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Friday, November 12

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entertainment.Page 3

food.Page 6

music.Page 8

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3. Birds of Tokyo concert in Bendigo

1. movember

2. Greys Anatomy season 6 DVD

4. Julia & Angus Stone at the Arias

5. Our Bendigo Spirit girls having two wins on the road.

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6. Powderfinger’s FINAL EVER concert if you have a ticket that’s HOT.

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All Wares Night fundraiser By the Relay for Life Cancer Council team, 7pm, Golden Square Primary School hall. $2 with lucky door prizes, free supper and more. Details: 0418 356 854.

Exhibition by Embroiderers Guild Victoria St Andrews Hall, Myer Street.Items for sale, more than 400 exhibits. Details: 0488 113 106.

Zonta Christmas MarketProceeds to local charities assisting to improve the lives of women and children. 11.30am to 4pm. The Bendigo Club, Park Street, Bendigo. $5 includes welcome drink. Details: 5439 4325.

Elmore Open Gardens 11am to 3pm, $10 for one or all the gardens. This is an Elmore Lions Project to raise funds for Bendigo Righteous Pups. Details: 0408 315 253.

Girgarre Farmers Produce and Craft Market8.30am to noon. Seasonal fruit and vegetables. Corner Winter and Station streets Live entertainment. Details: 5857 2270.

Monster Annual Charity AuctionEngine Park, Racecourse Road, Wedderburn, 10am. Details: 5494 3206.

World Diabetes DayCome and stroll around Lake Weeroona at 2pm. All welcome. Details: 5447 7097.

Country Music Hoedown Ernie Johns and the Avalanche BandGolden Hills Motel, 145 Marong Road, Bendigo. $5, meals from 6pm. Details: 5443 1333.

Bendigo Writers’ Council Poetry Writing Workshop Guest speaker Tru Dowling7pm to 9pm. Best Employment 26 to 28 St Andrews Avenue, Bendigo. Details: 5443 3469.

Cup cake demonstration7.30pm at St Marks Anglican Church, 29 Panton Street, Golden Square. Supper provided, $5 entry. Details: 5447 8471.

Tuesday Night BowlsSouth Bendigo Bowls Club Palmerston Street, Bendigo.6.15pm for a 6.30pm start. Finishes about 9pm. $7. Names in club between 4.30pm and 5pm. 5443 4833. Mature Age Persons Meet and Greet 2pm every Tuesday at the Newmarket Hotel. No cost. Details: 5446 2189.

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And just like the Stones, the Coodabeens have not only endured, but transcended gen-erations, mostly due to the modern day phe-nomenon known as the “dad influence”.

“They older we get the more often we hear ‘my dad got me onto the Coodabeens’,” Champion said.

“I guess it just shows how old we’ve got.“For quite a while we didn’t have much of

a listenership in the 20s or 30s age group, but we’ve been around so long the kids have grown up and we have a new generation of supporters.” Coodaeens began in 1983. And while the line up has changed slightly, the boys are still going strong.

While a popular and equally respected songsmith, what could have Champion, been a champion at?

“I was a C Grade amateur footballer, but these days I play a lot of Masters Games, where I’ve won a few gold medals, but they’re not hard to win at my age,” he said.

“I’ve won about four or five golds in high jump, long jump and hurdles.”

The Coodabeens became synonymous with easy going blokeiness, but when an impor-tant cog in the Coodabeen machine, Tony Leonard, left the group in the 90s, there were rumours of a falling out with the rest of the group.

“There weren’t any differences, there was never any falling out,” he said.

“He just wanted to stay at 3AW and we wanted to go back to the ABC.

“I bump into Tony around the traps doing gigs and stuff.”

Another original cast member however, Si-mon Whelan had to leave for legal reasons.

“Simon is one of the nicest blokes anybody has ever met,” he said.

“He’s a total ornament to the game, he’s never fallen out with anyone, he’s much loved.

“As a Supreme Court Judge, he has to keep a low profile publicly, so he had to get quit for legal reasons, he wasn’t allowed to be on air.

“I’m sure it broke his heart to leave. I’m sure he missed it hugely but he had no choice with his career. He was a genius with the talk-back segment.”

It’s this often madcap and irrev-erent section of the show that remains the most popular for listeners, espe-cially Champion’s alter ego, Guru Bob, who’s slightly left-of-centre prostica-

tions have held listeners either spellbound, in hysterics or just plain confused.

“I’ve been reading Eastern quote books all my life,” he said.

“Sometimes you can twist them around and get a good laugh out of them.

“The first thing Guru ever said on air was ‘when two men go up for a mark only one can find true happiness’.

“I’ve often thought Guru has never improved on that. I reckon he ran out of ideas then and he’s been going round and round ever since.

“Although I like his recent one ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day but they had the cappuccino ma-chine up by lunch time’.”

So while Champion has been a hit with adults, and kids alike, how was his own child-hood? Surely his surname was the envy of all his classmates.

“I didn’t get teased too much,” he said.“The best thing a school kid could say is

‘you’re no champion’, they called me chal-lenger, that’s the best they could do.

“These days I tell people I guess it’s better than Greg Loser.”

While he’s a winner with listeners across the country, it seems Champs is a bit of a fraud, taking a certain artistic licence with his cricket anthem, I Made A Hundred In The Backyard at Mum’s.

When probed, Champion goes instantly on the back foot.

“When we look back, did any kid actually crack the ton in the backyard?” he said.

“I never did make that hundred but it was a good line for a song.

“I can’t really remember, I think my highest score might have been about 70-odd.

“Into the apricot tree was out and that brought me undone.”

Curiously, Champion considers himself more of a serious songwriter and reckons 80 per cent of the songs look at the more sombre side of life.

“Twenty per cent of my songwriting, the hu-morous stuff, it gets all the attention,” he said.

“A wise man said to me you always want what you can’t have, the grass is always greener on the other side.

“I usually sing comedy, so when I get to a folk festival and do a few more serious songs I think it’s Christmas.

“But if I did serious songs all the time I’d think making people laugh some of the time was Christmas too.

“I love it when people notice my serious songs, because it’s a nice change of scenery.”

Does he have a favourite to perform?“VFL Park in the Dark, I have a real soft spot

for that one,” he said.“It still turns me on. It represents a period in

football’s life.”While it’s hard to influence a champion,

Champs has a few idols of his own.“John Williamson has been a hugely signif-

icant influence because he is folky and coun-try, and it’s all about Australia mate,” he said.

“In the comedy area the geniuses are John Clark, I adore him, who wouldn’t?”

“Barry Humphries can’t be denied. They are two absolute towering legends.”

Champion will be tickling the ivories, and our funny bones in December when he comes to Bendigo for a prostate cancer awareness event.

While he’s not been touched by the illness, both personally or through family and friends, he can relate to it’s crippling affect on men’s health.

“At my age I have all the symptoms any-way,” he said.

“It’s a great excuse to come to Bendigo and have a sing.

“I do a lot of gigs in Bendigo, it’s been pretty good to me.

“I play this little festival in Axedale and I’ll be doing it for the third time next year.” What a champion.

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CHAMPION by name, champion by nature. Over a long career of nearly 40 years, which began in an Adelaide folk club, singer Greg Champion has become an Aus-tralian icon of the songsheet.

Like vegemite, tall-poppy syn-drome and Richie Benaud’s dul-cet tones at summer time, there is something quintessentially Aussie about “Champs”.

The prince of the parody, Cham-pion is also pretty much the Mick Jagger of the ABC radio’s football institution for nearly three de-cades, The Coodabeen Champi-ons.

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LAST week I saw ‘The Social Network’. I loved every minute of it, the main reason being that it was such an ‘immersive’ experience.

They’re my favorite movies; you find yourself falling into a film’s deep sea currents without surfacing again until the end credits roll. You forget you’re watching a movie entirely and surrender completely. Fun.

Bendigo has two similar ‘immersive’ experiences on of-fer this week, courtesy of the art world.

‘Seepod#6: Immersion Studio’ will be a treat. Spawned from the profilic Punctum/SeedPod arts incubator in Castlemaine, ‘Immersion’ is on this weekend at the Fire Station.

Two unique perfomances by two sound artists: Bendigo local Jacques Soddell and Melbourne’s Tessa Elieff.

Their mission? To create a totally transformative and immersive sound experience for those willing to surren-der themselves to something new.

I met with Jacques to find out more. Another treat – he’s one of those quietly-spoken gents of the experimental persuasion.

In his early 60s, Jacques is a microbiologist who, five years ago, swapped science for art – sound art that is.

He likes to process natural sounds “beyond recogni-tion” into something completely new, and play with plac-ing sound in space. Sounds like science to me.

He and Tessa are an interesting match. She is a field recordist in her 20s. In September she was “let loose” at Sacred Heart Cathedral to record space and various sounds inside Bendigo’s cavernous iconic building.

Jacques spent his Seedpod ‘testing-week’ at the Fire Station doing things he “couldn’t” at home, namely trying out software and speaker placement inside a big theatre.

On Saturday and Sunday they will come together after spending this week working out the “framework” for their sound compositions, and how to present them within Jacques’ 8 speaker set-up.

It’s incredibly exciting; Jacques and Tessa will make sound behave in ways you won’t believe, by combining intuitive improvisation with re-

hearsed performance. Fire Station lighting tech Steve Henderson will also complement their sound art with light. Prepare to “drown in sound” Jacques advised me. Bring it!

Speaking of light… Allans Walk Artspace has its own ‘immersive’ show to plunge into. Christopher Tay is a Vi-sual Arts student at Latrobe Uni. He’s created an incred-ibly ‘immersive’ world inside the three galleries, called ‘Silent Clouds’.

Inspired by clouds’ fleeting and epehemeral quality, this is mostly an exhibition of ‘self portraits’ – good ones.

A life size image of Christopher grappling with a con-fusing lack of voice is projected in a darkened room; a glass jar reveals a delicate animation of a man walking away with the thought, “how long does happiness last?”, and colours are mapped onto steam rising from a ‘caul-dron’.

Across the way are stacks of beautiful, mixed-media images of Christopher sleeping in cloudy charcoal smudges, complemented by a slideshow of photos with clouds and landscapes reflected onto broken mirrors. All of it smells like jasmine. Yum.

Christopher Tay knows what he’s doing; has a great in-stinct for making art. It was a pleasure spending time in his world, which I am hoping to again some time soon, when he’s famous…

Seedpod#6: Immersion Studio: Saturday, No-vember 13 and Sunday, November 14, The Old Fire Station/Engine Room, Tix $10.

Seedpod 2011 applications are now open: www.punctum.com.au/incubator.html

Silent Clouds, Allans Walk Artist Run Space, Bendigo. November 4 to 20. allanswalk.word-press.com

Pictures: Top left, Jacques Soddell.

Centre and bottom, Christopher Tay’s work from Silent Clouds

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SOME BRIT alumni are in a happy state of flux.

It’s been a long year for a number of design students on Mundy Street.

But starting today, Flux, an ex-hibition showcasing two semes-ters’ worth of blood, sweat and tears, will be up and running.

Flux features interactive, graphic and web design, motion graphics, audio visual effects, illustrations, animation and 3D.

If you’re a local business, this show is for you too, providing a fantastic platform to network with some of Bendigo’s best up and coming multimedia talent.

Student Kyle Dundas can’t wait to show off his work, and that of his contemporaries.

“This is the pay off for a long but enjoyable year,” he said.

“If you’re a business and are looking for the marketing edge, come along.”

The grand opening be-gins at 7pm tonight and the exhibition runs until De cember 3.Ride the elevator up to Level 3 at building C at BRIT to check it out.

THE momentum is building towards Groovin The Moo 2011. There will be twice as many international acts for next year’s festival, locked in for Saturday, April 30, and several are already booked.

Although Moo promoter Stephen Halpin was coy about revealing any names.

“There will be up to eight international acts, that much I can reveal,” he said.

“The lineup will be officially announced on Triple J.”

He hoped the problems of this year’s festival would be rectified this time round.

The May event was marred by a lengthy queue which seemed to almost extend to

Maiden Gully, meaning a ma-jority of music fans missed the opening acts.

Gates will open an hour ear-lier next year, from 10.30am. Pre event planning will also include reviewing transport timetables, upgrading secu-rity and a wider front gate ac-cess with enough entry lanes for smoother sailing.

A number of local bands will also foot the bill, ex-pected to be sourced through Triple J’s Unearthed Competi-tion.

“There are some quality bands in the Bendigo region so we’re keen to give some the opportunity to show their stuff,” Halpin said.

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BRIT design students Jared Ridsdale, Brenton Price, Jason Leocata and Kyle Dundas.

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SUMMER break was never meant to end in such a way. The Trackers had become the tracked – and the hunters . . . the hunted.

A refreshing post-modern treat, Track-ers (Book One) stars a cast of four young characters with an intellect and appetite for crime detection / cyber-tracking.

The latest from popular writer Patrick Carman, the text tells of online tracker Adam Henderson – and the events that could lead him, and friends Emily, Lewis and Finn, to a cyber-coded end.

Readers first encounter Adam as a cap-tured and interrogated suspect – holding

an arson of cyberspace weaponry. While appearing guilty of major

Internet crime, Henderson and co. are in-nocent – the world online, still choked by crime the Trackers were keen to destroy.

Can a series of cryptic clues unveil and incriminate the real hacker? Perhaps it is the mysterious Zara who will bring redemption?

Fully interactive, Carman’s text enables readers to watch the adventure via online links, and unscramble codes to reveal more information. A fantastic novel, Trackers (Book One) works with and for the teen reader.

Author: Patrick CarmanPublisher: ScholasticPrice: $19.99ISBN: 9780545165006Review by: Jacqueline Perryman

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I HAVE never joined Facebook and after seeing The Social Network, which all about its formation, I don’t intend joining in the foreseeable future.

Although Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had no involvement in the film, his co-founder Eduardo Saverin was a consultant on Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay which in turn was adapted from a non-fiction book called The Accidental Billionaires written last year by Ben Mezrich.

The Social Network exposes Facebook as a vehicle for a hormone-pumped bunch of male Harvard college students to meet girls. It also shows how rivalry, jealousy and manipulation can be used with genuine

talent to produce a project to deliver the desires of these mixed up freshmen.

Sorkin’s screenplay is delicious in its expose. Zuck-erberg is shown as an awful, hard and bitter individual who has obvious ‘geek’ computer talent but no social skills to attract the opposite sex let alone friends.

The Social Network is a sad commentary on rich American pop and social culture. It shows, with no mercy, the flaws in American university’s frat house culture and the desire to chase the dollar at everyone’s expense.

Jess Eisenberg is perfectly cast as Zuckerberg and Justin Timberlake has finally proved that he has worthy acting talent in his portrayal of Napster inventor Sean Parker.

Jeff Cronenweth’s cinematography manages to take the audience into the heart of Harvard campus life and Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall’s tight editing keeps the audience’s attention despite the film’s two hour length. The Social Network is so good I wanted the film to continue when it abruptly ends.

However, there is closure with character updates just before the credits.

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ASHER Keddie has arrived – both on the screen and as a woman.

The star of big television hits Offspring and Love My Way is in a comfortable place, both in her personal and professional life.

She shares her thoughts on always playing strong, honest characters, being a part time Central Victorian and her affection for the Collingwood Football Club...

A lot of actresses take the soapie route. Have you ever been tempted to go down this path in your acting career?ASHER: It’s never been a temptation for me. Maybe that’s just my personality, I just want to be challenged. So if I’m playing a personality, a character I understand too well, I just don’t do a very good job (laughs). It’s better for me to be on my toes.

I have a girlfriend who sees a lot of herself in your character Nina in Offspring. That’s a great skill to have I guess.ASHER: I am pretty much an everyday person (laughs). I have the same struggles as anybody else in life, but I’m really glad to hear that, as that’s what you want as an actor, to be relatable but at the same time challenge people to be honest about life as much as possible, I’m attracted to those kind of projects that are a little bolder and more courageous.

I seem to have a real aversion to playing the victim, I’d much rather play a really brave woman who has faults and flaws.

How is your character in Offspring similar to you then?ASHER: Nina is an interesting one, she’s unlike any-body I have played before, although she does suffer from neurosis, much like Julia did (her character in Love My Way).This woman has been the golden child, put on a ped-estal, she’s incredibly bright and has a very successful career, yet she still doesn’t feel like she’s quite landed in the world.The insecurities that come from that can be crippling and I can certainly relate to that in some respects and I guess that’s why I was attracted to playing her.In my 20s I didn’t really know how to land in the world either. I was offered some really great opportunities with work but I didn’t have enough faith in myself to grasp to those opportunities and run with them.

Any opportunity in particular that you look back with a bit of regret?ASHER: There is nothing I look back on with regret and I think my path as an actor has unfolded essentially the way I dreamt it would, but what I mean is that per-haps I didn’t have the confidence in my 20s, as a young actor, to grasp the opportunities that were coming my way; there was interest in me but I didn’t have the con-fidence to deliver. So I can relate to Nina in that way, but she’s experiencing that in her 30s, which makes her

even more fearful about arriving in a place that she feels comfortable in her own skin.

Perhaps it sheds light on the illusion that even though people might have a great job, earn lots of money, they struggle just as much?ASHER: Exactly. It depends on your own personal expectations I suppose. Mine have been ridiculously high, I don’t know where that comes from but that’s just the personality I am. But I have found a way to accept that I do have something to offer, so my confidence has grown over the years and now it’s enjoyable for me as an actor to put characters on screen that I can relate to. I have a little distance so I can play them now (laughs)!

Take me back to Five Mile Creek, your � rst act-ing job, you were eight years old.ASHER: Oh my god! Where did you pull that from?

Wikipaedia is a magni� cent research tool. How did you � nd yourself on this show? How did you become an actor?ASHER: I was always a confident little girl and wanted to perform. I did ballet, I sang, so I started acting really early and somebody spotted me at the ballet school. I did a lot of acting jobs between the age of eight and 14. But then I kind of reallly lost it, starting feeling very insecure and very, very shy. I spent many years like that, before I just got over myself and started perform-ing again.

Can you pinpoint this resurgence to a particular moment in your life?ASHER: To be honest I didn’t really have faith in myself as an actor until I was 28 when I did Love My Way, that was quite a turning point.I decided to dig my heels in and get on with it. I asked myself ‘do I want to live a real full and bold life or do I want to cower in the corner be-cause I feel so shy’. I made that choice at the age of 28.

Did working with Claudia Karvan have anything to do with it?ASHER: Certainly, Clauds is amazing. Everybody knows she juggles kids and producing and acting, she is pretty amazing. But when you know her, she’s even more inspiring. She has this coolness, she is quite de-termined to tell really truthful stories, which is what I want to do also. She was very inspiring for me, she has great strength. She probably brought out all the good stuff in me.

So she’s a hero and mentor, who are a few oth-ers?ASHER: I have some really good friends in the in-dustry, including Dan Wylie (who played her husband Charlie in Love My Way), he’s an extraordinary actor. A very grounding force as a friend and as a colleague. Guy Pearce too, he’s guided me over the years, personally and professionally and I admire the way he lives this grounded truthful life. He doesn’t buy into the whole celebrity thing.

He hasn’t in� uenced your choice of AFL team? I believe he’s a proud Geelong supporter.ASHER: No no, I’m a Pies fan.

I knew you had a chink in your armour.ASHER: I love everybody’s response to that (laughs). My husband is a huge Pies supporter. Our stomaches were flipping before the Grand Final.

Where did you watch the big game?ASHER: In our holiday home in Kyneton with some friends having a barbecue. We went the previous week and I’m not sure I want to sit through that again with my husband, watching him lose colour in his face.

Finally, what was it like to watch yourself up on the big screen in Wolverine?ASHER: It was a great opportunity for me to watch how a big Hollywood film was made and it was very enjoy-able. Hugh was fantastic and was really encouraging.

He’s a beautiful man, let’s be honest. ASHER: Correct. It was a very small role but it was a thrilling six week shoot so I actually got to sit outside of it and observe. And seeing the stuff we did on the big screen, though my hus-band probably enjoyed it more than most people.

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Album: Transition to ColourArtist: Matt CorbyReviewer: Jeff ElseJeff’s Rating: 7/10

Rated: MAGenre: Drama / BiographyDirector: David Fincher Main Cast: Jesse Eisenberg Justin TimberlakeReviewer: Robert GibsonRating: 8 out of 10

IT’S Aus Music month on youth radio station Triple J and what better way to promote that than to recommend a listen to Matt Corby’s five song (Plus one bonus track) EP titled Transition to Colour. At just 19 years of age, Matt Corby, who hails from Sydney and has a previous claim to fame as runner-up to Natalie Gauci on the fifth season of Australian Idol in 2007, has deliv-ered a solid taster to bigger things to come. A Singer songwriter and multi instrumentalist Corby has grown to offer sensitive indie folk music with beautiful heartfelt vocals and excellent musicianship reminiscent of Jeff Buck-ley or Damien Rice but with his own haunting style. ‘Transition to Co

lour’, Matts second EP was recorded in London and released through uber cool and popping fresh Indie label Com-munion, a UK Independent label co-ran by Mumford and Sons Ben Lovett. This EP is Communion’s first Australian release and precedes Corby’s debut long player currently in creation and slated for a late 2010 release. The EP is well produced, allowing the songs to breathe in their own right and display carefully the music of which consists of all things organic i.e. piano, drums, acoustic guitar, strings etc. Matt Corby is making some decent waves OS at the present and will likely be having more of a presence in the British trendsetter print media sooner than later.

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Runtime: 92 minsOpening: November 11 2010Genre: Sci-Fi/ThrillerDirector: Colin & Greg Strause Cast: Brittany Daniel,Eric Balfour, Scottie ThompsonSynopsis: A group of friends are awoken in the dead of the night by an eerie light beaming through the window. Like moths to a � ame, the light source is drawing people outside before they suddenly vanish into the air. They soon discover an otherworldly force is swallowing the entire human population off the face of the earth.

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WINE Bank on View is bringing the barbecue back. They have Friday Night Tapas Barbecue. After work every Friday come and join them for some delightful tapas cooked fresh on the barbe-cue by the chefs. Enjoy individual items or share a platter. 5.30pm until 8.30pm. Every Sunday there is another barbecue – 12pm until 3pm. $25 for mains, or platter for $60. Bookings recom-mended. Ph: 5444 4655.

TAPAS and Tasting is happening this Sunday November 14, 1pm at Cellar & Store in Heath-cote. MoVida’s David Mackintosh presents small tastes of Spanish artisinal preserves matched with Spanish wines… With five wines and one beer matched to six tapas, David’s wisdom is a good excuse to sit in the sun and pretend you are in Spain. Hola! Tickets $35. Bookings essential 5433 2204 or info@cellarandstore.com.au

A Hungarian cultural festival day at Buda will be held on Sunday, November 21. There will be a Hungarian lunch and exhibition of folk art and music. All inclusive $30. 42 Hunter St, Castle-maine. Tel: 5472 1032 for more.

TICKETS to see Joel Salatin (Food Inc) at the Bendigo Town Hall on Sunday, November 28 will be available at the info tent at the Bendigo Com-munity Farmers Market this Saturday, or 0431 444 836 , info@RegenAG.com

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Winner, winner Lamb dinner… again!OUR day in the sun and the spotlight has come to an end. Michele and I donned our Celebrity Judge and Bribe me rosettes and headed down to the Redesdale Camp Oven Cook Off for a glorious day of eating and judg-ing last weekend.

The weather and level of competition was a large improvement on last year when I man-aged to win a swagger of prizes for Best Deco-rated Site for my falling down marquee.

We had The Poms (last year’s dark horses) presenting us their “orgy of gastronomic de-light with a cosmopolitan swagger”, the Pilch-ers Bridge team serving up their “more than half cut stew” and even the Filthy Vegos mak-ing a stand that vegetarian food should rate a mention in such a prestigious competition….and they nearly took off The Best Overall Dish for their mouth-numbing habanero chilli dish.

They didn’t win, however, because Daz at Bendigo Wholefoods did… Yes, that’s right, my husband, but before you get all grand-standy on me and cry “foul play!” let me put all the cards on the table.

I was one of eight judges on the day (with two other esteemed taste testers) and I am more critical of Daz’s cooking than most.

I’m his wife, I’m allowed to be, and even though the Greek lamb dish he cooked was absodamnlutely delicious, I was still trying to throw in my two bits like “I think the carrots are

a little underdone” and was quickly put back in my box by Peter Russell-Clarke who yelled “As They Should Be!”

So thank you to Victorinox, Heat Beads, Re-desdale Estate, Aga and Antler for all the awe-someness we now have at our house.

Bendigo was well represented on the prize board with local team Pottage taken out the prize for Best Beef, the To Be Sure team for the Best Bread and The Dirty Creeps for Best Decorated Site.

It was a shame there wasn’t another prize for Best Lamb as the guys from The Old Manse cooked a mean dish and we’re still hoping for the invite over to dinner.

All the awards came after much heated de-bate from the Judging Room.

It’s not exactly how I thought it would go and as one of the better conflict avoiders around was quite confronting.

Michele was in her element, though, but only managed two of her seven outfit changes in the day, and even managed to give Peter Russell-Clarke a punch for general outrageousness.

I think I preferred our other title of “Vibe Creators” and might like to take that role to new heights next year and leave the judging to someone else.

Do you think contestants would still let me taste their food though?

THE Bendigo Community Farmers Market is on this Saturday, right in the middle of town.

This month at the market you will find the best of spring vegetables, including baby radish, cos, broad bean and turnips and the sellout favourite from October’s market – strawberries.

Michael assures us the crop is fantastic for November, so there should be plenty to go around.

New stallholders include Gravel Hill Gardens, from Bendigo, with seasonal veg; Punton’s Poultry – gorgeous live chickens for your backyard; and In the Calm Gar-den, herb and flower posies from

Strathfieldsaye.

Last month’s Market Chef, Jnr – Lachlan McCutcheon was a huge hit. At 9 years old, he shows just how much fun cooking can be at any age. Remember to bring your basket and your friends. 9am – 1pm, Rosalind Park end of Wil-liamson St, Bendigo.

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Fruit: cherries, lemons, limes, orangesVegetables: artichoke, asparagus, Asian greens, beans, beetroot, broad beans, cabbages, cucumber, carrots, kohlrabi (green), garlic, let-tuces, onions, peas, potatoes, silver beet, radish, snow peas, spinach, spring onionsHerbs: bay leaf, parsley, mint, rosemary, thyme, chives, oregano, marjoram, sage, bronze fennel, dill, basil, watercress

9.30am Dinner Party Fare with Eddie Basich, The Shamrock Veal burgers with crisp prosciutto and minted radish salsa10.15am Healthy Eating with Sandra Hosking, Vibrant Garden Falafel with an orange, mint and radish salad11.15am Market Chef, Jnr with Lachlan McCutcheon California Rolls using seasonal vegNoon DIY Christmas Plantable Cards Demonstration

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FAN of the TV show Offspring? We have a soundtrack CD to give away. To be in with a chance to win, send an email to b.entertained@bendigoweekly.com.au be-fore noon on Monday, November 15. Write “Offspring” as the subject and include your name, address and contact details. Winner will be notified by email.

FANCY a CD and DVD package from Rockwiz? To be in with a chance to win, send an email to b.entertained@bendigoweekly.com.au before noon on Monday, November 15. Write “Rockwiz” as the subject and include your name, address and contact details. The winner will be contacted by email.

HEALESVILLE is the place to be on Saturday, November 20. We have two fam-ily passes to give away to Music at the Healesville Track. To be in with a chance to win, send an email to b.entertained@bendi-goweekly.com.au before noon on Monday, No-vember 15. Write “Healesville” as the subject and include your name, address and contact details. Winners will be notified by email.

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You’re from Adelaide originally?Adelaide Hills. I live in Melbourne now but I actually still own a house there right near a new detention centre that’s being built for asylum seekers. It’s really weird be-cause it’s such a small town and suddenly everybody’s talking about it, it’s really freaking me out.

So your band The Audreys, where does the name come from?I don’t really know, it’s so long ago (that they formed). We usually just make up stories when people ask us that.

Do you want to make up one this time round? Or perhaps you could let me make something up?Yeah go on (laughs).

Cool. So how did you and fellow bandmate Tristan (Goodall) meet?We met when we were both uni students in Adelaide. I was studying music and he was studying English. We were at different universities. We were both doing a bit of part time music teaching to support ourselves. We used to be a couple. We finished up round the time the first record came out, it was a very natural thing, our relationship became about our music and our career.

So I guess you guys started writing about your past together at some stage?Yeah, we couldn’t help it. Comfort Me (on the lastest al-bum) is kind of about our relationship. He is absolutely my dearest, dearest friend now. It was hard but it was ages ago and it’s not an issue anymore.

I heard you didn’t finish your music degree. Is that true?I dropped out of music. I was studying jazz and I just wasn’t very good at it and I didn’t really like it. There was only the option of classical or jazz, and I didn’t know much about jazz but I didn’t want to be an opera singer. It just wasn’t for me, it doesn’t suit my taste or my voice. I stuck it out for a year and a half and learnt quite a lot, which I’ve taken with me but it wasn’t my scene.

I’ve also heard once you teamed up with Tristan you started out singing a lot of 80s pop tunes. Any in particular that you enjoyed?Yep we started out doing duo gigs, we started out do-ing covers as we hadn’t started writing songs yet. But we didn’t want to do predictable covers that everything else was doing so we took a lot of 80s pop songs and slowed them down. We did a cover of the INXS tune Don’t Change.

Do you still do 80s covers at gigs?Sometimes, for sure. Opening night of a tour we usu-ally do it. We used to take requests. There are so many I enjoy doing. Sometimes we do gigs where we do nothing but covers, usually at the end of a tour, which is fun. We sort of do daggy stuff, More Than This by Roxy Music and some old 50s stuff. But then some more modern pop. We’ve actually been requested to do some Metal-lica and Tool.

Are you telling me The Audreys have done a Tool song? That’s crazy.We tried but it just didn’t work. I can’t remember which one it was now. We played the Big Day Out (2007) a few years ago when Tool where out here and we got an email from a fan saying ‘oh my god I’m so disappointed I can’t come and see you guys at the Big Day Out because Tool are playing at the same time’. We have these adorable people who like us and Tool.

Tool didn’t cover one of your tunes did they?They might have (laughs).

You won two ARIA Awards for best blues and roots album in 2006 and 2008. How was the ARIA experience?For us it was a bit weird. It’s a very commercial, TV driven, full of Australian Idols and comedians so we felt a bit out of place. It was really fun anyway.

Isn’t that strange? You feel out of place at a supposed music industry awards show? Yeah but it’s so focused towards the TV ratings.

I guess it’s kind of like the Logies of the music industry. But you went back to back so that’s a great achievement.It’s a genre category that’s voted by your peers so it was really flattering.

I see with your current album you’ve worked with Tim Rogers, and also Tripod. What did they bring to the table?Those guys are friends of mine and I went to their recent show at the comedy festival and they did this great three part harmony stuff and I thought we have to get them into the studio. I guess because they’ve been singing together for so long they just sound terrific together. They’re great musicians.

During the creation of your current album you spent some time in both LA and India. How was that?LA is great. It can be a bit tacky, but it’s kind of awe-some as well. You kind of want to hate it but you end up loving it.

What about India? Were you on some kind of Julia Roberts trip of self discovery?Oh god no (laughs). No I wasn’t on some spiritual quest. I just really love travelling and exploring. Prob-ably the most bizaare place I’ve been to was Ulan Bator in Mongolia. I wouldn’t say enjoy is the word but it’s fascinating. It’s so dry and flat and there’s this city in the middle of knowhere, it’s really odd, you can stand in parts of the city and look out to the mountains and the plains in the background, you truly feel like you’re in the middle of knowhere. You really do.

How was the local music?Not sure. Travel is another passion of mine besides music, I don’t necessarily travel with music at the fore-front of my mind. I’m just a restless spirit I think. I’m curious and restless and I love new places, new people and new stories.

Do you find it hard to stay in one place for a long time then?Yeah, it’s great that I’m a musician (laughs).

The Audreys play Saturday night at the Theatre Royal in Castlemaine. Their new album, Some-times The Stars, is out now.

Multiple ARIA Award winning blues and roots double act The Audreys are making a name for themselves, even though this is no story behind their moniker.We talk to their lead singer, Taasha Coates, about colloborating with comedy trio Tripod, and their at-tempts at covering the works of INXS and US alter-native rock band Tool...

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Leisurefest has action aplenty at BendigoBendigo’s RV & Camping Leisurefest is back at Bendigo Racecourse, Epsom, for its ninth annual running from Friday to Sunday, 19-21 November.For three days the beautiful racecourse is jam packed with everything you need for caravanning, camping, four-wheel-driving and off-road touring.This year there are more than 250 new caravans, motorhomes, camper trailers, off-road vehicles, campervans, pop-tops, tent trailers, � fth-wheelers, slide-ons and

four-wheel-drives.Leisurefest has the very latest products from more manufacturers and exhibitors than ever, including innovative products from Victorian companies brand new to the RV sector.All the big brands of caravans and RVs have their new-season releases, with lots of luxury motorhomes and � fth-wheelers, while the latest off-road trailers and vans take people off-road without living under canvas or giving up their home comforts.

November

Saturday 13 Basement Bar Preston Perche (Indi/Folk/Funk) | 9pm |Free Newmarket Hotel Altars of Sin w/Sanguinary Misanthropia, Azels Harem and Evil Intent (Metal/Black Metal/Satanic Black Metal |9pm | $8 The Hibernian Chris Meek (Acoustic Covers) | 8 to 11pm | Free Tysons Reef Hotel Graematta (Country/Rock)|9pm| Free Daylesford Inn Venessa Craven (Acoustic Folk) | 7pm | Free Old Hepburn Hotel Swamp Monkey (Pop/Rock Covers) | 9pm | Free Theatre Royal The Audreys | $32.50 show / dinner and show $57.50 Pugg Mahones Adrenalin (Pop/Rock Covers)| 11pm

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11 INXS Kick 12 Go-Betweens 16 Lovers Lane 13 Radio Birdman Radio Appears 14 Daddy Cool Daddy Who? Daddy Cool! 15 Richard Clapton Goodbye Tiger 16 Bee Gees best of 17 The Birthday Party Junkyard 18 Hunters & Collectors Human Frailty 19 Sarah Blasko As day Follows Night 20 The Saints I’m Stranded

Tuesday 16

Golden Vine Hotel Jam Session|From 8.30pm |Free

Thursday 18

Newmarket Hotel Jam Session|From 9.30pm | FreeBasement Bar Hip Hop Beats and Battles – Open Mic |Free

Friday 19

Newmarket Hotel Abreact w/Deliverance we Prey|From 9.30pm | FreeBasement Bar Mach/Lap – Comedy/Music/Sketch/Stand Up |9pm |$5The Hibernian Itchy Bits (Acoustic Covers) |8pm to 11pm | FreeShamrock Hotel Kyneton Trigger Men|9pm| FreeOld Hepburn Hotel Untapped (Acoustic/Rock Covers) | 4pm | FreeTheatre Royal The Bonn Scotts w/The Lights and Grumpy Neighbour | 8pm | $15Pugg Mahones Adrenalin (Pop/Rock Covers)| 11pm

Sunday 14 Basement Bar ‘Open Mic’ w/host Deano |Free Marong Family Hotel Jeff Tynan (Covers) | 12.30 - 4pm | Free Tysons Reef Hotel Malibu and Friends Jam Session (Blues/Country/Rock)|3pm| Free Bridge Hotel Mystery Bets (Pop/Rock Covers) | 2pm | Free Old Hepburn Hotel Geoff Achison| 4pm | $10/$5 conc One Tree Hill Hotel Chris DeAraugo Band (Pop/Rock Covers)

Basement Bar Stinngybark McDowell (Blues/Grime) | 9pm |$5 Golden Vine Hotel The Lost Boys| 9pm |Free The Hibernian Live Music (See venue for detail| 8 to 11pm | Free Daylesford Inn Open Mic/Folk night w/feature performers Judy Turner and Neil Adam | 7pm | Free Pugg Mahones Activate (Pop/Rock Covers)| 11pm Old Hepburn Hotel Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing | 8.30pm | $15/$12conc

1. I Feel Possessed – Oh Mercy2. Distant Sun – Chris Cheney3. Fall At Your Feet – Boy & Bear4. Four Seasons in One Day – Paul Kelly & Angus Stone5. She Got Body, She Got Soul – Glenn Richards6. Addicted – Paul Dempsey7. Message To My Girl – Jimmy Barnes8. I See Red – Art Vs Science

9. I Got You – Philadelphia Grand Jury10. Better Be Home Soon – The Sleepy Jackson11. Private Universe – Artisan Guns12. Not Even Close – Darren Hayes13. Shark Attack – The Break with Dan Sultan14. Poor Boy – Perry Keyes15. Better Be Home Soon – Busby Marou16. Kiss The Road To Rarotonga – Kody Nielson17. Angels Heap – Perry Keyes

Some of the nation’s most diverse and favourite talents have pulled together to create

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Venue: Basement BarDate: Saturday, No-vember 13 at 9pmPreston Perche with support from Master of None (acoustic set)Free entry.

The 2010 Optus Sound Scribe competition has now come to a close and thanks to the incredible support the Bendigo community has shown me, I have placed in the top three. What this means for Bendigo is that Aussie Alternative Superstars - Birds of Tokyo will be playing a free concert in Bendigo. Anybody who has seen the band play can attest to the fact that they are explosive performances and that the Bendigo show will be nothing short of amazing. What this means for me is that I’m in the running for trip to LA and an internship at a Sydney music magazine The Music Network.

Win or lose, it has been an amazing ride and it is with great pleasure that I can reveal that Sound Scribe will be returning in 2011, giving a handful of young regional music enthusiasts a platform

to hone their writing skills, interview awesome bands and get a start in an industry that is very hard to break into, especially from a regional perspective. Music journalism was something I had never even thought about as a career op-tion, but as someone who’s primary language is music and secondary language is English, filling out the Optus Sound Scribe registration was the best thing I have ever done.

I fully reccomend for any music enthusiast to apply for Sound Scribe 2011, if you live and breathe music and would like to write about it as well, it is the perfect opportunity for you. You can register your interest right now at Optussound-scribe.com/register

As for me, a quick thank you to everyone who got on my blog and signed my petition - the

Birds of Tokyo concert was hard won, but very well deserved.

What we know about the Birds of Tokyo concert:

Tickets: It will be FREE but there will be a ticket allocation, b.entertained will have tickets to give away so stay tuned.

Date: Sunday, November 28, at the Civic Gardens, Bendigo,

Support Act: Will be local.Good luck to the shortlist of five bands

that are being judged by Birds of Tokyo themselves – Oh Pacific, Sender, Master of None, Urban Creatures and Image Transit.

Full details in next week’s b.entertained.

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