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A RED hoT SUMMERLos Angeles troubadours Red Hot Chili Peppers have been announced to play one show at Auckland’s Vector Arena in January. Pushing nearly 30 years at the forefront of modern rock, the legacy themselves return for the first time in five years as they celebrate last year’s release and their 10th studio album, I’m With You. The line-up, consisting of constants Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and John Frusciante replacement/newcomer Josh Klinghoffer will be supported by LA hardcore pseudo-supergroup Off! at the show on Sunday 13 January.
hoLY LUCK!NZ Music Hall Of Famer and The Exponents frontman Jordan Luck has announced he’ll be hitting the southern roads with The Jordan Luck Band (featuring members of Dead Flowers and The D4) at the end of July, with support from Auckland four-piece Ekko Park. The two hard rock bands will be playing three shows over three days, the first at The Blue Pub in Methven on Friday 27 July, the second at The Woolston Club in Christchurch on Saturday 28 July, with the third and final show at The Strawberry Tree in Kaikoura on Sunday 29 July. Tickets are available now through Cosmic Ticketing.
GIVE A hooTSynth-pop indietronica-darling-gone-mainstream pop hit Owl City, AKA Adam Young, has announced he’ll be making his way to New Zealand with his live band before touring Australia in November for an all-ages show at Auckland’s Powerstation. The electronica hitmaker garnered more attention for himself with his May release The Midsummer Station through Universal Republic and was joined by blink 182’s Mark Hoppus as well as Carly Rae Jepsen on the album. Kiwi audiences should be no strangers to Owl City, considering his latest single debuted at number one on the NZ iTunes and RIANZ charts. Tickets for the Monday 16 November show at the Powerstation are available now through Ticket Master.
ChECK, ChECKWhile the line-ups for Rhythm & Vines and Rhythm & Alps are yet to be announced, organisers have dropped some names for who will be playing at the R&V/R&A Soundchecks. On Thursday 04 October at the Union Hall in Dunedin, Benga, Rusko and P-Money will be playing at the warm-up R&A show, while the R&V Soundcheck at Vector Arena in Auckland on Friday 05 October will feature Nero, Rusko, Labrinth and Home Brew. For more information about the soundchecks as well as the bigger events and info on ticketing, pricing and camping, head to rhythmandvines.co.nz.
FACToR IN ThE FEARIndustrial heavyweights and metal mainstays Fear Factory have announced they’ll be returning to New Zealand in support of their new album The Industrialist. Last here in 2010 supporting Metallica in Christchurch, the Los Angeles duo of Burton C. Bell and Dino Cazares will be joined by touring members Matt DeVries and Mike Heller for the one New Zealand show at Auckland’s Powerstation on Saturday 22 September. Tickets are available through Ticket Master and at Real Groovy.
NoThIN’ BUT ThE BLUES1990s alt-rock icons Weezer have announced they’ll be coming our way in January for the first time in 16 years. Some of you will have kids older than that. Touring company Chugg Entertainment said that Weezer will be performing a collection of greatest hits and rarities in addition to The Blue Album from start to finish (the album that featured hit songs ‘My Name Is Jonas’, ‘Buddy Holly’, ‘Undone – The Sweater Song’, ‘Say It Ain’t So’, ‘Only In Dreams’ and more). Tickets for the Friday 11 January show at Vector Arena in Auckland will be available through Ticket Master from Thursday 26 July.
SoLA RoSA RETURNCelebrating their fifth studio album Low And Behold, High And Beyond, genre-defying ensemble Sola Rosa have announced they’ll be touring the country in August as they showcase new material as well as the extensive back catalogue. Having been in the producing game for over a decade, songwriter Andrew Spraggon has led the Sola Rosa sound in a new direction with the new album. Spraggon teams up with Spikey Tee, Ben White, Matt Short, Cherie Mathieson and L. A. Mitchell for the Low And Behold, High And Beyond tour which will hit Auckland, Raglan, Ohakune, Havelock North, New Plymouth, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and Queenstown. See the tours pages for dates and venues.
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The country’s most iconic summer festival is no more. We’ve known that for months. 2012 was the last year that New Zealand would be graced with the Big Day Out, and we’re yet to see how the summer will play out without the mainstay of international and local acts that would usually be rocking out.
Will another festival take its place? Will Laneway be the new favourite festival? Will Rhythm & Vines or its southern counterpart Rhythm & Alps draw in bigger crowds than ever? Will the smaller festivals around the country start seeing more people travel and make a road trip out of their summer? Or will the acts that are playing at the Australian Big Day Out just make their way over here for separate gigs?
The Big Day Out line-up announcement always brought news of a multitude of different bands making their way down under. As a nation of moaners, some years we would call the festival “too indie”, while some years it would be “too stadium rock”. Now that it’s gone, it’s “too bad”. Next year, the Aussies have indie and mainstream darlings from all around the world playing at the BDO: Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Killers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend, Band of Horses, Kaskade, Animal Collective, Sleigh Bells, Foals, Crystal Castles, OFF!, Against Me!, Childish Gambino and Jeff the Brotherhood to name just a few.
Many concertgoers will be buying their tickets to one of the five Aussie shows already, which is understandable.
But we’re posing the question concerning what New Zealand will do with this gap in the market, and it seems that it’s being filled with international headliners over the course of a few months instead of one day of 45-minute sets. Monday saw the announcement that Kiedis and co. will be
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Favourite drink? Central Otago Pinot Noir.
Favourite restaurant/café? Smiths of Smithfields, London.
Favourite takeaway? Indian – Gulshan Tandoori, London.
Favourite classic film? Anchorman, the legend of Ron Burgundy.
Favourite childhood memory? Playing in the Ashburton Silver Band.
Favourite party food? Chipolatas.
Favourite vice? Sleep.
Favourite song? ‘Danny Boy’.
Favourite meal? Roast NZ lamb and veggies when I return home.
Favourite cause? West East Divan Orchestra peace through music.
Favourite label to put on your relationship? Loving.
Favourite ‘90s TV show? Seinfeld.
Favourite album? Wagner Ring Cycle, Solti and Vienna Philharmonic.
Favourite type of groupie? My kids.
Favourite body part on you? My eyesight.
Favourite body part on someone else? My wife Carmel’s eyes.
Favourite venue? Teatro alla Scala, Milano.
Favourite lyric? “Siegmund heiss ich, Siegmund bin ich! Die Walküre.”
Favourite candy bar? Peanut Slab.
Favourite current TV show? The Colbert Report.
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bringing the Chilis to New Zealand in January, with support from Off!. Both of those bands are at the Aussie BDO. It seems as though the line-up of our now-defunct festival is taking the Soundwave route, where some bands will hop across the ditch to play for Kiwi audiences. And while that’s a nice interim fix for the lack of mid-January mega-festival, it’s not nice on the wallet.
In November alone we’ve got Radiohead, The Black Keys, Ben Harper, Grizzly Bear, Coldplay and Mumford & Sons. In the winter months we’re lucky enough to see many of our local bands tour the country, but there’s no scratch for that international itch. Come summer 2013, we’re going to have to pick wisely, as it’s guaranteed that we’ll be getting more international acts coming our way, whether they’re mega stars like RHCP or alt favourites like Thee Oh Seas and Guitar Wolf who rocked the country last summer.
On that note, isn’t it about time Ty Segall made his way here?
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Some two years in the making and we’ve finally got a new Collapsing Cities album. The first single off the album debuted online several weeks ago, and fans have been excited about the album release show this week to see how the four-piece bring the impressive sophomore album Strangers to the live fray. Clap Clap Riot and Beach Pigs will play support.
Following their number one chart debut, the country’s favourite underground rappers have made it to the big time. They know how to throw a successful 48 hour album release party in the most disorderly of ways and how to run a pop-up store for a week, so now they’re having a crack at taking the party on the road with a seven-piece band.
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble make their first return to NZ since their jaw-dropping Womad performance in 2010. Having collaborated with musical heavyweights Mos Def, Ghostface Killah, Gorillaz, Snoop Dogg, Erykah Badu, De La Soul and Prince to name just a few, the eight-piece brass ensemble bring their acclaimed live performance to Wellington this Friday and Auckland’s Powerstation on Saturday.
Hey Christchurch rock kids, how about a nice special alt-rock treat to ease your way into the freezing weekends? Sound good? Take one dose of Sherpa with a shot of Bang Bang Eche and chase it with a double of Zen Mantra. If that’s not enough, try some Dance Asthmatics, and you should be good.
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The touring duo bring a midwinter treat to Dunedin this week before continuing to Nelson on Thursday, a special show on the Interislander ferry as well as one in Palmerston North on Friday and Wanganui on Saturday. See the harmonious young artists on the last leg of their tour.
The Bread and Butter Letter is putting on the first monthly installment of Nana Nights, an evening with blankets, warm drinks, knitting tables, board games and bands. This month Cool Rainbows and Sherpa feature at this event inspired by nanas everywhere.
Every now and then we get a band finding their way over from Australia that may not be all that well-known here, but you’re a fool to miss out on. Van She are one of those bands. The electronic gems that Van She produce are nothing short of ambient brilliance.
It’s semester two, and you didn’t do the slightest bit of work over the holidays. You should be at home studying. But that’s stupid. What you really want to do is go out and flirt. AuSM’s re-orientation week features Bulletproof, Rugged Tekniques, MayaVanya and Dan Aux.
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This five-piece hardcore force of nature play their second of two shows this Wednesday before they make their way home back to the US. My flatmate is a garage and rock kid at heart but he started jumping like a schoolgirl when he heard Terror were coming, because he was a hardcore kid when he was younger. If he knows what’s good for him, he won’t dance like a schoolgirl at the show.
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Cuba St is coming together this Friday for Women’s Refuge, and three of your favourite venues will be partying together all night long. From 6-11pm you can see Newtown Rocksteady, Paper Scissors and Redbird Jnr at San Fran Bath House; the One For The Ladies night at Matterhorn from 10pm-3am with guests Bella Kalolo, Lisa Tomlins, Open Souls’ Tyra Hammond, Vanessa Stacey and DJ Ayehsa; or local DJ Kev Fresh at Goodluck Bar from 10pm. All proceeds will go to Wellington Women’s Refuge and Te Whare Rokiroki Maori women’s refuge. It’s a good night for a good cause, so get involved.
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The mid-year sellout music festival is back, now under the guise of Homestyle instead of Soundscape. With five zones and over 30 acts including Kids Of 88, State Of Mind, Redial, Filth Collins, Vengeance, Jamie McDell, Pieter T, MC Woody, Tim Phin, Aural Trash and many more, Homestyle is without a doubt the place to be in Hamilton this weekend.
Following the release of the highly-anticipated new album Air Chrysalis, Concord Dawn returns to New Zealand in July for live shows in Auckland and Wellington. It’s been two years since The Enemy Within, and now Concord Dawn (Matt Harvey) brings his brand of high-octane heavy drum’n’bass back to where it all began some 13 years ago.
Making his way all the way from the UK, Skeptical (from the 2011 hit ‘Marka’) brings his drum’n’bass madness to New Zealand for some very select shows. This Saturday the producer will hit Auckland’s Ink & Coherent where he’ll blast some of the tracks he’s lent out to Ingredients Records, Exit Records, Dispatch, Renegade Hardware, Metalheadz, Soul:r, Commercial Suicide and more.
Lawrence Arabia’s The Sparrow tour will be the last that the alt-pop sensation graces New Zealand audiences with before he heads overseas to tour in America and Europe. Auckland audiences can see the golden boy at the Town Hall on Friday, while his final show will be at Wellington’s Opera House on Sunday.
The Auckland based NZTrio are performing at Q Theatre as part of the three-concert Loft Series which celebrates local composer Karlo Margetic’s new work. The chamber ensemble consisting of Justine Cormack, Ashley Brown and Sarah Watkins will premiere Margetic’s new compositions at this rare treat
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You could never accuse the Flaming Lips of being mundane – it’s just not in their repertoire. So what happens when you’ve done it all musically, broken all the rules, taken all the drugs? Well, you get a few new friends together and do it all again...but just you make it just that little bit more extreme.
And when I say new friends, how about bringing in a party princess like Ke$ha to mess with the too-cool-for-school kids? Not a bad way to kick-start this excellently tripped-out and fucked-up foray. Ke$ha opens Heady Fwends with a cheery middle finger raised skyward (but aimed directly at her haters) as she proves that she’s more than just a pop machine to be used for mass consumption. On ‘2012’, her ballsy vocal styling melds effortlessly with the Lips’ anarchic sound, creating a piece of electronica that smacks considerable ass.
Speaking of pop machines, how about the woman who broke up one of the greatest pop products of all time? Oh yes, Yoko Ono makes an appearance on ‘Do It’ – sounding like a mad mixture of ‘60s art rock and ‘70s funk, all the while adding more fuel to Heady Fwends’ experimental fire. To go with the left-of-field choices, there are also some less controversial
heavy-weight guest appearances from the likes of Biz Markie, Erykah Bardu and a scary-sounding Nick Cave (amongst others). All help to build a considerable rep for this collaborative effort.
But with the Lips it isn’t about their rep – It’s about pushing the envelope and having a grand ol’ time while doing it. On the flip-side, collaborative albums like this can often let the guests take over. But each track on Heady Fwends is indelibly a part of Flaming Lips’ canon. Their signature eclecticism catches each collaborative artist in its maelstrom, sucking them in and spitting them out, sticky with a coating of chaos-candy that only the Lips can provide. This album sure won’t please those looking for a linear listen, but it’s a fun ride if you let yourself go and just enjoy it.
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ALBuM OuT NOW: THE FLAMING LIPS AND HEADY FWENDS
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A new musical featuring classic local pop music, Loyal tells the story of a navy unit on peacekeeping duties. The notions of optimism in the face of adversity, love, life and loyalty are all questioned in this show with music from Bic Runga, Dave Dobbyn, Brooke Fraser, Crowded House and more.
Using cutting edge multimedia and electronics to blur the line between what’s imagined and what’s real, Australia’s Frank Newman directs this genre-bending visual experimentation with his trademark combination of sharp storytelling and animation.
Internationally-renowned Wagnerian tenor Simon O’Neill leads the crème de la crème of local and international singers for this concert performance of Wagner’s astounding The Valkyrie (Die Walkure). The near six-hour opera epic is one of the most extraordinary musical events ever to grace the stage.
Checkout Chicks is part Glee, part Hairspray and part Legally Blonde all set at your local corner shop. Presented by the Auckland Theatre Company as part of The Next Big Thing festival, this gloriously over-the-top production is material developed by some of our future thespians.
Matariki arrives at Auckland’s Silo Park this Saturday as the Maori New Year festivities combine interactive displays and performances, light installations and video projections with music from Anika Moa, Ria Hall, Anna Coddington and DJs, as well as a telescope on loan from the Stardome planetarium and observatory.
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Who’s in the dead supergroup for your dream hologram show? Tina turner – ‘Rolling On The River’! She’s not dead but I’d love to see her in her prime.
What’s an upcoming film you’re jazzed about? So busy – haven’t been to the movies in yonks.
Where can your stalkers find you during the weekend? You better keep up stalkers, ‘cause I hop around like a bunny on heat. I love to explore new nooks and crannies and see lots of theatre.
What happens when you mix Coca Cola with Pepsi? You get rather strong paint stripper?
Your signature “i’m an amazing cook” dish is… I make a mean lasagna.
The best TV show around at the moment is… Tabatha’s Salon Takeover - love her!
ARTIST Q&A
The best place for a date night is… Somewhere warm and quiet with wine and candles.
You’d get arrested if the police knew that you… No comment.
People say you look like… A young good-looking Seymour Hoffman or an older, uglier Prince Harry.
Five celebs on your f**klist? Now that would be telling, but here’s a hint – they’ve all been crossed off the list.
Kittens or puppies? Both!
What generic current affair has your blood boiled? Too many to pick from.
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A collection of eight short works from seminal local choreographers Moss Patterson, Taane Mete and Jack Gray, Kaha juxtaposes traditional dances against creative modernity resulting in a voice unlike any other.
Raybon Kan takes his critically-acclaimed stand-up show to Hamilton for one night this week. After impressing audiences in the comedy festival, Raybon promises his un PC show will “offend everyone”.
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WELLINGTON2 – 5 & 8 – 11 August
INVERCARGILL14 – 15 August
DUNEDIN18 – 19 August
NAPIER23 – 25 August
PALMERSTON NORTH28 – 29 August
TAKAPUNA1 – 2 September
AUCKLAND5 – 9 September
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WAGNER The Valkyrie (Die Walküre)
Simon O’Neill Siegmund Edith Haller Sieglinde Christine Goerke Brünnhilde John Wegner Wotan Jonathan Lemalu HundingMargaret Medlyn FrickaPietari Inkinen Conductor Plus eight of New Zealand’s �nest singers as the Valkyries
An opera in three acts sung in German with English surtitlesDuration: 5 hours 40 minutes including two intervals
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Wagner’s epic tale of gods and menAn opera in concert
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Auckland �eatre Company’s landmark production of Bruce Mason’s profoundly human masterpiece
What is more honourable: the truth that hurts, or the lie that heals?
i’m no Family Guy fan, siding (like the writers of The Simpsons did) with Trey Parker and Matt Stone when South Park painted the show as a collection of random gags assembled by manatees. Seth MacFarlane – the show’s creator, writer and voice actor – has nevertheless made a solid first foray into filmmaking, a format that perhaps by its very nature restricts the tangents his imagination is able to take, and Ted beats the early efforts of Parker and Stone. That’s not to paint this as anything other than a very silly film though, with the animated foul-mouthed pot-smoking teddy bear of the title barely given the most cursory explanation for its existence and Mark Wahlberg doing what he does best, ultra deadpan dullard comedy (as seen to great effect in The Other Guys and more accidentally in The Happening).
There’s still space for brief flights of fancy, with celebrity cameos and the odd fantasy sequence reminiscent of Family Guy (as is the banter in Ted), but MacFarlane shows a good grasp of the film medium by keeping things pretty simple. That includes the plot, which is both paint-by-numbers and tepidly misogynist, focusing on Wahlberg’s character John and his refusal to grow beyond a stoner man-child even at the nagging behest of his girlfriend (Mila Kunis). While it ain’t a great film for these reasons (as well as its pacing and resolution), Ted is great viewing packed full of laughs and boasts great creepy supporting performances from Joel McHale and Giovanni Ribisi.
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Of the wider Judd Apatow-directed films including The 40 Year Old Virgin, Funny People and the Apatow – produced flicks such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Superbad and Pineapple Express, Knocked Up was the one that brought the comedy clique of Seth Rogen, Jason Segall, Martin Starr and Paul Rudd into the mainstream comedy fray. It’s a dude classic for him and her.
Cruel Intentions was one of the original ‘90s teenage sex dramas. If that’s a thing. Ryan Phillipe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair all found their tinseltown footing from this teenage soft-core sex and romance romp that was a cult classic for anyone in their teens.
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Hot damn, it’s arrived. The final of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy has finally come our way. Anticipations are high and the blogoshpere is rife with expectations. Can the third film close the chapter on Batman in a satisfactory way? Bat icons Bane and Catwoman make their first appearance in Chris Nolan’s universe in the closing tale, inspired by none other than Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.
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Zooey Deschanel’s TV show grew on us as the season went on. Yeah, the marketing for it was ridiculous and “adorkable” is a fucking stupid word. But the cast is solid and once you get over the hump of geek-chic quirk-is-cool writing, you can get to enjoying the actual show. This Tuesday sees the show start back from episode one if you’re interested in catching up.
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Leading straight on from season three, Parks & Recreation dives into season four this Tuesday. We’ll go on record and say that it’s one of the funniest shows on New Zealand television at the moment, which isn’t surprising when you look at the improv-genius cast of Amy Poehler, Adam Scott, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Aziz Ansari and more.
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For the next month or so, Auckland audiences will be treated to a veritable plethora of indie films at the New Zealand International Film Festival. We’ll feature a couple of films every week at the festival, but for information and the full listing of what’s on head to nzff.co.nz.
This Disney nature doco follows Oscar the Chimpanzee, an orphan taken in by an adult chimp in the Ivory Coast and Ugandan rain forests. Produced by the same crew that made Earth and African Cats, Chimpanzee is an insightful family-friendly film for all ages.
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Chicks dig bad boys. Bad boys and scars. And guys dig naughty things. In Japanese, wagamama means naughty child. So if you’re a bit of a nerd, trying to impress that bad boy or naughty girl, take them out to Wagamama for a bite or two. Even better, here’s some scintillating dinner conversation so you won’t be lost for words: “Did you know that a child said to be ‘wagamama’ demands constant attention? That’s so Gen Y, right”; “Wagamama was launched in 1992. So were Taylor Lautner, Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus.”; “You’re really hot. Like this meal I’m eating. Sorry, was that too forward? Do you want me to be backwards instead?” Nailed it.
A couple of Saturdays ago it was date day. We call it “Terrific Lady Day”, because it has a nice ring to it and the lady feels terrific when you give her a whole day named after her. We went to the Parnell markets in the morning to see if I could steal some free food from my Italian friend who works there. He wasn’t there, but the people from Whoopie were. They make cake pies that look like melting moments, and eating one of these things is like making out with an angel. It was terrific. I can’t remember the name of the guy, but he said they have a store in Grey Lynn and a snazzy website where you can see all of the super pretty Whoopie pies and cake-esque loollipops called Whoopie pops as well.
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BrEtt pollEy9PM, Shakespeare Bar
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Dirty Diana’S Sol niGht7PM, Chapel Bar
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JaSon SkElton Duo9PM, Rickshaw Eddies
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lEE Gray Duo9PM, Elephant Wreslter
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THE HYPE OF THE KNIGHT
The Dark knighT FLIPPED AuDIEnCE ExPECTATIOn OF WHAT A SuPERHERO MOVIE CAn BE. CAn CHRISTOPHER nOLAn DO IT AGAIn WITH HIS FInAL EnTRY InTO THE BATMAn WORLD WITH
The Dark knighT rises?
The year is 2008. Christopher Nolan’s movie The Dark Knight just blew the minds of audiences across the world, seamlessly declaring that there is now a difference between a good comic book movie and a good movie. Batfans have never been prouder. Comic book geeks probably get a good week or two of impressing girls. The world wonders how any Batman film could possibly top what they just saw – a magnificent combination of acting, direction, special effects, writing and score composition in film-making.
Fast-forward four years, and we’re about to get our answer.
The press screenings have begun and they’re off to a fantastic start. The Dark Knight Rises is being called pure geek happiness. and some of us are doing our best as not to stumble across any spoilers. Don’t worry, reader – that’s not what’s happening here. all we’re doing is buying the hype like it’s a chocolate-coated winning lotto ticket with a genie inside that gives us psychic investment advice.
Director, writer and producer Christopher Nolan says that the story of TDKR is set eight years after the second film in his Batman trilogy. “it seems that Batman and Commissioner Gordon have succeeded. The Dark Knight is no longer needed in Gotham. in that regard, Bruce Wayne has won the battle, but he is traumatised by what happened and doesn’t know how to move on from being the figure of Batman.”
his final installment in the Bat-realm, TDKR deals with the consequences of his and other characters’ actions in the previous films. With so much hype to follow up on, speculation has been rife about whether or not this film can be as good, or better than, its predecessor. “We felt a tremendous sense of responsibility to fulfill expectations based on the first two movies while giving the audience something they hadn’t seen before. it was a tricky balance.” The action has to be huge, but the story has to be even bigger. Not to mention the answer to where we see our hero wind up when all of this is said and done. it’s a trilogy, after all, and Batman’s legacy is not one full of happiness.
“Our guiding impulse in this telling of the Batman legend has always been to follow Bruce Wayne’s journey,” Nolan says. “in Batman Begins you see the tragedy and the pain that motivates this angry young man, who feels useless and is searching for a path, and who wants to find out who he is and what he can become. in The Dark Knight, he’s discovered that path. he is useful; he is doing what he imagines is the best thing for him to be doing in his life. Now, we are eight years on and he has lost the one thing that gave him a purpose… until he is forced to deal with a new threat to the city and to himself.”
One of the most loved aspects of The Dark Knight was, of course, heath Ledger’s Joker. That performance of the now-deceased actor’s is possibly his most well-known in his career, and often thought of as his best ever. so how do you top that?
“in deciding on who the next villain would be, it was imperative that it was someone completely different from the Joker… that he be a brute force. The physical component of what Bruce Wayne does as Batman is of extraordinary importance, and we had not truly challenged that in the first two films. i really wanted to see Batman meet his match physically, as well as intellectually. Bane is raw strength with a fanatical devotion to duty, and that combination makes him unstoppable.”
The upcoming film welcomes many new faces to the world of Gotham. Nolan’s co-conspirators Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom hardy and Marion Cottilard join Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman in the cast, as well as Nolan-newcomer anne hathaway, who has been receiving a fair bit of grief on the blogosphere. sure, she looks very “white money”, but sometimes you have to have faith in the director’s choice. Who, after all, could have ever imagined a comic-book film being so well loved?
“We needed to find the balance between the classic image of the character and a believable person you care about,” Nolan explains. “Casting anne hathaway in the role was the key to that. she was able to combine those facets seamlessly so they aren’t in conflict, but one is amplifying the other.”
The popularity of The Dark Knight was so impressive for more reasons than just the actors. Composer hans Zimmer is back for the score and Nolan’s production team have directed the batshit out of the photography. Nolan is adamant that seeing the film in an iMaX cinema aids the storytelling, as nearly half of the movie was shot with large-format cameras. “We got great results with the iMaX cameras on the last film. i appreciate what it offers from the technical side, but i’m most interested in what it can give me as a storytelling tool. how can it help me pull the audience deeper into this world? iMaX provides the broadest possible canvas, creating the most immersive experience.”
Batman the character is one that is loved by many. Batman the film franchise is one that has had its ups and downs (Bat nipples, anyone?). Christopher Nolan’s Batman is a complex story that has spanned a decade, telling a story that has made the director’s career. and he knows it. “When you look back on the films, you can see the world we’re living in reflected. What gives us fear? What gives us hope? What would require a hero of Batman’s stature to rise up in our world?” Nolan says. “Bruce Wayne’s story has fascinated people for more than 70 years because it’s a great story… We are very proud of this ending, and we hope the audience shares our excitement.”
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MaTT harvey’s yOur typical kind of Kiwi guy. he’s down-to-earth, upfront, honest and not afraid to speak his mind. But living in vienna for the last three or so years certainly shows – and he’s come a long way in 14 years of Concord Dawn. his is latest album, Air Chrysalis, definitely shows the influence of european culture.
Based on “a book within a book” of Japanese author haruki Murakami’s best-selling novel 1Q84, the album is more than just electronic beats and drums – it’s a metaphysical journey, a thinking man’s drum and bass, reflecting Matt’s wider philosophy that to make great music, you have to look outside yourself.
“i didn’t want to call it Bass Monsters Volume 6 or some cheesy shit,” Matt says matter-of-factly. “i think it is good to have this relationship between art, music and literature. When you live in vienna, you get out and see things, talk about things and absorb a lot.
“That’s how music used to be, like back in the 1970s artists, musicians and writers were all dropping acid together, inspiring each other. i think that’s sort of lost these days. Music has become a bit insular, looking inward, not taking inspiration from the outside.”
The sixth studio album is not so much a new style, but an evolution of the classic Concord Dawn sound. although this is the direction he has always taken, crossing genre boundaries, Matt admits now he’s a one-man band (after the sudden departure of co-DJ evan short in 2009) he has the confidence to take it in a new direction.
“it was a hard thing to get out of the system,” Matt says. “With The Enemy Within, it was the first time i was doing the process by myself, but this time it was a lot easier. When you write tunes, it’s like cooking. you have
a few ingredients, and then you taste it and think ‘this could use this or that’. With an album, you think, ‘i haven’t done a track like this’, or ‘this could be a bit harder’, so you play with it.”
in a round-about sense, the new direction is also a return to “proper drum and bass”, a time Matt says didn’t involve the excessive use of auto-tune and the explosion of a little genre called dubstep. as an ode to this, he released Air Chrysalis free online – one of many reasons being to move away from the commercial aspect and get back to the real sound, unpolluted by all the rest.
“a lot of people have supported me over the years so i thought, why not? it would be nice to give back. i have a studio of vintage equipment and i have enough clothes not to do washing for a week. To remove money from that process, i hoped to make something a bit truer. There is too much of that shit in modern music. Guys are too photoshopped or they have their name in six-foot lights behind them.
“We have moved into this place where DJs have become caricatures, a kind of superhuman God-DJ-Mystro man. i’m just an ordinary guy that loves to make drum and bass.”
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There’s something to do every night of the week at The Claddagh. Monday pool nights, darts competitions on Tuesdays, pub quiz Wednesdays, karaoke Thursdays and fresh, live music every Friday and Saturday. Come Sunday, there’s no better place for a roast meal for you and your friends or that stranger you took home who you think you’ve got at least one more round with.
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Club Connoisseurs is the name of the game at Ponsonby’s Chapel Bar & Bistro on Monday nights from 6.30-10.30pm. When you’re back at work feeling sorry for yourself, Chapel’s helping you get back on the good foot with DJs spinning their treasured collection of funk, reggae, soul, jazz and more so you can get on up through the rest of the week.
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The capital will be going off for charity this Friday as Wellington Women’s Refuge and Te Whare Rokiroki Maori Women’s Refuge are teaming up with Good Luck, Matterhorn and San Fran Bath House as the bars and organisations run a night of back-to-back gigs to raise much-needed money for their local refuges. You can do the good thing by being all charitable while also not missing out on your Friday fun. Win win.
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Every Thursday at Racket down in Britomart, local DJs MayaVanya and Girl Tiger are your captains on the sea of “it’s not quite the weekend but thank God it nearly is”. Or they’re your pilots, or maybe your tour guides. Either way, they all know that you’re there because you want a good time, and these party starters know how to kick off the not-quite-weekend in style.
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Along with the awesome kudos that goes with being a Beam Bar Legend, our 2012 winner will take home:- An expense card to the value of $200 per week for 12 months (total value of $10,000) to spend on whatever you like, and the chance to be a brand champion for Beam, all while keeping your night job.- A trip to a Beam distillery of your choice, all expenses paid. Just so you know, we have famous distillery operations in Kentucky, France, Mexico, The Caribbean, Scotland, Ireland and Canada.- Plus, just to keep the boss happy, your bar will also win stock and a staff or customer party – to the value of $5,000!
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This is where i should probably apologise to Laura or whoever, the lady at the end of the wrong number called first. When i figured out the right number scott had just woken, hung over not from a Tuesday night bender but a writing late-nighter. The first noticeable thing was his normality; a theme reiterated throughout the interview and, of course, in his music.
No pretentious musician bloated with cash and fame on the end of the line. he says it feels good to be famous though. “it’s good when people come up to you and they relate to your music.” But it has its drawbacks too. “Other times it feels kind of pointless,” he says, referring to people who come up pretending to know him, just wanting an autograph. “They remind me of people who take pictures of lions.”
The upcoming tour is noticeably different to previous excursion The Good Country Tour. it’s a fly-by visit to the big cities, skipping out the obscure touring towns like Gore and Ohakune. asked why, scott says it’s because they got someone else to organise it this time. he prefers the road-trip style of the last one, but is still looking forward to it. The big difference is going to be “playing to more than 12 people”.
san Fran Bath house is scott’s pick of venue. “it’s full of madness. i’m pretty sure Wellington has no police force either,” he adds about the nightlife. he feels remotely uneasy about the inclusion of new material, expecting a few hecklers requesting ‘Bad, Bad Whisky’. The standards are high; he wants to give the crowd something interesting to vibe to. so he really wants to try out the personal songs. “There’s an art to it,” he says, aware that crowds don’t always get on board with material that isn’t wrapped in bass.
although they’ve been on the block for a while, home Brew have only just added an album to their repertoire of ePs. it’s been a lifelong dream for scott to get an album out. “Growing up i always bought albums,” he
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reminisces. he even lets slip that santa Clause was the generous donor of his first album, Chris Cross’ debut. “i’d sit in my room and listen to them; they’re like works of art.” Debut albums are particularly special to him, because he finds they’re often “the tale of someone’s life”. Finally having his own album to represent him, scott hopes that he is able to give that same good feeling he has felt to someone else and that he’s got some songs off of his chest.
Life without home Brew would mean that scott is “just a dude who works” – something he famously avoids. his career is hanging with his mates, which he says is a great feeling. success for scott would be being able to share his own experience with music, bringing things down to a personal level and letting someone know that “things are going to be sweet”.
“it’s the most amazing thing in the whole world,” he says about being able to relate to a song. although scott wouldn’t mind a Tui (NZMa gong) he seems disgruntled by home Brew’s “nomination” for the 2012 aPra silver scroll award. “i was surprised by the politics of the silver scrolls. you have to nominate yourself or the record label (has to)... which is fucked. Me saying this has probably fucked our chances for an award.”
Their heart’s in the right place though – who needs an award for that?
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Theatrhythm Final Fantasy is a mixture of dozens of animated sequences from thirteen different Final Fantasy games, against which is set a sublime music-matching rhythm game.
To play, you pick your four favourite Final Fantasy characters (or just your favourite-looking characters; their big-head variants here are very cute) and head into the game. There’s also a nifty RPG layer that wraps around the fun stuff, but you don’t need to worry about that to start with. It’s also unnecessary to know anything about Final Fantasy in order to enjoy the experience.
The basic game is a mix of three types of rhythm game, with a simple fourth mode thrown in from time to time. In each, while the presentation varies, the core concept does not; tap, swipe, and slide according to the on-screen prompts, exactly in time to the music. Keep doing this well and you’ll proceed through the game; start to fail and your characters will take damage. Take too much, it’s game over.
There are a few different modes, including one that lets you go through each of thirteen Final Fantasy games in turn, tapping out tunes as you go. If nothing else, this mode will make you fall in love with the incredible music of the series; even from the very first (which came out 25 years ago), the music is hauntingly beautiful.
Once you’ve cleared the series mode, there are other much more difficult modes to keep things interesting. In them – in addition to massive challenge – you’ll earn loads of XP and bonus items, which help improve your capabilities in the meta game.
The difficulty starts off at “pretty seriously easy” and ramps up oh-so-gradually from there. With no real spikes to speak of, the game is both welcoming to less-experienced rhythm gamers and rewarding to those who come hunting for something hard.
It is, quite simply, a superbly polished game that benefits to no small degree from having 25 years of amazing material to draw from. If you’re unfamiliar with Final Fantasy, don’t be put off; the music is gorgeous, and the gameplay mechanics layered on top are great fun.
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what are you working on right now?Getting ready to promote our new album and play live! i’m also working on a solo country album which i plan to release mid 2013. Our new album has taken three years and is called Strangers Again – most of the lyrics are social observations, human conditions, subtext paranoia and made-up stories. My favourite lyrics are always first-person social observations.
who was an inspiration or idol to you growing up?it changed every week. Jarvis Cocker (Pulp) and Damon albarn (Blur) as a teenager. as a child maybe steven seagal. Pretty much anybody who made me laugh or wrote a really good pop song was my idol or inspiration growing up. My older brother Paul was pretty inspirational; he’s very good at making up stories on the spot. single mothers are the real heroes…
when you were a kid what was your dream job?it changed all the time. i remember wanting to a be a pro wrestler, then the next week a writer, then maybe a chef and then maybe an actor and then anything that involves travel.
what’s your favourite venue in the country?The Kings arms and Wunderbar in Lyttleton, really happy that it’s reopened.
where was the last place you went out for dinner?My last dinner was down in Turangi – i went down there for the weekend with my girlfriend. i wish it was more romantic, but we had Burger King. i had a chicken burger, a small fries and a hybrid Coke Zero and raspberry drink. it was pretty average.
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what has been the best show you’ve attented this year?Die! Die! Die! album realease gig last Friday. i wish i had gotten a ticket to radiohead – i set my alarm but slept in. also, The Choads reformation gig was fun!
what show are you most anticipating this year?Collapsing Cities at the Kings arms, Friday July 20th, and Grizzly Bear.
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