The Red Bulletin February 2015 - NZ

NEW ZEALAND

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SLEEP IS FO R LOSERS Days and nights at Red Bull Music Academy

YEARS OF YOUTUBE

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MY CAR DOES

1,000 MPH Andy Green on the road to the world land speed record

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LOOK MUM, NO BOARD!

Bodyboarding as you’ve never seen it: the amazing results of a collaboration between photographer Chris Burkard and big-wave surfer-cum-filmmaker Keith Malloy

The next attempt at the world land speed record will be something special.

Andy Green hopes to be the first man to drive a car at 1,000mph – that’s about four-and-a-half times faster than current F1 cars. We met him and his team as they take their first trip on the road to glory. Not quite so fast, but equally adept at the wheel, is David Coulthard, who put a prototype Mercedes-AMG GT through its paces at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg; we called shotgun. Also in Austria, we’ve got the incredible story of the man who ran further than 36,000 other racers across the globe to win the first Wings For Life World Run. All this and much more. We hope you enjoy the issue.

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“ The adrenalin rush you get with every new trick is amazing” CHESCA MILES, PAGE 48

SHAMIL TANNA (COVER), CHRIS BURKARD, JULIAN BROAD

WELCOME

FEBRUARY 2015

AT A GLANCE GALLERY 08 This month’s most amazing images

BULLEVARD

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16 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YOUTUBE

Celebrating 10 years of videos

FEATURES 26 Swell guys

DC MEETS GT

BERNHARD SPÖTTEL, KATIE ORLINSKY, SHAMIL TANNA, STEPHEN BOXALL/ZERO-G EXPERIENCE®, SUGURU SAITO/RED BULL CONTENT POOL

David Coulthard gives the super-coupé Mercedes-AMG GT a track workout

Braving big waves without a board

38 Olly Alexander

Rising star of soul, dance and pop

40 Esther Stephens

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Joining up with Auckland’s The Means

42 Land speed record

Andy Green and his team are building a car to break the 1,000mph barrier

48 Chesca Miles

Riding high in streetbike freestyle

54 The Yukon Quest

Dog sledding across North America

62 Lemawork Ketema DOG DAYS OF WINTER

Behind the scenes at the Yukon Quest, a 1,000-mile dog sled race along an old gold rush trail in North America

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Andy Green drives jet-and-rocket cars.

He and his team have built a new one and he’s going to drive it at 1,000mph

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BIG IN JAPAN

Two weeks in Tokyo at the Red Bull Music Academy with rising Auckland singer/songwriter Chelsea Jade

The champion of the Wings For Life World Run aims for more glory

64 David Coulthard

The F1 legend is back on the track

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TRAINING Fit for top-level surfing MY CITY A musician’s Brisbane TRAVEL Wingsuit aerodynamics WATCHES Best new timepieces NIGHTLIFE Red Bull Music Academy PARTY Chicago’s coolest club MUSIC TV On The Radio’s top tracks GAMING Zombie special MOVIES Hot Tub Time Machine 2 BUYER’S GUIDE Top motorcycles SAVE THE DATE Unmissable events MAGIC MOMENT Marc Marquez

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CONTRIBUTORS WHO’S ON BOARD THIS ISSUE “It’s almost too good to be true until you bounce off the coral and end up in the hospital” Chris Burkard shooting from under the waves, page 26

BERNHARD SPÖTTEL

CHRIS BURKARD

MARTYN PEPPERELL

German photographer Spöttel was on hand to document what happened when we let 13-time Grand Prix winner David Coulthard loose on the new MercedesAMG GT at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. “I first worked with DC 10 years ago at a show run in Istanbul,” says. “Since then I’ve known him as a true pro with a great sense of humour.” But the Bavaria-based snapper was less impressed with the coupé than Coulthard: “All of my equipment wouldn’t fit in it.”

See what happens on page 64.

As part of his senior staff photographer job at Surfer Magazine, the California snapper has spent plenty of time above water taking traditional surf shots. But shooting bodysurfers in dangerous waters off Tahiti for The Red Bulletin required a new vantage point under the waves, leaving him with a nasty infected gash. “It’s almost too good to be true until you bounce off the coral and end up in the hospital,” he says. “But capturing those images was worth the effort.”

Check them out on page 26.

The Wellington-based writer and radio broadcaster went to Japan to report on how New Zealand singer-songwriter Chelsea Jade fared at Red Bull Music Academy in Tokyo. It turned out she did rather well. “I found covering her experience very rewarding,” says Pepperell, who writes a monthly column for Fishhead magazine. “Chelsea clicked with a lot of the participants, studio mentors and staff.

They totally got her. Chelsea is very talented and she’s ready to go to the next level.”

Read the story on page 78.

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IN FOCUS

Behind the lens Shamil Tanna

We tasked the London-based lensman with shooting the fastest man on four wheels for this month’s cover. “Andy Green has been in the military and I wasn’t sure how to handle him,” says Tanna, who is more used to working with Lady Gaga and Pelé.

“But he could strike a pose and was able to adapt to each setting with ease.”

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Andy Green and his Bloodhound car.

More on page 42

This month’s NZ edition of The Red Bulletin features Bloodhound SSC driver Andy Green. You can watch a behind-the-scenes video at redbulletin.com

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WET WORK The Volvo Ocean Race is sailing’s toughest challenge.

Justin Slattery is currently taking part in his fifth; this wave washed over him somewhere between Alicante and Cape Town, during the first leg of the 2014-15 race.

In January, Slattery’s Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing team will, along with six other crews, tackle the third of nine legs, from Abu Dhabi to Sanya, in China. All seven yachts are the same design; human endeavour will determine the winning boat, at the finish line in Gothenburg in June. volvooceanrace.com Photography: Matt Knighton/Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing

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WELCOME ABOARD This is no take-off: it’s a once-in-a lifetime landing. The hardest part for hang glider pilot Matjaz Klemencic was “getting the speed right”. Nejc Faganelj, in the cockpit, felt that “keeping the glider still” was his biggest challenge. Their joint efforts led to a brief but brilliant moment. “I only managed three seconds,” said Klemencic, “but it was worth the risk.” redbull.com/adventure Photography: Samo Vidic/Red Bull Content Pool

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OFF OFF-ROAD When naming the challenges at Wales Rally GB, final stop of the 2014 World Rally Championship, the WRC put “slippery forest tracks” and “isolated patches of ice” on the list. Jari-Matti Latvala found both on the ninth special stage. The Finn skidded on a turn 6km in, lost his rear spoiler and ended up in eighth place; he finished the season second overall behind Sébastien Ogier. Good news for Latvala is that the 2015 WRC starts in Monaco on January 22: no forest for sure, only some ice. wrc.com Photography: Jaanus Ree/Red Bull Content Pool

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JUST DESERTS Pro freeride mountain biker Kyle Jameson is used to riding tough terrain. He was pushed to the limit in Namibia: lunar-like landscape in the Namib desert; giant virgin sand dunes along the Skeleton coast; heatstrokeinducing 40ยบC temperatures; and plenty of wildlife in the form of bizarre insects, hissing reptiles, majestic leopards and cheetahs in the Okonjima Reserve. Still he kept his head and carved trails where no one had ridden before. redbull.com/bike Photography: Toby Cowley/Red Bull Content Pool

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10 YEARS OF YOUTUBE

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LET’S PLAY!

The giant PewDiePie only wants to play and breaks YouTube records in the process It’s a dream come true: Felix Kjellberg makes a living playing computer games.

Or, rather, from everyone watching him playing them.

More than 32 million subscribers – YouTube’s most watched channel – can’t get enough of the Swede’s videos.

Anyone who has witnessed PewDiePie and the rush of energy that goes into his videos must now be asking themselves how we got him to stay still to take the photo.

“YouTubers are just weird people who’ve found a place to nerd out” PewDiePie

YouTube turns 10

She isn’t giving you make-up tips!

BEST OF YOUTUBE

Do you remember?

From sore fingers to sore ears: these eight short-form masterpieces are milestones in internet video history

2005

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Me at the zoo The first 18 seconds of YouTube: Jawed Karim, one of the site’s founders, gawping at elephants.

2006 Touch of Gold Advertising goes viral: Ronaldinho cracked the million-views mark with this Nike ad full of tricks.

2007 Charlie bit my finger Ouch! The most famous fraternal feud on Earth – sorry, Cain and Abel – has more than 800 million views.

2009 Fred Figglehorn His chipmunk voice makes him the first YouTube user to secure more than a million subscribers.

2010 Baby Justin Bieber’s hit remains the most-viewed video for two years and is still the one with the most dislikes.

1:13 / 4:46

2012 SELF-CROWNED QUEEN

Shall we play my video?

Lana Del Rey turned the music industry on its head with the help of YouTube. To this day, no other self-produced video has got anywhere close to Video Games: a solemn piece of magic.

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2013 Harlem Shake Everyone’s gone mad: even the Norwegian army did it. That’s what happens when something goes viral.

2014

Commentary Lana Might Say “If I’d known so many people were going to watch, I’d have put more effort into it.”

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Gangnam Style Still out in front with over 2bn views. Also this year: 8m people watch Red Bull Stratos live, another record.

Happy Pharrell Williams’s amazingly catchy song still inspiring virals a year after release.

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YOUTUBE’S SERVER

What the web looks like A humming, green info hive that powers what we watch A peek down a ventilation shaft at the Google Data Center in Mayes, Oklahoma. All the GoPro videos, fail compilations, funny cat clips and everything else resides here. Google snapped up YouTube in 2006 for US$1.65bn and has since managed vast swathes of data. Users upload hundreds of thousands of hours of video every day, and the picture quality is constantly improving.

What this image can’t show you is the deafening noise the thousands of ventilators make. They ensure the server stays on and the place remains bathed in light from green LEDs.

Commentary Adjustin Bieber I don’t read your annoying comments!

Why? That’s why: Hide YouTube Comments (Chrome), No YouTube Comments (Firefox), A Cleaner YouTube (Safari).

“The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats” Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965 ‘predicting’ YouTube

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YouTube turns 10

VIDEO STAR

Be a YouTube millionaire

Stay true to yourself Focus on your own crowd. Why else would SkyDoesMinecraft have 10 million subscribers?

Befriend the lens Look straight into the camera. If you don’t connect with people, they’ll stop watching.

Popular YouTubers pull in more viewers than big TV channels. How do they do it?

Get real Viewers can tell when your passion is genuine. There’s enough fake emotion on TV as it is.

Get to the point Your video has to resonate with people immediately. Like ‘How to Piss Off Every New Yorker in 36 Seconds’.

Show yourself Open up your private world: it’s the most interesting thing about you. Even if you think it’s boring.

Keep it up You only make the first videos for yourself.

If you do have fans, you only make more videos to keep them.

Hit the spot Choose the best tags so that people find you and can recommend you to others as simply as possible.

Anyone with a channel can become a YouTube partner.

That means money from advertising and subscriptions plus extra know-how from seminars

Show them the way Recommend other cool videos to your fans. Those clickthroughs will make them even more loyal.

Know your video types

Set your stall out Give regular updates in the same format and from a similar perspective. If it’s well received, repeat.

Push it real good Always ask your viewers to subscribe to your channel and like your videos, even if they don’t.

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That’s An Unwrap

Walkthrough Stuck on a level?

Another gamer can show you the way. (Retain your credibility and don’t tell anyone you watched the vid.)

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Unboxing Is there anything better than lovingly unpacking a new piece of kit? Yes! Filming the act for others with the same boxfresh fetish.

Machinima Fanatical amateur developers spend hours creating often impressive films by the orchestrated playing of video games.

The future of television

The end of television

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DIETMAR KAINRATH

Plus two more favourite film formats

YouTube turns 10

Rebecca Black

HERE TODAY, GONE TODAY

Flamed on and off

“The worst song ever” was one of the nicer things said about Friday, a track and video her parents paid producers to make.

She had the last laugh: her YouTube channel has over a million subscribers.

On YouTube, Andy Warhol’s prediction of 15 minutes of fame might be too generous

Antoine Dodson Hide yo kids, hide yo wife! The star of the Bed Intruder song now has a wife and kid of his own having announced in 2013 that, no, he isn’t gay.

YOUTUBE IN NUMBERS

Stats amazing Other moving image providers dream of ratings like these

1

billion people use YouTube a month

50

per cent of all hits come from mobile devices

400 years’ worth of video material is scanned for copyright infringements on a daily basis

> 1

million people earn money via the YouTube Partner Program

Look and listen

World Wide Wurlitzer

CORBIS, PICTUREDESK.COM, CHARLIE SCHMID, GETTY IMAGES

YouTube has changed the way we listen to and make music – in good ways and bad

Watch and learn. Given the right tutorial, anyone can become a musician.

Filming at a concert just so you can be the first on YouTube.

Bands no longer have to pay an arm and a leg to get their video shown.

Club nights where the DJ plays straight from YouTube; clubgoers spend the whole time watching videos.

Music nerds can find all sorts on a public database.

Thanks to the YouTube Mixer, DJs now have the crossfader for a smooth transition every time.

Deserved parodying.

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Sound quality got worse.

The unimaginative cover craze that won’t go away.

YouTube’s new music streaming service unsettles indie labels.

Keyboard Cat

Fatso the musical cat became an internet star back in 2007. Sadly he wasn’t around to see it. The video was shot in 1984 and Fatso died in 1987.

Commentary

Bars Ulrich Stream my music if you’re not going to buy it. If you want to get to my drum so­lo at 2:40, just add #t=02m40 at end of the link.

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hours’ worth of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute

90 million

hits a day come from Saudi Arabia.

Nowhere else is YouTube as popular

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YouTube turns 10

CENSORSHIP

This man saves your deleted clips

YouTube is Earth’s third-largest website, but state censorship and national copyright laws mean it’s not available worldwide

Dominic Gagnon. If a YouTube video falls foul of YouTube, does it make a sound?

Yes, we ban!

Don’t waste your time looking for it on YouTube: the film Pieces And Love All To Hell shows the videos that were too hot for YouTube, even if they featured no pornographic content. Like apocalyptic inflammatory speeches against the patriarchy, for example. Or crude tips from women holding a baby in one hand and a gun in the other. Dominic Gagnon has sought out videos that have been uploaded by YouTube users only to be deleted. He is yet to get answers from YouTube to the following questions: What do you delete? Why do you delete it? And who decides what’s OK and what isn’t? Gagnon’s video, which you can watch at arte.tv, shows all too clearly that the internet can store your data in perpetuity and still have a memory like a sieve.

Nothing to see here: where YouTube has encountered problems

Blocked now Blocked in the past

TURKEY President Erdogan doesn’t like videos that are critical of him.

So in 2014 he had YouTube blocked. The Constitutional Court got it back online.

GERMANY

IRAN YouTube has been down here since 2012. But trends like Happy have still made it into the country, with harsh punishments for uploaders.

NORTH KOREA

Google and GEMA – the German performance rights organisation – can’t reach a copyright agreement, so Germans get YouTube lite.

BRAZIL

You can only access the state-controlled Uriminzokkiri web channel, with a lot of videos about cookery, Kim Jong-un and war propaganda.

Ronaldo’s ex-girlfriend had a temporary block placed on the whole of YouTube in 2007 after a paparazzi-shot sex video with her in it ended up on the site.

Sources: Google Transparency Report, Wikipedia – Censorship of YouTube; as of November 2014

CAN TALK

Commentary Kim Dot-un WTF?! Who cares about national borders? You can get around blocks!

Ever heard of proxy servers or a VPN? Google it! Or Hola or DuckDuckGo it.

Couldn’t be easier!

YouTube alternatives

Site Surf Can’t find what you want on YouTube? Hit up these instead Wimp Family-friendly content from editors who say they are “anti-sensationalistic” Vimeo Streaming platform that’s a favourite with artists and filmmakers and their fans

What you need is another cat video

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This man is of the opinion that only women can save the world. YouTube deleted him

Dailymotion YouTube’s French cousin.

Founded around the same time and not lagging too far behind

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VITHEQUE.COM, GETTY IMAGES, YOUTUBE.COM

CHINA You have about as much chance of accessing YouTube here as you do of using Google.

You’ll have to use the Chinese equivalent, Youku, instead.

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’Tube journeys

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Wear it well A crash course in tie-tying. It’s called the four-in-hand knot, even though a tie only has two ends.

How To Tie A Tie – Quick And Easy

Waiting… to go shopping iJustine is a YouTube star, not for ranting about standing in queues.

No, for reporting from them.

First In Line For iPhone 6 – The Story

The cat dogs are afraid of A little boy is playing on his back when a bad dog appears. Luckily, Tara was also on hand…

Hero House Cat Saves Boy From Dog Attack

What does Malala Yousafzai say?

Nobel Peace Prize-winner shot for attending school in Pakistan, picks up her award. Inspiring stuff.

Malala Yousafzai’s Entire Nobel Prize Speech

Look at all the things we can do!

Levels of crazy are always relative. But here the crazy will only leave you in awe of the human race.

People Are Awesome 2014

Hidden camera This hotel elevator, as operated

by Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis, speaks to you. Please, select language!

The Intelevator Episode 1

Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates Romeo and Juliet vs Bonnie and Clyde. Rasputin vs Stalin.

All in the name of MC-ing.

Epic Rap Battles Of History

Be job-happy An animated antidote to those who can’t get no job satisfaction.

Re-imagining Work

Super Mario lives A real-life Mario? Super. But now he won’t do what I want him to.

Super Mario Bros Parkour

A wedding dress is no tree And people can fly further than they thought.

The Ultimate Fails Compilation

Pop-art blockbuster Man with white hair puts ketchup on a Whopper; consumes it.

Andy Warhol Eating A Hamburger (1981)

Is it OK to betray your country?

Harvard Professor meets NSA whistleblower.

Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden

Limits? They’re so yesterday Skateboarding over the Great Wall of China.

Danny Way Jumps The Great Wall

For their viewing pleasure What women really want, according to their web browser search histories.

Top 10 Porn Searches For Women

Your hand is your instrument Gerry Phillips belts out the hits digitally. It’s a real talent.

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Look mum, no board! Mark Cunningham bodysurfs a wave at Teahupoo, which translates to “sever the head” or “broken skulls”, belying the danger of bodysurfing this reef

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COOL RUSH

‘ BODYSURFERS ARE

OFTEN THE MOST EXPERIENCED IN THE WATER AND USUALLY THEY GET THE LEAST RESPECT’

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here are no surfboards to ride or bodyboards to rest on. No leashes to tether athlete to equipment that’s non-existent anyway. No jet-ski to give a motorised leg up on Mother Nature’s monsters. Just a pair of flippers, a wave and a shot of pure adrenalin.

“Bodysurfing is the most minimalistic, pareddown way that you can experience the ocean,” says photographer Chris Burkard. And he should know. As a man who takes pictures of adventure sports, far-flung surf trips to Russia and Iceland and more static subjects, including computer equipment, cars and beer for a living, it’s the thrill of hanging beneath titanic Tahitian waves capturing aquatic imagery of human torpedoes rocketing through the crystal blue that gets his pulse racing.

Burkard joined filmmaker and big-wave surfer Keith Malloy on his globetrotting trip to Maine, California, Hawaii, New Zealand and Tahiti for the 2011 film Come Hell Or High Water and its subsequent companion book, The Plight Of The Torpedo People. It was a passion project done partly to create the kind of art seen on these pages and partly to push the limits of the athletes who engage in this under-appreciated activity that, in

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one form or another, has been around as long as man and wave have cohabited the planet.

“If you’ve stepped into the ocean or jumped into a wave, you’ve bodysurfed, ” says Burkard.

“Everybody’s done it at some point.”

Everybody, maybe, but only a rare few at the level of skill and daring of such legendary watermen as Hawaiian lifeguard Mark Cunningham, competitive bodysurfer Mike Stewart, Hawaiian surf scene fixture Chris Kalima and Dan Malloy, big-wave surfer and brother of filmmaker Keith.

“Bodysurfers are often the most experienced in the water,” says Burkard. “And usually they get the least amount of respect. They understand the currents and the sun and the tides. There’s such a connection to the ocean. As esoteric as that might sound, it’s really very true: you have to be in tune with what’s happening around you, or you’ll get seriously injured.”

That’s especially the case in Tahiti, where the wave rises out of very deep water and breaks over an extremely shallow – and brutally unforgiving – coral reef. “It’s a huge slab of water that just unloads onto the reef,” says Burkard. “It’s incredible. It’s kind of the worst wave you could bodysurf. Ever. But these guys wanted to see if it could be done. They wanted to test the limits of what was possible. It was really cool to watch.”

Indeed, Burkard had the best seat in the house for this project. “The water was the clearest I have ever seen in my life. I would take a big breath and go down and just try to catch these guys as they followed the back of the wave. I would lose track of how long I had been down and then suddenly think, ‘Oh, I’m out of breath, I’ve got to rush to the surface.’ But I didn’t want to miss a single moment, because it was unique and so abstract.”

And thus the term ‘torpedo people’. “When the guys have their arms by their sides,” says Burkard, “gliding toward the surface, they look like torpedoes.”

Surf’s up, boys. Bombs away. chrisburkard.com

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You can’t get any closer to a wave than being inside it.

Above and right: bodysurfer Keith Malloy feels the power of a Tahitian barrel. Below: the boys take to the water with the only required tools of the trade, a pair of flippers. That and perfect wave make for a perfect day

‘THERE’S SUCH A CONNECTION TO THE WATER. YOU HAVE TO BE IN TUNE WITH WHAT’S HAPPENING OR YOU’LL GET SERIOUSLY INJURED’

Top: Lifeguard and bodysurfer Mark Cunningham is part man, part fish. Above: Durdam Rocherolle, a bodysurfing enthusiast from San Diego, suffered a bloody, abrasive encounter with the reef. Left: Chris Kalima drops into a massive wave as the sun sinks below the horizon

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Chris Kalima launches through a wave, giving true meaning to the term ‘torpedo people’

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Keith Malloy gets an upclose-and-personal look at Tahiti’s backside

‘ WHEN THE GUYS HAVE THEIR ARMS AT THEIR SIDES, GLIDING TOWARDS THE SURFACE, THEY LOOK LIKE TORPEDOES’

Left: the crew race towards the action.

Facing page: Chris Kalima gets a fish-eye view of Mike Stewart (below) pulling out after a perfect ride. Below, inset: sunburned, sore from an infected reef cut and with a hard drive full of epic imagery, photographer Chris Burkard packs up after capturing the torpedo people

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OLLY ALEXANDER

‘Singing in the shower got me the job’ The London multitasker is putting Hollywood on hold to front his band’s brand of soulful dance-pop

Steel drums drown out Olly Alexander’s voice as he answers the phone to talk to The Red Bulletin. He’s in the studio working on Years & Years’ debut album, following 12 months in which their electronica with a heart has earned them a major record deal, support slots for Sam Smith and Clean Bandit and love from unexpected corners of the world.

Alexander has given up a lucrative acting career to be here. His CV includes TV shows Skins, Showtime’s Penny Dreadful, and films including last year’s British drama The Riot Club. But the decision was an easy one for the 24-year-old: frontman is the role he most wants to play. the red bulletin : Is Years & Years your first foray into the music world? olly alexander : No, I wrote a song when I was 10 for my school assembly, embarrassingly. I think it was called The Leaves Are Falling and it had an autumnal theme of heartbreak that really set the tone for the rest of my songwriting life.

Then I was in a band at school playing covers of TLC and Hanson and Destiny’s Child. And I sometimes performed alone, just me and a keyboard.

How did the band come into being?

I moved to London five years ago and met Mikey [Goldsworthy, bass and synths] at a house party. He told me he was in a band with Emre [Turkmen, beats and synths] and basically I forced my way in. I begged.

Then he heard me singing in the shower and I knew that would swing things in my favour. I can’t remember exactly what I was singing, but probably the Fugees or another one of my shower songs.

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People will recognise you from your TV and film work. Do you miss it now you’re focusing on music?

I started acting when I was young; it just sort of happened. I dropped out of school to work around the world, which was amazing. But I never had this burning ambition to be an actor, I always felt uncomfortable in that role. You’re doing what other people tell you to do. When it looked like the band had a real shot, it was an obvious decision. There’s nothing better than being able to create something yourself, to write music with your friends and perform it. I still find that amazing.

‘To write music with your friends and perform it: I still find that amazing’ How would you describe your sound?

We started with guitar-based stuff, with vocals and piano. Then we gradually became more electronic, with synths and Emre doing production on his laptop. We make electronic soulful pop music. We’re all really nostalgic about late ’90s and early 2000s dance music, garage and R&B. But there are lots of different elements to it.

We all have different tastes, which mix to make a strange but delicious cocktail.

Are your lyrics consciously melancholy?

It comes down to what inspires you to write a song. For me that’s usually painful

emotions or feeling like I’m not good enough. Emotional honesty is really important to me when I listen to artists that I respect. Throwaway pop songs have their place, but I wouldn’t want to be in the music industry unless I was making some emotionally honest statement.

Is going on stage as a frontman different to being in the spotlight as an actor?

I’m amazed by how different it is. As an actor you have a character and lines to hide behind. You’re not exposing anything of yourself, really. So when I started performing as a singer, I found it really hard to judge, I just didn’t know what to do. I still get really nervous before a show, as it exposes you, you’re vulnerable. But then I think you should be: you’re trying to communicate stories about your life.

What’s been the most surprising thing that’s happened to Years & Years in the last year?

So many things: people from all corners of the world, as far as Colombia, saying they’re listening to our music; getting signed; getting played on Radio 1.

Appearing on Later… with Jools Holland was insane, so surreal. Mikey and Emre had this joke that they’d quit once they got there as it couldn’t get any better than that. But they’re still in the band, thankfully. I felt physically sick with nerves. I grew up watching that show. I’ve kept a diary since I was 11, and afterwards I just sat down and wrote this epic entry about it like an emotional teenage girl.

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Most curious concert Playing a solo gig at the entrance to a maze made of maize in the Forest of Dean aged 15.

Musical muses “I listen to all sorts, from Joni Mitchell to FKA Twigs.

And, like all other men under the age of 30, I love Jeff Buckley.�

ESTHER STEPHENS & THE MEANS

‘We’ve got a telepathic connection’ An Auckland three-piece with the biggest roster of featured vocalists take the plunge and go monogamous. Have they found The One? Words: Tom Goldson Photography: Vicki Leopold

In a small country like New Zealand, it’s inevitable that musicians cruise for connections, to share the love and get their music heard. In the swinging scene this closeness cultivates, The Means have had more partners than most. Between them, the band has worked with vocalists including Hollie Smith, Moana Maniapoto, Maisey Rika, Bic Runga and Tama Waipara, and MCs in the Young, Gifted and Broke collective. And Esther Stephens, who was first Means-tested in 2013.

In January last year, Stephens, who also works as an actress, and the Means – Abraham Kunin, Tom Broome and Marika Hodgson – opted to formalise they’re relationship. They’re recording a debut album in New York and New Zealand; we caught up with them in Auckland. the red bulletin: When did the four of you decide to forsake all others? tom broome: I think it must have been at the Red Bull Sound Select gig we played in Wellington last year, right?

Abraham Kunin: Yeah, it was becoming clear that we should be a four-piece – not The Means with Esther as a guest vocalist.

We love collaborating with other artists and will continue to do that, but we really want this band to be the four of us.

Esther Stephens: I’m lousy at being a solo artist. I’m a pack animal, and when I’m with these guys I feel the most engaged, I feel the most excited about music. I can do what I do best.

Why not bill yourselves as ‘The Means’? es: I love that these guys have created a really strong identity outside of me or my involvement, and the fact that we’ve now come together makes us 40

twice as strong as a band. The Means already have such a fantastic flavour and identity, which is one of the reasons why this marriage is so exciting. ak: We’ve spent so long confusing our audiences about who we are and what we’re doing. We get to work with so many great vocalists, but it’s a unique thing when we’re with Esther; that’s when it reaches the full potential of our powers.

How does the music differ from how it turned out with other vocalists? ak: Esther has something that I’ve

‘It’s like there’s no ceiling for where the music can go once everything is aligned’ never seen or played with in any other musician. It’s like there’s no ceiling for where the music can go when everything’s aligned; it seems infinite, which is amazing. There’s a good telepathy between the four of us, rather than the three of us backing someone. es: That’s what it is, eh: we’ve got a telepathic connection, and I think our best songs come out of a collective writing process, where everyone’s bringing different suggestions to the table and tweaking things.

Is that connection impeded by the fact that you’re living in Melbourne? es: Sometimes I think we were less

productive when I was here. There’s something about living in another country that means that you really utilise the time that you have with one another.

Fortunately I’m back here a lot for acting work and to make music with these guys.

Does having an actress as lead singer add more show to your business? tb: I do think that Esther’s awesome at embodying the intent of a song, and I’d say that comes from her acting. Everything she’s doing with us is her own music so it’s probably easier to be inside of, but from our experience of playing other people’s music, I think she’s dramatic… es: I’m a big fat show-off, yeah.

All four of you are in demand as individuals. How do you stay committed to the group? es: It sounds cheesy, but the relationship metaphor is perfect for us. We have a deep love for one another, so we make sure we make the time. There’s a romance in what we do, in that we love working together and we love the music that we make, and that romantic connection allows us to overcome any obstacles or competing schedules.

After a year together, how do you see your future panning out? es: Well, I’m back in New Zealand for a chunk of time to work on a television series, so it feels like the universe is on our side. We want to make the most of the next few months and just be as creative as possible. We’re going to get some fresh stuff happening and continue to evolve as much as possible, in as short a timeframe as possible, so that what we do next is more than the sum of our parts. facebook.com/EstherStephensAndTheMeans THE RED BULLETIN

The line-up (from left) Abraham Kunin, 29, guitar Tom Broome, 28, drums Esther Stephens, 29, vocals Marika Hodgson, 26, bass Discography The Ends – EP, 2013 You go girl Esther Stephens played fashion journalist Olivia Duff in Go Girls. She appeared in 37 episodes over the dramedy’s second, third and fourth seasons.

THE FASTEST MAN ON EARTH A n dy Gre en dr i ves jet-and- ro c ket c ars.

H e and hi s team have built a new o ne and he’s g o i ng to dr i ve it at 1 ,000 m iles an ho ur Word s: Anth ony Row l i n son Photography: Shamil Tanner

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here’s a blue-and-orange flash as a tall man dressed in an Alpinestars race suit strides into view with purpose. He’s straight-backed, closecropped, with cool blue eyes. Wing Commander Andy Green is the fastest man on earth and, boy, does he look it.

He is the holder of the world land speed record, a mark he set in 1997 with the Thrust Supersonic Car (SSC), pushing that twin-jet machine through the sound barrier, to 763.035mph (1,228kph) over a measured mile, in the crystalline wastes of Nevada’s Black Rock desert. Now there’s a new goal: 1,000mph (1,609kph).

The first speed tests of Bloodhound SSC, the car created to reach that goal, are due to take place in 2015. They’ll take the car to 500mph, 600mph, 700mph, then 800mph and a new land speed record.

The full assault on 1,000mph is scheduled for 2016. At a predicted peak of 1,050mph, Bloodhound will literally be travelling faster than a bullet. Its measured mile, the distance over which the record speed is timed, will be covered in 3.6 seconds.

And the man inside? Well, if his demeanour and evidently glacier-cool core are any guide, he’ll be well in control, engaged at a peak of mental intensity even this first-class maths graduate and combat veteran RAF fast-jet pilot may never before have experienced.

‘For all the preparation, there is a bit where we actually just need to go and test it’

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Grand designs: to break the 1,000mph mark, Bloodhound will move from its Bristol HQ in 2015 to a desert track in South Africa

“It is,” Green says, “a very demanding and very focused job. You’re taking a car faster than it has ever been before and pushing the technology to a place it hasn’t been before. And however much preparation you do, there is a bit where we actually just need to go and test it.

But I’ll have a very clear mental picture of what I’m doing and how I’m trying to do it. If everything works as expected, that’s just great. We’ll just make a note and tick that off later on. But if I find the hydraulics have gone to zero and I press on anyway... that’s a pretty stupid idea.”

Green, 52, is the perfect technocrat test pilot for the digital age. As Chuck Yeager broke Mach 1 in his Bell X-1 rocket plane in 1947, he is said to have told his ground

crew: “Make another note will ya? There’s something wrong with this ol’ machometer.

It’s gone kinda screwy on me.” Yeager’s drawl will be replaced in Bloodhound by the clipped-English military reports of Green, a man used to delivering only essentials of information while flying combat missions. “This is a technical process, not an emotional one,” he says.

“I’m a member of the engineering and development test team. In that respect, I am not a racing driver but a test pilot – developing test pilot skills, but in a car.”

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‘I understand ever y aspect of Bloodhound’s design. Why woul d I be worried about driving it?’

The other big numbers: to the end of 2014, Bloodhound’s team of engineers had put in more than 10,000 hours of work, at a cost of over £10 million

ago: “I’ve been shot at by much better people, with better weapons systems, frankly, so it wasn’t that much of a deal.”

He’ll need every shred of sang-froid when he and his team head for South Africa’s Northern Cape, to Hakskeenpan, where a land speed record strip measuring 19km by 500m (surrounded by a 300m safety zone) has been hand-cleared by local volunteers of hundreds of thousands of tiny stones, to create the smoothest surface possible.

Bloodhound, all 7.8 tonnes of jetand-rocket-powered intent, looks like a military aircraft that’s lost its wings.

Fitting, given that many of the crew are British military personnel seconded to the project from active service in hotspots such as Afghanistan.

Their training will serve them well, Green reckons, when they head south from the workaday industrial unit in the west of England near Bristol, where Bloodhound is being assembled, to the

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Safe and sound: in the high-tech cockpit of Bloodhound SSC, Wing Commander Andy Green (left) is protected by ballistic armour put there to safeguard him from stones flying up or bird strikes. Without it, either could kill him

wide-open scorched desert that will become their home for several months.

“In the military, we take our people to some pretty harsh places and ask them to do some pretty hard things,” says Green. “They can be ripped out from their family at very short notice for a very long period of time. That’s physically, mentally and emotionally demanding, so they have to be looked after to make sure they are able to look after themselves. It’s no different here.

We’ll go through exactly that next year when we get out to South Africa. A lot of them haven’t been out to the desert environment. So it’s going to be an interesting learning process for them.”

There’s a risk that Green’s tone, his frill-free military manner, might portray him as some kind of automaton. The truth is far from that. While no cuddly toy, he is not overbearing, arrogant or in any way high on his own supply.

Possessed of an almighty inner steel, yes, coupled with the battle-hardened self-confidence of those who thrive in the bullshit-free military. So why, given that he is a manifestly rational human being, would he undertake an adventure many would consider bonkers?

The answer, for Green, lies in the science and his desire to inspire a generation of young minds. He cites the Bloodhound mission statement as the clearest possible insight into his own motivation: “To create a unique, high-technology project, focused around a 1,000mph world land speed record attempt. To share this engineering adventure with a global audience and inspire the next generation by bringing science, technology, engineering and mathematics to life in the most exciting way possible.”

Computer modelling can predict how Bloodhound will behave at 900mph and above, and of course it says “all will be well”. But only Green will experience the sensation of the machine taken to its limit. Only he will be in a position to react should anything go wrong.

“I’ve never been nervous flying fast jets,” he says. “It’s the same with Bloodhound. I understand every aspect of its design and the standards to which it’s been built. Why would I be worried?”

Land speed record-breakers aren’t like the rest of us. By way of relaxation, Green flies stunt planes to competitive standard, and thinks nothing of taking his engineers for ‘joyrides’, to help build team spirit. Those around him speak warmly of Green’s leadership qualities, unforced authority, and his softer side.

An example of the latter comes when he hands Bloodhound communications director Richard Knight, in the middle of a conversation with someone else, a gift-wrapped box and card. “Just a little something for you and Lizzie,” he says. Barely a day earlier, Knight’s wife had given birth to a daughter.

This hint of humanity is a reminder that amid the scientific endeavour and talk of triumph of technology, a man will be at the heart of the machine when Bloodhound’s Rolex speedo trips from 999 to 1,000. A man in touch with normality, with a life unlike the violently noisy, info-loaded, hot, brutal, claustrophobic clamour of his bulletbeating manned missile mission.

“Are we all going to need a break at the end of it? Hell yes,” he says.

“I’m very lucky, therefore, to have a fantastic wife who loves sailing nearly as much as I do. There’s nothing like cruising along at about five knots, slowing your brain down, while you go to some little harbour somewhere for a late lunch, with the boat parked up in front of the pub. And that’s just where I see myself in three years’ time.” bloodhoundssc.com

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CHESCA MILES HAS NO LIMITS S H E T R A I N S I N S E C R E T, B U T T H E W O R L D ’S O N LY M O D E L-T U R N E D -ST U N T R I D E R I S M A K I N G A B I G N O I S E I N ST R E E T B I K E F R E E ST Y L E , O U T S H I N I N G B OT H M E N A N D W O M E N T H A N KS TO I N N AT E TA L E N T A N D P U T T I N G I N T H E H A R D YA R D S Words: Ruth Morgan Photography: Julian Broad

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Riding high: Chesca Miles spends up to eight hours a day in secret locations practising her moves on a specially modified bike

suitable practice space is at a premium.

What started as bikers trying to outdo one another on the streets has matured into a recognised sport, but without space to practise legally, it remains underground.

It’s also highly technical, requiring perfect precision in balancing the throttle and brakes to control a bike that will brutally punish the slightest error.

“Stunt riding defies all the laws of motorbiking, but I love that,” says Miles.

“It’s my rebellious side coming out. The adrenalin rush you get with every new trick is amazing.” Since Miles discovered a rare piece of deserted ground three years ago, she’s been here at least four days a week, sometimes for eight hours at a time, learning to manoeuvre her specially modified 2012 Honda CBR600FAB in new ways. “At first it was really intimidating,” she says. “I was the only girl with all these stunt riders, and I was on a little pit bike. When I moved up to the 600cc size I ride now, it was even more terrifying. I tried a wheelie and

froze, the engine still running. Eventually I made myself do it.” Miles’s resilience has made her one of the few female pro riders in the UK, and one of only a handful worldwide. “Most girls don’t want that risk,” she says. “I wish there were more. Of course I have bad days, but generally I’m prepared for breaks and bruises. Guys telling me I’m not good enough just makes me work harder.”

Despite her obvious talent, Miles isn’t a typical petrolhead. Her CV is the stereotype of girly. She trained as a beautician, then took up modelling, appearing in magazine shoots and ad campaigns. She’s a keen singer and music producer, and has a small studio at the home she shares with her grandparents in Surrey. She’s also a dancer who practises ballet, jazz and hip-hop. Yet she spends

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ven at a remote, disused Essex car park, Chesca Miles attracts admirers. Three teenage boys have abandoned their game of street cricket. A passing biker in full leathers sits on the sidelines. They’re watching Miles expertly manoeuvre a motorbike into positions it was never designed to get into. Blue smoke and the screech of tyres fill the air as she adds fresh black arcs to the grey rubber lines she’s built up on the tarmac over months of practice sessions. She slows, then with a quick rev of the engine, pulls the front wheel up until the bike is vertical, perfectly balanced on a small patch of its back wheel, 200kg of metal tamed.

The top of her head is just above the front of the 600cc bike as she stands with one foot on the back of the seat conventionally reserved for pillion passengers. She then returns the front wheel to the ground, the force pushing her forward into her seat, and without a pause she’s off again, burning up to the top of the car park. “Most people like what I do,” says the 24-year-old, in a Home Counties accent. “I’ve also had loads of guys say, ‘You should be in the kitchen, love, not on a bike.’

But they’re just the ones that are jealous that I’m better at riding than them.”

It’s almost four years since Miles fell in love with the male-dominated world of streetbike freestyle, a type of stunt riding that’s part sport, part art form and similar to BMX flatland, but instead of a bicycle, the tricks are executed on a heavy motorbike. Though the scene is growing, it’s still niche in the UK, not least because

‘IT’S MY REBELLIOUS SIDE COMING OUT. THE ADRENALIN RUSH YOU GET WITH EVERY NEW TRICK IS AMAZING’

‘OF COURSE I HAVE BAD DAYS. BUT GUYS TELLING ME I’M NOT GOOD ENOUGH JUST MAKES ME WORK HARDER’

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most of her time on her bike, locked into a more brutal choreography.

“My mum would rather I stuck to something more feminine,” she says.

“Modelling gets my adrenalin going because you’re on a shiny floor in impossibly high heels. But I wish the days away: I know where my love lies.”

From a distance it would be easy to dismiss Miles as a gimmick, a pretty girl playing at being a biker. Doubters would be silenced after seeing her in action. Miles may be a diminutive size eight, but as she sits on the moving bike in a ‘high chair’ position, her legs over the handlebars, her toned muscles jump to attention as she casually tightens the Velcro strap on a shinpad. She switches position and begins drifting, the practice of purposefully losing grip while keeping control, turning the bike in tight circles.

“It’s full throttle and balance, nothing else,” she says. “Drifting takes a lot of practice, but it’s my favourite.”

In less than three years, Miles has become one of the best drifters in the world, and the only female. “There are so few riders doing street stunting, it’s hard for people to understand how difficult it is,” says British ex-pro biker Steve Keys, who has seen Miles progress. “The control Chesca manages to keep is amazing.

People go on about MotoGP riders drifting, but it’s far easier to do at high speed. At slower speeds, the bike’s trying to throw you off. When we were at Silverstone for the MotoGP, riders were asking her how she does what she does.

I think Chesca’s dancing helps with the balance and flexibility that it requires, and gives her her own style. Streetbike freestyle is like a dance on two wheels.”

Miles has demonstrated her skills at events like the British Superbikes final, appeared in a music video for band Spiritualized and won parts in films Rush and Fast & Furious 6 (although a broken ankle after a fall during practice meant she had to pull out of the latter). Success has brought fans; over 650,000 on Facebook. “I have to keep my practice location under wraps,” she says. “It would get overcrowded with riders. I’ve also had fans turning up for autographs. Some have tracked down this place from a glimpse of road in one picture. It’s mad.”

Miles’s success is the result of a love affair with bikes that started years before she could legally ride one. Aged six, she sat glued to the television, shunning cartoons in favour of MotoGP races.

She picked out future world champion Valentino Rossi as a favourite, wore a Rossi T-shirt and filled sketchbooks with THE RED BULLETIN

‘I HAVE TO KEEP MY PRACTICE LOCATION UNDER WRAPS. IT WOULD GET OVERCROWDED WITH RIDERS’ drawings of him in action. “My family knew I was a tomboy,” she says. “I was into BMXs, skating, drum kits, go-karts, but mostly bikes.” Miles’s father, Richard, having been begged for a Bugatti rather than a Barbie, wasn’t surprised by her decision to become a stunt rider. “Chesca’s never let the status quo stop her,” he says.

“She’d beat the boys at go-karting, then they’d be shocked when she took off her helmet and let her hair down. She’s always chosen what she wants, then gone and got it. She’s never asked for help.”

Judging by her diary, Miles has lost none of her determination. There’s no clubbing or shopping. Daily practice and two-hour gym sessions every other evening, performances and dance lessons fill her free time. But that didn’t stop Miles accepting a new biking challenge.

After meeting Steve Keys in a MotoGP pit lane in 2013, Miles became the third member of an unlikely trio, comprised of Keys and fellow bike lover Danny JohnJules, of Red Dwarf fame, to take on the gruelling task of riding to and climbing five mountains in five European countries in five days. “I knew Chesca would be

tough enough for it” says Keys. “After 1,400 miles of riding with her, I realised she was something special.”

Keys has taken Miles to various tracks to test out her potential. At Kinsham, a West Midlands circuit used by former Supersport world champion Chaz Davies and former MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner, she had a chance to measure herself against the greats. “We knew those guys recorded laps of around 45 seconds,” says Keys. “In one afternoon Chesca got down below 50 seconds.

I didn’t think she’d get anywhere near that and I’ve been in racing a long time. I’d say she’s a better rider than me. There’s no reason she couldn’t be racing in the Moto3 World Championship by 2017.”

It’s a prospect Miles relishes. “Originally I wanted to race,” she says. “It’s different to stunting, which is very precise and quite slow. On track, I jumped on a bike and just went for it. I’d love to compete in MotoGP. After breaking into stunt riding, racing against guys doesn’t faze me. I think one will help the other.”

As the Essex light fades, Miles cuts the engine and takes off her helmet. Her hair is damp with sweat after hours of riding.

She has to drive 60 miles back home tonight, work out, then tomorrow is the first of two consecutive days of track testing. “I just want to train hard,” she says.

“Having long-term goals for riding feels like putting a finish line on it. I don’t feel there’s a limit to where I can go with this.”

With the excitement of her six-year-old self intact, Miles pulls on her helmet, gets back on her bike and returns to practising. chescamiles.com

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From Alaska to Canada: the Wild and Free dog team come into the Carmacks checkpoint during the 2014 Yukon Quest

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THE YUKON QUEST IS A 1,000-MILE DOG SLED RACE ALONG AN OLD GOLD RUSH TRAIL IN NORTH AMERICA. THE RED BULLETIN GOES BEHIND THE SCENES OF THIS INCREDIBLE JOURNEY Words and photography: Katie Orlinsky

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awson City was the thriving mecca of the Klondike gold rush 125 years ago.

Today it’s a small tourist town with a bar that serves the ‘sour toe cocktail’, chilled with frozen frostbitten human toe (there’s a NZ$650 fine for swallowing it). Only part of the Dawson population sticks around through the sub-zero winter, when it is so cold outside that your eyelashes freeze together. The only other attraction in Dawson happens once a year, when it becomes the halfway point for one of the world’s toughest winter events.

For the past 31 years the month of February marks the beginning of the Yukon Quest, or the Quest, as locals call it, a 1,000-mile dog sled race between Fairbanks, Alaska, and Whitehorse, Canada. The race attracts up to 50 sled dog teams, who journey through the subarctic North American wilderness along what was once the Klondike Highway, a route on which sled dogs used to deliver mail during the gold rush.

The Yukon Quest is like the scrappy cousin to the Iditarod, another 1,000-mile dog race known as Alaska’s Super Bowl.

The start of the Iditarod is a big spectator event held in Alaska’s state capital, Anchorage, flanked by banners

Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, population 1,319

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emblazoned with the logos of big-name sponsors like Chrysler, ExxonMobil and Wells Fargo. The start of the annual Quest, which alternates between Fairbanks and Whitehorse, is a smaller affair, where volunteers and fans line the streets next to banners for local businesses like the Whitehorse Daily Star newspaper and the Alaskan Brewing Company. The first prize for winning the Quest in 2014 was about NZ$30,000, which is half that of the Iditarod prize money and barely enough to cover the costs of running the race.

The Quest is considered the tougher of the races, with a much more challenging route. And while the Iditarod is held in spring, the Quest takes place during the coldest time of year, with fewer checkpoints and less rest for mushers.

“It’s more of an old-school dog mushing style,” says Hugh Neff, a 47-year-old Quest musher who won the race in 2012. “You have to be on your own, you have to be self-sufficient… it’s the real deal.” Before moving to Alaska from Chicago 20 years ago, Neff had only heard of the Iditarod. Now he competes in the Yukon Quest, the Iditarod and other races all over the world, but his favourite is the Quest. He calls it his “sacred journey”.

Muktuk Adventure Kennels, and a guest, near the finish line

Curt Perano, a Quest rookie from New Zealand, loads his dogs into his truck

Dawson City marks the halfway point of the trail

HANDLERS ARE ON CALL TO MASSAGE THE DOGS’ PAWS

YUKON, HO! Following the Klondike Highway, the Quest’s route is considered tougher than the more famous Iditarod

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Brent Sass and his dogs prepare to hit the trail after 36 hours of mandatory rest in Dawson City

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Few mushers race the Yukon Quest just to win the event. For most, it’s the ultimate test of survival in some of the harshest wilderness known to man. Temperatures during the race reach as low as -50°C and winds howl up to 80kph.

The brutality of the trail is matched only by its beauty, with the route passing across frozen rivers and beneath shimmering icicle-laden tree branches of the Yukon territory’s boreal forest with snowy mountains in the distance. Few people ever get to see the scenery of these remote trails, aside from dog mushers.

It is often even too cold to travel by snowmobile because the fuel will freeze.

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y the time Brent Sass arrived in Dawson at around 11pm, a crowd had been waiting inside a nearby cabin for a few hours. With the temperature outside around -30°C, they were huddled around a computer screen, following GPS signals from Quest mushers. Once Sass looked close to the checkpoint, everyone rushed outdoors to wait in the blistering cold.

A team of 14 black and brown sled dogs came barrelling down the trail in an avalanche of legs and paws. “Woooah,” Sass called out to his team in a calm low tone, commanding them to stop. Once the dogs’ legs finally stopped moving you could see steam rising into the freezing cold air from their hot torsos. Then he turned his headlamp off and you could see his face, covered in frost, with icicles hanging off his moustache.

Sass, a tall, jolly 35-year-old, moved to Alaska from Minnesota to attend college and stayed. He runs the Wild and Free Mushing Kennel in Eureka. He has been a Yukon Quest frontrunner for years, but has yet to win the race. He is still a fan favourite, respected for willingness to help other mushers in moments of 59

Each team carries up to 113kg of survival equipment and provisions

distress. (Receiving outside assistance automatically results in disqualification from the Yukon Quest, but mushers can help other mushers.) This time Sass’s strategy was to avoid any heroic time delays by staying ahead of everyone else. “Am I still the first one in?� he asked local journalists. After receiving the all-clear from vets and race officials, musher and dogs set off to a campsite about a mile away across the frozen Yukon River, where all teams are required to rest for 36 hours.

The campsite runs along the river with a little section for each dog team up a path nestled in the snow-covered trees, where motorhomes set up camp in the summer. The dogs rest inside a long tent lined with straw. In between snoozing, the dog handlers are on call to massage paws with a pink balm, and each of the dogs receives a check-up from a vet. There are also one or two human-friendly Arctic Oven tents with wood-burning stoves.

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Sass’s dog team was peacefully asleep a few hours later, when Allen Moore’s team came into Dawson. A 57-year-old veteran musher, Moore runs SP Kennels with his wife Aliy Zirkle, also a top musher and this year’s Iditarod runnerup. Moore moved to Alaska from Arkansas, where he was a taxidermist and carpenter, more than 20 years ago. His dogs were still bouncing with energy at the checkpoint, barking and howling loudly. Bred to be smaller than Sass’s, their shorter legs might make them slower, but they’re less susceptible to the injuries larger dogs often suffer.

It’s common to hear dog mushers refer to themselves as “the weakest link” in their team. Unlike humans, sled dogs are in their natural element in races like the Yukon Quest, and their ideal temperature is in the region of -30°C. The term sled dog refers to any of the types of dog originally bred to pull a sled in cold weather as part of a team, such as Siberian Huskies, Malamutes

or Alaskan Huskies. The Alaskan Huskies are a type of mixed breed mutt and today’s racing dogs of choice. They are bred over time for speed and endurance, as opposed to the larger, slower, stronger utilitarian sled dogs of the past.

Dog mushing has a long history and is an important part of region’s culture.

North American native communities used sled dogs before Europeans occupied the region. More than 3,000 years ago, hunter-gatherer communities were using dogs to pull sleds in the Arctic Circle.

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ukon Quest mushers rely on their dogs to keep them going in the wilderness and lead them along the isolated, dangerous terrain of the trail. They dedicate their life to caring for their dogs, day in and day out. The intense bond that forms between the musher and his dogs is at the root of the sport, and the most interesting element.

There is always high drama on the Quest. At the end of the 2014 race, only 11 out of 18 competing teams made it to the finish line. One dog died at Eagle Summit, the toughest part of the trail that has been the stage for a lot of the race’s drama over the years. In 2006, six mushers and their dog teams were lost and had to be rescued by a helicopter.

In 2011, a four-time champion here almost died of hypothermia after falling into a frozen ice pool before being rescued by another musher.

For hundreds of miles after Dawson City, Moore and Sass were neck and neck. Then, outside Braeburn, a truck stop checkpoint deep in the heart of the Yukon territory 100 miles from the finish line in Whitehorse, Sass suffered concussion after falling off his sled and had to be airlifted out. It was a dramatic and disappointing end to what had been, up to that point, “the race of my life”, said Sass. Moore went on to win with a time of eight days, 14 hours and 21 minutes.

Hugh Neff came in second, finishing after eight days, 23 hours and seven minutes.

“I think it’s always for the adventure,” said Moore. “While we’re doing it, we sometimes wonder why. But as soon as we finish, we forget about all the hardships and can’t wait to do it again.”

This year’s race starts on February 7 in Whitehorse: yukonquest.com

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‘Running is easy when you do it right’ Reigning Wings For Life World Run champion talks school runs, language lessons and how to push yourself further than anyone

Last year, Lemawork Ketema ran against the world and won. The 29-year-old Ethiopian became the inaugural Wings for Life World Run champion, running 78.57km (48.83 miles) in just over five hours in the race that began in Donataul, Austria. There were another 33 races across 32 countries, and almost 36,000 runners. Ketema was the last one to be caught by a ‘catcher car’, which runners strive to stay ahead of; when it reaches them, they’re eliminated. He lives in Austria in conditions that are far from ideal. But he intends to defend his title in May – and thinks he’ll go further. the red bulletin: So, is running 100km a realistic target? lemawork ketema: It is realistic, but whether it’ll actually be possible depends on a lot of things you can’t control, such as the weather. But I’ll do everything I can to be in better shape in 2015 than last time.

Did you consider running in another country instead of Austria?

I’m an asylum seeker and can’t leave the country. I’ve had offers to run in large marathons, but I can’t do it right now.

I’ve already had my asylum hearing, but we’re still waiting for the verdict.

[Since we interviewed Ketema he’s had some news: the verdict was positive.]

Where do you live?

In an asylum seekers’ hostel about 20km from Vienna, in Greifenstein. There are four of us to a room, which isn’t always straightforward, especially when it comes to getting a night’s sleep. But I don’t see it as a problem. Running is all that counts.

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mainly the locals who say hello and cheer me on when I’m on training runs. There’s a fisherman on the Danube that I always have to stop for. He says a fish always bites when I stop to say hello. Sometimes he gives me one to take home.

Do you give tips to fun runners?

Of course, and I enjoy working with young people. Running is easy when done right.

What’s your daily routine?

I get up at 6am and do my first run: 25km or sometimes 30km. Then I go to Vienna for my German classes and do my second

“My marathon time is nothing special: 2:14; but that was at altitude” training session in the evening. And then a massage or even physio, if that’s possible.

What do you do in your free time?

I don’t have much. I like being busy.

What does your first name mean?

Lema means green but it also means beautiful. And work is work, as in English.

Beautiful work in the green. Appropriate.

True, it’s very fitting for Greifenstein.

I think that every day when I step out of the door and set off on my training run.

What was your life in Ethiopia like?

It was a 7km journey to and from school every day. I always used to run it. My mother worked in a hospital as a masseuse.

We speak on the phone once or twice a week. My mother is very important to me.

I also learnt how to massage and worked with marathon runners whose best times

were around the 2:04 mark. I understood their bodies and the problems they had and I knew how they approached races. I’m still benefiting from that knowledge now.

What’s your best marathon time?

It’s nothing special: 2:14. But that was years ago and set at altitude.

What do marathon runners think of the Wings for Life World Run? It depends. Some of them just look at the kilometre split times and think we’re dawdlers. Others think 78km and more is too far. But the most difficult thing for specialist marathon runners is the lack of structure because there’s no finish line.

The man you beat in second last year, Peru’s Remigio Quispe, is racing in Austria this time around. Is that an advantage or disadvantage?

A huge advantage! You can push yourself much harder in company. The greatest disadvantage of being in Austria is the lack of training groups. I either train alone or someone bikes alongside me.

How were you the day after you won?

I woke up with a smile on my face. It was wonderful. I’d achieved what I’d set out to.

What tips do you have for keen amateurs who want to take part in this year’s Wings For Life World Run? Train every day. Going for a run once a week won’t make you any better. It’s the same for me with my German classes.

Getting better is hard work.

The starting pistol for the 2015 Wings for Life World Run will be fired simultaneously in 35 locations in 33 countries around the world on May 3, 2015. Who will hold the Catcher Car at bay the longest? All the info you need to take part: wingsforlifeworldrun.com THE RED BULLETIN

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Interview: Werner Jessner

Born October 22, 1985 Nationality Ethiopian It was a very good year As well as winning the Wings for Life World Run, Ketema also won Austria’s 2014 Graz Marathon

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A 13-time Grand Prix winner at the reins of a 510hp sportscar on 4.32km of the finest racetrack.

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‘YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH WRITING OFF A CAR WHEN YOU’RE 16. AT 43, YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE’

Race ready: Coulthard in fireproof suit and helmet prepares to put the Mercedes-AMG GT through its paces

Ergonomic design: the bottom of the steering wheel has been levelled off. Behind it is the paddle-shift gearbox. The centre console allows you to change driving mode

avid Coulthard, what car are you driving at the moment?

“The last car I bought myself was a Smart Fortwo BRABUS. It’s practical, easy to park and perfect for taking my six-year-old son to school in. I still have the light blue Mercedes SL280 that was all I could afford back when I was a young racing driver and there’s a Mercedes M-Class at my holiday home in Switzerland. It’s eight years old now and I don’t see any reason to upgrade. Everything still works.”

So, there’s no place for fun cars in this pragmatic private fleet? “I am one of the few people who have had the privilege of driving in Formula One. F1 is the Premier League, which is why driving fast on public roads is no fun for me. I’d need to have

a private racetrack in my backyard to drive like that.

But I live in Monaco, so that’s why I drive a Smart.”

The morning after he says this, Coulthard is standing next to something entirely different: a 310kph, pearl-white Mercedes-AMG GT, a car that technically doesn’t exist. Overnight rain means he has to wait for the tarmac of the Red Bull Ring racing circuit in Spielberg to dry off under the Austrian winter sun before getting behind the wheel. “This car,” says Coulthard, “will make a lot of people who’ve driven a Porsche 911 up till now think again. What marks out BMW, Audi, Porsche and Mercedes-AMG is that they make cars that work on a racetrack, but are still suitable for everyday use. That’s actually a really tough job.”

Once the track is dry enough, Coulthard, in full driver garb, takes a minute to get his bearings in the cockpit, where he is joined by The Red Bulletin.

He adjusts the driver’s seat and pulls the steering wheel (covered in fine-grain leather and levelled off at the bottom) as far out as it will go. He does this to get the greatest degree of control. You can spot a bad driver a mile off with their arms outstretched at the wheel; a habit almost as bad has having a smartphone held to your ear.

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stifled power. The engine in each AMG GT is assembled by one person only from start to finish and their signature appears on the engine plate.

If anything should go wrong with it, the customer is to get in touch directly. In this case, that man is Jens Müller, and he must be a genius. The spec: an S-Class with 510hp, rather than the standard 462hp.

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ou select from four different driving modes – comfort, standard, sport or sport plus – on a dial positioned by the driver’s knee. In view of the wet conditions, Coulthard plumps for sport, as the engine and gearbox characteristics aren’t as aggressive as in sport plus and the chassis less stiff.

The Red Bull Ring is notorious for making a victim of even the best of drivers, and there is the added detail of the AMG GT being a special pre-release version of a six-figure-sum sportscar. “If you write off a car when you’re 16, you can get away with it for not knowing any better. At 43, you have no excuse,” he says.

No sooner has Coulthard come out of the pit lane than the car is nowhere near straight, and lightningquick steering is required to reel in the live weight of 1,570kg. “Let me tell you, it’s damned slippery.”

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The long bonnet is a formidable presence in front of the cockpit, which some might say is where the car most differs from the Porsche 911. Coulthard hurtles uphill towards the second bend, Remus, a tight right-hander. A tug on the right-hand paddle shift behind the steering wheel and we’re going up through the gears. “It’s not as quick as in Formula One, but it’s miles better and quicker than any manual transmission. You can fully concentrate on the line you’re going to take.”

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“Rubber particles make it almost impossible to drive the racing line under tough conditions.”

Out of Remus, on the Schönberg straight, he positions the Mercedes-AMG GT where the layman would. A glance at the speedometer shows 240kph. It’s then downhill towards Schlossgold, another, less tight, right-hander, where Coulthard says perfectly coolly, “if you lose grip on the front axle when you brake here, you’ll be getting the car back out of the gravel before you know it.”

Professional viewpoint: “It’s easy to make an out-andout racing car. It’s all about performance.

Giving them creature comforts is much harder to do”

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Emerging talent: DC takes the AMG out onto the track

This is exactly what happens, but it was intentional, and he brakes, seemingly out of control, to move away from the slippery racing line. The coupé recovers on the pristine tarmac, which is enough for a pro to adjust the car’s direction slightly. He then crosses the racing line again, finds grip on the outside of the track, just before the turn, and the car finally makes the corner.

The Red Bulletin simply says, “Wow.” “That would have been better the other way round,” says Coulthard. “Lose speed when you’re

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coming into the turn and you can put your foot back down sooner and get out of the turn more quickly. That definitely cost us 5 to 10kph, but it’s great how well balanced the car is.”

The Mercedes-AMG GT comes with ESP, a traction and stability control system. It can’t be turned off completely, but you can still lose control if you’re stupid enough, and it’s very easy to be like that when you’re dealing with 510hp. Racing drivers communicate with the car sensibly. “I use the engine brake to take pressure off the rear of the car and stabilise the rear axle with the means I have available to me – brake pressure, the steering wheel – in the same way you balance a pencil on your fingertip.

The only use I have for the ESP is as an orientation tool, so I know where the back of the car is.”

This translates as: whereas the rough and ready driver barely notices if he’s made a faux pas, the professional is ashamed to have blown his nose on the tablecloth.

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At midday, David’s wife, Karen, turns up to collect her husband. “Looking good,” she says, but she’s talking about the Mercedes-AMG GT. “Can I get in it?” She takes a long time to electronically adjust her position in the cockpit, and also opens the boot.

This is more than just polite-but-faked interest.

“Would you really want to take the kids to school in it, baby?” her husband asks and she fleetingly lets on that, when it comes to many things, she might not think as pragmatically as he would. projekt-spielberg.at/en

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Sounds good: the smart speaker that makes its own playlists.

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Where to go and what to do

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T R A V E L / T R A I N I N G / N I G H T L I F E / M U S I C / M O T O R C Y C L E S / C I T I E S / W AT C H E S / E V E N T S

Beating the breaks HOW THREE-TIME WORLD SURFING CHAMPION MICK FANNING TURNED HIS LOWEST EBB INTO HIGH PERFORMANCE TRAINING, page 72

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Swell guy: Fanning takes on the waves at Haleiwa in Hawaii

Tough as a board SURFING MICK FANNING HAS A SEVERE ACCIDENT TO THANK FOR HIS FITNESS REGIME

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FANNING SWEARS BY YOGA AND PROPER BREATHING TECHNIQUE

“Stret­ching and yoga are part of my daily workout. Yoga classics, such as the tree and the boat, are good exercises for improving your balance. Breathing technique exercises have helped me with my surfing enormously.

If you breathe correctly while training or competing, it can have an enormously positive impact on how you control your body and mind.”

Ideal for all surfers: a dynamic exercise that simulates intense turns and strengthens your torso and legs. Ideally do three sets of 25 repetitions

1 Hold the ball above your left knee. Put the weight on your right leg. Then rotate your torso and shift the weight left

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Stretch your arms out straight, throw the ball at the wall, catch it and return to your starting position

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“There was a loud snap and then hellish pain. My surfing career was basically over in 2004,” says Mick Fanning. The 33-year-old Australian was surfing in Indonesia when he tore his left hamstring right away from the bone. “I couldn’t even sit down for the first five to six weeks after the operation. But the rehab, which lasted for almost six months, was, in hindsight, vital to my career.

In that time I learnt a great deal about my body, including which muscles to work on and how in order to improve my performance as a surfer. Ever since, I’ve ensured that I have core muscle strength and that my legs have enough strength, flexibility and stamina. I have to have a flexible workout plan because it depends on the quality of the waves. There’s no better workout than surfing. If the waves are too small, I keep fit by going to the gym three or four times a week.”

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Aus wizard: threetime ASP world surfing champion Mick Fanning, born Penrith, New South Wales

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BRISBANE AUSTRALIA’S BEST BACKYARD HAS MORE THAN 40 WEEKS OF SUN A YEAR AND NO WORRIES “Brisbane is a city of over two million people, but we call it ‘the biggest country town in Australia’,” says local boy Pete Kilroy, vocalist of Hey Geronimo, a rapidly rising indie band, “and we mean that positively. It’s less densely populated, greener and quieter than Sydney and Melbourne, which is why an increasing number of Australians are drawn here, not just on holidays, but permanently. With a sub-tropical climate and 300 days of sunshine a year, the outdoors rules supreme in Brisbane. Everyone makes the most of it with big back yards, verandas, pools and the ‘must-have’, a BBQ. If this city had a slogan it would be ‘No Worries’, and that’s exactly how life is lived here.” But that doesn’t mean that there’s nowhere to go out. Here are Kilroy’s top five spots. heygeronimo.com

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specially on Deckchair Sunday when the playing field becomes a stage for local musicians and the fans listen from the comfort of deckchairs after the game.”

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322 Brunswick St “Brisbane’s music scene is like no other in Australia. This place is my secret tip. You can discover the next big thing here.”

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Crucially, the burgers are great.”

Dream of flying a helicopter? After a crash course in piloting, you’ll be at the joystick of a whirlybird (with an experienced copilot, of course). redballoon.com.au

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2 BRISBANE POWERHOUSE

119 Lamington St “This old powerhouse is now a hive of cultural activity. There are photographic shows, art exhibitions and jazz sessions.

Most are free of charge.”

3 WESTERN MAGPIES CLUB 41 Chelmer St “You can’t come here and not see a sporting event. My choice: Sherwood, a long-established Australian Rules Football Club,

5 MERTHYR BOWLS CLUB 60 Oxlade Drive “I recommend this outdoor bowling club where you don’t have to be a member. So order yourself a cool beer and throw a few barefoot bowls on the perfectly manicured lawn.

Fantastic.”

From 0 to 100kph in two seconds: once you’ve been in an 850hp car, you’ll never forget what it feels like, just for a moment, to be a racing driver. adrenalin.com.au

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FLORI DA PLUS AFTER THE WINGSUIT COMES MORE ADVENTURE

RACE Feel the torque on a shotgun ride in a two-seater stock car driven by a pro, who’ll reach speeds of 230kph around the Walt Disney World Speedway in Orlando. drivepetty.com

W INGSUIT LOVERS OF AERIAL ADRENALIN CAN’T GET HIGHER THAN A SOAR-LIKE-SUPERMAN ADVENTURE Navigating through the skies at speed was once the preserve of superheroes. But thanks to the wingsuit, anyone with enough skydiving experience can swoop and dive like a bird at speeds of up to 360kph.

A wingsuit is a high-tech jumpsuit with fabric slung between the legs and under the arms to increase lift, and anyone with 200 jumps under their belt can freefall in a whole new way after half a day’s instruction at Skydive City in Zephyrhills, Florida. The basics of controlling the suit are taught on the ground in training drills. After three hours, you’re lead onto a Twin Otter plane for a drop from 3,660m with an instructor communicating tips with sign language.

“Before the flight, there’s a lot of muscle memory training to help get the body position right, and practice exits and deployments,” says instructor Travis Mickle. “When that starts to feel natural, you can focus on all the amazing aerobatic possibilities.”

After two assisted drops, the next one’s solo. “You need to process, react and adjust a lot faster than when skydiving,” says Jonathan Francis, a 25-yearold advertising strategist from London, who took his first wingsuit flight in 2010. “In a split second you can put hundreds of metres between yourself and another flyer, I can make a sharp, banking 90-degree turn with just a tweak of the head, swooping to build up speed. The feeling is just incredible.”

Instruction starts at US$100: skydivecity.com

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Is it a bird is it a plane? No, it’s a wingsuit flyer

ADVICE FROM THE INSIDE HEAD FOR HEIGHTS “If you maintain the right body position, it’s not physically strenuous,” says Tony Uragallo, the godfather of wingsuit flying who tests his designs at Skydive City’s drop zone. “Mental stress, fighting the concern that ‘this is dangerous’, is the biggest problem for the first-timer. Learning to relax is key.”

RISE Leave gravity behind on Zero-G’s specially modified Boeing 727. Your 15 parabolic manoeuvres each create 20-30 seconds of weightlessness. gozerog.com

SURVIVE High times: preparing to fly

Cloud control

“The best fun is flying a wingsuit around clouds,” says Tony Uragallo. “When you’ve learnt control, you can sometimes get two or more minutes flying in and out of all the different shapes of the cloud, trying never to touch them. Now that’s a buzz.”

Take the plunge to get up close and personal with sharks at The Florida Aquarium.

Exit the cage and dive with a trained instructor among the ocean’s most fearsome predators. flaquarium.org

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Montblanc Heritage Spirit Orbis Terrarum This watch can display standard times in the 24 main time zones. A disc obscures part of the Earth as seen from atop the North Pole at night

A TIME ZONE IS NOT THE SAME THING AS STANDARD TIME, BUT YOU KNEW THAT, RIGHT?

THIS ONE CAME FIRST The first Heure Universelle, the 1937 Patek Philippe Ref 542 HU, was a gamechanger. It was both beautiful and technologically advanced. A notdissimilar 1937 Ref 96 HU sold at Sotheby’s New York in 2011 for US$482,500.

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presented the Heure Universelle (HU) watch. Harking back to the work of Geneva watchmaker Louis Cottier, it was the first wristwatch that could display standard time in multiple time zones. The names of various cities were engraved on its rotating bezel; turn it and you can work out the times, based on the difference from GMT. Local time was displayed with both the hour and minute hands – an amazing advance in horology technology at the time. From 1939, an increasing number of manufacturers adopted the Heure Universelle system.

Watches don’t display time zones, they show the standard time in time zones.

HEURE UNIVERSELLE VS GMT/UTC An Heure Universelle watch displays the time in 23 time zones as well as the local time, while a GMT/UTC watch can ‘only’ show one extra standard time of your choosing (see the three watches on the facing page).

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he first person to split between adjacent zones. (The the world into 24 time system takes into account both zones was natural and geographic a Canadian boundaries, to avoid railway engineer arbitrary borders named Sandford between time zones Fleming. In 1879, arising.) Fleming’s he divided the system was first 360 degrees of adopted by Canada longitude into twoin 1883 and then dozen time zones, later that same year using the Greenwich by the US. Germany Meridian as his was the first European NOMOS starting point. Each country to come on ZURICH WELTZEIT zone is 15 degrees of side in 1893. On On the road wearing longitude (360/24) this, change to the local October 16, 1937, and time shifts by an Swiss watchmaker time zone with a simple push of a button hour at the boundaries Patek Philippe

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All hail King Hayek HOW THE FOUNDER OF SWATCH REINVENTED WRISTWEAR AND SAVED THE WATCH INDUSTRY

By Joe Thompson, editor-in-chief of US magazine WatchTime

Swiss watches are much sought after. Brands such as Rolex, Omega and Patek Philippe and are seen as status symbols the world over.

In 2014, the Swiss watchmaking industry made record sales for the third year in a row.

Yet not all too long ago, that same industry was seen to be losing out globally and deemed a national disgrace. By the early 1980s, ultra-thin, precise quartz watches made by Seiko, Citizen and other manufacturers based in the Far East had become the big hit in the world of watches. Swiss manufacturers, lagging behind

Nicolas G Hayek Snr was born in Lebanon in 1928, raised in France and became a Swiss citizen through marriage. His life and the Swiss watchmaking industry changed irrevocably when the banks approached him. Hayek heralded change by merging two ailing corporations to found what is now Swatch Group. He maintained production in Switzerland, overseeing the roll-out of Swatch watches while breathing new life into ailing brands such as Omega, Longines and Breguet. Hayek was chairman of the board from the time of its founding in 1985 until his death in 2010, aged 82. Today, Swatch Group is run by his daughter, Nayla, and son, Nick. In 2013 it recorded sales of €7.33 billion.

For more than 25 years, Hayek dominated Swiss watchmaking.

He was powerful, controversial, extravagant – he wore two or three watches on each wrist – and direct. He joked that the initials in SMH Ltd – the original name for Swatch Group – simply stood for ‘Seine Majestät Hayek’ – His Majesty, Hayek. No one would begrudge him his crown.

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Sports watches ONLY TAKE TWO TIME ZONES INTO THE SHOWER? THEN THESE ARE THE GMT/UMC TIMEPIECES YOU’RE LOOKING FOR Rolex GMT-Master II In 1955, this was the first timepiece to display an extra time with no fuss, made possible by a second, freely adjustable 24-hour hand and a 24-hour scale on the bezel.

Small wonder, then, that the Rolex GMTMaster and now the GMT-Master II are the most successful and popular watches of their type. rolex.com

Panerai Luminor 1950 3 Days GMT 24H A Luminor with a real added benefit for frequent fliers. The 24-hour hand, freely adjustable regardless of the local time, means you can display a second standard time using a 24-hour scale on the inner ring next to the bezel, known as the rehaut.

Comes with black leather and black rubber straps and the tools to switch them. panerai.com

Alpina Alpiner 4 GMT

with their old-fashioned, clockwork timepieces, were close to bankruptcy and dependent on rescue packages from Swiss banks.

In one of the darkest hours in the industry’s 450-year history, the banks, in their desperation, turned to a management consultant to turn everything around.

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Above, from left: Nicolas G Hayek showing off the 333 millionth Swatch watch in 2006; Hayek always wore several watches – sometimes as many as six

With this descendant of the original Swiss sports watch of 1938, you can, as with the Panerai (above), set a freely adjustable standard time using its red-tipped 24-hour hand and then read the time off the 24-hour scale on the rehaut. This stainless steel beauty also has anti-shock and anti-magnetic properties. alpina-watches.com

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CHELSEA JADE, THE RISING AUCKLAND DREAM-POP SINGER-SONGWRITER FORMERLY KNOWN AS WATERCOLOURS, SPENT TWO WEEKS IN TOKYO AT THE RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED WORDS: MARTYN PEPPERELL

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Konnichiwa Tokyo: this year’s Red Bull Music Academy saw the likes of Chelsea Jade and Kerri Chandler (below left) wow the crowds (below right) in the Japanese capital

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week into her stay in Tokyo,

Chelsea Jade makes her Japanese live debut.

It’s a Saturday night in November 2014 at the Red Bull Music Academy’s Culture Fair, at the Ba-Tsu Gallery in the Japanese capital’s fashionforward Harajuku suburb. Taking to the stage in a long grey overcoat, black top and knee-length skirt, she stands behind her laptop and MIDI controllers and performs live versions of the dreamy vocal electronica on her last two EPs, Portals and Beacons.

She regularly steps off the stage, walking through the crowd while singing directly into people’s faces.

She climbs on tables, leads the room in group clapalongs, and tells funny and intimate stories between songs. Her reward is increasingly louder roars of approval. At the end of her set, she makes her way from the stage to the bar and toasts a couple of sake shots. “I enjoyed that,” she says, before vanishing into the crowd to watch a performance from another Academy participant.

In the crowd there is a medley of many languages.

Just down the street is a shop devoted to Tintin.

Tokyo is a city of contrasts, niches, rituals and colour, a place where you can find anything your heart desires, especially if you like Tintin. Whether browsing through tiny, packed record shops or hyper-colourful avantgarde fashion stores; drinking at psychedelicthemed bars or taking selfies at owl cafes – cats used to be all the rage in Tokyo coffee shops, but tame live owls are the latest trend – there is literally something for everyone, which makes it the perfect host city for a gaggle of musicians.

Since 1998, Red Bull Music Academy has brought selected artists to one city for two weeks of stimulation and creation. By day, the participants attend lectures from key musical figures. By night, they collaborate in recording studios, attend curated concerts around the city and perform live shows. It’s an environment where sleep is an afterthought, lifelong friendships are formed and inspiration runs rampant.

On day five of Chelsea Jade’s Tokyo

Story, the 25-year-old is making the most of her networking opportunities. She’s hanging out at Red Bull Music Academy HQ in Tokyo’s storied Shibuya district, swapping stories with participantsturned-friends including Cat500 from Los Angeles, Valesuchi from Santiago and Mimu Merz from Vienna.

A few days earlier, engineers Hiroaki Nishijima and Tatsuya Takahashi, from electronic musical instrument

Jade performed at Ba-Tsu Gallery, took part in lectures and workshops (below right), and hung out with Academy alumni, such as Tollcrane from Pakistan (left)

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company Korg Inc, gave a lecture. The experience left a lasting impression with Jade.

“Hiroaki Nishijima spoke about how he designs Korg machines,” she says. “He was talking about how the circuit diagrams have to be aesthetically beautiful to him, like a painting. He had such a romantic view of it. He talked about how a little bit of his essence is in each of the machines he makes.” As a poetic singersongwriter who works within minimalist beatscapes, romance and metaphor are powerful forces for Jade.

Inside one of the eight studio rooms at Academy HQ, she has been working with a cheerful bearded man from Brooklyn known in dancehall and hip-hop circles as Dre Skull. In the past, he’s created anthems with Jamaican stars Popcaan and the incarcerated Vybz Kartel. In Tokyo for this fortnight, he’s a studio mentor.

“I spent the last month in New York,” says Jade, of Dre Skull’s home turf. “We stay in the same area, work at the same studio, and even both know some of the characters that kick around there.” After getting to know one another, it turned out they both had aspirations to write and produce for pop stars.

“We’re doing a song together for him to pitch to someone, but I’m not allowed to say who.”

Three days after the Culture Fair, Jade is on

stage again, but not in the spotlight. Instead, she sits in a circle with 15 other participants inside the Dance Hall Shinseiki. Seated in front of their laptops, they’re all focused on a serene-looking long-haired man, Yamataka Eye, founder of Japan’s experimental rock titans Boredoms. For nearly an hour, Eye signals to the participants with hand gestures, leading them through a flurry of sub-bass explosions, on an immersive journey into sound as a physical feeling.

After this, the participants switch from laptops to traditional instruments and Otomo Yoshihide takes centre stage. The great instrumentalist leads them in a light-hearted and colourful exercise in jazz-rooted improvisation. He encourages the participants to join him in conducting and brings audience members up on stage to have a turn. Even the mother of one of the Japanese participants gets involved. It’s celebratory and comedic, the flipside to Eye’s performance.

The following evening, killing time in a concert hall lobby waiting to see piano music mystic Lubomyr Melnyk and Icelandic cellist Hildur Guonadottir, Jade reflects on the performances. “Last night helped me make sense of why we’re all here,” she says. “With Eye, we became his computer orchestra. We were given some software so all our computers were the same.

He taught us this improvised sign language. It was beautiful and terrifying. The way he was swooping his hand and the sounds corresponded so perfectly spoke to me on an aesthetic level. The second set with Otomo Yoshihide was full of humour. Both sets needed each other. I felt like the experience galvanised everyone.

At the end, everyone was exchanging hugs. We’d gone through this terrifying but nourishing experience.”

Inside the concert hall, Guonadottir’s evocative drone cello pieces set the scene perfectly for Melnyk’s life-affirming piano compositions. He performs three long works in his idiosyncratic style, notes exploding

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A lecture from Korg‘s Tatsuya Takahashi was a big source of inspiration for Jade, who played in a huge jazz jam (above and right) and a laptop orchestra (below left)

‘I FELT LIKE IT GALVANISED EVERYONE. at the end, we were exchanging hugs.

WE’D GONE THROUGH THIS TERRIFYING BUT NOURISHING EXPERIENCE’

in and out of one another at supersonic speeds. Later, back at the Academy building in Shibuya, Jade is inspired by the pianist’s ability to convey stories and feelings through composition: “It was so beautiful.”

It’s 11pm on a Friday night.

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Dre Skull, an arranger and a small string section are still hard at work in the studio. They’re recording string parts for Jade’s collaboration with Dre, the song they intend to pitch to a pop star. Jade is spellbound. After the string section records its final take, everyone heads upstairs to the dining area. “On a life experience level, that was really special,” says Jade. “It seemed very serendipitous. Everyone here is so great, but to strike a rapport with someone with the same goals as you is a bonus. To walk into the studio and listen to the strings being laid down was amazing.

It feels like it’s all aligning to a desirable end result.”

A day later, in the Academy’s lecture hall, Jade is back on the sake shots, with other participants, while they listen to one another’s tracks. Dre and Jade’s song drops, and it’s a monster. Her soaring voice rings out over marching drums and heart-aching strings and synthesizers. Participants and staff whoop and holler in approval while she grins. “This place is a supernova,” she says later. “It illuminates everything you think about life and music and your career, and how and why you make things. Afterwards, we’ll all go home and be alone again, but at least we’ll have our memories. That’s a good analogy right?” redbullmusicacademy.com

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COME BACK DOWN STILL BUZZING FROM DANCING? THESE SONGS WILL HELP YOU SLEEP

BRIAN ENO

Partying with Miley THE UNDERGROUND FAMOUS FOLKS AND AVERAGE BLOKES KEEP CHICAGO’S COOLEST CLUB HOTTER THAN EVER Imagine a party where Kanye West, R. Kelly and the Glee cast are passing the mic, singing their lungs out. At Chicago’s Underground, that stuff happens all the time. It opened in 2007 in a basement of a once derelict building and helped turn a moribund area into a vibrant entertainment hub. The post-apocalyptic/ military-themed club was a hit from the start, attracting A-listers like Miley Cyrus, Common, Katy Perry, Skrillex and Mark Ronson. When owner Billy Dec decided to expand and refresh, he took a risk and closed shop to do the job. A sleeker, higher-tech Underground emerged, and it’s a success once again. Dec prides himself on the “ropeless” vibe – there’s no cordoned-off VIP area, and everyone’s fine with that. Sure, Miley and her crew were taken aback at first. “But she keeps returning,” says Dec. He and his team must be doing something right.

THE UNDERGROUND 56 W Illinois St Chicago, Illinois theundergroundchicago.com

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NIGHT OWL VALENTINE’S DAY TIPS FOR CHICAGO, FROM COLIN REBEY, AKA DJ PHENOM

GET COSY At Rodan in Wicker Park, when there aren’t DJs, it’s a mix of everything from The Knife to A Tribe Called Quest. Craft cocktails are out of this world.

GET LUCKY Headquarters for arcade games, indie rock and a great-looking crowd. Or Ay Chiwowa for tequila.

GET SWEATY Millennium Park for ice skating. Nothing beats watching friends wipe out.

GET FREAKY Smart Bar or Spybar. With lights low and house music pumping, you’ll find someone to hang out with.

Marconi Union Weightless The band sought the advice of sleep researchers and in 2011 produced the ultimate track to nod off to. Experts advise against listening to it behind the wheel.

ADELE

Skyfall Every two years, the hotel chain Travelodge asks 2,000 guests their favourite song to fall asleep to. The current queen of the snorers is Adele with her Bond theme.

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JENNIFER CATHERINE, OH SNAP BRITOGRAPHY

Billy Dec with rapper Lil Jon, model Jaslene Gonzalez; with Miley Cyrus (below)

1/1 Eno composed this in 1978 in reaction to the dull background noise at Cologne Bonn Airport.

Sophisticated ambient music to cure your stress.

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MUSIC

H EY RUDE TV On The Radio pulled one out of the top drawer with their 2004 debut album, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes. The band elegantly combined what had until then had been seen as incompatible: soulful gospel singing, noisy punk guitars, funk bass runs and electro-flavoured drums. David Bowie was so captivated that he wanted to sing on the band’s second album. Other fans, such as Liam Gallagher and Scarlett Johansson, had their records produced by band member David Sitek. He also took charge of recording TV On The Radio’s latest, fifth and poppiest album, Seeds. The band’s drummer, Jaleel Bunton, tells us which songs inspired them while they were making it.

Show man: Jaleel Bunton of TV On The Radio

‘ Nina Simone is a shaman’ PLAYLIST THE BEST GUITAR SOLO, THE GUILTIEST PLEASURE, THE GREATEST COVER. JALEEL BUNTON ON THE FIVE SONGS HE COULDN’T LIVE WITHOUT

1 Nina Simone

2 Jimi Hendrix

3 Lianne La Havas

“The mix of Simone’s voice and Cohen’s lyrics is so moving and beautiful, like a master shaman read a master spell.

There’s a live version; she makes the band start again. She’s like, ‘No, no, stop.

Don’t put anything in the music that’s not asking for it.’ She’s saying: don’t try to put too much of you in the song. Let it go through you rather than be you.”

“It’s hard to choose one Hendrix song.

I’ve gone for One Rainy Wish, because it is often overlooked.

It’s amazing what Hendrix packs into three minutes.

It starts off in a serious, beautiful place and then it goes to this place that’s really passionate, almost violent, and then to a psychedelic end. And the song does it really effortlessly in this one statement.”

“Prince is this young British woman’s number one fan. I’m not far behind.

This song is a masterpiece.

It’s a pop song, but it’s also it takes this darker turn in the chorus. You can see it started as a classical music-inspired song, but at the same time it feels contemporary.

If there was a club that played this kind of pop, I’d be there all the time.”

4 Tears for Fears

5 The Deftones

“I think I’m going to embarrass the whole band by picking this, but I love it.

This song will endure.

Everything about it is perfect. To me, honestly, it has one of the best guitar solos I’ve ever heard in my life.

It doesn’t just burst in and dominate the song like most guitar solos do – it’s just perfect for it.”

“This song probably falls into the guilty pleasures category. I’m generally not a nu-metal fan, but this is kind of the best version of Korn and Linkin Park in one song. I hear the singer and I feel I get him: yes, you are a purple dark evil overlord with feelings. I listen to this song when I ride my bike and think, ‘Man, everything you say I feel in my bones.’”

Suzanne

Everybody Wants to Rule the World

VICTORIA WILL

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One Rainy Wish

My Own Summer (Shove It)

THE STORIES BEHIND SOME BEATLES SONGS ARE FOR ADULTS ONLY

TICKET TO RIDE The title refers to cards indicating a clean bill of health that Hamburg prostitutes had to carry with them in the 1960s. The Beatles learned to play live there.

Forget

TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS Lennon was high on LSD when he wrote it, with lyrics inspired by The Psychedelic Experience, Timothy Leary’s drug-taking manual adapted from Tibetan Book Of The Dead.

LET ’ S PLAYLI ST SOCIALLY AWARE SPEAKER

PRIZM This pyramid-shaped speaker selects the perfect music for every situation.

It connects via Bluetooth to the smartphones of everyone in the room.

Based on the time of day, number of people present and their musical tastes, Prizm will generate and play a Spotify playlist. Perfect for every party. meetprizm.com

I AM THE WALRUS They sing of ‘the egg man’.

Fellow musician Eric Burdon of The Animals had a girlfriend who broke an egg over him and then devoured it.

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GAMES

Zombie nation: your chance to shine in Dying Light

EYE ON i PA D HIDDEN-GEM GAMES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED

THE SILENT AGE: EPISODE 2 Adventure game with riddles to be unravelled, in the 1970s and today, by its timetravelling hero.

Go back yourself and play Episode One first. thesilentage.com

Undead good

TH EY ’ R E A LIVE! FOUR MORE ZOMBIE GAMES FOR 2015

D YING LIGHT FINISHED THE GAMES YOU GOT FOR CHRISTMAS? THIS ZOMBIE EPIC WILL SATISFY YOUR NEEDS There’s a theory as to why zombies in pop culture are so massive. The Resident Evil games made a significant impression on a generation which then went on to make books, comics, films and TV about something that seared into their young minds. And now new zombie games reflect that culture back. The circle of (undead) life.

Dying Light has the scent of The Walking Dead about it, but only the merest whiff. The game’s title points to one of its excellent original ideas: that gameplay alters radically when night falls. As long as the sun’s out, you, playing as a plague survivor, scavenge a city for weapons and supplies under the noses of fellow desperates, to use after dark to stay alive while fighting off plague-infected creatures.

You can go all out and attack, or lay traps and defend your ground. Upgrading weapons ‘realistically’, with lighters and barbed wire, is a neat touch.

The other innovative element here is Be The Zombie mode. Playing online, you can flip the game on its head, become prey-turned-hunter and rid the city of pesky humans.

There’s also a four-player co-op online mode. Plenty to get your teeth into, then; just be careful what – or who – you bite. Dying Light is unleashed worldwide from January 27.

Available on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC

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Resident Evil Resident Evil: Revelations 2 Granddaddy of them all returns, first as four weekly game episodes, set between RE5 and RE6.

Another in the stream of addictive and fiendish puzzle games, with 180 brain-boggling tasks. Simple graphics but you’ll think deep.

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Dead Island 2 Action-heavy adventure with eight-player co-op set in a future quarantined California.

SPACE AGE

State Of Decay State Of Decay: Year One Survival Edition Xbox One revamp for the tactical apocalypse adventure that’s more survival than action.

Human Element Two-tier zombie gaming: main game on PC and consoles, side missions on mobile platforms.

Old-school sci-fi in which you lead a team of planetary explorers in the sort of game – text-heavy, sense of humour – they don’t make any more. spaceageapp.com

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Q & A

CLARK DUKE

BREAKING OUT THE WHIPS AND CHAINS

With a name like that, he could be a square-jawed matinee idol. But the 29year-old does a mean line in lovable nerds. Known for his roles in the Kick-Ass movies and TV’s The Office, this month he and co-stars Rob Corddry and Craig Robinson get back to wet work in Hot Tub Time Machine 2

Fifty Shades Of Grey, starring Rita Ora (above), hopes to transition from bestseller to blockbuster. How will the steamy S&M romance stack up against previous erotic offerings?

Words: Geoff Berkshire

LUKE WOODEN, UNIVERSAL

Fatal Attraction the red bulletin: What was your reaction when you heard there was going to be a Hot Tub sequel?

CLARK DUKE: I was shocked, honestly. Just saying it out loud is pretty silly. It wasn’t a massive box-office hit, but I think the reason is it just did so well on video and TV that it ended up justifying a sequel.

Do you have random people approaching you wanting to talk about the movie?

Definitely. I get a lot of dudeson-the-sidewalk kind of action from it. It all checks out.

Do they like to quote a particular line or do they just yell “Hot Tub Time Machine”?

People will generally yell the title from the other side of the street, that kind of thing.

Or from a passing car. I’ve seen that happen with other people, too. I think it’s pretty common to just yell out the title of the movie or TV show of whoever you recognise.

Does that happen with Kick-Ass, too?

Yeah, but it depends on the age and gender and location – you get different stuff. I’m sure Christopher Walken still has people yelling, “Deer Hunter!”

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(1987) Married man’s fling comes home to roost.

Stars: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close Hot or not? Hot

Basic Instinct (1992) Detective becomes involved with beautiful woman who could be a murderer.

Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone Hot or not? Hot

Showgirls

‘ Sitting in a tepid pool of water with three guys for 12 hours at a time for three days is not that glamorous’ Are you utterly sick of hot tubs yet?

On the press tour for the first movie, everybody thought they were being so clever to interview us in a hot tub. There were so many interviewers who said, “Guess what?

We’re doing it in a hot tub.”

Did you ever say no?

I’m contractually obligated to say yes. That’s my deal with MGM. [Laughs.]

How are the hot tubs on set?

They’re a complete nightmare.

Those are the worst days, by far. They’re not real hot tubs, first of all. It’s a big contraption they build so they can have cameras underneath. They have these big turbines to make the water swirl. It’s lukewarm water because you can’t work for 12 hours a day in hot water, you’d get sick. And they’re on a stage that’s freezing all the time, so as soon as you get out you’re miserably cold. Within an hour the water is supergross. Just think what it’s like sitting in a tepid pool of water with three other guys for 12 hours at a time for three days.

It’s not that glamorous.

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is out worldwide from January 15: hottubtimemachine.com

(1995) Ambitious Vegas dancer claws – and sleeps – her way to the top.

Stars: Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan Hot or not? Not

Wild Things (1998) School girls and counsellor cap conspiracy with a threesome.

Stars: Neve Campbell, Denise Richards Hot or not? Hot

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Nicole nearly cheats, Tom sets sail on a kinky sexual cruise.

Stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman Hot or not? Not

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Early adopters, queue-jumpers, friends of the Earth.

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You mostly drive your dual-sport motorcycle on the road and make the odd side-trip to unpaved areas. With the TKC 70, Continental has combined the benefits of a smoothrunning road tyre with the off-road grip of open tread. Excellent in wet conditions.

B M W S 1000 X R W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

WHERE IT BELONGS

WHO RIDES IT

An all-rounder with the talents of a trail bike and a touring bike.

On a long holiday trip, and perfect for two with the right kit.

Technically savvy frequent riders for whom enjoyment comes first.

Four-cylinder engine, 999cc, 160hp, 228kg

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SAVE THE DATE

Slash and company are heading this way in 2015 February 17, 18

Axe attack Throw your goats, Guns N’ Roses fans.

Saul Hudson, the axe-wielding rock legend better known as Slash, won’t be rolling solo when he plays dates in Hamilton and Wellington on his World on Fire tour this month. Instead, he’ll be playing with his outfit The Conspirators plus vocalist Myles Kennedy of Florida band Alter Bridge fame. They’ll be running through gems from his solo catalogue, and of course some all-time rock classics from his fast-living G N’ R days. eventfinder.co.nz

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February 6-7

Dress sharp The Wellington Sevens, the fourth leg in the HSBC Sevens World Series, is as famous for the effort punters go to dress in themed costumes as it is for the big hits on the field. So it’s a sure bet that the 35,000 fans who will flood into the capital have been planning their outfits for a while. But the action doesn’t stop at Westpac Stadium – Wellington’s city streets are guaranteed to explode in a carnival of colour when packs of martial artists, priests and superheroes empty out of the Cake Tin at the end of play. sevens.co.nz

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DON’T MISS

February 3, 17

Over land and sea

MORE DATES FOR THE DIARY

Now in its 26th season, the annual Stroke & Stride series takes over Mission Bay for two races in February, pitching top athletes and amateurs side by side as they duke it out with a Waitemata Harbour sea swim followed by a road run around the bays. Stroke & Stride offers a $10,000 prize purse, so best believe competition will be fierce.

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swimrun.org

UP IN SMOKE

February 1

Blazing saddles The newly opened Timber Trail, an 80km Grade 2 cycle trail that carves through the Pureora Forest in the North Island’s King County, will be the site of the 2015 NZO Trailblazer. The rugged mountain bike event comprises three different rides – 85km, 45km and 25km – and makes liberal use of the epic swing bridges that connect the course’s densely forested trails. dynamoevents.co.nz

The Manawatu will be lit large when Manfeild Park puts on the region’s biggest annual fireworks display, with sideshows and live entertainment – and even free ice cream. Expect more bang for your buck. manfeild.co.nz

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February 12–22

WINNER’S CIRCLE

It’s a thriller

Also at Manfeild: MotorSport New Zealand Race Championships, with Grand Prix classes that include a Toyota Racing Series, NZV8 Touring Cars and Formula Ford.

The King of Pop has long since left the building, but his spirit will most definitely be in the house when Auckland welcomes Thriller Live, a two-hour audiovisual stage show conceived by long-time Michael Jackson associate Adrian Grant. Boasting a touring party of 45 performers, musicians and crew, Thriller Live is a choreographed ride through Jacko’s four decades of hits. Sequined gloves are a must.

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SCOTT UCHIDA, ABOVE GROUND LEVEL, LIZ HARDLEY

thrillerlive.co.nz

FEBRUARY

January 26

January 29-February 1

February 7

February 14-March 29

In its own lane

Feelgood fest

Rox on a roll

Shot, bro

The deliciously left of centre dance, indie and alt-rock Laneway Festival was a sellout when it shook up Silo Park on Auckland Anniversary Day. And the smart money’s on a repeat as the impressive line-up includes Banks, Vic Mensa, FKA twigs and Mac De Marco bringing the noise to the Auckland waterfront. auckland.lanewayfestival. com

Wanderlust is a well-being event with a global schedule of music, food, culture and yoga that this year includes stops at New South Wales’ Cockatoo Island, O’ahu in Hawaii and Whistler in Canada. The first Wanderlust in 2015 is at Great Lake Taupo, with a music line-up including Xavier Rudd, Sola Rosa and Nightmares on Wax. wanderlust.com

Swedish pop behemoths Roxette are celebrating 25 years of hits like The Look, It Must Have Been Love and Joyride. Roxette’s Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle will also be celebrating their first trip to NZ in February, as they bring their balladheavy show to Auckland’s Vector Arena. Listen to your heart, pop fiends. roxette.se

The world’s best cricket teams will go to war this summer at the ICC Cricket World Cup, jointly hosted by New Zealand and Australia at 14 venues over 44 days and winding up with the Finals on March 29. First at the stump is the Sri Lanka vs NZ face-off at Christchurch’s Hagley Oval on February 14. icc-cricket.com/cricketworld-cup

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DEFY GRAVITY Epic in size and nature, the Giant 2W Gravity Enduro mountain biking event is back. It’s at Rotovegas’ Whakarewarewa Forest this summer with another cruise up/race down course for twowheelers craving an adrenalin fix.

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MAGIC MOMENT

A sheep and cattle farm in the middle of nowhere is the unlikely location for an event celebrating two-wheel trickery.

Farm Jam was first held in 2008 when Dan and Brett Frew invited their BMX, mountain biking and freestyle motocross friends to ride some jumps on the family spread. The brothers are taking a break from the event this year, but promise an even bigger and better jam in 2016. facebook.com/FarmJam2013

“ Farm Jam is just so laidback. It’s one of a kind”

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Winton, New Zealand March 1, 2014

New Zealand’s Levi Sherwood won the FMX competition last year with a run that included old-school tricks like this perfectly executed ‘Lazy Boy’

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