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“Everything has always revolved around our live show,” says NORTHEAST PARTY HOUSE’s Sean Kenihan. “Playing live has always been a very different experience to listening to our (recorded) music. And that’s always been the confusion with us.” That confusion will be cleared up when Any Given Weekend is released on Fri May 16 through Stop Start. With lead single The Haunted already getting lots of love on triple j, hopes are high for this Melbourne five-piece. Following its release, Northeast Party House will hit the road on a national tour that kicks off at Jive on Thu Jun 19. Tickets on sale on Tue Apr 8 through Moshtix.
One of the weirdest, wildest bands you’ll ever see is DUNE RATS – and luckily they’re back on the road. Currently on tour in South Africa, the hardworking threesome will be tramping the streets of Australia soon enough. Touring nation-wide throughout the month of ‘Dune’ (hur hur hur) the Brisbane psych/grunge/rock crew will be back on the party bus for ten nights.The tour comes in celebration of their album, which will hit the streets on Sun Jun 1. Lead single Funny Guy debuted earlier this week on triple j. Tickets for their appearance at Adelaide UniBar on Sat Jun 14 are available now through Moshtix.
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BRANT BJORK Another day, another DAN SULTAN tour. It seems as though this acclaimed singer-songwriter and sometime political agitator lives his life on the road – hitting Adelaide for the third time since November 2013. Sultan has an excuse: he’s celebrating the release of his third album Blackbird. It’s been four years between drinks for Sultan, whose previous album Get Out While You Can was released way back in 2010. Sultan is setting off on a massive, 20-date headline tour with supports Stonefield and Way Of The Eagle in DJ mode. Tickets for his Governor Hindmarsh show on Thu Aug 14 are on sale now through Oztix.
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Alternative rockers THE ALMOST have lived up to their name, announcing on their official Facebook page that their Australian tour will “unfortunately” no longer include Adelaide or Perth. The announcement comes just before the band were set to play Fowler’s Live on Mon Apr 24. Aaron Gillepsie, former drummer of Underoath and current The Almost frontman, took to Facebook to announce scheduling changes due to his commitments with extra other band Paramore. “So so sorry, I deeply love Adelaide and Perth and am bummed we won’t be able to make it. Love to you all,” wrote Gillepsie. Refunds are available for Adelaide and Perth shows from the point of purchase.
Indie-folk darling DUSTIN TEBBUTT is packing up his guitar case and rolling through four capital cities this May in support of his new single, Bones. 2013 was a massive breakout year for the Sydney artist, whose single The Breach was spread far and wide across the triple j airwaves, culminating in the No. 44 spot in the Hottest 100. To top it all off, Tebbutt was named as one of triple j’s Next Crop for 2014. Having finally released that long-awaited and hugely anticipated follow-up single, Tebbutt is hitting the road next month with his new band. He says he’s looking forward to sharing his music in various “intimate venues”, including Pirie & Co. Social Club on Thu May 8. Tickets are on sale now through Moshtix.
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Wack-tacular Melbourne group CLOSURE IN MOSCOW are bringing their wild times to Adelaide super soon. The cosmic rockers have finally laid down tracks for their sophomore album, which will be launched nationally as part of the tour. The announcement comes just hours after the band’s Adelaide-made video for The Church Of The Technochrist was nominated for Best Music Video in the 2014 South Australian Screen Awards. Closure In Moscow will play at Pirie & Co. Social Club on Fri May 16, with supports to be announced. Tickets are available now through OzTix.
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Ship To Shore There was a time when You Am I would sporadically change their name to The Convicts whenever they toured the US. “We got a bit tired of having to explain the name You Am I,” shrugs frontman Tim Rogers. “I don’t really know what it means – it was thought up by someone far more brilliant than myself.”
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he name change was either somewhat serendipitous or extraordinarily prophetic, as several years later Rogers now finds himself starring in Vandemonian Lags, a stage show featuring in the upcoming Adelaide Cabaret Festival that explores the culture and history of Tasmania’s earliest convict settlers. Co-starring several other Australian rock luminaries such as Mick Thomas, Ben Salter, Darren Hanlon and Jeff Lang, and given that Rogers himself resembles the typical convict vagabond, it’s unsurprising that his decision to get involved with the project was a “no-brainer”. “It was just an invite I couldn’t say no to,” he says from his car somewhere on the Hume Highway. “If Mick asked me to do anything, whether it’s mow his lawn or make his lunch, I’ll run to do it – I respect the guy so much. Then he told me his wish list for the cast: Ben Salter’s one of my favourite singers of all time, Liz Stringer I love working with and Van Walker as well is just one of my favourites.” With such a large and individually active ensemble, it’s so far been difficult to tour Vandemonian Lags. Its one-off show in Adelaide – a settlement historically famous for not being a penal colony – is only its second outing after debuting in Tasmania last year. Although Rogers has fond memories of performing Vandemonian Lags in the place it was written
about (Vandemonian = ‘someone from Van Diemen’s Land’), he says the impact of the show won’t be lost on Adelaide audiences. “Going down to Tasmania and doing it there first was really important and I was very affected because after the show, particularly in Launceston, were ancestors of the people we were singing about. Having that almost tactile relationship with your own country’s history and to meet those people was really affecting. When the opportunity came up to do it again – I was actually going to be in the States – but I wanted to get back to do it. “It’s difficult to get everyone together. Oddly
“Going down to Tasmania and doing it there first was really important because after the show, particularly in Launceston, were ancestors of the people we were singing about.” enough, there were roughly about half the cast drinking with me last night. I guess Adelaide’s lucky in that respect that they can present this show, they don’t even need to have that historical connection.” Vandemonian Lags was conceived by Mick
Thomas and his brother Stephen as an offshoot of a university study called Founders And Survivors, which traced and documented Tasmania’s transported founding population. Coincidentally, at the same time as appearing in the production, Rogers received a new revelation about his own family history. He says taking part in Vandemonian Lags has encouraged him to pursue his ancestry further. “I’m heading over to Ireland next month to do a bit of [research] in between shows. My dad has just discovered a little bit more about his ancestry, which was always a bit of a mystery. We’re finally having some breakthroughs and finding out where his father was from. Nothing’s been clarified yet. I haven’t really thought about it a lot [in the past]. My folks are my folks and what I know of my grandparents is there and it’s all just very convict, Anglo-Saxon, but it’s all been thrown a bit of a curve ball. Hopefully over the next year or two I’ll know a bit more about it. “Ever since I dropped out of law school my ability to study and research has dropped off remarkably. It’s funny how I can research the untold history of rock’n’roll or free jazz, but when it comes to my own family and my own life that’s where it all drops away.” Being involved with Vandemonian Lags has opened up a new musical world to Rogers as well. Apart from the songs in the production itself – which largely take their cue from the British and Irish folk tradition, although not exclusively – working closely with so many talented contemporaries has given Rogers the opportunity to reacquaint himself with some their music. Suffice to say, the music of one of his co-stars in particular has had a profound impact on him. “Doing the Vandemonian Lags [shows], we’d go and hang out in the pub for about 17 days afterwards. That was the first opportunity I had to have a proper chat to Darren Hanlon. I loved the songs he put in the project and I’ve since been
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on a glut of listening to his records. There’s a song of Darren’s in the show I’ve got running through my head that almost sounds Middle Eastern. You can look into the Middle Eastern history in Australia, particularly Afghan history, and find something there, but I’ll have to buy Darren some whiskey and get him to talk about it, which I plan on doing. “It alternately makes me want to give up or try a lot harder because he’s just such a wonderfully idiosyncratic, funny, smart song writer. It’s very affecting. What a privilege – I’d make sandwiches for those people!” WHAT: Vandemonian Lags at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival WHERE: Festival Theatre WHEN: Wed Jun 18
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Interviews// Switched Back On Last year was, quite simply, a massive year for Killswitch Engage. They released Disarm The Descent, arguably one of their most important (and possibly best) albums to date. Hailed by critics as a return to form, it earned the band their very first Grammy nomination for lead single In Due Time. To lead guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz, however, that wasn’t such a big deal.
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It’s always an honour to get noticed by something as prestigious as the Grammy academy, but at the end of the day that stuff only means so much,” says Dutkiewicz. “I think it’s more so the fans and the connection with the fans – the people that support us – that means the most to us. Still was pretty cool, though.” Killswitch have had to work hard to get here, however. After being left without a singer in 2012, the band was unsure if they could continue, but when original vocalist Jesse Leach returned to the microphone for the first time since 2002, things started to get back on track. As Dutkiewicz puts it: “Things just kinda settled in nicely with Jesse coming back.” “It just felt more completely natural since we were such good friends with him and we’ve known him for years. It’s pretty cool because it’s nice to have somebody who hasn’t done all the things that we’ve already done. He’s so damn excited to do everything! He was working a desk job previously so I suppose [going] from working behind a desk to actually being able to go out and play music every night, you get pretty excited.” This year also commemorates the 15th anniversary of Killswitch Engage, and with all four founding members back in the band, it’s almost like it’s 1999 all over again. “It’s pretty insane, man. To think about the past 15 years of my life has been this… Jesus. If you told me 15 years ago that the
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band I’m starting would still be around 15 years later I’d be like, ‘I’ll believe it when I see it.’ Here I am and I still kinda can’t believe it. Weird!” he laughs. Of course, we can’t reminisce without acknowledging the huge effect Killswitch have had on modern metal, almost single-handedly introducing the metalcore genre to the masses. Dutkiewicz, in particular, has been a key influence as both an artist and producer, so it’s interesting to hear his thoughts on metal’s current state. “I think metal will always be around and metal will always exist, of course, but yeah, there’s a lot of bands out there that seem to be just doing the same sound. It’s the bands that have something different about them and a specific personality that sticks out always. I think there’ll always be that problem in any kind of music – [or] whatever is hot at the moment. Whether those bands that sound like everybody else have lasting power [we’re] yet to see. You never can really tell. I always appreciate the bands that do something unique and something that brings a specific talent to the genre.” But what’s most exciting for Australians is that Killswitch Engage are once again heading our way, bringing along supergroup Kill Devil Hill. In fact, Dutkiewicz has been packing while we chat and is sounding quite excited himself. “I am currently doing laundry,” he laughs, “Getting ready to
throw a bunch of stuff in a suitcase and fly to your area of the world. We love coming down there just because, obviously, we don’t get the chance to come down as much as [we’d like], so when we do it seems like all the fans are just excited that we’re actually there. It’s got that hype about it.” Most recently here for Soundwave 2013, Dutkiewicz promises the headline tour will be a different experience than their festival appearances, with a setlist celebrating every single one of their 15 years together. “I personally enjoy the headliner, just because I enjoy the club scene a lot more. You have more of a personal connection with the crowd, you can kind of vary up the setlist a bit more. We always try to kind of have something from each era and maybe something from almost every record. But of course since this is still a tour supporting Disarm The Descent, we’re gonna try to throw in as many new songs as we can that makes sense.”
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Beats// Canadian indie outfit Holy Fuck descended upon the world from the icy tundra they call home with an abrasive name and a brazen attitude. With a DIY aesthetic and a spur-of-the-moment mantra, the band became known for their tinkerings with oodles of 'noninstruments' and the controlled chaos of their live shows. Those who weren't hung up over the band's name quickly realised their talent, making Holy Fuck a band truly worthy of their buzz.
Since the band's inception in 2004 they have released critically acclaimed albums and played nearly every major festival. After the release of their third album, Latin, and subsequent tour, Holy Fuck sought refuge with their friends and family in their native Canada. With their batteries fully recharged, Holy Fuck is touring for the first time since 2011 as part of the Groovin' The Moo festival which will see them rock Oakbank on Fri Apr 25. Rip It Up had a chat with founder Brian Borcherdt. “I think it comes to a point where our parents just want to share what their kids do with people they run into at the grocery store. But [my parents] never can because I'm always doing something stupid, like calling my band Holy Fuck or making a video where I'm dressed up in a rabbit suit.” Despite the complications that may arise, Borcherdt's parents always have a diplomatic answer up their sleeves. “We're from a small fishing town on the East Coast of Canada and it's really conservative and religious. Just playing music in the first place is a bit of an anomaly that comes with its own
stereotypes, but my parents have always been really supportive — and I think they get it. One of the things that my mum always says [regarding the band's name] is that it's not something negative. Sometimes the locals will ask her about her son's band called Fuck Off or something like that, because they don't get it, they only know the F-word. And that's a bummer, but my mum is always the first person to point out that Holy Fuck is a positive expression, something you feel when you are excited. "There's nothing hateful in it, there's nothing negative. It's my mum who has reminded me of that, which I appreciate because it's true, there is a big difference between ‘holy fuck’ and ‘fuck off ’.” Borcherdt admits that the origin of the band's name stems from the fact that he never envisioned it to be an international success. “I [originally] envisioned it to be a local thing here in Toronto. I thought of some of the places that I would be playing locally, and some of the friends that would be there, and some of the bands that I would be sharing the stage with. I thought, if anything, the name would be kind of funny. The first show I ever played was myself alone on stage with some Casio keyboards and I was playing just the beats off of these little Casios, which are totally clinkity, small, tiny sounding little beats. I thought right away that there was a little bit of sarcasm in the name, a little self deprecation. Just this big exclamation to describe something so underwhelming. It really wasn't meant to be anything more than a little piss-take.” In addition to awkward conversations at home, Borcherdt has had to deal with blacklash surrounding his band's name in
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virtually every aspect of the business. “There are probably people sitting at home who hate us for our name, and we'll never interact with those people because they aren't part of our sphere. I think people thought that we were going to be shocking, or that we were trying to get attention. I think that they also thought that we were bragging, like 'we're so awesome, we're so extreme because we're called Holy Fuck!', which is unfortunate because we're the total opposite. I think at first our name was really working because people approached the whole thing with a sense of humour. It's not that we were a joke band, but they understood that we were doing something fun and being kind of punk about it. We
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A stalwart of the scene for over two decades, Mr Romboy’s sound is one where you can peel back the layers to reveal a very intricate production method. Undertaking collabs over the years with Booka Shade, KiNK, Stephan Bodizn and Robert Owens, these and his back catalogue really earn him the standing of an enduring titan within the scene. On Shades, we are treated to a massive three discs of sounds ranging from electroboogie, nu-disco, gloriously tweaked acid, techy house and straight-up house music. Disc one is all about the collabs. Disc two is a collection of remixes with some great reworking of Gus Gus, Terrence Parker and The Juan Maclean plus some great fuckin’ about with synths for your headphone experience. Disc 3 is the tits, as there is some amazing techno within, and the Romboy sound shines brilliantly through. texjah
Alright, I’m gonna say it: hip hop feels a little trapped-out these days. It’s like the artists have all realised that they can make bank off their product, so they’ve just stopped trying. Now, I’m not some tragic old school harp who thinks the ‘golden era’ of hip hop has been and gone, but sheeeeit, put some fucking soul into it people! LE1F’s EP is five joints that largely sound the same, that being like A$AP Rocky, Flostradamus, Young Chop, 808 Mafia and so on. The fact that LE1F has produced Das Racist joints (known for a big, original and bolshy sound), and yet gives his own work this sparseness is hard to comprehend; especially given the fact that his look is one that screams individuality, which contrasts from his generic sound. Furthermore, as a gay dude in such a misogynistic and homophobic industry, this record should be a brash statement instead of a beacon of conformity. texjah
New York native AG is embarking on his long-awaited debut tour of Australia next month. The founding member of hip hop super crew D.I.T.C. (Lord Finesse, Diamond D, Fat Joe, Big L) first made a name for himself in tandem with producer Showbiz, but since 1998 has been running solo. For his maiden voyage down under, AG is bringing X-Ecutioners turntablist Total Eclipse and Adelaide’s own Dialect & Despair along with him, and they’ll all be hitting Pirie & Co. Social Club on Sat May 3. Tickets through Moshtix.
WHO: Holy Fuck WHAT: Groovin’ The Moo WHERE: Oakbank Racecourse WHEN: Fri Apr 25
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weren't really trying to be an Arcade Fire, even though at the time that's what was getting noticed around Canada, and the name kind of showed that. The people who were at the original show on a Sunday night above a Mexican restaurant in Toronto understood that, but by the time we filtered through the blogosphere we had a lot to answer for.”
The Aston Shuffle Hot on the heels of their new album Photographs, Canberra production duo The Aston Shuffle have announced a national tour that will kick off in August. Having recently wrapped up tour duties for recent single Tear It Down, The Aston Shuffle are wasting no time in getting back on the road. Now armed with a new album full of “ambitious, genresplicing, emotive and always classy dance music”, the pair are giving Australian punters a second chance to catch them live. They play UniBar on Sat Aug 30. Tickets through Moshtix. RipITUPMAGAZINE//ripitup.com.au
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Tour Guide/ DJ PREMIER & PETE ROCK @ HQ
Thu Apr 10 TYGA @HQ
Fri May 9
Fri Apr 11
CALLING ALL CARS @ Fowler's Live TWELVE FOOT NINJA @ Governor Hindmarsh FOR TODAY & PREPARED LIKE A BRIDE @ UniBar WHEN GIANTS SLEEP & EMECIA @ The Cavern Club THIEF @ Rocket Bar
Sat Apr 12
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD @ Governor Hindmarsh VELOCIRAPTOR @ Pirie & Co. Social Club
Thu Apr 17
KREATOR & DEATH ANGEL @ HQ BAM BAM @ Edinburgh Castle
Fri Apr 18
SASKWATCH @ Blenheim Festival, Clare Valley SHIT ROBOT @ Sugar DELTA HEAVY @ HQ
Sun Apr 20
BORIS THE BLADE @ Fowler's Live
Mon Apr 21
HORROR MY FRIEND @ Rocket Bar
Tue Apr 22
THE BAD SHEPHERDS @ Governor Hindmarsh
Wed Apr 23
BURIED IN VERONA & FIT FOR A KING @ Fowler's Live
Thu Apr 24
VANCE JOY @ Governor Hindmarsh HUGH LAURIE @ Thebarton Theatre ACACIA STRAIN @ Fowler's Live
JAMES REYNE @ Norwood Hotel ELLA HOOPER @ Jive MAT MCHIGH @ Governor Hindmarsh Sat May 10 ARCTIC MONKEYS & POND @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre INFINITY BROKE @ Exeter Hotel Sun May 11 HELLIONS @ Fowler's Live Wed May 14 MISERY SIGNALS @ Fowler's Live POISON IDEA @ Enigma Bar Thu May 15 SEPTICFLESH & FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE @ Fowler's Live
Fri May 16
HITS AND PITS ROUND 3: UNWRITTEN LAW, STRUNG OUT, FACE TO FACE, THE CASUALTIES & more @ Governor Hindmarsh JOHNNY CRAIG @ Fowler's Live DARREN MIDDLETON @ Church Of The Trinity, Clarence Pk NGAIIRE, NAI PALM & SLAMAGOTCHI @ Nexus Arts Centre
Sat May 17
CITIZEN KAY & TKAY MAIDZA @ Pirie & Co. Social Club DZ DEATHRAYS @ Jive BAD//DREEMS @ The Exeter
Sun May 18
THE TEN TENORS @ Hey Majesty's Theatre ONE NIGHT OF QUEEN @ GROOVIN THE MOO: Festival Theatre DISCLOSURE, DIZZEE RASCAL, THE JEZABELS, Mon May 19 KARNIVOOL, ROBERT THE TEN TENORS @ DELONG @ Oakbank Her Majesty's Theatre Racecourse THE ACACIA STRAIN @ Fowler's Live Fri May 23 STEVE KILBEY & ROBYN BLISS N ESO @ Mt HITCHCOCK @ Governor Gambier Showgrounds Hindmarsh SUNNYBOYS & THE FROWNING CLOUDS @ Sat Apr 26 Governor Hindmarsh THE YEARLINGS @ DAVID BRIDIE & FRANK The Wheatsheaf YAMMA @ Nexus Arts Centre Sun Apr 27 LORDE @ Adelaide Sat May 24 Entertainment Centre BLISS N ESO @ Theatre Tampawardli Pk LEIGH KERNAGHAN Tue Apr 29 @ Barossa Arts Centre, MKTO @ Adelaide Tanunda Entertainment Centre Theatre Sun May 25
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Buried In Verona have a message for any of the people who actively oppose them as a band: Go fuck yourself. Intended at “the people who try to attack us and try to bring us down”, Buried In Verona only have time for the people the people who are with them, so they are the ones embraced: “Negative things, that are purely done to cause a reaction, we have no time for.”
They've used this as lyrical ammunition and sought some old favourites of heavy music for inspiration. Mixing heart and pure rage, their latest release Faceless is a Korn, Slipknot and Buried In Verona hybrid. The band will be travelling the world for at least the next six months and would love this album to create the avenue to stamp their place in the heavy music scene in less familiar places. “We’d love to go anywhere in the world and play a good, confident headlining show.”
The aims are not to headline an arena tour, but to travel to almost any corner in the world and bring their music to the masses. After having spent five months together in a single house on a Swedish island in minus 22 degree conditions, there isn’t much that could get under the band’s skin while on tour. Set Me On Fire, by far the softest track on the collection, is the song that truly reveals the heart and the versatility of this surprisingly talented (and unacceptably underrated) Australian band. Line-up changes have not been the entire reason for stylistic changes, although opinions and the way that the band does their general business has changed ever so slightly. Touring, to put it simply, is comfortably the easiest way to summarise this upcoming year for the band. After “accidently neglecting Australia trying to get our music to as many other people as possible”, Buried In Verona will be returning to stages all around Australia before heading overseas for a relentless journey.
Ever evolving, Buried In Verona listen and draw influence from many different artists and that is coming across as the band continues to grow and increase their musical prowess. International success is one of the band’s main goals, although, “Australia is where we started and where we’ve had our most success, so we love to give back”. It so happens that it was at Fowler’s Live where the band first heard a chant for their name and it was that night when they realised “that we could seriously have a good crack at this”. Us Adelaide folk, we’re undoubtedly a loyal bunch who (mostly) accept bands for what they are — and I think we plan to keep it that way.
WHO: Buried In Verona WHAT: Faceless (UNFD/Artery) WHERE: Fowler’s Live WHEN: Wed Apr 23
Wed Apr 30
RUSSIAN CIRCLES @ Fowler's Live DRAGON @ Governor Hindmarsh
Thu May 1
STONEFIELD @ Governor Hindmarsh
Fri May 2
BALL PARK MUSIC, PAPA VS PRETTY & JESSE DAVIDSON @ Governor Hindmarsh SIETTA @ Pirie & Co Social Club 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER @ Thebarton Theatre
Sat May 3
BOOM CRASH OPERA @ Governor Hindmarsh OSCAR KEY SUNG @ Rocket Bar
Tue May 6
MICHAEL BUBLE @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Wed May 7
ORIGIN & A MILLION DEAD BIRDS LAUGHING @ Fowler's Live
Thu May 8
JASON DERULO @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
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Wed May 28
BRANT BJORK @ Enigma Bar
Thu May 29
GARY NUMAN @ HQ MEAT PUPPETS @ Fowler's Live
Fri May 30
DRAGON @ Governor Hindmarsh KEVIN MARK TRAIL @ Engima Bar KONE EXPRESS & ORCHESTRA MERMELADA feat. FABIAN HEVIA @ Nexus Arts Centre
Sun Jun 1
ELLIE GOULDING @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre DEAD LETTER CIRCUS & LIKE THIEVES @ Governor Hindmarsh
Thu Jun 5
PROPAGANDHI @ Fowler's Live
Fri Jun 6
JAMES BLUNT @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
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When Steve “Stevic” McKay of Melbourne five-piece Twelve Foot Ninja speaks to Rip It Up, one of the first things that comes up is the work that he did before his band took off. He speaks of session work, years spent as a guitar teacher and (most impressively) recording the guitar tracks for the worldwide cult-hit television program The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
While discussing various influences, artists such as Jeff Buckley and Tommy Emmanuel, and acts who are more similar to Twelve Foot Ninja, such as Meshuggah and Mr Bungle, McKay admits that recording tracks for Power Rangers definitely had an influence on his guitar playing. Furthermore, he's even an established author: “I’ve been a guitar teacher and written a couple of books. I’m actually the highest-selling author of Australian guitar tuition.” For Twelve Foot Ninja, from the release of their debut album Silent Machine in 2012 to
the present day, they have toured relentlessly; exposing themselves to audiences around the world. Touring North America with their friends Periphery and playing the Euroblast festival over in Europe, has exposed them to many different people and has earned them a nomination at the Revolver Golden Gods for the Best New Talent, an award no Australian band has ever won before. Competing against bands the likes of Scar The Martyr, Joey Jordison’s (formerly of Slipknot) new outfit, this will surely be a tight contest. ‘”We know it’ll be a very tough contest, so all we can do is hope,” McKay says. Writing new material is just one way the band keeps busy while touring. Always writing a new riff or a new lick, the band is constantly piecing together new material, with a second album drawing nearer. For the meantime, however, the band is focusing on their live show and keeping themselves in peak condition, physically and mentally. Inspiration strikes when time is not a factor. When there are no distractions and when they are out of their comfort zone is when ideas flow.
“When there’s nothing, like on the road from Melbourne to Canberra, that gets a bit monotonous, but anywhere there’s something different.” Over the next six months, Twelve Foot Ninja will be playing festivals alongside juggernauts Guns N’ Roses, Mastadon and Slayer before embarking on their own headlining tour around the States. Bringing this topic much more local, Stevic speaks of returning to stages around Australia with “high hopes” and to provide their fans with “a very energetic and acrobatic live show”. And what about Adelaide? “We love observing the different social norms in Adelaide, you know; everything from moshpits to woman and everything in between.” We’d better not disappoint.
WHO: Twelve Foot Ninja WHERE: Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Fri Apr 11
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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 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) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm) EMU HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – KG’s Complete Trivia (7.30pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Gumbo Room Blues Jam with Nikko & Snooks and Beej Jay Barker GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Nigel Wearne with Courtney Robb GRAND BAR – OMG HIGHWAY – DJ Alli (8pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – All Vinyl DJ (6pm) HQ – Riot Society hosted by Uberjak’d JADE MONKEY – Rat Ta’Mango 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 Sessions (7.30pm)
ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs ARCHER HOTEL – DJ ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Dimitra (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BAROSSA WEINTAL HOTEL – Georgy K (7.30pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Stonecrow BRIDGEWATER INN – Fishtail Parker (9pm) BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – DJs Lars, Lenny and guests CASTLE ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE – The Shakers 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) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Theo (8pm) EXETER HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) FINDON HOTEL – karaoke (8.30pm) GOODWOOD HOTEL – Live & Local GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Twelve Foot Ninja with The Algorithm, Tabula Rasa and Burn’Collect. Front Bar: Friday Night Acoustic Sessions with Stringe Band Appalachian Fiddle Sessions & Irish Sessions GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Gorilla Jones with Satan’s Cheerleaders HALFWAY HOTEL – Paul Stubbings (7pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Funky Monks (9.30pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs
IRISH CLUB – Shamrocks ‘n’ Shenanigans Live Acoustic Sessions (7pm) JADE MONKEY – Gemini Downs EP launch with The Various Nefarious (8.30pm) 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 HOTEL – Jake Nickolai (6.30pm) MARS BAR – guests DJs plus drag shows MICK O’SHEA’S – Tongue & Groove (7pm) NEXUS MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTRE – Overview Effect and Dirt Playground (7.30pm) OFFICE ON PIRIE – DJ Jess (4.30pm) PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Acoustic Session (6pm) DJ (9pm) PRODUCERS HOTEL – After Four Fridays Garden Grooves with DJs Justice and DrDamage plus special guests (4pm)
RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ SNAKE & DJ RUPHEO (9PM) RED SQUARE – DJs REX HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Usual Suspects (6pm) DJ Smiley (8pm) ROCKET BAR – Cats at Rocket (9pm) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Acoustic Sessions (7.30pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN – Craig James (7pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8pm) SEMAPHORE & PORT ADELAIDE RSL – Tumblin Dice (7.30pm) SINGING GALLERY – Christopher Coleman Collective with Marlon Williams (7pm) STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance. Downstairs: DJs play retro SUGAR – SHGZ: Fridays at Sugar SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJs TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests
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The Guide// TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio Flamenco (7.30pm) THE ELEPHANT – Kopy Catz and DJ Lee Chesson (9pm) THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Troy Harrison (4.45pm) Sonic Divas (9pm) Chrysler Bar: Animal House (9.30pm) VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Oh, Pep (9pm) ZHIVAGO – Hello DJs: Terence, Dialect, Skot Holder and Faint One
SATURDAY 12TH ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: band and DJ. Upstairs: Jaki J ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar + Arena: Platinum (10pm) AUSTRAL – Eddie Bannon’s Laugh Inn (9pm)
BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) BRUNSWICK HOTEL – Rory McLeod (8pm) BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CASTLE ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE – Innstyles CAVAN HOTEL – Karnival with live bands (9pm) CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Street Talk (7.30pm) 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 ENCORE NIGHTCLUB – DJs Lars, TS and Some Brown DJ with MC AC (9pm) EXETER HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Entertainment (7pm) GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ Marky Polo (8pm)
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GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Michael Franti & Spearhead with Heather Frahn. Front Bar: The Stranger GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Fluffy with Wild Rocket GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays with DJs and MCs HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Ex Men (9pm) HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips and guests (8pm) JACK RUBY – Soul Social – live band and vinyl DJs (8pm) JADE MONKEY – Bell Minors and Alpha Beta Fox KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – Main Bar: Juggernauts (10pm) Saloon Bar: karaoke (10pm) LA BOHEME – La Boheme & Michael Clarkin Present Aindrias de Staic in The Craic With de Staic (7pm) LAKES RESORT HOTEL – The Hitmen (9pm) LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ and MC Renard (10pm) LORD MELBOURNE – DJ Lee Chesson (8pm) MARINA SUNSET BAR – DJs playing the best in house and electro MARION HOTEL – Franky F (5.30pm) Daze Gone By (8.30pm) MARS BAR – guest DJs plus a drag show MICK O’SHEA’S – Tomboy (9pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Rock The Boss (8pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Gate Crashers (10.30pm) PRETORIA HOTEL – Unknown To Man (9pm)
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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 – Andy Mac (7pm) SANDBAR – requests with DJs SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic sessions SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – Harvest (9pm) SUGAR – ITDE DJs and interstate & international guests
SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Bonz (7.30pm) TENTH & GIBSON – A Music Warehouse Project Presented By Jam Room Presents Christopher Coleman Collective with Marlon Williams, Jess Harlan, Iluka and Aidan ‘Jazzy’ Jones (7pm) TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE ELEPHANT – Triple X and DJ G-Rillz (9pm) THE LION HOTEL – Absolut Saturdays: Wasabi (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: One Planet (8.30pm) Chrysler Bar: DJ Justice (9.30pm) VALLEY INN – karaoke VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – Rumours WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Axe & The Ivory with The Timbers and Turning Circles (9pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – Wild Ones (8.45pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm) ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs: Gumshoe, Bottle Rockets, Track Team and Skot Holder
SUNDAY 13TH BENJAMIN ON FRANKLIN – Souled Out Sessions with DJs Dave Collins and Jason Lee BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon CHRISTIES SAILING CLUB – Moss (4pm) DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Cry Wolf (3pm) ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) EMU HOTEL – acoustic set (2pm) EXETER HOTEL – Jonny Star Family Day (12.30pm) GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Iguana Lounge (6pm) GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays (3pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Club C (afternoon) Free Beer!! The Band and Miss Trace (evening) Front Bar: VanderAa (5pm) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Little Miss & The Motive GRAND BAR – bands, DJs and MCs
The Guide // HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – 888 Poker (6.30pm) LIGHT HOTEL – Vonni’s Big Arvo LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – The Red Hot Blues Band (3pm) MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – E’nuf Said (2pm) OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Troy Harrison (2.30pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Gerry O (5pm) PLAYFORD TAVERN – 2 Up Duo (3.30pm) PRETORIA HOTEL – Thom Lion (1.30pm)
RAMSGATE HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SESSION (4PM) TOM KURZEL & ED TRAINOR FORTNIGHTLY ROTATION (7.30PM) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Funk & Soul Sessions (7.30pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN – Angelo (2pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic soloists SEMAPHORE PALAIS – The Incredibles (4.30pm) 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 – Sundy Mantis (2pm) 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 – The Baker Suite (4pm) ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs: Anthony, Gumshoe and Krispy
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) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – COMA: Felucca (8pm)
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The Evolution Of Blenheim Fest In just four years a private party on a Clare Valley property to celebrate the Easter Weekend has blossomed into a completely non-profit charity music and camping festival, Blenheim Fest. One of the festival founders and directors, John Castine, talks Rip It Up through the local festival’s ethos, charitable connections and future goals.
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he festival has now become an annual Good Friday tradition for many and will this year welcome 1,500 punters, although the plan is to gradually expand the festival into a two-night camping festival. This is an impressive feat for an event that came about by “accident”, after building a skate ramp and inviting some friends over the night before the annual Clare Easter Races. “We thought it would just be a one-off party before the Clare Races,” Castine explains. “Once we actually stepped back and looked at the bigger picture, we realised we had a beautiful view and place. Everyone loved it and we saw its potential.” Soon enough they were mixing their love of music festivals with the location, creating a website, licence and company to make the party public, growing capacity every year since. Hitting the 1,000 mark last year with the friendliest crowd so far, Castine hopes to eventually double or triple that number to secure a successful annual event for South Australia. “We’re not quite where we want to be yet,” Castine says. “We want to get some better bands and get to a two-day event to get to the point where we can make a lot more money for New Hope Cambodia.” The relationship with New Hope Cambodia is perhaps the most interesting aspect to Blenheim Fest, as 100 percent of the profits
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are donated to the charity. This means that the organisers do not take a single cent for themselves. “When we started it we didn’t really intend to make any money, or necessarily want to. When we got to the third year we just got over the break-even point and realised there
“We’re really keen to make the patrons have a strong connection to what they’re donating to.” was potential to make a bit of money. No one within the group started the festival to make money, so we thought, ‘Fuck it, we’ll give all of the profit to charity and not pay any of the committee members’. It’s also an unwritten rule that all the committee members have to buy their own tickets. It keeps things fair and shows that we aren’t we really aren’t moneyorientated, but do it for the love of working on something great.” Various committee members and friends of the festival have been involved directly with New Hope Cambodia, with Castine positive that the grass-roots organisation is accountable for the funds that they receive from Blenheim Fest and that, unlike some other larger charities, there are visible results from their donations. With a school, hospital
and outreach program for single mothers included in their programs, the potential to help support New Hope Cambodia helps drive Blenheim Fest to make a bigger and better festival each year. “We’re really keen to make the patrons have a strong connection to what they’re donating to. Last year we donated $13,000, which bought a generator,” Castine says. Furthermore, they don’t even keep a reserve in the kitty for next year, starting again each year, while trying to grow and expand the festival. To achieve this, the generosity of friends, artists, sponsors and the wider community has been instrumental for getting the festival to this point. “We’ve been really lucky and had a lot of people get behind us and support us. It’s what has made it grow. If we had to pay for everything from scratch, we probably wouldn’t have made it this far.” This sense of community is something that Blenheim Fest wants to foster with its punters, introducing the ‘Blenheim Fest Family’ scheme, which is a loyalty system where Blenheim Fest will invite loyal festival goers to pre-sales and discounted tickets before public release. There’s even consideration for not releasing the music line-up prior to the festival to encourage people to come for the festival itself and not for the acts. “After last year, I found that we had a nice community where everyone was helping each other out. You could chat to anyone, there was no hostility and a lot of love between strangers. Combining that with the sense of community, where SA has some great produce, beer, products and excellent wine from the Clare Valley – obviously – we can really support the state and give back to South Australia.” Blenheim Fest includes a strong arts element for future programs through Blenheim Fest Arts (with the memorable shorthand, BFarts) to allow local artists to combine their creative vision with the festival’s ethos. The newest addition to Blenheim Fest is Trumpet Lane, a 100m long thoroughfare that
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links the campsite to the main area. Castine is seeking those who enjoy bringing a crew to the festival and creative a lounge room from the campsite to help make Trumpet Lane a hub of activity. By giving people the freedom for selfexpression and to take part in Blenheim Fest through initiatives like BFarts and Trumpet Lane shows just how spirited Castine and the Blenheim Fest board are about fostering a truly collaborative, grass-roots festival. “We’re South Australian; we’re just people who love festivals; we’re not some marketing gurus. None of us have experience in event management, or marketing or anything like that,” Castine laughs. Starting out from a bunch of mates who threw a party and wanted to spread the love, Blenheim Fest has also managed to change the lives of some people living in poverty and promote South Australian produce. This just shows that when you have good intentions, a hard work ethic and big dreams, almost anything is possible. WHO: Saskwatch, The Woohoo Revue, The Levitators and more WHAT: Blenheim Music And Camping Festival WHERE: Clare Valley WHEN: Fri Apr 18
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that he’ll catch those responsible. Soon, Steve’s targeted and goes on the run with Natasha while she fires off one-liners, as the mysterious and scary semi-cyborg killer the ‘Winter Soldier’ (Sebastian Stan) makes his presence felt amid some especially explosive action set-pieces. Cap has always been one of the more likeable Avengers (distinctly unlike the cocky Tony Stark/Iron Man, who’s mentioned throughout but unseen) and here he’s served well by a screenplay with three dimensions (get it?), actual acting (Redford is terrific) and a surprisingly bleak view of the fearful chaos of contemporary times. And, even though drooling fanboys will surely know not to, it’s still worth pointing out once more: don’t leap up before the end credits have finished, for Hulk’s sake!
AAAa Chris Evans’ third time out as Steve Rogers/Captain America, this time co-directed by the comedyintensive Joe and Anthony Russo, is another Marvel epic distinguished by sharp scripting, impressive casting and a dark perspective on modern life, as again seen through the eyes of our hero-out-of-time. The plot has Rogers introduced on secret SHIELD assignment with Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) before an elaborately violent sequence involving Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson, of course). Fury’s colleague and old friend, Alexander Pierce (Robert Redford), swears
Festivals & Screenings Adelaide Cinémathèque 2014 Mercury Cinema After screening the ‘Final Cut’ of The Wicker Man on Thu Apr 10 at 6.30pm, Cinémathèque offers the retrospective Luis Buñuel: Iconoclastic Moralism. Membership and other details: mercurycinema.org.au. Seniors On Screen Mercury Cinema This week’s SOS offering, on Fri Apr 11 at 10.45am, is writer/director Asghar Farhadi’s The Past (Le Passé). Details: mercurycinema.org.au.
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Travis Fine’s low-budget but purelyintentioned drama has too many weighty speeches and emotional monologues, but the actors are so fabulous they more than make up for it. In the late 1970s we meet LA drag performer Rudy Donatello (Alan Cumming), who spots a handsome but closeted fan, Paul Fliger (Garret Dillahunt) in the audience one night. He finds out that he works for the DA and proceeds to have some hot times in his car (which end rather badly). When, the next day, the soft-hearted Rudy meets Marco Deison (Isaac Leyva), a Down syndrome kid left alone when his junkie mum was arrested, Rudy turns to Paul for help, and soon the pair have taken in Marco and are treating him as their own adored child. This gets them into trouble when their cover is blown and a damaging custody battle begins, with Cumming, in particular, forced onto his soapbox to make grand pronouncements about the nature of prejudice and homophobic hatred. With a penny-pinching look and some iffy detail, this is really all about the cast. Cumming is lovely in a part virtually tailormade for him, Dillahunt a long way from his villain roles (like Krug in that ghastly remake of Last House On The Left) and a moving and carefully subtle — but sometimes sneakily funny — turn by Leyva.
Neil (Limitless) Burger’s filming of Veronica Roth’s novel is so blatantly, even absurdly ripped-off from The Hunger Games it hurts and although amiable star Shailene Woodley tries hard, she’s no Jennifer Lawrence. In a war-ravaged, half-destroyed, walled-in future Chicago we’re elaborately introduced to society’s five factions: Abnegation (selfless), Amity (peaceful), Candor (honest), Dauntless (brave), and Erudite (intelligent). Katniss, sorry, Beatrice (Woodley) will be, it’s hoped, Abnegation like her parents (Ashley Judd and Tony Goldwyn), but a blood test reveals that she’s Divergent, a dangerous, mold-breaking sort, and when this is helpfully hushed-up, Beatrice decides to be Dauntless on her ‘Choosing Day’, and leaps off to a stronghold that’s part military barracks, part summer camp and part rave. Here she’s bullied by Eric ( Jai Courtney) and Peter (Miles Teller, Woodley’s co-star from The Spectacular Now), but she remains undaunted and falls for Four (tedious Theo James), who’s awfully cryptic in everything he says and does until she needs his help. As her Divergent side leaks out, boss-lady Jeanine (Kate Winslet) comes sniffing about and a satirically-intended (sort of ) uprising seems on the way. One of those lumbering fantasies where explaining the rules takes up half the damn movie, meaning that the plot barely kicks in until the second dull hour, this wildly derivative and self-impressed epic is more Despondent than Divergent.
Everything is awesome in the bustling Lego city of Bricksburg that construction worker Emmett (Chris Pratt) calls home, where every task has easy to follow instructions, coffee is joyfully overpriced and everyone gets free tacos! Emmett’s world comes crumbling down, however, when he discovers that evil Lord Business (Will Ferrell) plans to stop the world forever. But there is hope. Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman), head of the Master Builders, has prophesied a Special, the most important person in the whole universe, who has the power to find the ‘piece de resistance’ and stop Business from deploying his secret weapon, the ‘Kragle’, and it turns out that the Special may just be Emmett. Nostalgia is the driving force behind Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s meticulously detailed building adventure, which looks like it’s partially stop-motion animation, but is actually entirely CG. With every element — explosions, water, you name it — all made entirely of Lego pieces, the intricacy of the visuals is endlessly fascinating, while hours of playtime memories come back with the Lego in-jokes, from ‘80s Spaceman’s broken helmet to the crazy household items like rubber bands and lollipop sticks that always wound up in our Lego boxes. With a child-at-play atmosphere that makes perfect sense — especially come the final act — this is a well-constructed goofball comedy for those who grew up with classic Lego. You might bring the kids, but you’re not fooling anyone.
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Opening But Unrated The Grand Budapest Hotel (M), Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom followup, is a gorgeously funny historical drama with dark edges featuring Ralph Fiennes, lots of Wes’ previous stars ( Jeff Goldblum, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, Bob Balaban, Jason Schwartzman, Harvey Keitel and Bill Murray, of course) and some first-timers ( Jude Law, F Murray Abraham, Tom Wilkinson, Willem Dafoe and Saorise Ronan). And James Bobin’s Muppets Most Wanted (G), the second ‘new’ muppetational epic, offers Kermit, Fozzie, Miss Piggy and felty friends alongside Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell, Tina Fey and many others.
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This year’s Adelaide Food & Wine Festival has been a whirlwind of edible and drinkable delights. At the centre of much of this culinary activity is the Adelaide Central Market. Adelaide’s love for this as a premium food destination is known worldwide, it attracts international and interstate guests, but also has a special place in the hearts (and stomachs) of local food lovers. Heading there after closing hours always has a surreal feel to it; you know what sits behind the canvas curtains and roller shutters of the closed up stalls, but cannot quite reach it. The sights and smells of this delicious venue are best experienced during the day, unless that is, you are there for the annual Adelaide Food & Wine Festival’s Market Feast. Put together by some of SA’s best chefs and foodies, this is a showcase of locally produced, handmade and artisan food and wine. This year’s dinner was put together by Chef Duncan Welmegoed from Bistro Dom and the team from the Happy Motel. You may know them if you were lucky enough to visit Lola’s Pergola over Adelaide’s festival season. Ushered in through the vine-covered gates, the area usually occupied by market-goers sipping coffees and snacking on treats from the chocolate-infused Providore, we were handed glasses of wine from some of SA’s boutique producers and beer from the boys at McLaren Vale Beer Co. This year’s event attracted over 400 people, noticed mostly while trying to navigate through the crowd towards Jauma’s Natural wines. Winemaker James Erskine poured for eager guests wanting to try his uniquely cloudy new drop. After formalities and canapés (featuring some delightfully tender Macro Meats kangaroo and tastes of SA seafood) we moved through to the main event, a table that stretched the length of the market down an aisle usually occupied by market-shoppers, gourmet produce and stall holders hollering specials of the day. It was elbow-to-elbow when seated, which bought communal dining to a whole new level, but having to talk logistics of whose elbows went where just added to the atmosphere and started conversations otherwise ignored. Food arrived swiftly on trays piled with bright and fragrant dishes. It was a serve it yourself survival of the fittest, as we devoured serves of pangkarra pasta with a market-herb pesto, roasted beetroot salad, slow cooked brisket, bitter and twisted Asian greens and the best kranksky ever produced. And just when we got to the point where we couldn’t eat another thing, Valerie from The Smelly Cheese shop led a procession of toga clad Romans, pushing a glorious cheese chariot, laden with big chunks and piles of crackers to the crowds warming up the makeshift market dancefoor to Dr Piffle & The Burlap Band. Now I’m sure you’ve all hosted a dinner party for a few of your friends? Perhaps one for a larger family group or birthday (or have at least seen one being hosted on the telly)? Imagine doing this for 400 people, each with their own wants and needs and dietary requirements! The work that the volunteers on the floor and in the kitchen for this dinner was just phenomenal. Sure, the table was very “cosy” and there was some confusion whether to eat dishes off the serving tray or wait for a plate to be delivered, but really this is what is exciting about food and South Australia’s dining culture. Every event is unique and every mouthful is a taste of the delicious and diverse place we call home.
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Bank Street Social It’s a “new bar” kind of life in Adelaide, with venues growing in every corner of the city. The latest is Bank Street Social, who are making their way up from underground. Due to open in May this year, the venue is a special secret space underneath Bank St off Hindley. Bank Street Social has the space to satisfy 120 punters and a dance floor, and are styling themselves as a Prohibition-era speakeasy. The feature of the bar will be one of Adelaide’s largest spirits collections; the top-shelf only reachable by ladder. While the spirits range is vast, their other beverages are more selective, with a locals-only menu of craft beers and ciders. Keep tabs on Bank Street through their Facebook page: facebook.com/bankstsocial
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Stars// Strike while the iron’s hot. The Sun is in Aries, being boosted by turbo-charged Uranus. Change is coming. The presence of Mars in Libra will temper things in such a way that you don’t shoot yourself in the foot. In having to negotiate an agreement, a stronger outcome is assured.
Taurus 21.04/20.05
The presence of a truck-load hot energy in Aries is slightly annoying. You would rather come to decisions on your own and in your own time. Since you are being pushed, you are going to have to figure out the best way to deal with it. Be honest about what you feel and dare to say it.
Gemini 21.05/21.06
The moon begins the week in Gemini. Added to the fire of the Aries sun, this fills you with emotion, reactivity and passion. In fact you are host to a whole menagerie of passions – all of which are busting their boilers to be expressed urgently. Be committed and turn this to fun.
Cancer 22.06/22.07
Fortunately existence is being kind. It isn’t leaving you to be scalded in the feisty drama instigated by the Aries sun. It is connecting you to all sorts of gentle, watery places and people that understand the benefits of softness – and who make you feel safe. Look past the surface.
Leo 23.07/22.08
There is plenty going on around you. It is half merriment and half not. Though things lurch towards chaos, they don’t quite get there. They are rescued again and again. This is a very theatrical week – and you get to see most of it from the sidelines. Stay out of the soup.
Virgo 23.08/22.09
There is plenty going on and it’s all quite dramatic and intense. You are going to have to position yourself quite carefully. If you can avoid getting caught in any arguments, you will find a way to turn friction into light. Once you can do that, then you can offer light to those who bicker.
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Libra 23.09/23.10
Though you are no fan of conflict, there are times when it is entirely appropriate to stand peacefully tall and hold your ground. The Aries sun is bound to send someone to your door who will try to pressurise you into their agenda. It is time to exercise your capacity to say no.
Scorpio 24.10/21.11
Saturn, who sometimes feels like a rock that prevents you from moving fluently according to your whims and desires, now reveals himself as your rock, your foundation. It is a big leap to be able to appreciate our obstacles as our best friends. Now is the time to take that leap.
Sagittarius 22.11/21.12
The truth of the situation is obvious. You are starting to come to terms with it. Next comes your willingness to allow life to regenerate. Let go of your vice-like grip on all that you don’t want to change. Flow is the river’s way of cleansing itself. Life is doing its thing. Go with it.
Capricorn 22.12/19.01
Pluto is a symbol of the deepest strand of compassion available in life. Pluto is a part of ourselves that knows that we are here to really live, to really taste the richness, depth and heights available here on planet earth. It won’t let us settle for anything less. His voice is turned up loud.
Nat Rogers, Wise as serpents, gentle as doves #2 (eyes open), black and white inkjet print
Aries 21.03/20.04
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NAKED The Howling Owl – gin bar and café extraordinaire – is hosting a new art exhibition, NAKED. Curated by Carollyn Kavanagh, the exhibition will feature works from a range of local creatives across a vast spread of disciplines. “These images are part of some work I did with the children of Burmese migrant workers in the north of Thailand,” artist Nat Rogers explains. “It’s an old fashioned portraiture trick to ask people to open and close their eyes to relax them. I didn’t expect the fierce and startling expression that this young man would give to the camera. This expression has always struck me as a naked view into the force of the human spirit. Here we see what kind of determination it takes to grow up in a slum.” This series of images is close to Rogers’ heart, and all proceeds she receives from exhibition sales will go towards the young boy’s school. Fellow artist Wes Maselli says of his piece, Skull in a bag (2 girls), “This work explores the veil.” If you too wish to delve deeper into human nature, head along to the Howling Owl any time until Sat May 3. Exhibiting artists: Alexander Carletti, Lucinda Gregory, Katie Johnson, Kate Kurucz, Cat Leonard, Wes Maselli, Sean Powell, Nat Rogers, Daniele Reck, Olivia Sanders, Adriana Sturman and Marsha Wajer.
Feminine Masquerade Meaghan Coles returns from a yearlong artist residency in Europe, with a brand new exhibition ready to go. Feminine Masquerade examines the way advertising objectifies the female face. By stripping the images of their glossy context and reworking them into complex painted portraits, she reinvents the woman and her purpose. The mixed media exhibition opens at Gallery on Waymouth this Wed Apr 9 and will continue until Wed Apr 30.
Aquarius 20.01/18.02
Venus is just on the edge of Aquarius, about to dip her toes in the waters of Pisces. Often planets flare up as they make these transitions, offering us their last spectacular bursts of energy. The gift of Venus is incandescent delight. Do what you need to do to be receptive to her light.
Pisces 19.02/20.03
As the sun fires up in Aries, you are blessed to have three (soon four) planets in your midst, to balance up your equation. This suggests you won’t find yourself barbequed by the intensity brewing in your surrounds. Stick with what you know works for you. Stay gentle and true.
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Meaghan Cole, Her, oil & resin on board
Gallery Guides The Art Gallery Of South Australia doesn’t recruit very often – but when they do, it’s serious. The call has gone out for volunteer tour guides, an enriching opportunity for art enthusiasts. Gallery guides will be trained, one day per week for a year, starting in July 2014. After training, guides are expected to lead a minimum of two tours a month for two years. The role involves directing students and children, as well as on-going education programs at the Art Gallery. While a big responsibility, the volunteer guide role is a one-of-akind experience for art-lovers. To register your interest, email agsa. marketing@artgallery.sa.gov.au by Wed Apr 30.
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Body Work “Forget runways, forget elitism. Remember design, remember inspiration”. The tagline for Salad Days’ new exhibition, Body Work, encapsulates what the designers are trying to communicate – fashion as an artform, without the bullshit. Local designers Lachy Lang, Georgia Guy, Sarah Galton, Christopher Arblaster and Cooper Davis are all on board, showcasing their own personal aesthetics and ideas of construction and form. Soundscape will be provided by Strict Face, with Jesse Mullins taking care of visuals. The show will repeat on loop between 6.30 and 9.45pm, so you can come and go and enjoy the pieces at your leisure – just like how all good art should be appreciated. There’ll also be chances to interact with the models and creatives to better understand the relationship between fashion and art. WHAT: Body Work: Fashion Is Art WHERE: Salad Days, 21 Gilbert Pl WHEN: Fri Apr 11
Georgia Guy
Cooper Davis
Lachy Lang
Pharrell Williams X UNIQLO: “I Am Other”
Rundle Mall Fashion Parades
Japanese apparel and lifestyle brand that is dipping in the Australian market, UNIQLO, will be releasing its capsule collection with Pharrell Williams on Mon Apr 14. Titled I Am OTHER, the 26 styles are based on Pharrell’s philosophy for how to live creatively. Tees and hats have slogans including ‘The Same Is Lame’, ‘Think Other’ and ‘Unlike Any Other’. If wearing his clothes and repeating his slogans gets even a microscopic sliver of the success that Pharrell has received in his career, then the small investment will be worth it. uniqlo.com
Rundle Mall retailers are unveiling their picks for winter by showcasing free fashion parades this weekend. The parades will be held on Fri Apr 11 and Sat Apr 12 at various times between Gawler and Stephens Pl, featuring looks by some of Rundle Mall’s 175 fashion boutiques, 15 arcades and centres and four department stores.
BNKR Opening
Finders Keepers
Australian Fashion Labels are opening their first flagship store in their hometown of Adelaide on Fri Apr 11. The store, BNKR, will showcase all of their brands, Cameo, Finders Keepers and Keepsake – with new labels Jaggar and The Fifth soon to join them. The store will follow a minimalist aesthetic, featuring the complete new collections from each of the labels in the way that the designers intended for them to be styled. Expect artwork and editorials (which in themselves can be classified as artwork) on the walls, offering a retail experience like no other. From here, Australian Fashion Labels hope to see BNKR stores open up in other cities where their labels have a growing presence – London, New York, LA, Hong Kong and Johannesburg among them. For the official opening party, some of Australia’s most prominent fashion personalities will be attending, including Nicole Bonython from ELLE, Nichole Adolphe from Cosmopolitan, Shop Til You Drop’s Charlotte Stokes and Shiny By Three blogger Margaret Zhang. This just shows that it’s not just Adelaide who is taking notice of the young local designers and hard-working team who are making serious waves in the fashion industry locally, nationally and abroad. Head down to the BNKR and see what the future of fashion retail looks like. BNKR will open at the old Commonwealth Bank site on the corner of Rundle Mall and Pulteney St.
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Bad//Dreems
Manchester Orchestra
Dumb Ideas (Ivy League)
Cope
Save for a couple of radio singles and an arsekicking EP, you could be forgiven for thinking that Bad//Dreems’ ascent has been propelled by little more than an unsubstantiated wave of Bigsound and Next Crop hype. Following their singing to Ivy League – the first Adelaide band to have done so – and the release of Dumb Ideas, an electrified, ambivalent, passive-aggressive ‘fuck you’ that immediately inserts itself into the canon alongside Which Way To Go and Really In Love, this hype has been reified: these guys are the real deal.
(Loma Vista)
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How To Dress Well Repeat Pleasure (Domino/EMI)
Tom Krell’s new single as How To Dress Well embraces an AM pop sensibility that seems a logical extension of his previous output rather than a curveball. The quivering guitars and syncopated bass of Repeat Pleasure could have found their way onto Haim’s debut album, but that voice is unmistakable. Two years on from the despondency of Total Loss, Krell finds himself in a happier place where he can revel in the pleasure of his honeyed falsettos. Repeatedly.
Gazar Strips Bee Mantis
Mr Little Jeans Pocketknife (Sony)
AAAAa Monica Birkenes (AKA Mr Little Jeans) is about to become hipster royalty. Not only is her namesake borrowed from Wes Anderson’s Rushmore but her debut album Pocketknife gives everyone else a schooling in how to make good alternative pop music in 2014. The Norwegian burst onto people’s
radars via YouTube for her moody, minimalist cover of Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs, and while her debut mines the same vein, it expands into new, more optimistic territory without losing any of the cover’s grit. Pocketknife’s triumph is in its restraint. The radio-friendly Runaway holds back just enough to not be a summery jam, Mercy pulls its experimental sounds to not sound contrived and Oh Sailor’s muddy verses make the child choir-sung chorus endearing, rather than a Coldplay cliché. This less-is-more idea is something that many of her contemporaries have suffered from throughout their careers while trying to get noticed. Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die should have had a 10song limit, St Vincent took over a decade to find her gloss and Lykke Li’s gloomy experimentalism may have become pedestrian by album number three. Meanwhile, Mr Little Jeans has breezed through her formative years with a debut that seats her on the throne that she deserves, trading in her humble salutation for ‘Queen’ before long. Lachlan Aird
There is a group of people that I am “friends” with on Facebook who are constantly posting inane things about DJs with ordinary names that I have never heard of. They profess their love of house music, and the pictures dotting their profiles boast sweaty raves and a staggering variety of fluoro garb. I don’t particularly like house music, but I admire the skill that goes into crafting it. I understand why it has an audience, but to me, it all sort of sounds the same. I suspect that my rave-loving FB friends have a comparable opinion of rock’n’roll music, and I can’t fault them for that. There are only so many chords, I suppose. With Cope, the newest offering from Manchester Orchestra, I had similar sentiments. Despite claims that the band had forged a new path, Cope sounds like every other Manchester Orchestra record – lots of stomp boxes and lamenting getting old, the latter of which always struck me as vaguely irritating considering chief songwriter Andy Hull is only 27. Hull’s voice retains its tenderness and his lyrics once again explore themes of transition. Sonically, the band appears heavier, but as a whole Cope sounds like a ham-fisted attempt at starting a Jimmy Eat World cover band. Ryan Lynch
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Originally formed in Whitechapel in London, Brisbane trio Gazar Strips adopt the dark legacy of that notorious suburb in their latest single Bee Mantis. Its deep, brooding bass lines, goth vocals and a faint wall of sound in the backdrop could have been lifted straight from the Terminator 2 soundtrack. Set to feature on their forthcoming debut EP, Bee Mantis is about as ominous as a cyborg apocalypse.
Parquet Courts Sunbathing Animal (What’s Your Rupture?/Remote Control)
Parquet Courts have thus far proved adept at holding themselves back. The relative constraint of their recorded material compared with their live show is somewhat remarkable. With Sunbathing Animal the New York outfit have released this self-imposed pressure in a torrent of bluegrass-y drums, quick fire vocals and an immutable guitar chord machine gunning throughout. If The Ramones had earned their stripes in Kentucky, they might have sounded something like this.
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John Butler Trio Live Review
Thebarton Theatre (Photos by Kristy DeLaine) (Review by Sharni Honor)
AAAA Boots stomped the dust out of the hardwood floor of the Thebby as unwashed hair was swung to and fro to the sweet rhythms of blues and roots. That can only mean one thing, John Butler Trio has hit town. The sweet little Emma Louise was quite the odd choice as a support for Johnny Buts, but the little pixie turned it on for Adelaide with her sugary falsetto setting the mood. She played it pretty safe for this set, forming some ridiculously mesmerising harmonies with her wing-woman on the keys. I was half expecting Louise to float down in an astronaut suit singing some INXS. But no such luck, much to Adelaide’s disappointment. It’s been a while since I’ve seen Butler and his trio in action and what a better way to reintroduce his live show into my world then a packed-out show at the Thebarton Theatre on his birthday, sending a rambunctious crowd dancing deep into the evening. Adelaide thought they’d make him feel special and belted out Happy Birthday, although many seemed to forget his
Reviews // Quick Ones
Darlia
East Brunswick All Girls Choir
Perfect Pussy
Dan Sultan
Say Yes To Love
Blackbird
(Dew Process/Universal)
Seven Drummers
(Pod/Inertia)
(Liberation)
(Independent)
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Perfect Pussy’s debut album is short, confrontational, noisy and, for the most part, utterly exhilarating. Where the New Yorkers let themselves down are in those few moments where they forget to pull your pants down – at 23 minutes in length you’d think there wouldn’t be much time to waste, but they somehow manage to squeeze in five minutes of static between closing tracks Advance Upon The Real and VIII. This anti-climax disappointingly detracts from an album that threatened to be the biggest femme punk statement since Savages’ Silence Yourself. The bulldozer rolls through in top gear on opening track Driver and barely stops for refuelling before the cacophony of Bells kicks in. It’s in this agitated, anarchic headspace that Meredith Graves does her best work, resembling a decidedly more pissed off version of Be Your Own Pet’s Jemima Pearl. Her message is ambiguous and her lyrics are barely audible, but she embodies a hardcore spirit that’s difficult to evade and impossible to repress. Which makes it all the more surprising that Perfect Pussy fail to deliver the knockout blow that would have made Say Yes To Love the ultimate middle finger record. Jimmy Byzantine
Watch out for the mighty Dan Sultan as his third album Blackbird is an absolute ripper that will no doubt keep him in high demand across the country. There is no questioning the talent of Sultan, who impressed with his debut Homemade Biscuits and follow-up Get Out While You Can. Blackbird continues that upward trajectory, showcasing his maturity and depth as a singer-songwriter. It may have taken a couple of years of soul searching but now is the time for Sultan to shine. The roots of this album are set in Nashville, recorded with Grammy Awardwinning producer Jacquire King (Kings Of Leon, Tom Waits) in the legendary Blackbird Studio, which inspired the album title. With an awesome new band, the album opens up with Make Me Slip, which is bluesy with a dash of distortion. There are plenty of gems on this album such as Under Your Skin and High Street, while Can’t Blame Me will keep the old fans happy. Sultan’s husky voice is a true highlight, adding a touch of something special to honour his Indigenous heritage on It Belongs To Us. Originally intended as a demo, album closer Gullible Few is a stunner and really does shine on a great album. Rob Lyon
AAA Alt-rock never had such a sweet melancholy twang, with Melbournians East Brunswick All Girls Choir nailing their debut LP. The mix of a distorted country blues with garage rock sensibilities is both daring and darling of the independent local act. Listeners should expect dirty vocals, lengthy playtime and raw emotion spilling from each track. The four-piece manage the balance of lyrical content with adept instrumentals, reflecting their experience as seasoned musicians. Similar to Augie March, East Brunswick All Girls Choir exude a sound the former band would have possessed if they had succumbed to country blues persuasions. Lead vocalist Marcus Hobbs draws the listener in with noteworthy vocals and a Morrissey-like wail. Opening track West Brunswick boasts an appearance from the mouth organ and is a tantalising start to the album. Dirty Bird is equally good, loaded with distortion and with the intensity dialled up to ten. Mon Repos is a gut-wrenching but eerily poignant track, somehow reminiscent of the taste and warmth of a glass of gin. The final song, Aeroflot, finishes the musically solid LP in an unexpectedly wholesome, yet eerie manner. Katie Bryant
name. I guess the rarity of the name John had people stumped. This must have been the crowd’s audition for ultimate audience involvement. I’ve never heard a crowd like it, responding to his every request. They even began their own little crowd jam with claps and stomps; the trio had no choice but to join in. Whilst playing some boogie-worthy hits, Butler styled it down at all the right moments, playing songs that he clearly loved, including the epic eight-minute instrumental, Ocean. As always, a phenomenal sound was created from the three-piece, with all of them laughing and telling jokes with one another in-between tracks, having the most joyous time. It’s always a mixed bag at the Trio’s gigs; the dreads and the dads; the beads and the babes. Certain crowd members made me feel like I was at my mum’s 50th at a few points, with a rambunctious man named Tony cracking dance moves like he was cracking his seventh bottle of wine. Jolly is an understatement. The vibes were high and they overflowed on stage, with Butler commenting that this was his favourite gig of the tour. Even if he said this at every show, everyone in the balmy Thebby got a little bashful at his compliments, falling in love with John Butler and his trio once more and again and again.
Candyman EP
Introducing Darlia, the British three-piece who are hell bent on a grunge revival. Pedalling a gentle punk sound with, at times, heavy garage influences, darlings Darlia spin an impressive EP. Leading track Candyman boasts an upbeat and grimy rock feel. Blood Money delivers delicious grungy hooks and is the delectable highlight of the six-track EP. Here, the newcomers are at their best, portraying a sound similar to that of Melbourne’s Kingswood. Animal Kingdom takes a different direction, indulging in pop influences, while Queen Of Hearts grows more pop-punk with every phrase. Choke On Bones finishes off the EP, with the British rockers delving into morbid themes, throaty choruses and heavier instrumentals. Katie Bryant
Royal Out Of The Black EP (Warner)
AAAA We’ve been here before. A band comes along trying to evoke some forgotten spirit of the ‘70s and everyone either gets excited or rolls their eyes: The Darkness. Wolfmother. Steel Panther. What makes the UK’s Royal Blood different is that they deviate from such tendencies while still embracing the big rock sounds of the ‘70s. Their debut EP slaloms its way through tracks that borrow as much from Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath as they do from Muse, The White Stripes and Band Of Skulls. Radio mainstay Out Of The Black is ably complemented and at various points bettered by the other three songs on here. Jimmy Byzantine
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Mad Money You thought Mad March was over? Haha, no. It’s only just beginning! If you’re already itching to get a move on Fringe 2015, then now’s the time to act. The Adelaide Fringe Cultural Fund is offering up some grants for upcoming creatives. There are three $10,000 grants on offer for artists who wish to develop work for the festival next year. The criteria states, “Applications are encouraged in all art-forms and proposals which are ambitious in delivering daring and diverse contemporary art for new audiences will be looked upon favourably.” The grants are open to Australian Citizens and Permanent Residents, and can be given to individuals, groups or companies. As long as you’re not already on an annual or triennial funding scheme, and you’re planning to stage the project at Fringe 2015, you have a chance to secure the cash. Check out adelaidefringe.com.au for all the details. Applications are open now until Fri Jun 20.
A Music Warehouse Project Concert halls and theatres leave a lot to be desired if you’re an adventurous folk musician. Alice Fraser (The Jam Room) has made a name for herself by bringing music to the people and people to the places, dropping bands into obscure little nooks. The latest concert corner is Tenth & Gibson’s Bowden premises – an industrial studio with character to spare. And the latest concert? A Music Warehouse Project. To fill the space, this local legend has brought together a line-up of fine folky goodness: Jess Harlen, Marlon Williams, Christopher Coleman, Iluka and Aidan Jazzy Jones. The special one-off lineup will take the stage from 7pm on Sat Apr 12. There will also be some tummy treats, courtesy of Veggie Velo, Fox Creek Wines and Alpha Box & Dice. Tickets are available through musicglue.com.
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Local Picks
Axe & The Ivory These indie-folkers emerged last year and they’re growing every day. With sweet guitar and stellar harmonies, Axe & The Ivory have an impressive history, with Charlie Worthington (Beat Smugglers) recently joining the team. Worthington has hit the stage in support of Jamiroquai, Ben Folds and Grandmaster Flash, so if there’s a well-practised drumkit around, it’s Charlie’s. Inspired by Daughters, Ben Howard and the Lumineers, Axe & The Ivory are in the studio recording their debut EP. While the disc is due out later this year, you can get a live taste this Sat Apr 12 at the Wheatsheaf. This will also be Turning Circles’ debut show; they’ll kick off the evening at 8.30pm, followed by Axe & The Ivory and finished by The Timbers.
Kitten Kong A little slice of ‘60s pop plus a generous chunk of identity crisis, Kitten Kong is a sparkly gem in Adelaide’s crown. They’ve had a few name changes and directional shifts, but what they’re rocking at the moment is smudgy Britpop with a lo-fi doowop buzz. If that sounds like your cup of sugar, head on down to your friendly neighbours at the Ed Castle this Sat Apr 12. Supports this weekend will be new favourites Miss Fellows and brilliant songwriter Ready For Bed.
What: A Music Warehouse Project Who: Jess Harlen (NZ/USA), Marlon Williams (NZ), Christopher Coleman (TAS), Iluka (NSW) and Aidan Jazzy Jones (SA). When: Sat Apr 12, 7pm Where: Tenth & Gibson, Bowden Tickets: $10 via musicglue.com/the-jam-room-presents
Summer Flake Summer Flake (AKA Stephanie Crase) is a local music icon and she’s bringing her carefully crafted debut album You Can Have It All back to Adelaide. Having played with No Through Road, Birth Glow, Hit The Jackpot and Batrider, Crase is a one-woman wonder and her solo work is gleaming with her musical prowess. Catch the lady legend at The Metro this Fri Apr 11, with support from Kitchen’s Floor, Profondo Rosso and Scott & Charlene’s Wedding.
The Baker Suite Still craving piano accordion after last week’s offerings from Brillig and Goldstein? Head on over to the Wheatsheaf this Sat Apr 12 for The Baker Suite. They’re a little cooler with a Paris café vibe, so if you’re after songs that are slightly sophistiqué, then try this pair on for size.
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