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Puff 'n' Stuff.
It does Puff's heart good to see so freakin' much CD launch action happening in our buzzin' little town at the moment. For example, GG Alan Bindig (also known as "that bloke what plays bass in The Backseat Romeos") is launching his solo opus 'Pirate Lullabies' at the Jade Monkey on Sun 17 July, with support from quirky one-man freakout Raw Sex.
Straight To Video have also got their debut CD sorted: so sorted,
in fact, that they're launching it at the Jade Monkey on Fri
5 Aug.
Dylan Ferguson is launching his debut CD 'Traveler Walk Traveler Talk' at the Jade Monkey on Thurs 21 July, with Poetikool Justice and Lord Stompy filling out the bill nicely. It'll also be Dylan's last local show for a good long while since he's heading off to travel (and, Puff presumes, both walk and talk) around Europe for six months. Get along and wish him well.
Krysalis have committed their inspirational musings to disc
and now all that's left is to launch it. As it happens, that's
exactly what they're planning to do on Sat 30 July at the Enigma
Bar, with Remedy and the Matt Winter Band.
And the hot launch action just keeps coming! The Unspoken Things have also set themselves a Jade Monkey date by which to be launch-ready: Sat 6 Aug.
With their brilliantly-named new CD-EP 'Delusions Of Grandchildren'
out right this second, it's a delight to see the ever-rockin'
Screamfeeder back in our neck of the woods: specifically, the
woods-neck that takes in Jive on Thurs 14 July, with support
from Pharaohs.
Speaking of Pharaohs, they'll be tearing up the Rhino Room on Sat 16 July with stoner rock dudes Leather Messiah plus Joel & Louis kicking it on the decks.
Paul Kelly might have only just been here doing his special
'One Billion Songs In A Row' show at the Cabaret Festival (oh,
all right: it was actually 'Paul Kelly A-Z'), but he's back
with his newest combo The Stormwater Boys for two nights at
the Gov on Sat 23 July and Sun 24 July to promote his brand
new 'Foggy Highway' CD. Ms Clare Bowditch will be lighting up
the stage in support both nights.
The last couple of times the The Rest played at Jive it completely sold out, and since they're going for a hat trick with a show on Sat 16 July (with Mal Webb and Modulus) you might want to get in early.
For those who have tickets, Fri 22 July will be a glorious night
of Interpol at Heaven. For those who haven't got them by now:
you could always go to a different show. Or maybe have an early
night: you look really tir... wait, have you been crying?
Stuff from Puff: A huge number of London gigs have been cancelled
in the wake of the recent Tube and bus bombs: Nate James, Sum
41, Prodigy, REM, El Presidente and Queens Of The Stone Age
all immediately cancelled their shows for the weekend as authorities
attempt to make sense of the appalling attack... Speaking
of QOTSA, Josh Homme has finally revealed why he sacked bassist
Nick Oliveri in 2004 and why he won't countenance his former
best friend and co-founder returning to the fold: on Wed 6 July
he told BBC Radio's Zane Lowe that he'd fired his old pal after
allegedly discovering that Oliveri had been physically abusing
his girlfriend (Oliveri's not Homme's: Puff can't imagine a
world where Brodie Dalle would put up with that sort of behaviour)...
And speaking of Sum 41, as we were mere seconds ago,
lead singer Deryck Whibley has reportedly asked girlfriend Avril
Lavinge to tie the knot. No word on when the merger - sorry,
marriage - will take place... It's been a
slow fortnight for reformation news, but at least The Hot Snakes
have kept the bands-splitting-up fires burning by announcing
that they're calling it a day... Puff can't vouch for
the accuracy of this one, but according to Popbitch The Darkness's
Justin Hawkins is set to star in a celebrity darts program on
cable service Bravo: the thing that has Puff suspicious is the
proposed title of 'I Believe In A Thing Called Darts'... Popbitch
also reckons that Morrissey's longtime guitarist/co-songwriter
Boz Boorer has "had enough", quit the organisation and moved
to Europe. If true, he's still be Morrissey's longest standing
continual collaborator at 12 years (fellow Smiths founder Johnny
Marr, meanwhile, managed about half that)... Everyone
loves lawsuits, so let's have a quick scan through what's going
on in the courts. For example, US rapper Cassidy (known to his
mum as Barry Reese), is sitting in a cell on charges of murder
until at least Tues 19 July after surrendering to police, applying
for bail at the preliminary hearing, having it set at $US500,000
and then overturned after appeal by the prosecution, who allege
that he and two other men opened fire on a group of three men
during an argument in his hometown of Philadelphia, killing
one... Meanwhile, the mother of TLC's Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes
is suing the manufacturers of the car she died in: Lopes's Mitsubishi
Montero sports utility overturned when she was driving it (and
about 12 passengers) whist on holiday in Honduras in 2001. All
the other passengers survived and many of them are busily suing
Lopes's estate even as Wanda Lopes-Colemon claims that Mitsubishi
deliberately failed to warn consumers that the car was "rollover
susceptible". Exact damages claimed haven't been revealed, but
the phrase "multi-million dollar" has been bandied about...
Amidst allegations that the LAPD deliberately withheld information
about the shooting murder of The Notorious B.I.G, aka Biggie
Smalls, aka Christopher Wallace, the wrongful death suit (the
civil court equivalent of a murder charge) brought against them
by his window Faith Evans and his mother Voletta Wallace has
been declared a mistrial. No new date has been set as yet...
meanwhile Biggie's former girlfriend, rapper Lil' Kim,
has been fined $US 50,000 and sentenced to a year and a day
in prison after being convicted on three counts of perjury and
one count of conspiracy after giving false evidence in court
over a shooting outside a New York radio station (she claimed
her then co-manager Damion Butler was not involved when a group
of men fired on rival rappers Capone-N-Noriega, which he unfortunately
then admitted as part of a plea bargain). She begins her sentence
in September... U2, meanwhile, have been
victorious in their suit against former stylist Lola Cashman
who had been trying to auction off some of their stage gear
(including that damned Stetson that Bono insisted on wearing
in 'Rattle & Hum'). Cashman insisted that the items were gifts,
while the band reckoned she'd pinched 'em: and what earthly
judge would dare rule against Bono?
Reckon you've got what it takes to prevail against all comers
in the exciting and glamorous world of competitive Rock Paper
Scissors? Then you'll be wanting to get along to Sky City for
the heats: every Friday in July has qualifying heats at the
Balcony Bar at 8pm, with the SA final happening on Fri 29 July.
The winner will then take the dreams of South Australia with
them to the Gold Coast for the nationals in August, and then
the Australian champ will head to the World Championship in
Toronto. Puff remembers many childhood arguments about how the
Rock being used was actually some sort of shale with sharp edges
who could therefore tear its way out of Paper, but early word
is that these sorts of distinctions are unlikely to fly at Sky
City. Mind you, just wait until they're faced with Puff's unbreakable
titanium Scissors...
Ooooh-hooo, witchy woman... Fiona Horne, everyone's favourite
former Def FX frontperson/occasional 'Beauty & The Beast' panelist/white
witch, will be revealing all about the magickal arts from her
new book 'The Coven: Making Magick Together' at Fowlers Live
on Sat 23 July. Of course, then she'll get thrown out of the
guild for revealing the secrets of... wait, Puff's thinking
of cabaret magicians. Sorry. Just remember, she's more scared
of you than you are of her. Or is that bears?
The Hipnote Sessions continue at the Wheatsheaf Hotel with the jazztastic Dave Duncan and Doug De Vries on Mon 18 July.
The Zephyr Quartet will present 'Gathering', a concert of pieces
specially selected in response to artist Hossein Valamanesh's
stunning exhibition at the Greenaway Art Gallery in Kent Town.
'Gathering' will feature the world premiere of Eleven Things
To Think About, a new piece by SA composer PJ Noack, and it's
on Sun 17 July.
Puff recently received a letter from Maddy Stentiford, a 15 year old reader of dB Magazine, who was asking about how she and her gig-loving peers might be better informed about all-ages gigs in Adelaide. A fair question, Maddy, and one that we're sure many a younger reader might be asking. That's why when we're informed that a gig is all-ages we make a point of pointing it out in the gig guide (usually with a start time as well, since all-ages gigs often start a little earlier than 18+) and in any interviews we might do with the artists. Also, Puff would like to to give mad props to the venues that make the not-inconsiderable effort to put on all-ages shows as often as possible (Enigma, Fowler's Live, the Gov and the Adelaide UniBar spring immediately to mind).
Those mighty Swedish rock men we like to call Millencolin have
announced their Australian tour on the back of the recent 'Kingwood'
album: they'll be rocking like only they can rock for an all-ages
show at Thebbie on Tues 20 Sept, with touring buddies The Hot
Lies.
The Jade Monkey will be alive with the sounds of alt.country, experimental noise action and indie-rock goodness when The Red Wall, Sunji Manskull (also known as "one of the Headdress Of Neon Flames fellows') and The No Through Road Band join forces on Fri 15 July.
Locals Ill Tempered might have split four years back, but they're
re-reading their old lyric sheets and down-tuning their axes
in preparation for reunion show at the Jade Monkey on Fri 22
July, with Stilkarma opening the night.
Ms Jayne-Anne Power has a whole new batch of r'n'b songs that she'd like to try out on you. Hence, she'd very much appreciate it if you'd pop into the Fad Bar & Gallery on Sun 17 July for her 4pm acoustic set.
Been wondering where dB Magazine's Hindley Street neighbour
The Comics Shop has moved to? Wonder no more: it's left the
Greater Union complex and moved a few blocks east to its new
home at 16A Peel St (between Hindley and Currie Streets). Tell
'em Puff sent you.
Art! Music! It's all happening at Fowlers Live on Sat 16 July with the all-ages Girl Lit Room - a celebration of our talented local gals in a range of artistic pursuits. There's music of many shades from Illicit Eve, Heather Frahn, Violet Town, LeighStarDust, Ria Loof, Kelly Matejcic, Blame Jayne, The Rebecca McLoughlin Band and more, plus visual art from the talented likes of Fran Callen, Steven Glass and Thomas Buchanan. It kicks off at 3pm - and it's all about inclusion, people! Isn't that right, Ms Frahn?
Last time Youth Group were scheduled for an Adelaide performance
they were waylaid by illness, but one hopes that won't occur
when they hit the Enigma Bar on Fri 19 Aug bearing copies of
their newly reissued 'Skeleton Jar' (with tracks re-recorded,
since they're now signed to ultra-hip US punk label Epitaph)
and The Red Riders in tow.
Ex-Adelaide-now-Sydney-resident songstress Christina Giorgio is returning to her old home town for a couple of shows in support of her 'Ripples' CD-EP: catch her and her band at the Prince Albert on Fri 15 July, the Twin Bays Winery in Normanville on Sat 16 July and the Crown & Anchor on Sun 17 July.
Bodyjar are back, baby, with a new label (Shock), an imminent
new single (Lights Out, heralding their new self-titled
album due in September) and a new tour that will see them kicking
out whatever jams need kicking at the Flinders Uni Tavern on
Sat 13 Aug, with The Hot Lies and Line Of Departure.
Alterna-heroine Thalia Zedek (she was in Come, don't you know)
is coming to the Grace Emily extraordinary soon - on Wed 3 Aug,
to be exact.
Come on, that's freaking plenty of reasons for you, dear reader,
to grab some throat lozenges, rug up warm and...
Get Out Of The House!
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