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Set includes two original ‘Mermaid Avenue’ albums plus a third disc of previously unreleased material from the sessions and the ‘Man in the Sand’ documentary. Billy Bragg’s ‘Ain’t Nobody That Can Sing Like Me’ Australian tour, incorporating Billy’s celebration of the music of Woody Guthrie, happens in October. Go to vivleespresents.com for details.
Punch Brothers
Who’s Feeling Young Now? SOLD OUT SHOWS IN MELBOURNE, SYDNEY AND ADELAIDE. The band that T Bone Burnett has called “one of the most incredible bands (America) has ever produced.” “Punch Brothers are a superb cutting-edge band, exploring the outer edges of modern music, who happen to be bluegrass virtuosos.” – BRUCE ELDER, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD.
Hypnotic Nights Co-produced by Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys) Single ‘Sixpack’ currently playing on Triple J and communities TOUR AUSTRALIA FOR 2013 BIG DAY OUT ‘Why the hell aren’t you listening to it?’ – stereogum
Chris Robinson Brotherhood Big Moon Ritual
1. Chain: Black And Blue 2. Blackfeather: Boppin’ The Blues 3. Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs: C.C. Rider 4. Band Of Light: The Destiny Song 5. Spectrum: I’ll Be Gone 6. La De Das: Gonna See My Baby Tonight 7. Stevie Wright: Guitar Band 8. Rose Tattoo: Bad Boy For Love 9. Buster Brown: Something To Say 10. Coloured Balls: Flash 11. Kahvas Jute: She’s So Hard To Shake 12. Masters Apprentices: I’m Your Satisfier 13. Buffalo: Sunrise (Come My Way) 14. Madder Lake: 12Lb Toothbrush 15. Wendy Saddington And The Copperwine: Backlash Blues 16. Friends: Bird On A Wire (Live at Sunbury 1973) 17. Indelible Murtceps: Esmeralda 18. Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band: Your Feets Too Big 19. Renée Geyer: Dust My Blues 20. Cold Chisel: Home And Broken Hearted 21. Ariel: Worm-turning Blues 22. Daddy Cool: Daddy Rocks Off
A four-disc set in celebration of centennial year of Woody Guthrie’s birth.
Jeff The Brotherhood
1. Matt Taylor: I Remember When I Was Young 2. La De Das: Too Pooped To Pop 3. Cold Chisel: Goodbye (Astrid, Goodbye) 4. Dingoes: Come On Down 5. Madder Lake: Booze Blues 6. Sid Rumpo: Breaking My Back 7. Thump’n Pig and Puff ’n Billy: Captain Straightman 8. Kevin Borich Express: I’m Going Somewhere 9. Buffalo: Lucky 10. Ted Mulry Gang: Darktown Strutters Ball 11. The Angels: Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again 12. Lobby Loyde & the Coloured Balls: Mama Loves To 13. Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs: Most People I Know Think That I’m Crazy 14. Ferrets: Janie May 15. Skyhooks: Saturday Night 16. Martin Armiger: I Love My Car 17. Sports: You Ain’t Home Yet 18. Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons: Ain’t Got No Money 19. Daddy Cool: Hi Honey Ho (Live at Sunbury 1974) 20. Max Merrit & The Meteors: Fannie Mae 21. Chain: Gertrude Street Blues 22. Carson: Boogie (Part One)
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A wakeup call as the U.S. heads towards its November Presidential Election. Includes “Mutt Romney Blues”, “The Wall Street Part of Town” and “Guantanamo”.
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Election Special
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Editor’s Note// Having watched Josh Moore arse about on stage for five years, who else is finding it rather surreal seeing the Adelaide scallywag messing around on Big Brother every night? Whether dicking about at the helm of The Touch or Messrs, Moore’s energy levels and frontman charisma have always been high. No matter if he’s playing to 12 bored hipsters at Rocket or dancing up a sweat in front of a packed Ed Castle, the affable lad has always proven an enthusiastic showman – even if it sometimes means his vocals have taken a backseat to spirited dancing and energetic audience interaction. As the only South Aussie in Big Brother this season, Moore is now playing to 140,000 Adelaide viewers every night, with daily national viewing figures somewhere around 1.5 million. Even Moore’s laddish admission he’s been ‘friendly’ with over 100 young ladies around town doesn’t appear to have dimmed his standing in the house, with his easy-going nature surely helping him to weather the initial nomination rounds. Lying around in the sun, giving the odd cheeky grin and getting friendly with young ladies? After years of mucking about, it seems that Moore is being paid to do something he truly believes in – even if it’s only for a fleeting moment. His inevitable ejection from the house will surely be a dismal return to reality for the 28-year-old, but hopefully he’s smart enough to already be plotting his next successful move. It’s not just Big Brother who’s watching.
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Rip It Up’s random weekly compilation.
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Your fast guide to this week’s best entertainment
Burning Love
Sean McMahon’s Western Union
Witness the Canadian hardcore punks at DIY underground venue Animal House on Thu Aug 23 with Hydromedusa and Starvation.
Coming over from Melbourne to launch a new album with help from Cal Williams Jr at Thebarton’s Wheatsheaf Hotel on Sat Aug 25.
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Slash
Currently enjoying a month-long Friday evening residency at Waymouth St’s Grace Emily Hotel with special guest acts each week.
See Saul Hudson with Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators at Thebarton Theatre on Tue Aug 28.
Speeding along this week... PITBULL – experience the US rapper when he makes his way to Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Sat Aug 25 with Taio Cruz, Timomatic and Havana Brown.
THE PHARCYDE – see the US hip hop crew at Fowler’s Live on Fri Aug 24.
JAMES REYNE – witness the Australian music legend when he plays Norwood Hotel’s Norwood Live on Fri Aug 24.
MARIA MINERVA – catch the Estonian play some murky disco full of reverb and delay mixed with her enigmatically ethereal vocals at Format on Tue Aug 28.
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Who: Parkway Drive / Where: Thebarton Theatre / When: Thu Dec 20 / Tickets: venuetix.com.au
Atlas In Wonderland It’s new album, exciting new live show for Parkway Drive. They recorded their soon-tobe-released fourth album Atlas in Los Angeles with Matt Hyde, who has worked with Slayer, Hatebreed, Sum 41 and Alkaline Trio. “Everything has been enhanced,” vocalist Winston McCall says. “For the past 10 years we’ve played with a backdrop, and the whole experience has been us. We’re trying something this time, and hopefully it makes
people feel something different as well. It’s definitely going to be entertaining. There won’t be any dead spots.” None on the support line-up either – it’s all-Australian, featuring I Killed The Prom Queen, Northlane and Survival. “It’s the biggest tour we’ve ever done, and the fact that we’re keeping it all Australian means a lot to us and highlights how far the bands in this country have come,” McCall says.
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Eastern are good eggs. Sorry. It’s true, though, they’ve made the road their home playing with Justin Townes Earle, Fleetwood Mac, Jimmy Barnes, The Jayhawks, Steve Earle, Old Crow Medicine Show and many more. Their latest album Hope And Wire did good things in NZ and they promise a rolling, rambling, spiritraising atmosphere at their live show at the Wheatsheaf on Thu Oct 4. “We have one job, that is to play like our lives depend on it,” frontman Adam McGrath says. “If you’re there to see us play then we owe you, not the other way around.”
Who: Dappled Cities, JAPE and roaches / Where: Adelaide Uni Bar / When: Sat Oct 13 / Tickets: adelaide.edu.au/unibar and moshtix.com.au
Don’t Stop There Dappled Cities have enjoyed some pretty sweet reviews for their fourth studio album Lake Air. And they’re getting a pretty sweet touring support on their first headline jaunt in more than two years, JAPE. As long as the European electro pop band led by Richie Egan - who sounds a little bit like Beck but doesn’t like to be compared to
Beck so let’s pretend the whole Beck thing didn’t happen – doesn’t get scared off by our fauna. “We’re really looking forward to playing in Australia,” Egan says. “It’s going to be great to get to know the Dappled Cities guys and hopefully they can give us some advice about how to deal with the flying cockroaches.”
Pussy Here’s a fact that came from the brain of Rip It Up editor Scott McLennan while he was thinking about the Meredith festival: Meredith is the name of Taylor Swift’s cat. Sadly she’s not appearing at Meredith. Neither is Taylor. Make of that what you will. But Primal Scream, Spiritualized, Four Tet, Turbonegro, Grimes, Sunnyboys, Omar Souleyman, Regurgitator, Big Jay McNeely, Chet Faker, Rahzel & DJ JS-1 and a whole lot more – including wildcards the City Of Ballarat Municipal Brass Band – are. Head to mmf. com.au to find out your best options for tickets.
Ones To Watch
Melbourne soul-funk ninepiece Saskwatch not only sound good, they look pretty cute too. Big hairy mythical creatures they ain’t. They’ve been playing at Golden Plains, Falls and supporting Earth, Wind & Fire, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and Maceo Parker. Now they’re coming to Adelaide to launch their debut album Leave It All Behind. Catch them at Jive on Fri Sep 28.
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Who: Gotye with Bertie Blackman and PVT / Where: Adelaide Entertainment Centre / When: Thu Dec 6 / Tickets: ticketek.com.au
Gotye Talks Songwriting “I’m naturally drawn on some level to make pop music, no matter how slightly experimental or left field it might be. I think I’m coming from a genuine place, trying to write stuff from personal experience. I’m not going, ‘How am I going to write a song that’s going to appeal to millions of people?’ - that’s not my kind of approach. It’s nice
and freaky to have a number one song in a few countries around the world. I haven’t changed what I do as such or aimed to make a pop song as most people understand pop songs at this present moment in time, which is what I think makes it more peculiar that Somebody That I Used To Know became a pop hit. It’s a surprise.”
Seven-piece juggernaut King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard not only have an awesome name. They make music that has been described as “teeth-rattling, boneshaking, party-starting garage punk” and “a tour de force of reverberated rock‘n’roll”. They’ve thrown violent slabs of psychgarage, ocker wit and scuzzed out hysteria into their debut album 12 Bar Bruise, which they’ll play at the Ed Castle on Fri Oct 12.
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It’s not quite a Laneway Festival, but it should be a good time when Paul Hannan and Louise O’Reilly, two parts of LANEWAY, play the Wheatsheaf on Fri Sep 14. They’ve got an album called Turn Your Love Up and a Grant McLennan Memorial Fellowship to celebrate. Hooray!
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John Butler + Peats Ridge Falls Festival isn’t your thing? Peats Ridge Sustainable Arts & Music Festival is another option for ringing in the New Year with a line-up featuring John Butler Trio, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, The Black Seeds, Friendly Fires DJ Set, Krafty Kuts Vs A Skillz, The Herd, Kaki King,
Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Mat McHugh & The Seperatista Sound System, Deep Sea Arcade, Gold Fields, Gossling, The Medics, Battleships and many more. It’s all happening in the Glenworth Valley on the New South Wales Central Coast over New Year’s. Details: peatsridgefestival.com.au.
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British India have unveiled a new single, I Can Make You Love Me, plans to take it on the road and a minotaur-starring video. Fact: the minotaur head took five hours to graft onto the actor, who had to sleep with it on thanks to an early morning shoot start. Dedication. See the clip on YouTube, keep an eye out for a band cameo and see them (not the minotaur) live at the Governor Hindmarsh on Fri Oct 12.
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OCT 20 Who: Boy In A Box and Kingswood with Sun And The Sky / Where: Ed Castle / When: Thu Sep 6
The Gloves Are Off
In a kind of Alien versus Predator, man versus lion, Liam versus Noel battle, Boy In A Box and Kingswood are going head to head on the Split Ends tour. In the blue corner; Boy In A Box. With a new EP to offer and something to prove, Boy In A Box have a catchy single On My Mind and tours alongside Birds Of Tokyo and Calling All Cars under their belts. In the red corner; Kingswood. Fresh from the battlefield of This Epic Tour alongside Money For Rope, the four-piece are teeth-gnashingly ready to take on all comers. Recent wins including national airplay for their recent singles Yeah Go Die and Medusa and the green light to kick off main stage proceedings at the 2012 Splendour In The Grass festival. In the immortal words of Apollo Creed in Rocky IV: “Ding, ding”.
Weird ‘N’ Wild
Synaesthesia, alien abduction, robot marches, black holes and vomiting paint on stage – orchestral art rockers The Red Paintings have a few theories. They’re bringing them to Adelaide in their art and music live show, featuring visual projections and body paint, to showcase their new album The Revolution Is Never Coming. See it all at the Crown & Anchor on Sat Sep 15. Tickets: oztix.com.au.
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Mountain Designs With incandescent harmonies, a deft skill for arrhythmic pop and an arresting influence which saw them signed to Ivy League Records within months of their first radio airplay on Triple J, it’s no wonder Melbourne sextet Alpine have sent a tingle down the spines of listeners over the past 12 months.
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irst arriving on the scene with singles Villages, Hands and the hip hop influenced Gasoline, the band continue to ride the wave of success with the recent release of debut full-length effort A Is For Alpine. While labels usually like to whet the appetites of fans over a long process before an album drop, according to vocalist and frontwoman Phoebe Baker the decision to unveil the record in close proximity to Gasoline came as the result of wanting to make a “big musical gesture”. “I think all of us in the band love [Gasoline], which helps, but the song is also a little bit different from our past songs. Maybe it was the hip hop influence, but it was a unanimous decision, we were just like yeah, Gasoline is the one to have as the lead single. Maybe also because it’s a big pop, dance-y track, and when you create an album you want it to begin with a bang or a big musical gesture.” Perhaps what sets Alpine apart from the pack is the vastly different musical backgrounds of each of the members, the
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puzzle that comprises their unique sound more complicated than expected. The short story is that bassist Ryan Lamb and drummer Phil Tucker grew up as punk kids, guitarist Christian O’Brien was classically trained in opera, keyboardist Tim Royall played electronic music and the two songstresses, Baker and Lou James, have been penning music for a few years with stark influences. “I think there’s my musical style and then there’s the others’,” Baker ho-hums on Alpine’s ‘genre’. “We all have such different tastes and different ways of writing. Some things that I love are improvisation, rock‘n’roll, jazz, R&B. Me personally, I’ve got a whole lot of influences that I just want to push into the music.” This spread of tastes certainly makes itself known across A Is For Alpine, threaded together in a harmonious patchwork quilt of sound with knife-sharp timing and percussive grooves. As Baker suggests, when it all comes down to it, one thing the band can agree upon is wanting the end product to “sound good”. “We all kind of come together and I suppose what we all want, something we can all agree upon, is something that sounds good,” she offers. It does beg the question as to who gets to pick the music when the band is on a road trip, then. “We kind of shuffle that,” she laughs. “We all have a playlist and we sometimes have playlist competitions. It’s really nerdy and I’m not very good at it. You have to guess what the theme is in the playlist and it might be
like albums that have a colour in the title or something.” The magic truly is in the detail in A Is For Alpine; the padding percussion that chops and changes in the most subtle of ways; the come-hither, hushed vocals; the fluid transitions from one song into the next. Hands, for example, is likely to be responsible for several damaged eardrums due to its pin-drop quiet intro before blasting into the chorus, something a little like LCD Soundsystem’s Dance Yrself Clean. Baker apologises when I tell her maxing my headphone volume on the bus to this song nearly blew my head off. “I’ve never heard that one before,” she laughs. “But yeah, with that song we’re just slowly weaning you into it. We don’t want you to blast your head off, though!” Recorded up in Gisborne, north west of Melbourne, with Evermore member Dann Hume, Baker is chirpy when discussing the recording process and dispels any notion of first-time studio horrors. She even goes as far as to describe the recording of A If For Alpine was thoroughly enjoyable. “We recorded the album at Dann’s recording studio, which is a place called The Stables in Gisborne, about 40 minutes out of Melbourne. So we were kind of lucky to have this country getaway, but not being too far away from the city, we could drive home or stay up there. There were a lot of late nights spent drinking whisky and eating cake. It was just a really fun process. “Dann is an amazing person and really just incredibly talented, fun, weird and encouraging,” Baker continues. “He was just the best person we could have expected to have worked with on the album. [Recording professionally] was a new thing for us, and it was good because he was our age and just
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If A wasn’t for Alpine, what does Phoebe Baker think it would stand for?
“Oooh, A is for… [pauses with a laugh] apple? There was another word that came up but I wasn’t going to say it!”
really encouraging.” In other pairings, most recently the band teamed up with director Kris Moyes for their video clip Gasoline. Given Moyes is most notably recognised for sticky-taping Sia’s face in the Buttons clip, Baker was chuffed to have him on board. “I know, that’s one of my favourite videos so I was really excited to get him to work with us,” she says. “We decided we were happy not to be in it this time because we loved the pitch. It was a nice little story this time instead of us just dancing around in the snow. It’s fun to experiment with the videos though, we don’t feel like we need to stay in the same visual elements all the time.” Whereas the video clip for Hands showed us disturbing mansion suburbia with halfnaked girls wielding axes and guinea pigs, Gasoline transported us to a world of snowy alps and yetis. What environment does Alpine truly belong to? “What about… on a beach facing west but with mountains behind, with possible snow in winter,” Baker chuckles. WHO: Alpine WHAT: A Is For Alpine (Ivy League) WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh (with Clubfeet and Georgi Kay) WHEN: Fri Sep 7
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Too Nice To Talk To The English Beat, known more simply as The Beat in their UK homeland, emerged in the late ’70s as a multiracial ska band alongside such likeminded acts as Madness, The Selector and The Specials.
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he six-piece, who released their first single on the 2 Tone label, enjoyed success with songs such as Too Nice To Talk To, I Confess, Save It For Later (later covered by Pearl Jam and Pete Townshend) and Mirror In The Bathroom along with a ska-style reading of Tears Of A Clown. They have now reformed, albeit with singer and guitarist Dave Wakeling as the only original member, and are currently touring Australia. Wakeling says the decision to re-form the band came about when he began doing some solo shows at which he was playing songs
he’d written for The Beat. “I put the band together in California because I’d started doing shows by myself but regardless of what I wanted to call it, it was always billed as The English Beat. So I gave up trying to force the issue.” The group’s three albums, 1980’s I Just Can’t Stop It, 1981’s Wha’ppen? and 1983’s Special Beat Service, have all been recently remastered and reissued with a bonus disc of live material and outtakes along with a DVD. In the US, they have been issued together as a deluxe box-set. “So I don’t know how they are going to come out in Australia,” Wakeling says. “But there are live concert sessions and live radio sessions from each period.” Wakeling still takes great delight in telling how his breakfast was interrupted early one morning. “I was having breakfast when someone handed me the phone and told me it was Pete Townshend,” he laughs. “I thought it
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was a joke. Pete Townshend calling me? And it was him. And he told me he was sitting with his friend David Gilmour [of Pink Floyd] and they were trying to work out the tuning for Save It For Later. I’d made up my own tuning because I’d been trying to use an old-fashioned one but had messed it up and tuned the G string up to the A. So I explained that to them and they said thanks and said they’d been sitting there all morning breaking their fingers trying to figure out the chords. “So it was a most surreal thing for me because I was a fan of the early songs by The Who. When I first heard Substitute and I Can See For Miles when I was a nipper of about 10, I’d thought then that I wanted to be in a pop group one day. “And in my early teens, Pink Floyd albums like Ummagumma and songs like Careful With That Axe Eugene with Gilmour’s guitar work became quite important to me. So to have two of my music idols ring me to ask how to play one of my songs was a real thrill.” The musician concludes by saying audiences will be treated to a greatest hits-style show by the band. “And because of the new re-releases, we’ve been digging a bit deeper. We’d written some new songs for a new album which we were doing as well as some General Public songs, but we’ve taken them out for this tour although they will eventually go back into the set. Probably this time next year. “So it’s all the hits along with older songs like I’m Your Flag and Get A Job. And it all goes down really well. And it’s a nice break for the band too because we’re not playing the same songs every night. “And they are smashing versions of all the old songs because we seem to be on a natural roll at the moment,” Wakeling enthuses. “It’s been better than ever.”
For more details head to mumfordandsons.com WHAT: The English Beat WHERE: Fowler’s Live WHEN: Wed Aug 29
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Diamond Life If there was any lingering doubt pop saucepot Ricki-Lee has completely embraced her slinky new image, it’s thrown out the window as the singer greets Rip It Up. She’s lying naked in bed and revelling in the racy emancipation of her new album Fear And Freedom.
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I’m in bed alone, so it’s just me and you,” she chuckles. “And I’m not even wearing any pants… It’s so much fun not wearing them!” Did the temperature just go up in here? If the 26-year-old’s cheeky sense of humour doesn’t get you blushing, her lyrics are sure to – Fear And Freedom’s closing track Bombshell finds Ricki-Lee cooing ‘It’s just you and me on the floor, up against the wall, whatever you like’. Have her recent sweaty workouts been making her extra horny? The slimmed-down singer laughs hard. “Completely! Those are the little snapshots on the album that are personal, intimate and sexy. I always thought I’d be too scared to write lyrics that are a bit suggestive and a bit sexual, but why hold back? Why censor yourself? I have a cheeky and playful and a little bit naughty personality and my songs reflect that. It’s just me being me.” The provocative video for Ricki-Lee’s new single Crazy was shot at Sydney’s Callan Park Hospital For The Insane. Does the singer fear any backlash suggesting the song’s lyrical and visual content makes light of mental illness? “I’m definitely not, because I am very sensitive to things like that as I have members of my own family who suffer from mental illness. I don’t find it funny and I don’t want to trivialise it, but that video represents a part of my life when I felt trapped. I had poisonous people weighing me down, I felt like I couldn’t escape and there was so much negative stuff I almost felt like I was in a straitjacket and I couldn’t free myself. The patient in that video represents that part of my life. “You’ve also got to remember that it’s entertainment,” Ricki-Lee continues. “The movie that inspired this was Terminator II: Judgment Day, where Sarah Connor is locked up against her will and deemed crazy because she’s telling everyone the Terminator is coming. It’s an amazingly shot video and I really gave it my all.” Signing to EMI for the 2011 release of her platinum-selling single Raining Diamonds, the last 12 months have seen quite the rebirth for Ricki-Lee. Despite being one of the more vivacious personalities to emerge from the Australian Idol series, for a few years her musical career had been sidelined due to label and management issues. When Shock released the compilation album Singles in 2008, it seemed like a career death knell. “I completely disagreed with them doing that. For them it was a cash grab and it was so disappointing and soul-destroying when they only see you as a money-maker. I couldn’t believe that after two albums and five singles they were releasing a ‘best of ’ album. It still makes me quite angry thinking about that period and the bad decisions.” With a new management team, partner and record label backing her, Ricki-Lee says she’s now in control of her career - she’s wearing the pants figuratively, if not literally. “And it all happened because I had the balls to stand up and make a change rather than sitting around whining and moaning about how miserable I was.” To celebrate overcoming the odds, Ricki-Lee says she wanted Fear And Freedom’s cover art to be “a bit super hero-esque”. The result sees Ricki-Lee wearing a weird sci-fi brassiere. “I wanted the album cover to be almost futuristic and a bit epic. When my costume designer rocked up with that piece I thought that it was really cool as I’d never seen anyone do anything like it. It was incredibly uncomfortable though – that thing was digging into me and it was bad news. Yeah, suffering for my art again. After the Crazy video I was black and blue for weeks. You can’t say I don’t give it my all…”
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While her music career was on hold, Ricki-Lee teamed up with Merrick Watts to present a popular Nova radio program. The 2010 stint saw her being chatted up by the Old Spice Man, getting her private parts vajazzled and even confronting her fear of toads.
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“They asked me what I was most scared of and I told them I was shitscared of toads. They brought in some toads and had someone hypnotise me to think in a different way. By the end of it I could touch the toad without freaking out, which was great.” Considering her difficulties over the past few years, it sounds like she’s had to deal with a few toads in her time. “I have! It’s so true. I like that comparison.”
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InCOMING WHAT: SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP WHERE: HOYTS TEA TREE PLAZA WHEN: WED AUG 29, 9PM
WHO: MATHEW JONSON WHAT: NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY WHERE: CUCKOO BAR WHEN: MON DEC 31
JAYTECH MULTIVERSE ALBUM GIVEAWAY Featuring the lead single Stranger alongside Dirty Vegas vocalist Steve Smith as well as a previously unreleased album version of the piano house anthem New Vibe, Jaytech’s sophomore album Multiverse is up for grabs in this issue of Onion. As the much-anticipated follow-up to the 2008 Everything Is OK, Multiverse takes his sound into the main room, retaining all the melodic flair and
refined production Jaytech’s built his career on so far. His mixes for the Anjunadeep compilation series have hit number one twice in the iTunes Dance Chart (with both Anjunadeep 02 and 03) and he’s revered as the warmup DJ of choice for stadium-fillers Above & Beyond, so if you’re keen to win a copy of his new album head to onion.com.au and enter your details in the comp.
OBESECITY 2 OUT NOW Finally, after much anticipation, Obese Records have released Obesecity 2, featuring a contribution from Adelaide’s own Dialect & Despair. Celebrating the label’s 10th anniversary, the double-disc compilation showcases both the well-known names in Australian hip hop as well as the genre’s more underground and up-and-coming artists. Featuring Maundz, Maggot Mouf, P Link, No Name Nathan, Ciecmate, Diktio, Eloquor, Fluent Form, Discourse and heaps more, this year two places on the track list were filled by competition winners Dwizofoz (Brisbane) and DVS (Dandenong, Victoria). Back in 2002, the first Obesecity compilation featured artists who eventually became Australian hip hop heavyweights – including the Hilltop Hoods, Koolism, Terra Firma and Pegz among others. Obesecity 2 is available now from iTunes.
CALENDAR 23/8: Chris Lake (Apple Bar) 24/8: The Pharcyde (Fowler’s Live) 24/8: Denzal Park (Red Square) 24/8: Jochen Miller, Rank 1, Leon Bolier (HQ) 25/8: Pitbull, Havana Brown (Entertainment Centre) 31/8: Steffi (Cuckoo Bar) 2/9: J00F (White Rabbit) 6/9: Timmy Trumpet (Apple Bar) 6/9: Todd Terry (Garage Bar) 20/9: Tommie Sunshine (Apple Bar)
A musical prodigy since a very young age, Mathew Jonson has gone on to record on internationally renowned labels likes Sub Static, Minus, Perlon, Kompakt, Itiswhatitis, Arbutus and his own imprint Wagon Repair. Responsible for some of the most influential tracks to come out in recent years – including Decompression, Alpine Rocket (with Luciano), Marionette, Folding Space, Typerope and Return Of The Zombie Bikers, Jonson’s recordings have earned themselves a place on the top 10 lists of the likes of Gilles Peterson, Richie Hawtin, Tiga, Sven Vath and Laurent Garnier. Jonson was also proclaimed Best Producer Of 2004 by Groove magazine, not surprising considering he’s become notorious for his live shows which focus on analogue equipment and real-time play as opposed to mere playback. Forging influences from techno, jazz, house and D&B, Jonson is also known for his involvement with groups like the Modern Deep Left Quartet and Cobblestone Jazz, as well as his collaborations with artists like Luciano, Hrdvsion and the Mole. Don’t miss him in this rare, intimate setting at Cuckoo Bar this New Year’s Eve.
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New York house legend Todd Terry – also affectionately known as ‘Todd The God’ to his fans – has just announced a return to Australia for three dates only, one of which will see him at Garage Bar on Thu Sep 6. Terry’s tracks Something Goin’ On and Keep On Jumpin’ reached the top 10 charts in the UK, while his takes on I’ll House You by the Jungle Brothers and Missing by Everything But The Girl were considered two of the most respected crossover remixes of the house era. In addition to DJ appearances, Terry was cutting his classic underground tracks A Day In The Life, Weekend and Can You Party, released under monikers including the Todd Terry Project, House Of Gypsies and Royal House (all considered essential and groundbreaking). Catch this Grammy-nominee next month at Garage.
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KITSUNE SOLEIL MIX Ever wondered what it would be like to pour Magic Gum in your ears and ride that popping, sparkly, aural rainbow? Well, here’s an equivalent and likely less harmful way to do so without causing irreparable damage to your ear canals. Quirky, decidedly indie and ever-so fun, this hour-long journey is the perfect little companion to hint at the fact the days are starting to get longer. Yes, the sight of skin that’s actually tanned, the clinking of ice in drinks by the pool and those glorious, long sunsets that bleed into warm nights are creeping ever closer. And what better way to soundtrack them than with what has to be one of the best in the series de la Maison Kitsune so far?
BEAMS
The former techno and minimal producer’s evolution into the dark prince of Gothic beats continues with this, Beams, his darkest long player to date. After moving to a Gary Numan meets Joy Division sound on his last album, Black City, Dear (AKA Audion and False) takes that progression a step further with Beams. His Numanmeats-Dave Gahan vocals are complemented by dark future pop beats, which on opening track Her Fantasy and third track Headcage are some of the finest Dear has composed under his own name. Watching Dear evolve over the last 13 years has been a fascinating experience. He makes what he wants and doesn’t box himself into one sound. Beams might not contain any minimal techno bangers but it is full of sophisticated dark future pop of the highest order.
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WHO: RED RACK’EM WHERE: SUGAR WHEN: THU AUG 30 He makes cutting edge Detroit 2-step as Marlinspike, wonky disco and cosmic boogie as Hot Coins and beatdown house and glitch hip hop as Red Rack’em, and this month Danny Berman is heading back to Australia. Ever since he first started releasing his pirate soul remixes and disco edits in 2004, Berman has gained the support of the Unabombers, Todd Terje, Swag, Yam Who, Prins Thomas and institutions like Piccadilly Records and Fat City. One of Berman’s biggest supporters has been Gilles Peterson, who’s given extensive airplay to Hot Coins tracks on Radio 1 and described Berman as “not being able to put a foot wrong”. Renowned for his broad output as a producer, as a DJ Berman has built a reputation for his genre-busting eclectic sets which cover everything from house, jazz, funk, hip hop and soul to disco and techno.
WHO: TODD TERRY WHERE: GARAGE BAR WHEN: THU SEP 6
20/9: Sidney Samson (Electric Circus) 21/9: Octave One (Electric Circus) 25/9: Far East Movement (HQ) 28/9: Paul Oakenfold (HQ) 29/9: Kyle Hall (Cuckoo Bar) 29/9: Das EFX, Black Sheep, Tony Touch (Higher Ground) 30/9: Funkagenda (White Rabbit) 27/11: Nicki Minaj (Entertainment Centre) 9/12: JLO (Entertainment Centre) 31/12: Mathew Jonson (Cuckoo Bar)
Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap will screen for one night only on Wed Aug 29 at Hoyts Tea Tree Plaza at 9pm. Created and directed by Ice-T, the doco tells the story of hip hop and its evolution over the last three decades into the social and cultural force it has become today. Drenched with the big beats of classic cuts and freestyle rhyming courtesy of some of the masters of the genre, The Art Of Rap looks at how the music of the street has gone on to dominate the world. Featuring a huge cast of hip hop talent – founders, new faces and the superstars – the film features Common, Dr Dre, Eminem, Ice Cube, Kanye West, NAS, Run DMC, Snoop Dogg and Xzibit (also featuring unique performances from the whole cast). Tickets are on sale now at $20 from Hoyts.
GOOD MORNING TO THE NIGHT
Make no mistake – this is not a mere ‘remix’ album of any kind: it’s a work of art. When Elton John allowed Pnau to rummage through his back catalogue (1970-1976) and pick out some golden oldies, what they came up with was a short-but-sweet ride filled with both dreamy, summertime disco tunes and emotionallycharged, atmospheric gems that will keep you reaching for the ‘repeat’ button over and over. With each song containing elements of a variety of John’s original tracks, Pnau have basically mixed the old and classic with the new and original, resulting in what is now officially John’s first number one album in 22 years. This is no surprise. Telegraph To The Afterlife channels Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb while Foreign Fields is smooth and cruisey in the midst of all its tragedy. At just eight tracks, it’s all over in about 30 minutes – a nice move given that it certainly leaves you wanting more. Put simply, this is about quality, not quantity.
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MILLIONS OF MOMENTS
(LIBERATION) Remember when TZU used to be hip hop? Well those days are mostly gone because four albums on, the Melbourne-based collective are leaning more and more towards all things electronic. Even dubstep. Yes, you read that right. Which doesn’t make Millions Of Moments bad, though it certainly makes it experimental to say the least. The concept behind the album is an interesting one too – based on the adventures of Persephone who trials a drug called Chronos and which then sends her hurtling through time like Alice In Wonderland. Yep, it’s a little bizarre, but hell, musically, it works. There are still elements of hip hop here, but overall Millions Of Moments is a variety of cross-genre sounds which sees TZU even giving rock a bit of a go. The album standout is Beautiful, a track which sees an interesting contrast between hip hop beats and yearning lyrics which tell a ghost story. Evolution is the key word here.
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CHET FAKER You’d be hard-pressed to find a more buzzed-about artist in 2012 than Chet Faker. Known to his parents as Nick Murphy, his debut EP Thinking In Textures came from seemingly nowhere earlier this year, tapping beautifully into that beatsy world of R&B, hip hop, soul and electronica akin to overseas artists like The Weeknd, Frank Ocean, How To Dress Well and many others.
Currently, Murphy is fresh from supporting The Temper Trap on their recent jaunt to the UK and Europe. “I was surprised about how many people actually came down for my set and knew my music and were getting into it, which was nice. I went in there not really expecting much but it was really good.” Murphy is comes across as down-to-earth, approachable and sets a pleasant theme for our chat. Given the love showered upon the man, you wouldn’t blame him for acting otherwise, but he also hasn’t really had the chance to let it go to his head. “Yeah absolutely [it’s been surreal]. Someone asked me if I was nervous at South By [Southwest] recently and I kinda thought back and realised I can’t remember being nervous. I think because I just wasn’t present. I was so overwhelmed by the whole experience. It didn’t really sink in… I went from having all this time to just sit around and make music, to going all around the world and actually having to preplan to sit down and write music, you know?” Like many artists, Murphy is quite precious of his own work. Not in a hoity-toity, pretentious kind of way; it’s just a very personal process – one that he’s
now finding difficult to get back to since there’s a whole new audience to think about. “Yeah I’m actually finding it really hard at the moment. I’ve been reading a lot and talking a lot… I mean, conversation is one of the best things you can do [creatively] – to talk to other people and talk about ideas. And I found focusing on the process has been really important – looking at how I’m approaching the songs so when I first started working on this full length, I was just trying to mimic the EP and I didn’t even realise I was doing that. Subconsciously I was like, ‘Yeah I’m gonna do that again, but bigger’. But I wasn’t there anymore. That was the music I wrote when I had heaps of time on my plate and I’d ride my bike to work and go for a run and chill out in my studio and smoke cigarettes you know? But I’ve just gotta stay true to the fact that this is what I’m writing and make sure it’s the best it can be and not just like the EP.” And like the process of writing new material, Murphy initially found translating those first recordings into a live show a difficult, but important, evolution. “It took me like three months to turn those seven tracks into a live show. I found it pretty hard because initially I was holding on to those songs and, yeah, ‘How do I turn that into a live show?’ What I had to do in the end was let go of those recordings and forget about the recordings and just focus on the songs... If that makes any sense. So I play with a drummer, guitarist and bass player now and I’ve got keys and a bunch of gadgets, [it’s] a more traditional set-up.” And so far, so good, as Murphy confirms. “I’ve definitely got in the swing of it. I’ve only played like 22 shows, but I haven’t really played a bad show. I’ve had a few fuck-ups, but it’s been really good and I’m feeling really good about it. And it’s all groove-based, so as long as you’re feeling it, it works.”
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WHO: CHET FAKER WHAT: LOVE AND FEELING IS OUT THROUGH REMOTE CONTROL WHERE: ROCKET BAR WHEN: FRI AUG 24
DIGITALISM
“Around the time when we started making our first tracks, the Trevor Jackson [Playgroup] and Tiga ones were pretty iconic for us,” Moelle says, Digitalism’s frontman in live shows. “A bit later we loved the Erlend Øye DJ-Kicks – his selection and singing was ace.” The DJ-Kicks comps have never been ordinary, its selectors customising tunes or including their own exclusive material. This has allowed the series to compete with podcasts, Soundcloud mixes and so on. “Everyone’s done something special when it came to DJ-Kicks,” says Moelle. “We wanted to honour that, too – and so we decided to put lots of our own new tracks on it. So it’s like half a new album, half a DJ mix. And then, of course, you can’t buy podcasts on vinyl. A DJ-Kicks is collectors’ stuff, where it’s about the medium,
WHO: JACK BEATS WHAT: PARKLIFE WHERE: BOTANIC PK WHEN: SUN OCT 7
Mystique is big in dance music. London bass housers Jack Beats cultivated it when they formed, circa 2006. Indeed, both Niall Dailly (AKA 2001’s DMC World DJ Champion Plus One) and Ben Geffin (Beni G of the Mixologists) already had industry profiles. But they wanted audiences to focus on their music, not some gimmicky super-duo concept. “We were really involved in groups that played all types of music essentially, but we were grounded in hip hop,” the Scottish Dailly says. “We all came up as turntablists and things like that. Starting to make house music, it was still so out of our world, in a sense, for the fanbase we had that we were a bit shy about the whole thing.” Jack Beats initially cut remixes – and tracks. “We started to do it just as a hobby ‘cause we really enjoyed doing it.” Soon they were soliciting DJ gigs. And Jack Beats’ secret unravelled. “At the very beginning, we weren’t gonna tell anybody it was us. Then we basically cottoned onto the fact that a guy we know called Theo [Keating] who goes by Fake Blood was doing the same thing – but he was doing it really well and he created this whole mystique! We were like, ‘Actually, we can’t really do that now because he’s doing it and he’s killin’ it’. He had this whole internet hype going on about ‘Who is Fake Blood?’. We were like, ‘Ah, we’ll just let the cat out of the bag slowly’. If people are into it, so be it. It was kinda weird ‘cause people did seem to be into it.” Jack Beats have had ace releases, from the UFO EP on Hervé’s Cheap Thrills to the recent singles End Of Love (sampling Leonard Cohen!) and You Should Know (featuring MC Donae’o). They’ve even remixed Beyoncé’s Countdown. Jack Beats’ fan club includes everyone from Annie Mac to A-Trak to Diplo.
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German electro-rockers Digitalism are back with a volume in !K7 Records’ tastemaking DJKicks compilation series. And DJ/ producer/remixers Jens Moelle and Ismail Tüfekçi, who bonded in Hamburg’s Underground Solution record store, are themselves fans of the brand, launched by CJ Bolland in 1995.
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the piece, the item that’s coming with artwork and you can add to your physical collection. Our DJ-Kicks is a portfolio of what Digitalism is all about. This mix represents everything that was important for us over the last 10 years – as DJs.” Digitalism have chosen tunes from the likes of Alex Gopher, Vitalic and The Rapture. As for the six new Digitalism songs on the comp? “We had some months off earlier this year after heavy touring in 2011,” Moelle enlightens. “We went to the States for a couple of DJ gigs and set up a small home studio [and] started making some new beats and music. In the middle of that process, the guys from K7! Records called us and asked us if we wanted to do a DJ-Kicks. We immediately said ‘Of course’... So we thought, ‘Okay, whatever we’re working on at the minute, let’s put it on there. There’s also two new exclusive remixes, and two tracks that are a bit older, but we never had the right platform to release them. That’s The Pictures and Simply Dead. Now on this DJ mix comp, they fit in perfectly.” Digitalism dropped their second album, I Love You Dude, only mid-last year. So are they working towards another, then? Tüfekçi chips in, “Yeah, called Dude, You, I Love or something like this.” In fact, the pair will wisely wait until any new project is completed before they discuss
it. But Digitalism are steadily developing their sound, Moelle says. “It’s all about digging deep in the DJ culture, because DJs always play everything first – before anyone else. You find a lot of new, weird, alien stuff out there and you have to soak it all up. Then your sound develops itself.” ‘EDM’ is huge today, especially in the US, yet Drop The Lime believes that rock will soon return in a major way. Digitalism’s prediction? “I would say, whatever happens, as long as it’s innovative and it’s not the billionth copy of some arena house track or something, as long as it’s original and innovative, new somehow, it sounds fine for me,” Moelle considers. “It doesn’t have to be anything [genre-wise], as long as it’s new.” Interjects Tüfekçi, “My lovely word is ‘recycling’.” Moelle counters, “And also ‘Take it to the next level’.” Ironically, one of Digitalism’s early triumphs was a bootleg remix of White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army. The Germans never heard from Jack White. “At least they didn’t sue us, so that might be good feedback,” Moelle quips. Digitalism toured Australia in May. They have a long relationship with this country, even co-writing their New Order-ly single Pogo (off 2007’s Kitsuné Music debut, Idealism) with The Presets’ Kim Moyes. “We see him every time we’re in Australia and anywhere else in the world when they’re on tour,” says Moelle. “We speak very often – and it’s like family.”
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Jack Beats’ success has necessitated that Dailly pull back from the Scratch Perverts – a wrench. “It’s not been the easiest thing,” he concedes. “I think my heart will always be hugely involved in the Scratch Perverts. It’s been such a big part of my life... But, yeah, it came to a head. I was doing both projects and it was getting too much to do both and something had to give. I’m a bit of a stickler for quality control, so I didn’t wanna just do them and try to make money and everything sort of fall to pieces. I wanted to do something properly. So it was time to have a change as well. The Jack Beats thing is my full-time [gig] at the moment.” Jack Beats were working on an album for “a while” with guests such as Example, but lately decided to split the project into two EPs. “There’s quite a lot of music.” The pair recognised that other EDM artists, like Skrillex, now favour this format. Coincidentally, Skrillex has issued the first of Jack Beats’ mini-albums, Careless, on his OWSLA imprint via Beatport, a physical release following next month through Columbia. Dailly may tout Jack Beats as house, citing Switch as an influence, but they’re very dubsteppy. The two picked up on the “more wobbly Rusko-style dubstep” early. Jack Beats put their “own spin on it” by layering “the wrong beats” over dubstep’s basslines, as they did with their cult remix of AC Slater’s Jack Got Jacked. Nevertheless, they’re progressively shedding the wobble – and, Dailly hopes, without disrespecting their older fans. The global festival faves are hitting Parklife 2012, Dailly proclaiming their set “a DJ show with lots of bells and whistles”. Jack Beats deploy Serato Video and have a lighting technician. Above all, they’ll bring “energy”. And there’s one Parklife act Dailly is eager to catch: Passion Pit. “We did a remix for them a long time ago [Little Secrets] and I’ve always been a really big fan. I’ve never seen them live, so that’s definitely top of my list.”
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Tour Guide/ THU AUG 23
BURNING LOVE (Canada), HYDROMEDUSA & STARVATION @ Animal House PASSENGER (UK) @ Fowler’s Live THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS (Bondi) @ Governor Hindmarsh
FRI AUG 24
PSEUDO ECHO (Vic) & SQUEAKER @ Governor Hindmarsh CHET FAKER (Vic) @ Rocket Bar JAMES REYNE (Vic) @ Norwood Live THE PHARCYDE (US) @ Fowler’s Live
SAT AUG 25
SEAN NICHOLAS MCMAHON’S WESTERN UNION (Vic) & CAL WILLIAMS JR @ Wheatsheaf PITBULL (US), TAIO CRUZ (UK), TIMOMATIC & HAVANA BROWN @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre PIGEON (Bris), ARCHERS, THE VIENNAS & THE SUNBIRDS @ Ed Castle
TUE AUG 28
SLASH (US) @ Thebarton Theatre PENNYWISE (US), THE MENZINGERS (US) & THE SHARKS (UK) @ HQ (Postponed) TONI CHILDS (US) @ Norwood Concert Hall MARIA MINERVA (Estonia) @ Format
WED AUG 29
THE ENGLISH BEAT @ Fowler’s Live KENNY ROGERS (US) & BECCY COLE @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
THU AUG 30
THE SMITH STREET BAND (Vic), BEN DAVID & THE BANNED, GOD GOD DAMMIT DAMMIT, FOXTROT & GRASS TAYLOR (Vic) @ Enigma KING CANNONS (Syd), ALL THE YOUNG (UK) & THE HELLO MORNING (Vic) @ Jive TIM HART (Syd), STU LARSEN & NEDA @ Grace Emily
FRI AUG 31
DAVE GRANEY & THE MISTLY (Vic) @ Semaphore Workers Club BREAKING ORBIT (Syd) @ Enigma GRASS TAYLOR (Vic) @ The Cavern
SAT SEP 1
CLINT BOGE (Bris) @ Jive BREAKING ORBIT (Syd) @ Glenelg Jetty Bar ZOOPHYTE (Syd) @ Governor Hindmarsh DAVE GRANEY & THE MISTLY (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf Hotel GUNG HO (Bris), FULL CONTACT SAFARI & KIDS WITH TEETH @ Ed Castle
SUN SEP 2
THE BEACH BOYS (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre DAVE GRANEY & THE MISTLY (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf Hotel
THU SEP 6
DAMIEN LEITH (Syd) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre HOWARD JONES (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh BOY IN A BOX (Syd), KINGSWOOD (Vic) & SUN & THE SKY @ Ed Castle TODD TERRY (US) @ Garage Bar & Dining
FRI SEP 7
THE MEDICS (Cairns) @ Jive ALPINE (Syd), CLUBFEET & GEORGI KAY @ Governor Hindmarsh SARAH MARY CHADWICK (NZ/ Syd) @ Format
SAT SEP 8
SHANNON NOLL (NSW) @ Governor Hindmarsh DREAM ON DREAMER (Vic), LIKE MOTHS TO FLAMES (US), HAND OF MERCY & IN HEARTS WAKE @ Adelaide Uni Bar BLACKCHORDS (Vic) @ Jive SYDONIA (Syd) @ Enigma
WED SEP 12
PATRICK WOLF (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh RESTORATIONS (US), JAMIE HAY (Vic), GRENADIERS & WEIGHTLESS @ Enigma
THU SEP 13
THE TOASTERS (New York) @ Enigma Bar KATCHAFIRE (NZ) @ Governor Hindmarsh
FRI SEP 14
BARRY ADAMSON (UK) @ The Promethean EARTH (US) @ Fowler’s Live CARTEL (US) & WE ROB BANKS (Vic) @ Higher Ground SIX60 (NZ) @ Fowler’s Live EVERMORE (NZ/Aus) @ Governor Hindmarsh
SAT SEP 15
RED PAINTINGS (Bris) @ Crown & Anchor STICKY FINGERS (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh
SUN SEP 16
SUBHUMANS (UK), PERDITION, VAGINORS & SUBURBAN STANDOFF @ Forresters & Squatters Arms RIVAL SCHOOLS (US) & TOY BOATS @ Enigma
MON SEP 17
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT (Can) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre
WED SEP 19
THE ANGELS (Syd/SA) @ Norwood Live
THU SEP 20
TIM ROGERS (Vic) & CATHERINE BRITT (Syd) @ Governor Hindmarsh NEWTON FAULKNER (US) @ Fowler’s Live
FRI SEP 21
CLARE BOWDITCH (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh GREENTHIEF (Bris) @ Ed Castle REGULAR JOHN (Syd) @ Enigma
SAT SEP 22
XAVIER RUDD (Vic) @ Thebarton Theatre
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FAR EAST MOVEMENT (US) @ HQ
WED SEP 26
DEFEATER (US) @ Fowler’s Live
THU SEP 27
EIFFEL 65 & N-TRANCE @ HQ EL GAN COMBO DE PUERTO RICO (Puerto Rico) @ Thebarton Theatre SHIHAD (NZ/Vic) & MONEY FOR ROPE (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh
FRI SEP 28
FRENZAL RHOMB (Vic), STOLEN YOUTH & STUFF BOX @ Adelaide Uni Bar WINTER PEOPLE (Vic) @ Rocket Bar SASKWATCH (Vic) @ Jive
SAT SEP 29
RUSSIAN CIRCLES (US) & EAGLE TWIN (US) @ Fowler’s Live FEAR FACTORY (US) @ Adelaide Uni Bar JERRICO (Vic) & CIRCLES @ Enigma EMMY BRYCE (Vic) @ La Boheme THE RUBENS (NSW) @ Governor Hindmarsh
SUN SEP 30
JULIA STONE (Syd) @ Bird In Hand Winery (Woodside)
THU OCT 4
CANNIBAL CORPSE (US) DISENTOMB & ENTRAILS ERADICATED @ Fowler’s Live THE EASTERN (NZ) @ Wheatsheaf
Most predominantly known for her songs Stop Your Fussin’, I’ve Got To Go Now, Don’t Walk Away, Many Rivers To Cross and the Emmy-winning Because You’re Beautiful, American singer songwriter and three-time Grammy nominee Toni Childs is touring Australia to celebrate the global support given to the pending 2013 release of Citizens Of The Planet. Following a heartfelt yet humble request on YouTube, fans from 50 countries around the world donated more than $170,000 to the Citizens Of The Planet project, as Childs explains. “Having been out of this very disposable industry for more than a decade due to illness with Graves’ disease, I was no longer a viable business proposition for record companies. As an artist I know I’ll be doing this for the rest of
my life; all I needed to do was figure out how. The internet made it possible for me to continue to make music by building a real connection with my international fan-base; social media has created that space where people can support writers and artists in their work.” Childs worked with Canadian producer Joby Baker, lead guitarist Adam Dobres, guitarist Bear Erikson and Chris Van Sickle on keyboards as well as her new Australian husband, musician and documentary filmmaker Mik Lavage, who created the structured noise on COTP. “Artists can get into a rut when writing but I wanted to continue to craft and define new sounds for this album. Citizens… needed a producer that would enhance and bring that sound out and Joby did an amazing job. It’s a super passionate album; there are movements in it where you feel like you are running through fields or galloping on a horse across a large plain. At times I really felt the spirit
of flying, so together we’ve created some very passionate musical pieces.” What was your inspiration behind COTP? “It was borne from wanting to add to the positivity of this world and looking ahead at how we are going to have to figure it all out,”Toni replies, “and I’m rooting for us to actually do it! I’ve been growing as a human being, stubbing my toe on life, picking myself up and dusting me off. I’ve had some amazing epiphanies and gestalt experiences that have made me believe I can live out my dreams and create a wonderful life; we all can. “My music is my way of getting through the bitter things in life and coming out happy on the other side. There are people coming on the same journey with me – to love and carry ourselves while supporting each other through those things that are most difficult.”
Bailey insists that old adage about the unparalleled rush of performing to a live audience is completely true. “I think [live] comedy is something which really involves a bit of everything I do – a bit of performance, a bit of acting, a bit of writing, a bit of travel, and music. I’m yet to find something [else] that will adequately satisfy all those crazy needs.” Bailey originally foresaw himself as a travelling rock star. “Yeah, I always thought I’d be in a band,” he laughs. “I wanted to play keyboards with Talking Heads, but it turns out they had a keyboard player already, which was annoying. “But, in a way, I’m glad I didn’t do that. What comedy allows you to do is exercise both the disciplines of music – the music itself and the spoken word. And I love the spoken word. It’s fascinating; it’s endlessly unpredictable – I never quite know what’s going to work with an audience and what isn’t. That’s one of the great joys about it; it’s not a known science.”
Encompassing all of that and more, Bailey’s new show Qualmpeddler represents a new height in his multi-faceted style. “My shows have become quite labour intensive, but I’m all the better for it,” he explains. “I [recently] travelled to China, and I realised that the material I was writing about was coming out of that trip, hence the tour poster’s a parody of one of their propaganda posters. [They’re] these beautiful hand-painted works of art, but it’s all about oppression; it’s all about misery and despair. They’ve this strange duality about them which I just find fascinating. And that’s a lot about what the show’s title is, it’s about people that are selling the stuff.” It’s put to Bailey that comedians are in fact a form of qualmpeddler, too. “I suppose we are, in a way,” he laughs. “We’re all anxiety mongers, hawkers of concerns!”
WHAT: Toni Childs WHERE: Norwood Concert Hall WHEN: Thu Aug 28
FRI OCT 5
MARTIKA (US) @ HQ HEY GERONIMO (Bris) @ Jive
COMING UP
SAT OCT 6 REGURGITATOR (Qld) & SENYAWA (Indonesia) @ Governor Hindmarsh THE AMITY AFFLICTION (Qld), THE GHOST INSIDE, ARCHITECTS & BURIED IN VERONA @ Thebarton Theatre PROGFEST: NE OBLIVISCARIS (Vic), RED PAINTINGS (Bris), QUIET CHILD, THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN SPEAKING and many more SUN OCT 7 PARKLIFE: THE PRESETS, NERO LIVE, PASSION PIT, PLAN B and many more @ Botanic Pk TUE OCT 9 STEEL PANTHER (US) @ Thebarton Theatre JOE BONAMASSA (US) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre THU OCT 11 OH MERCY (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh FRI OCT 12 WARBRINGER (US) @ Enigma THE SWELLERS (US) & ENDLESS HEIGHTS (Syd) @ Fowler’s Live SAT OCT 13 SETH SENTRY (Vic) @ Fowler’s Live DAPPLED CITIES (Vic) & JAPE (Sweden) @ Adelaide Uni Bar MON OCT 15 MUMFORD & SONS (UK), EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS & WILLY MASON @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre THU OCT 18 THE PAPER KITES (Vic), ART OF SLEEPING & BATTLESHIPS @ Fowler’s Live FRI OCT 19 MNEMIC (Denmark) @ Enigma Bar SAT OCT 20 BASTARDFEST 2012: FUCK… I’M DEAD (Vic), AVERSIONS CROWN (Qld), DISENTOMB (Qld) & A MURDER OF CROWS @ Fowler’s Live SAT OCT 27 LAST DINOSAURS (Bris) @ Governor Hindmarsh SHELLAC (US) & PIKELET @ Fowler’s Live MON OCT 29 THURSTON MOORE (NY) @ Governor Hindmarsh TUE OCT 30 THE BLACK KEYS (US) & ROYAL HEADACHE @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre HOT CHELLE RAE (US) & CHER LLOYD @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre BILLY BRAGG (Barking) @ Adelaide Town Hall
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“It’s a sunny day in London,” comedian Bill Bailey proclaims warmly, as we start our conversation. “The sun’s shining, the birds are singing and it’s not freezing rain. Today, I’m off to find a sitar which is somewhere in my lock-up.” Bill Bailey, of Hot Fuzz, Black Books and multiple other offbeat comedies, is a busy, multi-talented man. His days, when not filled with Whitman-esque nature-gazing and trips to find dusty sitars, are spent furiously writing new material. Outside of that, he’s touring, or he’s making an appearance on a local talk show, or he’s working on a sitcom, or he’s starring in a new film. “I think that one thing does win out, though, and that’s live comedy,” he explains. “I can’t see a time when I wouldn’t do it. You know, those other things that I do I enjoy very much, they’re just great ways of punctuating the times [between] when I’m touring or writing.”
WHO: Bill Bailey WHERE: Thebarton Theatre WHEN: Wed Aug 29
The Guide // Thursday 23rd ADELAIDE CASINO – Balcony Bar: Lucky Seven (8pm) ALMA TAVERN – Grind ARKABA HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Franky F (6pm) AUSTRAL – Bunka: F*** Me It’s Thursday with DJs BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty CAVAN HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy & Margie (8.30pm) CAVERN CLUB – band night CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Quiet In The Lab, Martial Hearts Duo and the Wild Things. Front Bar: DJ Paul Gurry CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – Steve Simon Potocnik DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Trivia Night (7.30pm) DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) DUKE OF YORK – Beer Garden: DJ Mitchy Burnz. Front Room: Speakerboxx and DJ Skinny B ED CASTLE – Band Room: live bands (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm) ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJ Gumshoe EMPIRE POOL LOUNGE – poker night (9.30pm) EMU HOTEL – karaoke presented by MJay (9pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Juno Juno GASLIGHT TAVERN – Front Bar: Groove Thursdays with the Peter Harris Rhythm Cats GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Sav & Mick G (7pm) GOLDEN GROVE TAVERN – Dino Jag Trio (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: The Beautiful Girls GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Mairead Fagan with Fleur Green GRAND BAR – OMG HIGHWAY – The Attack (7pm) JETTY BAR – No Use For A DJ Name (8pm) LA BOHEME – French Connection with DJ Zooma (9pm) MARBLE BAR – Ladies Night with Dylan Sanders, VIP, Rupheo, Mike Wills, Ben Earle and Acid Please! MARION HOTEL – Bart’s Bar: 888 Poker (6.30pm) Cue ‘n’ Brew: Adelaide Comedy featuring Wil Anderson (8pm) MARS BAR – VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) NORTHERN SOUND SYSTEM – Mega Sonic underage dance party (7pm) NORWOOD HOTEL – Open Mic Night ORIENTAL HOTEL – Blues & Roots Night PARADISE HOTEL – Complete Trivia PJ O’BRIENS – DJ Dylan PORTLAND HOTEL – DJs Cold One and Rabbit (9.30pm) PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango
RAMSGATE HOTEL – The Weather Ladies (9pm) RHINO ROOM – comedy with host Jack Druce (7.30pm) ROCKET BAR – 8 Bit Kidz featuring resident DJs Stubanger, Hank & Osk and the Powderoom Posse
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SUGAR – ITDE Deejays and interstate/international guests SUPERMILD – Revenge THE CUMBERLAND – Look At You with local DJs THE ELEPHANT – Complete Trivia THE LION HOTEL – Clearway THE SOUL BOX – Jazz Jam Sessions TONSLEY HOTEL – Acoustic 4 Play (8.30pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music
EMPIRE POOL LOUNGE – DJ (8pm) EMU HOTEL – Leadfoot (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Major Crimes and guests
Friday 24th
FOWLER’S LIVE – The Pharcyde GARAGE BAR – Knock Offs (4pm) GASLIGHT TAVERN – Rockin’ Fridays with Jordon Beinke Open Mic GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Pseudo Echo with Squeaker. Front Bar: James Abberley GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The Timbers with The Bearded Gypsy Band GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – Rockin’ Karaoke with Acca Dacca Mick (8pm) HEAVEN – Surreal Lounge: Funk’d Friday (10pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Hijinx with DJs Clarke & Krispy HIGHWAY – Friday arvo knock-offs HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – Boogie Nights with DJ Capital D and MC DV8 HOPE INN – Duke (8pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ DB HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Dimitra (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs Pony Boy, Bunyip and Hands Solo (8pm) HQ – Main Room: Trancefusion B’day with Rank 1 and Jochen Miller. Newmarket: Es.Co (every second Friday) JIVE – London Road Poets, The Sweet Decline, Heston Drop, The Wild Things and Sister Rose LA BOHEME – Smooth Groove with DJ Curtis (9pm) LAVISH – DJ Sok and DJ Spin Dokta LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL – Acoustic Jam LIMBO – resident DJs Japeye, Alley Oop and She Said
ADELAIDE UNI BAR – National Campus Band Competition (6pm) ALMA TAVERN – Rock Out With Your C*ck Out AMBASSADORS HOTEL – Ambar Lounge: Souled Out Cocktail Sessions with DJ Jason Lee (5.30pm) ARCHER HOTEL – acoustic solos plus Jaki J (9pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Franky F (6pm) Johnny G (8pm) Sportys Bar & Arena: Jason Crago (6pm) Chasing Cars (10pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BACCHUS BAR – Gartloney Rats (9pm) BARKER HOTEL – DJ Trix (9pm) BAR ON GOUGER – solo artists (5.30pm) DJ (9pm) BELAIR HOTEL – Acoustic Highway BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ – DJ Trent Slater BEERGARDEN: BRICKWORKS – Musos Jam with the Good Ol’ Boys Band (8.30pm) BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Fusion – The Perfect Blend karaoke and DJ (8pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Three Humped Camel (8pm) BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – Dance Club with DJ BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Envy North BRITISH HOTEL: PT ADELAIDE – Michael Venner (6pm) BROADWAY HOTEL – DJ Sneaky Beats BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CADELL CLUB – Lily & The Drum CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) Ride Into The Sun DJs (1am) Band Room: Dead Star Renegade, Generation Swine, Laced In Lust plus guests DOG & DUCK – DTF with D Foe, Krunk, Dom P, Ryley, Kid P and MC Jon-E DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs Derek Lang, Eric Falcon and Lukky K DUBLIN HOTEL – Saba’s Friday (9pm) ED CASTLE – Full Tilt live bands and party DJs ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJ Denorthwood and Hemilove
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – Skips, Trash, Five Ten and Exploding Cactus
LIVE ON LIGHT SQUARE – The Babes, Cherry Grind and Devil’s Crossroad (8pm) LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee MARBLE BAR – Uni Night with DJs Junior, Hank and Osk (9pm) MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Bart’s Bar: Lochy Neale (5.30pm) Flaming Sambucas (8.30pm) MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – E’nuf Said
NORWOOD LIVE – James Reyne album launch ORIENTAL – live music PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke (10.30pm)
RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ Rupheo, DJ Snake and guest DJs (9pm) RED SQUARE – Denzal Park REX HOTEL – karaoke (8.30pm) RHINO ROOM – comedy featuring Wil Anderson (7.30pm) Six Gallery (9pm) SafariClub (9pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – London Calling (6pm) DJ Smiley (9pm) ROCKET BAR – Chet Faker ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Dino Jag Solo (7.30pm) SANDBAR – DJs Cold One, Rabbit, D’Amour and Skippy SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8pm) SEAFORD HOTEL – Ed Law SEATON HOTEL – The Crew SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Lost Romaldo Groove SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – DJ Clarke
SOUTHWARK HOTEL – Stephen O’Malley (8.30pm) STAG – Upstairs: DJ Huddy and T-Bone with urban and dance. Downstairs: DJ Joey C with retro SUGAR – TGI Funky with Ben Alibi and HMC SUPERMILD – live funk and DJs SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Pat Spins Out – A Vinyl Recollection (8pm) SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJ V and MC Timmy Pine TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – DJ Kieran TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – DJ Wolfman (9pm) TEQUILA REA – Rude Not To! playing funky beats THE COVE TAVERN – The Rockin’ Stones THE CUMBERLAND – A Little Bit Different featuring local acoustics and late night DJ THE DELI: THEBARTON – Pat The Rat (7pm) THE GOODY – DJ Gex (9pm) THE GRIFFINS – DJ Seamless (7.30pm)
Terrain.
Have you ever seen Lake Eyre? Even though it’s one of South Australia’s greatest sights, us city slickers rarely make the trip out there. Thanks to Bangarra Dance Theatre, you can now get to know the place better through a dynamic fusion of dance, theatre and storytelling in their latest show, Terrain. Terrain is showing from Wed Aug 29 – September 1 at Her Majesty’s Theatre and Fringe Benefits peeps can get A Reserve tickets for just $30. Check fringebenefits.com.au for details.
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The Guide // THE HAUS: HAHNDORF – DJ Marcus THE KINGS BAR – Friday On Your Mind with DJs plus Gentlemen’s Record Club first Friday of the month THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment THE SOUL BOX – Vulture Light and One Fell Short (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Chrysler Bar: McKenzie (9.30pm) Tavern Bar: Tom Williams (4.45pm) Matt & Danny (9pm) UNION HOTEL – DJ Pauly ‘80s and ‘90s VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs Marek and Michael Constant plus MC Kris WAKEFIELD HOTEL – DJ Electric T and guests WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Hushes (9pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Hoy-Hoy! WOODCROFT TAVERN – Stiff William (8pm) WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – DJs Deceed, J Rudd, Koops & Armac and AJ (8pm) ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Finn, Bottle Rockets and Scott Holder ZOOTZ – DJs Kym and guests
Saturday 25th ALMA TAVERN – MetroRetro ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: DJ Jaki J and The Bongo Man (10pm) Downstairs: Mark C (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Tavern Bar: India Hooi (6pm) Heidy De Ruyter (8pm) Sportys Bar & Arena: Dimitra (6pm) DJ Chris James (9.30pm) Top Room: Boogie Nights Retro Disco (8pm) AUSTRAL – Funktasm with DJs Anzac, Osyris and Batch (8pm) BACCHUS BAR – Blue Flames (9pm) BAR ON GOUGER – DJs Mark & Ozzie plus guests (9pm) BARTLEY TAVERN – Whiskey Harbour with Daniel Chicarello (8pm) BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ – DJ Carlos BENTLEY’S CLARE – DJ Rush BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRIGHTON METRO HOTEL – Let It Be Beatles BRITISH HOTEL: PT ADELAIDE – Robin George (7pm) BROADWAY HOTEL – DJs Bocky and Jordz BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ Steve Reece CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Crank Yankers featuring The Honey Pies, Big Richard Insect and guests. Front Bar: DJ Azz from Lady Strangelove (1am) CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with Nicole (8pm) DOG & DUCK – The Dog with Brebsie, Robbie Spags, Harts, ONS, Lazy B, MC Jon-E and guests DRAGONFLY – rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and everything in between DUKE OF YORK – DJ Mitchy Burnz, DJ Parry, DJ Skinny B and MC Scotty ED CASTLE – Plus One Saturdays with live bands and party DJs (9pm)
ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs Seamless, Juddo and Asterix EMPIRE POOL LOUNGE – DJ Orbe EMU HOTEL – The Highlights (9pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Lyall Maloney with Ricochet Pete
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – Cathouse featuring Dead Star Renegade, Trash City Hard and Rock DJ FOWLER’S LIVE – Metal For A Cure 3 featuring Arcadia, Truth Corroded, Infiltraitor, Bury The Fallen, In The Burial, Empire, Emerald City, Thekillbotfactory, The Sky Will Know and Age Of Horror (3pm) GARAGE BAR – DJs Steve Daly, GTB, Bob Trott, J Tech, Jon E and Jason Lee (10pm) GASLIGHT TAVERN – Travis Wellington Hedge plus karaoke with Mel GEPPS CROSS HOTEL – karaoke disco with Craig Anthony GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ Mark (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Sounds Of Suburbia. Front Bar: Pub Scrabble and Paleface GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Sparkspitter with Brokers GRAND BAR – Grand Bar Saturdays with DJ DMH and DJ Rupheo HACKNEY HOTEL – DJ HEAVEN – Clubland: 4 rooms of dance, electro, house, funk, R&B and pop (9pm) HIGHER GROUND – Adelaide Rootz Fest IV featuring The Shaolin Afronauts, Babylon Burning, Local Revolution, The Gartloney Rats, DJ Turboflexx and Soul Rebel HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Live & Loud presents HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – Retro Saturdays with DJ V and MC Timmy Pine HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Black Fedora Jazz (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – The Mash Up with DJ Paul Gurry (9pm) HQ – Havana Brown JADE MONKEY – Alpha Beta Fox and Summer Flake KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke LA BOHEME – DJ Tr!p and DJ Anthony alternate (9pm) LIMBO – resident DJs Delux, The Swiss DJs and Paul Glen LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ and MC Renard (10pm) LOUISIANA TAVERN – Platinum DJs MARBLE BAR – I <3 MB: Rupheo, VIP, Kindred, Acid Please and Ben Earle plus national and international guests MARINA SUNSET BAR – DJs playing the best in house and electro MARION HOTEL – Bart’s Bar: Franky F (5.30pm) 2D (8.30pm) MARS BAR – VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – Point 05
OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: DJ Justice, DJ Skot Holder and MC Mischief
RAMSGATE HOTEL – Unknown To Man (10pm) RED SQUARE – DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan RHINO ROOM – Slowdown Throwdown (10pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Stereo Saturdays with DJ Electric T (8pm) ROCKET BAR – Bananas: Track Team and Japeye SANDBAR – requests with DJs SANTIAGO – Hussyboy (8.30pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic sessions SEAFORD HOTEL – Dirty Harry SHOTZ BAR – DJ Chris Pike SKYBAR – DJ Spin Dokta and DJ Demize STAG – Upstairs: DJs Huddy and Jase with urban and dance. Downstairs: DJ Kieran and David James SUGAR – Prince Aaronak, Driller, Derek Lang plus a host of international guests SUPERMILD – Treasure Island DJs SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – DJ Kieran TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – Insideout TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE CUMBERLAND – Launch Pad featuring local DJs THE GOODY – DJ Dante and interactive games night (9pm) THE HAUS: HAHNDORF – DJ Marcus and friends THE GRIFFINS – DJ playing house tunes THE KINGS BAR – Clever Cuts with Andrew Barker, Alley Oop and Adriaan Van Der Ploeg (8pm) THE LION HOTEL – Hairy Lemon THE OFFICE: MILDURA – Lily & The Drum (7.30pm) THE SOUL BOX – Variety Show TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Luv2luv (8.30pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Redline (9.30pm) UNION HOTEL – DJ Cloak & Dagga VALLEY INN – karaoke (weekly prizes) WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Sean McMahon’s Western Union album launch with Cal Williams Jr (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm) WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – DJs Kontrol, C4, Deceed, J Rudd, Lush and Koops (8pm) ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs: Chaps, Hemilove, Ryley and Gumshoe ZOOTZ – DJs Kym and guests
Sunday 26th ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School with The Idle Saints AUSTRAL – Basically Maate! with DJ Staplehead (8pm) BACCHUS BAR – The Harmonics (5pm)
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Hotel Metro Dan Heath and Lenin Simos (9pm) BEERGARDEN: BRICKWORKS – Musos Jam with the Good Ol’ Boys Band (2pm) every first and third Sunday of the month BENJAMIN ON FRANKLIN – Courtyard: DJ Mule (4pm) BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Iris BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – The Wild Ones CROWN & ANCHOR – all ages show DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Mick Kidd and friends DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUBLIN HOTEL – No Use For A DJ Name (9pm) DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Underground Orchid ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Brad Cameron Presents GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Gaslight Tavern Presents: Sebastian Scott, Paul Reading, Robert Ernst and Eric Stevenson (2pm every third Sunday of the month) GENERAL HAVELOCK – Eddie (Wasabi) (4pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Craig Aitken Solo (2pm) GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Shit Disco HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Sunday Sessions plus Poker 888 double header free register (2.30pm) $10 buy in (6.30pm) HIGHWAY – Wasabi (3pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – Tim Bos DJ and Sax HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – NPL Poker (6.30pm) JAM THE BISTRO – DJ Tango LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – Lucifers Lounge MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Cue ‘n’ Brew: Southern Sundays featuring Acoustica (3pm) MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – Viotar OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Dino Jag Duo (2pm)
RAMSGATE HOTEL – Slyd (4pm) Ben Kilsby (7.30pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic soloists SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Dutch Tilders Tribute Show featuring Wombat and Keep The Faith SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions THE LION HOTEL – Acoustic Sessions and DJ Reelax THE MAID – acoustic Sunday sessions (4pm)
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Monday 27th AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia AVOCA HOTEL – Schnitty & Trivia Night (7pm) BARTLEY TAVERN – Complete Trivia BOATHOUSE TAVERN: TAPEROO – Complete Trivia BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Complete Trivia BULL & BEAR – Muso’s Jam (8pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Coop & The Bird (7pm) EMBASSY HOTEL – karaoke EXETER ON RUNDLE – Hi, My Names Is Reclusive Author Thomas Pynchon
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – Scott Kennedy Open Mic GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: table tennis comp. Balcony Bar: Lord Stompy Harmoniclub GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ultimate Quiz with Graham Lawrence (7pm) OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Jake The Snake (8pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Complete Trivia RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jam Night (8pm) S-BAR – karaoke SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz, Troy Loakes and Paul Vallen TOWER HOTEL – Complete Trivia
Tuesday 28th ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Adelaide Comedy featuring Greg Fleet (8pm) BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson
BRITISH HOTEL: PT ADELAIDE – Fame Trivia (6.30pm) CAVAN HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Industry Night with DJs Stevie & Duncan DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Like Leaves DJs GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge At The Gaslight GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Uke Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Pub Cinema HQ – Gabrielle’s: Simon Bassline Smith MARION HOTEL – Cue ‘n’ Brew: 888 Poker (6.30pm) PARADISE HOTEL – Memory Lane Trivia PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm) SEAFORD HOTEL – trivia SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller THE COVE TAVERN – Complete Trivia THE GOODY – Complete Trivia THE GRIFFINS – fresh, funky and progressive tunes THE KINGS BAR – Old Skool Funk with Nixon and Penfold. Back Bar: APL poker THE LION HOTEL – Acoustic Sessions THE PORT CLUB – Complete Trivia TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Tuesday (7pm) VINE INN: NURIOOTPA – Complete Trivia WHITMORE HOTEL – Acoustic Raw Jam WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music
Wednesday 29th BAR ON GOUGER – Acoustic After Dark BOTANIC BAR – Gemma BROADWAY HOTEL – It’s Like A House Party with DJ Sneaky Beats CALEDONIAN HOTEL – Salsa Underground (8pm) CAMBRIDGE BALCONY BAR – Triplescore Lite CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia COLONNADES TAVERN – Memory Lane Trivia (12.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Geek with DJ Tr!p DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Dan’s Open Mic Night (7.30pm) DOM POLSKI CENTRE – salsa lessons (6.30pm) DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Bento (What’s in Yo’ Box?!) EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music Exchange (7.30pm)
EXETER ON RUNDLE – Curtis FINDON HOTEL – Complete Trivia
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – Garyoke Karaoke with Sunnyboy Al GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Musicians Playground At The Gaslight GLYNDE HOTEL – NPL Poker (6.30pm and 10.30pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Adelaide University Big Band. Front Bar: Open Mic Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Mitch Ward with Sean Desmond HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Sports Bar: 888 Poker (7.30pm) Dining: Complete Trivia (7.30pm) HIGHWAY – The Combi Room featuring Ciaram Granger (7pm) HOLDFAST HOTEL – Nonstop Dance Party with DJs Mike Wills & VIP HQ – Flashdance Ghetto Pimps Party JETTY BAR – karaoke LA BOHEME – The New Cabal (9pm) LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – DJs (9pm) MANSIONS – live band karaoke MARION HOTEL – Cue ‘n’ Brew: Adelaide Comedy featuring Greg Fleet (8pm) MARS BAR – VJK Experience (9pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Open mic (7.30pm) ORIENTAL – DJ SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular and Mr Whiskas SUPERMILD – It’s Wednesday Now! with local bands THE GOODY – Kickstart DJs THE KINGS BAR – DJ Yusef Wilson THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill and Snooks La Vie THE REGAL THEATRE – Me ‘N’ Me Mate THE SOUL BOX – Pete Jenkins Band Jam TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: quiz night (7pm) TOWER HOTEL – Uni Night with DJ Dom P TOWER TAVERN: RENMARK – Complete Trivia UNION HOTEL – Eddie Trainor WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – Creating Styles Karaoke (9pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music
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Terrain Bangarra Dance Theatre, the indigenous contemporary dance and theatre company formed in 1989, recently presented a new work, Terrain, in Melbourne and Sydney where it received standing ovations. The company is now bringing the work to Her Majesty’s Theatre and we speak to choreographer Frances Rings.
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errain, described as a hymn to country, marks Rings’ first fulllength work for the company after choreographing six shorter pieces and also dancing with Bangarra. As such, she is heartened by the fact the new work received ovations interstate. “It was only when that happened that I realised the effect it had had on people,” Rings says. Terrain, with a set design by Jacob Nash and music by David Page, has a focus on Lake Eyre (known as Kati Thanda to the country’s original inhabitants), a vast inland salt lake about 700km north of Adelaide. “And it’s a special work because it came out of a time where I’d just lost my dad and is a reflection of my childhood in South Australia
and how much my father shared with me,” Rings says. “It was the lingering impact of that which tends to resound much more loudly when someone passes away. Terrain came from a place of mourning, grief and pain and also of reflection as my way of finding some truth about country and land.” Rings ventured to Lake Eyre for inspiration. “And it was there I met Reg Dodd, an Arabana elder, who is such an incredibly generous man and very articulate,” she says. “He’s also very intelligent and saw immediately what the company was trying to do. That’s why he trusted us so much with his stories. He really believed in what Bangarra were doing as a very valuable and cool way of getting the message out there. “But when you’re entrusted with someone’s stories about their country and connection with their ancestors, it’s then a massive responsibility making sure that you tell it correctly. But Reg, who came to the premiere of Terrain in Melbourne with his niece and gave an incredibly inspiring talk before the dancers went on stage, saw the work as a continuation of that tradition. “There’s also the incredible responsibility of the dancers whenever they step on stage that they are going to tell the story correctly as well as impart some knowledge as a continuation of the stories of thousands of years ago. “And it was also really timely coming with the recent hand-over of the Arabana title and
land back to the people,” she adds. The Arabana people are now seeking to have Lake Eyre’s name changed back to Kati Thanda in much the same way Ayers Rock has reverted to the name Uluru. “That would be fantastic,” Rings says. “I fully support that [name change] because it’s now time to look at those things as a symbolic acknowledgment of country and land. Those names, stories and customs need to be preserved.” Rings suggests this year has been one of the busiest for Bangarra. “We’ve toured Terrain to Melbourne, Sydney and Wollongong and now come to Adelaide and then Canberra before heading up to Brisbane. But between all that the company has also been to New York with the Australian Ballet to perform Waramuk as part of Infinity. And between the Canberra and Brisbane seasons of Terrain, the company will also go to Mongolia for a cultural festival. And then it’s back to Sydney to do a few rehearsals Of Earth And Sky, which will tour regional WA and a few places in New South Wales. “But it’s Bangarra’s role and responsibility to get to as many regional areas as we can,” she notes. Rings pauses for a moment when asked if she has a favourite Bangarra piece. “I did really, really love Skin,” she then says of the company’s 2000 work. “It was so important because it was part of the Olympics Arts Festival in Sydney and had [singer] Archie Roach and [film director] Wayne
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Bangarra’s Frances Rings says the recent passing of indigenous singer Jimmy Little has been a big loss for her community and the world in general.
“But Jimmy has an amazing legacy that will live on in so many ways,” she says. “And he helped pave the way for us mob. Bangarra certainly wouldn’t be in existence if it weren’t for people such as Jimmy Little. And how many times must he have faced racism and hardship because of who he was? It would have been so easy for Jimmy to give up, but he saw the importance of that belief and carried on.”
Blair in it. It was just a really strong work that began with the women’s section followed by the men’s section. Culturally, it really nailed it with those themes. “And for Bangarra to be involved in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Sydney Olympics was a great way to present indigenous culture on a world stage,” Rings concludes. WHAT: Bangarra Dance Company’s Terrain WHERE: Her Majesty’s Theatre WHEN: Wed Aug 29 until Sat Sep 1
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detention and awaiting trial for taking a gun onto a bus to scare her attackers; Kelby, who came out as a lesbian in her teens and Co-writer/co-producer/ was victimised by other kids and, cinematographer/director Lee appallingly, teachers; and two Hirsch and co-writer/co-producer boys from separate families we see Cynthia Lowen have had trouble only in photographs and home with this documentary study of movies as they committed suicide bullying in American schools, rather than face their aggressors with the US R rating (our MA) (and please note that the slapped on the movie, due to its sequences involving the grieving language, making it inaccessible parents of Kirk Smalley, who was to the very audience it’s aimed at. only 11, are almost too much to But surely the censors were also bear). shaken by what is a confronting Although it doesn’t quite experience, as we’re introduced manage to get to the heart of why to various kids, teachers bullying happens, Hirsch’s film and parents in Mississippi, is nevertheless impressive, even Oklahoma and Georgia: there’s though it’s frequently tough to sit the awkward 12-year-old Alex, through - especially if you’ve ever who’s happy at home but weeps been too fat, too thin, too short, as he returns to school after the too tall, too dumb, too smart, too holidays, and is immediately weird, too gay, worn glasses, had bullied on the bus (by an older another disability, had trouble kid whose hateful language was making friends or, you know, just primarily responsible for the been too damn different. rating controversy); Ja’Maya, in Mad Dog Bradley
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Opening But Unrated Hope Springs (M) is a relationshippy comedic drama for older people (perhaps) directed by David (The Devil Wears Prada) Frankel and starring Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell, Jean Smart, Mimi Rogers and even Elisabeth Shue. And Total Recall (M), a remake of Paul Verhoeven’s Arnold Schwarzeneggerheadlining, mind-rooting sci-fi actioner by director Len Wiseman (he of two Underworlds and one Die Hard), as drawn from Philip K Dick’s tale We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, offers Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale (AKA Mrs Wiseman), Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, Bokeem Woodbine, John Cho and Bill ‘I’ll Do Anything’ Nighy.
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Writer/director/bit-player/voice-artist Leos Carax’s best-known pic, The Lovers On The Bridge was a formidably pretentious load of romantic twaddle, and this 20-plus-years-later effort is similarly intellectually up-itself - and yet there are astonishing moments of cinematic magnificence in between all the masturbatory ludicrousness. Middle-aged Oscar (Denis Lavant) leaves for work and is picked up by limo driver, assistant and confidante Céline (Edith Scob referencing her character in Eyes Without A Face) for labours, we assume, as a high-flying executive. However, the vehicle is actually a dressing, screening and sleeping room, and Oscar adopts a series of disguises for ‘appointments’ during a long day and night: he’s a hunched lady beggar; a fighter and lover in ‘motion capture’ at a film studio; a subterranean freak kidnapping stars and biting off fingers in Paris’ Père Lachaise Cemetery; a bad parent and then dying dad; and, perhaps, a murderer, even if he appears to get murdered himself - or something. Ahem… What the merde does it all mean, Monsieur?! Well, unlike other over-arty outings, Carax’s latest does have a ‘plot’ (per se), features a brilliant central turn (actually 11 turns) by Lavant and a lovely, if mystifying, bit for Kylie Minogue (!) and looks positively sumptuous throughout, while its key themes (about the many roles we play and masks we wear, as well as the dangerous magic of film) are also unusually clear(ish). But, nevertheless, you’ll surely still be hopelessly perplexed, and insist that it’s definitely holy something. Mad Dog Bradley
Ray Liotta (pronounced ‘Lee-oh-ta’, in case you ever meet the guy) had a ‘Next Big Thing’ period in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, especially with Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild (1987) and Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas (1990), but now he’s mostly a four-or-five-lame-DVDpics-a-year ham, and it seems the only reason this dopey little clunker’s getting a cinema release is that it was filmed at surprisingly drab and anonymous locations on the Gold Coast. Ray’s Malloy, a US-relocated, Sydney-residing drug addict and career crim, is approached by his longtime associate Mack (Dominic Purcell, not taking any of this seriously) to assist with ripping off a heroin shipment. However, Malloy has a heart attack on the way to the job, crashes his ute and has his ticker miraculously restarted when he whacks the steering wheel (!), and then, three years later, he’s cleaned up, living on the Gold Coast and romancing Kelly (Vanessa Gray) when the ex-con Mack reappears and amusingly blackmails him, threatening to reveal his shonky past to his beloved and generally having a grand old time. Looking like a dull TV movie, English director Suri Krishnamma’s dingbat actioner isn’t quite awful enough to be as funny as it could be, with Purcell’s leering Ocker baddie actually saving it from being sheer sheep-dip. And Liotta seems unusually restrained, keeping the howling, grimacing and teeth-gnashing that characterise most of his performances in check, and mostly just standing around with a pissed-off expression. And you would too, cobber! Mad Dog Bradley
The fourth Bourne continuation brings back old faces and introduces new ones, but one face in particular is notably absent: that of Matt Damon, AKA Jason Bourne himself. How, you may ask, is it possible to make a sequel without the title character? Good question. As Bourne continues to wreak havoc in the background, the CIA is scrambling into damage control, and Eric Byer (Edward Norton) is appointed to shut down several clandestine operations and destroy all evidence of their existence. One such piece of evidence is Aaron Cross ( Jeremy Renner), an Operation Outcome agent who narrowly avoids being blown up, and teams up with Operation scientist Dr Shearing (Rachel Weisz) to get the medication he needs to survive without the program. Screenwriter Tony Gilroy steps into Paul Greengrass’ directing shoes, adapting writer Eric Van Lustbader’s first of many contributions to the late Robert Ludlum’s Bourne universe, and while the high-energy action and impressive special effects of the first three films are certainly back in force, the complexity is missing. Renner is a great choice to take over the lead from Damon, but his origin story is weak. His secrets are alluded to but not properly revealed and his purpose is vague. Indeed, this entire chapter seems like actionheavy padding, filler no doubt in preparation for instalment five; presumably named The Bourne Betrayal if we’re still following Lustbader’s book titles, though it would be much more fitting to simply name all forthcoming films in the series The Bourne, Again. And again and again and again. Kat McCarthy
Road Movie Mobile Cinema: Cinemallunga Presents Life Of Brian/Bollywood Film Festival Willunga Show Hall/Rundle Mall
The Road Movie Mobile Cinema and Cinemallunga present no less than Monty Python’s legendary Life Of Brian (M) at the Willunga Show Hall on Sat Aug 25 at 7pm, while the RMMC winds up their Bollywood Film Festival at the Gawler Place Canopy, Rundle Mall, on Tue Aug 28 at 5.30pm with a screening of Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham (M). Check out the whole RMMC experience on Facebook.
Seniors On Screen Mercury Cinema
This week’s Seniors On Screen offering at the Mercury Cinema is co-writer/ co-producer/director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s darkly unsettling, mostly-in-Turkish police procedural epic Once Upon A Time In Anatolia (M). Details: mercurycinema.org.au.
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Food Review
Cooking With Dennis Leslie Executive Chef The Brasserie
People are always asking me to make a meringue! Well, here it is, try it out. You may need a few gadgets but once you have them you’ll always have them nearby and maybe it will inspire you to cook with them more and be a little more adventurous. This week we’ll learn how to make the meringue and keep an eye out for next week’s recipe of the mocha filling.
Mocha Bavarian Meringue Tarts / Makes 8 Tarts
A Mother’s Milk Head along to Unley Rd nowadays and there are plenty of places to get a decent coffee and a feed, but there’s one little nook that’s proving to be a cut above the rest. With daily hordes of hip youths lining up to get in, if you haven’t poked your head in at least for a takeaway coffee it’s time to head along to A Mother’s Milk and click that ‘like’ button on UrbanSpoon for yourself. First, pick your seat. You can either park yourself out the front on quaint stools and tables or tuck in somewhere inside in onwe of their three sections. While the building is typical of its suburb with an old fireplace and
walls that have seen better days, the owners have breathed new life into the place with a fresh polish on the floorboards and mounted street art. If you take a look out the back you’ll find, surprise surprise, fixies. I’m beginning to feel that spotting fixed gear bicycles in cafes is sort of like dolphins in shark-infested waters; if the hipsters are eating it, it’s good. Food wise, there’s an expansive list of meals for breakfast and lunch on offer. The baked eggs with napoletana sauce and crusty bread is a failsafe menu item and a customer favourite, as are the grilled sardines on sourdough with garlic and parsley salsa verde. For a heartier feed let your eye wander to the second page of the menu where you’ll find the prosciutto, pear, blue cheese and rocket salad and the grilled chicken sandwich on sour dough with bacon, avocado, rocket and honey mustard. Both are winners.
Perhaps the only downside to the menu is that the breakfast portions are on the small side, but the solution is simple – buy more! The staff are super friendly and accommodating and happy to get you extra bread to scoop up the remaining nap sauce. Most important is the coffee. It’s good, real good. The coffee beans rotate from week to week and are sourced from The Coffee Barun in Sefton Park. We had a single origin Colombian variety on the day, but you have the option to choose your own blends and the skilled baristas are happy to talk you through it. WHAT: A Mother’s Milk WHERE: 105 Unley Rd, Unley WHEN: Mon – Fri 7.30am – 4.30pm & Sat – Sun 8am – 4pm CONTACT: amothersmilk.com
Booze Clues with Louis Schofield
NV José Dhondt Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut Region: Oger, Champagne, France Type: 100% chardonnay Price: $65 Alc: 12.5% Little known in Australia,
La Cantina Co If there’s one thing we love more than grub its motorised grub. Joining the growing list of restaurants-on-wheels like Burger Theory and Churroz comes a spicier little van set to add a bit more kick to your daily lunch – the La Cantina Co Mexican street kitchen. As the brainchild of two unlikely
amigos, La Cantina Co’s fancy orange truck, affectionately dubbed ‘Truck Norris’, has very recently appeared parked in a couple of the squares in Adelaide offering authentic Mexican street tacos for about $4.50 each. Keep your eyes out for the truck on Light Square and Hindmarsh Square over the coming weeks and keep updated on their daily serving whereabouts through facebook. com/lacantinaco.
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400g caster sugar 100ml water 6 egg whites
Dhondt is something of a cult producer in the US and Europe. With growers like LarmandierBernier and Agrapart leading the way as the alternative to the big houses, could these smallscale, handmade wines take off here too? I hope so, this is fantastic wine; it reflects terroir more than the big house stuff which is generally blended from a number of vintages and vineyards to ensure consistency of house style. The Dhondt has mountains of personality, super dry and mineral with lively top notes of dried apricot, white flowers citrus fruits, granite and chalk. This shows off the uniqueness of the fruit from Oger. All beverages featured in Booze Clues are available from East End Cellars at 22-26 Vardon Ave, Adelaide.
Method 1. Get your eggs whites ready by placing them into a clean bowl with a whisk attachment. You will need a thermometer for the sugar and a wet pastry brush. 2. Meanwhile, put the sugar and water in a saucepan and stir it together gently to make a slurry. Next add the glucose. 3. Heat the sugar on high heat but do not stir otherwise you will form crystals. Brush the sides of the pan with wet brush to stop crystals from forming on the sides of pan. 4. Once the sugar gets up to 116C, turn the mixer on high speed until foamy and really soft peaks form after about two to three minutes. 5. When the sugar hits 118C take it off the heat. 6. While the mixer is on high speed, gently pour a thin stream on the side of the mixing bowl. Do not pour the hot sugar syrup on the beater, it will spray everywhere! 7. Once all of the hot sugar syrup is in, turn the mixer on low and continue to mix for 15 minutes or until the meringue is completely cooled down. 8. Place the meringue into piping bags immediately. Pipe on top of the tarts and lightly tap it with your palette knife. 9. Torch the meringue until golden.
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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04
Though you are playful, your play contains a current of intensity. It could be frustration. And it could be that this frustration is caused by communication. Though your instinctive knowing is probably right, it still needs explaining if you want others to share in it.
Taurus 21.04/20.05
Cogs are sticking when they shouldn’t. Delays happening when they needn’t. It would be best not to try too hard to find esoteric reasons – and it would be best to refrain from generating a head of steam. Neptune is involved. The best way to navigate Neptune is patience.
Gemini 21.05/21.06
The sun, Venus and Mercury are sparking you up. Though it might be difficult to get into drive mode, that’s not going to stop you from having a party in your heart. Defuse difficulties by not giving them too much attention. The pipes will clear in their own time. Play.
Cancer 22.06/22.07
The Scorpio moon at the beginning of the week suits you to a T. It gives you the sense that all your emotion and all your intensity is normal, healthy and affirmed by existence. The more you flow, the more you grow. Let others analyse themselves into paralysis. Feel.
Leo 23.07/22.08
You are in for a lovely meander across the savannah. There’s enough peace in your heart to have you looking at all the dramas unfolding around you with a wry smile. If you can see the humour, chances are you will transmit it to others, infectiously. Stay true to yourself.
Virgo 23.08/22.09
Though you go hell-forleather to communicate, there’s a gap between what your mind says and what you are feeling in your belly. This confuses your audience no end. The moment you see a quizzical face, check that you are integrated and authentic. Synchronise.
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Libra 23.09/23.10
The path that was recently strewn with rocks and obstacles now feels like a flight through a cool air stream. There’s no need to ask what happened. Take it in. Enjoy this ease with all your heart. As your spirits lift, so clarity arises on matters that have been muddy.
Scorpio 24.10/21.11
The moon begins her week in your home. She fills you with hope, depth, and the kind of intensity that makes you happy. Essentially, you get the feeling that it is a wonderful thing to be in your own skin. There’s play where there was a grind. Be as creative as can be.
Sagittarius 22.11/21.12
The changes you envisioned, but were not really convinced would actually happen, are gathering on the horizon. Life is building momentum to take you forward into the satisfaction and healing your soul craves. Don’t get stuck on the details. Keep with the big picture.
Capricorn 22.12/19.01
Getting to know your local currents of emotions and feeling will serve you better this week than action. Give your maverick constructionobsessed tendencies a break. Those who are offering you the gift of sensitivity and intuition are saying something worth hearing.
Ordinary Beauty /Circles Of Trust Formerly involved in the music industry playing punk rock in New York in the ‘70s, Stewart MacFarlane has since turned his creative energies to figure painting on canvas, his latest works to be showed at the Adelaide Central School Of Art in Ordinary Beauty. MacFarlane’s most recent monograph Stewart MacFarlane Paintings will also be launched on the opening night and will include essays by noted writers Nicholas Jose and Timothy Morrell. On the other side of the building, the studio gallery will host Circles Of Trust featuring works by Ryan Psaila and Darren Song. WHAT: Ordinary Beauty/Circles Of Trust WHERE: ACSA, 45 Osmond Tce, Norwood WHEN: Sat Sep 1 – Sat Sep 29
Aquarius 20.01/18.02
Let go. Let go again - and when you feel like you’ve let go as much as you can, let go once more. Existence is doing its best to invite you into the arms of trust. Trust is a state of being that makes life very pleasant to live. As you trust others, so they feel safe to give you truth.
Pisces 19.02/20.03
Even though life seems to be trying to trip you up with logic and practical challenges, the depth and intensity you crave is not so far away. Give heed to the creative longings that are tapping out their hypnotic beat in your heart. Make ‘now’ rich and the future will be richer.
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Autobiographica Through a vast array of disciplines and approaches comes Autobiographia; an exploration of self. Artists from various backgrounds and locales, both established and emerging, have come together to explore their personal stories, histories, perspectives and interests through works of ceramics, print-making, photography, performance, installation and interactive media works. The exhibition will feature Anna Horne, Bronek Kozka, Jayson Fox, Jeremy Piert, Amira H, Rebecca Kammer, Andrey Walking, Joshua Searson, Luku, Gus Clutterbuck, Adam Murakami and Kerri Ann Wright. WHAT: Autobiographica WHERE: ACA, 39 Light Square, Adelaide WHEN: Until Thu Sep 13
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Ikea PS Collection 2012: Backwards & Forwards “New age fun with a vintage feel” is definitely the sentiments behind the new IKEA PS Collection. With a new collection only being released every three years, this is the seventh PS Collection that IKEA have undertaken and this time they’ve looked back to IKEA’s rich 60+ year history for inspiration. From 19 designers come the 46 products, which, as you would expect from IKEA, have an ultra-modern quality to them. Cleverly, this range manages to still hold
characteristics of the 1950s and, in true IKEA fashion, fold away, stack or transform into something completely different and utterly useful. The PS Ranges show a commitment by IKEA to challenge themselves and offer something for the image-conscious customer who doesn’t want the same thing as everyone else, but still wants it to be affordable. Now, just to find the house to fit it all in… The IKEA PS Range is available in-store now. ikea.com/aa/en/
Round She Goes
Market Day This Saturday marks two awesome markets happening in Adelaide. Hotel Wright St Market Day is for those who like to multitask and shop, drink and eat all at the same time. Round She Goes offers stalls of pre-loved and vintage clothing and accessories by labels including Sass & Bide, Scanlan & Theodore, Karen Walker, Louis Vuitton and all their fashionable friends! Rip It Up chatted with both markets to see which market you’re in the market for (the answer is probably both!).
Hotel Wright St Market Day The success of the last market was due to: We launched a new breakfast so you can eat and browse! This time: You can bring your husband as he can eat bacon, watch TV and have a pint while you shop. Our market is awesome because: You can have a cider with your breakfast.
You can’t have a vintage market without: Passionate and creative people who love all vintage. The best thing I have picked up from a market is: A brooch made by a student - it was a carrot with eyes. Hotel Wright St Market Day is held from 8am on Sat Aug 25 at Hotel Wright St, City.
The success of the last market was due to: Adelaide being a really supportive place for events and we have the perfect balance between vintage and pre-loved designer fashion. This time there will be: Lots of new stallholders on board for our second event for you to meet and shop from! Our market is awesome because: Our stallholders are a mix of professional sellers and everyday women selling their unwanted quality pre-loved designer and vintage fashion. You can’t have a vintage market without: A fabulous venue and we’ve certainly got it in the German Club! Cheap beer and kitsch décor. We love it! The best thing I have picked up from a market is: Too many to mention! But a friend of mine got a genuine Prada handbag still in the box for 100 bucks last time (the box was worth that!). She adores it and our market! Round She Goes is held from 10am3pm on Sat Aug 25 at the German Club Hall, 223 Flinders St, City.
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Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance
Competitions
The Raid
Madman / MA / 101 Mins
Wrath Of The Titans
Warner / M / 99 Mins
Warner / M / 96 Mins
Nobody needed a sequel to the bargainbasement Marvel Comics ‘superhero’ filming Ghost Rider (2007), but star Nicolas Cage demanded it and here it is, as directed by Neveldine/Taylor (AKA Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor) who, after Gamer and the Crank films, certainly know their trash. Set in Romania (and filmed there to cut costs), this has the demonically-possessed Johnny Blaze, a former stunt motorcyclist now hiding out to save those around him from his flamingskulled, sin-sucking alter-ego The Ghost Rider, compelled to use his unique abilities to save young Danny (Fergus Riordan) and his pickpocket mum Nadya (Violante Placido) from Roarke (Ciarán Hinds), the guy to whom Johnny sold his soul who now believes that Danny is the fulfillment of some apocalyptic prophecy (or something). Cage is pretty awful in this cheesy nonsense and the action is scarcely spectacular, and yet there are some gags worth looking for, including the directors’ one-shot cameo as they recreate the cover of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here (why? Dunno!) and the suggestion in a jokey montage that, while on Earth, The Devil enjoys hanging out in the body of Jerry Springer! The ‘Triple Play’ DVD version of this one has standard, Blu-ray and digital versions of the film plus lots of extras. MDB
Bookshelf
A Polar Bear Ate My Head!: Misadventures In Magazines
Paul Merrill / Ebury Australia / 298pp / $34.95
If you can excuse the off-putting title, dumb cover and the fact that the author edited ‘lad mag’ Zoo in the UK and Australia, then this memoir is surprisingly funny and biting, with Merrill taking a wise bloody-hell-that-was-in-bad-taste, can’tbelieve-we-got-away-with-it perspective that actually works. Detailing his rise from regional journalism to Chat and, finally, Zoo, which was set to take on Nuts (so to speak) in Britain, he then chronicles his relocation to Oz with his young family and editing of the mag here, and how it flourished in a way that the thing didn’t quite back home (strewth!). And a few chapter titles are enough to demonstrate the nature of his reminisces: The Cannibal Sex Holiday; Win A Boob Job; The Suicidal Budgie; Octopus Of Death; and, of course, Can We Cook The Dwarf?. MDB
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This Indonesian/American production from writer/director/editor Gareth Evans has little in the way of intricate plotting or moving performances, but it doesn’t need them, as this astonishingly violent and visceral action spectacular is all about machinegunning, martial artsing, throat-cutting, artery-severing, head-hammering and machete hijinx. An apartment block in the Jakarta slums is the stronghold of Tama (Ray Sahetapy), a feared crime lord and his dozens of henchmen, and a SWAT team is called in early one morning to secretly take them on until their cover is, of course, blown, and blood-soaked mayhem begins. Newbie Rama (Iko Uwais) and old pro Jaka ( Joe Taslim) are given just enough characterisation to clue us in that they might pull through, but it’s open slather on everyone else, as the killers keep on coming, guns blazing and swords flashing, and Evans’ breathlessly tight editing keeps everything almost ruthlessly intense and exciting. Showcasing ‘silat’, a pulverising form of Indonesian hand-to-hand combat, in scene after scene once Evans and the guys onscreen realise that gunplay isn’t as blokey as belting the crap out of each other, this is shamelessly nasty fun with a truly hissable villain (Tama) and a hero (Uwais) who can barely stand up after a while but nevertheless keeps chopping his socky. This release features a Making-Of featurette and more. MDB
Director Jonathan Liebesman’s sequel-toa-remake is somewhat nimbler and more fun than 2010’s lumbering Clash Of The Titans, with a star cast lightening the hell up and the menagerie of CGI monsters evidently having a good time. It’s been 10 years since Perseus (Sam Worthington again fighting to conceal his Aussie accent) defeated the Kraken, and he’s trying to live a simple (albeit demigod) life as a fisherman until the capture of his dad Zeus (returning Liam Neeson) by Uncle Hades (Ralph Fiennes enjoying himself this time out) and Zeus’ godson Ares (Édgar Ramirez) leads him on one of those endless quests that make up the core of Greek mythology. Teaming up with Andromeda (Rosamund Pike) and others, the gang encounters some gargantuan Cyclopses (Cylopsea? Bicyclopses?), Bill Nighy in a funny cameo and more before getting down to the amusing final sequence where everyone battles the freed Kronos, a thundering, lava-dripping giant who stomps about stiffly muttering in a sort of drunken Latin (and you would too after thousands of years of imprisonment). You’ve seen worse but, by the gods, let’s hope there isn’t a third instalment, which might well be called Arse Of The Titans. The ‘Triple Play’ DVD of this release comes with three versions of the film - standard, Bluray and digital - and oodles of extras. MDB
Moonrise Kingdom
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in every which way. The cast of Wes Anderson’s latest film includes Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray and Frances McDormand. Log onto ripitup. com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five double passes. Competition closes at midday on Thu Aug 30.
The Hunger Games
Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the 12 districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister’s place for the latest match. We have five copies of The Hunger Games on Blu-ray up for grabs so log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Thu Aug 30.
HIStory II
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Due to demand, American entertainer Kenny Wizz has announced that there will be a second show of his widely acclaimed Michael Jackson tribute show HIStory II at Her Majesty’s Theatre next month. It follows a successful Australian tour of HIStory some years back but Wizz is keen to point out that it has been revamped somewhat. “We’ve changed it in that we’ve added some new songs from last time,” the very quietly spoken performer, recognised as one of the world’s best Michael Jackson impersonators, says. “Michael had such a huge catalogue of songs that there’s a lot to choose from. And we’ve added some new LED lighting and some new video production without changing it too much. “And people loved it so much last time they wanted it to come back, but we wanted to bring it back but still keep it fresh and new. We want people to get lost in the moment for two hours and really enjoy it. It’s like the escapism of going to a movie.” Wizz, who saw Jackson perform when aged only six but admits he fell asleep as it was way past his bedtime, says that when the King Of Pop passed away, he ceased doing his tribute show out of respect. “I was in Vegas and got a text message asking me if MJ had passed,” he says. “So I turned on the TV and it was all over the place. But I couldn’t believe it – I thought it might have been a big media hoax. But
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then the confirmation came through and I just didn’t see any reason for the tribute show any more after 25 years of doing it around the world. So I retired my act on the spot because MJ’s career had also stopped. “But I started getting letters and emails from people all over the world asking me to perform. And I began to realise it would be like a healing process for them as it would be for me. When I realised that, I thought about doing the tribute again but didn’t know how I would feel on stage and how an audience would feel. “So I organised a very small show – about 15 minutes with three songs – but everyone came up after to say thank you and say how much they enjoyed that I was keeping MJ’s legacy alive. “And I also realised I still loved doing it. And it’s not an MJ cash-in like some people
have done since he died. It was a healing thing for audiences and for me and also quite emotional although, after a few shows, I got much better at dealing with that.” Songs from the time Jackson was a young member of The Jackson Five are also included. “They are just such happy songs and it’s music you can’t go wrong with,” Wizz says. “But we don’t start off with Jackson Five songs because we mix the songs around in different ways. “We don’t want people to think they know what song is coming up next,” he concludes. “That keeps it interesting.” WHAT: HIStory II WHERE: Her Majesty’s Theatre WHEN: Fri Sep 7 and Sat Sep 8
Your guide to the student experience. University open days have been and gone, so hopefully prospective students out there had all their questions answered. Chatting with people at open days I found that most people were worried with what they would end up getting out of a degree, like they were buying an insurance plan for their future. While degrees are useful stepping stones, they don’t always lead you in the same direction that you might have planned when you started (I’m looking at you, Humanities). Rather than stress about what the end result would be, I think people need to look more at their surroundings and see if they fit with the people who study their course and the material they’re learning. Opportunities that universities offer, such as the National Campus Band Competition, can in many ways be just as rewarding as the piece of paper in a few years time. That way, at least you’ll get something out of your tertiary education… But a job would always be nice too! And remember, if you have any student info, an upcoming campus event or any deals I should know about, email fasttimes@ripitupcom.au, Poke facebook. com/fasttimesripitupmag or Follow @ FastTimesRIU and I’ll spread the word. Peace, Lachie.
Hey! AC Arts students are in a flurry perfecting their latest major performance, Little Shop Of Horrors. Fast Times caught up with some of the students working on different areas of the production to get a preview of what we might expect from the production.
Romina, Actor
I study: Acting at Adelaide College Of The Arts. But in my spare time I: First and foremost spend time with family and friends, then attend to other obsessions. My dream job is: To establish and nurture my own theatre company and create work that’s challenging and invigorating for the heart, mind and soul! My role in Little Shop Of Horrors is: Audrey. The best part about what I do is: Sharing ideas with other creative souls and just having a good excuse to explore hidden facets of myself. The most challenging thing I’ve encountered so far is: Finding the time to deal with personal aspects of life and ensuring that they do not interfere with my work but rather fuel it with personal experiences! People who come to see Little Shop Of Horrors can expect: The unexpected! When the show closes I am going to: Begin preparing for our Grad Show which I will be performing in - together with my exceptionally talented fellow classmates - this coming December! Then, a very long, well-deserved holiday somewhere in the sun and involving my dog!
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Last Friday members of the Rip It Up team were out in force at the Finders Uni Open Day, bringing with us our trusty Retro Photobooth. It wasn’t only the photobooth that was snaphappy on the day, with Fast Times bringing you these pics of what went down on the day.
WHAT: Little Shop Of Horrors WHEN: Wed Sep 5 – Sat Sep 15 WHRE: AC Arts TICKETS: $20 adults, $10 concession through VenueTix
Need A Job? What if you have the chance to be the face of an organisation that continuously supports the student community by always being there to give that little bit extra and offer a helping hand when exhaustion has kicked in and all hope is lost? You’d basically be on the same plane of divinity as Mother Teresa. Except unlike Mother Teresa, you’ll get paid to do it. Red Bull, every student’s secret weapon to push that little bit extra in the 11th hour, are on the hunt for a new Student Brand Manager for UniSA. If you are studying something related to marketing, media or events or are just that person who knows everything about everyone on UniSA’s campuses, Red Bull wants to hear from you. You’ll be paid to organise and run events and take Red Bull to parties and generally hype up the student community to keep the buzz going. Did I mention it’s paid? To apply for the Red Bull Student Brand Manager position email anna.genders@ au.redbull.com with a wacky picture of yourself, your resume and why you would be the best Student Brand Manager around. Only current UniSA students are eligible. For more details visit redbull.com.au/sbm.
National Campus Band Competition Review Fast Times was lucky enough to be chosen as a judge for the final Adelaide Uni heat of the National Campus Band Competition. Five bands competed in the Indie Rock category, with the top two going through to the national final. Bands were judged on the originality of their material, musicianship, stage presence, recording viability and audience response. The competition was close (being a judge is way hard) and out of solid performances by Indiego, Full Contact Safari, Afternoon Rebellion, Riot Runners and Jericho’s Bird, it was Riot Runners and Jericho’s Bird who came out the victors. They go into the Adelaide Uni final next Friday with the other four finalists (Walking With Thieves, The Prophets Of Impending Doom, 50 In The City, Filthy Lucre) to see who will represent University Of Adelaide at the state final on Sat Sep 8.
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Sporty’s Thursday $10 Parmi & Pint I know. The greatest combination of food and drink to grace a pub is almost too good to be true. Well, in a way it is. You only have two more Thursdays left to enjoy the awesomeness that is the Thursday $10 Pint & Parmy deal at Sporty’s Bar + Arena. After Thu Aug 30, it’ll cost you $15 for the same pleasure. Come to think of it, $15 for a meal
and alcoholic beverage is still cheaper than what I pay for a coffee and salad at some cafes. That just goes to show, you really don’t win friends (or save money) with salad. The $10 Pint & Parmy deal is available at Sporty’s Bar + Arena, 150 Glen Osmond Rd, until Thu Aug 30.
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Scottie’s Singles
Richard Hawley
Listen Now:
Standing At The Sky’s Edge
Bat For Lashes
(Parlophone/EMI)
(EMI)
If Richard Hawley is not necessarily a household name in your books, don’t fret. He probably doesn’t want to be one. If he is though, you’ll be well aware that Standing At The Sky’s Edge is the artist’s seventh studio album. Having worked with the likes of Pulp and Arctic Monkeys on previous occasions, Hawley’s understanding and nous with both production and performance is shining on this latest offering. To be fair, some of the songs on Standing At The Sky’s Edge can seem slightly drawn out. This is particularly evident on opener She Brings The Sunlight, where Hawley’s dark choruses and atmospheric musings seem endless in parts. But if that is the album’s default, then Standing At The Sky’s Edge largely lies in credit. Thematically, the darkness that the Sheffield performer maintains is at times frightening, but also easy to be drawn into. With acoustics at the forefront throughout, the album skilfully floats along for the most part. Aided by Colin Elliot on production duties, the pair is well schooled in the elements that create a classic British rock record. Let’s see if Australian ears begin to stand up and listen. Sam Reynolds
Laura
Now that we’re done watching Jessie J wiping her spangled minge all over the Olympics Closing Ceremony, it’s time to get back to some truly brilliant British music. As beautifully bare as the naked cover of forthcoming third album The Haunted Man, Bat For Lashes strips herself back to basics on Laura. Propping up a broken friend like Don’t Give Up rewritten for the smartphone generation, Natasha Khan’s vocals build from soft and simmering to sympathetic and soaring affirmations. The minimal piano and stark brass are the understated stationery of a love letter that’s Fifty Shades Of Great. Tell Laura I love her.
Listen Later:
The XX Angel
(Remote Control)
If The XX’s new single were any more ethereal, hushed and tragically minimalist it would need to be presented as a haiku hidden in a cloud and orated by a 250-year-old mystic with his dying breath. There’s no doubt it’s lovely, but I can’t help draw some delight from daydreaming about Skrillex pouring petrol all over it like a London riots fiend.
Dinosaur Jr Watch The Corners
King Cannons The Brightest Light (EMI/Capitol)
Long hail King Cannons! It’s great to see that such a strong debut album can break through all the shit releases of 2012 and create some genuine excitement. After seeing the Melbourne-based band support The Living End last year,
there was definitely a touch of class about their performance that suggested they would have a promising future. After taking in this album a couple of times, I went on a quest to find whatever I could from their back catalogue; they are so great I’m now really hanging out for the tour. Creating their own unique blend of punk fused together with some old school rock‘n’roll, The Brightest Light makes for quite the journey. Stand Right Up grabs the listener by the jugular right from the outset – it’s easy to picture a packed crowd going off at Jive to this when they play there on Thu Aug 30. Too Young is also a cracker, taking the best of their influences and making them their own. There are a few twists and turns with the title track as it takes it down a notch, but King Cannons soon ramp it up again on standouts such as Shot To Kill and Ride Again. Everyman’s Tale is the ultimate political protest song and the album is brought to a close with the bold and brash chorus of The Last Post. Thumbs up! Rob Lyon
(Liberator)
The older he’s grown, the more moody stalwart J Mascis looks like a weird conspiracy theorist fixated on exposing the correlation between Adam Sandler’s baffling success and mercury levels in drinking water. Notching up more than 25 years in the business, Dinosaur Jr have now presented their gold Watch, with this single finding frontman Mascis gripping onto grunge like a dirty old bum grasping at his moonshine bottle through fingerless gloves. Like the best Dinosaur Jr tracks, Watch The Corners offers more crunch and yowl than a hyena getting his nuts caught in a hunter’s trap. It packs a lumbering melody as slow and awesome as a super-sized sauropod, too.
Lemonade Ice Water
(Remote Control)
Who swapped my promo single for a nonalcoholic beverages list from Pizza Hut?
Dev
In My Trunk (UMA)
Okay Dev, so I get the fact that In My Trunk is a euphemism for your latest anal sex folly, but it’s when you sing ‘turn that shit up’ that you lose me. Are you suggesting you’re gunning for a bout of brown love so forceful that it results in a faecal impaction? Does a bowel obstruction pass for a fun Saturday night in your hood? I think you’re doing it wrong, honey - no butts about it.
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Live Review
The Shaolin Afronauts Rocket Bar, Fri Aug 17 Review by Sam Reynolds Pics by Andre Castellucci
I’ve heard a number of stories in the past about times when Adelaide’s music culture was thriving. There were little clubs and bars opening up, willing to differentiate themselves in the name of having a good time. People didn’t care about anything other than the music. Bands played until the wee hours of the morning, and risks were rewarded. The way it works in 2012 seems far more formulaic, sticking to time-frames and predictable band line-ups. But, just for one night, I think these past stories came to life thanks to three of our best performers and one ideal little club. Adelaide’s own Shaolin Afronauts have ridden a wave of success since signing on with British label Freestyle Records. After the release of first album Flight Of The Ancients last year, the 12-piece now return with Quest Under Capricorn, an album that greatly differs from their debut. The LP showcases the band’s groovier side, something that contrasts with their live performances. This is possibly one reason why the set at Rocket Bar this night was dominated by older tracks - not that anyone seemed to mind. Following on from two solo electronic sets
Reviews // Quick Ones
Jack Colwell & The Owls Picture Window
The Lumineers
Emperors
(Rogue Records)
(MGM)
The Lumineers
To the untrained ear (mine included) the concept of classical music can be perceived as, well, all just a bit tedious really, but there is nothing tedious about Jack Colwell and his accompanying birds, with every moment of Picture Window creatively compelling and dabbling in a completely new genre. Mr Colwell and his parliament of owls have taken flight, breeding in a classical habitat and now migrating south to alternative pop. Perhaps sharing species traits with that of your Jack Whites and Patrick Wolfs, the diet here includes a fusion of evocative piano riffs, cheeky flutes and lyrics that caress the heart strings of all those who lend an ear. The accompanying nocturnal creatures gently tweet and hoot their way through the tracklisting, implementing subtle harmonies in all the right places. Fanning out from his classical foundations, Colwell enables every sound to combine with one another, floating in and out of peaceful and gripping melodies. How his remarkable youth manages to master such a complete and rounded musical understanding is beyond me. Well played sir, well played. Sharni Honor
from Adelaide’s own Oisima and the inimitable Adam Page, the Afronauts donned their black hooded cloaks and took the night in a completely different direction. For such a large band, the tightness displayed musically is phenomenal, yet probably unsurprising, as many of these guys have spent a lot of time together in both this band and as part of soul troupe The Transatlantics. Most noticeable throughout the set is Page’s saxophone nous, standing out from the other band members a number of times and showcasing a freewheeling ability to take these songs on uninhibited tangents. There are no vocals and the between-song banter is nearly non-existent, but it wasn’t necessary at this time in the night. The only thing stopping excessive movement on the dancefloor was the lack of space, as everyone seemed to have the same idea of cutting loose. Older songs like Flight Of The Ancients and Kilimanjaro are genuine party starters - and more direct than some of the material featured on Quest Under Capricorn. Newer cuts, including Brooklyn and Winds Across Gayanamede, have greater depth in comparison, and showcase a more thought-out direction from the band. After nearly an hour of infectious music, the Afronauts make their way through the crowd and exit towards the back of the room, clearly sweatinduced from the heat within their black cloaks. The communal atmosphere felt throughout the night reminded me of some of the stories of our city’s past. To re-create the feeling even for just one night felt pretty special.
Strange Dreams (Rice Is Nice)
Stay Frosty
(Play All)
I’ve fallen in love. And my new infatuation is lovely. Born and raised in Denver, this three-piece folk band have opened a can of the best kind of worms with their self-titled debut album. Sounding similar to a folk-infused Arcade Fire or Grouplove unplugged, The Lumineers prove to be much more than a false set of teeth. There is nothing about this album that I don’t like, apart from maybe the part where it ends. Every one of The Lumineers’ tracks is like peering into exposed segments of each member’s soul, curving through beautiful moments of joy and sorrow, contorting perfectly and resulting in one hell of a record. From heart-wrenching ballads to upbeat and raw campfire boogie tunes, this record interlaces choral moments in all the right places. It is the combination of the aching vocals, wrenching lyrics and simple, toe–tapping hooks that make this one a must-listen, over and over again. This album will make you feel things you never felt capable of feeling – and don’t take that one the wrong way now, you spunky, mischievous earthling. Sharni Honor
Good Heavens
Coming out of Perth, Emperors are apparently a new sensation in the Australian music scene. Emperors make solid rock‘n’roll music without the ‘gimmicks’. Whatever that means. Meaningful lyrics are one of these gimmicks, it would seem. Not that all bands need to have songs with meaning, but it does make them easier to connect with. Stay Frosty is a solid album; every track is as good as the one before and no song is outright terrible. None of their songs are likely to inspire much of anything, but might prove to be just what some people are looking for. There is nothing new about Emperors, but for those people that will fall into fandom with them, that’s probably the point. Here is a true Australian band that people will find it pretty easy to ‘rock out’ to. Emperors are influenced by Foo Fighters, that much is plain. However, Dave Grohl’s merry troupe had the luck of rising like a grunting little phoenix from Nirvana’s mighty ashes. Overlooking this for the time being, Foo Fighters do have quite a big fanbase, so perhaps Emperors are in for a similar career trajectory. More likely however, Emperors will become quite popular inside Australia but won’t really make it anywhere else. Emperors are basically Grinspoon for a new generation. Tom Dawson
Never presenting herself as unscrupulous, hardy or desperate enough to become tight with Triple J’s Illuminati, Sarah Kelly created some beautifully haunting postgrunge music with theredsunband before fading out of circulation like a pair of worn out Wranglers. Good Heavens finds her re-emerging with unlikely collaborators Chris Ross and Myles Heskett, formerly of Wolfmother, and Strange Dreams proves a private, psychedelic reel. With the duality of Kelly’s soft, sighing voice paired with a dangerous rock lurk, it’s like Cat Power fronting The Doors. Down On Me has the Smashing Pumpkins kick of Rhinoceros, while the sinister I Am Not Afraid sounds like Bat For Lashes revealing where the bodies are buried. Despite its Wolfmother DNA, Kelly ensures there’s little in the way of guitar solos or substancefuelled egos here. She’s gonna set you free… Scott McLennan
Monks Of Mellonwah Neurogenesis EP (Independent)
The debut EP from Sydney band Monks Of Mellonwah fills a void left by Australian rockers like The Butterfly Effect and Trial Kennedy, among others. Neurogenesis is very raw in nature, blending heavy drum sequences and soaring vocal techniques to build a sound made for the live stage. However, the problem with this genre is that it can be easily forgotten, and You Shine, the final song on the EP, illustrates this perfectly. It is uninspiring, reeks of familiarity and floats away slowly into the progressive rock abyss. It is clear though that Monks Of Mellonwah have the foundation laid for a promising future, as long as they can distance themselves from a genre that is starting to look a little weary, particularly here in Australia. Sam Reynolds
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Auxilla
Local music showcase Sounds of Suburbia will return to the Gov this Sat Aug 25 bigger and better than ever as a new day and night event with an additional acoustic stage. Partnering up with Chapel Lane Entertainment, over 10 handpicked SA bands will show off their chops and be recorded live on the day. Here’s a little bit about each of the bands.
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Auxilla
Auxilla’s powerful and uh, energetic, stage aplomb has garnered them a lot of interest over the past few months, their mixture of heavy rock and indie grooves recently distilled into the form of an eponymous EP. You can download a nifty little digital version of the release via their website at auxilla.bandcamp.com.
Crank Yankers
Soundsbia Of Subur
This month Crank Yankers will return to the Crown & Anchor Hotel on Sat Aug 25 with some of the most fun garage pop outfits going around: Big Richard Insect, Them Plasms and Daniel J Varrichio. As always the doors open at 9pm and entry is free, so get involved.
Like Kites
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Like Kites
Like Kites are a hard rock band that combine heavy power chords with melodic vocals and progressive grooves. With their debut EP Before I Blackout available now via iTunes, the band are currently in the process of working on a second release. You can download the EP from likekites.net. Little Two Eyes / photo by Dan Footner
Little Two Eyes
Influenced by early ‘80s synth-pop and ‘90s shoegaze, Little Two Eyes combine both delicate and coarse in their unique blend of alternative pop fronted by the candid lyricism of lead vocalist Emily Smart. The five-piece’s debut EP All The Things I Never Told You And Why is available now through iTunes.
Traveller & Fortune
Matt Stillert
Traveller & Fortune
Matt Stillert
Bluesy solo artist Matt Stillert draws influence from Tom Waits, Ben Harper, Xavier Rudd and Dan Auerbach to deliver spine-tingling live performances using acoustic and lap steel guitars, a cigar box and foot percussion. His recent debut EP Don’t Fear The Beard is available now via mattstillertmusic.com.
“Not indie, but not not indie” outfit Traveller & Fortune have been kicking around since late 2010, honing a dark, folkish combination of soaring harmonies, guitars, banjo, keys, ukulele, sax, drums and mandolin. The band will be launching their brand new single Little Plastic People at Jive on Sat Sep 15, so keep an ear and an eye out for the new material on the day.
Menagerie
Doted upon by Triple J, this rising indie folk quintet calls to mind acts like Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear with lilting harmonies and soft, padding acoustics. Earlier in the year the band put forward their jutting single Cut Off Your Hands which you can listen to at menagerie. bandcamp.com Menangerie
WHAT: Sounds of Suburbia 2012 WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Sat Aug 25 from 3.30pm TICKETS: Moshtix $20, door $25
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Mutiny! At Two Ships
Seeing as Two Ships won’t be around much longer, this is your second to last chance to “water the tree of liberty with the blood of the bourgeoisie” in Adelaide’s favourite basement to a soundtrack of new wave, Britpop and ‘90s hip hop soundtrack in Mutiny! Featuring DJs Joel, Sam and Sujini, entry on the night is $3 unless clad “in full Maoist uniform”, in which you will then receive a 50 cent discount.
Menagerie, The Scarlet Ives At The Jade
The date is Fri Aug 24. The venue is the Jade Monkey. The door cost is 10 clams. The deal is four local bands; Menagerie are a quintet currently receiving a lot of love from Triple J, local veterans The Scarlet Ives are performing their first gig in months and are set to debut some new material, jazz-infused indie folk Alphabette are a part of the rising crop of new Adelaide acts and boy-girl duo Oh Me My (pictured) will perform light harmonies from their recent EP release. Head along from 9pm.
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