The First Annual Do What You Peel Festival

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Super Action Radio Team

FORMAT FESTIVAL 2012s FIRST ANNUAL DO WHAT YOU PEEL FESTIVAL, was the brain child of Radio Adelaide’s the Range presenter Casey Briggs, Format’s Managing Director Stan Mahoney and the Scenery’s Alex Gordon-Smith. Stan and Alex did all the cool stuff though. Stan got the street closed with his patented council whispering, much like his police whispering, but more vibrant. Alex came up with Mass Karaoke. And Casey used his maths degree to divide the live Radio Adelaide broadcast into separate yet equally important parts.

Radio Adelaide presenters from The Scenery, Behind the Screens, The Range and Streetcast joined forces to bring a three hour broadcast live from Peel St outside Format. They joined the South Australian Parkour Association, the Alley Cats, Choral Grief, Dancing Room, Collarbones, the Wild Things, artist Sam Howie, roving reporter John Dexter, handball curator Dom Mugavin, handball enthusiast Kat Botten and the unenthusiastic Matt Hayward in the live action festivities.

This was the fifth year of the Format Festival, which initially started out as a zine fair by one Ianto Ware. The consecutive Format Festivals have been an open call out to people with “ideas”, such as art exhibitions and installations, DIY fairs, weird group social experiments and live music extravaganzas. Behind the Screens’ Chrissy Kavanaugh and the Friday Range’s Casey Briggs spoke with Format’s Grandfather and Father, Dr Ianto Ware and the Reverend Stan Mahoney.

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The Scenery’s Alex Gordon-Smith and Streetcast’s lovely Jennie Lenman gave ya’ll a live first person description of the Peel St goings on. It’s not as easy as you’d think, except if you’re Jennie Lenman.

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One of the many special guests of the Do What You Peel Festival was the South Australian Parkour Association. The collective built a scaffold at the Hindley St end of Peel St to demonstrate their urban acrobatic

skills. They also helped paint the undercoat of the Format mural, which council failed to do because they didn’t have a ladder. Casey and Chrissy spoke with the president of South Australian Parkour, Travis Ronson.

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The Scenery’s John Dexterity Dexter acted as the broadcast’s roving reporter, always in the thick of it, trying to pry the facts out of the closed in secretive public (except for Dom, he was really great). Over this post we’ll have a few snippets from John’s day, all except the one when some jerk interrupts Angela and hogs the mic for himself, fuck that guy.

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As the date of the ‘Do What You Peel’ grew closer, the powers that be at Radio Adelaide were like “Alex, are you sure everyone that you’ve organised for the broadcast are going to be there” “Sure”, he said, confident that promises were promises, right?. No, not right. Due to various mis-communications and a case of “taking people for granted”, one of the programmed bands were unable to play.

Enter C. Briggs.

By a stroke of genius, unrelated to mathematics, Casey made the call to Collarbones asking if by chance they could play in Peel St. Fortunately they were more than happy to do so, and thus the day was saved.

An amusing side story though – Collarbones are Format alumni, and were clearly more than happy to play the street. We contacted them directly, rather than through their management (which I’m not sure even occurred to us). When their management eventually caught wind that Collarbones were playing the street, they lost their shit, fearing that the place they were actually playing that night “Rocket Bar” would feel slighted. So the guys asked if they could be billed as Sean Lockhart and Penelope Nettles, but Stan went for the Clavicle Brothers.

So here’s Sean and Penelope Clavicle’s cover of Ginuwine’s Pony featuring Paul the Hobo.

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Here’s John, with Hayward. I don’t think Hayward was wearing underwear, or something.

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Casey and Chrissy had a chat with Marcus and Travis from Collarbones.

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The Scenery’s Ryan Winter had been a busy man during the week. On the Sunday of the Festival he took a recorder down to the DIY fair to discover just what it was all about.

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Alleycats, organised by one Ben Reichstein, whilst a part of the Format Festival largely takes place away from it. Best described as a scavenger hunt on bicycles, people congregate at Format and then set off in competition. Casey and Chrissy spoke with Ben all about it.

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There has been a lot of talk about the Format Peel St mural, painted by artist Sam Howie with help from Tom Squires. Property Developer Zis Ginos’ son George certainly wasn’t a fan, nor a random council worker who without any authority demanded that Sam cease painting saying that “this isn’t art” and that there was “no way this was approved”. By the end of the same day Format had received an apology from council. I for one think that the mural was genius, there isn’t a day that goes by that people don’t stop to look at it, take photos and discuss what it is about it that they love/hate. That’s the beauty of the mural, the discussion that poured out of it.

Streetcast’s Jennie Lenman and the Scenery’s Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo spoke with the man behind the creation, artist Sam Howie to ask exactly what his intentions were with the wall. All you curious people, here it is straight from the horses mouth.

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The second live performance of the evening was by Adelaide’s The Wild Things, featuring Mark Curtis of Oh Minor and the British Robots, Luke Eygenraam of Central Deli Band, the Waterslides and Antony of the Future, photographer and all round sweet guy Hugh Langlands-Bell, and some guy who curiously shares two thirds of my name and can play an amazing array of instruments, Alex Gordon. I apologise, as I don’t know the track names, but they ended their set with this one

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Oh, and here’s John again with the lovely Kat Botten.

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…and then Mateo and Jen talking with the Wild Things

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Of course Do What You Peel wasn’t the only Friday event for the Format Festival. After the street festivities was the Steph Crase curated Great Band Party, featuring XiXi Cao, Big Richard Insect, Matt Banham, No Action, Summerflake and Good Heavens. Mateo and Jen caught up with Sarah from Sydney band Good Heavens, to chat about the formation of the band from the ashes of Wolfmother and the Red Sun band.

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The final day of the Format Festival was one that will live long in the memory, and also started our strange love affair with Melbourne band NOZU. I will hands down say that NOZU are the ultimate party music party band, never have so many hips moved so feverishly, and so much sweat turned a seedy basement into a tropical paradise through Sparkling Ale glasses. The Scenery’s Ryan Winter got a call from NOZU earlier in the week to talk the new album, and their expectations for the final day.

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Mass karaoke, the greatest thing to have ever happen. Imagine four hundred people, a choir, a dance group, a gigantic karaoke projection and a crazed man with glasses with a loud speaker all synchronised with an eighties love ballad. Radio Adelaide told me it was crazy, and that it would never work, but those of us that were there know. Credits – Stan Mahoney, Alex Gordon-Smith and Nick Moss aka big.dos. THE GREATEST THING TO HAVE EVER HAPPENED. YOU’RE WELCOME.

Apparently the broadcast run out of time to record the whole thing, but you’ll get the idea.

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The First Annual Do What You Peel Festival will sadly be the one and only, as Format is pushed out of its Peel St residence. That might be a good thing though, as who can really be arsed living up the expectations of such an awesome day.

Thanks to everyone involved, they are too numerous to list here, but you know who you are.

Love,

The Scenery

Oh and here’s a random photo of Alex and the Mayor. If you trawl the net hard enough you’ll find a picture of the Mayor dressed up in oversized baby clothes.

Night night.

Everyone blame Glans: Part One

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Super Action Radio Team

In the immortal words of MC Rakim, “It’s been a long time, I shouldn’tve left you” (without some podcasts to step to).

We are back. And we are recapping all that has been since we last spoke, namely The Scenery from September until now.

We shall be doing this with month by month recaps, before we re-format our website to suit our new doings.

As of February 16th The Scenery no longer broadcasts on community radio station Radio Adelaide, and instead we shall be releasing podcasts directly to our website, not to mention other forms of media. We sincerely thank Radio Adelaide, and are eternally grateful for all they done for us and IMPLORE you to subscribe to Australia’s first community radio station at www.radio.adelaide.edu.au/subcribe/

So there was September…

The ongoing Jade Monkey saga was a grievous one for the Adelaide live music scene. Many positives and negatives have since been born over the debate about Adelaide’s live music culture, that has seemingly drawn a line in the sand between the industry old guard, and the grass roots purveyors of culture.

The Scenery caught up with Zac the week of the Jade’s last show at it’s Twin Street abode.

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As it stands now the Jade Monkey are currently going through various legal processes in order the get a liquor license for a space at the rear of the St Paul’s complex. We wish Zac and Naomi all the best in their strenuous fight to re launch “The Jade”. We will endeavor to catch up with Zac in the coming weeks to keep you up to date with the Jade’s future.

By now you all should have heard of Fascination Street. A group of architects and designers who have furiously plied their wares all over our fair city. Their credits to date include Moving Music, Lost City, and The Depot to name a few. John caught up with Branko, Josh, Rene and Sarie back in September to talk about the idea behind Fascination Street, their motivations and their goals.

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September also saw Adelaide’s first glimpse at it’s Live Music Thinker in Residence, Martin Elbourne. Various stakeholders in the Adelaide Live Music Scene were invited to the World’s End Hotel to presumably rub shoulders with one another and get an idea of how M. Elbourne thought. The Scenery were in attendance and reported back as to how we thought the night went, and our impression of the man who is to save the scene.

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In a response to the growing criticism of the Adelaide live music scene, Fowler’s Live proprietor Peter Darwin announced his intentions to host a Music Awards ceremony for South Australian artists. There were many critics putting in their ten cents about the announcement, including one Ryan Winter and one Alex Gordon-Smith of the Scenery.

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It was that time of year again when we rustled up some torches and gum boots to go searching for the infamous Stan Mahoney and talk about the happenings of Format Festival 2012. Stan, along with gallery exhibition Rosanne Angry curator Amira H, joined Ryan, Alex and John in the studio to give us the low down on Format, the Festival, Rosanne and miscellaneous life advice.

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Don’t ask me why, but someone thought it would be a good idea to give Adelaide’s favourite seedy uncle Matthew Hayward his own segment. You don’t want to know how many takes it took…but here’s A Thought with Matthew Hayward.

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Finally. You may have heard the urban legend of ‘The Poisoner’, but you probably haven’t. In the interests of public safety, here’s the story behind the myth.

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And so we have it, the first, hastily done Scenery post in let’s not talk about how long. More to come imminently.

Your friends,

The Scenery.

Who listens to the Broken Hearted? – an Odyssey with Matthew Hayward & Ianto Ware: or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the eradication of good places to dance.

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Super Action Radio Team

On this episode of the Scenery we invited good friends and no hope vagrant ex-band guys, Matthew Hayward of Central Deli Band and Dr Ianto Ware of No Through Road, to talk about Ocean Graves II: The Sinking of the Two Ships.

During the great Jade Monkey saga of 2012 it was easy to forget that another victim of the developing minds of this city was the basement dweller, Two Ships, and it’s proprietor Luke Davey. The small basement bar, the very thing that many in this city have been calling for to invigorate the identity of the city (ie VIBRATORS, liquor licensing reform etc.) has housed an array of good fucking bands of varying genres, as well as tequila fueled dance till four in the morning parties where you were inevitably going to be grinded on by Mike Radz. Perfectly partnered with the Jade Monkey, the stalwart live music venue, the Ships would open doors as the Monkey closed.

Two Ships was still in it’s infancy when it was revealed that the Jade Monkey building was to be demolished and replaced with a hotel complex. It was only fitting that the venues should receive a sending off that was deserved of their positive effect on the Adelaide live music scene, and culture as a whole.

Enter Ocean Graves.

For the first time The Jade Monkey and Two Ships joined forces and opened both floors to give the people of Adelaide a true live music party. Two stages with four bands each. The Jade stage featured the veteran players of the Adelaide music scene, Avant Gardeners, Central Deli Band, No Through Rd and Banham led band The Dreamboats. The Two Ships stage housed the next crop of Adelaide favorites with Swimming, Major Crimes, Sparkspitter and Old Mate.

The show, a sell out, was an endearing testament to coming together of good people who do give a shit about being able to see a real band, have a beer or what have you and importantly just have a honest good time.

Speaking of honest good times the following audio, the first time we’ve podcasted an entire show, was neither honest or good. We are very, very sorry (actually we aren’t, it was fucking awesome. beep bop.)

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Spoz did his blog thing for the Graves here

and Sia took some nice photos here

Here’s the feature tracks for this week

Remember this one forever Adelaide, it was swell.

to your good health.

Last Drinks.

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Super Action Radio Team

DOUBLE GLAZING WOULD HAVE SOLVED EVERYTHING.

It has been a great passion, and pleasure, of ours to be a conversation partner with you all in the debate about liquor licensing reform and small venue licenses.

Let’s go right back to VIBRATORS, Renew Adelaide’s forum that kick started the conversation about small venue license reform. There were many an invested person in attendance that night including one Ian Horne, General Manager of the Australian Hotels Association South Australia. Ian was offered the chance the stand up and speak on the night…

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(apologies for audio quality)

It was positive to note that Ian saw “no particular conflict” with the implementation of a small venue license. Also noteworthy was the seemingly placing of the blame upon the shoulders of local government.

Next, I suppose, came this opinion piece by the Advertisers David Penberthy entitled: How the hotel lobby is wrecking our city

In it Penberthy describes the AHA, and Ian Horne as it’s head, as a major obstacle in the implementation of a small venue license, citing the oldest of all the motives: greed. Liquor licenses are a sacred thing in this state, and worth a whole lot of money. The more liquor licenses that are granted, the less one’s license is relatively worth. Not to mention the competing interests of attracting the drinking consumer. Penberthy does note that the likelihood of any real competition is minimal, as small bars would cater to a niche that wouldn’t derive from the stalwart pub drinker. Penberthy also laments the seeming loss of actual pub culture, cleared away for the pokie.

Ian Horne quickly responded with a letter to the editor that you can find here

It is clear that Penberthy wrote an impassioned piece that could well have done with some fact checking. What is interesting to note is that the AHA’s policy is they “are not yet convinced that current liquor laws can’t accommodate that outcome with some tweaking” in reference to encouraging small venues. Again the AHA places a chunk of the blame upon local government.

The AHA released a information booklet entitled Raising the Bar Ignores Reality, which you can find here. It contains some of the dubious statistics that Penberthy talks about in his piece, as well as a direct attack on the Raise the Bar movement launched by John Wardle at the Small Venue Licenses forum.

After the VIBRATORS forum we spoke with both the Lord Mayor Stephen Yarwood, who bizarrely spoke of golden taps, and the Premier of South Australia Jay Weatherill. Asked about whether he agreed with the Penberthy article, the Premier responded “To the extent that our liquor licensing laws are preventing small bars and small organisations like arts and other culture groups, live venues from getting a foot hold in the city, they need to change. I agree with his analysis”. Mr Weatherill went on to state that he “didn’t beleive the hotels lobby have anything to fear from this”, in reference to liquor licensing reform.

That same night the Premier announced a last Thinker in Residence to tackle the live music scene, which would encompass liquor licensing, building code, environmental code and music infrastructure.

All well and good.

But it was time to hear another point of view. The Scenery invited General Manager of the AHA Ian Horne onto the show to tell us his point of view of the liquor licensing reform debate. To his credit, Ian immediately replied and booked in a date for a live chat on the show.

Like with the Premier we decided to section the show into particular topics.

Firstly, in light of the Crown and Sceptre closure, and the going into administration of the Dublin, Holdfast and Talbot hotels, was there a problem with the current hotel culture that has seen a reduction in patronage?

Secondly, in the 90s and early 2000s the Producers, Tivoli, Austral and Exeter were all pubs integral to the live music scene. Apartment blocks went up around all of them, noise complaints were made and live music was severely reduced or cut all together. The Tivoli sat vacant for some time before eventually being renovated into a trendy professionals bar; the Producers went through a handful of owners and a handful of names and now has sat empty for some months, if not over a year; the Austral tried to set up a club in the backroom which failed, and now has no live music; the Exeter continues to have live music in the squashed front section of the pub, but regularly receives noise complaints. What can be done, either legislatively or politically, to prevent these common sense issues from being detrimental to existing, live music venues?

And finally, what is the opinion of the AHA when it comes to liquor licensing reform in regards to small bars and venues.

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A polite conversation was had by all, with some off the record insight that gave a little more heart to the matter. Noticeably the common thread of blame in the eyes of the AHA, in terms of the struggle to obtain small venue license, seems to continually lie with local government.

It is no surprise that an organisation that represents hundreds or more hotels around the state, which represents hundreds of millions of dollars, would be defensive when talk of something that may weaken their market share is spruiked. To the credit of the AHA, though, they seem to want to be part of the conversation, perhaps recognising the inevitability of it all. In this cynics opinion though, there are many forms of easier revenue raising for pubs and the AHA then the unprofitable struggle of lobbying for live music.

What is a beer without a good chat? What is a glass of wine without a wanky conversation about where it was grown, and the shit art that’s hanging up in front of you? What’s tequila without the tapas to soak it up? And what the fuck is a pub without a sweaty, stinking shit band that can’t play. The fucking Havelock.

This week’s feature song was going to be Old Fool, as performed by Matt Banham and Summerflake, but those arseholes didn’t allow it to be streamed from their bandcamp. But we’re good chaps, so here’s The Real Thing by Summerflake.

His Worship

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Super Action Radio Team

In 2010, just before the Council Elections, I interviewed Stephen Yarwood for the University of Adelaide’s student publication On Dit. The premise given to me was ‘There’s a bit of noise around this candidate, see what you can find out’. What I found was a guy who spoke like a politician, but said exciting things. His ideas were sound; building a progressive, sustainable city and selling it to the world.

There was talk of ‘activating’ and ‘vibrating’, ‘laneways’ and ‘Copenhagen bicycle lanes’, ‘green technology’ and ‘sustainable infrastructure’ and so on.This didn’t mean much to some people, but for those that were dreaming of a Scandinavia closer to home, or didn’t want to undertake the great migration to Melbourne or Sydney, it was music to their ears.

These people, were more or less, a mixture of artists and young entrepreneurs, the next generation of Uni graduates, or just regular people who liked engaging with their city and it’s culture. What he did was tap the largest unused potential vote, the youth vote. He engaged the next generation of taxpayers, and told them that change was coming and that they finally had a chance to create the Adelaide they always wanted. This resulted in many an influential cultural purveyor of the city spruiking the idea of a young mayor that shared their ideas, to an extent.

And so it came to pass that with a flurry of excitement, and hope for life and change in our city that Stephen Yarwood became the Lord Mayor, beating his next opponent by some 800 votes.

Then this happened..http://renewadelaide.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/the-curious-case-of-the-bike-in-the-laneway/ and every one became aware that just because the face of the machine has changed, doesn’t mean the cogs have.

But nevertheless, Adelaide feels like it wants to move forward more than it ever has in my lifetime, and Mayor Yarwood must receive some credit in nurturing that evolution. We were very excited and appreciative to have the Mayor come into the studios and have a chat with us. Here John and Ryan are joined by the Mayor and Scenery adoptee Ianto, to talk about the Liquor Licensing forum, as well as the current state of Adelaide. A great conversation, and hopefully one of many with the Mayor.

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Following on from the Mayor, John, Ryan and Ianto continued their chat that led on into Mateo’s interview with John Wardle. Facing similiar problems in Sydney some years ago, John undertook a successful campaign to amend New South Wales’ liquor licensing. With the help of Arts SA, Renew adelaide brought John over to head the forum on Liquor Licensing.

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John also has started a Raise the Bar campaign for South Australia. Have a read, and if you decide to join an email will be sent to all the relevant politicians.

This week’s feature track comes from ‘Adelaide’s Best Guitarist’, according to Ianto. It’s Summerflake! with Run Run Run.

In some other exciting news, The Scenery is a finalist in Pedestrian TV’s blogster of the year awards. To see what it’s all about, and perhaps give us a vote, go here

Adios.

VIBRATORS (The Cultural Impact of Licensing and Regulation for Small Venues and Bars)

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Super Action Radio Team

On Monday May 7th 2012 Renew Adelaide hosted a forum at the Jade Monkey on The Cultural Impact of Licensing and Regulation for Small Venues and Bars. The forum featured Renew Adelaide director Ianto Ware, Format Collective director Stan Mahoney, Tuxedo Cat organiser Cass Tombs, West End Association President Andrew Wallace, Suzi Wong’s Room proprietor Nina Jerebica, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Premier Lois Boswell, and cultural policy guru John Wardle.

The Scenery were lucky enough to be included as conversation partners on the forum, joining an illustrious list that included; The Jade Monkey, Fnucky, Suzi Wong’s Room, The Adelaide West End Association, Tuxedo Cat, Udaberri, Music SA, Adelaide Fringe, Format, Magazine and Renew Adelaide.

The turnout to the event exceeded expectations, with the venue reaching capacity shortly before the forum was to start. Most sincere apologies to all those who were turned away. I must say that it was exciting to see a wide cross section of the community that cared enough about the topic to come in attendance.

I’d like the acknowledge the attendance of fellow Radio Adelaide family Jennie Lenman of Streetcast, Seb Tonkin of The Range on Tuesdays, Luke Penman of Local Noise, Luke Eygenraam of the Friday Range and the Live Sessions, and Ryan Winter of the Scenery.

The Scenery recorded the event with the much appreciated help of Ross from Northern Sound System. Paul Gallasch also videotaped the event, which will be available to view in the next coming days.

Please note that the sound quality is not extraordinary, and that non microphoned members of the crowd have been crudely amplified.

Intro – Ianto Ware

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Stan Mahoney of Format

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Nina Jerebica of Suzi Wong’s Room

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Cass Tombs of Tuxedo Cat

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Andrew Wallace of the West End Association

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Ian Horne of the AHA

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Lois Boswell, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Premeir of SA

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John Wardle

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Discussion

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We can only hope that this is just the beginning of the conversation.

Support the venues that support “fine grained” Adelaide culture, and buy some damn beer.

THIS is the link to Raise the Bar

Listen in to the Scenery this Friday May 11th as we recap this event with a chat to Lord Mayor Stephen Yarwood, and Ianto Ware.

Unfortunate Furnishings

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Super Action Radio Team

The Doctor is in.

On this episode of the Scenery Ryan and Alex were joined by Negroni enthusiast Ianto Ware, and Nina Jerebica of Suzi Wong’s Room. The tireless Ryan Winter also had a chat with Daniel Randell, the general manager of Music SA about a proposed music training centre to be built in the Adelaide CBD.

We once again return to a topic of concern for the Scenery; liquor licensing. The eternal crusader Ianto Ware returns to regale us with the trials and tribulations of Hindmarsh cafebar/lounge Suzi Wong’s Room. On previous episodes of the Scenery, Ianto has discussed the lack of a liquor license classification for a small bar/venue. This lack of classification is currently preventing a host of small venue operators the relative ease of realising their goal compared with other states, not to mention it being an effective wall in the way of this city reaching it’s potential vibrancy. In order to give an actual example of the frustrations experienced by small venue operators, Ianto invited Nina Jerebica, manager of Suzi Wong’s Room, onto the show to talk about her experiences with liquor licensing, and the interpretation of licensing rules by licensing enforcement.

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Music SA, headed by Daniel Randell, has proposed that a vacant three story building on Currie St become Australia’s first Music Industry Training Centre. It would provide courses for people wanting to work in the music industry, including promoters, artist and event managers, sound technicians, festival organisers and road crew. Importantly it would also re-enforce Adelaide and South Australia’s somewhat under resourced music industry. Ryan Winter catches up with Daniel Randell to talk about the project.

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This week’s feature track comes from a split 7″ that we bought from Format before the show between Nothing People and Scenery favorites Mondo Phase Band. We played ‘Horseshoe’ from Mondo Phase Band which you can hear here and our feature track ‘Pride’ by Nothing People. If you don’t like fuzz then I can not help you.

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Hide the Laphroaig.

Scenery Out.

We Built This City On Rock and Roll

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Super Action Radio Team

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We are very lucky at the Scenery to speak with some of Adelaide’s most productive and brightest people, that have actively spent their own time and money building up cultural institutions that do their darnedest to keep Adelaide buzzing. There have been times in my adolescent/adult lifetime where I’ve been saddened by the inevitable closure of some iconic shops/venues/magazines around Adelaide. I remember being a delinquent punk that frequently wore NOFX t-shirts and being crushed when Veranda Music closed down, or years later when I first discovered the old Tuxedo Cat, only for it to be shut down soon after. Then there was the abandonment of the Tivoli due to residential apartments being built directly behind it, troubles shared by the block away East End Exchange/Electric Light/Producers which now stands empty. The dank jazz dwelling of Fad bar gave up the ghost, to eventually become the crisp modern Gallery on Waymouth. Across the street from Veranda was Big Star which bit the bullet in 2010, and now this year saw the closure of Mr V’s Music, and sees the closure of Krypton Discs. There are many other places, and many different reasons for each of these places closing down. Some reasons were preventable, others an inevitable outcome of an ever changing economy. Regardless you still feel noticeable loss when they’re gone, and they become a part of nostalgia that you tell you children many years from now.

Bucking the trend of many was the perfectly placed Jade Monkey. It resides down an unassuming side street that links Rundle Mall with Grenfell St. You may not give Twin St as much credit as it deserves, but it houses hip hop store Clinic 116, alternative clothing store Irving Baby, a second hand book store, the odd entrance to the Adelaide Arcade, and other oddities but importantly no apartment and no residences. This allowed the Jade to operate with very little bother.

But I guess a matter of importance to some was that Twin Street, as well as the immediate western corner of Grenfell St was quite ugly, and needed some form of re development. Enter Hines Property Group, who successfully had approved a 17 storey hotel complex (no doubt a feat in itself) that would consume the current location of the Jade.

When the news reached the patrons of the Adelaide live scene an outpouring of support saturated social media. A digital petition was set up that accumulated thousands of signatures, the commercial media had news reports, the Lord Mayor made a statement, the Premier made a statement and Ianto’s Renew blog on the subject had the most hits of any.

It seemed Adelaide had finally felt the loss of what is of great importance to it – culture. The fallout of the Jade closure has had a very positive effect, but in a very Adelaide way. In that there is now many people talking, talking about live music, the future of small venue bars and the ultimate vibrancy of the city. There is even, as we speak, talk of the creation of a lobby like group that will look into the liquor licensing regulations, building codes and alleged corruption in the policing and distribution of liquor licenses and their exaggerated attention on smaller, and pop up venues. At this stage though it is all very much potential – Adelaide in a nutshell.

For now we say support you local venues that support local music, and give the Jade Monkey the send off it deserves.

On this episode we spoke to Dr Ianto Ware of Renew Adelaide and Zac Coligan of the Jade Monkey. Ianto discussed the obstacles and absurd licensing regulations that would prevent, in our current environment, anything like the Jade making a viable presence on the Adelaide scene. Whilst Zac spoke about his appreciation of the support, and the future of the Jade Monkey.

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This week’s feature artist is Melbourne band Witch Hats with their single ‘In the Mortuary’.

Following the LP releases of Royal Headache and The Twerps, not to mention the work of Dick Diver, Witch Hats have followed suit in maturing their sound. We love the kind of immediate revolution that have befallen bands that debut hard, lo fi and full punk only to return thought out, conceived and comfortable. I’m not sure what that says about us, or them, or consumers in general. and i don’t care.

Arrivederci

*note 1: while there is an actual children’s telemovie that was filmed in Perth called ‘Clowning Around’, Alex was of the firm beleif that a show or an epsisode of a show un attached to that production was filmed at Adelaide’s clowning around store BUT will contend that this may have been a created memory that he has for some reason imagined (and for some time may I tell you).

*note 2: witch hats are infact from Melbourne, Victoria. Sorry Mateo.

The Horses Mouth

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Super Action Radio Team

Welcome back dear friends. This week on the Scenery Mateo and Ryan spoke with our second ever Drop In guest, a man whose finger at one time or another has been deep in the pies of Format, the Festival of Unpopular Culture and Renew Adelaide, Dr Ianto Ware. After offering him a napkin for said finger much was spoken about empty buildings and the carcinogens in pigeon droppings.

Earlier in the week Ryan spoke with Thom Miles of folk blog site Timber & Steel, featuring a topic that has popped up more than once of the show: Print and the Internet.Timber & Steel run a free music blog, whose various contributors write for the passion and love of the folk scene. A question then arises that is very dear to our hearts, what is the value and quality of content that is available free from unpaid contributors.

Mateo and Ryan welcomed Ianto Ware, CEO of Renew Adelaide, into the studios as another guest in our Drop In series. Once again we are filled with giddy excitement as we discuss one of our favorite topics, urban renewal. The first half of the chat Ianto talks about how the Renew concept started in Newcastle, it’s adoption to Adelaide and the goals and challenges of implementing it in our capital. The second half tells the tale of Tuxedo Cat, a renew success story whom we featured a few weeks back, and a yarn of how they secured their new premises on North Terrace.

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Earlier in the week Ryan had a chat with Thom Miles, Adelaide based contributor to indie folk blog Timber & Steel. The Scenery has had our talks in the past about Print media, and the endless chorus announcing it’s death. Here Ryan and Thom talk about the alternative, albeit one form of the alternative, free online media.

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This week’s feature track comes from Father John Misty a.k.a. John Tillman of Fleet Foxes. Jesus Christ girl, what am I going to think if you don’t like this song. I thought you liked it with a disdainful troubadour thump. I don’t mind if you don’t wear shoes, but I can’t be fucked cutting my nails. Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings.

We stole the cookies from the cookie jar,

but we saved you a tic toc.

♥ the Scenery.

The Stan Ultimatum

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Super Action Radio Team

So you took the blue pill.

Good thing too. Mateo, Ryan and Dangerous Dave Harden have brought you the tale of two festivals. Originally aired on the 30th of September this episode of the Scenery brings you the best of the other side of Adelaide’s festival calendar. October blesses Adelaide with the Festival of Ideas and, its Fringe, the Festival of Unpopular Culture.

First Up! Our friend Mateo-with-no-last-name spoke to the good people from the Adelaide Festival of Idea about the treats they are about to offer. The Festival of Ideas is one of the grander ideas we have come across in our times. Celebrating the discussion of the ideas of living, the way we may have done it wrong and the ways we may do it better. That may be a disserving simplification, but its the best we’re gonna do.

The courageous Ryan spoke with Stan.

Stan, last name not supplied, Mahoney is a keen supplier of un-popular culture. The Festival of Unpopluar Culture has come as a kind of fringe to the Festival of Ideas. With a program of comic sans and a sharp moustached logo, We Shall See.

Dave likes all things Swedish, including (but not exclusive to) the music stylings of Air France. Described as, heh, post-rave bliss. (god I love that shit sometimes). What it is though, is a post rave bliss exploration of young adult love and loss (kidding). What I do love is the steel drums, you guys know El Guincho? its not like that.

Live long and prosper,
Mateo, Dave & Ryan. (and alex)

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