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Editor’s Note// Sydney outfit The Rubens have blown up with the speed of a musical version of Fifty Shades Of Grey. While the band are yet to reveal if they have a room full of bondage gear or enjoy whipping each other with belts, their high rotation on Triple J and Nova sees them beating off their competition. It can’t hurt that they look like they’re out of an American Apparel catalogue, either. Despite being largely oblivious to the harsh ways of the music industry a year ago, the band of brothers (and one ringin pal) have already caught the attention of some important names. New Yorker David Kahne (the former maestro behind winning albums by Regina Spektor and The Strokes) isn’t the sort of producer who takes calls from just anyone, while Aussie label supremo Michael Gudinski hasn’t been this excited about an Aussie band since The Temper Trap. The Rubens thankfully haven’t reached The Temper Trap’s levels of arrogance just yet – they’ll be promoting their self-titled debut with a show in Adelaide, which is more than we can say of Mandagi’s mob. Even better is the fact that their Gov gig next week will see them supported by Bertie Blackman, who will be debuting material from her awesome forthcoming album Pope Innocent X. A double bill like this is a special treat akin to snaring two Mars Bars from the vending machine for the price of one! Delicious.
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Launching his latest solo offering, Rogers Sings Rogerstein, at the Governor Hindmarsh on Thu Sep 20 with special guest Catherine Britt.
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Experience the musical madness of the Sydney act at Rocket Bar on Fri Sep 21 when they hit town with their Collarbone Jungle EP.
Speeding along this week... NICK CHARLES – launching a new album of guitar blues at Guthries (Prospect Town Hall) on Sat Sep 22 with special guest Cal Williams Jnr.
OZASIA FESTIVAL – now in its second week and continuing until Sun Sep 30 at Adelaide Festival Centre and Her Majesty’s Theatre.
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Nikko: Good As Gold Brisbane’s Nikko have been busy with supports for ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead and Boris, but not too busy create a follow up to their 2010 debut The Warm Side. The band say the album Gold And
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Life’s A Beach Semaphore Music Festival hits its lucky eighth year over the Labour Day long weekend from Fri Sep 28 to Mon Oct 1 on the Foreshore Reserve. Singing the praises of local musicians, the festival features shows from the likes of Frank Yamma, David Bridie, Nancy Bates, Brillig, Sarah Carroll & Marcel Borrack, Carla Lippis & The Martial Hearts, Tara Carragher with Richard Coates, Charles Jenkins & The Zhivagos, The Yearlings and The Huckleberry Swedes. Then there’s Hawking with Ben Searcy, The Hushes featuring Cal Williams Jr and Emily Davis, Billy Bob & The BBQ Boys, Bec Gollan and Allan Sumner, the Adelaide Ukulele Appreciation Society and a rockabilly mayhem day. Check out the line-up, including lots of free events, at semaphoremusicfestival.com.
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under the name Spencer P Jones & The Nothin’ Butts. Then there’s also his solo album in the works and yet another with his mainstay band The Escape Committee. He’s a busy guy so catch him while you can, playing with a bunch of local dirty rock bands including Van Cleef, Ricochet Pete, Fluffy, Hellbound & Proud, The Bastard Sons Of Ruination and more on Fri Sep 21 at Tuxedo Cat and Sat Sep 22 at the Forresters & Squatters Arms Hotel. Tickets: $12 on the door.
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Gunning It Justin Morrissey from Brisbane band Gunbarrel Highway has a bit of an Adelaide connection – he started his career in Adelaide many years ago, performing around town and doing vocal training with Sia. Then there’s the band name – the Gunbarrel Highway was a road built to service the supply of ammunition to the Maralinga nuclear yest site. Gunbarrel Highway play their roots music, soul and reggae at the Exeter on Fri Sep 28.
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Margin Call Music has always been in Sam Margin’s life, but he never expected it to be anything more than a hobby. After returning to Australia from a stint overseas, Margin enlisted the help of his brothers Zaac and Elliott, as well as childhood friend Scott Baldwin, to form The Rubens. Thanks to Triple J Unearthed, the young band gained national recognition for their track Lay It Down, which scored a spot on 2011’s Hottest 100. argin chats with Rip It Up about The Rubens’ fairytale success story, from their signing to Ivy League through to heading to New York City to record their debut album with legendary producer David Kahne. “We didn’t expect any of this,” he says. “Everything that is happening is unexpected for us. It’s not as if we have gotten used to it yet. Every time we get a bit of good news, every time we get a phone call about something cool that’s going on with the band, none of it is expected.” Margin admits that the whirlwind of success that his band has enjoyed was far from planned. “We all played music growing up, but we never ever took it that seriously. [At] the start of last year, I had just come back from England. Zaac and I were bored; we were just working hospitality, not really knowing what we were doing with our lives. We thought maybe we should start writing some songs. Elliott was at school at the time, and when he came home he would start helping us. We thought it would be fun to start playing live shows and started writing more, because we
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needed enough songs to play a live set.” With Zaac on the guitar and Elliott on the keys, a drummer was the last piece of the puzzle. “Originally we were considering our youngest brother, Jethro, but we realised that he was too young at the time. [Then] we programmed all of the drums in Logic on my laptop, and we realised that wouldn’t really do live. So we called up Scott Baldwin, who taught Jethro when Scottie used to teach drums. Scottie went to my school, we were good mates, and he was keen straight away. We just started jamming in his living room and we went from there.” The homemade recordings that followed were uploaded to Triple J’s Unearthed website, where they were noticed almost instantaneously. “We were really surprised when one day my mate called me and was like, ‘Your song is on the radio’, I was like, ‘You’re kidding me’. We had a few songs on Unearthed at the time and we thought that of all the songs that could possibly get picked up and played, it would be My Gun, but it was Lay It Down, and that was the song that started our career.” Lay It Down’s bluesy ‘60s style and smoky croons propelled The Rubens into the spotlight, earning them national exposure, an appearance at Sydney’s Homebake festival and a spot on Triple J’s coveted Hottest 100. It wasn’t long before the band was signed by Ivy League and headed to one of the most famous cities in the world to record their debut album with producer David Kahne, who has previously worked with heavyweights such as The Strokes and Paul McCartney. “When we were leaving [Australia] and knew we were going to record an album in New York, it’s probably the coolest thing you could hope for as a band. I don’t know if it was the city itself, or just the fact that we were overseas recording an album. I think we could’ve been anywhere, outside of Sydney, or outside of Australia and it would’ve been amazing.”
Despite what Carrie Bradshaw and the other vapid skeletons of Sex And The City may lead you to believe, the realities of living in New York quickly dissolved any romanticism The Rubens harboured. “We got desensitised to [New York City] in two weeks. It’s the kind of city where you do the touristy thing, and then if you’ve got an apartment and you live there, it becomes normal very quickly. We just started to live, it became like a home really, really quickly. It was odd. We had to learn to live there; we couldn’t live like we were on holiday, because we didn’t have the money. We were working everyday; we just had to really quickly become a part of it. By the end of it though, we were all like, ‘I cannot wait to get out of this city’. It’s too much and it’s just exhausting.” While having fun and immersing yourself in the rat race of one of the world’s busiest cities doesn’t exactly go hand in hand, Margin admits that there are some things about America that have left him and the rest of the band pining for more. “I think the thing that struck us the most is that we had no money basically while we were there, we had like 10 dollars a day to live off, and you could actually still do that [in New York]. You couldn’t do that in Sydney. The equivalent [amount of money] in Sydney would maybe get you a kebab for the day, if you were lucky. Everything is so cheap; clothes were tempting us constantly because we were trying not to spend any money. Just being able to buy good clothes and good food cheaply was probably the coolest thing about New York. For a big city, it’s cheap. I can’t imagine how cheap it would be out in the rural areas of America.” The price disparity between goods in the United States and Australia is well documented, but one item in particular shocked Margin and his bandmates more than anything else. “[Alcohol] is the worst. I couldn’t believe you could go into a bottle shop and get a bottle of anything, a bottle of scotch or something, and it’s half the price of Australia. Where we
A Brief History Of The Reuben Sandwich The Reuben sandwich consists of corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut and Russian or Thousand Island dressing grilled between slices of rye bread. The originator of the sandwich is disputed. One account holds that Lithuanian-born grocer, Reuben Kulakofsky, of Omaha, Nebraska invented the sandwich between 1920 and 1935. Another claim states that Arnold Reuben, the German owner of Reuben’s Delicatessen in New York City, was the true creator back in 1914. Several variations of the sandwich exist; most notably the Rachel, which substitutes pastrami for the corned beef and colesaw for the sauerkraut.
were staying, every second place is an amazing dive bar with the most ridiculous deals… like a beer and a shot for five dollars all night.” When meeting native New Yorkers, the curious Americans almost always asked the same question: whether or not the boys of The Rubens had ever eaten one of America’s most iconic sandwiches, The Reuben. “Everyone in America was always talking about the Reuben sandwich, and we were like, alright, we have to try this at some point. But then I read the ingredients and I was like, yeah, don’t know if I’m going to like that. We’re doing something for Time Out magazine where we go around Sydney and Melbourne and review the best Reuben sandwiches, so I’m going to know a lot more much soon.” WHO: The Rubens WHAT: The Rubens (Ivy League) WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh (with Bertie Blackman) WHEN: Sat Sep 29
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The Golden Mean If there is one international band Australia should adopt as its own, it would have to be Kiwi rockers Shihad. The original line-up has remained intact after more than 20 years in the business, surviving commercial peaks and troughs and earning the odd battle scar or two. elebrating their career to date, the band has released The Meanest Hits, an awesome compilation of their music to date. Drummer Tom Larkin suggests that sitting down to work out what made the cut gives the band a good excuse to tour. “It’s funny you know, pulling together a long list of songs to fit together on one CD has given us the excuse to get out there and
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tour,” Larkin says. “We started at Splendour [In The Grass] a while ago, which went really well, then coming back through all states throughout September. As boring and clichéd as it sounds, we really love touring and look forward to playing a big run of shows, which we haven’t done in Australia in a long time.” Did you get nostalgic pulling together The Meanest Hits? “The band started when we were very young and what happens is that when you get into your 20s you start to reject what you had done earlier. Now, at this point in time, we look back on that stuff and find we still really enjoy it, which is funny because you spend a good part of your career trying to get away from it. When you come back you figure that it has its own charm, [we’re] still really proud of it and enjoy playing it live.” Has there ever been the temptation to rerecord or remaster some of the early albums such as Churn or Killjoy?
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Excess All Areas As well as supporting AC/DC on a few occasions, Tom Larkin says Shihad have also toured with more unlikely acts such as Axl Rose’s late-era Guns N’ Roses and Korn. “It was weird! I was not really a big Korn fan, but they were actually excellent. I was surprised by that, which was good! Guns N’ Roses was as you would expect really - it was a massive setup and then with Axl turning up late, how do you do that? But he does! I didn’t really regard it as touring with [the authentic] Guns N’ Roses, but they did it really well.”
“There have been remasters of all the early albums in New Zealand, but not a remix or anything - they are what they are! I think remixing takes away from what it was in the first place and you need to leave as it was, that’s the painting as it were. The thing is we have been playing a lot of that stuff live in a chronological order, which is great.” The Shihad documentary film Beautiful Machine was very well reviewed when it was released in New Zealand earlier in the year – will it be released in Australia? “I’m not sure. The film was really well received and the great thing about the film is that it wasn’t done by the band. Any film that is by the band by and large tends to turn into a promotional piece. There were two things for us: number one, we’ve been around enough, having plenty of peaks and troughs in our career to have something to talk about. The next thing is because we didn’t do it, having the view of someone else looking in came up with a slant on the band that was really interesting. You get to see interesting angles of yourself and what you’ve done with the past 20 years. It is really good to have something like this because it is honest and was really well put together.” What has been the secret for Shihad keeping it together for so long? “I think we had enough success to keep us interested but not enough to blow it over the top, enough success to keep us earning a living. The big thing is [that Shihad is] four people who want to make great music and have a great relationship as friends underneath everything. The character and the interactions with everyone in the band plays a role in that but the other things that are not often discussed is that we share everything evenly. There’s no one person getting a bigger slice of the pie than anyone else, which is the case with a lot of bands. Even though it is business related, it’s about how the music gets made.” Looking back, what are the big achievements that stand out for you? “There’s a number of them, there are albums I’ve been really proud of. Tours of Europe in the ‘90s were fantastic and touring with AC/DC, which we’ve done a few times now, is always amazing. There were a few Big Day Out runs I’ll never forget and big tours with everything that goes with it, which were memorable.”
WHO: Shihad WHAT: The Meanest Hits (Warner) WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Thu Sep 27
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Rosanna In The Highest Although providing a chance to showcase songs from new album The Winter I Chose Happiness, Clare Bowditch’s successful immersion into TV drama Offspring hasn’t been without its dilemmas. While her Channel 10 role as Melbourne musician Rosanna provides her with a platform to turn new listeners onto her shining talent, it’s leading to some puzzling encounters on the streets of Thornbury.
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People call me Rosanna, but I just laugh,” Bowditch admits. “I get it – people get confused. She dresses like me, she lives where I live, we’re both musicians. A woman came up to me the other day and she said, ‘Oh, you’re so nice! I’ve been loving hating your character!’. Oh, thanks!” The exposure Offspring has given the well-travelled songwriter cannot be understated. Bowditch has locally performed everywhere from the Adelaide Zoo and Thebarton Theatre through to Jive and Peter Lehmann Wines, yet Offspring’s average Adelaide audience of 142,000 dwarfs the combined figure of Bowditch’s decade of SA appearances alongside acts such as Leonard Cohen, Crowded House and James Blunt. The 36-year-old mother of three is appreciative of this unexpected boost to her profile as she launches her fifth album. “Do you want to know the beautiful thing? I’ve always loved touring, but we’ve done way too much of it at a level you can’t sustain. Never in a million years did I think I’d get a role on
Offspring, but it’s been a lovely surprise as it’s allowed me to maintain a profile without doing nearly as much touring.” Perhaps in acknowledgement of her new audience, The Winter I Chose Happiness is Bowditch’s most accessible offering since 2005’s What Was Left. The musical results of an elusive quest to quantify happiness, the 11 tracks shift through genres like a flick through a radio dial. As with Bowditch’s previous albums, embers of loss still glow despite the prevailing serenity. The beautiful Your Love Walks began as a farewell message, but morphed into a touching eulogy. “It started off as a goodbye to a friend, but then it shifted as I was writing it and I was thinking about loved ones I’d lost. I have a feeling that’s the role it will play in the world – something people can play when they lose someone they love. I was also thinking about the young men who died in a fireball in Westgarth [St, Northcote] this year – their car incinerated for no particular reason and I was processing that…” Bowditch catches herself wading into heavy territory, lets out a sigh and chuckles. Her sly attempts to pass this album off as a brighter twist on the Bowditch formula have been exposed. “…And other happy tunes, Jesus!” Despite suffering a number of personal tragedies, Bowditch’s passion for helping others has never wavered. Whether it’s offering emotional support to fans or throwing herself into assisting fledgling artists, it’s sometimes seemed Bowditch’s Rip Van Winkle crusades have left her little time to pursue peace within. Pulling back on tour commitments should redress the balance, but Bowditch isn’t about to quit helping fellow creatives find their feet. Next year she’ll launch Big Hearted Business, a mentorship program where she’ll pass on assorted tips to other artists. “I’m always having my heart broken watching all these really talented people not being able
Clare Bowditch ennan by Scott McL
to make a living out of what they do. Next year I’m launching an online creative business mentorship to teach people practical skills to create long and illustrious careers in the creative arts - or even people running a business doing something they love such as yoga, et cetera. This is completely my own baby.” Speaking of babies, when Rip It Up last spoke to Bowditch the prospective album title for The Winter I Chose Happiness was This Is Joi De Vivre Baby. “Everyone thought it was a great title, but then we got into the thick of it with our record company,” Bowditch laughs. “Everyone in Melbourne liked it but everyone in Sydney was like, ‘Dunno, Bowditch – I can’t really pronounce it’. The Winter I Chose Happiness was the back-up title we had floating around. In some ways it’s quite a provocative title, but in other ways it could be misinterpreted as a self-help book. I like the fact that people can have mixed experiences with it.”
The Bad Feeds Since Clare Bowditch has made quite a name for herself as an accomplished and generous cook over the years, what did she feed her album guest, former Bad Seed Mick Harvey, when he dropped by her home studio? “We ate a lot of raw food, I’ve got to say. Part of my happiness experiment was experimenting with food that brought joy, so I did a 21-day raw food challenge. It was amazing. Mick was there for part of that, so it was just raw beans for Mick…”
WHO: Clare Bowditch WHAT: The Winter I Chose Happiness (UMA) WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Fri Sep 21
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INCOMING WHO: BIG DADDY KANE WHERE: HQ WHEN: FRI OCT 12
WHO: ABOVE & BEYOND WHERE: ADELAIDE ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE WHEN: SAT JAN 26
EDX ALBUM GIVEAWAY With a career spanning over a decade, Italian native DJ/producer EDX has been proclaimed a “genius” by publications like Mixmag and has made his mark by remixing the likes of Deadmau5, Mary J Blige, Bob Sinclar, Axwell, Armin van Buuren, Steve Angello and more. His
new 14-track album titled On The Edge brings together everything that encapsulates EDX’s sound which ranges from deep house and more techy arrangements to more upbeat and energetic progressive pieces. On The Edge also sees EDX collaborating with a number of vocalists including Nadia Ali, Hadley, Sarah McLeod, John Williams and more. Onion has five copies of the album to giveaway, so head to onion.com.au for your chance to win one.
Australia Day 2013 is looking epic with the announcement that Above & Beyond are playing at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Sat Jan 26. Returning to Australia after their appearance at Planet Cream last April, it’s safe to say the British trance titans have become regulars in our part of the world. Last year the trio were placed at number five in the DJ Magazine annual Top 100 DJs Poll and released their second album Group Therapy, which spawned the single Sun And Moon featuring the vocals of Richard Bedford. With two other albums under their collective belt – the 2006 release Tri-State and 2008’s Sirens Of The Sea (released under the artist name OceanLab) – Above & Beyond also host the weekly radio show Trance Around The World and have established their own label, Anjunabeats. Above & Beyond are also the only people to have ever won the BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix Of The Year twice (2004 and 2011). Don’t miss them this Australia Day at the Entertainment Centre – you can sign up for priority tickets at Above & Beyond’s website.
HILLTOP HOODS AND GOTYE AMONG THE MOST PIRATED ARTISTS IN THE WORLD According to a report produced by monitoring firm Musicmetric, Adelaide’s own Hilltop Hoods stand as the most pirated artist in Australia, while fellow Aussie Gotye is the most illegally downloaded in Poland and Belgium. The data collected by Musicmetric has provided insight into patterns of illegal downloading among the top 20 sharing countries by analysing worldwide BitTorrent networks, with the US topping the bill as the country with the most
20/9: Tommie Sunshine (Apple Bar) 20/9: Sidney Samson (Electric Circus) 21/9: Octave One (Electric Circus) 28/9: Paul Oakenfold (HQ) 29/9: Kyle Hall (Cuckoo Bar) 29/9: MOS feat Goodwill & Chardy (HQ) 29/9: Das EFX, Black Sheep, Tony Touch (Higher Ground) 30/9: Rebecca & Fiona (HQ) 30/9: Funkagenda (White Rabbit) 30/9: Bombs Away! (HQ)
WHO: SIDNEY SAMSON WHERE: ELECTRIC CIRCUS WHEN: THU SEP 20
illegal shares (Drake at 96,868,398 total shares), the UK in second position (Ed Sheeran at 43,314,568 total shares) and Australia in sixth position (Hilltop Hoods at 19,104,047 total shares). The report spans 2011-2012 but Musicmetric claims their look at BitTorrent covers the first half of 2012 and that the company tracked music from 750,000 artists with a total of 405 million music releases having been downloaded in the first six months of the year.
CALENDAR
WHO: CHEMICAL BROTHERS, MIA, KNIFE PARTY, FEDDE LE GRAND, MARK RONSON, KIMBRA, BOOKA SHADE, CARL CRAIG (69 LIVE) + MORE WHAT: SUMMADAYZE 2013 WHERE: RYMILL PARK WHEN: MON DEC 31
1/10: Ferrry Corsten (HQ) 7/10: Parklife (Botanic Pk) 12/10: Monkey Safari (White Rabbit) 12/10: Big Daddy Kane (HQ) 13/10: Seth Sentry (Fowler’s) 16/11: Boyz II Men (Thebarton Theatre) 27/11: Nicki Minaj (Entertainment Centre) 9/12: JLO (Entertainment Centre) 31/12: Mathew Jonson (Cuckoo Bar) 26/1/2013: Above & Beyond (Entertainment Centre)
REVIEWS THEE SATISFACTION
FABRIC
AWE NATURALE
BALANCE 022: FUNK D’VOID
(SUB POP)
(BALANCE MUSIC)
Out of Brooklyn, New York, Big Daddy Kane undisputedly defined the term ‘lyricist’ as far as hip hop goes, having first teamed up with Biz Markie in 1984 and co-writing some of Biz’s best-known raps. Both eventually became vital members of the Queens-based Juice Crew (headed by renowned producer Marley Marl), but Kane himself went on to endure a substantive music career. With several gold albums under his belt, endless music accolades (including a Grammy award) and having received a VH1 Hip Hop Honour in 2005, Kane has also collaborated with big names like Public Enemy and Ice Cube on the single Burn, Hollywood Burn, Heavy D on the single Don’t Curse, Patti LaBelle on the certified-gold single Feels Like Another One and with Quincy Jones on the multi-platinum masterpiece Tribute To Birdland. Kane was named the seventh Greatest MC Of All Time, by MTV, so don’t miss his debut appearance in Australia when he stops by HQ next month. Tickets are on sale at Venuetix, Oztix, Cold Krush, Clinic 116 and Da Klinic.
Sidney Samson will be back in Adelaide for The Proj3cts tonight (Thu Sep 20). Best known for his 2009 debut single Riverside – which went to number one on the Dutch top 40 and number nine on the Australian ARIA Charts – Samson has also collaborated with the likes of Lil’ Jon, Will.i.Am and Lil Wayne as well as remixed for Lady Gaga, David Guetta and Kylie Minogue. Speaking of his original productions, Samson has said “I’m learning every day. And I try to add new tricks to my box instead of repeating the same ones over and over again. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But that is the risk I’m willing to take.” Catch him at Electric Circus tonight.
After plenty of rumours and even a leak or two, the official line-up for Summadayze 2013 finally dropped late last week. With the Chemical Brothers (DJ set), Knife Party, Fedde Le Grand and Mark Ronson (DJ set) headlining the New Year’s Eve event, MIA was also confirmed to be joining the bill which also includes Kimbra, Carl Craig (69 live), Erol Alkan, Booka Shade, Eddie Halliwell, AN21 & Max Vangeli, Maya Jane Coles, Disclosure (live), Breakbot (live), Fake Blood, Hudson Mohawke, Icona Pop, Scuba, Aeroplane, Danny Daze, Krafty Kuts & A-Skillz, AC Slater, Stafford Brothers & Timmy Trumpet and more. Last year’s Summadayze headliners were Snoop Dogg, Pendulum, Moby, Scissor Sisters and Calvin Harris. Tickets go on sale at $99 from Ticketmaster, Moshtix and Venuetix.
SEBASTIEN TELLIER
MY GOD IS BLUE
KYLIE AULDIST STILL LIFE
(TRU THOUGHTS)
(WARNER)
It’s Saturday night and you’re out. Your outfit is looking fine and making eye-contact with all those attractive creatures around you is a game; and you love it. The drinks are mixed to perfection, dancing across your palate and going down easy. Mr DJ keeps dropping the beats that make everyone want to stay on the floor and shake their asses. Everyone’s selling sex and everyone’s buying. A joint finds its way into your hand and the acrid smoke winds its way through the coloured trails the lights weave in a shimmering plane as you exhale into the air above your head, your hands breaking its organic form. Next thing, you’re dancing with someone and the attraction is unmistakable. A few lingering looks, a whispered sentence at the bar and you’re sharing a cab back to your house. Walking inside, you turn the lights on, then down and wander over to the stereo as drinks are poured and ice is added. The decision as to what to play is easy, as you have Thee Satisfaction’s album Awe Naturale to put on and its sexy beats and vocals fit the mood of anticipation perfectly...
The Scot and Soma veteran best known for the eternal Diabla (which is included via an exclusive remix here), Funk D’Void, continues the techno and tech house skew of Balance away (thankfully) from its prog origins. The opening mix of Balance 022 is solid without being anything too special. The mix is at its best when the techno funk hits in the form of Chris Malinchak’s Razor, which is club synth bliss at its finest as is Jesper Dahlback’s Nyhus Part 2 but the tech house dominated opening mix sounds like a thousand other SoundCloud mixes out there, luckily there’s the second disc. This is where D’Void breaks away from the pack to create something unique, as ambient, leftfield house, experimental, electro funk and little known jams come together for a bizarre party mix that surprises, entertains and educates you on some of the weird and wonderful records out there. Get this for disc two.
In a word, this is intense. And then some. To call My God Is Blue an album of ‘songs’ is probably an understatement – this is more akin to a collection of composition pieces that are definitely ‘grandiose’ but manage to avoid being self-indulgent. Having said that, underneath all the eccentricity and classical sounds you’ll still find grooving beats and plenty of house and techno, the disco undertones of Against The Law and Cochon Ville easily being the standout track. Packed with beautiful harmonies, choirs, piano melodies and gorgeous strings, My God Is Blue is ambitious, fantastical, dramatic and nothing short of downright impressive. The only complaint is that Tellier’s often cryptic lyrics get a little bit difficult to hear, especially when seemingly competing against a bombastic orchestra, but the lush musical landscapes more than make up for it.
TEXJAH
JEFF SPICOLI
SIMONE KEENAN
You probably already know her as the sassy front-lady of the funk collective The Bamboos, but Kylie Auldist has been releasing solo albums in her own right over the last few years, Still Life making for her third full-length offering. And talk about a timewarp – Auldist manages to deliver a collection of funky soul/ pop that sounds like it’s straight out of the 1960s, full of uplifting moments as well as plenty of heartbreak. Counting On You is a piece of perfect pop (and not surprisingly serves as the lead single), but it’s the funky disco stylings of Changes that will set up camp in your head and refuse to leave (and all it takes is just one listen). Co-written with her Bamboos band-mate Lance Ferguson, Still Life looks to be the record that really puts Auldist on the map as far as funk and R&B in Australia goes.
SIMONE KEENAN
with Nina Bertok
INTERVIEWS
PAUL OAKENFOLD
BLACK SHEEP THE ‘90S URBAN REVIVAL IS WELL UNDERWAY WITH BLACK SHEEP JOINING THE HIP HOP LEGENDS TOUR ALONGSIDE DAS EFX AND DJ TONY TOUCH.
Black Sheep, from Queens, New York, was formed in the late ‘80s by MC Dres (AKA Andres Titus) and DJ Mista Lawnge (William McLean). Ironically, they’d met in North Carolina, Titus a military brat. The Native Tongues affiliates premiered with 1991’s single Flavor Of The Month. Their classic debut, A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing, also took in the enduring The Choice Is Yours (licensed for a recent US hamster-featuring car ad) and brilliant gangsta satire U Mean I’m Not. Still, Black Sheep never received the wider recognition of A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul and Jungle Brothers. And Titus is far from being done. In fact, the MC has previously been in Oz – as a De La Soul stowaway. But he’s “very excited” to now be performing his own show. “I’ll be with my dude DJ Strike – and it’s a simple formula that works well for us. I’ll be taking you on a good music trip, from some classics to some unknowns – all delivered in the vein of real hip hop [with] a true MC.” As it happens, McLean has retired from Black Sheep. “Lawnge and I don’t speak much,” Titus admits. “Once in a while something business-related may pop up and we’ll correspond, but we’re definitely in two different spaces at this point in our lives. I understand him to be well and a family man.” Black Sheep self-produced a seminal – and eccentric – hip hop album in A Wolf... What does Titus recall of recording it? “One of the things that really sticks out was the writing. I would keep a notebook of sorts everywhere I went. It was common to find me in Washington Square Park with a joint writing in my book. I remember it being quite a task [because] I knew the first people to hear what I was writing would be the Tongues – talk about pressure!”
Though Black Sheep contributed to The Brand New Heavies’ trailblazing Heavy Rhyme Experience: Vol 1, the music industry proved increasingly difficult for them to negotiate. After all, they were conscious hip hoppers in the gangsta rap era. Black Sheep’s second album, Non-Fiction, floundered largely due to lousy promotion. The duo split from their label, Mercury, and then went their separate ways, eventually reuniting (briefly) in 2000. Any regrets? “Well, hindsight is always 20/20 so, of course, there are things that could be rectified and maximised, but such is life,” Titus ponders. “I’ve definitely embraced what was, but I’ve also let it go – [it’s a] duality. I find it important for myself to not live in the past, but to live for today and prepare for tomorrow – something I don’t think I really understood in totality when I was younger. As well, it’s the experiences that give me the insight I now possess.” Titus discovered new diversions – and not merely a solo career. He landed his first acting role in Laurence Fishburne’s Once In The Life and has lately starred in Mr Complex’s indie Fanatic. Titus is keen to do more. “I think it’s a good transition for the older me.” In the meantime, he has a new outfit, evitaN, with ATCQ satellite member Jarobi White. (Check ‘em out on YouTube.) There is a pervasive nostalgia for ol’ skool hip hop – which Titus’ ally Nas tapped into on Life Is Good – but this MC isn’t preoccupied with it. (Titus concedes to following hip hop online, rather than on radio.) “I would say it’s more about good music at the end of the day. I feel many of the older artists got a little caught up in what [hip hop] was and didn’t necessarily bring it forward, but let it pull them back. Those that adapt found a medium that works for them. This usually resonates with the people. In my opinion, things truly have changed – embrace it, put your spin on it, make it better. Nas would be a good example of this.”
CYCLONE
VITAL STATISTICS. WHO: BLACK SHEEP WHAT: HIP HOP LEGENDS TOUR WHERE: HIGHER GROUND WHEN: SAT SEP 29
VITAL STATISTICS. WHO: PAUL OAKENFOLD WHAT: FOUR SEASONS TOUR WHERE: HQ WHEN: FRI SEP 28
PAUL OAKENFOLD MAY BE SCORING MOVIES – AND EVEN CAMEOING IN SOME – BUT HE ISN’T ABANDONING THE CLUBS. THE REJUVENATED BRIT SUPER-DJ IS RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA FOR HIS FIRST TOUR SINCE 2009’S FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL.
‘Oakey’, who in the ‘80s introduced Ibiza’s Balearic house to England before championing power-trance, moved to Los Angeles nine years ago, his ambition to work in Hollywood. Here, Glastonbury’s inaugural main stage DJ was poised to play a pivotal role in America’s EDM boom, becoming a regular presence in Las Vegas. Today Oakenfold commutes between LA and, strangely, Amsterdam, his European base. “It’s a great little town,” he says croakily this morning. “I enjoy it here. It makes a lot more sense than being in London. London’s incredibly expensive. So I can have a little apartment in Amsterdam and it works.” Never mind that Celebrity Net Worth declared him the world’s second richest DJ, worth US$55 million... Oakenfold, his Perfecto Records lately integrated into Dutchman Armin van Buuren’s Armada Music, is wrapping up a third artist album, Pop Killer – to follow his Four Seasons mix compilation extravaganza. “It’s nearly finished. Funny enough, I just recorded a song with Azealia Banks, which I’m really proud of – and that could be the first single.” Oakenfold has always been prescient in his choice of vocalists, hiring OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder mid-decade. For 2002’s debut artist album, Bunkka, he convinced Hunter S Thompson, the late ‘gonzo’ rock journalist, to cut vocals. “I was very lucky to work with him because a few people had contacted him and he’d turned them down. I think where me and Hunter connected was I explained to him that the electronic movement has embraced his work as a writer... I told him this and he was very shocked.” The tragic 8 Mile starlet Brittany Murphy sang his 2006 hit Faster Kill Pussycat. “She was a very talented woman,” Oakenfold laments. “It’s a shame – ‘cause she was gonna do her own album. I was gonna work on it and produce some of it. But, unfortunately, she passed away.”
LEAH MENCEL TWO YEARS IN A ROW NOW ADELAIDE DJS HAVE ABSOLUTELY DOMINATED THE EMI SHE CAN DJ COMPETITION, WITH LAST YEAR’S WINNER AND EXADELAIDEAN MINX TAKING HOME THE CROWN AND LOCAL GIRL LEAH MENCEL FOLLOWING IN HER FOOTSTEPS IN 2012. AND WHILE THE LATTER HAS BEEN BUILDING A STEADY REPUTATION FOR HER DJING SKILLS OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, MENCEL CLAIMS IT WAS HER LONG-STANDING DREAM OF BEING A LEAD GUITARIST IN A BAND WHICH PLAYED A BIG PART IN EARNING HER THE TITLE OF 2012 SHE CAN DJ WINNER.
VITAL STATISTICS. WHO: LEAH MENCEL WHAT: 2012 SHE CAN DJ WINNER WHERE: PARKLIFE WHEN: SUN OCT 7
“The set had to move quite quickly – I got through about 13 to 14 tracks in the 20 minutes,” she explains. “That left zero margin for error. At about five tracks in, I pulled a little tempo/pitch adjust trick on one of the CDJs I’ve seen Laidback Luke use in some of his sets and the pitch fader on ‘wide’ to play a melody...
I also played an electric guitar during my final track – I always wanted to be the lead guitarist in a band!” It certainly did the trick, as did Mencel’s previous experience playing at the Ivy last year after being shortlisted as one of the She Can DJ top 10 finalists. But that’s about the only advantage she supposes she may have had over this year’s contestants – claiming that overall, the competition was, in fact, “different”. “The comp was so different this year. The dynamic of the top 10 was nothing like last year! Everything just felt different. I think any experience with playing to bigger crowds, under more pressure, is advantageous in a competition like this one, so I had that I had played the Ivy before to help me calm my nerves. But I still had crazy butterflies before I stepped on! It was tough! There was so much talent in this year’s top 10, with such a vast array of genres covered. Alley Oop nailed her house/tech sound and Nat Noiz killed it with her bouncy stuff. Everyone pulled off seamless live sets but there’s a lot of work going down behind the scenes with this group too. Almost every single girl is hard at work in the studio with over half of the ladies already having released music.”
The gracious Oakenfold, too, now has a Hollywood profile, his first significant OST 2001’s Swordfish. He’s contributed music to The Matrix Reloaded and Collateral (“to work on a film that Tom Cruise was part of, I was very lucky”). He’s also composed for video games. Beyond that, Oakenfold has forged an enduring relationship with Madonna as a tour DJ, remixer and producer (he oversaw her single Celebration). She released his albums on Maverick. Madonna’s foray into EDM-pop, MDNA, copped a backlash from critics that Oakenfold believes is unjustified. “I’m currently on tour with Madonna and I’m doing a lot of shows with her. I don’t think they’re fair, to be honest. I’ve seen the show many times. The album represents where she’s at at the moment and what she wants to do. Whatever you do in life, not everyone’s gonna like... I think at the end of the day she’s a really great cutting-edge artist.” In 2007 the dyslexic DJ published Paul Oakenfold: The Authorised Biography, penned by Richard Norris of The Grid fame. It charts Oakenfold’s formative days as a rare groove DJ, youthful stint in New York, brief A&R career, fateful discovery of acid house on an Ibiza holiday and production run with his own vehicle Grace, the Happy Mondays (Pills ‘N’ Thrills And Bellyaches) and U2 (that ultra-cred remix of Even Better Than The Real Thing). Oakenfold himself has been immortalised on screen. “It’s funny – in the last year I’ve played myself in three movies, the last [as-yet-untitled] movie was [by director] Terrence Malick with Christian Bale and Natalie Portman. Electronic music is very big at the moment in Hollywood. There will be a few films based on our scene.” Still, he acknowledges that US dance is “very commercial”. “If you wanna be part of the scene, then it’s the same 20 records played by 50 DJs,” Oakenfold philosophises. And so he’s going back to his roots, unexpectedly re-embracing Goa’s psy-trance. “I’m really into representing the underground sound and playing new music,” Oakey says. “Coming to Australia, I wanna represent new music, I wanna encourage people to get into it and enjoy it and be a part of it – and that’s what the tour’s all about.”
CYCLONE
EMI and the She Can DJ crew really know how to throw a party, too, apparently – “the Ivy looked great, everyone was dressed to the nines and there were mini-burgers! I mean, who doesn’t love food-gone-mini?” – but much bigger things are on the horizon for Mencel. As part of the She Can DJ prize, Mencel has now transcended her ‘local DJ’ title with an international networking trip next on the agenda, as well as a compilation album due for release via EMI. “I think the first bit of work to come out under EMI will be a remix or two, then among that, I’ve got some original stuff underway, too. We head over to ADE Festival in Amsterdam in mid-October, so that’s just going to be insane. I think I might spend half my time with stars in my eyes fan-girl-ing over meeting some of my DJ heroes! I doubt it’s going to be anything but a money-can’t-buy experience. I’ll be doing my fourth Stereosonic and I get to do the Sydney one as well this year. This year will also be my second Parklife and I’ve done Future Music, the Big Day Out, Summadayze and Planet Cream. I try to keep my sets familiar so the majority can enjoy the music too! It’s all things bass, really – a lot of dubstep, drumstep, trap. Some guy called it ‘chickstep’ as an insult, but I’m down with that, man! I’m not trying to play a too-cool-for-school underground bass sound, I’m trying to make a genre that I love appeal to a wider audience.”
NINA BERTOK
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Tour Guide/ THU SEP 20
MON OCT 15
TIM ROGERS (Vic) & CATHERINE BRITT (Syd) @ Governor Hindmarsh NEWTON FAULKNER (UK) @ Fowler’s Live MNOZIL BRASS (Austria) @ Adelaide Town Hall
MUMFORD & SONS (UK), EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS & WILLY MASON @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre
FRI SEP 21 SPENCER P JONES & THE ESCAPE COMMITTEE (Vic) @ Tuxedo Cat CLARE BOWDITCH (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh GREENTHIEF (Bris) @ Ed Castle REGULAR JOHN (Syd), HORROR MY FRIEND & GLASS SKIES @ Enigma GLASS TOWERS (Bris) @ Rocket Bar
SAT SEP 22 XAVIER RUDD (Vic) & YESHE (Syd) @ Thebarton Theatre SPENCER P JONES & THE ESCAPE COMMITTEE (Vic) @ Forresters & Squatters Arms NIKKO (Bris), GOLD BLOOM & SPARKSPITTER @ Hotel Metro NICK CHARLES (Vic) & CAL WILLIAMS JNR @ Guthries
WED SEP 26 DEFEATER (US) & BLACKLISTED (US) @ Enigma
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 – MON OCT 1 SEMAPHORE MUSIC FESTIVAL: DAVID BRIDIE (Vic), CHARLES JENKINS & THE ZHIVAGOS (Vic), FRANK YAMMA and so many more @ various Semaphore venues
FRI SEP 28 FRENZAL RHOMB (Vic), STOLEN YOUTH & STUFF BOX @ Adelaide Uni Bar WINTER PEOPLE (Vic) @ Rocket Bar SASKWATCH (Vic) & FAKE TAN @ Jive GUNBARREL HIGHWAY (Bris) @ Exeter
SAT SEP 29 RUSSIAN CIRCLES (US) & EAGLE TWIN (US) @ Fowler’s Live FEAR FACTORY (US), TRUTH CORRODED & ALKIRA @ 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 ROSS WILSON (Vic) @ Norwood Live TZU (Vic) @ Grace Emily
FRI OCT 5 HEY GERONIMO (Bris) @ Jive
SAT OCT 6 REGURGITATOR (Bris) & 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 @ Enigma
SUN OCT 7 PARKLIFE: THE PRESETS, NERO LIVE, PASSION PIT, PLAN B and so 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 BRITISH INDIA (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD (Vic) @ Ed Castle COERCE (Vic) @ Crown & Anchor AINSLIE WILLIS (Vic) @ Hotel Metro
SAT OCT 13 SETH SENTRY (Vic) @ Fowler’s Live DAPPLED CITIES (Vic) & JAPE (Sweden) @ Adelaide Uni Bar BELLUSIRA (Vic), SQUEAKER, FOUR KINGS LOUD & THE ANGELS OF GUNG-HO @ Enigma
SUN OCT 14 HUSKY (Syd) @ Adelaide Uni Bar
WED OCT 17 GOMEZ (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh
THU OCT 18 THE PAPER KITES (Vic), ART OF SLEEPING & BATTLESHIPS @ Fowler’s Live
FRI OCT 19 – SUN OCT 28 BACKWATER BLUES & ROOTS FESTIVAL: JEFF LANG (Vic), MIA DYSON (Vic), DALLAS FRASCA (Vic) and more @ Queen’s Theatre
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MNEMIC (Denmark) @ Enigma Bar CARMEN SMITH & DIANA ROUVAS @ Norwood Live DAMN TERRAN (Vic) & BAD/ DREEMS @ Rocket Bar HORSELL COMMON (Vic) @ Black Market
SAT OCT 20 BASTARDFEST 2012: FUCK… I’M DEAD (Vic), AVERSIONS CROWN (Qld), DISENTOMB (Qld) & A MURDER OF CROWS @ Fowler’s Live CARMEN SMITH & DIANA ROUVAS @ Goolwa Aquatic Club REFUSED (US) @ Thebarton Theatre
FRI OCT 26 – SUN OCT 28 FLEURIEU FOLK FESTIVAL: THE GO SET (Vic), SENOR CABRALES (Syd), THE STETSON FAMILY (Vic) and many more @ Willunga
FRI OCT 26 SOMETHING FOR KATE (Vic) & BEN SALTER (Qld) @ Governor Hindmarsh
SAT OCT 27 LAST DINOSAURS (Bris) @ Governor Hindmarsh SHELLAC (US) & PIKELET @ Fowler’s Live
SUN OCT 28 LISA MITCHELL (Syd), ALPINE (Syd) & DANCO @ HQ
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
Keep eyes out on Sydney four-piece Regular John, as their new album Strange Flowers, the follow-up to their impressive 2009 debut The Peaceful Atom Is A Bomb, is set to do big business. Strange Flowers is like peeling back an onion - after many listens there’s something new to discover. Guitarist and vocalist Ryan Adamson talks to Rip It Up about the new album and how the band are keeping busy “getting it nice to play live” for their upcoming tour. Are you relieved that the album is finally done? “We just got the CD pressing back a couple of days ago and to have it tangible it feels like it’s actually done now,” Adamson begins. “I
bought a new amp for my record player and it sounded really cool. I couldn’t believe how professional it sounded.” The album by all accounts took a while to make - did it feel like a labour of love? “It got pretty heavy at times, it was a very slow process at times. Ultimately, it was great fun and all I do in my spare time is record stuff, but to go in to a proper studio was amazing. There would be days where it would be just me and the producer and I could say things like, ‘Take out all of the drums and vocal to let me fill in the gaps’. Things like that were really amazing - to be able to experiment with pedals, then putting that into practice with a producer who was also keen to go down that road, was fun.” Did you find that as time marched on you were getting too picky? “There was a fine line, but I didn’t want anything to be fortuitous. It might be an awesome sound but does it serve the song? If
it doesn’t, it doesn’t make it. There are some sounds that will make people go ‘whoa!’ but is it going to wear thin after a few listens? For the visions I had it wasn’t as dense as it could have been.” Do you think that this is the album that will get people talking and throw Regular John into the spotlight? “Um, I’ve never really ever thought about it in terms like that. I think the songwriting is a lot better this time around and that’s what I think a lot of people will connect with. If I think of it with that logic applied I reckon it might appeal to more people.”
anything, it’s just very content in doing what it does.” In terms of recording, Faulkner and friends have changed it up this time around. “We did a bit in a garage, a bit at my house and then we finished it off on a boat. It was one of those big red lighthouse boats, but the guy’s scooped out the whole middle bit. It spends half the day on water and half the day on land. “So you’ll be sitting in a chair, playing your guitar on dry land and suddenly you’ll just start bobbing around,” Faulkner chuckles, oh so fond of his memories. Faulkner is a gentleman of humble nature, a man courteous and kind who now evades any attempts to be ‘cool’. “In terms of music, I think there are too many people trying to be really cool, [so] I’m just not anymore,” he giggles. “I think I can admit that, I’m not gonna have guest rappers and stuff anytime soon!” What a relief (although don’t deny it - a Newton Faulkner and Kanye West duet
would be just a little be exciting). The ginger stallion is renowned for his dreadlocked jungle of hair - hair which is as intriguing as it is frightening. It appears as though it has quite the upkeep. “I am definitely looking a bit fluffy at the moment! It’s gotten worse over the last few years ‘cause I’ve had no time - I’ve got a son as well so the time at home I spend chilling out and running after children.” The Dream Catch Me singer suggests he’s growing more childlike himself. “I’m [also] getting more and more silly. I found out the other day that I can actually jump over the sofa from one side to the other, which my son finds hilarious. But after you’ve done that 10 times, you start feeling it!”
WHO: Regular John WHAT: Strange Flowers (Difrnt) WHERE: Enigma (with Horror My Friend and Glass Skies) WHEN: Fri Sep 21
THU NOV 1 MARK SEYMOUR (Vic) @ Norwood Live
SUN NOV 4 CHERRY POPPIN’ DADDIES (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh
TUE NOV 6 CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh
COMING UP THU NOV 8 EMMYLOU HARRIS & HER RED DIRT BOYS (US) @ Thebarton Theatre MATCHBOX TWENTY (US) & INXS (Syd) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre SUN NOV 11 THE LIVING END (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh CHELSEA WOLFE (US) & HEIRS (Vic) @ Fowler’s Live MON NOV 12 THE LIVING END (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh BERUIT (US) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre TUE NOV 13 GEORGE MICHAEL (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre THE LIVING END (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh WED NOV 14 THE LIVING END (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh THU NOV 15 SIGUR RÓS (Ice) @ Thebarton Theatre THE LIVING END (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh FRI NOV 16 THE LIVING END (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh BEN FOLDS FIVE (US) @ Thebarton Theatre SAT NOV 17 TINPAN ORANGE (Vic) @ Jive THE LIVING END (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh SAT NOV 17 REFUSED (US) @ Thebarton Theatre TUE NOV 20 NICKELBACK (Can) & JACKSON FIREBIRD (Vic) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre BALL PARK MUSIC (Bris) @ Governor Hindmarsh THU NOV 22 DEEP SEA ARCADE & PREATURES @ Adelaide Uni Bar SCOTTIE MILLER (US) & THE STREAMLINERS @ Governor Hindmarsh MOJO JUJU (Syd) @ Grace Emily
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Surrey songwriter Newton Faulkner is back and as playful as ever with his latest release, Write It On Your Skin. He and his festive facial hair have been taking the world by storm, with this latest release being his third studio record of pop-infused sunshine tunes. Currently spreading his good vibes touring intimate venues around Australia, the Brit takes five to chat with Rip It Up about dreadlock maintenance, recording tunes on a boat and general fun times with his son. Faulkner’s cheer and wit sees him dancing on the sunny side of life and generally stoked with his latest release. “I must admit I am really happy with just the general vibe of it,” he says. “I think the one thing this album does incredibly well is it doesn’t feel as though it’s trying to do
WHO: Newton Faulkner WHAT: Write It On Your Skin (Sony) WHERE: Fowler’s Live WHEN: Thu Sep 20
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Thursday 20th ADELAIDE CASINO – Balcony Bar: Lucky Seven (8pm) ALMA TAVERN – Grind ARKABA HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Becky Blake (6pm) Top Room: Adelaide’s Next Superstar (7pm) AUSTRAL – Bunka: F*** Me It’s Thursday with DJs BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty CASABLABLA – Prita (9pm) CAVAN HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy & Margie (8.30pm) CAVERN CLUB – band night CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: A4 Book Fundraiser featuring Teresa Green, Meg and Laral. 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 – The Texettes and special guests
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – MUFFDIVER AND GORILLA PORN FOWLER’S LIVE – Newton Faulkner GASLIGHT TAVERN – Groove Thursdays with Peter Harris Rhythm Cats GOLDEN GROVE TAVERN – Dino Jag Trio (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Tim Rogers GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Goldstein Prrr, Home For The Def and Belinda Valentine CD launch GRAND BAR – OMG HIGHWAY – Escapades HQ – Gabrielle’s: Commix 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 CULTURAL CENTRE – Open Mic Cabaret Café (6.30pm) MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) 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
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ROCKET BAR – 8 Bit Kidz featuring resident DJs Stubanger, Hank & Osk and the Powderoom Posse 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 (9pm) THE SOUL BOX – Fetish Burlesque (7pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Chrysler Bar: Katrina Caton (8.30pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music
Friday 21st 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 – Upstairs: Jaki J (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Franky F (6pm) Johnny G (8pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Lochy Neale (6pm) Dino Jag Acoustic (10pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BARKER HOTEL – DJ Trix (9pm) BAR ON GOUGER – solo artists (5.30pm) DJ (9pm) BELAIR HOTEL – Underground Orchid 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 – East (8pm) BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – Dance Club with DJ BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Envy North BROADWAY HOTEL – DJ Sneaky Beats BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) DJ Adam (1am) Band Room: Popy Jane, The Villenettes and James Hickey Duo. Upstairs: Juicy DOCKSIDE TAVERN – The Rustlers 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 EMPIRE POOL LOUNGE – DJ (8pm) EMU HOTEL – Get Zep 8pm ENIGMA – Bar 3: Strike featuring One, We Ate The Search party and One In The Chamber plus metal DJs (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Coops & The Bird plus special guests
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – PUMMEL, PISTEN BROKE, THE TOSS AND SHITMAGNET FOWLER’S LIVE – 8 Bands 8 Bucks GARAGE BAR – Knock Offs (4pm) GASLIGHT TAVERN – Laura & Ross and Hardcopy plus open mic (9pm) GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Clare Bowditch. Front Bar: Andy Mac GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Encarta GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Steve Simon (6pm) 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 – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOPE INN – Unity (8pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ DB HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Dimitra (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs Pony Boy, Bunyip and Hands Solo (8pm) HQ – Newmarket: Es.Co (every second Friday) INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL – Bill Parton Trio (9.30pm) LA BOHEME – Smooth Groove with DJ Curtis (9pm) LAVISH – DJ Sok and DJ Spin Dokta LIMBO – resident DJs Japeye, Alley Oop and She Said 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 – Paul Smith (6.30pm) MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – Utopia Duo ORIENTAL – live music PORT DOCK BREWERY – karaoke with Dazza PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke (10.30pm)
RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ SNAKE & DJ RUPHEO (9PM) RED SQUARE – DJs Brendon, Gypkidd, Rubberteeth, Decker and Bollocks plus MC Dylan REX HOTEL – karaoke (8.30pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Elly & Lox (6pm) DJ Smiley (9pm) ROCKET BAR – City Riots plus Glass Towers SANDBAR – DJs Cold One, Rabbit, D’Amour and Skippy SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8pm) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Blues Katz SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – DJ Clarke
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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 – Three Humped Camel THE CUMBERLAND – A Little Bit Different featuring local acoustics and late night DJ THE DELI: THEBARTON – Prita (8.30pm) THE GOODY – DJ Gex (9pm) THE GRIFFINS – DJ Seamless (7.30pm) 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 – Wasabi (8pm) THE SOUL BOX – Wormwood (8pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Troy Harrison (4.45pm) Two Hard Basket (9pm) Chrysler Bar: Pelamama (9.30pm) 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 Lonely Cosmonauts (9pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Blues Avenue (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – Flight 69 WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – DJs Deceed, J Rudd, Koops & Armac and AJ (8pm) ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Dusk, Ryley and Gumshoe ZOOTZ – DJs Kym and guests
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EMU HOTEL – Stiff William (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Jimmy Meegan and guests Jungle Babe
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – SPENCER P JONES & THE ESCAPE COMMITTEE, BASTARD SONS OF RUINATION, HELLBOUND & PROUD, REVEREND SPUD MCGEE, ELECTRIC SKULLS AND DJ SHITMAGNET FOWLER’S LIVE – Delamare GARAGE BAR – DJs Steve Daly, GTB, Bob Trott, J Tech, Jon E and Jason Lee (10pm) GASLIGHT TAVERN – karaoke with Mel featuring Singing Bar Bitch and Mr Average (8.30pm) GEPPS CROSS HOTEL – karaoke disco with Craig Anthony GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ Mark (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Motown Connection. Front Bar: Crash Of The Title GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Green Circles with St Morris Sinners 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)
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RED SQUARE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan ROB ROY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Stereo Saturdays with DJ Electric T (8pm) ROCKET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bananas: Track Team and Japeye SANDBAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; requests with DJs SANTIAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Hussyboy (8.30pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; acoustic sessions SEAFORD HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bon â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; All (9pm) SHOTZ BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Chris Pike SKYBAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Spin Dokta and DJ Demize STAG â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Upstairs: DJs Huddy and Jase with urban and dance. Downstairs: DJ Kieran and David James SUGAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Prince Aaronak, Driller, Derek Lang plus a host of international guests SUPERMILD â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Treasure Island DJs SUZIE WONGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ROOM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Billy Bob & Snooks (7.30pm) SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ playing retro and requests TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Kieran TEQUILA REA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE CUMBERLAND â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Launch Pad featuring local DJs THE GOODY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Dante and interactive games night (9pm) THE HAUS: HAHNDORF â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Marcus and friends THE GRIFFINS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ playing house tunes THE KINGS BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Clever Cuts with Andrew Barker, Alley Oop and Adriaan Van Der Ploeg (8pm) THE LION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kikimanicescapade (9pm)
Sun Sep 23 Ramsgate Hotel DJ Snake & DJ Rupheo (9pm) THE SOUL BOX â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Falling With Style (9pm) Variety Show (10pm) TONSLEY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tavern Bar: Utopia (8.30pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acoustic Reign (9.30pm) UNION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Cloak & Dagga VALLEY INN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke (weekly prizes) WALKERS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Sessions (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sun Theory (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke (8pm) WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Kontrol, C4, Deceed, J Rudd, Lush and Koops (8pm) ZHIVAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; High Heels DJs: Chaps, Track Team and Ryley ZOOTZ â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Kym and guests
Sunday 23rd ALMA TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday School with The Idle Saints ARKABA HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sportys Bar: Beat & 3 Veg with DJ Smiley (1.30pm) Top Room: Adelaideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Next Superstar (7pm) AUSTRAL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Basically Maate! with DJ Staplehead (8pm) BACCHUS BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Torinos BEERGARDEN: BRICKWORKS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Musos Jam with the Good Olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Boys Band (2pm) every first and third Sunday of the month BENJAMIN ON FRANKLIN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Courtyard: DJ Mule (4pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Roxy & The Riff Raff CROWN & ANCHOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all ages show DOG & DUCK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUBLIN HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; No Use For A DJ Name (9pm) DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Eâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nuf Said ED CASTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Brad Cameron Presents
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; PAROXYSM PRESSED, SPOKEN & SLURRED, MIKE HOPKINS, NIGEL FORD AND SOME DRUNK GUY GASLIGHT TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Gaslight Tavern Presents: Big Easy Sunday featuring Travis Wellington Hedge and special guest Pembo (2pm) GENERAL HAVELOCK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Eddie (Wasabi) (4pm) GLENELG SURF CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; La Mar Sundays GOVERNOR HINDMARSH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Main Room: The Screaming Believers: 3D Radio Fundraiser GRACE EMILY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Shit Disco HIGHLANDER HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday Sessions plus Poker 888 double header free register (2.30pm) $10 buy in (6.30pm)
The Guide // HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – Tim Bos DJ and Sax HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – NPL Poker (6.30pm) JAM THE BISTRO – DJ Tango LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL – Rave On LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – Stolen Apples MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Southern Sundays with Redline (3pm) MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – Acoustically Raw MIDDLEBROOK ESTATE – Bill Parton Trio (12.30pm) PORT DOCK BREWERY – Salvy & The Hired Help
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
RAMSGATE HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SESSION (4PM) TOM KURZEL & ED TRAINOR FORTNIGHTLY ROTATION (7.30PM)
ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Adelaide Comedy featuring Sammy J (8pm) BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson 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 hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Uke Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Pub Art Menagerie with Swimming & Dancing Room HQ – Main Room: Far East Movement MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) PARADISE HOTEL – Memory Lane Trivia PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm) 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 – Zkye & Damo (7.30pm) 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
SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic soloists SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Muddy Road SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) DJ Junior (5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm) THE MAID – acoustic Sunday sessions (4pm) TRINITY SESSIONS – The Idea Of North (6pm) WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Cal Williams Jr album launch plus The Hushes (4pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Smoke ‘n’ Mirrors ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs: Anthony, Gumshoe and Scott Holder ZOOTZ – Salsa night (every second week)
Monday 24th USSIE 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 – Pynchon Unplugged EMBASSY HOTEL – karaoke EXETER ON RUNDLE – Lucas Keeley and guests
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – OPEN MIC JAM GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Table Tennis Comp GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ultimate Quiz with Graham Lawrence (7pm)
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Wednesday 26th ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Adelaide’s Next Superstar (7pm) 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 – GARAOKE KARAOKE WITH SUNNYBOY AL GLYNDE HOTEL – NPL Poker (6.30pm and 10.30pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Open Mic Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Daniel Cameron with Gordon Gale HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Sports Bar: 888 Poker (7.30pm) Dining: Complete Trivia (7.30pm) HIGHWAY – The Combi Room HOLDFAST HOTEL – Nonstop Dance Party with DJs Mike Wills & VIP HQ – Flashdance: Extreme Sports JETTY BAR – karaoke LA BOHEME – The New Cabal (9pm) LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – DJs (9pm) MANSIONS – live band karaoke MARION HOTEL – Adelaide Comedy featuring Sammy J (8pm) MARS BAR – VJK Experience (9pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Open mic (7.30pm) ORIENTAL – DJ REGAL THEATRE – Their Ghosts May Be Heard 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 (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Quiz Night (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Hump De Bump with Jaki J (8pm) 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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Name: Joseph Venue: Ramsgate, 328 Seview Rd, Henley Beach Come here if you like: A good selection of beers on tap and a great beer garden. Must try: Lots of craft beer. Coming up: Brian Ruiz and The Ben Lee Duo on Sun Sep 23.
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Peer Gynt After their award-winning reinterpretations of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2007) and Hamlet (2010), Korea’s Yohangza Theatre Company are once again returning to the Adelaide Festival Centre as a part of the OzAsia Festival to present a powerful modern reworking of the 1870s classic masterpiece Peer Gynt, written by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. roducer and dramaturge Kyu Choi speaks to Rip It Up via email. Peer Gynt is a Norwegian play in poetic verse. Besides being spoken in Korean with English surtitles, have the words remained the same as the original text? “We’ve retained as much of the original text as possible while attempting at encompass what Ibsen wants to tell us in Peer Gynt, yet rearrange it into a modern style. Of course we’ve had to make some changes in order to shorten this to a three-hour performance while still following the original five acts. There are no cultural changes in this production, but we’ve tried to show the universality within Ibsen’s work and to perform it as contemporary theatre.” Why Peer Gynt in particular?
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“I’d like to say that Ibsen’s modern and contemporary theatre, which is a profound poetic drama, can be one of colour and identity for Yohangza Theatre Company [YTC]. Peer Gynt is not an easy production, but I have always longed to direct it and, to be honest, choosing Peer Gynt was a fateful and instinctive decision for me; Solveig’s Song [sung in the fourth act after she is abandoned by Peer] is my mum’s beloved song, and a song I grew up with, so I can say that it was very natural to choose Peer Gynt.” YTC has previously presented very successful productions of Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. How does the style of those two productions compare to Peer Gynt? “As with the previous works of YTC, we interpret the original text in a Korean way, but in this production, we focus on universality and contemporary interpretation rather than Korean cultural reinterpretation. I think that Adelaide audiences will have different feelings than our previous works.” Choi explains that Hae-Kyun Cheong performs the lead role of the superficial, irresponsible, womanising liar Peer Gynt. “Hae-Kyun also performed as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Claudius in Hamlet. He has created a prank-some, arrogant, sensuous and serious character of Peer and has done his best to express Peer’s irony, despair and salvation in this production.
“Except for Hae-Kyun, the rest of our large ensemble each plays two or three characters as well as a chorus. Those performers also become musicians and set movers; when scenes are changed, performers change the set.” As YTC’s producer, what is it that you have enjoyed most about this production of Peer Gynt? “Normally I write or re-arrange the text, but this time, all the company members were asked to participate in a dramatisation; actually, it was the first time that we worked in that way. Each of us tried to reinterpret Ibsen’s piece as if we were tracing banned books with secrets. During the four months of rehearsal time, performers and I shared many thoughts about this piece until we could completely understand about related issues. “I believe that we couldn’t have made this happen without the inspiration from our performers and I’ve done my utmost to keep their intension, movements and ideas true. I really felt the energy of trust like we were in the middle of a ritual ceremony. “Peer Gynt describes the journey of one’s life and a trace of desire, so I think the importance of this production is the magical power to make the people look back on their life and think about their future. I hope that Adelaide audiences will enjoy the acting, stage design, music and wonderful image on the stage. “We look forward to sharing the process of our creation with Adelaide audiences and
The Story Behind Solveig’s Song Solveig’s Song was written by Edvard Grieg in 1875. Solveig is one of the main characters in Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt; she is a woman who loved and is betrayed by the womanising Peer. The song tells of her love for him and how she shall wait for him until they meet again, be it on Earth or in Heaven. As one of the most identified songs from the theatrical production, Solveig’s Song receives wide coverage in popular operatic culture and has been performed by sopranos around the world including Sarah Brightman, Israel’s Victoria Gershkovich and Norway’s Bodil Arnesen and Marita Solberg.
hope that they, in return, enjoy the space we provide on stage to allow their imaginations to see something of their very own from the production.” WHAT: Yohangza Theatre Company’s Peer Gynt WHERE: Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Thu Sep 20 and Fri Sep 21 at 7.30pm
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to their grandmother’s house outside Hamburg. And, along the way she meets locals who insist that Hitler will rise again (and Typically heralded as that just-released photos Australian co-writer/ of concentration camps are director Cate Shortland’s fakes), and also Thomas first film since 2004’s Somersault (which neglects (Kai Malina), who is Jewish, but to whom Lore her excellent ABC is attracted, no matter how two-parter from 2006, much that goes against her The Silence), this Aussie/ ingrained anti-Semitism. German co-production is And, while Shortland’s sometimes reminiscent of film is memorably-played, her first film (newcomer gorgeously-photographed Saskia Rosendahl even and strangely erotic (not looks like Abbie Cornish) something you’d expect in but proves strikingly, and such a plotline), it’s this challengingly, different. which will make Lore (the Drawn from Rachel film and the girl) uneasy for Seiffert’s novel The Dark some, as she is the child of Room, we open in 1945 Nazis and full of hatred for and find Rosendahl’s ‘filthy Jews’, and even when 15-year-old Lore (AKA Hannelore) convinced that Thomas saves her life - and the German ‘Final Victory’ turns her on - she must fight inner feelings of revulsion. is at hand, even though That Shortland could the country’s in chaos, make her sympathetic even many are fleeing and the Führer is in hiding. When despite this, and add a layer of genuine sensuality that her parents vanish, Lore doesn’t descend into softmust shepherd her four focus/soft-core silliness, is siblings on a dangerous trek across the land’s many quite extraordinary. Mad Dog Bradley ‘zones’ to, hopefully, get
Opening But Unrated Director Kimble Rendall’s 3D Aussie shark-fest Bait (MA) stars Xavier Samuel, Julian McMahon and Alex Russell. Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (G), the series’ third, again toplines Zachary Gordon. The 3D Due West: Our Sex Journey (TBC) is another Hong Kong production, this time written and directed by co-star Mark Wu - and you can work out the rest. Director Genndy Tartakovsky’s animated Hotel Transylvania (PG) has Adam Sandler voicing Dracula and pals including Kevin James and Selena Gomez. Ruby Sparks (M), a fanciful romance from Little Miss Sunshine co-directors Jonathan Drayton and Valerie Faris, offers Paul Dano, screenwriter Zoe Kazan, Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas and Steve Coogan. And the latest in the animated Tinker Bell series, Secret Of The Wings (G), has Mae Whitman (her?) as the fairy and other hard-up voicers.
Madagascar 3: Europe’s The Watch (MA) Most Wanted (PG) Seeing three directors (Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon) on any film is a bad sign, and while this sequel has an interesting credit (Greenberg creator Noah Baumbach was a co-writer with Darnell), it’s nevertheless the most jumbled and unsatisfactory of this once-charming series. Our gaggle of characters are growing tired of life in Africa and long to be back in New York (and the confines of the Central Park Zoo? Really?), but how do leader lion Alex (Ben Stiller), showpony zebra Marty (Chris Rock), porky hippo Gloria ( Jada Pinkett Smith), fretful giraffe Melman (David Schwimmer) and, of course, still-singing lemur Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen stealing it again) get there? Well, first they detour through Monte Carlo (a hurried sequence that the trailer suggests is the whole movie) to pick up the penguins and chimps, and then they wind up owning (?) a travelling circus complete with sweet jaguar Gia ( Jessica Chastain), dim sealion Maurice (Cedric The Entertainer) and scary Siberian tiger Vitaly (Bryan Cranston, who barely seems to sleep these days), while the semi-psychopathic Chantel DuBois (Frances McDormand) pursues them, only stopping to knock off a ridiculous version of Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien that suggests that McDormand took French classes from Inspector Clouseau. Beautifully-animated (well, duh), this has amusing moments (most already seen in the ads), and Cranston’s Vitaly is a striking figure, and yet exhaustion has set in and the tone feels surprisingly desperate at times. Call the exterminators! Mad Dog Bradley
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An agreeably dumb comedy from director Akiva Schaffer (who also cameos as ‘Casual Wanker #3’), as co-written by Jared Stern, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg back when Will Ferrell might have starred, this is more interested in silly ‘character comedy’ than scifi/horror hi-jinx and FXish alien yukkiness. After a mysterious death in his Costco outlet, manager and proud Glenview, Ohio, resident Evan (Ben Stiller) sets up a ‘Neighbo(u) rhood Watch’ group that numbers him, foulmouthed Bob (Vince Vaughn), wannabe-edgy Franklin ( Jonah Hill) and odd Brit Jamarcus (Richard Ayoade, the guy from BBC TV’s The IT Crowd who isn’t Chris O’Dowd), and the male-bonding quartet become aware that something strange is going on around them. And, duh, this strangeness turns out to be an extraterrestrial invasion by humanoid creatures with Xtro-like spines, Predator-like mouths and exceedingly bad attitudes. Hardly a serious genre effort, this wanders all over the place, throwing in all sorts of subplots about Evan’s personal problems, Bob’s rebellious teenage daughter, a peculiar local (Billy Crudup), a pair of absurd cops (Will Forte and Mel Rodriguez) and much more before remembering the monsters and hastily bringing them back for a rousing final act that cheerfully resolves very little. But fans of this sort of twaddle wouldn’t have it any other way, and there are a few choice gags, including a surprise sequence set to the tune of a Spanish cover version of The Sounds Of Silence - although now you’ve read that it won’t be much of a surprise anymore. Mad Dog Bradley
Resident Evil: Retribution (MA) After the hopeful ending of Afterlife turned sour, Alice (Milla Jovovich) awakes from one nightmare to find herself in another, specifically an Umbrella Corporation testing facility, complete with simulated versions of the world’s biggest cities, controlled by the corrupt Red Queen. With the help of Wesker, the head of the Umbrella Corporation who has seen the error of his ways (kind of ), Alice breaks out of her cell and traverses the Sim-Cities to rendezvous with the Resistance in Sim-Suburbia, with the brainwashed Jill (Sienna Guillory) and a whole army of the undead hell-bent on stopping her. Though it may be the fifth RE installment, writer/director Paul WS Anderson has actually managed to breathe life into the otherwise (un)dead series: a brief flashback to the time before the T-Virus ravaged the world rehumanises Alice in a way that she desperately needed, and the escalating fights while moving from city to city brings back the video game vibe that we’ve been missing from the past films. It’s hardly a masterpiece; much of the story’s concept and visuals have been ‘borrowed’ from The Matrix and Romeo Must Die, and while a last ditch attempt at patriotism may get American audiences going, it does nothing for us foreigners. There is, however, an unexpected freshness to Anderson’s approach, and with another open ending and the unspoken promise to milk the series for everything it’s got, Alice’s next battle is sure to be heavily recycled and overdone, but there’s hope for a few surprises as well. Kat McCarthy
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Adelaide Pho Ever since Charlie’s Shack in the markets shut down it’s been pretty hard to find a good bowl of pho. That is until now, following the opening of a ‘pho’enix-from-the-ashes in the city’s south end – Adelaide Pho. Situated right next door to the Cumberland Hotel, the brand new restaurant boasts a similar dining arrangement to Chinatown staples like East Taste and Ying Chow but with a focus on Vietnamese beef noodle soups. The menu has some pretty intimidating entrees like grilled quail and crab claws, but if you stick to what you know you’ll end up with something delicious. Recommendations include the pho tai (fresh sliced beef in broth), the pho bo vien (beef meatballs in broth) and the tom yum soup. Wash it all down with a fresh coconut juice or a Vietnamese coffee with condensed milk.
Teawana James Place is on the rise as a new hot spot for food and drink in the city, passers-by able to stroll down and tuck into a pho, baked good, bag of candy and now a cup of tea thanks to a unique tea house called Teawana. The shopfront, constructed entirely of recycled South Australian materials from the glass shelving (made from recycled drinking bottles) to the lanterns (salvaged from an unused Andamooka mine), hosts over 130 varieties of tea in green, black, fruit, chai, herbal, oolong, rooibos and white blends. We’ve got out eyes on the ‘Gogi Gogi’ goji berry fruit tea with hibiscus, lemongrass, peppermint and elderberries and the chocolate chai blend.
WHAT: Adelaide Pho WHERE: 199 Waymouth St, Adelaide WHEN: Mon – Sun 11am – 9pm CONTACT: 82120997
WHAT: Teawana WHERE: 8 James Place, Adelaide WHEN: Mon – Thu 9am – 5pm and Fri 9am – 7pm CONTACT: teawana.com.au
Booze Clues with Louis Schofield 2010 Mac Forbes Blaufränkisch
Region: Carnuntum, Austria Price: $41 Alc: 13.5% Drink: With a schnitzel and potato rosti
Mr Kim’s There’s a new member set to join the family of Electric Circus, Limbo, Rocket and Rooftop in Adelaide’s hottest night club complex – Mr Kim’s. Situated on the ground floor of the building, over the past few weeks we’ve seen wallpaper mysteriously masking the windows of Rocket Bar’s ground floor until now, the great reveal set to take place at the end of September. If the sneak peek on the Facebook page is anything to go by, we can expect a traditional Chinese night spot with cheeky kitsch influences, the place adorned with ceramic tigers, oriental screen prints and a wall of ‘80s kung-fu movies on VHS tapes. Keep an eye out...
WHAT: Mr Kim’s WHERE: 17 Crippen Place, Adelaide CONTACT: 8232 3030
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Throw another shrimp on the barbie! An Australian bloke making Austrian wine, who’d have thunk it? Blau’ is Austria’s most well-known red variety and this bottle shows why. It’s a very, very good example of the style. Light, perfumed and pretty, but with good structure, acid, length and some fine tannins. Think good cru Beaujolais with some earthy rusticity. Big fan of this one, try it with a schnitzel and potato rosti. All beverages featured in Booze Clues are available from East End Cellars at 22-26 Vardon Ave, Adelaide.
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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04 The new moon quietens things down a bit. The lunar tide is ebbing. Venus is shining a little love your way from Leo, softening circumstance and warming your heart. This is all just as well because partnership is your focus. Hard edges wouldn’t be appropriate now.
Mars and Venus are not having an easy time together at the moment – and you are right in the thick of it. The harder you try to intensify your pursuit of change, the more resistance you provoke. You will have to change tactics. Be open to an alternative approach.
Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 With the recent departure of the moon’s North Node, there has been a major shift in the nature of the Sagittarian journey. Rather than focussing on where you need to get to, which takes you into the future there and then, the focus is on what can be done right here and now.
Capricorn 22.12/19.01 The new moon brings a breeze of bliss into your heart. What was a rather difficult monthly cycle eases off. There are a few days of neutral space here where you can reorient. Revise your plans. Be pragmatic. Keep what’s worked and jettison what hasn’t. Gear up for fresh joy.
Leo 23.07/22.08 Venus, who is presently resident in Leo, was famous in mythology for attracting people to each other who hadn’t really thought through the implications of their attraction. She provokes impetuousness and impulsiveness in love. Keep your eyes wide open to this.
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PARK(ing) Day This Fri Sep 21 selected car parks around Adelaide’s CBD will be temporarily transformed into bright, vibrant pieces of art as part of the international PARK(ing) Day. Last year’s event saw 850 PARKs take place in 183 cities across the globe, with Adelaide hosting a total of 37 different, creative installations scattered around the CBD. PARK(ing) Day 2012 is set to be bigger and better, this year coordinated by a volunteer collective of designers with support from the Adelaide City Council and set to take place in a route connecting Hindmarsh Sq and Light Sq via Pirie St, Waymouth St and adjacent laneways. Head to adelaideparkingday.com for more info.
Aquarius 20.01/18.02 If you treat work as an alchemic laboratory where you get to change the base metal of your soul to gold, then that’s what work will become. Either you will find a way to shift attitude - and what you are already doing will become creative - or you will find something else.
Virgo 23.08/22.09 The new moon in Virgo suits you well. It is a relief to be asked to steady the ship and take stock of where you are, before you make your next move. Life removes all artificial stimuli for long enough for you to have a good look at who you are being and what you’re up to.
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Scorpio 24.10/21.11
Cancer 22.06/22.07 The new moon sets the tone. It is impressing upon all and sundry that it would be wise to go one step at a time, think things over and stay practical. This is perfectly fine with you. The careful streak inside is grateful when it is neither rushed nor glossed over. Move slowly.
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Even though there are plenty of astrological reasons not to, life gifts you with a moment of pure flow. Perhaps it’s the steadying influence of the sun and moon playing together in Virgo, that sets you free. All the frustrations and loss of illusions, start to make perfect sense.
Gemini 21.05/21.06 The answer you are looking for is not likely to turn out to be an idea. It’s more likely to be a feeling in your gut, or something learnt from experience. The crazy wisdom of your ever flighty mind is brought to earth by the new moon in Virgo. Stop. Check in. Start afresh.
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Libra 23.09/23.10
Taurus 21.04/20.05 The sun’s presence in Virgo suggests that you would be best sticking with the natural order and being very careful not to fall into the pit of perfectionism. The new moon adds to the message of this being a quiet time. Let your inner fires warm you. Consider past influences.
with Sudhir
Pisces 19.02/20.03 Forget about the future. For now it’s all too confusing. Focus on steadying the ship. Ground yourself in harmony, have a clear and dare to honour your calling. The new moon in Virgo is insisting that you be anything but vague. Be soulfully pragmatic.
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AEAF Lion Arts Centre, Cnr Morphett St & North Tce, Adelaide Other Voices/Half-Gifts Fri Sep 21 – Sat Oct 20
Curator Riley O’Keeffe and contemplative Lee Salomone have paired up to present a dual exhibition at the AEAF. In Other Voices, Salomone has collected wooden planks from tradesmen who travelled to Australia during the post-war years and settled to create a threedimensional installation reminding us of the ghosts of migration. HalfGifts offers a more experimental body of artwork, O’Keeffee inviting three artists to respond to his concept of the ‘nothing-object’ and breeding a variety of pieces. Opening: Thu Sep 20 from 6pm - 8pm
Espionage Gallery
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Suite 1, Level 2, 93 Rundle Mall, Adelaide About A Face Thu Sep 20 – Sun Sep 30
153 Hindley St, Adelaide The Usurpologists Thu Sep 20 – Sun Sep 30
About A Face is a special portraits exhibition featuring some of Adelaide, Melbourne, Paris and Sydney’s very best artists. There’s a staggering amount of names on this event, so just to name a few you can expect to see faces drawn by none other than Ellie Kammer, Vans The Omega, Elisa Mazzone, Kate Gagliardi, Fallen, Donovan Christie, Fallen, Rem, Alphamanta and several more. Opening: Thu Sep 20 from 6pm – 10pm
Jason Hawkes will install a video installation at The Reading Room on Thu Sep 20 until Sun Sep 30 for The Usurpologists. Following a theme of two ‘usurpologists’ on a quest to discover secrets of the lost civilisations, head along to get lost in a journey of jungles, bears and make-believe. Opening: Thu Sep 20 from 6pm – 8pm
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Rundle Mall Parades
Carmaux bracelet, $179.95
Over two days, the very best of Rundle Mall’s style – from flagship retailers to unique one-of-a-kind stores - will be on display with their Spring/Summer 2012/2013 Fashion Parades. Host Lisa McAskill will ensure you’re up to date with the latest trends for the season as you see it on the catwalk. Apart from the fashion, there will also be live performances, namely Sarah Lloyde from The Voice, who will be accompanied by Will Metzer from Jazz It Up at the 5pm and 6.30pm shows on Friday. At the midday show on Saturday, audiences can see the acoustic duo Lili & Luke. So before you charge into the shops this weekend, take a moment to gain the insights from the experts and ensure you escape a dreaded fashion faux pas. Rundle Mall Fashion Parades will be held under the Gawler Place Canopy at 12.30pm, 1.30pm, 5pm and 6.30pm on Fri Sep 21 and 12pm, 1pm and 2pm on Sat Sep 22. Entry is free.
Tresor Paris If you (like us) are complete suckers for a celebrity fad, then perhaps the Tresor Paris jewellery is right up your alley. With a following including the likes of Gerard Butler, Paris Hilton, Justin Bieber, Delta Goodrem and Vanessa Hudgens, our curiosity is heightened. Being made from precious and semi-precious stones like hematite – which supposedly has healing properties – and Czech crystals, perhaps these bad boys are mystical after all, and may just be one of those secret tickets to fame and fortune? Dare to dream. Tresor Paris Jewellery is available online via tresor-paris.com.au.
Ricki-Lee In Season Fashion Tour As the Myer Centre Adelaide’s In Season style ambassador, Ricki-Lee will be hosting a fashion workshop at the Myer Centre Glam Zone this Friday night, divulging all her industry tips and tricks. Be sure to head along if you want to hear her advice on the season’s most sought-after looks, with head-to-toe solutions for all your fashion woes. From what we’ve seen from Ricki-Lee so far, it’s tipped to be brimming with metallics, ‘70s-inspired glamour, pastels, neon and graphics. Ricki-Lee In Season Fashion Tour is being held at The Glam Zone, located on the Ground Level of The Myer Centre Adelaide on Fri Sep 21 at 6.30pm. For more info visit myercentreadelaideshopping. com.au or facebook.com/ MyerCentreAdelaide.
The Myer Centre Adelaide Glam Zone If you haven’t already experienced all the services the Myer Centre’s Glam Zone has to offer, you still have time to utilise this service for all it’s worth. Since Thu Sep 6 The Glam Zone has acted as a one-stop destination for all your new season inspiration, style tips, fashion and beauty workshops and giveaways. Let the Glam Zone’s industry experts work their magic and share their secrets to ensure you have a seamless transition into the Spring/Summer 2012/2013 season. The Glam Zone continues at the Ground Level of The Myer Centre Adelaide until Wed Sep 26.
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The Hunger Games American Grindhouse Roadshow / M / 137 Mins
Cafe De Flore Icon / MA / 120 Mins
Shock / MA / 80 Mins
Co-writer/director Gary Ross’ shot at the first of co-writer Suzanne Collins’ books is ostensibly ‘untouchable’ (see also those Harry Potter films and - gulp! – the Twilight series), and yet there are problems throughout this curiously sloppy ‘dystopian future’ saga. In a post-nuclear time, the Capitol (a totalitarian government composed of rich bastards clothed in nightmarish tacky threads from the Sportsgirl Armageddon range) selects contestants for The Hunger Games from the 12 Districts of Panem, and when her little sister Prim is chosen, the 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen ( Jennifer Lawrence) offers herself in exchange, and it’s therefore she who winds up participating in a Most Dangerous Game version of ‘snuff TV’ (hardly a new idea, and obviously Collins has seen the Battle Royale films). Despite the eclectic cast, many of whom are uncomfortable (and Elizabeth Banks’ Effie Trinket is just silly), this is mostly watchable due to Lawrence’s much-discussed and spunky take on ‘Catnip Evergreen’ (nyuk nyuk nyuk), while the violence quotient is quite high considering that it’s aimed at slavering teenagers who will wail at the merest suggestion that this is anything but brilliant. So shoot me. The two-disc standard edition has oodles of extras, while the Blu-ray and Triple Plays are also crammed with special features. MDB
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Masters Of True Crime: Chilling Stories Of Murder And The Macabre
Edited By R Barri Flowers / Footprint / 301pp
Flowers’ collection of 17 contributions from ‘True Crime’ specialists is, like any book about this sort of nasty thing, probably not recommended to anyone easily disturbed or currently depressed, as its ugly view of human nature is all a bit bloody bleak. Still, there are some awfully compelling accounts here of factual tales you maybe haven’t heard of, including: Robert Scott’s unsettling Nightmare On Spanish Creek; Katherine Ramsland’s The Grim Keeper, which details the murderous exploits of one of the first women ever labelled a ‘psychopath’; Burl Barer’s The Alaska Mail-Bomb Conspiracy, an account of killers as barking-mad as they come; Amanda Lamb’s self-explanatory The Darkest Hour: Teenagers Who Kill For Love; and Laura James’ even more selfexplanatory The World’s Worst Woman. MDB
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Co-writer/co-producer/director/editor/ et cetera Elijah Drenner’s romp through the seedier, scarier side of US cinema spans 100+ years between Edison and the birth of film and Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse, and features a wealth of interview subjects, several of whom didn’t live to see the fevered finished product. Flashing back to 1913 and the ‘first exploitation movie’ (Traffic In Souls), this proceeds through such classics as the inimitable Freaks, ‘JD’ outings like The Wild One, ‘nudie cuties’ (and ‘roughies’) and druggy culters including The Trip, before settling into the ‘liberated’ ‘60s/‘70s and tackling everything from Blood Feast and The Last House On The Left to Blaxploitation and one of the tackiest subgenres, the Nazisploitation film (is that how it’s spelt?). And Drenner’s heroes all turn up for a chat, from fans ( Joe Dante, John Landis) to experts and authors to the guys behind some of these anti-masterworks, including Herschell Gordon Lewis, Larry Cohen, Jack Hill, Don Edmonds (director of Ilsa: She Wolf Of The SS, who died shortly after being filmed) and Last House…’s original ‘Krug’ David Hess, who died earlier this year and here jokes around regarding how he had trouble finding work after that film as many thought he was going to “cut their dick off ”. MDB
The Happiest Refugee Live! One could suggest that Vietnameseborn comedian Anh Do’s life has gone full circle: from tragedy to comedy to a book and then back to comedy again. Granted, it’s not your regular circle of life, but Anh Do is anything but your regular kind of comedian, adding accomplished writer, actor and film producer to his list of talents. After surviving a near-fatal boat trip to Australia as a two-year-old, it’s no wonder that Do is one of The Happiest Refugee(s) (a)Live. “I love coming to Adelaide to do shows, especially as this will be my first time at the OzAsia Festival,” Do exclaims over the phone. “There’s something about the laidback style of audiences there that I really like; you guys are always ready to enjoy yourselves.” To add another arc to Do’s life circle, his book The Happiest Refugee is being made into a movie produced by Russell Crowe. “Many people are under the impression that Russell is going to star in the movie simply because one journalist wrote that he would be playing me,” he laughs. “He’s just made it up because it looked better on paper but the idea is insane. I mean, he’s a great actor but to play a little Vietnamese guy is a big stretch! “I’ll actually be playing my father in the film which will mostly cover the early stages of my life – all the stuff that happened in Vietnam and the journey to
Writer/director/producer/bit player JeanMarc Vallée’s latest isn’t like his biggest pic, The Young Victoria, returning instead to his earlier, and pretty wild, CRAZY - although this is far wilder. In Montreal, a decidedly unpleasant muso, Antoine (Kevin Parent), is non-chronologically shown leaving his wife (Hélène Florent), with whom he’s been linked since their trippy, Gothy youth, for an irksome blonde (Evelyne Brochu), but this is played out of sequence, so you can’t work out which of these long-suffering ladies came first. However, this thread’s contrasted clumsily with a curious plotline involving a Parisian mum in 1969, Jacqueline (Vanessa Paradis, no longer Mrs Johnny Depp), and her struggle to care for her son (Marin Gerrier), a ‘special child’ who, you might think, is somehow going to grow up to be Antoine - but it’s way more pretentious that that. This ambitious but absurd head-scratcher features intriguing elements, from striking editing tricks to sweet Pink Floyd grabs (especially Breathe from their Dark Side Of The Moon), and yet the thing’s so totally baffling it becomes a bore. And, when it becomes clear (ahem, sort of ) why Vallée dedicated this one to his late mum, the only response is “Ewwwwwww!”. MDB
Anh Do
Good Food & Wine Show The Good Food & Wine Show is set to roll into town on Fri Oct 12 so get ready to indulge in Adelaide’s passion for flavour with fine food, delectable cheeses, premium produce and, of course, award-winning South Australian wines. We’re giving away 20 double passes to the show running from Fri Oct 12 to Sun Oct 14 at Wayville Showground, so log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Thu Sep 27.
Green Day The first album of the Green Day trilogy ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! has just been released and, thanks to Warner Music Australia, we have five copies of it up for grabs. Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win a copy of Green Day’s ¡Uno!. Competition closes at midday on Thu Sep 27.
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Australia – so at the moment we’re looking for a funny-looking three-year-old to play me while I need to lose about 30 kilos to look like my 55kg dad that got off the boat all those years ago.” Ahn explains how The Happiest Refugee Live! came to be. “I was telling Dave Hughes stories of my life and he was telling me to put them into a show. ‘But I want to make them laugh, not cry!’ I told him but he said to do both. Since then I’ve added videos and photos, which has enriched the show by taking the audience on a rollercoaster journey of emotions that people have been really enjoying. I’m so grateful that Hughesy pushed me to do it! “By the time I hit Adelaide, I would have already toured the rest of the country,” Do adds, “so it’s going to be a real polished, refined show where I’ll be at the top of my game.”
How do your family feel about their lives being up on stage? “Yeah, they’re really good about it,” he enthuses. “There’s one story about two uncles [Do’s dad’s brothers] who were put into a concentration camp. My dad stole a communist army uniform and paperwork, walked through the front gates, told the guards that he needed to take these two men and he walked out with them. But it wasn’t until after the book came out that my family told me I was talking about the wrong uncles! I’ve got like 15 of them!”
WHAT: Anh Do – The Happiest Refugee Live! WHERE: Her Majesty’s Theatre WHEN: Sat Sep 22 and Sun Sep 23 from 8pm
Your guide to the student experience. Pat on the back to you. Yes, you’re on holidays, but you still take the time to read up on Fast Times. Bless. For at least a few weeks of blissful peace (well, for most), take the time to peruse some of these items that explore some higher learning opportunities you may not normally pursue. Degrees, diplomas and certificates are amazingly awesome, but sometimes it’s that little bit of extra effort you make that will land you your dream job. Too busy for co-curricular activities you say? Yeah, that was my excuse too… A lot of organisations offer these programs with minimal weekly commitment so you can slot it into your busy timetable easier. It may not be a priority, but trust me, when you start to go for job interviews in the industry you want to work in you want to be that person who gave up Beer O’Clock for a weekly workshop and learnt a skill that the other contenders lack. But, having said that, make sure you enjoy your holiday as well. Home stretch ahead. And remember, if you have any student info, an upcoming campus event or special deals you want to get out there email fasttimes@ripitup.com.au, Poke facebook. com/fasttimesripitupmag or Tweet @ FastTimesRIU and I’ll do the hard work for
PoeOne At Carclew
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CDW Studios
B-Boy star of the Y generation, PoeOne, will be gracing Carclew House to help out their Explore Arts spring holiday program with a fullday breakdancing workshop. Having worked with artists such as Britney Spears, Madonna and Black Eyed Peas, if you think you have some mad steez (do kids still say ‘steez’?) on the d-floor he will definitely be the man to impress. PoeOne’s breakdancing workshop is just one of the events that Carclew will be running for Explore Arts, with other workshops including visual art, filmmaking, printmaking, animation and a special glass casting workshop that includes an exclusive behindthe-scenes tour of the JamFactory. Explore Arts is designed for five to 17-year-olds, so if you, or a munchkin in your charge, are bored these holidays, it’s time to fill out an enrolment form.
For all the visual effects and entertainment design wizards and witches out there, the opening of the Concept Design Workshops Studios in Adelaide is basically the same as a having a local Hogwarts. Along with learning from the best in the industry in a monkey-seemonkey-do type arrangement to the classes, CDW Studios will also offer invaluable networking opportunities to their students. The first set of courses begin in October and run one night a week for eight weeks. Courses on offer are: Introduction To Digital Painting And Theory, Drawing And Painting For Manga And Comics, Creature Design For
Films, Introduction To 3D Animation In Maya and Introduction To 3D Modelling For Film And TV. To celebrate the school’s opening, each student will receive a Wacom Intuis 4 medium tablet when they sign up for their first course – so whether you’re a professional, aspiring star or avid daydreamer, it’s probably time you acted on that lifelong dream of working for a big Hollywood blockbuster. Consider this your Hogwarts acceptance letter. You’re welcome. For more info about CDW Studios and upcoming programs, visit cdwstudios.com.
Workshops run from Tue Sep 25 to Thu Oct 4, 9am-5pm daily. For the Explore Arts program and book visit carclew.com.au.
CPA Big Break Finalists Well, maybe I jumped the gun a bit – but, in a competition that sounds somewhat like The Apprentice without being ridiculous or humiliating, the CPA Big Break Project 2012 finalists have been announced. Each state finalist (with Brett Lacy from the University Of Adelaide as our star candidate) will travel to Melbourne to contest for a CPA Program Scholarship, $20,000 cash and $50,000 cash for their tertiary education. Basically, the winner gets a career in business, and the finalists all get a big fat tick on their CVs. To
reach this point, participating undergraduate students had to indentify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for not-for-profit organisation Make-A-Wish in Australia and New Zealand. They were judged on their research, presentation and creativity skills. The finalists will battle it out once more before the overall winner announced at a gala on Wed Oct 3. Pity it’s not the board room… To find out more about the CPA Big Break Project visit cpabigbreak.com.
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UniSA’s Play Perish The Thought
To coincide with Dementia Awareness Week, and premiering on World Alzheimer’s Day, UniSA are performing a play to give insights into the role of people who care for those with dementia. Directed by UniSA lecturer and Program Director of Media Arts, Dr Russell Fewster, and written by author and puppeteer, Susan Harris, Perish The Thought uses puppetry, live music and theatrical performance to follow the lives of a father and daughter who are struggling to cope with his progressive dementia. The play aims to help raise
awareness for dementia’s hidden victim – the carer - and provoke questions for this important social issue in Australia and is based on Harris’ real experiences. UniSA staff, students and alumni are involved in the production and will provide special viewings for high school groups as well as a special matinee for carers in addition to the public performances. Perish The Thought runs until Sat Sep 29 at Holden Street Theatres. Tickets available through venuetix.com.au.
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Love’s Shadow (Ivy League)
Icona Pop I Love It (Warner/Big Beat)
Hollywood seems to love a good car-versusbridge fatality – films as diverse as Beetlejuice, Blow Out and Vanilla Sky have all used the ruse to kill off characters and spiral into uncharted waters. Surviving a similar smash, I Love It’s lyrics find Swedish duo Icona Pop sculpting a crash and burn car wreck into a perfect slice of jubilant pop hedonism. If it turned out to be a viral ad campaign from Volvo, it might just be the most cunning marketing campaign ever. Written by teen vamp Charli XCX, it’s bratty, memorable and over far too quickly. Icona Pop: in an interstellar burst, they’re back to save the universe. Smashing.
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P!nk Try (Sony)
P!nk and I have had our differences over the years (I called 2007 single Dear Mr President totally dick, abusive fans called for mine on a plate), but the one-two KO of Blow Me (One Last Kiss) and Try have set up sixth album The Truth About Love to be the punchiest comeback since Sugar Ray Leonard floored Marvin Hagler. Quietly burning with introspective power, P!nk’s desperate rasp is brought to the fore on a barnstormer that outdoes anything U2 or Coldplay have managed in the last few years. Like a summer day on Mercury, it’s a scorcher.
Delta Spirit Delta Spirit (Shock/Rounder)
‘There’s certain things in life you can’t change, there’s certain things I hope you know I can.’ This line in Delta Spirit’s self-titled album-closer Yamaha rings true of the San Diego band’s seven-year career. One
Feelings
of the more honest and upfront rock bands left in 2012, the five-piece have lifted the bar immensely on their third album, notably self-titled as a means of finding affirmation within themselves. That lyric sums up much of the band’s direction on Delta Spirit. It’s an understanding not to change their sound, but merely to shift the elements around it. The production value is markedly improved courtesy of Chris Coady (TV On The Radio, Beach House), who helps the band reach such lofty heights with ease. Frontman Matthew Vasquez sings with more vigour and emotion than ever before on songs like California and Into The Darkness, with album highlight Tear It Up aptly justifying new guitarist Will McLaren’s inclusion into the line-up. Heightened variation and reformed structures are just two reasons why Delta Spirit is one of the best rock albums to be released this year. They’re also two reasons how Delta Spirit have distinguished themselves from their past work, and changed it for the better. Sam Reynolds
Youth Group frontman Toby Martin is making the most of the band’s hiatus by delivering his first solo album. To say it has taken a while is an understatement – the lengthy break might ultimately be the undoing here. Considering Youth Group’s career-high came way back in 2006 with their cover of Alphaville’s Forever Young, it begs the question whether fans still remember him? Nevertheless, Martin has delivered a solid album with Love’s Shadow. It’s obviously a far more mature and wiser collection of songs, penned to reflect a lot of heartache and loneliness. There is something about Martin’s vocals that combine believability with earnestness, with some powerful lyrics tapping into a range of emotions. The live experience will take this album up a notch and you could imagine the crowd singing along in a packed Grace Emily Hotel. Lead You In is a stunner and the standout album track – it’s drenched in heartache as Martin deals with a one-way relationship. Nylex Nights caught my ear with some clever lyrics, despite the deep and meaningful tone making for one of those feel-good moments. Martin’s reflective outlook is obvious on Postcards From Surfers, while New York: Misses You takes him back to the good times when Youth Group were on top of the heap. It would be a shame for this album to come and go without fanfare, since it is begging to be heard. Rob Lyon
One In A Million (Inertia)
Hands up who thought Gerry Rafferty’s death in 2011 was a major loss for the music world? I didn’t. Not only did the boozy old duffer drink himself to death after living off Baker Street royalties for 30 years, he also wrote Stuck In The Middle With You, a song which ceaselessly shits me more than a child murderer winning the lottery. If you ask me, the demise of Philadelphia Grand Jury last year was a far sadder affair – what a tragic loss for Aussie music. Berkfinger’s new project Feelings isn’t quite up to Hope Is For Hopers’ ragged excitement, but this two-chord trip approximating The Breeders backing Brian Wilson singing in falsetto is better than most of the clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right. All it’s missing is a sax solo.
Flo Rida I Cry (UMA)
Oh come on Flo, you big bawling baby – surely it can’t be that bad. Wads of $100 notes might not be as absorbent as a Kleenex, but surely soaking up the tears is easier when you’ve got more bucks in the bank than a Zimbabwe mint?
Cody Simpson Feat Becky G Wish U Were Here (Warner)
Like vacuuming up the aftermath of a bean bag puncture, this sucks balls.
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Katchafire & The Irie Knights The Governor Hindmarsh, Thu Sep 13 Review by Luke Balzan Pics by Kristy DeLaine
Aussies love to give New Zealanders a bit of stick at every available opportunity (and with a sister-in-law who’s a Kiwi, I know this all too well!), but despite everything we like to rib them for, it’s impossible to deny their prowess when it comes to playing reggae music. One of the finest examples of New Zealand’s reggae abilities is the all-Maori eight-piece Katchafire, who made their sophomore visit to our fine city last week, playing to a sizable and very enthusiastic crowd, wowing them with every note. I arrived at the Governor Hindmarsh midway through the set of local band The Irie Knights, who proceeded to do a fine job of setting the pace for the evening. The Irie Knights have long been a fine proponent of reggae styles in Adelaide, and their warm-up set was no less impressive. The dancefloor was well-populated throughout their fine set, and their mix of roots reggae with elements of funk, dub and African was spot on. By the time the eight members of Katchafire took to the stage, the crowd had significantly swollen and the air was thick and sultry, with plenty of anticipation;
Reviews // Quick Ones
Fairchild Republic
Lucero
Split Seconds
Wish Upon A Paper Crane
Women And Work
You’ll Turn Into Me
Falloe
(Footstomp Music)
(ATO /Shock)
(Quelle Barbe)
Falloe (Green Media)
Where have Fairchild Republic been all my life? Think The Killers mixed with indie delights Last Dinosaurs with a touch of Birds Of Tokyo and you’ve got these Gold Coast indie rockers. Wish Upon A Paper Crane is their debut album and boy is it wonderful. It’s a strange but delicious pick‘n’mix of rock melodies, soaring vocals and indie beats that’ll have you going in for seconds. Frontman Adam Lyons’ voice is utterly captivating and is showcased to perfection on this stunner of a debut. Fairchild Republic have created a wonderful collection of songs, particularly first track Arcadia - the standout in my opinion. The oddly great combination of Lyons’ soulful vocals with the upbeat musicality of the song is fantastic. Elsewhere you’ll find Stay Young is simplistic bliss, Tear Us Down is soulful and captivating and Outside’s thumping beats and infectious chorus will have you singing along in no time. For a debut, this is a fine effort indeed. If you’re up for some melodic rock with a dash of indie soul, give Fairchild Republic a go. Karina Carroll
definitely a perfect setting for the band’s island vibes (well, New Zealand is an island after all, albeit not a tropical Caribbean one!). The first notes rang out and the place was immediately on fire! Katchafire definitely lived up to their name! Katchafire powered through a relentless main set for over an hour-and-a-half, varying the pace beautifully throughout. There was plenty of the fat, pumping roots reggae, with stylistic nods to the likes of Bob Marley and Dennis Brown, that we’ve come to love over the band’s four-album history, and they did a fantastic job of infusing the experimental vibes of jazz and funk that are more prevalent on their latest long-player, On The Road Again. Most of the eight members had a share in vocal duties throughout the evening, and the mix of voices hit all the right notes. I’ve been a fan of the guys for a couple of albums now, and it was great to hear them jam and mash things up, adding plenty of new dynamic to the live set compared to the recorded material. These guys are definitely at the top of their game; it’s no wonder they’re one of the most popular acts in NZ! They even threw in a cover of Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds late in the set, and managed to get the entire crowd to sing. Heavenly! Of course, no one was prepared to let the guys leave so soon, and we were treated to a ceremonious encore, taking the whole night out to two hours. As I left the Gov, I was definitely feelin’ irie!
This has been a difficult review, because Lucero’s previous release, 1372 Overton Park, was so great. After six albums informed pretty much equally by country and punk, the band added horns to their sound, channelling the E Street Band to produce a career highlight. Women And Work ticks all the same boxes, but comes across as less inspired. It delivers plenty of solid tracks without any being exceptional. The opening riff and pedal steel of Downtown (Intro) hark back to their countrified roots, but once it leads into On My Way Downtown and the horns kick in, it’s clear that Lucero are leaning to Memphis soul more than ever. Musically they’ve polished out almost all the grit that used to characterise them, to the point that frontman Ben Nichols’ gruff, whiskeysoaked voice jars on some tracks. While Juniper, a plodding horn-filled blues jam, may be their biggest misfire ever, the worst you can say about most of these songs is that they’re good rather than great. The title track offers ragtime fun, although again Nichols’ cracked vocals seem mismatched (and this comes from a huge fan of his voice). Who You Waiting On? is the pick of the bunch, brightened by horn stabs and organ licks and a great chorus. Lucero are a wonderful band and this album deserves attention – but they just set the bar so damn high last time. Owen Heitmann
There is a lot of potential shown on You’ll Turn Into Me, the first full-length release from Perth five-piece Split Seconds. Equally, it is one of the more unfulfilling aspects of the album, one that never quite reaches the heights it should. That said, relentless touring and single releases have held the band in good stead to release their debut LP. It will be hard for Split Seconds to shake off comparisons between them and fellow Sandgropers The Panics, whom they have previously toured with extensively. The parallels between lead singer Sean Pollard and Panics frontman Jae Laffer are easily drawn, through both vocal style and the observational lyricism utilised throughout You’ll Turn Into Me. This is backed up by the chamber pop compositions provided by the rest of the band, who make the simplest observations feel theatrical. In contrast, there are some quite brilliant moments on You’ll Turn Into Me, in particular the Adelaide-referencing oldwives tale of Maiden Name and the breezy melodies of She Makes Her Own Clothes. At the moment it seems as though the band is confined to what they know. But if Split Seconds can break the mould with future releases, we may have another WA five-piece to lust over. Sam Reynolds
The press release for Melbournebased band Falloe playfully quips that its members “got into music for free booze and women, but have had limited success in both”. Maybe their haircuts are keeping the ladies at bay. Beards-aplenty, dreadlocks thicker than those sported by the Predator and one member boasting what can only be described as ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic hair, these guys need a barber. Stat. Hairy follicle follies aside, the self-titled second album from Falloe is rather enjoyable. Woozy slide guitars and hushed vocal harmonies make ballads poignant without being sappy and the folk-tinged rockers make me want to get drunk with ‘salt-of-the-earth’ types. Looks like someone has to dig through his wardrobe to find his jean jacket. Ryan Lynch
Drawn From Bees The May King And His Paper Crown (Bonefinger)
The quirkiness of Drawn From Bees’ latest release is so typically Australian that it may as well head straight to the pool room. Think of a middle ground between The Decemberists and Something For Kate and you probably have Drawn From Bees down-pat. At times, the Brisbane band’s second album has the potential to sound amateurish, but finds solace in the self-production of lead singer Dan James, who prevails with the atmospheres attempted on Ella Got Dead and No Love. These elements are emphasised through wilful lyricism and instrumentation across all 13 songs, most evident in standout track The Ballad of Running Bear. Drawn From Bees may not quite be royalty, but they at least deserve more than paper crowns. Sam Reynolds
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After a few member changes early in the piece, recent months have seen local quartet Gold Bloom settle for their first male drummer, shake off the tokenism of being an “all-girl” band and steam ahead as one of Adelaide’s powerhouse underground acts. This weekend the band will launch their long-awaited debut EP Sidelines, a record featuring three new and one old song with a newfound “instrumental” angle from the band, according to guitarist Freya Adele. “We’ve just recorded a few more songs since our single Stalactites. So we’ve got three more – Sidelines, Old Souls and another one that doesn’t have a name. We recorded one of them at Twin Earth live a while ago, and then the others we did with Leader Cheetah’s Mark Harding at the studio at Adelaide Uni,” she says. Given the band first formed after a chance meeting during a psychology lecture at the University Of Adelaide, it was only
fitting that the band return to the tertiary institute to record their EP Sidelines. Taking advantage of her sound engineering student swipe card, Adele and the band set up camp with a snack ancillary of “chocolate and carrots” to record over two days. “Two of the songs are instrumentals and the other one is like our previous material. I think they’re [the songs] are a bit less poppy than our previous songs,” Adele offers. The fact that two of the new songs lack vocals is an interesting fork in Gold Bloom’s musical path, given they’ve come to develop something of a signature in their triple-vocal harmonies overlaying progressive grooves. “I know, but I think we just go so attached to these new songs instrumentally and didn’t really think they needed vocals. And then when we were choosing songs to record we thought it would be interesting to have two very vocal songs and two instrumental,” she says. Another change in pace for Gold Bloom nowadays is that their live set has a newfound male presence in the form of sticksman Tim Ryles. While some might lament that Gold Bloom no longer have the ‘all girl’ schtick, the
constant Warpaint comparisons were getting a bit old and the band are actually quite happy to be free of them. “Yeah, at the beginning we were kind of like, ‘Let’s start an all girl band, that’d be cool’. And then when Zoe [Behan, former drummer] left we just wanted to find someone who fit and liked our stuff, and that’s when we found Tim.” It’s deemed to be a good choice, as Gold Bloom have gone on to experience their most fruitful year yet with numerous festival appearances and support stints for bands like Ainslie Wills and Royal Baths. “Yeah, I think the highlight this year has been Royal Baths, those guys were awesome. That was our first show with Tim and we just kind of were like, ‘Yeah, we pulled it off!’ afterwards and partied with those guys.”
WHO: Gold Bloom, Nikko and Sparkspitter WHAT: Sidelines EP launch WHERE: Hotel Metro WHEN: Sat Sep 22 from 8pm
Local foursome City Riots will launch their new single Wait For You from their forthcoming debut album this weekend on Fri Sep 21 at Cats At Rocket. The four-piece will be joined by Sydney outfit Glass Towers alongside resident DJs Nightcharmers, Whiskers and Acey. Entry will be $15 or $12 if you join the Facebook event, doors at 9pm!
Radio 1 Hits Transmission On the other side of town on Fri Sep 21, Rhino Room will host Radio 1 presented by Transmission for a two-level live concept event featuring up-and-coming DJs and local bands. Kicking off from 10pm, this weekend will feature The Afternoon Rebellion on the stage plus ‘presenters’ Kraig Black, Ross Ross Ross, Blue Monday and J-Pro. Once again, free entry before 11pm if you join the Facebook event.
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Three D Radio are holding a fundraiser and have enticed legendary Adelaide indie rock band Screaming Believers out of retirement to headline a Sunday night gig which will also feature local bands Ride Into The Sun, Diesel Witch and Slingshot Dragster. Rip It Up speaks to Screaming Believers’ guitarist John Cavuoto (AKA Johnny Cav) who says the opportunity came about when he was approached by Three D Radio presenter Kelly Baum about staging a fundraiser for the community station. “So I said, ‘Why don’t you try and get Mark Of Cain or Exploding White Mice to re-form?’ But we’ve ended up doing it. And it’s a pretty decent line-up with us and the other bands.” Screaming Believers, described by Greasy Pop’s Doug Thomas as, ‘The best band I have ever heard’, formed in 1980 following the demise of The Shreds. They soon released a live EP, Show Me Your Money, recorded while they were enjoying
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a two-year residency at Waymouth St’s Union Hotel. The band also opened for international acts such as Psychedelic Furs, Sonic Youth and The Pogues. They released their debut album, Communist Mutants From Space, on the Greasy Pop label in 1985. “I joined the band just after that,” Cavuoto says, “and it was funny because I’d already been organising the promotion and stuff for their album launch. We did it at a place called Pharaohs on North Tce.” Screaming Believers disbanded in 1991 following interest from a European label. “We’d kinda got this deal to release an album called Stories From The Other Side on a German label known Megadisc,” Cavuoto recalls. “So Ken [Sykes – guitar and vocals] and Paul [Hughes – sax and vocals] headed over there only to find that the label was in deep trouble and the owners were arguing among themselves. Along the way, the master tapes went missing when Ken’s backpack got stolen. And while they were there, they were also supposed to be organising some kind of tour for the band. But because of everything that happened –
suddenly there was no label and no master tapes – instead of staying for a couple of weeks, Ken and Paul ended up wandering around Europe for about six months. “So everyone back here became a bit restless – I got sick of waiting and formed another band because I was itching to play again – and by the time they eventually got back with nothing to show for their efforts, it was all over.” In recent years the band have re-formed a couple of times to play gigs around New Year at the Governor Hindmarsh. “They’ve been pretty good and, for us locals, there’s always lots of people there you haven’t seen for years who are still interested in the same type of music,” Cavuoto says. “So the gigs are not all about the music but more of a social gathering for people who haven’t seen each other for a while.” WHAT: Three D Radio Fundraiser WHO: Screaming Believers, Ride Into The Sun, Diesel Witch and Slingshot Dragster WHERE: Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Sun Sep 23 from 6pm
The Giveaways Video Launch On Thu Sep 20 local indie tricksters The Giveaways will celebrate the debut screening of their new music video If It Makes You Happy, a video produced by fellow musicians Tim and Colin Pine. The band will premiere the video as well as perform a pre-screening live set at the Backpackers in Glenelg at 1-7 Moseley St. Doors open at 7pm.
Olivers Army At Plus One Adelaide quintet Olivers Army will headline a special night of live local music this Sat Sep 22 as part of the Ed Castle’s Plus One. Other bands on the night include St Peter and Alphabette as well as DJs spinning tunes in between in the form of Bottle Rockets, Raleigh St Claire, Stefan Kovac and Triple Double Single. Tickets on the door.
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