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The First Annual Do What You Peel Festival

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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.

 

Nothing’s dead if it’s done right

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Welcome back true believers. On this episode of the Scenery we saw the fantastical return of Scenery presenter Alex, we had a chat with Garden of Unearthly Delights co-producer Michelle Buxton, and we have a feature on the future of dB Magazine 

The Garden of Unearthly Delights, believe it or not, is in it’s tenth year. Occupying Rundle Park along East Terrace and Rundle Street, the organisers have created a bohemian hub of tent venues and sideshows. A principle attraction has been the beautiful Spiegel Tent, whose surreal scene was set perfectly for this guy by a performance of C.W. Stoneking. The Scenery spoke to one of the Garden’s organisers Michelle Buxton about this year’s happenings.

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The Scenery last spoke to Managing Editor of dB Magazine Alex Wheaton last September as the street press was about to turn twenty. The magazine went through a few changes since then, including a personnel change in the office with the departure of advertising executive Mercedes Whibley and music editor Ryan Winter. As this feature was made the role of music editor had yet to be filled, but we can now congratulate Lauren Boxhall and her appointment.

Mateo spoke with Alex Wheaton about the future of dB Magazine.

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This week’s feature track is a band that we have featured before, but we’re not sure if you were listening. Now we’re telling you: TINY SPIDERS. THAT IS ALL.

 

Fix your face, it’s melting.

xxoo

Read Our Lips

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Mateo and Ryan returned for this Friday the 13th airing of the Scenery. We left the features aside this week and invited the Managing Editor of Lip Magazine, Dunja Nedic, and the Scenery’s very own Gemma Beale in for a chat.

Lip Magazine is an independent publication for young women, and provides an intelligent critique and champion of female produced culture. It’s also concerned with contemporary feminism and the portrayal of women in advertising, entertainment and the news. Mixed in, the Magazine also provides articles on fashion, food, film and music.

Dunja Nedic is an Adelaide based writer, studying psychology, and is also a member of the South Australian Feminist Collective along with Scenery friend Gemma Beale. Ryan and Mateo spoke with the both of them, firstly with Dunja about the magazine, and then an open discussion about contemporary feminism, and the concerns and issue of women in modern culture. Here it is in three parts.

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This week’s featured track comes from English band The Big Pink with a track off their new album ‘Future This’. The track is entitled ‘Hit the Ground (Superman), and truth be told is the standard electro rock fare, which I guess is agreeable. I guess you must be wondering ‘well then why is this jerk picking it, I hate this guy anyway’, and to answer the first part of that thought is Laurie Anderson. That’s right! Check the samples fool.

Scenery out.

 

Re-Animator

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This Scenery episode first aired on November 4th. Taking the reigns were Scenery OG’s Ryan Winter and Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo. Ryan had been a busy man since last on The Scenery and surprised us all with an epic conversation that he had recorded with fellow Radio Adelaide presenters Angelique Edmonds and John Byleveld from show The Plan. The Plan airs on 101.5FM Wednesdays from 6PM and discusses all things design, environment and affect.

Adelaide’s urban plan has been on the tip of many tongues in the last many years. There are a great many motives for peoples interest, debate and investment in Adelaide’s plan whether it be cultural, economic, aesthetic or all three. It seems it is our time now when most of those involved are beginning to sync up in their methods and ideas, and even at times collaborating, to improve the livability of our capital.The importance of this can be realised with the creation of various government funded bodies to address this very issue, those being 5000+, the Integrated Design Commission and Picture Adelaide. Many people have applauded the Stephen Yarwood led Adelaide City Council for their efforts to make it easier for those improving the city to do so, though some still have their criticism of the outmoded city planning laws and bureaucracies. Of course much praise must be given to those, who for whatever reason, have done their utmost to stimulate the culture of the city, creating vibrancy, with artist run spaces , street art, vacant building activation and community discussion.

Ryan’s discussion with The Plan addresses mainly the practical elements of Adelaide’s plan and the infrastructure development needed to achieve and accommodate the city’s population and growth, as well as the engagement required within the community.

 

 

This week’s feature track comes from Melbourne via Albury-Wodonga band Dirt Farmer with the track Real Young. You guys like sitting in the sun, with your back against a tree, sipping on a frozen sangria, wasting the day away listening to your mates tell stories from the sprawl, right? Well this is the soundtrack to that.

 

 

Hey Eckhart, think about the future.

Love Mateo & Ryan (and alex).

 

Book of Joshua, Brush of Peter.

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In the name of the father, the son and an end to the ridiculous tax on beer, wine and spirits.

We decided to up the stakes on the latest Scenery, original airing date 16th of September. The traditional trio becomes a quartet as veterans Mateo, Alex and Louis are joined by newly elected On Dit editor, Radio Adelaide Thursday Ranger and, of course, Scenery Guy, Sebastian (not of Little Mermaid fame).  It proved a great success, if success were measured by the amount of in studio laughter. This episode featured a chat with Collect Magazine editor/publisher Joshua Fanning, and then a bit after that there was another chat with good egg and artists Peter Drew.

Some might say ‘from the ashes of Merge…’, and we, in a way, just did, ‘…was born Collect Magazine’. Merge folded, to the dismay of many, in 2010. It wasn’t long before founding editor Joshua Fanning threw in with another band of merry men & women and formed Collect Magazine. Collect is a beautifully printed, written and curated magazine, with stories ranging from the birth and life of Adelaide suburb Elizabeth, to a story on a boutique brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado (both in issue 4). Alex had a chat with Josh about the magazine, the death of print and Adelaide culture.

This is the audio that originally appeared on the show. We will be uploading the full 20 odd minute feature within the week.

Peter Drew is a visual artist and an arts writer. You’ve more than likely seen his work, whether you know it or not. Discontent to simply be confined to the studio or the gallery, Peter Drew has taken to the streets, postering, painting and stenciling his way through the grey buff of Adelaide and the world. Wally caught up with Peter to have a chat about the street art element of his work.

 

This week’s featured track comes from Brisbane band Tiny Spiders. We have Seb to thank for this slice of Australian punk, and he has the t-shirt to prove it. Tiny Spiders are a two piece who don’t mind a little noise, a little fuzz and some nice vocals sugared over the top. They’ve got themselves a pretty video, we like things pretty right. We also like beards and girls playing guitar, it’s got that too!

 

Alex, Mateo, Louis & Seb

Enter the Scenery

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Dear Friends,

The Scenery pitch has successfully been accepted by Radio Adelaide 101.5FM. We will debuting our show on September 2nd at 6pm, right after Casey Brigg’s Friday Range, featuring the Friday Sessions  4PM – 5:30PM, and The Wire 5:30PM – 6PM.

We are currently scrambling to get our first show content together, featuring an array of good eggs doing their best to create a little bit of vibrancy in this promising city of ours. More details will be available once we’ve confirmed a few interviews.

Once we kick off the series you’ll begin to see a lot more action on this site as we give you expanded stories on the features we present on the radio show, as well as podcasts, featured events and bonus content that we will just not be able to fit on the show.

After the first show on Sept 2nd, we’re all going to go have a beer at the Exeter, so if you listened in and liked or disliked what you heard, come tell us all about it.

Until then chaps.

Welcome to the Scenery

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Enter The Scenery

The Scenery is a new radio show destined to debut on Radio Adelaide 101.5FM in the spring of 2011. Essentially, the Scenery is a show of two parts.

The first part is a commitment to feature ‘first play music’ or fresh songs that have not been played on Australian radio before. Our thinking behind this is to remain fresh, up to date and allow the listener to make their own mind about new music rather than succumbing to the hype and directed finger of the established music media. We especially would like to pay attention to the music that, for whatever reason, becomes ignored or passed over by the various media, giving smaller unestablished bands a chance for a wider audience.

The second part is to establish and promote ‘just what is Adelaide culture?’ Our presenters will investigate and present short reports on the various people and organisations that are dedicated to the betterment of the capital of South Australia. We have been inspired, and sometimes involved with, various existing organisations that through their efforts have created a niche culture in this city of churches, and we will endeavour to bring these efforts to the public consciousness.  We will try and keep you in as much as a loop as we’re in by each week trying as best we can to concentrate on varying aspects of Adelaide culture.

Our team features an array of members already involved with various Australian and Online media including dB Magazine, Five Thousand, Big Up Magazine, the AU Review, On Dit, Rebel Magazine, Prose Purple and Hearplugs. The team also includes past and present presenters of Radio Adelaide programs including The Range, Golden Goal, Midnight Static, Immaculate Consumption and Get Back. Also involved are members of Adelaide music scene stalwarts Mountbatten and Central Deli Band.

The Scenery is essentially trying to get people excited about where they live. When pitching the idea and trying to sum up just what exactly this show was all about, the Manager of Radio Adelaide put it like this…

“There’s a point in every young Adelaideans life where they choose whether they’re going to move away and try for better opportunities in say Melbourne or Sydney. Or they decide that they’re going to stay in Adelaide and really make the best of it. It sounds like your show is for the latter”.

The Scenery. First play, Then listen.