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On this episode of the Scenery we charged our glasses with some fresh cider and spoke to Warwick and Steve from Lobo Cider and the Hills Cider Company respectively. Also on the agenda  was the latest goings on at Espionage Gallery with curator Joshua Smith.

It is an undeniable fact that cider has exploded within the liquor industry over the last four or so years. From the meager offerings of Foster’s brewed Strongbow and Mercury brands, the category has now increased to include imported, more domestic brewed, supermarket home brand and craft cider.

Craft cider, much like craft beer, has introduced the consumer to a completely different level of product. Even within the category of craft cider you could distinctly seperate the category into two parts: cider made by brewers, and cider made by wine makers.

Cider made with the brewing mentality tends to be a fuller, bolder drink with the idea mainly for it to be consumed on its own. Wine makers on the other hand tend to look at the making of cider much like wine, and try to marry to fruit and acid elements of the cider to create a more subtle, fresh drink.

It’s the latter approach to cider that has seen it added to degustations, and food matchings particularly with cheeses, pork dishes and spicy foods. A burgeoning culture of cider is underway, with various craft producers existing in the Adelaide Hills, using Hills apples. Houghtons, Lobo and the Hills Cider Company are among the leaders of the craft cider category in Australia. The Scenery caught up with Warwick Billings of Lobo and Steve Dorman of the Hills Cider Company.

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Contrary to current belief, street art and particularly stencil art, did exist before Exit Through the Gift Shop. We caught up with Espionage Gallery curator Joshua Smith to talk about A Cut Above Two international stencil art exhibition featuring some of the world’s best stencil artist. We also took this opportunity to get a quick history on Adelaide stencil art from Josh, and a little bit about how the man himself works.

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This week’s feature track comes from Vancouver. Rock Duo Japandroids released their highly anticipated follow up to their debut, Celebration Rock. We quickly grabbed the first song that we could off the new record which just happened to be…

 

 

So Long, and thanks for all the fish.

For the sake of anonymity, let’s call him Mr Smith

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It was Good Friday…

…and all through the city not a creature was stirring…

…except for the bewildered peoples of non-christian faiths.

And three chaps in a studio planning for a no content holiday show. That was until Scenery producer Ryan Winter announced that he had indeed sourced some content for the show, which did need to played to the souls grieving the untimely death of zombie Jesus.

Ryan caught up with curator and art dealer Joshua Smith of Espionage Gallery. Now I don’t know if this is an amalgamation of memories from around the same time, but I’m pretty sure the first time I saw Joshua’s work was when a friend of mine was showing me around the upstairs of the old Fad Bar. It was a jaw droppingly good multi-layered stencil of a 50/60s styled lady on canvas, and me being a big fan of stencil art, immediately fell in love with his work. The next time I came across him I was drunk at the Highway, and we were on the same quiz team together. We chatted throughout the night about street art and stencil techniques, all of which I have now forgotten, and then I never saw him again.  But time and time again I would see his work pop all over this fair city and over the years he has developed an impeccable reputation amongst the Adelaide art scene, the good one.

Along with producing his own work, he also curates Espionage Gallery, located just off Rundle Mall. At the time this story was featured on the Scenery, Espionage was hosting ‘Limited Edition’, featuring the art of some Scenery favorites including Jake One & Two, Twoone, Ankles and Joshua Smith himself. The idea being for each artist to make a few copies of the same print, hence limited edition, with the idea of encouraging people who would not normally buy, or who could not afford to purchase art, the opportunity.

Ryan also spoke with artist Cameron Brideoake, whose exhibition followed ‘Limited Edition’, entitled ‘Mythmaker’.

‘Mythmakers’ explored Cameron’s fascination with world culture and ancient history, and then marrying the two with street art.

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Espionage is currently hosting the exhibition ‘Les Dessinatrices’, an all female exhibition featuring artists from around the world, as well as a host of local talent.

This week feature track must belong to Willis Earl Beal. The man who reportedly puts up posters in his home town of Seattle with his phone number and instructions to ring it anytime to have him sing you a song down the line. He’ll also send you a picture if you send him a self addressed envelope. We played ‘Ghost Robot’ off his Acousmatic Sorcery LP, unfortunately I couldn’t find a version on the net, so here’s the lead single ‘Monotony’.

Success. Goodbye.