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7 - 13 sept 2011 . NZ’S original FREE WEEKLY STREET PRESS . ISSUE 380 . GROOVEGUIDE.CO.NZ Untitled-1 1 26/08/11 8:35 AM Going Global GG Full Page_Layout 1 23/08/11 4:00 PM Page 1

INDEPENDENT MUSIC , THE NEW ZEALAND MUSIC COMMISSION AND MUSIC MANAGERS FORUM NZ PRESENT GOING MUSIC GLOBAL SUMMIT WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GO If you are looking to take your music overseas, come and hear from people who are working with both new and established artists on the global stage. DELEGATES APPEARING: Natalie Judge (UK) - UK Adam Lewis (USA) - The Planetary Group, Boston Jen Long (UK) - BBC6 New Music DJ/Programmer Graham Ashton (AUS) - Footstomp /BigSound Paul Hanly (USA) - Frenchkiss Records USA Will Larnach-Jones (AUS) - Parallel Management Dick Huey (USA) - Toolshed

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Shit worth announcing

Breaking news Announcements  Hello Sailor will be inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame at the APRA Silver Scroll Goldie Locks in NZ Awards, which are taking place at the Town Hall on the 13th Dates September 2011. Hello Sailor are UK drum’n’bass legend Goldie has announced Graham Brazier, Dave McArtney, Harry three shows later this month. MC LowQui joins Lyon, Rick Ball, Stuart Pearce and Paul the producer as he hits Queenstown’s Revolver on Wednesday 21, Sandwiches in Wellington on Woolright. Thursday 22 and Zen in Auckland on Friday 23 “There are no more worthy September. Tickets are available from iTICKET, Beat recipients for this, the industry’s Merchants and Real Groovy. highest honour, than Hello Sailor. 23/09 To have written and performed so many songs that have given New Zealanders such enjoyment is almost Mylo Moves Our immeasurable. It is an honour to be The venue for Mylo’s Wednesday 28 September pick able to pay tribute to them,” says performance has changed. Originally arranged to APRA’s Anthony Healey. be at the smaller sized Be Club, the gig has moved to  Legendary New Zealand Band K Road to accommodate a larger crowd. The show 07/11 The Bats release their eighth studio will now be held at Studio and will be supported by a mixture of the country’s more prominent DJs Free All The Monsters through including Dick Johnson, Grant Marshall, General Lee, 100% boy, 50% Flying Nun Records on 17th October. 28/09 Sam Hill and plenty more. The first single ‘Free All The Monsters’ girl, 150% is out now. You can listen to it here: www.flyingnun.bandcamp.com stripped Recorded at Seacliff, a former Eddie Izzard will be bringing his Whitechapel & Four renowned show Stripped to our asylum just outside of Dunedin, the shores later this year. The comedian album is produced by Dale Cotton Year Strong cancel will play Wellington’s St James Thanks to the cancellation of ’s Soundwave (HDU, The Clean, Dimmer). Theatre on Monday 07 and Auckland’s Revolution festival, more bands have cancelled their Civic Theatre on Wednesday 09 sideshow gigs. First was Sisters of Mercy, and now Groove Guide is New Zealand’s leading weekly November. Yep, he’s funny, yep, he’s Whitechapel and Four Year Strong have cancelled music and entertainment publication. 10,000 clever, and yep, he has no shame. But their shows scheduled for later this month. The free copies are available every week at music one of our favourite performances stores, cafes, fast food outlets, nightclubs, World Alive (originally playing with Four Year from him would have to be in bars, restaurants, cinemas and retail stores Strong) will still be playing but the gig will now be at The Riches. throughout New Zealand. If you would like Backstage. to stock Groove Guide please contact tyler@ grooveguide.co.nz or call (09) 3664616.

Editor Grant Hislop [email protected] happening this week

online Editor Matt Monk [email protected] : Wgtn/akl Editorial assistant rapper Elzhi plays his two shows this week, Tyler Hislop [email protected] starting off in Wellington at San Fran Bath House on Wednesday before shooting up to Auckland to play at Sub editor Fu on Friday. Tickets can be picked up from Slow Boat Elise Brinkman in the capital, Real Groovy in Auckland or online from Designers undertheradar.co.nz. Tessa Stubbing & Greta Gotlieb [email protected] 07/09 Advertising [email protected]

Contributors Russian Circles: Akl Justin Fowler, James A. Robins, Chris Pole, Paula Russian Circles play their first gig this coming Korunivh, Thane Kirby. Tuesday. If you dig layers upon layers of sound thanks to progressive sampling and a crazy amount print of pedals, the Chicago three-piece will be up your 09/09 Image Print ltd. alley. Next week’s gig will be at Auckland’s The Kings Publisher Arms before the band head down to Wellington later The Harbour Hark Entertainment LTD next week, then back up to Auckland for a recently PO Box 37584 Parnell, Auckland 13/09 announced third show. Union: Chch/ Dunedin Lyttleton collective The Harbour due to space and content requirements, not all gigs Winterfest: New may be listed. listings are user generated. groove guide Union start touring this week. The assumes no responsibility for any inaccuracies, errors band/collab will set out around the or omissions. groove guide is provided ‘as is’, for your Plymouth country with the ethos of trading information only, without warranty of any kind, either ’s Winterfest starts this week at The songs for donations for victims expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, Big Top. The mini-festival will have at least one gig fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringment. of the quake. The Eastern, Lindon every week for the rest of the month and features the guide’s publisher assumes no responsibility for and Puffin, Delaney Davidson, Tiny Lies performances from , Dave Dobbyn, The John disclaims all liability for any inaccuracies, errors or and plenty more make up the group omissions in this guide and do not share the opinions Butler Trio, The Feelers, Six60, Little Bushman, who this week play and expressed within. reproduction in whole or in part Shotgun Alley, 1814 and The Black Seeds. Tickets are without permission is prohibited. copyright 2011 Dunedin. 09/0922/10 available from Ticketek.. ISSN 1172-675X

Grooveguide.co.nz | 5 news worthy

Packing summer groove file into Sunday Karl Stevens A new summer festival is on the horizon which preaches Drab Doo Riffs sustainability as well as roots music. The Tuborg Summer Sunday will be held on Auckland Anniversary Weekend 2012 at the Matakana Music Mountain. The line-up includes Kora, Fly My Pretties, Little Bushman, Tahuna Breaks, Electric Wire Hustle, The Nudge, AHoriBuzz and @Peace. Organisers have said, “One of the primary initiatives is a Matakana coastal cleanup, which will encourage festival goers to stop off on the way to the festival, stretch their legs, roll up their sleeves and get involved in a quick spruce up of the coastal area. And there’s a good incentive too: for every sack of trash participants collect, they’ll receive tokens for free Tuborg.” Making Tracks Announced The NZ on Air Making Tracks grants have been announced. Receiving a helping hand for videos only are 1995, @Peace, Coast, Crushington, Ed Muzik, Fiord & Tim Richards, Relationship status? Funkommunity, Glass Vaults, Immram, J.Williams, Joe Married! Blossom, , Leno Lovecraft, Machete Justice, Midnight Favourite drink? Youth, Module, Mt Eden, Panther and the Zoo, Pikachunes, Soy milk with a piece of fruit pie in it. Is that a Ruby Frost, Saving Grace, She’s So Rad and Tyson Tyler. Artists drink? Black tea is also good. receiving funding for recording and videos are All the Colours, Any vices? Derty Sesh, Justyn, Rackets, RIA, The Babysitters Circus, The Um, avarice, selfishness, conceit... pretty much Unfaithful Ways, Tommy Ill and Without Conscious. the usual ones.

First gig played? When and where? Charlotte Blacklock’s first birthday party Herne Bay 1988! But before that also busking outside Doing the the takeaways and what not.

First gig in attendance? Without a parent and without performing it Congo was the UB40 show at Mt Smart with the riot has another group. Big straight afterwards. Quite a night. But before that and before being born I used to kick a surprise. The Blur/Gorillaz/Monkey/ lot when the music came on at the movies GoodBadQueen collab and project junkie (apparently). is working on his latest stint, in which he is recording in the Democratic Republic First album? of Congo with Richard Russell, Dan the I went halves with my mum on The White Automator, Actress, , T-E-E-D, Jneiro Album. There are still certain songs I consider Nothing 2 Jarel, Marc Antoine, Alwest, Remi Kabaka, mine and others I consider hers. and Rodaidh McDonald. Most of who are Favourite current album? Compare 2 unheard of. The album Kinshasa One Two will I like The Hairdos Graveyard EP... right this be released digitally in October and physically second I want to listen to Julie ‘Julie Sinead O’Connor is lonely and she wants love. in November. All proceeds from the album will Is Her Name’. It depends on what you mean She wants love so bad that she has publicly go to Oxfam in their attempt to provide relief by “current” and “album” (and “favourite”) I said her “her-moans” have made her embark for Congo. Some of the songs from the album suppose. on a sex quest online. are streaming at soundcloud.com/drcmusic. When I grow up I wanna be? “My shit-uation sexually/affectionately Unconscious. speaking is so dire that inanimate objects are First job? starting to look good as are inappropriate Polishing the cymbals and vacuuming at the and/or unavailable men and/or inappropriate music shop. and/or unavailable fruits and vegetables.” She says she is at the peak of her sexual Guilty pleasures? prime, and that it’s very depressing that men I’m afraid I don’t believe in them. only want her because of her “legendary” arse,

ALBUM OUT NOW A FIST FULL OF DOO-RIFFS and as a result is calling for a sex partner on her blog and twitter. SEE THEM LIVE: FRI 09 SEP, THE WINCHESTER, AUCKLAND Not just any man, though. Preferably a sex- starved middle-aged one who loves his mother and doesn’t use hair product. Is that you?

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shit worth UPCOMING winning Go to grooveguide.co.nz and enter RELEASES the draw to win these prizes Electronic soloist Craig Scot, AKA Photonic, Worried About The Boy 3x DVDs is releasing his third album Rif Mountain on Monday 12 September. ‘Gold Rush’ is the single floating the airwaves for the 12-track release, which will be out through Amplifier. It’s official – ’s new album is a go. His new five-track EPEnough Thunder will be released through Atlas on Monday 10 October. Not much word on the track listing yet, other than it will include Blake’s collab with , ‘’. Cardiff indie-pop screamers Los Campesinos! have a new full-length slated for release in mid-November. Hello Sadness Biography about ‘80s icon Boy George that takes a will be out through Wichita and Arts & Crafts, wry look at George O’Dowd’s determination and some online pre-orders will come with to stand out from the crowd, and his subsequent a behind-the-scenes doco as well as other success in changing a whole generation’s attitude tidbits. to music and gender. Previously shelved for whatever reasons (legal/family/marketing), The Beach Boys’ Anika Moa double pass lost SMiLE sessions from ’66-’67 will be seeing the light of day at the end of October On a similar note, a competition is running via Capitol/EMI. The collection is being for clever dicks to create a video for both released in a number of formats including ‘Heroes and Villains’ and ‘Good Vibrations’. 2xCD, 2XLP, a digital album, an iTunes LP Plenty of info about all of this at Brian and a box set of all of the above and more. Wilson’s website, brianwilson.com.

Film news in brief 1 Double pass to show of choice Cut off your hands goodie pack There’s a new trailer of Community’s third season up online, and it features John Goodman as a hardass bigwig who looks to be in charge of the college. Good move? Fans of Stephen King’s Under The Dome will be happy (or upset) with the news that the 2009 book is being adapted into a television show for Showtime. Steven Spielberg will be producing the series. AMC has greenlit a new reality show with Kevin Smith behind the project. Secret Stash will be a six-episode series about geek culture Cut off your hands Tote bag, album and 1 double and community set in Smith’s own comic shop pass to show of choice corner bar in , Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash. heineken RWC giveaway Details have emerged about the new Coen we have brothers flick. It will be set in the ‘60s and a tray of follows a musician as he navigates the folk specialty Heineken scene in New York City, and is titled Inside Rwc cans Llewyn Davis. to give away to The remake of Dirty Dancing is well and truly celebrate underway. The director will be Kenny Ortega, the launch of the helmer of the Michael Jackson stage/filmThis Is Rugby It, as well as the choreographer for the original world cup 2011. Patrick Swayze classic. Monte Carlo writer Maria Maggenti has been hired to pen the new script.

Grooveguide.co.nz | 7 Shit worth doing

wednesday 07 Thursday 08

Elzhi The Change-Up San Fran Bath House General Release

The Detroit MC has developed quite the following Two buddies make a wish to switch lives. Wish since he first hit the scene alongside the now- comes true (whodathunkit?). One, a married man, deceased , then going on to find all kinds of finds single life great. One, a bachelor, thinks strife with . His 2011 mixtape Elmatic marriage is the pits. Both will learn lessons after has been widely praised for good reason. Elzhi hits having an argument of some kind. Riveting, SFBH tonight and Auckland’s Fu on Thursday. groundbreaking cinema from Jason Bateman (what happened, dude?) and Ryan Reynolds.

In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play Annah Mac NZFF – The Trip Gryphon Theatre Basement Theatre Rialto

This new production starts today, and we’re all for Annah Mac has won a few The film fest finds its way to it. Are you familiar with the story of how electric songwriting awards and is putting Tauranga, and the opening night flick pleasure devices came to be? Do you want to know out her debut album Little Stranger. is Michael Winterbottom’s reprisal how it started? Of course you do. This is most While we’re not completely sold on it, filmTristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull definitely a play for those with an open mind, and there’s talent in there. Think a hint of Story starring Steve Coogan and most certainly not one for children. Tiny Ruins with a more pop-oriented Rob Brydon as alternate versions of melody on each tune. themselves.

Friday 09

Rugby World Cup Opening Night The Drab Doo Riffs EP Launch Queens Wharf The Winchester

And here it is. The night that many of you have been more excited than a kid It’s easy to see why the Drab Doo Riffs are enjoying on Christmas Eve about. The night that others of you have been more unhappy such a critical success. They’re a good band tapping about than the same kid who found coal in his stocking. It all goes down this into a sound that ‘most everybody wants to hear. Friday at the Rugby World Cup Headquarters/Party Central/whatever. Odds are, Friday sees the Riffs celebrate their EP launch, A Fist if it’s not your thing, you’ll be on K Road anyway so don’t worry about it. If it is Full Of Doo Riffs. The gig will have support from surf- your bag, head along around 4:00pm to see the festivities begin. Dave Dobbyn, spectaculars The Hollow Grinders. the Finn brothers, Dane Rumble, Midnight Youth, Kora and DJ Manuel Bundy all perform alongside visual treats and boring ceremonial junk. Panther And The Zoo The Kings Arms

The Zoo arrive play their hometown this Friday as part of their four-stop tour around the country. And what better place than The Kings Arms, where all the bandmates have played as either part of the Zoo or working with the many other bands they’re all affiliated with. Kings Arms veterans.

@Peace Carnival 42 Opening San Fran Bath House Carnival 42

The newest collective on the hip-hop scene is taking Where did this come from? A little pop-up bar in the off in a big way. Know why? Because they’re good. middle of soon-to-be party central downtown with a They put out good songs that get sung good and good familiar name. Carnival 42 is only around for six weeks videos that are shot good. They perform good. They rap as the latest temporary bar put up by 42Below. It good. It’s all very good. So, Wellington – go see some literally – literally – promises to be magical. And they good shit done good. literally – literally – mentioned a horse and cart.

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Saturday 10 gig OF THE Arj Barker WEEK The Harbour Union Memorial Hall, queenstown Chicks Hotel

Arj Barker’s small-town tour continues. We had a Lindon Puffin, Delaney Davidson, The Eastern, The quick chat to him a couple of weeks ago and he was Unfaithful Ways, The Tiny Lies, Al Park and Runaround pretty funny. There’s a video of him on YouTube Sue makes up Lyttleton collective The Harbour Union. giving a heckler what for. We told him about This outfit of Southlanders have made a solid plan to that and he said there are other videos of him on trade music for donations to help out victims of the YouTube. Which, to be fair, there totally are. quake – pretty much the coolest mission statement ever.

Rugby Winterfest Loads of places The Big Top, new plymouth

Right, for those that care but don’t know, this Saturday The mini-festival Winterfest starts this week, and has: France VS Japan at North Harbour Stadium, Albany; Dave Dobbyn plays this Saturday. It’s not so much a Scotland VS Romania at Rugby Park Stadium, Invercargill; festival as a bunch of gigs with big names on at one Argentina VS England at Otago Stadium, Dunedin and Fiji bar in New Plymouth. Why, you ask? We don’t know, VS Namibia at Rotorua International Stadium, Rotorua. we answer. But no doubt New Plymouthians (ites?) France VS Japan will hopefully be funny. will be stoked.

The Nudge Electric Wire Hustle Phoenix Foundation Alizarin Lizard Space Monster, wanganui Christchurch Arts Festival Civic Theatre, invercargill Khuja Lounge

The Nudge. Pie fans. Pie-holics. Pastry- Electric Wire Hustle play at the Phoenix Foundation are one of the Yep, still touring. This is the second holics? Pastryphiles? Or does that Christchurch Arts Festival on Friday most consistently impressive bands night Alizarin Lizard will be playing encompass more than pies? Who and Saturday this week at the North that this country has produced. in Auckland, following up a show at knows. All we know is that they dig Hagley Park Events Village in the They’ll be in Invercargill this week for Cassette on Friday. Where do they get pies in a big way. Enough to name TelstraClear Club. After wowing a family friendly show – and they’re the energy from? Coffee? Red Bull? their tour after their love of pies. It international audiences, the band is absolutely a family friendly band. Take Speed? Magic? We hope all. That’s could be a gimmick. Or it could just be continuing their much anticipated tour. the kids! Get them snowcones! Then a rock’n’roll. that they’re pie-eyed brainfreeze! monday 12 tuesday 13

Going Global Music Summit Russian Circles The Cloud The Kings Arms

Monday is when the Going Global Music Summit kicks off in Auckland. It’s been edging closer and closer to the It’s free and it will be busy. If you’re a budding musician or in a budding instrumentalists’ time to shine, and this Tuesday the band, head along and hear from delegates who are working with both Chicago troupe starts the first of their three shows. new and established artists on the global stage. Folks from Matador, BBC6, Originally the three-piece was just in for two shows, The Planetary Group and plenty more will be speaking, followed by a jam- but a third has been added to Auckland later next week. packed New Zealand live music showcase gig at Shed10 on Queens Wharf Lord Of Tigers and Mothra will be playing support. with performances from Collapsing Cities, The Sami Sisters, Zowie, The Vietnam War, Ghost Wave, Bang Bang Eche!, The Stereo Bus, Seth Haapu, The Transistors and Computers Want Me Dead. auckland art and culture

hamilton daytime event

ey wellington live music K

dunedin all ages

christchurch film/tv

Grooveguide.co.nz | 9 mince, cheese and music pies and music with the nudge: hope you’re hungry.

WRITTEN BY JUSTIN FOWLER

Every now and then you find a pie so good you want to gorge yourself Trying to put your finger on what they sound like is a slippery business. on six more and then spend the afternoon burping them back up just You could take a list of artists and throw them into a blender and get a to relive that moment of glorious taste. Wellington trio The Nudge cocktail that’s close, but still doesn’t quite taste the same. Because the practically translate that consummate moment into music. truth is they don’t sound like anyone else. There are bluesy, rock, and It started out as a casual hook-up between friends when singer and Motown moments but don’t go pointing fingers, because The Nudge principal Ryan Prebble got together with mates James Coyle make quintessential, unrestrained, freestanding music. and Iraia Whakamoe in early 2010 to create some music. The guys joke The Nudge have a focus for being both a strong recorded and live about how this is where The Nudge comes from. It’s just a casual un- band. They tested a lot of their earlier material live, and it was well mysterious moniker for a group of guys who were “keen for a nudge”. received. Currently touring for the first time as headliners, they have They laid down a couple of tracks about a year ago and put them up on opened for Little Bushman, The Black Seeds, and Fly My Pretties (each bandcamp.com. having their own slot in the latter) where they were exposed to a lot of The music these guys produce is an orgasm to the ears, or a delicious great audiences. Being on tour in the South Island they’ve had a lot of pie to the mouth. There is no real secret to their songwriting process. people noticing “how crazy it is that every song sounds different”. Prebble brings songs “to the table” and Coyle and Whakamoe add to them. There is strength in their music, the guys noting that they brought

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ALBUM OUT NOW – BIG NUDGE PIE

about half an hour of new music along to their album release in more of a play with the fact they liked to eat pies and a joke about the Wellington a couple of weeks back. The Nudge had a lot of their regulars type of distortion pedal called “big muff pie”. It’s a joke that has paid come along, and there was an awkward moment where they weren’t too off, leaving audiences “gagging for more pie” and landing The Nudge sure of the response. But they won the crowd over. The live platform is sponsorship from the likes of Auckland’s Ponsonby Pies. “the key” for The Nudge. There’s a moment that comes every now and then in an interviewer’s The Big Nudge Pie is their first album, but they’re reluctant to call it a life, when they go, “Oh fuck, why did I ask that?” That moment came debut. They have all recorded before and this is more “a representation when the boys were asked what their expectations for the future would of what we can do”, they don’t want to “pigeonhole the band in the be. They are super friendly though and it kind of washed by through ay first album”. It was recorded The Surgery in Wellington, the boys’ their down to earth nature. “Now that’s a trick question. We hope for hometown. They say a lot of pies were consumed and the process the best.” They’re focused on being real, being honest and working was more them hanging out to play some music. They steered clear bloody hard. As a fan, what more could you ask for in a band? Savour of overdub recordings and filled the studio with , which every moment. arguably attributes to the organic flavour of The Big Nudge Pie. On naming the album, the pie as a Kiwi icon wasn’t even considered; it was

Grooveguide.co.nz | 11 impolite introductions

Cut Off Your Hands are back from the brink with an expansive new record and an upcoming tour. Groove Guide delves in to the past and the inner workings of the band with drummer Brent Harris.

Cut Off Your Hands nearly broke up. with theses big name producers like Bernard Butler [ex-Suede guitarist] “I think when we came home, by 2010, the whole band was really tired and we spent time with Flood [Nick Cave, Erasure, Depeche Mode from just really relentless touring. In 2009 the band went to the States producer] who is a huge hero of mine, and Stephen Street [The Smiths, and we were pretty broke, living off ten dollars a day, which is kind of The Cranberries producer], so it was quite exciting but it was also quite burn-out material,” says drummer Brent Harris. surreal at the same time.” “So when we came home we just decided to put the band on ice. The Alongside the self-discovery came invaluable lessons in how to remain magic of music and mysteriousness of it all had just left and none of us true to cause, with the help of an influential face. really liked playing and none of us really wanted to listen to music, so we “While we were making the record [debut album You and I] we ended just took time out.” up dealing with Warners and obviously they were really on the hunt for But that’s misleading, and the Auckland-bred four-piece have had some sort of radio hit, which I suppose was kind of daunting at the time. their fair share of misrepresentation. Shagged by the fickle international Bernard was quite a cool producer to work with at the time, he was kind music press as often as the band were flagged by them, it’s little wonder of defending us because we’d have A&R guys coming in to the studio and that a sense of trepidation crept in. During their stint overseas, the band making suggestions, y’know, it was all a bit painful. There certainly was copped the attention of uber-influential British magazineNME seeking pressure from around the place to have some sort of big hit that would be to exercise their usual hype-machine electioneering for the hippest and on BBC Radio One and make a lot of money as well.” coolest bands around town. But after extended periods desperately avoiding catering to the tastes “I remember Nick did an interview with them back in 2007 I think of money-spinners and the like, the band decided to go it alone after a it was, and y’know, obviously just talking about the band and what we lengthy rehabilitation period. were up to and stuff. Nick made this passing comment that he didn’t “You start getting an itch for it again,” continues Harris, “and I think it like Black Kids [terrible Florida indie-pop group], and funnily enough it was kind of really nice not playing for a while, and then you start getting comes out a couple of days later on the NME website, in big bold letters, that childhood love for it, it slowly starts coming back. So when that ‘NICK DOESN’T LIKE BLACK KIDS BLAHDEY BLAH’. started happening we started talking about this next album, and one of “We kind of got caught in them wanting to build controversy and the things we decided to do was just not put any pressure on ourselves, stories around you and you kind of realise that a lot of it really isn’t in terms of not feeling like we had to cater to any labels or designs for us, about the music, it’s about generating these stories for interest’s sake. It’s or trying not produce some sort of sound that somebody else wanted.” hard to know, we were just ‘heads down’ trying to make an album, and And it certainly shows. Their latest effort after the bombastic pop weren’t really focussing too much on what was going on there. I suppose, of You and I is Hollow – self-produced and containing a heavy dose of people talk about buzzbands, and for a time we were young and from thunderous self-flagellation, this is the expansive sound the band were New Zealand, no one had really heard of us, and there were a few bits always destined and desperate to achieve. and pieces that got people’s ears pricked up.” “We basically took over my parents’ house and we moved all the Rightly so, because Cut Off Your Hands seem to be in it for the furniture out of the living room and we set up a sort of makeshift studio long haul. in there. We recorded that over about five days and did all the drums and Formed in 2006 and reading straight from the instruction manual on bass and stuff, then spent a few more days doing and that, then how to create jingly-jangly, angular pop tunes with surplus energy, they Nick and some of us did backing vocals and we did that at his house up embarked on a dedicated touring schedule not accomplished by many in Mt Eden. This time round we knew what we wanted, and we’ve all within New Zealand. “I think the first year we played around 80 shows,” had enough experience working in studios to know what sounds good says Harris, “and that was just in NZ alone so we were really keen.” and what doesn’t.” Initially named Shaky Hands before overseas legal action was So there’s a promise for the future of Cut Off Your Hands, all the threatened, and briskly signed to Speak’N’Spell after the patronage of more wary of the industry they exist within, but eternally honest and multiple A Low Hum tours, Cut Off Your Hands were sent out to the grounded about their beginnings and influences. wider world to make a name for themselves. They’ll go far, no doubt about that. “The idea of going overseas was really exciting to us. We were quite WRITTEN BY JAMES A. ROBINS young, I think I was about 19 when we first went overseas and moved to England. I suppose it was quite a rollercoaster in a sense, working

SEE THEM LIVE —CUT OFF YOUR HANDS FRI 01 SEP sAN FRAn BATH HOUSE, WELLINGTON FRI 23 SEP THE VENUE-MUSICBAR, CHRISTCHURCH SAT 24 SEP SAMMY’S, DUNEDIN SAT 01 OCT GALATOS, AUCKLAND ALBUM OUT NOW — HOLLOWS 12 | grooveguide.co.nz veteran of the people

Anika Moa has been around for a fair while, religiously plugging away at what she does best. She really needs no introduction. Groove Guide talks with her on the eve of her nationwide acoustic tour with Barnaby Weir.

“I get in trouble for half the shit I say, and people are like, ‘you shouldn’t But Anika’s world is far from that of bands starting out, only just have said that’, but how boring would it be if I didn’t?” getting their big break. She’s been there, and she has most certainly done And there it is – a simple statement, but you would never catch Neil that, riding out all of the disingenuous intentions of record execs and Finn saying that, or John Rowles. Certainly, any mainstream artist the like. It’s this steely-nosed determination that has seen her survive putting their toes over the proverbial line would be sent to hell in a hand- in a world and industry determined to extinguish all individuality from basket faster than you can say “well-known singer-songwriter from New mainstream music, and she has something to say about that too. Zealand”. But such is Anika Moa’s simple, well-grounded philosophy; “I was around when record companies were good. I was around she gets away with it, and in an interview rife with anecdotes and little when they used to pick me up in limos, and I’d be like ‘I feel like going snapshots of hypothetical situations, there’s a sense that she is settled to England’, and they’d be like ‘Oh yeah’, then throw you on a plane and enough to do as she pleases without fear of media reprisals for her take you to England and you wouldn’t have to pay for anything. I was uncompromising nature. around when the record companies got bought out and when everyone Perhaps it’s her recently-proclaimed “veteran” status that grants some got made redundant, but I’m still around, throughout all of this, I mean I sort of impunity, but it turns out it was her own doing: was around when they used to sell ...” “I wrote it, I put it in the press release about two years ago,” she Poignant, certainly, but inevitably, and perhaps most enviably too, laughs, “because I am! I’ve been around for about 13 years!” it’s the music that speaks higher volumes than Anika ever could from There is obvious enthusiasm and passion in her voice when it comes to the pages of a magazine. Silver Scroll-nominated, double-platinum talking music and her upcoming national tour with Black Seeds frontman records, three albums as catchy and artistically viable as they are Barnaby Weir, citing its humble beginnings as a simple fan-girl crush. commercially successful, you could almost forgive her for being a little “When I first moved to Auckland I bought two albums. One wasOn lax in her philosophy and approach to writing songs and dealing with The Sun by The Black Seeds, and I listened to it religiously. All through the day-to-day scourges of the music business, but there isn’t even a the years I’ve always wanted to work with [Barnaby], and now that I glimmer of compromise. know him I just immediately went, ‘You’ve released this solo album, “You have to fight for every second of every day, even now you do. and it’s time for us to go on the road together’, and he said yes very You talk to bands like , and I don’t know, Dave quickly. I’ve always taken girls [on tour] with me like , Anna Dobbyn - everyone fights for what they believe in and what they want, Coddington and Mel Parsons. I thought it was time to tour with a guy because everyone else has a got an idea of what they want them to be, but who is a singer-songwriter. It’s been a while in the making.” I’m the only person who knows what I want, and it’s getting that point To coincide with the acoustic tour is an accompanying record of across with all these people that’s the hard thing.” reworked covers by some very recognisable faces in New Zealand, Despite the hardships and manipulation of the industry, Anika Moa including scuzz-punks Street Chant. Surely their world and hers has kept her character and her charm, writing and performing songs couldn’t be further apart? that are true to her - not a suit sitting at a conference table. As our “I just asked them to do a cover of my song and they did it,” she conversation draws to a close, she quips: laughs. “I’m so fucking straightforward. I slowly got my friends to do “It’s hard in this world and market, but it’s doable if you’re a nice it, so Cairo Knife Fight, Julia Deans, Street Chant, and heaps of random person and y’know... I’m sort of a nice person, and I can be a bitch at people. Everyone on this album, each band is a different genre, but the times, but as long as you’ve got the right heart, you can do anything.” goal and intention is the same, y’know, everyone who is a musician wants to be famous, everyone who wants to be a musician wants to be WRITTEN BY JAMES A. ROBINS rich, and everyone who is a musician wants to be respected by their peers. So just as different as mine and Street Chant’s music is, you can SEE HER LIVE — ANIKA MOA & BARNABY WEIR ACOUSTIC TOUR bet that band go to sleep every night and say ‘Fuck yeah! We want to be THU 15 SEP HOPETOUN ALPHA, AUCKLAND like the Naked and Famous, we want to be like , but not FRI 16 SEP ASCENSION WINE ESTATE, MATAKANA that style, but we want to be rich and famous.’ I mean, hells yeah, who SAT 17 SEP HARRINGTON HALL THEATRE, PUKEKOHE wouldn’t want to be?” THU 29 SEP TOWN HALL, RAGLAN FRI 30 SEP THE CHARTER CLUB, WHAKATANE SAT 01 OCT UNDERGROUND CELLAR, HAVELOCK NORTH THU 06 OCT THE GARDEN CLUB WELLINGTON FRI 07 OCT REGENT THEATRE, HOKITIKA SAT 08 OCT THE BOAT HOUSE, NELSON THU 13 OCT CHICKS HOTEL, DUNEDIN FRI 14 OCT RIPPON HALL, WANAKA SAT 15 OCT WUNDERBAR, LYTTLETON SUN 16 OCT CINEMA, GERALDINE

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WELLINGTON gig guide

Paramount Theatre Wed 07 Monster Burlesque: 10:30pm: $46 Sat 10 ALICE SANDWICHES BATS Theatre The Nark Substance: Special Session Slouching Toward Bethlehem: 6pm: $18 BATS Theatre THE GREEN MAN Slouching Toward David Greer Trio BODEGA Bethlehem: 6pm: $18 Roseneath Centennial Ragtime Band event listings Happy Bar ...And Justice For All - Mini Happy Festival: 9pm: $5 Fri 09 Killing Bear EP release party: 9pm: $10 Mighty Mighty BATS Theatre Cecil + Hercules, Toy Slouching Toward Havana Bar Ghost: 9:30pm: $5 Bethlehem: 6pm: $18 Pickle ft. Don Luchito, Kenese THE APARTMENT & Guests: 8pm: Free The Jewel School San Francisco BODEGA Bath House Battle-Ska Galactica presents MATTERHORN The Garden Club Elzhi: 8pm: $25.00 + BF The Big Welly Ska Night Lord Jackson EMINENCE/Darklight Corporation: 8pm: $20 Southern Cross FREDERICK STREET MEDUSA Kroon for your Kai ft. Dan SOUND & LIGHT Horusset NZ Tour The Lido Cafe Green, Estere Dalton & EXPLORATION SOCIETY Darren Watson & The Real Deal Oskar Herbig: 7pm: Free Cookie Brooklyn - Home Mighty Mighty Blues Band: 8:30pm: Free Archive Cassette Release Gig Panther & the Zoo More Fun THE APARTMENT Album Release Tour w/ Tono THE RED ENGINE ROOM Siamese Charades MATTERHORN & Wet Wings: 10pm: $5 Clock Work & Whole Lotta Led Future Soul Party Paramount Theatre THISTLE HALL Mighty Mighty Monster Burlesque: 10:30pm: $46 The Wellington Sound Trilogy Thu 08 The Rhythm Hawks & Dear Frontier: 10pm: $5 sandwiches What Happened to the BATS Theatre Paramount Theatre Techno...: 11pm: Free Slouching Toward Monster Burlesque: 10:30pm: $46 Sun 11 Bethlehem: 6pm: $18 San Francisco sandwiches HAPPY BETTYS Bath House Live Jazz w/ The Troubles Dubstate Special ft. 24 Hour Party People: 9pm: $10 Cocktails on Wax Gomorrah: 11pm: $10 Southern Cross Happy Southern Cross Recovery Session: 3pm: free San Fran Bath House The Arvo Show presents: The Gig before The @peace: 9pm: $20 + BF Storm: 8pm: $10 Wellington City Shake ‘em on THE LIDO CAFE Downers: 4pm: Free / Balkan The Boptet Southern Cross Brass Explosion: 9:30pm: Free Mighty Mighty Mara & the Bushkas: 10pm: free Benefit show for Familia Moja: 10pm: $10 auckland gig guide Mexican Cafe Sale St Wed 07 Mexican Cafe: 8:30pm: Free Thu 08 Selecta Sam & Dee Why: 7pm: Free 1885 Basement Racket Bar 1885 Basement Creative Jazz Club: Steve T-Rice: 6pm: Free From Scratch: 8pm: Free SNAPDRAGON Barry Trio (Aus): 8pm: $10 DJ Maya & DJ Vanya RAKINOS 1885 Britomart BE CLUB Playin Up The Britomart Social: 9pm: Free The Basement Fresh Blood Annah Mac - ‘Little Stranger’ Sale St Cassette Nine Album Release Show: 7pm: $15 THE BRITOMART Jason Eli: 7:30pm: Free Cassette Allstars ft. Aza COUNTRY CLUB Pony, Dirty Uncool & The Britomart Baby Steps Sound System The Britomart Pizza Cat: 10pm: Free Country Club Country Club DJ Sam E: 6pm: Free FLIGHT LOUNGE Baby Steps Sound FORTE BAR & NIGHTCLUB Balance w/ Nick Warren (UK) System: 6pm: Free Thursday R&B, Hippa The Kings Arms Dee Heep Hop Sonic Alter w/ Dakota FORTE BAR & NIGHTCLUB The Kings Arms Scream & Devilskin: 8pm WOW: Whiskey On Wednesday Chung Lao & The Brood: 8pm FU BAR Canadian Club Nite Elzhi THE KINGSLANDER The Kingslander LT GINGER MINX Salsa Night: 8pm: Free Racket Bar Rewind Conch w/ Cian & Murray The Thirsty Dog The Thirsty Dog Cammick: 6pm: Free Sally Stockwell & The HITCH World Famous Pub Quiz Dark w/ Katie In Love With Jets ft. Crybaby w/ Sandy: 7:30pm: Free Scott & The Miss T’s

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auckland gig guide CONT.

THE LIBRARY BAR The Britomart Fri 09 Friday Nights at The Library Bar Country Club Tue 13 Chip Matthews: 10pm: Free 1885 Basement TYLER STREET GARAGE AUCKLAND TOWN HALL Jazz In The Basement & Trusted Friends The Kings Arms APRA Silver Scroll Awards 2011 MayaVanya: 8pm: Free Clap Clap Riot w/ Glass Owls & WHAMMY BAR Heavenly Creatures: 8pm: $10 CASSETTE NUMBER NINE 1885 Britomart O’Loverly Constellations Album Pop Panic Benn Morrison & Release w/ Your Mother The The Kingslander T-Rice: 10pm: Free Mountain & special guests Crescendo Mafia: 10pm: Free Empire Tavern Empire Million Dollar BE CLUB THE WINCHESTER THE LIBRARY BAR Trivia Show: 6pm: Free Torque & Agwa present The Drab Doo Riffs - A Fistful The Dewey Decimal Blaze Tripp (AU) of Doo Riffs EP Launch Sound System FORTE BAR & NIGHTCLUB Insomnia Weeknite BREW ON QUAY The Lucha Lounge Socialisin’ & Feelin Free Goody 2 Shoes Black Palm, X-Ray Fiends & The Mysterians: 8:30pm: $5 Kenneth Myers Centre Cassette Nine Sat 10 Tuesday night Jazz Series: Doctor MUM presents: Alizarin Dog - Faculty Quartet: 7:30pm: $15 1885 Basement THE THIRD & SOCIAL Lizard Mad As A March Clocked 2.0 ft. Geesus Host(UK), J Bobby Brazuka: 11pm: Free Hare Tour: 10pm: $5 Brown, Chaos In The CBD + guests PONSONBY SOCIAL CLUB Beats, Eats & Co. COHERENT 1885 Britomart We Own The Night: 10pm: $10 TRENCH BAR State of Mind & Borderline Pure Trench Bar Racket Bar Huffey Street Sound Forte 4:20 System: 6pm: Free Phoenix Trade: 10pm: $20 + BF ZEAL at Joe’s Sinate - All Ages Shop: 7:30pm: $10 Diner: 11pm: Free RAKINOS Be Club Acoustic Be Saturdays: 10pm: $5 Zen FU BAR Evol Intent ft. Nanotek: Future Frame Presents Less 10pm: $25 + BF SALE ST is More - Final Fu Edition BREW ON QUAY Josh Leys Goody 2 Shoes Golden Dawn SHADOWS The Nudge, Big Nudge Dogs Bollix Karaoke Dick Pie: 8pm: $5 Horusset NZ Tour: 8pm: $10 Sun 11 The Britomart HITCH FORTE BAR & NIGHTCLUB 330 NEW NORTH ROAD Country Club Absolut Fridays present Electro City Vs Cheeesse Breakfast Boutique Kirk James: 6pm: Free Old Skool Hip Hop GINGER MINX Coherent The Kings Arms INK Mixed Crate Red Squad (SA): 11pm: $10 Kings Arms Quiz: 7:15pm: Philippa, Timmy Schumacher Free / Russian Circles (US) & North Shore Pony Club Golden Dawn FLO BAR & CAFE w/ Jakob & Guests: 8pm Stress Cadet Auckland Sunday Sessions - R&B, Soul Jam Mexican Cafe 5-Album Release Party: 9pm The Windsor Castle Salsa Party w/ DJ King FORTE BAR & NIGHTCLUB Open Mic Night w/ Kiwi Salsa: 11pm: Free INK & COHERENT Hang Ovaaa Recovery Nite FM: 9pm: Free Aural Trash NZ Winter Tour 2011 Racket Bar NECTAR BAR Whammy Bar Tido & Arash: 6pm: Free Juice Bar at The The Sunday Club at Nectar Whammy Bar Wine Cellar Windsor Castle Double Room Magic w/ food by RAKINOS The Jordan Luck Band w/ RADIO PONSONBY Guest Chef Ben Curran: $15 Mixed Bizness - Lowe1, dubhead, Ekko Park: 9pm: Free Acapella The Authentic Zane Tee & Randomplay House Journey Wine Cellar Khuja Lounge Whammy Bar Wine Cellar Sale St Alizarin Lizard - Mad as a March RAKINOS Double Room Magic w/ food by Page3, Mixed Tape Kidz, Hare Tour: 9:30pm: $10 / A All The Way Guest Chef Ben Curran: $15 Dee Why: 5pm: Free night of hip hop: 11pm: $10 Sale St SUITE LEIGH SAWMILL CAFE Shae: 2pm: Free Nigel Love Caitlin Smith: 8pm: $20 + BF The Kingslander Stampede Bar & Grill Racket Bar The James Kahu Duo: 10pm: Free K.One w/ DJ CXL & Lady Murray Sweetpants & Esque: 10pm: $15 Jerm: 8pm: Free south island The Britomart RAKINOS Mon 12 listings Country Club Very Tall Stories w/ MC Speak poWERed by Manuel Bundy & Chip Easy, J Brown & DJ Tido FORTE BAR & NIGHTCLUB Matthews: 5pm: Free Sale St Monday Bordem Killa The Kings Arms Grant Marshall: 7pm: Free Racket Bar Panther & The Zoo More Fun Sandon James: 6pm: Free album release tour: 8pm Shadows Bar This Flight Tonight & VIP Room, The Cloud / The Kingslander Guests: 9pm: $10 SHED10, Queens Wharf Quiz Night w/ Tom & Going Global Music Summit: Free Stu: 7pm: Free THE BASEMENT The Silhouettes: 10pm: Free Zombies vs Steampunk Dance Party

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Christchurch gig guide

THE BEDROCK BAR THE BREWERY Wed 07 Fri 09 Antix T54 Poster EP’s Release Tour THE LOONS BLACK BETTY’S CIBURB BAR THE VENUE-MUSICBAR Christchurch Arts SCAPE open discussion: The Crystal Set The Venues 1st Birthday Festival - Macbeth One Year on Working as an in Assc w/ Bassfreaks Artist in Christchurch CLUB 22 CUBA & Jagermeister TERRACE DOWNS RESORT DJ Mike T Kristy Trousselot CIBURB BAR ZEBEDEES Insane Jane FERRYMEAD ALE HOUSE Rebuild - 2011 Debut THE BREWERY Smashbox Artists Showcase The Eastern Family CLUB 22 DJ Nick T FINNEGANS Division Street Live FUEL BAR Sun 11 Thu 08 Tommy D, Danny Ill & Infrared FUEL BAR Tommy D, Danny Ill & Infrared CIBURB BAR AURORA CENTRE THE LOONS Christchurch Arts THE LOONS R & B The Harbour Union National Tour Festival - Macbeth Christchurch Arts NO 4 Festival - Macbeth CHRISTCHURCH PIERSIDE CAFE Sunday Sessions POLYTECH Beach Breaks w/ DJ Dmand SCAPE Artist Talk: Ash Keating NO 4 POMEROY’S Dr Sanchez TELSTRACLEAR CLUB Lindon Puffin CIBURB BAR Christchurch Arts Festival - Virduoso NORTH HAGLEY PARK TELSTRACLEAR CLUB Electric Wire Hustle Family Garden Variety - Bang Bang SCAPE Panel Discussion: Eche w/ Psych Tigers FUEL BAR Imagined Futures / Christchurch Tommy D, Danny Ill & Infrared PIERSIDE CAFE Arts Festival - Island Summer THE LOONS Sat 10 The Shameless Few THE VENUE-MUSICBAR Christchurch Arts Battle of the Bands 2011 Festival - Macbeth THE ANCIENT REALM TELSTRACLEAR CLUB DJ Reminise -90s Mix SCAPE Panel Discussion: THE WHEATSHEAF DVD Launch Party The City as Memory / Live & Loud Heartland Tour Christchurch Arts Festival - Electric Wire Hustle Family dunedin gig guide hamilton gig guide

Subculture (Qtwn) Wed 07 Electric Fridays: 9pm: Free Wed 07 Sat 10 Refuel Toast Bar The Plaza (Puta) Agenda Twist of Fate w/ Cult Disney Glitterbox ñ Game On: 10pm: $5 Beyondsemble Blaze Tripp & Man Sweat: 9pm: Free Tokoroa Cosmopolitan Biddy Mulligan’s Subculture (Qtwn) Club (Tok) Dave Alley Band Dread Bass Wednesdays - Joy Adams Country Variety Show Ping Pong Comp: 9pm: $5 Sat 10 Flow Crushing w/ Domestic Cupil 12 Below Ink Mathematics EP Release Thu 08 Hamilton Thu 08 Party: 10pm: $10 Workingmen’s Club CHICKS HOTEL Waikato Museum The Brendon Ham Band Copa Bar The Harbour Union Musical Feast Paeroa & District Mr Mime & Friends: 10pm: $15 Memorial Hall (Pae) COPA Three Houses Down & Ni’N’Jah St Lee’s Restaurant Duds City Stars MC Battles & Cafe Fri 09 Ded Sparrows and The Yot Club (Rag) Crown Hotel Luger Boa & Black River Drive Tommy Gunners: 8pm: $5 Scurvy Dogs RWC Cock & Bull Party: 10pm: $10 Subculture (Qtwn) Jeremy Pickford The SubStation (DnB): 9pm: Free Ra bar FLOW Sun 11 DJ Lyndon: 9pm Dubrising Refuel St. Pauls Collegiate Grantham St Fri 09 Family Cactus Spirit Lights Midnight Youth w/ Album Release Tour: 8pm: $15 School Knives at Noon Marimba Festival 12 Below Ash & The Matadors w/ The Subculture (Qtwn) Waikato SKYCITY Great Jali & Hana Fahy & Alphabethead’s World of Joy Adams the Weird Tour: 9pm Commerce Club The Low Tones: 9pm: $10 Crossroads Dup Yot Club (Rag) Refuel URBAN FACTORY Alizarin Lizard Mad as a March DJ Alphabethead, Tourettes The Chills Hare tour: 9:30pm: $10 & Jay Roacher: 9pm: $10

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Upcoming tours & events

Sat 10 Sep Refuel, Dunedin Alice Cooper (US) Beyond The Black NYE Def Leppard (US) & Heart Wed 14 Sep World Cup Thu 22 Sep The Trusts Showcase, Wellington Stadium, Auckland Festival ft. Tainted, (US) Wed 12 Oct Vector Arena, Auckland Fri 16 Sep Revolver, Queenstown Subtract, Devilskin & Sat 17 Sep The Brewery, Christchurch Alizarin Lizard Decortica Disasteradio Thu 08 Sep Mama Gins, Thames Sat 31 Dec Trentham The Fetish Ball Fri 09 Sep Cassette, Auckland Fri 07 Oct The Kings Arms, Auckland Racecourse, Upper Hutt Fri 14 Oct The Archive, Christchurch Sat 29 Oct Studio, Auckland Sat 10 Sep Khuja Lounge, Auckland Sat 12 Nov The Venue, Christchurch Sun 11 Sep Yot Club, Raglan Sat 15 Oct TBA, Dunedin Tue 13 Sep Turoa Ski Lodge, Ohakune 2012 Fri 21 Oct Arc Theatre, Wanganui Wed 14 Sep Royal Hotel, Fri 20 Jan Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland Fri 28 Oct San Fran Bath First Asian A* B* Palmerston North House, Wellington Thu 22 Sep - Sat 01 Oct BATS Thu 15 Sep Mighty Mighty, Wellington Theatre, Wellington Sat 17 Sep Boulcott St, Wellington Black Dice (US) Wed 05 Oct The Kings Arms, Auckland The Drab Doo Riffs Wed 21 Sep The Tap, Mapua Fri 09 Sep The Winchester, Auckland Fly My Pretties Thu 22 Sep Baby G’s, Nelson Fri 16 Sep Sawmill Cafe, Leigh Fri 23 Sep Dolce Bar, Nelson Sat 29 Oct The Regent, Dunedin The Business (UK) Sat 24 Sep Space Monster, Whanganui Sun 30 Oct Geo Dome, Christchurch Sat 24 Sep Strawberry Tree, Kaikoura Wed 02 Nov Dunedin Fri 30 Sep Static, Hamilton Fri 30 Sep Refuel, Dunedin Mon 31 Oct Geo Dome, Christchurch Musicians Club, Dunedin Thu 10 Nov Mercury Theatre, Auckland Thu 03 Nov Al’s Bar, Christchurch EarthTonz NYE Music Fri 11 Nov Mercury Theatre, Auckland Alphabethead Fri 04 Nov Bodega, Wellington Sat 12 Nov Mercury Theatre, Auckland Fri 09 Sep ReFuel, Dunedin Sat 05 Nov The Kings Arms, Auckland Festival ft. Tommy Lee Sat 19 Nov St James Sat 10 Sep Subculture, Queenstown (US), DJ Aero (US) & more Theatre, Wellington Sat 31 Dec Gibbston Valley Amiria Grenell Album Station, Queenstown (US) w/ Release Tour Tenacious D (US) Thu 15 Sep The Wine Cellar, Auckland Eddie Izzard (UK) Tue 13 Dec Western Springs, Auckland Fri 16 Sep Newtown Community Mon 07 Nov St James Centre, Wellington Theatre, Wellington Sun 18 Sep Dharma Bums Wed 09 Nov The Civic, Auckland Frenzal Rhomb (AU) Club, Wairau Valley Fri 28 Oct Bodega, Wellington Sat 24 Sep The Playhouse, Nelson Sat 29 Oct The Kings Arms, Auckland Thu 29 Sep Telstra Clear Club, Christchurch Arts Festival Goldie (UK) Wed 21 Sep Revolver, Queenstown Anika Moa & Barnaby Thu 22 Sep Sandwiches, Wellington Weir Acoustic Tour Fri 23 Sep Zen, Auckland Thu 15 Sep Hopetoun Alpha, Auckland CATLIN SMITH Fri 16 Sep Ascension Wine Sat 10 Sep Leigh Sawmill, 8pm Hall & Oates Estate, Matakana Sat 28 Jan Church Road Winery, Napier Sat 17 Sep Harrington Hall Sun 29 Jan Villa Maria Estate, Auckland Theatre, Pukekohe Camp A Low Hum 2012 Thu 09 Feb - Mon 13 Feb 203 Coast Thu 29 Sep Town Hall, Raglan Road, RD 1, Wainuiomata The Harbour Union Fri 30 Sep The Charter Electric Wire Hustle Thu 08 Sep The Aurora Club, Whakatane Fri 09 Sep Christchurch Arts Centre, Christchurch Sat 01 Oct Underground Chris Cornell (US) Festival, Christchurch Sat 10 Sep Chicks Hotel, Dunedin Cellar, Havelock North Sun 02 Oct Michael Fowler Sat 10 Sep Christchurch Arts Wed 14 Sep 1885, Auckland Thu 06 Oct The Garden Centre, Wellington Festival, Christchurch Sat 17 Sep The Free House, Nelson Club, Wellington Tue 04 Oct ASB Theatre, Auckland Fri 23 Sep San Fran Bath Wed 21 Sep Mighty Mighty, Wellington Fri 07 Oct Regent Theatre, Hokitika Wed 05 Oct ASB Theatre, Auckland House, Wellington Thu 22 Sep St Peters Town Sat 08 Oct The Boat House, Nelson Sat 24 Sep San Fran Bath Hall, Paekakariki Thu 13 Oct Chicks Hotel, Dunedin House, Wellington Fri 14 Oct Rippon Hall, Wanaka Clap Clap Riot & Glass Sat 15 Oct Wunderbar, Lyttleton Horusset Sun 16 Oct Cinema, Geraldine Owls Sat 10 Sep The Cabana, Napier Sat 10 Sep The Kings Arms, Auckland Elzhi (US) Wed 07 Sep San Fran Bath Sat 10 Sep Dogs Bollix, Auckland House, Wellington Sat 01 Oct The Royal, Arj Barker (US) Cold Chisel (AU) Thu 08 Sep Fu Bar, Auckland Palmerston North Wed 07 Sep Theatre Royal, Nelson Sat 15 Oct After Dark, Rotorua Thu 08 Sep Oamaru Opera Fri 02 Dec TSB Arena, Wellington House, Oamaru Sat 03 Dec Vector Arena, Auckland Eminence (BR) w/ Fri 09 Sep Civic Theatre, Invercargill John Waters (US): This Sat 10 Sep Memorial Hall, Queenstown Darklight Corporation Coromandel Gold w/ The Thu 08 Sep Cabana Bar, Napier Filthy World Adults, Shapeshifter, Fri 09 Sep The Royal Hotel, Mon 31 Oct The Opera Aural Trash Winter Tour Palmerston North House, Wellington Shihad, Trinity Roots Sat 10 Sep Southern Cross Wed 02 Nov The Civic, Auckland 2011 Bar, Wellington Sat 10 Sep Ink & Coherent, Auckland & More Thu 15 Sep Revolver Bar, Queenstown Fri 30 Dec Ohuka Farm, Coromandel Fri 16 Sep ReFuel, Dunedin Sat 31 Dec Ohuka Farm, Coromandel Baths (US) Sat 17 Sep Saints & Sun 23 Oct San Fran Bath Sinners, Invercargill House, Wellington Cut Off Your Hands Fri 16 Sep San Fran Bath House, Wellington Explosions In The Sky Bella Kalolo Fri 23 Sep The Venue- (US) Sun 18 Sep Downstage, Wellington Musicbar, Christchurch Thu 15 Dec San Fran Bath Fri 23 Sep The Globe, Palmerston North Sat 24 Sep Sammy’s, Dunedin House, Wellington Fri 30 Sep Dharma Bums Sat 01 Oct Galatos, Auckland Fri 16 Dec The Kings Arms, Auckland Club, Wairau Valley Kiwi Cream w/ Shihad, Sat 01 Oct Orca Bar, Raglan Opshop, Supergroove & Mon 10 Oct Queens Wharf Death By Cheerleader Family Cactus RWC HQ, Auckland Tue 20 Sep - Sat 24 Sep BATS Thu 08 Sep The Blue Pub, Methven Theatre, Wellington Fri 09 Sep Wanaka, Opium Sat 17 Sep Claudelands Event Centre

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Upcoming tours & events La De Da Festival w/ Fat The Naked And Famous Rhythm & Vines Side Splore 2012 Fri 04 Nov Town Hall, Auckland Fri 17 Feb - Sun 19 Feb Tapapakanga Freddy’s Drop, Donovan Show w/ , , Regional Park, Auckland Frankenreiter (US), Northern Lights Festival Magnetic Man, Digitalism Katchafire, State of Fri 30 Dec - Mon 2 Jan & Ruby Frost Mind, & Pakiri Beach, Pakiri Thu 29 Sep Vector Arena, Auckland More Northlane (AU) Ringworm (US) Fri 30 Dec Dry River Road, Wed 14 Sep The Kings Arms, Auckland Wed 21 Sep The Kings Arms, Auckland Martinborough Thu 15 Sep Zeal, Auckland Thu 22 Sep Void, Hamilton Sat 31 Dec Dry River Road, Fri 16 Sep Void, Hamilton Martinborough Sat 17 Sep Zeal, Wellington Rippon Festival Sat 04 Feb Rippon Vineyard, Lake Wanaka Roger Waters: The Wall (US) Sat 18 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland Mon 20 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland Wed 22 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland Left Or Right, Thu 23 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland Mountaineater Frozon & Roxette (SE) Freezor NZ Tour 2011 Sat 11 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland Spring Break Sat 10 Sep Saints & Thu 05 Nov The Pettigrew Sinners, Invercargill Russian Circles (US) Green Arena, Napier Fri 16 Sep Bodega, Wellington Tue 13 Sep The Kings Arms, Auckland Sat 17 Sep The Kings Arms, Auckland Wed 14 Sep Whammy Bar, Auckland Steely Dan (US) & Steve Sat 24 Sep Refuel, Dunedin The Nudge Thu 15 Sep San Fran Bath Thu 08 Sep The Yot Club, Raglan House, Wellington Winwood (UK) Live and Loud Heartland Fri 09 Sep Golden Dawn, Auckland Fri 04 Nov Vector Arena, Auckland Sat 10 Sep Space Monster, Whanganui Sir Richard Branson (UK) tour 2011 Thu 20 Oct Viaduct Events Tahuna Breaks Fri 23 Sep Traffers, Gore Old Loaves & Spook The Centre, Auckland Sat 22 Oct Coroglen Tavern, Coromandel Horses Sun 23 Oct Gisborne Food & Fri 14 Oct Tabac, Auckland The Shake Up (AU) Wine Festival, Gisborne Sat 15 Oct Void, Hamilton Fri 30 Sep Cassette, Auckland Sat 01 Oct Mighty Mighty, Wellington Taylor Swift (US) Outsiders Shallow Fri 16 Mar Vector Arena, Auckland Graves EP Tour Simon Comber - The Right Sat 17 Mar Vector Arena, Auckland Sat 17 Sep The Basement, Auckland to Talk to Strangers EP Sun 18 Mar Vector Arena, Auckland release tour Pajama Club Wed 14 Sep Tabac, Auckland Tuborg Summer Sunday Thu 22 Sep San Fran Bath Thu 15 Sep Bay Bar and Sun 29 Jan Matakana Music House, Wellington Brasserie, Taupo Mountain, Matakana Sat 24 Sep The Kings Arms, Auckland Fri 16 Sep Meow, Wellington Thu 22 Sep The Brewery, Christchurch We Came As Romans (US) Panther And The Zoo Sun 25 Sep Taste Merchants, Dunedin Sat 29 Oct Zeal, Auckland Fri 09 Sep The Kings Arms, Auckland Sat 10 Sep Mighty Mighty, Wellington Six60 Wellington Luger Boa & Black River Wed 12 Oct The Hunter Lounge, Wellington International Ukulele Drive Portishead (UK) Thu 13 Oct Saints & Sat 10 Sep The YOT Club, Raglan Thu 10 Nov Vector Arena, Auckland Sinners, Invercargill Orhcestra Fri 14 Oct Town Hall, Dunedin Fri 23 Sep Eltham Town Hall, Eltham Meatloaf (US) Fri 11 Nov Powerstation, Auckland Sat 24 Sep Eltham Town Hall, Eltham Wed 26 Oct TSB Bank Arena, Wellington Wilson Dixon’s TV Fri 28 Oct Bay Park Arena, Tauranga Slouching Toward Sat 29 Oct Vector Arena, Auckland Bethlehem Concert Wed 31 Aug - Sat 10 Sep BATS Fri 07 Oct Mercury Theatre, Auckland Mono (JP) Theatre, Wellington Sat 01 Oct The Kings Arms, Auckland Winterfest w/ Shihad, Dave Dobbyn, The John Monster Burlesque Butler Trio (AU), The Thu 08 Sep - Sat 17 Sep Paramount Raggamuffin 2012 Theatre, Wellington Sat 28 Jan Rotorua International Feelers, Six60 & more Stadium, Rotorua Fri 09 Sep The Bigtop, New Plymouth Sat 10 Sep The Bigtop, New Plymouth The Moody Blues Wed 14 Sep The Bigtop, New Plymouth Sat 26 Nov Michael Fowler Rhythm & Vines 2011-2012 Sat 24 Sep The Bigtop, New Plymouth Centre, Wellington Thu 29 Dec - Sat 31 Dec Sun 25 Sep The Bigtop, New Plymouth Sun 27 Nov The Civic Theatre, Auckland Waiohika Estate, Gisborne Smokefree Rockquest 2011 National Final The World Alive (US) Mylo (UK) Sat 17 Sep Claudelands Arena Hamilton Wed 21 Sep Backstage, Auckland Wed 28 Sep The Studio, Auckland Thu 22 Sep Revolver, Queenstown

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reviews “lost vegas”

grabaseat 5th birthday

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I don’t know anybody who over the day’s itinerary. All the to earth. Americans love us and they know how to throw a would turn down a trip to Las while, a jetlagged table of Kiwis it’s easy to see why so many party - that week wasn’t a Vegas to attend Grabaseat’s is chopping back a six pack of Kiwis soak up every inch of promotion to me - it kicked fifth birthday, flying business coronas, talking loudly about Vegas by day and night. my arse, made me homesick, for free, drinking for free, and the quality of pussy soaking Obviously this memory and killed my immune system sleep in a hotel suite – also for up sun at the pool. This is montage is honest, and I can’t and right nostril. It’s just a free. I had immense pressure Las Vegas, and anything and reveal everything because distant memory now but when from my wife Sophia not to go, everything goes as long as you of the Vegas law etc. but one I think about Vegas, I think of from my boss MacCalister to can pay the bill and leave a tip. thing’s for sure – the highlights endless walking to and from leave the idea alone and from In our minds we deserved a weren’t the bands. In fact, nightclubs, bars and casinos, my bank balance to not even good blow out; we needed good the members of OpShop just being wasted and talking shit begin to entertain the idea, but I honest middle aged drunken became fellow pack members; with my pack, love life advice, went and I fucking loved it! out-of-it bonding. We needed their fame faded into being enormous breasts and watching It’s not unusual to arrive long conversations that were fellow Kiwis that would buy a Storage Wars marathon on drunk in Vegas, sobering motivational, sentimental and you a mutual beer and chat A&E. American food is crap, briefly only to pass through US sparked new ideas and schemes. about the heat. I loved playing their hospitality puts ours to immigration without a hitch The week really fuelled our at the giant pool party with shame and we’re still quite and to be herded to the hotel bullshit banks and go-to at Nikki Beach, and undeveloped here – which is only to get drunk all over again. attitudes. New Zealanders on winning $319 on the slot which just the way I like it.

No one bats an eyelid when mass are awesome to hang out I subsequently burnt on lap written by thane kirby you’re seated next to a young with in another country - they’re dances – I honestly thought I’d family eating at the breakfast innocent, easily lead, generous, been robbed. buffet and excitedly going pissed and really bloody down I gotta hand it to Grabaseat,

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album reviews Pajama Club Pajama Club llll ALBUM Pajama Club start life with a self-titled album. Some of you OF THE will already know it, but we’re K going to mix this review up and WEE leave just who they are a secret to the end. Pajama Club join the whole ‘80s pop revival thing that is going on at the moment. There’s Donnelly and Alana Skyring. If you a dark atmosphere to their sound, know what I mean when I say it is achieved by a dominant female black and white as to whether you voice intertwined with a male like the Finns, then this is a grey voice. Pajama Club play with that album. Haters be liking and lovers haunting descending synth sound, be guilty pleasuring. I swear. similar to the “negative pull” WRIITEN BY JUSTIN FOWLER feeling you get when listening to Split Enz and The Cure. Oh, by the way, Pajama Club are Neil and (wife) Sharon Finn with Sean

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Wally De Backer takes aim at Conceived in the same generous Brit indie rockers The Produced with Brofessional, the pop charts on his third solo spirit as last year’s double Subways’ third album Money Magnificent Dyslexic is the record, and while he achieves album Stroke: Songs for Chris And Celebrity builds on the debut album from Wellington some respectable feats, the Knox, Burning Sky Records have infectious and energetic punk based Bohemian Thought. lows are just as severe. Making corralled their affiliated bands pop melodies of predecessor, Bohemian doesn’t hide anything Mirrors should have been the into covering songs from Toy All Or Nothing. Opening track in his naming. The album title Australian pop record to end Love. While some bands profess ‘It’s A Party’ sets the album’s is a positive affirmation of all pop records, such is the to never having heard of them, optimistic frivolous tone with the poetic abilities that come magnificence of leading single it doesn’t stop Sweet Diss and an onslaught of grunge-infused from an ironically dyslexic ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ The Comebacks from nailing the riffs slicing against a sea mind. Don’t quote me on it but which features a few esoteric punked-up bubblegum-pop on of thundering drums. Celebrity I would take a wild stab and verses from Kiwi kid Kimbra, ‘Rebel’. A couple of musicians culture and hype is the integral say Bohemian’s name stems and alongside openers ‘Making try their best to invoke their theme driving Money And from his ability to articulate Mirrors’ and the fantastically inner-Knox (most notably Steven Celebrity. This is most evident conversational poetry that fuzzy ‘Easy Way Out’, it becomes Wright-Mark and Proud Scum), in the lyrics of ‘Pop Death’, a provokes those hard-to-reach increasingly probable that this while others produce something ditty critiquing the price of topics that leave us all a little is indeed his tour-de-force. But entirely their own (the brilliant fame, and ‘Celebrity’, a rebuke of dyslexic. A variety of musical after the dirge of ‘I Feel Better’ industrial stomp of ‘Death those famous for being famous. styles carry what is ultimately a you could be forgiven for Rehearsal’ re-imagined by D A However, the songwriting poetry audiobook. Magnificent abandoning hope. Thankfully, Karkos, or the Bowie-channeling prowess of vocalists Billy Lunn Dyslexic is a strangely Wally has enough nous to rectify Young Parisian version of ‘Toy and Charlotte Cooper quickly captivating amalgamation of his situation, bookending the Love Song’). The Naked Polaroid’s flounders back to the tree dub, electro-jazz, funk, samba, record with three gentle odes are brave (or daft) enough to roots of debut album Young and soul. It feels a little like the to love and love lost, and as tackle the jailbaiting ‘15’, and For Eternity. ‘Like I love You’ story telling of Muddy Waters such redeems himself from the Ars Divina close the album with and ‘Leave My Side’ sound as carried by the sounds of Cold self-fulfilling prophesy that hype ‘Siamese Twin’, a track only ever if they were extracted from a Cut, and sprinkled with some around a particular artist brings. performed once by Toy Love love struck teenager’s diary, Jethro Tull type flute. At times So he is yet to produce his themselves. Obscure? Sure. only salvaged by the strong Bohemian Thought’s lyrical masterpiece, but Gotye is well Brilliant? Definitely, and all to dynamic between Lunn’s passive genius feels out of sync with the on his way. help aid the recovery of one of aggressive vocals and the music. Not entirely satisfying

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Inventive, superbly acted and freak accidents, in the same scenes are both inventive and featuring some terrific special order in which they died in elaborately staged, while first- effects work, this is a hugely Sam’s premonition. And then time director Quale pulls off some entertaining, suitably grisly thriller the stranger mixes things up a crowd-pleasing twists and turns. that’s much, much better than that bit by telling them that each of The Great: “5” might lead you to expect. them can avoid their imminent In addition, the script gets the What’s it all about? encounter with Death by tone exactly right by expertly Directed by Steven Quale, Final ensuring that somebody else dies blending suspense, black Destination 5 is the fifth installment in their place... humour and suitably grisly of the popular franchise and the The Good: death scenes (anyone scheduled second in succession to be filmed D’Agosto, Bell and Fisher (who for laser eye surgery might want in 3D. Nicholas D’Agosto stars as occasionally seems to be to give this a miss). It also has a Sam, who has a terrifying vision of a channelling Tom Cruise) make lot of fun with the conventions suspension bridge collapse while on extremely appealing leads and of the franchise, notably in a a corporate outing and manages to there’s strong support from David knowingly comic scene where persuade seven of his colleagues – Koechner (very funny as Dennis), Sam walks through a restaurant including ex-girlfriend Molly (Emma Ellen Wroe (as Peter’s gymnast kitchen that’s suddenly teeming Bell), best friend Peter (Miles Fisher) girlfriend) and Jacqueline with potential death traps; and annoying boss Dennis (David MacInnes Wood (as vain, short- basically, you can judge the Koechner) – to get off their bus and sighted colleague Olivia), while success of a Final Destination run to safety, seconds before the Courtney B Vance is good value as movie by whether or not it has bridge does indeed collapse, killing a disbelieving cop. you hyper-alert to the potential Further info dozens of people. The special effects are dangers in your surroundings directed by Steven Quale However, as a mysterious excellent, particularly during the when you leave the cinema and stranger (series regular Tony Todd) jaw-dropping bridge collapse on that basis, Final Destination 5 Starring Nicholas D’Agosto, Emma Bell, Miles informs them, Death doesn’t take sequence, while the 3D is used should be a huge hit. Fisher, David Koechner too kindly to being cheated and brilliantly throughout, most Written by Matthew Turner sure enough, the “Lucky Eight” notably in a scene involving a llll soon start dying in a series of ship’s mast. Similarly, the death

HANNA film

What’s it all about? The Good: sharp choreography and letting Directed by Joe Wright, Hanna Saoirse Ronan plays the them play out in full view rather stars Saoirse Ronan as Hanna, character perfectly, giving than resorting to the over- a 16-year-old girl who’s been Hanna a blank-faced edited, confusingly staged style raised in a snowy wasteland and innocence that ensures she’s that often ruins films like this. trained to be a kick-ass, multi- simultaneously both achingly The Great: lingual super-agent by her ex-CIA vulnerable and a coldly efficient On top of that, the efficient script father Erik (Eric Bana). Having killing machine. There’s also strips out much of the expected spent her entire life seemingly terrific comic support from backstory, dispensing with preparing for a single mission, Jessica Barden (essentially tedious exposition scenes and Hanna activates a homing reprising her character from allowing the chase and action beacon and is soon captured Tamara Drewe), while Blanchett scenes to drive the plot. That by Marissa (Cate Blanchett), the is suitably intense as Marissa said, there is a nagging feeling sinister CIA agent who killed her and Hollander adds a chillingly that the film has had some of its mother. off-beat note as Isaacs. excesses toned down to achieve

Further info However, things don’t quite Wright’s direction is extremely its 12A rating, most notably in the directed by go according to plan and Hanna impressive throughout, middle section where it seems Joe Wright soon escapes into the Moroccan maintaining a breathless sense like an entire sequence involving Starring desert, hiding out with a of pace and using a range of Hollander’s character has been Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett mouthy teen (Jessica Barden) attention-grabbing effects cut out (hint: keep an eye on his and her clueless parents (jump-cuts, crash-zooms and the tennis whites). llll (Olivia Williams and Jason like) to ensure that each scene Written by Matthew Turner Flemyng) while she attempts fizzes with energy, all of which Pacey, excitingly directed to rendezvous with her father is heightened considerably by mini-Bourne-style thriller with in . Meanwhile, Marissa a terrific, pounding soundtrack a strong script, superb action sends ruthless, tennis-shorts- from the Chemical Brothers. sequences, a great soundtrack wearing German agent Isaacs Similarly, Wright proves a dab and a terrific central performance (Tom Hollander) after Hanna and hand at orchestrating thrilling from Saorise Ronan. he soon picks up her trail. fight sequences, relying on

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