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ISSUE 0004 / October 23rd - October 29th 2014

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ALSO INSIDE: The Screaming Jets, Slava Grigoryan, Halloween Horror Rock, Lily & The Drum, Young Offenders, Joe Satriani and of course BOB’s BITS, TOUR GUIDE and LOCAL MUSIC NEWS

AROUND THE TRAPS Local singer songwriter Paula Standing will be launching her new single, Running Away, from 8pm at Wassail Wine Bar, 95 Prospect Rd, Prospect, on Saturday 8 November. You can book for dinner on 8342 2548 and Paula will be joined by special guests Lily De Leo, Emily A Smith, Brain Doddridge, Amy Baker and St Cuthbert’s Choir.

Demonic Adelaide band Satan’s Cheerleaders have announced that they will be joined by a number of special mystery guests when they launch their first recording for six years at Jive, 181 Hindley St, on Saturday 1 November.

And it’s to be $10 at the door or $20 for entry and your own personal copy of their new offering.

Tuesday 11 November will celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Bald Clanger Prize for portraiture at the Grace Emily Hotel, 232 Waymouth St, from 6pm. The Bald Clanger Prize for portraiture is one of Australia’s prestigious and least known visual art prizes and is awarded for the best portrait of a man or woman, distinguished in Grace Emily culture.

The winning artist will receive a keg of Coopers fine ale and $250. Canvases are now available for $10 at the bar where you will also receive a pint of Coopers for your troubles.

Get set for local music event Sinners Against Saints which will be taking place at Carclew, 11 Jeffcott St, North Adelaide, on Saturday 1 November. It will feature high energy bands Our Conquest, Hollow Eyes and Coldfront along with other guests and it’s to be a drug and alcohol free event with doors opening at 6pm and an entry fee of just $10.

Reggae Got Soul will take place at The Whitmore Hotel, 317 Morphett St, on Saturday 1 November from 8pm until 2am and will feature live reggae, African and Latin groove music with reggae DJ Jesse Proverbs on the decks. It’s $10 entry.

Nook Nosh, a small, boutique bar located at 111 Unley Rd, Unley, is awash with acoustic sounds from 5pm every Sunday.

Pop in for sips n nibbles and catch AP D’Antonio on Sunday 26 October. Free entry too.

Melrose Music Muster will be taking place at Melrose as a free entry event from Friday 24 October until Sunday 26 October. Acts set to appear over the course of the weekend include Ella Radebone, The Texettes, Rob & Sandie Watling, Donovans, Gabrielle Ballard, Lily & The Drum, Jonny Lovitt, The Hillbilly Hoot, Paige Renee Court, Birdhead, Don Morrison, Dawson, Reg Dodd, Futuras, Glen Parsons, Heymous James Hicky, Poly N Paul, David Robinson, Rose N Thorn, Hiedi Crawford, Skinny Moon, Warren Milera, Gypsy Junkies, Trevor Philby, Big Smoke, Noel Smith & Bev Branson, Weeping Angels, Dave Pearce, Bronte, Folkie Mu’s, Desert Singers, Rod Longford, Nataria Choir, Stew Delaney, Nick Atherton and Mary & Ray along with Keith Hall Blues Roots Band as well as unlisted artists and walk-ups.

Rootsy singer songwriter Heath Anthony is set to play a late afternoon show from 6pm on Sunday 26 October at Crown & Anchor, 196 Grenfell St. To make it all that more special, he has also enticed Ry Kemp, Kyle Landman and Duncan M Turner to also display their musical wares.

Head down to the Grace Emily, 232 Waymouth St, on Saturday 8 November as Kitchen Witch have organised a free entry gig from 9pm. They haven’t played that live music venue in a while so have also invited good friends Appomattox along for the ride as well as relatively new funky Adelaide band Friday’s Fox who will be making their grand debut.

West Thebarton Brothel Party will be launching their Glenn McGrath single

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with special guests Battlehounds in the beergarden of The Exeter Hotel, 246 Rundle St, on Saturday 25 October.

Tickets are $5 plus booking fee via <eventbrite.com.au> or $10 at the door.

it on Friday 31 October at Jive, 181 Hindley St. As it’s All Soul’s Eve, they are making it a fancy dress affair and have also invited The Pits and Seventeen Fifty Seven to also join in the fun.

Fresh from a quick trip to Nashville, USA, The Audreys are now set to sail into The Trinity Sessions, 318 Goodwood Rd, Clarence Pk, with Brillig as special guests on Sunday 26 October. Doors open at 5.30pm with music from 6pm and you can grab tickets from <dramatix.com. au>.

Surviving Sharks will undertake what may well be their final gig for 2014 when they present a very special night, Halloween Horror Rock, at Worldsend Hotel, 208 Hindley St, on Friday 31 October for an easy $10 entry. Also on the bill will be Slick Arnold, Dirt Playground and Across The Atlas and patrons are encouraged to dress up.

Savi’s Fine Guitars are presenting the first of what will become a quarterly guitar swap meet. It will be free entry for vendors and free entry for patrons and will take place at The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 29 George St, Thebarton, during the day on Saturday 1 November. Just come along, bring your stuff or junk or instruments and sell or trade it! Sweet!

Did you know that Focus Promotions presents at metal night under the name Northern Exposure every Thursday evening at The Bridgeway Hotel, 18-20 Bridge Rd, Pooraka? The pub, which was popular during the ’70s and ’80s when part of the national pub rock touring circuit and had acts such as Skyhooks, Australian Crawl, The Dugites and AC/ DC and the likes performing there, now also has regular live music gigs of all kinds. Check it out as the 202 bus from Grote St takes you straight to the front door at Stop 33.

The Dunes (who recently topped Three D Radio’s Top 20 + 1 Chart with Bad Lands), The Byzantines (in acoustic mode and fresh from a recent European jaunt) and Lily Mojito are set to play a free entry shindig at Crown & Anchor, 196 Grenfell St, from 9.30pm on Saturday 1 November.

Funk rockers Scumbag City will be presenting their material at a free entry gig from 9pm in the front bar of the Governor Hindmarsh, 59 Port Rd, Hindmarsh, on Saturday 25 October.

Sarah Lloyde, one of Australia’s best kept musical secrets and who has a strong, soulful voice, will be performing at The Promethean, 116 Grote St, on Friday 15 November. Sarah, who has performed with The Flaming Sambucas and very popular childrens’ band The Funkees, will be presenting Luv Fool with some very special guests.

Burlesque Behind The Bar comes to Gaslight Tavern, 36 Chief St, Brompton, on Friday 7 November and will feature Leopard Lass, Velvet Chase, Karney Doll, Mema Sif and Madeleine DeVille with special guest MC Miss Astrid Martini. Dick Dandy & His WIngmen will also be serving as the intermission act. Tickets at $20 are now available from the pub and there will drink specials throughout the evening.

Young Adelaide punks Young Offenders, fresh from playing with Dead Kennedys, have a new EP and have elected to launch

Gorilla Jones have just been doing some recording for a new album of their upbeat funky, indie soul music and will now also be having a free entry, month-long Friday evening residency at the Grace Emily Hotel, 232 Waymouth St. It kicks off on Friday 7 November and you can expect special guests to rock up each week.

The Fifth Annual Vegan Festival will be taking place on Sunday 16 November from 10am until 5pm as a family and petfriendly event and will feature food stalls and live music from Adelaide band Local Revolution. There will also be guest speaker Robert Cheeke, an author from the US, and it’s just a gold coin donation.

Highly respected locally-based producer and live sound engineer Matt Hills will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of his Hillside Studios with a huge party that will feature some 22 or so local act including The Dunes, Ghyti, Archers and Bad//Dreems and even Peter Combe.

Matt, who has recorded albums for those bands as well as for Horror My Friend, Wolf & Cub, Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! and so many, many more, has become known as the go-to person for indie groups in this city.

The 20th birthday celebrations will take place from noon on Saturday 29 November at Hillside Studios, Torrensville, with tickets on sale now via Moshtix.

Christian Andrew and Precizion Dance Company will present an evening of music and dance to celebrate the launch a single, November Rain, at the Governor Hindmarsh, 59 Port Rd, Hindmarsh, on Saturday 1 November. It follows a sold out EP launch in December of last year and is set to be another landmark performance for Christian as he builds his profile within the local music scene.

According to those in the know, young Adelaide metal outfit Iron Feather and will be taking part in Halloween Harvest on Friday 31 October.

That event, with doors opening from 6pm, takes places at Cavern Club, 136 North Tce, and will also feature Hollow Eyes, What Happens After Dark, Fort Rose Falling, Burning Bridges, Castaway and Emergence along with another band whose name we can’t quite read due to the crazy font they have chosen to use.

OUR PHILOSOPHY Created by veteran Adelaide music guru Rob Dunstan, BSide Magazine is a weekly magazine totally focussed on what’s going on in the Adelaide Music Community.

Every week we will be bringing you the latest news, up-to-date information and entertainment through: Regular music news updates Features and interviews Touring and gig guides Local music industry news Awesome competitions Live music and CD reviews Theatre news and interviews Plus, we welcome the return of BOB’S BITS in print.

Our goal with BSide Magazine is to help rebuild the Adelaide Music Community, to refocus the emphasis on local music and uniting the different tribes encouraging and further enhancing a prosperous live music industry for all.

We want BSide Magazine to be like Gaffa Tape. The thing that will hold everything together.

IN THIS ISSUE Page 2 Around The Traps Our Philosophy Page 4 Heading To Town Page 5 BSide Tour Guide Page 6 Feature Article: Ben Ottewell Page 7 Young Offenders The Screaming Jets Page 8 The Clothesline: Theatre News/Interviews Page 9 Lily & The Drum Page 10 MusicSA CD Reviews Page 11 Slava Grigoryan Bob’s Bits Page 13 Halloween Horror Rock Advertising Enquiries Ph: (08) 8346 9899 sales@bsidemagazine.com.au

ISSUE #0004 October 23rd October 29th, 2014

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HEADING TO TOWN Holy Holy have hit the road on a headline tour following gigs around the country with Boy & Bear as well as also playing at Bigsound in Brisbane. Armed with new single, History, and an accompanying video clip, the band is now heading to Jive, 181 Hindley St, to play with likeminded locals Glass Skies on Friday 7 November. Book via Moshtix.

Deep South, a three-day festival full of blues, roots and folk goodness, is returning to the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, 59 Port Rd, Hindmarsh, from Friday 28 November through to Sunday 30 November. Get set to see interstate artists such as the legendary Kevin Borich, Lloyd Speigel, Ray Beadle and Hat Fitz & Cara Robinson. The Hiptones are also reforming especially for the festival and will be one of the many local acts on the bill for Saturday 29 November. Tickets are now on sale via OzTix or via the venue.

Former Adelaide lad Chris Altmann, who used to play around town with The Drowners and then The Vandas, has enjoyed a solo career since relocating to Melbourne. He’s now returning ‘home’ to play The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 39 George St, Thebarton, on Friday 31 October with Nikko & Snooks as special guests. Tickets will be at the door for $12.

Globetrotting Kiwi band The Eastern are on the stellar line-up for South Australia’s Fleurieu Folk Festival which runs from Friday 24 October until Sunday 26 October at Willunga. The Eastern join the likes of Keith Potger of The Seekers, Melbourne sister act The Little Stevies and fiddler Marcus as well as Brisbane’s Women In Docs and fellow interstaters Warren Fahey and Grimick. South Australian legend Chris Finnen will also head an impressive local list that boasts Halfway To Forth, Courtney Robb, Goldstein, Junior, The Hushes, Kaurna Cronin and many others. The Eastern will also be performing at The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 39 George St, Thebarton, SA, on Thursday 23 October with Max Savage as special guest. For more details about Fleurieu Folk Festival, visit their website at <fleurieufolkfestival.com.au>.

Brisbane-based singer songwriter Sahara Beck, currently garnering much acclaim in the indie folk scene and beyond, is gearing up to release her second EP, Bloom, in October and will be hitting the road to celebrate its release. Catch the talented young songstress at Jive, 181 Hindley St, Adelaide, SA, on Friday 24 October with tickets now on sale via Moshtix.

Liz Stringer and Leah Flanagan have been friends for many years and will now be heading to SA together on tour. First stop is an evening concert at Barossa Music Centre in Tanunda on Saturday I November, and then The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 39 George St, Thebarton, from 4pm on Sunday 2 November. It will be a tour to launch Liz’s Live At The Yarra DVD. Spend a night with wildly eccentric Canadian guitarist Devin Townsend when he presents a clinic at the Governor Hindmarsh, 59 Port Rd, Hindmarsh, on Thursday 23 October.

The clinic will offer guitar enthusiasts an opportunity to learn the techniques and styles Devin has developed throughout his varied career. Alongside this, there will be plenty of opportunity for fans to ask any questions they have, as it will include a Q&A section. There will also be the chance to buy Devin Townsend’s music and merchandise. Doors open at 7pm with the clinic set to commence at 7.30pm sharp.

Barely a month goes by without Melbourne-based folk rockers The Bon Scotts making the trek across the border to play in Adelaide. And next month will

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be no different as they are again set to grace the Grace Emily, 232 Waymouth St, on Saturday 1 November for some more free entry shenanigans with some special guests.

Orianthi, the Adelaide-born guitarist who has shared the world stage with acts such as ZZ Top, Steve Vai, Steve Tyler, Carlos Santana, Mailyn Manson, Dave Stewart, Adam Lambert, Michael Jackson, Richi Sambora, Bon Jovi and Alice Cooper, is heading home for Christmas. So why not play a gig? So get set for a special show at the Governor Hindmarsh, 59 Port Rd, Hindmarsh, on Sunday 21 December. Book at the venue or via OzTix. Melbourne-based all-female rockers Tequila Mockingbyrd are heading back to town to do a show alongside Colibrium, Kingston Downes and Overview Effect at Worldsend Hotel, 208 Hindley St, on Saturday 25 October.

Melbourne rockers The ReChords are heading to town to take part in Summer Shindig with The Grenadiers, The Villenettes and The Pits at The Bridgeway Hotel, 15 Bridge Rd, Pooraka, on Saturday 1 November from 3pm. It’s to be presented by Sailor Jerry so expect lots of give aways, a pin-up competition and free barber cuts.

River Of Snakes, a trio featuring Raul of Magic Dirt alongside Elissa Rose from the powerful and grungy The Loveless and Ben Wrecker from Hotel Wrecking City Traders, are hitting Worldsend Hotel, 208 Hindley St, on Saturday 1 November armed with their Black Noise album with Inwoods and Introvert also on the bill.

Cisco Caesar are a Melbourne band made up of an American, a former television star, a member of Adelaide band Pornland and Jacob Cole, the gifted guitar player from The Portraits and Sal Kimber & The Rolling Wheel who play a blend of funky soul and alternative country music. They are now heading to town to launch their Burnt & Broken album and will do so at Hotel Metro, 46 Grote St, on Saturday 1 November.

Canberra punks The Vacant Lot and Bladder Spasms are heading to town next month! On Friday 14 November they’ll be joined by Perdition and Fear & Loathing at The Gaslight Tavern, 36 Chief St, Brompton, and on Saturday 15 November, the punk bands will hit The Edinburgh Castle, 233 Currie St, with Ben Gel & The Boneyard Saints as special guests. The Ed Castle gig will also serve as an album launch for Ben’s new band.

Legendary blues harp player Charlie Mussellwhite, who blew harp on INXS’ Suicide Blonde, is among the first of the acts to be announced for WOMADelaide 2015 which will take place in Botanic Pk from Friday 6 March until Monday 9 March. Charlie will join such other great acts such as Balkan Beat Box, Youssou N’Dour, The Gloaming, Che Sudaka, Neneh Cherry, Lake Street Dive, Rufus Wainwright and more with a second round of artists to be announced at the end of this month.

Must be festival time! Gorgeous Festival, a gorgeous boutique held down at McLaren Vale on Saturday 28 November and Sunday 29 November, has been announced with Xavier Rudd as the headliner and plenty of local acts including Echo & The Empress, The Timbers and Rin McArdle also on the bill.

Rudely Interrupted, an energetic, six-piece Melbourne rock band led by Rohan Brooks and featuring members who share a range of both physical and intellectual disabilities including blindness, deafness, Aspergers, autism and Down Syndrome, will play the Governor Hindmarsh, 59 Port Rd, Hindmarsh, on Sunday 16 November.

Book at OzTix or via the venue.

JOE SATRIANI

JOE SATRIANI

By Robert Dunstan Well-known American guitarist Joe Satriani, an unlikely backing singer on Crowded House’s 1986 self-titled debut album, is returning to Australia to tour in support of his 14th studio album, Unstoppable Momentum.

The tour has the now legendary guitarist on the road with veteran band mate Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa and Steve Vai) on keyboards alongside bass player Bryan Beller (Dethklok and Dweezil Zappa) and drummer Marco Minnemann (Adrian Belew and Steve Wilson).

And while the visit marks one of many trips to this country under his own name, I was reminded that Satch, as he has become known to his many fans, made his first trip to Australia as the guitar player in Mick Jagger’s band back in 1988.

I was reminded of this when, due to a flurry of rumours about The Rolling Stones undertaking a sneaky little warmup gig at a cosy Adelaide pub ahead of playing Adelaide Oval on Saturday 25 October, someone had posted a YouTube clip of Jagger doing a warm-up show with his band at Melbourne’s Corner Hotel as part of that Primitive Cool solo visit of 1988.

They were billed as Jimmy Rip & The Brothers Of Sodom for the secret show and the seven-minute footage has the band stompin’ through Little Red Rooster and features Satch on lead guitar.

So, how did you get to play in Mick Jagger’s band?

“It was a funny set of coincidences really,” Satch says. “I’d pretty much started most of my professional career in the San Francisco Bay area where Bill Graham was a big force in concert production and management.

“And I’d tried to get the Bill Graham team to manage me as I was about to release Surfing With The Alien,” he continues. “That was around 1987, but they just weren’t interested in instrumental guitar players at the time.

‘So, let’s fast-forward about two months and my record is out and making a pretty good impression on the Billboard Chart,”

Satch says. “And then I was on my very first solo tour of the US to promote the album and was on the east coast where the Bill Graham team were in New York producing Mick Jagger’s solo tour.

“As fate would have it, Mick was pretty unhappy with all the guitar players they’d presented to him,” he laughs. “So Mick said to the bass player, Doug Wimbish from Tackhead and Living Colour, ‘Hey, Doug, do you know any good guitar players because I’m getting sick of auditioning all these famous players who just aren’t working out?’

“So Doug said to Mick, ‘Well, how about this Joe Satriani guy? His record is doin’ real well, he’s gettin’ on the front cover of all these music magazines and I’ve met him and he’s a nice enough kinda guy’.

“So Mick’s like, ‘Okay, bring him in’,” Satch recalls, “And the next thing I know I get a call from Bill Graham’s team asking me to come in for an audition with Mick. And I’m thinkin’, ‘This is funny. Me playin’ with Mick Jagger? Okay, why not?’

“So I went in and auditioned and it turned out great,” the guitarist says. “I did 20 minutes and then Mick suddenly revealed himself and said he’d been out the back listening and said he thought it sounded amazing and immediately asked me to be in his band. But it was all pretty funny.”

I also asked Satch is there were any young, up and coming guitar players he knew of that people should listen out for.

“Oh there’s hundreds of ’em,” he laughs.

“And I’m sure there are some incredible shredders in Adelaide right now who are not doing too much except playing for themselves in their bedroom or in someone’s backyard or a small club. They are everywhere.”

This causes me to make mention of young Adelaide guitarist Stefan Hauk.

“How do you spell his name?” Satch then says as we round up the interview. “Let me get a pen and write down his name because I want to check him out.”

Joe Satriani and his band will be performing at Grote St’s Her Majesty’s Theatre on Sunday 9 November. Book at BASS.

The Vacant Lot (ACT), Bladder Spasms, Perdition and Fear & Loathing at Gaslight Tavern SATURDAY 15 NOVEMBER Smudge (Sydney) at Grace Emily Hand Of Mercy (Sydney), Hellions and Void Of Vision at Fowler’s Live The Vacant Lot (ACT), Bladder Spasms, Perdition and Fear & Loathing at Edinburgh Castle Cat Canteri Band (Melbourne) at The Singing Gallery (McLaren Vale)

THURSDAY 23 OCTOBER Devin Townsend (Canada) at Governor Hindmarsh (guitar clinic) The Eastern (NZ) and Max Savage at Wheatsheaf Hotel FRIDAY 24 OCTOBER Hot Chocolate (UK) at Her Majesty’s Theatre Kingswood (Melbourne) at Adelaide Uni Bar Screaming Jets (Newcastle) at Governor Hindmarsh Sahara Beck (Brisbane) at Jive Confession (Sydney), Prepared Like A Bride and Graves at Fowler’s Live Fleurieu Folk Festival: The Eastern (New Zealand), Women In Docs (Brisbane) and so many more at Willunga SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER The Rolling Stones (UK) and Jimmy Barnes at Adelaide Oval Slow Chase (Melbourne) at Crown & Anchor Screaming Jets (Newcastle) at Governor Hindmarsh Missy Higgins (Melbourne) at Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre Pop Crimes: These Immortal Souls, Mick Harvey, JP Shilo, Brian Henry Hooper and more at Wheatsheaf Hotel Tequila Mockingbyrd (Melbourne), Colibrium, Kingston Downes and Overview Effect at Worldsend Fleurieu Folk Festival: The Eastern (New Zealand), Women In Docs (Brisbane) and so many more at Willunga Anarkokvilt, Dystopian (Melbourne), Wounded Pig, Thorngate and Terania at Animal House SUNDAY 26 OCTOBER Pop Crimes: These Immortal Souls, Mick Harvey, JP Shilo, Brian Henry Hooper and more at Wheatsheaf Hotel Ben Ottewell (UK) and Buddy (US) at Grace Emily Fleurieu Folk Festival: The Eastern (New Zealand), Women In Docs (Brisbane) and so many more at Willunga The Audreys and Brillig at Trinity Sessions WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER Rodriguez (US) at Adelaide Entertainment Centre THURSDAY 30 OCTOBER More Than Life (UK) at Crown & Anchor Ralph Towner (US), Wolfgang Muthspiel (Vienna) and Slava Grigoryan (Melbourne) at Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre FRIDAY 31 OCTOBER Rick Price (Brisbane) and Ian ‘Bushy’ Martin at Capri Cinema (Goodwood) Hot Dub Time Machine (Melbourne) at Thebarton Theatre Deuces Wild Rockabilly Weekender: Louis King (Melbourne), The Lincolns and Salvy & The Hired Help at Gaslight Tavern Chris Altmann (Melbourne) and Nikko & Snooks at Wheatsheaf Hotel Ian Pooley (Germany) at Soundpond Bar SATURDAY 1 NOVEMBER A Day On The Green: John Paul Young, Moving Pictures, Eurogliders, 1927, Mark Williams of Dragon, Wa Wa Nee, Pseudo Echo, Rose Tattoo, Mark Gable of Choirboys, GANGgajang, Machinations, Mi Sex and Swanee at Peter Lehmann Wines (Barossa Valley) The Kin (US) at Fowler’s Live Cisco Caesar (Melbourne) at Hotel Metro Liz Stringer (Melbourne) and Leah Flanagan at Barossa Arts Centre (Tanunda)

The Rechords (Melbourne), The Villenettes and The Pits at Bridgeway Hotel (Pooraka) Deuces Wild Rockabilly Weekender: The Detonators (Melbourne), Itchy Fingers (Melbourne), The Saucermen, The Satellites, Lucky Seven, Fistful Of Trojans and DJ Jess at Whiteline Transport (Greenfields) The Porch Sessions II: Winterbourne (Sydney) at TBA Todd Terry (US) at Lotus Lounge Steve Tyson (Byron Bay) at The Singing Gallery (McLaren Vale) River Of Snakes (Melbourne), Inwoods and Introvert at Worldsend SUNDAY 2 NOVEMBER Katchafire (New Zealand) at Governor Hindmarsh Aqua (Denmark) at HQ Complex Liz Stringer (Melbourne) and Leah Flanagan at Wheatsheaf Hotel Deuces Wild Rockabilly Weekender: The Pumpin’ Piano Cats, Raunchy Suger, The Silverados, The Sugar Shakers (Melbourne) and DJ Jess at Halfway Hotel TUESDAY 4 NOVEMBER Joe Louis Walker (US) at Governor Hindmarsh WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMEMBER Mariah Carey (US) at Adelaide Entertainment Centre

SUNDAY 16 NOVEMBER Tori Amos (US) at Her Majesty’s Theatre Rudely Interrupted (Melbourne) at Governor Hindmarsh THURSDAY 20 NOVEMBER The Smith Street Band (Melbourne), The Front Bottoms (New York) and Apologies I Have None at Governor Hindmarsh Hey Lady (Sydney) at Worldsend Hotel 8 Ball Aitken (Sydney) at Gilbert Street Hotel Clint Boge (Brisbane) at Royal Oak Hotel Thelma Plum (Sydney) at Jive THURSDAY 20 NOVEMBER Hey Lady (Newcastle) at Worldsend FRIDAY 21 NOVEMBER CW Stoneking (Melbourne) at Governor Hindmarsh SATURDAY 22 NOVEMBER British India (Melbourne) at Governor Hindmarsh 8 Ball Aitken (Sydney) at The Singing Gallery (McLaren Vale) Mick Thomas & The Roving Commission (Melbourne) and Ruby Boots (Melbourne) at Trinity Sessions Clint Boge (Brisbane) at Crown & Sceptre Saved By Summer: Maricopa Wells (Melbourne), Fear Like Us, Foxtrot, Paper Arms, The Hard Aches, Heath Anthony, Bec Stevens, Ry Kemp, Abby Howlett, Jake Ward and Anna Jeavons at Crown & Anchor

THURSDAY 6 NOVEMBER The Madden Brothers (US) at Adelaide Entertainment Centre Flight Facilities (Sydney) at HQ Shihad (Melbourne), High Tension (Melbourne) and Cairo Knife Fight (New Zealand) at Governor Hindmarsh FIRDAY 7 NOVEMBER The Stiffys (Melbourne), The Villenettes and West Thebarton Brothel Party at Crown & Anchor Hilltop Hoods at Adelaide Showground Arena Songs That Made Me: Katie Noonan, Angie Hart, Melody Pool and Sam Buckingham at Governor Hindmarsh Fred Smith (ACT) and Junior at Trinity Sessions Holy Holy (Brisbane) and Glass Skies at Jive Citizen Kay (Ghana/ACT) at Rocket SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER Radio Birdman (Sydney) and The Bearded Clams at Governor Hindmarsh Telltale & Vine: The Audreys and more at Fox Creek Winery Gossling (Melbourne), Montaigne and Ayla at Adelaide Uni Bar Lanie Lane (Melbourne) at Jive SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER Joe Satriani (US) at Her Majesty’s Theatre Rudely Interrupted (Melbourne) at Governor Hindmarsh TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER Katy Perry (US) at Adelaide Entertainment Centre WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER Katy Perry (US) at Adelaide Entertainment Centre Jimmy Eat World (US), The Sinking Teeth and My Echo at Thebarton Theatre FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER NOFX (US) at Thebarton Theatre The Dead Love (Sydney), Exiles and Andy Roberts at Rhino Room Mark Wilkinson (Sydney) at Jive The Preatures (Sydney) and Holy Holy at Governor Hindmarsh

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BEN OTTEWELL

BEN OTTEWELL

By Robert Dunstan Ben Ottewell, one of the singers and guitarists with much-loved, Mercury Prize-winning UK indie rock band Gomez, is about to commence his third solo tour of Australia and comes armed with a second solo album, Rattlebags, and a touring buddy from the US who goes by the name Buddy.

“What time is it down there?” Ben immediately asks after the international telephone operator introduces us for the interview.

It’s just before 8am I tell him while trying to stifle an early morning yawn.

“Oh, sorry,” Ben says down the line from home in Brighton, East Sussex, where he lives with his wife, twin sons and daughter. ‘It’s whisky time here. It’s about 10.30pm so it’s whisky time.

“Oh absolutely,” the musician then says when asked if he’s looking forward to making the trek to our shores once again.

“I always have a good time in Australia and, with the new album just coming out, I’ve got a whole bunch of new tunes to play to people. And I started working on Rattlebags about a year or so ago now so I’m glad it’s done and I have something to bring with me.”

“And going right back to the early years with Gomez, the trips down to Australia were always very special,” Ben continues.

“And I think that was because there was always some kind of wonderful affinity with Australian audiences.

“Apart from my solo tours, I’ve probably been to Australia about 10 times now and it’s never been short of fantastic,” he adds. “The nature of what Gomez so and what I do with my solo stuff doesn’t seem to present any barriers. People seem to really enjoy it and get involved. And I loved playing The Grace Emily when I was there last time – that was a really fun gig – so I can’t wait to play there again with the new album.”

Ben’s new album, Rattlebags, follows Shapes & Shadows, his solo debut of 2010 and was again written in collaboration with childhood friend Sam Genders who is noted for his work with UK bands Tuung and The Accidental as well as the rotating collective that is Diagrams.

“Sam and I were born in the same small Derbyshire village, Chesterfield, within a couple of months of each other,” Ben reveals. “So we’ve known each other for what seems like forever. And Sam is just such a great lyricist and arranger so we work well together and he also acts like a perfect sounding board. There’s also a lot of trust between us.

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“And I’ve found that I work better when I am collaborating with someone,” he admits. “That has always worked better for me. And the way it worked with Sam was that I’d written a lot of songs at home and they had usually started with a riff as I am a great believer in having a good riff.

So I had all these riff-based songs with maybe a verse or two or some kind of melody and I just took them to Sam. “So I’d get on the train and get some headspace and go up from Brighton and see Sam in the hills up in Sheffield,” Ben continues. “And then we’d just work away on them. So that was three or four trips up to Sheffield and the songs were pretty much done.”

Ben then set up a crowd-funding campaign to finance the recording of Rattlebags which was hugely successful as it raised more than anticipated.

“I was really pleased with all that and I also feel it’s a honest way of engaging with people,” he decides. “I had thought about it a lot before I went into it but I felt it was going to work for me. Gomez weren’t doing anything – we’d decided to take a break and I had these songs I’d written – so I knew that I’d be able to engage with Gomez fans for a solo album.

“And it really worked for me,” the musician says, “as it gave me time and space to make a new solo record. It was also a way of connecting with Gomez fans and guiding them through the process.

“And, I mean, while Gomez were having a break what else was I going to do?” Ben laughs. “I’m pretty much unemployable, so doing another solo album was the only real option.

“I’ll tell you what though,” he adds with another laugh, “when you do a crowd funding project, you spend a lot of time afterwards sticking CDs into a large envelope and putting the person’s address on the front. That was a total pain in the arse. There’s a lot of envelopes and a lot of postage stamps involved. But that’s all part of it I guess.”

Is there a difficulty writing songs for a second solo project as distinct from writing for a successful band such as Gomez?

“Hmmm, I know what you mean,” Ben muses. “With the first solo album I had started writing songs and didn’t know where they might end up. And some of the songs I had written in mind for Shapes & Shadows were never going to work with Gomez anyway because of where they were going. And with Gomez having five songwriters, there’s never a shortage of material anyway.

“But with Rattlebags and especially with Gomez being on some kind of hiatus, the whole thing was written very specifically over a 12-month period with that album

in mind. And in that way Rattlebags is probably the most cohesive thing I’ve ever done just in terms of the scope and the expression for a body of work for just one outlet.

“And while that was all quite a challenge,” he adds, “it was also quite rewarding.”

Ben will be touring our country with Buddy, an alternative country musician from Portland, Oregon, whose band, also known as Buddy, have previously toured with Gomez.

“Yeah, he’s become a very, very good friend of mine and actually helped write one of the songs on Rattlebags,” Ben reveals. “And we’ve toured together a bunch of times and because he’s never been down to Australia before, it was a great chance to present Buddy to Australian audiences for the first time.

And I really think people are going to love him. He’s great, really great.”

of Keith Richards. Having a chat would be quite a fascinating experience. He’s a bit of a miracle – I love him – so I’d love to have a drink with him.

“And I suppose you could always look out for Keith at a place that sold lots of cigarettes,” Ben laughs.

In closing I mention that as a small child my parents had often taken me to visit my grandparents who lived in Heanor, Derbyshire, and it would become a family ritual that we would also visit Matlock Bath Illuminations, a unique parade of illuminated and decorated boats on River Derwent.

Is there a chance that Buddy will join you for a couple of songs?

“Well, it’s going to be totally acoustic performances, so while Buddy and I haven’t talked about it, I certainly wouldn’t rule it out,” Ben teases. “It’s always a very good possibility. And something like that generally tends to happen on tours like this.”

Do some Gomez songs still make their way into your solo sets?

“Only one or two these days,” Ben says.

“But I don’t like to do the obvious Gomez tunes although I like to do some that I didn’t actually sing. I like to do Gomez songs that the other guys sang and attempt my own version.

“But I can say there will be at least one of two Gomez songs in there,” he adds.

Ben goes on to say that while Gomez are still enjoying a break, they will see some live action in late November as they are set to perform in Manchester on the main stage at the Whisky Sessions alongside Turin Brakes and Badly Drawn Boy. “Yeah, we’re just doing a one-off show,” he says. “And we bump into each other now and again. A couple of the guys live here in Brighton but a couple of others live over in the US. “But, when we all get together in November, we’ll get to see where our heads are at,” Ben muses. “Hopefully it will mean some new material.”

Ben was not aware that The Rolling Stones will be trekking around the country at the same time as he and Buddy hit our shores.

“I saw them play in London about 10 years ago,” he says. “And I wouldn’t mind spending an hour or so in the company

“Oh, really,” Ben, who attended Highfields School in Matlock, says. “The Illuminations are still going strong although I think they should be just about finished up for this year. And I know Heanor well because my grandparents on my dad’s side lived in Ripley which is quite close to Heanor.”

Ben Ottewell plays the Grace Emily Hotel, 232 Waymouth St, on Sunday 26 October with special guest Buddy.

Tickets are available from Moshtix or at the pub.

YOUNG OFFENDERS

YOUNG OFFENDERS

By Robert Dunstan Adelaide’s Young Offenders are a relatively young indie rock band with traces of old school punk who are set to launch their debut EP. The band, Kyle Landman, Leigh Stagarevich, Brad Vowles and Sam Male, formed about 18 months ago but have already made quite a name for themselves on the local scene.

A live review of the band I found online while undertaking some research suggested that Young Offenders boasted a singer with a distinctly British voice and I found this to be the case when I first spoke over the telephone to vocalist Kyle Landman.

“Yeah, I’m originally from Kent in the UK,” he says with a laugh, “but moved here about five years ago.

“My girlfriend at the time had a younger sister who was going to Golden Grove High School and they had a talent show and I saw this guy playing guitar and rolling around on the stage and he was just brilliant,” Kyle says when I ask how Young Offenders got together.

“And I immediately thought to myself, ‘I want this guy in a band with me’,” he says.

“And that was Brad who is now our lead guitarist,” Kyle continues. “And the band came together when we met Leigh who plays drums and Sam on bass. And Leigh has since become one of my best friends and we share a house together. We’re actually all best friends now.”

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first started off. It was just to mark our beginnings I suppose.

“We didn’t have a lot of money to do the new EP so we got in a mate, Josh Bills [of These Wild Animals] to do it in his studio down Largs Bay way,” Kyle continues. “So we relaxed and took our time and did it over about six months or so.

“But Josh has got a lot of pretty decent equipment – his studio is pretty much what he does for a living – so we got a pretty good sound,” he adds. “And while it’s all my songs, the other guys have given them their own spin so they don’t sound much like the songs as I first wrote them.”

Young Offenders have also been able to get on some high-profile shows by international touring artists such as The Cribs and Dead Kennedys.

“The Cribs support slot was a massive boost as it really raised our profile and helped us get a lot more gigs,” Kyle says of playing Adelaide Uni Bar late last year with the UK band that once boasted Johnny Marr in its ranks. “And to support Dead Kennedys [at Fowler’s Live] the other week was like a dream come true because I was such a massive fan. I still can’t believe it really.

“And even without Jello Biafra, they were brilliant,” he adds. “I must say I was a bit sceptical because he’s such a big part of the band but, no, they were really great.”

Kyle also fronted a band in Kent.

The band cite a vast array of influences including The Clash, Arctic Monkeys, Jamie T, Razorlight, The Subways, The Cribs, The Streets, The Strokes, Rancid, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and The Ruts as well as Hendrix.

“I did, yeah,” he laughs, “and that was a kind of punk band I was in all the way from school until I left to come here. It was a similar sort of music to what Young Offenders are doing now, but the guys here are way, way better musicians.

“The old punk stuff is probably due to my parents’ record collection,” Kyle, who admits that the first album he ever owned was Green Day’s Dookie, suggests. “They were around when all that whole British punk thing was happening.

“And the music scene here is pretty good,” he adds, “and seems to be getting better all the time. When I first arrived I was playing solo acoustic shows around the place and was also going out checking out bands. I have seen it really explode, especially over the last year or so. It seems to have really taken off.”

“And they are still into music,” he adds.

“We’ve done a few shows at The Gaslight Tavern with some older punk bands and mum and dad and all their old punk mates often come down. So it’s good to see all the old punks getting into what we’re doing.”

The band has adopted a Halloween theme for their launch on All Soul’s Eve with punters being asked to dress up for some extra fun. Young Offenders, who have played many live music venues across Adelaide, chose Jive after taking part in Seventeen Fifty Seven’s recent CD launch there.

“We just loved Jive as a venue,” Kyle enthuses. “We just loved the vibe, the layout and pretty much everything about it. So we thought we’d give it a try for the launch of our EP.” Kyle then admits that it has taken the band a while to get a recording together.

“Yeah, it’s been a long while coming,” he laughs. “But we did put out a little demo thing we did over two days with Matt Hills as a taster about a month after the band

The band plan to play as many gigs as they can following their EP launch.

THE SCREAMING JETS

By Catherine Blanch For 25 years The Screaming Jets have been dishing out great Aussie rock.

With six studio albums, two live releases, more than 20 singles and two DVDs, these boys have established a reputation as one of Australia’s best live bands.

To celebrate their silver anniversary, The Screaming Jets have released their seventh studio album, Atomic 47, and are taking it on the road and across the country.

Dave Gleeson has been living happily in the Adelaide Hills for the past 10 years with his wife and two children. It’s not common knowledge but used to be a plumber’s assistant by trade.

“I was in Sydney last week and a mate told me he had a pit to dig and asked if I wanted to come help him. I said no!” Dave begins. “He was the one I was working with back in the days when I was doing my solo stuff. When that started to take off I told him that I’d have to knock this plumbing thing on the head. I think he’s still hoping I’ll be back – but I won’t [laughs].”

It’s not like you have the time for it really.

Between live gigs with The Screaming Jets and The Angels, radio and parenting, it’s amazing you find time to sleep.

“Exactly! I’ve been away every weekend since May 20 so I get home and do [parenting] Monday to Thursday and then off I go again. The kids, who are ten and six, are a bit over that! The days of running up to me for a cuddle has turned into ‘Did you get me anything?’,” he laughs. “I always say no!”

You’ve been quoted as once saying that you were happy you made it past 25 years of age because you didn’t think you would live that long. Now The Screaming Jets, after starting out with a Battle Of The Bands win, have reached the same milestone. How’s this all feeling for you?

“You know, all the best things started happening in my life after I turned 30,” Dave says. “I had already met my wife and started a family; it’s things like that which give you a better perspective on life and your place in the world. I got past that whole ‘live hard, die young, leave a good looking corpse’ mentality. Now I’m 46 and living life.”

band; there’s always a certain amount of romanticism that goes along with that,” he says. “But the plus side is that you find someone who is excited and bringing new energy to the band. It’s a bit like getting a new toy when you hit it off with new members. Jimmy Hocking and I are a good example of that; we’re both very silly when we’re together.

“This current line-up has been together for a good six or seven years so we figured it was about time we pulled finger and recorded something!”

At the time of speaking with Dave, the recording process for the now completed Atomic 47 album had not yet begun.

“We’re only doing four days in the studio,” he proudly declares. “We’ve decided that all that other wankery that goes on with recording is not for us; we’re just going to get in there and record it as live as we can and get it out there. Scotty, our guitarist, recently built his own studio – Yabby Road Studios – and it’s perfect. It’s a big room for us to get in there and just bang it out.

“As a producer and engineer, Scotty has worked many times with James Reyne’s and Mark Seymour’s records, so it’s going to be very in-house, which excites me more than anything. No useless outside influences,” he says, with a sarcastic snooty voice.

All For One has been the album of choice for many to shake off the frustrations or to get pumped up.

“It’s that feel that we’re going for,” Dave says. “Good fun rock‘n’roll! We’ve never been one to write candy throwaway songs. The vibe of this album is the same vein as Aerosmith, Van Halen, AC/DC and The Angels – the kind of music people put on because it takes them somewhere.”

Dave explains that the band wanted and album name that was a little bit cryptic and that it was Paul Woseen that came up with Atomic 47 – 47 being the atomic number for silver. It’s completely apt with 25 years being the silver anniversary. He is also very excited to be playing at The Gov once again.

“We do love The Gov!” Dave enthuses. “It’s definitely one of Australia’s premiere rock venues – no doubt about it. Anyone you talk to, be it local musicians or interstate and overseas bands, everyone talks about The Gov as one of the great places to play!”

“And we’re also playing at a big wakeboard competition up in Mildura in November,” Kyle concludes. “It’s South Australia versus New South Wales, so we’ve been chosen to represent South Australia at the competition. “

There have been line-up changes through the 25-year history of the Jets, but Dave and bass player Paul Woseen remain steadfast as the original founding members.

The Screaming Jets launch Atomic 47 at Governor Hindmarsh Hotel from 7.30pm on Friday 24 October and Saturday 25 October with special guests Tracer.

Young Offenders launch their EP at Jive, 181 Hindley St, on Friday 31 October with special guests Seventeen Fifty Seven, The Pits and DJ Ghosty.

Tickets via Moshtix or take your chances at the door from 8pm.

Guitarist Jimmy Hocking joined the band in 1993 playing until 1997 before returning in 2009. Guitarist Scotty Kingman (Horsehead) joined in 2007 and drummer Mickl ‘The Slayer’ Sayers (Tripguage) became part of the band in 2005, replacing Col Hatchman.

Tickets via OzTix or at the venue.

To read a longer interview with Dave Gleeson, go to theclothesline.com.au

We ask Dave if the dynamics of the band change when members leave.

“It is hard because there is a part of you that wants to maintain the original

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Queensland Theatre Company presents Tom Wrights’ Black Diggers. Directed

by Wesley Enoch, this understated yet powerful piece features many untold stories of Indigenous Australian ANZACs. Three cardinals in crimson robes are on a mission to spread a message of redemption with their evangelical puppet show in The Cardinals, a witty and wordless Biblical odyssey from the masters of innovative and thoughtprovoking theatre from the UK’s Stan’s Café.

Yje UK’s Bob Kingdom flawlessly portrays Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in Dylan Thomas – Return Journey. This tour de force performance weaves stories about the famous Swansea writer, incisive comments about the American touring circuit and his last, ill-fated lecture tour.

Adelaide Writer’s Week is also celebrating its 30-year milestone. Director Laura Kroetch says that this years event has a focus on contemporary culture, our obsession with money, modern marriage and food and how that is reflected in the stories that are being written.

2015 ADELAIDE FESTIVAL

By Catherine Blanch Thursday 16 October marked the launch of the 2015 Adelaide Festival program at Adelaide Oval’s William Magarey Room and which will take place from Friday 27 February until Sunday 15 March.

Artistic director David Sefton began the evening’s procedures by revealing the 2015 Adelaide Festival poster, a modern interpretation on the iconic ‘double A’ from the inaugural event of 1960.

The program for the 30th Adelaide Festival will feature a total of 42 theatre, music, dance and visual arts events, plus Adelaide Writers’ Week and will include 22 Australian premieres and 26 Adelaide exclusive events.

Blinc is the spectacular digital illuminations will transform the entire Torrens Riverbank and Festival Theatre precinct into canvases showcasing the best digital art from around the globe.

This massive visual arts event that will light up the skies and structures of Adelaide is not only free but can be experienced every night of the festival.

Other free visual arts highlights include Bill Viola: Selected Works as his contemporary art video exhibitions transform the Art Gallery of South Australia, Queen’s Theatre and St Peter’s Cathedral, and Trent Parke’s The Black Rose. Adelaide-based Magnum photographer, Parke’s extraordinary images of the smallest and greatest symbolic moments create a narrative into life’s journeys.

In dance, New York’s world-renowned Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet make their long-awaited and exclusive Australian debut, performing works by Crystal Pite, Hofesh Shechter, Jiří Kylián and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Mixed Rep and Orbo Novo.

The announcement of the theatre events were received with much delight.

Presented especially for the Adelaide Festival, State Theatre Company Of South Australia presents Samuel Beckett’s trio of short plays with Beckett Triptych and feature three of Australia’s greatest

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actors, Paul Blackwell, Peter Carroll and Pamela Rabe.

In a perfect fusion of film, theatre and music Canada’s Nufonia Must Fall features world-renowned turntablist, music producer and graphic novelist Kid Koala (Eric San) as he brings his award-winning graphic novel of the same name to life in a multi-disciplinary puppet show, directed by production designer KK Barrett (Her, Being John Malkovich) featuring the Afiara String Quartet.

France’s Azimut explores the mesmerising Sufi traditions of Moroccan acrobatics, ancient skills honed by followers since the 16th century from Compagnie 111’s Aurélien Bory and Le Groupe acrobatique de Tanger.

Italy’s Silvia Gallerano portrays a naked and ‘ugly’ actress revealing her revolting secrets in a provocative and breathtaking solo performance in La Merda; written by award-winning Italian writer Cristian Ceresoli.

SmallWaR is the follow up piece to the critically acclaimed 2014 season of BigMouth from Belgian writer Valentijn Dhaenens. This is a poignant meditation on war’s physical and emotional fallout set against mind-blowing digital theatre James Joyce’s legendary Finnegans Wake is brought to startling, spellbinding life in riverrun, a unique adaptation by Ireland’s Olwen Fouéré who transforms Joyce’s prose into an undulating soundscape, inhabiting the voice of Anna Livia Plurabelle, the river’s personification.

In a new work by Italy’s Chiara Guidi Of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio and a team of Australian artistic collaborators including Jeff Stein, Jack & The Beanstalk puts a dark twist on this classic English fairy tale with the perfect blend of theatrical storytelling, puppetry, physical theatre and live music, and is suited for children aged seven plus.

One of the UK’s best-known disabled performers Mat Fraser, acclaimed American burlesque star Julie Atlas Muz and award winning director Phelim McDermott (Shockheaded Peter) have teamed up to create an adult retelling of Beauty & The Beast that playfully confronts disability and sexuality head-on, exploring the beauty and beastliness in us all.

Headlining Writer’s Week guests include influential chef and author Dan Barber (USA) in his debut visit to Australia, beloved British writer John Lanchester, best-selling UK novelist Tom Rob Smith, and prize-winning UK biographer Jenny Uglow celebrated Australian novelist Joan London, Australian political commentator Don Watson and Australian playwright Hannie Rayson.

The announcement of the Festival’s music events were certainly a highlight of the evening.

Danny Elfman’s Music From The Films Of Tim Burton celebrates one of Hollywood’s most sought after composers, Danny Elfman and his enduring and successful partnership with Tim Burton. Burton’s famous film scores will be performed

by Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Adelaide Festival Chorus with visuals of Tim Burton’s original film illustrations on the big screen. Films of note include The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Alice In Wonderland, Frankenweenie, Corpse Bride, Beetlejuice, Charlie and the Chocolate Family and PeeWee’s Big Adventure.

The concert will be led by award-winning American conductor John Mauceri with special guest appearances by Australian songstress Bertie Blackman and the Australian exclusive appearance by Danny Elfman. The concert also features the youngest performer in this year’s festival, nine-year-old Adelaide boy soprano Charlie Wells and is the first Adelaide Festival of the Arts event to be held at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.

The reimagining of The Who’s classic rock opera and double-album, Tommy, is the brainchild of American composer and lead performer Eric Mingus and maverick producer Hal Willner. This world exclusive premiere will be an electrifying performance featuring 18 stellar musicians, including post-punk Irish singer Gavin Friday Irish chanteuse Camille O’Sullivan and American singer songwriter Harper Simon, the son of Paul Simon.

A concert version of the Broadway musical Fela!, Fela! The Concert traces the remarkable life of Fela Kuti and evokes the spirit of his infamous Afrika Shrine nightclub performances through live music, dance and archive footage.

Across three nights in the Freemasons Hall, Unsound Adelaide returns with a mind-blowing line-up of electronic and

experimental music including: Model 500 (USA), Hieroglyphic Being (USA), Vatican Shadow (USA), Fushitsusha (JAP), Shackleton (UK), Mika Vainio (FIN/GER), Forest Swords (UK), Container (USA), The Bug (UK), Evian Christ (UK) and Lawrence English (AUS). Atom TM (GER/CHL) & Robin Fox (AUS) perform Double Vision, a new collaboration commissioned by Unsound and Adelaide Festival.

Richard Thompson Electric Trio features guitar virtuoso and British folk rock legend Richard Thompson and his band in concert for one night only. The trio will bring music from across Thomson’s 30 plus years as a solo artist and recent studio album Electric.

Other artists presenting one-nightonly performances include Scottish instrumental rock luminaries Mogwai, British post-rocl and electronic outfit 65daysofstatic, the Australian debut of British post-punk firebrands The Pop Group and Japanese art metal 10-piece Vampillia.

One of the world’s most important living composers Gavin Bryars leads a series of concerts and a chamber opera in Gavin Bryars In Residence. Bryars will conduct the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in a performance of his well-known early work Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet; he will perform with the Gavin Bryars Ensemble in two chamber programs and join Canada’s Aventa Ensemble playing double bass in the Australian premiere of his latest chamber opera Marilyn Forever.

The UK’s Blow The Bloody Doors Off!! celebrates the music featured in four of Michael Caine’s most iconic films, Alfie, The Ipcress File, The Italian Job and Get Carter. UK musical director and multiinstrumentalist Terry Edwards leads an ensemble including Adelaide’s Zephyr Quartet in a concert performance hosted

by Britain’s Phill Jupitus (Never Mind The Buzzcocks) accompanied by scenes from the films.

South Africa’s Abdullah Ibrahim is undoubtedly on of the world’s greatest pianists and will perform an exclusive solo show in celebration of his 80th birthday to coincide with the release of his album, The Song Is My Story.

The Experiment is a stunning and immersive hybrid performance by acclaimed Australian composer and producer David Chisholm, based on British playwright Mark Ravenhill’s dark monologue of the same name.

Other Adelaide Festival musical programming highlights include the 30th anniversary of The Australian String Quartet with Remember Tomorrow, Canada’s Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra as they explore music and art in House Of Dreams, and the Adelaide Chamber Singers who will present two nights of Arvo Pärt’s Passio.

The icing on the cake of the Festival program is undoubtedly the four-day feast for all the senses – WOMADelaide.

Adelaide’s stunning Botanic Park will play host to one of Australia’s most loved and distinctive world music festivals, from Friday 6 March to Monday 9 March.

The Adelaide Festival of the Arts takes place in and around Adelaide from Friday 27 February until Sunday 15 March.

Book at BASS on 131 241. For further information visit adelaidefestival.com. au.

Booking Details: adelaidefestival.com. au or BASS 131 246

LILY & THE DRUM

LILY & THE DRUM

By Robert Dunstan Lily & The Drum are an explosive duo from the northern Adelaide suburbs comprising of vocalist and guitarist Lily and drummer and harmonica player John.

The rootsy rock duo are now set to release a new album, Welcome Change, with a huge launch gig which they have chosen to undertake at The Promethean as, fittingly, it was the venue in which they made their first official appearance as Lily & The Drum some three years ago.

“And we’ve just got an old Holden station wagon that we use to carry all the gear,” Lily says.

Their 11-song new album, Welcome Change, features several guests including Even Whetter and Erica Graf of Lazy Eye, Kevin Perks of Ironhorse and Steve Gregory of The Satellites among others.

“We just asked a few friends it they’d like to add something to the album,” Lily says.

“It was just to add a few little touches here and there. And some of them may pop up at our launch. They all know they are welcome.”

“Lily and I had been playing together in rock blues ensemble Cosmic Storm,” John says, “and then Lily got asked to play half a dozen or so songs at a wedding up in Darwin. So I went up with her just to play a bit of percussion behind her - just some djembe and stuff like that – but it worked really well.”

“And it was good to have a few others on the new album,” John decides. “When you have a full band and are doing an album, you don’t often do that. So it was good to have a few friends on there.”

“It was just such a fun night,” Lilly then adds.

“I was lucky because I inherited my brother’s record collection when he moved to Darwin,” Lily says. “And he had fantastic stuff on vinyl like Rod Stewart, Carole King, Janis Joplin and even a bit of Deep Purple as well as the Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack.

“And then we went to Byron Bay for a look at Bluesfest and saw some duos there and, although they weren’t exactly like what we’d just done, we then wondered if we could do something like that,” John says. “We thought it was possible although we wondered as we were seeing some pretty high-class acts at Bluesfest.

“But we came back [from the festival] and worked up some original songs for a duo and then went to a songwriter’s night at The Promethean to play them,” he adds.

“And that also went really well,” Lily says.

“We only had about half a dozen originals but everyone seemed to like them.”

“And then we very quickly started getting offered gigs,” John says, “and we’ve been pretty flat out ever since. One thing kinda led to another really, so before we knew it we’d gone from thinking about doing something as a duo to playing lots of gigs and then doing a recording.”

Nobody Just Like Me, recorded over the course of a weekend in Lily’s lounge room, reached number two on Adelaide’s Three D Radio’s Top 20 + 1 Chart and one of the songs was also chosen for the community radio station’s 2012 Depth Charge compilation.

“It was just a raw recording we’d done to sell at gigs,” John claims. “But it got a bit of interest – we’d thought we might just sell one or two at a gig – and lots of people liked it so we definitely thought we were onto something.”

Since then the duo have played around town as well as in regional centres, toured interstate and performed at many festivals and are set to play Blues In The Barossa in November after having just performed at Semaphore Music Festival.

“And we’ve done well at places that don’t often have original music,” John reveals.

“We’ve done places that generally have cover bands or a duo playing along to a backing track. But we just do it strippedback – there’s no loops and pedals or backing tracks – and get a great response.

And then we sell a few CDs.”

Lily & The Drum cite their musical influences as many and varied.

“But I also love Baby Animals, Sheryl Crow and Concrete Blonde,” she adds.

“And, like Lily, I inherited my brother’s old records so my first influences were The Shadows,” John says. “And I also got into Van Morrison’s Them which is where I got my very first taste of grungy, bluesy rock stuff.

“And then, as a teenager, I heard Bob Dylan and thought, ‘Wow! Who is this crazy cat?’ because it was just so different,” he continues. “So I’ve been a huge Dylan fan ever since. And then I got into Cream, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin and all that.

“And because [Led Zeppelin’s] John Bonham was left-handed and so am I, I really listened to a lot of his drumming,” the tub thumper adds.

John also took up playing harmonica about 18 months ago which is attached to a rack as part of his kit.

“It was something I was always interested in playing,” John says. “But there was never a pressing reason to take it up.”

“And then we were at a music shop one day and I bought a harmonica for John,” Lily laughs. “I gave it to him and said, ‘Here you are! Instead of just talking about it or just looking at them, here’s one to actually play’.”

Lily & The Drum launch Welcome Change at The Promethean, 116 Grote St, from 7pm on Thursday 30 October with special guests Mick Kidd and comedian Mike Klimczak.

Tickets are available at trybooking. com.

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CD/DVD REVIEWS

CD REVIEWS

Spark & Ember Self Titled Reviewer: Savvy Rating: 4/5 New to the Adelaide music scene, having only formed in 2013, Spark & Ember have grown into a fire…and then exploded!

Described as ‘Indie’, I would also place these guys into the Indie Rock category.

The first track on the EP is used as an intro. While it was interesting to hear, perhaps it’s not the sort of thing to put on such a short release, and is better served on albums. That aside, the 5 remaining tracks were excellent.

‘In Knots’ really stood out as a shining track, starting off with digital noise and some fascinating sounds. It grabbed my attention immediately, and what followed just kept me hooked. A solid effort in both structure and musicianship. The same goes ‘Wild imagination’ – enjoyable, and now I want to sink my teeth in a little.

Want to see your CD reviewed here? Go to musicsa.com.au for details on how to submit your EP or LP. DJ Rellik, just to name a few, and they all bring their unique style to the table.

This works terrifically on the release, as it keeps adding a new dimension to each individual track, and in turn, keeps the listener tuned in.

‘Around’ is droning hypnotic bagpipe inspired song, except there are no bagpipes. The Scottish drone is emulated by the sound of spaceships drifting 2000 light years from home. It’s slow acoustic rock with a bit of the psychedelic and a dash of Aussie twang. Quite a captivating, hypnotic debut.

The production style and methods are rock solid, and I really loved ‘Barrel of a Gun’ featuring Clown. Why do I love this track? Because it’s a big mash up of vocal styles and gritty audio that’s blended with experimental sounds and audio grabs. A unique style that works. Definitely check it out.

‘She Wanted Nothing’ is a more upbeat 1960s rock sound with a bit of gritty grunge. This tune could have been influenced by Velvet Underground, The Byrds, Nirvana, who knows?

This album is great. Vytal One has turned emotion into audio form that comes across very well. Good job!

The final track ‘Take Me Away’ was recorded at Redbird studios in New York, and is quite a departure from the first two. It is an acoustic ballad, and was apparently recorded in one take in a studio that used to be Madonna’s bedroom in NYC. I have a soft spot for simple songs underproduced; an interesting voice and an acoustic guitar can be compelling with the right song and in the right hands. This is one of those songs.

Trent Worley is an enigma. These songs don’t seem to have anything in common, except for Trent. I couldn’t easily identify his influences, but this is really just a sample of Trent’s versatility.

Hip Hop to me is not just a genre. I see it as today’s modern storytelling, as most artists use this as an outlet for that express purpose, or even to vent emotions. Vytal One is no exception to this. His lyrics are very thought provoking - don’t just listen to the music, listen to the words. There is something about his rapid fire lyrics that’s captivating. The musical aspects of his album ‘Solitary Man’ also seem to add to the stories that Vytal One portrays.

The album features a lot of guest artists such as Muma-Doesa, Saki, Clown and

rock verses and a chorus reminscent of early Silverchair with its raw young Australian vocal sound. A feature of this tunes is a fantastic use of a building dynamic, aided by guitar effects, that does well to enhance the energetic explosion of sound into the guitar solo that closes out the tune. Very much a grunge tune, ‘Cellophane Brain’, is short, sharp tune with an appropriate use of backing vocals, back in the mix, that fills out the end of the song.

A surprise acoustic beginning with well structured lyrical content appears on ‘Horses In Men Suits’. This is short lived, nonetheless, as this is, perhaps, the heaviest tune of the EP, with a common application of fast double kick drumming and vocal screams at the tunes conclusion. The choruses have a chracteristc arpeggiated counter melody heard on distorted electric guitar. ‘Love is Lost’ is the final tune, somewhat more solemn than the rest and is the only one that has a major use of piano in a guitar dominated album.

I think it was wise of the band to add such a tune and to close out the album with it was a good move too, but I also think it is the weakest tune of the album and that the added female vocals don’t blend well with the lead singer. There are one or two lead guitar lines that almost sound a bit amateurish too, though I feel I might be getting a bit subjective here.

Tomorrow Rising Self Titled Reviewer: Kyle Opie Rating: 4/5 Five piece alternative rock outfit Tomorrow Rising are a young group who after only a month of being together won a large battle of the bands competition.

Vytal One Solitary Man Reviewer: Savvy Rating: 4/5

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This release comprises 3 songs, so it’s something between an EP and a Single.

The first two songs, ‘Around’ and ‘She Wanted Nothing’ were recorded at 1.5 Division Studios, which appears to be a new local studio.

This EP is well recorded. From my experience, I can hear that. But what does let this recording down slightly is the mix.

In my opinion, it sounds a tad muddy in the mid range and needs more life. In the same vein, the mastering could have also been better. This is a great EP and it definitely deserves more love on the technical side. On the music side…keep doing what you’re doing, as it’s very cool!

Trent Worley I Am Not An Igloo’ Reviewer: Phil Catley Rating: 4/5

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They soon went on to the likes of performing on the schoolies festival mainstage and then to produce this, their five track self-titled debut EP. According to their Facebook page, their music draws inspiration from the likes of Blink-182, Rise Against, Nirvana and Silverchair and features a strong element of audience involvement.

Oozing in, the first track ‘Treeout’, mirrors the likes of Linkin Park with a whirling electronic premise of muffled piano, synth and electronic beats followed by dramatic strings. The vocals enter in a shroud of reverb with a grungy, coarse edge as the electronic beats fade out.

Soon the band comes crashing in with great force, all of the instruments can be heard clearly and the well-rounded production makes for a very warm sound.

Their influence from groups such as Rise Against comes through strongly here and the overall sound quality matches that of a recording from any band just as popular.

‘Vanity’ begins with some hard rock punches and a bright punk rock bass sound, but soon falls into a bouncy alt.

If you like big distorted power chords, fast drum fills a plenty, emotive vocals with held notes and a few contrasting lighter sections in between, then it doesn’t get much better than this. The vocals hint at a bit of an uncomfortable struggle to hit some notes, particularly on ‘Vanity’ and ‘Love is Lost’, and there’s an occasional lack of tone, though these points are barely noticeable, may be looked upon as adding a raw element to reiterate the songs mood and are somewhat just a reviewer looking for things to be picky about.

I would say there isn’t anything really new here, but that’s generally not what people are looking for in this sort of music, it does, however, present a very unique take on a generally very heavy alternative rock sound and has a very impressively professional, high quality sound.

SLAVA GRIGORYAN

This is a story from long ago but it remains relevant to today.

SLAVA GRIGORYAN

By Robert Dunstan America’s Ralph Towner, Austria’s Wolfgang Muthspiel and Australia’s Slava Grigoryan are acclaimed as three of the world’s finest guitarists in their own fields.

A series of concerts together some years ago quickly led to them becoming friends and the 2008 album, From A Dream, and much touring resulted.

The trio recently got together once again to record a new album, Travel Guide, and they are now in touring mode. We spoke to Slava Grigoryan ahead of the trio’s appearance in Adelaide next week and he began by explaining the genesis of their relationship.

On paper at least it looks like it had organic beginnings.

“In the very beginning, very much so,” Slava says. “I’d always been a big fan of Ralph Towner and knew his music intimately and then a friend of mine, who had produced a couple of his albums, was interested in touring him here as Ralph hadn’t been to Australia since the ’70s. And so Ralph did a solo tour of Australia which then gave me a chance to briefly meet him and we talked about some guitarists we both liked and other common musical interests.

“So we also talked about Ralph coming back and that perhaps we’d do a double bill as solo artists and maybe, just maybe, we’d do something together as a duo,” he continues.

“And around the same time I’d been introduced to Wolfgang’s music by some Austrian friends and really liked it. So it was maybe in 2003 that Wolfgang came to Australia for the first time to play a festival in Newcastle which was the first opportunity I’d had to see him perform.

“And I just spent a lot of time hanging out with him and talk obviously turned to Ralph Towner because Wolfgang was such a big, big admirer as well,” Slava continues.

“So because we all thought it would work as a trio, we organised a couple of quick tours and it all worked really, really well,” he enthuses. “And I think that’s because while we all came from a classical background, we weren’t afraid of trying something new.”

The guitarists then all came together again at the very first Adelaide International Guitar Festival in 2007 by accident.

“And that was quite bizarre because David Spelman, the artistic director for that first festival, without knowing anything of our past association, had booked Ralph and Wolfgang to play with Martin Taylor on the same bill and I was also booked for the festival as well,” Slava laughs.

“So it was a completely random coincidence that had all three of us playing at the same festival in Adelaide,” he continues. “After the festival, Ralph and Wolfgang came to Melbourne and we recorded that first album, From A Dream, and released it the following year and backed it up with a tour of Australia.”

New album Travel Guide also came about by coincidence.

“Yeah, that was kind of bizarre too,” Slava recalls, “because, to be honest, we’d never really given much thought to doing a second album as all three of us were pretty busy. But we’d all been booked to play a festival in Austria and Ralph was set to fly in on the day of the gig.

“And then, the day before, Ralph excitedly rang Wolfgang and I from the airport at Munich to say he’d bumped into Manfred Eicher from the ECM label who had said, ‘Ralph, Ralph, we must do another ECM album together because it’s been a while.

What about that guitar trio thing you have happening?’

“So that’s how we ended up in Lugano in Switzerland recording Travel Guide with Manfred producing it,” he adds.

“And being on the ECM label was a real thrill for Wolfgang and I because it was a label we’d always looked up to and been inspired by. A quite amazing and really wonderful twist.”

South Australian luthier Jim Redgate, who also plays in local surf band GT Stringer, has made guitars for Slava and his younger brother Leonard but has recently furnished Ralph Towner with one of his instruments.

“Jim has also made guitars for Wolfgang as well but, as of last October when we toured Europe, Ralph is now only playing one of Jim’s guitars,” Slava reveals. “But that took a couple of years because while he loved Jim’s guitars it took a while before he found one he felt totally comfortable with.

“And a year ago, Wolfgang recorded an album, Dritwood, with [American drummer] Brian Blade and [American double bass player] Larry Grenadier and for pretty much most of it he used a classical guitar Jim had made,” Slava adds.

“And that album came out on the ECM label too and received a lot of coverage in Europe.”

While Slava now exclusively plays Jim Redgate’s guitars, it took a while for that to happen.

“I’d heard of Jim because he’d been making guitars for many, many years but back then he was only building Greg Smallman-style lattice top guitars,” Slava explains. “It was a style that really helped put Australian luthiers on the map, but just wasn’t the kind of guitar I was interested in.

“But when I caught up with Jim at the first Adelaide International Guitar Festival back in 2007, he came around with a few doubletops he’d just started making,” he concludes. “And they were just extraordinary – I think one of the Assad Brothers bought one on the spot – and it was then that we started talking seriously about Jim building a guitar for me.”

My mesmerising Bob’s Bits column of the last issue – which was so mesmerising I have only just gotten my busy self around to reading it – which was all about sharing a share house at Mile End in the ‘70s, caused me to reflect on some of the other antics that went on during that heady period.

One of the guys I was sharing the share house with – the unemployed sound engineer guy – was an avid collector of recordings issued on prestigious European record label ECM and such was his passion for the many (mostly contemporary jazz) artists the owner and head producer Manfred Eicher chose to record for his label, his purchase of such recordings would often come before other considerations. These, rather unfortunately, included the weekly rent money and the quarterly utility bills. Not to mention the telephone bill.

Mention of a telephone bill is actually some slight form of poetic licence to make this story sound better as our share house actually had no telephone – and, as none of us had a mobile telephone at the time, we had to dash around the corner and use the public booth located near the old Bakewell Bridge – otherwise we would have been in dire straights.

Anyway, once a week rent day would come around and the other sharer and I would invariably have our money but would invariably have the give the other sharer - the unemployed sound engineer guy with a passion for recordings on the ECM label – a bit of a nudge in the form of actually asking him for it.

And the usual response from him was often most usually, ‘Ah, sorry guys. I’m a bit short this week’.

“Short?” the other sharer and I would then say in perfect unison and perfect harmony. “You’re taller than both of us put together and we note you weren’t short at the beginning of the week when we saw you coming home with yet another long-playing record or two put out on the ECM label under your arms.”

“Ah, yes, but, but, but,” he would then offer by way of some explanation, “but it was a brand new ECM album by Ralph Towner which I just had to have.” Having often heard this same excuse several times, the other sharer and I would then say in perfect unison and perfect harmony, “Have you not already got several albums by Ralph Towner in your ever-increasing ECM collection which you have secured under lock and key in a cupboard in your bedroom so only you ever get to hear them?”

“Ah, John Abercrombie,” the other sharer and I would then say in perfect unison and some sense of perfect harmony. “We now completely understand why you had to procure such an ECM recording and can fully understand your excuse for not having this week’s rent money.”

Actually, I’m not sure we did respond to him with that remark as it was more likely the other sharer and I thought quietly to ourselves, “Ah golly gosh, yet another week in which we have to come up with the other sharer’s weekly rent money due to another of those ECM guitar players we’ve never heard of.”

For some reason, these incidents must have both scared and scarred me mentally somewhat as the mere mention by almost anyone of the ECM label in later years would fill me with terror.

So it’s rather funny that a guitar-playing gentleman I’ve now known for some 20 years should somehow have found himself on the ECM label.

Slava Grigoryan, who once told me he once shared a share house in South London with Peter Perrett of The Only Ones (who remain famous for the song Another Girl Another Planet) although that’s another story entirely, recently recorded the album Travel Guide alongside Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel as well as the aforementioned Ralph Towner and it was produced by Manfred Eicher and released on his ECM label.

“And ECM have begun putting out their albums on vinyl again,” Slava told me during an interview which you can easily find elsewhere in this issue of BSide Magazine as it’s actually been strategically placed to the left-hand side of this column.

“I think they’d stopped doing vinyl for quite a while but there’s now a big demand for it, especially the ones put out on 180gm vinyl,” he’d continued. “Vinyl is definitely a medium that’s enjoying a huge comeback.”

“Ah, yes, but, but, but,” he would then protest, ‘but this is one Ralph has done with John Abercrombie so I really, really had to have it.”

Ralph Towner, Wolfgang Muthspiel and Slava Grigoryan play Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, from 7.30pm On Thursday 30 October to launch Travel Guide. Book at BASS.

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HALLOWEEN HORROR ROCK

HALLOWEEN HORROR ROCK

By Libby Parker Halloween will be frightfully rockin’ this year at the Worldsend Hotel, a fitting venue for a deadly line-up of Adelaide bands as, on Friday 31 October, Surviving Sharks, Across The Atlas, Dirt Playground and Slick Arnold will be playing.

To get revellers into the spirit of the traditional American holiday, Halloween Horror Rock will offer an eclectic line-up of local acts with a mix of progressive rock, grunge, indie and pop punk.

Sean Kemp from grunge band Surviving Sharks put together the gig made up of some of his favourite live acts at one of his favourite live music venues.

“I chose these guys because I have seen Penny [Across The Atlas] sing in another band and I really liked her voice. And I asked Paraskevi [of Dirt Playground} because I love playing with those guys and Slick Arnold came on board too so that’s cool,” he said.

“I’ve always loved concept gigs. Surviving Sharks never play with the same band twice. We love to diversify every time we play because when you play with other bands you learn something different every time.”

Sean, who is also currently drumming in a hip hop crew, managing a successful solo career and playing in a number of other bands is a veteran of the live music scene.

Having played in venues all over Australia, Sean rates The Worldsend as one of the best and can’t wait to kit up in costume and tear up the stage.

“We are definitely dressing up. We’ve never done a Halloween gig before so we’re really looking forward to it and the opportunity to do it somewhere awesome at the Worldsend is great,” he said.

“They’ve reconfigured the whole place so it looks so cool now. The sound is so clear and the foldback is absolutely brilliant.”

Vocalist Paraskevi Kontoleon echoes Kemp’s sentiment about the venue, despite its inability to host a show of Dirt Playground’s magnitude.

“What I love about the Worldsend is that the band isn’t separated from the pub.

You walk in and you can see the band through the bar so you’re already a part of it all,” she said.

Dirt Playground, who play fusion of rock, psychedelia, Greek and Middle Eastern music, boast an impressive stage show which will need to be downsized for the Halloween gig.

“Because we do a visual soundscape, we have to be selective about where we play. It’s not that we don’t want to play particular venues, it’s just you need to have the full show to get the full experience,” Paraskevi says.

They have been playing their unique shows, dubbed by followers as

‘Grecodelia’, around Adelaide for the past few years.

Made up of two sets of siblings and an honorary Greek drummer, Paraskevi suggests their sound has evolved and continues to do so with each performance.

“Me and the percussionist/synth player are brother and sister. The guitarist and bassist are brother and sister and they’re also my niece and nephew. The drummer, Jack isn’t related but he’s an adopted Greek now,” she laughs.

“We love our roots and we love rock so over a number of years we experimented with a lot of music scapes. We started experimenting with Middle Eastern and Greek sounds, using traditional instruments to see what happened when we combined that with rock.”

With a bill that lists a successful established act, a unique family band through to a brand new band, Halloween Horror Rock is set to be a treat.

Across The Atlas vocalist Penny Thompson and guitarist Ben Breavington, who met at a music workshop at Northern Sound System, are looking forward to playing their second ever gig at The Worldsend.

“I’m so excited,” Penny says. “It’s Halloween and everyone is keen and I’m going to dress up and try to sing with fangs! I don’t know if it’s going to work but I love dress up and I love Halloween.”

Although the brand new pop punk outfit have only played one gig together, they are already keen to begin recording and are planning a music video.

“We have studio time booked for the second weekend in November,” Ben says.

“We are going to lay down three tracks to give away at gigs as a demo just to get our name out there.”

The video is Thompson’s pet project and focuses on the changes in the music industry since the dominance of TV talent shows.

“It’s called TV Killed The Radio Star and it’s about talent shows and what they’ve done to the talent industry,” she said.

“This song is saying ‘I don’t need the talent show. You’ve kind of killed off an industry that we needed but, you know what?

We’re going to do our own thing!’”

Drummer Peter Galanos from groove rock outfit Slick Arnold is keen on getting in on the Halloween fun and are looking forward to joining the line-up.

“We are all pretty keen for Halloween Horror Rock show. We love playing Worldsend and enjoy wearing goofy stuff on stage, so it’s a pretty perfect match.

There’s some really cool bands on the bill too so hopefully we can keep up!” Peter says.

Halloween Horror Rock, featuring Surviving Sharks, Dirt Playground, Across The Atlas and Slick Arnold, takes place at Worldsend Hotel, 208 Hindley St, on Friday 31 October.

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