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As Adelaide enters its festival frenzy with the arrival of February, Rip It Up hit the ground running by getting the inside word from Chris Taylor, one half of One Man Show, which he is putting on in the Garden Of Unearthly Delights with fellow The Chaser mate, Andrew Hansen. Taylor talks to us about leaving everything to the last minute, poking fun at social media and the Abbott Government and a potential careerturn as an author (p16). With Laneway underway this Fri Feb 7 we catch up with participants Lorde (p17) – who admits that Royals isn’t her best work – and Autre Ne Veut (p19) who divulges on what being granted Pitchfork’s title of Best New Music means for your career. We also have the timetable and map of the new Hart’s Mill site at Pt Adelaide for those heading along on p22. Looking ahead to Mad March, we have our interview with Femi Kuti, the Nigerian Afrobeat singer following in his legendary father’s, Fela Kuti, footsteps. He’s on his way to WOMADelaide, and explains why his 2014 appearance will be better than his last one in 2007 (p28). Also, we spoke with Future Music Festival participant Naughty Boy on what it’s like to be considered as the UK’s next big super-producer (p21). If you’re not ready for Adelaide’s festival season to hit us like a heatwave, you will be after reading this.
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Lordey, here comes Laneway. Check out headliners Lorde, Four Tet, Warpaint and The Jezabels at the festival’s new home in Port Adelaide at Harts Mill on Fri Feb 7.
The soulful crooner will join forces with composer Nigel Westlake for a symphony of songs titled Compassion at the Adelaide Festival Theatre on Fri Feb 7.
Get pollinated with Jimmy & The Mirrors, Max Savage and Timberwolf at the Flower Party at Queen’s Theatre on Sat Feb 8. BYO hayfever tablets.
Speeding along this week... Ed Kowalczyk The former Live frontman will perform songs from the band’s album Throwing Copper in celebration of its 20th anniversary at the Adelaide Festival Centre on Fri Feb 7. Tim McMillian Tim McMillian and band will launch their new album Wolves of Stunz at the Jade on Fri Feb 7.
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The cult Australian outfit will play a set drawing upon their latest album Open at The Gov on Sun Feb 9.
The Boss will grace us with his holy presence across two nights on Tue Feb 11 and Wed Feb 12 at the Entertainment Centre.
The Italian pianist and composer of the recent award-winning Doctor Zhivago film score will perform at the Adelaide Festival Centre on Tue Feb 11.
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They skipped the Adelaide leg of BDO—not because they didn’t love us, but because they’re heading here anyway! Aussie hiphop giants BLISS N ESO are coming to Adelaide to headline the Clipsal 500, and they’re bringing their buddies Seth Sentry and Horrorshow along. After the trackside gig on Fri Feb 28 they’ll skip around the country before heading down to Mt Gambier to play the showgrounds on Fri May 23. Tickets are available through clipsal500.com.au or Moshtix, respectively.
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Groovin The Movies “I’m nervous about this album, because I’ve put everything into it. I’ve really put blood, sweat, tears and time, money and effort into Cinematic. There’s always a bit of fear and doubt and anxiety, but that’s what being a musician is.” When Illy spoke to Rip It Up back in November, Cinematic was just due to be released. Now Illy is using the record for material on two national tours. Firstly, a headline tour that will stop in Adelaide on Thu Mar 20 at The Gov, and secondly, as part of the 2014 Groovin’ The Moo, which kicks off at Oakbank Racecourse on Fri Apr 25. The Cinematic tour will include Jackie Onassis and Remi as supports. Tickets to the Cinematic tour are available through OzTix, while GROOV IN’ THE MOO passes can be purchased through the festival website — gtm.net.au — and Moshtix.
After three years, thunderous band THE ALMOST are returning to Australian shores. The Fear Inside Our Bones tour, kicking off in Melbourne, will reach Adelaide on Mon Apr 21. Joining The Almost at Fowler’s Live and around the country are Young Lions and Drawing North. Tickets for the show are available through OzTix and Moshtix.
If 10 hours of festival party time at Port Adelaide’s Harts Mill just isn’t enough for you, Laneway has you covered, announcing details for the official festival afterparty, kicking off from 10pm this Fri Feb 7. The Queen’s Theatre will play host to CHVRCHES (pictured) and Jagwar Ma as they delight heat-exhausted crowds with DJ sets. Tickets to Laneway are still on sale, though the number of passes available to purchase are dwindling as we close in on the Adelaide leg. After-party tix can be bought at the door ($10 if you’re wearing your Laneway wristband; $15 for others), or purchased through Moshtix ($10+bf ).
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Cheer up, Gear Up Gear Up, the UniSA O’Week Festival, had hinted at a secret headliner to be announced in early February, however, Rip It Up can exclusively reveal that the artist – Grammy winner Lorde – has had to withdraw from the festival.
Filling the Kiwi chanteuse’s shoes are Australian indie darlings Alpine – who have promised new tunes via their Facebook as a follow up to debut album A Is For Alpine – and Miami Horror DJs, who as a band released singles Real Slow and Colours In The Sky last year, following 2010’s Illumination. Gear Up signed Lorde back in May 2013, when she was still relatively unknown. Since
then, she has hit number one in the US and sold more than 1.25 million copies of her debut album Pure Heroine in the US alone, sold-out a US tour and, on Sunday evening, won two Grammys, including Song Of The Year for Royals. Gear Up spokesperson Anne Marie Parsons said in a statement, “It’s been an amazing rise for Lorde and we are extremely happy for her success. Unfortunately, this success has meant that she has had to pullout of her commitment to appear at Gear Up 2014. “Of course we are extremely disappointed Lorde will not perform at Gear Up 2014 – she’s a fantastic artist and it would have been amazing to have an artist of that calibre, so early in their career at our
GEAR UP LINE-UP Alpine Miami Horror DJs San Cisco Pond Deep Sea Arcade The Killgirls Valkyries Dead End Friends DJ Faint One Tkay Maidza ... and more! festival,” she continues. Parsons stressed that festivals are “never about one artist” and that the festival will feature San Cisco, Pond, Deep Sea Arcade, The Kill Girls, Bottlerockets, Valkyries, Dead End Friends and DJ Faint One in addition to the just announced replacements of Alpine and Miami Horror DJs. One of UniSA’s own students – Tkay Maidza – will also be featured as a part of the festival. Daniel Sant of Lorde’s booking agency also included a statement that, “Unfortunately due to the fact that Lorde is becoming one of the biggest and buzziest artists in the world right now, she is under a lot of pressure from everywhere in the world and it ultimately leads to timelines and goalposts shifting constantly and very quickly,” and admitted that her US commitments have extended above and beyond what was expected, with her having to cancel some of her bookings. Lorde also recently reported she will have to pull out of the Auckland Laneway Festival, instead promising to make it up to her home crowd with a special headlining concert at a later date for Laneway ticket holders, but she was able to fit the performance into her schedule. Tickets are available from Moshtix at $15 for UniSA students and $50 for everyone else, plus booking fee.
WHAT: Gear Up Festival WHERE: UniSA City West Campus WHEN: Fri Feb 28 3 - 11pm
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One Man Show Chris Taylor can’t reveal much about the Adelaide Fringe show he’s presenting with fellow Chaser member Andrew Hansen, not because he wants to keep it a secret, but because the duo have still got most of it to write.
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We’re pretty much just sitting down now to get into the bulk of the show’s writing, which might sound terribly last minute and irresponsible, but it’s the only way we know how to work,” Taylor explains about his and Hansen’s One Man Show. “You could give us two years to write a show and we’d still only turn our minds to it in the final two weeks. It either tells something about our terrible lack of discipline or it says something about the fact that we’ve always tended to work in the area of topical comedy. Sometimes it just feels redundant to work on something knowing they’ll be other stories to trump them later on, so we wait until the last minute to make the show as fresh and timely as possible.” Taylor says One Man Show will be close to the spirit of The Chaser’s popular ABC series The Chaser’s War On Everything, where they’ll balance sketches with songs, and satire with “absurdism and silliness”. “We always liked that about the War On Everything. It had a mix of things: pieces that were trying to say something with sketches that just existed for comedy’s sake. Andrew and I are particularly interested in a more British style of absurdism. The show will try and balance those two types of comedy.” A former journalist, Taylor studied playwriting at NIDA and joined The Chaser (who were producing a satirical newspaper of the same name) in 2001. The Chaser moved
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from print to television after Andrew Denton discovered them and they produced CNNN for the ABC. Taylor and fellow Chaser member Craig Reucassel hosted Today Today on triple j for a couple of years before returning to television screens in 2007 for the War On
“We’ve experienced first hand what’s it like to watch the live Tweets critique your show joke-by-joke as it goes live to air, which is not an experience I recommend to anyone – it’s pretty soul destroying. But we’ve got this idea of live Tweeting throughout history and imagining what the Tweets would have been like during Christ’s crucifixion: ‘This crucifixion’s so gay!’” Everything. At the height of the War’s popularity, Taylor wrote a play for Sydney Theatre Company called Dead Caesar. The 39-year-old says One Man Show will be nothing like Dead
Caesar, as that production was a vaudeville comedy with a plot and characters. That doesn’t mean One Man Show will be themeless, as subjects Taylor wants to explore include social media and the Abbott Government. “There are a couple of incidental themes emerging. There’s a general distain for people’s increasing reliance on social media and reliance on using social media in the worst possible way rather than a beneficial positive way. It’s hard to say with any certainty what’s in the show but there’s a chance we’ll be looking at the first few months of the Abbott Government and the way they’re reshaping the country in their image.” Taylor, who recently returned from an overseas holiday, says some of his experiences from that trip might make it into the show, especially about what he calls the bragging backpacker – people who “always think they’re having a more authentic experience than anyone else staying at the hostel and brag about how they went to a less touristy town that no one else goes to” – and travellers who journey for the sole reason of having a more interesting social media account. Then there are internet trolls and commentators. “We’ve experienced first hand what’s it like to watch the live Tweets critique your show joke-by-joke as it goes live to air, which is not an experience I recommend to anyone – it’s pretty soul destroying. But we’ve got this idea of live Tweeting throughout history and imagining what the Tweets would have been like during Christ’s crucifixion: ‘This crucifixion’s so gay!’ That kind of stuff. It’s slightly indulgent because we look at the comments of our own output on YouTube, so we’ve been personally slighted by it. I think people whose work hasn’t been publically critiqued can still relate to the idea of internet trolling. We’re planning a sketch along those lines.” Given Taylor’s journalism and playwriting
background, he always seemed like the type of comedian to follow fellow Australian funnymen John Safran and John Doyle into the realm of writing serious theatre or a book. So, is he? “I’m kinda quite lazy,” Taylor admits. “The greatest thing about my career, and probably the worst thing, is that I had one ambition as a child and that was to one day write for a comedy show on the ABC. I was incredibly lucky that I got to do that and since I’ve done that I find myself very ambitionless. I’m one of those people who got to do the thing they wanted to do, which rarely happens. Now I need to set new ambitions for myself but I’d only be seeking them for the sake of keeping myself occupied. I don’t have this burning ambition to write a book or a film or anything but I might have a crack at that just to keep myself busy and in work. I find that you become creatively stagnate when you have the great fortune to actually achieve your one ambition. That’s a slightly philosophical answer but to answer in a more convenient, sound bite friendly way, I do have an idea for a book, a non-fiction book that would be kind of ambitious. It’s a non-fiction idea that involves travel and going on an unusual trip and then writing it up.” Taylor would also like to have a proper “crack at theatre”. “That feels like old man’s work – second-half of life stuff. Like, when you turn 50 you turn to the more serious arts such as theatre. I’ll probably write an opera and a ballet too,” he jokes. “I’ve still got the silliness to get out of my system for a couple more years yet.” WHO: Chris Taylor & Andrew Hansen WHAT: One Man Show WHERE: The Garden of Unearthly Delights (Spiegeltent Paradiso) WHEN: Fri Feb 28 - Sun Mar 2
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We Can Be Heroes She’s just about conquered the pop world as Lorde, and Ella Yelich-O’Connor is quickly becoming a spokesperson for the youth. She tells Rip It Up how she’s dealing with it all.
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lla Yelich-O’Connor, better known to the world as Lorde, is enjoying mainstream pop success at its most immense. Nine weeks atop the US singles chart with her track Royals – which has now almost sold five million copies in that country alone – the ultimate proof that what has happened here is mammoth. That song has been lauded and derided ad infinitum; it’s interesting then to hear Yelich-O’Connor’s take on the song. Is it her best? “No!” she exclaims. “I definitely don’t think Royals is my best song. I understand why it worked and why it was kind of a hit, I can see those qualities in it, but at the same time there’s part of me that’s like…” she groans, “’these melodies are just not as good as something I could have written now’, or like ‘I definitely wouldn’t have written this lyric this way if I had’ve written it now’. But I was 15 when I wrote it and I’m 17 now, so I think you grow a lot in that period. It definitely feels like a bit of a relic now.” Reading about Lorde’s persona, you’d expect an overtly headstrong diva who’ll pounce on any chance to belittle you; but she’s just a very switched on, very polite teenage girl. Hearing her speak about the being allowed to take time off school to write her album is enough to fill anyone with youthful glee. “It was pretty much down to my parents, because obviously I had to take three months out of school. They came home from this meeting with my manager and said ‘we’re gonna let you make the record’ and I was like ‘Yeeeahhh this is gonna be awesome!’” This wasn’t the plan. Royals – and The Love Club EP it came from – weren’t meant to become this massive. Lorde wasn’t supposed to have an album out yet. Yelich-O’Connor didn’t just want to capitalise on the success of the single, she wanted what people heard after Royals to be something from the same woman at a similar time in her life. “Before I put The Love Club EP out I was just planning on releasing EPs and messing around and putting stuff on the internet until I finished high school and then I would kind of look at it more seriously. But obviously things went kind of crazy and, what happened to the music once it left my hands was, like, just this insane thing. So I had to rethink and decide when I wanted to write the record; it was important to me that I followed up this big song with material that I felt was relevant to me right now and which felt kinda fresh and did come at the same time as that song.” Due to Yelich-O’Connor’s relationship with music, she couldn’t envisage her material resonating with a wide audience. It’s not that she didn’t have faith in it, it’s just that it’s her music, largely written by, about and for her. “For me, I know a record is important to me if I can hear my life in it. If you write super personally, like I do, the worry for me is that if it means so much to me then it’s not gonna mean too much to other people because it’s going to be too specific or whatever,” she explains. “I feel like a lot of people my age really reacted to it which is so cool for me and is kind of the dream. I was lucky. I feel like teens are a tough audience and I feel like a lot of the art and that a lot of the material aimed at teens is usually super corny and feels patronising or whatever, and I am aware of that. But people I guess didn’t feel
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that about Pure Heroine, which is super cool.” She’s a relatable voice for the not-sodisenfranchised teen market who aren’t necessarily interested in the ersatz world of Bieber, Taylor and Miley. Her brand of cool is certainly defined, but it’s accessible. Whether Lorde likes it or not, she has become a role model, and if her success continues then she’ll be one for a long time to come. “That’s a crazy one because, obviously I am 17, I’m going to fuck some stuff up at some point, because I think that’s a natural part of becoming an adult,” she says when asked if she’s comfortable with such exemplar status. “But as long as people are willing to accept me as an imperfect role model, then I guess I’m honoured.” WHO: Lorde WHAT: St Jerome’s Laneway Festival WHERE: Hart’s Mill, Pt Adelaide WHEN: Fri Feb 7
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Olympia Has Fallen Katie Stelmanis is enjoying a well-deserved break in her native Toronto. She’s stuck indoors due to the minus 40 degree temperature, but considering she’s been working non-stop in electronic trio Austra since 2010, she doesn’t mind she can’t go outside. With a stint at the Perth Festival and a quick Australian tour, Rip It Up catches up with Stelmanis since the drop of her second album, Olympia.
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It feels s so far away now to be honest; I feel like we’re on a totally different wavelength,” Stelmanis says of Olympia. Although it was only released about six months ago, Stelmanis is looking forward to her next mission. “We were really obsessed with doing everything analogue [on Olympia], because the first record
[2011’s Feel It Break] was almost entirely digital, moody music. We feel like we’ve exhausted that sound, so we want to revisit what we’ve been doing and play everything live. That was the main intention behind Olympia. “I’ve started demoing [for the next record] but I’m still figuring it out,” Stelmanis says of where she’s heading next. “I’m going back a bit more into computer music and not being so adamant that everything is analogue. I want to make something that is a bit weirder. With Olympia we were trying to formulate a sense of perfect pop songs and I want to move away from that and get really weird with the third one.” When creating music, Stelmanis reveals that the “lyrics are definitely last” and are “[fitted] in at the very last minute”, with songs forming around a beat, bass line or melody.
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“It’s more about writing lyrics that fit into the vocal demos. When I’m demo-ing vocals I’ll naturally make certain vowel sounds, so I try and find words to fit into that; to add words that don’t make for a jarring performance.” This isn’t to say that Austra’s lyrics are superficial or lacking in thematic content. One song in particular off Feel It Break, Young And Gay, touches on issues of gender stereotypes and sexuality (Stelmanis is a proud lesbian). The song was dedicated to the memory of Will Munro, a gay rights activist who Stelmanis knew personally before he died of brain cancer in 2010. Stelmanis is startled at Munro’s mention, seeing as she had bought a book remembering his life as an artist that same day and had been reading it prior to the interview. “I don’t generally think about songs having a particular political message or any message necessarily; sometimes it just happens. With that song [Young And Gay] I made a dance song and while I made it titled it Young And Gay and decided that it fits as a tribute to Will Munro, as he was so influential to me as a young, gay person in Toronto. He was pretty much a part of the cultural landscape in Toronto for 15 years. That song fit with his vibe and his aesthetic.” Another accidental political message can be found on the Olympia track I Don’t Care (I’m A Man), which Stelmanis agrees reflects the anti-patriarchal movement she can see happening in music, although says that her back-up singer and album collaborator Maya Postepski viewed it more as a commentary on an abusive relationship, so the lyrics are open to interpretation. However, since mentioning the rise of strong female vocalists rising in popularity — with bands like London Grammar, Florence + The Machine, Chvrches and Metric among them — Stelmanis offers some reasons why we’ve seen a recent resurgence of female voices in alternative pop music and if this is a political statement or just evolving musical tastes. “It’s interesting because I remember a friend of mine casually making a statement that, ‘Oh, I don’t like music where women sing. I don’t like female voices.’ But I think it’s really just an aesthetic. I think women have a moment to shine, like they did in the ‘80s. There was a lot of pop ballads in the [‘80s] with Toni Braxton [and I think women] shined at that time. Now, with the synth pop revival and [the revival of ] ‘80s techno dance music, big female voices are back in because they’re a part of that scene.” WHO: Austra WHAT: Olympia (Domino/EMI) WHERE: UniBar WHEN: Thu Feb 13
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the most musical stuff that we did together.” Speaking of power pop – what about that remix he did of Lindsay Lohan’s Bossy? “Man! That was years ago! That came out before I did my first record [his self-titled 2010 debut]!” he laughs. “Robin who runs Triangle Records was talking to Dan [Lopatin] and through Dan reached out to me and goes, ‘You have 24 hours to do a cover for this digital only release of Lindsay Lohan covers.’ I had no idea what Lindsay Lohan’s music sounds like at all [...] so I just skipped through a bunch of Lindsay Lohan songs and couldn’t find one I liked and was like, ‘Oh this one [Bossy] is produced by Ne-Yo.’ I liked some of [Ne-Yo’s] hits so I just ran with that and did my best cover in about 15 hours.”
Arthur Ashin (AKA Autre Ne Veut) is a clinical psychologist who has become a sought after artist after his second album, Anxiety, reached Pitchfork’s much-coveted Best New Music status. He’s now coming to Australia for the Laneway Festival, and is still adjusting to life as a touring musician.
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Big Day Out Relocating after nearly two decades to Bonython Pk, this year’s Big Day Out – with an upsized venue and ambitious line-up boasting Blur, Pearl Jam and Arcade Fire as headliners – was to trump all previous events. Sadly, Blur’s 11th hour cancellation proved to be a big dampener on the festival, and even the promise of Pearl Jam couldn’t quite pull spirits back above water. For the 15,000 punters that showed up and braved the 40 degree heat, however, it was a good day to enjoy what may be, if rumours be true, the last Adelaide Big Day Out.
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were amongst the early contenders, with a sizeable crowd pooling to see the band after their recent success in triple j’s Hottest 100 with Covered In Chrome at number 14. Portugal. The Man were early international arrivals, showcasing their latest album Evil Friends. Also touring a new album were The Naked & Famous, who nearly blew the site into supernova with some dangerously deep bass on songs from In Rolling Waves. Matching their explosive sound was California’s Grouplove, who many made the trek over from Tame Impala shaking off the psychedelic swirls with the band’s upbeat offerings of I’m With You, Itching On A Photograph and Lovely Cup. Despite the heat, Swedish outfit The Hives thrust the wilting crowd back into consciousness: “I know you guys are hot right now, but imagine a polar bear in the Sahara desert,” frontman Pelle Almqvist joked,
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referring to the band themselves struggling to acclimatise. Kicking off with Main Offender, set highlights included Walk Idiot Walk, Hate To Say I Told You So and closer Tick Tick Boom, which involved “sitting down quietly” mid-song – “I own your ass now, and you, me and your ass have some work to do,” Almqvist said mincing up and down the barrier. Best act of the day, hands down. Arriving in the paper mache heads worn in the Reflektor video, Arcade Fire (or so it seemed) kicked off with a tongue-in-cheek dedication to Blur, playing the UK outfit’s seminal hit Song 2. Halfway through, however, the real band came on stage, apparently unimpressed with the imposter’s performers – “Alright, get the fuck off,” commanded frontman Win Butler, flanked by the remaining five members of Arcade Fire and their four extra touring members to launch into Normal Person. What followed was a mouthwatering setlist of hits, including Rebellion (Lies), Rococo, Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels) and The Suburbs and Sprawl II, polished off with Reflektor and the tropicalinfused Here Comes The Night Time. Over the other side of the park competing with Flume’s echoing EDM was Snoop Dogg. “Give me some music to smoke some weed to,” was one of the few things the hip hop MC uttered as he lazily worked his way through a medley of hits, including What’s My Name? and a curious hat tip to Katy Perry’s California Gurls. Despite the lack of banter the crowd lapped it up, responding with plenty of smoke plumes during Gin & Juice and Drop It Like It’s Hot. While the rest were at at Pearl Jam, those itching to move their feet remained at the Red Stage to see what Major Lazer, AKA moombahton aficiandos Diplo, Jillionaire and Walshy Fire could bring to the table. Sadly, what they brought was like three alpha males hitting each other with sticks. From taking their shirts off to flex their pecs to the luring of female fans on stage with this pre-requisite – “If you don’t got booty don’t get up here!” – halfway through the set you couldn’t help but feel objectified. That aside, tracks like Jah No Partial, You’re No Good and Get Free drove the sweaty crowd into a furor, while set closer Jessica was as delightful as a cool breeze. Great music but let it be known: Diplo is a dickhead. Dusty and sunburnt, punters filed out of the Big Day Out with mixed opinions and questions about the future of the festival. Will there be a Big Day Out in 2015? Time will tell.
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Shahid `Naughty Boy' Khan is fast emerging as urban-pop's next superproducer, working on Emeli Sandé's mega Our Version Of Events.
Already he's had his own UK No. 1 single, La La La (featuring rising star Sam Smith), and presented a blockbuster 'artist' album, Hotel Cabana. Indeed, along with Labrinth, Rudimental and Disclosure, Khan is part of a British wave redefining R&B and hip hop. No wonder that US acts like Rihanna are reaching out to him. "They're definitely excited about what's going on here," says a chuffed Khan, who prefers to be called "Naughty". And he kinda knows why. "Some of the American music has become a bit repetitive." Khan's profile in the wider US should get a boost now that his current single Think About It (with Pittsburghrapper Wiz Khalifa and Ella Eyre) has been synced for the Vampire Academy soundtrack, the movie adaptation of Richelle Mead's popular YA book being marketed as an edgier Twilight. Khan seems unaware — but, happily, he's a vampire fan. Hotel Cabana certainly has gothic artwork. As it happens, Khan's concept album, which spans pop, urban and Bollywood, was inspired by a stint waiting at a posh London hotel — here he'd observe the rich, famous and lost. Next month the decidedly cheery Khan will for the first time tour Australia, where La La La is multi-platinum, joining Pharrell Williams at Future Music Festival 2014. Khan, accompanied by a band, will stage "the whole Hotel Cabana experience". "I wanna connect the dots with the album," he says. Khan is coy about how he'll reproduce Hotel Cabana without its many (mostly UK)
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guests - which include not only FMF coheadliner Tinie Tempah, but also Sandé and Ed Sheeran. Nevertheless, he maintains that, live, "some of the songs actually sound even better." "I really feel like people are gonna be surprised." Khan, behind the MPC player and keyboard, is the band leader. Above all, he's determined to be "an all-round artist, rather than just being a producer." Khan, who's lately turned 29, hails from Watford, his parents Pakistani migrants. He studied Business and Marketing at uni but dropped out to pursue music, initially working furtively out of his family's shed. He funded his music-making by applying for a grant from The Prince's Trust and, brilliantly, winning a small fortune on Deal Or No Deal. Khan befriended a then unknown Sandé in 2008, he recalls. "I met her at an underground showcase. She was just flying back to Scotland the next day. Neither of us had done anything yet… But, after
she performed, no one really went up to her. I was just amazed, so I spoke to her. I said to her, 'You know, I haven't really worked with any singers yet, but I've got some ideas.' She always says that, when she first met me, she just trusted me." They'd mastermind Chipmunk's Diamond Rings, a UK crossover smash. Today Khan describes Sandé as his "musical soulmate". He started work on her sophomore at Christmas. Meanwhile, Sandé appears on several Hotel Cabana numbers — among them its original lead single, Wonder. Yet the album's most astonishing cameo is by, not seasoned soulstress Gabrielle (whose Dreams Khan, incidentally, remixed), but UK synth-rockers Bastille on the "dark" No One's Here To Sleep. "I love what they do," Khan enthuses. "Pompeii was my favourite song of last year." Increasingly, the "diverse" Khan's studio nous is in-demand - he's attached to upcoming albums from MKS (the former Sugababes) and
Lily Allen. Moreover, he's soon to write with Mumford & Sons (!). However, balancing his own career with production is proving tricky. A song on Britney Spears' Britney Jean didn't materialise. "I was a bit upset, but that was due to timing. I just wasn't around much and I didn't wanna just do it… I have to have some kind of quality control with everything." Khan, Pharrell his hero, covered Daft Punk's Get Lucky with newcomer Tanika — but never received feedback from the French robots, let alone Mr N*E*R*D. Maybe he will Down Under if he plays it. "I might be performing it," Khan teases. "I'm not sure." WHO: Naughty Boy WHAT: Hotel Cabana (Universal) and Future Music Festival WHERE: Adelaide Showground WHEN: Mon Mar 10
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UK techno and experimental producer Actress (AKA Darren Cunningham) follows one of 2012’s best albums, RIP, with the apparent swansong to Cunningham’s Actress pseudonym, Ghettoville. If it is the final Actress album, the grimy early soundscapes signal a slightly painful death. Ghettoville spends too much time wallowing in ambient territory with the difficult to digest opening one-two of Forgiven and Street Corp before the secondhalf picks up the pace with more club-friendly outings such as the wonderful Gaze, the locked-bass of Skyline and Frontline’s smudged techno. Not that the soundscape beginning should be totally discounted. Corner is onpoint while Rims sounds like John Carpenter transporting his horror soundtracks to the modern day. Actress’ 2012 album RIP might have been the finer album but here’s to discovering what Cunningham has in store for us in the coming years away from Actress. Jeff Spicoli
At 19 tracks, Donald Glover has overshot the mark, as ‘because the internet’ – digital natives have short attention spans. Likewise, ‘because the internet’ — they also love Donald Glover. As a result the target audience will pardon Glover for some sloppy raps (rhyming ‘Beyoncé’ with ‘picante’) and thank him for constructing tracks that chop-and-change in tone and tempo like they’ve been injected with a life’s supply of NoDoze. Glover also appears less innovative here than his comedy career implies. Crawl’s screaming intro could have come straight from Yeezus and 3005’s sincere jam could be the twin to Drake’s Hold On, We’re Going Home. While the similarities are surely just mere coincidences, and more of a statement on the trends in modern rap music than a crime, Glover should have known from his comedy that less is more. Next time, distil it down. Lachlan Aird
One of Adelaide’s most successful club exports is returning for a hometown set at Cuckoo – DJ Bold. The European-based techno artist’s slamming style has a global following, which has seen him perform at huge festivals such as I Love Techno, Monegros and Awakenings. Last year he released the cuts Outside Channel and Wicked Cheese and will be supported by HMC, Phildo and Matt Abstrax at Cuckoo on Sat Feb 8. Entry: $15.
Osunlade Deep house’s most spiritual man according to Resident Advisor, Osunlade is more than just a deep house producer and selector. Over his glittering career, Osunlade has covered everything from house to jazz, ambient, Latin and soul. The acclaimed producer plays Sugar on Sat Feb 8. Supports: Babicka, HVCK and Mic Mills.
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BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty BRECKNOCK HOTEL – Breakaway Sing-A-Long Session (8.30pm) CAMEO BAR – Cameoke with Andy CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Emencia, When Giants Sleep, Doc Oc and Hollow Eyes. Front Bar: DJ Antface DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) DUKE OF YORK – Downstairs: DJ Jon E (9pm) DJ Skinny B (1am). Beer Garden: band of the week plus DJ Dave Parry (9pm) ED CASTLE – Band Room: live bands (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm) EMU HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) ENIGMA – Hands Like Houses, Drawing North, Atlantis Awaits and All Year Round EXETER ON RUNDLE – Kitchen Witch, The Aves and Lily Mojito (9pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Brenton Manser and Caitlyn (7pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: The Dead Daisies and King Of The North. Front Bar: Gumbo Room Blues Jam GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Alphabette with It’s a Hoax GRAND BAR – OMG HIGHWAY – DJ Alli (8pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – All Vinyl DJ (6pm) HQ – Riot Society hosted by Uberjak’d LIGHT HOTEL – SCALA Live (8pm) MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – DJ G-Rillz (9pm) PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango ROCKET BAR – Wild Things (9pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN – Victor Oria (6pm) SUGAR – Jazz Pancake with locals and guests THE LION HOTEL – Clearway (9pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm)
ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: DJ Jaki J (9.30pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Dimitra (8pm) Top Of The Ark: Latino Grooves Viva Latino (8.30pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BAROSSA WEINTAL HOTEL – Paul Stubbings (7.30pm) BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Fast Fuse Lite BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Sweet Bad Lizzie BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – DJs Lars, Lenny and guests CROWN & ANCHOR – Lemuria, Kissing Booth, The Hard Aches and Weightless plus DJ Adam DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Fig Jam (7pm) DUKE OF YORK – Tom & Rose (7pm) 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 – DJs ENCORE NIGHTCLUB – Get Lucky Fridays with resident DJs (9pm) ENFIELD HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (6pm) ENIGMA – Orsino Nation Spectrasanct Album Launch with Artificial Night (8pm) Daniel Ray plus guests EMU HOTEL – Zepporama Led Zeppelin Tribute ESPLANADE HOTEL – Enuf Said (8pm) EXETER HOTEL: SEMAPHORE – karaoke (9pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Lyall Maloney FINDON HOTEL – karaoke (8.30pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Dirt Playground and Overview Effect. Front Bar: Friday Night Acoustic Sessions: String Band Appalachian Fiddle Sessions & Irish Sessions GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Slingshot Dragster with The Aves GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Josh Rudduck HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Animal House (9.30pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs IRISH CLUB – Shamrocks ‘n’ Shenanigans Live Acoustic Sessions (7pm) LIGHT HOTEL – Black Market (9pm)
LIMBO – DJs LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee (9pm) MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION CULTURAL CENTRE – Mingle (5.30pm) MARION HOTEL – Jake Nickolai (6.30pm) MARS BAR – guests DJs plus drag shows MICK O’SHEA’S – Mitch and The Jazz Man (7pm) MT COMPASS SUPPER CLUB – The Beggars (7pm) OFFICE ON PIRIE – DJ Jess (4.30pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Redline (7.30pm) PLAYFORD TAVERN – Two Hard Basket (8pm) PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Acoustic Session (6pm) DJ (9pm) PRODUCERS HOTEL – After Four Fridays Garden Grooves with DJs Justice and DrDamage plus special guests (4pm) RACQUETS SA – 60/40 with DJ Lee (8pm)
RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ SNAKE & DJ RUPHEO (9PM) RED SQUARE – DJs REX HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – DJ Smiley (9pm) ROCKET BAR – Cats at Rocket (9pm) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Acoustic Sessions: Paul & Tanya (7.30pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN – Georgy K (7pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8pm) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Lost Romaldo Groove featuring Snooks La Vie (8pm) SETTLERS TAVERN – The Ride SOMERSET HOTEL – Viotar STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance. Downstairs: DJs play retro STAMFORD PLAZA: CASCADES – Jacqui Lim (5.30pm) SUGAR – SHGZ: Fridays at Sugar SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJs TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio Flamenco (7.30pm) TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – Unknown To Man (9pm) THE ELEPHANT – DJ Clarke (9pm) Kinetik (9.30pm) THE GOODY – Ch@t Room
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The Guide// THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL –Tavern Bar: Katrina Caton (4.45pm) Chasing Cars (9pm) Chrysler Bar: Clearway (9.30pm) VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs VILLAGE TAVERN – Alien 8 (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Kelshy and Fritz Dolly (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – Rocking Stones WORLDSEND HOTEL – Grand Oyster Palace, Raindrop and Inwoods (9pm) ZHIVAGO – Hello DJs
SATURDAY 8TH ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J plus Bongo Madness with Alex. Upstairs: DJ Ed Law (9.30pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Top Of The Ark: Zepporama and Echos Of Pink Floyd (8pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: The Buzz (10pm) BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Josh Ruddick
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BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Shawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL: MURRAY BRIDGE – karaoke (9pm) BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAVAN HOTEL – Karnival with live bands (9pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Glass Skies single launch with guests Raindrop and Horror My Friend plus Pilot Records DJs CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with Nicole (8pm) DUKE OF YORK – Front Room: DJ Mitchy B. Beer Garden: DJ Parry. Upstairs: DJ Skinny B, MC Scotty and guest DJs ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends EMU HOTEL – Leadfoot ENCORE NIGHTCLUB – DJs Lars, TS and Some Brown DJ with MC AC (9pm) ENIGMA – Synistry Official Launch Party: Dark-SexyMystery EXETER HOTEL: SEMAPHORE – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (7pm)
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EXETER ON RUNDLE – Osloh, Firs and Animal Shadows FINDON HOTEL – Clearway (9pm) GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ Marky Polo (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Lucky 7’s Tenth Birthday Bash and Ezra Lee & His Allstars GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The Motive with Dusty Lee Trio, Coops & The Bird and Andy Petkovic GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays with DJs and MCs HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Gate Crashers (9pm) HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm) HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm) HOTEL METRO – Union Pacific HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips and guests (8pm) JACK RUBY – Soul Social – live band and vinyl DJs (8pm) JIVE – Babylon Burning EP Launch, Lyall Maloney and Ciriam Granger KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke (10pm) LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Acoustik (9pm) LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ and MC Renard (10pm) LORD MELBOURNE – DJ Clarke (8pm) MARINA SUNSET BAR – DJs playing the best in house and electro MARION HOTEL – Franky F (5.30pm) One Planet (8.30pm) MARS BAR – guest DJs plus a drag show MICK O’SHEA’S – Shamrock (9pm) OLD SPOT HOTEL – Electric Funeral Sabbath Tribute PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – After Five (8.45pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Good Company (8pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Unknown To Man (10.30pm) PRETORIA HOTEL – DJ Jamie Thompson (9pm)
RAMSGATE HOTEL – ADELAIDE’S BEST COVER BANDS RED SQUARE – DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan
ROCKET BAR – Rocket Saturdays (9pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN – Georgy K (7pm) SANDBAR – requests with DJs SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic sessions SEMAPHORE RSL – Fast Fuse SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – Kopy Catz (9pm) SUGAR – ITDE DJs and interstate & international guests SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Nikko & Snooks (7.30pm) SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Craig James 7.30pm) TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE ELEPHANT – DJ G-Rillz (9pm) Crazy Knites (9.30pm) THE LION HOTEL – Absolut Saturdays: Wasabi (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Boris Loves To Boogie (8.30pm) VALLEY INN – karaoke VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – Rumours WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm) WAYVILLE SHOWGROUNDS – Carnevale Italian Festival: Three Star General (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Darren Zaza, Amy Baker EP Launch, Tristen Bird and Adie Haines (8.30pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – Blue Comets (8.45pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm) ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs
SUNDAY 9TH ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School ARKABA HOTEL – Top Of The Ark: Schnitz & Giggles (4.30pm) Lounge Bar: Vogue Duo with Kate Lara and Antonio Villano (4pm) BENJAMIN ON FRANKLIN – Souled Out Sessions with DJs Dave Collins and Jason Lee BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Bonnie Galea Duo BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Zepporama Led Zeppelin Tribute CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Gerry O (2pm) COVE TAVERN – Steve Gower CROWN & ANCHOR – all ages show DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris
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The Guide // DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Cry Wolf (3pm) ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) EMU HOTEL – acoustic set: Steve Simon (2pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Magnetic Garden FED ON SEMAPHORE – Zyke and Damo (4pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Love Duo with Louis and Cynthia (2pm) GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays (3pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: The Necks GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Jon Marco GRAND BAR – bands, DJs and MCs HOLDFAST BAY BOWLING AND CROQUET CLUB – Barefoot At The Bay: DJs presented by House Cats (2pm) HOPE INN – Melanie Pierides (2pm) HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – 888 Poker (6.30pm) LIGHT HOTEL – Vonni’s Big Arvo LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – Travis Wellington Hedge MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – Free Genie (2pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Dino Jag Acoustic (2.30pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Two Hard Basket (4pm) PRETORIA HOTEL – Andrew Crowell (1.30pm)
RAMSGATE HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SESSION (4PM) TOM KURZEL & ED TRAINOR FORTNIGHTLY ROTATION (7.30PM) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Funk & Soul Sessions: Plush (7.30pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN – Dave Pagano (2pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic soloists SEMAPHORE PALAIS – The Incredibles (4.30pm) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Stefan Hauk (4pm) SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) Quinny, Parko & Friends (6pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Sean Robertson WAYVILLE SHOWGROUNDS – Carnevale Italian Festival: Three Star General (6pm) WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm)
WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi & Shaggy (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Kelly Menhennett Small Dreams Single Launch, Tara Carragher, Richard Coates and Kaurna Cronin (4pm) ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs
MONDAY 10TH CROWN & ANCHOR – Ben David Acoustic EXETER ON RUNDLE – Harry Freeman, Matt Barlow, The Puppets and Tip & Terry GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Rear Admiral Stand Up Comedy. Balcony Bar: Lord Stompy’s Tin Sandwich GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ultimate Quiz with Graham Lawrence (7pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Complete Trivia (7pm) RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and Paul Vallen (8pm)
TUESDAY 11TH ARKABA HOTEL – Party Club Band (7.30pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: DJs Stevie & Duncan EXETER ON RUNDLE – Bitches Of Zeus DJs GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Adelaide Ukulele Appreciation Society Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Pub Cinema HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – KG’s Complete Trivia (7pm) MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm)
ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – cover band: Lucky 7 (8.30pm) SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller THE GOODY – Complete Trivia (7.30pm) THE LION HOTEL – Zkye and Damo (7.30pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – DJs Ryley and Apex (8pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Acoustic Raw Jam WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm)
WEDNESDAY 12TH ARKABA HOTEL – Latino Grooves Salsa Classes (6pm) BOTANIC BAR – Gemma CENTRAL DISTRICTS FOOTBALL CLUB – Quiz Wiz (7.45pm) CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7pm) CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia (7.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Geek with DJ Tr!p, BugGirl, Babymachine, Protools and The One Within DEEP BLUE CAFÉ – Rob McDade (6.30pm) EMU HOTEL – DJ night (8pm) ENIGMA – Mothers Cake EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music Exchange (7.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – DJ Curtis FINSBURY HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) FINDON HOTEL – Muso’s Jam hosted by Streaker FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – karaoke (7pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Fendre Roadshow with Greg Koch. Front Bar: Open Mic Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Mary Webb with Andy Salvanos HQ – NeverLand KENSINGTON HOTEL – Uke ‘n’ Play (7pm) LIGHT HOTEL – Open Mic Night (8pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection (7.30pm) PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jazz Sessions: Marlene Richards (7.30pm) SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with Margi (7.30pm)
SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular and Mr Whiskas THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Tonsley Trivia (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Wednesday (7pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music
Rip It Up endeavours to provide an accurate guide, however, takes no responsibility for out-of-date listings. Gig Guide submissions and any changes can be sent to gigguide@ripitup.com.au. Gig Guide deadline is Thursdays at 5pm. Please contact venues for any further information regarding the booked acts.
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Positive Force Saxophonist Femi Kuti, son of legendary Afrobeat superstar Fela Kuti, promises a much better performance at WOMADelaide in 2014 with his band The Positive Force than the one he gave at the world music festival in 2007. “I was not in a good place back then.”
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I wasn’t – how would you say it? – acting in a very mature manner back then,” he suggests. “Last time I played WOMADelaide I was having a hard time with my career and having such a lot of personal issues that I was becoming quite depressed. But now I can handle everything much better, which, I think, comes with age and experience. And I’m freer in my mind now and my band is playing better than ever. “WOMAD festivals are always great,” he continues, “Because they are always so very well-organised. And you see lots of other bands; get to mix with the people and all the other musicians. “Australia is such an interesting place to visit,” he adds with a laugh. “It feels like America in some ways, but no one talks like Americans. But I do really enjoy it and very glad to be invited back.” Kuti was born in London but raised in the former Nigerian capital of Lagos. When his mother, Remi, left his father, she took her son with her, but Kuti rejoined his father in 1977. Kuti soon became a member of his Afrobeat band before creating his own like-minded, socially conscious group, The Positive Force, in 1980 with Dele Sosimi, the former
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keyboard player with his father. Kuti, who played a plaintive saxophone solo at his father’s funeral in 1997, says he was always destined to become a musician. “Music has been in my life since as long as I can remember,” he decides. “So it was just a question of how and when I would become a musician and how I would fit
“Music has been in my life since as long as I can remember. So it was just a question of how and when I would become a musician and how I would fit into that kind of life.”
into that kind of life. But it was only when I was 15 going on 16 – quite old really – that I began learning trumpet as my father had one lying around somewhere. “I then moved onto the saxophone because, in Africa, everyone wants to do what their father is doing,” he continues with a laugh. “So I wanted to be like him. “I hated saxophone at the beginning although my father kept insisting I learn
it,” Kuti adds. “So I had come to a point in my life where I had reached a crossroad. Did I want to continue with music and my father’s cause or not? But then I heard the music of Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane and all the other saxophone greats, and was like ‘Wow! This is what I want to do.’ And it opened a door in my mind because while I knew I couldn’t be another Charlie Parker or a Coltrane, I could be Femi Kuti.” Kuti, who had noted that Adelaide had undergone a recent heatwave, suggests WOMADelaide audiences are in for a musical treat as he will be heading down to Australia with his full band and dancers. “As I said before, my band are really firing at the moment so I’m looking forward to playing the songs from my new album, No Peace For My Dream,” he says. “Like I also said, I have become a much better performer as I get older. And because so many people love the new album, I’m actually finding it difficult to write songs for my next one. I think it’s my best work too, but I am determined to make another really good album with the next one.” Members of Antibalas, the American ensemble who performed at WOMADelaide in 2013 and model themselves on Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat style while also incorporating elements of jazz, dub and funk, feature in the touring production of Fela!, a musical based on Fela Kuti’s life. “I didn’t have any input into that musical about my father,” Kuti reveals, “although I knew what they were doing as they were keeping in constant touch with me and my family. And I eventually got to see it.
Knitting Factory Records Femi Kuti, like his brother Seun who now leads his father’s former band, Egypt 80, recently signed to Knitting Factory Records, a boutique New York-based company that sprang from the infamous venue of the same name. They are known for promoting a variety of Afrobeat artists and other related genres and have previously released Fela Kuti’s entire back catalogue as well the original Broadway cast recording of the musical Fela!. “It’s a record label that’s very committed to my father’s recorded work,” Kuti says of Knitting Factory Records. “And I like the way they have presented my father’s catalogue over the years as they have shown much respect. “So I didn’t have any seconds thoughts when they asked me to work with them,” he adds. “And it would now be very hard to leave them because it’s not just about the huge commitment and promotion they show to their artists, it’s more about their interest and love for the music.”
“And I loved it,” he concludes. “It was so good that I cried. It was very emotional but I really loved it.”
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Film // 12 Years A Slave (MA) AAAA English writer/director Steve McQueen’s next pic after his Hunger and Shame is a vastly different and much-praised film that uses America’s dark and repressed past to comment upon its dark and repressed present. Drawn by screenwriter John Ridley from Solomon Northup’s autobiography, this initially finds Northup (the London-born Chiwetel Ejiofor) pronounced an officially free man after years spent as a slave, and becoming quite prosperous with a wife and family in the upstate New York of the mid-19th century. However, he’s duped by conmen and kidnapped back into slavery, where Freeman (Paul Giamatti) sells him to Ford
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(Benedict Cumberbatch) but, after a run in with the vicious Tibeats (Paul Dano), Northup becomes the property of cruel Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender, McQueen’s muse), with whom Northup fights for his soul and his life. Built upon Ejiofor’s fine, humane performance in a very demanding role, this has an excellent cast (although some might have an issue with so many distracting famous faces), a faithful eye for historical detail and, thankfully, a sense of carefully-contained moral outrage. Already the critics are either claiming that this sort of injustice never happened in the US (wrong!) or questioning why we need to be reminded of such terrible events. After all, they insist, it’s not like slavery still exists in this enlightened day and age, now is it?
Moonlight Cinema Botanic Park Moonlight Cinema continues this week with everything from the Coens’ cult classic The Big Lebowski (featuring the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman on Thu Feb 6) to Dallas Buyers Club (Wed Feb 12). Check moonlight.com.au for more details.
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This follow-up to Iranian writer/director Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation movingly treads much of the same delicate emotional ground, with a modern and troubled family observed as they struggle to do the right thing in a very difficult situation. Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) has spent four years back in his homeland of Iran since leaving his French wife Marie (The Artist’s Bérénice Bejo filling in beautifully for Marion Cotillard), and he finally returns to Paris for a few days to sign the divorce papers. Happy to be reunited with Marie’s daughters (Pauline Burlet and Jeanne Jestin) from her previous marriage, he discovers that Marie’s new partner Samir (Tahar Rahim) has both an unhappy little son (Elyes Aguis as Fouad) and a wife in a coma, and it’s this final piece of the puzzle which is particularly driving this complicated family unit apart, as each of them attempt to deal with personal feelings of betrayal, resentment, confusion, anger – and love. Once again, Farhadi’s themes here are universal: whereas A Separation looked like it was going to be a religious drama, the whole belief thing was secondary to the characters’ plights, while this might have been a story all about émigrés in modern Europe, but again turns out to be simply a tale of a family realising that the past never truly goes away.
Unkindly being promoted as a Pensioner Hangover, this cheesy audience-pleaser from director Jon Turteltaub is stickily sentimental, rife with clichés and preposterously predictable, and yet, of course, all that’s forgiven due to the four stars, all in strapping form and having a fine time. The rich, often-divorced, 70-ish Billy (Michael Douglas) decides he wants to marry a younger woman (naturally) and invites his three lifelong pals to his Vegas bachelor party – but will they all come? Of course they will, as there’s no movie if grumpy Paddy (Robert De Niro), fragile Archie (Morgan Freeman) and fussy Sam (Kevin Kline) don’t turn up to argue heaps, flaunt grudges, hit the town, crack Viagra jokes, demonstrate (yawn) how out-of-touch they are with contemporary youth, hit on a lounge singer (Mary Steenburgen), throw massive parties, learn some forgiveness and get serenaded by Redfoo and his famous thrusting crotch. One of those rare Hollywood outings where you’ll fight valiantly to not smile but, dammit, finally wind up grinning (a bit), this is especially worth it for Freeman and the rarely-seen Kline, although De Niro (as another of his bad-tempered codgers) and Douglas (as another of his extravagant charmers) are pretty good too. And where else are you going to see all four of these great actors together… well… all four of these sometimesgreat actors… well... um…
Taking their typecasting with humour and pride, Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro get back in the ring to play two aging former boxers, bribed by a moneyhungry publicist and goaded by each other to come out of retirement for one last, score-settling fight. ‘Grudgement Day’ is initially viewed as a sad gimmick, but the rivals’ heated antics on the publicity circuit generate attention the men haven’t seen in decades, and gives them all the more to prove. De Niro and Stallone have shared the screen before (Cop Land), but this nod to the roles they built their careers on makes things seem a little more monumental, and while it isn’t what you might be hoping for, it does deliver what you’d expect. There’s nothing here that we haven’t seen from The Wrestler, Warrior and so many other boxing/ wrestling comeback films, and that’s the point. Halfway between a homage to, and a mockery of, the classic boxing films of decades past, the familiarity keeps the film from becoming a straight to DVD B-Grade fight flick, regardless of the headliners and dry wit. The two leads do a great job of not taking themselves too seriously, and there’s a lot of tongue-in-cheek nostalgia to be had, but this isn’t Jake La Motta v Rocky Balboa, no matter how much we want it to be.
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Opening But Unrated Labor Day (M), writer/director/ producer Jason (Young Adult, Up In The Air) Reitman’s filming of Joyce Maynard’s novel, is a sexy, sweaty character drama with Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin and Brooke Smith. Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom (M), from director Justin Chadwick, is an epic filming of the late lamented Nelson’s life with two London-born actors, Idris Elba and Naomie Harris, as Nelson and Winnie. Brazilian director José Padhila’s remake of Paul Verhoeven’s classic 1986 sci-fi-er RoboCop (MA) toplines Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley, Michael K Williams, Jay Baruchel, Jennifer Ehle and even Samuel L Jackson.
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Word-of-mouth is a pretty good marketing tool; particularly when the words are coming from a passionate lady full of ideas and ambition, ready to tackle the Adelaide coffee/café/warehouse thing full on. I met would-be café owner Georgie one night at a city bar, with her eyes full of hope and a vivacious attitude. You know when people are already ingrained in our café culture it’s much more likely that they know what people want, because they want it too. I ordered another drink and we got to talking about Hello, Yes, her coffee shop and workshop, coming soon to a laneway nearby. Skip forward a few months and I finally had a chance to head on down to Eliza St, through the roller shutter door at number 12 and into this eclectic warehouse-café-cum-artspace for a coffee and a bite to eat. Make that two coffees – they were pretty good. The outside and adjacent laneway is covered in street art – some kind of strange blob-creature wearing a head for a hat. I quite liked the bow tie. Inside, there’s an open ground level with a bunch of rickety chairs and tables. I’m okay with eating off a reclaimed door, but I think that the milk crate for seating thing has been done one too many times. I chose the real seats and the door-cum-table with a direct view of the bar, which is where all the action happens. Georgie and her owner counterpart Christopher are both very cool kids who clearly love what they do and are passionate about arts and the communal vibe. They’ve even allowed a mobile phone repairer into one of the mezzanine spaces above (and you get a free coffee while you wait – I do love an entrepreneurial approach to business). The interior has been left mostly as-is, though a few cool touches including a pipework lighting installation over the bar and adorning the walls. Georgie’s father is to thank for that artistic touch and also for the bike rack in the corner. Nice one, dad. I’m not sure who is to thank for the ‘Ugly Bagels,’ but whether they were a mistake or not they were so successful that they’ve landed a permanent spot on the countertop and on the breakfast menu. Toasted and smothered in cream cheese, these delicious little $5 suckers sell out daily. ‘The Handsome Fellow’ for $10 is a bagel of more
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obvious success, dressed to impress in a blueberry and mango compote with coconut cream and flaked almonds, drizzled in green tea syrup. If you’re into superstar diets and healthier breakfasts, try the ‘Gwenyth Paltrow’ house blend muesli of mapleroasted quinoa flakes blended with dates, Turkish figs and walnuts, topped with organic yogurt and seasonal fruit. And for the geek in us all there’s the ‘Good Doctor’ breakfast featuring fresh sourdough bread topped with bacon, dukkah-dusted egg, sliced haloumi, tomato spinach and wilted spinach ($11). While lunchtime menu options are limited they all sound delicious. One dish, labelled ‘‘The Thing’, comes packed with pickled cabbage, green apple, pastrami and whipped feta ($9). The ‘Stuffed Mushrooms’ ($15) is true to its name, boasting mushroom full of caramelised onion, feta, garlic, walnuts and spinach atop a stack of greens and bursting at the edges ($15). Like many smaller places, the menu changes regularly – based on seasonal ingredients and the whim of the kitchen. On our visit they whipped us up a tasty wrap,
crammed with haloumi and veggie goodness and served with a side of fluffy Moroccan couscous, pine nuts and chickpeas. Their drinks menu (soon to be alcoholic, after some possible renovations and license requirements) includes a mix of fun and nostalgic ‘Coolers’, ‘Quenchers’ and juice. ‘The Columbiana Spider’ introduces American-style creaming soda to this childhood classic, and you even get to plop the icecream in yourself. This little fizzer comes in a few other flavours too, in case Dr. Pepper or Cherry Cola is more to your taste ($7). Check out their full menu at facebook.com/ HelloYesCoffee.
WHAT: Hello, Yes WHERE: 12 Eliza St, Adelaide WHEN: Mon – Fri 8am – 3pm & Sat 10am – 4pm INFO: facebook.com/HelloYesCoffee
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Stars// The new moon in Aquarius bodes well for getting fresh plans into action. Others will fall into being overly conservative or overly emotional as they react to your latest shift. Don’t make matters worse. Let the sheer brilliance of your intent do the talking. Fun is your barometer.
Taurus 21.04/20.05
Love is going through a profound process of transformation. If you have been living your relationships according to the interests of your essence, then greater beauty will surface. If you haven’t, then any false edifices built, will have to fall to make room for greater beauty.
Gemini 21.05/21.06
The new moon in Aquarius helps you join the dots between the ideas that turn you on and the emotional realities that tend to do you in. It’s all very well to want to be free, but if you freak out when the cage door is open, then we have a problem. Find ways to get yourself onside.
Cancer 22.06/22.07
Healing is the way through. The karmic traffic is quite heavy in this moment. Impetuousness isn’t working – and neither is incremental patience. Too much of a hurry equals trampled sensitivities. Refusing to move, to protect all parties, doesn’t work either. Be sensitive and proactive.
Leo 23.07/22.08
The best thing to do is bide your time. Most of the planetary action is weighted against you. The way through is to accept that the results of your reality check are correct. Then, get familiar with, and be loving to, parts of yourself that don’t have an easy time with not being omnipotent.
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Libra 23.09/23.10
The presence of Mars’ V8 testosterone running through your system no longer disturbs you. In fact you are growing quite fond of the capacity for action that he is gifting you. The new moon in Aquarius fills you with uncurling buds of possibility. Let forgotten playfulness through.
Scorpio 24.10/21.11
In having both Saturn and the North Node of the moon in your sign, you are being asked to move ahead and to move slowly at the same time. The future is not rushing towards you. In fact, you are the future, the moment your stop trying to be someone else and start being yourself.
Sagittarius 22.11/21.12
Spend time with friends. It is your tribe that is your source of strength, in this moment. The new moon suggests a fresh beginning, the budding of another monthly cycle. As you make your friends and the quality of friendliness your home, so your big heart expands some more.
Capricorn 22.12/19.01
Venus and Pluto are in quite a dance. Pluto asks Venus to dive deep and enrich her sense of delight. In the process he takes you with him. Love isn’t going to let you get away with keeping things light and fluffy. Explore a depth of affection, that grows with the changing seasons.
Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition A group of 33 emerging South Australian artists will present their end-of-year work in the 19th annual Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition. This year’s exhibiting artists were chosen from more than 150 graduates from the Helpmann Academy’s visual arts partner insitutions, including the Adelaide College of the Arts, UniSA and the Adelaide Central School of Art. This year’s exhibition will feature works across a range of creative disciplines, including ceramics, glass, installations, jewellery, painting, photography and sculpture. This year’s artists are Lily Ahlefeldt, Richard Austin, Alexander Bishop-Thorpe, John
Blines, Tom Borgas, Cassie Broad, Emily Clinton, Carolyn Corletto, David Court, Lucas Croall, Angela Giuliani, Jessica Hansen, Angelica Harris-Faull, Amy Herrmann, Cheryl Hutchens, Zoe Kirkwood, Bekki Klix, Kylie Macey, Alice Mahoney, Monika Morgenstern, Maggie Moh, Roger Myles, Sophia Nuske, Paul Perry, Amy Pfitzner, Courtney Rodgers, Hayley Rowlands, Derek Sargent, Julie Strawinski, Jess Taylor, Clancy Warner, Rosemary White and Ruth Wilson. More than $22,000 in awards will be presented at the opening night of the exhibition on Thu Feb 13 at 6pm, which will be opened by JamFactory CEO Brian Parkes.
WHAT: Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibiton WHERE: Drill Hall, Torrens Parade Ground, Victoria Drive, Adelaide WHEN: Fri Feb 14 – Sun Mar 9 OPENING: Thu Feb 13 from 6pm
Aquarius 20.01/18.02
The freshly waxing moon in Aquarius, is offering you a powerful opportunity to begin a fresh annual cycle. You are at the start of another voyage around the sun, on spaceship earth. Begin it quietly inspired. Life is not letting up with the adventures. Cease the struggle - just flow.
Virgo 23.08/22.09
As old defences fall away, love, kindness and relationship knock on your door. Life is more than capable of springing lovely surprises when we do the work of preparing ourselves to receive them. Acceptance arises spontaneously as the habit of non-acceptance exhausts itself.
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Aries 21.03/20.04
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Pisces 19.02/20.03
Life is drawing you towards situations and feelings that test you. This test is to come out of any slightly spacey, disembodied states, confront scenarios and emotions that challenge you, get real and be transformed by the process. Move into moments that put butterflies in your stomach.
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Magic – Science = Art Kaspar Schmidt Mumm dabbles in painting, sculpture and illustration, working within the three disciplines like a ‘crazy mathematician’ to create intricate patterns with explosive colour palettes and detail. Recently working on a number of projects with James Brown of MASH Studio, Schmidt Mumm will now present his latest collection of solo work at The Mill for one week only this Fringe season. “Magic is the power of apparently influencing event by using mysterious
or supernatural forces. The idea that something can be so well planned or executed that it is deemed ‘mysterious’ or ‘supernatural’ is a primary subject within the theme of this exhibition,” the artist said in a press release. The opening night will feature organic, alternative wines form new kids on the block Deliquente Wine Co. Head on down from 6pm. WHAT: Kaspar Schmidt Mumm: Magic – Science = Art WHERE: The Mill, 154 Angas St, Adelaide WHEN: Fri Feb 14 – Thu Feb 20 OPENING: Thu Feb 13 from 6pm
Fashion//
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Carhartt Collabs Carhartt is one of America’s most successful and innovative clothing companies, transcending from creating fire-proof industry clothing, including overalls, vests and jeans to high street fashion. Since starting in 1889 by Hamilton Carhartt, it continues to be family run. Carharrt are becoming highly regarded for their diverse collaborations. We look at three that are available now.
Carhartt X APC Military Watch
Carhartt have teamed up with French streetwear brand APC to create a capsule collection, which includes tees, coats, shirts, pants and accessories that all have melded both Carharrt and APC street and workwear aesthetic. One item in their collection, the Odette Watch, has a unique characteristic in being completely batshit in its number sequence. The jumble is said to be inspired b the Jimi Hendrix song If 6 Was 9, and while it may inspire a bit of a ‘go home watch you’re drunk’ sentiment, it certainly stands out.
Carhartt X RETROSUPERFUTURE
Cahartt X Steele Basics
RETROSUPERFUTURE, the Italian glasses brand that have championed acetate-made frames have created their first collection with Carharrt. Featuring three silhouettes named after areas of Detriot – Carharrt’s home town – this could be the start of something wonderfully long-lasting.
Lock In The Love at Rundle Mall As an initiative of the Heart Foundation, which has been raising awareness of heart disease – Australia’s single biggest killer – for more than 50 years, Adelaideans can pledge their love, remember a loved one or mark a milestone in Rundle Mall at their Lock In The Love installation. For the first two weeks of February, for a $10
Perhaps a strange collab, the decision to team up with Steele Basics to make a luxe laundry cart may have been a homage to Carharrt’s heritage in factories, farms and workshops across America. The steel framed cart features a canvas body with leather carry handles, in black or natural canvas.
donation you can received a padlock with a metal heart shaped fob and connect it to the installation in James Pl. While there, punters can grab a photoframe prop or a whiteboard for a selfie to help spread the love over social media, or take home a polaroid taken by one of the on-site photographers.
WHAT: Lock In The Love installation WHERE: James Pl, Rundle Mall WHEN: until Fri Feb 14
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Roadshow / MA / 90 mins
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Director, producer, and head of After Dark productions, Courtney Solomon’s car-chase/crash thriller’s notable for its near-A-List cast, some cool vehicular carnage and the fact that it’s proudly shot – and also set – in Bulgaria (rather than being filmed there while everyone pretends that it’s America). Former racecar driver Brett Magna (underacting Ethan Hawke) realises that his wife has been kidnapped by persons unknown and is then forced by a mysterious, unseen figure to commandeer an armoured Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake and take to the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, for increasingly dangerous tasks. Picking up an unnamed and unwilling carjacker (squawky Selena Gomez), the pair must work together to think of a way out of their predicament, even as seemingly the city’s entire police force follows them in hot pursuit, and director Solomon stages stunts and violent action with real glee – and little FX! Never intended to be anything more than an unapologetic potboiler, this is cheerfully silly fun, and more enjoyable than almost any lame Fast & Furious sequel.
Star/co-producer Amanda Seyfried’s strong in this ‘Linda Lovelace’ biopic from co-directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, but she’s not quite right, with her gorgeous look quite unlike the homelier Linda. Having it both ways, this is split in half: the first has Linda Boreman (AS) desperate to escape her parents (Robert Patrick and Sharon Stone) and meeting slimy Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard), who she eventually marries and follows into prostitution and ‘porno chic’, as 1972’s Deep Throat (directed by Hank Azaria’s Gerry Damiano) becomes a controversial hit due to the ‘talents’ of the rechristened ‘Linda Lovelace’. However, everything’s then upended, and we pick up with Linda taking a polygraph in 1977 and revising the story we’ve just seen according to her later autobiographical books (like Ordeal), with Traynor revealed as a drugcrazed brute and career highlights shown to be all about her exploitation. Perhaps not quite as daring as it could have been (especially as Linda’s later ‘feminist’ memoirs are horrifying), this has a fine cast, a seedy ‘70s look and pure intentions, but doesn’t quite come off.
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Hopscotch / M / 94 mins
AAA Not a doco like Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster nor a straightforward concert movie, this outing from director Nimród Antal features a performance by the band staged for the camera (and a stereotyped audience) and set against a ‘surreal adventure’ with post-apocalyptic and Metallica touches. Trip (Dane DeHaan) is a roadie who’s present as a concert’s set up and, before the first number’s over, gets sent on a mission to help a tour truck stranded nearby, and takes a mysterious satchel and an ugly doll with him for reasons unclear. As the numbers keep coming (Creeping Death, For Whom The Bell Tolls, …And Justice For All, Nothing Else Matters), Trip’s involved in an accident and finds himself in a riot, and barely escapes the police truncheons before attracting the attention of a masked horseman with the ability to destroy buildings in bursts of FX. Co-written and co-produced by Antal and the Metals, this is notable for featuring a broken performance of Enter Sandman, as strange events happen at the arena and singer James Hetfield (gasp) shuts up for a moment.
Six-piece British a cappella group The Magnets, who blend original material with contemporary pop hits, are returning to Adelaide Fringe in 2014 which follows previous Fringe performances as well as an engagement at Adelaide Cabaret Festival in 2011.
The group, who will be presenting a brand new show, All This Time, formed while at university in London and issued their debut album, Giving It All That, in 2011 and have since gone on to tour the UK and Europe extensively and perform at five Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. The Magnets very recently performed in the US for the very first time. “They were a bit more of a discerning audience as they are rather more educated about the artform that is a cappella,” founding member Nicolas Doodson, who performs in the group alongside Andrew Frost, Stephen Trowell, Callum McIntosh, Fraser Collins and Michael Welton, says. “But that was great because we’ve now been doing this for a long time and consider ourselves to be a cappella veterans. But we got a great response. “We did tailor our performance to an American audience,” he continues. “But we always do that because when we come down
The Rise / Hopscotch / MA / 104 mins
AAa Writer/director Rowan Athale makes his feature début with this low-budget, English-‘lad’-influenced drama/thriller, and while he assembles a pretty strong cast and at least seems to know what he’s doing, the sheer, dreary familiarity (and improbability) of it all is very nearly fatal. Recently released from a year in prison but now right back in police custody and being amiably interrogated by DI West (Timothy Spall), bloodied young Harvey (Luke Treadaway), in Usual Suspects-like fashion, recounts what happened when he was let out mere weeks ago, and how mate Dempsey (Iwan Rheon from TV’s Misf its) and two other besties concocted an elaborate plan to rip off the local drug kingpin (Neil Maskell) responsible for Harvey’s wrongful incarceration. And, as he discusses how he also tried to get back together with long-suffering girlfriend Nicola (Vanessa Kirby) and also righted a few wrongs along the way, it’s hard to know whether to believe anything of what he’s saying – or, unfortunately, whether to give much of a toss. MDB
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English teacher Menasche’s autobiography is similar to Tom Lubbock’s Until Further Notice, I Am Alive, except in that one journo Lubbock found comfort in art after a diagnosis of brain cancer and Menasche instead decides that the thing to do is hit the road and see what his 3,000 ex-students are up to. Drawing his title from a class exercise inspired by a reading of Othello, Menasche refuses to give in to the disease, even as he’s robbed of his work, his ability to walk and his sight, and travels 12,000km across America while drawing up his own ‘Priority List’. And yes, the term ‘Bucket List’ was obviously taken, but this isn’t about kicking anything: it’s about finding what’s important to you in the little time we all have left.
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to Australia we’ll be including some famous Australian songs. We ask the audience to choose some of them and then we’ll put them together in one huge medley. And I must say there are some amazing Australian songs. “So people can expect to hear a cappella versions of songs by Cold Chisel, The Angels, Little River Band, Men At Work, Midnight Oil and INXS,” Doodson adds. “And we may even do some Savage Garden.” Doodson says the group enjoys travelling together. “Absolutely,” he laughs. “It’s like touring with a band of brothers but like any group of people who have been together for 15 years or so, we have our occasional ups and downs. But we do get on fabulously well otherwise because it’s such fun.”
The group has a fairly busy schedule for 2014. “We are in Australia until the end of March and then we go to Barbados,” Doodson says. “Then I’m getting married in May before we head off to China and then we do a big European tour before we head back to America. “So we won’t have much time to record a new album this year, but I would think that will happen early next year,” he concludes. WHO: The Magnets WHAT: All This Time WHERE: The Vagabond (The Garden Of Unearthly Delights)
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Lilly Buttrose
In December last year Carclew opened applications for their Residency Program, providing early career artists, aged 26 and under, with an opportunity to jag a great space to develop their art form among industry professionals. The jury has spoken and the worthy recipients are Meaghan Coles (25), Jordan Gower (23) and Lilly Buttrose (21), who will take up studio residencies at Carclew until January 2015. In addition to this, two emerging curators Craig Middleton (25) Caitlin Eyre (24) will take on the role of curating four Foyer Gallery exhibitions each over their 12 month appointment with Carclew. A truly exciting opportunity for these five young artists. “This is the ideal extension of my studies and previous professional placements within museums and galleries,” says Middleton. He is looking forward to working with Eyre and sharing the role of showcasing work by emerging South Australian artists. Middleton also recognises the benefit of his appointment. “Carclew residency program provides a platform for emerging artists and curators to bridge the gap between study and building a career”. To see more of the artists work check them out online at meaghancoles.com, jordangower.com and facebook.com/lillybuttroseartist. If this looks like an opportunity you’d like to have a crack at next year, keep an eye out for updates on current and upcoming exhibitions, opportunities for emerging artists and further information on the Carclew residency program at carclew.com.au.
I’m Claire Foord, an emerging artist and Visual Arts grad. I show and sell my artwork here in Adelaide and have travelled to Canada, USA and Germany exhibiting. Right now I’m studying, teaching, art-ing and writing. If you’ve got any hot tips, deals, campus activities or info you want to me share hit me up on Instagram #clairefoord_artist and facebook.com/ ClaireFoordArtist.
What’s On Fringe fever is in the air and Mad March is on its way — with it comes WOMADelaide. This year WOMAD is looking like a stellar four days in Adelaide’s Botanic Pk. It’s not just music that is set to draw you this year, but street theatre, discussions and visual arts. Helpmann Academy are set to showcase the work of eight visual artists in a new gallery space near Stage 2. In addition to the gallery, three painters and one photographer are set to create a live art mural outside the space on Fri Mar 7 – Sun Mar 10. Head to womadelaide.com.au for more details.
Get Your Arts Grant Here Carclew’s project development grant applications are open for development opportunities between July and December 2014. The grants are open for artists of any age and organisations working with young people in artistic projects. Visit carclew.com.au for more information.
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On the last Cloud Nothings album Attack On Memory, frontman Dylan Baldi shelved the flimsy pop leanings of his previous recordings to create something raw, rigid and incessantly rocky. In so doing he created a sound that has been copied the world over by various would be acolytes. Rather than reinvent the wheel all over again with new single I’m Not Part Of Me, Baldi seems content to perfect the aesthetic he crafted two years ago. It’s got the same growling guitars and vocals, the same sprawling breakdowns exhibited on Attack On Memory, only now with a renewed focus and ferocity.
The Preatures Better Than It Ever Could Be (Universal)
Bombay Bicycle Club So Long, See You Tomorrow
The problem with a band like The Preatures (and you can throw Lorde and Vance Joy into this category as well) is that they probably set the bar a little too high for themselves. Last year’s effort Manic Baby probably fell short of their already lofty standards, and now the glammy ‘70s sheen of Better Than It Ever Could Be reaches for the stars. Isabella Manfredi remains the focal point, shifting gears into raspier octaves and proving she’s more Joan Jett than Joni Mitchell. Better Than It Ever Could Be – but not quite as good as Is This How You Feel?
The Presets Goodbye Future
(Modular/Universal)
The Presets were once innovators of dance culture, trend-setters that happened upon commercial success. Since then they’ve struggled to find a comfortable mode to operate in, constantly aware of their chart-topping potential yet reluctant to let go of their cool guy image. Goodbye Future treads this tenuous line of uncertainty with one foot in the mainstream and one foot in the underground. It might be ephemerally cool, but an innovation it ain’t.
Nick Mulvey Cucurucu
(Fiction/Caroline)
I can’t tell if Nick Mulvey is serious with his new song title or if he’s making an obscure, chickenrelated Arrested Development reference. The BBC Sound Of 2014-nominated English singersongwriter is in cruise control on Cucurucu, gliding though a track that could easily be adapted for one of those Corona ‘From Where You’d Rather Be’ ads. He adopts a similar global approach to his music and lackadaisical vocal delivery to The Cat Empire, but backs it with some chilled coastal vibes.
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AAAA For those with sceptical ears when it comes to Bombay Bicycle Club, their experimental fourth album So Long, See You Tomorrow is the release that will have you finally understanding the band’s allure. Opening with effervescent jam Overdue, you’re immediately hit with luscious melodies and glitchy beats, which when paired with Jack Steadman’s quivering, melodramatic vocals, achieve that
Tour Guide// Thu Feb 6
THE NATIONAL @ Thebarton Theatre Fri Feb 7 ED KOWALCZYK @ Her Majesty’s Theatre LEMURIA @ Crown & Anchor LANEWAY FESTIVAL: LORDE, HAIM, JAGWAR MA, CHVCHES, WARPAINT & more @ Hart’s Mill, Port Adelaide LIOR & NIGEL WESTLAKE @ Festival Theatre YOUNG FRANCO @ Rocket Bar
Sat Feb 8
THE LOCUST @ Enigma Bar DIANA KRALL @ Festival Theatre BABYLON BURNING @ Jive Sun Feb 9 THE NECKS @ Governor Hindmarsh Mon Feb 10 YOU, ME AND THE BLOODY SEA @ Nexus Cabaret Tue Feb 11 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E-STREET BAND @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Wed Feb 12
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E-STREET BAND @Adelaide Entertainment Centre MOTHER’S CAKE @ Enigma Bar Thu Feb 13 AUSTRA @ Adelaide UniBar DOLLY PARTON @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Fri Feb 14 PETE MURRAY @ Bird In Hand Winery LITTLE BASTARD @ Howl The Moon
James Blake/Chet Faker-esque white boy funk. Continuing in the same beat-heavy vein, following tracks Carry Me and Luna add a sense of tropical whimsy to the album, both vibrant, colourful and devastatingly catchy. Somewhere along the way the album loses a bit of pizzazz – showcasing the gentler side of the band but at the same time the painstakingly dull. By injecting a little worldly influence, however, it manages to escape the inevitable middle-of-the-album slump unscathed with highlight track Feel. Upbeat and enthralling with jaunting Bollywood influences, each element of the track is executed perfectly, restoring faith in the release as a whole. So Long, See You Tomorrow is a bit of a rollercoaster (or perhaps a bicycle ride) over rough terrain, but the breadth of ideas covered across the release sees Bombay Bicycle Club certainly coming into their own. Bella Fowler
Sat Feb 15
PETE MURRAY @ Bird In Hand Winery CASH SAVAGE & THE LAST DRINKS @ Garden Of Unearthly Delights THE JAMMIN’ DIVAS @ The Church Of Trinity, Clarence Pk N’FA JONES & REMI @ Rocket Bar Sun Feb 16 GURRUMUL @ Prince Alfred College Oval
Thu Feb 20
THE FUNKOARS @ Governor Hindmarsh
Fri Feb 21
THE ASTON SHUFFLE & THIEF @ Royal Croquet Club MIGUEL MIGS @ Mr Kim’s SLUMBERJACK @ Rocket Bar VICTORIANA GAYE @ Nook Nosh, Unley
Sat Feb 22
A DAY ON THE GREEN: HUNTERS & COLLECTORS, YOU AM I, SOMETHING FOR KATE & BRITISH INDIA @ Leconfield Wines, McLaren Vale WIRE @ Jive DAVE CHAPPELLE @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Sun Feb 23 MARCEL DETTMANN @ Sugar THE GIN CLUB @ Garden Of Unearthly Delights Tue Feb 25 PHIL JAMIESON @ Ramsgate Hotel TKAY MAIDZA @ Bar Smith Lawns, Adelaide Uni Thu Feb 27 NINA LAS VEGAS, MOETZ, COSMO’S MIDNIGHT, SABLE & TKAY MAISZA @ Rocket Bar Fri Feb 28 BLISS N ESO & HORRORSHOW @ Clipsal 500 URBAN DECAY @ Hotel Metropolitan PIGEON @ Rocket Bar
AA British “rock” band You Me At Sucks in their fourth studio album. Trying to be squeaky clean never sounded so bad, the five-piece making Nikki Webster look avant garde. The album title, Cavalier Youth, irritates the gag reflex just as much as their mild references to alcohol abuse. Yawn. Whilst their overall sound is tolerable, the unbearable sincerity and upbeat attitude leaking from each track makes you wonder if it’s not just a few words that are missing from this band. Frontman Josh Franceschi flaunts his smooth and easy-to-go-down vocals in Cold Night. This success proves that You Me At Six are as good, if not better, than the rest of the pop-punk genre. Unfortunately, that is an obscenely low benchmark. Jauntily named track Love Me Like You Used To displays a few standout riffs that hint at the band’s scrapings of talent. However, Cavalier Youth remains a collection of emotional stereotypes and clichés, rendering the band’s message trivial. Resembling a softer Mayday Parade or a less enigmatic Panic! At the Disco, the band’s latest endeavour is a success for the ears of middle class teens everywhere. Katie Bryant
Sat Mar 1
SOUNDWAVE: GREEN DAY, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, ALICE IN CHAINS, A DAY TO REMEMBER & more @ Bonython Park EMPIRE OF THE SUN & KIMBRA @ Clipsal 500 Sun Mar 2 BRUNO MARS @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre DANIEL O’DONNELL & MARY DUFF @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre KEITH URBAN, GUY SEBASTIAN & BOOM CRASH OPERA @ Clipsal 500 PUBLIC ENEMY @ HQ EVERLAST @ Governor Hindmarsh Tue Mar 4 MANGO GROOVE @ Norwood Concert Hall Wed Mar 5 LIONEL RICHIE & JOHN FARNHAM @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre DAN SULTAN @ Garden Of Unearthly Delights
Fri Mar 7
GAY PARIS @ Enigma Bar
Fri Mar 7 - Mon Mar 10 WOMADELAIDE: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, BILLY BRAGG, NEKO CASE, WASHINGTON, MIKHAEL PASKALEV @ Botanic Park Mon Mar 10
FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL: PHARRELL WILLIAMS, DEADMAU5, MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS, ERIC PRYDZ, PHOENIX & more @ Adelaide Showground Thu Mar 13 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE & NINE INCH NAILS @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre SUICIDE GIRLS @ HQ Fri Mar 14 - Sun Mar 16 KUSTOM KULTURE WEEKENDER: DEKE DICKERSON, BACKY SHANK & more @ Highway Hotel
Reviews // Quick Ones
I Break Horses
Within Temptation
Jason Isbell
(Bella Union/PIAS)
(Roadrunner/Warner)
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I Break Horses have made a habit out of formlessness. If you break down their songs to their atomic structures you’ll find plenty of fully formed pop components, but when the Swedes put them together it’s like a Lego super-structure whose assembly manual went missing. What surprises on second album Chiaroscuro is the way they make this unorthodox approach to song writing work for them. It helps when the building blocks are as solid as they are. If the shoegaze-y textures on debut album Hearts were a little haphazard, on Chiaroscuro they’ve been refined for maximum effect. There’s a lushness about the production that’s offset and enhanced by some sharper elements, such as the electric key riff on Ascension or the plunging bass on Berceuse. It makes both the highly conceptual lyrics and sprawling nature of the music much easier to swallow. A track like Medicine Brush, for instance, exhibits a total lack of accessibility save for its velvety synths, lead-weighted percussion and breathy, Death In Vegas-style vocals. If they were to trim it down to a traditional pop structure it wouldn’t have nearly the same gravitas – and maybe that’s why the most fun you can have with Lego is when imagination trumps instruction. Jimmy Byzantine
The second I pushed play and began listening to Within Temptation’s sixth studio effort, I could almost feel the atmosphere. It blew me away. The only other band I had heard create such an enchanting atmosphere was the Norwegian powerhouse Dimmu Borgir on their 2010 masterpiece Abrahadabra. Ex-Killswitch Engage lead vocalist Howard Jones provides the presence of his imposing voice on Dangerous. I actually prefer the vocal duet of Sharon den Adel and ex-Nightwish vocalist Tarja Turunen on lead single Paradise (What About Us?) much more. It simply fits better with their musical style. In certain songs like Covered by Roses, Dog Days and Tell Me Why, the drums and guitars are overpowered by the vocals and keyboards, but ultimately this is no real hindrance as most of the guitar riffs and drum beats rarely deviate from the basic parts that they are required to be. Hydra is a solid effort by a band nearly 20 years into their career. Having said that, I am still trying to wrap my head around the fact that a symphonic metal band from the Netherlands has Xzibit featured on their album. Oh well. Nick Grimm
Jason Isbell’s fourth solo album is roots music in a very literal sense – much of the subject matter revolves around an apparent identity crisis the Alabama native underwent following his bout with alcoholism and subsequent stint in rehab. Bravely, he addresses the episode head on on the album’s opener Cover Me Up, confessing his sins while pledging a lifelong debt to his wife Amanda Shires, who convinced Isbell to clean up following several failed attempts. It’s this honesty, this open insight into such traumatic circumstances, as well as the clearness of thought in which it is expressed, that sets Isbell on the path to redemption. Stylistically, Southeastern is folk music informed by Isbell’s country roots, like a displaced Southerner finding his voice in Greenwich Village in the 1960s. But the singer is careful not to hark back to the good old days too much, bringing his music up to speed with its contemporary content – Stockholm addresses homesickness while living in a foreign city, while the album is littered with allusions to modern-day drugs. Some cultural references are quintessentially American, but the themes are universal, lifting Southeastern well above most country crossover attempts. Jimmy Byzantine
Chiaroscuro
Fri Mar 14 KATE MILLER-HEIDKE @ Garden Of Unearthly Delights
Sat Mar 15
KATE MILLER-HEIDKE @ Garden Of Unearthly Delights NEIL FINN @ Thebarton Theatre Sun Mar 16 BATHS @ Rocket Bar Tue Mar 18 MICHAEL JACKSON HISTORY II SHOW @ Her Majesty’s Theatre Wed Mar 19 ALAN DAVIES @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Thu Mar 20
ILLY @ Governor Hindmarsh Fri Mar 21 THE ANGELS @ Jive BOOBY KEYS @ Governor Hindmarsh Sat Mar 22 THE ANGELS @ Jive ELIZABETH ROSE @ Pirie And Co Social Club THE SMITH STREET BAND @ UniBar Sun Mar 23 JURASSIC 5 @ Thebarton Theatre CASPIAN @ Crown & Anchor Tue Mar 25 AN EVENING WITH THE CAST OF ‘SONS OF ANARCHY’ @ HQ
Thu Mar 27 MICHAEL PAYNTER @ Jive
Hydra
Fri Mar 28
THE HOLIDAYS @ Pirie And Co Social Club IWRESTLEDABEARONCE @ Fowler’s Live Sun Mar 30 THE SCIENTISTS @ Governor Hindmarsh
Thu Apr 3
JOHN BUTLER TRIO @ Thebarton Theatre LUCA BRASI @ Crown & Anchor Hotel FLAMENCURA @ Norwood Concert Hall Fri Apr 11 RAISE THE PEOPLE @ Fowler’s Live Sat Apr 12 MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD @ Governor Hindmarsh Thu Apr 17 KREATOR & DEATH ANGEL @ HQ
Mon Apr 21
THE ALMOST @ Fowler’s Live HORROR MY FRIEND @ Rocket Bar Fri Apr 25 GROOVIN THE MOO: DISCLOSURE, DIZZEE RASCAL, THE JEZABELS, KARNIVOOL, ROBERT DELONG @ Oakbank Racecourse Tue May 6 MICHAEL BUBLE @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Thu May 8 JASON DERULO @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Southeastern
Fri May 16
His Life And Music (Skinny Fish/Universal)
AAAAa I’ve been a long-time fan of Gurrumul, having developed an affinity for the Saltwater Band on my first trip to Arnhem Land over a decade ago. And obviously, I was blown away by his first solo work, undoubtedly some of the most beautiful music ever made in this country. You’d wonder whether any improvements could be made to something so close to perfection, but then this comes along: Gurrumul, joined by the symphonic bliss of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. The orchestration is mostly subtle rather than overt, playing second fiddle to Gurrumul’s voice and guitar and gently enhancing the tunes. Peppered with introductions and spoken interludes from his family, His Life And Music is a brilliant piece of work. Luke Balzan
HITS AND PITS ROUND 3: STRUNG OUT, FACE TO FACE, THE CASUALTIES & more @ Governor Hindmarsh JOHNNY CRAIG @ Fowler’s Live Sun May 18 THE TEN TENORS @ Hey Majesty’s Theatre
Broods
THE TEN TENORS @ Her Majesty’s Theatre Fri May 23 BLISS N ESO @ Mt Gambier Showgrounds
Broods’ debut single Bridges landed them a major label record deal earlier this year – a feat you can’t help but feel was aided by the fact that the Auckland duo have a close working relationship with Joel Little, the beat-maker who crafted Lorde’s aural aesthetic. Their debut EP inevitably draws a few stylistic comparisons to Pure Heroine – the spacious production, snappy drum machines and evocative vocal sampling are kind of a giveaway – but Broods endeavour to find a voice of their own. The heavy synths of Pretty Thing take more of a lead from M83 or Chvrches, while the organic instrumentation of Taking You There gives a new spin on what is fast becoming a signature sound from across the pond. Jimmy Byzantine
Mon May 19
Sun Jun 1
ELLIE GOULDING @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Fri Jun 6 JAMES BLUNT @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Thu Jun 19 FINNTROLL @ Governor Hindmarsh
Thu May 15
SEPTICFLESH & FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE @ Fowler’s Live
Gurrumul
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Broods EP (Universal)
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This Fri Feb 7, everyone and their mums will be at St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, shaking their behinds to the best and brightest line-up the touring fest could find. With the new Port Adelaide scenery for eye food and sweet music for ear treats, the day promises to be both beautiful and harmonious. But which are the bands loyal to Adelaide? Who you can support on the day and see at home venues after? The acts at the Vitals Stage, curated by Format Collective.
What song should readers familiarise themselves with before seeing your set? When Daddy Blows His Top – Frontier Scouts Rile O’Keeffe, EMU Who are you looking forward to seeing most? The Violators. How will the Port River dolphins react to your tunes? I for one welcome our new dolphin overlords. Port Adelaide Football Club? CAAAAAAARRRRRNNNN’ (the Crows).
Noah Reynolds, Bruff Superior Who are you looking forward to seeing most? Dick Diver. How will the Port River dolphins react to your tunes? Hopefully they don’t mind but I don’t know anything about how dolphins react to music. I will Google it. How are you going to lure people to your stage? Our guitarist and singer Liam Kenny is a good looking man. The ladies (and guys) love his stage presence. Sometimes he pretends to sensually shoot people in the audience with his guitar. Are you a child prodigy like Lorde? I was a child prodigy but now I’m a talentless young 21-yearold man. Will your children be prodigies? All of my seven children are a constant disappointment to me. If it’s super hot, how will you cope? Slip slorrp sluurrrp on some beers.
How are you going to lure people to your stage? An in-line spinner lure with ring, dish, body/weight and hook. Will your children be prodigies? If Mum says it’s okay. Dress ups or plain clothes on stage? Neutron-initiator chic. What song should readers familiarise themselves with before seeing your set? John Williamson – Old Man Emu. “He can’t fly, but I’m telling you, he can run the pants off a kangaroo.” Steph Crase & Ellen Cary, Fair Maiden First Laneway memory? E: When Clue To Kalo played I was caught in a love triangle and had a broken finger and there was no one in the audience.
Audio Reign, a melodic, heavy rock band, just played their first festival, picking up a set alongside Heston Drop, Skythief and Sweet Anarchy at Big Day Out’s Headspace stage.
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Friday was great,” Jake Fleming, vocalist and guitarist, tells Rip It Up. “I suppose it was a bit hard, being on at that time with the heat and so on, but we had a ball. It was pretty, pretty cool. You’re always trying to be the best you can for your band, so it was just great to play a big event like Big Day Out. That said, intimate shows are great, too.” Fleming and guitarist Matt Mitris formed the band in 2011 and have since joined forces with Dennis Wright (bass) and Dieter Schoell (drums). Fleming is a fireman with the Metropolitan service, a job which has seen him through the “shocking” summer season, but also provides the flexibility his musical pursuits require. Aside from Audio Reign, he and Mitris also play in a scaled back version of the band, Acoustic Reign. It’s a busy schedule, and it looks to only be getting busier, as the band has finished recording their first EP.
Who are you looking forward to seeing most? S: I’d be really keen to see Savages, Adalita, Dick Diver, Parquet Courts, Run The Jewels. Kurt Vile is playing at the same time as Fair Maiden, so that sucks. I predict that Old Mate will be a classic set, and Wireheads and Divine Rip are two of my favourite bands in the world so it’d be good to catch them outside of The Metro Hotel. How will the Port River dolphins react to your tunes? S: Ellen sings in the key of dolphin. They are gonna flip. Total flippers. How are you going to lure people to your stage? S: Fair Maiden is a harmony army and we’ll just sing good and they’ll run to us. Are you a child prodigy like Lorde? S: I will probably be the oldest person at Laneway, apart from Adalita maybe. But Noah and Hamish from Fair Maiden are pretty much child prodigies and they can go and get fucked. Will your children be prodigies? E: My children will have flat feet and will listen to The Prodigy. What song should readers familiarise themselves with before seeing your set? S: We suck and have no releases out there, although there are some rough live clips on YouTube, and Poison is my fave. We recorded a debut album last year, after only seven years as a band, and it’ll hopefully be out on Bedroom Suck Records in June 2014.
Due to be launched at The Jade on Sat Feb 8, Find Your Way has been a labour of love over the last three years. They recorded it locally with Andy Kite from Against The Grain Studios, then sent it to Jens Borgen’s Fascination Street Studios in Sweden to be mastered. The result is a tight collection of tuneful, dark rock, complete with stellar vocal harmony. Despite the strength of vocals, the EP begins with an instrumental track. Fleming explains: “Our guitarist, Matt, he’s always wanted to do an instrumental, and as far as The Chase goes, it’s a great instrumental. Starting with that was a nice, heavy opener, and we did think about whether to put it at the start or not, with people saying, ‘What’s going on here? Where are the vocals?’ but we thought, ‘Nah, it’ll be nice to start it with something different.’ “We had to put it somewhere! It’s like an opening title before it all comes in.” Who: Audio Reign (With The Crown And Guilt Free) What: Find Your Way (Independent) Ep Launch Where: The Jade When: Sat Feb 8
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