The Red Bulletin December 2014 - UK

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AWESOME

SHOT! Photos of the year

CLASS WATCHES

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2014’s most hilarious movie

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GIANT SPIDER SOUNDS

A festival stage like no other: 20m high, it shoots flames and dances along to the music

DAVID CLERIHEW (COVER), ALEX DE MORA, DAVID HARRY STEWART

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 with the engineers and explosives experts who make a giant robot spider dance at festivals. (Yes, that sentence just happened.) All that, plus much more action, adventure, sports and culture from across the globe. We hope you enjoy the issue.

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“It’s more than riding; you’re part of the machine” BIKE GENIUS ROLAND SANDS, P62

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DECEMBER 2014

AT A GLANCE BULLEVARD 12 BEST OF 2014 The Red Bulletin’s heroes and villains of the year

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FEATURES 22 Dave Grohl

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

ROCK ’N’ GROHL

30 Action pic special

The Foo Fighters main man on rocking hard, making movies and trying “not to sound like a boring old fart”

A round-up of spectacular images

44 Colin Jackson

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

46 Billy Morgan

The British snowboarder’s military precision approach to slopestyle

48 Into the abyss

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

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SCARY MOVIE MEN

ALL POWER TO HIM

Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi on their hilarious horror mock-doc, What We Do In The Shadows

Behind the scenes – and explosions – of the flame-breathing festival stage

62 The ultimate bike

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

30 48 THIS IS NOT A BUNGEE

A crew of extreme sports experts decamped to a Spanish gorge in the hunt for the freefall world record 08

AWESOME SHOT!

From F1 star Daniel Ricciardo to upside-down medallists, this is your VIP viewing of the finest photos of 2014

Brad Pitt and Mickey Rourke ride Roland Sands’s incredible creations

68 2014’s funniest film

It’s What We Do In The Shadows

ACTION! 76 77 78 79 80 82 84 86 88 94 98

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

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CONTRIBUTORS WHO’S ON BOARD THIS ISSUE “I was slipping in the mud and wiping rain off my lens under a fire-breathing metal spider” Alex De Mora at the Arcadia Experience, page 56

FRED MARIE

MARCEL ANDERS

ALEX DE MORA

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 48.

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 22.

The British photographer usually works in a studio specialising in music and fashion portraits. But we sent him out of his comfort zone to a music festival in the rainswept English countryside, where he photographed the most spectacular DJ-stage on earth. “Shooting the Arcadia stage was a challenge, but a fun one,” says De Mora.

“I was slipping about in the mud and wiping rain off my lens under a giant firebreathing metal spider.”

See the results on page 56.

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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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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

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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

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• 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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THE Y F O P O L

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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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.

THE

ON-

LY

TIME WE

REAL-

LY TALK

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

GOOD LOVER,

WAL- KING ALONG

2

SN’T 0 1 4 WA

COOL…

ecause Neymar got b injured and Brazil’s fairytale home win World Cup didn’t come true. ecause Russell Crowe’s b Noah was a damp squib. ecause the selfie b epidemic took over. ecause a bad hazelnut b 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

THE

VER

ILL R 2015 W

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

A

RE-

LUVO-

TION

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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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.

“ 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 22

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. 24

“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)

“People have forgotten

what

it’s like to

really rock out because they spend all day in front of a freakin’ computer”

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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 six28

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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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

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

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

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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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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

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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.

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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).

BILLY MORGAN

“It’s a battle to stay on top” The slopestyle specialist said no to the navy to become one of Britain’s best snowboarders. Now he approaches his craft with military precision

At the age of 18, Billy Morgan took his snowboard and bid farewell to the British coast, heading instead for far-flung mountains. Seven years later, he’s more at home in the resorts of Mayrhofen or Breckenridge than his hometown of Southampton, thanks to his world-class skills. His fearless riding and massive aerial tricks have made him one of Britain’s best, one of only two Team GB riders to make it to the Olympic slopestyle finals, and the first rider ever to land the complex triple backside rodeo. But there’s no gain without pain. the red bulletin: How is everything looking for this season?

Billy morgan: I’ve been busy prepping and competing in New Zealand and Australia. But I’ve potentially torn the meniscus in my right knee, so I’m waiting to get an MRI scan. Injury comes with the territory. I snapped the anterior cruciate ligament in the same knee last year, and surgery to reattach it would have meant missing the Olympics, so I strengthened the knee and competed without it. It could be a complication from that, but it was worth it to compete in Sochi. It’s a constant battle to stay at the top of your game.

Sochi 2014 was the first Games to include slopestyle. Has it changed the sport much?

It was massive. It’s made everything in our sport a lot more professional, more regimented. We have to have a more military approach. Training is still a dirty word for a lot of snowboarders, but it’s so elite now that you can’t excel if you just go up the mountain each day and mess about with your mates. There’s been a big growth in interest in the 46

sport, too. I went from 1,500 Twitter followers to 18,000, which is huge.

When you were being interviewed live on the BBC after the slopestyle final, there was some confusion over the snowboarding term “huck”…

Yeah, they thought I said something else. When I came off air they said, “We apologise for Billy Morgan’s language, he was obviously very excited.” Then they apologised for apologising. It was all pretty funny.

Did you bond with athletes from different disciplines?

I played heaps of table-tennis with a Polish biathlete, despite us not being

“The more scared you are of something, the better it feels when you conquer it” able to speak a word to each other. We differed massively from traditional Olympic athletes. In the canteen I heard a Dutch guy say freestyle athletes were odd and don’t really fit in, and his friend asked what he meant. At that moment Swedish freeskier Henrik Harlaut rolled up noisily on a skateboard, wearing his baggy kit, with his dreads hanging out.

Everybody just stood there, mouths wide, like, “What’s happened to the Olympics?”

Coming from the UK, and starting late in snowboarding, did you ever imagine you’d compete in an Olympic Games?

No way. I rode on the plastic of a dry

slope for two years near my home in Southampton, and I didn’t get onto the snow until I was 18. Now I’m competing against people who are younger than I was when I started which, even at 25, makes me feel very old.

But you’ve become one of the best riders, known for pulling off some massive tricks. What’s your secret?

I was a gymnast for four years until I was eight, then I was an acrobat until I was 13, which helped. I actually struggle with doing smaller tricks. With bigger tricks, where I’ve got more spin and rotation to play with, I feel more comfortable. I’m definitely unusual.

Do you still get scared?

Doing tricks for the first time on new jumps is always scary. You don’t know the speed, and that’s the danger as you could land too early or too late. Sometimes I’d love to just go back down the mountain, but it has to be done. The more scared you are of something, the better it feels when you conquer it. I’ve just always been addicted to that feeling.

Does the danger element of slopestyle ever make you wish that you had a desk job instead?

Not a desk job, no. I was going to join the Royal Navy actually, like my granddad, dad and brother before me. My brother’s two years older, and he was already in the navy at 17, having got straight As at school.

He set a good example for his younger brother, but then I went on to be just this rebellious snowboard douchebag! Now I’ve gone on to prove myself, made it my career.

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No place like roam Morgan is based wherever the snow is, from France to the USA. Favourite slopestyle park The Absolut Park in Flachauwinkl, Austria Pet hate “Going with the flow stresses me out far more than having a plan. I just need to know what I’m doing, then I can do it. Floating about is a real worry.”

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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

ROPE-JUMPING

I Hooks are drilled into the rock face to secure the rope structure in the gorge

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

THEN IT’S UP TO THE WEATH ER

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.

The big day is set for May 20. The changeable weather of the days and weeks running up to the attempt has stabilised somewhat and the winds 54

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.

The most important thing achieved was sufficient distance from the rock

In the narrow gorge, con diti ons are

MORE DIFFICULT. ”It’s like a cake mad e of laye rs of win d”

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

But even then, any gust of wind could spell danger

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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AT TAC K G I A N T This is a festival stage like no other: it’s 20m high, and weighs 50 tonnes, fires Words: Florian Obkircher 56

Scrap metal + high-tech = ecstasy: The Spider wonderstage at the Boomtown Fair Festival in the south of England

O F T H E S P I D E R flames and shoots laser beams. Oh, and it dances along to the music with you Photography: Alex de Mora

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t 2.30am on a Saturday in August, a combination of wind and rain has driven many revellers at the Boomtown Fair Festival back to their tents. Most of the stages dotted around the farmer’s field in Winchester, have long since fallen silent, but one, Arcadia, is still pumping out the beats. The area, about 100m wide, is hemmed in by a hexagon of sound systems and inside it feels like a ritual is being performed by an electronic cult. Red laser lights flit around jerkily in the mist as 5,000 people dance ecstatically in the mud, around a centrepiece like no other: a huge metal spider the size of a house, with green, luminous legs lifting it high above the devoted dancers below. It’s only just possible to make out the creature’s body, which looks like a Mad Max-style spaceship against the night sky.

Arcadia is a union of many kinds of artists, who have thrown their varied skills into the creation of the metallic beast: pyrotechnicians, laser artists, acrobats, musicians. They’ve been creating otherworldly structures together for eight years, the biggest, craziest, most fantastic stages anywhere in the world. Their creations are 360° “environments” that allow DJs and musicians to be surrounded by their audience. There’s not a cordon in sight. The crowd is no longer just watching the show, they’re a part of it.

At 20m tall and weighing 50 tonnes, The Spider is Arcadia’s biggest offering.

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At Boomtown Fair, it has been the centrepiece of a wild party since 7pm, “but you haven’t seen anything yet,” says Pip Rush Jansen, head of Arcadia. He’s wearing a headset and a Hawaiian shirt under a red military jacket. He’s been on duty for 12 hours a day at the festival site for a week. It’s his job to keep an overview and manage The Spider show team of over 100, including assembly workers, light and sound technicians, crane operators and DJs. Rush has been creating metal sculptures for music festivals since his youth and, now 31, he’s made it his career. Eight years ago, he and his friend Bertie Cole, now Arcadia’s technical director, had an idea. “We found classic concert stages boring,” says Rush. “The audience gazes in one direction. It’s as if they’re watching TV.” The two founded Arcadia with the aim of making the stage itself into a star, a complete work of art combining lights, fire and music, all made from scrap metal and junk. Their first creation was Afterburner, a laser-beaming DJ turret made out of a decommissioned, towershaped jet engine. DJs have to climb up 11m carrying their record bags to reach the decks. Rush and Cole have created five more spectacular stages and shows since, including The Bug, a mobile armoured car-cum-DJ-stage, and The Spider, which will appear in Thailand in November. Afterburner is on the road too, currently entertaining in Australia.

Rush and Cole find the components they need for these spectacular stages at scrap yards. Every winter they traipse around scrap yards all over England, which is how they found the three legs for The Spider five years ago: they’re decommissioned customs scanners.

The party area at the Boomtown Fair Festival site looks like a post-apocalyptic industrial estate.

Steampunks and high-tech hippies dance beneath the huge metal Spider and around blazing lampposts (above). Pyrotechnician Sir Henry Hot (right), responsible for the fire show, checking gas canisters in a storage container

The Spider is made of junk and scrap metal. Its legs used to be customs scanners

The Spider hibernates in storage in Bristol. In November it will appear in Bangkok, Thailand, and then Rhythm and Vines in New Zealand in December

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Inside The Spider’s nerve centre: laser and pyrotechnicians, crane choreographers and production managers sitting at computer screens

“They were used to check freight containers in the Sahara,” Rush explains.

The Spider’s DJ turret is made of six old jet engines and the armour-like prosthetic knees used to be helicopter parts.

When not trawling through tips or running Arcadia’s unique festival dance parties, Rush lives on a caravan site on the edge of Bristol along with the other six core members of the collective. There they puzzle over new ideas, repair the existing stages and weld bits of scrap together to make new metal giants.

There’s also a lot of time spent assembling their creations. It takes three trucks to transport the The Spider. Once on site, the legs are laid out in a circle, then lifted by a crane and attached to The Spider’s head. Underground electric cables and hydraulic pipes connect to diesel generators the size of garden sheds on the edge of the site. It takes a 15-strong team three days to put it together. Then THE RED BULLETIN

the lighting and pyrotechnics experts get down to the fine-tuning.

“In 10 minutes exactly,” Rush says, looking at his watch, “at 2.45 on the dot, there’ll be a 15-minute show of what The Spider’s got to offer.” Rush takes off his headset. “It’s Sir Henry’s big moment.”

Sir Henry Hot is the head of pyrotechnics for Arcadia. He’s checking the connections on the 35 orange gas canisters held in a storage container at the base of The Spider one more time.

“This is where we pump the gas up from.

The 150-litre fuel tanks are attached to the head so that I can fire properly,” he says. Fifteen years ago, Hot was working

Fountains of fire shoot out of The Spider’s head with a hiss, the surge of heat intense

as a computer technician in a small town in north Germany. Then in his mid40s, he saw a psychologist for burnout, somewhat ironic given his true calling.

Hot had a life-long passion for fire, and he was advised to pursue it. So he learnt to breathe fire and studied pyrotechnics.

In 2009, he designed a unique system of nine cannons for The Spider, capable of shooting flames 25m into the air. The best part of the show, as far as he’s concerned, is the first time fire appears, when no one is expecting it. “The puff, the glaring light and the smell. People go crazy every time. You can feel the vibrations 5km away,” Hot says, his eyes glistening.

There are 30 seconds to go before The Spider lets loose. Tension is growing in the small control room 50m from the metal colossus. This is The Spider’s external nerve centre. Hot and seven other headsetwearing technicians stare intently at mixing desks and monitors. “Ready?” Everyone nods and gives the thumbs-up. Then the countdown begins. “Ten, nine, eight...”

The Spider’s music and lights stop.

And all of a sudden there is darkness.

People stop dancing and look up. Some start booing. What, is that it already? Or has there been a power cut? The answer comes in the form of muffled bass rumbling out of the sound system. Blue lasers beam from The Spider’s legs and out through a screen of fog. The beat comes back in. Three cranes on the main body of the Spider begin to move, and they’re in time with the music. They move down, then back up: The Spider is waking from its slumber. The crowd cheers.

The music is getting louder. Heavy synthesizer sounds come spiralling upwards. Hot places his index finger on the biggest button on the console in front of him. There is the crack of the bass drum and Hot lets loose. Three fountains of fire come shooting out of The Spider’s head with a hiss. The tower of flames is so dazzling that for a moment the crowd is blind, the surge of heat so intense that people check afterwards that they still have eyelashes. Hot grins when the crowd roars in surprise. And then presses the button again. And again.

The music gets quicker and quicker.

Hot pulls out all The Spider’s stops: the flame-throwers, robotic arms, CO2 jets and laser beams all move to the beat. All the components are in exact harmony, creating a torrid show of colour and sound.

What just before 3am had been a great show is now a post-apocalyptic party.

Despite the reality of the rainy night in England, it will last well into Saturday. arcadiaspectacular.com

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ROLAND SANDS makes the most sought-after customised motorcycles in the world. Brad Pitt and Mickey Rourke ride his bespoke bikes. We uncover the secrets of his California workshop WORDS: ANN DONAHUE PHOTOGRAPHY: DAVID HARRY STEWART

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otorcycles have always served as shorthand in pop culture: the person riding one was an iconoclast, a guy who knew that part of his charm was that his leather jacket was dusty and sun-baked, and he didn’t give a damn if mothers looked at him askance, because their daughters were looking at him in a much more promising way.

Recently, however, that image has morphed into something beyond the Marlon Brando archetype. The epitome of cool is no longer just anyone who hops on a motorcycle. The machine itself has become a medium for style, a place to make an aesthetic statement.

One of the main forces behind this evolution is Roland Sands, a motorcycle designer and customiser in Los Alamitos, California. Sands brings an artist’s eye to his machines – he is known for his clever, intricate creations that nod to both nostalgia and technology. With a team of 15, he installs custom retro design elements like vintage headlights and air cleaners on motorcycles alongside cutting-edge carbon-fibre parts. Recently, Sands has expanded into lifestyle goods for the wannabe rider in all of us: kick-ass oxblood leather jackets, gloves that pay homage to Peter Fonda’s Captain America in Easy Rider.

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which gives him first-hand experience of how form can impact function. This authenticity has become his calling card.

Motorcycle manufacturers including Ducati, BMW, Harley-Davidson and KTM have commissioned Sands for custom builds; his individual clients are a too-cool collective from the worlds of sport, music and film: Ryan Sheckler, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis, Brad Pitt and Mickey Rourke, among others. Rourke and Sands explore their love of motorcycles in one of the segments in the newly released film On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter.

Here, Sands talks to The Red Bulletin about the melding of man, machine and manufacturing – and the mayhem that is the undercurrent of it all. the red bulletin: On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter reveals that there’s no such thing as a stereotypical motorcycle person. Do you agree? roland sands: Yeah, and at the same time, to ride a motorcycle, you need to be able to accept a certain amount of risk, and I think a large part of the population probably doesn’t do that. Maybe we’re all willing to take a measured risk.

When did motorcycles go from being a hobby to being a career for you?

My dad, Perry Sands, was a pioneer in

“TO RIDE A MOTORCYCLE, you need to be able to accept a certain amount of risk”

Roland Sands (top-left) superupgrades all types of bikes, from Harleys to motocross racers

motorcycle aftermarket parts in the 1970s, and he always pushed me to work hard. As a kid I spent a lot of time at the workshop doing all kinds of jobs, and I got to a point where I was over it. I wanted to do something different than work on an assembly.

I quit and got a job delivering pizzas, but ended up getting too many traffic tickets, so they fired me. I think at that point I decided that a creative approach was what I needed to stay interested in the business, so I asked for my job back. He was nice enough to rehire me and dropped my pay.

How did you get into racing?

When I was 18 years old, my dad took me to a road-race school and I loved it. I ended up going pretty quick and something just clicked for me. I really enjoyed the sense of accomplishment, the mental fight, overcoming challenges.

I can’t remember all the injuries I’ve had, but I’ve broken over 30 bones.

Little bones, big bones, sprains,

“I’VE BROKEN OVER 30 BONES.­ Little bones, big bones. Half racing, half doing stupid stuff” concussions, broken back, crushed liver, ribs, lungs – just stupid stuff.

How much of that was doing dumb stuff and how much of that was racing?

The broken bones are probably half and half. Skateboards and dirt bikes contributed to that number for sure.

When did you retire from pro racing?

I quit racing in 2002, when I was 28.

I’d put 10 years of my life into it. When I left I was quite depressed. I didn’t realise for a year or so how fortunate I was to have another direction open to me, and then product design and building motorcycles more than filled that hole. Racing is performance-driven – you’re only as fast as your last race.

It’s temporary. As a racer I’d always felt a little incomplete, like I was searching for something more permanent, and I was lucky to have found it within design and the motorcycle culture.

When did you realise you had an interest in designing motorcycles?

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When I was 16, the first time I designed something for my dad, around the time that I lost the pizza delivery job.

I’d been sketching bikes since I was a kid. I designed a motorcycle wheel hand-sketching in 2D, then I learned a bit of 3D while I was racing. I started 3D modelling with software. I think we were one of the first aftermarket motorcycle companies to use 3D

modelling extensively. It helped us create a unique and progressive style that I still use today.

Ten years ago, you appeared on reality TV shows in America, including Biker Build-Off and Build Or Bust.

Do you think those shows helped popularise custom bike builds?

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Above: Sands gets to work on a BMW R90 at his workshop, with help from head fabricator Aaron Boss Right: putting a customised RSD Suzucati through its paces

customisation, but also taught people that motorcycle customisers are idiots.

It’s entertainment versus education.

People want to be entertained. They don’t essentially want to learn, but they think they’re learning, which TV is good at. They think they’re being entertained and educated at the same time, when it’s really sucking the souls from their bodies.

But surely appearing on those shows helped expand your business?

At the time it was the right thing to do for me. Doing those shows positioned us as a pioneer for a new style of bike building, but also it made me look like an idiot.

Like, “Yeah! Let’s go crash a motorcycle for fun!” I would do it differently today.

Do you see yourself as a control freak?

I work with a lot of talented people, and my job is easier because I can depend on them. I exist to make sure things don’t get f--ked up. I’m the creative filter, so anything that leaves this shop I have to get my eyes or my hands on.

How do your celebrity deals work?

It’s different with everyone. We did a project for Brad Pitt and I didn’t talk to him apart from the first time we met, and we never released the bike to the public at his request. With Mickey Rourke, it was very personal and we got to know each other. I think the bike helped him connect with his brother, who was a big bike guy and he really looked up to. With Anthony Kiedis, it’s been really cool. We first met at Jay Leno’s place, where we got to see all these amazing vehicles together, so I got a true feel for what he liked. He writes a lot of his songs on his bike, so I feel this extra responsibility to deliver him something he’s going to love.

Now your bikes are considered art.

As an artistic focus, I think motorcycles are unparalleled, because there’s so much you can do with them. Not just building them but riding them, being a part of the machine and just dedicating your craft to the art of two wheels. I mean, it’s not a car. You have to connect the dots, and it’s all exposed to the world, even the rider.

It’s truly design, function, fashion and form that all get smashed together into this creature that you ride.

Do you test everything yourself?

I don’t feel comfortable shipping out a bike unless I’ve tried it out first. If there’s ever a question about the way we’re building something, I always ask myself, “Would I jump on this bike and ride it?” If the answer is no, we change it.

Do you ever think to yourself, ‘Damn, I really want to keep this one?’

Every time. rolandsands.com

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REAL-LIFE NOCTURNAL CREATURES, A FAKE DOCUMENTARY AND 8,000-YEAR-OLD JOKES: THE MAKERS OF THE HILARIOUS WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS ON WHAT THEY DID TO MAKE IT WORDS: TOM GOLDSON PHOTOGRAPHY: KANE SKENNAR

Kiwi comedians: Jemaine Clement (left) and Taika Waititi are the co-directors of What We Do In The Shadows

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Wellington neighbourhood of Aro Valley is home to two Transylvanian vampires, the 862-year-old Vladislav and Viago, just 379 years young, live in a suitably dark and damp flat. They share the run of a two-storey house with Deacon, a positively decrepit 8,000-year-old bloodsucker who calls the building’s basement home. Though they’ve been residents in the city fringe suburb for a hundred years or so, they haven’t been able to sink their teeth into emerging technologies and current social mores. We know this because a documentary film crew is recording Vladislav, Viago and Deacon’s every false step as they attempt to keep pace with life in the 21st century.

This is the premise behind What We Do In The Shadows, a co-production between Flight Of The Conchords’ Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, writer-director of Boy. The mockumentary marks the fruition of an idea 14 years in the making, sparked when the duo first performed as vampires on stage.

The friends and collaborators met at Wellington’s Victoria University, and joined forces with future Conchords member Bret McKenzie and two others to create the comedy troupe So You’re A Man. Clement and Waititi later paired off to become The Humourbeasts. Since their scarfie beginnings, all three comedians have extended their résumés with international gigs, including Conchords for HBO (all three; Waititi directed and wrote), a guest spot on The Simpsons (Clement and McKenzie), Oscar-winning songs for The Muppets (McKenzie) and a supporting spot in Green Lantern (Waititi).

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What We Do In The Shadows is a creative enterprise that’s much closer to home, untouched by Hollywood’s cookie-cutter moviemaking. Waititi goes as far to say that this film couldn’t have been produced outside of New Zealand.

“Jemaine and I work a lot overseas and we’ve always saved money. We put some of our savings into the making and distribution of the film,” he says.

“Having done stuff in the States and doing advertising and things like that allows me to work on other projects that I can self-finance, and that’s cool because in the old days you were trying to convince people like Creative New Zealand to give you money. It’s a lot easier just to pay for it yourself.”

After sidestepping government agencies, the duo gained powerful support from Peter Jackson, his Park Road Post production facility and the second unit that worked on The Hobbit.

“I don’t know what the word is – not a parasite – but we were like a creature hanging off the back of The Hobbit,” says Clement. “We were like a dolphin following a ship.” He and Waititi found themselves with the tantalising prospect of bringing to life their undead dream with creative independence.

Taika Waititi’s Top Comedy Movies: Ghostbusters “High-concept but adventurous comedy films are great: this is a classic I’ve always loved and appreciated.”

Dr Strangelove “I love a lot of Peter Sellers’ stuff, and this one in particular.

The man really was a comedy master.”

Punch-Drunk Love “Adam Sandler’s broad humour I’ve never been a fan of, but this is one of my favourite films.”

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Vampire takeover: Jemaine Clement (left) and Taika Waititi are unleashing What We Do In The Shadows on a global audience

“My films are always about people trying to play by the rules but aren’t able to” Taika Waititi

“We were in charge of everything, really,” Clement continues. “It was kind of weird in a way because I’ve never really worked on anything where there’s no absolute power above the creators of the project.

That was liberating, but also worrying. Usually there’s somebody who’ll say, ‘Change this’, or you’ll have to have an argument at least to get your way.

But because we put so much into this, there was no one to tell us we were doing anything wrong.”

There’s been a bloodlust for on-screen vampirism recently, be it the lovelorn saps of The Twilight Saga or True Blood’s more grown-up supernaturalism, and the suburban Kiwi shtick of What We Do In The Shadows is a highly original take on the subject.

As well as the laughs, the film resonates at a deeper level. Vladislav, Viago, Deacon and the supporting cast of werewolves and zombies are unconventional personalities doing their best to fit in.

“My films are always about people who are trying to be cool or trying to play by the rules but aren’t able to,” says Waititi. “What struck me when we were shooting was the idea that these characters represent anyone who’s had trouble fitting in, especially into New Zealand society. Immigrants, homosexuals, goths: any subculture that has to compete with the predominantly macho barbecue culture that currently runs the country. These vampires represent anyone who’s living on the margins in Wellington.”

“Wellington is a good balance of being small but big enough that you can still blend in,” adds Clement. “There are people there who dress like… you know, you see people walking around wearing overcoats and top hats. We used some of them as extras.”

For all the Wellington-centricity of What We Do In The Shadows, though – be it the real-life goth extras, the familiar lanes of its inner-city, the pubs and clubs Vladislav and Viago crawl in search of kicks and blood donors – Clement is at pains to point out that he and Waititi never saw the film as a parochial movie for a local audience. Indeed, the duo never doubted that its laughs would translate far beyond these shores.

“When we made Flight Of The Conchords, the question from New Zealanders was, ‘Don’t you have to be from here to get it?’” Clement recalls.

“I remember a friend of mine, a New Zealander living in London, saying to me, ‘How do New Zealanders get Ali G? They don’t know what Staines is like!’

But you pick it up. Maybe there are more laughs if you’ve been there, but I don’t think it’s any different.”

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hat We Do In The Shadows has already picked up the Audience Award and Best Film at the Luna Plina Film Festival in Transylvania (Waititi and Clement were there to host a Q&A, in character, naturally). A worldwide release will see their brainchildren writ large on cinema screens far removed from the confines of the Aro Valley. Global ambitions for this self-funded, selfdistributed project, the first on which they share writing, acting, producing and directing credit, have been realised.

After that, Waititi and Clement aren’t ruling out a new life for the flatmates in what could be the makings of a Kiwimade comedy franchise. In fact, their recent visit to the home of vampiric folklore might just have presented them with the premise for a second chapter.

“We’ve talked about all sorts of different kinds of sequels, actually,” says Clement. “When we were in Transylvania, people were suggesting a Transylvanian sequel where the vampires come back home. It’s not totally out of the question.

The basic story – and it was one that we talked about for the first movie – is that they go back expecting one thing, but it’s actually changed a lot and come into the 21st century. We might not have seen the last of Vladislav and Viago.” whatwedointheshadows.com

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Rear brake This is where the clutch would be on bikes that run on petrol

Battery Weighs about 28kg, provides power for up to two hours. Takes a minute to change

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No exhaust So it’s environmentally friendly, quiet and you won’t burn yourself

“These are old – they don’t make this model any more – but they never break.

We’ve grown together over the years.” sennheiser.com

Engine Generates up to 22hp at 4,400rpm: plenty of power for off-roading

RUMBLE ROLLER “Uncomfortable but wonderful for massaging your connective tissue.

I discovered it for recovery but it also helps after a long day on the bike.”

Charging unit Just plug it in. It’s 80 minutes for a full charge, 50 for half

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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

FIVE TEN FREERIDER “This shoe has the perfect grip for all conditions, including the Scottish rain. And must be good: it’s named after me!” fiveten.com

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Fly boy: no diver cuts through the air as elegantly as Orlando Duque

Double figures: Duque is a 10time cliff diving world champion

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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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TRAVEL Get real: try a scary shoot ’em up in an old New York factory

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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.

The great escape

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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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FLOAT Drive out from the Big Apple to the Appalachians and strap yourself to the highest, longest, fastest zip-line in North America.

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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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NIGHTLIFE The Hydra: rave up inside, chill out outside

YEAR OF DANCE DID YOU GET DOWN TO THE CLUB MUSIC TRENDS OF 2014?

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.

Heads up for fun THE HYDRA PART PHOTO STUDIO, PART MAGIC RAVEY WAREHOUSE: LONDON’S NEW BEST NIGHT OUT

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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.

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

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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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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.

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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.

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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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TEAM P L AY E R DON’T BE ALONE: THREE INDIE GAMES WITH CO-OP MODE

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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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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.

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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

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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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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.

Oris BIG CROWN PROPILOT ALTIMETER oris.ch Superb automatic mechanical timepiece with a barometer/ altimeter. You make a statement wearing this, and that statement is ‘I know great watches.’

Not just for pilots, too: any hill, mountain or air sportsman can benefit from knowing altitude.

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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Ready to rock: Heaven’s Basement December 6

All the right noises December’s icy grip can’t stop the rock. The Winter Rocks Festival in Sheffield brings together bands from around the world, and down the road, to noisily celebrate the genre in front of an appreciative crowd of thousands. Headlining are English hard-rock outfit Heaven’s Basement, who will be fresh from a UK tour supporting American actress-turned frontwoman Taylor Momsen and her alt-rock outfit The Pretty Reckless.

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Digital delights The Red Bulletin’s new website is up and running, featuring highlights from the magazine plus plenty of extras. This month find out where snowboarder Billy Morgan goes to play, and get his tips on how Brits can improve on the slopes without regular access to perfect powder. theredbulletin.com

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Until January 23

Come together The Red Bull Studios Collectives project unites four emerging and four established artists from different disciplines. The result is four new bodies of work, such as Plastica, a collaboration between photographer James Stopforth and architectural designer Rain Wu, inspired by the idea of a borough made of recycled plastic.

It takes two: James Stopforth’s collab with Rain Wu

Circus classes work muscles you didn’t know you had.

Try beginners’ Trapeze, Acrobatics or Aerial Arts at Circomedia in Bristol from £6.50 per hour. circomedia.com

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SWING Crazy golf might not burn as many calories as a gym workout, but it’s way more fun. At the huge Swingers warehouse in London, you can hone your swing on a pop-up ninehole course until January 2015.

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Wildest horses The Mongol Derby is the longest, toughest horse race in the world.

Each year riders take on 1,000km of changeable terrain in all weathers.

New film doc All The Wild Horses tells the story of the trials, tribulations and motivations of those trying to make it to the finish. allthewildhorsesmovie.com November 20

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The Hunger Games is not just for tweens. The franchise also entices sci-fi fans of all ages, a fact borne out by the US$900 million worldwide box office take of last year’s second film, Catching Fire. In Mockingjay Part 1, the third of four films, reluctant heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is joined by Julianne Moore as President Alma Coin and Philip Seymour Hoffman, in his penultimate posthumous performance, before 2015’s Part 2. thehungergamesexplorer.com

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Science onscreen

Riding high

In honour of Science Week Ireland, three great films will be screened for the Smashing Science Screenings in Dublin.

First comes Particle Fever, a documentary about CERN, followed by Moneyball, Brad Pitt’s film on data analytics in baseball, and finally, 1951 film The Man in the White Suit. on.fb.me/1yCovHd

Racecourses and celebrities are a coupling as classic as horses and jockeys. At the annual Hennessy Festival, held at the Newbury Racecourse, the likes of Bear Grylls and Tinie Tempah grace the grandstands to bet on the fine steeds contesting the Hennessy Gold Cup, now in its 58th year. racecoursenewbury.co.uk

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GETtheGEAR Ellis Brigham Mountain Sports review six of this winter’s newest pieces of kit for skiers and snowboarders.

Black Diamond Halo 28 JetForce Pack £689.99 The Halo 28 features the exciting new JetForce avalanche airbag system. Designed from the ground up to improve ease of use and performance, the JetForce airbag system is the first system to use jet-fan inflation. Easy to repack, rearm and redeploy on a single charge, this travel-friendly system is set to revolutionise the avalanche airbag market.

Dragon APX Boost Transitions £250 Dragon are true innovators, creating premium products designed with team riders and inspired by art, music, fashion and alternative culture. But they’re so much more than style as their goggles have real substance too. Every pair is ready to ride whatever the light conditions with either interchangeable lenses supplied for different light transmission or, brand new in snowsports, the market leading photo chromatic lenses from Transitions. Transitions adaptive lenses automatically darken and lighten in response to changing sun light and weather conditions. They are colour optimised to help improve visual performance during snowsports, enhance contrast and increase depth perception.

Sweet Protection Grimnir MIPS Helmet £300 Indepedently tested as one of the safest snow helmets on the market, the Grimnir is Terje Hakonsen’s pro model.

Built with a carbon fibre shell for strength, weightsaving and high impact resistance, it uses an Impact Shields EPS liner for maximum shock absorbance. MIPS reduces rotational forces from oblique impacts.

Extra features: Removable ear pads, inserts for Go-Pro® mounts, removable and washable Coolmax liner, helmet bag.

Nordica NRGY 90 £430 The NRGY 90 is our Ski-of-the-Year, it uses the latest shaping knowhow with lots of rocker and set back contact points. The result is impressively smooth handling in all conditions and terrain. The construction is new too, a full wood core with a titanal Torsion Bridge, ensuring power, grip and response for thrilling piste skiing.

The NRGY 90 is Nordica raising the bar and producing the allmountain ski to beat.

Burton AK 2L Swash GTX Jkt £349.99 This jacket has backcountry riding fully dialed delivering fantastic performance in the worst weather. Built tough but light in 2-layer GORE-TEX fabric with climate control lining and zonal Primaloft Silver panels for targeted warmth without overheating. Features 3D engineered cut and welded YKK water resistant zips.

Norrøna Lyngen Down 750 Jacket £299.99 This super warm, super versatile down jacket packs a powerful performance punch. Featherlight windproof nylon outer with DWR and 750 down fill.

Features warm high neck, 3D adjustable hood and zipped hand pockets. Packs into its own pocket.

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