. I think food and music are very intricately related. One of the greatest things about being a travelling musician is getting to try new and strange foods every stop you go to. That’s definitely something that my stomach looks forward to. I guess word got around that I like to eat and I like meat as well. So sure enough, I got the phone call [to do Keepers Of The Flame] and it was one of the most fun, sensational jobs you could do.
“TV is something I do enjoy but if it dries up or if it flourishes it doesn’t really bother me because doing music is my lifeblood.” Now with his musician’s hat back on, Wagons is preparing the release of his band’s sixth album. Produced by Bad Seed Mick Harvey, Wagons says it’s the most “band-oriented” and “band-in�luenced” Wagons album to date. Having released a solo album, Expecting Company, in 2012, it’s no surprise that he was looking to include his band mates more this time around. “It was quite a solitary activity,” Wagons says of Expecting Company, “but I ended up touring with my Wagons rhythm section anyway and I composed those songs in the spirit of Wagons because that’s kind of all I know. “After that solo record was done and I �inished touring it, I couldn’t wait to once again walk into a smelly, sweaty room with a bottle of whisky and have the guys help me make some of these crucial decisions. I was really in the mood to get a lot of help.” As well as being the most inclusive album in the catalogue, it also sounds like this could be strangest thing Wagons have ever done. “There are some long songs with pretty extravagant changes and almost theatrical moments in them,” he explains. “We’ve had Mick Harvey produce our new album, who was very good at drawing out some of the dark and schizophrenic pearls of wisdom that were buried within us all. I think that will lead to a very dynamic show.”
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WAGONS BORN TO GRILL
Wagons is relishing the opportunity to unleash some of this new material at The Garden Of Unearthly Delights, where much of it will be played live for the �irst time. “We haven’t been playing much in Melbourne but we’ve done a few festivals in regional areas here in Victoria. So we’re having a soft reintroduction to the band, and Adelaide’s going to be part of that. We’re planning some big things, so The Garden Of Unearthly Delights seems very appropriately, extravagantly and
epically named for us. “We’ll be playing some stuff from the old Wagons catalogue as well and I think it will be quite an explosive mix of the new and the old stuff. It should be quite the concoction of blood, sweat and tears thrust at the crowd.” WHAT: Wagons WHERE: The Garden Of Unearthly Delights – Paradiso Spiegeltent WHEN: Fri Mar 7
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W I N D m I L L T H E aT R E T R I L O GY By Matthew Whittet, directed by Rosemary Myers
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“A thrilling experience.”
“One of the funniest things I’ve seen on stage in years.”
“Windmill's collaboration with Whittet continues to thrive.”
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Space Theatre, 12-16 Mar
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Following sell-out seasons across Australia, School Dance is back by popular demand.
The thrilling final instalment in Windmill’s award-winning rites-of-passage trilogy.
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a HYsTERICaL, aNaRCHIC KNIfE-E D G E R ID E Space Theatre, 1-9 Mar In a bold retelling of the classic folklore Robin Hood, this is contemporary Australian theatre at its best.
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ADAM RICHARD GAYPOCALYPSE WHEN RIP IT UP CAUGHT UP WITH ADAM RICHARD, HE WAS IN THE MIDST OF PREPARING FOR THE RETURN OF MUSIC QUIZ SHOW SPICKS AND SPECKS TO THE ABC, WITH RICHARD RELIEVING MYF WARHURST OF HER POST AS TEAM CAPTAIN. ACCORDING TO SOCIAL MEDIA, THE AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC WERE NOT IMPRESSED.
“People are terri�ied of change; they’re terri�ied of things that are different and new. No one’s seen it, so what else is there to do but be apprehensive I guess?” However, now that the show has aired, there seems to be a much more positive presence on social media vouching for the new team of Josh Earl (host) and Ella Hooper (replacing Alan Brough). Richard was aware of the reputation of the show, having been a guest throughout its previous incarnation, and so was keen to respect its legacy. “We have so much fun doing that that we’re excited to see what people think of it. It’s a different show; we’re three very different people
[to the previous cast]. Everyone behind the scenes is pretty much the same and have been there during the last seven years of the show. They all know their jobs and they’re all good at their jobs. That side of the show is taken care of; we just have to try not to turn up and wreck it.” While he notes that he’s never had a job this fun, he still feels some responsibility as a team captain, rather than an unruly guest. “It’s really different to being a guest. When you’re a guest you can kind of turn up and misbehave, do all sorts of stuff. If you misbehave badly enough they won’t have you back for months, or not at all [giggles]. As a captain, a lot of the musicians may not have been on television before and they kind of look at you in panic, and you have to reassure them that everything will be okay, while answering questions and occasionally being funny.” … And being competitive? “I know! The thing that really made me become competitive was Celebrity Splash, of all things!” he giggles. “I’ve never really done anything competitive or sporty before because I was always a sissy or fat and they both conspired to me not playing sports. I never really had to do anything competitive. Doing that show made me want to be good
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at stuff – and better than other people!” While the Apocalypse didn’t rain down after Spicks And Specks aired at the start of February, Richard’s return to the Adelaide Fringe will deal with another kind of Armageddon – Gaypocalypse. “It works on about 42 different levels,” he laughs, regarding the title. “I’ve become completely obsessed with zombies from watching too much of The Walking Dead, so there’s a lot of zombie talk in the show, but also I’ve always had a thing with gay marriage. A lot of very fundamental religious groups – not all religious people – but those that believe that as soon as gay people are allowed to be married then that will be the end of the world and there will be volcanoes and earthquakes and extreme weather events. It just seems a very peculiar notion that two people getting married could cause the downfall of society.” He also regards the �lipside of that: �inally achieving equality removes the need for a separate gay community. “Gay communities – our ‘culture’, for lack of a better word – are based around a rebellious and reactionary culture and �ighting for equality. When something like gay marriage happens, does that then mean we have no reason to exist anymore as a community because we’ve achieved what we set out to achieve and people will just be able to assimilate, live in the suburbs, go to Bunnings – the ladies anyway – and do whatever regular people in society do? Is that the end of gay culture, if this one last hurdle that we have to get over is �inally leapt? “It’s always been a culture of visibility,” he continues. “‘We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it’ – and now that people are used to it, does it mean there’s not that big a need for an enclave anymore? On some level, is this an Apocalypse of our culture?” Although considering that Richard has leveraged much of his career out of his sexuality, does this mean that his own show would soon become redundant? “Yes, I guess so... When I �irst started I was, like, the only one. And now I think there’s more gay comedians than straight comedians,” he laughs. “It’s almost like a subset ... I was ‘The Gay One’ and now I’m the ‘Old Fat Gay One’!” WHAT: Adam Richard – Gaypocalypse WHERE: Rhino Room – Upstairs WHEN: Tue Mar 4 – Sat Mar 8
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cheeky, incredibly magical and incredibly dangerous! “Sometimes guys get funny about coming to our show. True, women will love it more than men, but it’s not all cocks out in your face; at its core it’s very cheeky and very funny. It’s probably the sexiest date you can go on really! We didn’t want this to be just sex jokes. All of the magic in the show is really strong magic, but they’re just very funny and very dirty!” Any parting thoughts? “Let’s face it. There are two types of naked men,” Wayne exclaims. “There’s Channing Tatum and then there’s every other man in the world! So we do our best to make our naked something nice to look at!”
FROM THE CREATOR OF THE ILLUSIONISTS 1 AND 2.0, COMES THE BOLDEST AND, WITHOUT DOUBT, CHEEKIEST MAGIC SHOW ON THE PLANET. CHRISTOPHER WAYNE AND MIKE TYLER ARE THE NAKED MAGICIANS, TWO OF AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST NAMES IN MAGIC. THEY’RE PULLING THEIR SLEEVES UP AND THEIR PANTS DOWN IN WHAT PROMISES TO BE A VERY SEXY R-RATED NIGHT OF FUN AND MAGIC.
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WHO: The Naked Magicians WHERE: Gluttony – The Peacock WHEN: Tue Mar 4 until Sat Mar 15
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We speak with a semi-naked Christopher Wayne about his Adelaide Fringe debut via Skype, which makes for an enjoyably interesting interview. “Originally, I was really shy, but once we started doing naked photo shoots, that all changed,” Wayne begins. “I used to be overweight and working in the Arnott’s factory and I’d eat a tonne of biscuits. Now that I’m selling my body – in a naked magic show – I’m more conscious about what I eat.” After making so many biscuits disappear, how did he become a magician? “I’ve loved magic my entire life. My Grandpa used to show me magic tricks all the time,” he recalls. “I was 21 when I worked at Arnott’s; I’d get so bored there that I started practising sleight-of-hand tricks with rolled up bits of cookie dough. At that time, I was a born-again Evangelical Christian, passionately so, and I had the idea to put together a magic show with a Gospel message – which hadn’t been done in Australia before. So, that’s where my career kicked off – doing Gospel Magic, of all things. “Then I got a little corrupted by the world of show biz,” he chuckles. “I discovered life and swearing and guilt-free sex!” Wayne explains that he met mentalist, hypnotist and magician Mike Tyler around the same time as the movie Magic Mike came out. “Women started coming up to him after his shows and making jokes like ‘How big is your magic wand?’ and ‘Can you make my clothes disappear?’ So, one night, over a few drinks, we wondered what it would be like if we took all those suggestive thoughts and cheeky innuendos and put them in a magic show. “Then we thought that we’d have to do it with our clothes off because that would be hilarious! What if Magic Mike actually had magic in it!” Wayne muses. “What if we got rid of the dove and showed them a cock-or-two. And so came The Naked Magicians. “Magic is absolutely full of innuendo. You could go all day – so to speak [laughs]!” How quickly do they get naked in the show? “We decided to make the audience wait for it. We treat it like a first date; you come to the show, hang out with us, laugh at our jokes and if you play your cards right, then you’ll eventually get us naked at some point in the night.” Do they take people up onstage with them? “Oh yeah!” he enthuses. “The show is incredibly audience interactive, either from your seats or up on stage. We’re not afraid to pull people out of their comfort zones and take them into our world. We don’t humiliate or undress anyone, but we’re certainly not afraid to flirt with whoever’s on stage!” Wayne tells us about some of the magic tricks in the show. “Mike and I have a race to see who will escape their straightjacket first, and we also make a hypothetical porn film using members of the audience. They have to give us their porn star names and help us come up with the title – and each night we predict what the show will be called, which is revealed by removing the DVD cover from its tightly-wrapped casing. “There’s some cheeky mind reading,” he continues, “and a very dangerous trick called ‘Pin Board’ that involves me being naked, wearing a wooden chopping board that covers my cock and balls, a member of the audience with a deck of cards and Mike with a steak knife – that’s all I’m going to tell you. It’s incredibly
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Greg Fleet, chatting on his mobile as he walks his dog down a Melbourne street, jokes that he has “no idea” what his new show The Games Master is all about, and then suddenly changes his mind: “It’s going to be awesome!”
Does this semi-uncertainty perhaps mean that he hasn’t actually finished writing it yet? “I’ve written most it, except for the linky bits. But they’re the winging-it bits anyway,” he says. “It’s a loose enough concept or title, so there’s nothing that I can’t do under that umbrella. It’s based on the idea of games and people. Certainly with men (although it won’t alienate women), you know, you get two men in a room together and you leave them for an hour with a roll of masking tape and an apple and come back, and you’re sure to find that they’ve created a game out of it… “Someone introduced me to the idea of ‘Game Theory’,” Fleet goes on, “which was put forward by John Nash, that mathematician guy they made the movie A Beautiful Mind about. It sounds really dull and mathematical but it’s amazing, even if I can’t quite get my head around it completely. So yeah, it’s about that, and dick jokes too!” It is? “No, no, it’s about all sorts of things, from sport to bullying to racism, all sorts of stuff. I’m really happy with it and I’m in a really good place, and I do think that it’ll be the best thing that I’ve done in quite a while.” The ‘S’ word – sport – is something that, in Australia, you simply don’t dare put down for fear of being called traitorous and/or ‘un-Australian’, and Greg agrees. “I love the concept of anything being un-Australian! I mean, we came up with the idea of ‘boat people’, which is really funny, as, unless you’re Aboriginal, pretty much all our ancestors came here by boat! What could be more Australian than being unAustralian? I also find that as I get older I like sport more. Well,
watching it – not playing it!” Greg’s feelings about sport, and the show’s potential to offend any sport fans/meatheads in his audience, is something he has indeed considered. “I’ll probably get a bunch of guys in who’ll go, ‘Fuck you, Fleety!’ But I don’t say too many bad things about sport, so there’ll probably be guys in the audience going, ‘I want to smack Fleety out but I’ll wait half an hour until the show’s over!’ And in that time I’ll talk them around with clever, Shakespearean, sportbased wordplay,” he says with a laugh. “And anyway, my audiences are usually ready for anything.” Greg has discussed his background with drugs and alcohol previously (and on stage often), and there’s no way around discussing it here once again. “I’ve never really had a long period, until now, of not doing it. But recently it’s become a reality and I don’t really know why. It wasn’t like some massive effort on my part… I just wore it out after 25 years or something. I mean, I still enjoy a drink, and if someone’s got a joint I might have a toke, but I’m not taking heroin, and I don’t trip anymore. This is the first time when I look back and it all seems to have happened to someone else. And, since I’ve given it up, all these awesome things have been happening, like I’ve just completed leading roles in two feature films. The first I did, like, 18 months ago – and I’d forgotten all about it! It’s so dark and harrowing and bleak, and it’s called The Day Of The Broken. And the other is a movie called Me And My Mates Vs The Zombie Apocalypse, which is about a bunch of tradies fighting off a zombie apocalypse, of course. The guys who did The Matrix did the zombies, so they’re not shit zombies, and I bring it to them massively with a machete and a shotgun. And I get to say, ‘Daddy’s home!’, which is awesome!”
WHAT: Greg Fleet: The Games Master WHERE: Rhino Room – Howling Owl WHEN: Tue Mar 4 – Sat Mar 15, except Sun & Mon Mar 9 & 10.
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INTERVIEWS THE KRANSKY SISTERS PIECE OF CAKE THEY’VE TOURED THE WORLD, WON SEVERAL MAJOR AWARDS, INCLUDING THE 2005 AUSTRALIAN MO AWARD FOR BEST COMEDY GROUP, A HERALD ANGEL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN 2006 AND THE 2008 SYDNEY THEATRE AWARD FOR BEST CABARET PRODUCTION, AND HAVE LEFT ENDEARED HEARTS WHEREVER THEY’VE TRAVELLED WITH THEIR NAIVELY ECCENTRIC WAYS AND THEIR ECLECTIC RANGE OF INSTRUMENTS AND POPULARISED SONGS. IT’S FAIR TO SAY THAT THE KRANSKY SISTERS ARE ADELAIDE FRINGE FAVOURITES.
We speak with eldest sister Mourne, who is enjoying the sun in her hometown of Esk, Queensland. It has been three years since The Kransky Sisters have appeared at the Adelaide Fringe. “Heavens! Three years!” Mourne exclaims. “We were in the Arts Theatre then, and it was a very nice time there. I remember Akmal was performing next door in the Royalty Theatre and we accidentally walked across his stage while we were looking for our lamingtons. We never did find them. I think he ate them! “It will certainly be nice to be in Adelaide again,” she adds, “to taste some of the lovely delicacies and visit some of the sights. I hear that there are so many new places popping up during the Festival that those ‘hoonie’ people won’t have anywhere to drive.” They’re nothing but trouble, aren’t they? “They certainly are!” Mourne agrees. “They tend to poke their fingers out and point at the sky at you. I don’t know what they’re doing but that’s what they do when we are travelling in front of them in our Morris. Our Morris doesn’t go at the speed, so they shout out at us. But it’s always good to be a sensible driver. When you haven’t got a licence, one must be
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careful not to attract the attention of the police, you know.” The Kransky Sisters play their own versions of songs by P!nk Floyd, George Michael, Beyoncé, MC Hammer, Salt-N-Pepa and, of course, their favourite band, AC/DC. But how do they choose the songs they play? “We never had a television because our mother said it was evil,” Mourne explains, “but the radio was alright. When we were young, we started playing these instruments that were given to us by the neighbours. Eve got her saw from our father when he finished the cabinet making. He used to play the violin but Mother didn’t like the sound – the screeching – so he stopped. He gave Eve the bow and the saw and she started playing that. I had an old guitar from the neighbour across the road, but Dawn was the only one of us that received a musical education because her father had paid for it. “Then we started playing along to the songs we liked on the radio, and that’s how it all started. We have the toilet brush and
the kitchen pot and a certain number of spatulas that make a nice sound. Of course, Dawn plays the tuba and we have the old 1960s keyboard and the old rice shaker, which also makes a nice sound.” How did this show get its name, Piece Of Cake? “Well, cake’s a nice thing to share, isn’t it?” says Mourne. “It’s lovely to sit around and have a cup of tea with some cake. We love talking with the lovely people that come to see us and meet them after the shows as well. But also, there’s a little surprise that we won’t tell you at the moment, but if you come to the show, you’ll find out another reason why it might be a Piece Of Cake.” WHO: The Kransky Sisters – Piece Of Cake WHERE: Royalty Theatre WHEN: Fri Mar 7 – Sun Mar 16
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LIMBO The Garden Of Unearthly Delights – Paradiso Spiegeltent, Wed Feb 19 Wow! LIMBO is a truly breathtaking experience. I now completely understand the hype around this incredible show; it’s a magical melding together of talented dancers, contortionists, musicians, sword swallowers and acrobats in a mysterious party between heaven and hell. The antics tonight had the audience squirming, cheering and laughing, together with some fantastic moments of collective breath holding. Each of the performers contributed to a range of diverse tricks, dances and music, even transitioning between scenes, which helped the flow and didn’t detract from the atmosphere. All the performance elements are tight and enchanting, with the lighting design particularly memorable. The live music is delightfully disjointed, dark and cheeky, especially the song about falling when one of the performers was near the tent roof unsupported and twisting around on a pole. LIMBO is a must-see this Adelaide Fringe, so book now and line up early for the best seats. Rating: 5 | Bobby Goudie LIMBO continues at The Garden Of Unearthly Delights’ Paradiso Spiegeltent until Sun Mar 16.
Now We Can Talk Adina Grand Treasury Adelaide, Tue Feb 18 Whatever I write here is going to be different to your experience of this wonderful event. Each member of the audience will take their own individual path through part of the show. And you will doubtless experience things you have never experienced before in the tunnels beneath the old treasury, and above on the streets of the city. It’s about many things, but trust and stories are central. Are you in a movie? Are you the movie? To what extent do you trust strangers? How important is touch in the world of relationships?
How much are you a voyeur in what goes on around you? Just a few of the many questions you will ask yourself during and after this experience. This is a beautifully crafted event where you are both bystander and participant. Great theatre! Tip: go with a group of friends and relish the post-show debrief. Rating: 4 | Michael Coghlan Now We Can Talk continues at Adina Grand Treasur y Adelaide until Fri Feb 28.
Roaring Accordion Royal Croquet Club – Shanty Coming all the way from Bellingham, Washington, a bearded man called Strangely graced the stage with an entertaining hour of his unique and quirky talents. Bringing with him nothing but an accordion and a trunk full of surprises, he let the audience into his life with some hilarious but heartfelt tales that set the scene for an assortment of acts. Strangely had everyone singing along to his catchy accordion tunes before wowing them with his ability to balance a variety of items on his face. His wild and fierce juggling, using a range of objects from a ukulele to a hat, was also a highlight. Throughout the performance Strangely even showed off his ability to improvise, blending intermittent gusts of wind and the occasional fire truck siren into his act with great success. The accordion is back and it’s great, strangely great! Rating: 4 | Jonathan Boyd Roaring Accordion continues at Royal Croquet Club – Shanty Town until Sun Mar 9 (excl. Mondays & Tuesdays).
We’re Kind Of A Big Deal Horner & Pratt, Fri Feb 14 Upstairs at the quaint Horner & Pratt an intimate crowd was treated to two of
Adelaide’s funniest young comedians, Nick O’Connell and Joe Sampson. O’Connell was rejected by McDonald’s – spiritually crushed, he found sanctuary at his local Coles, which has been a gold mine for his new career in comedy. O’Connell’s affable and selfdeprecating nature is a great vehicle for his very funny tales of large inheritances, magic radios, abduction and air safety standards. His mate Joe Sampson is just hilarious. No house in Victor for him, his inheritance will ideally be a copper pot and maybe a pair of trousers. A keen philanthropist, between saving dancing bears and “man-ing up” his shopping basket, he has developed a natural and engaging style that will have you in stitches. Sampson is one to watch. Rating: 3.5 | Ben Williams We’re Kind Of A Big Deal continues at Horner & Pratt until Wed Feb 26.
Adeladies – The Funny Female Showcase AustraL Hotel – The Bunka, Sat Feb 15 London’s Nik Coppin has rung out the changes this year, launching Adeladies: a weekend showcase for female stand-up comedy. MC Coppin ad-libs energetically around acts to engage the [mostly female] audience, a job he pulls off with great warmth and no sting. First is a Darwin threesome, making their Fringe debuts. Sassy and fresh, Danielle Andrews engages us with the tribulations of ‘housemating’ and binge drinking, celebrating a ‘lifetime achievement’ at 22. Rachael Bettiens is relaxed and chatty, exposing boyfriend eccentricities as if confiding to a girlfriend over coffee. Amy Hetherington introduces an edge, celebrating vaginas and mystified as to why that should be a big deal to some. Finally, Sydney veteran Nikki Britton is the full package: her gimlet-eyed social observation, faultless comic timing and assured theatrical physical dimension had us falling about. Sandwiched between afternoon and evening, Adeladies could be the perfect appetiser for your Fringe main course. Rating: 3.5 | Kate Battersby Adeladies – The Funny Female Showcase continues at Austral Hotel – The Bunka until Sun Mar 9.
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Nunopoly 2: Mo’ Nun, Mo’ NopolY Horner & Pratt, Tue Feb 18 James McCann’s latest offering—the sequel to the deservedly famed Nunopoly – is the splendid absurdity that we’ve come to expect from Adelaide’s rising star. Blending into the sparse set (a black cloth on white walls), Sister James McCann was a demure and deranged vision of beauty in her nun’s habit and ruby lipstick. She recapped her story so far, then launched into the winding, mind-boggling tale of the creator of Monopoly, an orphanage and the mis/fortune that followed her return to avocadolush “Guacamala”. With drama and focus, McCann spun comedy straw into gold when he played with the script and improvised. Those with the Monopoly mean-streak might find God here. Balancing topical asides with loopy inventiveness, McCann produced a superb amusement. If you dig food puns, corporal punishment and accordion finales, then McCann is the irresponsible, faultless Sister for you. The totally hightech light show was a fine touch, too. Rating: 4 | Ilona Wallace Nunopoly 2: Mo’ Nun, Mo’ Nopoly continues at Horner & Pratt until Sun Mar 16.
The Boy With Tape On His Face: More Tape The Garden Of Unearthly Delights – Vagabond, Wed Feb 19 The Boy With Tape On His Face has you at “Hello”. Wait, before that. After all, he doesn’t speak. So we’ve fallen for someone who’s...silent? Boy’s got talent! How does he do it? It’s his eyes, his mock-exasperation when his “volunteers” fail to nail their actions immediately, and his gentle but masterly command of his craft. It’s the music: popular, dramatic themes like Star Wars and Eye Of The Tiger. It’s how audience participation takes centre-stage under his deft direction and watchful, expressive eyes. It’s his use of everyday objects in completely innovative ways that surprise and delight. More than half the fun is trying to guess what
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Hundreds more Adelaide Fringe & Adelaide Festival reviews at ripitup.com.au they’ll be when he whips them out from his bottomless saddlebag: anticipation is everything. Knowing this, he sets up the fabulous finale from the start – and when it finally arrives it’s original, hilarious and uplifting. This boy is on fire! Go! Rating: 4.5 | Jenny Thompson The Boy With Tape On His Face: More Tape continues at The Garden of Unearthly Delights’ Vagabond until Sun Mar 16 (excl. Mondays).
Back To Back The Promethean, Fri Feb 21 Wow! Morgan Welch is surely a name that you will be hearing more of in the future. A full house at The Promethean made for the perfect venue for Back To Back; a well thought-out and wonderfully presented collection of work by Amy Winehouse and Adele. Rather than a simple collection of songs from two artists she admires, there was a great connective dialogue weaving its way through the performance, seemingly wellscripted yet delivered in a natural and effortless manner. Throughout, Welch was vocally captivating; at times there was a beautiful vulnerability to her performance followed by moments of great power and extreme confidence in her instrument. Such a talented storyteller; I imagine a show of her own material is in the wings. A genuine talent that should not be missed. Rating: 4.5 | Ben Williams Back To Back continues at The Promethean until Sun Mar 1.
Jon Bennett: Fire In The Meth Lab Tuxedo Cat @ Raj House – Room 4, Fri Feb 21 The meth lab paraphernalia littering the stage is the starting
point for a fantastic show – like Breaking Bad but with slides. This is the stor y of Tim Bennett as told by his brother Jon; starting from where it all went ver y wrong, Bennett pieced together the heartfelt but hilarious journey that transformed a countr y boy and preacher’s son to meth lab cook. Each episode helped to build the stor y of the descent. From the prejudice of knock-knock jokes to a wonderfully descriptive account of the drive back from a family funeral and the concept of the vomit punch, Bennett brought all the parts together in a superb mix of black humour and pathos. All this, plus plenty of ’80s nostalgia in old photos and a wonderfully creepy Jason Donovan board game as loved by young girls (and Tim). True stor y or tall tale? It doesn’t matter; it’s brilliant either way. Rating: 4.5 | Jim Hilditch Jon Bennett: Fire In The Meth Lab continues at Tuxedo Cat @ Raj House - Room 4 until Mon Mar 3.
A Storm In A D Cup Garden Of Unearthly Delights – Campanile, Sat Feb 22 Scared of cabaret? Embrace it! This was by far one of the funniest shows I have ever had the pleasure of viewing. Amelia Ryan promises us that everything she bemoans in her show is 100 percent true, and the frightening detail she delivers will ensure you know it is so. The gaspingly funny tales she shares are delivered from a dark yet humorous place in one of the most flawless performances around. Her use of language is captivating and her delivery is seamless. The interactive component of the show is worked like a boss with her involuntary backing band adding a hysterical extra dimension. Ryan laughs at her own ‘hoo ha’, offers audience members a lap dance and rolls in an ungainly way on and off the stage – generally she makes you wish she was your best friend and available on the other end of the line after a crappy day at work. Rating: 5 | Sian Williams A Storm In A D Cup continues in The Garden Of Unearthly Delights – Campanile until Sun Mar 2.
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The History Of The Devil Directors Hotel, Sun Feb 23 The Devil stands before the court, hoping for a favourable judgment that will see him reenter the Kingdom of Heaven. How the hell has this happened? Clive Barker’s The History Of The Devil is presented by local troupe Beating Heart Theatre Company and the eleven actors do an admirable job of conveying the themes from Barker’s wordy work. The compact courtroom is set towards the back of the stage, leaving space for various vignettes, ostensibly demonstrating Lucifer’s definitive worth, to be played out. With a big cast playing numerous roles, the show moves along at a decent pace; the movement, lighting and sound make for a striking, memorable production. While this play asks a serious question about the role of the Devil in our lives, the audience members are ultimately left to reflect and consider their own views. It is the dark comedy that is the strength of this performance.
the gig a friendly and welcoming family vibe. Although the music will definitely help to warm your heart and soul during this unseasonable cold Februar y weather, I advise to rug up and bring a spare cardie. Emily Davis, hostess supreme, once again transforms Dunstan Grove from boring toiletblock-and-park to one of the premier locations of Fringe 2014! Rating: 4.5 | Jenna Bonavita
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Rating: 3 | David Robinson The History Of The Devil continues at Directors Hotel until Mon Mar 3.
Emily Davis & Sam Buckingham Live Howl The Moon, Fri Feb 21 A bohemian atmosphere, outdoor wood fires, delicious organic food and drinks, artistic guests, a gorgeous host, relaxation on blanket-covered hay-bales and pre-loved couches under the stars surrounded by gum trees with awesome live music – sound amazing? Be sure to get to a Howl The Moon event! Special guest Ben Caldwell joined Sam Buckingham and Emily Davis at this session to present an evening of narrative songs coupled with resonant voices and ample guitar, mandolin and banjo skills. Each artist joined the others during their set giving
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Sam Simmons Man fights photocopier live on stage for an entire hour while having an existentialist mid-life crisis on a sailing boat.* We’ve got three double passes up for grabs to Sam Simmons’ show Death Of A Sails-Man at the Idolize Spiegeltent in the Garden Of Unearthly Delights on Tue Mar 4 at 7.45pm, so log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at 9am on Monday Mar 3. *true story.
Justin Hamilton Wil Anderson Multi-award-winning comedian Wil Anderson is back with brand-new show Wiluminati and we’ve got three double passes up for grabs to his Sun Mar 9 performance at The Vagabond in the Garden Of Unearthly Delights at 8.20pm, so log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Thu Mar 6.
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A declaration etched in concrete, a suicide bomber in Afghanistan and a dinner party from Hell. Three disparate stories with one thing in common: Justin Hamilton. We’ve got three double passes up for grabs to Justin Hamilton’s show Joh nny Loves Mary Forever 1994 at The Spare Room in the Garden Of Unearthly Delights at 8.15pm on Sun Mar 9, so log onto ripitup. com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Thu Mar 6.
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Quick show plug: Suck It Up! is a theatrical, high-energy magic show filled with prestige trickery, music, fire and cheeky comedy. Most importantly it is an entertaining, interactive and fun show where nothing is as it appears. I recommend you Suck It Up and come! Dream role? To have my own Vegas Stage Show where the opening act involves a five-foot-long jungle python, a two-footwide ball of flame, three swords, one kilogram of confetti and a camel … Use your imagination.
Quick show plug: It’s a lot more intimate and only a fraction of the price of next year’s show. Guilty pop culture pleasure? Break dancing. I was quite the B Boy in my day. Sometimes I’ll head up to my local on ‘Grab A Granny’ night and blow their feeble minds with some fresh toprocking. I knew I wanted to be a comedian when… They said I didn’t have to provide a reference or a police check. Greatest comedy album or stand-up film? Chris Wainhouse Nails It Again #3 (not yet released). Historical figure you’d love to hang with? Joseph Smith Jr, the guy who invented the Mormon religion. He sounds hilarious.
Pre-performance ritual? I discuss the magic show with Noddy, my pet dove. Noddy doesn’t say much but is a very good listener. I have also been known to sing songs to Noddy. Scariest moment on stage? When I made a sword appear in a flash of fire for the first time. The scary part was my suitcase accidently catching on fire followed by the arm of my jacket bursting into flames. The audience luckily thought this was part of the show. Last gadget purchased? Sunglasses with hidden rearview mirrors so that I can look forward yet see what is behind me. Guilty pop culture pleasure? Admittedly, I am fan of Selena Gomez and, to be honest, I didn’t really mind that Friday song by Rebecca Black.
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DAVE HUGHES Guilty pop culture pleasure? Miley Cyrus’ tongue. Most overrated comedy classic? Police Academy 6. I knew I wanted to be a comedian when… Brother O’Brien failed me for year 11 Religious Education even though I’d delivered the funniest speech about Saint Sally Trench ever. She exists. Google her.
A pop culture experience you’ve never recovered from? Interviewing two members of One Direction.
What kind of dish would you be? Outlandish. What was the last thing you posted on Instagram? Someone, somewhere shaking their fist at something. That’s pretty much all I post on Instagram.
Classic role you were born to play? Me in the two Aussie films that had parts written for me with the characters’ names being Dave and I didn’t get either part. Most awkward celebrity experience? When Richard Branson stopped at my table unannounced and started chatting up my wife. He didn’t know me, and he didn’t want to know me. Favourite meme? The one that of the dude holding up cancer cigarette packs in front of his face with my name underneath. Been sent to me literally hundreds of times. What was the last thing you posted on Instagram? Pic of a skate park; I love skate parks.
WHAT: Chris Wainhouse – The Antichris WHERE: Gluttony – The Piglet WHEN: Tue Mar 4 – Sun Mar 9
WHAT: Dave Hughes – Pointless WHERE: Garden Of Unearthly Delights – Umbrella Revolution WHEN: until Sun Mar 16, excl. Sat Mar 1 & Mon Mar 3
Most awkward celebrity experience? Once in London I ran into Kate Middleton at a party and the poor thing didn’t even know who I was.
WHAT: Suck It Up! WHERE: Salisbury Secret Garden WHEN: Thu Feb 27
THE BOY WITH TAPE ON HIS FACE: MORE TAPE
Dream role? Anything where I get to shake my booty on stage. How do you conquer stage fright? Stage fright? I have a fear of not being on stage, which I conquer by getting on stage. Scariest moment on stage? When I slipped a disc while dancing on stage ... but it didn’t stop me. Worst wardrobe malfunction? My shirt came undone while dancing and I accidentally flashed my breasts.
Most memorable audience member? The elderly woman who came to give me a hug after the show and just reached down to squeeze my butt, giggled, and left. Last gadget purchased? My boombox. We need more: Mirror balls, coloured lights on the dance floor and booty shakin’ good times. This time next year I want to be… Getting frisky on the dance floor! WHAT: Carousel & Clothesline WHERE: Garden Of Unearthly Delights – Little Big Top WHEN: until Sun Mar 16, excluding Mondays
Worst review? “The Boy With Tape On His Face would only be funny if he set himself on fire.” – A guy on YouTube. Most awkward celebrity experience? Watching Steve-O staple his nuts to his stomach and the moment the camera was off all his personality went with it. Favourite meme? The really funny one with the cat. What kind of dish would you be? One who likes spoons. What was the last thing you posted on Instagram? Never used it, never will. The internet is sooo last year. Best joint to get a late night Fringe snack? My fridge. It has everything! WHAT: The Boy With Tape On His Face: More Tape WHERE: Garden Of Unearthly Delights – The Vagabond WHEN: until Sun Mar 16, excluding Mondays
BLISS N ESO & HORRORSHOW @Clipsal 500 URBAN DECAY @Hotel Metropolitan PIGEON @Rocket Bar
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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
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BRUNO MARS @Adelaide Entertainment Centre DANIEL O’DONNELL & MARY DUFF @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre KEITH URBAN, GUY SEBASTIAN & BOOM CRASH OPERA @ Clipsal 500 PUBLIC ENEMY @HQ EVERLAST @ Governor Hindmarsh
Worst wardrobe malfunction? Tearing my costume apart mid way through a particularly tricky chain escape. Most memorable audience member? The one that tied me up and then actually turned out to be a bondage expert. Crap. If I wasn’t a performer, I would be… Bored. What will you avoid this festival season? Snobs. And also eating too many pies. What was the last thing you posted on Instagram? Naked paddling pool photos. Last gadget purchased? A fairy floss machine – as appearing in the Garden Of Unearthly Delights! Guilty pop culture pleasure? Riding the mechanical bull on Hindley Street.
WHAT: The Syndicate WHERE: Garden Of Unearthly Delights – Le Cascadeur WHEN: until Sun Mar 2
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THE ANGELS @ Jive ELIZABETH ROSE @ Pirie And Co Social Club THE SMITH STREET BAND @ UniBar THE ROLLING STONES @ Adelaide Oval SINCERELY, GRIZZLY, THE ROCKETEERS & THE STORM WILL COVER OUR TRACKS @ Rhino Room
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JURASSIC 5 @ Thebarton Theatre CASPIAN @ Crown & Anchor
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AN EVENING WITH THE CAST OF ‘SONS OF ANARCHY’ @ HQ
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MICHAEL PAYNTER @ Jive
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LIONEL RICHIE & JOHN FARNHAM @Adelaide Entertainment Centre DAN SULTAN @ Garden Of Unearthly Delights
THE SCIENTISTS @ Governor Hindmarsh
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JOHN BUTLER TRIO @ Thebarton Theatre FRI MAR 7 LUCA BRASI @Crown & GAY PARIS @ Enigma Bar Anchor Hotel FLAMENCURA @ NorSAT MAR 8 wood Concert Hall DERRICK CARTER @ Garage Bar FRI APR 4 CHANCE WATERS @ FRI MAR 7 - MON Rocket Bar
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WOMADELAIDE: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, BILLY BRAGG, NEKO CASE, WASHINGTON, MIKHAEL PASKALEV @ Botanic Park
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How do you conquer stage fright? With swift vengeance. Scariest moment on stage? Hyperventilating inside a too-hot poo costume while getting stuck squeezing through a giant arsehole – with the Snuff Puppets in 2012.
THE ANGELS @ Jive BOOBY KEYS @ Governor Hindmarsh
MANGO GROOVE @ Norwood Concert Hall
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THE SYNDICATE (CAPTAIN RUIN)
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THE HOLIDAYS @ Pirie And Co Social Club IWRESTLEDABEARONCE @ Fowler’s Live LOON LAKE @ UniBar I KNOW LEOPARD @ Rocket Bar
FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL: PHARRELL WILLIAMS, DEADMAU5, MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS, ERIC PRYDZ, PHOENIX & more @ Adelaide Showground ERIC PRYDZ @ HQ
I knew I wanted to be a comedian when… I ran out of other options. Greatest comedy album or stand-up film? Vinyl Burns - I Can’t Stop Forgetting Again. It’s pure gold! A pop culture experience you’ve never recovered from? Dancing in a mosh pit to The Vengaboys in a comedy club in Norway.
Favourite review? CAROUSEL & CLOTHESLINE The one where the reviewer was qualified and knew what (COEN CLARKE) he was talking about.
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Tour Guide/
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CHRIS WAINHOUSE
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QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE & NINE INCH NAILS @Adelaide Entertainment Centre SUICIDE GIRLS @ HQ AKOUO @ Sugar
FRI MAR 14 - SUN MAR 16
KUSTOM KULTURE WEEKENDER: DEKE DICKERSON, BACKY SHANK, THE SAUCERMEN & more @Highway Hotel
FRI MAR 14
FRI APR 11
CALLING ALL CARS @ Fowler’s Live TWELVE FOOT NINJA @ Governor Hindmarsh FOR TODAY & PREPARED LIKE A BRIDE @ UniBar
SAT APR 12
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD @ Governor Hindmarsh
THU APR 17
KREATOR & DEATH ANGEL @ HQ
FRI APR 18
SASKWATCH @ Blenheim Festival, Clare Valley
MON APR 21
THE ALMOST @ Fowler’s Live HORROR MY FRIEND @ Rocket Bar THE BAD SHEPHERDS @ Governor Hindmarsh
WED APR 23
BURIED IN VERONA & FIT FOR A KING @ Fowler’s Live
KATE MILLER-HEIDKE @ Garden Of Unearthly Delights
THU APR 24
SAT MAR 15
FRI APR 25
KATE MILLER-HEIDKE @ Garden Of Unearthly Delights NEIL FINN @Thebarton Theatre
VANCE JOY @ Governor Hindmarsh
BATHS @Rocket Bar
GROOVIN THE MOO: DISCLOSURE, DIZZEE RASCAL, THE JEZABELS, KARNIVOOL, ROBERT DELONG @ Oakbank Racecourse THE ACACIA STRAIN @ Fowler’s Live
TUE MAR 18
WED APR 30
SUN MAR 16
MICHAEL JACKSON HISTORY II SHOW @ Her Majesty’s Theatre
WED MAR 19
RUSSIAN CIRCLES @ Fowler’s Live
FRI MAY 2
BALL PARK MUSIC, ALAN DAVIES @ Adelaide PAPA VS PRETTY & Entertainment Centre JESSE DAVIDSON @ Governor Hindmarsh JTR @ Governor Hindmarsh
THU MAR 20
ILLY @ Governor Hindmarsh ASH GRUNWALD @ Ramsgate Hotel
TUE MAY 6
MICHAEL BUBLE @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
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Beats// Interviews
It’s a busy time in the life of Jules Habib. Having recently relocated to Adelaide, the chameleonic producer has several releases in the pipeline under his Inkswel moniker, including a coveted contribution to Brandt Brauer Frick’s instalment of DJ-Kicks. Inkswel is also organising, promoting and performing at The Vinyl Frontier, a vinyllovers’ DJ night happening at Lola’s Pergola. And to top it all off, Habib has recently become a father. A busy time indeed.
With The Vinyl Frontier just around the corner, Habib explains its genesis. “It’s based on the concept of the I Love Vinyl parties, which happen in New York and France. In the last six months I relocated back to Adelaide from living in Melbourne and overseas. I was teetering with this idea and so I hit up the Adelaide Festival guys, who actually were thinking of something similar and were in touch with the guys in New York and France, but hadn’t had enough time to organise it officially. So we just thought we’d do our own thing and try and push a local product on a worldly angle.” Like the name suggests, The Vinyl Frontier is a night for those who prefer their music distilled through the warming tones of black wax. With this in mind Habib recruited a line-up of similarly-minded DJs from near and afar, including Frank Booker from New Zealand and Edseven from Sydney. “These are people that collect records, irrespective of if they’re playing in a club or not,” says Habib. “They just happen to be talented DJs on top of that. Collectively some of them have played big venues interstate and overseas, but the point is that these guys are just music nerds who happen to be DJs.
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“This party isn’t really about being the most technical DJs or holding the crowd in that kind of house or hip hop tradition, it’s more a melting pot of different music. I just handpicked those people because of the diversity – they’re all coming from a different angle and they’ve all got their own tastes, but there’s still an affinity between all of us in terms of seeking out amazing music, whether that be as underground and hard-to-get as possible or blatantly commercial. There’s no restriction to either side of it.” And although the night is non-genre specific, Habib says there’s a common thread that runs across all the music. “Even though it’s broad it still bridges the gap of, I guess, black music, so everything from Afro, boogie, beats, hip hop, house, techno, disco – if you look back at the
history of that music it all comes from Africa originally. Not that the night has anything to do with the race side of things, but the vibe of the music is black music. We could be playing folk records, we could be playing Brazilian records, but it’s still got the same vibe.” On the home front, Inkswel has kept busy with a seemingly endless string of releases. His most recent releases include the No More Suckas EP released through Burek, and a collaborative EP with Chicago producer Merwyn Sanders entitled Cloudeaters. Inkswel’s output at the moment is so prolific that even he is having trouble keeping up with it. “The next thing’s on Wolf Music, then a thing on the Kinfolk label, which is run by a group of guys called Soft Rocks from the UK. I just did a remix for Tevo Howard from
Everlast (AKA Erik Schrody) is one of hip hop’s great survivors. In the ‘90s he found international fame rapping in the rowdy Irish-American posse House Of Pain (HOP) before boldly reinventing himself as the bluesy singer/songwriter Whitey Ford – while recovering from a heart attack. The New York native paved the way for (obviously!) Eminem, but also Aussie crossover rap, Plan B and even that street-folkie Ed Sheeran. Now he’s touring behind his latest enterprise, The Life Acoustic, an engaging ‘best of’ out through his label Martyr Inc.
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Schrody actually premiered with 1990’s solo Forever Everlasting – assisted by Ice-T. When it floundered, he formed HOP with Danny Boy and future Limp Bizkit member (and Latvian) DJ Lethal. The trio, signed to Tommy Boy, blew up with the DJ Muggs-helmed instant classic Jump Around. Schrody’s career has since taken several twists and turns – in recent years ‘Whitey’ even joined Willie Nelson on Snoop Dogg’s My Medicine (foreshadowing the gangsta’s own ‘reincarnation’). “I just kinda do what I do, so everything’s a surprise to me,” Schrody laughs deeply of his trajectory. “When it works, it works… I’ve been told so many times to not do what I was about to do because it was like career suicide or this, or that, or the other, that I just stopped listening to that stuff. I just do what I wanna do. I’ve said it many times – I own a few songs that take really good care of me. So I have a freedom that a lot of people don’t have. I can risk things that a lot of people don’t wanna risk. I don’t have to have every record of mine come out and be a smash hit. I like my little independent hustle. I like what I do – I like the way it pans out for me. All I’m trying to
Chicago and Tiago from Beats In Space, another EP for City Fly, another EP for Rush Hour and there’s more. I’ll have to start writing this down,” he jokes. “The thing about being an underground artist – especially in the weird little niche I’m in of doing actual records – is you’ve got to keep the momentum going or it’s not sustainable. That’s just how the club industry works. But it pushes me as an artist because I get to do lots of different things and hopefully at some point there’s some kind of continuity between it all. I’m just keeping busy.” WHO: Inkswel WHAT: The Vinyl Frontier WHERE: Lola’s Pergola WHEN: Thu Mar 6
do is to keep from being bored.” The Life Acoustic, its title a nifty Wes Anderson reference, evolved out of Schrody’s strippeddown performances on US airwaves that saw him being approached by promoters for live gigs – and then by fans for recordings. “It was like I organically kinda created this want for it that I felt I should fulfil.” The studio project encompasses a radically altered Jump Around, but there’s no What It’s Like – Schrody’s major hit off Whitey Ford Sings The Blues. Instead the muso favours lesser-known songs – or those he felt sounded stronger as he originally wrote them, on acoustic guitar. Schrody also reinterprets Snoop’s My Medicine. Schrody toured Oz with a reunited HOP four years ago, but he isn’t nostalgic. “I tend not to be a guy who dwells a lot on glory days or anything like that, ‘cause it just seems like when you start doing that you’re kinda already raising the flag a little bit.” For a time Schrody exchanged missives with Eminem over a perceived slight. In 2010, Shady confirmed to Vibe that their beef was quashed – and he commended Schrody’s verbal prowess. Happily, Schrody, too, has moved on. “I don’t really speak on that too much ‘cause it was so overblown,” he sighs. “My problem with him was a personal one. I never, ever, in any way, shape or form told anybody, or tried to convince anybody, that he wasn’t one of the fucking best guys I’ve ever heard rhyme… If you’ve gotta pick greats, he’s in it. There’s no getting around it – the only way to get around it is to be a hater.” WHO: Everlast WHAT: The Life Acoustic (Martyr Inc) WHERE: Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Sun Mar 2
The Guide// THURSDAY 27TH ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Clipsal After Party with Highway Jones (8pm) BAKEHOUSE THEATRE – Uncloaked: A Satirical Cabaret Fantasy (9pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty BRECKNOCK HOTEL – Breakaway Sing-A-Long Session (8.30pm) CAMEO BAR – Cameoke with Andy CLUB 5082 – Cheetahs On Parade, Last Kids In Line, Dead End Friends, Avenue and Flash Fire (6.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Last Days Of Kali. Front Bar: DJ Antface DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) DUKE OF YORK – Downstairs: DJ Jon E (9pm) DJ Skinny B (1am) Beer Garden: band of the week plus DJ Dave Parry (9pm) DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE – Am I (7pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm) EMU HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – KG’s Complete Trivia (7.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Mary Webb GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Nikko & Snooks (7pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Best Of The Edinburgh Fest then Comedy Hypnosis Rewired. Front Bar: Gumbo Room Blues Jam GRACE EMILY HOTEL – On The Fly Impro and Micetro National Championships GRAND BAR – OMG HIGHWAY – DJ Alli (8pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – All Vinyl DJ (6pm) HQ – Riot Society hosted by Uberjak’d JADE MONKEY – Owls & Crows LIGHT HOTEL – SCALA Live (8pm) MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) OLD MILL: HAHNDORF – The Foggy Mountain Jam featuring Kasey Chambers, Busby Marou, Harry Hookey and Ashleigh Dallas PJ O’BRIENS – DJ G-Rillz (9pm) PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango QUEEN’S THEATRE – BigMouth (8pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Bogan Bingo (8pm) ROCKET BAR – Wild Things (9pm) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Susie & The Swingin’ Chandeliers SAILMASTER TAVERN – Victor Oria (6pm)
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STATE THEATRE COMPANY SCENIC WORKSHOP – The Seagull (8.15pm) SUGAR – Jazz Pancake with locals and guests TANDANYA – Four Rooms THE LION HOTEL – Clearway (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Colour Me Indigo (9pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – The Motive, High Speed Life and The Unknown Artists (9pm)
FRIDAY 28TH ALLAN SCOTT AUDITORIUM – Artists’ Week ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs ARCHER HOTEL – DJ ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Dimitra (8pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Clipsal After Party with Agent 99 (8pm) Top Of The Ark: Fringe show Devine Alls – The Chrissy Amphlett Experience (8.30pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BAKEHOUSE THEATRE – Uncloaked: A Satirical Cabaret Fantasy (9pm) BAROSSA WEINTAL HOTEL – Craig James (7.30pm) BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Blues Katz (8pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak & Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Bon n All (8pm) BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAFÉ KOMODO – Nikko & Snooks (7.30pm) CAMEO BAR – DJs Lars, Lenny and guests CHAFFEY THEATRE: RENMARK – The Foggy Mountain Jam featuring Kasey Chambers, Busby Marou, Harry Hookey and Ashleigh Dallas COVE TAVERN – Panic Switch (8pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Loaded Leopard and Love Cream plus DJ Adam CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – Brompton Blues Band (8pm) DUKE OF YORK – Tom & Rose (7pm) DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE – Am I (7pm) ED CASTLE – Full Tilt live bands and party DJs ELDER PARK – Adelaide Festival Opening Night Party with Kid Creole & The Coconuts and Charles Bradley (8pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs EMU HOTEL – Son Of Bon (9pm)
ENCORE NIGHTCLUB – Get Lucky Fridays with resident DJs (9pm) ENFIELD HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (6pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Undercover Duo (8pm) EXETER HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Craig Atkins FESTIVAL THEATRE – Roman Tragedies (6pm) FINDON HOTEL – karaoke (8.30pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Best Of The Edinburgh Fest then Best Of The Fest Late Show. Front Bar: Friday Night Acoustic Sessions featuring String Band Appalachian Fiddle Sessions & Irish Sessions GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Slingshot Dragster with Green Circles GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Cliff Koma (6pm) HALFWAY HOTEL – Theo (7pm) HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – Rock The Boss (8pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Kinetik (9.30pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs IRISH CLUB – Shamrocks ‘n’ Shenanigans Live Acoustic Sessions (7pm) JADE MONKEY – Fringe: Gabrielle Hyde & Friends LADY DALY HOTEL – Star Dropper & Mr Gasman (8.30pm) LIGHT HOTEL – Black Market (9pm) LIMBO – DJs LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Graham Lawrence (6.30pm) MARS BAR – guests DJs plus drag shows MICK O’SHEA’S – E’nuf Said (7pm) OFFICE ON PIRIE – DJ Jess (4.30pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Justin Parker (7.30pm) PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Acoustic Session (6pm) DJ (9pm) PRODUCERS HOTEL – After Four Fridays Garden Grooves with DJs Justice and DrDamage plus special guests (4pm)
SAILMASTER TAVERN – Gerry O (7pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8pm) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Muddy Road (8pm) SHOTZ BAR – Fringe: Robert Taylor Is The Musical Misfit (8pm) SOMERSET HOTEL – Girls Next Door (8pm) SOUTHWARK HOTEL – The Heggarties – Paul & Wren SPACE THEATRE – Windmill Theatre Trilogy/Girl Asleep (7pm) STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance. Downstairs: DJs play retro STAMFORD PLAZA: CASCADES – Jacqui Lim (5.30pm) STATE THEATRE COMPANY SCENIC WORKSHOP – The Seagull (8.30pm) SUGAR – SHGZ: Fridays at Sugar SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJs TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests TANDANYA – Four Rooms TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio Flamenco (7.30pm) TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – McKenzie (9pm) THE ELEPHANT – Frenzy and DJ G-Rillz (9pm) THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Troy Harrison (4.45pm) One Planet (9pm) Chrysler Bar: Keep The Change (9.30pm) TORRENS RIVERBANK – Lola’s Pergola (6pm) VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Hushes: Live At The Wheaty Album Recording (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – Stiff William (8pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – Michael Pollitt (Mr Black & Blues), Johnny Goodall (Pans Son) and Lazy Eye (9pm) ZHIVAGO – End Of Uni Holidays Party DJs: Bottle Rockets, Terence, Faint One and Gumshoe
RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ Snake & DJ Rupheo (9pm)
ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE: BANQUET ROOM – Adelaide Writer’s Week: Comics Can Do Anything ALLAN SCOTT AUDITORIUM – Artist’s Week ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: band & DJ. Upstairs: Jaki J ARKABA HOTEL – Top Of The Ark: Fringe Show Start Me Up – The Rolling Stones Experience (8.30pm) Lounge Bar: Bonz (9pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Clipsal After Party featuring The Buzz (10pm) ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA – Adelaide Biennial Of Australian Art: Dark Heart
RED SQUARE – DJs REX HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Bogan Bingo (8pm) DJ Smiley (9pm) ROCKET BAR – Cats at Rocket (9pm) ROYAL CROQUET CLUB – The Timbers ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Acoustic Sessions with Ben Ford Davies (7.30pm)
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The Guide// BAKEHOUSE THEATRE – Uncloaked: A Satirical Cabaret Fantasy (9pm) BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Jason Crago (8pm) BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAVAN HOTEL – Karnival with live bands (9pm) CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Wild Ones (9pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: The Sidetracked Fiasco with Guilt Free plus DJ Azz CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with Nicole (8pm) DUKE OF YORK – Front Room: DJ Mitchy B. Beer Garden: DJ Parry. Upstairs: DJ Skinny B, MC Scotty and guest DJs DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE – Am I (2pm & 7pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends EMU HOTEL – Chris Finnen Band (9pm) ENCORE NIGHTCLUB – DJs Lars, TS and Some Brown DJ with MC AC (9pm) ENIGMA – Soundwave After Party EXETER HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (7pm) FESTIVAL THEATRE – Roman Tragedies (3pm)
GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ Marky Polo (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Best Of The Edinburgh Fest then Best Of The Fest Late Show. Front Bar: Velvet Jeanie and Prophets Of Impending Doom GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Brillig: The Gallery Sessions (7pm) Todd Sibbin (10pm) GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays with DJs and MCs HELPMANN THEATRE: MT GAMBIER – Foggy Mountain Jam featuring Kasey Chambers, Busby Marou, Harry Hookey & Ashleigh Dallas HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Animal House (9pm) HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm) HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ground Zero (8.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips & guests (8pm) JACK RUBY – Soul Social – live band and vinyl DJs (8pm) KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke LAKES RESORT HOTEL – 2 Up Duo (9pm) LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ and MC Renard (10pm) LORD MELBOURNE – DJ Steve Murphy (8pm)
ADELAIDE FESTIVAL 2014
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MARINA SUNSET BAR – DJs playing the best in house & electro MARION HOTEL – Franky F (5.30pm) Flaming Sambucas Basket (8.30pm) MARS BAR – guest DJs plus a drag show MICK O’SHEA’S – One Planet (9pm) OLD SPOT HOTEL – Van Demons Band (9.30pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Mascara (8.45pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Harry & The Hit Men (8pm) PIONEER WOMEN’S MEMORIAL GARDEN – Adelaide Writer’s Week and Kid’s Weekend PJ O’BRIENS – McKenzie (10.30pm) QUEEN’S THEATRE – Kiss Of The Chicken King (7.30pm) Big Mouth (10pm)
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 RHINO ROOM – Fringe: Frehd The Clown in Whoop Whoop Let’s Have Some Fun (3pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Bogan Bingo (8pm) ROCKET BAR – Rocket Saturdays (9pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN – Andy Mac (7pm) SANDBAR – requests with DJs SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic sessions SHOTZ BAR – Fringe: Robert Taylor Is The Musical Misfit (8pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – Point 05 (9pm) SPACE THEATRE – Windmill Theatre Trilogy/Fugitive: Robin Hood Retold (6.30pm) STATE THEATRE COMPANY SCENIC WORKSHOP – The Seagull (8.30pm) SUGAR – ITDE DJs and interstate & international guests SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Nikko & Snooks (7.30pm) SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests TANDANYA – Four Rooms TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Mitch (7.30pm) TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE ELEPHANT – Triple X and DJ G-Rillz (9pm) THE LION HOTEL – Absolut Saturdays: Wasabi (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – The A-Team (8.30pm) TORRENS RIVERBANK – Lola’s Pergola (6pm) VALLEY INN – karaoke VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – Rumours WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm)
WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Blues Guitar Workshop with Cal Williams Jr (1pm) Little Black Crow (9pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – Rave On (8.45pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – Michael Pollitt (Mr Black & Blues), Johnny Goodall (Pans Son) and special guest (9pm) ZHIVAGO – End Of Uni Holidays Party DJs – Chaps, Bottle Rockets, Jesse and Skot Holder
SUNDAY 2ND ALLAN SCOTT AUDITORIUM – Artist’s Week ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Vogue Duo with Antonio Villano & Kate Lara (3pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Clipsal After Party with Animal House (5pm) Top Of The Ark: Fringe comedy show featuring Neel Kolhatkar ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA – Adelaide Biennial Of Australian Art: Dark Heart BENJAMIN ON FRANKLIN – Souled Out Sessions with DJs Dave Collins and Jason Lee BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Paul Stubbings (3pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Sonic Museum (4pm) BRIDGEWATER INN – Shaker (3pm) CAPRI THEATRE – River Of Fundament (10.30am & 6pm) CHRISTIES SAILING CLUB – Spirit Of Alondray (4pm) CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Angelo (2pm) COVE TAVERN – Leo Binkie (4pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Fringe shows DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Shannon Lloyd (3pm) ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) EMU HOTEL – Fast Fuse Lite (3pm) FESTIVAL THEATRE – Roman Tragedies (2pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Sun Theory (2pm) GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays (3pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Everlast acoustic tour GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Fringe: Sour Sob Bob (4.30pm) Brillig: The Gallery Sessions (7pm) GRAND BAR – bands, DJs and MCs HOLDFAST BAY BOWLING & CROQUET CLUB – Barefoot At The Bay featuring The House Cats DJs (2pm) HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – 888 Poker (6.30pm) JADE MONKEY – Fringe: The Sea Thieves LIGHT HOTEL – Vonni’s Big Arvo
The Guide // LIGHTHOUSE THEATRE: WARRNAMBOOL – Foggy Mountain Jam featuring Kasey Chambers, Busby Marou, Harry Hookey and Ashleigh Dallas LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – The Healers MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Adelaide Comedy: Lindsay Webb’s Fringe Comedy (4pm) MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – Point 05 (2pm) NEXUS CABARET – Swing & Tonic featuring The Elliott Sisters (3.30pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Troy Harrison (2.30pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – One Planet (4pm) PIONEER WOMEN’S MEMORIAL GARDEN – Adelaide Writer’s Week Kid’s Weekend PLAYFORD TAVERN – 2 Up Duo (3.30pm) PRETORIA HOTEL – Jaki Nickolai (1.30pm) QUEEN’S THEATRE – Big Mouth (7.30pm) Kiss Of The Chicken King (10pm) RAMSGATE HOTEL – acoustic session (4pm) Tom Kurzel & Ed Trainor fortnightly rotation (7.30pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Bogan Bingo (8pm) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Funk & Soul Sessions with Trench Town (7.30pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN – Gerry O (2pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic soloists SEMAPHORE PALAIS – The Incredibles (4.30pm) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – The Red Hot Blues Band (4pm) SHIVERS CAFÉ: ALDINGA – Rob McDade (1pm) SHOTZ BAR – Robert Taylor Is The Musical Misfit (8pm) SPACE THEATRE – Windmill Theatre Trilogy/Fugitive: Robin Hood Retold (2pm & 6.30pm) SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans TANDANYA – Four Rooms TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) Quinny, Parko & Friends (6pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Lucas Day (2pm) TORRENS RIVERBANK – Lola’s Pergola (6pm) WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm) WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi & Shaggy (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Blues Guitar Workshops with Cal Williams Jr (1pm) The Hushes: Live At The Wheaty Album Recording (4pm)
ZHIVAGO – End Of Uni Holidays Party DJs – Anthony, Gumshoe and Skot Holder
MONDAY 3RD AC ARTS – Main Theatre: Blackout (7pm) ADELAIDE TOWN HALL – Kelemen Quartet (7.30pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Top Of The Ark: Fringe Comedy Debate (7pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Fringe Shows ELDER HALL – Adelaide Writer’s Week: What A Wonderful World (6.30pm) GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY DELIGHTS – Women, Wine & Song featuring Monique Brumby with Kelly Menhennett & Martine Locke (8.45pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Rear Admiral Stand Up Comedy. Balcony Bar: Lord Stompy’s Tin Sandwich GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ultimate Quiz with Graham Lawrence (7pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Complete Trivia (7pm) QUEEN’S THEATRE – BigMouth (8pm) RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy SPACE THEATRE – Windmill Theatre Trilogy/Fugitive: Robin Hood Retold (6.30pm) ST PETER’S CATHEDRAL – Late Night At The Cathedral: The Complete Motets Of JS Bach (10pm) SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon TANDANYA – Four Rooms THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and Paul Vallen (8pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – COMA Presents: Jazz Flip (8pm)
TUESDAY 4TH AC ARTS – Main Theatre: Blackout (7pm) ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA – Adelaide Biennial Of Australian Art: Dark Heart AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: DJs Stevie & Duncan. Band Room: Cranker Comedy DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE – An Iliad (7.30pm) ELDER HALL – Adelaide Writer’s Week: 1914 (6.30pm)
EXETER ON RUNDLE – Curtis FESTIVAL THEATRE – Sadeh21 (8pm) FINDON HOTEL – Muso’s Jam hosted by Streaker FINSBURY HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – karaoke (7pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Open Mic Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Nothing HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE – The Shadow King (8pm) HIGHWAY – The Combi Room HQ – NeverLand KENSINGTON HOTEL – Open Uke Night (7pm) LIGHT HOTEL – Open Mic Night (8pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection ODEON THEATRE – The Curious Scrapbook Of Josephine Bean (10am & 1.30am) PIONEER WOMEN’S MEMORIAL GARDEN – Adelaide Writer’s Week PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm) PROSPECT TOWN HALL – The Krusty Cowboy Klub (8.30pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – My Secret Life: Jeffrey Witts performs the songs of Leonard Cohen (8pm) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Louise Messenger (7.30pm) SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm) SHOTZ BAR – Robert Taylor Is The Musical Misfit (8pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with Margi (7.30pm) SPACE THEATRE – Windmill Theatre Trilogy/Girl Asleep (8.30pm) STATE THEATRE COMPANY SCENIC WORKSHOP – The Seagull (6pm) ST PETER’S CATHEDRAL – Late Night At The Cathedral: The Complete Motets Of JS Bach (10pm) SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular & Mr Whiskas TANDANYA – Four Rooms THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Tonsley Trivia (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Wednesday (7pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – An Evening With The Somebuddies (8.30pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music
EXETER ON RUNDLE – Ben Salter (7pm) Bitches Of Zeus DJs GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Best Of The Edinburgh Fest. Front Bar: Adelaide Ukulele Appreciation Society GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Folly: A Yorkshire Poetry Musical HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – KG’s Complete Trivia (7pm) MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) PANCAKE KITCHEN – Shrove Tuesday Charity Races featuring various acts (9am) PIONEER WOMEN’S MEMORIAL GARDEN – Adelaide Writer’s Week PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm) PORT NOARLUNGA & CHRISTIES BEACH RSL – Acoustic Rendezvous Live Music Open Mic Night (7.30pm) QUEEN’S THEATRE – Kiss Of The Chicken King (8pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Bogan Bingo (8pm) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Proton Pill (8.30pm) SPACE THEATRE – Windmill Theatre Trilogy/Girl Asleep (8.30pm) STATE THEATRE COMPANY SCENIC WORKSHOP – The Seagull (6pm) SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller TANDANYA – Four Rooms THE GOODY – Complete Trivia (7.30pm) THE LION HOTEL – Zkye and Damo (7.30pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – DJs Ryley & Apex (8pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Acoustic Raw Jam WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm)
WEDNESDAY 5TH AC ARTS – Main Theatre: Blackout (7pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Latino Grooves Salsa Classes (6pm) ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA – Adelaide Biennial Of Australian Art: Dark Heart BOTANIC BAR – Gemma CENTRAL DISTRICTS FOOTBALL CLUB – Quiz Wiz (7.45pm) CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7pm) CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Geek with DJ Trip DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE – An Iliad (7.30pm) ELDER HALL – Adelaide Writer’s Week: A History Of Christianity (6.30pm) EMU HOTEL – DJ night (8pm) EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music Exchange (7.30pm)
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Snowtown: Live The eerie modern Australian classic Snowtown was a watershed moment for the Adelaide-raised Kurzel brothers, Justin and Jed.
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he Justin Kurzel-directed film, like Animal Kingdom, was a recent high of Australian crime cinema. The uncompromising but beautifully shot film didn’t glorify the Snowtown murders it was based on but rather showed the environment and circumstances that led to the killings, which shocked and appalled a nation. One of the many successes of the film is the score by Justin’s brother, Jed, best known as fronting one of Australia’s best bands, the blues-drenched raw rock of two-piece The Mess Hall. Jed’s score of dark tones, leftfield elements and ominous vibes perfectly matched and enhanced the footage. Just as the film led Justin to direct overseas (the upcoming Macbeth, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard), it too marked a turning point for Jed, as he scored the Ewan McGregor vehicle Son Of A Gun, as well as the critically-acclaimed and locally-made Sundance surprise hit The Babadook. “Suddenly, I fell into film composing,” Kurzel explains about his career-turning score for Snowtown. “I guess it was just jumping into the deep end, really. Since then that’s pretty much what I’ve been doing, which has been great. Every film is different, with Snowtown I was really fortunate with who I was working with [his brother] and there were no boundaries. We could take it wherever we wanted.”
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While Kurzel says he was employed for Son Of A Gun off the back of Snowtown, as well as Dead Europe, he doesn’t try and replicate what he did for Snowtown for other films. “They’re all different films and different directors. You can’t apply the same logic to Snowtown to the other ones. It becomes very obvious quite quickly what the film wants and I guess that’s just the nature of it. I think you can put any kind of music against film, against visuals, and it will
“They’re all different films and different directors. You can’t apply the same logic to Snowtown to the other ones. It becomes very obvious quite quickly what the film wants and I guess that’s just the nature of it.” work to some extent but it’s very rarely that you find the film goes, ‘This is exactly what I want’. And it takes it to another level – that’s the thing you are looking for. I have never been interested in wallpaper music.”
Kurzel will perform the score with a band for the world premiere of Snowtown: Live as part of the Unsound program for Adelaide Festival. This won’t be a simple screening of the film with Kurzel reperforming the score over the top, like what we saw with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and 2001: A Space Odyssey at last year’s Festival. “We talked about that [a start to finish screening] but there was so much great stuff that wasn’t in there [the final cut], some really beautiful stuff. We’re just going through that at the moment and finding the bits that are appropriate for what we want to do. Basically it will recut a lot of footage that didn’t make it into the film. It will be a 50-minute re-edited version with the soundtrack underneath that and probably with a little more improvisation going on.” Before Snowtown, Justin directed outstanding video clips for The Mess Hall, including the haunting Pulse. The unnerving vibe of Pulse almost serves as a precursor to the mood of Snowtown and what Justin and Jed could achieve when matching film and music. From Justin directing Jed’s videos to Jed scoring for Justin’s films, their relationship doesn’t change, no matter who’s the boss. “If that relationship did change, it wouldn’t work, that’s why we do work well together, we’re always coming at each other with equal footing ... You have to be open to what each other’s contributing.” Jed says it’s “likely” he will compose the score for his brother’s upcoming film Macbeth: “We’ve been talking about ideas for it. He starts shooting that at the end of January [this interview was completed last year].” Then there’s another film collaboration to come, a black comedy the
Getting The Band Back Together The Mess Hall hasn’t released an album since 2009’s For The Birds and now with all of Kurzel’s soundtrack work, is the band still together? “We’ve always been the kind of band that don’t really do anything if we don’t feel like anything’s there,” Kurzel explains about his two-piece with drummer Cec Condon. “There’s never been any pressure to make a record from the label or anything like that, so we get together all the time and write, and once we feel like we’re hitting on something then we’ll dig in and finish an album. We’re still playing and writing.”
brothers have been working on for a few years. “I finished writing the script at the beginning of this year [2013]. That’s moving ahead as well. It seems to be picking up some momentum. That was a whole other thing after Snowtown and another idea we had for a while. Warp Films [who distributed Snowtown internationally] were really interested in it, so Justin and I went off to Eastern Europe and did some research. We’ve finished the script. Hopefully we can get that going, maybe towards the end of next year.”
WHAT: Unsound Adelaide 2014 – Snowtown: Live with Sounds Of The Lid WHERE: Adelaide Town Hall WHEN: Thu Mar 6, 8pm
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realistic portrayal of an old man with few dreams, it’s easier to believe that he hasn’t wanted leading roles in the past than to think he hasn’t been offered them, and as his counterpart, Forte’s dramatic step away from comedy suits him surprisingly well. Nebraska is beautifully shot in black and white, but this has been done a lot recently, and it’s starting to feel like an indie movie cliché. The rest of Payne’s creation, however, is equal parts unique and familiar. Simple, raw, bittersweet, and funny, in the way that real life can be so tragically ridiculous you have to laugh. Dern may have waited years for this role, but it was worth it.
AAAA In a career comprised of over 100 films, spanning across six decades, leading roles for Bruce Dern have been few and far between. He makes up for lost time in Alexander Payne’s new family affair as Woody Grant, an ageing, easily-confused former alcoholic (beer doesn’t count) with a shaky home life as years of drinking and personal indifference have alienated his wife and sons. Believing he has won $1,000,000 in a magazine sweepstakes, Woody is determined to get to Nebraska to claim his prize. Although his family refuses to acknowledge his fortune, son David (Will Forte) reluctantly drives him there, if only to get it over with. As Dern delivers a stunningly
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Director Roger Michell’s follow-up to Hyde Park On Hudson is a smaller, more intimate and hurtful affair, drawn from a biting and bitterly human script by Hanif Kureishi. A 60-something English couple, Nick ( Jim Broadbent) and Meg (Lindsay Duncan), a philosophy professor and a teacher both facing forced retirement and glad to have recently got their hopeless adult son out of their house, return to Paris for their 30th wedding anniversary and almost immediately find themselves unable to conceal their fears, frustrations and lingering resentments about each other and the world around. They argue about money, illness, whether or not she’s beautiful, why she rejects his affections, why he’s so passive and their inability to treat their son like a man. They run into one of his old friends ( Jeff Goldblum in one of his charmingly cheesy performances) and confront their terrible dread of each other’s impending death. The greying Goldblum is very amusing here, but this is really all about Broadbent and Duncan, whose fine, funny, fragile characterisations are pretty much the whole show – even if there are times that you could happily slap both.
Many will insist that this, writer/producer/ director Peter Berg’s ‘low-budget’ war drama, is brilliant simply because it’s based (based!) on fact – but that ain’t good enough, soldier! Opening with real footage of Seal training where young men get in touch with their inner suicidal nut-job, we cut to Seal Team 10 in Afghanistan back in 2005, as the guys do lots of male-bonding and four members prepare for a secret mission to kill Taliban key player Ahmad Shah (Yousef Azani) somewhere in the mountains. The quartet of Michael Murphy (Taylor Kitsch), Danny Dietz (Emile Hirsch), Matt Axelson (Ben Foster) and Marcus Luttrell (played by Mark Wahlberg and upon whose book this was drawn) are a chummy bunch, and that comes in handy as they run into trouble right away after not shooting a kid. Soon they’re surrounded, wounded, variously sacrificing themselves and, eventually, taken to a village where the residents argue about what to do with them in a long sequence where Luttrell demonstrates what a nice guy he is – and Berg tries to take back all the nasty patriotic crap of the first half. Drawn-out, self-important, full of hand-held camera and blokey nonsense and with a lamely PC final act, this demonstrates conclusively why so many out there hate America.
Co-writer/director/producer Greg Mclean’s sequel to his cultural-touchstonecum-‘torture porn’-classic Wolf Creek (2005) is a major letdown, with extreme and splattery violence yet no real fear, characters we don’t care about and, painfully, a hammy performance by John Jarratt, whose Mick Taylor has now turned into a sort of Ocker Jason Voorhees. With Mick the focus of the story instead of the victims, this opens with him running afoul of some cops before stalking a pair of dopey German backpackers who obviously hadn’t seen the first film and, finally, enjoying a long and protracted chasearound and carve-up of Paul Hammersmith (Ryan Corr), who does the ‘good Samaritan’ thing and regrets it on a grand scale. Along the way, the once-secret plot has Mick knockoff unfunny Aussie-Aussie-Aussie oneliners, hijack a truck, run over CG ‘roos and graphically stab, shoot, slash and slice anyone he can get his sweaty hands on. With the decision to play the horror as comedy (which should be distasteful but just proves silly) and sequences where Mick becomes a sort of Satanic superhero, this is frequently more annoying than frightening, and only gets scary when, late on, Corr’s torture is set to the tune of Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport. Struth!
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Opening But Unrated 3 Days To Kill (M), directed by ‘McG’ and with a screenplay co-written by ageing ‘enfant terrible’ Luc Besson, is an improbable-sounding actioner starring Kevin Costner, Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld and Connie Nielsen. Non-Stop (M), from Unknown director Jaume Collet-Serra, is a high-altitude action/thriller toplining his favourite actor Liam Neeson alongside Julianne Moore, Linus Roache and the rather overworked Scoot McNairy. Writer/centrepiece/lifelong-leftie John Pilger’s latest documentary Utopia (M) is a fearless study of Australia’s treatment of its Indigenous people. And Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki’s latest (and perhaps last) outing is The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) (PG), which (in its English dubbed version, as opposed to the subtitled version) offers voices by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Jennifer Grey, Mae Whitman, Martin Short, William H Macy and Werner Herzog.
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Adelaide Central Market Challenge Everyone’s been struck by Fringe fever – and the Central Market hasn’t escaped. Kicking off as part of the festival, the Adelaide Central Market challenge is a one-hour Amazing Race for foodies. Given a list of things to find and a cryptic map, punters are tasked to dodge shoppers and tourists to complete a food- and wine-tasting obstacle course, build a salad and guess ingredients. Vegetarians be warned, one of the tasks includes “helping a butcher” though exact details can’t be disclosed. Time is short in the dash around the market. Those unfamiliar with the layout and terrain are encouraged to case the joint and get familiar before the clock starts counting down. While fun and games are encouraged, the stakes are high – ultimate challenge winners can take home $100 to spend at the Markets! For the challenges running every Tue, Thu and Fri nights until the end of the Fringe, book through FringeTix ($28 general/$23 concession). For those too busy to add another thing to the calendar this month, there are plans to make the event a regular attraction after Mad March.
Lola’s Wine List What does Adelaide’s favourite new friend Lola have on hand for our tasting pleasure when she opens her Pergola down on the Torrens Riverbank? The wine-list has been released, featuring big names and little ones – favourites and new discoveries. From opening night’s Petaluma to the closer with Lola’s own Vintage, the wine list promises to be rich in surprises. The closing event, a tasting of Lola’s Vintage, will be the culmination of two weeks’ work – a collaborative, public effort to create a beautiful drop. Justin Lane (Alpha Box & Dice) will direct the ancient Babylonian affair, from the sorting of grapes in week one, to the basket pressing in week two, to that final, glorious moment – lifting the concoction to your face and inhaling the nectar of the… punters. Lola won’t be the only place with a new drink to its name – Petaluma and Ochota Barrels are both launching new vintages during the Festival. Pergola openers Petaluma will give Lola’s friends the first taste of the 2001 Croser Late Disgorged (Zero Dosage) Piccadilly Valley. Ochota has a special rockstar tang to their Sense Of Compression collaboration, as Adelaide’s Tarras Ochota was joined by Maynard James Keenan (Tool, Puscifer, Perfect Circle) to make the wine.
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If a run-around challenge is too much to bear, check out new stall Pickle In The Middle for a sit down and a toastie. The pop-up space in the Central Market is a cheeky peek ahead of their planned Topham Mall bricks-andmortar home. Homemade relishes include the deliciously titled Hot Dog or B&B (bread and butter). A neighbourly helping hand means the bread in their sandwiches is a product of Dough, while the cheese wanders in from The Smelly Cheese Shop. Featuring purple carrots, golden beets and more, the relishes and pickles are exciting treats to behold – and to take home. Although operating as a mini-café for sandwich purposes, Pickle In The Middle’s stall is a place to pick up a jar for home consumption, if public pickle-scoffing isn’t for you.
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Visceral Eye Recent graduates of Adelaide Central School of Art have just opened an exhibition together, titled Visceral Eye. The aim of the collected artworks is to explore the artists’ ‘internal lives’ embodied in the material world. For example, Anna Gore’s paintings respond to the physical nature of the medium – as do Rhiannon Jones’ investigations into objects that have had their function removed.
Stephanie Bromley is inspired by travel and memory, and Jenna Pippett explores the meeting places between past and present. For a sneak peek, Thirteen, pictured here, reads: ‘When I was thirteen my teacher told us we were not allowed to write in highlighter, because she said she couldn’t see it.’ As part of the exhibition, each of the artists will be presenting talks at ACSA in coming weeks. On Tue Mar 11, Bromley and Pippett will present, followed by Jones and Gore on Tue Mar 18. All talks begin at 12.15pm. Visceral Eye will continue at Adelaide Central Gallery until Fri Mar 21.
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Local jewellery designer Naomi Murrell and fellow Second Nature resident búl have put on a party in the name of art as part of the festival season. The first of two Festival Series exhibitions, Che Chorley will be presenting his exquisite photography in a collection titled First Home. An internationally and nationally published artist – currently in residence at The Mill – Chorley celebrates the beauty and surprise of nature. His ocean photographs, rich and deep with brilliant, unexpected colour, are particularly striking. Seizing moments of rare peace or humour, Chorley’s pictures are oneof-a-kind moments in time. First Home will run at Second Nature (Shop 231 Rundle St) until Wed Mar 5.
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Get Real Melbourne is the chosen city to detail the lives of the rich, bourgeois women who live there as Australia’s first destination for its own Real Housewives franchise. Before the show was set to air publicly on Arena, two of the six housewives, Lydia Schiavello and Andrea Moss sat down with Rip It Up to share some thoughts on the show. “They’ve cast the show very well,” says Andrea. “They’ve got six women who are all incredibly different and bring something fabulous.” Besides 45-year-old Andrea, who runs her own boutique skin clinic Liberty Belle, and mum of six and RMIT interior design student, Lydia, also 45, the other women on The Real Housewives Of Melbourne include 47-year old South Yarra barrister and single mum Gina Liano, Chyka Keebaugh, 45, who started what is now one of Australia’s largest catering and event companies; 55-year old Red Hill property developer Janet Roach and 33-year old psychic Jackie Gillies. Each housewife is promoted for their own unique attribute. For example, Lydia, wife to architect and property developer Andrew Norbury, has her own private jet, whereas Jackie is married to Silverchair drummer Ben Gillies, and is not shy about being a “rockstar’s wife”. Andrea describes some other elements that make each housewife special, including “obscene make-up”, “overdone plastic surgery not done by my husband [Dr Chris Moss]” or promoting that they
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“talk to dead people”, which Lydia corrects as “the angels”. She also offers that the reason that they got picked was because of their “aspirational lifestyle”. “For people looking from the outside in, we’re aspirational, we’re successful; we appear to have it all. What they don’t know is that we earned it all. We’ve worked incredibly hard and taken a lot or risks.” The premise of the first episode is that the five women – who were all previously linked to each other by being well-established Melbourne socialites – met Jackie, the Melbourne newcomer, for the first time on camera at a fundraiser held at Andrea’s Liberty Belle clinic. The women assure that what the cameras capture is organic. “We actually did all know each other. I knew Lydia for five years, Gina for five years, I knew Chyka since I was 18 – she taught me how to blanch asparagus. Janet I met six months before we started filming, so Jackie was the only new one.” “You couldn’t script what happened,” Andrea says on issues that arise during the series. In the interest of not giving too much away, we won’t disclose which housewife the rest turn on. “Lydia and I have lost a friend – well, an acquaintance. She had a brain snap and you can’t recover from the brain snap she had. She’s unstable.” “She fibs and makes up stories,” Lydia continues. “That’s one thing that has really disturbed me on the show. What she tries to do is portray us as nasty women who were her friends, but now not her friends. I actually only became friends with her because of the show. Otherwise, I had met her 10 years ago and never saw her. Ever.” Rumour has it that the “brain snap” occurs halfway through the 10-episode season, with the housewife in question raising “the level of profanity in Australian television” in the process.
“She uses the C-word on us two – and it wasn’t ‘cute’,” says Andrea. “I mean, I’m a conservative doctor’s wife!” “And I’m an architect’s wife!” cries Lydia. It appears that the drama that the Melbourne housewives stir will rival that of their American counterparts – with Orange County, New York, Atlanta, New Jersey, Beverly Hills and Miami all still in production. Given that the show leverages off the housewives’ life of privilege, yet the majority of cast are all working mothers, independent and self-starters, they don’t reflect the same ditzy, airhead stereotype that their American predecessors are known for. In fact, the commitment that the show required, with consecutive days of intensive shooting along with immaculate hair, make-up, wardrobe and jewellery (Andrea laughs that the show is all about “sequins and costume jewellery”) was the most difficult aspect to juggle, although Lydia assures that she’s “enjoyed the journey; it’s been incredible – apart from some hiccups”. And while there’s no whispers on whether an Adelaide series is potentially in the works, if all goes well with Melbourne, Lydia and Andrea both sing our city’s praises. “Adelaide is gorgeous, we love it!” Lydia enthuses. “The food and coffee here is especially fabulous. Adelaide is so cultured. It’s gorgeous, we can’t wait to come back.”
WHAT: The Real Housewives Of MelbourneWHERE: Arena, Foxtel WHEN: Sundays at 8.30pm
Five Reasons Why Jeremy Scott Is Perfect For Moschino Jeremy Scott’s fast-food, pop culture inspired collection for Moschino at Milan Fashion Week may be just the thing that both brand and designer need. And now, we need. 1. Food For Thought. Turning the golden arches into high fashion is a feat in itself. Also, Hershey’s chocolate sauce, Froot Loops, Cheetos prints as well as a wedding dress printed with nutritional information labels? This collection is
practically an anthropological minefield for modern day consumerism in food and fashion. 2. This Collection Will Sell. If the buzz surrounding the pieces can tell us anything, it’s that the items will become highly sought after. 3. Love Jeremy Scott. As Rossella Jardini passes on the reins as Creative Director to Jeremy Scott, the batshit crazy designer has blitzed it, while staying true to Franco Moschino’s original aesthetic. 4. KP. While she may have gotten booed off the runway for turning up unfashionably late, Katy Perry’s kitsch visuals and prominence as one of the most relevant pop culture icons will surely power the brand to a new generation, following costuming for both Madonna and Kylie Minogue in the past. 5. Spongebob Squarepants. Enough said. RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au
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Fly Me To The Moon Sherlock: Series 3 Roadshow / M / 307 mins (Un Plan Parfait)
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This low-key but hard drama surely went straight to DVD as it made someone important awfully uncomfortable. Joseph Gordon-Levitt (who debuts as writer, director and star) plays New Jersey native Jon — a young stud with an eye for the ladies, close pals, loving (sort of ) parents (Glenne Headley and Tony Danza), strong religious faith and an addiction (although that word’s not really used) to online pornography, which he relates in a voice-over that begins amusingly, but gets increasingly unsettling. When he meets Barbara (Scarlett Johansson) and they begin an intense relationship, she insists upon the truth about everything, but he doesn’t offer it about his dirty secret, and JG-L makes some pointed observations about relationships, sex and how safe it is to be “not really there”. Other easing cool performances includea brassy Johansson, Brie Larson as Jon’s near-silent sister and Julianne Moore, introduced late in the piece as a mysterious woman he meets at night school who knows a thing or two about emotional nakedness. MDB
Another randomly-retitled French comedy, this offers irksome work from Diane Kruger and Dany Boon as another movie couple who would never get together in real life. Related as a dinner party anecdote, we watch as Isabelle (Kruger) struggles with fear of her family’s ‘curse’ first marriages never work - and how this relates to her relationship with the would-be perfect guy when she wants a child, decides she must therefore get married (um… okay…) and knows that it will all end badly (got that?). Continuing with nutty logic, Isabelle decides to marry anyone, divorce him quickly and get hitched to ‘Mr Right’, and her choice is goofy Jean-Yves (Dany Boon), with whom she hares off to Kenya for hi-jinx with CG lions, and then Moscow for sillier reasons. Kruger and Boon think they’re very amusing here in scenes of embarrassing slapstick, but director Pascal Chaumeil is just as much to blame, with a comic touch like a français sledgehammer. MDB
(Note: monumental spoilers follow!) Excuses have been offered as to why this third season of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ BBC brainchild isn’t as strong as the first two (it was rushed as the stars were so often unavailable; it tied itself in knots to explain Sherlock’s death at the end of Series 2; Moffat spent too much time on his other passion, Doctor Who), but surely it’s to do with deciding that Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch — who else?) should begin psychoanalysing himself here, something that Arthur Conan Doyle’s original creation would never do. It’s two years after the second series and John Watson (Martin Freeman) is haunted by the mysterious ‘death’ of his onetime business partner (and friend?), and as he makes plans to marry Mary (Amanda Abbington). Sherlock, of course, returns, and after punch-ups, the pair get involved in a convoluted plot that spans three movie-length episodes. And yes, this does feel darker, less funny and more hurtful, with Sherlock virtually describing himself as a psychopath (which, of course, a true psychopath would never do too).
Bookshelf Jonathan Aycliffe / Constable & Robinson / 216pp
This latest supernatural tale from Aycliffe (AKA Denis MacEoin) is pretty scary stuff, and moves away from the serious nastiness that spoiled the final act of his most famous novel Naomi’s Room. Written as diary entries by Dominic Lancaster, a soldier wounded in WWII’s Battle of Narvik, who escapes London’s Blitz with his deaf sister Octavia for Hallinhag House in Ullswater in the Lake District, this has the pair (and devoted nurse Rose) become eerily aware of hidden secrets and creepy goings-on at the dark (naturally) place. Aycliffe/MacEoin again demonstrates that he’s a master of the paranormal drama, even if, rather oddly, the phantoms in this outing seem strangely solid, and get about in gangs in broad daylight, doing all sorts of grimly ghosty things. MDB RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au
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AAAa Filmed on one of her record-breaking 18 shows in Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena as a part of her monumental Australian tour, P!nk’s The Truth About Love Tour cemented her as position as one of the best performers you could see in modern music. For those still doubting this reality, watch the Live From Melbourne DVD and then try to argue. Even if Blow Me (One Last Kiss), Try or Raise Your Glass aren’t your jams, watching P!nk take to the stage – and the air – is something definitely worth catching, even if just for the finale – So What – which she performs above the crowd, flipping around in her harness like one of Cirque du Soilel’s best. The DVD also comes with backstage and rehearsal footage for those who really know how she managed to pull it off. While well shot and captured, it doesn’t really match the experience of being there – and is best reserved for die-hard fans –and to educate the haters, of course LA
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A Special Day
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New York’s Play Company and Mexico’s Por Piedad Teatro recently enjoyed a sellout Off Broadway season of A Special Day, which also picked up four and five-stars reviews at Edinburgh Fringe.
The play, now running at Holden Street Theatres as part of Adelaide Fringe 2014, was inspired by Ettore Scola’s 1977 Oscarnominated film Una Giornata Particolare, which had starred Sophia Loren and Marcelo Mastraionni and tells the story of an overworked housewife and her mysterious bachelor neighbour who meet in Rome in 1938 on the same day the Italian city celebrated Adolf Hitler's visit. The fast-paced work, presented in English by Ana Graham and Antonio Vega, came about when Graham and Vega relocated from Mexico to New York. “We didn’t know anybody,” Graham says, “but were trying to find a work we could present in New York using our Mexican language. So we came across A Special Day, which is Italian, and then Play Company helped us develop it in English. “We then performed it Off Broadway which was really lovely as it went very, very well. We sold out very quickly and had to extend the season by two weeks so we are now taking it all around the world because it seems everyone wants to see it.”
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Graham, who is in Australia with Vega for the first time and will be holidaying here for a while after Adelaide Fringe, goes on to say audiences love the work due to its concept. “It’s very fresh,” she notes, “and it also has universal appeal. And it’s not necessarily about where the play comes from but more so the idea of how everybody, all around the world, connects.” The bittersweet play, which has been receiving great reviews for its Adelaide season, has a very simple set that uses a chalkboard along and a few everyday props. “The whole idea was to be able to do it in any theatre anywhere in the world that had
three walls,” Graham says. “So we came up with that idea of using chalk drawings as the set; it works very well. “It’s such a charming play because it’s not pretentious in any way,” she concludes. “We are just trying to really communicate with our audience about how we feel about love, tolerance and the freedom to be who you are.” WHO: Play Company and Por Piedad Teatro WHAT: A Special Day WHERE: Holden Street Theatres WHEN: until Sun Mar 16
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How The Loss Of Sam Can Save A Life Fast Times is on board for the Sammy D Foundation’s Great Night Out, an initiative that promotes awareness and discussion on ways to ensure that a night on the town doesn’t end tragically.Nat Cook, the CEO of the Sammy D Foundation and mother of Sam Cook, whose unfortunate death has led to the Sammy D Foundation’s creation, has written this message for the readers of Fast Times and Rip It Up. One punch was all it took to see our 17-year-old son, Sam, taken away from his family and friends forever. One punch. May 3, 2008, started out as a good day. Sam kicked five goals for the South Adelaide Football Club’s Under 19 side and showed enough promise that the AFL were watching with interest. Life was good. That night he went to a private party, a good excuse to catch up with friends and share a few laughs. He was a people person and would help anyone without a second thought. Despite the organisers taking the best precautions, four uninvited guests crashed the party, caused trouble and eventually it was shut down – which was when things escalated on the street outside.
Sam probably never saw the punch to the back of his head. The coward who threw it took advantage of his attention being distracted as he went to help a mate. That selfless act left him on life-support at the Flinders Medical Centre – the very hospital where I worked as a nurse. As an Intensive Care nurse I knew that Sam’s head injuries were severe. I hope no parent ever has to endure calling family and friends to break the sad news. I hope no one else has to watch the steady stream of people come into their child’s room to say goodbye. My son is one of more than 90 people who have died from one punch incidents in recent years – and all could have been prevented. As it turns out, his unnecessary death at the hands of a drunken idiot provided inspiration for my husband Neil and I to start the Sammy D Foundation, and we have now shared his story with more than 25,000 young people and their families. Sam’s death shows that this type of violence can happen to anyone in a split second. It doesn’t discriminate and can leave people with severe and often fatal injuries. My son could be with us today if a number of things had been different. The person who hit him could have been more responsible for his own actions and not been violent. His mate could have tapped him on the shoulder and called it a night before a punch got thrown. Life is about the decisions of an individual leading to consequences that can affect so many. That’s why it’s important to make the right decision – and the best way we can help encourage that is by sharing Sam’s story, educating on ways to stay safe, and the need to look out for mates. Most people go through a partying phase and experiment with alcohol. The work we do is not about stopping people from having fun, but about teaching how do to it more safely. I know that’s what Sam would have wanted. For more information on the Sammy D Foundation and its programs visit sammyfoundation.com or contact the team on 8374 1678.
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Gear Up Map Make sure you don’t lose your way while at Gear Up on Fri Feb 28 if you don’t want to miss a second of the action – including sets by San Cisco, Alpine, Miami Horror DJs, Deep Sea Arcade and Pond. Tickets are still available through Moshtix at $50+bf for GA entry, although UniSA students can enjoy the luxury of a $15 ticket just for being a part of the host university. And be sure to find the Street Team from Rip It Up, who will be handing out stubby holders on the day (hot tip: get there early to avoid disappointment!) They’ll be hanging out around the Rip It Up Main Stage, so you can’t miss them!
Great Night Out Van The Great Night Out Blog-a-Van is a mobile interactive studio that allows punters to record their stories and voice their opinions on what needs to happen to ensure young people’s safety while at parties and in public. You can’t miss the Blog-a-Van – Adelaide street art institution Vans The Omega had a hand in designing it. The Blog-a-Van will be out at these festivals over the weekend, so keep an eye out if you’re heading along and give your input into keeping the city safer. Thu Feb 27 – Flinders University at Flinders University O’Fiesta, 7pm-midnight Fri Feb 28 – UniSA’s Gear Up Festival, 2-8pm Sat Mar 1 – Soundwave, Bonython Pk, 12.30-10.30pm RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU
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The cover art of Busy Earnin’ indicates a huge ensemble cast of collaborators. It makes more sense that the creative output of this mysterious group comes solely (or souly) from the minds of songwriters J and T. The sounds informing their latest slice of modern soul are eclectic, but they’re cohesively distilled in a way that only one or two heads could manage (eg. Mark Ronson, Mayer Hawthorne), executed with an edgy pop finish (eg. Mark Ronson, Mayer Hawthorne). Whoever makes up this curious collective, Jungle are more than living up to the early hype lavished upon them here.
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Tiny Ruins Me At The Museum, You In The Wintergardens (Spunk)
Simplicity is something that’s worked well in music for a long time. Tony Ruins don’t so much break from that mould as embrace it, choosing their instruments sparingly and doing as little in their production as possible. Led by the charming vocals of Kiwi artist Hollie Fullbrook, Me At The Museum… is stripped almost bare, her fingerpicked guitar aided occasionally by bass, drums and woodwind. Less has never been more.
Mr Little Jeans Good Mistake (Sony)
A few years ago Mr Little Jeans wowed us with a mesmerising cover of The Suburbs and in the time since we’ve waited patiently for the Norwegian producer to reveal a bit more of her musical self. With the announcement of her debut album Pocketknife, it appears that wait is finally over. Good Mistake appears not on that album, but an EP of the same name – seems her creative juice came flowing all at once. Skittish minimalist pop crafted in a synth workshop, Good Mistake isn’t so much revelatory as reactionary, but it’s a good insight into this obscure artist.
Matthew & The Atlas (ft. Matt Corby) Another Way (Communion)
They say two wrongs don’t make a right, but what about two Matts? This glorious pairing of English folk troubadour Matthew Hegarty and Aussie singer-songwriter Matt Corby may require the coining of a new adage. Another Way points to the gamut of gospel-folk that Hegarty is constantly exploring through his Matthew & The Atlas moniker, with subtle nods to English reverence. His gruff tenor harmonising with Corby’s gender-defying falsetto is a brilliant first taste off the debut Matthew & The Atlas album.
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AAAAa Perhaps Annie Clark (AKA St Vincent) said it best when she said that this album is “a party record you could play at a funeral”. Without even a hint to The Verve or a traditional ballad, what kind of funeral are we talking here? Reflect on how you would want people to react at your own
funeral. Surely you don’t exactly want your loved ones to be cheering, but neither do you want them paralysed with suffocating despair. You want a heartfelt celebration, with some rolling tears, warm hugs and the general consensus that you were the best thing that’s ever happened to anyone. To say that Clark’s decision to title the album St Vincent was to reflect the intimacy and depth of a funeral may be a bit of a stretch, but it still holds true as Clark’s best work. Clark meticulously creates a balance of dark and light, using synths to the best of their ability with ‘80s-infused pop hooks (case in point: Bring Me Your Loves). Metallic electronic pulses that begin Rattlesnake snare you in, and don’t release you until the album concludes with the cinematic Severed Crossed Fingers. On the journey, you weather themes that are provoking (I Prefer Your Love, Birth In Reverse), political (Digital Witness) and personal (Psychopath) and leave the other side cleansed and full of ambition. Lachlan Aird
Issues, hailing from Atlanta and Los Angeles, show signs of serious identity issues on their debut effort. On the one hand, when the album is heavy and the band is in their groove, the album has serious potential to be a successful modern heavy metal release. On the other hand, there are Justin Bieber/Chris Brown-esque lyrics and vocal melodies that overpower the heavy backdrop, which both confuse and put off the listener. The opener Sad Ghost and The Langdon House both sound like they could draw in the heavy metal army and captivate them with their intricate structures, but fall prey to a failed attempt at trying too hard to crossover genres. Never Lose Your Flames is another of the tracks that styles seemingly Justin Bieber-inspired lyrics over music which could have been written by a Slayer and A Day To Remember supergroup. The band goes from one extreme to the other with little bridging in between, which could easily disappoint and alienate listeners. So many of the tracks on this confused clutter of genres offer plenty of potential, so hopefully Issues will open the group’s eyes and help them mature into a more rounded outfit. Nick Grimm
The Getaway Plan Live Review
Fowler’s Live (Photos by Jennifer Sando) (Review by Nick Grimm)
AAAa As the predominately adolescent crowd marched through the doors at Fowler’s Live, the die-hard fans instantly made their way to the front of the crowd and waited until Melbourne’s The Getaway Plan stumbled out on stage. They first had to become immersed in the three local acts Bombora, Dead End and Watch The World as they opened the show in a solid fashion. Each showed signs of immaturity within their bands, but this is hardly an insult given they’re still green in the industry. This looks good for home grown talent. Wendy Icon brought a very welcome change of pace and energy. Introducing heavy riffing and faster tempos to their hometown crowd certainly lifted the anticipation for the headline act, which, by 10.15pm, the crowd were becoming anxious to see. Only a few minor mixing issues haunted the Wendys, which were pushed aside quickly by their energetic live performance, which contained enough necklaces to weigh down Mr T. This was an undoubtedly great live performance from the
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I Killed The Prom Queen
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Skating Polly’s third album can easily be described as baby punk. Their youthful screeches and classic punk instrumentals are as fresh as the Fringe feels in early Feb. Not to imply that this album is emotionally lacking, with rich insights into the frustration and complexity of life, especially in its early days. Reminiscent of a pleasing collision between ‘70s punk and early ‘90s alt grunge, the stepsister duo propel a sound like a younger Savages or a new age Bikini Kill. Filled with energy and in-your-face anger, Fuzz Steilacoom resembles the intensity of punk lords The Sex Pistols. The album sure goes down smooth, unfaltering in its consistent radness. The Riot Grrrl movement is a strong influence in this album’s creation, however Skating Polly show off a sensitive side in melodic piano track A Little Late. Lyrics like ‘Chase away the thoughts that make you hate, ‘cause hate does not create’ have torn me a new heart. Other highlights include playfully aggression-fuelled Alabama Movies and vocally impressive Blunderland. This femme punk duo are the rawest and most honest musical endeavour my bitter ears have heard in a long time. Katie Bryant
Adelaide quintet who nearly stole the show in front of their home crowd. When TGP finally make their way on stage, it’s nearing 11pm and the all-ages crowd has become anxious. They open a little rough, but quickly find their groove as the crowd finally gets what they really came for. Only after seeing TGP live can one truly see how similarly their songs are structured. They rely heavily upon the verse/pause/chorus arrangement, occasionally throwing in a short bridge. Showing little evolution in their music over their near 10 year existence, TGP are clearly sticking with what they do best. Their more popular songs like The Reckoning, Shadows and their fresh tracks Lovesick and Mirrors are the clear standouts, much like they are on their studio releases. Nevertheless, the band pulled it off in part with mature musicianship and also thrived off of the loyalty from their interstate horde. Keeping the energy in the room high, TGP surely please their fans with a tightknit set. The show was enough to convert a nonlistener into a casual listener. Despite little mixing issues and a rushed second half, signalling that maybe five bands were too many supports, The Getaway Plan provided a quality set. For the fans, this is all that mattered, leaving the venue satisfied after a long night of good, solid music.
AAAA After an extended hiatus, I Killed The Prom Queen are back with their third studio release Beloved, and the wait was worth it. Opening track Beginning Of The End (think Parkway Drive Sparks) introduces the gruff vocals and heavy breakdowns of new frontman Jamie Hope. And he proves to be the perfect fit. Sole original member Jona Weinhofen (guitar/vocals) is luminous throughout the entire album and together with Kevin Cameron (guitar) and Shane O’Brien (drums), they have laid down the right foundations for a concrete sounding record. The steam loosens when Kjærlighet (meaning “love” in Norwegian) starts on a slow and soft guitar in the background before Hope joins in on the clean and crisp vocals of Weinhofen and let’s everything go. After the seventh listen, Kjærlighet is quite catchy, along with the first single Thirty One & Sevens. Standout numbers Meilor, The Beaten Path, Nightmares, Sparrowhawk and closer Brevity show Prom Queen’s maturity and experimental growth since Music For The Recently Deceased. Beloved is a solid album. The current line-up is tight, and it works. So here’s hoping we don’t have to wait another eight years for the next release. Jess Bayly
In the three-and-a-half years since their debut album, The Holidays have been searching for a new sound. The aesthetic they created on Post Paradise was both visionary and accessible, and the reason it has taken them so long to pen its follow-up is largely attributable to the demands they placed on themselves to eclipse it. It was always going to be a lofty ambition, and understandably Real Feel falls short of the achievement. The record feels half-baked, as if The Holidays were forced to finish it knowing they hadn’t found the missing piece to the puzzle. This was indicative enough on lead single Voices Drifting, whose soft synths and dreamy soundscape are reminiscent of Broken Bones, only with none of its kick: the lack of inspiration to replace the percussive groove of Post Paradise is glaring. The only time this album is allowed to unwind and be what The Holidays want it to be is on the eight-minute, Chemical Brothersinspired closer Morning Workout. Real Feel still embodies the colour of Post Paradise, but lacks its idiosyncratic charm. In a wild goose chase to redefine themselves, The Holidays have wound up with a lame duck. Jimmy Byzantine
Drive All Night EP
Glen Hansard’s second solo release, Drive All Night, is not so much a solo release as a round-up of all the folk musicians in the area. Even Eddie Vedder pops in for a spot on the opener, a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s Drive All Night, which, at over eight minutes on a 20-minute CD, is officially way too long. Famed for his frontman earnestness, Hansard shows his song writing skills on upswelling Pennies In The Fountain, a soup of sweet, rapid ukulele, double bass and nostalgic lyrics. Renata remains emotional but is more upbeat. But purely vocal Step Out Of The Shadows feels like an intro to the silence which follows this not-quitesubstantial-enough EP. Mat Drogemuller
Various Artists Triple J’s Hottest 100 Volume 21 (ABC/Universal)
AA The 21st instalment of the Hottest 100 compilations comes jam-packed with 41 of the most predictably thrashed triple j jams of the past 12 months, making you wonder why they don’t just double it and get all 100 tracks on there. It’s put together in the most unimaginative way possible too: one song per artist with the highest ranking track taking precedence. You can almost judge these comps better by the tracks they leave out than the ones they put in. With this in mind notable exclusions include The National, A$AP Rocky and Big Scary. Who said there was a triple j sound? Jimmy Byzantine
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There’s nothing like a start of year party (any excuse, really) and UniSA has brought out the big guns to see in the 2014 uni calendar. The local champs on the Gear Up lineup took some time out of their touring, recording and sleeping schedules to answer some Qs for you. Flip to Fast Times for the map of the day and get yo’ self organised!
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Gear Up Valkyries (Rachel)
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Fictional character you can best relate to? Lumpy Space Princess on Adventure Time? That is so me. What literary work would you love to turn into a musical work? Any Hunger Games book would be a really cool song. Preferably the second book – it would be intense. Song you wish you’d written? I’m tied between No Problems by Azealia Banks and Bring The Noize by M.I.A. Earliest musical memory? I used to be really obsessed with Celine Dion when Titanic came out. My Heart Will Go On was my jam. Best show as an audience member? Musical show? I reckon Major Lazer has probably been the best thing I’ve seen with my two eyes. What’s the greatest mystery? Noooo idea; I’m not a curious person. Actually – why didn’t that guy die on that 1999 movie Cruel Intentions? He got hit by a car and was mildly scarred. Ha! What’s the last thing you think about at night? “Why am I still awake? I’m going to regret this in a few hours.” Favourite local artists? Motez, Bad//Dreems are sick, and Allday (he used to live here). Personal manifesto? “Things happen for a reason and mine will occur because I have worked for them”?
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Fictional character you can best relate to? Batman. We both have a very strict “No killing people” policy. Unlikely situation you’ve found yourself in? Korean Demilitarized Zone. On the North Korean side of the border … What’s the greatest mystery? Kayne West. What’s your audience pet peeve? Creepy guys trying to pick up on the dancefloor. Nothing will clear a dancefloor faster than one or two of those guys. Hey, douchebags: girls don’t like having your crotch rubbed up against their back. Stop doing it. Obscure claim to fame? I once spoiled a BJ for Dizzee Rascal. Yep. It’s a good story if you see me out, ask me about it. Song that makes you smile? Please, please do me and yourself a favour and look up Chacarron Macarron by El Chombo. It’s the silliest song in the world and if it doesn’t have you in fits of laughter, you’re broken inside. Current fad you’re loathing? People saying the word “hashtag” while talking.
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Unlikely situation you’ve found yourself in? Singing Jimi Hendrix’s Red House with Kingswood. What literary work would you love to turn into a musical work? Anything by Sylvia Plath. Song you wish you’d written? River – Joni Mitchell. Earliest musical memory? Listening to Led Zeppelin on my parents’ old stereo at three. Best show as an audience member? Tori Amos or Mutemath. Song that makes you smile? That’s The Way – Led Zeppelin. Song that makes you cry? Breath Me – Sia. Favourite local artists? Angels Of Gung Ho, Encarta, Seventeen Fifty Seven Personal manifesto? Be authentic! Live passionately. Current fad you’re loathing? Tinder – it takes all the authenticity and risk out of connecting with someone.
Dead End Friends
Song you wish you’d written? Enter The Ninja by Die Antwoord. Earliest musical memory? Jamming acoustic Neil Young tunes. Best show as an audience member? We saw Violent Soho at Rocket Bar a bit over a year ago. Was a sold out show with the best vibes and a mental crowd. What’s your pre-gig ritual? Listening to Trash Talk and drinking a beer or two. Song that makes you smile? Any Sigur RÓs song. Song that makes you cry? Any Kanye West song. Favourite local artists? Horror My Friend and Bad//Dreems are two local bands producing some rad tunes. Something you’ll be avoiding during Festival season? Getting super drunk and missing the one band that you actually wanted to see on the day. What was the last thing you posted on Instagram? A photo of a gig flyer for the show we’re playing with The Getaway Plan. Current fad you’re loathing? Without a doubt, Flappy Bird.
Sonic Divide Sonic Divide (Independent)
AAAA Sonic Divide clearly like their music to have atmosphere. A very well-produced and -mixed independent release is not something one happens upon often, which is the main reason this diamond-in-the-rough stands on its own.
Too many bands fall victim to creating a debut where every track is structured similarly, but Sonic Divide manage to avoid this. It could be argued that most songs on the release are too similarly paced, but that would be such a petty argument. Too Much is the clear stand-out track, mixing Deep Purple with Dream Theatre and throwing in originality, in turn creating a very, very good song. Stepping Stone is another which blends ‘70s heavy rock with a more modern progressive metal sound and completely pulls it off. An undoubtedly talented outfit, there are only very rare minor moments of overstructuring a certain passage in a piece. Horizon is a solid power ballad and competent closing track, which leaves the listener satisfied, having been taken on an uplifting journey that could restore their faith in their local music scene. This is a highly recommended piece to add to any collection, simply because something with this quality does not pop up very often. Nick Grimm
New Venue: Pirie & Co. Social Club On Sat Mar 22, new venue Pirie & Co. Social Club will open its doors, singing in its first night in the company of Elizabeth Rose. A ‘speakeasy’ by day and a tapas bar by night, Pirie & Co. Social Club aims to be a hotspot for good drinks, good music and good fun, with acts organised by 5/4 Entertainment – the promotion crew behind Transmission, Plus One and Adelaide’s Laneway leg. Dates are already rolling in, with The Holidays booked for Fri Mar 28 as well. The opening night party will form part of Elizabeth Rose’s EP tour, and she’ll be supported by Fishing and Canberra’s rising stars Safia. Tickets for opening night are available through Moshtix. What: Pirie & Co. Social Club Where: 121 Pirie St When: Sat Mar 22