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grooVeguiDe.co.nz | 5 ShIT WoRTh KNoWING PLAYING BIG NIGHTS OUT Feel like you are missing out already with no Big day Out in New Zealand this year? FAVOURITES Fear not! Kiwi promoters have cherry-picked the bill and are bringing five acts across the ditch to our shores in 2013. Crystal Castles, Band of Horse, Pretty Zoltan Kiss Lights and Alabama Shakes have just been MNOZIL BRASS announced alongside the already confirmed shows of Animal Collective and the Red Hot Chili Peppers in confirming they will be including a New Zealand stopover on their BDO trip down under in January. Crystal Castles are undoubtedly a highlight of this announcement for those who love the feel of the moshpit. The Toronto duo only just made it here for the 2011 Big Day Out but Alice Glass’ broken foot severely curtailed the antics of a band with a reputation for a ferocious live show. Band of Horses – who are currently streaming their fourth album Mirage Rock on their official website after its official release last week – are another act with a reputation here. Their beautifully bruised take on classic American rock, characterized on two the shows during pre-sale period this week Favourite classic film? Shawshank Redemption. previous visits by incredible musicianship gets you into the draw to win tickets to all Favourite childhood memory? Summertime and Ben Bridwell’s keening, Neil Young-like the other shows, and flights and tickets to at our little country house, picking berries vocals, has earned Band of Horses a legion of the Sydney Big Day Out. Tickets available from the garden and eating Granny’s soup loyal NZ fans. from Ticketmaster and Ticketek. on the terrace. Alabama Shakes, a band that has kicked ALABAMA SHAKES soul music back into the future with an TUE 15 JAN powerstation, aucklanD Favourite vice? CHEESE. electrifying live reputation, have been called CRYSTAL CASTLES Favourite song? ‘Some Skunk Funk’ The the next big thing and are heading our way. TUE 15 JAN tHe stuDio, aucklanD Brecker Brothers. Their debut album Boys & Girls has been BANd OF HORSES called one of the albums of 2012 by critics TUE 15 JAN town Hall, wellington Favourite meal? Hungarian fish soup (halaszle). WEd 16 JAN town Hall, aucklanD everywhere. Favourite cause? El Sistema and Just Brass. Pretty Lights bring the dance floor direct pRETTY LIGHTS These programs exists for all children and THU 31 JAN san Fran BatH House, wellington from the Big Day Out’s Boiler Room, stopping FRI 01 FEB tHe stuDio, aucklanD young people to experience the rich benefits of off on the way out of Aussie for shows and music, through individual and group learning, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE MON 14 JAN powerstation, aucklanD irrespective of family, school or community Animal Collective return to New Zealand for circumstances. the first time in three years. REd HOT CHILI pEppERS To top it all off, any tickets purchased for SUN 13 JAN Vector arena, aucklanD Favourite ‘90s TV show? Hull High. It was an American TV show set in the beginning of the `90s for teenagers like High School Musical, but a lot cooler. ShIT WoRTh Favourite word?Megszentsegtelenithetetlens egeskedeseitekert (real Hungarian word) WINNING Favourite album? Hand on the Torch - US3. GO TO GROOVEGUIdE.CO.NZ ANd ENTER THE Favourite type of groupie? The crazy one. dRAW TO WIN THESE pRIZES Favourite body part on you? Beard.

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BoW WoW EDGE oF FURY & Co THE STUdIO KINGS ARMS

7.30pm, $40, eVentFinDer.co.nz 8pm, $10, Door sales only Hold up! Bow Wow is all grown up? And he’s coming Not to be confused with the Lady Gaga song or a to New Zealand? Yeap, it’s all true. Once a sweet little Mad Max movie, the hardcore metal group Edge 13-year-old on our airwaves, he’s now headlining his of Fury are joined by their band of merry men … I own show called Unrated. Guess he’s found all the mean, fellow rockers … Til Death Do Us Party and bitches and liquor then. Wonder if ‘Puppy Love’ will Same Current, as well as Dead Dreamers and Seas Of make an appearance? Conflict from Hamilton. THURSDAY 20

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9pm Low Key and Hipstamatics take over your night with Once part of quirky Kiwi band The Brunettes, Chelsea’s groovy tunes. Low Key aka Mike Haru is one of the out on her own and sharing her unique sound. Her most experienced DJs/presenters on base FM. Always love of all things Disney from the childhood echo searching for the smoothest, freshest, most soulful in her music. Her sound was once described as “the beats, Low Key also has a passion for the era of ‘90s soundtrack to an old Disney movie meets Kraftwerk hip-hop, funk and soul tunes. fronted by Enya.” HEaRt attaCK allEY MoDUlE MASTERBOWL SAN FRAN BATH HOUSE

masterton, 7.30pm, $7.50, Door sales only 8.30pm, $13, cosmicticketing.co.nz Caoimhe Macfehin, Karl Steven and Kristal G take Electronic musician/producer Module aka Jeramiah their band on the road, playing in Masterton with an Ross will perform his critically acclaimed soundtrack exclusive warm-up show. Comprised of Supergroove, from the award-winning video game Shatter, along indie-heroes Vietnam War and Drab Doo Riffs. The with his classics. The show will mark Module’s first group, whose sound is reminiscent of ‘50s and ‘60s public hometown performance of the music he rhythm and blues, will be performing in a bowling alley. created for local game development studio, Sidhe. sUBHUMans sonGWRitER oF tHE YEaR GRanD Final dUX LIVE RAYE FREEdMAN ARTS CENTRE

8pm, $40, unDertHeraDar.co.nz 7.30pm, $5-15, iticket.co.nz Former 1980s rockers Subhumans embark on their While barefooted guys were impressing Rachel first-ever Australasian tour featuring the 1981 line-up Hunter on NZ’s Got Talent, this new wave of gifted of Dick, Trotsky, Bruce and Phil, who recorded their youngsters was preparing for tonight’s tough debut EP Demolition War. How will these guys hold competition to win over the judges at the Songwriter up a good 20 years down the track? I suspect well, of the Year grand final. Students will perform their rockers always seems to last a long time. original songs supported by a backing band. FRIDAY 21

RUFUs WainWRiGHt AUCKLANd FREE CIVIC THEATRE HAMILTON LOCAL ACT

7pm, $79-114, tHe-eDge.co.nz WELLINGTON INTERNATIONAL ACT

From the first time I heard him singing in French on KEY the Moulin Rouge soundtrack I fell in love with him dUNEdIN ALL AGES right then and there. Do you know this guy has also written, among many things, classical opera and a CHRISTCHURCH TOUR set of Shakespeare’s sonnets to music? What an old- fashioned babe.

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SATURDAY 22 ALBUM oF ThE WEEK anna CoDDinGton DEaR tiMEs WastE SOME KINd OF EdEN LEIGH SAWMILL

leigH, 8pm, $20, iticket.co.nz The talented singer-songwriter is often seen out and about on tour with famous friends, most notably Julia Deans. This time, she is heading off on her own (not totally alone though, she’s bringing a few friends). If you haven’t heard this songbird sing, now is the chance before she flies away. J WilliaMs MANGAWHAI TAVERN

9pm, $10, eVentFinDer.co.nz The R&B star won Kiwi hearts with his debut single ‘Ghetto Flower’, before ‘Takes Me Higher’ and ‘You Got Me’ became staple club favourites. Heck, his single even gave ol’ Scribe the chance to come back out of hiding. He ran into a spot of media trouble last year, but he’s back and no doubt with a new energy.

sMoKEFREE RoCKQUEst Final FOUNdERS THEATRE I remember when I first heard Clearly evident throughout is the Swan’s achingly slow, tortured isolation Duncan chose to surround 6.30pm, $10, ticketek.co.nz album Skin. It was a work that slowly herself in during the recording process in her expansive vacant studio space Some of New Zealand’s top quality rock acts have stripped you down to the bones of – a mile away from the cramped little come out of this competition it sees secondary school raw emotion and fettered your soul Eden Terrace flat where she made students around the country compete for the top like a pastry brush. most of 2010’s Spells. From time to spot. Every year, there is more skill and innovation Songs were achingly slow and time there are vocal nods to Bjork, and it blows me away what some of these talented suspended like tortured souls in some especially on ‘The Drought’, which teens can do. But save the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll medieval dungeon. The reinvention of bounces off the cool, shiny concrete for when you hit 18 kids. ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ held you up walls and floor with stringent, against the wall and teasingly ran the monotonous drones of electronic. blade menacingly down your thigh. 95BFM GoEs BanG It was dangerous stuff back then and Pulsating textures compliment still has the cruellest love songs I’ve Duncan’s slightly innocent, malleable WHAMMY BAR ever heard – until now. vocals. Her concluding paean, ‘Body Black’ is the most inspirational effort. Like Trent Reznor compositions It’s almost like the lifting of a veil 8pm, $10-15, unDertHeraDar.co.nz played at the slowest setting Claire of some self-imposed depression Duncan’s music is ethereal, distant and revealing that the perceived Like an animation lifted from the pages of a comic and mechanically cold, with the gloom was really just a low foggy book, 95bFM is going out of winter with a bang, creeping distance of some deranged haze. Whilst I wouldn’t recommend complete with a spiky exclamation action bubbl artistic spectre. Her music prowls flying in this kind of weather, the and the cheesy sound effects. But seriously, it’s a like Jack the Ripper, ready to unleash underpinning drama and sense celebration of spring (it’s spring?) featuring 1995, Suren malice on some unsuspecting victim. of menace on this album is still Unka, Heart Attack Alley and more. It’ll make your ears deliciously unsettling. go snap, crackle, pop and potentially bang as well. But unlike the gothic novels of the Victorian age Some Kind of Eden gives If your cerebellum is looking to be no time for melancholy. It doesn’t challenged, assaulted and soothed SUNDAY 23 concern itself with the questions simultaneously, then I’d recommend of why or where a relationship has Eden. Find a nice quiet place, lie down disintegrated or fragmented. Only and take in at least two songs. Just that it has. These are cold facts served, don’t bother calling in the morning. MnoZil BRass chilled, barely shaken, never stirred. ‘Six Feet Down’ in particular feels like written By tim gruar ST JAMES THEATRE all the angels have been slow burned in a smouldering furnace of early The Cure and Kraftwerk. And never turning 8pm, $72-92, ticketek.co.nz to the betrayal of the upbeat, Duncan chooses to haunt the subconscious Direct from Austria, Mnozil Brass blows audiences like Nosferatu’s monster with the most oUT away with its unique blend of musical ability, evident ‘Head to Toe’, which borrows theatrics and originality. Formed 20 years ago in Josef both attitude and cleverness of St Mnozil’s small tavern in Vienna, Austria, this ensemble Vincent, but never slides into simple NoW of seven weird and whacky brass players has been melody pop. wowing audiences around the world with the sheer variety and diversity of its performances.

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FRIDAY 21 ARTIST Q&A toM BEaUCHaMP tHE RED CHaiR CIRCUS COMpANY dIRECTOR & pERFORMER Q THEATRE Your signature “I’m an amazing SEASON: WEd 19 SEp - SUN 30 SEp cook” dish is… 8pm, $29-54, QtHeatre.co.nz Sunday morning pancakes with lemon & brown sugar. Bringing down the fourth wall, this highly interactive performance fuses the divide between audience The best TV show around at the and actor. As the title suggests, a red chair is lit up at moment is… selected tables where audience members are sitting. Don’t know & don’t really care, bit These chairs serve as a performance space that the busy making circus & living in the actors work with in a cabaret-style show. back of a truck. The best place for a date night is… PRiVatE liVEs Same place as stalkers can find me. You’d get arrested if the police Q THEATRE knew that you… Dressed in lycra & swing around on SEASON: WEd 19 SEp - SAT 29 SEp ropes - oh hang on that’s just my job. 7/8pm, $55, QtHeatre.co.nz people say you look like… Watch a seemly perfect ex-relationship crumble into Spiderman or John Clease - depends a million pieces in this adaptation of Noel Coward’s Who’s in the dead supergroup for on the day. genre-defining rom-com. The show takes to the original your dream hologram show? idea with destructive force, trashing apartments Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & Beethoven. Five celebs on your f**klist? and relationships alike. Celebrate wit, a comedy of Milla Jovovich, Pink, Monica Bellucci, What’s an upcoming film you’re relationships and errors as a happily divorced couple Jennifer Lopez, Cameron Diaz. jazzed about? find themselves in adjoining hotel suites. Cirque Du Soleil & James Cameron Kittens or puppies? have a new circus one coming out in Puppies - medium rare. December called Worlds Away in 3D. What generic current affair has SATURDAY 22 Where can your stalkers find you your blood boiled? during the weekend? Why people call dance gay & yet Depends on the weather, hanging a bunch of Neanderthal blokes aRoUnD tHE WoRlD in 80 MinUtEs out in my house truck at a nice running round a field in short shorts picturesque coastal location. grabbing each other’s balls is a MICHAEL FOWLER CENTRE national obsession. What happens when you mix Coca

Cola with pepsi? SEE HIM LIVE: FUSE CIRCUS Gut rot x 2. 8pm, $15-115, ticketek.co.nz THE BOdY FESTIVAL - REVOLVER Your fantasy spirit animal is… It’s like that movie with Jackie Chan in it and how he MON 08 OCT - WEd 10 OCT tHe geo Dome, Pushmepullyou. went in a hot air balloon around the world in a time cHristcHurcH period that was more than 60 days but less than 100 and it was amazing for the 1800s. Yeah. Well, this is like that, but a musical journey around the world with the NZ Symphony Orchestra. SUNDAY 23

tHE GooD, tHE BaD anD tHE DERBY KaHU oRa: liVinG CloaKs TE pApA THE TRUSTS STAdIUM ARENA

WEd 19 SEp - MON 22 OCT

Explore rich Maori history through traditional Everyone saw the movie Whip It, right? So by now cloaks, among the most precious treasures to Maori you’ll know roller derby is a totally awesome sport and stunning in their artistry. Each cloak carries a that’s growing in New Zealand. Catch the final bout powerful story of the weavers and wearers, linking of the Pirate City Rollers’ 2012 season and witness past and present. There is also a live action studio to two teams fighting the skin off their knees for victory see cloak weavers in action. and the Black Dahlia Cup. It’s a wild ride and you’re guaranteed to see a little blood, sweat and tears. ClYBoURnE PaRK AUCKLANd ART CIRCA THEATRE

SEASON: WEd 19 SEp - SAT 06 OCT HAMILTON pLAY/THEATRE 4pm, $25-46, circa.co.nz WELLINGTON MUSICAL Nothing says ‘social critique’ like a wickedly clever

KEY comedy. Clybourne Park explores two time periods, dUNEdIN COMEdY 1959 and the present day, in two acts. The first centres on a nervous community anxious to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act two looks at a now CHRISTCHURCH dANCE predominately African-American neighborhood as it battles to hold its ground in the gentrification.

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