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EDITOR’S NOTE With the cold season well and truly over and Spring so far delivering its fair share of brilliant weather, we figured we’d pack this issue of Rock Candy with heaps of outdoor adventure-y things to get your adrenaline going.

We’ve thrown Marcie Bench into the deep end to write about her debut experience in scuba diving; asked Al McGlashan to school us in the science of fishing for marlin; roped in skateboarding champ Jake Brown to tell us how he survived the world’s greatest slam; and travelled to the tip of the Northern Territory to battle the elements in the name of adventure.

Our two resident Heaths also get in on the activity theme, with Heath Black providing tips on how to unleash anxiety through regular exercise (it’s not all hard work), and Heath Franklin giving the Chopper take on cheeky Americans and their lack of gun control.

On the entertainment front, we review new movie Lovelace that delves into the nastier side of the porn industry; chat with Rose Tattoo singer Angry Anderson about politics and music; compare “dudes-they’ddate” checklists of Jess Mauboy, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift; and get local musos Eskimo Joe to spill the beans on their shenanigans in the recording studio. (Mind you, we think the lads scrub up quite nicely on our cover - amazing what a bit of hair gel and a decent suit can do).

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EDITOR Antonino Tati antonino@candymedia.com.au CREATIVE DESIGN Barbara Bertoli design@candymedia.com.au CONTRIBUTORS Marcie Bench Heath Black Gary Compton Heath Franklin Jake D. Frost Jordan Leist Andrea Manno Al McGlashan Debbie Russo Antonino Tati Jay Walker

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This issue is the first I’ve had the pleasure of putting together - with the help of a very reliable team here at Rock Candy, and I look forward to bringing you more of the best in sports, leisure, arts and entertainment.

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contents Issue 07 - Spring 2013

22. HOMEGROWN TALENT Three easy questions posed to three local dudes doing very well for themselves, thanks.

COVER STORY

FEATURES

31. MUSO PROFILE Matt Corby shakes off the Oz Idol tag.

40. PICTURE THIS Shots taken at the Perth Tattoo and Body Art Expo.

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51. TRAVEL The Northern Territory boasts some of the most awesome natural landmarks and offers plenty to do for the avid outdoor adventurist.

32. JESS, QUEEN B. & MISS T. How would you score on the checklists of these three in-demand divas?

34. ANGRY ANDERSON The Rose Tattoo front-man continues to inject colour into the charts - and now into politics.

42. CHEATING DEATH Jake Brown on surviving the world’s worst skateboarding slam.

65. THE FIFO WIFE Debbie Russo says it’s no sign of weakness to admit you need extra support at home.

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57. TAKING THE PLUNGE A first-time scuba diving experience can be nerveracking, but the rewards underwater are well worth it.

76. WHO’S THIS, THEN? Electrical instrumentation apprentice Shaydan Penniment enjoys a nice side in Formula Vee racing.

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REGULARS 10. COMPETITIONS Win copies of a new autobiography by NRL big man Wendell Sailor, and score beaut accessories made out of recycled fire hose and safety belts!

13. THE BITS UP THE FRONT Perth scores its own edition of Monopoly; Aussies tagged the worst music pirates in the world; production gets going on the film version of Fifty Shades of Grey.

14. GADGETS & STUFF Apple’s iPhone 5c packs a brighter punch, plus other cool stuff to colour up your day.

69. LOCAL HERO Brian and Lorraine Young doing great things to raise funds and awareness for the fight against meningococcal disease.

71. HEATH’S HELPLINE Heath Black offers suggestions on getting out of a stressful rut.

60. THE ACROBATS OF THE SEA Any fisherman will tell you there are few things as exciting as hooking up to a highflying marlin.

72. THE MINE SITE BUFFET Or… How To Eat Healthier On The Job.

48. MUSCLE CARS Lennard Viddot’s killer HQ cleans up at Motorvation.

16. FASHION IN, FASHION OUT New denim, new sunnies, new (wooden!) wrist-wear.

19. STICK IT IN YOUR DIARY Enough festivals and exhibitions to fill your Spring quarter.

20. POP CULTURE: REVIEWS New movie Lovelace takes a look at the nastier side of the porn industry; Orange Is The New Black injects comedy into the prison drama; cheeky Robbie Williams swings again.

78. THE LAST WORD Heath Franklin’s Chopper sticks it to mad Americans and their gun- toting antics.

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24. ESKIMO JOE The three lads from East Freo continue taking the music charts by storm. Rock Candy chats with guitarist and drummer Joel Quartermain about getting up to no good in the recording studio but keeping things very profesh on the road.

Eskimo Joe: all dressed up and always somewhere to go.

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Then in 2006, things fell apart, with Wendell testing positive for cocaine, hence banned from the game for two years. Those years would prove to be the toughest of his life. Though packed with partying, there were also the ramifications of those many nights on the tiles. All of it lead to some serious soul-searching and the ultimate in comebacks. And most of it has been written up about in Sailor’s brilliant new autobiography, Crossing The Line.

It’s a riveting read from front to back. Speaking of which – the book features two alternate covers – one of Sailor in a Bronco’s jersey; the other in a uniform for the last team he played for, the Illawarra Dragons. Pretty clever, huh?

ROCK CANDY HAS 10 COPIES OF CROSSING THE LINE TO GIVE AWAY COURTESY OF BOOK PUBLISHERS SIMON & SCHUSTER (RRP $45 IN HARDBACK). TO TRY WINNING A COPY, EMAIL YOUR NAME, ADDRESS AND THE SUBJECT HEADING ‘WENDELL’ TO COMPETITIONS@CANDYMEDIA.COM.AU NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 15, 2013. OH, AND YOU’VE GOT TO ANSWER THE QUESTION BELOW. WHICH OF THESE CREATURES IS NOT A REAL-LIFE ANIMAL? (A) BRONCO (B) WALLABY (C) DRAGON

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PERTH SCORES ITS OWN EDITION OF MONOPOLY While Perth can boast being Australia’s fastest-growing city and the nation’s strongest performing capital, thanks in no small part to the amazing business brought in by the resources industry, the city can now show off its own edition of the board game, Monopoly.

The city’s Lord Mayor, Lisa Scaffidi, met up with Mr Monopoly himself earlier in the year to make a few suggestions of what ought to be included on the Perth board.

Says Scaffidi, “We shouldn’t be limited to what’s in existence already. I think the waterfront, or Elizabeth Quay [deserves to be] one of the places because it’s certainly going to be a landmark of the future. When it is complete, it’s going to see something like nine million visitors per annum.”

Perth residents also had their say as to what hot properties would make it onto the board, with the final selection of local landmarks and addresses like Kings Park, St George’s Terrace and the Bell Tower replacing the traditional likes of London’s Mayfair, Pall Mall and The Strand.

The Perth edition of Monopoly is now on shop shelves - just in time for Christmas.

Fun for the whole family sorted, then.

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AUSSIES THE WORST MUSIC PIRATES IN THE WORLD So you’re forever on the go and can’t be stuffed carting around stacks of CDs, hence we understand downloading music is more your thing. And while a recent report shows that Australians are some of the greatest embracers of music streaming and digital downloading, it’s also revealed that we’re the worst music pirates in the world.

The arrival of services like Spotify, Rdio and Radionomy have led to extraordinary growth in streaming in the past 18 months. In fact, streaming sales grew a whopping 232% to nearly 3-million dollars’ worth last financial year.

Piracy, however, remains a problem with Aussies illegally downloading nearly 200 million songs in six months of the last year alone. Indeed, they’re calling us the “worst offenders in the world”.

We suppose some of that cheeky convict DNA is still in our blood…

LEAD ACTORS ANNOUNCED FOR FIFTY SHADES OF GREY FLICK Well the decision has been made. After much uhm-ing and ah-ing over who should play distinguished-but-kinky guy Christian Grey in the film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey, the role has gone to one Charlie Hunnam. You might find the dude familiar from his regular appearances in FX bad-boy drama Sons of Anarchy while his feature film credits have included Cold Mountain, Children of Men, and more recently Pacific Rim. Hunnam will be joined on-screen by gorgeous actress (and daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson), Dakota Johnson, who will play the naïvebut-soon-to-learn-a-heck-of-a-lot-about-sex, Anastasia Steele.

The film, which will be released at the start of the second half of next year, is being directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and produced by Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti alongside E. L. James, the author of the bestselling book on which the movie is based.

To date, Fifty Shades of Grey has sold over 70 million copies worldwide in e-book and print while having been translated in 50 languages since its release.

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NEW APPLE IPHONE PACKS A BRIGHTER PUNCH With the release of a new-model iPhone comes all manner of horn-blowing, and the iPhone 5c has been as hyped-up as a gizmo can get. Much of the whiz-bang-wow factor surrounding the gadget is veered towards the look of it, with the new model coming in five colours – blue, green, yellow, white and - heck - even pink. Quite frankly, we’re surprised the brand didn’t go all pretentiously Pantone on us and give each one a ‘fancy colour’ name like Pistachio or Lemon Zest.

So what else is new with the iPhone 5c on the functionality side of things? Well let’s see… It has an impressive 4-inch Retina display, boasts fast performance (thanks to an A6 chip), 8 megapixel iSight camera, offers FaceTime, and has a longer battery life than its predecessors.

But we reckon its them darn pretty colours that’ll really see ‘em selling like hotcakes.

For more info visit www.apple.com.au.

IT’S A WRAP! Whatever happened to the humble lunch box? These wraps double up as secure packaging for your sandwiches and a clean place-mat to eat your food off. Lightweight but durable, they come with an adjustable velcro strip so that you can keep your lunch loose or tightly wrapped (stop it with the below-thebelt jokes). They can be kept in the freezer, are machine-washable, and come in heaps of great designs.

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NICE ANGLE OF APPROACH Who says golfing has to be all serious-style? Brighten up your day on the green with this Golf Scene Gift Box from Hobby Hampers. It’s packed with all the essentials like Heineken Beers, Fererro Roche choccies, Nobbys Nuts, and golf balls and tees aplenty. Available to buy online for $100, it sure beats the usual hamper of strangesounding cheeses and crackers.

For stockists, visit www.hobbyhampers.com.au or phone 1300 797 417.

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They say the pen is mightier than the sword. Well it’s a heck of lot more attractive these days, too, thanks to S. T. Dupont. The makers of beaut accessories have released an array of jet-8 ballpoint pens for the distinguished gent (oh, you know you are) who might still write the odd postcard or letter - unlike them kids addicted to all their text-messaging.

Available in eight colours, RRP $140. For stockists phone (02) 9663 4277.

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Fashion In Fashion Out

IT’S IN THE JEANS The ML Denim brand has a history that dates back to 1971 when the pioneering Cotsoglou family started up Australia’s first ever denim manufacturing firm. So dedicated were the ML crew, they began working with other leading labels: Lee, Saba, Country Road and Hard Yakka, to name a few.

Fast-forward 40 years from ML’s inception and the brand today remains fully Australian-owned and designed - and by the same family that founded it! You can rest assured their jeans are just as durable, like the heavy brushed denim pair, pictured, designed to fade and rip with wear.

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WOODEN THIS LOOK GOOD ON YOUR WRIST? Wood and fashion don’t usually go in the same sentence, but they do now thanks to upmarket accessories label, WeWood. Each timepiece is crafted in 100% natural wood and features state-of-the-art Miyota movements. Not only is each watch a unique and handsome piece, but earthfriendly and splash-proof, too.

RRP $119, available at www.biome.com.au.

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Rayban’s Classic Wayfarer gets a colour overhaul so that you can stand out from the black-clad crowd. The eyewear brand that has made everyone from James Dean to Jay-Z look cool is still issuing their standard blackframed Wayfarers, but now you can also score them in lighter shade frames of jade green or blue (pictured).

RRP $159, for stockists visit www.rayban.com.

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PICK AND SHOES If, like us regular jetsetters, you’ve worried about shoes in your luggage getting scuffed or, worse still, marking your other gear, you’ll appreciate these shoe tidy bags.

Housed in a small, convenient zipper pouch are two larger drawstring bags, one for each shoe. Far more sartorial than the everyday plastic bag, don’t you think?

RRP $14.95 and available from www.giftsforblokes.com.au.

THIS ISSUE’S FASHION NO-NO FILTHY FLIP-FLOPS Okay, we won’t slap you across the face with our Havaianas if you happen to be wearing another brand of flip-flop, but if your thongs are filthy-dirty, no matter what their namesake we will not tolerate the grime and the scuff.

Lash out on a few pairs of flip-flops this season so that you’re never short of fresh pair.

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1 - FREO FEST COMES TO LIFE AGAIN Who do you know that’s made it to a hundred? This year, the Fremantle Festival celebrates its 108th year and is proud to boast being Australia’s longest running festival - of any kind. Sorta makes you wonder what did those folks on the east coast do for kicks eons ago?

Back on the west coast, there’s heaps to do at Freo Fest this year with over 100 events and happenings for you to choose from.

New to the scene is ‘Art Adrift’ in which a series of floating works created with sea-drift materials will be installed in the iconic Fishing Boat Harbour (talk about amazing recycling - see pic). And on the subject of things marinerelated, there’s the regular ‘Blessing Of The Fleet’ which was first introduced in Freo in 1948 by Italian immigrants who would call on the Big Guy to bring in the big fish. These days there’s fireworks and all.

Expect, too, plenty of cool theatre, live music, and a street parade that promises to be as controversial as it is vivid.

ON FROM OCTOBER 27 TO NOVEMBER 10.

FOR INFO VISIT WWW. FREMANTLE.WA.GOV.AU.

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2 - KISS THE DIRT IN CARNARVON Kickstarters Gascoyne Dash is an awesome challenge across some of the harshest and remote country in Australia - between Carnarvon and Gascoyne Junction is where you’ll see most of the dust fly. A motorsport event that pits car against car, and bike against bike, the Dash will ultimately crown a ‘King of the River’.

Some say the event is a bit like the Finke Desert Race, only punters will probably get away with messing up more turf in Carnarvon than they would in Alice Springs.

ON FROM OCTOBER 31 TO NOVEMBER 3.

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3 - LEEDERVILLE LIGHTS UP IN A BIG WAY

4 - STEREOSONIC NOW A TWO-DAY FESTIVAL

5- A GAMUT OF MODERN ART AT AGWA

It seems every precinct is hosting its own festival or carnival these days - closing off its main drag to make way for rows of food stalls, jam-packed market stands, and excellent entertainment.

And we like it that way.

Up soon is the Light Up Leederville Carnival where the streets of Leedy will brighten up even more-so on Sunday 1 December at a free event that runs from 12–8pm, mostly along infamous Oxford and Newcastle Streets.

For foodies at heart there’ll be plenty of culinary theatrics - with some of the better chefs from local restaurants battling it out against each other, lots of on-the-go graffiti-ing, retro markets, and skater displays.

While some big-name events on the live music calendar have fallen by the way side (we won’t mention them here), Stereosonic just grows and grows - into a two-day festival in fact. For the first time in 2013, Stereosonic will run over a couple of days in every capital city that it rears its lovely head.

That means more DJs and acts from all spectrums of the electronic world!

This year’s lineup includes David Guetta (pictured), Calvin Harris, Armin Van Buuren, Boys Noize, Axwell, Afrojack, Acid Jacks, and Alesso (who’s looking spookily like Michael Jackson these days).

We know you love to impress ’em with your knowledge of art and culture, so be sure not to miss the massive exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Van Gogh, Dalí & Beyond: The World Reimagined.

A mouthful, we know, but worth every word in its title.

Over 130 works by 96 artists are presented, each telling ‘their story’ of 20th Century living through mindblowing landscape, still life, portraiture and installation.

The collection is so immense, it includes just about every movement in modern art, with works featured by the likes of Van Gogh (the strange dude who cut off his ear), Dalí (the trippy surrealist), Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo.

No, the art isn’t for sale, but you might want to try sweet-talking a couple of the curators…

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Pop culture film

My usual film-going pal wasn’t able to make it to the preview of Lovelace, a biopic about 1970s porn star, Linda Lovelace, hence I had to venture into the cinema alone. The movie was just starting, with its neon-like titles flashing across the screen, and I couldn’t help but feel like one of those perv-y men sneaking into an art-house porn film as I made my way toward an available seat, dodging heads, and concerned about whether to face seated patrons crotch- or ass-ward.

So cleverly ‘on the mark’ is the retro vibe of the opening of Lovelace that this is what it has resorted me to feeling like – a cine-perv.

Once settled in, I realised I was here simply to review a movie about a porn star, starring a host of great Hollywood actors, and so began my semiotic analysis. My first finding?

That Lovelace has that same cool, retro bent as Boogie Nights. The cast is immense, the subject taboo, the soundtrack awesome, and the narrative edited economically – leaving all the boring bits on the cutting room floor; keeping all the important bits intact.

Amanda Seyfried is magical (let alone stunning) in the lead role of Linda Lovelace, starting out in character as a naïve waif, turning victim, and ultimately evolving into a heroine of sorts.

Linda Lovelace’s story is a complex one. She was a girl who came from a fairly dysfunctional family where aloofness ruled the roost (her lax mother in particular, played with such conviction by Sharon Stone that you don’t realise you’re watching the exbombshell until her very last scene).

Peter Sarskaard plays Linda’s abusive husband-come-manager, Chuck, who of all actors in this extensive cast, probably has the most difficult shoes to fill – for Chuck is one nasty piece of work. He not only pimps Linda out to a couple of porn-makers, but starts to crave instant cash by hookering her out to a group of very dodgy guys. It’s in one particular scene that the audience suddenly feels total sympathy for Linda for, porn star or otherwise, nobody deserves the violence, pain and trauma of rape.

But Lovelace does have a happy ending, since in real life its protagonist did complete just the one porn film – the infamous Deep Throat – and due to the subsequent disrespect and abuse, moved as far away from the adult movie industry as possible to begin a family and write a best-selling book. It’s actually quite surreal seeing Seyfried as a maturer character when delivering an older version of Linda.

The support cast in the film do a superb job – no matter how big or small their individual roles. Chloë Sevigny is in the film for all of one minute yet her character as a ballsy journalist sets the tone for the gender agenda to come.

James Franco plays a charismatic Hugh Hefner, lending enough charm to the role that you temporarily forgive Hef for his often flip remarks.

Also in the mix are Juno Temple, Adam Brody, Eric Roberts, Bobby Carnivale, and even Sarah Jessica Parker getting a sneak-in.

All up, Lovelace is quality viewing.

While it appears to turn taboo subjects into light entertainment, it never treats these flippantly, and even makes some – some – of them fun. AT Lovelace is in cinemas now.

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ROBBIE SWINGS AGAIN

Only Robbie Williams can give an album a twisted title and still manage to keep fans, both old-school and new.

Boldly calling his new LP Swings Both Ways, the singer who previously enjoyed success with Swing When You’re Winning delivers another batch of classic-sounding songs, many a cover version and a few of them original.

To give you an idea of the classics, there’s Puttin’ On The Ritz, Dream A Little Dream and that song the Scarecrow sings on The Wizard of Oz: If I Only Had A Brain (go figure).

But it’s the guest roll call that’s most impressive on Swings, with duetting talent including Kelly Clarkson, Lily Allen, Michael Bublé, and Olly Murs.

Rufus Wainwright also features – on the title track no less – making the mind boggle what with he and Robbie exchanging a bit of innuendo. Cheeky buggers.

Robbie Williams’ Swings Both Ways is out November 15.

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When it comes to general relationship politics, boy, have the tables turned. You might recall the classic Stanley Kubrick film Lolita, in which a lolly-pop sucking minor (the Lolita in title) seduces a man twice her age. Now comes Ben Brook’s Lolito, the story of a young guy who gets into a full-on relationship with a woman not twice, but three times his age. The pair meet on the internet – as is the usual medium for such unconventional relationships, after the geekily-named Etgar is betrayed by his first love Alice and forced to go shopping online for lurve.

There he meets Macy, an attractive but bored housewife who shows him a thing or two that only a cougar can.

Hilarious, fearless and utterly outrageous, Lolito is a truly twenty-first century love story.

So intense, that Nick Cave has dubbed it “the funniest, most horrible book I’ve read in years”.

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NEW PRISON DRAMA ROPES IN THE LAUGHS

While Australian prison series Wentworth is going great guns on the telly, make room in your viewing itinerary for new inmate drama Orange Is The New Black.

Fresh from the US, the series has been created by Jenji Kohan of Weeds fame, so you can expect plenty of tragicomic storylines involving the usual sex, drugs and scandal.

The series begins with engaged Brooklyn-ite Piper Chapman (played

by Taylor Shilling), whose decade-old relationship with drug-runner Alex (Laura Prepon) results in her arrest and year-long detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper must trade her comfortable New York life with fiancé Larry (Jason Biggs) for an orange jumpsuit and a baffling inside culture where she’s forced to question everything she believes in.

Having seen a few episodes of the show already, we couldn’t believe how funny some of the sub-plots are, considering the seriousness of the setting and all. In fact, Orange is as hilarious in some parts as it is tense and sensitive in others.

Slap on a pair of trackies, crack open a bevvy, and settle in to some quality TV viewing.

Orange Is The New Black airs Wednesday nights at 8.30pm on Showcase.

‘KILLZONE: MERCENARY’ TAKES ON THE BIG GUNS

Since it kicked off in 2004, Killzone has taken the gaming market by storm. The shooter franchise recently unleashed its fifth instalment – and second only hand-held title – Killzone: Mercenary, for PlayStation’s Vita.

Starting just after the conclusion of the original Killzone and revisiting many of the events from the preceding trilogy, Mercenary puts players in the rugged combat boots of hired gunman, Arran Danner. Danner is a former UCA-soldier who has no qualms about taking on paid contracts from the ISA as well as the Helghast.

The game throws players into some seriously deadly fire-fights but leaves them free to decide which tactics and load-outs they’ll use to fulfil their assigned contracts. With each task you complete come the rewards of more weaponry and money, making your chances of surviving stronger.

As you can imagine, the build-up is more intense here than in most games of this calibre.

Killzone: Mercenary is available for PS Vita, RRP $54.95.

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Homegrown Talent Rock Candy asks three local rock’n’rollers a set of three simple questions: one about music (of course), the second about style, and the third about alternative careering.

Compiled by Antonino Tati.

STUART MACLEOD, 36 Guitarist + sometimes vocalist with Eskimo Joe

ALEX MACRAE, 29 Lead vocalist + guitarist with Sons Of Rico

DYLAN OLLIVIERRE, 22 Lead vocalist + guitarist with Rainy Day Women

What’s on your iPod? A recently played list includes Big Scary, Alpine, Volcano Choir, Dizzee Rascal, Kavinsky, Tycho, The Knife, Major Lazer, and Tame Impala.

What’s on your iPod? A helluva lot! But recently, new Queens Of The Stone Age and Unknown Mortal Orchestra have been on high rotation. Also, I’ve always got to have some Blur, Flaming Lips, and The New Pornographers on there.

What’s on your iPod? Mostly classic tunes from the ’60s and ’70s.

Lots of Beatles and Bob Dylan. Also City and Colour, Fruit Bats and The Sleepy Jackson.

The other day, a taxi driver told me I have ‘gay’ taste in music… whatever that means!

What’s your style?

I always try to dress a little colourful to reflect my personality. My sister bought me these super-colourful ‘happy socks’ for my birthday and I got really excited. I’m a man of simple pleasures. Either that, or I’m getting old.

What’s your style?

I’m pretty relaxed when it comes to what I wear - and pretty relaxed in general. Jeans, t-shirt and thongs are usually my attire.

What’s your style?

I don’t take anything too seriously in life and I think that sums up my personality and fashion sense. I take part in life just enough to appear serious about it, but not too much to actually have it take up too much of my time.

If you weren’t making music, what would you be doing?

Perhaps making things: be it musical instruments or furniture. I love working with wood - and old bits of discarded junk. Either that or I’d love to do voiceovers for cartoons.

Eskimo Joe’s new LP Wastelands is out through Dirt Diamonds. See our cover feature on the band over the page.

If you weren’t making music, what would you be doing?

Listening to music! Well that goes without saying.

I’d probably be doing something creative in the visual arts - like painting cats for a living.

Sons Of Rico’s LP In Rico Glaciers is out through Firestarter.

If you weren’t making music, what would you be doing?

Probably boring my arse off doing Civil Engineering. I got halfway through an engineering degree before I gave it up.

Rainy Day Women’s EP Friends is out through Firestarter.

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t’s tough enough being a musician in an era when every man and his drum machine is competing for attention on the internet. Let alone surviving – no, thriving – in such a fickle industry. Given these factors, Perth band Eskimo Joe have done good indeed, not only consistently delivering solid studio albums, but sticking together as a tight-knit trio for 16 years – the very same line-up, that is, since the band’s formation.

The Joe story began during highschool when three buddies: Joel Quartermain (he went to Hollywood Senior High), Stuart MacLeod (John Curtin High) and Kavyn Temperley (ditto) agreed they preferred jamming to cover songs than to focus on the usual reading, ’riting and ’rithmetic.

Forget those three traditional ‘R’s – these guys were only concerned with two new ones: rock and roll.

Sometimes they’d jam in their parents’ backyards – when the extension cord for the amp was long enough – but usually they’d be cramped in a shoebox of a houseshare in East Freo, turning on, tuning in to, writing, recording – hell – living and breathing music.

Four years of jamming later, Eskimo Joe released their first album proper in 2001, affectionately called Girl but packed with boyish boisterousness: loads of rumbling guitar (coming from all three guys), throbbing percussion (drums courtesy of Quartermain), and angst-ridden vocals (Kavyen).

Signing to Universal Music’s cooler ‘alternative’ offshoot Modular Records, they’d soon be keeping the company of The Presets, Cut Copy and Van She – their peers making music more of an ‘electronic’ kind, hence leaving Eskimo with the tag of being Modular’s token ‘rock outfit’.

Girl was received with open arms by the music media and rock fans alike.

One journalist, Ed Nimmervoll, compared the album to their earlier [EP] work by saying: “The nonsensical songs about stereos, alcohol and farting [have been] replaced by Beatlesque highly relatable songs about the ups and downs of day-to-day life”.

Five more studio albums later and Eskimo Joe are making music that’s even more relevant to the everyday Aussie. It’s just that the instrumentplaying has gotten tighter, the lyrics somewhat cleverer, and the boys’ over-all look a heck of a lot smarter.

Basically, Eskimo Joe have all grown up.

This year sees the release of the band’s sixth LP, Wastelands, and where the boys could easily have copied the ‘in’ sounds of their contemporaries (Tame Impala’s psychedelic touches, Boy & Bear’s folky bent), they’ve instead come up with a soundscape that is so original, it defies genre-positioning. »

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For ticketing v isit www.eskim ojoe.net FIRST OF ALL, WELL DONE FOR STAYING INTACT AS A BAND FOR 16 YEARS. THAT’S QUITE IMPRESSIVE. Definitely. Every time we release an album it’s always surprising to think we’ve been around for that long. It’s only when you come to the end of making a record that you actually reflect and go, ‘Wow, it’s been so many years’. I mean most bands don’t get to make one album, let alone six, but like you said, it’s an achievement just to stay together.

KUDOS TO YOU ESPECIALLY, JOEL, HAVING BEEN A DRUMMER IN THE BAND [NOW MAINLY GUITARIST].

DRUMMERS HAVE A REPUTATION FOR GETTING ITCHING FEET AND LEAVING BEFORE OTHER PLAYERS IN THE BAND. I guess that’s the legend of the drummer role, as illustrated in Spinal Tap [laughs]. That said, on the records I’ll play drums but I haven’t actually played drums live since 2002.

SO YOU’RE PROBABLY FEELING MORE INSPIRED WHEN YOU CAN ALTERNATE INSTRUMENTS WHEREAS SOME PLAYERS STICK TO JUST THE ONE. In our band we all play a few different things so when we’re in the studio we

swap instruments heaps. It’s a bit of a free-for-all, really. We’re lucky to be able to be in that situation because it keeps things fresh for each of us.

The only thing with that is when we play live we have to get another two or three mates in to play with us.

But that’s good, too, because it brings fresh blood into the band every time we’re on tour.

ALL THREE OF YOU ARE WA BORN AND BRED. DO YOU STILL CALL FREO HOME? Yeah. I’ve just moved down Freo-way in the last two years. The other guys were born and bred in Freo and seem to think that it’s the centre of the universe. I don’t think they’d live anywhere else. The good thing about staying in Perth, and WA in general, is that it’s a good place to come back to – away from all the industry stuff. We found very much in our earlier career that you’d go over east and there were always heaps of industry things going on. Then you’d come back to Perth and could just hang out with friends, or with the other guys and make music. Which is what a band should be doing – not going out there day-in, day-out,

hanging out with industry people. Perth’s isolation gives us the opportunity to be creative for the sake of making music.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT WA MUSICIANS THAT’S SEEING THEM TAKE THE WORLD BY STORM? I’m not sure but there seems to be waves of bands that have come from WA, from Jebediah right through to Tame Impala. I thinks it’s because musicians tend to hang out here and help each other out. There’s a real scene here and definitely a competitiveness going on – but it’s a healthy competition.

Whereas I hear in places like Sydney, bands don’t really go out of their way to help each other. In fact they’d probably do the opposite and try to get ahead of each another. Whereas Perth bands really band together, man - there’s definitely a kind of support network that goes on.

ANOTHER GREAT THING ABOUT PERTH AND WA BANDS IS THAT YOU’RE NOT TRYING TO SOUND LIKE ONE OTHER. I MEAN YOU GUYS COULD HAVE GONE AND DELIVERED A PURELY PSYCHEDELICSOUNDING RECORD TO TRY AND KEEP UP WITH TAME IMPALA, BUT INSTEAD YOU KEEP COMING UP

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Over here, it’s not so much about fashion or what’s cool at the moment. You just do your own thing. WA bands seem to put more emphasis on substance than style. And I think that’s what makes a good band, really.

YOU GUYS WERE ALL IN HIGH-SCHOOL WHEN YOU STARTED IN MUSIC… I had a band in high-school and we got invited to play at a John Curtin gig - which was a fundraiser for their yearbook. Kav was playing in another band that night and he came up to me to say that if we wanted a singer he’d love to start an official band with us. We hung out with him that night and he played me a couple of songs on guitar. I thought he had a great voice. So we started a band from there.

DID YOU USED TO JAM TOGETHER AFTER SCHOOL AND ON WEEKENDS - POSSIBLY EVEN DOING YOUR PARENTS HEADS IN? Yeah, a lot from our parents’ homes at the very beginning [in different bands] but eventually we’d all moved out and had sharehouses. So we’d just jam in someone’s bedroom or spare room at the time – probably driving the other housemates crazy playing the same song for two hours straight. It sort of went from there, and we’ve gotten to the point now where we’ve got our own studio and it’s like a souped-up version of that. But we’ve always kinda had a home-base where we’ve had instruments set up; ready to go so that we could just go right in and make music.

COULD YOU BE BOTHERED HAVING TO BALANCE SCHOOL REQUIREMENTS, YOU KNOW, THE USUAL READING, WRITING AND MATHS, OR DID YOU GIVE UP ON THAT STUFF EARLIER ON TO FOCUS ON MAKING MUSIC? Well we did actually finish school – and two of us went to university. It was actually at uni that we got our break. We got our first gig through a campus band competition. But even though we were at uni, in the back of our minds we always angled at being professional musicians if we could; if we were good enough.

IT WAS KAV WHO DIDN’T GO TO UNI, RIGHT?

Yeah. He dropped out of high-school in year 11 to smoke pot and write songs. Stu and I went to uni, but I only went as a stop-gap. I really wanted to be a musician, so as soon as the opportunity came up – when we’d won that competition – I was sitting the next day in an Industrial Relations lecture and thought to myself, ‘What am I doing here?’ so I just left. It was all music from then on.

YOU JUST MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT SMOKING POT. DO YOU YOURSELF TAKE ANY ILLICIT SUBSTANCES TO INSPIRE YOU IN YOUR SONG-WRITING OR MUSIC-MAKING? Oh, you know, some guys in the band like to smoke a joint every now and again. But it’s not like the early days when you used to roll out of bed and be rolling a joint. I used to find that smoking pot was really good for focusing and being creative, but just like with anything else your body tells you when enough is enough. So that was it for me. But the other guys in the band don’t mind it.

HAVE YOU EVER LAID SOMETHING DOWN DURING RECORDING, WHILE ON A BIT OF HOOCH, AND THEN LISTENED BACK TO IT SOBER AND WONDERED WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING? Yeah, definitely. Mainly when we were making this record we were writing five days a week. On Wednesdays we’d do a night-time session where we’d go in after dinner and each bring in a six-pack and start drinking and jamming. It’d always end up being, like, a stupid song - definitely something that wasn’t going to make it onto the record. And exactly like you’re saying, we’d go, ‘What the fuck were we thinking then?’ But it’s always fun to listen back to it.

It just lightens things up a bit, because it can get all heavy if you try and be serious all the time; writing an album and thinking of deadlines. It was nice to get in there once a week, get some beers into us, and just have a laugh.

STILL, FANS MIGHT HOPE TO HEAR SOME OF THAT STUFF ON A RARITIES COMPILATION DOWN THE LINE… Yeah, but hopefully not too much of it.

There’ll be bits and pieces of it floating around. We did actually do some decent

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stuff on those nights but as the nights wore on, they always got more and more stupid to the point where it just ended up with us being drunk, laughing on microphones.

HAVE YOU GUYS FOUND THAT WITH INCREASED SUCCESS THERE’S A LOT MORE TRAVELLING INVOLVED? I guess so. There was a period there between 2006 and 2009 when we were travelling heaps. When we released Black Fingernails, Red Wine we just seemed to be constantly on the road. Getting to the end of that period, we were sick of travelling and just felt tired generally. We wanted to spend some time at home. That was the most full-on it ever got. Nowadays we’re very much in and out regularly, but not for long stretches of time.

SOME OF YOU ARE IN RELATIONSHIPS. DOES TOURING TAKE ITS TOLL ON THOSE RELATIONSHIPS? Absolutely. I’m lucky because my wife is understanding and cool with it.

When we got together, the band was always touring, so I think she kind of knew the deal. With other relationships in the band it varies, but that time away is definitely testing. I think the older we get, the harder it is to go away because you just want to get more settled and nested.

But on the same token, we all enjoy going away. It’s good to miss each other as well.

NOT ONLY DOES ABSENCE MAKE THE HEART GROW FONDER, BUT I’M SURE YOU COME HOME WITH SOME GREAT STORIES TO TELL. That’s exactly right. It’s interesting because I don’t think our wives really have a clear idea of what we do on the road. When we go touring in Europe and stuff, it’s pretty hard work. It’s not glamorous at all. It’s all early lobby calls and then five or six hours in a van, and then another sound-check and another gig, and then doing it all over again. They think we’re just cruising around Europe, eating nice food and having a ball. We kind of are… but not really. But they can tell we work hard; when we get home and we’re completely exhausted and just need to sleep for two days.

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RC’s TOP 10 ESKIMO JOE TRACKS

“Perth bands really band together, man - there’s definitely a kind of support network that goes on.”

01. Not Alone 02. From The Sea 03. Black Fingernails, Red Wine 04. Got What You Need 05. Turn Up Your Stereo 06. Don’t Let Me Down 07. Liar 08. Foreign Land 09. Love Is A Drug 10. Somebody That I Used To Know

(from new album Wastelands) (from A Song Is A City) (from the LP of the same name)

(new single from Wastelands) (1999 EP track)

(from Inshalla)

(from Girl)

(from Inshalla)

(from Ghosts Of The Past) (Gotye cover in which the boys are joined by a talking computer)

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THAT’S WHEN YOU JUST WANT TO RUG UP IN YOUR UGGIES AND TRACKIES AND STAY IN WATCHING VIDEOS WITH YOUR OTHER HALF. Exactly!

LET’S GET TO THE NEW ALBUM ‘WASTELANDS’.

IT’S GOT SOME GREAT, FRESH SOUNDS ON IT. Thanks mate.

THERE’S SOME REAL ‘UP’ MOMENTS – MUSICALLY – LIKE ON THE TRACKS ‘NOT ALONE’ AND ‘WHAT YOU WANT’. WHEN YOU’RE DELIVERING UPTEMPO MUSIC – WHICH IS DIFFERENT TO ESKIMO JOE’S DARKER MOMENTS – DO YOU WONDER IF FANS ARE GOING TO LIKE IT? I think we just go with the flow. That was the whole idea with this record – to do it independently.

We didn’t have this machine behind us pressuring us to make an ‘Eskimo Joe-sounding’ record.

We could just do whatever we wanted. The idea was to get into this creative kind of cocoon and not worry about what the fans were going to think.

To just make the record that we wanted to make and hope that they’d come along for the ride.

And if they don’t, that’s great. And if some other people are drawn to the band for the first time because of the new sound, that’s cool too.

But regarding that track Not Alone, yeah, it’s got an up-tempo sound to it, but the lyrics are actually really dark, about full-on addiction.

A friend of mine confided in me that he was going through some serious issues with drugs so that song goes to a really dark place. I guess the chorus is hopeful, saying that you don’t have to be alone; that there’s heaps of people who love you kind-of-thing. But the crux of the song is about someone who’s really struggling. But you’re right, the music’s really buoyant and upbeat because there is a hopeful message in the song.

HOW DIFFERENT WAS THE EXPERIENCE OF RECORDING THE NEW ALBUM COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS FIVE? We just found ourselves in the studio trying to make music that you could move to. Playing these songs live has been interesting. With the old stuff it was pretty up-and-down straight rock’n’roll, and there’s a certain posturing that goes with that. Playing the new stuff though, you just find yourself moving on stage completely differently.

Even looking out at the audience, when we’re seeing the crowd – mainly the girls – dancing to tunes for the first time, it’s a completely different reaction to what we had to the old music.

YOUR TRACK ‘FROM THE SEA’ WAS USED AS A THEME SONG FOR THE WEST COAST EAGLES. ARE WE GOING TO SEE MORE COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN THE BAND AND AFL? To be honest, probably not. We’ve had some strong alliances with footy clubs in the past - not only with the Eagles but with Fremantle. Singing for those teams is a real honour, but I think we approached the situation as fans of the games and fans of the teams, rather than – well, I don’t think we could collaborate with them musically [laughs]. Put it this way: if they let us run out and play a game for them, we’ll let them write a song with us. That’d be a fair deal!

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he 16-year-old boy from Oyster Bay in New South Wales who stepped up on that intimidating crucible of talent - the Australian Idol stage - couldn’t possibly have known what a change that decision would make to his life.

For Matt Corby, now a still young 22, is set to bring his intimate, heartfelt style of performing to WA in October with a series of relatively low-key tour dates which will undoubtedly be sold out thanks to a passionate (mostly female) fan base dedicated to the mop-haired, Beatle-eyebrowed dude’s slim back catalogue (and, let’s be honest, salt-crusted good looks).

Finishing as runner-up in the 2007 season of X Factor to Natalie Gauci (whoooo?), Corby didn’t exactly rush headlong into the charts straight afterwards. It wasn’t until late 2011 that a Corby EP - Into the Flame - even made it onto the ARIA Singles Chart (initially charting at number 46 before eventually reaching the third spot).

Despite this relatively relaxed approach to cashing in on his success via a reality show, Corby’s fans were remarkably loyal, a fact that he acknowledged via his Facebook page upon the first

track’s release.

“I honestly felt like giving up music back in April 2011 but all of you inspired me again... you guys really are the best fans ever.”

It was the single from that EP, Brother, which really made everybody sit up and take notice in 2012, winning Corby the ‘Song of the Year’ award and opening up the opportunity to appear at a series of festivals and shows both here in Australia and overseas. In true Corby style, it wasn’t until May this year that he released another single - and it was another smasher, Resolution.

In addition to his legion of Aussie fans, Corby is also collecting some notable celebs on his Christmas card list.

The nation’s favourite non-Aussie gal, Pink, recently said in an interview with Molly Meldrum that she “liked this Corby guy”, praising his voice in particular.

Now it’s all about the debut album which hopefully will coincide with the bijoux national tour, to include a date in Freo at the Arts Centre on October 27.

And if Brother and Resolution are anything to judge the potential content of that album by, then it’s sure to keep his fans super-happy.

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Jess, Queen B and Miss T RC’s (non) essential guide to getting down with the girls

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JESSICA MAUBOY Age – 23 In a sentence: Darwin’s Aussie Idol survivor who can do it all – acting, singing, hanging out with Flo Rida (well, who doesn’t these days?).

Top facts: The Darling of the Desert has had an amazing-you-go-girl reality show style ‘journey’ since she exploded into our lives via an audition tape shot near Alice Springs in 2008 for Australian Idol. As is so often the way with those shows, it didn’t ultimately matter that she didn’t actually win the top gong (Damien Leith, anybody?) because Australia took Jess to their hearts anyway (apart from Kyle Sandilands who told her to “lose the jelly belly” during one of the auditions, the rude git). Music awards followed and then movie roles too (notably Bran Nue Dae and The Sapphires) so let’s just gloss over the fact that she supported Chris ‘Rihanna’ Brown on his Aussie tour, and concentrate instead on her nominations as the ‘Young Australian of the Year’; the fact that she’s the face of Nintendo’s Cats 3DS game; and that in the five years since she’s been around, she’s already ranked number 16 in the list of the ‘100 Greatest Australian Singers of All Time’. The fact that many of us would perhaps struggle to name 50 greatest Australian singers of all time is neither here nor there and probably shouldn’t be top of your list of lines should you be in a position to chat Jess up.

The kind of guy Jess would like: Undoubtedly Jess would like a down-to-earth, no-nonsene bloke who doesn’t mind his lady to be curvy in all the right places. Also, as she’s known as Australia’s answer to Beyoncé, it would probably help if you were a bit like Jay-Z and bring your own hand-held gaming device to the party.

Perth Arena, November 2 BEYONCÉ Age – 31 In a sentence: Owner of the most famous jelly in the world, Mrs Carter truly is da bomb.

Top facts: Beyoncé Giselle Knowles is more than just a mere performer. The Texas gal is more of a lifeforce – yes, like oxygen – which is all around us, all the time. It’s impossible for the general public not to be aware of Beyoncé and her glittering realm of glittery things.

The husband (Jay-Z), the baby (Blue Ivy), the confusing alter ego (Sasha Fierce) and of course, the fact that just like her first group, she is a child of destiny. She may be Foxy Cleopatra to many but there’s much more to Mrs Carter than big hair and that video in the peekaboo shirt dress with then-boyfriend Jay-Z when she was simply crazy in love.

Who hasn’t had a crack at doing the dance moves from Single Ladies – and failed in a humiliating exposé of their own pitiful lack of coordination? This, my friends, is the secret of Beyoncé’s amazing success. She’s an alien. Fact. However if we’re wrong on this score, she, like most global superstars we know, would probably appreciate hearing your rendition of Halo performed while standing in front of a large oscillating fan. Just don’t get your hair caught in it. We’re pretty sure you wouldn’t be able to carry on singing in a faultless manner like our B did recently.

The kind of guy Beyoncé would like: So let’s pretend Jay-Z doesn’t exist – and Queen B is on the lookout for a King. Actually let’s not bother. She’s never going to look twice at any of you. Next!

Perth Arena, November 8 and 9 TAYLOR SWIFT Age – 23 In a sentence: Ed Sheeren’s paddleboarding leggy mate with a penchant for putting everything on red for the wrong guy, ol’ Swifty is probably looking for somebody just like you.

Top Facts: In the absence of Miley ‘Party’ Cyrus coming to our shores in the near future, we suggest that Taylor might be your best chance of a date, especially as she seems to have exhausted the rest of the world’s supply of useless candidates in the past few years.

The talented songstress may have the gift of the gab, lyric-wise, but she hasn’t really backed a winner in the love stakes. Like, ever. If she’d asked, we could have told her not to bother with adorable but annoying moppet, 1D hearthrob, Harry Styles. Anybody who spends that much time achieving his truly architectural hair would never have the patience to listen to their girlfriend’s heartfelt musings on how crap her last bloke turned out to be. Thankfully, as ever we can count on one Kanye West to really express how we all feel about ‘da ladies’ – unfortunately for Taylor, it’s clear Mr Kardashian isn’t a fan. Still Swifty can tell Westy to shove it because her latest album, Red, has sold well over five million units last time she checked her bank account, adding to a not at all tiny 26 million records in her career to date. Despite some publications claiming Taylor has ‘dated every man in the universe’, we’re pretty sure she hasn’t mined the rich seam of awesomeness in our very own backyard. So come on Taylor, bring your lovely legs and lungs to WA – and see what you’ve been missing (just be prepared for a hit single a month or so after you split up, along the lines of “I knew you were trouble/a FIFO/wearing hi-vis”).

The kind of guy Taylor would like: We can cancel out members of boy bands, solo artists, members of the American aristocracy – so where does that leave us? Assuming you’re none of the above, your best chance is to take up a niche activity (like paddleboarding) and ‘bump’ into Taylor one day on the Swan River.

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music Angry Anderson has seen and done more than most of us could fit into a lifetime, and the 65-year-old rocker has no plans to wind things down any time soon. As the singer of Rose Tattoo, he’s filled ‘brothers and sisters’ around the world with the spirit of the outlaw. The bad boy days might be behind him, but Angry’s still finding ways to stick it to the man. Speaking from his house in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Angry was halfway through a run of shows with Guns ‘N’ Roses and ZZ Top when Rock Candy called. He told us Top’s Billy Gibbons is one of his greatest personal idols, and that the two of them were relishing the chance to catch up and trade tales. hey usually watch us and we usually watch them. We were walking back to the dressing room, and Billy said ‘Oh man, it would be so good if we could take this to America… What a fucking great bill! How much fun would we have?’”

To many, Angry’s an idol in his own right, and with Rose Tattoo he has inspired the rock’n’roll dreams of countless other artists – including Guns ‘N’ Roses.

The bands first crossed paths in the US in the ‘80s, when Angry and the boys toured the country with Aerosmith.

“Steven Tyler said, ‘We’ve been helping these young guys out, we think they’re really good. They want to come and see the show… they particularly want to meet with you.’ I said, ‘That’s fine’.”

Back then, the Gunners were a glam band – all teased hair, eye makeup, androgynous clothes, the whole bit. But they were searching for something else, and Angry says Rose Tattoo was it.

“They came and saw us and said, ‘We think it’s cool what you do, we want to do something that’s different’…

Words to the effect of ‘We’d like to do what you guys do.’ It’s very un-American obviously. We were like Martians to the Americans when we went there.”

That influence is not something Axl Rose, or former bandmates like Slash and Duff McKagan, have ever shied away from.

On this tour, Angry Anderson is the guest

of honour for Guns ‘N’ Roses’ encore - a cover of the Rose Tattoo song Nice Boys.

In their earliest years, a good chunk of the Gunners’ set-list was Rose Tattoo material.

“They weren’t songs that anyone in America was familiar with, and they were their kind of anthems. ‘One of the boys’, you know what I mean? They wanted that real masculine appeal.”

Decades later, the Rose Tattoo sound and image has attained a legendary status among bands and fans across the globe.

Angry says he’s proud to have made his mark, but admits the band is a victim of one of the great ironies of rock’n’roll success.

“The thing about it is you can’t give Rose Tatts records away in a raffle these days, but the band’s known from Scandinavia to London, Canada and the US, South America…”

“I remember when the boys in Sepultura first came here. [Former Rose Tattoo guitarist] Pete Wells was tattooing down at Steve King’s shop in Annandale. He rang me up and said, ‘Have you ever heard of a band called – what’s your band’s name? Sepul what? Fucking Sepultura.

You ever heard of these cunts?’ I said no.

‘Well they’re all in here and they’ve asked me to tattoo them. They said can you ring Angry and tell him to come down?

We want to meet him.’ I said, ‘It’s a bit of a hike; tell them I’ll catch them next time.’ That was a bit out of leftfield.”

With a CV that spans music,

acting, television reporting and charity campaigning, Angry is arguably one of Australia’s most prominent figures and a heavily tattooed one at that. His iconic full sleeves were done by The Illustrated Man’s Tony Cohen, and are among the most well-known examples of Cohen’s high standard of work.

“I was looking for something a little different in the early days, and I heard about this guy, so I went and introduced myself. I said ‘I don’t have a lot of money but I want something that’s different’, and he said, ‘Well have you ever heard of the Yakuza style of tattooing?’”

Angry had got into Japanese mythology and culture as a kid growing up in Melbourne. He was a big fan of the cult classic TV show The Samurai, and it piqued his interest in all things Japanese. He’d built up a collection of drawings and photos, depicting warriors with tattoos of magical symbols and mythical creatures. He gave the pictures to Tony, and the pair knew they were on the same page. The work was done for free, and they’ve been mates ever since.

“He became a fan of the band. The whole theme of the band is tattooing. The name of our band was taken from a great novel about a guy with a tattoo. So you know it was a wonderful synchronicity, or serendipity thing. We were drawn together [geddit? Ed] by this great love of ink and rock’n’roll. And I just walked out after a few weeks with sleeves.”

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Another great love of Angry’s: motorcycles. The ties between Rose Tattoo and Australia’s biker community run deep – with Angry counting senior members of outlaw gangs among his friends. He’s an ambassador for retailer Fraser Motorcycles, and remains a dedicated Harley-Davidson man.

His choice of Harley goes back to a TV show from the ‘70s called Then Came Bronson. The main character, Jim Bronson, rode a Harley Sportster, and Angry’s been in love with them ever since. The Sportster is low-slung, making it the perfect ride for the ‘Angry Ant’.

“I’m a little guy, and they suit me down to the ground. I’ve got a current model, 1200 limited edition custom special.”

While the bikes, tatts, and heavy music will always be there, Angry turned his back on the more destructive aspects of his rock’n’roll lifestyle long ago. At a time when doctors told him he’d be dead in 10 years – and he’d have been happy to last another two – an unexpected arrival came to his rescue.

“We drank all day, we took as many drugs as we possibly could, we found ourselves at the wrong end of somebody’s fist – or they were at the wrong end of ours. When my daughter was born in ‘83, that’s when I thought, ‘Nup, this »

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is fucked, I’m not gonna miss out on her life, and I don’t want her to have a drunken moron for a father.’ So I took the cure and I’ve never looked back.”

Angry says before Roxanne was born, he had resigned himself to a fate similar to that of Bon Scott and Jimi Hendrix before him. The potential he saw in his new daughter inspired him to choose a different path that would ultimately lead him towards some of the greatest achievements of his life.

“What happened was that when I was possibly at my lowest emotionally, physically, spiritually, the universe offered me a reason and a way out, which was my daughter, and I was smart enough to take it.”

Since turning his life around, Angry has worked to improve the lives of others, campaigning for the welfare of sick, underprivileged, and abused children, as

well as joining the fights against cancer and AIDS. As the youth reporter for Ray Martin’s [now defunct] Midday show, he told important stories that exposed, among other things, the horrors of child sexual abuse.

Now Angry wants to make a difference at the highest possible level – as a member of Australia’s Federal Parliament. After an unsuccessful bid for preselection with the Nationals, he’s now hoping to run for a Liberal seat.

“I want to give back to this country, because I love it with a passion. It puts me at odds with some people. It actually brands me unfairly as being anti-somebody but I’m not anti-anybody; I’m pro-Australia.”

Raised a staunch Labor supporter, Angry’s decision to turn to the Coalition was not one he made lightly. He feels Labor has lost touch with the working people they claim to represent, and he didn’t take kindly

to Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s muchpublicised five-day trip to western Sydney.

“She’s taken bad advice one time too many... [That attitude of] ‘let’s go back and pretend we’re poor’. That’s condescending.

Don’t mistake our kindness for weakness.”

The world of politics could be the perfect place to channel the anger that has long been his namesake. His fury, passion, and plain-speaking would no doubt appeal to a public that is feeling increasingly jaded about the decisions made on its behalf.

But no matter what happens, Angry Anderson is determined to make a contribution to society for as long as he can.

“To me personally, it’s very important to contribute. I reckon I’ve got 10 to 12 really good productive years, intellectually, physically. I’m a full-grown man, I know who I am, what I’m doing, where I am, and where I wanna go.”

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CHEATING — DEATH — SURVIVING THE WORLD’S WORST

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“I got a fractured wrist, fractured vertebrae, a contusion to my lung, some crazy neck and back whiplash and my liver was bleeding.”

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IT WAS THE MOST PUBLICISED PIECE OF SKATEBOARDING ACTION THE WORLD HAS SEEN SINCE MICHAEL J. FOX WENT BACK TO THE FUTURE. BUT THIS WAS REAL, AND IT ALSO HAPPENED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST HORRIFIC ACCIDENTS EVER WITNESSED. AUSTRALIA’S OWN JAKE BROWN WAS COMPETING AT THE 2007 X-GAMES BIG AIR CONTEST IN LOS ANGELES WHEN HE LOST CONTROL ON THE MEGA QUARTER, SHOT UP AND OUT OVER 40 FEET IN THE AIR AND FELL TO THE FLAT BOTTOM. HIS SHOES EXPLODED OFF HIS FEET UPON IMPACT, AS HE THEN LAY LIFELESS ON THE GROUND. IT WAS FEARED HE COULD BE DEAD. MIRACULOUSLY, JAKE GOT UP MINUTES LATER AND WALKED AWAY FROM THIS BONE-CRUSHING SLAM. SHOWN LIVE AND REPEATED ON NEARLY EVERY NEWS CHANNEL AROUND THE WORLD – NOT TO MENTION THE MILLIONS OF HITS ON YOUTUBE – THIS ONE SHOCKING MOMENT THREW JAKE, AND SKATEBOARDING, INTO THE PUBLIC SPOTLIGHT. ROCK CANDY’S OWN JAKE D. FROST SPOKE TO THE TOUGH LITTLE MANIAC LESS THAN A WEEK AFTER THAT FATEFUL DAY TO FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED, HOW HE SURVIVED, WHAT SCARS HE’S LEFT WITH, AND WHAT HE’S PLANNING TO DO WITH HIS OTHER EIGHT LIVES.

LET’S START AT THE BEGINNING OF THAT DAY. HOW WAS THE X-GAMES COMP? It was big! They had the mega ramp inside the Staples Centre arena. It was the first time there’s ever been a mega ramp indoors.

There’s no wind so you can control your board a lot better.

YOU WERE DOING REALLY WELL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CONTEST, PLACING FIRST IN FACT. WHAT TRICKS DID YOU MAKE? Three-sixty ollies and 540s. Then I got that 720 (over the 70-foot gap). That was the first one I ever did. I was feelin’ real good. I was stoked landing that 720... shit just went haywire after that.

TELL US WHAT HAPPENED. After I landed the 720 I felt like I was pretty balanced, but looking back at the footage it looks like I was a little off-balance. I was trying to carve across to the right so that I’d have more room on the big quarter pipe, ‘cause I was gonna try and do a 540 after that. By the time I got to the quarter tranny I needed to carve back to the left. Just carving up that quarter, the G-forces crushed me on to my board. I was so squatted on my board that I had to try and stand up straighter so I wouldn’t land over the back of the platform. The timing of standing up shot me up and to the flat.

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SO THAT GAVE YOU TIME TO PREPARE FOR THE IMPACT? Yeah, I had time to think about how I wanted to fall.

Pat Duffy’s slam was kinda running through my head; like how he landed on his legs and broke his leg. So I was thinking to try and take the impact on to a coupla different parts of my body. I turned and took it on my legs backwards and tried to take it more on my back, and then hit my head.

THEN IT WAS LIGHTS OUT? Yeah. I’ve been knocked out before. It was pretty similar. When I came-to I just stood up to make sure I wasn’t broken in half. I remember I was walking off the ramp and people were pretty psyched to see me walking, and then I made it to the sidelines and I was like, “Have I got another run left or what?” – ha ha.

SO WHEN YOU WALKED OFF WERE YOU IN PAIN? Nah, it was just my pride that was hurtin’ mainly – ha ha.

Basically I knew I could walk and shit. I knew my wrist and back were kinda fucked up – I fractured vertebrae. I was taken to the hospital to get X-rays, but they didn’t have the right type of X-ray machine there, so they were trying to send me somewhere else for MRIs and stuff. I was like, ‘Fuck that, I just wanna go out and party’ – ha ha. But my friend’s like, ‘Nah dude, you gotta go to the next hospital. I’m not gonna let you go out, it’s too gnarly’. So I went to the next hospital and got all the X-rays and MRIs and a CAT scan of my head.

WHAT WAS THE END RESULT OF YOUR INJURIES; WHAT WAS THE DAMAGE? I got a fractured wrist, fractured vertebrae, a contusion to my lung, some crazy neck and back whiplash and my liver was bleeding.

WHEN DID YOU FIRST SEE THE REPLAY OF THE FALL? The next day I was sitting in the hospital and they were playing it on TV. I didn’t want to watch it at first. I made someone get in the way of it so I couldn’t see it – ha ha.

Then I was like, ‘Ah, get out the way, let me see it’.

AND WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION? Um, I don’t know... I was pretty lucky to get away with it I guess.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ALL THE PUBLICITY AND MEDIA ATTENTION SURROUNDING THE ACCIDENT? I think it’s good for skateboarding; for people to realise just how gnarly skateboarding really is and skateboarders are, you know? It does kinda suck that you got all this worldwide notoriety for this one incident while you’ve accomplished so much more on your skateboard over the years. I mean, you land a 720 grab over a 70-foot gap, but everyone focuses on your stack straight after instead.

No-one cares about that, they just wanna see blood. But, you know, it’s helped build the hype.

It should all turn out for the best in the end.

Jake Brown has since won two X-Games gold medals, featured in video games and has started his own clothing label. This year he broke more records by landing the first ever no-handed 720 ollie at the Big Air event in Brazil. He’s also broken several more bones.

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For a set of wheels that wasn’t designed to scoop the trophies, Lennard Vidot’s killer HQ has more than outpassed itself, cleaning up at Motorvation.

Rock Candy’s Jordon Leist goes through Vidot’s machine with a fine-toothed comb.

THE LOWDOWN: LENNARD VIDOT EXHAUST - Custom 1972 HQ MONARO SHIFT PAINT Gearbox: Turbo 400 Mazda Spicy Orange

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ennard Vidot’s 1972 HQ Holden was never actually built to earn silverware at car shows but at this year’s Motorvation the judges saw differently and the car walked away with a bundle of trophies and the coveted Grand Champion title to boot.

“To be honest, I was amazed the car did so well. I didn’t build it to win shows but rather to drive and just be happy with it,” tells Lennard.

“To me, it is a radical streeter that is neat and tidy in the right places, not a show car at all. All I really want to do is get out and drive it and have some fun.”

Years before, Lennard had already owned the car, on-sold it to another player and then bought the thing back after he realised he really wanted to finish what he had started. It was far from the way it looks now, but after nine years of blood, sweat and tears the results speak for themselves.

One of Lennard’s best mates, Mark Cook, owns All Brite Panel & Paint, so the car graced a rotisserie there for a bit, while the boys could get the underneath of the car up to scratch with the rest of the body. The engine bay copped bucket-loads of work to get the best finish.

“For me, the engine bay is the right combination of slightly modified and original. I didn’t want to lose the look of what the factory produced but it had to be exceptional in there,” says Lennard.

The car was destined to be painted in the Holden colour Sting Red but

somewhere along the lines the idea was ditched and the orange hue got the tick.

“I decided that the car just needed more impact than the red could deliver. I wasn’t even sure of what options there were to consider and I basically left it up to Mark. He came back to me with the Spicy Orange colour and as crazy as it seems, I honestly didn’t see the colour until it was actually painted on the car.”

Painted more than nine years ago, Lennard was one of the first to go with a pearl orange on a Monaro coupe.

“For about five years I had the interior sketched out on paper. Right down to the finer details. I took note of cars from the USA and then worked some of their ideas in to suit the right-hand side drive car.”

Getting someone to do the job he dreamed of was always going to be an issue for Lennard.

“After looking around there was really only one option for me and that was Jason Turner at World Custom Trimming. His passion and enthusiasm for the job would have to be unrivalled in this state.”

Jason trimmed the whole interior in leather and modified the CV8 Monaro seats that rest both in the front and rear. Lennard went to town with the custom-made billet accessories too. It started with the milled number plates and then the concept ended up everywhere in the cabin.

“Back when I was a kid, the motor you had to have was a 454 Chev. It’s that iconic number and name that just stands out in the world of tough old-school cars. I knew

one day that I was going to have one.”

The boys at Extreme Engines in Bibra Lake are responsible for the top-notch rebuild on the motor. Internally, the Chev is fitted with a steel crank, Eagle rods and Arias pistons along with a custom, blower spec camshaft.

Externally, the motor is all business. An Enderle injector hat sits atop of a polished 6-71 BDS blower and manifold set up. Slotted in behind the motor are a Turbo 400 box and a 9-inch diff with a Detroit Locker centre.

Lennard fitted the Wilwood brakes on the front with VS Commodore units on the rear. A complete Pedders suspension system graces the Monaro from front to back. Throughout the build, Lennard has been able to exploit his own mechanical talents and workshop, spending many hours after work at his own business, Ultra Tune in Bibra Lake.

“The car was just meant to be a tidy, everyday streeter which has kind of ballooned out to an extreme streeter with lots of detail work,” says Lennard.

“Nine years sounds like a lot of time to build a car but the time actually flew by, especially the last two years where not only myself but a bunch of mates really dedicated a lot of time to the car. Without their help I wouldn’t have even gotten close to finishing the car for Motorvation, let alone winning the Grand Champion trophy.

“As clichéd as it sounds, the trophy really belongs to all of us and it is one hell of an achievement.”

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GREAT NORTHERN LAND WORDS by Andrea Manno • PHOTOS by Barbara Bertoli

The Northern Territory boasts some of the most awesome natural landmarks while offering plenty to do for the avid outdoor adventurist.

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hat are the first things that spring to mind when someone mentions the Northern Territory? Desert. Cyclones. Crocodiles.

And good, hot weather (well, depending on your personal preference). So what can a couple of 30-something-year-old girls get up to in such a landscape? Throw a 4WD into the mix and you have the answer.

Ducking into a Boomerang Camper Rentals depot in Perth, it didn’t take long for us to decide on a Hi-Top 4WD camper - equipped with all the essentials for our road trip through NT. We could easily make the booking in Perth and collect the car in Darwin.

Now the city of Darwin is virtually a town with a rough population of 73,000 residents - less than half of the total for the territory. Despite its humble size and population, though, there’s plenty for tourists to do.

The Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory is ripe with history – providing back-stories on the indigenous peoples of the great area, on NT’s everchanging culture, even on war. In fact there’s enough history here to warrant a couple of hours’ viewing. Darwin Military Museum also shows off a great range of history, much of it of a military bent, and is free entry.

Then there are the better-known landmarks: Parliament House, Bicentennial Park, Lake Alexander, Marrara Stadium, Skycity – Darwin’s very own casino – and of course, Mindil Beach, the place where locals and tourists alike descend on Sunday afternoons and evenings to enjoy treasure-hunting through market stalls.

Darwin’s markets are bit like charismatic Fremantle’s only with the bonus of being set up on the beach.

You can browse while keeping an eye out for the stunning sunset over the Timor Sea, then enjoy absolutely superb seafood by the water.

Sightseeing? Check. Market-hopping?

Check. Local barramundi and prawns fried with coconut accompanied by the most amazing of views? Check, check, check.

Now it was time to set the 4WD wheels in motion to explore more of the vast, largely desert land that is the Top End.

PARK LIFE

Litchfield National Park is very close to the city yet a far cry in landscape and vibe from the suburban sprawl of Darwin. The first thing you notice is that the roads here are lined with termite mounds twice the height of Michael Jordan and probably equally as formidable.

Wherever you go in the NT, it heats

up pretty quickly in the dry season, so it’s not long before a stop for a swim is called for - and there’s no better spot than the Buley Rockhole. This place can get crowded in the Spring and Summer months, but it’s definitely worth venturing to, simply to bath in the natural pools, letting the bubbles gurgle over you.

We also climbed through monsoon forest, clambering over slippery rocks to cross flowing waters that access the Cascades. Here again we lay at the foot of a waterfall to enjoy a constant gush of water – literally cascading over us. I felt like the best massage ever!

Moving on for more adventurous fun, we descended upon Wangi Falls on the western boundary of Litchfield Park. True to their popularity, there were crowds of eager tourists and locals wanting to catch some sun, but we overlooked this density issue to focus on our own trepidation: to swim or not to swim with the crocodiles.

Luckily, the sign posted at the site by local rangers advised that the ‘salties’ had been moved along and that the only risk was encountering a freshwater croc. You have to risk a little to live a little, as they say, so we did just that.

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“So far as encountering crocs go, you have to risk a little to live a little, so we did just that.�

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UP AND AT ’EM

Although it’s difficult to know which one has woken you up in the morning - the sun with its beating strength seeking entry into your 4WD camper, or the persistent buzz of mozzies - the imagined adventures of the day ahead are enough to get your mind off NT nature’s narc-ier side.

After a spot of bush tucker, we greeted the day by putting our off-road driving skills to the test. Reynolds River track was thankfully open and marked with creeks remnant of the wet season. Realising this, we suddenly appreciated the snorkel posited on the front of our car: a valuable asset when travelling through waters.

One thing to truly appreciate in the Northern Territory, apart from the wondrous and vast landscapes of green palms, ebbing rockpools, flowing cascades and crimson dirt, is its beautiful sunrise.

Driving along winding roads that lead you to a big hit of endorphins, your eyes meet with a sun that seems to suck back in all the colours of the earth it had so casually cast across in the wee morning hours. Blue skies melt into shades of red and orange with the sun looking like a blazing circle the colour of dirt. The world’s greatest masters couldn’t capture the beauty of it on canvas…

OFF TO KATHERINE

We entered the township of Katherine wondering if there could be sights to surpass that of Litchfield and very quickly found the Hot Springs, a town favourite and popular attraction for tourists. Local indigenous children splashed around and dove to the depth of the springs, which was slightly taller than our average height of 170cm.

The kids were intent on showing us what they kept calling ‘special stones’, lending a little more magic to the scene.

The Gorge painted spectacular views for us, especially after climbing the 260 steps to the lookout, but it’s definitely worth the energy spent and a saving in the pocket.

In keeping our adventurous spirit down to a somewhat conservative level, we declined to hire a canoe to travel up and down the Katherine Gorge. But there are many more willing visitors who’d be happy to know that the hire price for canoes is very reasonable.

The canoe kiosk also sells singlets and T-shirts that you can purchase, simply to brag that you canoed along one of Australia’s most spectacular gorges.

MAGICAL KAKADU

Now, no-one should travel to the Northern Territory without a venture

into Kakadu National Park. After a day and night in Katherine, we hit the road back up around to Kakadu which is at best a three-hour drive. If you’re game enough, the four-wheel track along to Jim Jim Falls brings out the ‘bush bashing’ desire in full-force as you bump along, navigating the wild scrub of the outback and splashing through deep waters while keeping your eyes peeled for hungry crocs. ‘It’s not as if they’ll jump up and take you from the car’, you keep trying to tell yourself, but it makes it all the more a stimulating experience just knowing those wild creatures are out there somewhere.

By the time we reached the actual falls, half the fun was over, but it certainly didn’t steal the limelight from the spectacularly high (200-metre long) waterfalls. A plunge pool is lined with cliffs that bring a feeling of being as small as an ant swimming below; nevertheless, it’s definitely worth your while to visit Jim Jim Falls.

Gungkurdul, or as they’re better known to white folk, the Twin Falls, are just as breathtaking and definitely not to be overlooked by the beauty of Jim Jim. Here you can walk by track, fully admiring the amazing gorge up close.

Jabiru offers very cheap accommodation and an array of indigenous culture and art for those interested in learning a little more about Australia’s heritage.

One thing to remember is that during the wet season some of NT’s attractions, like those in Kakadu, are only visible by air, but scenic flights are available.

Bookings for flights over Kakadu and cruises on the Yellow Water Billabong can be made at the Jabiru township.

To cap off our voyage, we decided to find out what all the fuss was about with so-called ‘Jumping Croc’ tours. True to their advertising, we were happy to see some of the biggest crocs in the area approaching the boat with casual grace (okay, it did freak us out at first).

Soon the crocs started to engange in an argument which entailed a lot of whacking against the vessel, scaly bodies flicking and slapping, and us thinking we might be goners soon, until one of the crocs finally one retreated.

Mad crocodiles, unabashed fourwheel driving, massaging cascades...

What more could you want in one week’s adventure? The Northern Territory has plenty to offer the avid outdoor adventurist. You’ve just got to make your way out here to believe it.

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Taking the plunge

Marcie Bench writes about her first experience scuba diving. RC is amazed at the armies of coral fish, sea-horses, and even sharks that get a look-in!

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012 was the year I decided to work on my bucket list. All of my friends had one, so I figured it would be fun to compile my own. I started off being extreme – you know: bungee-jumping in New Zealand off that huge tower you see in the Go Pro videos, skydiving, snowboarding, rock-climbing, paintballing, swimming with sharks, race-car driving, and of course scuba diving!

Most of my friends have it on their must-do list so I guessed I would make my starting point there.

Being a complete novice, I asked a couple of them for advice and they all agreed the best option would be to get my PADI license. That’s a fancy acronym that stands for ‘Professional Association of Diving Instructors’.

PADI is recognised everywhere in the world and would be valid for life once I was qualified. I called a couple of dive shops after checking online, and they sounded really easy-going and knew what they were talking about. They also kept emphasising how much “fun” I was going to have, which helped calm the butterflies already fluttering about in my stomach…

I signed up and it surprised me how easy it all was. The guys asked me for my email address and within 10 minutes of hanging up the phone there were already notifications in my inbox. One from the Dive Shop and one from PADI. This was my “e-learning pass” – a pass that meant I could do all my dive theory from home – in the comfort of my bean bag! The other email included a timetable, a list of things to bring, a medical questionnaire, and a reminder that I would need to be able to swim 200 metres, tread water for 10 minutes and, most importantly, bring a smile.

Once I had completed my e-learning, another email arrived – this one from the guys at the dive store congratulating me on completing my theory and advising me of what equipment I could purchase prior to the course. Their logic was that if I learned to dive in my own gear (at least mask, snorkel and fins) I would be a lot more comfortably-fitted - rather than go one-size-fits-all. They also promised I could buy a cool diving set in pink!

DAY 1

The first day of my course arrive and I have to admit it couldn’t have come quick enough. I couldn’t wait to get into the water. We were introduced to our instructor, Alex - a great girl who made us all feel comfortable from the get-go. Then we met our Dive Master, Luke. He was initially busy organising all the diving equipment while Alex ran through what we would be doing over the next three days.

Our first day would be spent mostly in the pool for practise, then on day two we’d be doing two ocean dives off the beach, and on the final day diving off a boat near Rottnest Island. I couldn’t believe we would be diving in the ocean so soon!

Before that, though, came a bit of practise with breathing under water. Alex told us we were to become comfortable with our equipment before performing any skills. First up: a regulator that goes into the mouth and lets you breathe through it under water. What a weird sensation, that was. Breathing under water for the first time is bizarre. Eventually you start to sound like Darth Vader - which is quite trippy.

After a few more skill practices including racing across the pool in fins (and getting very used to it with each lap) - I realised I’d done my workout for the week. Or was it just beginning?

DAY 2

Very excited and refreshed after the best sleep ever, I bound out of bed, had some brekky and flipped through the catalogue of dive gear available at the Perth Scuba dive shop. I was surprised at how cheap some of it was. Everybody

kept telling me that buying scuba gear would be really expensive. They’d obviously never invested in a pair of designer heels and matching handbag...

There are dive packages to suit all budgets and they even had a female set in my requested pink. Concessions are made to academic or apprentice students who might be doing the course, which was a bonus for me.

Part of the gear is something called a BCD jacket. It stands for Buoyancy Control Device and is designed for women so that bits that usually ‘stick out’ don’t suddenly feel squished in. Believe me, it makes diving a very comfortable sport.

Once geared up, we went to our first diving point and, boy, were we surprised at the reception. There we saw a pod of dolphins in the ocean, directly in front of where we would be taking our first dive. Getting to dive in the ocean for the first time while being surrounded by dolphins? I think I’ll be checking off two bucket-list boxes here!

Calming down from the excitement, we helped each other into our scuba units and trudged down to the beach.

The gear is quite heavy and whoever invented wetsuits clearly wasn’t female. Urgh! Once submerged in the water, though, it does feel great.

One major thing to note about scuba diving is that you never do it alone. Our instructors, Alex and Luke, took turns in buddying with each of us. Once our scuba apparatus was carefully secured on our backs, it was time to submerge. Scuba by the way - now mostly referred to in lowercase - was originally all in capitals, standing for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. Come to think of it, that description speaks for itself.

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We descended to the bottom of the ocean, where Luke was already waiting for us, with Alex keeping a close eye and staying within arms-reach just in case we did anything weird (like I wanted to do – which is swim away with the dolphins). Initially, the visibility isn’t great, but your eyes do adjust, especially once people stop kicking the sand at the bottom of the ocean. This comes with simply getting used to being there.

And once there, you’ll see some brilliant sights. There are schools of beautiful fish swimming around wrecks and reef.

We saw an angel fish that didn’t seem so happy we were invading his patch.

He kept swimming out furiously towards us and then back into his little hole.

I even spotted an octopus, several starfish, and glory be, a seahorse. Yes, they really do exist!

After several minutes of underwater ‘safari-ing’, we were given the signal by Alex to begin heading back up to the surface. A bit of panting and lots of wows later, we had a breather and then got ready for our second dive, which would be a little more difficult than the first since we’d be spending at least 40 minutes submerged. I tried and tried to find my sea-horse again, but couldn’t. Ah well, as they say, there’s plenty of fish in the sea.

DAY 3

What a perfect day. The sun was shining and there was not a gust of wind, though Luke told us there was going to be a onemetre swell - which apparently is perfect for diving. We boarded a boat that took us to Rottnest Island, with the ride taking about 45 minutes, and by the time we reached the reef near Rotto we could already see colourful fish swimming around it.

In another briefing by Luke, we were reminded to stay with our buddy and the group, and about the importance of breathing regularly and calmly.

The maximum depth at this dive site was 18 metres, and this was the deepest most of us had gone. Those butterflies in my stomach were coming back, but Luke assured me everything would be okay.

We did our ‘buddy checks’ - which included checking how much air was in our gauges, making sure our weight belts were on, that each of our cylinders were firm, and of course that we had our air turned on.

I stared out at the horizon, took my gauge into my left hand, held it over my weight belt buckle, put my right hand over my regulator and plunged into the crystal water. With a huge splash, I felt like I’d finally made it. Here I was… scuba diving off the coast of spectacular Rottnest.

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Of all sea life I thought I’d encounter during my early scuba diving sessions, I never thought I’d come across a shark. But out of nowhere we saw a Port Jackson moving toward Alex.

Rather than freak out she seemed considerably calm, and moved her hand out to stroke it. We were considerably calm, too, come to think about it.

What an unbelievable introduction to the world of diving. After witnessing more awesome sea-life, we were signalled to move back up to the surface and got back on board the boat, with everyone accounted for.

Then we exchanged stories with one another over a feast of a BBQ lunch. And let me tell you, I’ve never been so hungry! As fun and as eyeopening a leisure sport as scuba diving is, it does use up a lot of energy.

Over lunch, Alex told us about an advanced course that would take place around the other side of Rottnest - which, of course, I signed up for immediately.

Marcie Bench now works as a rescue diver and is soon to begin her Dive Master Course (working alongside Alex).

Next she plans to dive with the Great White Sharks in South Australia.

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Black marlin migration There is an annual migration of immature black marlin down the east coast of Australia every summer and autumn.

These fish usually hug the coast and places like Townsville, the Gold Coast, and South West Rocks, where at times it is possible to catch them within a few hundred metres of the shore.

If early indications are anything to go buy this season is going to be a ripper, so get out there.

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here are four species of marlin in the world, three of which are common in Australian waters. Blue and striped can be found right along the east and west coastlines while the black marlin extend their range right around the top as well. Ever since the classic novel The Old Man and the Sea we have been fascinated by these awesome creatures and every angler dreams of catching one. Not only are they one of the biggest fish in the sea, but they are also the most acrobatically spectacular, renowned for their spectacular aerial displays and high powered runs.

The blue marlin is the most elusive of the three, rarely venturing inside the continental shelf which makes it harder to access. The striped marlin is much more cosmopolitan and while favouring waters along the continental shelf, they will venture right into coastal waters at times. Finally we have the black marlin which not only happens to be the biggest but is also the most prolific. The can be found anywhere from coastal waters to thousands of fathoms miles offshore. Better still, every season juvenile blacks follow the currents south along both coasts and can be even caught from the shoreline.

Marlin were once the preserve of the rich man’s game, requiring big boats, big rods and very deep pockets but now with dramatic improvements in boats, engines and electronics just about anyone can fulfill the dream of catching a marlin. So it’s no surprise that the popularity of marlin fishing in Australia has exploded in the last decade.

Skip baits are usually trolled at three to five knots and in most cases only two baits are trolled – one from each outrigger. While lures are fished with heavy drags, skip baits are fished with the reel just in gear. That way when the fish bites it is allowed to swallow the bait before the angler strikes. Anglers only ever use circle hooks for this job which nearly always hook the fish in the corner of the mouth.

Skip baiting is productive but when you locate a bait school there is only one technique to use and that is live baiting. A big bait school is like an underwater version of a takeaway shop with neon lights flashing. If you want to get served then you need to go to the counter and it is no different for the marlin, so stay right on top of the school.

The best way to find bait consistently is with a decent sounder. Like your eyes underwater, a quality sounder will show you exactly what is going on underneath.

Understanding your sounder is essential. Bait stacked up vertical in shape is also highly productive, while a deep bait school with peak is a sure sign that predators are present.

Once you find the bait you can either slow troll around them or drift with the school.

Drifting not only allows you to hang with the bait, but it also allows your baits to act naturally and swim deeper in the strike zone.

As a basic rule most boats run three baits, two surface baits and one down deep on a sinker or downrigger. It is important to stagger the two surface baits, say 25 and 40 metres respectively, to keep them apart. The deep bait allows you to cover more of the water column and will greatly increase your strike rate. Marlin, although pelagic, spend a lot of time in the depths, so it makes a lot of sense to employ a breakaway sinker for drifting or a downrigger for slow trolling.

One trick that works a treat when you are drifting over the bait is to drop a bait jig down into the school and then crank it back up once you load up with baits. Winding a full string of struggling baitfish up to the surface is like ringing the dinner gong, and believe me, the marlin come running big time.

MARLIN GROUNDS

There are two main influences that control marlin, and just about all other pelagics (fish that live near the surface) for that matter — ocean currents and the availability of food.

These two factors are heavily linked and by understanding them you will suddenly get much better at locating marlin.

Water temperature plays a vital role and in most cases striped marlin favour water warmer than 20 degrees while blues and blacks like it warmer, around 23 degrees or more. Clean blue water is particularly important for blue marlin and to a lesser degree striped, while blacks are far less fussy and are just as happy in green water.

Marlin are often found around structure, whether it’s reefs, canyons or pinnacles. However they are no particularly structure-oriented themselves; instead they are attracted because of bait concentrations. Baitfish stack up in these locations and act like a magnet for predators like marlin. The development of high-tech electronics like fish finders and GPS plotter has made finding these spots and associated bait all the easier.

Find the bait and you will find the marlin.

TROLLING TO SUCCESS

The best way to catch marlin is trolling either lures or natural bait. Billfish are oceanic wanderers which can make them hard to find at times. There is a lot of water out there so even if you narrow down the search area, you still have a huge area to cover and trolling is the best way to cover it.

Skirted lures can be trolled fast, up to ten knots, which means you can cover some serious ground searching for fish. They may look odd in the water but these lures do a great job of imitating a fish splashing along on the surface and marlin love them.

Trolling a spread of four or five lures to form a ‘bait school’ is the standard approach and it works on other game fish as well.

The only problem with lures is that while

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marlin love them, getting a solid hook up can be very hard at times. All too often you hook up and then the fish falls off midway through the fight. The best advice I can offer is to keep the hooks razor sharp. Marlin have very tough, bony mouths that are extremely difficult to penetrate so the sharper the hook, the easier it goes in.

GO NATURAL

Natural bait includes both skip baiting and live baiting. Instead of an artificial offering that the fish may well reject with something natural they are much more likely to eat it. The big advantage is that while you certainly troll slower the hook up rate is much better than lures. Skip baiting is basically a bait like a mullet or mackerel that is rigged up so it can be trolled skipping across the surface like a fleeing baitfish. I’ve found this to be highly successful especially on striped and black marlin. Smaller baits like bonito work a treat in NSW while up in Queensland anglers chasing giant black marlin can use baits as big as 20 kilos.

There are few things that can describe the excitement of feeling a marlin on the line.

Suddenly the line goes tight, the spool screams and moments later the marlin explodes out of the water. During the initial stages of the fight it is important to keep calm (easier said than done, I know) and focus on keeping the line tight. The problem is a high flying marlin can easily rid itself of the hook if it gets a slack line so just keep winding.

Communications between the captain and angler is essential during this stage of the fight — a simple misunderstanding can quickly cost the fish. Smart skippers use the boat to help the angler fight the fish positioning it so he can catch the fish as fast as possible. The better the driving and the smarter the angling, the quicker the fish will be caught. In this day and age, where tag and release is expected, it is important to release the fish in a healthy state and catching them quickly is important.

This may all sound easy but in reality when 10-foot of marlin appears beside the boat most anglers panic or do something silly. Rehearse and practice the moves before you hook-up and you will minimise the chances of mistakes.

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IN THIS ISSUE, DEB RUSSO TELLS IT’S NO SIGN OF WEAKNESS TO ADMIT YOU NEED SOME EXTRA SUPPORT WHILE YOUR PARTNER IS AWAY EARNING THE BICCIES. I sat on the edge of the bath trying to find words to tell my husband I wasn’t coping at home with our two babies while he was at work. He was in the shower, home on RNR; standing under the hot water, enjoying the fact it was his shower and that he didn’t have to concern himself with the needs of a roommate. I was pregnant with our third baby in four years. I looked at him as he asked, “Are you okay?”.

The shower screen had fogged up from the heat of the water and I couldn’t see whether he was looking at me or not. I thought that since it was foggy, it would be easier for what I wanted to say. It wasn’t. Instead I said what comes automatically: “Nothing, I’m fine.”

Embarrassed and struggling, I was giving motherhood and FIFO life my best, yet constantly feeling like I was failing. My baby was always crying at night. I was tired and cranky and felt like I couldn’t stay on top of things. Thinking it was the right thing to do, I saw a doctor. But he said I wasn’t practising control “crying correctly” and that he should know because he had five children. I felt I was failing this mother-thing worse than I thought...

While I struggled, other mothers seemed to have it all worked out - or at least they didn’t tell me any differently. It felt as if this was the trade-off in exchange for big money and a great roster. Life was about choices and this was ours. Here, too, was the consequence.

Twelve months later my world stopped. With him at work, one morning I couldn’t get out of bed and couldn’t stop crying. I was physically and emotionally depleted. From trying to do it all throughout three consecutive pregnancies, I was physically spent. He wasn’t able to get home, so my mother came over something which I found belittling at the time but didn’t have the energy to protest. She took my children back to Darwin with her so that I could get some rest.

I appreciate that working away is difficult, yet so is this mothering gig. It’s harder still when you are doing it all alone for a period of time - it’s certainly not all cups of tea, long lunches and episodes of Ellen. Our night shifts often turn to day shifts and our bosses (the kids) can be a tough crowd. Tiredness and exhaustion can be all-consuming if we are trying to fulfill a universal expectation of being able to ‘do it all’.

THE NEED FOR SUPPORT As FIFO women, we’re naturally strong. We have more than one role and most of us like to think we can be the complete package. Many of us do it with little or no help while our husbands are at work. We thrive on it mostly. We accept being tired is all part and parcel of being a FIFO mum, yet while this tiredness of motherhood is considered par for the course, if we were this tired at any other time it would be cause for concern. Statistics show that one in five mothers experience exhaustion right up until their children are 18-months-old. Add having consecutive children to the mix - as many of us do - and you’ll be lucky if you have five minutes to yourself. Time for us is a luxury, but if you leave exhaustion untreated for too long it can lead to depression, which affects one in six women.

And, if left untreated, depression can be a killer.

The solution? Support. It’s as simple as that.

Getting support from family and friends is essential for being a mum - especially a FIFO mum. Being able

to talk to someone and taking time for yourself are also important - but often these simple steps require extra support. Unlike the family unit of years ago, we are so fragmented by work today, we don’t have family down the road to take Junior off our hands when we need five minutes to ourselves to recharge.

Finding support no longer means family but a neighbour or a friend. Having no family locally I found I had retreated so much that I needed to start making friends again. So how do you start from scratch? Talking with Abi Gold from Juggle (a family and parenting consultancy service) she suggests that trying to stay social is the most important thing to avoid being isolated (in more than one sense of the word).

Abi set up Juggle after being a FIFO wife living with four young children in remote WA some years ago. She became aware that FIFO mothers were crying out for someone to talk to; to just tell them they were doing a good job.

“Mothers - and especially FIFO mothers - need to understand that behind almost every closed door there is a story similar to your own,” says Abi. “If you don’t have family close by to support you, join a play or craft group just to keep yourself social and talking to other parents. It’s the first steps in making friends and ultimately building yourself a support group.”

Abi also suggests making sure you keep lines of communication with your partner open, being kind to yourself, admitting when you need a hand, and understanding that the FIFO life isn’t for everyone.

Now as the FIFO community grows, so does the importance of support networks - something that ultimately has been lacking until now, unlike other FIFO-style industries, like the Forces. Many have been started by other resourceful parents who understand and relate to what being a FIFO parent means. These groups are now filling the gaps where the extended family once leant a hand.

NEW NETWORKS Mining Family Matters (miningfm.com.au) was the brain child of Alicia Ranford, a mining mum who saw that the industry was also lacking support. She set up a web site offering free online professional support and practical advice to Australian families in the mining, oil and gas industries. Receiving 16,000 hits a month it has become an invaluable resource.

In addition, FIFO families (fifofamilies.com.au) was started by Nicole Ashby after she realised the lack of support networks which existed for FIFO families.

The group now runs support meets Australia-wide, where families can come together and relate.

Online Counselling Australia (ocaustralia.com.au) is another service and example where a FIFO wife spotted an opportunity to help those in need - just like Abi’s Juggle Parenting consultancy (familyjuggle.com.au). Abi says she found that offering Skype or phone calls, too, has been successful because the client didn’t have to leave the home; they could talk comfortably from their own space. These networks are offering support but also helping to iron out the kinks that can often go along with adjusting to a new way of life in new industries.

So next time your partner says “Yeah, I’m fine”, follow this up with an “Are you sure?” Because we all need a little RNR.

Say G’day to Debbie We’re stoked to have The FIFO Wife, aka Debbie Russo, on board here at RC as our regular rock chick columnist. She tells it how it is, from the other side of the FIFO fence - as one of those perennially waiting for a partner to return home, only to go back to work just weeks later, literally left holding the babies. So here’s a few words from Deb herself: “Im 35 but I will forever be 26. I have three yummy boys aged 6, 4 and 2. I live in the country and I love it.

I’ve been a FIFO wife for 13 years now. I love it most days - note the word most and I believe this is a lifestyle you either make work or you don’t. It’s up to you. It is hard work but it’s worth it.”

So we hope you enjoy Deb’s honest take on being a FIFO wife - insight guaranteed.

If you need support or just want to get in touch with someone to talk to, visit www.fifofamilies. com.au, www.miningfm.com. au, www.familyjuggle.com.au or www.ocaustralia.com.au.

“Statistics show that one in five mothers experience exhaustion right up until their children are 18-months-old.”

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Brian and Lorraine Young’s daughter, Amanda, died in 1998 at just 18 from meningococcal septicaemia, a terrifying, fast-acting disease which can affect young people and children under five in devastating ways. Since her death, Brian and Lorraine have established the Amanda Young Foundation (AYF), Amanda’s Garden (which raises vital funds each year from visitors), and dedicated their lives to reducing deaths in WA from meningococcal disease as well as providing support for survivors. The Foundation also encourages the development of young people, helping to create WA’s future leaders.

Rock Candy: What do you love about living in WA? Brian & Lorraine: The open space, fresh air and sunshine, seeing the stars at night, and having the privilege of being part of a free democratic society.

RC: What could you do without?

B&L: The hot easterly wind in summer which dries out Amanda’s Garden.

RC: What couldn’t you do without?

B&L: The ongoing support of our wonderful sponsors, donors, medical specialists and the loyal band of volunteers who make things happen for the AYF. RC: What are you most proud of?

B&L: The fact that the AYF is still operational 16 years after Amanda’s tragic death and that it continues to play an effective role in spreading the message about the swift and lethal nature of meningococcal disease thereby reducing its impact on the community. We’re also proud that more than 500 WA students have had an opportunity to participate and be inspired by our annual Young Leaders Eco Health Summit. On a personal note we’re also extremely proud of being the recipients of the title of Senior Citizens for Western Australia in the 2013 Australia Day Awards, and more recently being awarded Order of Australia Medals for service to the community health through education and support for research into meningococcal disease.

RC: Where would you live if you didn’t live in WA? B&L: It would be nice to live in Cairns in winter and Tasmania in summer.

RC: Who is your hero?

B&L: Adam Gilchrist - because he is a great family man, heavily involved in community work and completely unaffected by his

outstanding feats on the cricket field.

RC: Tell us something we don’t know about you.

B&L: We visited Africa in 2009 and experienced an enormous ‘wow’ factor by walking with lions in Zimbabwe, visiting the mountain gorillas of the Bwindi impenetrable forest in Uganda, and taking an early morning hot air balloon flight over the Masai Mara in Kenya.

RC: What is the last thing you think about at night?

B&L: What tasks we have to perform tomorrow and what has to be done to ensure that Amanda’s Garden is in cherry ripe condition for the Garden Fete on 26 & 27 October.

RC: What one thing would make your life better?

B&L: To be able to routinely watch the TV news of an evening when there were no acts of violence and only good news to report.

RC: Describe the aims of your charity in a sentence: B&L: To inform the community about meningococcal disease, support those who have been affected, and promote research which will lead to a totally effective vaccine for meng B. Visit amandayoungfoundation.org.au for more information on how you can help!

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Theresa Cutter, aka the Healthy Chef, shares her know-how on making the most of typical minesite buffet fare – and how to beat the temptation of the deep-fat frier.

ROCK CANDY: It’s hard enough being away from home for extended periods of time – so how do you avoid the temptation of comfort eating at work?

THERESA CUTTER: To be honest it actually takes a lot of dedication and commitment to eat in a healthy way wherever you live or work, let alone if you work FIFO, so in general terms, we’re all in the same boat. There’s always a healthy option available for those who look for it.

If I was working in the mines, the first thing I’d do is find out what’s on offer from the minesite buffet and the foods available. I’d try and focus on wholefoods that are fresh and minimally processed. I would focus on eating fresh plant-based foods such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and quality protein such as eggs. If you can, have a chat to the chefs who work in the mine to find out how the food is prepared. I would also have my own stash of quality foods in my room such as my own brand, Healthy Chef Protein and Superfood, that I could easily whip up in a personal blender with a banana and icy cold milk. It’s the perfect snack that will nourish your body, satisfy hunger, and hopefully prevent any comfort food eating.

RC: What are the healthiest options in the minesite buffet?

TC: The healthiest options are generally the freshest, most natural and least refined, like fresh fruit and vegetables, lean meats, fish, chicken, nuts, seeds and legumes - especially beans and pulses.

Ditch the deep-fried chips, the burgers and processed snack foods, and replace them

with delicious leafy salads, vegetables, lean protein, tomato-based sauces and fresh fruit. Basically do your best to pack in those plant-based foods and kick the trash.

RC: What healthy snacks would you suggest we eat?

TC: Try unsalted nuts, fresh and dried fruit, yoghurt, natural muesli, or you could try my pure protein mixed with organic superfood. Even water is great for a quick pick-me-up.

RC: When you come back home from a shift, how do you avoid the temptation to overdo it – both in terms of food and drink?

TC: If I’ve just come home from a shift and I’ve been sitting at a desk all day, I would try to fit in some form of light exercise. Try and factor in a stretch or a light session in the gym, just to move your body and focus on functional whole body training. If the work was more physical during my shift, I would probably still hit the gym and just stretch or do some light-core stability exercises and cardio to loosen up. Hydration is another key point to focus on – and no, this doesn’t include hitting the booze. If you do, you’ll end up feeling dehydrated and looking like a marshmallow.

I would make sure that I hydrate with plenty of water, drinking at least a litre when I get home from my shift. I would then grab a meal and focus on putting some nutritious protein, veggies and salad into my body.

RC: So this is the time to focus on nutrient-dense, quality foods?

TC: Yes, foods that will nourish your body properly. I’d choose some grilled fish,

roasted pumpkin and a green salad or some free-range or organic roast chicken with steamed veggies, sweet potato and smashed avocado and lime. As a general rule, try to avoid overloading on anything in a cream, mayonnaise or butter sauce, and processed foods such as deli meats and bacon. Good sauces to bear in mind are tomato-based ones like Napolitana or a simple drizzle of cold pressed olive oil and lemon.

RC: Are there other things people can do onsite to keep the flab at bay?

TC: Keep active. Most mine gym sites have great trainers that can set you up with an exercise program suited to your needs.

Get a pedometer and wear it everyday.

Try and aim for at least 10,000 steps per day to help keep you active. Walking supports health in every sense: physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, and it just makes you feel good. Also watch the portions you put onto your plate.

Don’t go overboard, and practice mindful eating which is basically thinking about the food you’re eating and how much.

RC: What have you got planned for 2014?

TC: I’m expanding my wholefood range of functional foods as well as writing two new cookbooks and releasing a series of healthy cooking DVDs – so that should keep me busy for a week or two! I’m also thinking of contacting mining firms to see if I can develop what I’m calling a ‘purely delicious, healthy range’ of food options for them.

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“Basically do your best to pack in those plant-based foods and kick the trash.”

Here are a couple of Theresa Cutter’s healthy meal ideas – the perfect alternative to that dirty fish finger sanger.

SMASHED GREEN PEAS AND ROASTED SALMON FOR LUNCH This is a delicious, simple and nourishing way to eat fish.

INGREDIENTS 4 x 200g (7 oz) salmon fillets, bones removed (replace salmon with your favourite - sardines, blue eye, snapper all work really well) 500 g /17 1/2 oz of green peas (fresh or frozen) AVOCADO SALSA VERDE 1 avocado, peeled and stone removed (200g/7 oz) juice from 1/2 lemon 1 bunch flat-leaf (Italian) parsley 1 small bunch of mint leaves 1/2 cup (125 ml / 4 1/2 fl oz) water sea salt and white pepper to taste Preheat your oven to 200 C / 400 F / gas 6.

Nutritional info per serve (serves 2) Protein: 12 g Total fat: 3.1 g Saturated: 0.5 g Carbs: 21 g Sugars: 4 g kilojoules: 643 Fiber: 10 g Calories: 154

REFRIED BLACK BEANS FOR BREKKIE Other beans can be used in place of black beans. Try blackeyed peas, red kidney beans or adzuki beans.

INGREDIENTS 1 onion or 2 shallots, finely diced ½ to 1 green chilli, chopped or 1 tablespoon of chilli sauce ½ to 1 teaspoon ground cumin ¼ teaspoon smoked paprika 1 x 400 g (1 cup drained/250 g) tin of black beans, drained 1 ripe tomato, chopped, or a handful of cherry tomatoes, halved 1 bunch of coriander and a good grind of black pepper METHOD Sauté the onion in a pan over a medium heat with a little olive oil. Add the chilli, cumin and smoked paprika. Cook the spices for a minute, stirring them through the onion. Add the black beans and tomato and toss through. Cook until hot and beans start to collapse slightly. Add a small splash of water if needed to moisten. Season with a little sea salt and black pepper then fold through some chopped coriander.

Divide between two serving bowls. Enjoy with your choice of extras such as chopped avocado, a squeeze of lime and a little yoghurt.

Nutrition per serve: Protein: 46 g Total Fat: 17.5 g Saturated: 3.8 g Carbs: 12 g Kilojoules: 1650 Calories: 394 Sodium: 98 mg Iron: 5 mg Fiber: 8 g

METHOD To make the avocado salsa verde: Combine the avocado, lemon juice, parsley, mint and 1/4 cup (60 ml / 2 fl oz) of the water in a good high speed blender. Blend until smooth.

Add the rest of the water and blend until smooth and creamy. Season with a little sea salt and pepper then set aside in the fridge until needed.

Cook salmon fillets, skin side down in an oven proof pan with a little olive oil over a medium heat for two to three minutes. Place the pan in the oven to finish cooking the salmon for another four to five minutes to finish cooking.

Cook peas for five minutes then drain. Smash them with a potato masher, adding two heaped tablespoons of the avocado salsa verde. Serve a scoop of smashed green peas onto serving plates and top with a piece of roasted salmon. Garnish with a little lemon and drizzle a little salsa verde around.

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SPA The medical spa is the fastest growing sector of the spa industry. Combine this with the popularity of medi-travel – where travellers are fitting cosmetic procedures into their R’n’R itinerary, and it makes sense that an Aussie-owned spa is doing big things in Bali.

Rock Candy checks in to Cocoon Medical Spa and comes out looking fresh and feeling great.

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ince many of us work in areas where the elements are against us (intense heat, sun, rough terrain) and are on ever-changing rosters where diet and exercise can be neglected, we need to find other ways to better our wellbeing. This can mean a little help from the medical spa experts. And if you travel to Bali often, you might want to know of a relatively new medical spa called Cocoon.

Cocoon was founded by ex-Melbournian Louise Cogan, who has spent the better part of the past decade working in medical tourism but felt that while some folks might boldly go to surgical extremes to feel better about themselves, most people prefer less invasive solutions to their wellbeing.

And, heck, if these solutions also make you look better, why not go back again and again?

Cogan also realised more people were ‘scheduling in’ simpler cosmetic enhancement procedures while on short-distance holidays: a Botox injection here; a derma peel there, you get the picture…

Hence she set up shop in Legian, Bali, to cater to tourists desiring (a) expert attention to their cosmetic and medical needs, and (b) more bang for their buck without missing out on any of the professional aspects.

In fact Cocoon boasts an impressive team that includes western-trained doctors, registered nurses and even an internal medical advisory board, hence it’s as professional a practice, if not more so, than many of the medical spas you can visit down under. Included on their advisory board are Cosmetic Doctor Paul Cronin (UK), Cosmetic Doctor Jeremy Cumpston (Australia), and Colon Hydrotherapist and Educator Suki Zoe (UK).

But let’s start with the look of the place. From the outside it looks like a pretty odd building – more like a cool themed hotel than your average beauty or medical clinic. Inside it’s like something out of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey – all clean white lines, shiny bright fittings, and state-of-the-art technology that appear as though NASA have been called in for technical advice.

Flipping through Cocoon’s treatment menu, there seems to be a procedure for everyone: whether you’re concerned with facial or body improvement; emotional or mental wellbeing. There’s even, hooray, a section fully dedicated to blokes. Put it this way, if a medical spa is offering a treatment for ‘lack of libido’ that proves less expensive than taking Viagra regularly, you know it means serious business.

Not that this is an area that concerned me (all good on that account, thanks). But I did feel I could do with a facial on my last trip to Bali. Not the basic sort that you can get in a beauty salon but rather the very special-sounding Diamond Ultrasonic Microdermabrasion which promised

to help smooth wrinkles, clear the complexion, and generally leave the face feeling fresher.

Now the title of the procedure does sound technical, but really it’s quite simple where a subtle ‘micro scrubber’ uses ultrasonic waves to shake loose dead skin cells while creating heat and vibration that give your face a bit of a massage.

The treatment is combined with a collagen mask and hyaluronic acid to help nourish the skin, plus aloe vera for soothing, and something called aquaphor for moisturising.

A lot of people swear by microdermabrasion because there’s no downtime (excellent for when you just want to get back to holidaying); you can continue enjoying minimal sun (not immediately, though, and be sure to slap on plenty of SPF); and there are no messy microcrystals like with traditional methods.

All up, the procedure took just under an hour, and while I was tempted to team it with one of Cocoon’s many other treatment options (see sidebar), I figured I’d be back for something more elaborate next time.

For now, I was feeling great (and looking pretty good!) and ready to hit the town Bali-style and, hey, I even landed a couple of compliments from friends, saying that I looked “fresher in the face”.

Job well done, then. Antonino Tati

TREAT YOURSELF

Here are some of the more common problems blokes can face, with solutions available at Cocoon Medical Spa. Cocoon provides packages similar to those you’ll find at the best clinics at home but at up to 80% less than the price at home. See their website for more information and pricing: www. cocoonmedicalspa.com

SUN-DAMAGED SKIN

Customised Skin Peel: A medical-strength peel that removes the topmost layer of the skin, allowing for new healthier cell growth; great for sun-damaged skin.

SCARRING

Laser Fractional Skin Rejuvenation: Microbeams of light work to help stimulate healthier skin cells; can also help to remove scars, and is good for pigmentation and the smoothing out of wrinkles.

UNWANTED HAIR Cocoon Medical Spa is situated on Sunset Road, Legian, Bali (opposite McDonalds at Sunset Star on Sunset Road).

Enquiries: +62 811 388 2240 Australian Sales Office: (03) 9939 8715 Email: info@cocoonmedicalspa.com

Diode 808 Laser Treatment: An infrared laser gives light energy to hair follicles, heating them and helping reduce the chance of hair growth; great for those niggly hairs on the back and shoulders.

THINNING HAIR

No-Needle Mesotherapy: Ultra sound is used to stimulate collagen cells which help retard thinning hair.

ACTIVE ACNE

Photodynamic Therapy: Another ‘light’ therapy that helps to reduce active acne.

WRINKLES

Anti-wrinkle Injections: Special proteins work to relax overactive muscles through temporary paralysis, helping to reduce wrinkles and frown lines, and sometimes even assisting with problems of excessive sweating. The most popular brand of anti-wrinkle injections is, of course, Botox.

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HEATH’S HELPLINE It can be tough enough being brought up an Aussie bloke with all its ocker expectations – work hard, play harder, and never tell ’em about your problems because problems are for wimps. But the fact is that everybody does experience hardship at some point in their lives – be it from the built-up stress of family issues or the overload of work.

Heath Black insists on the importance of cutting loose regularly – but through ways that are beneficial to you both mentally and emotionally.

“We come home from work on a mine site and a lot of us go to the wet mess where we engage in either small, medium or large amounts of alcohol,” tells Heath. “A minority might use the facilities a mine site offers, like a gym, but there’s not enough of us who look deep inside to work out ‘what’s best for me’. And that is going to be different for every bloke. It could be going for a walk, reading a book, even just Skyping your family…”

Interview by Antonino Tati.

ROCK CANDY: What activities for stress and anxiety relief could workers benefit from? Is it a matter of just picking up where you left off with things you enjoyed as a kid, like kicking a footy or playing a video game?

HEATH BLACK: It’s a good idea to look back to what you used to enjoy, but we’ve got to come to the realisation that as we get

KEEPING ANXIETING AND STRESS AT BAY

older we need to take on different things to stimulate us. I’m going through this transition myself. When I retired from football there was a certain lack of stimulation. The highs and lows of footy were quite addictive, and when I took those away, some significant problems were raised. On the weekend I retired from all forms of footy and I knew that was going to be a high-risk factor for my mental well-being. So to keep the stimulation going I bought a motocross bike and took up bush-riding to make sure the stimulation levels were there again.

Another thing is that I can’t run anymore, so I’ve invested in a pushbike and now ride three times a week. I suppose I’m pretty anal in this phase because I know that if I let these things slip, my mental well-being will slip, and I will naturally get sick.

RC: I suppose it all depends on what issues an individual is facing. In the case of yourself, I guess you would agree there were anger issues there?

HB: Yep, anger issues, alcohol addiction, and huge mental illness issues. But still, even if a person doesn’t have mental health issues, we need to be able to do things like exercise and watch our diet to make sure

we have longevity and sustainability of life.

RC: If somebody has anxiety built up, is it a good idea to avoid a release outlet such as punching a boxing bag - since that might encourage more of a violent streak? Perhaps a different tactic like bike-riding or yoga would be more suitable for them?

HB: Absolutely. There’s an argument that an angry person should hit a punching bag to let those feelings out. Boxing, for example, was a huge part of my upbringing, but it’s something that I’ve taken away because it was only fuelling the fire. Now I’ve gone the total flipside and I engage in yoga.

RC: While you’re practising these outlets of release, do you find negative thoughts are racing through your mind?

HB: There are negative thoughts, totally. But it’s also a time to reflect on why I’m actually feeling like that; to analyse why my moods or behaviour might be changing. I think that as a result of getting my heart rate up, and just doing these activities on my own, like the motocross and bike-riding, I have built a resilience to make sure I don’t get sad, I

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health don’t get angry, or I don’t hit the bottle. It’s a therapeutic tool to make sure that I’m okay.

RC: Are you familiar with the concept of Kundalini releaseand-relaxation exercises?

HB: Enlighten me!

RC: In a nutshell it’s where you devote 10 minutes moving about to African percussion and getting negative thoughts and feelings out of your system, simply by doing something like punching the air.

Then spending the same amount of time stretching and focusing on your breathing. When practising the first part you should shout the word ‘No!’ to connect it to negative actions, and during the second part say the word ‘Yes’ to connect it to positive actions…

HB: That totally makes sense! We’re aiming to sync positive actions up with

positive thinking. And it’s going to be different for everybody – finding out what makes you tick. What I’m challenging people to do is to find out what it is that they want to do as a means of release.

RC: Surely some people find it difficult to even find the time to think about what they might enjoy doing for release.

HB: Well in my wallet there’s a little pink Post-It note and it has ‘Me Time’ written on it. And that’s a reminder to me that I don’t always have to give, give, give to every other bloody person on this planet, and I make sure that I specifically put some time aside for myself. I work solidly all week, so on a Friday I give time to myself and I do what I want to do.

RC: A lot hard-working blokes bottle up emotions and then let them lash out at once. Are there ways to let emotions out little by

little - and in a positive way?

HB: I think we have to have strategies in place every single night after a day’s work.

Don’t let it bottle up. Even on a Sunday night I reflect on all the feelings and emotions that I’ve had for the week. I actually circle these emotions on a chart, even drawing faces to match. It’s like you’ve gone back to pre-primary but it helps! So in effect, I release my emotions every single day through my techniques, and as the week’s finished I analyse how many different emotions I’ve had. Some weeks there are 20. Some weeks there’s two. Sometimes I partake in the emotions chart with my wife and children and I find it’s an amazing communication tool - to have us all on the same page. The important thing is that I make sure I communicate to someone about every single emotion I’ve experienced.

And that could mean communicating with mate, a loved one or family.

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Who’s this, then?

Q&A

SHAYDAN PENNIMENT

Who are you?

My name is Shaydan Penniment, I’m 20 years old and I’m from Bunbury, Western Australia.

What do you do?

I’m an electrical instrumentation apprentice but my main passion is racing. I currently race in an open wheeling class called Formula Vee. So far I have only raced for one year in total (this has all been in Formula Vee), and have accrued a few wins, and more podium finishes – I won my last race at the end of July.

When and how did you become involved with racing?

Around April 2012, my Dad and I were watching

the V8s – our usual weekend ritual. I was fed up with feeling jealous of watching others race when that’s all I’ve ever wanted to do, but I never had the money to pursue my dream. I had just started an apprenticeship, so I thought I might have a look at what racing classes there were in WA. I came across Formula Vee which boasted a cheaper form of running costs compared to other classes, and was also a great entry level for beginners. I got in contact with the Vice President of the Association, and within two weeks, I had taken out a loan, sold a few of my personal belongings, and bought my first car – a 1200cc Polar chassis.

After three races I moved up into the 1600cc class, and have been racing the same car since with some new sponsors.

Describe your racing car: My current car is a blue 1600cc Formula Vee. The chassis is called a Scorpion, and it was originally a 1200cc chassis, but now converted to a 1600cc.

The engine is from a VW Beetle, with the classic air cooling, and boxer layout. The gearbox is the standard road issued four speed H pattern with reverse. It can reach a top speed of between 175 to 195km/h (depending on track conditions).

What is it about the sport that particularly attracts you?

I think being a major car nut plays a huge role as to why I love racing, but it’s not just cars; it’s engines in general, and the desire to win and go faster. From a spectator point of view, I find that

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Who’s this, then? the general noise from the engines, coupled with the risk taking, and sometimes stupidity of making moves that may, or may not work in overtaking someone and/or winning, is what makes the sport exciting for me. There are drivers out there who are so skillful in the way they initiate their driving techniques to win that it makes for such an enjoyable viewing experience. Watch the movie Senna, and you’ll see what I mean.

What special skills do you need to be a competitive driver?

You need the ability to adapt to different scenarios and conditions on the track and the changing affect of the car in doing so, the ‘want’ to keep learning – you’re forever learning, and there’s a big part of being a good driver which is the ability to keep yourself calm. As a driver you’re consistently under pressure. Your eyes are looking behind and in front all the time, trying to guess what the person behind you is going to do. You’re thinking of strategies of how to pass the person in front, or how to defend the person behind – sometimes both at the same time. All this while you’re trying to make your car go as fast as possible around the track. When people rush things, they tend to make mistakes; the same can be said on the track.

You’ve loved racing since you were little – how does the reality of being on the racing circuit compare to what you thought it would be?

Well it’s nothing like PlayStation that’s for sure. It’s a whole new experience. In my second race meet for instance I was T-boned. You don’t feel that on PlayStation, but I certainly felt it then. The great thing about my class is that I ‘become part of the

car’, meaning I can feel everything that the car is doing, something that I’ve never experienced before I took it up, whether it be a light slip of oversteer, or the instant effect of understeer – it’s all there to be felt. I remember my first time coming out on the track on a tuning day. It was in my 1200cc Vee, and I couldn’t believe I was actually on a real racetrack. I had watched as a spectator at this track for the V8s and now here I was, driving my very own race car on it. That feeling multiplies by a hundred when you’re sitting at the starting grid waiting for the lights to go out, and then hopefully the butterflies in your stomach will settle down soon after.

What are your long-term ambitions – and who are your heroes?

My long term ambition is to race as a career. I’m too old to pursue Formula One, and I don’t have the financial capabilities to do so. So my goal is to drive V8 Supercars in Australia. However due to my financial position, I can’t get there without sponsorship. In order to get there I need to prove myself on a national level, which I know I am capable of if given the chance. This means racing at other tracks around Australia in a competitive class. To be able to race at other tracks around the country and eventually the world would be phenomenal. My heroes after watching racing over the years would have to be Peter Brock, Craig Lowndes, Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher and Mark Webber.

What would you say to somebody who is considering taking the plunge and starting racing?

Do it sooner rather than later. Find a category that

best suits you, your driving level and budget. Come to race meetings, meet the drivers and ask around about the cars and how to get into the sport. It’s a great atmosphere, and all the drivers are usually happy to talk about their cars and racing.

Where can our readers see you race over the next few months?

I have three races left for the season, all are at Barbagallo Raceway. For information about race meets held there, head to the WA Sporting Car Club website (www.wascc.com.au).

If you weren’t doing this, what would you be doing?

I’d still be doing my trade, except my money would be going into the import cars I owned before I sold them to fund racing. I’d be into basically anything with an engine. I have a mate who is a mechanic and we’ve spent a lot of long nights and weekends underneath cars, working on them.

Describe the feeling when you’re coming down the final straight: The main feeling I get is more of a want. I just want to go faster. Any driver will tell you that they just want to go faster. I sometimes crouch lower in the car to try and grab that extra millisecond. It means a lot when the first three drivers in our class are usually separated by less than a second.

What’s your dream car?

I have too many. If I narrowed it down into two, it would be a Nissan R35 GT-R for a sensible approach and in a fairytale world, I’d like a Pagani Zonda R.

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the last word by heath franklin’s ‘chopper’ If you’re looking to go on holiday outside Australia and you want to go somewhere that speaks English then you have two choices: Queensland or The United States of America. That’s right, the old ‘Septic Tanks’ are weird enough to justify a holiday there. The people are nice, but like septic tanks, you’ll probably find most of them are full of sh*t.

There have been so many movies and TV shows made in America that when you get there, things may seem familiar, especially the number of people running around with guns. If there is one thing America loves, it’s a gun. Everyone in America has at least one gun, even the kids, and if they could arm feotuses they would. Feotuses? Fetusi? F**k it, let’s call them what they are, future gun owners. In fact, there are little old ladies in America that have more firepower than I have ever owned; locked, loaded and tucked into a handbag the size of an M-60.

Which is why it’s weird that they want to get all ‘up-in-your-bum’ looking for guns and weapons when you land. In Australia, the most dangerous thing you can bring in is a day-old orange. I once smuggled a banana in a stick of dynamite just to get it through Aussie customs. But, I don’t know why they get so uppity about airport security in the States, I just want to fit in. Also, I don’t want to be the only idiot without a gun in a land full of idiots with guns. Considering that most Americans are mad, and heavily armed, it seems odd that they think the threat is coming from overseas. So if you can’t take guns in, you’ll have to make friends with a local who has a gun as soon as possible.

This is easy because Americans are very friendly people, unless you’re black, brown, yellow, or Pink. Why else does she spend so much f**king time over here?

What I love is the subtle cultural differences.

When you meet an Aussie, they will ask how you’re going. When you meet a Seppo, they will tell you where they’re from, what the town’s primary industry is, what the annual rainfall is, and that they have cousins who went to Australia once, and then all about where the cousins are from before you can even bring yourself to loosen the noose around your neck, and kick out the chair. I should mention at this point that the cops in America are the exception.

Australian cops seem like Boy Scouts compared to the American ones. In America, you can be shot for jaywalking or beaten to death with a mag-lite for parking illegally. And that says nothing of the penal system. I’ve watched Judge Judy. I’ll take the beating over talking to that crazy skank any day.

Now you might be thinking, ‘Chopper, why would you want to go to a country where everyone is better armed than you and the cops are Nazis?’

Well, because, as I said, it’s like every single American cliché you ever saw on a screen come to life. You saw it in a movie, now revel in the thrill of starring in your own mugging.

But if the people don’t kill you, the food will.

Don’t get me wrong. The food over there is delicious, even if it isn’t readily digestible. But before you tuck into a few burgers, make sure there is a cardio defibrillator on hand or at least have an organ donor lined up (although preferably not an American).

So there it is, if you get out alive, you’ll have had a hell of a trip. Whether it’s hiding under your hire car during a police shoot-out or being resuscitated on the floor of a fast food restaurant, the States has something for everyone.

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