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CHOPPER
UNCLE CHOP CHOP
by Belinda Pappalardo
First he told us to Harden The
Fuck Up. Now the candid Chopper
(Heath Franklin) returns to the
Fringe, this time on a crusade to
Make Deadshits History. Belinda
Pappalardo chats to the ‘chopping’
and changing Heath Franklin about
his life in the fast lane, his alterego Chopper and if Australia has
hardened the fuck up since last year.
How did your London/Edinburgh
shows fare? That was really interesting
actually because it was kind of a
chance to see if it was just a thing that
Australians got and if it was specific
CHOPPER IN
15 SECONDS
Do you think Australia has
hardened the fuck up from
your last tour? Fuck yeah,
galvanised, zinc coated, flame
tempered, double glazed,
triple-decker mongrel eating
motherfuckers.
Any room for improvement
there? There’s always room for
a little more mongrel.
to Australia or if it was universal and
people from different countries get into
as well. I found in London that there was
a ton of ex-pat Australians, so that didn’t
really answer my question. But I spoke
to a lot of Scots in Scotland and that was
interesting because you come out there
and say, “Hi, I’m Chopper. I drink a lot
and I swear,” and all the Scots are like,
“Well yeah, so do we, so get to the point,”
kind of thing.
Do they have the same humour as
Australians? We also changed the show
a bit to make sure it wasn’t overloaded
with esoteric references and things like
that to make it a more universal show.
One night I came out and there was
three big burly Scot’s dressed up in the
moustaches and sunglasses and that
kind of thing so that was pretty cool.
Sixteen cities, 90 performances
– how hard is it to travel around
and live out of a suitcase during
that time and adopt two personas:
yourself and Chopper? It starts off
all fun and games. It’s really exciting to
meet people and see new places. I mean
I saw some paces in Australia last year
that I never would’ve got to otherwise
and meet people there. Towards the
end you’re kind of like, “Where are we
now? Alright cool”. We’ll go see the
sights and then lie down in a motel. You
just have to remind yourself your quite
lucky to be there, you know, you sort
of go, “Well here I am in Broken Hill
and all I’ve got to do tonight is put on a
show for some people here and have a
look around the town”.
Do you find yourself weaving in and
out of character? I found more things
of the character are starting to invade
my everyday life more and more,
especially when I’m in the middle of a
pooey you know and you’ll be sitting
there and something bad will happen
you just say [says in Chopper voice]
“Oh fucking hell” and then think to
yourself why did I say that?
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MELBOURNE
UKULELE
KOLLECTIVE
UKE ON
by Robert Dunstan
Melbourne Ukulele Kollective
(collectively known as MUK) have
been together for almost half a
decade but are making their first trip
to South Australia to undertake two
performances as part of Adelaide
Fringe 2008. Boasting a random
number of members, including
‘Nasty’ Nigel Lawrence of former
Adelaide band Young Homebuyers
and a former Three D Radio
announcer, some 18 or 19 ukebearing people will be making their
way to town to play up a storm.
We speak over the telephone to founding
member Dean ‘Dino Diva’ Denham who
says the collective are more than excited
to be making the trek.
“We can’t wait – we’re all very stoked
– and we’re all working hard to make
ourselves as schmick as we can. And I’ll
be bringing the whole family and making
a week of it.”
MUK will be conducting two afternoon
shows.
“Well, it is a bit of a family-friendly show.
And there seems to be a bit of a gap in
afternoon programming and it will leave
people free to see other things at night.”
Dino Diva says the collective formed
about four years ago.
“I’d been playing uke for a little while
and decided to look around on the net
at the world of ukulele. And I found that
there were uke groups all over the world
but nothing in Melbourne. So I got in
contact with Rose Turtle Ertler who gets
around playing her uke professionally.
She’s commonly known as the ‘electric
ukulele lady’ and she knew lots of uke
players. So we decided to put on a gig with
a whole bunch of people getting up. One
of those people worked for a council who
was putting on a community music festival.
He had the bright idea that between the
people he knew and that I knew that we
could get a big ukulele band together.
“But it was really just to do that one gig
at the festival but it went on to become
something that’s taken over my life and
now has a life all of its own,” Dino Diva
laughs. “We now practice once a week and
do quite a few shows. We did a bunch of
Christmas Carols at Federation Square.”
MUK have also appeared on ABC TV’s
Spicks & Specks.
“That was our five minutes of fame, so,
according to Andy Warhol we’ve only got
10 minutes left. No, that was good. We
pulled out all stops and got 50 players
along. And it seems everyone watches
Spicks & Specks. You only have to mention
that you’ve played a uke on that show and
everyone will say, ‘Oh, I saw that’.”
Dino Diva, who last played Adelaide with
Melbourne rock band The Sea Monsters
back in the ’80s, reasons that inexpensive
ukes boast quite a respectable sound.
“There are lots of those $25 Mahalo ukes
kicking around. For the price, they put
out a pretty good sound and sound all
right for $25. They’ve got good intonation
but a good set of Aqulia uke strings for
about $10 make all the difference. They
are made of a synthetic gut and make a
lot of difference.”
MUK will be bringing over a CD.
“We’ve only just finished that,’ Dino
announces. “It’s got about seven songs
and was our first attempt in a recording
studio. And it was hard to find enough
money to hire a studio big enough for
everyone, so it’s a bit of stripped-down
version. We can play as the big band, but
we also do a few shows with smaller uke
groups because there are quite a few
talented uke players in MUK who don’t
get much chance to shine in the big band.
“But we do encourage a few soloists
in the big band. A whole bunch of uke
players doing it en masse might get a bit
too much,” Dino Diva concludes.
Melbourne Ukulele Collective will
play the Governor Hindmarsh from
1pm on Sat Mar 1 and Sun Mar 2
with the newly-formed SA Ukulele
Appreciation Society (featuring
Don Morrison, Di Caught and John
Freeman) as the opening act.
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Well, darlings here
we are, another year
– another Fringe and
Festival! This year,
somebody had the wise
idea of giving me my
own gossip page, how
very Sarah Jessica Parker
in Sex And The City. I’ll
apologise in advance
for any slander that may
occur and I promise to
use the word ‘allegedly’
as much as possible. If
you have any news or
fringe stories please
share them with me:
<[email protected]>
WHO COULD
IT BE??
Readers of a particular weekend
newspaper would have read a column
MAJORLY talking up one of Adelaide’s
comedians describing him as “the
funniest man in SA”. Interesting goss
is going around as to how that article
came about. Apparently this comedian’s
wife was meant to be painting the writer
of this weekly column for the Archibald
Prize. Right at the last minute it was
discovered that the writer had also lined
up two other artists to paint him. Rather
than letting the shizer hit the fan, the
comedians wife thought “well you can
owe me one”. Poor ticket sales for the
well known comedian’s fringe show
called for just the right time for the
article to be written.
GAME ON
MOLES!
Irish comedian David O’Doherty
has apparently been bragging about
his UNO playing skills around town.
English comedian Josie Long, who
arrives in town this week, has got
wind of this and reckons she’s a bit of
a UNO Maverick as well. So I’m think
we definitely need a bit of an UNO
showdown in the garden one night
because let me tell you, I am that game
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BOB’S
FIX
by Robert Dunstan
Last Tuesday evening quite
a few lucky people but not
myself – I was elsewhere
celebrating a birthday –
were treated to a sneak
preview of what will be
Ignition!, Adelaide Bank
Festival Of Arts free opening
night event. In previous
years, the festival’s free
opening night bash has
taken place in Elder Park
but Ignition! will occur along
North Tce which will be
closed to traffic from 6pm on
Fri Feb 29.
As it gets darker and darker
and the crowds swell and
swell, US jazz rock maestros
and Adelaide Bank Festival
Of Arts’ artists DBR & The
Mission will be improvising
on a shipping container.
Their music will then set off
some pyrotechnics which, in
turn, will cause The Electric
Canvas’ computerised
lighting system to
spectacularly light up some
key buildings along the
boulevard.
Wow! Sounds spectacular!
And the good thing is that
the lit up buildings, known
as Northern Lights, will
be able to be viewed from
9pm until later than normal
people should be out on the
streets every night of the
festival.
CHICKS
ON SPEED
by Scott McLennan
Returning to founding member Alex MurrayLeslie’s homeland of Australia for appearances
including the Adelaide Festival, Chicks On
Speed’s mix of art and music has drawn
support and admiration from the likes of
Peaches, The B-52’s and Le Tigre. Based in
Germany, Chicks On Speed’s new single Art
Rules succinctly summarising their ethos of
the visually entrancing trio.
What can you tell us about the new album and
how much of the music will feature in your
Adelaide set?
Melissa Logan: “We’re still putting together a
special set for Australia, but it will definitely include
the new music like Art Rules. The album is being
compiled here in London and special guests include
Fred Schneider and A Scholar And A Physician –
they’re a producer team from Oxford and London.”
Yoko Ono released Yes, I’m A Witch last
year, which saw her collaborating with various
artists who’ve refused to play by the rules.
You guys should have been a perfect fit to
appear…
Alex Murray-Leslie: “Yeah, I’ve got that. I guess it’s
about connections. I bought it and thought that we
could have done a great remix, but often it’s just
A&R people who decide who’s on those CDs. I don’t
know if Yoko had much to do with the selection.”
Chicks On Speed play the Artists’ Week
Party at Hotel Richmond on Sun Mar 2
with Pash This!.
THE ADELAIDE FIX 7
HOPE:
THE UTOPIAN IMAGINATION OF
YOUTH ON THE MARGINS
A heart-warming exhibition that asks
the questions about hope and the
future. What do we hope for? Where
do we find hope? What sustains
hopefulness? What do we want in
the future? Through photographs
and mounted drawings, this
exhibition documents the hopes of
young participants who were given
a camera to take photographs of
places, people and things that they
associated with hopefulness and the
future. Belinda Pappalardo chats
to co-curator Simon Robb about the
essence of Hope…
What was your involvement with
Hope? The exhibition stems from a
UniSA research project funded by the
Australian Research Council. I was
the lead researcher in developing the
research proposal and in doing the
research. I then worked as co-curator
with the Migration Museum’s Catherine
Manning on developing the exhibition.
The core principles of Hope? There
are a number of principals informing the
exhibition. The exhibition aims to present
examples of how ‘hopefulness’ and ‘the
future’ is experienced and imagined by
contemporary youth on the margins of
society. It aims to present these examples
8 THE ADELAIDE FIX
in their ‘raw’ or unmediated form. It aims
to stimulate debate about ‘hope’ and ‘the
future’ which are important ideas for a
sustainable society and it aims to include
young people in this debate.
The selection process of the artists
involved? This is not an exhibition
of artist’s works. It’s an exhibition of
important contemporary artefacts that
also have aesthetic qualities.
What were some of the findings in
Hope? This is an exhibition that is open
to interpretation by those who view it. As
far as we are concerned the exhibition
suggests that hopefulness appears in lives
and places that appear to be marginal or
without hope as well as those that are
mainstream, and that these ‘marginal’
hopes are just as central to the meaning
of hope.
Most poignant photograph? The
graffiti caravan.
The exhibition is being premiered
as part of the 2008 Adelaide
Bank Festival of Arts, at the South
Australian Migration Museum
(Kintore Avenue, Adelaide) and
runs until Jun 30, 2008. It is open
Mon to Fri 10am to 5pm, Saturdays
and Sundays 1pm to 5pm.
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you get behind the local and international artists each displaying
their respective artwork in and around various venues throughout
this wonderful festival city we call Adelaide…
CELLAR
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Mar 15
PENUMBRA
UNIVERSITY OF
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
55 NORTH TERRACE
Penumbra: contemporary art from
Taiwan displays works from Taiwan’s
rising stars, as they all explore the
notion of belonging in a country
that continues to undergo dynamic
economic and socio-political change.
Starts Fri Feb 29.
Concludes Sun Mar 16
SPEED OF LIGHT
With light as a theme of the Adelaide
Festival this year, a group of artists are
exhibiting under the banner Speed of
Light. These pictures were taken last
night at the opening of Iván Navarro’s
exhibition at Greenaway Art Gallery.
Using lighting and industrial materials,
Navarro builds pieces that tell a story
both visually and politically. For his first
exhibition in Australia, Iván Navarro
will screen a series of video works plus
a selection of recent light sculptures.
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THE ADELAIDE FIX 9
FRANK FORD
FATHER OF
THE FRINGE
By Kerr y Loyson
Branded the Father of the Fringe,
Frank Ford’s little baby is alive and
kicking. She’s all grown up and
plastering her hometown’s name
in sparkling, neon lights. She’s a
star – both locally and abroad. The
Fix had the opportunity to dig into
Frank’s extensive Fringe and Festival
knowledge, inquiring about his
perspectives and his desires.
What do you think the Fringe Festival
means for Adelaide’s identity?
I think it really makes the whole festival
work because every other state now has
an international arts festival, and they
have them every year, but none of them
have a Fringe like ours, which is now
internationa. I always wanted it to be a
national showcase for new work and new
talent, which it has become, and that’s
why I’m still involved with the Fringe
awards because if you get a Fringe award,
you’ll sell out the rest of your show and
I’ve seen in Edinburgh, “Adelaide First
Fringe Award” and it’s got them a lot of
sales in Edinburgh.
Do you think that your vision has
been realised entirely?
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Oh I think so! Yes. I’m just absolutely
thrilled at the number of new works in
the theatre, in the cabaret, it’s wonderful!
And people do come from interstate to be
in the Adelaide Fringe and now they’re
coming from overseas. It’s amazing. It’s
wonderful and it just shows us that they
recognise it’s very important because the
artists have to pay their own way! It’s a
big risk for them to take.
It’s really highlighting Adelaide’s
name!
It is! I’ve talked to some of the artists
like Guy Masteson, he’s got four I think
shows from Edinburgh and said “Oh, I
just love the Adelaide festival!” he said
the audiences here are very adventurous,
which is a lovely thing to hear!
You’ve been referred to as the Father of
the Fringe. How do you feel about that?
Oh, very proud! I love it! When I left the
Fringe, after nine years as the chair, I
said “I hope the Fringe never becomes
too respectable” and I don’t think it’s
done that! I meant that I hope it doesn’t
become to bourgeois or too safe and my
first Fringe cabaret show was the Best of
Emperor Stah – it certainly hasn’t become
too respectable!
“I always
wanted it to
be a national
showcase for
new work and
new talent,
which it has
become”
Which shows would you really
highlight or recommend?
I saw Playing Burton which I thought was
excellent! It’s a wonderful piece of acting
and a wonderful piece of writing and a
great example of excellent performance
and skills and acting. The day I went,
there were a lot of young acting students
that went along and they couldn’t have
been given a better example of acting.
The night before last I saw When The
Rain Stops Falling preview in the Festival
of course, Andrew Bovell’s new play, and
it is excellent, it’s just a magnificent piece
of writing and a wonderful production.
What are your suggestions for the
Adelaide Fringe to grow and expand?
Where to from here?
I think Christie’s attitude is ‘the more
the better’! I think the important thing is
we should still try to highlight the new
works and new talents because that’s
the thing we should help most, and even
give them the extra bit of publicity or
whatever, because it’s very hard for new
artists or new pieces of work to get an.
I hope they keep that emphasis because
that becomes the national showcase and
that advances our culture. I think what’s
beautiful about the Fringe is that it really
reflects contemporary Australian culture
in that it’s arts across the community. You
have amateur companies putting on shows
and you have top professionals putting
on shows in the Fringe. It’s a wonderful
reflection that there are arts across the
community in Australia now. It’s not just in
the culture palaces anymore!
What do you think of the concept of
The Fix?
I think that’s very important. The
programs are so large and so rich, it’s
hard to choose and I think a guide like
that gives you that extra bit of information
about what would appeal to you or what
would be interesting for you. And since
it’s on the spot, it’s better than all the past
information about it that we usually get
fed in the brochures and things like that.
This is from someone locally seeing it and
that’s important in heart – how it relates
to you at this moment. I think it’s terrific.
THE ADELAIDE FIX’S
HOT PICKS FOR
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MEN OF STEEL
MILE HIGH
HOLDEN STREET THEATRES
10.30PM
If you’ve travelled to Europe or beyond,
you know all about economy air travel.
If you haven’t, it’s something you’re not
missing out on, trust us. But you can
go and see some theatre on the subject.
How do you decide if you really love
someone? Spend 23 hours trapped in
an aeroplane together in economy-plus
seats without enough legroom. Direct
from back to back sell-out shows in
Sydney, Stella Green Productions is
proud to present the world premiere of
Mile High by Byron Kaye. A compact
powerhouse of sex, laughter, tension
and relief.
THE GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY
DELIGHTS-BOSCO THEATER
6.30PM
Animated kitchen utensils might sound
like an odd subject matter for a show,
but hey, this is the Fringe and anything
goes. Direct from London’s Soho
Theatre (after Edinburgh, Hong-Kong
and Beijing), three mad chefs animate
two cookie cutters and a host of kitchen
stuff in a wild-puppet-extravaganza!
Recreating famous scenes from
iconic movies and featuring popcorn,
watermelon killing and the felling of a
broccoli-forest. Okay.
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FRINGE FACTORY THEATRE –
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6PM
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you know... There’s a better way. Bec
Hill, Alastair Gowing and Nick Caddaye
will teach you how steal your way to
election-winning glory.
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DON’T’ BE AFRAID
TIN CAT CAFÉ
8PM
Cluedo with chocolate? Sounds fun.
If you fancy asking the questions in
a modern day murder mystery then
check this out, although it’s booking
fast so if you think of yourself as a
super sleuth then be quick. Interview
the suspects, sample the chocolates,
solve the crime – it’s all up to you. Best
Special Event (Melbourne Fringe 2007).
New chocolate crime written especially
for Adelaide.
FRINGE FACTORY GALLERIES,
GALLERY 2
11AM ONWARDS
Be afraid, be very afraid. Or don’t. This
is an installation work using light, vinyl,
foils and ribbons, evoking unsettling
feelings in the space. The aim of this
work lays in the tension between visual
illusion and physical experience that
force reconciliation between our body
and mind.
Having failed to be offered a job playing
for the Riverdance shows Aindrias de
Staic left the Irish city of Galway, after
being evicted by his landlady, with little
money, his violin and no real plans for
where he would go. With a large world
map behind him for reference he tells of
his erratic, alcohol and drug fuelled trip
that ended in Australia. Try as he might
to kick the habits, he found every place
he visited had an Irish pub (a fact agreed
to with earnest by our own Irish staffer).
His tale is interspersed with some
dazzling fiddle playing and a few songs.
While scouring the guides and listings
to find some good stuff to point our
new readers to, I couldn’t get past
this, so here it is. I could try and write
something about it but the text in the
guide says it all: “Persephone’s Wolf’
is about people who are raised by
animals, washed up actors from strange
lands, mermaids, medical anomalies
and fighting corruption interwoven in
a juicy intercontinental, species non
specific love story in the middle of
nowhere. It is epic and original.”
Worth a look?
TERRA COGNITA
STATE LIBRARY OF SOUTH
AUSTRALIA
10AM
Get some culture! 400 years of
exploration, travel and discovery
by Europeans as seen through the
treasures of the York Gate Library.
This celebrated library collection was
purchased in London by the Society
in 1905 and opened to the public in
1908. Highlights include original
George French Angas watercolours,
illustrations from explorers’ journals
dating back to 1590 and Australia’s
rarest book of bird illustrations.
George French Angas watercolours,
illustrations from explorers’ journals
dating back to 1590 and Australia’s
rarest book of bird illustrations.
This Rough Magic Theatre & Film presents Shakespeare's
As You Like It
Adelaide Botanic Gardens
27, 28, 29 Feb, 1, 3, 4, 13, 14, 15 March
www.thisroughmagic.com
Shakespeare does Survivor - with style! City girls on
the run meet the eccentric locals and fall in love - in the
gardens at twilight. Bring a picnic! Tix available at the door.
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THE ADELAIDE FIX’S
HOT PICKS FOR
FRIDAY
OLD MAN RIVER
GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY
DELIGHTS – SOCO CARGO
9PM
A MIDSUMMER
NIGHT’S DREAM
HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE
VARIOUS TIMES
Apparently, Shakespeare was ‘quite
filthy’ – and that’s according to artistic
director of the Adelaide Festival
Brett Sheehy (last edition of The Fix).
Well, this fact is celebrated with this
wonderful new production that’s two
years in the making and incorporates
martial arts and singing. This version
of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has an
Indian twist and looks like a genuinely
brilliant show.
ADELAIDE INK
NEXUS MULTICULTURAL
ARTS CENTRE
10AM ONWARDS
There’s no time like Festival and Fringe
time to see people walking the streets
with ink permanently embedded in their
skin. While not many people in The Fix
offices sport this form of art, we’re still
attached to it. If you’re into this sort
of personal decoration, Adelaide Ink
sounds like a good place to go, where
people are invited to talk about their
tatts and you can see images of some
incredible skin work.
Growing up in Israel, Old Man River set
off on a road that took him to New York,
India and finally Australia. He’s deep, and
plays music that means something. Check
out what he says about making music:
“I wanted to make something uplifting
without being cheesy, which is an easy trap
to fall into if you write happy songs. It’s
easy to disregard the truth in life, which is
that not everything is peachy creamy. You
can take the sorrow and dance with it.”
Apparently top of the charts in Japan, and
top five across Europe, this gig is going to
be excellent. Get along.
Mark Simeon Ferguson presents
CHUNKY MOVE
PRESENTS GLOW
IGNITION!
NORTH TERRACE
FROM 6PM
All of Adelaide, the “City of Light”, is
invited to leap into the 2008 Festival
in glorious fashion with the ignition of
the public light installation Northern
Lights. From 6pm to 9pm you are
invited to re-discover North Terrace’s
public institutions, sampling Festival
exhibitions and events in State Library
of South Australia, Flinders University
City Gallery, South Australian
Museum, Migration Museum and
Art Gallery of South Australia. Also
visit The Imaginary Menagerie – A
Musical Circus at Elder Hall, where
classical music, jazz and computer
technology combine in three 20
minute sets from 7pm onwards. Then
at 9pm, gather along North Terrace
and brace yourselves for the theatrical
igniting of Northern Lights, from the
smallest spark, growing into a unique
pyrotechnic display, all synchronized to
a live soundtrack of beats and rhythms
performed by DBR & THE MISSION.
ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE,
SPACE THEATRE
6PM, 7PM, 8PM, 9PM
Fresh, energetic
original World Jazz
‘a superlative performance’ —Ripitup
‘Unquestionably world class’—The Independent Weekly
‘Beautiful music’— ABC Radio National
The Adelaide Review’s dance critic loves
Chunky Move and he’s been shouting
about Glow for quite a while now.
This is a truly unique performance,
featuring only one dancer, that blends
light in with the movements, making
them appear as one, or triggered by
the performance. It’s only 28 minutes
long (hence the numerous start times)
so you could see it then shuffle on to
something else. It runs for only four
days so don’t hang around.
ADELAIDE 8
March 1 @ 8:30pm,
March 2 @ 2pm & 6pm
@ The Promethean
116 Grote Street, Adelaide.
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Tickets $22/$14 (+Booking Fee)
Through Fringetix on 1300 FRINGE
www.adelaidefringe.com.au
marmaladecircus.com
TOM TOM CLUB
PERMIER ART GALLERY
10AM ONWARDS
THE GARDEN OF
UNEARTHLY DELIGHTSUMBRELLA REVOLUTION
10PM
With all these blow-ins ruining our
quiet town (ha), why not get out and
see some home grown talent? Adelaide
8 comprises a collection of painting,
sculpture, photography, glass and
jewellery by eight established Adelaide
artists: Silvio Apponyi, Dee Barton,
Rod Bax, Craig Bowyer, John George,
Eamonn Vereker, Barry Walker and Jane
Williams. Something for everyone then!
Onion and The Fix editor Dave Knight
has been banging on about the Tom Tom
Club since he caught their show, and
deemed them worthy enough to put on
the debut The Fix front page.
So, with Friday being a day of getting
out and about, why not trek down to the
Garden of Unearthly Delights and get
stuck into some serious action? You won’t
be disappointed. Dave says so anyway.
THE FIX
REVIEWS
2TIGHTPANTS
LA BOHEME, SUN FEB 24
BT Cassidy
Amy and Rachelle Murphy-Higgins, the
producers of She, bring 2TightPants to
the Fringe, a show that blends dance,
rap, liberation and pubic tresses into an
imaginative visual comedy that disposes
of comfort zones and leaves you happily
reeling.
Presented in La Boheme’s soft lights,
2TightPants is written with a cleverly
biting wit that manipulates the intimate
atmosphere with great effect to temper
this caustic look at gender, love, bucket
bongs and Britney Spears as a cultural
icon. The result is spectacular, filled
with the staggering laughter few
performers can deliver, while cleverly
confronting social perceptions.
Join Sleazy Easy and Chantilly Lee-Lee
for this fast paced provocative serve
of ghetto girl laughs and have your
sensibilities turned upside down - just
beware the explosive climax.
See 2TightPants at La Boheme at
11pm on Wednesdays, Thursdays
and Sundays until Sun Mar 9.
FIRST SHE TAKES
MANHATTAN
THE COURT HOUSE, TUE FEB 26
DB
SACRED MANDALA
PALACE
GARAGE INTERNATIONAL
@ NORTH ADELAIDE
COMMUNITY CENTRE,
SUN FEB 24
Edel Perth
You arrive to a quiet space ready to
be taken on an inspiring and spiritual
journey by the Five Buddhas who
embody the Five Wisdoms. A large
multimedia screen and the first Buddha
opens the show to share the story of
creation. Shakti then appears from
the Buddha to share the story of the
scared feminine. This was a colourful
event with an abundance of glo-mesh,
gold lame and flowing scarves with
an important message. Although
the essence of the performance was
spiritual in nature, the perennial
problem with the new age is it comes
across as somewhat wacky, quirky and
in this case a little tacky. There’s plenty
of room for improvement but with a
bit more work and direction it has the
potential to become something more.
It takes guts to perform the sadly
sensual songs and poems (they
can almost be read either way)
of Leonard Cohen under any
circumstances, and Jordan ‘Lady
Midnight’ Roberts obviously has ‘em,
her stripped-back interpretations of
the mysterious Montreal wordsmith’s
lyrics quite spellbinding. Onstage
with only guitarist Simon Koop
and the barest of lighting and
microphone effects, Midnight kicks
off with Chelsea Hotel and Dance
Me, offers some background to the
show (admitting a considerable debt
to last year’s doco Leonard Cohen:
I’m Your Man), and proceeds into
other selections from 40 years of the
source’s works, including My Secret
Life, Alexandra Leaving, Famous Blue
Raincoat, Take This Longing, some
funny anecdotes and, finally, the song
that gave the whole performance its
title: Cohen’s meditation upon love
and war, First We Take Manhattan.
The opening night encore was
another wonderful repeat runthrough of I’m Your Man - and, not
surprisingly, the audience went wild.
First She Takes Manhattan
continues at The Court House
until Fri Feb 29.
Adelaide Bank and the Festival,
transforming our community
with light, life and energy.
H0752_26Feb08
adelaidebank.com.au
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THE FIX
REVIEWS
21ST CENTURY
CLASH OF THE
THEATRE TITANS
TANDANYA ABORIGINAL
CULTURAL CENTRE
BT Cassidy
Expect the unexpected, because
that’s what the stars of this
TheatreSports event have to
do. Featuring some of the best
international comedians, 21st Century
Clash Of The Theatre Titans is a
marathon of laughs.
Almost everything you will see
is new; watching the comedians
scramble for a punch line is half
the fun as they’re pitted against the
suggestions of the audience and MC,
all for the glory of a gold painted
plastic planter pot, a chance to
CLEMENS LESKE
AND PAUL
GRABOWSKY,
PIANO
ELDER HALL, FEBRUARY 26
Graham Strahle
Here was one of the mountain peaks of
the Fringe, or more precisely one of its
double peaks. Bach’s Goldberg Variations
are one of those great challenges that
JEFF GREEN
NOVA CINEMA, SUN FEB 24
Scott McLennan
Generally known for his goodnatured demeanour and cheeky
asides, tonight British comic Jeff
Green is rallying against his early
Fringe timeslot, the ‘comedy cul
de sacs’ that result from an attempt
at audience interaction and Nova
Cinema’s audience-deadening design.
The lack of crowd response isn’t
just due to ergonomics this evening:
the twinkle in Green’s eye doesn’t
translate to a sparkling set, nor is
his show as smart and groomed
as his neat suit suggests. After
more than a decade of performing
in Australia to great acclaim, Jeff
Green’s meandering take on standup is sounding unexpectedly dated.
Lacking structure and simply
navigating a lackluster path through
anecdotes such as his wife’s pissing
habits, sex shop chocolate cocks
and camping woes, Green rarely hits
the mark this evening. Talk of his
children’s birth and pissing by sonar
raise laughs, but Green’s not so fresh
tonight. Fair play.
Jeff Green performs at Nova
Cinema at various times until Sat
Mar 15.
perform their show in a minute, and
a final performance with Adelaide’s
own ImproNOW comedians. Using
the audience as the source of their
material, the honesty, effort, and
hilarious results make this show a
highlight of the Fringe. A dynamic
comedy.
21st Century Clash of the
Theatre Titans can be seen at
Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural
Centre at 7.30pm on Mon Mar 3
and Mercur y Cinema at 7.30pm
on Mon Mar 10.
make mere mortals out of anyone, but
Clemens Leske gave a deeply faithful
account of this culminating keyboard
work of the Baroque, drawing out its
huge creative breadth with intelligent
insight. Then, daringly, jazz pianist Paul
Grabowsky launched into his own
improvisations on the same work, but in
a way that both paralleled Bach’s grand
design and added much of his own. Both
pianists deserve medals for bravery, if
not for total conquest.
78% HONESTY
BY MICHELLE
‘BAGGAS’ BAGINSKI
TUXEDO CAT ROOPFTOP,
MON FEB 25
Angie Starr & K*m Mann
Insecure. Honest. Cathartic. This is
not a show - it’s a group date. Selfdeprecating, apologetic and caring to
a fault, Baggas laments and dements
in front of your very eyes. Endearingly
vulnerable, Baggas spends the first half
of the show sizing up the audience to
decide whether we are worthy of her
friendship. Way too nice to everybody,
Baggas is a caricature of the chronic
people pleaser. Quirky character-based
humour, this raw and funny doormatturned-goddess fur-balls up her past,
apologising and giving every Tina,
Dick and Harriet the benefit of the
doubt. Singing songs that reveal her
dark and complex side, see the look of
a frightened bilby flash across her face.
She plays the audience to fond response.
Enjoy her original ‘moving graphics’
and finale song about a sexy speech
impediment. Silly, twisted and witty.
78% Honesty continues at Tuxedo
Cat Rooftop until Fri Mar 7.
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THE FIX
REVIEWS
DAN WILLIS: FERRIS
BUELLER’S WAY OFF
BULL & BEAR, TUE FEB 26
Shane Scott
Dan Willis hails from the UK; Adelaide
is a good 24 hours of travelling time
away, long enough one would think
to get your festival set tight. The link
between Ferris Bueller and Dan’s
show is marginal at best – you could
just as easily link his thoughts to the
latest Brand Power advertorial. ‘A good
tradesman never blames his tools’ is
a great theory, yet apparently it never
made it to the UK as Dan blames his
forgetfulness of material and repeated
technical dramas on all but himself.
The show sees him showcase scenes
from Ferris then intertwine them with
stories from his life, despite being
a former IT specialist the problems
he has with the computer actually
become quite comical. As his material
brings marginal giggles he attempts
FRANK
WOODLEY’S
POSSESSED
THE ARTS THEATRE,
ANGAS STREET
Prue Marner
audience interaction, he has a little
success but again struggles for any real
wins. Finally, what is with a so-called
international talent using cue cards?
Disappointing.
Dan Willis performs at Bull & Bear
at 8.30pm until Sat Mar 15.
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Frank Woodley has gone solo with
his stage show Possessed, and it is
definitely one not to miss. We all know
the comical works of Frank from the
duo Lano and Woodley, which spanned
a successful 20 years of television
and live performances. So if you’re
wondering how Woodley gets by
without his comrade Colin Lane, I can
tell you now he’s as funny, loveable and
dynamic as ever.
Possessed displays Woodley’s extensive
repertoire of slapstick tricks, tumbles
and flips and combines this cleverly
with a strong and touching storyline.
A raspy old seaman narrates the story,
telling a few odd tales and drawing
you in from the get go. The story,
surrounded by a nautical theme, then
focuses on Woodley’s character, a
loopy, lonely man full of quirks and
habits, who becomes possessed by a
long lost Irish lass. Changing between
these two characters – dancing,
romancing and playing out humorous
dramas – Woodley delivers a laughout-loud, very cleverly produced
performance. The brilliant set, sound
and music all compliment the story,
superbly told by this physical comedic
master. So go along, it’ll appeal to one
and all, young and old to be entertained
and have a good laugh while you’re at it.
SH 3
ONOWS
BO LY
NO OK
W!
THE RHINO ROOM 13 FROME STREET
28 FEB, 29 FEB & 1 MAR - 8.30PM
1300 FRINGE (374 643) or www.adelaidefringe.com.au
www.andrewtaylormanagement.com
FIONA
O’LOUGHLIN
“My stomach muscles are
still aching...
really, really funny.”
The Age
SELLING
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THE ARTS THEATRE 53 ANGAS STREET
21 FEB TO 2 MAR - 8.40PM
1300 FRINGE (374 643)
or www.adelaidefringe.com.au
www.andrewtaylormanagement.com
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SHOW!S
ONLY
IN THE POCKET
By Kerr y Loyson
Location, location, location! If
you’ve ever paid attention to those
‘educational’ real estate programs,
you’ll know that these words are
the underpinning guts of any
glorified success. And Rundle St
seems to have become a location
gold mine. Buzzing with Fringe
and Festival manic frivolity and
the potential for a stimulating pay
off, The Fix took to the streets
to weigh up how much treasure
the surrounding businesses are
walking away with.
BASHARAT: LUCKY 7
What has the Adelaide Fringe done
for your business?
“Oh a lot! It’s brought many people
here. It’s improved the feel of our
business by 35%!”
Fasta Pasta has just introduced
its first café bar, Fasta Pasta Pronto.
Located on O’Connell Street, North Adelaide,
Fasta Pasta is a redesigned, smaller yet chic
version of its North Adelaide predecessor.
The Fasta Pasta philosophy
is modeled on an age-old southern
Italian belief, “That which is simple,
is often wholesome and good for you.”
This belief is evident at Pronto with the
slightly smaller menu and
takeaway focus.
Fasta Pasta Pronto is open
7 days for lunch and dinner
47 O’Connell St, North Adelaide
Lunch: 11:00am - 2:30pm,
Dinner: (Sun-Thurs) - 4:30pm - 9:30pm, (Fri-Sat) - 4:30pm - 10pm
Ph: 8361 9441 Fax: 8361 9442
Visit www.fastapasta.com.au for more information
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OLLA: SOOKI
RYAN: THE STAG
Have you found that your business
has improved since the start of the
Festival month?
“It’s definitely busier over the weekend.
I didn’t work but we had to stay open
for an extra couple of hours on Friday
night! And this week is definitely going
to be busier than our normal week.”
Have you found a difference during
the weekdays, which are usually
quieter while people are at work?
“I have, definitely. Usually we have
someone on from 12 until 3 as the lunch
cover and we’ve had to change it from
12 until 4.30 so I think that’s because
there’s more people.”
How has your business flourished
since the start of the Adelaide
Fringe and Festival of Arts?
“We definitely had a good weekend last
weekend but that was in collaboration
with the Clipsal as well, but we’ve
definitely had a very good weekend,
both food and bar wise. “
So do you find that generally the
Fringe is a positive or negative
experience?
“So far it’s been positive… more people
in the area and more money! That’s
what it’s all about!”
ANTHONY:
CAFÉ PRIMO
What has the Adelaide Fringe done
for your business?
“[It’s] improved turnover, brought more
people to the area… It’s a really positive
thing – getting more people, different
kind of people to be honest, more out
there people come!”
Are you happy with it being an
annual event?
“Yes, it’s great for the business and
Adelaide in general”
Are you guys packed ever y night?
“Yes, there are literally no more seats
available. There’s normally a wait – it
could be anywhere between 10 minutes
to half an hour… normally at any other
time of the year, you’d be able to get
a seat, no problems. It helps turnover
heaps!”
JUSTIN: MARY
MARTIN BOOKSHOP
How has the Adelaide Festival
of Arts and the Adelaide Fringe
affected your business?
“ Generally it’s positive”
Have you found more of an influx of
people through your doors?
“Not yet”
Do you think it will increase?
“Yes”
Has it happened in the past?
“Yeah, when the Festival starts”
Do you find that it’s the Festival
rather than the Fringe that causes the
influx? You don’t find that the Fringe
people are book lovers?
“No, they’re coming to watch comedy and
block my door way! No, they’re not from
a car race – that would be true animosity!
Generally the Fringe and Festival is good
– a lot more people, especially at night
because we’re open late”
GRRILLA STEP
AT SOCO CARGO
welcome to
the Promethean’s spectacular 2008 Fringe Festival
Variety Cavalcade with three weeks of non-stop
jadrama!
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music
cabaret
The Idea of North
The Late Show with
Marmalade Circus
- International capella quartet.
- Mike Stewart Big Band
- jazz with a cool world vibe
Hiptones - Blues, Roots Jazz
Urban Jazz Quartet
20 Something
from the Fabulous Hiptones
- Über cool jazz
- Sassy Musical Cabaret
I Might be Edgar Allan Poe
Adam Page Solo - Winner
- black comedy drama
of the 2007 Adelaide Fringe
Award for Best Music by an
Emerging Artist
at 116 Grote Street, Adelaide
22 February to 16 March 2008
For session times and ticket prices please see
www.thepromethean.com.au, Fringe Guide or
book through FringeTIX 1300 374 643.
the Promethean
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MISSING SOMETHING? CAN
YOU DO BETTER? CAN YOU BE
A PART OF ADELAIDE’S MOST
AMBITIOUS PUBLICATION YET?
YES YOU CAN!
We want to know what YOU think about the heady month of March –
what you think about a show you may have seen, whether you liked it
or hated it, a funky venue you stumbled across – anything!
Each edition, we’ll pick the best of the crop and we might even send
out some prizes, like a bag of CDs or tickets, or something.
We’re not sure yet.
Anyway, send your camera images, reviews, pics of strange people
doing strange things to fi[email protected] and we’ll take it from there.
unlikely lovers…
new dance work
Leigh Warren & Dancers’ take
on unisex dwarfs and a mirror
with attitude.
Royalty Theatre | 7.30pm
Feb 28, 29 | March 1
Adult $40 | Concession $30 |
Fringe Benefits $25 (+service fee)
Book at FringeTIX | Venue*TIX |
www.adelaidefringe.com.au
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MARY TOBIN PRESENTS... The Hottest Comedy Shows of the Fringe!
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Fri 22nd Feb - Sun 16th March
At The Gov
The Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, 59 Port Rd, Adelaide
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“She’s
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DB Magazine
“Razor sharp wit and
cavernous imagination”
Evening Standard
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DB Magazine
‘The truly stunning Tom Stade’
✶✶✶✶ Guardian
‘Killer lines while
deconstructing
the art of stand-up’
Every Fri & Sat night 10pm
22nd Feb - 15th March
The Governor HIndmarsh Hotel
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59 Port Road, Adelaide
✶✶✶✶ List
Gets Next to You
The Arts Theatre
53 Angas
g St,, Adelaide
Tues 11th - Sun 16th March
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After an hour of
this man’s stand
up, my cheeks
were aching
from grinning
so heartily, his
humour is
infectious’
The Scotsman
arjbarker.com
GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY DELIGHTS
Rundle Park, East Terrace, Adelaide
4th March –15th March
FringeTIX 1300 FRINGE (374 643) ~ adelaidefringe.com.au ~ Tix also at the door
JAPEYE
THE
ONION
FIX
KATALYST
With last year’s album What’s
Happening still fresh in peoples’
minds, one of Australia’s finest hip
hop and beat producers returns to
Adelaide. When Katalyst was here
last year he held an extravaganza
of a show featuring What’s
Happening vocalists Stephanie
McKay, Steve Spacek, J-Live,
Koolism and Magic Dirt’s Adalita,
but this time Katalyst (AKA Ashley
Anderson) will just be DJing. But
he might have some fresh beats
to drop, because after that Aussie
tour, Anderson was overseas for six
weeks.
I went over and played at a festival in
the UK with Portishead. They did their
first run of gigs for 10 years and curated
a festival called All Tomorrows Parties,
which I had a bit of a spin on at a couple
of evenings. And sort of hung out with
Geoff from Portishead for a while and
went and checked out the mastering of
their new album. I played an afterparty
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for them in Bristol, after they did their
first Bristol gig in 10 years, and then
hooked up with the guys that are going
to release my record for the rest of the
world, an English label called BBE [in
April]. I talked a bit of business with
those cats, did a little gig in Cargo in
London, had a couple of weeks off, did
a week in Spain and a week in Japan. I
got off the plane from Japan, got home,
had a shower and drove to Canberra
to do a gig that evening … I haven’t
really had a lot of time to sit around and
contemplate life, but you know, it’s a
good time as well. It’s good to be busy.
So when you come out and DJ in
Adelaide, can you play any of those
new Portishead tunes and the
tracks from the upcoming McKay
album you are producing?
That’s a good question, I can play
whatever I want, I do have all those
songs, but I guess traditionally the
Portishead stuff hasn’t been the most
dancefloor friendly material in the
world. Even with the old records, even
though I was a massive fan, it was more
of a home listening thing for me and I’d
occasionally drop stuff into the set. It
would also depend on what time you’re
playing and what the audience expects
to some degree, but I could sneak a
couple of tunes in for sure. The McKay
stuff definitely fits the bill because
I’ve done a couple of up-tempo funk
numbers and that sort of thing. When
I did gigs playing with Jack Johnson
between him and Ben Harper and all
those sorts of things I got to play a lot
of down-tempo stuff I like to play. But
playing 11pm until 1am on a Thursday
evening I think people wanna be
moving around a bit and enjoying the
dancefloor, we’ll wait and see. I’ll keep a
few surprises up my sleeve for sure.
Katalyst plays the Persian Garden
on Thu Mar 13 with LABJACD.
What’s Happening is out through
Invada.
Spinning soul, funk, hip hop and
everything in-between, Japeye
covers them all. Playing at the
Persian Garden on Sat Mar 8,
Japeye took some questions from
The Onion Fix.
What records never leave Japeye’s
record box? In recent times: UMC’s
- One To Grow On, Roberto Roena’s
Que Se Sepa, Antibalas’ Che Che Cole,
Quantic Soul Orchestra’s Panama City
and Right Direction’s Midnight Rhythm
[Underdog Rework].
As a DJ, are you more into digging
the crates looking for those old
classics, or searching for the newly
released gem? Or both? A bit of
both. I have an ever-expanding wish
list for old and new tunes and my DJ
sets are always a blend of the two.
What is your standard response
to a dodgy request when you’re
DJing?
“Sure thing champ... That’ll go perfectly
with what I am playing right now... Give
me like 20 minutes or so and I’ll mix it
in.” Sometimes it back fires and they
keep coming back all night to annoy
you, but generally they get the picture
when one hour passes and you’re
playing some freaky Nigerian disco.
Which Adelaide acts and DJs do
you think are bringing the heat?
The Transatlantics would be my
favourite live act getting around
town. Brother Irwin, Troy J Been and
Prince Aaronak are my favourite DJs
in Adelaide to listen too.
What other shows during the
festival and fringe season are you
keen to check? The Bamboos at The
Persian Garden, Sharon Jones and The
Dap-Kings at WOMADelaide, Steve
Spacek Sound System at SoCo Cargo
and Grrrilla Step at SoCo Cargo.
Japeye plays the Persian Garden
on Sat Mar 8 with The Bamboos
and HMC.
If you have any club related Fringe
and Festival Of Arts news you want
to share with The Onion Fix email
<[email protected]>.
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