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Arma del Amor
8 On the beat
Gig Alert: LIPS
10On stage
The Wine Project
11 Concert
Eb & Sparrow
12On the scene
The Art of Coffee
14Spotlight on
Viva la Festival of Colour
16What’s on
Festival of Colour Map
18On/Off
What’s On & What’s not
19On point
Like There’s No Tomorrow
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Creations
Henry Hargreaves
23On the town
Loving it Live
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Concerts
Mel Parsons
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Inspiration
4 Concept
6 Concert
18 Destinations
Poetry by Liz Breslin
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concept
symposium
In Ancient Greece, the symposium was a
tightly choreographed social occasion where
participants gathered to converse about
life and literature whilst enjoying wine,
entertainment and a convivial atmosphere.
The everyday restraints of their regimented
environment were cast away, and instead
space was made for discussion, music, dance,
jokes, games of skill and balance.
This special edition takes an insider’s glance
at the sumptuous symposium that is the
Festival of Colour. The following pages are
a tasty morsel of the decadent portions of
dance, drama, music, sculpture, photography
and painting on offer over the six days of the
Festival. Based in Wanaka and reaching out
to Queenstown, Bannockburn and Cromwell,
the Festival brings a transformative week of
performance, art and talks to Central Otago.
The works and artists we are lucky enough
to have in our midst provide scope for
inspiration, reflection and celebration, as did
the symposia of classical times. Read ON to
discover our views on what to see and where
to be seen this Festival season.
ANNABEL WILSON
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creativity is fed by the same thing, and of
course by the other artists that you get to
know so closely. Everyone is very humble
and real in Wanaka, no one’s trying just
for the sake of being an artist.
concerts
Since releasing their debut EP in 2013,
Wanaka electronic duo Arma del Amor
(instrumentalist Danny Fairley AKA
Civilian Sol and vocalist Martine Harding)
have been called everything from
dynamic and unearthly, to symbiotic, to
hypnotic. They tore the hills down at this
year’s Rhythm & Alps festival and they’re
soon to release their first full-length
album. LAURA WILLIAMSON had a chat
with Martine about origins, ink and the
meaning of “Love Gun”.
You’ve both been kicking around the
Wanaka music scene for a while. Who’s
idea was it to form a band?
We’d both had our own solo projects
going long before we met each other in
2011. We actually went on an acoustic
tour together as separate acts at the
end of that year, and it was around then
that we chatted about starting a project
together. We both wanted to create
music people could get up and dance to,
but also relax and get all daydreamy to.
Like The White Stripes, The Kills and
Sonny & Cher, you are a boy-girl duo.
Is there a yin and yang power in musical
collaboration between the sexes?
Definitely! Me and Danny have slowly
worked each other out, our strengths,
weaknesses and have found a solid way
to work together and get the best out of
each other.
We looked up “Arma del Amor” and we’re
pretty sure it translates to “Love Gun”. Is
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PHOTO: Qfoto.NZ.
ARMA DEL
AMOR
What’s the first album you ever owned?
Mine was The Commodore’s ‘Natural
High’. It’s actually quite good.
That’s some good funk right there! I was
a 90’s frother, so obviously mine was
Spice Girls on Compact Disc. That. I.
Thraaaashed. Danny cranked Smashing
Pumpkins ‘Siamese Dream’.
mention there’s an age gap?
Did
I
Describe your sound in one sentence.
A blend of hypnotic vocals over dreamy
pads and chest-swelling bass.
What’s ON for the rest of 2015?
Album. Tour. Live shows. NZ. The world!
See Arma del Amor live at the Central
Lake Crystal Palace on Saturday 25
April at 11pm. And don’t miss the After
Dark after party at Gin & Raspberry.
this a reference to: A) the KISS song, B)
naughty stuff, or C) something else totally?
B! Naaa ... It was a name that Danny
came up with while travelling. We were
pressed to find a name as our song
was being released on a video, so after
scrambling through ideas he came up
with that. We like the symmetry of it and
also the ambiguous meaning. Make of it
what you will.
Which one of you has the most tattoos?
Danny, the ‘International Ink Addict’.
Who would win in an eighties electronica
smack-down between Human League,
New Order and Depeche Mode?
Depeche Mode and New Order would
have it out for a while, but then Depeche
Mode would drop ‘Enjoy the Silence’
and they would win.
Wanaka has an extraordinary creative
scene that just seems to keep growing.
What is it about this place that fosters
such good art?
There are a lot of like-minded people
in Wanaka, and I’d say they are drawn
by the town’s beauty and power. Their
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on the beat
LIPS
G I G A L E R T:
Long live the synthesiser, long live lips!
When I think of LIPS, I think of black and red. LIPS is the pseudonym/public
persona of Kiwi-bred, New York-based electro pop artist Stephanie Brown,
and the black is for her Noir-esque sonic landscapes, dark takes on the early
days of synth, like ‘Night Call’ a, yes, driving cover of Kavinsky’s track from
the Drive soundtrack. It’s very eighties, but what the eighties would have
been if they’d been bleaker and smarter and Rick Astley had never been
born. Then there’s the Daft Punk-y ‘Freddy Bardot’, upbeat, yet still with a
touch of the femme fatale: “If you're thinking about dating Freddy Bardot /
One thing you should know / Freddy Bardot has been down on his knees /
Every day Freddy beggin' me please.”
The red, of course, is for LIPS; all
of Brown’s pubilicity and cover
photographs feature the LIPS character,
a pair of big red lips on legs – lips
not painted on, but worn, as a sort
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four dudes standing in front of a wall,
for example. I use LIPS in all my press
photographs and videos. She is the
face of [the band] LIPS. She represents
the female songwriter/producer, as
well as the voice of unique creative
expression that we all have.”
A native of Devonport on Auckland’s
North Shore, Brown played keyboard
for the likes of Anika Moa before
heading to New York in 2007. Her
song ‘Everything to me’ won the Silver
Scroll, New Zealand’s top songwriting
award, in 2012, and her second EP,
Look, Listen was released later that
year. A full-length album is due later
in 2015.
Brown credits her classic electronic
sound to an eighties youth. “I was
born in the eighties, so I definitely
listened to that music growing up. I
started out as a keyboard player and I
love the sound of old vintage synths.”
This nostalgia is especially evident in
her cover of Paul Young's 'Every Time
You Go Away' (which, she informs us,
was actually written by Darryl Hall from
Hall and Oates!). “I really wanted to try
a super stripped down version of that
song so the melody was naked and
exposed. I changed the verse but the
chorus is the same,” she says.
You can catch LIPS twice at the year’s
Festival of Colour. She arranged the
music for Rochelle Bright’s Daffodils, a
poignant portrait of Bright’s childhood
set to a Kiwiana songbook including
Crowded House, the Mint Chicks and
Blam Blam Blam. And LIPS will playing
as part of the After Dark programme.
LIPS performs as a two-piece, Brown
on vocals, bass synth, lead and rhythm
synth, and Fen Ikner taking on vocal,
drum and sampling duties. Their set
is entirely live, no pre-recording, and
for the Festival of Colour gig they’ll
be joined for a few songs by the third
Daffodils band member, Abraham
Kunin, on guitar.
To misquote Hall and Oates – LIPS is on
our list for the 2015 Festival of Colour. x
LAURA WILLIAMSON
Culinary flair = Japanese fare.
Sasanoki, high on Ardmore.
of replacement head, a or mask. As
Brown explains, “I wanted to create a
character to represent my music, to be
the face of Lips instead of me. So many
band photographs look the same,
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THE WINE PROJECT
“There in the glass was the soil of a place and in that soil was a soul”
- Java Dance Company
Living here among the vine-embroidered hillsides of Central Otago, we
know what Bacchus was about. We understand wine to be more than a
drink, or something to accompany our food. It is a time, a place and a
culture, each glass the conclusion of an equation that reflects the soil, the
climate, the aspect, the zeitgeist and the history of the patch of land from
which its grapes came, as well as the knowledge of the winemaker, her or
his training, skill, tastes and, sometimes, life story.
So it’s appropriate that it is here we’ll
see the world premiere of ‘The Wine
Project’, the latest offering from
Wellington’s Java Dance Company.
The project had its inception in French
wine country, during a residency at La
Porte Peinte Centres Pour les Arts in
Noyers-sur-Serein, a medieval village
in Burgundy, France, and it equates
the process of wine-making, to that
of the civilising of humanity. Through
dance, the transformation of the simple
singular grape to the multiply layered
textures and flavours becomes a
journey from basic human needs to the
complexities of societies: war, religion,
learning and maybe even love.
We can’t wait. Java was founded in
2003 by choreographer Sacha Copland
and graduates of the New Zealand
School of Dance, and the troupe has
become known for innovation. Their
work ‘Back of the Bus’ takes place on
an actual bus as it rolls through city
streets, while ‘Rise’ saw the dancers
covered in flour and dough.
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We heard the workshopping process
for ‘The Wine Project’ included
building images based on a late-night
Pinot Noir tasting as well as rolling
around with a bunch of fruit and
spices. We’re expecting something
squishy, and aromatic—just like our
favourite wines.
When Eb & Sparrow perform live, they create a magical atmosphere that
hypnotises their audience, instantly soothing all souls in the room - worth
seeing for this reason alone.
The secret ingredient of this audible
elixir is lead singer Ebony Lamb’s
velveteen vocals, peppered with
occasional soul-tingling wails, at
once nostalgic and uplifting. Her
voice flows like wine, casting a glow
over an undulating soundscape of
guitar, lap steel, bass, percussion,
harmonica, drums and backing
vocals - punctuated by occasional
country’n’westernesque troublemaker
trumpet. Lamb’s alto has a sharp
edge reminiscent of a rough-hewn
jewel, polished when pushed through
carefully-controlled vocal chords to
reveal prismatic depths.
Eb & Sparrow are Ebony Lamb, Bryn
Heveldt, Nick Brown, Jason Johnson
and Chris Winter - a 5-piece nu-folk/
Americana band based in Wellington.
With 3 EPs already under their belts,
they launched their debut full-length
album in September 2014. This 10song self-titled album was recorded
by award-winning producer Ben
Edwards, at his Sitting Room Studio
in Lyttelton.
Rave reviews have
ensued, a popularity perhaps aided by
the raw vulnerability of Lamb’s lyrical
storytelling. The bittersweet catalyst
of Lamb’s journey to becoming a
celebrated singer-songwriter was a
relationship breakup six years ago.
The new album weaves together
themes of nature, longing and
loneliness. Musical comparisons are
inevitable, with Eb inspiring name
dropping of the likes of Cowboy
Junkies, Cat Power, KD Lang, Gillian
Welch, even Janis Joplin. In Lamb’s
own words, they “cast aching
crescendoes of a time long gone, into
a modern landscape.”
Eb & Sparrow effortlessly weave a sense
of timelessness with contemporary
themes, a yearning for simplicity and
connection. These talented and soulful
musicians are worth making the time
for. Catch them at the After Dark
session, Friday 24 April, 11pm, Central
Lakes Trust Crystal Palace.
Find out more at: ebandsparrow.co.nz
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of wrecked beauty, Marianne Faithfull
recorded this Sarah Vaughan cover, a
jazzy ode to the world of the caffeine
blues, where everybody’s lonely and
“love’s a hand me down brew.”
on the scene
NIGHTHAWKS, 1942 by Edward
Hopper
Type of art: Painting
Captured on canvas, the exact feeling
of giving oneself over to insomnia,
when there is nothing left to do but to
drink coffee long after dark together,
yet alone, with the other denizens of
urban sleeplessness.
COFFEE by Richard Brautigan
Type of art: Poem
“Sometimes life is merely a matter of
coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of
coffee affords.”
PORTLANDIA
Type of art: TV show
The Portlandia coffee shop manifesto:
No chatter at counter, no bathroom
use before you order, leave fresh baked
goods to the bakeries, no cell phones,
no questions.
INTERGALACTIC by the Beastie Boys
Type of art: Rap
OK, not entirely about coffee, but how
about this lyric? Java gold. “When
it comes to beats, well I’m a fiend / I
like my sugar with coffee and cream / I
got to keep it going, keep it going full
steam.”
Be part of the Café buzz every night
during the Festival of Colour at Federal
Diner. Performances at 5pm and 7pm.
LAURA WILLIAMSON
The
ART OF COFFEE
Top Wanaka coffee haunt Federal Diner will this April host the world premiere
of Café, a site-specific play written by Rachel Callinan and Paul McLaughlin
about a busy café that keeps getting busier—due, it turns out, to the javarrific ministrations of hipster barista Che. But what will happen when the cafe
runs out of the good stuff?
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PROUD SUPPORTERS OF THE WORLD PREMIERE OF
CAFE - A NEW SITE SPECIFIC PLAY BY RACHEL CALLINAN AND PAUL MCLAUGHLIN
creativity, so to get into the Café
groove, here are five of our fav
examples of coffee-inspired art.
BLACK COFFEE by Marianne Faithful
Type of art: Song
Long after she traded in her role of Mick
Jagger’s ingénue to that of paragon
photo: www.wanaka.tv
Coffee has long been the subject of
art, maybe because it’s an inexpensive
indulgence artists have always been
able to afford, maybe because it’s a
minor vice that offers a hint of edge
without the creatively destructive
potential of alcohol or, say, smack.
Either way, we love a bit of caffeine
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PHOTO: WANAKA.TV
spotlight on
Best of the Fest:
VIVA LA FESTIVAL OF COLOUR
Look alive, Lakes District - “the best little arts festival in New Zealand”
is upon us. Now in its tenth year, the biannual Festival of Colour brings a
vibrant array of top international circus, dance, music and theatre acts as
well as art, photography and Aspiring Conversations to Central Otago for
one unforgettable week in April. Clear your calendar from April 21 – 27
and prepare to be wowed as you enter a whimsical world of cutting edge
performance and talks.
There’s much in store to charm the
senses and nourish the mind. The punchy
programme features the world premieres
of two Dave Armstrong plays as well as
Knee Deep, the first ever circus staged
in the festival’s Central Lakes Trust
Crystal Palace, and the 2014 Auckland
Theatre Award winning play Daffodils –
a beguiling love story punctuated with
quintessential Kiwi music hits.
Federal Diner hosts the world premiere
of Café, the final chapter in the intimate
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series (Hotel, Salon) in which audience
members become voyeurs within a sitespecific play set in a buzzing coffee house.
Elements of what you experience at the
Festival may delight or surprise you. We’ll
see confronting community theatre that
raises questions around youth and risktaking behaviour (pg 19). Dance dynamo
Douglas Wright brings his provocative
new work The Kiss Inside south of the
Bombay Hills for the first time. The
visual arts are well represented: giant
typography will be crafted live by Young
Gifted & Broke’s Nigel Roberts as he is
accompanied by djs at Gin and Raspberry.
Large scale photography from Kiwi-boydone-good-in-NYC Henry Hargreaves
(pg 20) is bound to bewitch. Dark Cloud
White Light promises to bring an empirical
exploration of the Central landscape
through Joe Michael’s fully immersive
installation – lie back and take it all in
from the comfort of a shaggy sheepskin
beanbag!
And
Gallery
33 features an exhibition
of new works by abstract
expressionist painter Cristina
Popovici.
In terms of music, the line
up is loaded with the full
spectrum of gigs from a
fusion of jazz and classical
sounds in Mike Nock’s
Vicissitudes to the meteoric
electronica of local darlings D
affo
Arma del Amor (pg 6).
dils
Julia Deans opens Joni
Mitchell’s songbook in Both
Sides Now – interpreting
Mitchell’s imagery in a
profoundly personal way.
The new After Dark sessions
will see venues transformed
as festival-goers get their
late-night jive on at the likes of Civilian
Sol, Eb and Sparrow and LIPS (pg 8 ).
Aspiring Conversations, the festival’s
literary, science and socio-political
debating sessions, return with talks from
documentary-maker and photographer
Craig Potton, internationally renowned
psychologist Michael Corballis and
writers Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist.
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Mike Nocks
Dark Cloud White Light
Douglas Wright
The Kiss Inside
Sparking things off will be Ahi Kaa – Fires
of Occupation where artists Ross Hemera,
Priscilla Cowie and Su Proebster igniting
sculptures on and off the lake.
We are in for a treat. In the words of Arma
del Amor’s Martine Harding, “let this light
you up.”
ANNABEL WILSON
Editor / Festival of Colour Trustee
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After
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what's on
festival of colour
FULL PROGRAMME
FRIDAY 17 APRIL
w Cristina Popovici exhibition
opening, Gallery 33, at 5pm.
MONDAY 20 APRIL
w Like There’s No Tomorrow (preview),
7pm, Gin & Raspberry
w Ahi Ka – Fires of Occupation,
7.30pm, Wanaka Lakefront
w Café, 5pm & 7pm, Federal Diner
w Like There’s No Tomorrow, 7pm, Gin
& Raspberry
w Mike Nock Trio and NZTrio, 7pm,
Lake Wanaka Centre
w The Ballad of Backbone Joe, 7pm,
Luggate Memorial Hall
w Daffodils, 8.30pm, Central Lakes
Trust Crystal Palace
TUESDAY 21 APRIL
w Joseph Michael - Dark cloud / white
light, 10am-7pm, Armstrong Room,
Lake Wanaka Centre (April 21-27)
w The Coffee Cantata, 12noon & 10pm,
Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace
w The Bookbinder, 4pm, Masonic
Lodge
w Café, 5pm & 7pm, Federal Diner
w Central, 7pm, Queenstown
Memorial Hall
w Like There’s No Tomorrow, 7pm, Gin
& Raspberry
w The Ballad of Backbone Joe, 7pm,
Luggate Memorial Hall
w Knee Deep – Casus Circus, 6pm
& 8pm, Central Lakes Trust Crystal
Palace
w The Kiss Inside, 8pm, Lake Wanaka
Centre
WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL
w The Bookbinder, 11am & 6pm,
Masonic Lodge
w The Wine Project, 12noon & 11pm,
Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace
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w The Ballad of Backbone Joe, 7pm,
Luggate Memorial Hall
w Daffodils, 8.30pm, Central Lakes
Trust Crystal Palace
LIPS, 11pm, Central Lakes Trust
Crystal Palace
FRIDAY 24 APRIL
w Anzac Eve, 11am & 6pm, Masonic
Lodge
w Art at Home, Wanaka residences
w True Stories Told Live, 2pm, Central
Lakes Trust Crystal Palace
w Café, 5pm & 7pm, Federal Diner
w Central, 7pm, Lake Wanaka Centre
w Like There’s No Tomorrow, 7pm, Gin
& Raspberry
w Royale Riot, 7pm, Hawea Flat Hall
w Both Sides Now, 8.30pm, Central
Lakes Trust Crystal Palace
Eb & Sparrow, 11pm, Central
Lakes Trust Crystal Palace
Knee Deep – Casus Circus
SUNDAY 26 APRIL
w Walking and Wilderness- Craig
Potton, Sir Alan Mark and Alison
Ballance, 10am, Central Lakes Trust
Crystal Palace
w Generation Rent - Shamubeel
Eaqub and Andrew Deans, 11.30am,
Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace
w Southern Sinfonia, 1pm, Lake
Wanaka Centre
w Mel Parsons, 3pm, Central Lakes
Trust Crystal Palace
w Café, 5pm & 7pm, Federal Diner
w Rodger Fox Big Band, 8.30pm,
Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace
MONDAY 27 APRIL
THURSDAY 23 APRIL
w The Wandering Mind - Michael
Corballis, 2pm, Central Lakes Trust
Crystal Palace
w Behind the Curtain and Inside the
Notes, 12noon, Central Lakes Trust
Crystal Palace
w Café, 5pm & 7pm, Federal Diner
w The Bookbinder, 6pm, Masonic
Lodge
w Central, 7pm, Lake Wanaka Centre
w Like There’s No Tomorrow, 7pm, Gin
& Raspberry
w Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir,
6pm, Holy Family Catholic Church
w Café, 5pm & 7pm, Federal Diner
w Like There’s No Tomorrow, 7pm, Gin
& Raspberry
w Royale Riot, 7pm, Bannockburn
Memorial Hall
w The Hard Road, 8.30pm, Central
Lakes Trust Crystal Palace
Arma del Amor, 11pm, Central
Lakes Trust Crystal Palace
Jake Kilby, Civilian Sol and street
artist Nigel Roberts, 12am, Gin &
Raspberry
w The Pianist, 12noon, Lake Wanaka
Centre
Julia Deans: Both Sides Now & The Hard Road
SATURDAY 25 APRIL
w Street Theatre, 12noon, CBD
w The Somewhat Crazy Worlds of
Simsion and Buist, 12.30pm, Central
Lakes Trust Crystal Palace
w Michael Houstoun Plays the Goldberg
Variations, 2pm, Lake Wanaka Centre
Street Theatre with Fraser Hooper
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1 Central Lakes Trust
Crystal Palace
2 Lake Wanaka Centre
3 Masonic Lodge
4 Luggate Memorial Hall
5 Hawea Flat Hall
6 Holy Family Church
7 Federal Diner
8 Gin & Raspberry
9 Francesca’s Kitchen
10 Urban Grind
11 Lot3
12 Cherry May
13 Gallery 33
14 Metalworks Wanaka
15 Wanaka Arts Centre
16 Beanie Cafe
17 Minaret Lodge
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ON
OFF
Philanthropy
Philandering
Night owls
Morning breath
Fire art
Getting fired
Muses
Short fuses
Autumn orange
Annoying Orange
Double shots
Decaf
on point
LIKE THERE’S
NO TOMORROW preview
Like There’s No Tomorrow is no morality
play. The show is an ‘honest fiction’,
evolving from the real life stories of
teenagers in Auckland and Wanaka to
raise questions around issues that affect
young people in every New Zealand
community: risk taking, identity, sexuality,
dependence, machismo, peer pressure.
There are no answers here. But the show
shines a light on some of the darker parts
of being a teen and what this means.
Through the experience of working in
this immersive theatre production, the
cast and crew have been challenged to
explore the complexities of life for Gen
Z and they’re now inviting their audience
to join them. The line between performer
and audience is blurred as theatre-goers
become part of the action at an after-ball
party, two weeks since the protagonist
has died in a drunken prank gone wrong.
Joseph’s mates are grieving in their own
ways; his sister is struggling to define who
she is in the mess he’s left behind and his
girlfriend is emerging from a self-induced
haze. But the recently deceased Joseph
isn’t a ghost. He’s merely “different
versions of me based on something I
may have said once or a way I may have
made them feel, all mixed in together
and fragmented like shattered glass.”
It’s the spectators who gather up the
shrapnel of Joey and what he represents
as the actors lead the audience from
space to space, moment to moment. At
the show’s heart is a raw authenticity that
resonates long after. This is theatre that
really matters.
ANNABEL WILSON
creations
FOOD FOR
THOUGHT:
Henry Hargreaves
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New York-based Kiwi photographer Henry Hargreaves
started his career in front of the camera as a model,
appearing in campaigns for brands like Prada, Givenchy
and YSL. These days, he is finding success behind the
lens, gaining an international following thanks to his
provocative still lifes, including ‘No Seconds’, depicting
the last meal request of America’s most notorious death
row inmates, and ‘Burning Calories’, a series featuring
fast food on fire, literally burning. It’s work that always
evokes a reaction – after all, everyone can relate to
food! Henry also recently shot the cover of Eat, Pray,
Love author Elizabeth Gilbert’s latest book. Check the
following pages for a sampling of Hargreaves’ work,
and see it in real life during the Festival of Colour. He’ll
be exhibiting at four locations with great food of their
own: Lot3, Urban Grind, Cherry May and Francesca’s
Italian Restaurant. henryhargreaves.com
From ‘Food of the Rainbow’ series
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on the town
LOVING IT LIVE
During the Festival, if you fancy a drink and some live
music before or after a show, you’re in luck. Pop in for
a pint at one of Wanaka’s many watering holes and
you’re likely to catch loquacious sounds from a top
local act. ONmag has the skinny on two hot venues
and drinks to sample if you want to rock out
Central-style.
ROCK HOPPER at Speights Ale House
Thursday April 23, 8 – 10pm
Sound: Wanaka’s favourite party band.
Sexy covers and acoustic grooves.
Spot: Big tables outside and in, rural-chic
décor of wood and stone, cosy nooks for
canoodling.
Drink match: Speights triple hop pilsner.
A clean, Czech-inspired lager with a
biscuity finish.
From ‘Deep Fried Gadgets’ series
CIVILIAN SOL with street artist NIGEL
ROBERTS at Gin & Raspberry
Friday April 25, midnight
Sound: Ear candy for late night shufflers
and after party shakers. Cut loose music.
Spot: An upstairs haven. Cocktails and
dreams, 1920s style.
Drink match: The Gin and Raspberry is
an absolute must. Select either Hayman’s
London Dry Gin or No.3 Gin, combined
with Chambord, lemon juice, raspberries,
sugar syrup, fresh mint with a raspberry
sugar rim. Seductively delicious.
Nigel Roberts
LOVING IT LIVE with NIGEL ROBERTS
I first met Nige back in the heyday of the
Daggers crew, when he was making a
skateboarding movie on Super 8. These
days he’s still interested in all things
old-school and analogue, having been
coined the Kiwi “king of typography”
by endemicworld’s Elliot Alexander. As
part of the Festival of Colour’s new After
Dark series, he’ll be showcasing his
signwriting talents at Gin and Raspberry
over the itchy-feet beats of Civilian
Sol and Jake Kilby. It’s going to be a
late-night, laissez faire affair, a fusion
of expression, art and soul. Bring your
ticket from the Arma del Amor gig for
free entry, or try your luck on the door
for just ten bucks.
wONdering where to go for a debrief on the show? ON also recommends… Red
Star for the best burgers in NZ, The Luggate pub for a roast, the Bannockburn pub for
a pinot noir, Amigos for margaritas, Lala Land for James’ Breakfast at Tiffany’s cocktail,
The White House for affagato, Fitzpatricks for a cheeky dram of whisky.
ANNABEL WILSON
From ‘Gingerbread and Candy Art Galleries’ series
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concerts
Mel Parsons grew up on a farm near
Cape Foulwind, which is a long way
from anywhere, but perhaps the perfect
place to incubate a musical sensibility
shaped by repeated playings of the
records of Cat Stevens, Fleetwood Mac
and Dire Straits (we hear she has a crush
on Mark Knopfler, but that might just be
a rumour). She started playing piano as
a child, an instrument she says she still
plays “badly”, but it was learning guitar
as a teenager that cemented her future
career. “I got hooked,” she explains.
Drylands, her third full-length album,
recorded in Wellington with engineer
Lee Prebble (Phoenix Foundation, The
Black Seeds), drops April 10 and the first
single, the haunting 'Fly Away', is out
now. Wanaka-ites might remember it as
Parson's number from the Fly My Pretties
gig at Lake Wanaka Centre in 2013. It
was one of the stand-out shows of the
night, on a night with many stand-outs.
Great music aside, autumn is a time
when many South Islanders’ thoughts
turn to snow, so we thought we'd fire a
few ski-related queries her way.
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We hear you're a Mount Olympus clubby
from way back. When did you start skiing
there?
I've been going up there since I was
about three years old. We used to make
the trek over from the West Coast for ski
weeks.
What's your favourite run at Olympus?
I'd have to say Ardies, or Little Alaska.
We love Ardies too! Great hike, even
better slide down. Ski of choice?
The Kingswood SMB.
Most epic powder day?
I've had a few good ones.
Canada [Parsons worked in
Alberta as a tree planter], and
at the start of 2013 when we
with the weather.
Fernie in
BC and
in Austria
got lucky
Skiing with music: ON or off?
I do have headphones in my helmet, and
I sometimes listen to music when I'm
skiing alone. But it's not entirely safe; I
tend to get carried away with music.
Catch Mel Parsons live at Central
Lakes Trust Crystal Palace, Sunday 26
April at 3pm.
J
Anyone who has heard Mel Parsons
sing will know she possesses a sublime
set of pipes and can turn a phrase
that'll both make you think and break
your heart. But did you know she's also
a kick-ass skier? LAURA WILLIAMSON
caught up with the up and coming
singer-songwriter to find out more.
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Winter 2015
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