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Matariki on the move Matariki is taking over Auckland’s Silo Park on Saturday 21 July. The Maori New Year festivities will be more than the usual couple of bands playing down at the waterfront venue, with interactive displays and performances throughout the day. Light installations Our and a video projection mapping from Lakshman pick Anandanayagam, Angus Muir, Jon Baxter and Michael Hodgson will be heightening and enlightening your senses along with music from Anika Moa, Ria Hall, Anna Coddington and DJs. There’s a food special with Scan the QR code with your the Maori night markets and if you’re really feeling smartphone to go to Groove Guide’s spaced, you can check out the stardome telescopes mobile website for breaking news, and get all existential and whatnot. reviews, interviews and more features. Burn One Down Under Ben Harper has announced he’ll be The Pharcyde making his way back to New Zealand this November for two acoustic Announce NZ Shows shows. The guitarist artist is no Old school hip-hop crew The Pharcyde have stranger to Aotearoa, having played a We also do this cool social media stuff. announced they’ll be making their way to New toured a number of times and being @GrooveGuide Zealand in August – the first time the rappers will more than familiar with some Maori facebook.com/grooveguide have performed on our shores. The two-piece will style tattoos, so odds are he’s just as be performing at Wanaka’s Mint Bar on Thursday excited as we are with the news of 16 August, San Fran Bath House in Wellington on his return. The singer’s An Evening Friday 17 August, Auckland’s Studio on Saturday 18 Groove Guide is New Zealand’s leading weekly With Ben Harper tour will be solo music and entertainment publication. 10,000 August and will finish up in Christchurch on Sunday acoustic style sets over the course of free copies are available every week at music 19 August at Dux Live. Support acts are yet to be two hours or so, with the first show at stores, cafes, fast food outlets, nightclubs, announced, but tickets are available now through Wellington’s Michael Fowler Centre bars, restaurants, cinemas and retail stores Dash Tickets, iTicket and at selected local outlets. For on Saturday 03 November and at throughout New Zealand. If you would like more information check out La De Da on Facebook. to stock Groove Guide please contact tyler@ Auckland’s ASB Theatre on Monday 05 grooveguide.co.nz or call (09) 3664616. November. Tickets are available now through Ticketek and The Edge. Editor The Sounds of Silver Grant Hislop [email protected] The long list of APRA Silver Scroll nominees has been announced. This is the list that the Silver Scroll winner CONTRIBUTING Editor will be drawn from come September after the finalists Matt Monk [email protected] are announced in August. The winner will receive Editorial assistant $5,000 as they are recognised by their peers as the Tyler Hislop [email protected] best of the best of 2012. Some of the artists up for the award are Tom Scott and Hayden Dick from Home SUB Editor Brew, Lisa Crawley, Kody Nielson, Lydia Cole, Jess Elise Brinkman [email protected] Chambers, Jon Toogood and Julia Deans from The Designer Adults, Annah Mac and many more. Greta Gotlieb [email protected]

Advertising [email protected] Living the Accounts Gail Hislop [email protected] war of the Contributors worlds Clovis McEvoy, Sebastian Mackay, Liam Martians and the Stardome. It’s Maguren, Angus Deacon, Shaun Jones, not just you, higher than a flight James Griffins attendant tripping balls on a Richard Intern Branson/Virgin Airlines space flight – Bronte Taylor no, it’s Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds. The live multi- print media stage show will be performed Image Print ltd. 34 times every Wednesday to Sunday Publisher from the beginning of November. A Hark Entertainment LTD culmination of the classic Martians PO Box 6032 Wellesley Street, Auckland invading story along with dramatic staging, sound and lighting mixed with custom-made visuals means due to space and content requirements, not all gigs may be listed. listings are user generated. groove guide Two Blasts from the Past heat rays, smoke effects and a bunch assumes no responsibility for any inaccuracies, errors The Bengal Lights will be reforming for one special show. If you’re not familiar of all around wacky shit that will or omissions. groove guide is provided ‘as is’, for your with the two-piece, maybe you’ll remember that Zowie used to perform under a make you feel like E.T. has come and information only, without warranty of any kind, either he’s a bad guy. Jeff Wayne’s Musical expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, different moniker. Yep, the starlet is one half of the fan-favourite female duo that fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringment. broke up back in 2008, the other half being Maeve who went on to form another Version Of The War Of the Worlds the guide’s publisher assumes no responsibility for and female two-piece, Cat Venom. Muzai Records announced that Zoe and Maeve will makes its world debut at Stardome disclaims all liability for any inaccuracies, errors or play one show at Auckland’s Whammy Bar on Saturday 25 August in association exclusively, and we’re excited to see omissions in this guide and do not share the opinions the unique 360 degree performance expressed within. reproduction in whole or in part with Cheese On Toast. The good news gets even better with the news that without permission is prohibited. copyright 2012 Auckland yoof-noise thrash heads Bandicoot will also be reforming for the one-off that the planetarium provides. Tickets show. It’s a night of broken bands back together all for the good of your earballs. are available now through iTicket. ISSN 1172-675X

Grooveguide.co.nz | 5 Shit Worth Knowing What an Asset PLAYING Remember the election last year? There was one. National won. Remember it now? Good stuff. Around that time, there was also a little FAVourites debate over a little piece on international business called asset sales. And that little Tom Lark argument is still going on. In fact, it’s kind of the hottest political topic since Bill Clinton GETTY IMAGES and a certain cigar. It’s a burning topic, alright. A topic that’s being taken to the sell assets that currently belong to all New streets this Saturday. Zealanders to a small minority who can If you’re a student you’ve probably seen afford to buy shares.” people around, asking you to sign a petition. A spokesperson from the group said, Hell, if you’re a student, there’s a good “Only 10 per cent of New Zealanders chance you’re one of the people holding that invest in the stock market, while the rest clipboard with everyone’s signatures on it. of us struggle to pay our power bills that Younger folks are leftier folks, after all. This will only rise when these state owned year we’ve seen students up in arms all over enterprises are sold as shareholders will the show. They’re on the news, blockading demand increased profits.” Queen Street in Auckland. They’re in the The group says thousands of people background of Back Benches. At least they around the country will be taking part were before TVNZ7 got the plug pulled. But to demonstrate continued opposition now it’s not just students out to be heard. to the sale of state assets. “In Auckland, It’s almost everyone who has been vocally after a march up Queen Street, a public objective about the asset sales plan put meeting will be held which will include the forward by the Government. outlining of a campaign against Mighty This Saturday 14 July sees the public River Power and proposing the following Favourite drink? I really love Shasta cherry cola! network of individuals, groups and the a call for a nation-wide boycott of Mercury “Aotearoa NZ Is Not For Sale” organisation Energy, Tiny Mighty Power and Bosco.” Favourite restaurant/café? Anywhere with initiate the National Day of Action Against This Auckland march is part of more than Bubble tea. Asset Sales. Since the sale of assets is a 15 demonstrations around the country on Favourite takeaway? Pizza! Ah-yum-a-yum-a-yum. trending topic of many a dinner table around Saturday. the country on a weekly basis, it’s your right This does not mean that the march will Favourite colour? Peachy red. to know about the intended march this have any outcome on the decision making Favourite classic film? Back To The Future. Saturday. It’s also on you to decide whether process, of course. Whether Aotearoa NZ you’re for it or against it. Is Not For Sale is successful in initiating a Favourite childhood memory? Mum took my Aotearoa NZ Is Not For Sale say: “As New public awareness day may not have any brother and I on the Cookie Time factory tour once, I remember it being delicious. Zealanders we already own these assets, actual effect on the final outcome. But you so why should we be forced to buy them can guarantee that the 6pm news teams Favourite party food? Nothing too messy, back ourselves just to keep them under kiwi will be talking about it, just in time for your M&Ms maybe. control?” They also say that it is “unfair to family dinner table conversations. Favourite vice? I like puns.

Favourite song? ‘Cut Your Hair‘ – Pavement. shit worth Favourite meal? At the moment I’m eating a Go to grooveguide.co.nz and enter the lot of pizza. draw to win these prizes Favourite label to put on your relationship? winning So so single.

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SATURDAY NOV 3 MONDAY NOV 5 WELLINGTON AUCKLAND MICHAEL FOWLER CENTRE ASB THEATRE 0800 TICKETK OR TICKETEK.CO.NZ 0800 BUY TICKETS OR THE-EDGE.CO.NZ ON SALE WEDNESDAY JULY 11 benharper.com • facebook.com/benharper • livenation.com.au MUSIC Shit worth doing WEDNESDAY 11 FRIDAY 13

Sunken Seas Sherpa San Fran Bath House Snakepit

9pm, $10, Door Sales Only 8pm, $10

Having moved away from their Tiddabades moniker, Everone’s favourite midtown gallery-cum-venue in Ryan Harte, Luke Kavanagh and Craig Rattray, AKA Auckland is hosting an all-ages party for the official Sunken Seas, have displayed some ingenuity and release of Sherpa’s brand new music video. See the inventiveness with their ominous, ambient post-rock premiere screening as well as live performances from percussion driven tunes. They’re a sight to see live, Ghost Wave, Beach Pigs, H D S P N S and, of course, and a sight on show this Wednesday at Wellington’s Sherpa themselves. San Fran Bath House. TJ Quinton THURSDAY 12 Darkroom

7pm, FREE Lydia Cole & Tom Lark Mighty Mighty The guy looks like John Butler minus the trio. He sounds like Ben Harper with some Dodos thrown in 8:00pm, $10, undertheradar.co.nz for good measure. A mixture of beatboxing, chopped acoustic guitar and melancholy harmonies come together in the beached-up tunes this Australian It’s hard to think of a better touring duo where we see singer-songwriter dishes out. See him live on his first two of New Zealand’s soft and melodic youngsters New Zealand tour. splitting their hushed pop on the stage. Lydia Cole could very well be one of our next female favourites gig up there with Bic Runga and Jess Chambers, and Tom Lark has an eerily audible and aesthetic resemblance Lawrence Arabia OF THE to a certain Reduction Agent. St Michael & All Angels Church WEEK get good karma

8pm, $35, undertheradar.co.nz Get Good Karma Chapel Bar & Bistro The country’s golden son kicks off the album release tour from his latest effort The Sparrow. The 5pm , FREE sometimes-moustachioed pop prodigy with the voice of a Disney fairytale prince knows how to make Every Thursday from 5pm the Chapel crew are any crowd swoon and has more style and charisma cracking open the Karma Keg to decide how much than Sinatra. There’s no room for hyperbole here – you’ll be paying for a glass of Monteiths Golden, and Lawrence Arabia will show you a good time. because what goes around comes around Chapel will give all the proceeds back to the community. How’s that for getting some cheap drinks and being a good Beat-Fix What Noisy Cats Every Thursday at 5pm at Chapel we’re cracking open the Karma Keg and you decide how much you’ll pay for a glass of Montieths Golden. And becauseSamaritan what at the same time? goes around comes around, we’ll give all the proceeds back to the community. Snapdragon Meow Email us at [email protected] with your suggestions of any projects that could do with an extra hand.

147 Ponsonby Road T: 360 4528Logistics #3 6pm, FREE 8.30pm, Door Sales Only www.chapel.co.nz Dux Live Audio Foundation You’re in Auckland CBD. You’re Meow promises to folk up the fun wondering what to do. You’re trying this Friday with a line-up of all things 9pm, $20, R18, 8pm, $5 cosmicticketing.co.nz to impress this new guy or gal you’re lo-fi. If you’re in the capital and crushing on, but no bouncers are after a fitting Friday the 13th then Logistics is a Hospital Records The Audio Foundation’s monthly letting you in because you’re pretty What Noisy Cats, Tommy and Finn favourite and he’s done the decent listening series presents chapter three trashy. Try heading to Snapdragon for along with Matthew Pickering, will thing for local audiences, flying in this week at the AFHQ off Pitt St. Three this line-up of some of the choice picks undoubtedly deliver the dark. You’ll all the way from London thanks to sets of accomplished aural adventures of local DJ talent such as Dan Aux, Matt feel like you’re in some kind of indie Bassfreaks. Joining the electronica will be performed side by side as Randomplay and Beta Mix Kid. . horror film, minus the bloodshed. drum’n’bass heavy-hitter will be locals Foxtrot, Nigel Wright and Andrew Zero, Dubxl, Retrak and MC Tali. Moon present their latest works. Friday the 13th Battle of the Bands The Winchester The Outback auckland FREE 8pm, $15, 8pm, Door Sales Only undertheradar.co.nz hamilton LOCAL ACT 95bFM is hosting another private Heat three of the Hamilton rounds wellington INTERNATIONAL ACT function this Friday, and being the hit The Outback this weekend with

K ey ominous spooky date it is, the radio Afterthought, Junktion Krew and Art dunedin all ages station is jazzing up the haunted of Alchemy taking to the stage to try feelings. Dunedin noiseniks Die! and make it to the big time. Cheer for Die! Die! will be headlining with them if you’re a nice person. Boo and christchurch TOUR support from Opposite Sex and hiss if you’re a jerk. Mothers of Darkness.

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SATURDAY 14 ALBUM REVIEW

Ladyhawke Smashing Pumpkins Oceania Studio

8pm, $43, undertheradar.co.nz

New Zealand native Pip Brown, AKA Ladyhawke, celebrates her sophomore album Anxiety with a welcome tour around the country. This Saturday the ‘80s influenced electropop starlet brings her long-awaited new selection of alt-rock anthems to Auckland’s Studio, and it promises to be just as heavy as what we’ve seen from the nek-wave icon. Fat freddy’s drop Bodega

9pm, $45, 1-night.co.nz

Taking time out from their recording schedule, skankin’ favourites Fat Freddy’s Drop are offering fans a chance to go back to how it used to be: a sweaty room in Wellington. It’s a rare thing to see the band in such an intimate venue of this size. Album number three is on the way and this is the last chance to see FFD before they embark on their European tour.

Kora DJ Tuini Union Hall, University of The Commercial Hotel, For someone who isn’t a away and the listener is left Otago Whakatane Smashing Pumpkins fan, Billy with Billy Corgan, an acoustic Corgan’s vocal style can take a guitar and Nicole Fiorentino’s

8pm, $30 - 35, 9pm, $10 while to get used to. Other than gorgeous harmony, shifting dashtickets.co.nz that, Oceania is rock bliss. onto a very sexy bass line before It’s Saturday. You’re a poor student. Who’s DJ Tuini, you’re asking yourself. This is a full hour of a the track becomes something You’ve been buying Speights in 24-packs. Why would I go all the way to Smashing Pumpkins arse-kicking else entirely. The Smashing You’re drunk and bored. Then you Whakatane, you’re asking yourself. that earns this album a space Pumpkins have created a remember Kora, Left Or Right and Well, questioning questioner, DJ Tuini on every rock listener’s shelf. masterpiece with this track. Dubstown Soundsystem are playing. is none other than one of the girls The riffs of the album opener With ‘The Chimera’ the You smile, climb out of your vomit from the “hit” show, The GC. Yeah. Go ‘Quasar’ are fantastic and give album becomes heavy again. and go party. Good for you. try your luck, dude. the song a massive amount of ‘Inkless’ sets the tone for bite. ‘Panoptic’ continues with closer ‘Wildflower’, which is full the heavy drums. The guitar of riffs, bass lines, and drums The Adults & La Vida Winter Mixers work on this album is sheer that are edged with grunge and Nelson School Of Music Ratbags mastery; it slices across the melded together by a band that drums and bass and competes knows exactly where they want 8pm, $45 - 75, the listener headed on the nelsonwinterfestival.co.nz 8pm, FREE perfectly with Corgan’s vocals that rise and fall. album. The isn’t a dull moment Nelson’s own vibrant, stylish string Russian Standard Vodka and The ‘One Diamond, One Heart’ on this record and in some way quartet La Vida team up with super- Edge are throwing parties around the is gloriously unexpected, with you’ll lament that tracks such duper group The Adults. Veterans Jon country with the 2012 Winter Mixers. a synth pop-esque opening as ‘Inkless’ and ‘Wildflower’ Toogood, Julia Deans, Steve Bremner These exclusive dress-to-impress that continues under “I’m not aren’t longer. and Shayne Carter collaborate with shindigs will have you vodkaed up to here to hold your hand / I’m WRITTEN BY SEBASTIAN MACKAY these talented up-and-comers. your (responsible) eyeballs. just here to understand”. The ALBUM OUT NOW: OCEANIA drums, bass and guitar of this track move in slowly and before TUESDAY 17 matching the level of synths. It is the least rock-oriented track on the record but, if only for Terror the bass line and fusion of the soundscape, is worth a listen. Void The title track is a nine- 7pm, $30, minute-long wonder that opens undertheradar.co.nz ALBUM with a beautiful bass line and involves a bit of extra synth OF THE Terror isn’t just your run-of-the-mill five-piece work, creating a world of depth WEEK hardcore troupe. They’re an energy and a force. without overwhelming the They’re emotional tough guys. They play on average melody of the track. At around something like 300 shows a year. Them’s the figures. Them’s the breaks. Them’s terrifying statistics. 3.20 minutes, everything falls

Grooveguide.co.nz | 9 ARTS Shit worth doing Thursday 12 ARTIST Q&A LEON WHAREKURA Young And Hungry Matariki FESTIVAL PERFORMER BATS Theatre

6.30pm, $18 - 45, Ba ts.co.nz

Three plays are on show as part of Young and Hungry 2012 this year. See some of the country’s young up-and-coming playwrights, actors and all-around future thespian talent strut their stuff with the three productions Flash at 6:30pm, Gameplan at 8pm and Cover Story at 9:30pm.

The Amazing Bubble Man In The Next Room The Civic Fortune Theatre Who’s in the dead supergroup for The best TV show around at the your dream hologram show? moment is… Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Ricky May, Native Affairs and Homai Te Pakipaki 2pm, $35, 7.30pm, $15 - 40, buytickets.co.nz patronbase.com Dalvanius and Billy T James. on Maori TV. Bubbles! Bubbles bubbles bubbles! In The Next Room or The Vibrator Where can your stalkers find you The best place for a date night is… Bubbles are so cool. When you were Play is a play about naughtiness. during the weekend? Any cliff on the West Coast of either a kid you would always want one of Or completely natural activities, Westfield downtown Auckland island during summer. those massive bubble robes things so whichever way you want to look at getting a massage, or Jungle Café in Grey Lynn chomping on salmon You’d get arrested if the police knew you could make a giant bubble and it. We’re talking about the origin of that you… watch it float. This guy does that shit lady-self-stimulants. Self-pleasing and and spinach scrambled eggs with hollandaise sauce. Drove for years without a license for a living. teasing. Dildos, dude. before my 20s. What happens when you mix Coca Cola with Pepsi? People say you look like… A whole lotta sugar… and confusion My father with a bit of mum in the mix. FRIDAY 13 (Coke-si?) What generic current affair has your Your fantasy spirit animal is… blood boiled? Pegasus the flying white horse from Selling off Aotearoa to foreign The Arrival Clash of the Titans. ownership. Pisses me off! ASB Theatre Your signature “I’m an amazing SEE HIM LIVE: 2degrees Kapa Haka Super 12s cook” dish is… SAT 14 JUL 12:50PM the CL OUD, AUCKLAND Steamed whole fish with ginger and 7:.0pm, $120 - 180, buytickets.co.nz soya… Chinese styles. ALBUM OUT NOW: CHAMELEON Opening night of The Arrival is on this Friday and the Kittens or puppies? multiple award-winning production runs for three Puppies. nights in Auckland. After its debut at the Auckland Arts Festival in 2009 and wowing crowds locally and internationally, the stage play adaptation of the graphic novel is a hit for all ages and a rare treat. SATURDAY 14 Stadium in Stiches Ewan Gilmour Winterlude Fashion Festival Forsyth Barr Stadium Pierside Café & Bar Erskine Building

8pm, $20, 8pm 6pm, $15, Dashtickets.co.nz dashtickets.co.nz Chopper Read and Paul Ego play one Comedian Ewan Gilmour is making Part of the Winterlude 2012 Festival thanks to UCSA, show down in Dunedin at this night his way around the country as he Gentlemen’s Club are putting on a fashion show this of double trouble for orientation takes his bogan chic comedy on the weekend for those that appreciate the finer things in week of semester two. Students and road. My aunt thinks he’s the Billy life. Bollinger, Egyptian sheets, lingerie, mousse for anyone else are invited to Forsyth Connolly of New Zealand. But she also dessert instead of plain old ice cream, butlers for your Barr Stadium for some Friday funnies. thinks he smokes too much pot. horses, diamond dog collars… you know, classy stuff. The Guru Of Chai auckland ART Q Theatre

hamilton PLAY/TheatRE 8pm, $24 - 49, indianink.co.nz

wellington FASHION A tangential production switching between K ey characters, scenes and traditional archetypal dunedin COMEDY storytelling, Guru of Chai is full of drama and excitement as one actor becomes seven sisters, christchurch DANCE a policeman, a poet, a mob full of gangsters and more. It’s funny, it’s sad, and it’s enlightened.

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WEDnESDAY 11 FILM REVIEW Parkway Drive Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D Academy Cinemas

Byron Bay sensations Parkway Drive are premiering their semi-doco/semi-generic-band-road-movie at Academy Cinemas this week. With footage from 42 countries, the 75 minute Home Is For The Heartless DVD is a travelogue capturing the ups, downs and Further info directed by shows about towns Parkway Drive have performed. DAN CUTFORTH, JANE LIPSITZ Starring KATY PERRY, SHANNON WOODW ARD The Block AND RACHAEL MARKARIAN It can be difficult justifying the brings Perry’s sugar-coated fantasies TV3, 7:30pm existence of a concert movie based to life, for this could’ve added to the on a pop-music phenomenon. Some audience’s understanding of the can draw in an audience by filming tremendous pressure the star was performances that celebrate an under on tour. artist’s passion for their craft (This Is The renovation reality show has arrived in New It), while others blindly beat a dead Performances are smoothly integrated Zealand, and we’re not quite sure what to make of it. cash cow with a piñata stick (Glee: The into the narrative, working in context We’re a nation of DIYers, right? So we should be right 3D Concert Movie). Fortunately, Part with the behind-the-scenes material. into this with our love on number eight wire, watching Of Me is more a case of the former The high visual quality of the concert with our carpentry friends, drinking beer, etc. Really instead of feeling like the latter. footage is matched by the equally though, we’re just waiting to see what arguments superb sound. In combination with the everyone gets into. Reality television! Katy Perry’s rather uninteresting impressive 3D, these segments exude success story isn’t exactly feature- the energy of a live show. Although length material, and the film knows I couldn’t call myself a fan of Perry’s this. Instead, her origin is glanced music, I was captivated by her bluesy- Happy Endings over in favour of what really matters: jazz rendition of ‘I Kissed A Girl’. TV2, 9pm Katy’s relationship with her followers. These moments exemplify the pop Part Of Me is an extremely well-made star’s dedication to supporting concert documentary that fans are her fans, leading to a particularly going to indulge in, packed with high touching moment in São Paulo that energy, basic morals and an infectious This comedy has us baffled. On the one hand, it’s showed how the fans are able to do charm – much like Perry herself. better than most of the generic laughbox crap we’re the same for her. It’s a shame the BY LIAM MAGUREN, FLICKS.CO.NZ used to seeing on TV2 (the Chuck Lorre comedies that film doesn’t give us an insight into assume all geeks are nerdy virgins and that fat people the gruelling creative process that IN CINEMAS NOW are fat but can still find love), plus it has Adam Pally who is utterly hilarious. On the other, it’s kind of like a cartoon with all those weird facial expressions. FRIDAY 13 THURSDAY 12 The Savoy Ted Prime, 8:30pm General Release

Part one of the two-part documentary The Savoy premieres this Friday. What’s it about? A hotel that From the mind of Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane wants to be the leading luxury hotel – the best in the comes Ted, the story of a boy whose wish came world. Why is that interesting? Because it has Stephen true. Then the story continues, and the teddy bear Fry in it, and as we all know, anything featuring that came to life grows up and acts suspiciously Stephen Fry is better than anything without Stephen like a super horny and filthy Peter Griffin who Fry. The dude oozes charm. British charm, no less. hangs out with a almost deadbeat version of Mark Wahlberg. It actually seems pretty good. The League FOUR, 10:30pm (ish) auckland TV SHOW

hamilton CINEMA RELEASE Following on from whatever Sunday night movie is wellington 3D Film playing on FOUR, our screens are graced weekly with

K ey The League. It’s incredibly hard to tell people that a dunedin DVD release show about fantasy football is worth watching. But believe us when we say this is possibly the funniest show on television at the moment. An all-star comedy christchurch BLU-RAY release cast and mostly improvised, The League is a must watch every week.

Grooveguide.co.nz | 13 EAT DINING AND Shit

Wagamama bird on a wire MULtiple locations, wagamama.co.nz 234 Ponsonby Rd, Auckland

Chicks dig bad boys. Bad boys and scars. And guys dig naughty things. My friend just visited me in Auckland from Wellington. We went out to In Japanese, wagamama means naughty child. So if you’re a bit of a Ponsonby Road on Saturday night for a couple of hours but decided to nerd, trying to impress that bad boy or naughty girl, take them out go get some takeaways and go home instead. Turns out that wicked to Wagamama for a bite or two. Even better, here’s some scintillating take away place Nina’s doesn’t exist anymore, but something just as dinner conversation so you won’t be lost for words: “Did you know cool has taken its place, or is maybe right next to it. Somewhere around that a child said to be ‘wagamama’ demands constant attention? there anyway. Bird On A Wire has free range rotisserie chicken and That’s so Gen Y, right”; “Wagamama was launched in 1992. So were sandwiches fancy enough for the queen. My friend is gluten free and he Taylor Lautner, Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus.”; “You’re really hot. Like could eat there as well, so I didn’t have to put up with his bitching and this meal I’m eating. Sorry, was that too forward? Do you want me to moaning all night. Thanks, Bird On A Wire people. be backwards instead?” Nailed it.

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The Sky’s The Limit Salsadrome, The Efficient Five Wed 11 Showcase Zoukrama and Tango 8PM, The Lido Cafe 8PM, The Ledge Milonga Dance Event Down & Dirty 7PM, Whitiera 9PM, Boston On Blair Performance Centre Sun 15 Gameplan Stir Friday w/ Kev 8PM, BATS Theatre Fri 13 Fresh & Micah Geoff Culverwell’s 9PM, Good Luck GOATWHORE,IMPIETY Darren Watson Picture This Trio 7PM, Bar Bodega, $60 10PM, The Southern Cross 4PM, Chicago Bar Garden Bar, Free Rice & Shine w/ Satisfaction Sundays Mike Ruckus DJ Cruickshank Sat 14 5PM, Good Luck 8PM, Good Luck 9PM, Matterhorn, Free Atomic The Boptet Sunken Seas Null Dr Metalstein 9PM, San Francisco Bath House 7PM, The Lido Cafe Hour National Tour 9PM, Rimutaka Tavern 9AM, San Francisco B.Lo Bath House, $10 Famous Black Friday 10PM, Matterhorn, Free 9PM, Sandwiches Mon 16 The New Brides Dr Metalstein 8PM, Fast Eddies Fat Freddy’s Drop 8PM, Rimutaka Tavern, $10 9PM, Bodega, $45 Poetry 7.30PM, The Thistle Inn Zillionz Fat Freddy’s Drop 10PM, Mighty Mighty Gameplan 9PM, Bodega, $45 8PM, BATS Theatre Raw Meat Comedy Gameplan 8PM, The Fringe Bar Gus and Friends 8PM, BATS Theatre 9PM, Good Luck Thu 12 Kristen Te Rito Horrolition 2012 8PM, Hashigo Zake Tue 17 Battle Of The 9PM, Bar Medusa Bands Heat 4 Mashtown County 42Below Cocktail 8PM, Bodega Ladyhawke 4PM, The Southern Cross Work Cup 8PM, San Francisco Garden Bar, Free Regional Heats Gameplan Bath House, $43 7PM, Mighty Mighty 8PM, BATS Theatre Musica Boom Boom Mtown Exotica: Jinetero MC Cheerful Tuesdays Lydia Cole 8PM, Horse & Hound 10PM, Mighty Mighty, $5 Ft. DJ Barstaff 10PM, Mighty Mighty, $15 7PM, Good Luck Numbskull, Niko Ne Zna Matt Hay EP release gig Influence, Sex Pest 9PM, The Southern Cross Gameplan 7.30PM, Meow 10PM, Mighty Mighty, $5 Garden Bar Restaurant, Free 8PM, BATS Theatre

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Student night CC’s Jukebox Louie and The Bear, Wed 11 with FLEX 8PM, The Golden Dawn, Free Mareya Lea,Heydon 8PM, Ginger Minx Hohaia, Albi, Laney Arash David Shanhun 8PM, Khuja Lounge, Free 6PM, The Britomart Country Club 7PM, Goode Brothers Pat 4 President Coast Open Mic Thu 12 Dean Campbell 10PM, QF Tavern 7.30PM, Kinja Bar, Free 6PM, The Britomart Acoustic Thursdays Country Club, Free Suren Unka Dan Aux Selectah 9PM, 1885 Britomart, Free 10PM, Racket Bar, Free with Waylon DJ James Ashwin 7.30PM, Nuffield St 9PM, twentyone Tido Dirty Diana’s Sol Night 6.30PM, Everybodys 7.30PM, Chapel Bar Acoustic Thursday General Lee FT. Eli 7.30PM, Chapel Bar The Get Down DJ Sam Wicks 7.30PM, Neighbourhood 6PM, Sale St 7PM, The Golden Dawn, Free GOATWHORE, IMPIETY Acoustic Thursday Ft. 7PM, The Kings Arms, $60 Industry Night Phil Stoodley , DRE 8PM, twentyone 5.30PM, Northern Steam Ship Imagine This 8PM, Snapdragon John Rae / The Audio Foundation Troubles With Strings presents #3 - A Monthly Imploder, Thee Rum add yourgs 8PM, 1885 Basement, $10 Listening Series Coves and Harvey own listin 8PM, Audiofoundation, $5 Knows A Killer Karaoke Marcus 9PM, The Lucha Lounge 9PM, QF Tavern Bitches N Shit groovEguide.co.nz 6PM, Racket Bar, Free Jet Jaguar Album Onny Kaulima Release 11PM, 1885 Basement 8PM, The Golden Dawn, Free SHIT WORTH DOING auckland gig guide

Two Cartoons, Poor DJ Sister Act Submariner Fri 13 You Poor Me, Cavemen 4PM, Chapel Bar 7PM, Imperial Lane 10PM, Cassette Number Nine, $10 A bFM Private Function DT Capri EP Summer Fest Ft. 8PM, Winchester,$15 MusicBox release party Ruby Frost 8PM, The Patriot 8PM, Backbeat Bar, $5 7PM, Zeal Acoustic Guitarist Ricky De Medeiros Nairobi Trio Gene Rivers Sweet Mix Kids 1PM, Alp Ice Cafe, Free 7.30PM, The Old Mt Eden 8PM, Racket Bar, Free 11PM, 1885 Basement, Free Methodist Hall Beat Fix feat: Rich Greek Party Nights The Beat Market, Wilson, Dan Aux, NEW TELEPATHICS 7PM, Alp Ice Cafe, Free 10PM, Rakinos, $10 Matt Randomplay 8PM, Backbeat, $10 6PM,Snapdragon The Highlife & A List VHF Duo Pat 4 President Winter Social 9PM, Merchant Bar BenWah ,Normski 9PM, Elephant Wreslter 8PM, The Wharf 6PM, Northern Steam Ship We Own The Night Rhythm and Style James CK 10PM, 1885 Britomart, $10 Black Friday 5PM, Sale St 9PM, Florries 10PM, Code, $5 Rudsits Brothers Jason Kyle, Selecta Sam Brett Polley 9PM, GBS Bar 6PM, Snapdragon Sun 15 8PM, Moretons Bar Sherpa Video Release Ladyhawke Acoustic Sunday Cian 8PM, The Snake Pit, $10 8PM, The Studio 6PM, La Zeppa Session w Eli Solly, Hudge Lee Gray Duo Guttenbiel David Shanhun 5PM, Neighbourhood 8PM, The Patriot 3PM, La Zeppa 7PM, Shakespeare Bar Sunshine Sound Lo Key Acoustic Sundays Dean Te Paa System 8PM, La Zeppa ft. Phil Stoodley 8PM, Glen Eden RSA 9PM, Rakinos, $10 7PM, Neighbourhood Manuel Bundy DJ Big Pun & DJ TDK 5PM, The Britomart DJ John Holmes Sample Gee 8PM, 1885 Britomart, Free Country Club, Free 6PM, Nuffield St 8PM, twentyone The Friday Blender MattRandomplay, Lazy Sunday DJ Dirty Diana and CVE 5PM, Chapel Bar Adam O Afternoon 7PM, Red Hummingbird 7PM, Northern Steam Ship 5PM, The Wine Cellar Tido Dj John Holmes 6PM, Racket Bar, Free Music Box Pat 4 President 6PM, Nuffield St 9PM, Rickshaw Eddies 2PM, Merchant Bar Will Styles DJ Tainer 5PM, The Britomart Popstrangers, Sunday at Sale St 6PM, The Deck Country Club, Free Sherpa , Bookself 2PM, Sale St 9PM, Whammy Bar, $7 Francis Jakeman Zillionz, DJ Roger Sunday Session with 8PM, De Post the Money Raiders Of The Lost Art the Sentimental 8PM, The Golden Dawn, $5 11PM, Coherent, $10 Sound System Frank Booker, 3PM, Chapel Bar Jason Eli Ritual 009: DJ Orphan, 5PM, Everybodys DJ Kursk, DJ Finn Sat 14 10PM, Rising Sun, $10 In Dread Response, Mon 16 The Cursid, Austere, A Ponsonby Rudsits Brothers The Altered States Institution 9PM, Shakespeare Bar Club Connoisseurs 8PM, The Kings Arms 6:30PM, Chapel Bar 8PM, Chapel Bar Saturday at Sale St Jason Smith Brett Polley 7PM, Sale St The KA Music Quiz 9PM, Basalt 7PM, The Kings Arms 8PM, De Post The Breakfast Club Lee Gray Duo Cool Cult 6PM, Cassette Nine, 9PM, Merchant Bar $10 door sales 8PM, Old Folks Ass, $5 Tue 17 Lee Gray Duo David Shanhun Snakeskin Suitcase 9PM, Merchant Bar with The Bads, 9PM, BlackSalt Bat Country, Alan The KA Quiz Logistics Meharry, Dave Khan 7PM, The Kings Arms 10PM, 4:20, $35 Dirtyphonics 10PM, 4:20, $35 & Emily Giles 8PM, The Lucha Lounge, $10 Worlds greatest Quiz Lower Bar Collective Night with Quizmaster 7PM, The Audio Foundation, Free DJ Disco Trash Thane Kirby 8PM, Red Hummingbird Spooky 7PM, Everybodys 7PM, Chapel Bar Mark Tronson 9PM, Florries DJ John Holmes 6PM. Nuffield St Steam Ft Jason Howson, Riot MIX MATCH AZONTO DJ Linley Latu Boy, MtronBomb, DANCE PARTY 7PM, The Deck Tommy Flowers 8PM, Nectar Bar, $10 10PM, Khuja Lounge, $5 DJ Sample Gee 9PM, twentyone

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Mid-Winter Wed 11 Fri 13 Sat 14 Wonderland The Irishman Hula Hope, Merlin Ashei DJ Mike T & King Al Webster, Jeremy 9PM, Dux Live, Free 9PM, Winnie Bagoes Desmond 8PM, Diamond Harbour Assembly Required Pacman - An Community Hall 9.30PM, The Fox and Ferret Arcade Party Mon 16 Kreation Art House Quiz Night DJ Mike T No Limit Texas Hold’em Phoenix Bar 9PM, JDV Restaurant & Bar ShapeShifter Valley Inn Tavern 9PM, The Bedford Big Top The Crucible Ewen Gilmour Quiz Night Rudolf Steiner School Pierside Cafe & Bar Tealight Acoustics - Bealey’s Speight’s Ale House The Charity Special Lawrence Arabia: 8PM, Journeys Youth Centre Quiz Night The Sparrow Ferrymead Speight’s Ale House Thu 12 9PM, St Michael & All The Christchurch Pop Angels Church Up Concert Series Nuttin Trivial 8PM, Old Sumner School Hall Quiz Night Hobnail CD Music Centre of Pierside Cafe & Bar Release Tour Christchurch 8PM, Wunderbar The Solo Project MMXII - Outstanding Christ’s College Hula Hope, Merlin Young Musicians Webster, Jeremy St Augustine Anglican Church Tue 17 Desmond Sunken Seas 8PM, Hilltop Tavern Sun 15 Jamesons Jam Sessions 9PM, Wunderbar 8PM, Bealey’s Speight’s Ale House Ladyhawke Blistering Tongues TJ Quinton 7PM, Wunderbar Quiz Night 9PM, The Foundry 9PM, Darkroom Logistics & Tali Creative Festival 7PM, Pegasus Arms Restaurant The Perfect Storm Little River Craft Station & Bar 9PM, Dux Live The Foundry Ski Movie Sessions Lydia Cole Ferrymead Speights Ale House 8PM, Dux Live WAIKATO gig guide DUNEDIN gig guide

DJ Dahlsim Wed 11 Sun 15 Wed 11 9PM, 10 Bar Lydia Cole Music In The Galleries Ladyhawke w/ She’s So Jae Bedford Major Toms, Tauranga - Der Kranks Rad & Two Cartoons 7PM, The Stadium Waikato Museum, Hamilton 7PM, Union Hall, Harbour view Hotel University of Otago Stadium In Stitches Thu 12 Lumpy Space With Paul Ego and Mon 16 Princesses Chopper Read Katikati Ukelele Group 7PM, Saint Omer, Free Forsyth Barr Stadium Homewood Park Tennis Elizabeth Marvelly Club, Katikati Baycourt Community and Tahu and the Takahe Arts Centre, Tauranga Thu 12 7.30PM, Saint Omer The Laughing Fri 13 Andy P Samoans present Saint Omer, Free Funny Chokers Tue 17 Westpac Mayfair Theatre Battle Of The Carnival On Campus Bands Heat 3 Terror and International The Outback, Hamilton Void, Hamilton Food Festival Punktuation Union Lawn, University of Otago Sat 14 Brewers Bar, Mt Maunganui Kora with Left or Stylus Right and Dudstown Seismic Gastrobar, Rotorua Fri 13 Soundsystem add your Union Hall, University of Otago Major Band own listin Blistering Tongues The Pheasant Plucker, Rotorua Dunedin Musician’s Club Lawrence Arabia: The Sparrow groovEguide.co.nz gs Cadbury Jaffa Race Sammy’s and World’s Steepest Sat 14 Street Party Southern Showdown 11AM, Baldwin St 7PM, Edgar Centre Oceania Storm Cadbury Winter Ball Sunken Seas Null Hour Ngaruwahia Rugby League 9PM, Chicks Hotel Football Club, Ngaruwahia 8PM, Larnach Castle

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Chapel 147 Ponsonby Road, Auckland Club Connoisseurs is the name of the game at Ponsonby’s Chapel Bar & Bistro Racket on Monday nights from 6:30 to 10:30. When you’re back at work feeling sorry for 6-10 Roukai Lane, Auckland yourself, Chapel’s helping you get back on the good foot with DJs spinning their treasured collection of funk, reggae, soul, jazz and more so you can get on up Every Thursday at Racket down in Britomart, local DJs MayaVanya and Girl Tiger through the rest of the week. are your captains on the sea of “it’s not quite the weekend but thank God it nearly is”. Or they’re your pilots, or maybe your tour guides. Either way, they all know that you’re there because you want a good time, and these party starters know how to kick off the not-quite-weekend in style.

The Claddagh 1885 Britomart 372-376 Broadway, Newmarket, Auckland 27 Galway Street, Auckland

There’s something to do every night of the week at The Claddagh. Monday Thursdays down at Britomart is like Saturday afternoons at your unemployed pool nights, darts competitions on Tuesdays, pub quiz Wednesdays, karaoke student friend’s flat. There’s always something going on even though you know Thursdays and fresh, live music every Friday and Saturday. Come Sunday there’s you should be saving money, but you’d rather listen to trippy music. This week no better place for a roast meal for you and your friends or that stranger you 1885 Britomart hosts Suren Unka in all of his ambient, transcending glory. Get out took home who you think you’ve got at least one more round with. of the house and into the party dreamscape every Thursday at 1885 Britomart.

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Auckland Transport’s Sober Driver Sorted game provides Facebook friends with a fun way to select a sober driver for their outing. Once the mates are selected, the player spins up to five times to randomly select the sober driver.

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Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane talks about bringing a toy to life – and watching him turn out to be a bit of a dick .

When you were a kid, you very badly wanted one of your toys to come to life. That’s why Toy Story was so much of a hit. Part of the reason, at least. You wanted a friend you could trust, someone you could tell your secrets to. Someone who, when you ran to your room because your mum was making you eat broccoli, would say to you, “Yeah, your mum is a jerk and broccoli is an even bigger jerk.” Then you grew up and realised that notion is a childish one. In the case of Ted, the came-to-life toy grew up with his owner – and he turned out to be a bit of a beatnik sleaze, bumming around, pissing off his owner’s girlfriend and using his money. He’s the friend that we’ve seen in every movie before as that “I need to turn my life around” plot device. But in Ted, the plot device is the plot instead. Ted was born from the mind of Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. Although MacFarlane originally conceived of Ted as an animated series, he came to the conclusion that the story would lend itself better to film. FellowFamily Guy collaborators and scribes Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild were brought onboard to develop the story of the magical stuffed teddy bear and his owner who grew up to find themselves in a state of arrested development. The exposition answers those questions you find yourself, as a grown-up, pondering – if a toy did come to life, wouldn’t everyone know about it? Wouldn’t it be famous? Would the headline-grabbing teddy bear appear on late night talk shows? Yes. But it also addresses the aging attention span audiences around the world would have for said toy. As the decades roll on, grown-up John (played by Mark Wahlberg) finds that his once cherished toy has become his worse for wear, foul-mouthed, cynical companion. MacFarlane’s first foray into the directing realm wasn’t approached solo. Once he decided the time was right, the Hollywood A-lister opted to bring many of the Family Guy crew along for the ride. Being notorious for the offensive humour we’ve come to love (or hate) so very passionately, Family Guy-style gags aren’t for the masses. It’s grown-up fart jokes with plenty of talk of sex. It’s full of swearing and is bountiful with in-joke homage references. Writer Alec Sulkin notes this when he says, “Seth said he wanted it to be a very R-rated comedy… The bear comes to life with a child’s wish, and then you cut to almost 30 years later and it’s the roommate who won’t leave. They have a sweet beginning, then Ted becomes this national sensation and ultimately turns into something like a former child star. He’s somebody who was famous, is still alive, but not famous anymore.” MacFarlane says that he was excited about the humour that occurs after the boy and bear grow up. “A big part of the comedy comes from the fact that years after the bear came to life, people have gotten used to it and nobody cares anymore… a point it would naturally get to in real life. So once that big moment has passed, what’s the other 95 per cent of your life going to be like?” Not only is MacFarlane the voice, director, producer and co-writer of Ted, but he also played the animated character in the motion suit. “It was necessary to have the suit there every day,” he says. “There were days when I had to have it on the entire day, so it had to be something that was going to capture the data that we needed but wasn’t going to be constrictive or distracting. “In a perfect world, the performance of Ted is the same as everyone else’s performance. We wanted them all to be people, one of whom happens to have the body of a teddy bear. The trick was to treat Ted the same way as we treated everyone else… The guy I look to as the epitome of doing that right was Jim Henson. Muppets were real people. In that world it was normal for Muppets to be walking around… that was what we wanted.”

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After years of flying under the mainstream radar , Dirty Projectors broke out into the popular sphere with Bitte Orca in 2009. Three years on, Swing L o Magellan looks set to once again thrill fans old and new .

Not so long ago, appreciation for Dirty Projectors was relegated just one man responsible for the majority of Dirty Projectors’ output. to only the ranks of indie music’s most devout followers. For a band “David [Longstreth] writes all the songs in this band,” says Coffman. whose bread and butter consisted of jarring song structures, studio “There are times when I’ve written a bit of lyrics, a melody here and experimentation and bizarre concept albums (a track-by-track there or something, but by and large Dave writes it and then we all put it reimagining of Black Flag’s Damaged, anyone?), the prospects of together.” breaking into the mainstream must have seemed mightily slim indeed. Having the kind of creative control that Longstreth has over the group Yet that’s exactly what Dirty Projectors did in 2009 with their album Bitte surely goes a long way to shaping the curious incarnations the band has Orca, somehow managing this feat with only minimal tweaks to their taken over the 11 EPs and albums they’ve released to date. “David’s been uncompromisingly distinct sound. putting records out on Dirty Projectors for a long time,” says Coffman. Since then, the band has been turning heads in the wider music “He’d have different bands on each record and then six years ago I went community with their infectiously catchy, intricately arranged vocal on my first tour with him. The band evolves a lot each time, we all met harmonies and innovative songwriting. Industry heavyweights have Dave in different ways and just sorted ended up together.” It’s that easy reached out in acknowledgement of the group, leading to notable come, easy go ethos that has seen the group rack up some 22 past and collaborations with David Byrne on the compilation album Dark Was present members. The Night, and with Björk for a benefit concert in aid of the charity Regardless of what a nightmare it must be managing the egos and organisation Housing Works. “It was really awesome,” says vocalist and aspirations of so many musicians, you can’t argue with the results – the guitarist Amber Coffman on working with Björk. “She’s a really cool back catalogue of Dirty Projectors features some of the most daringly lady and of course an amazing singer, probably a perfect singer really.” strange music of the new century. It’s a formula that they won’t be Working with two of music’s greatest innovators would inspire anyone, giving up anytime soon it seems; their forthcoming album is a succinct but for an oddball group like Dirty Projectors it must have felt somewhat collection of beautifully quirky tunes. “The songs on this album have a vindicating to gain appreciation from two such venerated musicians. lot of swag,” laughs Coffman, and it’s not hard to see what she means; “We put that piece of music together really quickly,” says Coffman on opening track ‘Offspring Are Blank’ has a raucous rock’n’roll quality that the Housing Works concert. “So it was pretty exhilarating when we belies the album’s more down-tempo moments. performed it with her. A year later we recorded it, just ‘cause it was such In some ways, Swing Lo Magellan is a subtle change of direction for the a special thing to all of us.” That recording session became 2010’s Mount group. In the past they’ve put great store in overarching themes and Wittenberg Orca EP, a plaintive collection of tunes featuring Bjork that concepts, yet this release is a collection of songs more in the style of Bob helped bridge the three year gap between Bitte Orca and the soon-to-be- Dylan, each individual story seemingly complete and whole within itself. released Swing Lo Magellan. Or perhaps there is an underlying narrative that we’re just missing? Their albums encapsulate enough styles and techniques to warrant a “There might be,” says Coffman mysteriously, “but I think we might team of songwriters, so it’s a rather pleasant surprise to learn that there’s want to leave that up to listeners for awhile.”

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Time away from Grammy A ward-winning band System Of A Down has given frontman Serj T ankian just that - time, most importantly for solo work .

“I’ve no idea where I’m going, but it’s fun,” laughs Serj Tankian from his composers, John Psathas, to craft a once-in-a-lifetime concert event. LA studio as we sit down to chat over a rather dodgy Skype connection. So can fans expect something in a similar vein? “Orca is kind of in that realm, in fact it’s even more classical because it’s a full-on symphony. At 44 years old, the lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning System Elect The Dead [Symphony] was more of a symphonic rendering of my Of A Down is showing no signs of slowing down. The Lebanese-born, Elect The Dead rock record.” LA-raised New Zealand resident isn’t your typical frontman: he’s also a distinguished solo musician, an orchestral and theatre composer and a With such a wealth of material from a variety of genres streaming forth, published poet. And to hear him tell it, the next couple of years might be it’s little wonder Tankian professes a range of influences which may his busiest yet. surprise his hardcore rock fans. “In terms of vocals I love female jazz vocals like Nina Simone and Billie Holiday. I love something about their Much to the dismay of their legions of fans, in 2006 System Of A Down immediacy,” Tankian says earnestly. “Or Tom Waits for example, totally went on indefinite hiatus – and though they have recently reformed, it love his vocal styling.” was this time away from the band that allowed Tankian to break free of his alt metal roots and begin indulging other creative whims. The result: It was Tankian’s own unusual vocal delivery that helped define S.O.A.D’s a myriad of projects ranging from orchestral symphonies to anthologies signature sound, and was a key element in their rise to fame – so it of poetry and even a Broadway musical, Prometheus Bound. should come as no surprise that it’s something Tankian had to work hard at, and is still fine tuning to this day. “When you first start singing you It’s also given Tankian the time to pen a number of solo albums – the take your influences and you mimic them until you find your own voice most recent of which, Harakiri, is set for release on July 10, 2012. and then you go from there,” says Tankian. “Harakiri is the rock record that’s coming out first,” says Tankian, “and we also have a jazz record that I got done with a few friends of mine, Given System Of A Down’s recent reunion and tour, including a frenzied some really cool jazz-heads. There’s a couple of vocal tracks on there, but sauna of a show in Auckland, I couldn’t help but ask the question on it’s mostly instrumental.” every die-hard fan’s lips: can we expect a new record from the band anytime soon? “You know, we really don’t have any particular plans of In fact, Tankian has four albums lined up for release in the near future, making a record right now,” he says, brow furrowing. “We haven’t talked each one a testament to his eclectic tastes. “I also have an electronic deeply about when or where to do any of that, so anytime soon would be record that I did with my friend Jimmy Urine from Mindless Self a no. One day? Sure.” Indulgence,” says Tankian with a self deprecating laugh. “That’s sort of like a British gangster soundtrack.” WRITTEN BY CLOVIS MCEVOY Yet it’s his forthcoming album Orca that really caught my attention. In ALBUM OUT NOW: HARAKIKI 2009, Tankian recorded his Elect The Dead Symphony at the Auckland Town Hall, pairing up with one of New Zealand’s most renowned

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