Rip It Up / Mar 13 - Mar 19

FREE

Inside: The Smith Street Band / Papa Vs Pretty / Zoey Deutch ISSUE 1281 / MARCH 13 - 19 2014 / RIPITUP.COM.AU

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE

This Issue// Welcome//

The Mixtape//

Office Jukebox

As Fringe and Adelaide Festival bids farewell this Sunday, Mad March draws to a close. As the lives of Adelaideans returns to its normal state, we are thankful that there is still an overwhelming onslaught of acts headed to our city. In fact, two of the biggest names in rock music are rolling in on Thu Mar 13, Queens Of The Stone Age and Nine Inch Nails. Queens’ drummer Jon Theodore promises it’ll be a big show and gave us some insight on how he’s been preparing – or lack thereof (p10).

We also spoke with two Australian acts who are about to set upon us, The Smith Street Band, who spoke with us on getting past some ugliness last year (p11) and Papa Vs Pretty, who said how excited – and passionate – they are about White Deer Park, and what their songs represent in a climate of apathy (p12).

This week we will also be graced by Californian electronic artist Baths, Aussie hip hop newcomer Kerser (both p13), Aussie rock veterans The Angels and metal outfit Prepared Like A Bride (both p14), showing that whatever you’re into, there’s something to help quell your post-Fringe blues.

However, speaking of Fringe, there are still a whole heap of shows left at the Fringe and Adelaide Festival, with fresh reviews going up daily. You don’t want your last memories of the festival season to be dull ones, so make sure you make informed choices and read our reviews at ripitup.com.au before taking the plunge.

Rip It Up’s random weekly compilation.

Jimmy Byzantine

At Killing It W S SX

Black Lips – Underneath The Rainbow (Vice/Warner)

ntine

by Jimmy Byza

“The general state of things at the moment is not terrific.”

Ilona Wallace

Phantogram – Voices (Universal)

Online//

Lachlan Aird

Pretty Papa Vs

Real Estate – Atlas (Domino/ EMI)

Lachlan Aird

Jungle – Busy Earnin’ Speedy Ortiz – American Horror Jess Williamson – Blood Song The Creases – I Won’t Wait Asgeir – Torrent The Falls – Into The Fire DZ Deathrays – Gina Works At Hearts Prides – Out Of The Blue September Girls – Heartbeats Wolf Alice – Blush Kelis – Milkshake Future Islands – Seasons

Page p12

The festivals are winding down, the weather’s turning grey – why not stay inside all the time?

We can keep you entertained online, with music and culture news, and even a few final reviews of all the things you couldn’t quite get around to seeing during Mad March. Rest assured there’ll be more happening in no time!

Until then, snuggle up and bunker down with Gen Y’s best mate, the internet.

Head to ripitup.com.au for full articles, reviews and more.

THE HOTEL

246 Rundle St, City • 8223 2623 thurs 13

Ultrasound Track

fri 14

The Aves

sat 15

METROPOLITAN 46 GROTE ST ADELAIDE | OPPOSITE THE CENTRAL MARKETS | 8231 5471

Young offenders, Madworld and The Pits

sun 16

Dear Pilgrim

mon 17

Todd Sibbin Retrospective

tue 18

Dj's J and Nath

wed 19

Dj Curtis

Happy Hour every Tue & Thu 9:30-10:30pm Check out the Exeter’s famous Curry Night on the balcony every Wed & Thu! The Exeter Balcony is available to hire for private parties, launches and more!

AND

CROWN

ANCHOR

saT 15aliThia (melB),

PrioriTy orange and mism Then dj azz

sun 16sunday ruBdown Thu 13

Band room- PuriTan, The raging monkey's and TomBsTone hunTers CluB FronT Bar- dj anTFaCe

Fri 14sTeFan hauk Band,

Traveller and ForTune and jon marCo (honeyPies)

2

HOTEL METRO.COM.AU

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

mon 17Fringe aCTs Tue 18dj's sTevie and dunCan wed 19geek! wiTh dj TriP

THURSDAY 13TH MARCH BEN DAVID, TIGER CAN SMILE, IF I WERE A BOY + JASSA FROM 9PM

TUESDAY 18TH MARCH ACOUSTIC CLUB FROM 8PM

FRIDAY 14TH MARCH KELUAR (BERLIN), BOTOX + EFFICENCY AND AMCAT DJ’S FROM 9PM

WEDNESDAY 19TH MARCH BIRDHEAD, BARELY THERE + JASON MANNIX FROM 9PM

SATURDAY 15TH MARCH TED DANSON WITH WOLVES, NEBRASKA, MILLIMETER, AND SPARKSPITTER FROM 9PM

COMING SOON 22/3 HOME FOR THE DEF (BIG BAND) 28/3 IDLE MINDS 4/4 MAGIC AMERICA

SUNDAY 16TH MARCH TOM REDWOOD AND NAOMI CAIN, SASHA AND THE DAWNHORSE + AP DE ANTONIO FROM 3PM LUNCH & DINNER 7 DAYS A WEEK COOPERS ON TAP

RIP IT UP Editoral Co-ordinator Lachlan Aird lachlanaird@ripitup.com.au

Win//

Digital Manager Jess Bayly jessbayly@ripitup.com.au

ripitup.com.au

Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil”. After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trail in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one had ever heard before. Her work instantly provokes a scandal, and Arendt stands strong as she is attacked by friends and foes alike. But as the German-Jewish émigré struggles to suppress her own painful associations with the past, the film exposes her beguiling blend of arrogance and vulnerability – revealing a soul defined and derailed by exile. Hannah Arendt provides an insight into the profound importance of her ideas, but even more moving is the chance to understand the warm heart and icy brilliance of this complex and deeply compelling woman. We’ve got 10 double in season passes available to Hannah Arendt so log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Thu Mar 20.

The Audreys Til My Tears Roll Away sees The Audreys once again join forces with producer Shane O’Mara, who has worked on each of the band’s previous ARIA Award-winning albums; Between Last Night And Us (2006), When The Flood Comes (2008) and Sometimes The Stars (2010). With front-woman Taasha Coates on vocals and keys, Tristan Goodall on guitars and their regular band filling out the line-up, Til My Tears Roll Away is earthier and grittier than the band’s previous releases, covering themes of heartbreak and hope without wandering too far from the gutter. We’ve got two copies of Til My Tears Roll Away up for grabs so log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Thu Mar 20.

Staff Writers Jimmy Bollard jimmybollard@ripitup.com.au Ilona Wallace ilonawallace@ripitup.com.au Art Director Sabas Renteria sabas@ripitup.com.au Graphic Designer Jessie Spiby jessiespiby@ripitup.com.au Contributors Mad Dog Robert Dunstan Ryan Lynch Luke Balzan Rob Lyon Michael Wickham Catherine Blanch Sharni Honor Peter Lanyon Owen Heitmann Melissa Keogh Kat McCarthy Cyclone Texjah

Photographers Andreas Heuer Andre Castellucci Kristy DeLaine Jennifer Sando Advertising Phone 7129 1030 Acting Advertising Manager Nerida Foord neridafoord@ripitup.com.au Advertising Executives Belinda Lee belindalee@ripitup.com.au Oliver Raggatt oliverraggatt@ripitup.com.au Administration / Accounts / Subscriptions 7129 1030 Kate Mickan admin@ripitup.com.au Managing Director Manuel Ortigosa

wheatsheaf ukulele collective: it’s not me, it’s uke! sold out!

Distribution Passing Out Distribution Company

SO O

Printing Bridge Printing Office

Deadlines Editorial: News, Gig Guide, Local - Thursday 5pm prior to publication date. Display Advertising: Bookings - Wednesday 5pm prior to publication date. Artwork (Colour & Mono) - Thursday 5pm prior to publication date.

MAR 28TH

LOON LAKE

• Opinions published in Rip It Up Magazine are not necessarily those of the contributing writers or publisher. No responsibility is taken for the contents of illustrations or advertisements. © COPYRIGHT 1989 Rip It Up Magazine • All Rights Reserved • All material published in Rip It Up is subject to copyright.

• No part may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher.

• Please note that all prizes will only be kept one month after winners have been notified.

Level 8, 33 Franklin St, Adelaide SA 5000 P// 08 7129 1030 F// 08 7129 1058 Published By Rip It Up Publishing Pty Ltd ACN. 101 152 336.

LIVE MUSIC EVERY THURS & FRIDAY ARVO

CASTLE HOTEL

$10 JUGS & GREAT COCKTAIL JUG SPECIALS...

FOOD SERVED ALL DAY!

ESTABLISHED 1837

APRIL 4TH

233 CURRIE ST ADELAIDE

wheatsheaf ukulele collective: it’s not me, it’s uke! sold out! wheatsheaf ukulele collective: it’s not me, it’s uke! sold out! little black crow 4PM/$18/16 lazy eye

SMITH ST BAND

General Manager Luke Stegemann luke@ripitup.com.au

EDINBURGH thur 13 MAr fri 14 MAr sAt 15 MAr sun 16 MAr fri 21 MAr sAt 22 MAr sun 23 MAr

MAR 22ND

9PM/ $10

charles jenkins album launch 9PM/free the nymphs album launch + the bearded gypsy band 4PM/$8 + b.f thru oztix

fri 28 MAr indian red 9PM/free sAt 29 MAr sweet baby james & rob eyers 9PM/ free sun 30 MAr zephyr quartet 4PM/ free

all tix from frinGetix bookinG fee included: adelaidefrinGe.com.au or 1300 621 255 t: 08 8443 4546. 39 GeorGe Street, thebarton Sa 5031. wheatSheafhotel.com.au get the wheaty app for iphone and android

ADELAIDE’S FIRST LICENSED HOTEL

monday

ART VS SCIENCE

NIGHT FOR THE LONELY SOUL VARIETY NIGHT

tuesday

MR SINGH CURRY NIGHT & RUN DI PLACE DJS

wednesday

SCRABBLE NIGHT & PILOT DJS

thursday

DRINK SPECIALS & DJ MODS

friday & saturday

DRINK SPECIALS LIVE MUSIC BEER GARDEN DJS WOOD OVEN PIZZA 6PM-MID

APRIL 5TH KYLESA

sunday

COME DOWN SUNDAY FOOD, DRINKS, DJS & WOOD OVEN PIZZA ALL DAY

SPONSORED BY

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

3

This Week //

Your fast guide to this week’s best entertainment

Kate Miller-Heidke

Neil Finn

Baths

This spritely songbird will be bringing songs from her fourth opera-pop album, O Vertigo!, to the Garden Of Unearthly Delights on Fri Mar 14 and Sat Mar 15.

Old mate Neil Finn is back in town as part of his Dizzy Heights tour. The veteran singersongwriter will play Thebarton Theatre on Sat Mar 15.

Baths is finally on his way! Hitting Rocket Bar this Sun Mar 16, Los Angeles-area producer Will Wiesenfeld (Geotic, [PostFoetus]) will arrive with a whole new album, Obsidian, to play with.

Speeding along this week...

ZORN IN OZ See the legendary composer perform Zorn@60, a celebration for his 60th birthday celebration, with a whole swag of guests, including Mike Patton on Fri Mar 14.

KUSTOM KULTURE There's a whole load of entertainment on offer at The Highway from Fri Mar 14 to Sun Mar 16 for the Kustom Kulture Weekender, including the USA's Deke Dickerson.

Illy

Alan Davies

Catch Illy on his own before he headlines triple j's One Night Stand later this year. The Australian rapper will perform tracks from his successful 2013 release, Cinematic, at The Gov on Thu Mar 20. Jackie Onassis and Remi supporting.

Alan Davies will bring his Little Victories to Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Wed Mar 19 having escaped from his QI co-stars and Jonathan Creek legacy. Perfoming for one night only.

ASH GRUNWALD Head along to the Ramsgate Hotel on Thu Mar 20 to catch Ash Grunwald, stripping things back and performing as a one-man band.

Fringe & Adelaide Festival Sun Mar 16 is the last day to get your festival fix. Take a gamble on a show you've never heard of, or hit a venue you've been meaning to see. Until next year!

ELIZABETH ROSE + SAFIA + FISHING PIRIE & CO. OPENING NIGHT PARTY SATURDAY MARCH 22

The Holidays + The Cairos

SATURDAY

FRIDAY MARCH 28

MARCH 29

JIM BLAH

SATURDAY

APRIL 5

THE

MESSRS +GUESTS FRIDAY

Adelaide’s Best

APRIL 11

VELOCIRAPTOR +BAD//DREEMS SATURDAY APRIL 12

TROUBLE WITH

TEMPLETON SATURDAY

APRIL 19

New Live Venue Is At

121 Pirie St

Citizen Kay & Tkay Maidza SATURDAY

MAY 17

4

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

THURSDAY

MAY 22

+Jackie Onassis SATURDAY MAY 31

News//

Headline //

More news at ripitup.com.au.

BLISS N ESO have just added an Adelaide show to their colossal Circus Under the Stars tour. The tour, which also features Seth Sentry, Horrorshow and Ceekay Jones, will take place on an outdoor stage at Tampawardli Park on Sat Mar 24. Tickets go on sale through Moshtix on Mon Mar 17.

If you’re a local, unsigned band and would like to hit the stage ahead of Bliss N Eso, head to blissneso.com/local-support-act-comp to apply to be the support act. Competition entries close Fri Mar 14.

MARCH 14

INFILTRAITOR (FINAL EVER SHOW) DEAD JOE, THE SKELETON CLUB, CASSIE O’GRADY

MARCH 15

Blues Brother

FUR BEACH, WOUNDED PIG, ANARKOKVLT, TESLA SECT (BAR 2) “HAIR METAL HEAVEN 5” (BAR 3)

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any bigger, Bluesfest have announced a few more artists to the join the already impressive line-up at Byron Bay’s Bluesfest 2014.

Brother singer MATT CORBY and rock legend Tim Rogers will join Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Doobie Brothers and Jack Johnson in what is shaping up to be a great Easter long weekend festival.

Other acts added to the bill are Foy Vance, Kim Churchill, Skunkhour, Saskwatch, Dubmarine, Watussi, Tijuana Cartel, Lime Cordiale and movement project Playing for Change. The 25th Super Anniversary Bluesfest will run from Thu Apr 17 – Mon Apr 21, 2014. Festival and camping tickets are on sale now through bluesfest.com.au.

MARCH 19

ABSU (USA) STARGAZER, TZUN TZU

MARCH 28

HINDSIGHT, BREAK THE WALL, CONCEPTS, OEDIPUS REX, BOMBORA

MARCH 29

Royal Visit

Brisbane’s DEAD LETTER CIRCUS will be playing a huge 19-date tour around the nation this winter, arriving in Adelaide on Sun Jun 1. The show at the Governor Hindmarsh is in support of their latest single, Insider, which comes from the band’s second album, The Catalyst Fire. As part of their regional schedule, DLC will also perform in Mt Gambier on Sat May 31. Tickets to all shows go on sale Mon Mar 17 from deadlettercircus.oztix.com.au.

8 FOOT SATIVA & FRANKENBOK

APRIL 5

DEAD JOE & FIVESTAR

APRIL 12

APRIL 17 HIGHTIME

APRIL 19

DIVA DEMOLITION & ARCANE SAINTS

MAY 14

POISON IDEA

MAY 24 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE and KATY PERRY have both announced second shows after their original Adelaide dates sold out.

JT will be bringing 20/20 back for a second appearance at Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Tue Sep 23, while Perry will double-dip at AEC on Wed Nov 12. Tickets for all shows are on sale through Ticketek.

Just days after wrapping up touring duties with Soundwave, Scottish rockers BIFFY CLYRO are already booking flights back here for a tour in September.

Perennially renowned as one of the biggest bands in the UK but nowhere else in the world, Biffy Clyro’s reputation in Australia appears to finally be on the rise. They sold out their two recent Sidewave shows in Sydney and Melbourne, and their 2013 album Opposites reached its highest ARIA chart position (No. 22), which still pales in comparison to its top spot in the UK.

APRIL 4

WENDY ICON

Kiwi wunderkind LORDE has announced a six-date all ages tour of Australia, promising “a killer light show and a few surprises along the way”.

The news is especially welcome to her Adelaide fans, who were left disappointed by Lorde’s withdrawal from the recent UniSA Gear Up mini-festival.

2014 has already been a massive year for the 17-year-old starlet, whose song Royals came in at No. 2 in triple j’s Hottest 100 and also claimed the Grammy Award for Song Of The Year.

Lorde recently toured the country as part of the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, but has since revamped her live show, which debuted in the US last week. This all-new stage show will be on tour in Australia throughout April and May, stopping by the AEC Theatre on Sun Apr 27. Pre-sale tickets: 1:30pm SA time, Thu Mar 13 via Frontier Touring. General sale tickets: 9am, Fri Mar 21 via Ticketek.

Biffy The Vampire Slayer

JERICCO, DEAD IN A SECOND, SKY HAMMER, BLACKWATER

TIN ALLEY

MAY 29

HARD-ONS (25TH ANNIVERSARY)

MAY 30

KEVIN MARK TRAIL COME AND WATCH YOUR FAVOURITE SPORTING TEAMS ON FOXTEL NOW AT ENIGMA BAR (Downstairs)

www.enigmabar.com.au RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

5

Interviews//

Find more interviews online at ripitup.com.au

Of s n e e Qu Age e n o t The S n Aird

by Lachla

They Have A Tale The newest member of Queens Of The Stone Age, Jon Theodore, speaks animatedly with Rip It Up about being part of the band. Theodore replaced Joey Castillo on the drums in 2013, who bowed out due to heavy touring commitments a year earlier. Being the new guy doesn’t worry Theodore. In fact, he thrives off it, vouching that the double headlining tour with Nine Inch Nails will be one of the best experiences for any rock fan.

F

unnily enough, taking the call straight after a soundcheck that ran overtime, Theodore is stumped when asked how he’s been preparing for the tour.

“I don’t know if you can really prepare for that sort of awesomeness?” Theodore jokes.

“We did have the Grammys show with the Nails, so that was a good precursor and bodes really well for the future because we got along great. Playing together was really fun and it’s an inspiration sharing the stage with those guys because they’re incredibly talented and make great music.”

For the Grammys performance that Queens performed with NIN, Theodore was happy to hand over his drumsticks to past drummer and frequent Queens collaborator over the last decade, Dave Grohl.

“Dave played on the record [2013’s …Like Clockwork]. It’s his tune that was up for the Grammy. I joined the band basically after the record was done; so I was overjoyed to be included in it, in any way. Fortunately we played a song with percussion, so I was rippin’. Dave is such a dick that he came up and he actually roofied me….”

Um, what?

“I’m just kidding, man! I’m just kidding!

It was awesome having Dave along because he is a kickass drummer and an awesome dude. And having Lindsey Buckingham [of Fleetwood Mac] shredding the guitar

6

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

was amazing. It was an awesome thing to be a part of, and it’s more-the-merrier in a situation like that.”

While some may be intimidated by having to carry on drumming duties after Grohl’s brief return to the band, in addition to the fact Grohl was crowned by SPIN Magazine as the Best Alternative Drummer Of All Time last year, Theodore is not feeling the pressure.

“It wasn’t intimidating at all,” he affirms.

“It was an honour to be asked to join the ranks. Dave is just one in a long line of awesome musicians who has been a part of this band over the last 20 or so years since it started. It was great to be called to the plate and presented with the challenge to learn all those different styles and songs. It wasn’t intimidating; it was joyful. For me, it opens up new possibilities that I wouldn’t be open to otherwise. I’m learning how to do things as I play them; it makes me a better player and person altogether.”

Theodore is a well-respected and experienced drummer, who in the past has been a part of several bands, including HIM, Golden and The Mars Volta. Having clashed with egos, infamously being “permanently replaced” by The Mars Volta in 2006, he is extremely happy to be at Queens Of The Stone Age, citing that the band is made up of “five individuals”.

“It wasn’t like I had to get extra tattoos

and dye my hair and put on a suit. I was invited to be myself and I have to honour the past, but that’s only one piece of the puzzle. I didn’t have the chance to talk to Dave [Grohl] before joining, but I feel like he would have just said, ‘Hey, let’s go shotgun some beers’.”

With an ever-changing line-up throughout their history, Theodore is not averse to thinking of Queens Of The Stone Age as a band of brothers, with frontman Josh Homme “definitely” the captain.

“It’s like Monkey Island in here! We all love each other. We’re just a collection of folks and there’s an openness. We’re all here for the same thing – and that assumption is that we’re here to make this thing as great as we can possibly make it. If there’s someone or something standing in the way of that happening, you just say something. There’s no punches pulled. In a way it’s the most functional family atmosphere I’ve ever been a part of.”

With the inclusion of Trent Reznor-led Nine Inch Nails, the family is expanding, although, unlike most siblings, the sense of competition should remain friendly.

“It will also help us to elevate our game a little bit because they’re putting on a power display so we’re going to have to put our best foot forward,” he says of his coheadliners. “We’re all just focused on doing our thing and enjoying the fact that we’re able to organise this and do it together. It’s an awesome opportunity because normally it would take a festival to do that. When you tour as much as we do, we can’t always bring other bands with us like we used to, so we’re stuck alone out there with one or two other friends. Now we get to have a whole other group of friends – Brody Dalle [of The Distillers and Josh Homme’s wife] will be there too – so it’ll be an awesome time with a whole lot of awesome people around.”

Tossers When asked whether he’s been working on a tactic for the proposed coin toss that will determine whether Queens Of The Stone Age or Nine Inch Nails will play first, Jon Theodore proposed a different approach.

“There’s no coin toss, it’s like Australian Rules when they guy throws the ball over his head… I’m going to climb on Josh [Homme’s] back and throw elbows and knock Ilan [Rubin, NIN’s drummer] over, whoever gets the ball first gets to play. I’ve got my shorts lined up and everything.”

While Queens and NIN have shared festivals line-ups, they haven’t been on tour together previous to this Australian tour.

For Theodore, this will be his first chance to properly bond with the Nails.

“I only really knew of them [NIN] from afar until we started rehearsing for that Grammys gig. I was really overjoyed to get deeper and to know them. They’re such an awe-inspiring band and they’re all inspirational players and people that I trust implicitly already that I’m happy to learn from and stand together with. This Australian tour is going to help us create these memories.”

Sounds like a riot.

“Brody and the Nails and us? It’s gonna be so fun, man.”

WHO: Queens Of The Stone Age WHAT: ...Like Clockwork (Remote Control) WHERE: Adelaide Entertainment Centre (with Nine Inch Nails & Brody Dalle) WHEN: Thu Mar 13

Interviews //

PunchDrunk Love 2013 was characterised by a series of misadventures for The Smith Street Band. In August, singer Wil Wagner’s amp was stolen from Melbourne’s Old Bar, resulting in the notorious ‘ampgate’ saga, which at one point was the highest trending news item on Twitter. Several months earlier the band were rocked by a far more serious incident in which Jules Rozenbergs of The Bennies, who were supporting The Smith Street Band on their Young Drunk Tour, was stabbed at their show in Byron Bay.

H

aving stayed out of the headlines for the past six months, drummer Chris Cowburn reflects on the bizarre events of last year.

“Yeah there were a few weird things that happened last year. I don’t really care too much about them either way. The ‘ampgate’ thing, that happened because it actually happened.

There were a few people that said it was a PR stunt, which is total bullshit; it couldn’t be further from the truth. I guess people in the media can do what they want and make what they want of it. It doesn’t really faze me too much.

“The other incident we’re talking about was a lot more of a serious event and I definitely learned a lot more from that one about myself and our group of friends and how close we are. If you follow us on Twitter or Facebook, or know us personally, you’d know that us and The Bennies are pretty sarcastic dudes and we take the piss out of each other all the time. So for us to really show our true colours and look at the other dudes and go, ‘You’re one of my best mates and we’re here to look after each other and create an inclusive music community that doesn’t have this violent, negative bullshit’, that was probably what you learn the most.”

The past six months may have been quiet for The Smith Street Band, but that doesn’t mean they were uneventful. Following the

h The Smit nd Street Ba antine

by Jimmy Byz

release of their Don’t Fuck With Our Dreams EP – inspired by the positive and negative experiences of the Young Drunk Tour – the Melbourne four-piece embarked on tours of Europe and the US, the latter of which they supported Frank Turner to crowds of thousands. Upon returning home, The Smith Street Band lit up stages at Meredith and Falls, before heading back into the studio to begin demoing their third album. “[The new album] is going really good,” Cowburn divulges.

“It’s early-ish days. We’re just working as hard as we can to do demos and write songs and put them all together. I think we’ve got about 12 finished at the moment, with the aim of having about 20 that we’ll then cut down. Musically and sonically it’s getting a bit heavier and a bit weirder. Fitzy ( James Fitzgerald), who’s the bass player, only joined just before Sunshine And Technology came out. He’s probably the most musically creative dude in the band and he’s putting his stamp on a lot of the music now. There are some weirder tones and weirder sounds.”

Lyrically, the album draws from The Smith Street Band’s experiences overseas, as Cowburn elaborates: “At least a couple of the songs that Wil has written are about being overseas and

the places that he’s singing about are London and New York.

One in particular that I’m talking about is about missing North Melbourne. So in some ways there’s more of a worldly aspect to it and a more worldly viewpoint, but Australia’s always going to be our home and I think it’s always going to have that vibe to it.”

Before that album’s release, however, The Smith Street Band are set to depart on their third Australian tour in 12 months before returning to Europe in April, giving yet another indication of their insatiable work ethic.

“Yeah we don’t really stop,” Cowburn says nonchalantly. “If we’re not around Australia that generally means we’re overseas somewhere, which is a cool way to be. I’m really enjoying it” 2014 looks set to be a massive year for The Smith Street Band. And this time for all the right reasons.

WHO: The Smith Street Band, The Menzingers & Grim Fandango WHERE: UniBar WHEN: Sat Mar 22

First Aid • Managing Small Business Finances • Stone Therapy Massage • Yellow Card • Japanese Visual Merchandising • Wheel Loader Operations • Millinery • Etiquette • Excel • Chemical Card Photography • Mandarin • Loader Operations • Vietnamese Waxing • Graphic Design • Ar Screen Printing • Spanish • Journalism • Creative Writing • Writing Stories for Children & Young Adults Nail Art • German • SketchUp Pro • White Card • One Day Cheese Making Workshop • French • MY Visual Merchandising • Working at Heights • Pattern Making • Sewing • Biography Writing • Re Photoshop • French • MYOB • Manicures & Pedicures • AutoCAD • Photography • Mandarin • Lo Bartending • 3D Drawing • Risk Assessment • CISCO • Indonesian • Haz dous Substances Training • Wr Graphic Design • Dreamweaver • Marketin g for Small Business • Liquor Licensing Yellow Card • Bookkeeping • Jewellery Making • Degree Holders • Vietnamese • Italian • Body Massage • Painting • Using a DSLR Camera • Cheese Making • Firearms Safety • MYOB • 3D Drawing • Fantasy Writing • Visual Merchandising • Forklift license • Painting for Real • Jewellery Making • Technical Writing Painting • Editing Techniques • Art of Espresso • Group Exercise Instructing • Hand Drawing • Di Property Investment • Hand Drawing • Jewellery Making • Painting • Graphic Design • MYOB • In Photography • Mandarin • Loader Operations • Vietnamese Waxing • Arranging Flowers • Italian • Bod Screen Printing • Spanish • Journalism • Creative Writing • Writing Stories for Children & Young Adults First Aid • Managing Small Business Finances • Stone therapy massage • Yellow Card • Japanese Bookkeeping • Jewellery Making • Degree Holders • Vietnamese • Italian • Body Massage • Mas Visual Merchandising • Working at Heights • Pattern Making • Sewing • Biography Writing • Res Bartending • 3D Drawing • Risk Assessment • CISCO • Indonesian • Hazardous Substances Training • Writ First Aid • Managing Small Business Finances • Stone therapy massage • Yellow Card • Japanese

Over 300 short courses. Apply now. www.tafesa.edu.au/shortcourses

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

7

Interviews// Parks & (Re)Creation When Papa Vs Pretty’s Thomas Rawle catches up with Rip It Up, their sophomore album, White Deer Park, is just days away from release. Rawle passionately shares with us some of the motivations behind the music, both political and personal.

R

awle relates that the imminent release of the album – and the uncertainty to how it will be received – is just like “going on a big boat journey”.

“You’ve seen the boat, you recognise the you like the boat and you’re definitely proud that you get to go on the boat, but you don’t know where the boat’s going,” he explains.

“And you don’t know what the weather conditions are going to be like, so it’s nerve-racking, but at the same time it has got a spirit of adventure where I don’t know what’s going to happen.”

This metaphor is surprisingly apt for White Deer Park, an album that, like their acclaimed debut, 2011’s Under In Isolation, is layered in heavy imagery and deep meaning. The pressure to produce an album to surpass Under In Isolation’s success doesn’t particularly overwhelm Rawle, instead affirming that making the second album was a joy, as he was able to continue his musical journey and become a better songwriter.

“The only reason I make music is to eloquently summarise ideas lyrically that I can’t grapple with myself. It’s a way of analysing and deconstructing issues that I feel are important.”

A prime example of this is the choice that Papa Vs Pretty recently made to align White Deer Park track To Do with the plight of the Great Barrier Reef. The explanation on the band’s Facebook explained that they are “not usually a political band”, but chose to use the song as an opposition to the decision to allow further dredging to the site, which

the band is associated with as bassist Gus Gardiner’s girlfriend works on the reef as a marine biologist. To Do is an appropriate song for a political cause, particularly with the chorus’ lyrics ‘If you want to know the situation, when something dies it can never ever come back’ striking a poignant, desolate image.

“It was more just a statement of ethics and making a philosophical point of making people care again,” Rawle says of the music video, although he prefers to describe it as a more ‘cultural’ statement, rather than a political one. “It almost seems uncool these days to be passionate. Passion seems to be a very rare thing. There seems to be a blanket of apathy; and I know people feel the same way.”

Rawle took inspiration to speak up about causes he felt passionate about after UK female post-punk group Savages’ debut Silence Yourself, who used a monologue from the John Cassavetes film Opening Night to make a cultural statement on identity and an individual’s place in society on the opening track Shut Up. “I remember when I heard that I was like, ‘Fuck!

Someone said it!’ Why aren’t more people saying this?”

Rawles says. “I like when people are vocal about things; I find it more exciting. I don’t know whether it’s wrong or right, but it’s definitely more interesting.

“I don’t think you can say that politics is a direction that you take,” Rawles says on whether the band will continue to use their music to put forth a certain political opinion, although he offers that, “the general state of things at the moment is not terrific”.

“I think anyone with a social or morale conscience will speak about that stuff regardless whether they think that will impact on them in any cool or uncool or popular or unpopular way. You just speak your mind on how you feel.

I think a lot of people are scared of opening their mouths for the risk of losing an audience or the risk of appearing uncool – they’re not really risks, you know? You just need to say how you feel.”

Perhaps the greatest risk that Rawle has taken musically is to continue to try and push the limits of commercial rock music with White Deer Park, which at times could be too cinematic and grandiose to secure radio play. While

O T W O H

E T VO R D A Y U T A S ON H ote C R A M 15 rday 15 March yobuorthv On Satu candidates to t. ct rliamen a will ele P e t a t of S Houses

VOTING MADE EASY Remember to take your EasyVote Card with you when you vote. You can vote without it, but it may take longer.

SMS ELECTION DAY REMINDER Sign up on our website for a free reminder to vote on election day.

VOTING IS COMPULSORY

facebook.com/SAelections Authorised by K. Mousley, Electoral Commissioner

8

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

a feature album on triple j in February will have dispelled these fears, Rawle offers that while triple j have been such firm supporters of the band with Under In Isolation, appealing to them was not the aim with White Deer Park.

“I think that’s ridiculous. You make music to make music. In the day and age that we’re in there are so many things that need to be explored and said lyrically in a way that people can understand and to make people feel part of the real world. Everyone’s engrossed in an inward narcissistic haze… it seems like everyone is just sitting down looking in the mirror all day. If you’re spending that much time thinking of how to do things to do something then what are you? You’re just a jigsaw piece. Fuck that!”

WHO: Papa Vs Pretty WHAT: White Deer Park (EMI) WHERE: Governor Hindmarsh (with Ball Park Music) WHEN: Fri May 2

When you vote you will be given two ballot papers.

A green paper for the House of Assembly and a white paper for the Legislative Council.

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY

2 3 1

On the green House of Assembly ballot paper, to make your vote count, you must number every square with consecutive numbers in order of your choice.

Do not leave any box empty.

5 4

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL On the white ballot paper you have a choice of two ways to vote: 1

OR VOTE BELOW THE RED LINE Number every square in order of your choice.

Start with number ‘1’ and continue until all squares are numbered. Do not mark above the red line.

11

13

6 10 4

8 17 7 15 18

3 12 5

1 2

19 14

By voting below the red line you decide the order of your preferences.

If you choose to vote below the red line, a practice Legislative Council ballot paper is available on our website for you to print and use.

IF YOU MAKE A MISTAKE ON ANY BALLOT PAPER ASK AN ELECTORAL OFFICIAL FOR HELP.

ECS0062F

For more information ecsa.sa.gov.au 1300 655 232

rd

by Lachlan Ai

Place a ‘1’ only in one of the squares for the party or group of your choice. Do not mark below the red line.

Polling Places will be open on election day between 8am and 6pm.

To see a full list of polling places visit our website where you can use our Polling Place Finder, or see a full list in The Advertiser on Friday 14 March.

Papa Vs Pretty

EITHER VOTE ABOVE THE RED LINE

WHERE TO VOTE

By now you will have received your EasyVote Guide with useful voting information, including a list of polling places in your electorate. It also contains your EasyVote Card.

Find more interviews online at ripitup.com.au

Beats// Interviews

Post-chillwave maven Will Wiesenfeld, otherwise known as Baths, has a culterthan-cult following. But mostly his fans are nice, regular people. “I think that’s something I pride myself on,” Wiesenfeld laughs, travelling through Manila in The Philippines on an Asian tour.

However, the American did have one “peculiar” encounter on his inaugural Australian trek. “There was one show in Australia where somebody took a photo of me while I was sleeping, which is terrifying,” Wiesenfeld says, amused. “I woke up to a flash. It was somebody I had never seen before in my life – and he ran away! That’s the only time that it’s ever happened. That is not a normal thing.” Why he was napping at a gig is surely another story…

Wiesenfeld was meant to first visit Oz in 2011 but had to cancel due to a nasty bout of E. coli. He finally made it the next year. Now he’s returning. “I really liked it. I made some good friends in (feigning an Australian accent) ‘Melbin’ who I’ll be seeing again and all of that.

I went to the beaches. I hung out as much as I could. It was really pleasant. I had a really good time when I was there.”

Wiesenfeld is based in Chatsworth, Los Angeles the same area in which he grew up and begged his parents for piano lessons as a kid, progressing to other instruments. LA is not necessarily an inspiration on his music, he says. The youthful Wiesenfeld felt bored in the San Fernando Valley (“I kind of hated it!”), seeking an “escape” via “crazy” music. One of his favourite artists would be the Icelandic Björk an enduring influence, although today Wiesenfeld prefers her older albums. “I’m also very particular about the music that I like and don’t like.” He raves about the underground UK

Baths e

by Cyclon

outfit Emptyset. “They just make music unlike any other music I’ve ever heard before.”

The bedroom producer introduced his IDM [Post-foetus] project as a teen, followed by the ambient Geotic. It took Wiesenfeld a spell to develop his sound as the electro-pop Baths.

But in 2011 he issued Baths’ debut Cerulean on Anticon Records to wide acclaim. In 2014 he’s ambivalent about his older material in circulation, regarding it as all part of an experiment.

“There is so much music that I’ve made that I see as being just stepping-stones towards making greater stuff – not greater, but better material, [or] at least material that I’m happier with,” he ponders. “Basically, I left those songs behind a long time ago, so it’s always weird for

Kerser has emerged as an Australian hip hop outlaw, rapping about the harsh realities of Sydney’s outer west. But, with his latest album SCOT (Sickest Cunt Out There) going Top 5, plus a recent Big Day Out trek, he’s enjoying unprecedented mainstream attention – and growing respect. “I feel very misunderstood sometimes by the public,” Kerser rues.

Local hip hoppers are typically relaxed with the media, often arranging interviews around day jobs. However, Kerser’s camp lay down conditions – a first. The MC’s real name can’t be used for murky reasons, despite being published widely elsewhere and online (apparently that’s “incorrect”, anyway). Then the conversation must be centred on his current SCOT tour with DJ Victor Lopez.

Nonetheless, Kerser himself is a cool dude – smart, focussed and good-humoured.

The underdog, and supposed ‘Aussie Eminem’, realises that the BDO has been a career turning point: “I was aiming up to that spot for a long time now – to be taken seriously in the music industry and competing with other artists that are signed and on radio and TV.” He was invited to defend hip hop on Network Ten’s brekky chat show Studio 10.

Kerser, from Campbelltown, discovered hardcore rap in primary school – and it was Tupac Shakur who struck a chord. He honed his skills as a battle MC. Kerser became infamous virally on battling “pop rapper” 360. He aired mixtapes but, crucially, harnessed social media – notably YouTube. “I was releasing my music on the internet and my fans found me.” In 2011 Kerser dropped his debut, The Nebulizer, with beatmaker Nebs at the helm. Its follow-up, No Rest For The Sickest, charted without radio play. Last October, on the tail of a No. 1 live tour DVD, Kerser unleashed SCOT, his phenomenal third LP, again distributed by Obese Records. A song like Bible 4 My Enemies sounds like an (unintentionally) ironic homage to 2Pac. Yet Kerser has flair – and charisma.

Obese’s press material claims that No Rest… was the “Most Stolen Album From JB Hi-Fi”. “It was actually the first and second CD I released,” Kerser clarifies. “Both of

me to revisit them. But I guess I can understand people wanting to catch up with them.”

Wiesenfeld, a Pitchfork fave, yielded Obsidian, “a weirder second record”, a year ago. “I think it was the right move for me personally. It was like a record that I had started trying to make before Cerulean, but I don’t think it would have made sense to have that as a starting record. I think it would have been a little too obtuse.”

Obsidian was created with live reproduction in mind and Wiesenfeld has relished touring behind it with his Canadian bandmate Morgan Greenwood (ex-Azeda Booth). The duo are about to descend on Adelaide. Wiesenfeld touts theirs as a hybrid show with more than just laptops. “It’s a lotta electronics on stage,” he says. Wiesenfeld plays keys and sings, while

them are the most stolen objects from JB Hi-Fi in Australia – like, out of anything.”

Kerser invariably speaks of his struggles in breaking through – and of being shunned by radio. He attributes such resistance to his subject matter. “There was a bit of drug talk in there, there was partying, swearing…” Indeed, Kerser emanates from a different hip hop tradition than most of his Aussie peers – he isn’t about conscious rap but a more gangsta variant and this disconcerted scenesters. Regardless, he’s given a voice to an oft-neglected sector of Australian youth. “I was a street rapper and [industry types] were used to their rappers who rapped about barbecue gatherings and going to the beach or whatever.”

Still, Kerser does “appreciate” the newfound support he’s receiving. He feels vindicated, too. “I had many people on the way tell me it’s impossible, not gonna happen – that sound will never take off, you’ve gotta do what everyone else is doing…” And Kerser has incorporated that struggle, and outsider rebel status, into his mythology. Was it all a grand design? He says not. “When I came into rap with the young attitude, I had a bit of a ‘fuck the industry’ [attitude].

I was just an angry young kid because no one was paying attention.” Ultimately, the biz can no longer afford to ignore a game-changer.

Kerser is looking to the future. He plans to release another DVD mid-year – this one with live footage from BDO and his SCOT tour, but also more from “behind the scenes”. He’s starting his fourth album with Nebs. “We’re trying to do 10 albums in 10 years and see where it takes us.”

Kerser has even made peace with sometime rival 360 – albeit informally – after the Melbourne MC reignited their beef last year with a diss joint. Today Kerser maintains that their feud was “not personal”. “I’ve seen him at the BDO,” he says. “He actually came up – he was normal, he said ‘hello’ and that, asked me for a photo like a fan would, so I s’pose it’s all good!”

Greenwood plays guitar and sings. They often improvise.

In contrast to his contemporaries, Wiesenfeld has cut few remixes. The producer also rarely collaborates – though he did contribute to Ryan Hemsworth’s Guilt Trips. Nonetheless, Wiesenfeld is preparing to drop a new Baths EP, with one song previewed in the live set. It’s already mentioned in his Wikipedia entry by, yes, another eager fan. Wiesenfeld laughs, “I didn’t realise it’d got on the internet in that way!”

WHO: Baths WHAT: Obsidian (Anticon) WHERE: Rocket Bar WHEN: Sun Mar 16

r Kerse e

by Cyclon

WHO: Kerser WHAT: SCOT (Obese) WHERE: Flower's Live WHEN: Fri Mar 14 RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au

9

On Tour //

Check out The Guide at ripitup.com.au

Tour Guide/ Thu Mar 13

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 KATE MILLER-HEIDKE @ Garden Of Unearthly Delights

Sat Mar 15 KATE MILLER-HEIDKE @ Garden Of Unearthly Delights NEIL FINN @ Thebarton Theatre

Sun Mar 16 BATHS @ Rocket Bar

Tue Mar 18 MICHAEL JACKSON HISTORY II SHOW @Her Majesty’s Theatre

Wed Mar 19 ALAN DAVIES @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre JTR @ Governor Hindmarsh

Thu Mar 20 ILLY @ Governor Hindmarsh ASH GRUNWALD @ Ramsgate Hotel

Sat Apr 5 - Sun Apr 6

OZ COMICCON: BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, BILLIE PIPER, SHANNEN DOHERTY, AMANDA TAPPING & more @ Adelaide Showground

Sat Apr 5 ELEANOR McEVOY & ANGE TAKATS @ Barossa Regional Gallery, Tanunda

Sun Apr 6

ELEANOR McEVOY & ANGE TAKATS @ Singing Gallery, McLaren Vale

Tue Apr 8 KODALINE @ Governor Hindmarsh

Wed Apr 9 WHEN GIANTS SLEEP & EMECIA @ Crown & Anchor

Fri Apr 11 CALLING ALL CARS @ Fowler’s Live TWELVE FOOT NINJA @ Governor Hindmarsh FOR TODAY & PREPARED LIKE A BRIDE @ UniBar WHEN GIANTS SLEEP & EMECIA @ The Cavern Club THIEF @ Rocket Bar

Sat Apr 12

MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD @ Governor Hindmarsh

Thu Apr 17 KREATOR & DEATH Fri Mar 21 THE ANGELS @ Jive BOBBY KEYS @ Governor Hindmarsh

ANGEL @ HQ BAM BAM @ Edinburgh Castle

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 ROB SCOTT AND THE BIG SMOKE @ Governor Hindmarsh

SASKWATCH @ Blenheim Festival, Clare Valley

Sat Mar 22

Sun Mar 23

JURASSIC 5 @ Thebarton Theatre CASPIAN @ Crown & Anchor SUNNYBOYS @ Governor Hindmarsh

Tue Mar 25

AN EVENING WITH THE CAST OF ‘SONS OF ANARCHY’ @ HQ

Thu Mar 27 MICHAEL PAYNTER @ Jive

Fri Mar 28

THE HOLIDAYS @ Pirie And Co Social Club IWRESTLEDABEARONCE @ Fowler’s Live LOON LAKE @ UniBar I KNOW LEOPARD @ Rocket Bar STICKY FINGERS @ Governor Hindmarsh LA BASTARD & KITCHEN WITCH @ Exeter Hotel

Sat Mar 29

LA BASTARD, THE VILLENETTES & RICOCHET PETE @ Grace Emily Hotel

Sun Mar 30

THE SCIENTISTS @ Governor Hindmarsh

Thu Apr 3

JOHN BUTLER TRIO @ Thebarton Theatre LUCA BRASI @ Crown & Anchor Hotel FLAMENCURA @ Norwood Concert Hall

Fri Apr 4

CHANCE WATERS @ Rocket Bar

Fri Apr 18

Sun Apr 20

BORIS THE BLADE @ Fowler’s Live

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

Thu Apr 24 VANCE JOY @ Governor Hindmarsh

Fri Apr 25 GROOVIN THE MOO: DISCLOSURE, DIZZEE RASCAL, THE JEZABELS, KARNIVOOL, ROBERT DELONG @ Oakbank Racecourse THE ACACIA STRAIN @ Fowler’s Live

Sun Apr 27 LORDE @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre

Wed Apr 30

RUSSIAN CIRCLES @ Fowler’s Live

Thu May 1 STONEFIELD @ ` Governor Hindmarsh

Fri May 2 BALL PARK MUSIC, PAPA VS PRETTY & JESSE DAVIDSON @ Governor Hindmarsh

Sat May 3

BOOM CRASH OPERA @ Governor Hindmarsh OSCAR KEY SUNG @ Rocket Bar

Tue May 6

MICHAEL BUBLE @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

Wed May 7

ORIGIN & A MILLION DEAD BIRDS LAUGHING @ Fowler’s Live

For the complete Tour Guide including dates and venues please check out ripitup.com.au

10

RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au

red Prepa ride B Like A Grimm

by Nick

Aiming high will always be on any up-andcoming band's agenda, but for the Gold Coast quintet Prepared Like A Bride (a subtle Bible reference), there was never any other option. It was all or nothing.

After recording two EPs, the band’s first full length effort Overcomer was always meant to hit heights; and great heights it’s climbed. Debuting at No. 9 on the ARIA Australian Album Charts and No. 30 on the ARIA Charts, it was surely a nice surprise for the band who tours so much they “love being on the road, but will always miss being home with our families”.

Ryan Bowles tells Rip It Up that growing up together has aided the band through certain rough patches presented to them recently. A very genuine and thankful person, it seems these rough patches have consolidated Bowles’ gratitude of being able to perform the profession he desires. All attending a Lutheran school on the Gold Coast, the band grew up learning strong

moral values that they hold dear to this day.

While creating an album such as this, Bowles was in a darker place than most. With the unexpected passing of an extremely close loved one, his devotion to his art allowed him to honour his lost family member, but to also create something eternal which "he’d hopefully be very proud of". Ranging from 24 years old to a tender 16, the maturity of the band harnessed the energy and created an album that the band themselves are “really, really happy with".

“I might just wake up in the morning and it might just be a lower day,” Bowles reveals that the darker aspects of the album certainly draws from these experiences, but also from “lower points in the recording process too". Recorded in four weeks (compared to the nine days of relentless recording for their last EP), the Overcomer process allowed more freedom for the band to create the music that they wanted while becoming an even more tightknit group. A powerful collection of musical complexity and lyrical authority, this is one of the strongest debut metal releases Australia has seen these past few years.

Atmospheric tracks like 2am, Alone and the titular piece combines juggernaut riff-work, heartfelt poetry-esque lyrics and even some (dare I say) pop-influenced elements. Initially the band was “heavily against any clean singing... we wanted to be progressive all the way though”, but the band matured and adapted to become the confident outfit today.

Returning back to Adelaide after a long absence, Prepared Like A Bride are bringing their tour-de-force to the Underground. 'I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband' (Revelation 21: 1-2). A passage about the metaphorical end of the world, Prepared Like A Bride no doubt can relate to this passage and use its influence to be the destructive yet hopeful group they have become.

WHO: Prepared Like A Bride What: Overcomer (Faction/Sony) WHERE: The Underground, 9 Light Sq WHEN: Sat Mar 15

ngels The A yon

by Rob L

The Angels are playing two massive nights at Jive to support the release of their new album, Talk The Talk. The Angels are turning 40 and there’s still plenty of fire in the belly according to guitarist John Brewster.

The Angels have had a tumultuous career, with frequent line-up changes and periods of disbandment plaguing their career since 1974.

Brewster is content in the current line-up.

“It is a very interesting band now with what The Angels has evolved into. We’ve got two young guys on bass and drums who are just incredible. It’s sad we lost Chris Bailey last year [he died of throat cancer] but my son [Sam Brewster] has taken over and he’s playing just great and Nick Norton is an unbelievable drummer leaving Rick [Brewster, John’s brother] and I to do what we do. We have a fantastic time. I guess rock‘n’roll is like a sporting team — we seem like we’re all pulling together and then that’s what the seriously good stuff happens.

Dave has been writing quite a few lyrics and melodies for this album.”

Dave Gleeson of The Screaming Jets joined The Angels, who were childhood idols of his, in 2011 to record Talk The Talk.

Brewster assures fronting two bands isn’t as complicated for Gleeson as it looks.

“It’s really easy for him because we do the music for him. Rick and I come up with all the music and ask him to write to that music.

He is a fantastic lyricist, which is amazing because he didn’t write that many songs for The Screaming Jets — he’s got the magic.

That’s how things evolve and the album Talk The Talk is a result of us doing Take It To The Streets (2012). That was a great album but you wouldn’t call it a typical Angels album. Now with what the album has evolved to, Talk The Talk is a typical Angels album.”

It was a surprise to have such a quick follow-up to Take It To The Streets with Talk The Talk, considering the band had over a decade gap between their last studio album, 2000’s Left Hand Drive.

“The simple reason was that we didn’t have

a band who wanted to go in to the studio to record an album,” Brewster explains. “When you’ve got people who don’t want to do it, I’m not really pointing the finger, it’s just the way things happen with someone not being interested or just trade off the old songs I just disagree with that as did Chris Bailey and Rick. We couldn’t do anything about it so when Doc and Buzz left the band, which is contrary to what is said; we got a band that really wanted to do it. We’ve played a lot of shows together; they wanted to get together and be creative. It doesn’t matter how big the band is, whether it’s The Rolling Stones, AC/ DC or The Angels, or what level you’re on, to continue as a band you have you keep doing new stuff. It’s incredibly exciting that the band is turning 40. The energy and creative drive which we’ve now got is just great.”

WHO: The Angels WHAT: Talk The Talk (Liberation) WHERE: Jive WHEN: Thu Mar 20 & Fri Mar 21

The Guide// THURSDAY 13TH 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 – White Collar Heroes, Brat86, Oceans Wake, Blonde Doctor and In Case Of Emergency (6.30pm) DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) DUKE OF YORK – Downstairs: DJ Jon E (9pm) DJ Skinny B (1am) Beer Garden: band of the week plus DJ Dave Parry (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm) EMU HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – KG’s Complete Trivia (7.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Ultrasound Track FESTIVAL THEATRE – Zorn In Oz: Triple Bill (Bladerunner Trio, Essential Cinema and Cobra) (7.30pm)

Check out The Guide at ripitup.com.au

GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Gleny Rae Virus & Her Playboys (7pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Best Of The Edinburgh Fest and Comedy Hypnosis – Rewired (Fringe) Front Bar: Gumbo Room Blues Jam GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Coke & Sympathy: A Rock & Roll Cabaret GRAND BAR – OMG HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE – Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (8.30pm) HIGHWAY – DJ Alli (8pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – All Vinyl DJ (6pm) HQ – Riot Society hosted by Uberjak’d LIGHT HOTEL – SCALA Live (8pm) MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – DJ G-Rillz (9pm) PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango QUEEN’S THEATRE – Adelaide Festival: Fight Night (9pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Fringe: Bogan Bingo (8pm) ROCKET BAR – Wild Things (9pm)

SAILMASTER TAVERN – Victor Oria (6pm) SHOTZ BAR – Fringe: Robert Taylor Is The Musical Misfit (7pm) SPACE THEATRE – Adelaide Festival: Windmill Theatre Trilogy/School Dance (6.30pm) STATE THEATRE COMPANY SCENIC WORKSHOP – The Seagull (8.15pm) SUGAR – Jazz Pancake with locals and guests THE LION HOTEL – Clearway (9pm) TORRENS RIVERBANK – Lola’s Pergola (6pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Wheatsheaf Ukulele Collective: It’s Not Me, It’s Uke! (sold out) WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Sessions (7.30pm)

FRIDAY 14TH ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs ARCHER HOTEL – DJ ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Dimitra (8pm) Top Of The Ark: Titters with Sheridan Stewart Fringe comedy show (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BAROSSA WEINTAL HOTEL – JR Acoustic (7.30pm) BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Fingermen BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Iris BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – DJs Lars, Lenny and guests DUKE OF YORK – Tom & Rose (7pm) ED CASTLE – Full Tilt live bands and party DJs ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs EMU HOTEL – Rock The Boss ENCORE NIGHTCLUB – Get Lucky Fridays with resident DJs (9pm) ENFIELD HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (6pm) ENIGMA – Infiltrator, Dead Joe, The Skeleton Club and Cassie O’Grady ESPLANADE HOTEL – Slyde (8pm) EXETER HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – The Aves FESTIVAL THEATRE – Zorn In Oz: Zorn@60 (7.30pm)

FINDON HOTEL – karaoke (8.30pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Best Of The Edinburgh Fest and Comedy Hypnosis Rewired (Fringe) Front Bar: Friday Night Acoustic Sessions featuring String Band Appalachian Fiddle Sessions & Irish Sessions GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Kelshy with Charlie Monsoon GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Reson8 HALFWAY HOTEL – Dino Jag (7pm) HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE – Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (8.30pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – The Incredibles (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 – La Russo & Friends LADY DALY HOTEL – Wild Rocket and Troika (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 – Viotar (7pm) OFFICE ON PIRIE – DJ Jess (4.30pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Theo (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) PROSPECT TOWN HALL – Fringe: Pastor Cash & His Ministry Of Money Revival Show (8pm) QUEEN’S THEATRE – Adelaide Festival: Fight Night (9pm) RACQUETS SA – Mark Andrews Showcase (8pm)

RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ Snake & DJ Rupheo (9pm) RED SQUARE – DJs REX HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Fringe: Bogan Bingo (8pm) ROCKET BAR – Cats at Rocket (9pm)

THE SANTA MARIAS

DEBUT EP LAUNCH WITH SUPPORT BANDS FLASH FIRE & BANJO JACKSON

ripitup.com.au

FRESH DAILY.

JADE MONKEY MARCH 15 DOORS @ 9PM $15 ENTRY (INCLUDES EP)

RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au

11

The Guide// ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Ben Ford Davies (7.30pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN – Paul Stubbings (7pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8pm) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Funhouse Of Blues with Gail Page (8pm) SHOTZ BAR – Robert Taylor Is The Musical Misfit (7pm) SOMERSET HOTEL – Jake Nickolai SPACE THEATRE – Adelaide Festival: Windmill Theatre Trilogy/School Dance (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 TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio Flamenco (7.30pm) TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – Triple X (9pm) THE ELEPHANT – Alien 8 and DJ G-Rillz (9pm) THE GOODY – Live & Local

THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: John McKay (4.45pm) One Planet (9pm) Chrysler Bar: Agent 99 (9.30pm) TORRENS RIVERBANK – Lola’s Pergola (6pm) VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Wheatsheaf Ukulele Collective: It’s Not Me, It’s Uke! (sold out) WHITMORE HOTEL – Cat Stevens Tribute Show WOODCROFT TAVERN – Eleven ZHIVAGO – Hello DJs: Bottle Rockets, Skot Holder, Faint One and Gumshoe

SATURDAY 15TH ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: band and DJ. Upstairs: Jaki J ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar + Arena: Kopy Catz (10pm) BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Cliff Koma BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ

ADELAIDE FRINGE 2014

Adelaide Fringe wraps up for another year this weekend!

Make the most of the remaining party season with over 200 shows still offering Fringe Benefits discounts including EastEnd Cabaret (pictured), Steven K Amos, Eddie Ifft, Papillon and many, many more!

@fringe_benefits

See fringebenefits.com.au for details.

Not a Fringe Benefits member?

If you’re aged 18 – 30 visit fringebenefits.com.au to join.

12

RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au

Check out The Guide at ripitup.com.au

CAVAN HOTEL – Karnival with live bands (9pm) CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – ABBA Gold CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Jus Fa Fun (9pm) CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – Sixefx (3pm) 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 ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends EMU HOTEL – Bon ‘n’ All ENCORE NIGHTCLUB – DJs Lars, TS and Some Brown DJ with MC AC (9pm) ENIGMA – Caedes (Bar 2) Hair Metal Heaven 5 (Bar 3) EXETER HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (7pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Young Offenders, Madworld and The Pits GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm) GERMAN ARMS HOTEL – Melvin Chang – soloist (8pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ Marky Polo (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Best Of The Edinburgh Fest and Comedy Hypnosis Rewired (Fringe) Front Bar: Free Genie GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Colourwheel with Michael Plater & The Exit Keys GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays with DJs and MCs HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE – Adelaide Festival: Kiss Of The Chicken King (8pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Kinetik (9pm) HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm) HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Jest (8.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips & guests (8pm) JACK RUBY – Soul Social – live band and vinyl DJs (8pm) JADE MONKEY – The Santa Maria’s EP launch with Banjo Jackson Trio and Flash Fire KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – Saloon Bar: karaoke (10pm) Main Bar: Broken Theory (10pm) LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Remedy (9pm) LAND OF PROMISE HOTEL – Road Haul, Ember Rush CD launch, Tombstone Hunters Club and The Clause (9pm) LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ and MC Renard (10pm) LORD MELBOURNE – DJ Steve Murphy (8pm) MARINA SUNSET BAR – DJs playing the best in house and electro MARION HOTEL – Franky F (5.30pm) Two Hard Basket (8.30pm)

MARS BAR – guest DJs plus a drag show MICK O’SHEA’S – Fever (9pm) MIDWAY TAVERN – Dawn Raider MURRAY STREET: GAWLER – Lily & The Drum (10am) OLD SPOT HOTEL – Hard Rock PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Killkenny (8pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Triple X (10.30pm) PRETORIA HOTEL – Everybody Talks (9pm) QUEEN’S THEATRE – Adelaide Festival: Fight Night (7.30pm & 10.30pm) 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 ROB ROY HOTEL – Fringe: A Battle Royale – Bob Dylan Vs Neil Young with Aussie Bob & Young Neil (8pm) ROCKET BAR – Rocket Saturdays (9pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN – Georgy K (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 – Alien 8 (9pm) SPACE THEATRE – Adelaide Festival: Windmill Theatre Trilogy/Girl Asleep (1pm & 6.30pm) STATE THEATRE COMPANY SCENIC WORKSHOP – The Seagull (3pm & 8.15pm) SUGAR – ITDE DJs and interstate & international guests SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Gerry O (7.30pm) TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE ELEPHANT – Rock Paper Scissors and DJ G-Rillz (9pm) THE LION HOTEL – Absolut Saturdays: Wasabi (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Swapsides (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 – Wheatsheaf Ukulele Collective: It’s Not Me, It’s Uke! (sold out) WHITMORE HOTEL – Tom Lawson EP launch WINDSOR HOTEL – Wild Ones (8.45pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm) YANKALILLA HOTEL – Fig Jam ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs: Bottle Rockets, Terence, Skot Holder and Jesse

The Guide // SUNDAY 16TH ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Vogue Duo with Antonio Villano & Kat Lara (3pm) BENJAMIN ON FRANKLIN – Souled Out Sessions with DJs Dave Collins and Jason Lee BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Area 51 BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon BRIDGEWATER INN – Doing It For Nanna (3pm) CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Troy Harrison (2pm) COVE TAVERN – Beat That DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Acoustically Raw (3pm) ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) EMU HOTEL – Josh Rudduck EXETER ON RUNDLE – Dear Pilgrim FED ON SEMAPHORE – Tsunami Steve Surfing With Scissors (4pm) FESTIVAL THEATRE – Dirtsong (7.30pm) GASLIGHT TAVERN – Girls Gone Rockin’ with East Texas plus Raunchy Sugar (8.30pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Steve Lennox Duo (2pm) GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays (3pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Motown Connection: The Motown Story and Delirium Emporium – Adelaide’s Amateur Performers (Fringe) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Shit Disco GRAND BAR – bands, DJs and MCs HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE – Adelaide Festival: Kiss Of The Chicken King (3pm) HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – 888 Poker (6.30pm) JADE MONKEY – Asylum Seeker Fundraiser JOINERS ARMS HOTEL – UK Blitz (3pm) KINGSFORD HOTEL – Dino Jag Acoustic (3pm) LIGHT HOTEL – Vonni’s Big Arvo LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – Quadrant MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – Cry Wolf (2pm) MOUNT COMPASS TAVERN – Lily & The Drum (2pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Two Hard Basket (2.30pm)

PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Killkenny (4pm) PLAYFORD TAVERN – The Scribes (3.30pm) PRETORIA HOTEL – Dimitra (1.30pm) QUEEN’S THEATRE – Adelaide Festival: Fight Night (6pm) RAMSGATE HOTEL – acoustic session (4pm) Tom Kurzel & Ed Trainor fortnightly rotation (7.30pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Fringe: A Battle Royale – Bob Dylan Vs Neil Young with Aussie Bob & Young Neil (7pm) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Junk Radio (7.30pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN – Angelo (2pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic soloists SEMAPHORE PALAIS – The Veine (4.30pm) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – The Healers (4pm) SHOTZ BAR – Fringe: Robert Taylor Is The Musical Misfit (8pm) SPACE THEATRE – Adelaide Festival: Windmill Theatre Trilogy/School Dance (2pm & 7pm) STATE THEATRE COMPANY SCENIC WORKSHOP – The Seagull (4pm) SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) Quinny, Parko & Friends (6pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Ben Vidic (2pm) VINE INN: NURIOOTPA – JC Duo (1pm) 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 – Little Black Crow (4pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Miss Kitty’s Caravan ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs: Anthony, Gumshoe & Krispy

MONDAY 17TH EXETER ON RUNDLE – Todd Sibbin Retrospective FINDON HOTEL – JC Duo (12pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Rear Admiral Stand Up Comedy. Balcony Bar: Lord Stompy’s Harmonica Tribe GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ultimate Quiz with Graham Lawrence (7pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Complete Trivia (7pm)

PJ O’BRIENS – St Patrick’s Day featuring Scallywags, Kilkenny, Rafferty’s Rules and guests RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon THE ELEPHANT – Russell Stuart (12pm) THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and Paul Vallen (8pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – St Patrick’s Day featuring The Santa Marias and Dan White

TUESDAY 18TH AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: DJs Stevie & Duncan EXETER ON RUNDLE – DJs J & Nath GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GOODWOOD PARK HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Adelaide Ukulele Appreciation Society GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Improv Fringe Jam & Celebration HILTON HOTEL – KG’s Complete Trivia (7pm) MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Aus Elvis Show (8.30pm) SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller THE LION HOTEL – Zkye and Damo (7.30pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – DJs Ryley & Apex (8pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Raw Jam Session WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm)

WEDNESDAY 19TH ARKABA HOTEL – Latino Grooves Salsa Classes (6pm) 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 DEEP BLUE CAFÉ – Dean Lawrence EMU HOTEL – DJ night (8pm)

ENIGMA BAR – Absu, Stargazer and Tzun Tzu EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music Exchange (7.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – DJ Curtis FINDON HOTEL – Muso’s Jam hosted by Streaker FINSBURY HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – karaoke (7pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: JTR. Front Bar: Open Mic Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Kyle Taylor with Rach Brennan, Courtney Robb and Adie Haines HIGHWAY – The Combi Room HQ – NeverLand KENSINGTON HOTEL – Uke ‘n’ Play Beginners To Advanced Ukulele (7pm) LIGHT HOTEL – Open Mic Night (8pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Greg Myer (7.30pm) SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with Margi (7.30pm) SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular and Mr Whiskas THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Tonsley Trivia (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Wednesday (7pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Simon Peter WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

Rip It Up endeavours to provide an accurate guide, however, takes no responsibility for outof-date listings. Gig Guide submissions and any changes can be sent to gigguide@ripitup.com. au. Gig Guide deadline is Thursdays at 5pm.

Please contact venues for any further information regarding the booked acts.

GiG GUidE

thursday MarCh 13 ADELAIDE FrINGE:

BEst oF thE EdinBUrGh FEst ADELAIDE FrINGE:

ComEdY hYpnosis rEWirEd Front bar:

GUmBo room BlUEs Jam

FINAL WEEk ComEDy HypNosIs! rEwIrED

Friday MarCh 14 ADELAIDE FrINGE:

BEst oF thE EdinBUrGh FEst ADELAIDE FrINGE:

latE EVEninG

BEst oF thE FEst latE shoW

Front bar: FridaY niGht aCoUstiC

sEssions – strinG Band appalaChian FiddlE sEssions & irish sEssions

saturday MarCh 15 ADELAIDE FrINGE:

BEst oF thE EdinBUrGh FEst ADELAIDE FrINGE:

latE EVEninG

BEst oF thE FEst latE shoW Front bar:

FINAL WEEk BEsT oF THE EDINBurGH FEsT

FrEE GEniE

sunday MarCh 16 ADELAIDE FrINGE:

motoWn ConnECtion – thE motoWn storY ADELAIDE FrINGE:

dElEriUm EmporiUm – adElaidE’s amatEUr pErFormErs Monday MarCh 17 Front bar:

all aGEs

rEar admiral stand Up ComEdY

balCony bar:

wednesday mar 19

jTr

lord stompY’s tin sandWiCh

thurs Mar 20 s illY + JaCkiE onassis old oUt + rEmi Fri Mar 21 BoBBY kEYs & thE sUFFErinG Bastards sat Mar 22 opa! liVE W/ onEiro sun Mar 23 thE sUnnYBoYs + thE FroWninG CloUds wEd Mar 26 opEn miC niGht 5th BirthdaY shoW Fri Mar 28 stiCkY FinGErs sat Mar 29 kYliE kain Cd laUnCh sun Mar 30 thE sCiEntists Fri apr 4 dUB FX & opioU (nZ) sat apr 5 Brad strUtt + hip hop shoWCasE tuEs apr 8 kodalinE (irE) + thE troUBlE With tEmplEton Fri apr 11 tWElVE Foot ninJa sat apr 12 sold miChaEl Franti & spEarhEad (Us) oUt sat apr 19 EastEr latin FiEsta tuEs apr 22 adrian Edmonson & thE Bad shEphErds thurs apr 24 VanCE JoY + GosslinG + tEEth & tonGUE sat apr 26 satisFaCtion – thE stonEs shoW thurs May 1 stonEFiEld

tuEsday MarCh 18 Front bar:

adElaidE UkUlElE apprECiation soCiEtY

wEdnEsday MarCh 19

jTr Front bar: opEn miC niGht all aGEs

The Gov is now a NATIoNAL ozTIx ouTLET

GOVERNOR hiNdmaRsh hOtEl 59 port road hindmarsh T 8340 0744 www.thegov.com.au RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

13

Snapped//

Find more social pics online at ripitup.com.au

elaide WOMADic Park at Botan photos by r Andreas Heue ine a L e & Kristy D

DEPARTURE YOUR CULTURAL JOURNEY STARTS HERE

Don’t miss a night of deliciously dark entertainment at DEPARTURE: Dark Heart. Delve into the underbelly of Australian culture and experience works by the nation’s hottest contemporary artists. Take a walk on the dark side with curator and artist talks, freaky entertainment, open bar and fabulous food.

Art Gallery of South Australia Friday 21 March, 6–10pm $60 / $45 Members

artgallery.sa.gov.au/departure 14

RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au

BOOK NOW

detail: Julia deVille, Kitten Drawn Hearse, 2010, kitten, black garnet beads, sterling silver, pear-shaped sapphire, egret feathers, wood, glass, 83.0 x 30.0 x 15.0 cm; Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne and Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, photo: Terence Bogue

Presenting Sponsor

Snapped //

ane Estivle Lch Laun re at Realsto photos by Kristy DeLaine

f Garden O ghts li e D Unerathly photos by Kristy DeLaine

RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au

15

Culture//

Zoey h Deutc

by MDB

Zoey Deutch’s Vampire Academy Zoey Deutch was in Sydney promoting Vampire Academy during the following phone interview, and she laughs when I begin by pointing out the obvious: wow, she looks like her mother! “Well, thank you!”, she giggles, “as she’s fricking gorgeous!”. The daughter of ‘80s star Lea Thompson (of all three Back To The Futures and more) and director Howard Deutch (of Pretty In Pink, Some Kind Of Wonderful and so forth), Zoey says that she thinks she looks most like her mother when Lea appeared in the original 1984 version of Red Dawn: “When I saw that one I wondered when I’d shot it as I didn’t remember doing it – but then I realised that it wasn’t me!”

W

e are here to discuss Vampire Academy, the film version of Richelle Mead’s first installment of her supernatural book series. Deutch explains that she had to audition for the role of Dhampir Rose Hathaway.

“I’m a young, trying-to-get-work actress, and people don’t just come up to me and say, ‘Do you want to do this?’ That’s not how it happens. My agent sent me the script and I had to do the audition, and then I had to do another five auditions, and then I had to do a screen test. That’s the process you have to go through to get any job, unless you’re Jennifer Aniston or something.”

“I was super-excited to work with [director] Mark Waters”, she continues. “I’m a huge fan of his [especially Mean Girls], and he’s so brilliant at comedic timing. He’s such a lovely man to be around and a joy to work with.”

Had she read Mead’s novels? “There are six books!... But yes, I did end up reading a couple.”

Deutch plays the main character, as it’s

16

RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au

Rose’s story, despite how important Lucy Fry’s ‘Moroi’ Princess Lissa Dragomir is to the plot. Deutch also gets to do all the cool stuff: have the cynical voiceover, make lots of deadpan jokes, fight a lot and get bitten – and often.

“I’m a young, trying-to-getwork actress, and people don’t just come up to me and say, ‘Do you want to do this?’ That’s not how it happens. “ “That’s very true!... I think he hired me as I have a good sense of humour, but the fighting was different and I had to work very hard on it. Being funny has everything to do with the writing [the script was adapted for the screen by Waters’ big brother Daniel, who wrote Winona Ryder’s 1988 dark comedy Heathers] and, as well, you either have good timing – or you don’t… But the

fighting, you know, I did about three months of training for it… This was a movie with less FX, and a lot of the physical stuff was done for real on the set. It was gritty, like an indie movie – well, actually, it is an indie movie!”

Deutch also appears with Gabriel Byrne (“He’s very nice and a lovely man”) and Joely Richardson (“She’s very cool!”), and she loved the whole process of making the movie, even though it was exhausting: “I was very excited and honoured that I had the chance to do it. I just loved the characters and everything about it.”

And will there be a sequel? There are six books after all.

“I don’t think there will be a sequel. I’d do one if one was coming, sure, but how about we just say that I’m not really sure?”

She is sure, however, about another movie in which she’s recently been cast: Midnight Rider (and note that this interview took place just before the terrible accident that occurred on the set, where crew member Sarah Jones died after accidentally being struck by a train).

“After Australia I’m going to the south of America to shoot that one for director Randall Miller [of Bottle Shock and the much-criticised CBGB movie]. It’s a biopic about the Allman Brothers, a southern rock band who were big in the ‘70s, and I play a character that’s similar to that one played

by Kate Hudson in Almost Famous. She’s a young, small-town girl who’s trying hard to get out. She’s confused about her sexuality and she uses it to manipulate men… And this confuses her, as it does to young women, and it causes pain to those she loves. So yeah, it should be fun. I can’t wait!”

There are a fair number of gags in Vampire Academy about ‘sparkly vampires’, do you also dislike the Twilight books and films?

“I don’t hate Twilight! That’s in the script, but there’s no hatred in there! It’s meant to

My Mother The Star Zoey Deutch mentions a number of movies starring her mother Lea Thompson (the original Red Dawn, the Back To The Future trio and Some Kind Of Wonderful, as directed by Howard Deutch and the one that, of course, led to her parents meeting), but what else is there? How about: All The Right Moves (1983): Heralded as the pic where you can supposedly almost see young Tom Cruise’s you-know-what.

SpaceCamp (1986): A goofy teenage drama that died due to its unfortunate release at the time of the Challenger disaster.

Howard The Duck (1986): Few dare mention this title, so let’s move on.

Casual Sex? (1988): Apparently this one’s question mark offended some audiences.

Article 99 (1992): You’d be better off rediscovering director Deutch’s underrated doctors-on-strike drama, featuring Thompson alongside Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland and Forest Whitaker, than digging up Howard The Duck.

be funny and show people that this is a much different film to those. But please do note quote me as hating Twilight! I have nothing bad to say about those films, especially as they’re the most successful teen movies of all time, surely. They’re laughing all the way to the bank!... People who say they hate Twilight are just embarrassed as they secretly love it!”

WHAT: Vampire Academy WHERE: Cinemas everywhere WHEN: Now

zORN IN Oz

T L A S S! W ShO ’T D ON UT SO MIS

EXCLUSIVE fOUR-CONCERT SERIES (USA)

“An essential composer.” THE

bL ACk ARM bAND DIRTSONG (AUS)

with text by Alexis Wright

GUARDIAN

TRIPLE b ILL AND zO RN@60

Festival Theatre, 13-14 Mar Don’t miss John Zorn, Mike Patton, Dave Lombardo, Bill Laswell, Marc Ribot and many more in the eclectic Triple Bill performance.

Then enjoy a birthday extravaganza like no other with the epic Zorn@60 – the ultimate celebration of John Zorn including Song Project, The Dreamers, Moonchild and Electric Masada.

“Potent and all consuming.” THE

AGE

A POWERFUL MUSICAL JOURNEY

Festival Theatre, 16 Mar Rich and resonant, a powerful musical journey through Australia’s cultural heartland.

Featuring Archie Roach, Trevor Jamieson, Lou Bennett, Paul Dempsey (Something For Kate) and many more.

ThE TIgER LILLIES

T LAS S W ShO FRI & ThU PM 8. 3 0

RIME Of THE ANCIENT MARINER (UK) with visuals by Mark Holthusen

“A haunting evening’s entertainment.” THE

RO b ERT L E PAg E NEEDLES AND OPIUM – EX MACHINA (CAN)

“A super-visionary work.” NEW TELEGRAPH

AUSTR ALIAN PREMIERE E XCLUSIVE TO ADEL AIDE

Her Majesty’s Theatre, 12-14 Mar Legendary balladeers The Tiger Lillies spin an epic tale into a hauntingly beautiful multimedia performance.

YORK TIMES

AUSTR ALIAN PREMIERE E XCLUSIVE TO AD EL AID E

Dunstan Playhouse, 13-16 Mar Revered theatre maker Robert Lepage revisits this magically staged masterpiece.

adelaidefestival.com.au or BASS 131 246 RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au

17

Film // All Is Lost (M)

Find more film reviews online at ripitup.com.au

Quick Flicks

follows is one of the most terrifying high-seas sequences in recent memory, as he battles the elements, fear, fate and (it’s eventually and quietly implied) himself.

With its distribution held up so that it might get Oscar nominations (it didn’t) and surely due to some similarities to Gravity, another movie that some complained had “no story”, this benefits enormously from the casting of Redford, whose age makes the plight of our inexperienced ‘hero’ more dangerous and who can convey so much while saying nothing. Iit would have been a different experience altogether with Shia LaBeouf. And, like Gravity, this actually offers the greatest story of them all: one person’s fight to stay alive.

AAAA JC Chandor’s follow-up to Margin Call is something totally different, and possibly one of the only mainstream American movies ever to feature one character – and he’s not even named (the credits list him as ‘Our Man’). After a short letter of apology and moral responsibility is read over the title, we’re straight into the story of this flawed sailor (and flawed person), played by Robert Redford, as his 39-foot yacht collides with an abandoned shipping container in the middle of the Indian Ocean and starts taking on water.

Repairing the damage, he then finds that the radio and navigation equipment has been damaged and a storm is approaching, and what

Adelaide Cinémathèque 2014 Mercury Cinema Adelaide Cinémathèque 2014’s Season 1 commences at the Mercury Cinema on Thu Mar 27, so keep an eye on the Merc’s website for all details: mercurycinema.org.au.

Mad Dog Bradley

And To Recap

Tracks (M) AAAA

Vampire Academy (M) 300: Rise Of An Empire (MA) AA

Drawn from the true story of Robyn Davidson, this feels slightly awkward at first, and yet it works due to committed direction by John Curran, breath-taking (and terrifying) cinematography from Mandy Walker, and strong playing from Mia Wasikowska in a seriously challenging role. Davidson (Wasikowska) is a young woman with a past from which she obviously wants to escape. In the mid-‘70s she decides to take a 2000 mile walk from Alice Springs to the Western Australian coast with only four camels and a faithful dog as company.

Why this dangerous trek was something she so wanted to undertake is never quite pinpointed (her dad had gone on a famous safari of his own, while voiceover and flashbacks hint at family tragedies and a hatred of modern life – and herself). She eventually agrees to one catch for the sake of safety and sponsorship: to occasionally meet up with National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan (Adam Driver). The journey comprises most of the running-time, with Robyn alone onscreen and suffering exhaustion, thirst, hallucinations and soul-wracking loneliness.

Inspired by Smolan’s photographs, this missteps at times, and yet there’s still so much to enjoy. Wasikowska, in a role that’s been almost played by a host of stars over the years, is exceedingly fine, and allows herself to look as dusty, sunburnt and crazy-from-the-heat as Davidson surely was.

Richelle Mead’s teenie novels were obviously intended to be filmed to start a Harry Potterlike trend, and yet this hopelessly convoluted would-be first outing has nailed the coffin shut on that idea. We’re introduced to all-American Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch), a half-human/ vampire ‘Dhampir’ whose lot in life is to protect her bestie, ‘Moroi’ Princess Lissa Dragomir (Aussie Lucy Fry with a plummy English accent), from nasty ‘Strigoi’ (and everything else) while they’re hiding out after escaping the titular establishment. A car crash has given them a telepathic link, and this comes in useful when they’re forced to return to school and Rose’s voiceover must explain the ridiculously complicated goings-on in the place and hint at all the corruption therein. And yet questions remain unanswered: why do Gabriel Byrne, Joely Richardson and Olga Kurylenko turn up in hammy support? Why is Modern Family’s Sarah Hyland so poor as nerdy Natalie? And why are the Twilight jokes so bloody bad?

Directed by Mark Waters (of Mean Girls and later fantasy epics) and adapted by his brother Daniel, this intensely irritating dog’s (bat’s?) breakfast of a movie is so busy trying to explain the whys and wherefores of vampire-related life that it forgets to tell much of a story or even make sense, and Deutch is left trying to save it with lots of, like, totally deadpan one-liners.

And she just about sucks.

Based on Frank Miller’s new, as-yetunreleased graphic novel Xerxes, this pre-sequel (which shall henceforth be thought of as The 300 Go To Sea) covers ground (or water) before, after and even during the events of the first 300 film, effectively cancelling out any real need to watch said predecessor in the first place.

Filling the role vacated by Gerard Butler’s Leonidas is the Athenian Themistocles (Sullivan Stapleton), who led his own men through the Battle of Salamis, around the same time that Leonidas and his Spartans fought at Thermopylae. Mortal-turned-God Xerxes is their common enemy, orphaned at the hands of Themistocles, and although he isn’t the hero, Rodrigo Santoro’s charismatic showboating ensures he is the star of the show. Much swordplay and blood-letting follows.

The good news is hardcore anime sex replaces the vaguely homoerotic themes of the first film, and the all-round effects are no less epic than its predecessor (3D was made for spears and arrow fights). The story remains historically inaccurate, but no one’s going for the lesson. It’s all about the visuals, and they are as impressive, if not more so, than the first time around. Miller’s graphic art has released itself from the page, Tiny Toons-style, and launched a bloodbath, and we’re keeping David Wenham employed to boot. This! Is! Sequel!

Mad Dog Bradley

Mad Dog Bradley

Kat McCarthy

Are We Officially Dating? *** Gloria ***1/2 Lone Survivor **1/2 Nebraska **** Non-Stop *** Utopia **** Le Week-End ***1/2 The Wind Rises (KazeTachinu) **** Wolf Creek 2 **1/2

AAAa

Opening But Unrated The Monuments Men (M), the latest directorial effort from George Clooney (drawn from Robert M Edsel and Bret Witter’s factual book and adapted for the screen by GC and co-star Grant Heslov), is a historical drama with comedic touches that stars him, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin, Hugh Bonneville and Bob Balaban.

And the car-crashy, video-gamedrawn action epic Need For Speed (M), from stuntman-turned-director Scott Waugh, offers Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul alongside Dakota Johnson, Imogen Poots, Dominic Cooper and, as part of a semi-comeback, Michael Keaton. And pardon? Fast and what?

all is lost tracks 300: rise of an empire NOW

BOOK

18

SHOWING

YOUR

AT

S E AT

RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au

PALACE

ONLINE

N OVA

NOW

AT

EASTEND

CINEMAS

PA L AC E N OVA . C O M

RUNDLE ST | ADELAIDE SA | 8232 3434

Food//

with Ilona Wallace

Email ilonawallace@ripitup.com.au

Pop Sensation: Hunt And Gather Even though we’re winding down into the final bursts of summer, you can always find an excuse for ice cream. For people craving the sweet treats, Hunt And Gather have some chilly surprises for you.

Local and homemade, Hunt And Gather take great pride in their ability to meld interesting and unexpected flavours.

Erik and Tina, the minds behind the popsicle cart, are especially excited about the healthy approach they take to flavour creation, proudly eschewing additives and processed sugars, instead using dates or raw organic local honey for sweetness.

They offer a variety of vegan choices, such as peanut butter and banana, blueberry coconut, and choc-mint. Dairy-free, soy-free and gluten-free selections are also available, with many flavours satisfying a range of dietary requirements.

It’s hard to believe, but Hunt And Gather actually offer an online ordering system through huntandgather.com.au.

If you’d prefer to get your pops in person, head to Gilles St Market on Sun Mar 16 for a taste.

Santa Sangria It’s finally happened – someone has worked out how to funnel that most delicious of fruity beverages, sangria, into the bar for enjoyment whenever the summery mood strikes. South Australian Young Citizen of the Year, Zac Caudo (of Caudo Vineyard and the FoodBank program) has invented a worldfirst: sangria in a keg. Caudo’s creation is an Australian first, to be rolled out in Adelaide for the thirsty public.

Caudo says the sangria recipe is a well-refined family secret, and the decision to make it available on tap was inspired by the visitors to Caudo cellar door who guzzled it with gusto. The sangria is stored in reusable plastic kegs, and is 8.5% alcohol.

If you’re keen to wrap your lips around it, head to the Taxpayer, the Royal Oak or the Alma, or order online via sangria.com.au.

Opening Soon: Kutchi Deli Parwana Following the success of their Afghan restaurant, Parwana (124 Henley Beach Rd), owners Zelmai and Farida Ayubi are embarking on a new journey. Due to open later this month at 7 Ebenezer Place, Kutchi Deli Parwana will extend upon their other venue for lunchtime feasts. Kutchi, which means ‘nomad’ or ‘gypsy’ in Farsi, conveys these feelings of newness and adventure. Afghan street food will be brought to Adelaide’s east end by the children and partners of the Parwana owners.

More details will be coming soon, with updates at parwana.com.au.

Kutchi Deli Parwana will be opening in March.

SENSES STIMULATED, SOULS NOURISHED IN THE SOUTHERN HEART OF THE CITY.

RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au

19

Stars// Aries 21.03/20.04

Though it’s definitely not your intent, someone has gotten the idea that you are sticking with the tried and true, just when they would like to experiment. This is a soft romantic phase for sure but you would never have guessed such misunderstanding would follow. Untangle knots.

Taurus 21.04/20.05

Venus is in Aquarius, taking you places you never imagined you‘d go. She is inspiring you to experiment, just when you thought you had found a comfortable groove.

The grip of old habits is slowly releasing. Friends are having a powerful influence in all of this.

Pick the right tribe.

Cancer 22.06/22.07

These are happy days for Cancerian persons. The Sun is in Pisces, reinforcing all that is nebulous, emotive, fluid and poetic. You can lay your exoskeleton down and be non-defensively open.

The planetary undertow is generally transformative. There will be challenges. Be open anyway.

Leo 23.07/22.08

As the Sun slowly makes its way across the sign of Pisces, it’s best that Lions take a break from being too outspoken and instead hang out on the open prairie. Use these moments to check back in, to your heart and soul. Find the beauty and balance that comes with being left alone.

Virgo 23.08/22.09

Having been through a fallow patch, designed to take you through a process of let-go and regeneration, it’s time to face the diabolical wonders of relationship. They are only diabolical because of what we see about ourselves in the shiny mirror of love. Fire up your courage.

20

Art//

with Ilona Wallace

Libra 23.09/23.10

Mars is leaving Libra, but not without one last piece of drama on the way out.

He gets himself into a tangle with Venus. She is in Aquarius evoking all sorts of social excitement, just when you were considering the quiet life. To go with change is easy in theory.

Hone it in practice.

Scorpio 24.10/21.11

The more you attune yourself to truth, the more you know you have to do some letting go. That which you are holding on to isn’t exactly serving you well. It’s surprising to be so attached. It is impossible to not know what you do know.

Slip once again out of your chrysalis. Renew.

Gemini 21.05/21.06

The Moon is rising in Gemini. This lifts you up and gives you confidence – and when you are confident the world knows about it.

To communicate what is real, feels like some kind of karmic imperative that you have to fulfil. The existence of opposition in no way prevents you.

with Sudhir

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12

The moment we take a strong position, everyone around us shows us their cards. You are being firm .and others are showing you exactly where they stand, even in attempting not to. Passive expression is as articulate as active. Floating and drifting is a cop out. Set your compass.

Capricorn 22.12/19.01

Jupiter is heavily suggesting that fearful and controlling behaviour is not on. He is being reinforced by the three planets now in Pisces. Fluidity is the order of the day. Decide if you are going to resist or cooperate. Then, right or wrong, you are at least taking responsibility.

Aquarius 20.01/18.02

You have a new visitor. Her name is Venus.

Her job is to bring you delight.

She will be honoured. If she is honoured with love and awareness, she can take you to some very lovely places indeed.

If she is not honoured, she will become ravenous and feast indiscriminately.

Pisces 19.02/20.03

Though on the surface you are the quiet type, it doesn’t mean you don’t have effect. Many are with you – and some aren’t. Some are attracted to your siren depths and some feel threatened by that same depth. A catalyst can set off all sorts of reactions by doing nothing. Be that.

RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au

A Month With FELTspace This artist-run collective is doing some incredible things for visual arts in SA, proudly the only artist-run initiative with a permanent gallery space in the CBD. New exhibitions opening and a collaboration with Vitalstatistix are set to bend minds and stretch boundaries. They celebrated their fifth birthday last year, so if you haven’t already, now is the time to get acquainted with this precocious young thing.

FELTmaps 20 Fri Mar 28 – Sun Apr 27

Late last year, FELTspace secured Unexpected Port funding through Arts SA, Renewal SA and the City Of Port Adelaide Enfield to produce a public art project that reflects on our northern, riverside town. To see it come to life, FELTspace has joined forces with Vitalstatistix Theatre Company. Artists are asked to “respond to the built and natural landscape of Port Adelaide, creating a beautiful map of artworks to be found in the suburban, the industrial and the everyday”.

From Fri Mar 28 to Sun Apr 27, the public and artists alike are invited to Vitalstatistix’s Waterside Hall (11 Nile St, Port Adelaide) to reflect on the works – culminating in the closing night event that will feature performers, writers, sound artists and more. Guided tours will run throughout the month, with each tour beginning at Vitalstatistix.

Artists: Lily Ahlefeldt, Celeste Aldahn, Tamara Baillie,

Tom Borgas, Nic Brown, Sundari Carmody, BOMB Collective, Sasha Grbich, Ray Harris, Bray Lay, Jessie Lumb, Derek Sargent, Ryan Sims, Carly Snoswell, Tarpspace, Lara Torr, Ash Tower.

Special events: Fri Mar 28 – FELTmaps opening night at Vitalstatistix Sat Mar 29 – guided tour of sites around Port Adelaide Sat Apr 5 – audio described tour of sites around Port Adelaide Sat Apr 12 – FELTmaps artist forum at Vitalstatistix Sat Apr 19 – guided tour of sites around Port Adelaide Sat Apr 26 – FELTmaps responsive exhibition and closing event at Vitalstatistix When they’re not bringing art to the people at the Port, FELTspace are bringing people to the art at their Compton St gallery. Two new exhibitions have just opened in the Front and Back Galleries, and will run until Sat Mar 29.

Back Gallery: Christopher Handran, Swimming With Dolphins As you come through FELTspace Gallery, you’ll find that Fuller’s theme of ‘looking closer’ carries on in Handran’s work. Swimming With Dolphins features a video work and a “semi-sculptural apparatus” he calls the “small-room immersion device”. The exhibition highlights the way devices influence our interpretation of experience. Your attention will be divided between the sights in front of you, how the device is working, and what effect the apparatus has. Come and experiment; explore your own experience.

Front Gallery: Steph Fuller, Awash Photographer Steph Fuller examines how emotion can skew our perception of our environment. Fuller explains, “We are different when we are troubled. We see differently. We are pulled down, defeated, to lie flat like water across the lowest plain. All else washes over us and we lose track of days and time. In this submerged state, we can lay unmoving and undisturbed, wholly present to the little unrealised wonders of our surroundings.”With this in mind, she uses her photographs to delve deeper into the minutiae that would otherwise go unnoticed – and relishes in the power of stillness and the tension of empty space.

Fashion//

Email lachlanaird@ripitup.com.au

with Lachlan Aird

Katie Eary X River Island Katie Eary is best known for creating bold menswear – there’s a reason why one of her greatest fans and collaborators is Kanye West.

Eary has ventured into womenswear with a collection for River Island Design Forum. The 18-piece collection showcases Eary’s love of vivacious prints and striking colours, across flowing maxi dresses, swimwear and statement accessories.

The collection is now available in Australia – here’s what Eary had to say on the designs.

What inspired your collection?

Mine was based on Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. I always start with a book, I’m a complete nerd; it’s what I do. I looked at both the book and the film, but I actually prefer the book. If you read it it’s actually a very short trip where they get into a peace conference, but they wanted to stretch it out to a whole book. Anyway, looking at the film I felt like if my girl could be Johnny Depp, so instead of Johnny Depp it’s her.

Did you face any problems or diff iculties moving from menswear into womenswear?

No, not really, because I’m quite selfish, so I thought about what I wanted to wear when I go on holiday. What do I want to wear when I go to this festival, etc? I’ve actually been chomping at the bits to do women’s [collections] for ages, so I was so excited, no question!

For a budding designer, do you think a university course is the best route to take? Do you have any advice for anyone who hasn’t gone to university f irst?

I mean, I can only speak from my own experience. I went to university and I worked really, really, really hard so I feel that was the route that I went down. But then I’ve had interns that didn’t go to university and they were just as confident and just as amazing. I think it takes a bit longer or maybe you have to start interning at a younger age. Where there is a will there is way, but I do think there is quite a bit of snobbery in fashion, so I would suggest going to university because it’s the harder option; nothing worth having comes easy.

Do you design for a specif ic country in mind or for the whole world?

That’s a difficult question. I don’t design for any particular country, I design for season. Summer is worldwide as is winter so that’s generally how I’d like to do it. When I finished university I hated designing summer to bits. Now it’s the other way around.

Katie Eary X River Island is available via: au.riverisland.com/women/design-forum.

Fashion Friday The Hilton Adelaide is hosting another Fashion Friday luncheon, partnering once again with Australian Fashion Labels. This will feature a parade of the latest collections from their labels, Cameo, Finders Keepers, Keepsake and newcomer Jaggar, which is due for release in May. Tickets are $75 and include a two course lunch and glass of Veuve Clicquot on arrival. Don’t leave it too late to book your table, there’s only limited space, so call 8237 0636 to book.

Jaggar: Riders On The Storm Here’s a sneaky look at the first collection from Jaggar, Riders On The Storm, due to hit stores in May. This is the fourth label for Australian Fashion Labels, with a high street, model-offduty aesthetic, with real leather staples and galactic prints throughout.

RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au

21

Reviews //

Find more reviews online at ripitup.com.au

Culture

DVD Reviews

Gravity

Jackie

Misfits: Series 5

Warners / M / 91 Mins

Hopscotch / M / 96 Mins

Roadshow / MA / 403 Mins

AAAA

AAA

AAAa

It’s been seven years since Alfonso Cuarón’s Children Of Men, but this was worth the wait, as it’s another breakthrough movie and (in 2D or 3D) a truly immersive experience. The plot is simplicity: Dr Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) are on a shuttle mission when an accident leads to the pair tethered together and trying desperately to make it to safety on another craft nearby. With no communication and limited oxygen, their struggle is set against the staggeringly beautiful and mindboggling enormity of space, with Cuarón eventually studying the many meanings of the expression ‘letting go’. And while Bullock and Clooney are the heart and soul here, this is also that rare film where the FX work is genuinely groundbreaking, with individual setpieces that could even, in this jaded day and age, leave you wondering, “How the Hell did they do that?” Hugely moving and sometimes terrifying, this is the best mainstream American pic in years - gasp!

Directed by Antoinette Beumer, this features nice playing by Game Of Thrones star Carice van Houten, her offscreen sister Jelka and Holly Hunter, and yet it’s nevertheless a ‘Road Movie’ that might leave you wanting to walk. A pair of Holland-residing twins, journo Sofie and infantilised Daan (Carice and Jelka), learn that the mother they never knew in America needs their help. Their long-inlove gay dads, who paid the girls’ Mom to be their surrogate in the ‘70s and, after the babies were born, never saw her again, believe that Sofie and Daan should assist, and soon the sisters are in Mexico and trying to pick up Jackie (Holly) to take her 500 miles to a rehabilitation centre. Jackie has a broken leg and a short temper, but soon the three are doing what everyone does in this sort of thing: hitting the highway in a rattling RV, running out of ‘gas’, getting bitten by snakes, putting up with American racism, opening up about problems, taking in the beauty of nature, realising how magical life is, and so on.

The final series of creator Howard Overman’s culty UK saga finds those five grungy ‘superheroes’ (a completely different quintet than we began with) still on probation and trying to deal with their still-unpredictable abilities on that grimy estate. Foul-mouthed Rudy ( Joseph Gilgun) is having separation anxiety as his twin decides he wants a life of his own; ‘seer’ Jess (Karla Chrome) is perhaps falling for him (or at least one of him); wimpy telekinetic Finn (Nathan McMullen) keeps pining for Jess in the most awkward fashion; Alex (Matt Stokoe) has survived that transplant and now discovers his new and rather messy power; and Abbey (Natasha O’Keeffe) might not even have a power, per se. And the stakes grow higher as we approach the first anniversary of that mysterious storm (even though the show’s been going since 2009), as Satanists turn up, the space-time continuum is manipulated, the soundtrack offers The Beach Boys, Marilyn Manson and Frankie Goes To Hollywood, and someone looks likely to “shag a tortoise”.

MDB

MDB

Pawn Shop Chronicles Roadshow / R / 107 Mins

MDB

AAAa Director Wayne Kramer’s latest (look for his The Cooler) is an unsettlingly funny multi-character piece with enough wild twists for a whole TV series. A pawn shop run by Alton (Vincent D’Onofrio) and Johnson (Chi McBride) is the common thread in three chapters: the first has a loser (Lukas Haas) trying to get revenge on two methed-up scumbags (Kevin Rankin and Paul Walker, very funny in one of his final roles); the second has the just-married Richard (Matt Dillon) hare off looking for his former missus and eventually find his way to a real freak (played by a baby-faced star again trying to be hardcore); and the third has a hopeless Elvis impersonator named Ricky (Brendan Fraser) turning up in a weird small town, starting a war between barbers and making a bargain that he’s probably going to regret. Strikingly cast (with cool roles for Norman Reedus, Thomas Jane and scriptwriter Adam Minarovich), this surely bypassed cinemas due to its R-rating but remains one of the best straight-to-DVD titles in ages - and one of the nastiest too.

MDB

Bookshelf

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler / Serpent’s Tail

Fowler’s latest is a darkly comedic, strangely moving saga with a third-of-theway twist that’s been betrayed elsewhere (including on the cover of other printings), so don’t Google it! Our protagonist Rosemary recounts a youth spent as part of a very ‘70s-sounding anthropological experiment that’s impacted heavily upon her adult life, and how her relationship with sister Fern has turned her into the flawed person she is today - and what it’s like to live your life in the shadow of huge but painfully repressed anger and grief.

And while Fowler’s treatment of this tricky plot is grimly amusing, there’s no doubt that it’s also powerfully affecting, as once again that whole ever-changing notion of ‘family’ is held up to the light.

MDB

22

RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au

Fright Or Flight

Stage

When an Australian trio of seasoned circus performers got together and formed the company 3 Is A Crowd and premiered their Fright Or Fancy piece at last year’s Adelaide Fringe, they didn’t really expect it pick up an award for Best Circus & Physical Theatre.

“That was an unexpected but welcome surprise,” Rockie Stone, who features in Fright Or Fancy alongside Bianca Mackail and Olivia Porter, says. “Due to winning that award, we then had interest from Brisbane’s Judith Wright Centre, so we went up there and spent time developing it into a longer version. So it now goes for an hour.

“The 40-minute version we did at last year’s Adelaide Fringe was really just about dipping our toes into the water and getting some experience,” she adds. “But getting some great reviews and winning the award, we felt really encouraged. We are just a small emerging company who like to do things our own way one step at a time.”

They have since taken the show, which received a glowing review in 2013 from this publication, around the world and are now returning to Adelaide Fringe with the expanded version of Fright Or Flight.

The company only formed 15 months ago.

tone Rockie S tan

by Robert Duns

“It was originally just Bianca and myself and we got together because we both liked each other’s work,” Stone reveals. “I’m from Melbourne and Bianca is from Brisbane so there was lots of Skype going on. We chatted about a few ideas and started filling those up in conversation and then got Olivia on board.

“We worked up a show and brought it straight over to Adelaide,” she continues. “I’m not even sure now how we came up with the idea of basing it on the behaviour of birds.

Maybe it comes from my former background as a zoologist and that I have always been fascinated by animal behaviour.

“We based it around the final flight of birds but we are exploring their behaviour which reflects on human behaviour as well,” Stone concludes. “People seem to really respond to that. It’s also quite suitable for any age.”

WHO: 3 Is A Crowd WHAT: Fright Or Flight WHERE: Little Big Top (The Garden Of Unearthly Delights) WHEN: from 6pm until Sun Mar 16

Fast Times// Brought to you by

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. Kate Hendry, a friend of Sam Davis, and host of the party where Sam lost his life, has written this message for the readers of Fast Times and Rip It Up. My name is Kate Hendry and on the evening of 4th of May 2008 I held a party that was to change my life – and the lives of hundreds of other people – forever.

That was the night that a drunken idiot killed my friend Sam Davis.

It hadn’t started out different to any other party. My parents were going to be home, had given their tick of approval and had planned to invite some of their friends over as well.

Additional adults nearby would only add to the security, so it was just a matter of sorting out food, drinks and the odd decoration or two. Easy.

I’d heard stories about parties getting out of control, so we’d prepared a guest list and had someone on the door. It was only going to be about 50 people or so in the backyard – they were people I knew, people I trusted.

Everyone started off having a good time, but then a fight broke out in the backyard.

Some uninvited guys crashed the party looking for trouble and quickly killed the mood, with people moving out the front to go home.

The attack happened in a split second. One moment Sam was standing and the next he was on the ground and people were yelling for an ambulance. Time stood still as I tried to comprehend that only 30 minutes before we had been laughing and having a good time. It was all very surreal.

We rushed to hospital because we knew Sam had been seriously hurt. I felt numb watching his parents – Nat and Neil – arrive and be told that he was not going to wake up.

The heartbreaking scenes of family and friends coming to terms with saying goodbye will haunt me forever.

In the days that followed my own family lived through significant media attention. We were prisoners in our own home, ignoring the constant knocking on the door by reporters wanting to talk.

I felt sick. I couldn’t go to work, I couldn’t function.

It was only at Sam’s funeral did reality really sink in, with hundreds of people turning out to honour their fallen mate.

It was months later when I was out with friends that I again watched in horror as a fight broke out nearby. I hate fighting. It makes me really angry because one punch can impact on so many lives.

I used to think that violence only happens to other people. I was wrong.

For more information on the Sammy D Foundation and its programs visit sammydfoundation.com or contact the team on 83741678.

Fringe Benefits It’s the final weekend of the Fringe and Adelaide Festival. Your absolute last chance to see the wealth of comedy, theatre, cabaret and everything in between before they all clear out of Adelaide. If you’re feeling the pinch after a month of indulging in shows, Garden-ing and hanging out in Lola’s backyard, there’s an institution entirely dedicated to helping it make it more affordable.

Fringe Benefits is a (kind of ) charity to help the impoverished (ie those under 30) to make the most of our cultural delights. Fringe Benefits members receive cheap tickets and exclusive deals to a whole host of shows, including the big ones like Stephen K Amos, Zorn In Oz, Green Porno and the Windmill Trilogy. The best part is, it’s free to join. Just head to fringebenefits.com.au to make the most of your youth… while it lasts. fringebenefits.com.au.

RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

23

Reviews //

Find more reviews online at ripitup.com.au

Culture

CD Reviews

CD Of The Week

s Single y with Jimm

Byzantine

Lykke Li

The Night Party

Love Me Like I’m Not Made Of Stone

Get To You

(Atlantic/Warner)

(MGM)

Lykke Li’s descent into devastating heart break happened so gradually you’d be forgiven for thinking she’s still the playful, spirited waif she portrayed on her 2008 debut Youth Novels.

Three years later she was back but emotionally perturbed on Wounded Rhymes. Now on Love Me Like I’m Made Of Stone Li sounds utterly defeated, as if it’s sapping all of her energy just to gasp these final words of despair. Beautifully stripped back and ethereal, the song is a bleak insight into what’s sure to be one of the more harrowing albums of 2014.

AA

The Bohicas Swarm (Domino/EMI)

What do you make of The Bohicas? Their debut single XXX popped with a spritely urgency, but with so much pomp and grandeur it was hard to tell if they were being ironic or taking the piss.

Follow-up Swarm follows in a similar fashion, employing the same shrieking guitars and fasttalking lyricism that rekindle The Madness or a zombified Elvis Costello. You suspect that there’s not much more to these guys than this showy indie bullshit, but there’s enough intrigue there to make you stick around and find out.

Chuck Ragan Something May Catch Fire

Pharrell Williams GIRL (Sony)

AAAA There’s no need to overcomplicate things – Pharrell Williams’ G I R L isn’t a revolutionary record. Williams helped reinvent the wheel last year with Daft Punk’s Get Lucky, Robin Thicke’s catchylike-an-STI Blurred Lines and Despicable Me 2’s Happy, so you could hardly ask him to reinvent it again.

G I R L, a charming collection of 10 songs dedicated to chasing and doting on the female species, is unapologetic ear candy. From the thumping horn section on opener Marilyn Monroe to the clap-happy playfulness of Come Get It Bae, to Happy’s retro universal appeal, if this is lazy work, it’s only when compared to his own standards.

If anyone else created an album featuring Justin Timberlake (Brand New), Daft Punk (Gust Of Wind), Miley Cyrus (Come Get It Bae) and Alicia Keys (Who You Are), they would be applauded. For Williams, it’s merely expected.

In a pop music climate that is so manufactured and controversial for the sake of it (some of which Williams is directly responsible for), a tight and smooth pop and R&B blend is welcoming.

If Coca Cola is pop music then Pharrell Williams’ G I R L is A&W Creaming Soda: you may think it’s less caustic because of its moreish flavour and sticky texture, although it’s probably twice as bad for you, but at the end of the day, all indulgences exist to be enjoyed, so try not to over think it. Cheers!

Lachlan Aird

A mix of soul, indie and weak rock, Melbourne duo The Night Party have floundered on their mild debut album Get To You. Too lo-fi to even contemplate, this collection of songs harangues the ears like a meandering mosquito. With a lot of cool but not enough edge, its only use is background music.

Opening track Love In Vain steadily invigorates with its honest lyricism and steady swaggering pace, but promises class the band cannot deliver. On On Every Street indie meets soul-doowop with a vibrating pop lead guitar. Black Is The Night is groovy but derivative, not to mention repetitive, with a bopping keyboard to boot. Snake Bite annoys with its generic, ‘She’s like [insert trope], she’s like [insert trope]’ motif, and Walk The Streets will stay in your head but you won’t want it there. Some tracks channel a more restrained Black Keys, and others have promising, sometimes swampy riffs, but overall it’s a debilitating listen, drifting into same-sameness. The Night Party prove that they can write songs, only for the most part they’re songs that have already been written by someone else. At least it has a cool cover.

Mat Drogemuller

(Ten To Two)

Chuck Ragan has never been one to let himself be pigeonholed. The Hot Water Music frontman has taken flight in many musical guises over the years, and on latest cut Something May Catch Fire he lands somewhere between ‘60s Joe Cocker and ‘80s Bruce Springsteen. It’s a reverential sound made famous by The Gaslight Anthem, who themselves cite Hot Water Music as a key influence. It’s amazing how things come full circle.

The Bacchanales Why It Stopped Raining (Independent)

It’s quite the statement to name yourself after “a musical composition depicting catharsis, delirium, frenzy,” but that’s exactly what The Bacchanales have done. The Brisbane band certainly live up to the name on debut single Why It Stopped Raining, washing away the bad vibes like a droughtbreaking storm. With nods to forebears old and new (The Go-Betweens, Cut Off Your Hands), The Bacchanales are your postdiluvian olive branch.

24

RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au

Future Music Festival Live Review

Adelaide Showground, Mon Mar 10 (Photos by Jennifer Sando) (Review by Lachlan Aird)

AAA Over the last few years Future Music has cavorted across Adelaide in search of a suitable home – this year testing out the Adelaide Showground. While the venue seemed to treat most punters well, the two stage set up on the main oval proved problematic for those seeking shelter in the grandstand – or paid for VIP tickets – as music from the two stages played at the same time, with the noise pollution meaning it was impossible to take in the whole experience from afar.

Sadly, Pharrell Williams’s 30-minute set was underwhelming, acting more like a lazy karaoke retrospective (although karaoke doesn’t tend to have that much backing track) for his formidable career – including Snoop Dogg’s Drop It Like It’s Hot, Swedish House Mafia and Pitbull’s Your Name, Gwen Stefani’s Hollaback Girl and Nelly’s Hot In Herre. Inviting a large group of female punters on stage only perpetuated the sexism in Blurred Lines and ruined the innocence of Happy.

Precious seconds were wasted chastising those who defied his orders by taking photos on stage.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis battled with big band

Reviews // Quick Ones

Charles Jenkins & The Zhivagos

Elbow

Architects

The Take Off And Landing Of Everything

Lost Forever // Lost Together

Too Much Water In The Boat

(Fiction/Universal)

(UNFD)

(Silver Stamp)

AAAA

AAAa

It’s always been hard to know which direction Elbow will head in. One minute they’re assaulting the charts with Coldplayesque prog pop, the next they’re taking home Mercury Music Prizes and giving zero fucks about their public reception. They occupy a rarefied space between national treasures and critical darlings, and have done so for a number of years.

Equally amazing is that Elbow have managed to stay sonically dynamic throughout this process. No two albums of theirs sound the same, despite Guy Garvey’s distinctive vocal sticking out as a cohesive signifier. This strange confluence of characteristics is exhibited perfectly on The Take Off And Landing Of Everything – it sounds immediately like an Elbow album, yet like nothing they’ve done before. It swerves through subtle sound shifts and dramatic changes alike. The mood flits from assertively comfortable to wantonly paranoid. Lyrical gems like ‘Give me G&T and sympathy’ are nonchalantly thrown up. And this is just in the first three songs. The rest of the album is highlighted by a characteristic juxtaposition of experimentation and accessibility – from the Colin Greenwood-like bass of Fly Boy Blue + Lunette to the flighty pop of New York Morning. Once again, Elbow have defied all expectation, surprising nobody.

Jimmy Byzantine

The calm before the storm of opening track Gravedigger sets this collection off to an unbelievable high. Uniting ferociousness and melody, the opener is quickly followed

by Naysayer and Broken Cross, continuing this remarkable amalgamation, which is sadly never truly relived after this. Vocalist Sam Carter and guitarist/keyboardist Tom Searle create an atmosphere that transforms and illuminates the audience upon each listening. The lyrical complexity is a surprising aspect; maturation is becoming more and more evident as the band continues to create and boast their music.

The addition of the instrumental Red Hypergiant halfway down the list is a welcome break from the beautiful destruction, but it is also the turning point of the album. While not a major drop in quality, the tracks on the second half of Lost Forever // Lost Together begin to sound extremely similar, even as the tempo does drop and there is an attempt to increase the atmosphere.

This is undoubtedly a solid follow-up to their 2012 release Daybreaker. While this album is not for the faint hearted, it could hold its position in any metal fan’s collection. The atmosphere and complexity are by far enough to intrigue a listener and draw in new fans.

Nick Grimm

AAAa The Australia Council For The Arts delivers over $200 million in funding every year to arts councils and individuals.

The goal is to enrich Australia by supporting the practice and enjoyment of the arts. Some of that loot has found its way into the pockets of the chameleonlike Charles Jenkins. The stipulation?

Every song has to be about water.

So Jenkins and his merry band have clocked in 11 tunes that explore the rich aquatic history of Australia, from missing scuba divers to all of those asylum-seeking boats making detours to Christmas Island.

The result is an eclectic pastiche of wry humour and social commentary. Sonically, the songs run the gamut from surf rock to alt country. Out of context this may sound jarring, but the band deftly marries nearperfect melodies to Jenkins’ lyrical content.

To the credit of Jenkins and his band, sentiment is never overwrought. Instead, Jenkins and co. simply tell us folk tales accompanied by some solid musicianship.

Ryan Lynch

Rudimental for the crowd, although lost a large chunk after performing Thrift Shop early in the set.

Considering this is Rudimental’s third appearance in Adelaide since last year’s festival, hopefully next time they’ll be back with some new tricks.

After a disappointing unexplained cancellation by Gessaffelstein, with Gorgon City going in for round two, the crowd swelled for Hardwell, trumping the measly turnout for neighbouring Cut Copy.

Numbers at the Safari stage continued to suffer, with headliners Phoenix stating that, “This is one of the smallest crowds we’ve ever had, like, it’s a record.

Like every record, we need to celebrate it – so let’s dance!”The good news is that the 200 or so Phoenix fans who turned up got an intimate show spanning hits like Entertainment, Lisztomania, SOS In Bel Air, an awe-inspiring instrumental reworking of Funky Squaredance and closer 1901, although the bereft looks on the Frenchmen said it all. There were even real fears that there wouldn’t be enough people to support Thomas Mars’ crowdsurfing finale.

The results were clear, Future Music has evolved from a festival crossing all genres of dance music, including nostalgic bands like The Stone Roses and New Order, to one centred primarily on superstar DJs, taking the festival back to its origins. While change isn’t always a band thing – with a solid turnout a pleasant surprise – it looks like much of Future Music’s live band headliners will soon become a thing of the past.

Lowell I Killed Sara V EP (Arts & Crafts/Create/Control)

AAAA Lowell has lived a nomadic existence, traversing all around her native Canada and North America, before heading across the pond to London. This piecemeal upbringing shows in her debut EP I Killed Sara V, as does the high calibre of collaborators she has worked with on it. The magical touch of Swedish super producer Martin Terefe is laid bare, transforming Lowell into some electrified, politicised Lykke Li. Rather than love songs though, Lowell is penning statements, like the thunderous anti-misogyny anthem Cloud 69 or cathartic pick-me-up 88. But as acerbic as some of her lyrics are, Lowell is careful not to stray, maintaining a pop ebullience throughout. Like a magpie’s nest, I Killed Sara V is a stunning patchwork job of many origins.

Jimmy Byzantine

Holychild Mindspeak EP (Glassnote)

AA Holychild can only be described as sugary sweet electro-pop. The EP’s cover of a sprinkled donut hits the mark, with the musical content stale and filled with empty calories. Sounding like an infuriatingly upbeat Marina & The Diamonds, the LA duo seem like the kind of people the masses take vitamin supplements in the hopes of becoming. Chirpy hooks may infer deeper meanings around the personally critical nature of the media industry, but the unfriendly audio nature of the EP mars this message. All in all, the electronic bubblegum pop comes across as hollow and disguises otherwise interesting lyrical dimensions.

Katie Bryant

RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au

25

Local //

with Ilona Wallace

Email ilonawallace@ripitup.com.au

CD Review

t Formads Recor xter

by Jon De

Audio Reign Find Your Way (Independent)

Format Records will release their first official LP in early May this year. The debut Wireheads LP entitiled The Late Great will come out exclusively as a vinyl and digital release.

Speaking to Rip It Up, Format Creative Director Alex GordonSmith said that this was the label’s first serious record.

“We released Swimming’s amazing Yes,tonight last year as the first official release, but this is the first time that we’ve been involved from start to finish with a physical, tangible record.”

Format Records formed last year before the collective was forced to shut its doors. Format’s sound man, Pat Lockwood, had been recording the sessions and underground concerts at the old Peel St address for years, and began releasing them to Format’s followers.

Gordon-Smith says that when the label Major Crimes started releasing local acts on cassettes, Format was inspired to get in on the game.

“Major Crimes had so much stuff going on, we thought we could help out some of the bands who wanted to release their stuff as well.”

But Format is staying away from cassette releases since so many publishers are already doing so, choosing to publish exclusively on vinyl and digital platforms. As for CD releases, Gordon-Smith explains that CDs lack the charm and permanence of vinyl.

The sharehouse recording even gave birth to a seedy, beer-themed anthem from a combination of Wireheads, Old Mate and Format folks. GordonSmith shared Frothies with Rip It Up, telling us how it came together.

“I was out the back with Liam Kenny from Wireheads, while Pat was recording with Dan Heath in the house. Liam had to leave for work but stuck around for one more beer, and ended up drinking all the beer in the house. We wrote the lyrics on a piece of paper in the yard, and recorded it in about 40 minutes after a couple of rehearsals. You can hear Dan Heath cracking the last beer at the end of the song. He kind of fucked it up though, breaking the ring off and only barely cracking the beer.

Frothies an ode to drinking beers when there’s none left in the house to drink.”

“Vinyl’s more intimate. CDs seem so disposable. No one’s going to throw a vinyl away. You even see it with your parents and their huge collections of old records.”

True to their punk style, the new Wireheads album was recorded by Pat Lockwood in a sharehouse in the western suburbs. Yet the LP marks a diverse effort from the band, says Gordon-Smith.

“I’m really impressed with the album. It’s a mixture of punk rock, honest ballads and slow, drudging rock-outs.”

AAA Overall, Audio Reign’s independent release is solid, and is a release of which the band should be proud. However, like many similar EPs, it has its flaws and it has its strengths.

It is always a bold move opening any collection of music with an instrumental, but Audio Reign managed to pull it off. The track displays their musical prowess and allows their instruments to speak for them before Live Again kicks off. The only disappointing thing about the instrumental is that it is not reprised throughout the rest of the EP. There is no doubt that Audio Reign knows how to construct a song, but after listening, it becomes evident that most of the pieces on the CD are structured in extremely similar ways. A big build up to a big chorus can only carry certain songs, and sadly it doesn’t carry many of these.

There are nice changes in pace on tracks like Life Worth Living; sadly, this comes in far too late and at a tempo that doesn’t fit with the rest of the collection.

Find Your Way could be exactly as the title suggests: a band finding their way to what they hope to achieve.

by Nick Grimm Nick Grimm

Opportunity: Paid Apprenticeship Porch s n Sessio allace

by Ilona W

Before the weather gets too grouchy, Porch Sessions is returning to a Glenelg garden for a final evening among the fairy lights. The travelling series, which has knocked on doors across Adelaide’s coastal suburbs, is locally grown to complement the diverse SA music scene – and to accommodate for punters who look for a little more spice in their gigging regime.

The autumnal session on Sun Apr 6 will feature an entirely homemade lineup, to celebrate some of Adelaide’s finest.

Jesse Davidson’s just returned from a Triple Treat tour, but this garden party will be a perfect place to catch him in the quiet.

Supporting Davidson is Tom West (Traveller & Fortune),

26

RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au

a folk musician with a penchant for howling vocals and intelligent songwriting. Sophie Orchard, a quiet achiever with a brilliant voice, will be the first to tackle the porch stage.

Since the very first event, the special shows have routinely sold out. With this in mind, snaffle tickets fast – especially since it’ll be a while until the grey skies give way to porchfriendly sunshine again.

WHAT: The Porch Sessions WHO: Jesse Davidson, Tom West and Sophie Orchard WHERE: 24 Wilson Tce, Glenelg East WHEN: Sun Apr 6, 5pm–10pm COST: $15

Community musicians are invited by Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre to apply for one of four paid apprenticeships. Funded by Arts SA, these apprenticeships are aimed at musical folk who wish to develop their leadership skills under the guidance of renowned international musician, Julian Ferraretto.

Selection criteria state that the applicant should: • be a musician or a composer with an interest in community music-making • want to develop their workshop leadership skills, working with diverse groups • have musical training to tertiary level or be able to demonstrate training and experience to this level • have some existing experience in this area of work, and an interest in developing their skills further.

Payment for the three month apprenticeship (flexible hours) is $1123.

Those interested should visit nexus.asn.au.

Applications close Fri Mar 14.