The Red Bulletin October 2014 - NZ

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WELCOME How to make a life in music, movies and games: it’s a dream that more and more people are turning into reality, and the unofficial theme of this jam-packed edition of The Red Bulletin.

Exclusive interviews with Jessie Ware and Lenny Kravitz (she’s just done her second album; he’s just done his 10th) reveal what it’s really like to make music in 2014. Meanwhile, up (and down) a slope somewhere, filming the most ambitious full-length mountain-bike movie, is Brandon Semenuk. Can he really turn YouTube views into a career behind the camera? Plus, we’ve got the incredible story of four men who went from game to racetrack: Gran Turismo tournament wins gave them careers as racing drivers. Plus, a ton of other stuff: sport, new tech and more. Enjoy the issue.

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“I still get starstruck, like when Russell Crowe turns up backstage” JESSIE WARE, PAGE 44

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He’s conquered rock ’n’ roll, now he’s in blockbuster movies and still incredibly cool after all these years

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18 OUTDOORS SPECIAL Get some fresh air. Plus: naked mountaineering

FEATURES 28 On the record

How can you still be cool after all these years? This man knows how

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How learning to freedive helped an eSports champion face his fears

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Are they the next EDM superstars?

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Following up her smash-hit first album has been an amazing ride

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CONSOLE TO COCKPIT

Four video gamers turned play skills into a career. At this year’s Le Mans 24-hour race they lined up against each another

REALITY BITES

eSports champ Jimmy Ho knows all about competitive pressure, but learning to freedive pushed him to the limit

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SHOTS IN THE DARK

One man has devoted his nightlife to documenting the Parisian party scene: this is a rare, exclusive look in his archive

60 Gran Turismo v Le Mans Driving game champions take to the track for real: their incredible story

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Visual Storytelling Beyond the Ordinary

The themes of ruin and redemption run concurrently in the movies of American director Robert Rodriguez, so it should come as no surprise that he’s decorated the conference room

REINVENTING THE PHOTO PART TWO OF OUR LOOK AT THE IMPORTANCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY, 175 YEARS LATER.

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FABIEN ‘KEFFER’ HEBERT

MARIA ZIEGELBÖCK

RALF HAUSER

The French photographer has amassed thousands of photos documenting Parisian nightlife, a selection of which appear in this edition of The Red Bulletin. For Fabien, it’s as much about socialising as it is about making great images. “I go out a lot because I love electronic music,” he says. “Dressed in black, you can go anywhere in Paris at night – you can dance to trap music at the Social Club, enjoy a cocktail at the Silencio and end up at the Baron next to Jean Dujardin.” Enter la nuit Parisienne on page 82.

The Austrian snapper racks up air miles, shooting everywhere from New York to Paris, working for magazines such as Wallpaper and Elle and brands like Swarovski. For this month’s issue, she flew from Vienna to London to shoot singer Jessie Ware in a warehouse studio, an experience both parties seemed to enjoy.

“Once Maria and Jessie got settled into the shoot,” says writer Ruth Morgan, “they were chatting and laughing together between shots.”

The story begins on page 44.

For our feature on the epic new mountain bike film RAD Company, directed by the Canadian rider Brandon Semenuk, we couldn’t have assigned a better man than Hauser. Originally from Vienna, He moved to the US in 2001 to launch Flow, the first mountain bike freeride magazine. Later, he settled in the mountain-bike paradise (and Semenuk’s hometown) of Whistler.

“Brandon is a true mountain bike hero” Hauser says, “and his film is a love letter to his sport.” See page 46.

The Red Bulletin is published in 11 countries.

On the cover of the latest UK edition is singer Jessie Ware.

BACKSTAGE

Photoshoot of the month

by Mark Seliger When Lenny Kravitz arrived at Mark Seliger’s photography studio in New York, he knew exactly how he wanted the shoot to go. “He kept stepping out to debate the images with Seliger, who he’s known for years,” says Brandon Perkins, who interviewed Kravitz for The Red Bulletin. See page 28.

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We’re going his way: Lenny Kravitz during his shoot for The Red Bulletin (left) and on the cover (above)

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TICKET TO RIDE Sea, spray, dodging kitesurfers: it’s all part of a normal day for Russian windsurf champion Olya Raskina. After swapping her landlocked hometown of Moscow for a base in Dahab, Egypt, the 30-year-old spends five months of the year in SA. It’s where she can imagine her post-competition life. “There are lots of possibilities,” she says, “and one is opening a guest house in Cape Town.” Retirement is a way off, as Raskina is in the form of her life.

She only narrowly missed out on becoming the 2014 PWA Freestyle World Champion, happy, for now, with a career-best second place. facebook.com/olya.raskina1 Photo: Kirill Umrikhin/Red Bull Content Pool

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SKATE STYLE CJ Rench is most aptly named: a sculptor and designer who specialises in large-scale metalwork which can be seen all over America. His latest project is the Red Bull Skatespace in Seattle’s Jefferson Park.

Top skater Torey Pudwill had significant input into the design; Rench and his team studied T-Puds as he skated on mock-ups and parts of the sculpture.

“There’s a very artistic side to the skateboard scene,” says Rench, but this is “first and foremost a work of art, and then something skateboardable.” The skaters, including Tom Schaar, seen here, love it. redbull.com/skatespace Photo: Mike Blabac/Red Bull Content Pool

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ROCK ’N’ ROLL

Recent adventures for trials rider Danny MacAskill include bike-based acrobatics in a deserted Argentinian city and cruising above bunnies’ heads at the Playboy Mansion. But the Scot got back on home rock, 25 miles from where he grew up, to do what in his world counts as keeping it simple: conquering the formidable Cuillin Ridge and everything on the way up. MacAskill’s time out of the saddle, which included daily four-hour hikes, proved the toughest part of the trip. “Being on the bike is natural,” he says. “At a certain height you hit autopilot – you’ve just got to hang on.” redbull.com/bike Photo: Andy McCandlish

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The greatest of the Great Outdoors

DAVID L AMA

Summit or nothing

Aged 16, he won a sport climbing world cup gold, then four years later, in 2011, retired so he could tackle the great peaks. He’s since looked down from the summit of Chogolisa in Pakistan and Cerro Torre in Patagonia. Next is Masherbrum, like K2 and Chogolisa, in the Karakoram mountain range.

“Its north-east face is like the north face of the Eiger with a Cerro Torre on top,” says Lama.

Impossible to the rest of us.

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The Austrian laughs at the idea that something is impossible, then goes out to prove otherwise

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JESSICA BIEL

Hollywood climber

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She doesn’t work for scale, but she does scale for good causes

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The star of The A-Team climbed Kilimanjaro in 2010 to raise awareness of the global water shortage. And in this dress she’s raising awareness of the physiological rewards of a 5,895m ascent. Her next goal: Mount Everest, which is 8,848m.

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LANGTANG LIRUNG 7,227m, Nepal/China

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7,403m, Pakistan

LENIN PEAK 7,134m, Tajikistan

QUNGMOGANGZE 7,048m, Tibet

CRUNCH THIS DATA? Combined, these stats prove what has long been suspected: people wearing cool outdoor clothes on public transport aren’t always on their way to the nearest mountain.

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THE WORLD’S TOUGHEST RACES

Over hill, dale and ice You can keep your 26-mile, 365-yard strolls

THE HOTTEST

THE HIGHEST

THE WILDEST

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Marathon des Sables

Tenzing-Hillary Everest Marathon

Jungle Marathon

Polar Race

Where: Amazonian Brazil How long: 254km Terrain: jungle Temperature: 40°C Record: 32h 18m Humidity: 99 per cent Risks: leeches, anacondas, piranhas.

Where: Canada, from Nunavut to the magnetic North Pole How long: 650km Terrain: snow and ice Temperature: -50°C Record: 10d 9h 45m Risks: at 50 below, it’s not just the liquids you take on that freeze.

Where: in the Moroccan Sahara desert, route changing annually How long: about 250km over six days Terrain: desert sand Temperature: at night 0°C, by day 40°C Record: 16h 27m Water required: nine litres daily Risks: disorientation.

In 1994, one lost entrant was found alive – just – nine days later.

Where: up and up from Mt Everest base camp in Nepal How long: 42.195km Terrain: Himalayan Temperature: 10°C Record: 3h 28m 27s Highest point: 5,364m Risks: yeti sightings brought on by severe lack of oxygen.

BARE IN RARE AIR

The freest climbing there is Nudists are taking over the mountains. We’re cool with that, but wearing shoes isn’t 100 per cent commitment

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Some say it’s the ultimate nature experience: heading towards a summit wearing nothing but a rucksack and hiking boots. And a hat. But apart from that, everything is left swinging in the mountain breeze. Naked hiking is now so widespread in Switzerland that they have come up with a sign prohibiting it. A graphic designer originally devised it as a joke, only then to receive a lot of orders from concerned municipal authorities.

Other sports that would be better in the buff: Naked sprinting Back to our roots, like in the good old days of ancient Olympia.

Naked football Shirt-tugging? Pull the other one.

Naked swimming Men would never stray from their lane thanks to the additional rudder.

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Danger for breakfast

CAPLIO R4 USER(2), NEHBERG.DE, LAURA BOMBIER

Three robust adventurers who have turned man-v-nature into a nice little earner BEAR GRYLLS Real men drink elephant wee and eat live cockchafer grubs. At least this former SAS reservist does. Other things he has tucked into include yaks’ eyes, goats’ testicles and scorpions; all organic.

Enjoy your dinner.

Watch him on: Discovery Channel

RÜDIGER NEHBERG Trained as a pastry chef, but earned his bread journeying up jungle rivers and campaigned for indigenous peoples’ rights. The 78-yearold now wanders the Brazilian rainforest in regular trousers and a T-shirt.

Read him in: one of his dozen books

LES STROUD Is there anything this guy can’t do? He can tick off successful musician, filmmaker and survivalist. Now he doesn’t employ a film crew, instead shooting all footage himself. But he does always carry his harmonica.

Listen to him on: latest album Wonderful Things

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The Not-So-Great Outdoors

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WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Alex Supertramp has had enough of his suburban life, goes hiking around the USA. His final stop is the Denali National Park in Alaska.

PLANE CARRYING A RUGBY TEAM CRASHES IN THE ANDES. THE SURVIVORS HAVE NO FOOD, APART, THAT IS, FROM ONE ANOTHER.

Documentary filmmaker Werner Herzog retraces the steps of Timothy Treadwell, who hopes to live in harmony with grizzly bears.

MOUNTAINEER TRAPPED BY HIS ARM IN A CREVICE. BUT FOR HOW LONG?

WHAT GOES WRONG?

NO MAP. NO CLUE. NO CHANCE.

How bad do things have to get before you’ll eat your friends? Pretty damn awful, so it would seem.

Treadwell should have asked himself: “Do the bears want to live in harmony with me too?”

Imagine convincing yourself to cut off your own arm, and then it turns out your knife is blunt.

HERO’S OUTCOME?

LEGEND TO SOME, BAD EXAMPLE TO OTHERS.

N A N D O PA R R A D O, P L AY E D BY E T H A N H AW K E , N OW G I V E S M O T I VAT I O N A L S P E EC H E S AT $ 75,000 A T I M E .

BEAR FOOD.

ARON RALSTON, PLAYED BY JAMES FRANCO, STILL CLIMBS MOUNTAINS. WITH HIS – SPOILER ALERT! – PROSTHETIC ARM.

I S T H AT W I L D HERB EDIBLE OR POISONOUS?

FEAR OF FLYING SAVES LIVES.

T RY L I V I N G W I T H H U M A N S F I R S T.

When solo climbing, tell someone where you’re going and take a sharp knife.

WHERE AM I A N D W H E R E ’S THE CLOSEST TOILET? Navigation wasn’t always via an app: how help finding your way has changed

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STARS Even in the Stone Age, people looked out for Ursa Major and the North Star.

COMPASS Pointing south for the directionally curious in China for a millennium.

SEXTANT Invented over 250 years ago, its mirror-and-scope method is still used at sea.

GPS Since 1995, 24 satellites have pinpointed you, as long as your battery isn’t flat.

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Real-life natural disaster movies

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Your next holiday: a treehouse Mankind came from trees and now we’re returning to them Gone are the days when boltholes in treetops were for children only. Now tourists holidaying in forests will find tailor-timbered restaurants and designer hotels in the branches of huge trees.

It makes for a very special vacation experience, but as with most other types of holiday, treehousing can also be enjoyed at a budget level where you carry the accommodation on your back.

New Zealand

The Redwoods Treehouse in Warkworth has space, and cocktailhour facilities, for up to 50 guests.

California

REDWOODSTREEHOUSE, BENJAMIN ARIFF, TENSILE

This treehouse in Venice Beach is very open to the open air and the creatures who dwell therein.

Anywhere

The Tentsile Tree Tent hovers between trees and makes you feel like you’re sleeping in a UFO. tentsile.com

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Attract them using insects, blood or vomit.

Catch them on a hook fashioned from a sharpened twig.

Save the guts as new bait. Beware fish that don’t look like fish.

A ‘delicious’ coffee replacement. Wash roots of soil; roast until they are dark brown; boil for 15 about minutes. They contain eight times the vitamin C of lettuce.

You won’t die, but your kidneys will suffer. In 1994, Mauro Prosperi got lost in the desert on the Marathon des Sables and survived after eight days of self-hydration.

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SNAKES

Avoid anything that has scales, is hairy or very colourful and the critters that smell, bite or sting. Catch them in the daytime as they crawl about. Swallow them raw or fry them.

The soft bit under the bark of many trees – types of pine, maple and spruce, for example – can be boiled until soft, then scoffed.

Contains sugar, starch and trace minerals.

All snakes are edible and taste like chicken.

Trap one by the head with a two-pronged stick. Then cut its head off. Remove the skin, season and then roast over a fire. Easy.

“ Moth larvae taste like pistachios when you roast them”

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THIS IS HOW IT IS FOR LENNY KRAVITZ: JUST TURNED 50, 10TH ALBUM READY TO GO, WINNING PARTS IN HOLLYWOOD HITS. IT HASN’T BEEN EASY, BUT HE’S FOUND THE SECRET TO BEING COOL AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

PHOTOGRAPHY: MARK SELIGER PRODUCER: JOSEF SIEGLE WORDS: BRANDON PERKINS

Kravitz is the only musician to have won the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance Grammy four years running

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L “I GO TO THE BAHAMAS ON A QUIET ISLAND AND MAKE MY MUSIC IN THE BUSHES”

enny Kravitz’s music has been pumped into shopping malls and played on MOR radio for two-and-a-half decades.

While it’s been a financial boon for the long-time rocker, the forced and repeated listenings have had another, less pleasant impact. His music has been so omnipresent for so long that it almost devalues his success.

Even though some of Kravitz’s songs have become ubiquitous, he is still one of the great rock ’n’ roll artists of the his era.

Many of his biggest hits were released at a time when hip-hop was taking off and when people were lining up to sound the death knell of rock music, but Kravitz has defied the critics, releasing an album roughly every three years and selling in the region of 40 million records in the process. Kravitz has staying power; he’s a larger-than-life iconic presence front of stage riffing on his Gibson Flying V guitar, and his look – first with those dreads, then that ’fro; those tats – has always been the epitome of rock ’n’ roll cool.

The musical landscape has changed significantly since the release of his debut album, Let Love Rule, in 1989. Yet his process has stayed much the same. He recorded Strut, his 10th full-length LP, in just two weeks, mostly by himself.

“I tend to go away. I go to the Bahamas on a quiet island and make my music in the bushes,” he says sitting in a rooftop 31

lounge in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Sliding glass doors keep the stifling summer heat at bay, haze and condensation blocking a stunning view of the Hudson River. “I did fly down string players and there’s three background singers on the album, as well, and my horn players. But otherwise it’s just me playing guitar, bass, drums and keyboard, plus my guitarist Craig Ross, who’s been with me for years. For the most part, it’s just the two of us in the studio.”

The Bahamas is where those catchy power chords from Fly Away came to Kravitz, driving his Jeep one day in the late 1990s. Many of his songs just come to him like that. The classic Are You Gonna Go My Way was written by him and Ross “in five minutes”, while Again was a Kravitz-only quick composition, a song which led him to win the third of a record four consecutive Grammy awards for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance in 1999.

(The other Grammies came in 1998, 1999 and 2000 for Fly Away, American Woman and Dig In, respectively.)

Kravitz got the title of his latest album from something his grandmother was fond of saying: “Strut your stuff, baby, you look great” was shortened to become Strut. Strutting is what Kravitz is doing a lot of during his photoshoot for The Red Bulletin. After each round of shots, he steps out from in front of the lens – paying no attention to the stylist picking at his hair – to glance at the mobile monitor and debates the images with acclaimed photographer Mark Seliger. But although it would be easy to dismiss Kravitz’s need to approve every photo as a narcissistic by-product of fame, looks do matter when you’re as big a name in rock as he is.

Kravitz sounds like a true pro during his conversations with Seliger. Words like “composition” and “contrast”, “movement” and “pop” pepper the dialogue. It’s not showy empty rhetoric.

Kravitz really knows his stuff. The two have been friends for years and have worked together on many photoshoots.

They also collaborated on a 2001 photo book showing Kravitz on the road and with his family as well as in posed settings.

More recently, another book has been the focus of Kravitz’s attention.

He has been working on Lenny Kravitz, a career-spanning coffee table book that showcases his work with some of the top names in fashion and art photography, plus an extra feature in which Kravitz is interviewed by Pharrell Williams.

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o a modern celebrity, the cultivation of an appropriate image is an ongoing battle, and one that Kravitz takes seriously. “I want to look decent in a photo, of course, but for me, when the composition – or as I like to call it, the architecture of the photograph – is right, that’s what gets me excited,” he says.

“You can take 100 pictures of someone standing there and it’s just boring. I want to see movement. I want to see design.”

Kravitz’s renaissance man status has also seen him establish a successful acting career. Apart from playing himself in films like Zoolander, his recent credits include a role in the Oscarwinning movie Precious, a recurring role in the billion-dollar-earning Hunger Games series and The Butler, a movie which made Barack Obama “tear up”. That’s not a bad run of films.

In The Butler, Kravitz appeared alongside a long list of actors, including Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding Jr, Alan Rickman, Mariah Carey, John Cusack and Robin Williams. He admits that working with a large team on a movie set provides a refreshing break from the smaller scale approach he takes when recording an album in a studio.

“When I’m in the recording studio, it’s just me. It’s my thing, my music, my production, whatever I want to do is me,

me, me, me, me,” says Kravitz. “That’s the way it is, but then to be able to get together with a group of different people and serve somebody else, serve a character, serve a director – I like that a lot. It just takes me away from myself.”

It’s clear that Kravitz has got a good idea about what works and doesn’t work from a visual perspective. In 2003 he established his interior design company, Kravitz Design Inc, which now includes Swarovski Crystal among its list of high-profile clients. He isn’t afraid to take a risk in his core business endeavours, and recently decided to go it alone in the music industry after spending much of his career putting out records under major record labels.

Strut will be released on Kravitz’s own label, named Roxie Records after his late mother, actress Roxie Roker.

The label is an imprint of Kobalt Label Services (KLS), which has set itself apart from the major players by adopting a simple model that allows artists to retain the rights to their music.

Basically, KLS will just distribute the music and then issue the royalties.

Kravitz was never clueless to the details that comprised the currency around his art, but after 20 years with Virgin Records, his last album, 2011’s Black And White America, was released through Atlantic Records, and heightened his involvement with the nuts and bolts of selling music. His frustration over the situation is still palatable three years later. “That was the biggest mistake of my musical life,” he says. “It was horrible.

They just f––ked me. It was bad. They don’t have the money they used to have, everybody’s job is on the line. One day this person is running it; two weeks later it’s someone else, but they let me down. They led me to believe things were a certain way and they weren’t.”

That Kravitz was able to take control of his career is as much to do with those 40 million records sold than anything else.

How different his life would have been without that breakthrough hit 23 years ago.

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“WE’RE ALL FREAKS. NOBODY IS NORMAL. EMBRACE WHO YOU ARE AND LIVE IT”

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is career-defining song is It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over. It is also notable for revealing a very specific moment in Kravitz’s personal life. He wrote it as his marriage to Cosby Show star Lisa Bonet was falling apart.

It’s a song he wrote about the reluctant eradication of young love, one that just happened to play out in the public eye.

While the celebrity machine was nowhere near the feeding frenzy of today, the couple’s break-up was indeed played out in the tabloids. When Kravitz sings “So many tears I’ve cried/So much pain inside,” it’s hard not to picture the young couple – Lenny with his shoulder-length dreads, Lisa in her flat-topped hat – sitting on a couch at 3am exhausted from their efforts to make their love work.

“It was truly the most definitive song when dealing with my break-up at that time – yet it was up, it was hopeful,” he explains. “It’s one of those songs that in your career, you get certain ones that are just like – ka-blam. That’s one of them… and I knew it when I wrote it.”

It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over was a hit worldwide and still features highly on radio playlists today. It’s such a monumental track that many people assume it’s a cover from Smokey Robinson’s day. “What that’s saying is that they thought it was a classic,” Kravitz says, delivering his biggest smile of the day, “it just happens to be my classic.”

The Chamber, lead single from Strut, is another catchy combination of upbeat funk and bluesy rock ’n’ roll. There’s a little disco in there, complete with a Heart Of Glass reference. But as an older man who’s been through the wringer a few times, Kravitz better balances the muses in his life with a quieter existence.

While the lyrics of The Chamber feel specific to a particular love gone awry, this time around, there is no pretty face to pin the problem on. However, even as he’s better prepared to keep his personal life out of the public sphere than during the days of young love with Bonet or a decade later when he was engaged to Victoria’s Secret model Adriana Lima, he still wakes up as Lenny Kravitz – inspiring lustful awe in millions of women.

“I’m always taken aback by that whole thing,” says Kravitz. “I don’t think about it at all. I’m just trying to get up and get going and deal with my life.

I think about the thing – the art – not the effect of me being out in the public eye. We’re all freaks. Nobody is normal.

Embrace who you are and live it.”

By that Kravitz is actually embracing his grandmother’s sentiment which inspired the title of his new record.

Strut your stuff, baby.

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Location: Mark Seliger Studio, New York City

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ll he wanted to do was breathe. A taste of air would have been like the sun on his face for a thousand years. But at that moment breathing was the last thing he could do. He heard the voice of his diving instructor, calm and supportive, pushing him towards his goal.

“You’re almost to the surface,” said the instructor reassuringly. “Relax and stay calm.” He began a countdown.

15…14…13…

But Jimmy ‘DeMoN’ Ho couldn’t hear him. The words blurred and dissolved into thin air. The very air he craved.

12…11…10…

As the countdown stretched for an eternity, Ho struggled. His body convulsed, his diaphragm ached, he puffed out his cheeks. This was hell.

9…8…7…

“You’re almost there,” the instructor urged. “You’re about to break through.”

Ho’s face was beetroot red. He wasn’t going to make it.

Then the air trapped in his lungs for nearly two minutes came bursting

Jimmy ‘DeMoN’ Ho is one of the top eSports competitors in the world, a multiple champion at DotA 2. His usual environ is to the right – with masses of fans online watching him play at a tournament. But he believes that pushing his physical and mental limits can invigorate his game.

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The Red Bull High Performance Camp is in its second year and is run by 46-yearold former Canadian diving pro-turnedinstructor Kirk Krack. This year’s talented group has amassed nearly 30 X Games and Olympic medals between them and included motorsport champion Travis Pastrana, Ironman Matt Poole and freeskiers Dara Howell and Bobby Brown.

“Our goal is to teach athletes how to manage stress, whether it’s real or imagined,” Krack says. “A leaky mask is real; sharks closing in on you is imagined – yet both create stress.”

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ike a lot of kids, when he was younger Ho had a casual interest in video games. Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario Kart were typical afterschool pastimes. The second oldest of five children, his father Ronald, a mechanical engineer, and mother Lisa, who works in a nail salon, encouraged him to get involved in sports.

“But honestly I sucked,” says Ho. “My parents forced me and my brother to play soccer, but I didn’t enjoy it.”

Then in 2003, when he was 13, his brother introduced him to the WarCraft 3 custom mod Defense of the Ancients, an online multiplayer war game.

His skill level increased over several years, and he began attracting sponsors who would supply him with headsets, keyboards and other equipment. The fledgling eSports industry was beginning to take shape, and Ho managed to pull in a few hundred dollars a month.

With his cherubic face and quiet demeanour, the softly spoken 24-year-old introvert could still be mistaken for a high school student. But those are days he’d like to forget. His time at Ayala High School in Chino Hills, California, was littered with poor grades, suspensions, angst and the torment of being bullied.

DotA became his salvation. Looking for a way to deal with life, he would play for up to 14 hours a day. After a year of almost complete isolation, Ho emerged.

He had made incredible strides in DotA, attracting the attention of fans and sponsors worldwide with his late-night displays of brilliance, but his health and relationships had suffered.

“Some of my friends actually thought I was dead,” Ho recalls.

The ones who reconnected with the teenager saw a ghost of his former self.

He was pale and gaunt. At 5ft 8in, he weighed barely 100lb (7st).

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forth with a violent, primal gush. His exasperated exhalation was wrapped in a frustrated scream. He hadn’t made it to the surface. He had failed.

He sat up on the soft carpet in the small air-conditioned conference room of the Royal Kona Resort in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, his chest heaving. Better his failures happen here than the next day when he was in the 30m-deep bay armed only with a wetsuit, snorkel and his determination to survive.

This was Ho’s introduction to freediving, a form of underwater diving that relies on a diver’s ability to hold his or her breath until resurfacing rather than on the use of a breathing apparatus. For five days in early August, the professional video gamer had joined seven action sports athletes for a training camp in Hawaii. It was designed to throw athletes out of their comfort zone in order to sharpen their focus, determination and mental acuity.

The rest of Ho’s classmates successfully completed the practice drill, but he wore a look of frustration.

It had been a tough few months for him. At the Defense of the Ancients 2 Championships in July, his team had finished ninth, earning only US$50,000, compared with the US$500,000 they would have earned if they had finished one place higher. His confidence had taken a beating, and now – at the camp where he was hoping to rebuild it by pushing his limits – he discovered he was flailing.

It was a primal reaction, he was afraid of his vast new oceanic nemesis.

“It’s about facing your fear and conquering it,” says Ho. “You can’t let fear win.”

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At the Red Bull High Performance Camp in Kona, Ho struggled to master the freediving technique

to the online streaming service Twitch to show his DotA practice sessions. He could have as many as 8,000 viewers who will beg for marathon sessions late into the night.

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FREEDIVING WAS TO HELP HIM MANAGE STRESS he gained 30lb of muscle and, as his physical confidence increased, this led to greater eSports achievements. In 2011, the launch of DotA 2 was announced with a spectacular US$1.6 million tournament.

“My dad thought it was bullshit,” Ho says. But as a member of the team Meet Your Makers, he finished fifth. When he showed his father a bank statement for US$16,000, his share of the loot, Ronald beamed. He saw it as a sign of maturity when his son began paying his own car insurance and mobile phone bills.

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ow Ho has learned to organise his time between gaming and training. He gets up at 8am on weekdays and practises DotA until 1pm. Then he’ll have a quick nap before hitting his local gym for a two-hour session starting at 4pm. On the way home, he stops to buy food for his night ahead. At around 10pm, he jumps on 40

ealing with the whims of the ocean was a different matter. In the daily classroom sessions in Hawaii, the athletes studied the physiological changes depth has on the body. But Ho was struggling with more practical things.

He was having trouble mastering his snorkel and was preoccupied with the embarrassment that he might have to call out for help. Krack had trouble getting Ho to let go of the flotation device. When Ho began to have a panic attack, he couldn’t control his heart rate, an essential element for a smooth dive.

“It was bad,” Krack says. “We all felt horrible for him.”

The incessant chop of waves wasn’t helping. Ho gagged on the salty water.

He headed back to the ship and didn’t attempt a dive. Vomiting on the boat slammed his confidence even further.

At dinner that night the rest of the campers laughed as they recounted triumphs from the day’s outing.

“Everyone was having so much fun,” Ho says. “Why wasn’t I?” He went back to his room and threw up again, the ache in his belly exceeded only by the one in his heart. How would he get through this?

Then something happened: the rest of the campers rallied around him.

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n the last day of camp the water was so blue it glowed. It was paradise. In this place fear did not belong and Ho knew it.

He was the first camper to put on his wetsuit and get into the water. First, he set himself a goal of 6m. His head disappeared below the surface and reemerged nearly 40 seconds later. Next he hit 8m. He pumped his fist, his confidence soaring. Pastrana shouted encouragement as he bobbed in the water. The support was contagious.

“Way to go, Jimmy!” boomed Poole.

By the end of the day he had reached a depth of 21m. Back on the boat he exhaled freely, his fear and doubt vanquished to the depths of the mighty blue abyss, the sensation was like none he’d ever had before. He stared ahead, his lips forming into a small but subtle smile of sweet triumph.

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PEKING DUK

Living the dream

Can two former rap and rock nerds become the next big EDM superstars?

Words: Tom Goldson

Super-producers at the very top of their game share rare air with the likes of Calvin Harris, Skrillex, Avicii and Zedd, rainmakers who hold the most sway, move the biggest crowds and command the highest fees. To say that stadium rave is booming is a huge understatement: EDM rules, OK, and those at the top of its food chain reign unchallenged.

Peking Duk, the studiously scruffy Canberra, Australia production duo, haven’t officially released a record in the United States. Their electro-infused house music fills raucous club nights, not international arenas. Reuben Styles and Adam Hyde are in a different weight class to EDM’s heavyweights, but they’re punching above their weight, with all the tools to be champions.

The partnership has its roots at Canberra’s Dixon College, where Styles and Hyde cemented a mateship over rap and rock (Styles aimed diss tracks at other high schools as part of a rap crew, Chronic Crusaders; Hyde made noise around the neighbourhood in a band called Rubicon). A mixtape provided their dance music epiphany.

“A mate of ours gave it to us and it was full of fidget house,” says Hyde.

“It had all this trippy electro from Fake Blood, Crookers and The Bloody Beetroots, and we were hooked.”

“All we knew about was [house DJ] Ian Carey and the big pop tunes on the radio,” Styles admits. “That’s what we thought dance music was at the time. After we heard the mixtape, we’d be hanging with our mates while they were drinking and playing Street Fighter, but we’d be on a laptop trying to clock programmes like Ableton and Reason. Mucking around with software became our video game.”

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As they took their first tentative steps onto the dancefloor with a self-produced batch of what Styles calls “very dirty electro tracks”, they already had their sights on radio play, taking inspiration from The Aston Shuffle, the Canberra house duo who had tracks synched on Ministry of Sound compilations and hosted their own show, Friday Night Shuffle, on taste-making Aussie network triple j.

“It was like, they’re just dudes from Canberra and this is happening to them,” Styles recalls. “We’ve got a shot too.”

“A lot of people want to be super-cool and hold back, but we’re definitely about making it a party” Named Peking Duk, a reference to gurning, duck-billed clubbers who’ve overindulged, Styles and Hyde chalked their first win when they passed on demos to local club promoter Hugh Foster. He duly shopped the four-track release, which was snapped up by Melbourne dance stalwarts Vicious Recordings.

With their first deal inked, Peking Duk put in the hours to build up an arsenal of tunes, getting by on café jobs and mi goreng noodles. With six months of studio time under their belts, they emerged with a swag of grungy electro cuts. When one of those tracks, The Way You Are, was given a spot on triple j’s allimportant A-rotate, Duk season was open.

“We were like, whoa, now this is crossing over to people who aren’t just club

rats,” says Styles. “Then we’d seal the deal by bringing a loose, sweaty vibe to shows we started picking up. A lot of people want to be super-cool and hold back, but we’re definitely about making it a party.”

With the winds of mainstream buzz under Peking Duk’s wings, they missed a couple of rungs on the career ladder by getting gigs in America, without any of their electro house-powered tracks, like Mufasa, High or Feels Like, getting an official release in EDM’s most important and elusive market.

“The success we’ve had there is all down to the power of the internet and [blog aggregator] Hype Machine,” says Styles. “The majority of our SoundCloud spins came from the States, and that told us we were making noise there. And it hasn’t just been spots like LA or Vegas.

We’d find ourselves in the middle of nowhere and they’d be saying, ‘Play the Ben Howard remix [of Old Pine], make sure you spin this song.’ How have we made it to East Lansing, Michigan?

How on earth do they know we exist?”

These Canberran good blokes better get used to their tracks having legs. As they ready a move to Los Angeles, from where they’ll roll out their US record campaign, Peking Duk are retooling with festival-ready bangers. They’re not shy about calling shots on what their next tour of duty will bring.

“We are big dreamers,” says Hyde, “so let’s just say the next time we go to the States we are going hopefully to…” “… fill arenas and stadiums, play Coachella!” says Styles, finishing the sentence. “Once America catches on to what we’re doing, we’ll be ready to take the rest of the world.” pekingduk.com THE RED BULLETIN

The line-up Adam Hyde – producer Reuben Styles – producer Discography (all singles) Mufasa, High – 2014 You Are Like Nobody Else, Feels Like – 2013 I Love To Rap, The Way You Are – 2012 Bingo Trippin, Welcome – 2011 The jives of others Peking Duk have already clocked an impressive catalogue of remixes, reworking tracks from the likes of Passion Pit, Porter Robinson, Dem Slackers and Fitz and The Tantrums.

JESSIE WARE

Second Coming

Her soul-pop debut was a global smash. Now Jessie Ware is back with a new album having learned important lessons: Michael Jackson’s tricks of the trade, how to sound like a seal and the perils of wolf-whistling Words: Ruth Morgan Photography: Maria Ziegelböck

Big names crop up in conversation with Jessie Ware. The British singer’s many showbiz encounters include being namechecked by Solange Knowles, having Russell Crowe tweet her then turn up at one of her gigs and being invited backstage for an admiring hug from Katy Perry. Not that Ware likes to brag: quite the opposite.

She’s comically self-deprecating as only someone as gorgeous as her, with her perfectly groomed eyebrows and infectious smile, can get away with being.

“I’ve got foot-in-mouth syndrome,” she says in an accent that’s equal parts private schooling and her south London roots. “I’ve got verbal diarrhoea.

Whenever I meet someone well-known I make an absolute fool of myself one way or another. I met Chance The Rapper, who I’d actually love to work with. I was watching singer Sam Smith from the side of the stage, wolf-whistling.

Chance leaned over and introduced himself, and went to shake my hand.

I went ‘Don’t touch that hand because it’s got loads of spit on it.’ He just looked at me like ‘Who is this girl, and why does she have a spitty hand?’”

Ware is still getting used to the fame that followed the release of her 2012 debut album Devotion, a collection of sophisticated down-tempo, soul-pop. It was her first solo effort after hitting the mainstream in 2011 with vocals on EDM hits for London producer SBTRKT and fellow singer/ songwriter Sampha, and its accessible mix of love songs laced with a dance aesthetic was an instant hit with public and critics. Then came numerous highprofile award nominations in the UK, and the raft of A-list fans. Not bad for someone who never wanted to be a pop star.

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“I was going to be either a social worker, a journalist or a family solicitor,” Ware says, curled up on a large leather sofa at Red Bull Studios London, where she recorded her first album, and a lot of the forthcoming follow-up, Tough Love. “I tried journalism for a bit, then I worked at a solicitors’ office.” But instead she became the child who dreamt of normality and got stardom. Her break came via UK singer Jack Peñate with whom she attended a London pro-arts independent school, with alumni including Jude Law and Florence Welch. “I’d never had the

“I didn’t have that hunger for it to be ‘me, me, me’, I really just loved singing on stage” guts to make a go of singing on my own,” Ware says. “But when Jack asked if I’d sing backing vocals for him on his tour, I said yes straight away. I didn’t have that hunger for it to be ‘me, me, me’, I really just loved singing on stage. It was when I was singing these big belty bits and people were cheering me and enjoying it, that I thought ‘Maybe if I had my own song…’ That was when I started to think it could be possible to make it as a solo artist.”

At 29, Ware has completed the metamorphosis from backing singer to main attraction. Today she’s looking stylish in red Prada wedges, tailored black trousers and an oversized navy shirt.

Her dark brown hair is pulled up casually into her trademark bun, showing off

a pair of small gold hoop earrings. Now that she’s finished Tough Love – a record made with the help of an eclectic array of artists, including British songwriterof-the-moment Ed Sheeran, hit-making production heavyweights BenZel and R&B superstar-in-the-making Miguel – it’s clear Ware is feeling more self-assured than she did the first time around. “There’s something really nice about knowing some of your peers like what you’re doing,” she says. “It’s opened up all sorts of options, which is so lucky. There are loads of great people in the mix. It feels like I’ve joined the music club. It validates you, makes you feel like you belong.”

Though contrasting talents contributed to its making, album number two doesn’t depart drastically from Ware’s signature sound. But it’s clear her increased confidence has extended to her vocal. On title track and first single Tough Love, a beautiful Prince-esque BenZel production, she experiments, pushing herself an octave out of her comfort zone. “I haven’t done any of the performing yet,” she says. “I’m really excited about it, but a bit scared too, as I’ve chosen a few songs that are very high. Tough Love is quite impossible to sing. On a good day I can manage it in the shower.” But, thanks to those who have trodden a similar path, Ware has a solution.

“I blatantly won’t perform it live in the same octave,” she says. “It will still be high, but I’ll sound more like a seal than a dolphin. I won’t feel bad, as Michael Jackson didn’t do his live stuff in the same octave. Neither did Hanson, though I think that was because their voices broke.”

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Discography Tough Love – 2014 Devotion – 2012 Best bites Ware is addicted to savoury British spread Marmite.

“When I tell people abroad that it’s salty yeast extract full of B12, they think it sounds disgusting. Nobody outside the UK really gets it.”

Future sounds Ware loves musicals such as Guys And Dolls, and would love to do a big band musical album, “though I don’t think my manager will let me do it until I’m about 40.”

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Brandon Semenuk comes from Whistler in British Columbia, Canada, a world capital of action sports. He first rode a cross-country mountain bike when he was six years old and soon discovered the delights of downhill and freestyle. He puts his reputation as a child prodigy down to his revolutionary riding style.

In 2008, when still just a 17-year-old rookie, he took victory at Red Bull Rampage, a prestigious event on the international big mountain freeriding calendar that unfolds in the unforgiving terrain of Virgin, Utah, USA. Since then, he has regularly won more coveted dirt jump, slopestyle and freeride titles. After the success of his YouTube series, Life Behind Bars, he spent a year making an ambitious full-length mountain biking film, Brandon Semenuk’s Rad Company.

U TA H , U S A Rad Company showcases the talents of a group of remarkably skilled riders, including Cam Zink, Cameron McCaul and Stevie Smith. They’re notable for their array of competition wins and the incredible manoeuvres they pull off. One of Zink’s records is for the biggest backflip, which included a 26m drop. Semenuk matched each rider with the most suitable location for his talents. In Utah, he showed what he was made of.

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Semenuk’s ability on the bike is matched by his way with a mountain bike course.

A standard slopestyle track prepared for competition has dirt jumps, ramps and drops.

After the Rad Company crew roll in, such a place ends up looking like a junkyard. Stunts become XXL in scale; approaches and landings are perfect; unusual components, such as old logging equipment, become integral to the course – and the resulting footage shot there. Riders were given a week to practise on Semenuk’s creations. Filming would turn out to be as tough as anything they had experienced. No one came away unscathed.

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“SHOWING THE FANS THE MOST PROGRESSIVE SIDE OF MOUNTAIN BIKING IS WHAT THIS FILM IS ALL ABOUT”

NA DI, F I J I The production team had an arsenal of highend cameras that would not be out of place on a Hollywood film set. Not a single moment was missed; every move was captured from multiple perspectives. Drones, Steadicams and cable cams – remote-controlled cameras strung on steel cable systems – were also employed. The crowning glory was the use of an HD camera system installed on a helicopter, to get incredible aerial shots.

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Episodes in the second season of Life Behind Bars, Semenuk’s successful YouTube series, are devoted to the making of Rad Company.

They show the extent of planning required for even the simplest shot. Lighting and electrical rigging were transported through rough terrain on foot. Weather was observed weeks in advance to find optimum filming conditions. On the other hand, rain systems were installed in the middle of forests. Before all that, months of work with excavators and shovels was needed to create perfect trails.

“THIS FILM WAS AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF WORK IN AN INCREDIBLY INTENSE YEAR. BUT WHEN YOU SEE THE RESULTS, IT WAS WORTH IT”

LOUIS BAKER

Gat’s the way to do it

How a Newtown boy forged by metal became a soul sensation Words: Tom Goldson Photography: Sara Orme

“Honestly, so much has been happening to me, man, it’s hard to recap in my own brain. I forget so much.” Louis Baker sounds a little weary as he retrieves the blurry details of his latest tour, which showcased his rich, resonant acoustic soul to audiences in Byron Bay, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Budapest. You can’t blame the young Wellington troubadour for taking a moment to reassemble the pieces of his year; 2014 has undoubtedly been his biggest yet, with a debut EP release, a 7-inch vinyl offering and a continent-leaping schedule.

Born and raised in Newtown, Baker’s formative listening experiences are etched in the grooves of his parents’ record collection, a challenging catalogue of bebop jazz, Indian raga and Japanese koto music. Those sounds would all inform Baker’s education, along with a curriculum of influences that converged in soul, but it would be the darker musical arts that pushed the budding guitar student towards six-string mastery.

On Friday, April 19, 2002, a 12-yearold Baker underwent a conversion when he saw Los Angeles art metal outfit Tool bring their high-concept riffery to Wellington’s Queens Wharf Centre. The concert served as his gateway drug to metal, and a fulltime commitment to the guitar.

“After that night, it was graft time,” recalls Baker, now 25. “I wanted to be [Metallica lead guitarist] Kirk Hammett.

I just wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. I learnt Eruption

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freeing the teenage axe-slinger to embrace bluesmen like Robert Johnson, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Memphis Slim, Baker’s dedication to the gat did not diminish. He migrated from bedroom shred sessions to 12-bar blues, to 1960s r&b, to soul and jazz, accenting each new direction in sound with a voice that can register as an intimate croon or soar to dizzying heights. By the time he graduated from Wellington Jazz School, his evolution was complete.

After nearly a decade-and-a-half consolidating his influences and honing

“I’m always searching for that beautiful moment on stage when time stands still” his songwriting skills, in March this year Baker released his debut EP, a self-titled effort recorded with Breaks Co-op frontman Andy Lovegrove at Snap Studios in London. An additional track, The Way, was recorded with engineer Erik Breuer at the 2013 Red Bull Music Academy held in New York.

Baker’s Academy connection wasn’t to end in NYC. In June this year, he returned to the UK, where he won over new fans on the Red Bull Music Academy stage at Field Day, the music festival that takes over London’s Victoria Park. The line-up was stacked with names like Blood Orange, Future Islands and Danny Brown, but Baker was there for business, not pleasure.

“There was so much music I wanted to hear, but I was off meeting bookers and promoters and other artists,” he says.

“I was basically maximising the time that I had there so I can put down roots.”

Five days of peddling his soul wares in London was followed by a stint in Barcelona, where he showcased cuts from his EP on another Red Bull Music Academy stage, at Sonar, the progressive electronic music festival that has embraced fellow Kiwis Fat Freddy’s Drop and Electric Wire Hustle.

“The stage was in this massive bright blue tent, with high ceilings and really good sound on stage,” says Baker. “Most people were doing house or very electronic vibes, so seeing an acoustic guitar and voice dude on stage was a bit out of the ordinary. But the response was really positive and I think I made a really nice connection.

Everyone I talked to really dug it.”

Further shows in Scotland and Hungary led to more new supporters, label contacts and potential tour managers. Baker is keeping quiet on the specifics of his gameplan, but his recollection of that late afternoon Sonar set is a good pointer to his export strategy – make an intimate connection with music lovers around the world, one soul-baring performance at a time.

“I got into music because I wanted people to feel more connected,” he says.

“I’m always searching for that beautiful moment when time stands still, because you’re so transfixed by what’s happening on stage. Even if it’s just for the briefest moment, that’s where I’m going to keep trying to get to with my music.” louisbaker.co.nz THE RED BULLETIN

The line-up Louis Baker – singer, songwriter, guitarist Discography Louis Baker – EP, 2014 Bat to the Gat At school, Baker was a keen cricketer who was marked out for big things.

Music took the lead, but he remains a CrossFit enthusiast and dedicated armchair sportsman.

FROM CONSOLE Jann Mardenborough: from video-game whizz to pro racing driver

TO COCKPIT FOUR RACING DRIVERS WHO GOT THEIR BREAK WINNING A GRAN TURISMO CONTEST FOUND THEMSELVES ON OPPOSING TEAMS AT THIS YEAR’S LE MANS 24-HOUR RACE: FROM UP ALL NIGHT GAMING TO UP ALL NIGHT AT ONE OF THE TOUGHEST CHALLENGES IN MOTORSPORT Words: PIERRE-HENRI CAMY Photography: GREG FUNNELL

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NOTHING BETTER TO DO In 2008, Nissan and Sony decided that they would try and make the gamers who were best at Gran Turismo, a beloved motor-racing simulation video game on PlayStation and PlayStation 2, into real-life racing drivers. An online selection system produced national champions across Europe who then went to England for a week-long final, an intense race camp of physical training and driving sessions in the simulator and on the track at Silverstone. The chosen one would then follow 62

an intensive driving programme under the watchful eye of Nismo, Nissan’s performance motorsport division.

After that it would be competitive motorsport, in the GP3 category, for example, where Mardenborough is currently competing; Shulzhitskiy, Ordonez and Reip also race professionally. A dazzling transition from the virtual to the real world. As the Englishman prepares to take part in the drivers’ parade through the streets of the city of Le Mans on the eve of the 24 Hours, he recalls his former life. “I got into GT Academy in February 2011.

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Alex Brundle (left) is the son of former F1 driver Martin Brundle, but his co-drivers come from a world of virtual motorsport

Off the track at Le Mans, the campsites abutting the circuit are full of all kinds of fans

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Tension mounts in the Oak Racing garage as their car drops back through the field

The ZEOD RC does a complete lap in electric mode: quite an achievement for an experimental car

I was an average student at the time. My mates were travelling to Australia, to the States. I was at home playing my PlayStation and I was happy. I started competing online because I had nothing better to do.”

SPACESHIP At 3pm, Ordonez’s teammate, Wolfie Reip, is starting his first Le Mans at the wheel of the ZEOD RC. This vehicle, which would be at home in a 1970s book about the future, is taking its time to come back past the stands opposite the pit wall, where some spectators have put up hammocks. Unfortunately, those fans will not have long to watch this spaceship of a car in action before it has to be retired with gearbox failure just 25 minutes into the race. But Le Mans was still an achievement for the ZEOD RC, as it clocked 300kph in qualifying. During the warm-up, Reip drove one complete lap with the car in full, silent electric mode.

Ordonez remains positive, despite being deprived of a race, and is proud of his co-driver. “Wolfie made history by driving a complete lap with the car in electric mode. That’s great news for everyone in the team, the mechanics... Ooh! Did you see that?! That guy almost killed himself!” The Spaniard is talking without taking his eyes off the broadcast screens; the circuit is suddenly struck by heavy rainfall and one car almost leaves the track while attempting to overtake another. Crashes and retirements are common when the rain hits Le Mans.

In the Oak Racing garage, there is no such disappointment, but as the lap counter ticks over, the pressure on the mechanics increases. There are only rare moments of downtime during the 1,440 minutes of the race. It’s all about waiting, then bursts of action, then more waiting, and yet more bursts of action. Despite this, or because of it, the men who work in the shadows are doing a fine job. They act with precision every time there is a change of driver or tyre or every time they refuel.

Russia’s Mark The car impresses with its consistency lap after lap.

Shulzhitskiy conquered this year's Le Mans.

Two years earlier he was a student Eight hours into the race, night falls and everything and had never changes. Drivers have to be twice as cautious, but raced a car excitement increases in the campsites around the

STAYING STRONG

" W HEN YOU CAN DO 300KPH ON THE MULSANNE STRAIGHT AT NIGHT WITH NO CARS AHEAD OR BEHIND YOU, THAT'S REALLY COOL" JANN MARDENBOROUGH circuit. Some tents are pitched next to Ferraris and muscle cars. At the Alain Prost turn, what looks like a customised removals truck is open at the sides, allowing its occupants to follow the race from bunk beds, 30m from the track wall. At night, cars tend to scrape against the wall more than they do in the daylight.

Another peculiarity of the race is that it welcomes ‘gentlemen drivers’ or amateurs. The actor Patrick Dempsey and singer-songwriter David Hallyday are some of the better-known gentlemen. Mark Shulzhitskiy has an eye out for them. “You have to avoid trouble at Le Mans,” he says, “because there are drivers here who aren’t as experienced as the professionals, and they can do crazy things. You have to drive a solid race without making any stupid mistakes and you have to stay consistent.” The Russian is as good as his word, helping Oak Racing stay in the top three in the LMP2 category for most of the race.

The race is into its 23rd hour and the black-andorange Oak car is now further down the field. There’s a council of war back in the pits. The car comes in, for a long stop. Spark plugs and an ignition coil need to be replaced. Mardenborough, Shulzhitskiy and Alex Brundle have given it their all, but are fifth in their category and ninth overall when the chequered flag flaps in the humid air of Le Mans.

REALLY COOL Audi’s excited fans invade the track and the pit lane to celebrate the German team securing the two top spots on the podium. Shulzhitskiy, the last man to drive the Oak Racing car, walks to the pits to meet with his mechanics and engineers. They are his first line of support, and together they have collaborated closely, defied the clock, bad weather and technology to survive Le Mans. Mardenborough says his favourite memory of the race is “when you can do 300kph on the Mulsanne Straight at night, when there are no cars ahead of or behind you. That’s really cool.” Nismo announces that their Nissan GT-R LM will be put forward for Le Mans in 2015. Will Mardenborough be behind the wheel?

“I have to keep on working hard in GP3 and remain focused on that,” says the talented 23-year-old. His dream, not unrealistic now, is of a career in Formula One. A far cry from pressing Start on a video game. gran-turismo.com

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FALL If watching natural strength from afar appeals after a close encounter with a bull, witnessing the Niagara Falls is one to tick off the bucket list. niagarafalls tourism.com

BULL RIDING UNPREDICTABLE, THRILLING, ONE TONNE OF NERVE-SHREDDING FUN: RODEO IS NOT JUST FOR COWBOYS

The first thing you need to ride a rodeo bull is bravery.

“Bull riding is the most dangerous sport in the world,” says Brandon Moore, a third-generation cowboy who’s been riding professionally for 23 years and who owns Bramer’s Rodeo training school in Ontario, Canada.

“I’ve broken my pelvis, I got my face stepped on and broke my eye socket, pulled my shoulder out, broken both ankles. Injury is inevitable, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.” Once you gain the courage, Moore can teach you the skills and get you on the back of the beast.

“I honestly didn’t know what I was getting myself into,” says Chris Toledo, 23, a medical student and, since his bull-riding experience, a rodeo medic, a task he describes as like working in an emergency room.

He went on a two-day riding course with Moore in May this year. “After learning the ground rules, we went on a mechanical bull to get a feel,” he says. “Four hours after walking in there, I was getting onto my first bull!

“I was only on that bull for four seconds, but they felt like an eternity. It was just me and the bull. Until I got thrown off, then I was suddenly back. There was so much adrenalin pumping, and I saw the bull running towards me. He started attacking my legs until someone grabbed me and A two-day course threw me back into the chutes. Then costs Can$300 / US$270 (NZ$325) I was just grinning. I’d had the most bramersrodeo.com killer thrill. I knew I was hooked.”

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CRAWL Crawl and climb through a world of caves 25m below the surface of Collingwood. Follow the sound of water to find the freshwater spring. adventureseeker tours.com

ADVICE FROM THE INSIDE CORE VALUES “You don’t have to have a lot of strength to do this,” says Brandon Moore. “It’s balance and technique over strength, as no matter how strong you are you’ll never be able to out-muscle a bull. Finesse and a lot of heart are what will keep you on top.”

Saddle up

“If you’re not used to riding an animal with a mind of it’s own, have a few horse-riding lessons before tackling a bull,” says Chris Toledo. “It will psychologically prepare you. You have to accept that you’ll never be totally in control.”

ENTHRAL The Thousand Islands region, an archipelago of 1,864 islands near Lake Ontario, is a SCUBA-diving Mecca, with something for every level of underwaterman. exploco.com

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Down cold: Hong 10 performs his signature Freeze move

Feline good: catinspired Kim HongYeol, alias Hong 10

Animal instinct BREAKDANCING B-BOY CHAMP HONG 10 GETS RIPPED WITHOUT HEAVY WEIGHTS AND MAKES LIKE A SNAKE TO STAY STRONG

Hong 10 works daily to improve the flexibility of his spine and his sense of balance: two sets of 50 reps each of the cat and cobra yoga poses

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“The only weights I use are 0.5kg and 1kg to strengthen my wrists, which come under strain,” says Hong 10. “If you want to take a tip from me, work out daily. You should have attainable goals and don’t put yourself under too much pressure. That’s the best way to avoid injuries.”

COBRA: Lie flat on your stomach with arms and legs in line with your body, forehead touching the floor and palms at chest-height

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“I started dancing when I was 14,” says Kim Hong-Yeol, alias Hong 10. Each of the South Korean’s muscles looks defined and yet he claims that he’s “never lifted any heavy weights in my whole life”. The two-time Red Bull BC One champion (2006, 2013) prefers bodyweight training to develop the strength and power he needs, not least for his signature move, the Hong 10 Freeze; look for it on YouTube.

The 29-year-old starts his daily one-hour workout with press-ups, followed by squats and sit-ups: two sets of 50 reps for each.

Then comes work with light dumbbells (see below). He finishes with what he considers to be the most important element: yoga. “The cat and cobra are the best way to strengthen the lumbar column [lower spine], which we breakdancers put under enormous pressure.”

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OMEGA SEAMASTER Very simple, fiveminute start display mode using the Regatta Indicator on the minute sub-dial

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of countdown can be set simply and flexibly and, equally importantly, it can also show the time left until the final fiveminute countdown at various regattas. A touch of the orange push-start at four o’clock is all you need to set the countdown. Once that time is up, the chronograph just carries on, thus becoming the stopwatch for the race itself. To stop timing, press the push-start at eight o’clock to reset both chronograph hands to zero. If pressed while the hands are still moving, it automatically activates a function known as Flyback, which allows you to set a new time interval without having to use the stop or reset buttons.

ROLEX YACHT-MASTER Aligning the bezel, the push-start at four o’clock and the crown sets a countdown of up to 10 minutes

ALPINA ­ YACHT TIMER A 10-minute countdown is preset; the word ‘start’ is illuminated in bright red in the final 60 seconds

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BARCELONA MOTORBIKE ACE DANI PEDROSA GETS REVVED UP BY HIS FAVOURITE CITY “What is it that makes Barcelona different from other cities? People here just don’t seem to get hectic,” says Spanish MotoGP star Dani Pedrosa, a man in a long-term love affair with the Catalan capital. “People even stay calm and relaxed when the traffic gets really bad. The same goes for the day-to-day: little shops shut down for a three-hour siesta in the afternoon and no one has dinner before 10pm. And while we’re on the subject of food, try the small, inconspicuous places that locals go to. The paella will be cheaper and just as good as on the beachfront at Barceloneta. One tip for drivers and motorbike riders: for the most part, the streets are laid out in a grid system, so there’s no problem getting from A to B. This place isn’t just relaxed. It’s user-friendly, too.”

Its surrounding mountains are mountain-bike paradise. Fantastic forest trails lead down from the top of the tallest, Tibidabo, back toward the city. singletracks.com

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1 W BARCELONA Plaça de la Rosa dels Vents, 1 “A five-star hotel with the stylish Eclipse Bar on the 26th floor.

As well as the excellent array of cocktails, there’s also a great view of Barceloneta. But be warned: there’s a dress code.”

2 LA RAMBLA PROMENADE Plaça de Catalunya to the port “Maddest place in the city. Mime artists, acrobats and performers everywhere. You can watch all the hustle and bustle in peace from the restaurant La Poma.”

3 CINEMA COLISEUM Gran Via d.l.C. Catalanes 595 “This cinema dates back to the 1920s. Its single screen

has three levels of seating and it can accommodate roughly 1,700 filmgoers. Non-Spanish speakers like it here because it shows a lot of foreign films with subtitles.”

4 SANTA EULALIA Passeig de Gràcia, 93 “This is my favourite shop. It’s where I have my suits made.

It’s absolutely huge, and full of the latest stuff by big-name international designers. Have a coffee on their terrace once you’re done shopping.”

CIRCUIT DE BARCELONACATALUNYA Put your foot to the floor where professional racers do the same by booking a session in a car or on a bike at one of the great F1 and MotoGP arenas. circuitcat.com

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5 BLING BLING Carrer de Tuset, 8 “For dancing after 2am in Barcelona, this is the place to go. The legendary lightshows are really popular with the locals, but don’t worry, tourists are welcome too.”

Own long trousers, sturdy shoes and a valid driving licence? You can hire a 250cc quad bike and thrash it through the Catalan countryside. lifestylebarcelona.com

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SAMURAI WARRIORS 4 For PlayStations 3, 4 and Vita, a slice of hack-and-slash action, with a history-rich story mode and a lot of character customisation. koeitecmo america.com

Vive la révolution: the game is set in 18th-century France

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ASSASSIN’S CREED UNITY NEW MODES AND NEW MISSIONS AS AN OLD FAVOURITE OPENS UP FEUDAL FRANCE

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The first rule of Driveclub is that you don’t call it a Gran Turismo wannabe.

Despite the amazingly detailed supercars handling realistically, Driveclub is a road-race only driving game with a difference. As the name suggests, you can team up with friends to race other teams, and by doing so you unlock more of the game. Out October 7.

Rip up roads and fields in southern France and Italy in the second spin-off of the Forza Motorsport series. Horizon differs in that it has more arcade-y experience – racing planes and trains, for example. There’s also a big social element in which you can team up to race, or just talk torque with other petrolheads.

Out September 30.

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You know you’ve got a hot video game series on your hands when the movie adaptation is due to be produced by and stars Michael Fassbender. “Assassin’s, I’m so happy with,” said the Irish actor in April. (Production is yet to begin.) But though it’s nice for Hollywood to come calling, a game franchise is only ever really as good as its latest title. Thankfully, Assassin’s Creed Unity is looking very, very, very good indeed.

This seventh game in the sneak-’em-up series takes place in Paris just as guillotine blades are set to drop and help set off the French Revolution. As is usual in the series, there is also a modern-day set-up (and, it might be safely guessed, denouement) that drives the lead character, Arno Dorian, back 230 years into the mind and body of a French assassin, pickpocket, puzzle solver, urban explorer and street fighter.

With each game, Assassin’s Creed game world becomes even more expansive and visually impressive, but this has always been matched by a ramp-up of the play mechanic. Making Unity more involving is a co-operative mode: take Arno into an inn and you can join with up to three other players to solve missions together. Side missions and main objectives are now more seamlessly integrated, making your overall quest less disjointed.

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FORZA HORIZON 2 FOR XBOXES

THE EVIL WITHIN Survival horror led by a murder cop marooned in a gruesome, limbolike world. Dexter Of The Dead, if you will.

On PC, PS and Xbox. theevilwithin.com

SUPER SMASH BROS Pit Pikachu against Pac-Man and make Mario maul MegaMan in the WiiU and 3Ds update of Nintendo’s cute but not-too-cute beat-’em-up.

Arcade style: Forza Horizon 2 ramps down the realism

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Hands in the air: San Fran’s live music effort is to be applauded

SUP STORIES HOW FAMOUS COCKTAILS GOT THEIR NAMES

DAIQUIRI American mining engineer Jennings Cox ran out of gin while entertaining guests at home in Cuba, so he improvised. His cocktail of rum, fruit and sugar was a hit, and in 1905 he named it after a nearby village.

Keeping the scene alive S AN FRAN THE REVAMPED BATH HOUSE IS FLYING THE FLAG FOR LIVE MUSIC IN A CHANGING WORLD

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I START A NIGHT OUT AT...

When Venetian barman Giuseppe Cipriani mixed Prosecco with fresh peach and raspberry juice, the resulting pink drink reminded him of a toga in a Giovanni Bellini painting.

Hence the name.

(Now it’s not pink.)

Phoenician Cuisine on Cuba St, where they do a mean Lebanese chicken thigh salad. With solid New York rap blasting, it’s the perfect start to the evening.

MY LOCAL IS…

Bettys on Blair St. I’ve worked as a DJ there for the last few years and it’s the go-to spot for visiting artists. Recently hosted: Danny Brown, ASAP Ferg and Tinie Tempah.

MAN ON THE RISE

Race Banyon, who is a top producer mixing electronica and rap acapellas alongside original compositions and lush covers.

BLOODY MARY Its most likely origin relates to Parisian barman Fernand Petiot, who is said to have made the drink in 1920 for vodka heir Vladimir Smirnov, whose name was mispronounced by a drunken patron.

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The venue formerly known as the San Francisco Bath House has lost a few letters from the signage, gained a new look and remains committed to live music. “We want to be a really kick-arse all-genre venue,” says the splendidly named Ziggy Ziya, manager of San Fran.

“Music is our passion.” Raekwon, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, CSS, Gomez, The Black Lips, Iron And Wine, Broken Social Scene and Animal Collective are among the international acts that previously packed out this place. The redesign looks back as well as forward, with an impressive collection of SFBH concert posters. The kitchen serves up tasty American-style tapas. The craft beer selection is one of the best in the city. Having done all he can do inside the four walls, Ziya hopes that San Fran’s neighbourhood, the heart of Wellington’s creative quarter, can retain its distinctive feel. “This area has always been home to people who are a little bit alternative. It’s slowly changing, and we’re one of the last live music venues standing here, so it’s important to us to make it work. We love what we do.”

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SUMMER SOUNDS Top hat, mane of curly hair, sunglasses. Slash has remained true to his trademark look, even though it’s 18 years since he left Guns N’ Roses. He and Axl Rose and the other ones sold more than 100 million albums together and Slash lived strictly according to three commandments: sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. He’s put all those vices behind him now. Eight years ago, he even gave up drinking and smoking.

“But the guitar is the love of my life,” says the 49-year-old, born Saul Hudson. His third solo album, World on Fire, is proof of that: 17 throbbing rock songs, featuring incredible solos by a guitar god. The snake-lover tells us the tracks that hold deep meaning in his life and career.

He’ll save every one of us: Slash! Aa-ah!

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“When this song came out, in 1980, I’d only just started playing the guitar. I first heard it at the actor Seymour Cassel’s house. He’s also the person who gave me my nickname, Slash [because he was full of energy].

Back In Black has this killer rhythm.

It’s sexy and sleazy. For me it’s like sex, only much better.”

“I heard the song when I was a teenager from a girl I wanted to get into bed.

She put this single on and we eventually sat on her bed. I got so wrapped up in the song that I completely lost interest in making out. I played the record over and over again and ignored the girl until she ended up throwing me out.”

“In the early 1980s I was up in the Hollywood Hills on the estate that used to be Errol Flynn’s property. It was frequented by teenagers who did acid. I remember being there, in the middle of the night, looking at the stars.

One night someone played Iron Man and it blew my mind. It was a life-changing experience that stuck with me to this day.”

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Back In Black

Living For The City

“This was my mother’s favourite song. It’s about this kid from the country, getting his big opportunity to move to the city and falling into a drug situation. My new song, 30 Years To Life, deals with a similar fate. It shows what happens when you live too recklessly. Of course, I set out to be a complete drug addict myself...”

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“Satie is a French composer who’s not rock ’n’ roll at all, but he had a big influence on me. My father always used to put on his music when he’d had a bottle of wine or two too many. Then he’d paint to it. That’s why I’m still very drawn to it to this day. I could even imagine having this played at my funeral.”

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DENGUE DENGUE DENGUE! At Sonar in Barcelona, the duo mixed traditional Peruvian sounds with hard electronic beats.

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MANNIE FRESH The star producer served up the ultimate party mix at Bonnaroo in the US: a hard, sweaty set of rap classics, trap hits and hiphouse grenades.

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These wireless waterproof in-ear earbuds play music either via Bluetooth from your phone/player or from the 4GB of internal storage. They also work as a fitness computer and have passive noise isolation, so you don’t shut off on your run. Highly impressive. bragi.com

LAURENT GARNIER & MCDE Giants of house collide across generations: pioneer Laurent Garnier shared the decks at Nuits Sonores in Paris with newcomer MCDE.

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TIMOTHY SIMONS

BEHIND THE SCENES

As one of the breakout stars of HBO’s political comedy Veep, Timothy Simons has made his name playing a creepy presidential aide by the name of Jonah Ryan.

Now he’s doing funny on the big screen opposite Seth Rogen and James Franco in the TV-show satire, The Interview.

Words: Geoff Berkshire

the red bulletin: What’s the secret to playing a douchebag politician? timothy simons: I’m certainly not method with it. I try to be nice to people on set – I think I err on the side of trying to be too nice. The thing I do that gets me close enough to him is that when we’re rehearsing or shooting, I think about the worst thing you could say to someone or the worst way you could say one of the lines, if it’s improv or scripted, what’s the attitude or delivery that’s the most selfish and horrible?

And then I go from there.

Between seasons two and three of Veep you filmed The Interview with James Franco and Seth Rogen.

Tell us about the role…

I play the associate producer of the show with James as the on-air personality and Seth as the producer. The guy I play cares immensely about the show and thinks this show that’s basically just celebrity interviews is the most important thing ever.

You’re a very active user of Twitter and you’ve even shared a notebook you kept as a teenager with a list of the greatest films of all time.

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“ For my character I think, what’s the worst thing you could say” BMX movie, Rad. Why did you rate that movie above everything else?

One of the things that makes Rad so amazing is the way it’s a uniquely American movie. It’s about a small town kid who rides a BMX and takes a big risk skipping his exams to try to qualify for Helltrack, a national BMX race that’s going to be held

in this small town. He has a big conversation with his mom, who wants him to get out there and make something of himself, but he just wants to ride bikes. He says, ‘I can take those SAT exams any time, but this is the only chance I’ll have at this!’ And you know what? He wins.

Twitter: @timothycsimons The Interview is out in December

If you’re looking for someone to play a man turning into a demon, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe may not be the first name that comes to mind. But French director Alexandre Aja was seeking the right star to carry his adaptation of Horns, a fantasy horror novel by Joe Hill and turned to Radcliffe. Why? “Daniel has that amazing power to carry the audience by the hand into a twisted world, but never lose them.

He represents something that’s kind, accessible and familiar for so many millions of people around the world. He will bring that relatability: if Daniel Radcliffe/ Harry Potter can turn into the devil, I can see myself going through the same journey.”

Horns is out in October

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Plenty tough: the Motu Challenge multisport event October 11

Multitasker A 65km mountain bike ride, 17km run, 52km road ride, plus a multisport stage with a 27km kayak, 8km road cycle and 3km run to the finish. This is not your idea of a breezy Saturday outing: this is what competitors will be up against at the Horizon Energy Motu Challenge, coming soon on the rugged terrain of Opotiki in the Bay Of Plenty. But if the bike’s more your thing, there’s the Motu 160 cycle challenge, where one- or twoperson teams take on the 65km mountain bike section, followed by a 90km road race. motuchallenge.co.nz

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October 1

Sep back in town Brazilian thrash ambassadors Sepultura have more than a little skin in the metal game. The quartet have been kicking out the jams for 31 years and counting. It’s now been over 20 years since the band brought their brand of no-holds-barred death metal down under, but next month, New Zealand’s Sepultribesman, as hardcore fans are known, get a look-in when the quartet play their first New Zealand show since 1993, ripping into cuts from across their 13-strong studio album catalogue at Auckland’s Studio. This time the Belo Horizonte-formed quartet will be fronted by Derrick Green, who replaced founding frontman Max Cavalera when he exited Sepultura in 1996, but expect no less bite from the Brazilian metallers this time around. metropolistouring.com

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Soul providers Is this the Second Coming? That’s the question r&b aficionados asked when D’Angelo, the man dubbed “r&b Jesus” by music critic Robert Christgau, was announced as a headliner at Soulfest. D’Angelo will join Maxwell, Common, Mos Def, Anthony Hamilton, Angie Stone, Musiq Soulchild and more at the inaugural soul and hip-hop festival at Auckland’s Western Springs Stadium. History in the making, this one. soulfest.com.au

Musiq Soulchild: on the bill at Soulfest

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BEAR WITNESS

From October 11

Turn on to art After a sell-out season at the Hayward Gallery, London, Light Show – an exhibition exploring light as a sculptural medium – will illuminate the Auckland Art Gallery with immersive, switched-on light installations and artworks. The exhibition’s New Zealand stint marks the first time that Light Show has travelled outside the UK. Last one out… aucklandartgallery.com

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26 JERSEY BOY Pauly D, formerly of reality TV show Jersey Shore, has channelled his 15 minutes of fame into a DJ career.

He’s bringing his selections to Auckland’s Logan Campbell Centre for two nights.

Sexy back Justin Randall Timberlake of Memphis, Tennessee was the first artist to fill Auckland’s 12,000-capacity Vector Arena for three nights in a row back in 2007. Few have matched his record since. JT is bringing sexy back, and much else, when he three-peats again at Vector, this time tooled with hits and tracks from his two albums of 2013, The 20/20 Experience and The 20/20 Experience – 2 Of 2. Suit and tie optional.

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Straight outta there to here

Spring break

Jillion hollers

The Spring Challenge is a multi-disciplinary event of rafting, mountain biking and hiking – and only women need apply. Kiwi adventure racer Nathan Fa’avae first staged the race in 2007 and it now draws in 600-plus challengers. That rookies and veterans are welcome is just one of the race’s plus points. springchallenge.co.nz

It was January when producer/ DJ The Jillionaire and his Major Lazer cohorts Diplo and Walshy Fire rocked the Big Day Out with a set that featured a dance cameo from Lorde. Next month, he brings his electroinfused mash-up of soca and reggae first to Auckland’s Studio and the following night to Loco in Queenstown. facebook.com/thejillionaire

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The city of Compton, Los Angeles, is a cradle of hip-hop and rap and YG is the latest artist to fly the flag for his hometown, shouting it out any chance that he gets. The West Coast native will bring a flavour of his hard-knock neighbourhood to town when he plays Studio in Auckland. dashtickets.co.nz

Australian indie folk five-piece Boy and Bear play debut NZ dates on the back of charttopping album, Harlequin Dream at Auckland’s Kings Arms and the following night at Bodega in Wellington.

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SoCAL COMES LOCAL Aloe Blacc’s single I Need a Dollar put the Southern California soul man on the map, but it was his appearance on Avicii’s stadium rave smash Wake Me Up that announced him as a pop-chart contender. See him at Auckland Town Hall. ticketmaster.co.nz

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THE DARK Photographer Fabien ‘Keffer’ Hebert has a permanent VIP pass – free entry, free drinks, free reign – and an archive of images from parties and clubs in one of the world’s great nocturnal cities. This is Paris at night

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WICKED DAWNS

“I STARTED SETTING OFF MY FLASH INSTINCTIVELY, WITHOUT EVER LOOKING INTO MY VIEWFINDER”

BACKSTAGE PASS DJ Panteros666 behind fellow DJ Sam Tiba. This is the Silencio, a super-selective club conceived by filmmaker and creative genius David Lynch. Naturally, it has a cinema.

Paris after dark isn’t just about clubs. There’s also a buzzing scene of afterparties in private homes. Here’s Celine hosting one.

TEMPERATURE’S RISING A$AP Rocky at the Social Club, his first date in France. A crazy crowd goes wild for his newschool rap. The Harlem MC signed a US$3 million contract with Sony just days after his Paris show.

TRANSFORMATION The Dèmonia party is the place to go for SM and fetish fans. It’s probably a bank manager under there.

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LADIES OF PARIS French popstrel Margaux Avril (left).

Myd and Sam Tiba (above), DJs and producers with the Bromance label, can hardly believe their eyes.

FAR OUT – AND BEYOND Parisians on tour: hip photographer Julot Bandit (right) woos a strange dwarf on a quick night out at the Cannes Film Festival.

SHOOTING A SCENE French photographer Keffer explains how he went from enjoying nights out in Paris to taking pictures of them

SUPERSTAR DJS Paris is big on electronic music. Whether international (Boys Noize from Berlin, above) or local names (Brodinski, right), the best artists perform here all the time.

Keffer, 30, has been documenting Parisian nightlife for years, between shooting for magazines (Complex, GQ, Grazia) and global brands (Sony, Ubisoft, Apple). His party images are collected in the project The Night Day.

PARIS BY NIGHT Nocturnal Paris has a great many faces: chic, wild, arty or trashy, Keffer, with full VIP privileges at all the clubs, finds the beating hearts of the scene.

WARM-UP MODE With Andrew Claristidge from electronic duo Acid Washed. This night began with a mixing session at the Red Bull Studio.

“BLACK-AND-WHITE PICTURES REFLECT HOW I SEE NIGHTS OUT: WASHED OUT, ROUGH, RAW”

the red bulletin: When did you start shooting your nights out and decide to launch The Night Day? keffer: I was already a photographer and one night I took my camera out with me. It was about the time that house music was on the wane and we were moving on to the era of Ed Banger Records musicians and it was before people were being tagged on Facebook. I started setting off my flash instinctively, without ever looking into my viewfinder.

I never go out with the intention of taking photos. I go out to have fun myself because I love electronic music. I always have my camera with me, but I only use it when I get a sense of something, a good feeling.

How do you get people to open up for you on camera?

When I started making photos backstage in clubs, the girls would really let themselves go. I wouldn’t often take photos of this sort at afterhour parties in private homes, while people were still finishing their night out. So I got to document this kind of public erotic downfall, which they were completely cool with.

Why are the pics black-and-white?

It reflects the way I see my nights out: washed out, rough, raw. thenightday.com

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PURE ADRENALIN Sony AS100V The ultimate companion for all those who love shooting action. This camcorder weighs a mere 160g, including its protective housing, and is waterproof, dustproof and shock-resistant. The Carl Zeiss ultra-wideangle lens and the SteadyShot function make for razor-sharp, full-HD pictures. sony.com

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H A N DY Canon Legria Mini X This might be an unusual shape for a camcorder, but the 82 x 30 x 109mm fullHD camera fits easily in your hand and should thus be of interest to any blogger, musician or fan of

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The flexible gooseneck, 20.3cm long, can be attached to any GoPro mount with a quickrelease base (eg the Suction Cup or Jaws mounts) or simply be used as an adjustable

grip. This is perfect for shooting subjects that are hard to reach and for recording videos round corners or from behind an obstacle.

Another good thing: for greater range, you can join a number of them together. gopro.com

V I S UA L LY STUNNING LG 65LB730V A 3D OLED smart TV with a huge screen with a 800Hz refresh rate and Wi-Fi connectivity.

Its well-designed and user-friendly webOS interface came in for particular praise at the 2014 CES international consumer electronics show in Las Vegas. lg.com

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AUDIO C I N E M AT I C Bose CineMate 1 SR Surround sound with only two speakers?

Yes you can. Just put the Bose CineMate speakers anywhere you want in a room.

They work out the rest automatically through a calibration

system which analyses the size of the room and sets the system accordingly. The small sound-bar has five speakers which create frequency variation. The 150W, wireless Acoustimass subwoofer module provides the bass. bose.com

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I N D I V I D UA L Sonos Wireless HiFi Play your music library anywhere in the home through these wireless speakers. Tunes are displayed on an app which can be run through your device of choice, be that a smartphone or tablet. sonos.com

THERE’S NO PERFECT MUSIC WITHOUT PERFECT SOUND. WITH THE L ATEST KIT, YO U C A N H AV E E A S I LY, P O R TA B LY A N D S T Y L I S H LY O P T I M A L SURROUND SOUND

TRENDSETTER Beats by Dre Solo² This has long been the favourite accessory of many a sports star and actor, regardless of whether they’re listening to classical, rock or heavy metal.

The soft ear-pads fit snug to your ears and cut out external noise. beatsbydre.com

ARMOURED SPEAKER The Big Turtle Shell This wireless Bluetooth speaker is waterproof and shock-resistant so you can use it at the beach, round a campfire or by the pool. Fully charged, it will run for more than 16 hours. You can also use the Big Turtle Shell to charge other devices. outdoortechnology.com

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ENTERTAINMENT WELL RESTED Polar V800 This training computer with built-in GPS combines a record of what you have done with an analysis of your last 24 hours of activity. The hybrid sensor can even keep an eye on your heart rate underwater. polar.com

OUTDOOR WHAT’S THE USE OF DOING SOMETHING AMAZING WITHOUT K N OW I N G E X AC T LY W H AT WENT DOWN? SHOW OFF TO YOUR MATES WITH THIS TECH

D E E P WAT E R SEACAM silver An underwater camera case made out of a salt water-resistant light metal alloy which is double hardened and anodised. The curves and buttons are double-

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BEAR-LIKE STRENGTH Grizzly GP5600 If there’s no power supply nearby, this shock-resistant, humidity- and dustproof outdoor power bank with hard rubber housing will charge smartphones, MP3 players and most tablets. It can hold

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sealed with precise and seamless O-rings. The attachable extension light is super-bright (1,700 lumens) and can be dimmed. Compatible with both Canon and Nikon cameras and up to a depth of 80m. seacam.com

enough juice to fully charge your iPhone 5 at least three times.

Other handy features include an LED torch and a laser pen. wow-products.de

I N G R E AT S H A P E Garmin Vivofit This fitness tracker shows you the distance you’ve covered, the number of calories you’ve burned and tells the time. The Garmin online community will motivate you/shame you into doing more activities. Available in six colours. garmin.com

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INDESTRUCTIBLE XPlore XC6 M2 This has got to be the most rugged tablet on the market. You can use it in temperatures as cold as -50ºC up to as hot as 70°C. It uses an Intel Core i5 processor and has a multi-layer magnesium frame. You can read the screen even when it’s in direct sunlight. xploretech.com

FINGER ON THE PULSE Samsung Galaxy S5 With a 5.1in super AMOLED display, a 2.5GHz quad-core processor and a 16megapixel camera, this smartphone has it all.

It also has a fingerprint scanner that can take your pulse to sync with health apps. samsung.com

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Pebble Steel This smartwatch looks better than other models. It works with iOS and Android smartphones, and gives convenient email, SMS and social media notifications. The battery will last for up to seven days, thanks to its efficient e-paper display. getpebble.com

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O N T H E M OV E Xbox 360 Kinect The ultimate in gaming without a controller. There are now more than 200 games available for Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect, and some of them, like Nike+

Kinect Training, Kinect Sports 2, UFC Personal Trainer and My Body Coach 3, offer a serious workout as well as providing gaming fun for all the family, so you can jump, hit or step your way to a decent level of fitness. xbox.com

P E R S P EC T I V E Nvidia 3D Vision 2 The latest Nvidia 3D glasses have a 20 per cent larger field of vision than many other models and come with an innovative ambient light adjustment feature, both of which

makes the PC gaming experience more immersive on a 1080p full-HD display. They’re also very comfortable, which is a must for longer sessions, and the battery only needs to be recharged every 60 hours. nvidia.com

G E T O N T R AC K Carrera Digital 132 Ever wondered what it’s like to race around Austria’s Red Bull Ring in Sebastian Vettel’s world championshipwinning car? You can with this. Thrilling overtaking manoeuvres have been programmed into the 11.4m track. carrera-toys.com

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GOO D V I B E S KOR-FX-Gaming-Weste This virtual reality gaming vest is set to hit stores later this year after its inventors completed a successful crowdfunding campaign.

Slip it on and hook it up to a sound source and you’ll soon be enjoying the rough and tumble of gaming with a series of realistic sounds and vibrations. korfx.com

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“ It is an incredible feeling to control my own clone” Mislav Mironovic, mountain bike magician TOMISLAV MOZE/RED BULL CONTENT POOL

When it’s said that Mislav Mironovic does amazing bike tricks, you think of big air and ramps and high fives. But the Croatian ups the stakes with optical illusions (he also does the air-ramp-fives thing really well). How does he do it?

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