Whawazat? Blink ’n’ miss sporting hits
DRAWN OUT From sequencer to sequential art: a rock star does a comic turn
‘Hey, guy in the black cap? It’s hands in the air’
PHOTOGRAPHY: BEN SALVETTI, GREG CONSTANTAKIS, COURTESY MOUN10EAR, KARL GIANT, AGATA OLEK, JENNSTARR PHOTO DAN WILTON/RED BULL CONTENT POOL, IMAGO (2), GETTY IMAGES (1). ILLUSTRATIONS: COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR
Busting beats in New York For aspiring musicians it sounds like paradise: leaving the breadline behind and spending several uninterrupted days with your idols, beavering away in a studio. But this is no pipe dream. It’s a paradise whose doorway stands wide open, and the sign over the door reads ‘Red Bull Music Academy’. Since 1998, the music camp has been roaming the globe, pitching its tents for four weeks each year, in cities such as Cape Town, Berlin, Toronto and most recently Madrid. The location changes, but you will always find the latest sound equipment, 60 knowledge-hungry young musicians from around the world, and music industry ‘lecturers’ – the likes of Carl Craig, Mark Ronson, dupstep meister Skream and producer Arthur Baker. The big guns don’t just pop their heads in to say hello. They stay for days at a time, leading discussions and studio sessions from breakfast to late-night snacks. In autumn, the Red Bull Music Academy will take place in New York. Interested? Musicians, DJs, vocalists and producers – no matter what genre – are invited to apply online. Applications close April 2. www.redbullmusicacademy.com
IVO KARLOVIC 251.4kph The Croatian landed tennis’s zippiestever serve in March 2011, during a Davis Cup doubles match against Germany.
DENIS KULYASH 177.6kph During the 2012 KLH All-Star Game half time show in St Petersberg, the Russian hit hockey’s hastiest puck.
Courtney Taylor-Taylor, frontman for US group The Dandy Warhols: so good they named him twice and, in the words of his most famous song, a Bohemian Like You. Now he’s turning a new page in his career, as author of a graphic novel, One Model Nation, set in gloomy 1970s Berlin. A synthesizer band find themselves caught in the crossfire between the Baader-Meinhof Group and government forces, before suddenly disappearing. Why this story? I love German music from the ’70s – Kraftwerk and all that – and from there I stumbled on the Red Army Faction.
When I was on tour in Germany, I spoke to eyewitnesses and tried to get a feel for the times. What made you write? Hip-hop films. Those guys got cops, guns, drugs: action! What do you get if you’re into rock? Spinal Tap, that’s your movie. Anytime anyone ever tried to make a movie about rock, it sucked. So I figured I was uniquely qualified to portray a band the way bands really are. Eventually it turned into a comic. What’s next for you? The new Dandy Warhols album is coming out in April and it’s going to be really guitar-heavy. www.onemodelnation.com
JASON ZUBACK 328kph The American golfer, a five-time longest drive world champ, hit the all-time fastest ball, in any sport, in 2007.
WE HAVE A WINNER!
St. Johann Franky Zorn leads the way at a World Cup ice speedway qualifier. Félix Rioux
San Francisco Gary Bartz (sax) and Aloe Blacc (mic) jam at a Red Bull Music Academy event. Lauren Crew
Sydney Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, l to r: Jorge Ferzuli, David Colturi, Steve LaBue, Blake Aldrige. Dean Treml 25