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21st Edition February, 2011 2 FEATURES 18 COMEDY 2011 FRINGE FESTIVAL EDITION 30 THEATRE 38 CABARET 44 VISUAL ARTS 49 MUSIC 54 CIRCUS & DANCE Features Profile ADAM PAGE ADAM PAGE SOLO: Upstairs at La Boheme, Grote St, 4,5,7,8 Mar THE ADELAIDE SAX PACK: The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 39 George St, Thebarton, 24 Feb, 3, 10 Mar THE WHEATSHEAF UKELELE COLLECTIVE: The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 28 Feb, 1 Mar WOMAD: 14th March Most people around Adelaide have seen or heard of Adam Page. He’s the guy who plays the bass ukulele, who made an entire song out of an audience member’s name, who has an amazing beard, who improvises on loop pedals with an African Thumb Piano, who hangs out at the Wheaty, who made music with a carrot wearing a sumo suit, who sings his own bass lines then beat boxes over the top, who was seen busking in Rundle Mall with three other sax players, who… Adam Page is a multi-instrumentalist based in Adelaide, who performs as a solo artist, as well as with many local groups. He is best known for his Adam Page Solo show, which, since its inception in 2006, has been winner of the 2007 Adelaide Fringe ‘Best Emerging Artist’, the 2009 New Zealand Fringe ‘Best Music’ and ‘Best Solo Show’ and has performed a 24 night season at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe. Adam Page Solo uses a unique style of performing that records various live instruments into loop pedals and then builds grooves, harmonies and eventually entire songs through layering these loops over one another. The guy is also very funny (sumo suits and carrots, what can you say?) adding another element to this unique and original style of performance. Every Solo show is inevitably different, however Adam Page tells me that for him personally, the show is evolving. He wants to move away from visual silliness and entirely spontaneous performance, to performing more composed music with involved and intricate arrangements. Improvisation will still be a large part of his show, but this will be combined with prepared ideas. So, if you have never seen Adam Page Solo, or you’ve seen it many times before, it is well worth checking out. Kelli Rowe 2 Adelaide’s Own and Only On-line Street Mag 3 Features Profile Georgie Aue A Day In The Life – Georgie Aue Quartet at The Prom – Saturdays 19, 26 Feb and 5 Mar. For Georgie Aue, 2011 seems likely to see her developing career really start to blossom. This Fringe, with her Georgie Aue Quartet, she has three Saturday evening shows at The Prom, playing the music of the Beatles in performances entitled A Day In The Life. This follows on from her sell out Nora Jones Tribute shows in last year’s Fringe. Georgie says the switch to the Beatles from Jones is not as significant as it may first appear. “There are no major challenges for my voice”, she says “as these Lennon / McCartney songs were written with high notes for boys and I have a relatively low voice for a woman.” “However, rather than try to replicate their sounds as we did with Nora, with A Day In The Life, we aim to unpack the music and then repack these songs in our own style.” This Fringe period will also be the first chance Georgie has had to pre-release her first album, Washington Road. Recorded in December with Peter Doudle and with her father, John, co-producing, Washington Road is a combination of original material and some covers including the Beatles classic, Here Comes The Sun. Now three years on from graduating from the Elder Conservatorium in Jazz Performance, Georgie is looking to spread her wings further afield this year including taking up a mentorship with US jazz legend, John Harkins, now Sydney based. With the Fringe, her new album, another Cabaret Fringe festival show and time with Harkins, Georgie Aue is certainly a name to watch out for in 2011 and years ahead and particularly at The Prom on Saturday evenings across the Fringe. 4 Adelaide’s Own and Only On-line Street Mag Georgie Aue photo by Harry Pearce 5 Features Moataz and Amos Their mothers’ efforts to deal with their children’s boredom sit at the core of how these two budding comedians got into the stand up caper. It was sug- gested to Moataz Hamde by his mother that doing a 10 week comedy school course may work (and it did) after ideas such as horseback riding and archery hadn’t. For Amos Gill, a dose of school debating drew him into making the most of his innate desires for ap- proval when being the class clown – eating pan- cakes off the floor for $50 and a berliner and the like – no longer drew the laughs it once had. But having met on the stand up circuit, they had realised that together they were not peas from the same pod of other local comics where sports and girls fascinated them most and not poetry. So, in their show, Background Check, Moataz will delight in stories about our inherent racism – he can talk about this stuff because he’s African – and Amos revels in bogans where he claims his home has always been a rich source of matrial. This plus some video skits allows their egos the room to work together without ever having to much share the same floor boards together, someone having to be the straight guy to the other. And the attraction? Amos declares that today fame Click to visit Moataz and is religion and he is feeling with holy at this point Amos facebook page and as for Moataz, well he has an approval addic- tion. Background Check – The Maid – 18-19 Feb, 23-26 Feb – 8.30pm; 9-10 Mar at 6.30pm 6 Adelaide’s Own and Only On-line Street Mag Features The Next Big Thing Vale Ale - McLaren Vale Beer Company When you think of the premium drop coming out of the McLaren Vale, you think of a rich, fruity and complex drink. You’re thinking of beer, right? You might not be, but one sip of a Vale Ale and the McLaren Vale Beer Company says you will. The McLaren Vale Beer Company began operations in 2008 with a vision to challenge the relatively bland beer market. The video that plays out on their website – a brilliant twist on public beer opinion – highlights the lack of exposure and understanding towards microbrewers. In a testament to their belief, the last three years has seen the Vale Ale, their signature beer, grow from two taps to a plethora of venues across Australia, as well as being internationally enjoyed in bottle form. Internationally-awarded Vale Ale is the first jewel in the Company’s crown. A pale unlike any you’ve tried from the big boys, it is bottle conditioned. Its amazing aroma, taste and beautiful cloudiness come from a great hop character that is unharmed via an unfiltered and unpasteurised process. Recently releasing their second beer, the McLaren Vale Beer Company has made the Vale Dry Australia’s first unfiltered dry lager. Not only do you get an outstanding lager – crisp, dry and mildy hoppy – you also get that natural cloudiness that you’ve been missing out on. The best part of all – they have their own inn. The character-filled Salopian Inn, established in 1851, not only serves the beers you now crave, but houses good drops of the other stuff known to come from the area, as well as great food. If you see it in a bottle shop then grab it, and if you see it on tap then order it, but most importantly you just have to drink it. Kryztoff has Vale Ale to give away all this month of February, so follow us closely on Facebook. Kosta Jaric 8 Adelaide’s Own and Only On-line Street Mag Features Profile 2011 BIGPOND ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL 24 February – 6 March The BigPond Adelaide Film Festival is shaping up to not only be one of the highlights of Adelaide’s festival season, but one of the most groundbreaking and creative film festivals in the country. Screening more than 140 films from 40 countries, BAFF in 2011 will be an eleven-day celebration of the diversity and complexity of the moving image in all its differing forms – on screen, online, on television, in galleries, and on the street. The program includes premieres of 14 new Australian films including a host of works by indigenous filmmakers, and showcases works across the film spectrum from real-life documentaries to the furthest reaches of the imagination realised by SFX filmmakers and visionary artists. The diversity of the moving image is perfectly mimicked by the diversity of the strands running beneath the BAFF. The Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund, which in the past has funded the Cannes Camera D’Or winner Samson and Delilah, will present a selection of bold and diverse Australian film. Some are based on extraordinary Australian events, such as Beck Cole’s Here I Am, a drama centred on a young Aboriginal woman trying to make a life after being released from prison, Justin Kurzel’s Snowtown, based on the infamous Snowtown murders, and Tall Man, based on the bestseller by Chloe Hooper about the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee at Palm Island. Others push the boundaries of ‘based on a true story’, such as Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s Hail, which explores the interface between documentary and drama, and the artist’s vision of the world.