The Red Bulletin December 2014 - NZ

NEW ZEALAND

BEYOND THE ORDINARY

PEAK FREEFALL

ADVENTURE’S TOUGHEST TASK

DAVE GROHL

THE TAO OF FOO

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START YOUR ENGINES

Red Bull Drift Shifters puts a new spin on road racing – and it’s back in Auckland

GRAEME MURRAY (COVER), GRAEME MURRAY, DAVID CLERIHEW

WELCOME The best thing about our cover star this issue, Dave Grohl, is his energy. Not in a chakrasand-star signs way, but in an actual, lift-theroom way. The guy has presence. He’s funny and honest and has a marvellous beard, as you will see from the exclusive interview and photoshoot we did with him. Equally energising is another exclusive: the incredible tale of the men and women trying to break extreme sport’s most dangerous record: the rope-jumping freefall mark. Elsewhere, we stayed up late at for an amazing night of electronic dance music with the DJ duo who rock the best parties in the world.

All that, plus New Zealand music and more action, adventure, sports and culture from across the globe. We hope you enjoy the issue.

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“People have forgotten what it’s like to rock out” DAVE GROHL, PAGE 38

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AT A GLANCE

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BULLEVARD 10 BEST OF 2014 The Red Bulletin’s heroes and villains of the year

THIS IS NOT A BUNGEE

FEATURES

A crew of extreme sports experts decamped to a Spanish gorge in the hunt for the freefall world record

20 Action pic special

A round-up of spectacular images

34 Colin Jackson

Champion hurdler’s next challenge: Wings for Life World Run in 2015

36 Team Dynamite

Auckland trio with star credentials

38 Dave Grohl

78 WIRED FOR SOUNDS

Partying hard until the early hours at Barcelona’s Razzmatazz night club with local heroes The Zombie Kids

72 ALL POWER TO HIM

Street trials cyclist and YouTube legend Danny MacAskill explains why he has fallen in love with an electric motorbike 06

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46 Red Bull Drift Shifters

AWESOME SHOT!

62 Into the abyss

Taking an innovative motorsport to the city streets of New Zealand

From the return of Red Bull Air Race to upside-down medallists, this is your VIP viewing of the finest photos of 2014

36 SOUNDS OF THE SUBURBS

Auckland hip-hop trio Team Dynamite have recruited a legend of the NZ scene for killer hooks and video villainy

A team of extreme sports experts attempt to set a freefall world record

ACTION! 72 73 74 75 76 78 84 85 86 88 90 98

PRO TOOLS Electric motorbikes TRAINING Tone up for high diving TRAVEL Zombie games in NYC MY CITY An electro trio’s Toronto GAMING The latest Call Of Duty NIGHTLIFE DJ duo The Zombie Kids CLUB Partying in Wellington MUSIC Jazz according to Flying Lotus ENTERTAINMENT Michiel Huisman SAVE THE DATE Unmissable events WATCHES For all wrists and pockets MAGIC MOMENT Big airtime biking

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FRED MARIE, YUKY LUTZ, BLACK&RAD, BALAZS GARDI/RED BULL CONTENT POOL, DAVID K SHIELDS

An exclusive and revealing interview with the rock ’n’ roll legend

CONTRIBUTORS WHO’S ON BOARD THIS ISSUE “I was about 45m off the ground with nothing but air under me” Fred Marie at the freefall world record attempt, page 62

MARCEL ANDERS

YUKY LUTZ

FRED MARIE

For this month’s edition of The Red Bulletin, the German music writer interviewed Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl at London’s Berkeley Hotel.

“His people had rented an entire floor of the five-star hotel and they were very stressed outside the suite,” says Anders, who has also interviewed the likes of Pink Floyd, U2 and Keith Richards over the course of a 20-year career. “But Grohl wasn’t stressed: he’s laidback, the most down-to-earth guy you could meet.” Read the interview on page 38.

“It was impossible not to get great shots that night,” says the Spanish photographer of his mission to document the electronic dance scene at Barcelona’s Razzmatazz nightclub. We commissioned Lutz to follow Spain’s biggest DJ duo The Zombie Kids as they played a two-and-a-halfhour set in front of a home crowd. His insider knowledge made him the perfect man for the job. “I had many legendary nights there when I was a teenager,” says Lutz. “I know it like the back of my hand.”

See the results on page 78.

We commissioned the French photo-journalist to follow a team of top-class BASEjumpers and highliners as they attempted to set a new freefall world record above a gorge in Spain. “It’s lucky I’ve worked high up before,” he says, “because I was about 45m above the ground with nothing but air under me.”

Rope-jumping is highly dangerous: many died in the sport’s development. Marie wasn’t scared, but he admits “there were a lot of extreme emotions.” Find out if a world record was set on page 62.

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The Red Bulletin is published in 11 countries. On the cover of the latest US edition is rising music star Theophilus London

BACKSTAGE

On the cover Dave Grohl David Clerihew has photographed everyone from Lionel Messi and Steven Gerrard to Usain Bolt and Victoria Pendleton. But rock star portraits are something else.

“It’s quite different shooting a musician,” says Clerihew. “Dave Grohl came in and we got started as usual, but we also got chatting.

It turns out he’s really into skeet shooting.” Between them, Dave and David nailed this shoot, too.

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Watch behind-the-scenes footage from this month’s cover shoot at our new website: redbulletin.com

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Daniel Ricciardo for Pepe Jeans London

B U L L E VA R D

BEST OF 2014 THE YEAR I’LL NEVER FORGET

6,000 km

Victoria

Halifax

THE YEAR OF MY DREAMS

THE YEAR TO BE FORGOTTEN

Researchers wanted to see what would happen if they put a Toronto robot out on the streets…

Y E P, T H I S T H I N G H E R E

OUR MAN OF THE YEAR hitchBOT made his way across Canada and in doing so, he proved the smartness of technology and the kindness of humans Last summer, an immobile robot travelled 6,000km across the world’s fourth biggest country. Friendly drivers picked him up along the way (literally). Made and monitored by scientists and roboticists at Canadian universities, hitchBOT got from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Victoria, British Columbia in 21 days. The robot could speak and hear, thanks to mics and sensors. His journey was a victory for artificial intelligence and the decency of normal folk.

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“Would you like to have a conversation?” hitchBOT was the perfect passenger, but could also keep quiet if required.

…they got their answer. He wasn’t stolen or destroyed.

People picked him up and talked to him. hitchbot.me

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BEST OF 2014

GADGETS OF THE YEAR Tech that took the breath away

OPEN SPACE ARTS SOCIETY, NORBERT GUTHIER(2), ONTARIO, REUTERS, CORBIS(5), WWW.OMONE.COM, PRESS@USB.ORG, JAMES K LOWE, PICTUREDESK.COM, GEPA PICTURES/RED BULL CONTENT POOL

Her 2014 Bangerz Tour was 80 dates on four continents.

The estimated final gross is north of US$100 million

Levitating Sound Om/One is the Death Star of Bluetooth speakers. Awesome.

nd

a -hits 5.

L a g L e G A h her m in 201

Boring But Brilliant At last – in USB 3.1, a connector to connect all your devices.

I Nop world w, oitf the same R A B d th e p n d l e s s

re ,a nque ect more o c s u s ha o exp y C y r othing. S e l i M of cl l ack

Foam Game At an ace World Cup, talk of the vanishing 10-yard mark was soon forgotten.

BEST OF 2014

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

APRIL

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JUNE

Conchita Wurst Austrian drag queen wins Eurovision

HEROES, MONTH

BY MONTH They did great work this year

MAY

Lorde Royals wins a Song of the Year Grammy – a pop princess rightly crowned

Wes Anderson Hilarity from cinema’s most stylish director at The Grand Budapest Hotel

HIMYM After nine years, the final season showed how Mother and Dad really met

Juno Scientists finally understand this protein that helps sperm find the egg

Nico Rosberg The F1 driver wins the rebooted Austrian Grand Prix in Spielberg

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BEST OF 2014

YELLOW SLIVER ANNIVERSARY

HAPPY BIRTH-D’OH! The Simpsons turn 25 on December 17, three days after the 559th episode is broadcast in the US. Here’s the very best of Homer J Simpson

The three sentences that will get you through life. Number one: “Cover for me.” Number two: “Oh, good idea, boss.”

NUMBER 3: “IT WAS LIKE THAT WHEN I GOT HERE.”

Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably.

THE LESSON IS, NEVER TRY.

Every time I learn something new,

MARGE, BUT WE ALREADY OWN A BOOK.

IT PUSHES SOME OLD STUFF OUT OF MY BRAIN.

What’s the point of going out?

We’re just gonna wind up back here anyway.

It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.

I WISH GOD WERE STILL ALIVE TO SEE THIS. BEST OF 2014

JULY

Please don’t eat me!

I have a wife and kids. Eat them!

ALL OF LIFE’S PROBLEMS.

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

Apple Watch The watch that can do everything, apart from delete U2 from your iTunes

Monty Python Britain’s greatest comedy team (with one American) reassemble 25 years after their previous live shows, for one final comeback tour. Tickets sold out in 43 seconds

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Maryam Mirzakhani The first woman ever to win the Fields Medal, the greatest prize in mathematics

DECEMBER Orion Mars, here we come: NASA plans first test launch of its new manned spacecraft

Constantine From Hellblazer comics via Keanu’s 2005 film, a hellishly good TV show

Foo Fighters Grohl’s gang release their eighth album, the rather splendid Sonic Highways THE RED BULLETIN

PICTUREDESK.COM(2), CORBIS(2), APPLE, WARNER BROS., SONY MUSIC, NASA

Oh my God, space aliens!

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to,

BEST OF 2014

N O , T H I S I S A B S O L U T E LY N O T A H O R O S C O P E

YOUR FUTURE, TODAY Choose who you are, then we’ll tell you how your 2015 will pan out

S K AT E R

GO - K A R T E R

WINDSURFER

B I G WAV E R

FREEDIVER

SKYDIVER

X- F I G H T E R

FREERUNNER

MTB-ER A I R R AC E R

HOW IT WORKS: Choose your action type from the wheel of fortune, then match it to the predictions below. We guarantee we can see into the future as well as anyone on Earth

TOM MACKINGER

F1 DRIVER KITESURFER

• FIRE • WAT E R • AIR • EARTH

• WINDSURFER •

• SKYDIVER •

• A I R R AC E R •

• F1 DRIVER •

• X- F I G H T E R •

• GO - K A R T E R •

“Go with the flow” is your mantra for New Year and beyond.

If you’re patient and don’t force the issues, things will work out by themselves.

A new encounter will bring chaos and opportunity to your life. If you fear the new, the fear will kill you.

Flying high in 2015, you will be presented with many new opportunities. Bear in mind that it’s important to always travel light.

A dream start to the year will continue in the same hectic vein.

But just because you’re out in front doesn’t mean you have to keep going faster.

Life is one huge crossroads. Which way should you go? The answer? It doesn’t matter. Just don’t stay rooted to the spot.

You are the luckiest devil of next year.

Whatever you turn your hand to will come off. But remember: keep your foot off the brakes.

• S K AT E R • Keep cool! It will awaken a sense of trust and security in others.

Never forget to look out for your friends.

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• FREERUNNER • You’re always on the move, chasing your dreams. Just how it should be. Don’t forget to watch your step, though, or you’ll end up flat on your face.

• MTB-ER • Your passion will impress the people around you – one in particular. Then you’ll need a mountain bicycle made for two.

• KITESURFER • You’ll meet an old friend who’ll set your life on a different path. Ask yourself if it’s what you really want.

• FREEDIVER • No time to be bored in 2015 with new doors opening, especially in your romantic life. But know this: nothing in love comes for free.

• B I G WAV E R • You will finally receive a piece of news that you’ve long been waiting for right at the start of the year.

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BEST OF 2014

NFL ESP: Coleman feels the vibrations created by other players

NEW SOUNDS OF 2014 Our pick of the year’s best music

SCHOOLBOY Q From South Central LA, the 28-year-old released Oxymoron, an incredible gangsta rap album.

N sD E G : L E hawk

S eattle Seastory.

P I L U R of the S er in hi

O k ColemanBowl winn D A R E k Derric f Super

FKA TWIGS Her mundanely named LP1 is anything but.

A trippy R&B high point from the underground.

ac dea Fullb the first wa s

SAM SMITH Having guested on other artists’ songs, Smith achieved global acclaim with his own first album.

EAR

DO IT HIS WAY Frank Sinatra would have turned 100 in 2015. But we still have much to learn from him

“For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught.”

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“I’m for whatever gets you through the night – prayer, tranquillisers or Jack Daniel’s.”

“Then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like ‘I love you.’”

LADY GAGA A duet album with Tony Bennett is not the sort of “different” we want from the Queen Of New.

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GETTY IMAGES(2), UNIVERSAL MUSIC(2), INEZ VINOODH

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BEST OF 2014

THE BEST QUIZ OF THE YEAR

KAINRATH

Q1: ARE YOU ALWAYS RIGHT?

How our resident artist saw the year and how he loves the future.

Yes No Don’t know That’s the only question we’re asking.

Below, you put the questions to our answers

2014

LEONARDO DICAPRIO! Who wants to save the world but is too busy squiring models?

10ts

Poin

Who failed to win an Oscar again?

Who dies in quite a lot of his films?

5 ts

Poin

0s

Point

A SMARTWATCH 0 ts

What’s the year’s most overhyped invention?

Poin

What tells the time more precisely than a wristwatch?

What amazing new gadget lit up our future?

5s

Point

10s

Point

2015

GERMANY Who won the World Cup?

10ts

Poin

Who should not have won the World Cup?

5ints

Po

Angela Merkel?

0s

Point

CORRECT! Was 2014 a good year for music?

10 ints

Po

Was 2014 a bad year for music?

Was 2014 an OK year for music?

5ints

Po

0s

Point

CAN TALK

GETTY IMAGES(2), SONY(3)

DIETMAR KAINRATH

BREAKING BAD What’s the best TV series ever?

10ts

Poin

Which TV series bagged a ton of awards?

5ints

Po

What’s that boring guy-makesmeth show?

0ints

Po

“ If there were fewer days, we could celebrate New Year more often.”

HERE’S HOW YOU DID… 0-15 Points Wonderful! You’ve been paying attention, haven’t you?

Not bad at all. At least you have an opinion.

Oh dear! Spent a bit too much time on Minecraft, haven’t you?

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20-30 Points Wonderful! You’ve been paying attention, haven’t you?

Not bad at all. At least you have an opinion.

Oh dear! Spent a bit too much time on Minecraft, haven’t you?

35-50 Points Wonderful! You’ve been paying attention, haven’t you?

Not bad at all. At least you have an opinion.

Oh dear! Spent a bit too much time on Minecraft, haven’t you?

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BEST OF 2014

KAPOW! NOW

A NEW NEW BREED OF HEROES The explosion of superhero movies has sent a shockwave all the way back to their source material: comic books in 2014 took a surprising turn for the better

X-MAN OF 2015?

His comic book uniform of yellow-and-black latex suit is a thing of the past. Next season’s adamantiumclawed mutant will be wearing the plaid shirt and three-quarter length Fairtrade jeans of the neo-hipster. He also rejects violence: the only thing Wolverine will use his claws for is keeping his beard nice.

Captain America Yes, we can! Captain Africa-America, if you will, is Sam Wil­son, formerly the Falcon.

Thor

CORBIS(2), WALT DISNEY

HERI IRAWAN

The God Of Thunder now a goddess. War declared: feminists vs nay-saying nerds online.

Rocket Raccoon Solo comic capers due to Guardians Of The Galaxy film. Not a typical talking animal strip.

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RED BULL ZERO.

BEST OF 2014

THE RED BULLETIN REMIX

THEN AND NOW

SAMPLE LYRICS

What didn’t we like this year? What makes up for it next year?

GIVE ME

PEACE

MAR

HAPPY

HAPPY

HAPPY

APR

Bruce Springsteen, High Hopes All-new take on former live favourite has spot-on New Year sentiments.

GOOD LOVER

JUN

Pharrell Williams, Happy Hit top of US charts this month; world clapped along, as seen on YouTube.

Kid Cudi, Satellite Flight Rap hat-tip to lunar-cy also contains genius line “Come get in my space whip!”

MAY

LOVE,

NO MONEY, NO FAMILY. Iggy Azalea, Work Retort to Pharrell – why we can’t be happy all the time – as reality rap report.

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Tiësto, Wasted You can only connect with the Dutch DJ while disrobing pre-sex. Who knew.

GOOD LOVER,

WAL- KING ALONG

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COOL…

ecause Neymar got b injured and Brazil’s fairytale home win World Cup didn’t come true. because Russell Crowe’s Noah was a damp squib. because the selfie epidemic took over. because a bad hazelnut harvest threatened Nutella production. because that Back To The Future hoverboard video was a fake.

La Roux, Paradise Is You Opens nice like this, but it’s Music To Blame Your Other Half For Your Misery By.

YOU A- LIVE

AUG

ON A SANDY BEACH

MOON

Lily Allen, L8 CMMR Such a man exists, she sings, but ladies can’t have him cos he’s her husband.

JUL

GIVE ME

TAKE FLIGHT TO THE

FEB

JAN

Linking lines from music that mattered in the months of 2014 to create the true song of the year

HUNT YOU DOWN EAT

NOV

Lenny Kravitz, Sex Would you believe it!

This line is about hunting and eating like animals!

STANDING ON

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OK GO, The Writing’s On The Wall A refrain in a cheery ditty about one final roll in the hay before breaking up.

EDGE OF

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LUVO-

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Nickelback, Edge Of A Revolution Who needs Twitter when Canadian rock monsters can take the world’s pulse?

DEC

SEX, SEX, SEX

LAST CHRIST-

MAS

Wham!, Last Christmas And the one before that, and every one from now until the end of Christmas.

20 BEFORE 15: YOUR ULTIMATE MUSIC CALENDAR From December 1-20 there’ll be a free daily download of a new song by one of 2014’s top acts. Open a calendar window each day to get a festive treat. Identities are secret; here are three clues. redbull. com/20before15

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He unleashed a global YouTube dance craze.

This DJ is both producer and pal to Kanye West.

Two Mexicans who built a global supergroup.

ULE...

ecause Europe’s beer b capital, Pilsen in the Czech Republic, will be European Capital of Culture. Cheers! because Winds Of Winter, sixth book in the Game Of Thrones-inspiring A Song Of Ice And Fire series, is coming out. ecause the next film b from Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight, is due.

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KOBAL COLLECTION, GETTY IMAGES(2), CARTER NEWS, CORBIS(2)

IT SEEMS LIKE FORE-

OCT

SEP

Maroon 5, Animals But isn’t frontman Adam Levine a vegan? Oh, this is sexy talk, is it? Fair enough.

BILL AUBERLEN Photo by: Bill Auberlen

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ACCESSORIES + APP & SOFTWARE

See the full lineup at gopro.com

WHAT SHOTS WE GOT BEST OF 2014

THUMBS UP FOR HANDS DOWN THE FINEST PHOTOS OF THE YEAR 20

CLIVE MASON/GETTY IMAGES

ICE COLD Daniel Ricciardo accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge as part of the warm-up, so to speak, for an F1 Grand Prix at Spa on August 21. Three days later, the Infiniti Red Bull Racing man won the Belgian race

YES WE CAN

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE DUPASQUIER/RED BULL CONTENT POOL

June 1, Erzberg, Austria. Red Bull Hare Scramble. Enduro racers doing excavating work on a river bed and helping one another out

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BEST OF 2014

the World Cup and becoming the tournament’s all-time leading scorer, with 16 goals. He flipped out, as usual, when he equalled the record with his 15th, against Ghana on June 21

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EDDIE KEOGH/REUTERS

ONE LAST TURN Miroslav Klose called it a day with the German national team after winning

TIME TO CLIMB You have to be brave to compete in the Red Bull

ROMINA AMATO/RED BULL CONTENT POOL

Cliff Diving World Series. When it landed in the Azores, as it did on July 26 this year, you had to be a bit of a daredevil just to spectate

BEST OF 2014

GET THE PUCK OUT Desperate goalmouth defence from the US team during their 5-2 quarter-final victory over the Czech Republic at the Winter Olympics in Sochi on February 19

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AP PHOTO/MATT SLOCUM

BEST OF 2014

PARALLEL SPARKING

GETTY IMAGES, STEFANO RELLANDINI/REUTERS

Felipe Massa flips at the German Grand Prix, July 20. Clockwise from right: Alexander Gazsi and Nelli Zhiganshina of Germany heat up the ice at the Sochi Winter Olympics, February 16; Pete Carroll, Seattle Seahawks coach, takes a shower after winning the Super Bowl, February 2; Italy’s Christof Innerhofer heads to the podium for his Alpine skiing combined bronze in Sochi, February 14

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BEST OF 2014

HIGH AND LOW Big air for Carlos Sainz during Stage 10 of the Dakar Rally on

MARCELO MARAGNI/RED BULL CONTENT POOL

January 15. The Spaniard was well-placed going into the final third of the race, but a crash before the end of the stage put paid to his hopes of a winning finish

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BALAZS GARDI/RED BULL CONTENT POOL

RECONQUERING THE SKIES

Red Bull Air Race returned after a four-year break, with 12 pilots racing head-to-head at close to 250mph for the World Championship title. UK airman Paul Bonhomme won the first race, at Abu Dhabi on March 1

ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

BEST OF 2014

CHAMPION ELECT ALOFT

In 2013, Marc Marquez finished his debut year in MotoGP as world champion. In 2014, on June 1 at Mugello, the Spaniard finished the Gran Premio d’Italia in first place. It was the sixth of his 10 consecutive victories in the opening races of the season

COLIN JACKSON

“I’m always moving” For 11 years he was the world’s fastest man over the 110m hurdles.

Now he’s the international sports director of the Wings for Life World Run and a posterboy for how staying active makes your life better

the red bulletin: Can an athlete know that they’re going to break the world record? colin jackson: Yes, you can. You’re getting closer to it and at the same time you’re aware that your training has got better. From the moment I could produce a 13-second run at the drop of a hat, it was only a question of time until the record fell.

How long did you have to wait?

I realised at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 that I could run a world record. But it didn’t work out. That would have been a magic moment. But I did it at the World Championships in Stuttgart in ’93: 12.91s.

How did you feel that morning in Germany?

I was nervous. I still hadn’t won a major title at that point. Linford Christie was my roommate. He had won gold the previous day and had just missed the world record by one hundredth of a second. Now it was my turn. There was huge pressure.

What do world-class athletes talk about when they’re sharing a room?

Hardly ever about sport. Cars. Their houses. And women, of course. Back in the 1990s, we still used to play cards.

How did you become a sprint hurdler?

I was a fast runner, I was a good high jumper and long jumper, I had good spatial awareness and I was agile. I wanted to be a decathlete, but I wasn’t tall enough.

Are you one of those people who is good at all sports?

Most are easy to learn. Skiing?

Snowboarding? No problem.

What are your personal bests in other disciplines?

I’ve done 10.29s for the 100m, 6.49s for the 60m flat, 2.03m high jump and 7.96m for the long jump.

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In some countries those would be national records. What discipline are you most in awe of?

The high jump. The world record is 2.45m.

That’s the height of a soccer crossbar!

Are you in the same shape as when you ran? (Jackson, 47, retired in 2003.)

I weigh 10kg more now than I did then.

But that’s not because I’ve got fat. It’s because top sportsmen and women are undernourished. A big engine and light chassis. And no dead weight.

“Top sports people are undernourished.

A big engine, light chassis and no dead weight” So why do sprinters have such powerful upper bodies?

Because their arms propel their legs.

When your upper body has explosive power, your legs automatically do, too.

Sprinters always have their hands in their field of vision. Look out for it the next time you see a sprint on TV. What sport do you do now?

I run. I hurdle if a gun is held to my head.

I do a lot of mountain biking. I play tennis.

Football. I ski. Snowboarding. There’s always something. I’m always on the move.

Do you understand people who prefer to sit in front of their TVs rather that exercise?

Exercise is the one thing in the world that only benefits you alone. Everyone in the world, regardless of how busy they are, can find an hour a day to do themselves

some good. If you can’t manage to do that, you’re the worse off for it.

Do you use an exercise monitor?

My father is 83 and he wears one on his arm and gets annoyed if he doesn’t meet his daily target. Whatever helps is good.

I don’t need one, personally.

Do you use a pulse monitor?

No. For me exercise is about feeling good and being in tune with your body. I don’t need to work out any more. I just can.

How far do you run these days?

I hated long-distance running when I was competing, but now 10km isn’t a problem.

How far would you hope to get in the Wings for Life World Run? I’d go about it scientifically. How long could I walk, how long could I go at half-speed and how long would I have to run at full speed to do 15km? So 15km would be my target. That’s virtually a marathon for a sprinter.

But as the race’s international sports director, you won’t be competing, you’ll be at Race Control. What exactly does your job entail?

I want everyone to be disappointed at the end of the race! Not with the way things have been organised or the course itself: I want them to be dissatisfied with their own performance. Because that will mean they’ll come back next year.

Will the 78.58km record fall?

Last year’s winner, Lemawork Ketema, is convinced he’ll manage 100km, but only if absolutely everything comes together.

The starting pistol for the 2015 Wings for Life World Run will be fired simultaneously in 35 locations in 33 countries around the world on May 3, 2015. Find the race near you and register now: wingsforlifeworldrun.com THE RED BULLETIN

DANIEL GRUND/RED BULL CONTENT POOL

Words: Werner Jessner

Roll of honour All 110m hurdles: World Championships gold (1993, 1999) European Championships gold (1990, 1994, 1998, 2002), Olympic Games silver (1988), world record holder (12.91s, set in 1993, equalled by Liu Xiang of China in 2004 and beaten by the same athlete in 2006).

TEAM DYNAMITE

‘We’ve made a Kiwiana kung fu flick’ Auckland hip-hop trio recruit a legend of the NZ scene for killer hooks and video villainy Words: Tom Goldson Photography: David K. Shields

At 7.30am the other morning, on some land just behind a house in Mission Bay, a kung fu film was being made. An homage to classic movies of the genre – shadowy imagery, outrageous martial artistry, a clear line drawn between Good and Evil – it’s also the promo for a song that brings together a man whose name is on 11 NZ Music Awards and a hip-hop trio just two albums into what they hope will be an equally glittering career.

Our hero is played by Tony Tz, one third of Team Dynamite, along with Lucky Lance and Haz Beats. The 11-gong guy is Che Fu, and at this early hour he’s already in costume as the sensei who will guide our hero in his attempt to defeat the head of the Dragons, a villainous kung fu crew.

“I know that Che is into that culture,” says Lucky, also robed up for the shoot. “So it was only right that we got him to be the sensei, the sifu, for a Kiwiana kung fu flick.” There’s also a visual link between the video for Che-Fu’s 1998 single Scenes III, with its Eastern-tinged aesthetic, and the one being shot 16 years later, for a song called Coconut Lime.

The latter’s director, Eddy Fifield, has cribbed props from the set of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon II: The Green Destiny, the just-shot-inNew Zealand sequel to Ang Lee’s 2000 martial arts epic. There are bamboo fronds, a water gourd, lanterns, and even the buckets sourced from the Weinstein Company’s multimilliondollar production. The video, by 36

contrast, is being shot on the smell of an oily rag, but the charms of vintage martial arts flicks are being replicated in suburban Auckland.

Team Dynamite are part of the Young Gifted & Broke collective of artists and musicians that also includes Raiza Biza, Home Brew and Tom Gould.

Che Fu, of course, was the soul-powered voice of Auckland funk-rock outfit Supergroove in the early 1990s before stepping out solo with his 1996 No 1,

“I just wrote to whatever ‘coconut lime’ meant to me.

It sounds like a refreshing drink” Chains. He swapped plain old Che Ness for Che Fu in tribute to his beloved kung fu films, and peppers his rhymes and songs – he is that rare rapper who can also sing – with martial arts references.

“Kung fu movies have been within my vein of interests for a long time, so this role is perfect for me,” he says. “It’s been great working on the video with Eddy, the director, because he was saying stuff, ‘It’s going to be like The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin,’” a reference to the classic 1978 kung fu film, which is also an touchstone for hip-hop’s most famous martial arts fans, the Wu-Tang Clan.

Team Dynamite’s summery vibe is the yin to the yang of the Wu-Tang’s

harder, gangsta-heavy tone, but both groups share a love of melodic samples and rich beats. It has taken the former four years to follow up their debut album, The Demo Tape, with the recently released Shepherd’s Delight. The sweet spot on that collection of certified bangers is Coconut Lime (feat. Che Fu), a track showcasing Ness’s honeyed vocals and raps by Lucky and Tony Tz. Coconut Lime is also, says Haz Beats, the name of the climactic action of the song’s video. “The whole story is pretty much Tony has a fight with me; I’m like the villain, he’s the good guy,” he continues. “He loses and then he goes running to Che Fu and Che teaches him the Coconut Lime, which is a finishing move.

Then Tony comes back and his house is burned down, then he challenges me – and he wins in the end.”

Coconut Lime is also, says Lucky, the name of the song’s beat, which was given to Team Dynamite by a fellow member of the Young, Gifted & Broke collective, B.Haru of the hip-hop group @Peace. (Exactly the sort of help-one-another collaboration that the collective was founded to foster.)

“I just wrote to whatever ‘coconut lime’ meant to me,” he continues. “It sounds like a refreshing drink. When I gave Che the beat, he said ‘What’s coconut lime?’ I just shrugged my shoulders and said ‘What does it mean to you?’ He came back with his hook based on that. That, and this video, are perfect for it, I reckon.” younggiftedandbroke.com/team-dynamite THE RED BULLETIN

The line-up (l-r) Tony Sihamau, 28, aka Tony Tz – MC Lance Fepuleai, 27, aka Lucky Lance – MC Harry Huavi, 32, aka Haz Beats – producer Discography Shepherd’s Delight (album, 2014) The Demo Tape (album, 2010) That’s a rap While he’s now exclusively a beatmaker, Haz Beats made his rhyming debut on The Demo Tape track Love Me, but he hasn’t recorded any raps since.

“ If the number one song is

about your

butt, that’s a problem”

After a l most th ree decades of rock ‘n’ rol l, DAVE GROH L is sti l l rocki n g ha rd , ma ki n g movies a n d TV, a n d tryi n g , he says, “not to sou nd l i ke a bori ng old fa rt ”. OUR EXCLUSIVE I NTERVI EW proves such a thing is impossible. “I’m sure that by some other people’s s t a n d a r d s w h a t I d o i s g a r b a g e ,” h e a d m i t s . “ B u t s c r e w t h e m ” I NTERVI EW: MARC EL AN D ERS 38

PH OTOG RAPHY: DAVI D C LER I H EW

Face time: Dave Grohl, photographed exclusively for The Red Bulletin in London

ave Grohl became world famous in the 1990s as the drummer for Nirvana and has remained stellar every since. He’s the lead singer of Foo Fighters (eight albums, 11 million copies sold, many awards and huge world tours) and has worked on musical projects with, among others, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Nine Inch Nails and Queens Of The Stone Age. Last year he produced his first film, Sound City, a documentary about the titular Los Angeles music studio. Now he’s driving Sonic Highways, an ambitious project merging the eighth Foo Fighters album, out in November, with an eight-part TV series in which Grohl shows the band recording the album in studios across America and interviews artists associated with those studios, including Dolly Parton, Joe Walsh, Chuck D, Willie Nelson and Rick Rubin. There’s also a sit-down with Barack Obama. When he met The Red Bulletin recently, the 45-year-old swapped the questioning for answer duty. the red bulletin: How many security men were behind the camera when you interviewed the President of the United States of America? dave grohl: Here’s the thing: The White House is a really relaxed and comfortable place, because you can’t get in there unless they know that you’re cool. So once you’re in, you’re in and it’s relaxed and not creepy or scary. The President had some really great things to say about our country and about specific musicians.

I wanted to talk to him about not only the history of music in America, but America as a country where there’s the opportunity to do great things.

I mean, I’m well aware that there are a lot of things going terribly wrong, but America still holds the freedom that you can be someone like Buddy Guy. 40

“LET’S BE H O N EST: IT NEVER HURT NOBODY TO PRACTISE YOUR INSTRUM ENT, TO DEVELOP AN EAR FOR RHYTHM AND MELODY”

Meet the band: Foo Fighters are (from left) Nate Mendel (bass), Chris Shiflett (guitar), Dave Grohl (guitar and vocals) Taylor Hawkins (drums), Pat Smear (guitar)

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Guy carved out a career in music despite having no education and no money.

Echoes of the Dave Grohl story?

Buddy’s the greatest ever as far as I’m concerned. He made his first guitar from wires in his screen porch and wood. I’m a high-school dropout from Springfield, Virginia. I never graduated school and I never had enough money for college.

I worked manual jobs and played noisy punk rock music. Now I’m in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and I get to sit and talk to the President about music.

I’m not saying what a great guy I am, but I want everyone to imagine that same opportunity is possible.

So what does it take to make it big in America, if not the world?

I believe that if you’re focused and driven and passionate enough about something that you can do it. Don’t screw everybody else’s expectation, just do it the way you do it. Why do it like somebody else?

Has that actually worked for you?

Sure. For example, I haven’t got a clue how to direct movies and TV, I just do it the way I see fit. That’s the same way I play the drums and write songs. I’m sure that by some other people’s standards, what I do is complete garbage, but screw them.

It leads to great things. It’s the only way.

Did you pass that piece of advice on to President Obama?

I think he’s got the worst job in the world.

The day I interviewed him, he gave a press conference and announced he would be sending more troops to Iraq. Then he gave the Congressional Medal Of Honor to a solider who was badly injured saving another soldier. He’s got the economy, he’s got international conflict and then he sits down with me to talk about Stevie Wonder and The Rolling Stones.

So President Grohl is out of the question?

Ha ha ha! I could never get past the first step of becoming a politician. I’ve done so much stupid stuff in my life. Who would vote for me?

But the glasses you’ve started wearing recently make you look very serious.

Oh yeah, well – age. I am deaf, dumb and blind.

So the White House is temporary, but you were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame this year as part of Nirvana. Why did you only have female singers for your performance at the ceremony?

Because Kurt [Cobain] was a feminist.

And someone suggested Joan Jett.

I mean, Joan Jett she’s the first lady of rock ’n’ roll. She’s the one. Then it was like: “What about Kim Gordon?”

She and Kurt were great friends, they loved each other and Sonic Youth were our heroes. “Yeah, let’s get Kim.” And you had Lorde from New Zealand.

Lorde was my idea. Her song Royals is its own little revolution in the sea of bullshit.

Is that sea what you referred to recently as ‘stripper pop’?

Pop music in America right now is so superficial. It’s fun to listen to, to turn up in your car when you’re in traffic, but there’s no substance at all. It’s devoid of any meaning. I’m not just saying that as a 45-year-old rock musician, I’m saying that as a human being. If the number one song is about your butt, that’s a problem. So when I heard Royals in the middle of all of these other songs, I thought, “Thank God! Someone’s singing something that actually has a little bit of something.”

As an old-school rock band, do Foo Fighters struggle in a digitised world?

Sad but true. People have forgotten what it’s like to really rock out because they spend all day in front of a freakin’ computer, which they hail as the new god. And they seriously think technology can make them rich, if they stumble on something new. But I’m telling you: technology might make you rich, yet it will never make you happy.

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Isn’t it easier to be happy if you’re rich?

They’re two different things light years apart. Happiness or luck or a good feeling – whatever you want to call it – is based on interaction among humans, on making other people happy, giving them something dear to their heart.

Music is a perfect medium for that.

What could be more human than writing a song with bass, drums and guitars?

That’s as feel-based as it gets.

What do you do with all your money?

It goes straight into my bank account, where it turns all mouldy and smelly.

No investments, nothing like that?

I don’t waste my time thinking about how I could make more when I’ve already got enough. I’m not a banker, I’m a musician. However, at the same time it buys me freedom, of course. It allows me to do what I want to do and not having to worry about anything at all.

No houses, no big, fat cars?

I drive a family car – not a monster SUV, but a family car that fits five people. I’ve got a house that is just big enough, too.

My only status symbol would be 606, my studio in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. I’ve invested a fortune to make it look exactly like Abba’s legendary Atlantis studio. I’m not kidding: that’s what I was after and it cost me a lot to have that dream come alive.

Is making music the analogue way becoming a lost art?

I hope I don’t sound like a boring old fart here, but let’s be honest: it never hurt nobody to practise your instrument, to develop an ear for rhythm and melody.

So what do you think of EDM? What the heck are you talking about?

Don’t speak in riddles, man!

Electronic dance music. Skrillex, Deadmau5, etc.

That’s what that is called? It’s simply not my kind of music. What’s more, it’s nothing new. Artists like Suicide or Atari Teenage Riot have been doing it for decades and are still doing it way better.

What do your kids listen to? [Grohl has three daughters, aged eight, five and three months.]

I’m damned lucky on that front. The worst thing they impose on me is Katy Perry’s latest album.

Katy doesn’t make you happy?

No, not at all. Her music is a real test in terms of loyalty towards your kids. But at the same time I can still make them listen to good stuff. I got my eldest two, Harper and Violet, a turntable and The Beatles box set. So they listen to Magical Mystery Tour and the White Album. Give a six44

year-old a turntable and all of the Beatles records and I guarantee that within one hour they will be doing what you did when you were six years old, too. Records on the floor, dancing, singing; it’s great What kind of relationship do you have with social networking?

Honestly, I haven’t got a clue. I’m not on Facebook or on Instagram and it’s because I don’t care. If I want to talk to people I just call them up or text them.

Yet, for my 75-year-old mother, it makes perfect sense, simply because she doesn’t have too many people to talk to anymore, she hardly leaves the house and she is lonely. She’s like, ‘You’re living in the past, dear. Let me show you how to Twitter.’ Maybe if I reach her age then I’ll launch my first personal website,

by Dave Grohl, retired rock star.

Courtney Love wants to make a Nirvana biopic. Who should play Dave Grohl?

I guess Robert Rodriguez would be my favourite, just because he’s so cool, but I just don’t think it’s going to happen.

“ I HAVE INVESTED A LOT OF MONEY TO MAKE MY STUDIO LIKE ABBA’S LEGENDARY ATLANTI S . I ’ M NOT KIDDING”

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INSPIRED BY PINBALL AND FUELLED BY A DESIRE TO TAKE MOTORSPORT TO CITY STREETS, RED BULL DRIFT SHIFTERS PUTS A NEW SPIN ON THE SPORT THAT GREW ON JAPANESE RACE TRACKS. IT’S DRIFTING, BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT...

GRAEME MURRAY

Smokin’ hot: New Zealand drifter Daniel ‘Fanga Dan’ Woolhouse burns rubber on his way to a third place finish at Red Bull Drift Shifters 2012 in Auckland

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Action stations: ‘Mad Mike’ Whiddett spins his wheels in the start chute ahead of his run at the 2012 Drift Shifters

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GRAEME MURRAY

ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 DOWNTOWN AUCKLAND WILL BE TRANSFORMED INTO A GIANT PINBALL-THEMED RACE TRACK. RED BULL DRIFT SHIFTERS WILL SHOWCASE THE TALENTS OF 16 OF THE BEST DRIFTERS FROM NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN AND THE USA. HERE’S WHAT TO EXPECT

RED BULL DRIFT SHIFTERS

1/HOW IT WORKS In competition drifting, a typical course consists of consecutive corners on a racetrack or a custombuilt layout in a car park. In both cases, drivers drift the section laid out in front of them and follow a racing line predetermined by the judges. In Red Bull Drift Shifters, the game plays out a little different. Other than a defined entry point and the finishing line, there is no set course that needs to be followed. Instead, much like the free-roam nature of freestyle motocross, it’s up to competitors to choose where they drive. Drivers need to decide on their strategy in advance. The more obstacles they negotiate and combinations they can put together, the higher their score. But there’s a catch – with only limited time on the clock, drivers need to be fast and precise to score big. Mistakes or slow progress through the course can be costly.

TOTAL POINTS SCORED DETERMINE WHICH DRIVERS PROGRESS AND WHICH DRIVERS ARE ELIMINATED

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2/GAME FORMAT Two cars going head-to-head is the traditional format for drifting, but Drift Shifters is a single-car, knockout format.

After a free practice session during which 16 competitors familiarise themselves with the course layout, it’s down to business. Each driver has one timed-and-scored run in each round of competition. Total points scored determine which drivers progress and which drivers are eliminated. In the first round, the six highest-scoring drivers move on, while those who didn’t make the cut take to the course one more time to vie for two final last-chance qualifier positions. After the eight-car quarter-final round, four drivers progress to the semi-final, at which point the third- and fourth-placed drivers are left behind and the top two head to the final, where the title will be decided.

Crowd-pleaser: ‘Mad Mike’ Whiddett pushes his car to the limit and beyond as he approaches the curved wall at the 2012 event

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3/ON POINT As a judged sport, drifting is subjective. Red Bull Drift Shifters scoring mechanism is computerised and totally automated to do away with inconsistencies and human error. Scores are calculated from the data delivered by the digital sensors positioned throughout the course. These state-of-the-art sensors measure the drift angle, speed and proximity of the cars to the obstacles. As competitors negotiate the course, their running total accumulates and is displayed in real time on the electronic scoreboard.

Tight fit: ‘The Undertaker’ obstacle was a highlight of Red Bull Drift Shifters 2012.

Drivers scored big points for drifting under the trailer

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SCORING IS AUTOMATED TO DO AWAY WITH INCONSISTENCIES AND HUMAN ERROR

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THE CAR

Raw driving talent and bravery are required to throw a car sideways at more than 180kph. Also needed: the right hardware, namely a rear-wheel drive machine with drift-specific modifications Words: Brad Lord  Illustration: Tom Mackinger

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Aerodynamics aids such as a large rear wing, keep the car planted on high-speed drift courses.

The more downforce that’s generated over the rear axle, the more grip the tyres will have.

LSD

To ensure that the power finds its way to both rear wheels, therefore making the car smooth and controllable to drive in an oversteer state, a limited-slip differential (LSD) is a prerequisite.

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Drifters chew through rear tyres almost as quickly as fuel. Grip equals control even when the wheels are spinning, so highperformance tyre compounds are favoured.

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RED BULL DRIFT SHIFTERS

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For speed, angle and the momentum to keep the rear tyres smoking, power and lots of it is vital. For instant throttle response, large capacity engines and/or forced induction set-ups are commonplace.

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Because the amount of slip (drift) angle produced directly relates to how far the front wheels can turn outwards at full lock, steering system modifications are a must.

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DAVID ROBINSON

Good brakes are important in any race car, but in more ways than one in drifting. A hydraulic handbrake is used to momentarily lock the rear wheels to initiate a drift or tidy the line.

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How a drift car reacts while travelling sideways at speed comes down to the suspension set-up.

Combining coilover shocks with adjustable arms, rods and links allows precise tuning.

Driveline

The parts that transfer the power from the engine to the wheels feel the full force of the torque loads. For reliability and performance, racingspecific transmission set-ups are often used.

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‘THERE’S NO OTHER MOTORSPORT EVENT WHERE YOU CAN GET SO CLOSE TO CARS GOING THAT FAST’ ‘MAD MIKE’ WHIDDETT

HI MIKE, give us the dummies’ guide to Red Bull Drift Shifters... ‘mad mike’ whiddett: Drifting is a judged sport and like any judged sport there’s human error involved. Politics and bias comes into it and the result depends on someone else’s opinion.

Our goal was to create an event that was scored electronically and based on the three main criteria in drifting: the line, the speed and the angle. It’s a spectator-friendly event and the scoring system is simple to understand. the red bulletin: What makes the concept unique?

There are three main differences from regular drifting. The first is the fact that instead of judges we use high-tech proximity, speed and angle sensors to measure the driver’s skills. The software we’ve developed allows the driver to get bonus combos by activating multiple sensors depending on the difficulty of the obstacle. Then there is the nature of the event itself. Usually drifting and other motorsport events run for the whole day: ours is a much more compact event. For the first event in 2012 we put on this really explosive show in three hours. Finally we took drifting from the race track and brought these high-powered cars to the city centre. We gave spectators a chance to get right up close to the action. There’s no other motorsport event where you can get so close to cars going that fast.

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What were the highlights of the first Red Bull Drift Shifters in 2012?

There had never been a major motorsport event on the streets of Auckland before.

The council had turned down a round of the V8 Supercars which is Australasia’s biggest motorsport series. So for them to accept a drifting event dreamed up by a guy named ‘Mad Mike’, I never thought that would happen. It was quite surreal to see this dream I had of building a drift track come together in my own backyard.

Were you disappointed to only finish fourth in your own event in 2012?

I definitely wasn’t disappointed. My main

focus was to ensure the event ran smoothly, that the crowd were happy and all the drivers were looked after.

I can barely remember driving in 2012.

What was the feedback from the other drivers?

They all wanted to have more track time. Because we ran the event over three hours a lot of drivers only got two runs on the track and their runs lasted just under a minute. We’re hoping to have an extra hour this year and change up the format a little bit so we can give the drivers more track time.

What did you learn from 2012?

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RED BULL DRIFT SHIFTERS

THE CREATOR

MILES HOLDEN / RED BULL CONTENT POOL, DAVID ROBINSON

‘Mad Mike’ Whiddett devised Red Bull Drift Shifters six years ago.

The 33-year-old is one of the most popular drivers in the sport with over one million followers on Facebook.

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We need more space for spectators.

We had 15,000 spectators at the event in 2012 and there was an awesome atmosphere but I want to make sure that people who come along can see everything that’s happening.

What’s new for the 2014 event?

The track will be twice as big as in 2012, so it’s going to be much faster and much more exciting. With a longer course, the cars will reach higher speeds and produce longer slides, showcasing true drifting rather than just burnouts. A lot of people still think drifting is all about burnouts and pulling doughnuts. I want to showcase the speed and precision driving of drifters. I want to make sure the track flows and drivers use all of the track.

What are your ambitions for Red Bull Drift Shifters?

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US, to LA or San Francisco. We were hoping to put on an event in London this year, but the timing didn’t work out.

What car will you be driving?

I’m hoping to unveil the new 2014 MAZDA MX5 (#RADBUL), but unfortunately it’s unlikely to be ready on time. The Mazda MX5 is the best-selling sportscar in the world, but some people perceive it as a hairdressers’ car. Nothing against hairdressers, but our goal is to turn it into this crazy monster of a drift car. The spec and geometry of the car is almost perfect.

It’s set up to be a violent, explosive drift car that will really suit my driving style.

We’ve gone totally over the top with every part in the car: the engine, the turbo, the suspension, everything is next level. We’ve got 1,000hp in a 1,200kg car. It will be difficult to drive, but very competitive.

What are your goals for the 2014 Red Bull Drift Shifters 2014?

I want it to be bigger, better and badder than the first event, and the other drivers should know I’m in it to win it this year. madmike.co.nz THE RED BULLETIN

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RED BULL DRIFT SHIFTERS

Knowledge is power performancecar.co.nz

RED BULL DRIFT SHIFTERS

Jarod De Anda, a larger than life character from Southern California known as the voice of drift, is back in New Zealand as the event MC.

You were the MC for the first Red Bull Drift Shifters in 2012. What are your memories of that event?

jarod de anda: It was rad. I travel a lot for work, but Auckland was an incredible experience for me and for the drivers. I’ve so many good memories. Before the event we went jet boating in the harbour in the pouring rain, the event itself just went off and the afterparty was spectacular. the red bulletin: What made it so special?

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beauty of the concept is that you don’t need a lot of space to show off the driver’s car control and ability. Red Bull Drift Shifters takes facets of drifting that everybody enjoys and a proprietary technology that no one had ever seen before. Add a sprinkle of pinball wizardry, the backdrop of the Auckland skyline and the Sky Tower and you have a pretty special event.

Which drivers impressed you most in 2012?

There was the guy who smashed the roof of his car drifting under the trailer, Daniel ‘Fanga Dan’ Woolhouse. Then there was Sam Hubinette in the Dodge Challenger, I mean Sammy is a Swedish driver, driving an American car, throwing it down in New Zealand. What’s not to like about that? Then the icing on the

cake was Matt Powers, who’s a total bro, winning the event.

Are you a drifter yourself?

I grew up street racing in San Diego, but I’m 6ft 4in tall and I weigh 250lb, so I’m not a small dude. I don’t race anymore but my job means I get to hang out with all these drifting stars and other action sports stars like Tony Hawk, Bucky Lasek and Travis Pastrana. I’m quite happy that I decided to leave it to those guys to do the hard yards. I’ve found my sweet spot and I feel blessed.

What’s your catchphrase?

‘Send it!’ is my go-to line when the cars are on the start line all revved up and ready to go. If something spectacular happens then you’ll hear me shout ‘Oh Doctor!’ which basically means ‘get psyched on it’.

How would you describe your commentary style?

I speak American. I don’t speak the Queen’s English. I’m an excitable, yell-atthe-top-of-my-lungs kind of guy, but I also appreciate the technicalities of the sport and the skill of the drivers. I’ve travelled the world with drifting and I’m known as ‘the voice of drift’. I was lucky enough to get involved in the early days of the sport in the US. I’ve seen every single run of the Formula Drift championship both in the US and internationally. I’m the only person in the world who can say that. I’ve been doing this 11 years now and I feel privileged to be involved at the start of Red Bull Drift Shifters.

Can you see the event working outside of New Zealand?

One hundred per cent and I can’t wait to be part of it. I’d love to bring it to Japan, to Europe to the States. It’s all open. It’s a concept that’s ready to plug and play. ‘Mad Mike’ has created something very special.

How is ‘Mad Mike’ regarded in international drift circles?

Mike is first and foremost a professional, but he’s also got a very personal touch.

He’s developed this brand and this event that people want to be part of. He’s got a very magnetic personality and he’s passionate about what he does, who he works with and the sport of drifting.

He’s got this incredible energy and anything he does, he does it with style.

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JIM KRANTZ

‘ I SPEAK AMERICAN. I DON’T SPEAK THE QUEEN’S ENGLISH’

THE MC

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NOT A BUNGEE At a gorge in Spain, a team of extreme sports experts hurled themselves into the abyss,

ATTACHED TO A CLIMBING ROPE, IN THE HUNT FOR A FREEFALL WORLD RECORD WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY: FRE D MARIE

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After months of preparation, Alexey Bokoch of Ukraine takes a giant leap towards extreme sports’ new benchmark

The inventor of

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n early May, 17 men and one woman – expert climbers, engineers, BASEjumpers and parachutists – came together at the highest point of an overhanging rock face about 450m above the Noguera River in the Mont-rebei Gorge, which separates the provinces of Aragon and Catalonia in northern Spain. They seemed to be making the world’s biggest swing.

They built two rope slides from climbing ropes and strung them across the gorge, several hundred metres wide, to which they attached a light, elastic, rope 300m long. They had calculated

died attem pting the recor d Ropes were carried from one side of the gorge to the other on kayaks

that, attached to the dynamic rope and a braking system of anchors and pulleys, a jumper would be able to execute a record freefall of 330m, lasting about 12 seconds (also a record). This hyb­rid of bungee jumping and BASE-jumping is ropejumping (also known as freefalling) and is the best-kept secret in extreme sports.

Rope-jumping is a relatively new discipline. Legendary American climber Dan Osman is seen as the man who invented it. Osman, one of the world’s best freeclimbers in the 1980s and 1990s, was the first person to purposely jump with a climbing rope, which he did from increasingly great heights. On November 23, 1998, trying to take his own freefall record to 335m at the Yosemite National Park in California, the rope came apart, for reasons not fully understood to this day. Osman fell to his death aged 35.

More than 15 years after Osman’s catastrophic attempt, three teams have come together to attempt to break the world record in Spain: Pyrénaline from France, High Jump from Spain and Rock&Rope from Ukraine. (Between 1998 and their attempt, the largest recorded rope-jump was 310m, in Norway last year, by a Polish team, Dream Jump.)

As with many unprecedented feats of the adrenalin kind, the jump itself is not the most arduous task involved.

The preparatory work began months in advance, which, unsurprisingly, included lengthy and somewhat unusual negotiations with local authorities.

Actual work at the jump site lasted three weeks. It takes 4km of climbing rope just to stretch the huge rope slides across from one side of the gorge to the

MORE THAN 4KM OF ROPE is neede d for the stru ctur e that sho uld mak e a world record possible

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Sergey Khyzhniak from the Ukrainian Rock&Rope team testing the rope structure

The 18-strong team take three weeks to complete the rope structure

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Mathieu Bes is chosen by lot to be the first to make the jump.

“I visualise a clean jump. That helps me conquer my fears”

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Paul-Antoine Gauchon winches across before taking communications duties (right) and speaking to Sergey Khyzhniak (left)

other; the ropes are taken to the edge of the gorge by one part of the group and lowered to another part of the team at the foot of the cliff so that they can then be transported several hundred metres across the river by kayak.

“It’s the most complicated project we’ve ever worked on,” says Alexey Bokoch, of the Rock&Rope team. Ukraine and Poland have the biggest ropejumping communities, not least because both countries have a strong tradition of bungee-jumping. Rock&Rope is one of the most experienced and active teams.

The Ukrainians have even initiated an International Rope-Jumping Association.

After much research, it turned out that late May would be the ideal time for the attempt, not so much because it’s nice and warm in the gorge at that time of year, but for the relatively gentle winds. Wind creates the greatest risk when rope-jumping. Turbulence can throw a jumper against the rock face, a potentially lethal threat. In the narrow gorge, conditions are even more difficult, with air layers and currents in various directions piled on top of each other.

“It’s like a cake made out of layers of wind,” says Bokoch.

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have died down a little. Lots are drawn to determine who will be the first to jump. The honour falls to Mathieu Bes of Pyrénaline. The Frenchman is to jump from about 400m above the river. The route he has chosen will give him about 260m of freefall. While Bes concentrates his thoughts, his teammates, posted at various heights around the gorge, give the signal to jump.

In honour of his teammates, he counts down in Ukrainian.

“Try! Dva! Odyn! Bazo!”

As he pushes himself off, he screams with delight and the echo of his scream in the gorge mixes with the screams of his teammates at the top and bottom of the cliff. This first jump goes smoothly, and everyone is relieved.

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Rope-jumpers need a strong take-off to take them a lifesaving distance away from the rock face.

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face. Bes had no problem, but the same can’t be said for Ivan Kharkhan, one of the next to jump. After about 80m in freefall, he goes into a tailspin and gets closer and closer to the rock face.

It is only thanks to his very good take-off that he is able to avoid getting into an extremely dangerous situation.

There are no screams echoing when he comes to a halt at the end of the rope.

“If you don’t manage to push yourself far forward enough when you take off, you’ll smash into the rock face,” says Bes. “I internalise my trajectory and

‘TRY! DVA! ODYN! BAZO!’ Frenchman Mathieu Bes counted down in the Ukrai nian of his teammates before freefalling

think about how clean and controlled the jump will be. You forget your fear when you know what to expect.”

The record attempt is reserved for Bokoch. The Ukrainian is the most experienced rope-jumper present.

The stats from his jump are impressive: exit at 944m above sea level, 132kph maximum vertical speed and 62kph maximum horizontal speed. The braking effect of the rope kicks in after 331m (12.32s). He comes to a halt at 519m above sea level. A new world record. www.pyrenaline.fr, rocknrope.com.ua

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“The KTM Freeride E makes the transition to motorbikes for me as a cyclist easy,” says Danny MacAskill, 28. “It has no gears, no clutch, no hot exhaust and the handlebar has two brake levers, like on a bicycle.

I could ride up walls on it within a couple of days! It needs to be set up perfectly for tricks that I can

do with my eyes closed on my regular bike, but I have used my Freeride E to freeride trails I then tackle with my mountain bike.

As for whether I’ll ever do a video with one of these… I’ve already played with the idea, but I need to practise a bit more first.” ktmfreeride-e.com

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CLIFF DIVING WORLD-LEADING PLUNGEMAN ORLANDO DUQUE ON HOW TO HONE A DIVER’S PHYSIQUE “The most important thing in our sport is the leg muscles,” says Orlando Duque, the 40-year-old Colombian who’s the greatest cliff-diver of his generation.

“First for take-off, and then for landing, because we land in the water feet first.

When you dive from a height of 27m at around 85kph, you have to press your legs together with all your might. So it’s really important for me to do special exercises. One-legged squats are routine.”

As well as the squats, Duque’s workouts include “a regular mix of cardio, weights, diving and mental training. I vary my endurance training – running, cycling, swimming, rowing, stand-up paddling – but luckily Hawaii, the place which I’ve chosen to make home, is ideal for that.”

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FLY A two-hour drive from NYC, at the foot of the Shawangunk Mountains in Ellenville, sits the Mountain Wings Flight Park, dubbed the hang gliding capital of the Northeast.

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FISH Travel by train to Montauk for a shark fishing trip in the North Atlantic.

Sail out on one of Captain John Krol’s two charter boats, start spreading the chum and wait. movin-oncharters.com

Shoot on sight: get kitted out and then corner your friends

ADVICE FROM THE INSIDE A BUZZ, LITERALLY Participants in IES’s law enforcement and military training scenarios wear the ‘shockbelt’ system, which sends an electric current through them when hit. “Our insurance has given us a preliminary thumbs up to use it recreationally,” says founder Peter Fermoselle. “It’s a real game-changer.”

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You may be hot stuff when you’re sitting on the sofa, console controller in hand, battling through computerised combat scenarios or fighting off the pixelated zombie apocalypse. But how will you cope when you’re forced out of your comfort zone and into a real-world war zone? Strap on a replica, laser targeted M4 assault rifle or holster a modified Glock pistol and find out at the Indoor Extreme Sports, non-lethal, combat facility in Queens, New York. IES takes authentic training scenarios used by the US Army and law enforcement agencies and combines them with the most intense laser tag experiences you can imagine to bring shoot ’em up gaming to life. “Our advanced M4 military platform is as real as it gets,” says IES founder Peter Fermoselle. “It’s light years ahead of the training system the US military currently employs.”

Two main war games are on offer within the 38,000-square-foot former cheese factory that houses the IES company’s various battlegrounds.

“Your every sense is at its limit in there,” says Adam Green, A 90-minute session costs a survivor of a close encounter US$20-40 per of the undead kind. “The adrenalin player depending really pumps through you and on scenario and pushes you right to the edge. day of the week.

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Breathtaking. ontariooutdoor.com

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place to drink wine with your friends outdoors. The cops never bother you. Everyone sits and watches the white squirrels, which live here peacefully and aren’t scared of people at all.”

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Everything for everybody TORONTO LAID-BACK COPS, WHITE SQUIRRELS AND SECRET SUPERSTAR DJS. WHAT YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT CANADA’S MUST-SEE METROPOLIS “The best thing about our city is its variety,” says Jr Flo, of Keys ’N Krates, a Toronto trio who are currently one of Canada’s most successful electronic bands.

“There are so many people from so many different backgrounds living here. Any one of them will praise Toronto, without being prompted, as the best, safest, most tolerant and most liveable city in the world.”

“The music scene here is vibrant,” says David Matisse, “Acts like The Weeknd or Drake once made free mixtapes, put them online and got a huge international fanbase. Now fresh Toronto-based acts are making noise online before they even play a show in Toronto.

Check them out!” Next time you’re in Canada’s biggest city – a 90-minute flight from New York City – go with these suggestions and have a fine time. keysnkrates.com

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1 KENSINGTON MARKET, Kensington Ave “This place is run-down but legendary. A multicultural area full of Indian shops, Rastafarian cafés and hippies having a smoke.

Each week there’s the Pedestrian Sunday street festival.”

2 PIZZERIA LIBRETTO, 221 Ossington Ave “You can get good pizza all over Toronto, but what chef Rocco conjures up here is unmatched.

You have to have their sausage pizza with caramelised onions.”

3 TRINITY BELLWOODS PARK, 155 Crawford St “An oasis right in the heart of the downtown hubbub and a chilled

4 COSMOS WEST RECORDS, 652 Queen St “An extremely overpriced record store. You pay double what an LP is worth. So why do people go? Because no other shop in the world has such an extraordinary selection of rare treasures.”

5 THE HOXTON, 69 Bathurst St “An insider tip for anyone who wants to hear live house music. Acts that are just about to make it big play here. You should never miss the afterparty and their ‘surprise guests’ often turn out to be superstars.”

The forests around Toronto are paradise in winter for those who do skidoo. Newbies can learn quickly; seasoned vets will carve the snow at 100kph. backcountrytours.ca

DOG SLEDDING Take the reins of a team of four-six huskies and travel in style the old-fashioned Canadian way. Half-day and full-day adventures are available. trythat.ca

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FOUL PLAY British chap Baron Dashforth and protégé Scampwick pummel monsters before an audience.

An interactive stage play and fight game in one, for PC, Xbox 360 and PS4.

Heed the call C ALL OF DUTY THE KING OF FIRST-PERSON SHOOTERS IS BACK – AND HEADING TO THE FUTURE

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The year is 2054. Humanity holds its breath as a mysterious terror organisation blows up nuclear power stations all around the world. Governments are powerless, so private military firms step into the breach and fight the terrorists with all the firepower that 40 years’ time has to offer. Right in the middle of this almighty fight is where you, playing Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare, come in.

For some, this isn’t just another first-person shooter: it is the definitive first-person shooter.

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Terrorists against private armies: the future according to Call Of Duty

where not much bar the packaging changes (Advanced Warfare is the game’s 11th version). But one thing is clear: Call Of Duty is insanely popular, with sales of over 100 million copies.

This success story began back in 2003, when Call Of Duty – a first-person shooter played out in a World War II environment – made its debut. The annual follow-ups have been set in various other times, including the Cold War and the present day. The series broke new ground by making war games feel somehow more authentic, from the shock waves caused by explosions to the recoil of weapons and tactical challenges.

That feeling lingers in Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare, even though your arsenal includes futuristic combat drones, smart grenades and superpower-endowing exoskeletons.

BATTLEBLOCK THEATER Together, the two of you have to negotiate more than 80 levels of traps, platforms, enemies and daft sight gags. For PC and Xbox 360.

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House punks: The Zombie Kids Cumhur Jay (left) and Edgar Candel Kerri backstage at Razzmatazz in Barcelona

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In the video for the song Face, which they uploaded to YouTube in May 2011, the opening shots are of a queue of girls and a band with a synth player prominent. A repetitive beat, possibly a sample, quite catchy, keeps time.

Then the focus shifts to the vocalist.

He is black, with a shaved head and silver teeth. He’s wearing leather jacket, nothing underneath, that has black feathers on the back that, from the front, look like a pair of wings.

At this point, you’re thinking, ‘Hmm’.

The music kicks in after 16 seconds, and by second 19, you’re thinking that this guy has secured the band a hit.

The Zombie Kids provide the musical foundations: Cumhur Jay, known as Jay, on synthesizer and Edgar Candel Kerri on bass. There are then various shots of beautiful young people. The women are dancing, the shirtless, tattooed men are shadow boxing. The video tells you a lot you need to know about the band’s taste.

“We shot the video in Jay’s living room,” says Edgar.

And who is that flamboyant vocalist?

“He’s called Aqeel and he was a total unknown in 2011 [when the video was uploaded]. We liked the clothes he was wearing, so we got him behind the mic.”

Face made The Zombie Kids stars, got them a record deal with Universal, an 80

advertising deal with Mexico’s largest brewery and an MTV Europe award. If you want to book the duo, be prepared to provide two five-star hotel rooms and vegetarian menus. They won’t fly Ryanair.

“We followed an old punk adage,” says Edgar, explaining their success.

“Just do everything yourself.”

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It is a hot August evening in Barcelona.

Edgar and Cumhur are lolling around on the couch in Edgar’s loft apartment with its white walls, high ceilings and a huge flat-screen TV. The Zombie Kids are just a little bit tired. They’ve basically spent the last three years touring. They’ve played festivals in Abu Dhabi and shot music videos in Guatemala. They’ve done 26 club concerts in the last 30

“You n g p e o p l e n ow l i ste n to a crazy mi x of h ou se, ro c k an d ra p. We make mu si c for th e S p otif y g e n e rati o n”

Far-flung fan: Pallis Lyons (above, hands aloft) travelled 17,000km to see The Zombie Kids Left: there’s a lot of love in the crowd at Razzmatazz

Boys night out: Zombie Kids at play and (facing page, top) Edgar shares champagne with revellers

days. But they’re also a little bit tense.

Tonight they’re playing Razzmatazz, which is a bit like FC Barcelona playing at the Nou Camp. “A home game,” says Edgar, then points to the TV, which is showing a Spanish pre-season friendly.

Edgar, 35, has eyebrows groomed so they point up in the middle and is wearing a pair of surf shorts. His body is covered in tattoos, including P-U-N-K on the knuckles of his right hand. He played guitar in a hardcore band as a kid. He has toured Europe in clapped-out old buses.

Jay, 34, has a full, black beard and is wearing a baseball cap backwards.

He studied economics in London, but almost bankrupted himself spending all his money on records. Jay is the band’s sound nerd. Like Edgar, he also has tattoos on his arms and legs, but he wears long-sleeved shirts when he’s negotiating contracts, when, he says, “a discrete look helps”.

Edgar and Jay are known for the flamboyant excesses of their live shows.

They spray a lot of champagne into the crowd and dress up their singers in a string of weird costumes. In Madrid, they threw 6,000 American one-dollar bills into the crowd. “They didn’t believe it was real money,” says Jay. “They just carried on dancing.”

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Night moves: at 4am, people aren’t just dancing in front of the stage (below right).

They’re dancing on it, too (below)

N I G H T L I F E Hot (pants) in here: there’s no dresscode at Razzmatazz, but short shorts go a long way

week. People are used to top-level acts.

The crowd is critical. You’ve got to whip up the crowd at the highpoint of the night, between three and four in the morning.”

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Their music is a rebellion against genre barriers. “We produce music for the Spotify generation,” explains Edgar.

“Young people now listen to a crazy mix of house, rock and rap. We’re DJs who mix our musical styles. Or we bring old styles back to life. Like zombies coming back from the dead.”

On the pair’s albums you will find senseless party anthems, such as Spanish Sauce Mafia, and hard-hitting rap numbers, like Broke. In their videos you’ll see hipsters in pink leggings, rappers with dreads and Staffies.

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“You ’ve g ot to w h ip u p th e crowd at th e h i g h p oi nt of th e n i g ht, b et we e n th re e and fo u r i n th e m o r n i n g ”

It’s 1am. Edgar and Jay are in a taxi heading for Razzmatazz, in Barcelona’s former industrial area, Poblenou, which is dominated by brick buildings and covered in graffiti. The club, which opened in 1986, is housed in a former cotton mill. Backstage, it smells like a party room in a basement. There are tiled walls, a worn-out red sofa and cans of beer in a battered fridge.

“There’s no better springboard to an international career than Barcelona,” explains Jay, not least because of the agenda-setting electronic music festivals Sonar and Primavera that bring highprofile names to the city every year.

A large number of them also play at Razzmatazz. “A-Track, Fatboy Slim and Diplo will all play here on a good

At 2.30am, Jay puts a 32GB memory stick into the DJ decks on the stage.

On it are 929 songs, more than enough ammunition for a two-and-a-half-hour set; Edgar and Jay create playlists on the fly. At the edge of the stage, roadies are bringing up equipment: confetti cannons, smoke machines, two bottles of Moet.

The lights go out. The first song comes thumping out of the speakers: a DJ Assault cover amplified with 13,000 Watts. The song is called Suck My Motherf–cking Dick.

About 2,000 people, almost all of them under 30, move closer to the decks. Edgar and Jay do a remix of Billie Jean. They treat Michael Jackson’s vocal as beats, slowing it down, doubling the speed. The Zombie Kids are getting the place warmed up.

For the all-important 3-4am hour, they change the tempo. At 3am on the dot, they raise the bpm from 100 to 128. It’s party time. The crowd is a maelstrom of arms and smartphones raised aloft. Edgar stands at the turntables with his legs apart, like a gunslinger ready for a duel.

The highlight of the night comes at 3.30am Jay and Edgar play another one of their songs featuring Aqeel, called Fire.

About 2,000 people sing along to the chorus: “Got me burning inside like fire.”

The confetti machines spew out gold glitter. Edgar sprays champagne into the crowd. The DJs and the crowd are one.

Young women are dancing on the stage.

Yet the most awestruck fan in the place doesn’t cast t a sideways glance.

Curly-haired 30-year-old Pallis Lyons has travelled from Sydney, Australia, to see The Zombie Kids. Jay secured him a backstage pass. Pallis is next to the decks, taking photos on his phone. “The Zombies wanted to play in Australia,” he roars, “but it didn’t work out. So I thought to myself, ‘F–k it. I’ll go to them instead.’”

A second shower of glitter rains down on the crowd. The fun goes on till 5am.

Fifteen minutes later, Edgar and Jay are sitting backstage. The Barcelona game was a home win. Jay says that you can only make it big if you do a lot of gigs.

Edgar says sometimes he doesn’t know which city he’s woken up in, but he can still manage a laugh as he says goodbye.

The Zombie Kids will play 200 club gigs in 2014 in all. In eight hours’ time, they’ll be on a plane heading for Madrid. thezombiekids.es

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NIGHTLIFE The Hydra: rave up inside, chill out outside

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GQOM This is the new house style of the Durban townships: darkly hypnotic tribal music with a broken syncopated beat. Our tip: the DJ mixes from Jumping Back Slash.

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DRINK “Indo in Whitechapel is a cosy but cool pub that does great pizza and European beers. My favourite is the Hopf Helle Weiße, a zingy wheat beer that sets you up for a long night of dancing.”

DANCE “On November 22, there’s a night at The Hydra I can’t wait for: two of my favourite record labels, Leisure System from Berlin and Houndstooth from London, going head to head.”

CHILL “For post-club vibes, try the new Caribou album, Our Love, It’s got a sunny, psychedelic feel to it, with a bit of woozy R&B too.

Perfect after-hours on the dancefloor.”

JERSEY CLUB DJ Sliink and his crew in New Jersey make hyperactive dance from offbeat sources like jingles, R&B scraps and thumping kick drums, often found in Vine clips.

Contagious.

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In Greek mythology the Hydra is a many-headed beast; in the UK it’s also a forward-thinking London music venue, armed instead with wide-ranging nights.

The programme of events during the autumn-winter season unites leading local and international DJs and producers in what is by day a photographic studio in Wapping. “The Hydra used to be nomadic, but we’re finally settled here,” says director Ajay Jayaram. “One room’s polished, the other’s a more ravey warehouse. There’s a magic to it, thanks to the all-encompassing sound and the artists we invite. They’re producing cutting-edge music, which is what we’re all about.” Clubbers here have many musical heads. “I want to cultivate a crowd that mirrors our eclectic choices,” says Jayaram. “People into house or techno, but who also get down to drum ’n’ bass and hip-hop. A true Hydra crowd.”

BATIDA In Lisbon, DJs like Marfox combine musical styles from Portugal’s former colonies with hard beats. The result: vibrant house music that makes you sweat even sitting down.

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MUSIC APPS 2.0 Flying Lotus’s second album, Los Angeles, is a masterpiece of crackly jazz samples, nervy computer game sounds and stuttering hip-hop beats from a drum machine smoking a joint. Released in 2008, it shook up electronic music. Hordes of young musicians copied his psychedelic style while stars like Thom Yorke of Radiohead, Snoop Dogg and Herbie Hancock outed themselves as fans. The latter two appear on his sixth and latest album, You’re Dead!, a bleak, conceptual album about death featuring electronic fusion jazz from the future. The 31-year-old Californian, whose passport shows to be Steven Ellison, told The Red Bulletin about the jazz albums that get him jazzed.

Flower power: Flying Lotus

‘I want outrageous ideas’ PLAYLIST SPAWNING HIP-HOP, A VIEW WITH A SHROOM AND BIG BRASS: FLYING LOTUS’S TOP FIVE JAZZ ALBUMS

1 Weather Report

2 Miles Davis

3 Alice Coltrane

“I discovered this album 10 years ago, not long before I started putting out records.

I’ve probably listened to it a million times since then because it features one of my favourite tracks of all time, Manolete.

It’s so funky and cool; just such a vibe, man. And the beat feels so hip-hop, years before hip-hop had even arrived.”

“Miles played the trumpet like a guy who didn’t like to smile. He had this sort of, ‘Nah, f––k you all.’ This album in particular captures the essence of that moody loner vibe. He has the sound of the observer; I love that about it. It’s one of the first jazz albums to feature the Rhodes electric piano, which is one of my favourite instruments.”

“This album, by my greataunt, is very influential to what I do. It came out not long after her husband John Coltrane died.

I was exposed to her music at a young age, but the first moment I really felt I understood her music was when I tried mushrooms for the first time. I was like, ‘Wow, she saw that stuff already.’ She knows what’s behind the curtain.”

4 Soft Machine

5 Charles Mingus

“Strictly speaking this isn’t jazz, it’s progressive rock, but I’ve got to include it because it’s one of my favourite albums of all time. It’s a straight listen, everything blends and ties together, which is exactly what I wanted to achieve with You’re Dead!. The ideas are outrageous. The lyrics are wacky, but musically it’s just so amazing.”

“It feels like a stage play because Mingus’s sound is so theatrical, there’s so much drama.

I love that in jazz solos. Once the instrumentalist gets going, my thoughts begin to drift. I think about life and death. And then I come back again and I’m like, ‘Damn!’ That’s what they’re trying to do. They’re trying to take you places.”

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MUSICIANS WHO AUGMENT OUR REALITY WITH CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY

RADIOHEAD: POLYFAUNA A recent update, after its debut in February, adds new sounds and visuals unconnected to the original content based on a track from 2011 album The King Of Limbs.

Lord Of Lords

BERNHOFT: ISLANDER The Norwegian soul poet turns the listener into a producer. His app lets you remix, restructure or add new effects to songs in a virtual recording studio.

H I G H EN D; M I G HTY UPGRADE YOUR POCKET PLAYER

SONY NWZ-A17 Thirty-five years after Sony launched their game-changing Walkman comes their latest portable music machine: the world’s smallest and lightest hi-res audio player. with 64GB of memory, and a MicroSD slot for more tunes. If you’re mourning the classic iPod, get this instead. sony.com

BJÖRK: BIOPHILIA Yes, you may know that the ‘world’s first app album’ came out in 2010, but did you know that it has just gone on the school curriculum in Iceland and Scandinavia?

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Q & A

MICHIEL HUISMAN

How does Ridley Scott’s upcoming Exodus: Gods And Kings rate among big-screen scripture epics?

After prominent roles on TV in Treme, Nashville and Orphan Black, the 33-yearold Dutchman signed up to become a regular in the hit series Game Of Thrones.

This month he’s romancing Reese Witherspoon on the big screen in Wild, based on Cheryl Strayed’s memoir of her 1,100-mile hike of self-discovery

King David

(1985) Richard Gere as the slayer of Goliath Praise be?

Lord, no!

The Last Temptation Of Christ

Words: Geoff Berkshire

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The Passion Of The Christ

(2004) Jim Caviezel as friendly carpenter son of God Praise be?

Lord, yes!

Noah

(2014) Russell Crowe as sailor/zookeeper Praise be?

Lord, yes!

Wild sex scenes with Reese Witherspoon?

“You have to jump in and see how it goes” it was like, ‘You’re talking about Jonathan again?’ But he was cool, we were all joking.

Can you imagine taking on something like Cheryl’s hike across America’s West Coast?

Yes, but it would have to be slackpacking for four days with my wife, and we would have our backpacks sent to the next hotel! But I would also like to try it a little more seriously. Watching the movie, you think, ‘I really want to go for a long walk.’

Do people recognise you

from Game Of Thrones?

Last year it was funny to be on three different shows. People would come up to me and I’d assess them and think ‘OK, they watch Game Of Thrones’ and they’d say ‘I love you on Nashville!’ But now that I’ve fully joined Game Of Thrones, I won’t be doing any other TV. So no more Orphan Black?

Well, we’re working with the producers to see if it’s possible to create a better exit. It’s safe to say you may see Cal again.

Exodus: Gods And Kings (out December 12) Christian Bale as Red Sea-parter Praise be?

Lord, yes!

CORBIS, 20TH CENTURY FOX

the red bulletin: Your character has some very intimate moments with Reese Witherspoon in Wild.

How did you handle that? michiel huisman: You have to jump in and see how it goes. Sex was an important element for Jonathan, my character in the story. Cheryl is on a trail and she meets a lot of people, but at the point she meets Jonathan, something is slowly starting to shift. Before when she was with a guy, it had this selfdestructive element to it. And here, it felt like the start of more of a positive experience, having fun with a guy. She literally walks into my life and walks out the next day.

Did you meet Cheryl and talk about her experiences?

I had dinner with Cheryl, her husband and [Wild director] Jean-Marc Vallee. We were able to ask her questions about Jonathan. A lot we already knew from the book, but whatever we didn’t know we got from Cheryl whenever her husband went to the bathroom. We’d ask, ‘How was it really?’ And then every time her husband came back,

(1988) David Bowie as Jesus’s judge Pontius Pilate Praise be?

Lord, yes!

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Happy New Year: Rhythm And Vines hits Gisborne’s Waiohika Estate Vineyard December 29-31

Fruit of the vine Zane Lowe, Bastille, Just Blaze, Netsky Live, Chet Faker, Danny Brown, Action Bronson… The bill for the country’s biggest New Year’s knees-up, Rhythm And Vines, is full to bursting, with 70plus artists set to take over five stages across three days at Gisborne’s Waiohika Estate Vineyard.

The Mega man, Kim Dotcom, saw in 2014 with an epic fireworks display on the main stage.

Who’ll bring in the New Year this time around? rhythmandvines.co.nz

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December 6-9

Just the man Nick Cave’s run of four nights in New Zealand is a solo affair; he’s not brought his Bad Seeds to back him. On the afternoon before he first steps out on stage, at Auckland’s grand old Civic Theatre, he’ll be doing a Q&A at a Skycity Theatre screening of 20,000 Days On Earth, the acclaimed movie that fictionalises a day in his life. Gigs at Wellington’s St James Theatre follow the two nights at the Civic. Tickets are like gold dust for all five events. nickcave.com

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December 19–20

California girl On her last New Zealand visit, teenage dream Katy Perry won over locals with her offstage activities, including a sneaky bungee jump off the Auckland Harbour Bridge. In December, Perry returns for a two-date stint at Vector Arena, with the candy-coated production of The Prismatic World Tour. She’s also helping a sister out, bringing Swedish up-and-comer Tove Lo in support, whose track Habits has been championed by none other than Lorde.

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To swim from Bayswater’s Quinton Park to Karanga Plaza in Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour, entails a 2.9km crossing of one of the city’s busiest waterways. However, the second event of the New Zealand Ocean Swim Series, Harbour Crossing, offers the chance tackle it free of marine traffic. The series stretches over six events to April, finishing in Auckland with a swim from Milford Beach to Takapuna Beach. oceanswim.co.nz

Don’t let the name fool you: Manchester Orchestra are in fact an Atlanta, Georgia indie fivepiece. They will be playing their new album, Cope, in its entirety at Auckland’s Powerstation. themanchester orchestra.com

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Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck, a 1994 track by US thrash trio Prong, is one of the best metal riffs ever, and will likely be in evidence when the New York band play at Auckland’s Powerstation.

The Panasonic People’s Triathlon Series holds the title of being Auckland’s longest-running triathlon series, with a calendar of multi-sport events that alternate between Maraetai Beach and Mission Bay. In December, Mission Bay gets a look-in, with competitors having the opportunity to race a variety of distances in both triathlon and duathlon.

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Poker faced

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Lights fantastic

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“Eat, drink, play!” is the motto that steers the country’s National Pub Poker League, and they’re the outfit behind a series of free, no-limit tournaments open to firsttimers, amateur and pro players. Then it’ll be all-in when the National Texas Hold ’Em Finals go down at Auckland’s Avondale RSA. Just know when to fold ’em. npplpoker.co.nz

Road-honed rock ’n’ roll machines The Datsuns are back on their original stomping ground in December for four summer dates that will take them from the Kings Arms in Auckland to King Street Live in Masterton. The band are touring off the back of their sixth album Deep Sleep, so expect a bunch of fresh material in the mix. thedatsuns.com

The wattage is turned up in New Plymouth’s Pukekura Park for the TSB Bank Festival Of Lights, illuminating the park’s flora and fauna in a kaleidoscope of colour. Each year’s displays trumps the last, but regulars and Taranaki natives will be familiar with favourites like the sleeping giant, the jelly fish and the black light area. Trippy. festivaloflights.co.nz

Rhythm And Alps is the sister event to Rhythm And Vines (far left), but this New Year’s festival held in the Cardrona Valley holds its own. This year’s R&A shares headliners with its big brother, plus a roster of locals, including Shapeshifter, State Of Mind and The Nomad, plus Red Bulletin-featured artists Kamandi and Team Dynamite. rhythmandvines.co.nz

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BURLESQUE OR BUST Hamilton gets hot under the collar as the Cirlesque Ball comes to the Hamilton Gardens Pavilion. The burlesque show is headlined by MisRed Delicious, Polly Filla and Venus Starr, and features circus and magic acts. cirlesque.com

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We have: from the ultra-luxe to rugged playthings, from heritage to most-modern, a celebration of magnificent watches for all wrists and pockets

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FUNCTION Cutting-edge technology at your fingertips. (The length of your hand away from your fingertips)

Suunto AMBIT3 suunto.com So good it’s like having a coach on hand: you won’t want to let it down by not recording and comparing with others your athletic achievements. Comes with GPS and pulsemonitor and talks to your iPhone via the Movescount app.

Apple WATCH apple.com Long-awaited answer to all of mankind’s ills, or a cool apps-lite watch that is less functional than your smartphone?

This is how Apple sees the future and they’ve been solid crystal-ballwise recently. By far the most stylish smartwatch on the market.

Garmin FORERUNNER 610 garmin.com Robust touchscreen outdoorsman’s tool that logs distance, pace, GPS position, heart rate and calories burned during exercise.

Especially good for running and cycling.

In workout mode, the watch becomes a digital rival to challenge and spur you on.

Samsung GEAR 2 samsung.com The bridge between your Samsung smartphone or tablet and you. The integrated camera means you can take photos straight from the wrist. Back at home, it doubles up as the remote control for a Samsung TV.

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FLAIR These five watches are first and foremost bold and beautiful waterproof watches. Extra features are not bells and whistles, but integral to their timeless appeal

Longines HERITAGE 1973 longines.com This Swiss watchmaker can look back on nearly 200 years of rich history. Chronographs – watches featuring sub-dials such as stopwatches – have been their speciality.

The Heritage 1973 pays tribute to a much-loved heritage model that had a manual winder.

Tudor HERITAGE BLACKBAY tudorwatch.com Manages the rare and difficult trick of looking and feeling both modern and vintage at the same time, which means it goes with any look you care to finish it with. This blue-bezeled model, new for 2014, is much sought-after.

Tissot T-TOUCH EXPERT SOLAR tissot.ch Truly smart solarpowered smartwatch on which the functions – barometer, chronograph, altimeter, compass, timer and alarm – are activated by touching the glass at the evennumber points. The LCD then displays the info.

TAG Heuer CARRERA CALIBRE 7 TWIN-TIME tagheuer.com The third hand, with the red tip, shows the worldtraveller a second time zone, to go with the ‘normal’ time, on the 24-hour display around the edge of the dial. So you always know when you are, along with where you are, when you’re on a journey.

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Seiko ASTRON seikowatches.com Thanks to built-in GPS, the Astron always knows where you are.

There’s no need for you to tinker with time as you trot the globe’s time zones because it does it automatically.

Another bonus: solar cells on the dial that recharge the battery.

FORTUNE A quintet of quality: the most coveted and upscale watches. No doubt that these are the ultimate expression of style and status

Rolex GMT-MASTER II rolex.com Still one of the world’s most desired watches, 60 years after its debut.

The original red-andblue colouring, which led it to be nicknamed the ‘Pepsi watch’, was in fact done to match Pan Am Airways livery.

Panerai LUMINOR 1950 3 DAYS GMT panerai.com Designed in Italy and made in Switzerland, the ‘extended’ portion of the case on the right-hand side protects the crown.

Less eye-catching, but equally welcome, is the power-remaining indicator on the back.

Breitling CHRONOMAT 44 AIRBORNE breitling.com One of these first appeared 30 years ago, as the official watch for the Frecce Tricolori, the Italian Air Force display team. This anniversary model is black with silver sub-dials or silver with black sub-dials.

Omega SEAMASTER 300 MASTER omegawatches.com A rebirth for the legendary Seamaster 300 of the 1950s: almost the same look as the original, but all the benefits of modern watchmaking methods.

This is vintage without the uncertainty, and will be as stylish in the 2050s.

Hublot BIG BANG FERRARI TITANIUM CARBON hublot.com Hublot is horology’s master of exclusivity, which is why its partnership with the Ferrari Formula One team works so well. This watch’s carbon/titanium mix and the faint red on the dial are welcome references to the form and function of F1 cars.

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FUN We may be at the lessluxurious end of the watch spectrum, but these timepieces are as eye-catching as their upscale counterparts

Victorinox I.N.O.X. victorinox.com A sports watch that can survive 90 minutes in a washing machine and being driven over twice by a tank. In your most physical situations, you can strap over a supplied silicone ‘jacket’ to further protect the case.

Swatch COLOR-KILT swatch.com The standout of Swatch’s 2014 autumn-winter collection, this is the kind of bold statement piece that has won millions of fans for Swatch over the last 31 years. It’s unclear if the Scottish referendum led to increased sales.

Casio EDIFICE casio.com As worn by Infiniti Red Bull Racing drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel. Radio signals from six atomic clocks worldwide make this the world’s most accurate watch. Lap times and stopwatch data can be transmitted directly to a smartphone.

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Nite ICON nitewatches.com British design, Swissmade and supplier to special forces, the nocturnal watch company had its 10th birthday this year. Their glow in the dark comes from an isotope of hydrogen in tiny glass tubes: green is brightest, then blue, then orange.

Fossil SPROCKET fossil.com There’s something hypnotic about watching the cogs and gears turn on this. We stare at it and find ourselves contemplating the mechanisms of our own minds: we think, therefore, and a moment’s brain training is welcome any time.

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