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Classic vs Electronic The Death of the Musical Instrument Debate Illegal downloads Rocky Horror in Australia Benefits of Look after Music your hearing

PLUS RECIPES | STYLE & SUSTAINABILITY | REVIEWS | DISCOVER SYDNEY AND MORE CONTENTS music Issue 7, October 2013 Experience 11 Megan Smith 09 Advice with Megan Web Editor 10 International: The Germany Invention 11 A Day in the Life of a Dance Teacher 12 Discussion: The Death of the Musical Instrument? Mia Kwok Deputy Editor 28 Lifestyle Nathan Li 12 40 Sustainability: Growingbooks Editor-in-Chief 41 Style: Dress For Your Beat 42 Cooking with the Smiling Chef: King of Tarts 18 News 44 The Stew #DiscoverSydney 05 Conception Day 2013! 45 Reviews: 06 OneNet Cut Down on Piracy Music + Films + Books + Exhibitions Features 06 Another Hospital for Macquarie? 46 Horoscopes 15 Inspired Leadership: Karina Marlow 06 Framing the Futures White Paper Launch 46 Puzzles: Crossword + A-Maze 16 The Birth of Conception Day 07 The Rise of the Sensible Generation 18 The Stars Are Born: profiling Bluejuice, 07 Meanwhile in the World... Josh Pyke, Jinja Safari, Sons of Alamo, Everything After, New Brutalists, Breakaway, Far Away Stable, 08 Rupert’s Game 40 Cletus Kasady, Stolen Memories, Lachlan Robinson, Philippe Wittner & Nigel Hanc 28 Horror: The Show That Rocked Glee Creative 30 Beat for Your Bucks 37 A Dark Night 32 Music in Video Games 38 Stars and 33 Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow Stripes 42 34 Music... Sounds Therapeutic! 15

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Half page Grapeshot 20130410 package.indd 1 4/10/2013 2:55:58 PM Welcome University Campus | Higher Education | Local Community | Global Development From your editors news Macquarie University Student Publication

Editorial & Creative Production Editor-in-Chief Nathan Li Deputy Editor Mia Kwok Feature Editor Brendon D’Souza News Editor Stephanie Lewis Submissions Editor Sarah Windon Regulars Editor Olivia Whenman Web Editor Megan Smith Graphic Designer Michelle Fox editorial Photographer Rosemarie Cruz Editor-in-Chief Editorial Assistants Ben McCarthy & Nathan Li & Ben Nour Deputy Editor Mia Kwok take Sales & marketing you through Campus Engagement Alycia Crofton & this collector’s Officer & Assistant Manisha Josephraja music edition Advertising Manager Ben Gilholme Public Relations Officer Varun Fernando here’s an opiate quality about Day headliners, local uprising artists and the spring time. It’s something even street performers (p.18-27). No matter Special Contributors that makes you want to nap in where they are in their career and public Sarah Basford, Har-Ching Chiang, the sun, but only after running recognition, these creatives represent the Josephine Clark-Wroe, Nicola Donovan, around wildly with no purpose. Luckily strength of Australia and the future of our Kristofer Gilmour, Anna Glen, Aris Katskis, T Hannah McNicholas, Brad Munro, Avery Phillips, for us, Conception Day provides ample audio landscape. You just need to glance at Nicholas Rider, Anshul Potnis, Amy Way opportunity for both. the cover to see the diversity of the music This year, get ready for week-long scene, but don’t just look – you can read Management & Editorial Review celebrations as Macquarie University about it too (p.12). Publisher Campus Life brings you carnival days, movie nights Manager, Angela Voerman Conception Day 2013! and Ubar parties, followed by some of the This issue is dedicated to creative Campus Engagement REPORT Stephanie Lewis best bands and DJ sets for the big day. This talents. As we are approaching the end Campus Engagement Lauren Hargreaves of acts, and offer a different experience. “Be ready for stadium-sized dance Conception Day special issue sets out all of 2013, we are looking to hand over Development Officer PHOTOGRAPHY Jake Campbell Pacha is “bringing different elements anthems, jump up party bass tunes, one or that’s coming up, including special feature the reins to wonderful new students To get in touch with us It’s that time of year again! Classes of that Pacha experience into Conception two smoking-hot club bangers and plenty on the history of Conception Day (p.16). who will continue this publication are cancelled (or skipped, ha), the shorts Day”. “We’re bringing the beautiful dancers of the barely legal stage antics that the As we celebrate the power of music in next year. It can be anyone of you - as Website www.grapeshotmq.com.au and sunnies well and truly come out, and and crazy costumes,” says Andy El-Bayeh, Laundry crew are all too well known for,” this issue, it proved to be quite a challenge long as you have a passion for driving Email [email protected] Phone +61 2 9850 7605 Macquarie University comes together for marketing manager of Pacha, “we’re Adam says. to translate beats and melodies into words student communication and creating Office Level 1, C10A Campus Hub, the love of music and good times. It all goes bringing in all the big productions, from the The SAM (Save-A-Mate) Crew from on paper. We have invited musicians to the vibrant culture that Macquarie Macquarie University down on Friday 11 October down by the big screens to confetti canons, to lasers and Red Cross will be there on the day to share with us their talents, inspirations and University is all about. NSW 2109, Australia persistent hard work. We have Conception Facebook page Grapeshot - Macquarie Uni lake, with gates open from 12pm. smoke, and a taste of our amazing talent.” help you celebrate safely. They will be Student Publication This year’s set up and lineup is looking Chinese Laundry is also bringing “a huge providing free sunscreen, temporary Twitter @grapeshotmq bigger and better than ever before! On the party”. 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Each stage will present a range again delivered what she does reporter has taken expressed in Grapeshot Magazine are not necessarily hottest and most in-demand. know where to go if you need help. best (p.40&41) and chatted a look at Rupert those of the publication team, the Macquarie There will be a number of events in with Sydney band Stolen Murdoch (p.8) and the University student body, Macquarie University staff the week leading up to Conception Day. or Campus Life staff. With teasing, hint-by-hint announcements Memories (p.26). rise of Gen S (p.7). on Facebook, the line up for 2013 has These include markets, the ‘Silk Roads’ The publication team acknowledges the Darug now been confirmed: party, Carnival Day, comedy night and Name: Nicola Donovan Name: Anna Glen Aboriginal people as the traditional custodians of Age: 19 Degree: Bachelor Age: 21 Degree: the land on which Macquarie University is situated. • Birds of Tokyo • Joel Fletcher a movie marathon. Keep your eyes on of Arts (Media) Career aspiration: Bachelor of Arts • Bluejuice • Loru the Grapeshot Facebook page for more Magazine editor or novelist - whichever comes (Media) with Bachelor • Josh Pyke • Nat Noiz Conception Week details! first.P art-time job: Journalist at Bella Media of Laws Career • Jinja Safari • U-Kahn Tickets are still on sale for Why contribute to Grapeshot: It’s aspiration: Perpetual student. Part- • Allday • Morris & Losty Conception Day now: Jump online a great way for aspiring writers to build up a time job: Barista. Why contribute to • Movement • Baby Gee - www.mq.edu.au/on_campus/get_ • Peking Duk portfolio. What the word “Grapeshot” Grapeshot: To write something other than cover • Suburban Dark involved/conception_day/tickets/, OR means to me: Wine always comes to essays and also meet lots of lovely people (if • Uberjak’d • True Vibenation Pop into the Mac Shop (Campus Hub, mind. 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(Left to right) VC Prof. S. Bruce Dowton, Mia Kwok, Richard OneNet cut Morecroft and Kristofer Gilmour. Photograph by Paul Wright. MEANWHILE down on IN THE WORLD Miley twerked and Tony won, but what else Piracy has been going on around the world? WORDS Stephanie Lewis REPORT Mia Kwok Macquarie’s internet provider, OneNet, is introducing new shaping protocols that start at the end of mid-semester break. Currently, BitTorrent accounts for around 25 per cent of incoming traffic and 45 per cent of outgoing traffic. The plan is to slow down this “illegitimate” data stream, as well as other “non-university” First man-made object leaves streams by a process known as ‘shaping’. solar system Launched in 1977, This new procedure applies to all spacecraft Voyager 1 has been confirmed staff and students logged into OneNet as the first man-made object to ever and its subsidiaries. leave the solar system. The probe is 18.8 The provider has made provisions billion kilometres from Earth, and while for users who legitimately need to use it stopped sending photos back in 1990, these alternate data streams. You can Framing the Futures it is still able to send data. However, it email [email protected] to have your does take 17 hours for signals to reach access reviewed. Gen S? the NASA lab from the spacecraft. It white paper Launch is expected to continue to do so until about 2025, presumably when its 23-watt REPORT Kristofer Gilmour that Dowton has personally made to transmitter (about the equivalent of a be broadly consultative has included The Rise of refrigerator light bulb) is expected to Another “I didn’t believe that we could continue attending over 40 meetings with staff and die. The technology of the 36-year-old on an ascending trajectory if there are no students are representative of the nature hospital for spacecraft is a little out of date: SMH wrote overarching visions,” says Prof. S Bruce of this White Paper. the Sensible that it carries “an eight-track tape recorder Downton. The Launch of the Our University The nature of this White Paper is Macquarie? and computers with 240,000 times less framework is dedicated to act as the anchor highlighted by its timely launch. It is Generation memory than a low-end iPhone”. REPORT Stephanie Lewis for our whole University. purposefully designed to capture the influences of change in our surrounding The Syrian crisis If you haven’t Macquarie University REPORT Anna Glen person’, 85 per cent saying they want to be The Vice Chancellor, Professor S. communities. Prof. Dowton referred to been following this story, here is a quick Hospital (MUH) is one of four married in the next ‘few years’ and 86 per Bruce Dowton MD has launched his long the development at Macquarie Centre, New research conducted by Co- rundown. The conflict is between those parties who have expressed interest in cent wanting kids a year after that. term vision for Macquarie University – a the interconnectivity of greater transport op has dubbed university students aged 17 that support Syrian President Bashar building and operating the Northern However, you only have to observe framing of futures as it were. Wednesday and the research and technology hub our to 29 as ‘Generation S’. The report looked Al-Assad and those who oppose his rule. Beaches Hospital at Frenchs Forest. the Facebook feed of young people, often 28 August saw the Atrium beautified in campus has created. The environment is at the ambitions and goals and found that Tens of thousands of Syrians have died and The successful party will be announced besieged with travelling photographs fine red, bright lights and the stage set for changing around us. Clearly it was time we, they were surprisingly sensible, hence the two million have been forced to flee the in 2014, with construction to begin in during the semester break, to see that a a seminal interview of the Vice Chancellor collectively and with new direction, kick name Gen S. country. A further 4.25 million have been 2015, aiming to be completed in 2018. nomadic – and expensive – way of life with veteran journalist and television into gear to meet and excel the pace already What does it mean to be a sensible displaced within the country. The conflict MUH CEO Carol Bryant says: “The appeals to a large cross section of this presenter Richard Morecroft. The Provost set. The Vice Chancellor, however, was young person of Generation S? Rather has its roots in protests that occurred Northern Beaches community deserves demographic. This seems to be at odds Professor Judyth Sachs presided over the not coy about this change. He noted that than splurging out on social activities, across the nation in March 2011, after nothing less than a world-class hospital, with the notion that Gen S are imposing ceremony, highlighting that it was barely “We cannot be all things to all people” but they are sagaciously pondering their future some teenagers in Deraa were arrested and and that is exactly what our consortium austere saving measures upon themselves. 10 months ago that Prof. Dowton was assured that he possesses the attitude that and cautiously saving. Gen S see buying tortured for painting revolutionary slogans with best placed to provide.” However, the study did find that travelling introduced to us where we “learnt some of we “learn as we do”. a home and starting a family as more on a school wall, and security forces opened The hospital will treat both private was a right of passage for ‘Gen S’, with a his quirky thoughts”. The integrity with which this vision important than having a good Saturday fire on crowds during a protest march. The and public patients, and will increase vast majority planning a career break to go The White Paper has been developed is held and the manner that with which night out, with as little as five per cent government sent the military into Deraa, the number of hospital beds available on overseas before ‘settling down’ with a fixed over the past 10 months, since the Vice it has been handled and developed thus of their weekly being income spent on and then Damascus and Aleppo to crush the Northern Beaches by 166. job and family. Chancellor’s arrival, in concert with far is assurance enough for us to expect leisure. This is an interesting development any kind of potential uprising. Since 2012 Bryant highlights MUH’s already This said, not every young tertiary a revised master plan that is yet to be and look forward to positive results. The for a group spawned from ‘Gen Y’, the the country has been in a civil war, with excellent reputation, as both a hospital educated person can relate to the unveiled. This synergy is precisely typical Vice Chancellor expressed his personal generation supposedly characterised by main cities bombed, and on 21 August a and a training facility: “Our approach findings. The average age of participants of the vision. It is a plan that fits as a sensitivity that he is “privileged to be instant gratification, selfishness and a poor suspected chemical weapons attack took to treatment is based on combining the was 22. Madeleine Day, aged 21 and part of an overall and encompassing serving Macquarie at this time of setting work ethic. Chief Marketing Officer at the place. In early-mid September Russia’s best available knowledge and expertise to studying a Bachelor of Arts (Media) at framework. In his own words, Prof. us apart from every other university in this Co-op Greg Smith says: “The findings really proposed plan to put Syria’s chemical ensure patients receive a comprehensive Macquarie University, found the report Dowton has been “energised by how land, and beyond”. challenged the common notion that Gen Y weapons under international control has and integrated service, as well as the “distressing” and viewed many of the remarkable this university is” and praises If you wish to make your are happy to sacrifice living in the moment been agreed to by Damascus, and US plans utmost compassion, support and care.” aspirations in the study regarding family the networks Macquarie has made among opinion heard, send your feedback to for saving for the future.” for military involvement had been put on This new partnership would expand life as “outdated”. our community. The Vice Chancellor’s [email protected] or visit According to the report, a staggering hold. Diplomacy was taking to place to Macquarie’s medical footprint and Only the test of time will show whether vision, however, is an opportunity to mq.edu.au/our-university. “Never feeling 94 per cent of Gen S are already saving figure out just how to place the weapons hopefully see growth in the promising the sensible aspirations of Gen S will identify the unifying, common features unheard in our university” is the clear and for a property, apparently spooked by the under international control, and what Australian School of Advanced actually come to fruition. It is still possible of the University and collectively improve transparent message that Prof. Dowton has Global Financial Crisis. The report also the international community should do. Medicine (ASAM). that the Gen Y gene may kick in and snatch the way we tell our story. The effort been propagating from the day he arrived. characterised the group as ‘traditional’ with Continues next page >> mum ranking highest as the ‘most inspiring us from our sensible selves.

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Continues from previous page New Delhi gang rapists sentenced to death Justice has been served to the men responsible for How not to be the gang rape and murder of a 23-year- old woman on a New Delhi bus on 16 an arsehole December last year. The four men, all in their teens or 20s, have received the in the library Ask Megan death sentence, “triggering applause inside the packed courtroom” according Whenever I’m hanging out to SMH. This case created widespread have a friend 2. Don’t be a hog. Need a chair? Well with my friends it seems like concern over the treatment of women who has a then take one chair! You don’t need three. Q: they would rather play on across the country, and raised alarms panic attack You also don’t need to sit at a computer their phones than speak to me. This is internationally as well. There was outrage Rupert’s Game every time with a screen visible to people waiting in a trend I’ve observed with other groups of people too. I find this behaviour when in August another juvenile also they enter the MacquarieI University line especially if you’re just going to scroll really rude, am I being unreasonable? involved in the crime was sentenced to WORDS Anna Glen The Daily Telegraph, which hit the stands library. If this sounds extreme to you, through catchoftheday.com. Dear Girl you’ve probably never set foot in there. three years in a correctional facility – Rupert Murdoch is a colourful immediately after the arrival Murdoch’s Browsing Through Deals On Oven Mitts To put it diplomatically, the place sucks. When I Really Needed Your Computer, Having recently shirked my the maximum legal time for someone character. His Twitter page is often right hand man Col Allan, was merely When there are masses of people involved, I still hope you fall in a well. Therefore I Luddite ways and upgraded his age. The death sentence for the four outlandish, the Melbourne Theatre holding the government into account and there are also masses of problems. think we all know what the most important A: from a dumb-phone, I men marks the end of the seven month Company has just opened a play with communicating the dissatisfaction present In 2012, 38,747 students were enrolled computer-hogging rule of all is - DON’T certainly understand why everybody him as its subject and Grapeshot’s very within Western Sydney. long trial. The graphic details of the case at Macquarie University. Even without abandon the computer and DON’T leave is so obsessed with their phones. have been made known to the public: the own mascot ‘Rupert’ takes his name from However, in light of the election results, external students (and those who just your shit lying out to guard it, while you You’ll never get lost again with GPS! injuries suffered by the student during Murdoch. The eccentricity of the man both arguments do not hold up. Labor’s loss don’t bother to come) this was a significant go have lunch, or nap with your head You’ll never be bored on the train the rape were so severe that she died in makes him an interesting subject and after to the Coalition was nowhere near as severe number of people who would use the on the desk. Cut. It. Out. This problem when you can catch up with the news hospital nearly two weeks later. Judge Labor’s defeat and News Corp’s palpable as many had predicted. For instance, in the library at some point. Something about became so widespread there are actual on your phone! You can prove your Yogesh Khanna justified the sentence and political bias everyone is asking, was it supposedly disgruntled region of Western this communal space turns students signs forbidding it. Basically, after 15 friend wrong when debating the birth said: ‘‘In these times when crimes against Murdoch that won it? Sydney, Labor held two marginal seats into desperate garbage monsters. Want minutes of absence, you lose all computer country of Fabio! Yet, no matter how women are on the rise, court cannot Those who seek to emphasise News of Greenway and Werriwa both of which a computer during lunchtime? Don’t privileges. Now if we weren’t all so afraid tempting it is to stay glued to your turn a blind eye to this gruesome act.” Corp’s role in determining the outcome were forecasted to be wipeouts (though make me laugh. Need a table for a group of confronting these library losers, then the phone, O Captain, My Captain, social The convicted men’s lawyers have said of the election will point to Murdoch’s Greenway is likely to be a result of Jaymes assignment? Forget about it, that girl rule might actually be effective. protocols still apply. There is nothing unreasonable they will appeal the sentence in the Delhi personal interests and his dislike of Labor’s Diaz’s infamously poor six-point plan with a Macbook Air has already spread 3. Shut up. Shut up. I mean it. Shut your about asking your friends to actually High Court. National Broadband Network policy, which response). This leads to the conclusion that the contents of her handbag around the damn mouth. If you’re in a quiet space, pay attention to you when they’re in sought to jeopardise News Corp’s pay News Corp’s hysterical anti-Labor coverage ergonomic round table. Feel like printing Tokyo for 2020! you are not allowed to open it and talk your presence. Can you imagine what Tokyo has TV syndicate Foxtel by allowing Internet did not accurately reflect community your assignment off from the print station 10 minutes before it’s due? You can’t. A about your pathetic group project, or about their reaction would be if you pulled been successful in its bid for the 2020 Protocol Television. They will point to his sentiment nor did it have much impact on first year is printing off an entire slide your female lecturer’s tiny moustache. I a book out in the middle of a meal? Olympics, defeating Istanbul in the Twitter account and the fact that, on the swing voters. Like crass political advertising, show and they will forget how to use their don’t want to hear about your awkward What about if you procured a piece final round of voting 60-36. With the Murdoch’s vitriolic headlines and distasteful day of the election, Murdoch tweeted “Aust card. This doesn’t even begin to scratch Brazilian wax. I mean, of course I really of paper and started writing a letter, Olympic Committee concerned about election public sick of public sector workers portrayals – such as depicting Anthony do, but not when I’m trying to pretend to Brazil’s preparations for the 2016 the surface of exam time. I’m not mentally longhand, while they pick at their and phony welfare scroungers sucking Albanese and Kevin Rudd as Nazi leaders – learn. If you’re going to text, put your phone salad? I’m sure if you kept popping Olympics, The Australian reported that prepared to go there right now. So here is life out of economy”, a line that clearly simply served to reaffirm pre-existing beliefs on silent. If you’re going to take a call, off to a payphone to make calls your Tokyo was a clear choice for “stress- a quick guide to being a decent person in corresponds with Abbott’s 12,000 public rather than generate any actual change. the library, taken from my 100,000 word then LEAVE. We all know it’s your mum friends wouldn’t be very pleased either. free Games”. With a $4.5 million sector job cuts and the Liberal Party’s If anything, News Corp’s coverage of manifesto. With any luck, this will be wondering where you are anyway. If these square-eyed individuals really budget for the games, athletes can credentials for “saving the economy”. the election did more damage to journalism compulsory reading for next semester. 4. Get your gross food out of are your friends then I’m sure they expect organisation and heat, with They will point to his affable relationship and its affiliated watchdogs rather than to won’t mind if you ask them to put their 1. Keep your bodily functions in here. Eating in the library is fine, but the daily average temperatures in July and with Tony Abbott who described him as a the ALP. To the chagrin of many journalism phone away for an hour. check. I understand that it’s not always food that so many people are eating in the August of 29 to 31 degrees Celsius, and “hometown hero” after the election despite students, Murdoch broke every rule in the If you’re a non-confrontational easy to keep your body on lock down, the library are not. If your food has a strong humidity at a high. While concerns the fact he is now a US citizen. They will book and made a farce of the orthodox view odour, please eat it outside. If your food is soul, you can just fiddle with your were raised about radiation leaks in body’s gotta do what it’s gotta do. But for phone as well and throw out an “I’m likely reference the 1992 British election that newspapers and its journalists perform God’s sake, can we at least TRY to have noisy as hell, please eat it outside. Fukushima, Japanese Prime Minister where English newspaper The Sun famously a public service role to act as the ‘Fourth sorry, do you mind if I use this for a some social decorum? DO place footwear 5. High school students, second? I’d feel terribly rude if I sat Shinzo Abe said, “Some have worries ran the headline “It’s the Sun Wot Won Estate’. What this requires is facilitation about Fukushima. Let me assure you on your feet; nobody wants to see your Everybody hates you. Sorry kids, but here ignoring you without asking It” after a close and unexpected win by of rational and informed debate, what we cracked and calloused heels. DO keep your the situation is under control. It has it’s true. Nobody in the outside world gives first”. Hopefully your friends will Britain’s conservative party. got were headlines and graphics that were burping and farting to yourself, or at least never done, and will not do, any damage a hoot about the HSC, all they care about pick up on the hint and put the Apple Others may make the argument that clearly intended to add fuel to the fire. The on the lowdown. DO wash your hands to Tokyo.” On a side note, a Japanese is your underage butts taking up a seat that product down. News Corp simply reflected the view of the fact that Col Allan arrived to brief News after you’ve finished in the bathroom (I they’re coveting. There are a lot of other professor is pushing to have Hide and It’s easy to seethe when the only constituency and that Abbott too has born Corp journalists and get the agenda straight know that the recycled water is always desks in this city that you can plonk your Seek added to the list of exhibition dish your friends are interested in the brunt of the Murdoch press in the past. is testament to the partial approach taken by confrontational, but don’t be so shocked Maths Extension homework on. Just don’t is the one they’re picking a filter on games for 2020! Rather than an innocent victim of ruthless its writers. Despite this, the Press Council by the brown water that you forget to use be surprised when you’re greeted with a sea Instagram (if they choose ‘1977’ they political bias, the ALP exacted their own and ACMA were taciturn and again proved soap and water). DO have tissues if you of grimaces as you saunter into the library. should be sterilised). But you can’t help PLEASE NOTE: These are all brief electoral suicide through the political to be toothless tigers. have to blow your nose, toilet paper will that your friends are stupid. Just be Do we all feel like better people yet (and summaries of some serious and do the job nicely. If you sniffle constantly, polite and don’t forget your manners, upheaval caused by insufferable leadership It would be drawing a long bow to by better I mean I feel like a classic case of complex world issues. Of course, not all I’m pretty sure that murder and passive it’s more than you can say for your challenges that cried division rather than give Murdoch and News Corp the election first-world problems mixed with pent-up sides of every story can be fit into the aggression become legal. DO wear pals. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have efficient government. Such events made however as a corporation that accounts frustration)? I know I do. Together, we page, but the aim is to inspire you to deodorant because it’s bad enough that to get back to my phone. If you own Abbott’s rebuttal an easy one – “If you want for 59 per cent of all newspaper sales in can make the library a slightly less terrible get reading and researching yourself to we’re stuck in a musty sarcophagus trying a smartphone and you don’t check it better coverage, be a better government.” Australia – the most concentrated in the experience. Together, we can make a find out more! to study, please don’t let your armpits every ten minutes, it ceases to exist. In this sense, the famous 190-point font democratic world – it is perhaps unwise to activate our gag reflexes at the same time. difference (of not being arseholes). “KICK THIS MOB OUT” headline in be so complacent with this media landscape.

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WORDS Mia Kwok PHOTOGRAPHY Justin Tran Freelance pole dance teacher and businesswoman Amber Ray is her own brand. She runs her own studio Haus of Pole, and competes in national and international pole events. In case that wasn’t enough, the bubbly personality also designs and makes her own costumes. Amber has an intensive routine. “I spend 25-30 hours a week teaching classes. Plus I’ll train at the gym at least an hour a day, five days a week. Sometimes A Day I’ll just do five hours in one day though,” of ... she laughs. “With all the admin and social life media, it really feels like I work 24/7 in the sometimes.” Fitness and health is important to a dance teacher Amber. “I need to train. If you don’t train, you don’t win and I really like to win.” So Germany’s far she has won Miss Pole Dance NSW (2008, 2013), Miss Pole Dance Australia single greatest runner-up (2010) and the amusingly titled North Shore Pole Princess (2011, 2012). Amber’s career began for her when she travelled to Italy to help set up a pole invention studio. From there she travelled around Definitely not what you think it is the world, teaching, performing, while cultivating an international attitude towards dance. “It’s important to me that the lessons are a showcase of a wider community,” she says, “otherwise you WORDS Joss Gross end up cutting off your options to travel In July this year I was in Germany studying its wonderful and progress. You don’t want to insulate language. It was the time of my life and a brilliant cultural and yourself.” She sees her classes as part of learning experience. a global community and encourages her You might not think it, but honestly, ‘lovely’ is the best teachers to keep up-to-date on the latest English word to describe Germany. So forget what you think tricks and techniques. For Amber, the key you know about the country. to being great at pole dancing is staying Harsh and shouty? Fluently spoken German can sound “fresh and inspiring”. gorgeous. Unromantic? The Romantic movement was actually There is a culture around the pole started by a German writer. That thing with schnitzel and dancing community that is unique and lederhosen? Only in Bavaria. Fantastic beer? Okay, that one’s really fosters a supportive atmosphere for true. And the food in general is pretty fantastic. the dancers. Amber invests a lot of her time German cuisine is defined by wonderful cooking of meat, in perpetuating this. “The girls that stay the bread, chocolate and cherries – but not necessarily all at once. longest,” she says, “are the ones who find When I arrived I was prepared for the street vendors selling their home in pole [dancing].” The real giant sausages, the chain bakeries, and the Cherry Coke. reward is in seeing the students become But I wasn’t prepared for German Lift. I’m not sure how more confident. She encourages the girls to many of you know this, but the lemony flavour of Lift is come in early or stay back late and throws actually a unique Australian (and New Zealand) phenomenon. parties on the weekend for those who There is Lift in other countries, but it’s not lemon. want a more social experience. “I’m even     It’s apple – apfelschorle to be specific. Apfelschorle is a in the process of setting up a tearoom – a   popular drink in countries like Germany and Austria, but to student hangout area where you can read my knowledge it is unheard of here in Australia. It’s not a complex magazines,” she says.   drink: Mix about equal parts apple juice and soda water – that’s it, Pole dance is sexy. It’s not just  that’s the drink! You can mix it at home. And it is truly magical. about fitness but also improving your Now some of you may have noticed that too much apple confidence. Amber loves that it’s taboo juice can give you a stomachache. I don’t know why this is the and a little cheeky. “That’s the best part.  case (I’m an arts student, not a doctor). Now imagine drinking If it were just about fitness, you could just apple juice without it sitting not so heavily in your stomach. go to the gym, or play soccer.” Her studio  Imagine a lighter, less overpowering taste. Think about the caters to a range of dance types and styles.  words ‘crisp’ and ‘fresh’. From lyrical pole to “booty shaking” class,   If a single word could be used to define Germany’s greatest Amber has developed her love of pole into  invention that word would be ‘apfelschorle’. a culture of its own.  

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Two songwriter pairings that come to mind are Lennon-McCartney of The Beatles, and Bjorn and Benny of ABBA. Both groups have released a frightening amount of catchy songs that people just can’t shake. Bouncing ideas from one creative mind to another can create immense artistic depth. Music with more creative thought put into it is going to end up with more eclectic use of melody, more intricate harmony and all-round greater longevity because of these combined factors. Here are some groups that are keeping instrument-based music alive and kicking in the age of bleeps and bloops: Alt-J, Bonobo, Daughter, Gay Paris, Karnivool, M83, Minus the Bear, The National, Tame Impala, Warpaint, The xx and This Town Needs Guns. I’ll let the evidence speak for itself.

Ben McCarthy thinks musical instruments are Classical vs Electronic under threats. The Death of Musical Instruments? Meet the Wadlow In an age where the technological twins Freya Wadlow and her twin revolution sees most of our generation sister Imogen are passionate about music. For glued to different screens, it’s not unusual them the decline of musical instruments is to think that we may be losing touch Brad Munro argues for the furthest from the truth. “Without getting with certain cultural artefacts. One such too poetic,” says Freya, “it’s not just the example is that of music and the physical the values of musical amazing sound you can create, but the whole About 15 per cent of experience of it. Being able to play music playing of an instrument. With a tradition spanning back to the ancient days, the Australian adults create instruments. means you can take somebody’s masterpiece, and interpret it in your own style, so that it is allure of rhythm can be attained simply or play music. With an With the ebbing of guitar-rock bands that intrinsically you. Nobody else will ever play by hitting rocks with a few sticks. It’d be increase in electronic- had huge jump-starts in the early 2000s, it exactly the same as you.” a right shame to see such a creative outlet based music by the likes we have to ask ourselves, are musical Their musical careers began at an early become redundant. Unfortunately though, of Skrillex and Flume, it’s instruments like guitars, basses and drums age. “When I was about five,” she says, “they with the invention of more computer-based wheeled this concert-grand harp onto stage. one thing to create music still relevant even if their use in popular programs and the commercial success of music is declining? I stood up on my seat and bellowed, ‘THAT’S and another to play a IT, MUM! I WANT TO PLAY THAT!’” Once ‘pop’ artists, it seems as though the good Winning the I think so. her mum had recovered from her vivacious old drum set and electric guitar have taken Meet DJ Cire musical instrument. Are Battle of the DJs competition, Eric ‘Cire’ Synthesisers, sequencers and keyboards daughter’s outburst she began doing the a back seat. musical instruments a Feng will perform at Conception Day this form the basis of most electronic music research on this unusual instrument – they University student and avid guitar year. “Being able to play the music you love thing of the past? Or will these days (think of Avicii, Calvin Harris, were expensive. Her first harp was hand- Saia Soane, who uses a program called player Kristen Tsiamis shed some light and seeing people enjoy dancing to the they always be around Deadmau5). While keyboards have such made by her grandfather, who builds coffee on what she thought was happening ‘Maschine’. This allows him to connect tracks that you play” is why the 20-year-old tables (“It does sound a bit like one!” laughs as long as music is a huge tonal variety, the sound that most to the humble instrument. “People are an external beat pad to a computer and commerce student is passionate about his Freya). It wasn’t until nearly ten years after being made? popular house musicians seem to settle on is becoming lazy, more unwilling to learn create beats. Unlike a guitar or piano, it hobby in DJing. Cire prides on the versatility that fateful concert, Freya received her first a very polished and almost glassy sound. The is far quicker to learn and provides a far in his sets. “As a DJ,” he says, “I mainly play semi-concert grand harp. how to play an instrument, because it progressive, electro house, trap, trance and result is hundreds (if not thousands) of songs Freya is also surprisingly flexible with can be quite complex. You can’t just pick wider range of sound. When asked if the at times hard-style, top 40, hip hop and that can only be distinguished by the vocals. the classical genre. “For me, being classically up an instrument and expect to get it. It musical instrument was dying, he said, “I RnB.” He also admits his love for other With a live band you get the variety trained doesn’t stop me from appreciating takes time and patience. That’s why I think don't think that instruments have become Photography Rosemarie Cruz music genres. “I love almost everything that keyboard and synth provides, as well the other end of the musical spectrum,” she irrelevant in today’s society... it’s more that people are caring less and less. They simply else: classical, romantic music, a bit of rock, as all the sound options from thousands of says, “So, right now I’m working on a beatbox don't have time.” you can produce a piece of music with a rap, chillstep, pop and indie,” he says. Cire classical mashup for the flute.” amps and effect pedals in the world. On top Despite my initial scepticism regarding larger variety of sound in a shorter period is humble about winning the competition. of that there is also the wide variation in An exciting time for students to become the such a stark remark, I began to see that time with technology.” “Honestly I didn’t expect anything from the the sounds of each individual instrument. founding members of Macquarie’s official perhaps she was right. In the hustle and Although not entirely dismissive of competition, let alone winning it,” he says. A huge trend with sequenced, synth- Orchestra! The Wadlow Twins are setting up bustle of everyday student life, it is far the role of instruments in contemporary “Up until the Battle I really only played to centric music is a move towards DJs and the Macquarie University Symphony Orchestra easier to be a consumer of music than to be youth culture, it was interesting to note the empty dance floors because I’m still just one-man shows. The saying goes that (MUSO), which will be starting up on Thursday, a creator of music. And this is largely the connection between newer technologies starting up, so to get some recognition 10 October, from 5-7pm (room to be allocated), for what I can is a great accomplishment.” too many cooks spoil the broth, but with reason why the musical instrument is just and more convenience. That is the ultimate followed by weekly rehearsals. Anyone who can Regardless, he is excited about the music, I’ve found this rarely to be the aim of most innovations nowadays, is play an instrument at a suitable level can join not striking the same chord as it used to opportunity and is looking forward to case. Looking back from the 60s to now, for free! This is such Join the group by emailing (sorry, I had to). it not? With such an array of high-tech “standing on that stage and fist pumping” you’ll see a vast majority of bands that [email protected]. In my quest for other perspectives, alternatives, their place in music is coming this year at Conception Day. collaborated to great effect. I tracked down an old school friend in under significant threat.

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High School, chatting with them and really trying to encourage them to come to university and telling them about the opportunities that are here. You always get out what you give.

As an Indigenous student how would you describe your experience at Macquarie University? What are your proudest achievements? I was really fortunate to get into my degree at Macquarie and I’ve just had such great support from the Indigenous Centre. They’re always asking you how you’re going and they really care about you as people, rather than just as a student, and that’s really important. Part of me really wants to share that with other students and encourage them to come along to university so they can also experience that. I think a lot of Indigenous students can think that going to university is unattainable, and for some of them they will be the first in their families to go. For someone to tell them “you can do this, there’s a lot of support for you” it can be really encouraging. Probably my proudest achievement here is just being able to study subjects that I love and really take on all these different opportunities that university has offered me.

You’ve written for Grapeshot on the topic of Fair Trade chocolate. What inspired your stance? I actually went to a weekend away and we had someone come and talk to us who has done a lot of research into the area of Fair Trade chocolate. A lot of these Inspired corporations, like Cadbury or Hershey’s, have actually agreed to source Fair Trade chocolate but most of them haven’t. It’s up Leadership to the consumer to push for these products, and it’s something personal we can do as Q&A with individual choice. It’s simple to change Karina Marlow the way we purchase things. That really encouraged me to think about it and get other people interested in the topic. Congratulations Karina on being awarded Indigenous student the Bruce Allen Prize! Could you tell us What are your plans for the future Karina Marlow of Bachelor of a bit about the award? Bruce Allen was following graduation? What are your Arts (Media) and Bachelor of a journalist and former lecturer here at career aspirations? I would love to be a Laws was awarded the Bruce Macquarie University. He had a pretty journalist. I really enjoy writing and I also amazing career, working in news and do some broadcast subjects so perhaps even Allen Prize in recognition of her current affairs for the ABC, BBC and getting into broadcast journalism or print leadership within the classroom Canadian Broadcasting Company, and on journalism. Just being able to talk to people, and wider community. We such programs as Four Corners. hear their stories, to really find out what’s spoke to her about the the going on with issues and getting beyond The Bruce Allen Prize is awarded to what’s on the surface. I’ve been following award and her aspirations for an Indigenous student enrolled in a the election closely and it’s interesting to go the future. Communication degree who’s displayed beyond what’s out there in the public sphere leadership and engagement in the and help people to become more educated INTERVIEW Ben Nour classroom and wider community. Why on these topics. It’s interesting that this was do you think you were awarded the Bruce Allen’s area of news and current affairs PHOTOGRAPHY Kristofer Gilmour prize and how did you feel receiving journalism and so it’s really an honour to be it? I was surprised when I received the awarded the prize. prize. Whenever you get an award like that you’re always thinking “Oh I’m The Bruce Allen Memorial lecture will be so undeserving, there are surely other held on Thursday, 17 October at Campus people”. I probably received it because Hub (C10A), Level 3 at 6.30pm. Addressing of the work I’ve been doing at the uni. public diplomacy, the memorial lecture will FINAL SEASON TUESDAY I’ve been involved with the Mentors at feature guest speaker Mr Peter Varghese Macquarie program, and I’m quite actively AO, Secretary of the Department of Foreign 3 SEPT – 5 NOV NIGHTS involved in Warawara, the Indigenous Affairs and Trade. Macquarie University department here at Macquarie. I’m doing partners, alumni and local media will also Presented by 6PM TO 10PM a mentoring program to inspire leadership be attending. Register online at in Indigenous students at Mount Druitt arts.mq.edu.au/bruceallen In association with

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JLounge_S6_A2poster.indd 1 5/08/13 6:39 PM “Born at the wrong time of year for a good party, the Union decided instead to celebrate “On Conception Day Governor Macquarie’s in 2003, Macquarie conception.” University broke the world record for the Since 1969, Conception Day has brought us awesome most tequila shots music (and drugs and sex slammed in a row.” and alcohol). We look at origin of the festival and what has been gained and lost over the years...

WORDS Amy Way The Birth Of conception day emester Two powers on, and one celebrate Governor Macquarie’s conception on peace, music and enjoyment. Sure drugs Conception Day is just one of many said Paul Dillon, a spokesman for the the pleasure of the senses, a life of freedom of Macquarie’s favourite events is – raunchy – and thus, the conception of and alcohol were present, but most of the events caught up in the drug and alcohol Centre. “This sort of record sends a very that lives for the present moment and on its way. Good or bad, most of us Conception Day. stories reflected a mischievous muck-up culture that seems to have taken over the poor message. It fits into the whole issue of resists the responsibility and conformity will have memories and stories of When the first Conception Day was day vibe. It just wasn’t a good Conception 21st Century festival experience. No doubt the Australian culture – that drinking is of social norms and institutions. When Sat least one Conception Day. Stretching out launched in 1969, our university was only a Day unless some sort of vandalism was this was a problem for celebrations in the fun. The reality is it’s still about consuming this search for sensual pleasure leads to in the sun with a beer in hand and a band few years old. These early Conception Days wreaked upon the Vice-Chancellor’s car. past, but alcohol has made a powerful a lot of alcohol... It’s still a big win for the sexual promiscuity and the use of drugs on stage, having a dance-off with friends exist in the university archives as fields of There is no doubt that the Conception comeback in the form of binge drinking. alcohol companies.” and alcohol, adult disapproval is more in the DJ tents, or making the regretful sun-baking bodies, girls grooving in their Day most of us have experienced is much With events like Stereosonic and Future Others, like Sex Party President forcibly expressed, and this often manifests decision to ride that damn twirly-ride after tie-dyed playsuits, and rock bands in flared more regulated than its forebears. Fences Music, emphasis among revellers is often Fiona Patten, take a more liberal view. In in efforts to reclaim radical behaviours, like too many hot chips. For me, it’s seeing pants. As the 20th Century dragged on, dictate the party areas, drinks are pricey drinking all day and pinging all night. 2010, she criticised then Premier Kristina drinking and dancing, back into the sphere my long-haired, thickly bearded friend the day involved dodgem cars, sumo suits, and half-strength, and the cops and Gone are the days of going to festivals for Keneally for sending ‘contradictory’ of structured culture. riding shirtless and tattooed on someone’s market stalls, fireworks, jumping castles, security guards impose an ever-present the music. messages to young people regarding drug Should we really be surprised then, shoulders in the mosh. While Van She rides and DJs. And over the years we have vigil. Despite these regulations, a vast Whether you agree with these policy. In Patten’s view, Keneally had that a festival that literally celebrates the crooned in the background, the crowd consistently played host to some pretty majority of the people you ask probably statements or not will depend largely on made progressive moves on the Kings most natural and sensory human act, praised him with outstretched arms as big names: Itchy Feet (Tim Freedman’s won’t remember what bands were playing what you define as a festival experience. Cross Injecting Centre, yet still sent armed that of conception and creation, would though he were a floating messiah. pre-Whitlams band), You Am I, Eric or even where they were for most of the day In the last 10 years, questions have police and sniffer dogs into Conception include the sensory pleasures of music, sex But how did it all get started? Unlike Clapton, Bo Diddley, John Myall and the – and that’s if they’ve even made it through definitely been raised over whether such Day to monitor ‘small amounts’ of drug and drugs? Perhaps then, the Woodstock other universities that celebrate their Bluesbreakers, Violent Femmes, Gyroscope, the gates. If you’ve come from a Village celebrations are even appropriate for a possession. Patten claims that many public spirit remains, but so too does the difficult foundations, Macquarie University Art vs Science – the list goes on. party there’s a good chance you’ve been government institution like a university figures, including then Prime Minister question of where to draw the line. As Student Union instead chose to celebrate a The early Conception Days have a wild drinking since 9am, and if you don’t live to allow. On Conception Day in 2003, Kevin Rudd, had all admitted to smoking always, it seems to fall mostly into the person: our namesake Governor Lachlan reputation among Macquarie staff and on campus there’s an even better chance Macquarie University broke the world marijuana in their youth, why then realm of personal responsibility. At the risk Macquarie. Often referred to as the ‘Father alumni. Drinking from the early hours of you’ve created your own pre-drinking record for the most tequila shots slammed was Keneally so intent on making sure of sounding like an after-school special, of Australia’, Macquarie was Governor the morning, you could take part in the venue, ranging from a public park to a in a row. Starting at 8:45am, 1,049 students university students couldn’t enjoy a joint as if you plan to get rowdy this Conception of NSW from 1810 to 1821. He has been student-held breakfast on the median strip train carriage. Stories circulate of people took shots from over 40 bottles of tequila part of their celebrations? Day, like I am, then do it safely. Enjoy the credited by historians as being one of the on Epping Road, a cross-campus streaking passing out in the Village and being taken sponsored by the Epping Hotel. Despite No matter what opinion you old, if music, your youth and the sunshine. And most influential governors in our state’s spree, or even a gnome convention in the to hospital, only to escape in a desperate the Student Union defending the record- any at all, about safe and acceptable drug don’t forget to raise a glass, whether it’s transition from a penal colony to a free early 80s, in which students would nick attempt to get back on campus. Cops break as safe and responsible, The National and alcohol use, the public assumption regulation half-strength or just water, to state. He exists in public memory as a hundreds of garden gnomes and scatter have caught couples in very comprising Drug and Alcohol Research Centre severely exists that festivals will always involve Lachlan Macquarie, who fought for the legend, a hero for the poor and oppressed, them all over the lawn. Despite frequent positions in university bathrooms. Those criticised our university and questioned some level of it no matter how much you little guy. who fought against bureaucratic elite. shenanigans, the celebrations seemed to be lucky enough to get let into the venue will why any institution would want to hold regulate. In the 1987 book Myth of Oz, the Born at the wrong time of year for a all about the music. Maybe this was a result sometimes spend 10 minutes lying on the such a, “bizarre record”. “We’ve got an issue authors state that young people almost good party, the Union decided instead to of the period and its Woodstock-type focus grass before being kicked out. with university students and drinking,” always choose pastimes that derive from

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starsare born From fan-favourite Conception Day headliners, to local upcoming artists and talented street performers, in this collector’s special we bring you the best of the Australian independent music scene. Full interviews on grapeshotmq.com.au.

Bluejuice Set to go wild at Conception Day this year, the Sydney band is bringing their trademark energetic cool to the main stage. Asked for advice to other young aspiring musicians, Jake Stone says: “I think recording well is so much a part of doing a good job as a modern musician. Your presence is essentially on the Internet now, and then you start playing in front of people. In order to maximise that I think being a good producer, and making yourself sound good, is so important. Bluejuice came to that so late, we had to learn that on the fly and we weren’t good at it for a long time. That’s why I always try to encourage young people to learn how to record themselves, which they’re all doing anyway because studio technology is so available.” Interview by Megan Smith.

18 | grapeshot magazine grapeshotmq.com.au grapeshotmq.com.au grapeshot magazine | 19 Jinja Safari With music self-decribed as “jungle rock”, the very bohemian Jinja Safari is one of the most anticipated headliners for Conception Day this year. On their upcoming tour, Pepa says: “At the moment [we are] very much influenced by the more hypnotising, cultish sort of feel, so we’re trying to Josh Pyke The Sydney singer and have a bit more of an experience than our usual shows. songwriter has delivered great music over the past We’ve actually gotten in trouble a few times because decade. “It’s very tough and different these days,” our shows get a bit out of hand, you know, climbing on he is humble with his advice. “Nobody is ever going the wrong lighting rigs and inviting too many people to care more about your music than you. So don’t up on stage and things get broken and stolen. This sit around waiting for opportunities to present upcoming tour is a change in that we’re trying to give themselves. You’ve really got to take the bull by the a bit more of an experience of the escapism concept horns and do everything yourself. If you want to that’s on the new album and everything.” Interview by make a record, there’s really nothing stopping you Sarah Basford. from making a record, just save up the money and go to one of the many studios in Sydney. Make your own record and see what happens. Don’t just sit around waiting for people to discover you because it’s not going to happen like that.” See Josh Pyke at Conception Day 2013. Interview by Megan Smith.

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EVERYTHING AFTER The indie folk duo started performing on YouTube in 2011 and are hitting the streets for a career in music. James says: “We used to play cover gigs. We used to play in restaurants. We used to have a guitar each and just learn covers and play for three hours in restaurants and pubs and stuff. Then we found this. We still keep doing gigs but this was really good. A good way to get our music out to people and get them to listen to it, so that was nice.” Interview and photograph by Rosemarie Cruz.

22 | grapeshot magazine grapeshotmq.com.au grapeshotmq.com.au grapeshot magazine | 23 Far Away StableS A merging of several projects, the band finds that their sound came naturally after releasing their albums with great success. Tim: “We’re at a point where we can release an album to thousands of people from our bedroom which thirty years ago you wouldn’t be able to do... If Fleetwood Mac didn’t get a record deal, they wouldn’t have been a band... the positives [of online technology] negate the negatives.” Interview by Sarah Basford; photograph by Rosemarie Cruz.

Breakaway A five-piece band from Sydney that went to spread their sound all over the Cletus Kasady The indie rock band are making world, they’ve performed with international artists and has recently taken on their first Australian an impact on the Australian music scene. “We describe ourselves as tour. “A lot of people value the physical product [CDs] and that’s really cool. That’s still something that an indie rock band, but it’s a very American style. A lot of Australian people think about – the physical product of music. In the age where you can get 1000 songs for free, indie music is influenced more by the British sound, but we’re big there’s still something cool about owning the CD – and seeing the art.” Interview by Nicholas Rider. fans of bands like Manchester Orchestra and All Get Out and sound more similar to them. I guess others might describe it as alternative rock, but once again, hugely influenced by indie music that’s currently popular in America’s South.” Interview by Har-Ching Chiang.

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Lachlan Robinson “GORDO” DRUMMER The enterprising percussionist bucket drums his way through busking sets all over the Sydney CBD. “It started off with drums you know. At first, it was kind of like an unmusical approach, I just liked drums, they sounded cool and looked cool and then as I started studying drums, from there I started enjoying more music. From there I started to get really into music, different styles and stuff. In that way, every way I look at music it’s directly influenced by the drums. It’s always been through the eyes of a drummer.” Interview and photograph by Rosemarie Cruz.

Philippe Wittner & Nigel Hanc The muscians-for-hire dressed up in German garb for the Campus Life International Festival. Nigel: “I studied [music in high school] and went Stolen Memories to the conservatorium on These Central Coast boys make sexy, trumpet. Trumpets are one dirty music for the mosh pit. Steve of those instruments that’s speaks of their great times together. the cherry on the icing of “I embarrassed Ben at one of our the cake, so when global shows, as well as a young lady in our financial crisis comes and audience at the time. We went out fees gets cut, the first person one night and Ben went home with to lose their job in the band this lady and stole her underpants, is the trumpet player. And I don’t know why. And for some the piano accordion you reason he had them in his backpack, can play solo, which suits which he brought to the show. And the modern economic they somehow ended up on stage climate. You get more work and between songs I yelled out to the as a soloist or a duo than an girl who Ben had taken home and 8-piece band. Philippe: “I she basically just dropped her drink learnt my instruments on the and had this look of shock. Then streets of Europe at the the I threw the underpants over Ben’s conservatorium of busking drum kit and he was just playing and street performing.” the whole show with undies on his Nigel (laughs): “So Philippe head.” Interview by Nicola Donovan; is the real thing, the gypsy- photograph by Rosemarie Cruz. style street performer.” Interview and photograph by Rosemarie Cruz.

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ushered in by Riff-Raff (Richard O’Brien), (Matthew Morrison) decision to stage (GLAAD) for its use of the word ‘tranny’ Halloween is approaching and we a hunchbacked man-servant with patchy a performance of the musical. Thus The to describe Frank-N-Furter. GLAAD revisit one of the all-time favourite blonde hair, and are invited to participate Rocky Horror Glee Show was born. Early stated: “The word ‘tranny’ has become an horror classic. Nearly 40 years have in the evening’s festivities. in the episode Will pronounces: “Oh I’ll easy punchline in popular culture, and passed since The Rocky Horror Picture Made on a budget of a million dollars, probably have to make some edits here many still don’t realise that using the term Show was on the big screen and the film was a flop during its release but and there.” A number of scenes were either is hurtful, dehumanising and associated after countless live productions it was rose to success with its later broadcast removed or altered to suit its familial with violence, hatred and derision against at New York’s Waverly Theatre on 1 target market. transgender people – a community that is recreated for TV. We delve into Ryan April 1976. Around Halloween that year Take the sequence ‘Sweet Transvestite’ nearly invisible in media today.” Murphy’s transformation of the cult audiences came dressed as their favourite for example. The original Rocky Horror Not everyone is a Glee fan. The Season 4 musical into an episode of Glee. characters and set a trend for future viewers featured Curry dressed in a tight black finale drew an audience of only 5.86 million of the show. leather corset and suspenders. Emerging in the US, compared to the 7.41 million WORDS Brendon D’Souza Film critic Bruce A. Austin suggests from the elevator Frank-N-Furter speaks tuning in for the premiere in September that cult films are defined by their audience with an upper-class English accent. He last year. But for its loyal fans, Glee’s and the nature of their presentation. They is draped in a black cape and draws message is simple: the power of music can elvet darkness are “outside the regular viewing hours and resemblance to Dracula. His singing tone heal these injuries and difficulties and can of the blackest typically attract a young, single, high school is low and flamboyant, like his speaking. bring people together. night,” Glee’s or college-aged audience”. These audiences As he descends from the top floor in the What Glee relies on is a continuous Rachel Berry develop and unusual level of devotion to the elevator, his white, diamond encrusted heel relationship with its viewers. Like any (Lea Michele)“V tiptoes her way onto the film. Generally non-mainstream, cult films is featured in a close-up shot and he can other media form, it seeks to keep its stage. Wearing a pink pinafore under a often challenge societal ethics and push the be seen stamping his foot to the ground in followers engaged with the program and pastel blue jacket she sings the opening line boundaries of what can be shown on-screen, time with the beat. to challenge them to continue watching of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a film- and that’s exactly what The Rocky Horror In the Glee version, Doctor Carl (John the show week after week. Every episode, musical produced by Michael White Picture Show did. Stamos) believes that dressing up in drag Glee’s faithful audience watch on as and Lou Adler in 1975. Bringing While exploring themes including is “a little inappropriate in a high school their much-loved characters overcome the famous cult musical to horror, science-fiction, aliens, appearance musical”, leaving Shuester in doubt about the adversities in their lives. They deal mainstream television was more vs reality, and gender and sexuality, the film what to do. Providing a solution to the with issues of race, health and disability, than “just a jump to the left and brought ‘transgender’ to the big-screen. problem is Mercedes (Amber Riley). As the religion, marriage, divorce, gender and a step to the right”. Rather, Frank-N-Furter, a “Transvestite from only African-American in the group, she sexuality. Brittany Pierce (Heather Morris) the Glee producers carefully Transylvania”, has discovered the secret recognises an opportunity to play a lead deals with her naivety, Quinn Fabray considered the film’s themes and to life and is unveiling his creation to his role. Dressed in drag, Mercedes performs (Diana Agron) manages an unwanted used them to justify the issues dinner guests. He has made a man and ‘Sweet Transvestite’ in a fiery gospel tone. pregnancy, Artie Abrams (Kevin McHale) discussed in the show. So what happened called him Rocky Horror (Peter Hinwood), The track still contains the same message adapts to life in a wheelchair. The choir when Rocky Horror ‘time warped’ its way a muscle-bound perfection in gold trunks. of acceptance as the original did, but room unites these characters, who would onto the small screen, and why was Glee Muscial theorist Graham Wood claims: Mercedes encourages the others to accept otherwise have to deal with these issues on the best form for the musical?? “Gender and sexuality issues often surface her race, gender, appearance and singing their own in high school. In Rocky Horror, American couple within the musical genre because it was ability. This performance allows her to take The support within the group is shared Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and a place where performers could express her place within the spotlight. among all its members: including those Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon) themselves with less fear of discrimination.” In her analysis of Glee, researcher and of alternate sexualities. Fans followed stumble upon the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter is lonely and seeks theatre director Barrie Gelles of the City the journey of openly gay member Frank-N-Furter (Tim companionship. “Don’t judge a book by its University of New York describes Glee’s use Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer) and his Curry) when their car cover,” he encourages Brad and Janet, but of song as ‘recontextualisation’. “When Glee relationship with Blaine Anderson breaks down one instead to take the time to get to know his takes a show tune from its original play,” (Darren Criss). They cried with Santanna night. They are ‘sweet’ nature. Rocky Horror pushed the she says, “it becomes de-integrated from Lopez (Naya Rivera) as she faced familial boundaries of its time, but it encouraged that play, and then must be re-integrated struggles in coming to terms with viewers to be more accepting and open into the episode.” Each song presented in her lesbian sexuality. They supported to the sexualities emerging throughout Glee then contains new meaning according newcomer Wade ‘Unique’ Adams American society and the world. to the context of the episode’s story. (Alex Newell), the show’s controversial Following the journey of McKinley Compared to the original, Glee’s version transgendered character, who transferred High School’s glee club New Directions, is still “all kinds of crazy sexy”, as Mercedes to McKinley High in Season 4. Glee had earned a prime-time television puts it, but is re-interpreted to “make it Perhaps the Rocky Horror story was slot. The show had nearly completed its more modern”. The dialogue within the always destined for a return to the screen. second season and was on the verge of songs were also altered to make the music Re-branding it for television had enabled filming a third. It had reached a worldwide suitable for the younger crowds, as well as the producers of Glee to not only keep status in just three years of broadcast on to make it politically correct in the modern viewers engaged and entertained, but the small screen. day. “Sweet Transvestite from transsexual also to introduce the classic cult-film to a This was not the first time that pop Transylvania” became “Sweet Transvestite whole new generation of viewers. Both the music was performed by the characters of from sensational Transylvania”. film and show use music to bring taboo a television show. BBC producer Dennis Richard O’Brien, who created and topics to the mainstream and instigate Potter had already recognised its ability starred in the original Rocky Horror, public discussion and consideration to generate deep sentimental feeling and expressed disappointment with Glee’s among its viewing audiences. They wanted applied the technique in his 1986 mini- “diluting down” of the major themes of the to change the thinking of their audiences series The Singing Detective, which, 18 years musical. He couldn’t understand why they and make them more accepting and open Horrort Rocked Glee later, was used in Peter Bowker’s Blackpool. didn’t use the word ‘transsexual’, saying it to all people. They iterate the simple In 2010, Glee producer Ryan Murphy was “just another term like boy and girl”. message that the power of music can heal The Show tha incorporated Rocky Horror into the The episode faced criticism from the Gay these injuries and difficulties and can program, through coach Will Schuester’s and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation draw people together.

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of these purchases, which makes the higher costs even more concerning.

But how do companies know where So what can you do? you are? We’re university students, we aren’t Beat Geo-location of course. Geo-location made of money, so what can we do? identifies a real-world geographic location To begin with, visit this website: for your bucks of a mobile phone or Internet-connected www.pro-music.org. It lists places computer terminal. Through cookies and What is the real cost of illegally downloading music? to buy music, places to subscribe to your device’s registered location, websites listen to music and places to listen to can identify the location of consumers songs of your choice for FREE. And WORDS Josephine Clark-Wroe and then adjust prices accordingly. it’s all LEGAL. Choice’s head of campaigns Matt Levey Spotify is a good example of this. states that the current system is “a form A commercial music streaming service of protectionism imposed by private providing Digital Rights Management imewire, Megaupload and torrents Who is Music Rights Australia? businesses”. Many say that our government protected music, Spotify had 10 – I’m sure we all know of them and Music Rights Australia (www.musicrights. should ban geo-locating, but no action has million users as of September 2010, have used them too – but did you com.au) is an organisation that protects been taken on the matter. with about 2.5 million of those being know that, according to a PwC the creative interests of artists within paying users. Music can be synced to reportL released in July this year, Australians the Australian music community. To Is illegal downloading really causing all other devices, such as tablets and have been outed as the worst culprits of do this they use educational initiatives, any harm? mobiles and there is a six-month free illegal music downloading in the world? government lobbying and the protection of Rihanna’s net worth is $72 million and trial period. Music piracy in Australia is linked to the artists’ copyright. has sold 25 million albums worldwide, so A premium account, which ‘Australia Tax’ and geo-locating schemes They represent over 70,000 songwriters, surely downloading a few of her songs can’t includes ALL music and ALL devices, that are put in place by corporations and composers, music publishers and record be that bad, right? is $11.99 a month, which is half the governments. Regardless, music piracy is labels and seek to improve the awareness of Maybe Rihanna will be alright, but price of your average CD, which might damaging a local industry of creative talent intellectual property rights among music music piracy is harming our local music contain 16 songs from one artist if which could otherwise be thriving. fans and the Australian community. industry. We have a thriving and unique you’re lucky. array of talent here in Australia and while If we continue to download music Legislation schmegislation What is the ‘Australia Tax’? music piracy can sometimes bring a lot of illegally at the rate we currentlly are, The Australian Government has done Earlier this year, the term ‘Australia Tax’ new fans to their music, selling their music more and more artists will remain very little to support and protect the briefly held media spotlight, but many of us is how they make a living. Illegal music undiscovered and we will be left with creative industries and their contents, may still not understand what it means. In downloading negatively impacts local either higher prices or an extremely especially those released on the Internet. simpleton terms, the ‘Australia Tax’ labels industry and the individual artists’ ability narrow choice of music. An Australia There is the traditional Copyright Act the issue of Australian consumers paying to be rewarded for their hard work. without illegal music downloads is of 1968 and the Trade Mark Act of more for software and hardware products, Trying to make a living as a musician possible; it would support our local 1995. However, neither of these serve to including (and especially) music. Choice (a is tough enough as it is, without having music industry and mean we won’t minimise music piracy in Australia. non-for-profit consumer advisory group) to try to compete with music piracy. The miss out on anything. Copyright encourages people to create produced a survey in 2012 which revealed music industry has shrunk in the last their own works, and in Australia you don’t that music products in Australia sell for six years by 30 per cent globally and 27 even have to register for copyright or put a median 50 per cent more than their US per cent in Australia. When you illegally copyright notice on a piece of work. This counterparts. For example, Rihanna’s download music from the big artists, it is is because a work will be protected as soon album Unapologetic was 49 per cent more the emerging artists at the bottom who as it is put in material form, such as being expensive to buy from iTunes in Australia pay the price. Nick O’Byrne from AIR written down or recorded in some way. than in the US. blog states: “In the long term, if we do There are severe penalties for music Technology giant Apple defended the not have a sustainable recording industry dealings that infringe the rights of anyone higher prices that Australian consumers then music of a high quality will simply involved with creating, performing or are paying at a federal parliamentary not get released because there is no producing that music. The main penalty is committee in March this year. Apple return on investment.” fines, which could cost the individual up to representative Tony King stated: “Apple People can claim that the middle man $60,500 and corporations up to $302,500 must consider differences between (record labels) has been ripping us off for and/or up to five years of imprisonment. countries in product costs, freight charges, years, but labels play a crucial role in the Police can also issue an on-the-spot fine of local sales taxes, levies, import duties, success of artists. They invest close to 30 up to $1,320. channel economics, competition and local per cent of their revenue in developing and While these are some pretty hefty laws regarding advertised prices.” marketing new artists. For example, the fines, it is obvious that legislation isn’t Committee chairman Nick Champion returns on larger acts such as Powderfinger deterring anybody. Music Rights Australia discussed how Australian consumers enables Aussie labels to find and nurture believes that consumer education and are frustrated that they have to pay more acts such as Midnight Oil and INXS (who awareness is more likely to have a positive simply because they live here. He also noted didn’t make it big with their first albums). impact on behaviour. that there is no shipping cost for majority Try to imagine an Australia without INXS!

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or take an occasional break from the music. in Video Games Walking away from the sound source is the simplest, cheapest and most effective way of usic preventing hearing loss. M It’s not just sound engineers and appropriate for a variety of actions which musicians that need to wear ear plugs. Music plays a large role in video games, but those behind can be potentially occurring on screen. Regular punters at a music venue can the music don’t always get acknowledged. While composing for Journey, Wintory also benefit. Ear protection decreases the would listen to and edit his music whilst intensity of noise and helps protect your it was being played in context, so that he hearing. It should be worn when exposed WORDS Avery Phillips could understand how his music would be to sounds louder than 85 decibels for a long experienced by those playing the game and period of time. ensure that nothing was out of place. The take home message is that noise- ince Pong first hit the arcades and the years, what is it that makes them so Another composer, Garry Schyman, Hear Today, induced hearing loss is forever, like that took the world by storm in the 1970s, memorable? It might be the enjoyable used the technique of having a nine-piece tattoo of the Asian water sign you got on video games have become a major gameplay, it could be the interesting brass ensemble record music in snippets Gone Tomorrow your last holiday. It’s also cumulative: the media form worldwide. While there story, it may be the glory of defeating when he was composing for Resistance: longer you are exposed to the loud sounds are many who still deride them as nothing that one seemingly undefeatable boss Retribution. These snippets of music were the more damage you are potentially doing. S nd Audiology students explain noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) more than shallow entertainment for those after your 42 attempt... or perhaps it is then combined in-game to seamlessly Finally, the important thing to with a short attention span, video games the music which stirs our emotions, and adapt to the intensity of the action and how you can protect your hearing. remember about noise induced hearing are fast becoming recognised as a serious makes us feel more than we thought was happening on screen based on a number WORDS Catherine Kwok & Amanda Moore loss is that it is 100 per cent preventable. artistic medium with an industry rivalling humanely possible. of triggers, such as solving a riddle or You can still be a groupie and keep your that of films. The importance of video game music confronting an enemy. hearing. There are a few things you can do Unfortunately, the growing popularity was recognised on a more mainstream The approaches taken by these to ensure that you will be able to download of games doesn’t mean that everyone level at the 55th Grammy Awards in composers are a far cry from those of the he (insert-band-name) gig was move in response to sound vibrations. As your music and hear it too. Protect yourself receives the attention that they deserve, February this year, when Austin Wintory’s 8-bit generation of games, where composers over hours ago. Your wrist stamp they move, they send electrical impulses from loud sounds and on Conception Day particularly when it comes to music soundtrack for Journey received a were challenged to create music with a is smudged and beginning to along your auditory nerve to your brain. look out for people from the Australian composition. While we are quick to nomination for “Best Score Soundtrack maximum of four simultaneous tones that fade. So why does it feel like the When you listen to loud sounds, these hair Hearing Hub handing out ear plugs. recognise the music of The Sims (Will for Visual Media”. This was the first needed to also withstand repetition for Tband is still playing in your ears? cells become can bent and damaged. This Wright), Pokemon (Satoshi Tajiri) and time that a full video game soundtrack hours on end. The memorable soundtracks Hearing sounds that torment your damage is permanent! World of Warcraft (Michael Morhaime), received a nomination, despite game music of Super Mario Bros and Legend of ears long after the band has finished is How to Save Your Hearing the composers of these pieces often go being eligible since 2001, and was placed Zelda (both of which were composed by called tinnitus (not to be confused with How do you know if you have a • FOAM INSERTS – these fit into unnoticed. This isn’t surprising, as first and alongside soundtracks from Hans Zimmer Koji Kondo) were born from this era of the unsightly foot disease, tinea). Tinnitus noise-induced hearing loss? foremost we usually judge games based (of The Lion King fame) and John Williams limitation, and though both are less than 10 is a sound in the ears that happens when the ear and block out noise. They Tinnitus is one warning sign that you have are available at pharmacies and upon their gameplay and aesthetic. (composer of scores for Star Wars, Indiana minutes in length, the soundtracks are still no sound is present. It can be a ringing, NIHL. Another sign is that sounds may But when we stop and think about the Jones, Harry Potter and plenty more). remembered today for their creativity and rushing, roaring or hissing noise and hardware stores. They are cheap seem distorted. Speech may be muffled and are often effective for one use games that have resonated with us over It’s true that Christopher Tin’s evocative nature. occurs in more than 60 per cent of young and difficult to understand. You may find “Baba Yetu” from Civilization IV won The best games are those with Australians after listening to loud music. only. The limitation is that they it hard to follow a conversation when there reduce high frequency sound which the Grammy for “Best Instrumental soundtracks that are so complimentary to If you are listening to your iPod with is background noise, such as in a café or Arrangement Accompanying what is unfolding on-screen that something the volume too loud or are standing too can make it hard to hear speech restaurant. Game of Thrones becomes even while wearing them. Vocalist(s)” in 2011, but the is lost if you play the game without it. close to the speakers at a gig, you may be more difficult to follow. song was nominated due to Wintory’s soundtrack makes Journey putting yourself at risk of developing a • NOISE CANCELLATION being part of Tin’s album a powerful game, and what makes the noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). The How do you prevent NIHL? HEADPHONES OR BUDS – these Calling All Dawns rather soundtrack so flawless is the emotion that it likelihood of NIHL depends on how loud Remember when your parents told you to reduce the noise around you and than as a video game piece. captures; the sense of travel, the raw beauty the sound is and how long you are exposed turn your music down? It turns out there make it less likely that you will Although he did not of the landscape, the hope and guilt and to it. It can occur from an intensely loud was a reason. Who’d have thought? increase volume to drown out win, Wintory’s nomination strength of a character who never says a sound once, like an explosion, or exposure When you listen to your personal outside noise. demonstrated a growing word. Wintory may not have won, but he to a reasonably loud sound over a period of music player at over 100dB, it only takes 15 • SILICON CUSTOM FIT MOULDS recognition of the work has made his mark in history and proved time, such as a band playing or your iPod minutes for you to suffer from permanent that goes into game music that video game music can truly rival that volume being too loud. – to give reduction equally across all damage. A good rule of thumb for iPod frequencies. These are fit to your ear composition. Unlike film of other mediums. First, you experience a temporary use is the 80/90 rule: 80 per cent of the and television, video games It is a shame that it has taken so threshold shift, where your hearing and they last longer, however they maximum volume for no more than 90 are more expensive. are an interactive medium, long for video game music to receive the threshold is raised and you don’t hear minutes a day. Just to be sure, you might and as a result game music recognition that it deserves. There have as well as you normally would. This can want to consider using the volume limiting • MUSICIAN EAR PLUGS – that needs to be adaptable and been many great pieces over the years, such last from 16 to 28 hours after the noise software on your iPod or MP3. Another fit the ears well. They give a flat as “Suteki Da Ne” (Nobuo Uematsu, Final exposure; your hearing then recovers. hint is when you are listening to your iPod attenuation (noise reduction) of Fantasy X) and “Ezio’s Family” (Jesper However, after repeated exposures to loud on the bus or train, be aware that you don’t 9-25dB. Also noise cancelling Kyd, Assassin’s Creed II) that have gone sounds, this temporary condition can keep turning up the volume to drown out headphones can be used unnoticed by the wider world, but this year become a permanent one. This is when the background noise. was a massive step forward in that regard. your hearing becomes worse and never • ELECTRONIC EARPLUGS – Sitting or standing right near the These reduce the loud sounds Hopefully it won’t be took long before we improves. This is the second most common speakers at a music concert can expose you have another video game soundtrack being cause of permanent hearing loss (after more than the soft sounds. Some to sounds over 120dB, which will cause you may even amplify the soft sounds nominated at the Grammys, and perhaps hearing loss due to old age). hearing damage in less than eight minutes. next time we might even have a win. by including a speaker and Try not to stand within two metres of the microphone in the earplug. Why does this happen? speakers to avoid putting your hearing at Inside your inner ear are hair cells that risk. When you go to a club, wear ear plugs

32 | grapeshot magazine grapeshotmq.com.au grapeshotmq.com.au grapeshot magazine | 33 feature Benefits of music “Turns out there is just a bit more to it than this, with aspects of psychology, medicine and the creative arts all involved in this complex and diverse m discipline.” usic... Benefits s of music o who founded the Nordoff-Robbins WORDS Curtis Eldridge Music Therapy charity, which now u Music is ubiquitous. Yet how ! operates across the globe. The Creative goals. So next time you’re not feeling n do we respond to music? Do d ic Music Therapy approach pioneered by well, prescribing a favourite tune or two s ut Nordoff and Robbins, as Iani Sujono, particular genres and personal may help with the immediate blues. t preferences have an influence herape Operations Manager at Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Australia Limited told over us? Indeed, the influence 2. Improves Symptoms of The Music Network, involves the use of of music has been recorded by Physical Health “live, interactive and largely improvised academic research to be more Listening to your favourite music (unless music making as a means to make and profound than usually considered it is potentially hard-core death metal usic therapy is one of those sustain meaningful connections. Through by public opinion. The act of or rambunctious hip-hop) can alleviate these meaningful connections, music terms that get thrown merely consuming music denotes health conditions such as cancer, heart The power of music is in fact medically beneficial. around carelessly, evoking therapists then work towards therapeutic interesting outcomes upon an disease and respiratory conditions. We explore of the practice of music therapy AND the kind of flippancy that developmental and/or wellbeing goals.” individual’s neural, social and Specifically in circumstances of patient- show you how music can make you a better person. Mis associated with retail therapy. I, too, Robertson-Gillam explains: “As music care, the availability of music has been fell victim to its vagueness. My vision of therapists, we look at the elements of perceptive capacities. Here are remarked for its ability to decrease music therapy was a bunch of sad people music, like rhythm, tempo, harmony, just five outcomes of how music blood pressure, lower heart rate and WORDS Stephanie Lewis listening to happy music and feeling better pitch, timing, all that kind of thing, and directly influences our minds and improve quality of life. An appreciation afterwards. Makes sense, right? Turns out we look at: How does that impact on a our anatomies. for specific music allows the body to there is just a bit more to it than this, with human being? What is it doing to our build a better immune system and aspects of psychology, medicine and the brain? What does it do to our wellbeing, 1. Mood Boost resolve muscular tension. our quality of life? How important is it in creative arts all involved in this complex An awful day can tear down the our life?” and diverse discipline. As music therapist most optimistic soul, leaving them 3. Helps Athletic Activities In her own research into the effects of Kristin Robertson-Gillam says, “You’re downtrodden and depressed. A study This benefit builds upon the previous. choir singing on patients with depression, looking at the physical, you’re looking at conducted at McGill University in A study conducted at London’s Brunel Roberston-Gillam focused specifically on the mental, you’re looking at the social, Montreal discovered that the act of University found that music could singing in music therapy. “Singing helps you’re looking at the spiritual.” listening to pleasurable music (in increase endurance levels by up to 15 memory [and] cognitive functioning. It Music therapy as we know it developed accordance with the individual’s per cent. The generally bombastic genres helps the heart to modulate itself. It helps in the West after the world wars, mainly preferences) releases quantities of of pop, rock, hip-hop, and death metal to modulate emotion.” Her research has as a treatment for returning soldiers with dopamine. Dopamine is the feel-good music among many other styles often do shown that music can actually alleviate Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. One chemical that allows us to interpret not warrant flattering attention to their depression. In the choir she created for of the main research and development reward and pleasure and hence cognitive influences. Yet they possess her PhD, one song that struck a chord teams in music therapy in the 50s to 70s motivates us to pursue such hedonistic many benefits applicable to physical >> was Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins, (pun intended) with the singers was >>

34 | grapeshot magazine grapeshotmq.com.au grapeshotmq.com.au grapeshot magazine | 35 feature Short stories | Poetry | Photography | Art Benefits of music creative conditioning. Increasing energy efficiency, lowering the perception of actual effort and placating discomfort A Dark Night caused by fitness pursuits are noted outcomes of exposure to such music You cannot speak. while undertaking workouts. Virgina’s For you feel not the cold of night, Hampden-Sydney College reported That steals away your soul. research of two groups of 12 men You feel not the mist, riding bikes. One group exposed to That drifts across the plains, And settles in your bones. music while the other contently rode to silence. The findings reported that the For the fingers of despair, group listening to music rode 11 per Are unyielding and clench the heart with force. cent further and stated lower rates of You know not, exertion. It’s not completely ridiculous The arms of gloom and misery that pull you, to suggest a little music can potentially Into the murky mires of your thoughts. motivate even the most fearful of You cannot speak, a fitness regime. In fact, music is For you do not have the right. probably what helps many to adjust to Katharine Lam routine exercise.

4. retrives lost Memories People often retrieve memories through recalling familiar melodies and lyrics and attributing them to a particular “The wonder of the time or place. This is a common phenomenon due to how our brains Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’. “The song therapy is that it is process musical cacophonies. Music holds people,” says Robertson-Gillam, and memory are gauged as parallel emphasising the power of people singing totally versatile, and information in the pre-frontal cortex. A a song about loss and love and abuse and research conducted at the University of sadness all together in a group. “If you’ve can be adjusted on a California discovered that a 30-second got a thousand people singing that song sample of a familiar composition and relating to that song, then you’ve got case-by-case basis to instigated an emotionally strong a thousand people sharing the grief and response, corroborated by increased loss in the song. And so the song holds the suit the patient.” brain spikes. Cognitive music tracking grief and loss.” becomes more visceral and prominent Indeed, music therapy can help people when a specific song is intertwined with a wide range of medical problems, with autobiographical memories. This from physical disabilities, to dementia, to “As a music therapist,” Robertson-Gillam is curiously seen with Alzheimer’s depression – basically any kind of mental says, “you can actually assess a child’s patients who fortunately remain able health or emotional problem, as well as emotional state by the way they play a to remember music. So when you come physical conditions. It can be used with drum, the way they respond to cues or across a song from your past, expect to people of every age, from young children prompts, and what kind of music they be flooded with memories (hopefully of to the elderly, individually or in groups. like and what kind of music they don’t a wonderful nature). The wonder of the therapy is that it is like” The Royal Children’s Hospital in totally versatile, and can be adjusted on a Melbourne gives examples of the different 5. Improving Mental Health case-by-case basis to suit the patient. ways music can be used in a therapy This factor has substantial overlap in Music is used to help diagnose a session: “Music can be employed in the previous four, as the various benefits patient, and also to treat and assist them. structured ways (songs, song-writing) of music are completely relevant to the to help contain or clarify emotions and workings of the mind. Yet its cognitive empower the child. Or it may be just impact deserves its own grouping. The These are merely excerpts from the framed (improvised instrument playing) capacities for music to decrease anxiety, abundance of research findings that to allow a totally free, but supported alleviate depression, improve attention attest to the understated yet dominant expression of emotion.” Robertson-Gillam and concentration, reduce or impose impact that is inherent in music. highlights that despite the way in which fatigue are intrinsically powerful Musical benefits are further solidified it is used, “with the medium of music, qualities. Chemical and cellular through training and playing musical you meet a person where they are,” on relations of the mind are completely instruments. So the next time you are the same level and without judgment. “It privy to musical circumstances. exposed to music, either in public brings human beings together in many, And that is why we sometimes sense environments or of your own free many ways … through music you can find nebulous changes in personality and will, perhaps reflect on how you are yourself, you can find who you are.” demeanors in others and in ourselves. responding to it. Chances are that your mental perception and physical device Music is an incredible means of will most definitely alter beyond your maintaining sanity in times of frenzy conscious recognitions. and disquiet.

PHOTOGRAPHY Nicholas Rider

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The times, they are a-changing oppan gangam style, it’s a long way to the top under my um-ber-ella, I can’t help falling in love with you Baby, Baby, Baby oh, imagine there’s no heaven after all, you’re my wonderwall she’s buying the stairway to heaven stars like diamonds in the sky, on a highway to hell your sex is on fire, small symphony broke out on his holidays from time to time. In the let me see you shake a tailfeather and in Hut #728. Shivers erupted blue and white shades of the morning, from the bottom bunk. Teeth it stood like a monolith against the bare everyday I’m shufflin’ chattered like maraccas, sharp succession of wooden huts and guard lyricism if you start me up Athumps of legs hitting the hardened wood towers. The chimney spiralled up and with them moves like Jagger, bunks made a heavy drum beat. The up and up towards the heavens, like a The Ant stripes occasional gasp for frozen air hung stale gargantuan steel tower of Babel. what a wonderful life like a choked violin chord. It woke me from The sudden flurry of sound behind me, I’m sexy and I know it, my thinly-veiled sleep. On nights like this, both familiar and jarring at the same time, I come from a land down under when the snow melted into the iron fence shook my attention away from the hall. STORY The Ant so what? I’m still a rockstar, and choked the fields with white, it was The excited chirping of the flute and hard to get sleep. Even less than two hours violins filled the camp with glowing with the lights out, it’s less dangerous ago I was still itching with tiredness and patriotic warmth. Yes, yes, too good to evacuate the dance floor, ruffling the warm spots of the bedsheets, be true. save tonight, fight the break of dawn fighting the cold. Deutschland, Deutschland, it’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday. At times like this, I remembered what Deutschland uber alles. my Papa had taught me; a small song to Slowly, the ant-lines moved towards lighten the dark, cure frowns and remind the gates of the factory. I clung to Papa’s yourself of all the goodness in life: side, waiting to see the result of all our The year 's at the spring, hard work throughout the seasons. And day 's at the morn; Suddenly, Officer Bramble pulled Bramble crept around the desk, “Alright, you know the rules; just a few Morning’s at seven; me away from his side. There was a brief narrowly eyeing my failed rhyme. It would minutes and it’s back to work!” The hill-side’s dew-pearled… scuffle of my feet in the snow, wondering have seemed annoying, of course, given We hurriedly disappeared out of his Honk! Honk! Honk! what was happening as he yanked my that he had to supervise the entire room sight, many if not all avoiding eye contact The alarm roared into life. Jim Brown, collar. Mama and Papa watched on. of children. He clomped off towards the with him. Several groups trotted over to the one of the stationed guards, carefully “Slow down son, you’re needed in door, pacing round the front of the room fence to play the rails game along its chain slipped past the door to supervise the roll the factory today. We’re sending you the like a hawk. outlines, others banked around in the call; the padding of bare feet on the timber other way.” Narrowly, I breathed the next few lines ditch we had dug during the Summer and floor, the chattering of teeth and bone, the I glanced behind me. One of the of Papa’s song: had snowball fights. Jimbo built himself a whimsical curses muttered under their guards began tearing Mama and Papa The lark’s on the wing; snow-fort and reigned over everyone in the breaths, and the howling of the morning towards the gates. They disappeared The snail’s on the thorn… Winter daze. chill over the hills. behind a sea of faded blue and white. I The room didn’t seem to care. All I saw the factory tower overhead. Faint Hut #728 filed out into the snow like could see the faces of the crowd from that could be heard was the scratching of clunking of heavy machinery and the ants from the nest. Four blocks across, my here; no longer rapt with curiosity, they thin needles upon the striped uniforms. occasional human voice trailed off from friend Jimbo quarrelled with the guard over seemed terrified, hesitant to go before Sullen and peddled faces fixed their eyes the windows. Below, more of the ant-lines the rising times; a quick smack from the the building, almost like frightened on the overlapping triangles that shone from my fellow huts moved towards the iron maiden was enough to quell his temper. rabbits. Several officers began tearing at out a golden yellow against the faded blue. gargantuan doors, now guarded by several Mama and Papa waited idly past the next the clothes of the workers, ordering them They piled up all over the workshop like armed soldiers. Then I smelt something block as we marched towards the factory. to strip before entering. accumulating flies. a little off; a thick plume of black smoke “Mama, Papa, they’re opening up today!” Bramble shoved me forward with a I couldn’t understand why the mood leaked out from the tower, scattered by “Yes, my dear son, yes. Officer Bramble great thud and ordered me to walk. He was doom and gloom with everyone. Here the breaths of Winter. Slowly the stench of said the hard work paid off. Think of how didn’t seem happy today. None of them we were, young workers of the great nation, burnt lungs and death travelled downwards much more we can work now!” did at all. I felt a little unsettled at the fighting a battle in the fabrics. I could just over the camp, settling over the workers Officer Bramble was a peculiar sort; commotion. imagine the hundreds of ways that we were that day. his burrow a bit pinched, nose somewhat helping the great leader by this stitching; Nervously, I breathed the last of Papa’s square and his hands and feet too big for *** building uniforms for his army, practicing song, hoping it would will the smell away: the rest of his body. All through the warm our fighting (stitching) skills, and willing God’s in His heaven – seasons we had toiled and chipped at the “Over and under and under again, that our great nation would prevail over the All’s right with the world! rock to fashion the factory. Bramble had that is how you make your friends, scum that crawled over this earth. supervised its process, updating Mister then finish up at the tip, Brambles whistle snapped me to Himmler on the movement as he embarked then the star is…” attention. The others glanced up in alarm.

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Recipes King of tarts

Blueberry Cream Tart (3) king of Just like a cheesecake... only in tart form. Well, it still tastes yum and looks great. A very elegant dessert or afternoon tea (although I would quite happily eat this for breakfast as well)! tarts • 100g cream cheese, softened • 100ml thickened cream, whipped • 1 tsp vanilla essence • 4x12cm sweet shortcrust tart cases (or with 1x20cm) cooking • 2 punnets blueberries • 1 tbsp icing sugar the smiling chef Combine the cream cheese and whipped Serve warm with the spinach leaves on cream in a small bowl with the vanilla the side. essence. Once mixed, spread into the tart WORDS Brendon D’Souza a.k.a. The Smiling Chef Variation: Try these other delicious ne of cases. Place the cases on a tray in the fridge PHOTOGRAPHY Rosemarie Cruz combinations in your quiche instead of the the best to allow the mixture to set. salmon and peas: diced ham and grated things Place the chocolate When ready to serve remove the tarts from cheddar cheese, sautéed mushroom, baby about • 1 purple carrot Chocolate and cream in a the fridge. Top with the blueberries and spinach and rocket. cookingO is the • 1 tbsp olive oil microwave-safe glass dust with icing sugar. Serve. eating that you • 4x12cm shortcrust tart cases (or & salted bowl. Microwave for one minute get afterwards. I 1x20cm case) and stir with a spatula. If the chocolate Variation: To make the classic French Tarte Brendon’s cooking Tips coudn’t think of a • 100g feta cheese, cut into cubes caramel tarts (2) is still grainy return to the microwave aux Fraises (Strawberry Tart) fill tart shells better thing to do with store bought thick vanilla custard. Top Making your own tart cases: • 4 eggs I’ve got insane cravings for this delicious and continue to heat in 30-second bursts, during spring than the custard with whole, hulled strawberries I made my own tart cases for these • Baby rocket, to serve combination. It sounds a bit odd but the stirring each time, till the cream and to enjoy a nice afternoon tea in the and dust with icing sugar. recipes. It’s really easy to do. salt in the caramel balances the intense chocolate have combined into a ganache. back garden. Sitting amongst the Pre-heat an oven to 180ºC. Line a baking Simply pick up a packet of frozen sweetness from the caramel and chocolate. Allow the mixture to cool. flowers and bees is like being in tray with baking paper. sweet or savory pastry from your Sea salt flakes provide the best eating Wonderland. So this issue I’m going When cool, remove the tart cases from the Smoked Salmon & supermarket. For better results use Slice the carrots into 2cm chunks. Lay them experience because you get a little burst to be the King of Tarts and show fridge and carefully pour the chocolate pastry made with butter. in a single layer on the tray and drizzle when you bite into the caramel. Best thing is you a collection of sweet and savory over the caramel. Return the tarts to the Green pea Quiche (4) over the olive oil and sprinkle with salt to you don’t need to bake this one, a quick chill Grease some tart pans with crumbly pastries that will surely fridge to allow the chocolate to set. • 4x12cm shortcrust tart cases (or season. Roast the carrots for 20-30 minutes in the fridge is all it needs! butter. Lay the pastry into the please anyone who eats them. And until tender, turning over halfway through When ready to serve remove the tarts from 1x20cm case) pans, tucking it into the corners. don’t worry, I won’t be asking for the cooking time. If they look like they are • 4x12cm sweet shortcrust tart cases (or the fridge for five minutes before cutting • 100g hot-smoked salmon, flaked Trim the excess pastry with a sharp your head if they don’t turn out well. browning too much, cover the tray with foil. 1x20cm) into wedges. • 100g frozen peas 4 eggs knife. Freeze the tarts for 15 minutes • 1 can caramel pie filling • Baby spinach, to serve to allow the pastry to firm up. Place the tart cases onto another lined baking • 1 tsp sea salt flakes Variation: Try a white chocolate ganache Pre-heat an oven to 180ºC. Line a baking tray. Arrange the carrots and cheese in the • 150g dark chocolate, broken into tart with orange and lavender. Melt 200g Pre-heat an oven to 180ºC. Carrot Tarts (1) tray with baking paper. shells. Beat the eggs with salt and pepper to small pieces of white chocolate and 100mL of thickened Remove from the fridge and cover I came across these beautiful purple carrots taste. Pour the egg mixture over the base. • 50mL thickened cream cream in the microwave to make a ganache. Place the tart cases onto a lined baking tray. the surface with baking paper. Fill the other day in a local supermarket. Stir to combine and allow to cool. Spread Arrange the salmon and peas in the shells. with baking beans or rice. Bake in Place the tarts back into the oven and cook Combine the caramel filling and sea salt in Teamed with feta they make the perfect 1 tbsp orange marmalade into the base of Beat the eggs with salt and pepper to taste. the pre-heated oven for 15 minutes for 10-20 minutes until the egg is set and a mixing bowl. Spread the caramel mixture quiche filling. Have a look around for them, each tart. Once cool, pour the ganache Pour the egg mixture over the base. to blind-bake the pastry. Remove the tops are golden brown. in an even layer in the short-crust tart but if you can’t find them you can always into tart cases and refrigerate till set. Top from the oven and take off the cases. Place the tarts onto a tray and then Place the tarts back into the oven and cook just use the regular orange type (or pre- Serve warm with the rocket leaves on the side. with an edible lavender flower or crushed beans/rice and paper. The tarts are in the fridge to set while you make the for 10-20 minutes until the egg is set and cooked beetroot). dried ones. You can find edible lavender in now ready to fill. chocolate layer. specialty food stores. the tops are golden brown.

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October: Time to eat! The Food aficionados get excited, because October is the Sydney Morning Herald’s We take a look at the Good Food Month: A 31-day long hottest music scenes celebration of eating and drinking, in Sydney! featured events include The Sydney Morning Herald Growers’ Market 15th MUSIC films STew Birthday Bash, Night Noodle Markets in ’my life is yours’ by Papa vs Pretty A lot has changed about P!nk ‘Staying True’ The fascinating documentary takes a close look Hyde Park and Barbecue Madness. Papa vs Pretty since their first album. And I’m not just talking at singer-songwriter Alecia Moore, better known as P!nk. The footage #DiscoverSydney There are loads of restaurants, bars and about their new band member. After writing tonnes of songs from throughout her 13 year music career tracks her development from cafes involved, with a range of events and and really practicing their art, PvP have produced a polished her early start singing backup for a friend’s rap group, to her joining specials for every budget. Some of the more music group Basic Instinct, and finally to her current superstar status. new sound. ‘My Life is Yours’ is the first taste of what promises The film features interviews with P!nk herself and a range of people who student-friendly options include Breakfast to be a huge second album. The tune includes thoughtful lyrics, have worked with the pop star, from dancers and choreographers to Club, with set menus at participating cafes an out-of-tune piano and strings towards the climax of the spokespersons for animals. As well as examining her musical past, the for $20 on weekdays, Let’s do Lunch for song. The song seems like a kind of cathartic release for the documentary devotes time to looking at P!nk’s chequered personal life $38 including a drink, Good Dinner Under band, paving the way for a clean and bright album. In true PvP and it is fascinating learning of P!nk’s family background and heartening $30, Bar Hop ($20 for a cocktail and snack) style, there’s also an epic guitar solo. I guess some things never to see her campaign efforts for animal welfare. If you’d like to win a copy and Good Pub Grub for $25 including a change. Luke Salem of P!nk: Staying True, write to us at [email protected] and tell us schooner of Coopers Original Pale Ale. why you love P!nk. Ben Nour There are also classes, pop-up parties, ‘EVANGELISTS’ ‘TAKE A fall Mortal Lovelace rooftop bars, high teas, desserts and food by Gang of for me’ by Instruments: The film discoveries galore. Youths Gang of James Blake City of Bones follows the Youths are an Teenager Clary transformation GoodGod Small Club An excellent excuse to get out and about ft. RZA up-and-coming Fray (Lily of Linda Boreman and taste some of the Sydney city’s finest, Sydney band There’s a Collins) meets (Amanda The Metro Theatre head to sydney.goodfoodmonth.com for a that are soon hidden supernatural Seyfried) to full program and details. Stephanie Lewis to be up-and- hip-hop gem pretty boy Jace Linda Lovelace going to the United States. But it’s on James Blake’s newest album. (Jamie Campbell Bower), discovers she’s a the star of the ’70s porno Deep Throat. Hiding in Sydney’s CBD, GoodGod has been not too late to check out their newest half-angel and enters a world of demons, Examining the abhorrence of the sex a popular hangout since its establishment in ‘Take a Fall For Me’ blends Blake’s single, ‘Evangelists’, which provides smooth production and vocals vampires, werewolves, warlocks and industry, we’re given two versions of the 2008. With three different sections, Front Bar, further evidence that Gang of Youths creepy hooded guys who live in graveyards. same story. It is humourous, enticing, with some basic rap to great effect. The Metro Theatre, situated in the heart The Dip and The Danceteria, there are lots of are indeed Australia’s answer to the A bloated, clunky plot is hampered by dark and reveals all. Seyfried plays the of Sydney in George Street, has been a things to see and do at GoodGod. Alternating Arcade Fire. I love Max Dunn! Lesson learned? Listen to albums cringe-worthy dialogue and lumbering part and does the Southern accent well. Luke Salem stalwart of Sydney’s music scene since its genres of music are played on different nights Luke Salem in full. performances. Hannah McNicholas Anna Glen establishment as Sydney’s number one of the week, ranging from rockabilly to independent rock venue. A number of Jamaican dancehall. With a wicked menu and memorable international and local acts have tragically hip bar staff, GoodGod Small Club hit the stage at the Metro at different points is one of the best venues in the whole city. of their careers including Lilly Allen, The Megan Smith Greats, The Cat Empire, Jinja Safari and Lorde. This landmark venue is great for all ages and for those looking for some variety and a great night. Sarah Windon books exhibitions Making News Tony Wilson You’ve just scored a gig at a leading Peru Amazónico Photography Exhibition For you nature UK tabloid, famous for targeting celebrities behaving badly. For a lover, history nerd or bitten by the travel bug: Spanned across three OXFORD ART FACTORY 16-year-old journalist, the opportunity is priceless and will be great levels of Customs House are culture-soaked still photographs and for the resume. But your celebrity parents aren’t too impressed, videos of the people and landscape of Peru. Through colour and black even more so when they’re caught up in a massive sex scandal that and white images, the artists highlight the eclectic mix of tribal, the paper is delving into on a daily basis. Lucas Dekker has a lot on Spanish and Western-world influences that amalgamate to create the Oxford Art Factory isn’t a long-standing his plate: he’s the one in charge of looking after the story. Will he richness of the Peruvian culture. The photographers document the fixture on the Sydney nightlife scene for protect his family’s secrets or will the thirst for fame and wealth lives of indigenous people, as they victoriously hold their prey after no reason. Whether you’re there to catch a determine his actions? Tony Wilson spins a suspenseful tale that hunting, and don vibrant feather headdresses, body paint and jewellery Macquarie Hotel gig or to dance the night away on its sticky questions the lengths reporters will go to for a story and explores for traditional celebrations. Other images contrast the city environment floors, a trip to OAF is always a good idea. the ethics of modern relationships. Wilson says the book was of bustling motorcycles and tuk-tuks in heavy traffic, to the serenity of Inspired by Andy Warhol’s Factory in written in an attempt to sattirise the lowlife schemes of the London waterfalls and untouched lush forests in the Amazon Rainforest. I can FBI Social 1960s New York, the three-tiered enterprise tabloid press. It is perfect for those interested in the politics of news almost guarantee that you will use the free Wi-Fi to plan out your next is a testament to cool. Go for the street Brendon D’Souza Anshul Potnis The Macquarie Hotel is one of Sydney’s best reportage. holiday to Peru. cred, stay for the frozen margaritas and kept secrets. Bursting with talented funk the opportunity to watch Sydney’s hip The Emperor’s A Most Photography Middle Head: and fusion bands every Friday, their own young things dance “ironically” to Hanson. Soul Brandon Wanted Man from the 33° 50’ S, 151° brewed beers on tap and a positive atmosphere Mountains If you’re into live, local and alternative music, Megan Smith Sanderson is a John le Carré’s 14’ Showcasing the FBi social is the place for you! A spinoff unrivalled by most any bar in Sydney, it’s an prolific writer of novel is set during to the Sea artworks inspired of the underground radio station FBi the obligatory stop on any night out on the town. contemporary the post-cold Legendary by Middle Head, photographer FBi social is located in Kings Cross, Level 2, A perfect place to get some respite from the fantasy and this war world of this multimedia rabid, aggressive clubbing culture of Sydney. book again proves terrorism. The Ansel Adams is exhibition is Kings Cross Hotel. The venue holds live shows on display in an supplemented For those who prefer tapping their foot to the author’s three central Thursday to Saturday and one-off arts and inspirational exhibition. Combining by a cool public program that includes shaking their waist, highly recommended. exceptional talent in the genre. This novella characters must work with each other to performance events spaced throughout the features a system of magic, the art of forgery prove the innocence of Issa, despite his Adams’ most celebrated photographs public lectures, workshops and tours. Brad Munro week. If you are an FBi Member you’ll receive - an object’s history can be manipulated links with alleged terrorists. Themes of with more obscure works, this shouldn’t Learn about some little-known Sydney a 10% discount on drinks across the hotel! as to change its outward appearance. The espionage and crime are rampant, seen be missed. running at the Australian history at the exhibition, running until Sarah Windon characters and compelling plot will hook through the sensibility of the character’s National Maritime Museum until 8 17 November 2013 at the Mosman Art you from the first page. Ben Nour relationships. Sarah Basford December 2013. Megan Smith Gallery. Megan Smith

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Cancer Your future is obscured by a mystic fog, do not drive through it. make your splash join the team in 2014 Leo When looking for happiness, apply now on grapeshotmq.com.au look no further than the letter H in the dictionary. I is too far, G is not Across enough… J is way out. 3. Stringed strumming instrument with very low pitch (4,6) 8. Dance move frequently attempted by Miley Cyrus (5) Virgo Your problems with 9. Jay-Z’s pal, American President Barack _____ (5) A-MAZE money, relationships and work will 10. Kelly Clarkson hit, “Since U ____ Gone” (4) 11. Les Miserables song, “I Dreamed a _____” (5) pale in comparison to your desire to 14. Britney Spears sang “Hit me ____ one more time” (4) pop the entire roll of bubble wrap. 16. Last act, e.g. of a musical (6) 17. Music broadcasting device (5) Libra While life confronts you 19. Rapper also known as Marshall Mathers (6) with cryptic signals and signs you 21. Jack Black film, ______of Rock (6) don’t understand know this, when 23. Cake sang “I want a girl with a short _____ and a long jacket” (5) the door says push, don’t try to pull. 24. Singing bird (6) 25. ABC music video program (4) Scorpio 31. R&B singer, Frank _____ (5) A cool change will 32. Reverberating sound (4) soon blow through your life, shut 33. Type of singing characterised by rapid changes in pitch (5) your windows to maximise its 34. Sound made my cymbals colliding (5) impact. 35. The original English boy band (3,7) Ben Gilholme Alycia Crofton Advertising Manager Sagittarius Your problems Down Campus are like MnMs, they are best shared 1. Grammy, Tony or Oscar (5) amongst your friends. Also, avoid 2. Something made; artistic invention (8) Engagement 4. Swedish pop group (1,1,1,1) the blue ones. Officer 5. Brazilian dance (5) 6. Nirvana anthem, “Smells like ____ Spirit” (4) About the author Tardy 7. Telephone sound (4) astronologer Luke Verduci 12. Word or phrase in song (5) is a French artistic gymnast 13. Alternative rock band, Alien Ant ____ (4) and was established to raise 14. Former Destiny’s Child member and superwoman (7) 15. Underage concertgoer (5) funds for the art departments 18. Deep Purple song, “_____ on the Water” (5) facilities. He once watched 20. Opening to concert venue (5) paint dry on a boiling kettle, 21. Piece of sung music (4) TO WIN! 22. Heavier subgenre of punk (8) Complete all the combination of which was 26. Wailing spirit (5) puzzles and email the page as a photo or scan enthralling. 27. P!nk hit, “_____ Your Glass” (5) to [email protected] 28. American hip-hop artist, 50 ____ (4) to win a DVD of a recent 29. Footwear (sung about by Elvis) (4) movie release!

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