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Sidewalk AstronomyDiscovery Science and Technology Centre, 7 Railway Place, Bendigo. Gold coin donation. 8pm to 9.30 pm.Details: 0400 712 883.
Cystic Fibrosis Fundraising Sausage SizzleChampions IGA Kangaroo Flat, 9am to 2 pm. Details: 0417 530 069.
A Christmas Potpourri of Harp and SongMeryl WilkinsonThe Anderson Room, at St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral. 5pm until about 6.30pm. $10, children $5. Details: 5444 2187.
Lorraine MarwoodIn-store book signing. Collins Bookstore, Centro Lansell, Kangaroo Flat at 10am and Collins Bookstore, Bendigo at noon.
Eaglehawk Dahlia and Arts Festival Canterbury Carols Canterbury Park, Eaglehawk.A free sausage sizzle will begin at 6pm the Carols program will start at 7pm. Candles and programs are provided free of charge, but you will need to bring your own wind de� ec-tor, along with a chair or a rug.
Country Music HoedownErnie Johns and the Avalanche Band.6.30pm to 10.30pm. Guests Lorraine Taylor and Noel Davey.Golden Hills Motel, 145 Marong Road, Bendigo. $5. Meals from 6pm. Details: 5443 1333.
Maiden Gully Community Plan LaunchRecreation Reserve, Beckhams Road, Maiden Gully. 5pm to 7pm. Details: 0408 749 094.
ExhibitionUnpacked – Out of the BoxRobyn Pola, Sculpture, mixed media.Dudley House, View Street, 6pm. Until December 18. Details: 0417 051 009.
Australiana entertainmentNewmarket Hotel, corner Nolan Street and Charleston Road Bendigo. 1.30pm to 4.30pm. Free entry.Details: 5441 5121
Writers’ Explore nightBendigo Writers Council Guest speaker Darren Brealey, author of several plays, short � lm scripts, monologues and short stories.BEST Community Development building, St Andrews Avenue, 7pm to 9pm. $5 with supper provided.
Muliticultural Dinner and DanceBendigo Pottery Function Centre, 146 Midland Highway, Epsom, 7pm. Featuring Los Locos. Tickets: $45, members $36. Details: 5441 6644.
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Looking back after 11 years of Ethanol, what would be some of your fondest memories?
Skip: There are some absolute crackers! For me personally, when all the boys rallied behind me when my father passed away. We played a gig, and we got to this song called Foolin No-one and I dedicated it to my Mum who had actually come along to the show. And when we started playing she just got up and started dancing, after all the hardship. That was very special for me personally.
Col: When I think of my fondest memories, they weren’t always on the stage. Some of the time we spent recording stands out to me. Spending a lot of time together, you get both extremes – you get incredibly sick of each other, but then � ve minutes later everyone is cracking up and sitting around playing video games. We’ve said numerous times that our band is more of a family than a bunch of friends.
Skip: Another one for me would have to be the � rst time we played the Espy in St Kilda. There’s a lot of history in the Gershwin room, playing there for the � rst time was a big turning point for our band – we started making a name for ourselves in the Melbourne music scene. It’s funny saying that, because we made a name for ourselves and every-one in the Melbourne scene knew who we were, but we were far from superstars. Ethanol always had a big underground feel to it, and that’s one of the things I loved most. The Bendigo Says Thanks concert was probably one of my favourite Ethanol moments!
Col: That was great, massive stage, hordes of people and huge level of production. The thing I’ll always remember about that show was the level of foldback I had, I had basically a full PA to myself. I remember we started playing ‘Into the Black’ and Skip came running in for his grand intro and screams into his microphone ‘Hey Bendigo, how you doing?’ The level of volume quite literally nearly blew me o� my drum stool.
Skip: Yeah, it was great being able to play our own music to so many people. I’d just like to make a note that I don’t need that PA to do that!
I don’t doubt you at all Skip! So how did Ethanol come to be in the beginning?
Skip: Ethanol was born out of a strong music community that were gathering for regular jam sessions that was put together by Tom Heenan and Rod Bradbury. It started at the Parkview and ended up at the Golden Vine.
Col: There was one group of people that seemed
to end up on stage together at every jam session and the core of it was what became Ethanol.
The � nal show is set to take place in Rosalind Park, a favourite venue of yours Colin. What makes it so special in your eyes?
Col: I think it has a lot to do with me � nally growing up a little bit and having become a fa-ther. I still love the pub shows, but I like playing in a family friendly environment that nobody is restricted from attending. Being involved in Sum-mer In The Parks program over the last couple of years has inspired me to hold our � nal show there and make it free to give everybody an opportunity to come along.
You’ve chosen Deano Stanton to open the night’s proceedings, was that an easy decision for you?
Skip: Oh god yeah.Col: He’s been the uno� cial � fth member of
the band for quite a while now and gets up and plays congas with us at most shows. He’s also an unheralded performer in his own right, his music is some of the craziest, funniest, cleverest and all around best music in Bendigo. He’s an incredible entertainer.
Skip: He’s as mad as a meat-axe and we love him.
The show is also set to serve as the CD launch of your third and � nal album, recorded live at the Newmarket. I gave it a listen and was blown away, it sounds absolutely ace! You’re happy with the way it turned out?
Skip: Absolutely! I can’t stop listening to it. Ethanol is a band that gained their reputation through live performance and the CD captures our live performance perfectly. We were very proud of our other releases, but they just didn’t have the essence of our live show. This new album is the duck’s guts as far as I’m concerned.
Couldn’t agree more, it’s magni� cent. I think a lot of people are wondering why you’ve decided to call it quits?
Col: We had a manifesto from the get-go that we would only ever play as long as everyone was enjoying it. As it so happens, with the way things have transpired with some things outside of Ethanol, one of our members has basically said ‘I’m not able to do this anymore.’ The rest of us didn’t entertain the idea of continuing on with a replacement. We don’t have the energy to start from scratch, so we’ve decided to put it to bed and do it properly. I’m sad that Saturday night will be our � nal show, the songs that we have written are some of my favourite songs! If I was religious, I’d thank God every day for the opportunity to play with such sensational musicians. The � nal show will be as much a celebration as a farewell though.
So where to musically from here, could you see the two of you collaborating again?
Col: [Jokingly] Not a chance in hell!Skip: I’m not sure what as, but it’s inevitable that
the two of us will share a stage again. Maybe not as a band, but there is going to be some jam at some stage, and who knows what could come out of it. Personally, I like passing on the knowledge that I’ve developed to children. I’ll support any young band 100 per cent. As a musician, I feel like I’ve done everything I wanted to do – I’ve always been about having a great time playing music. I
have a new school opening in January to expand Rockpride music, I love teaching. Col has been do-ing some great stu� for the Bendigo scene as well, the Blues and Roots Music Festival is going to be very good for Bendigo and I’d like to see him use it as a blueprint for even bigger things in the future.
Col: We are all in our own ways very adamant about giving back to the Bendigo community. I was appointed the default manager of Ethanol, and try and take what I learnt in managing and promoting our band and applying it to Bendigo’s music scene. I’m not saying I’ve given up on drum-ming though, I’ll keep drumming til I die and there are three or four or bands that I’m still play-ing actively in at the moment.
What do you love most about Bendigo’s music scene?
Col: I love the count-less friendships I’ve made throughout the years and the endless talent that seems to be appearing. Every time I think I know all of our bands or artists, some-one else springs up and blows me away. I hate that so many artists take o� to Melbourne because they think they have no potential in Bendigo, that’s not true at all. Bendigo has so much to o� er.
Who would be a few local artists that you’d be keeping an eye on?
Col: There are so many, a few ones that I’ve recently been dig-ging – Talisa Jobe, she’s amazing. The Bride Stripped Back, they’ll be playing the Summer In The Parks program for their CD launch in January. I’m a big fan of Michelle Meehan as well.
Skip: On a heavier level, Abreact are one of my favourites, Her Majesty are a young band with a lot of tal-ent, you’ll have to get back to me after I sit down with pen and paper for an hour, there is so much talent it’s ri-diculous.
What’s your personal favourite Ethanol tune?
Skip: 20 Bucks would have to be my all-time favourite but we haven’t played it for years. My current fa-vourite would be White
Horse or Into the Black; they’ve both been long time signature songs for us.
Col: From our current setlist it would have to be Moving, it’s rhythmically dynamic and whilst be-ing a rock song it has this Ethanol brand bounce to it that really encapsulates our band’s sound to me.
For the minority of Bendigonians who haven’t seen you guys play, how would you sell yourselves in a sentence?
Col: If you come and see Ethanol for the � rst time and you are having half as much fun as we are having on stage, you’re probably having the best night of your life.
Skip: I like Deano Stanton’s line personally, as heard on the new live album; “Ethanol are an in-stitution of sex.” [laughs]
Any � nal shout-outs?Skip: Thank you to our families for being very,
very tolerant and patient. They knew that if we stopped playing music we would be miserable.
Col: There’s no way we could thank everyone, but I’d like to thank all our local venues for having us. We would like to see more and more venues put on live shows, if you have the room to put on a show – please do!
Make sure you are in Rosalind Park tomorrow night, have a great time, buy a CD and farewell the boys in style. If you happen to be going to Bon Jovi or Gorillaz tomorrow night, sell your ticket. Bon Jovi and Gorillaz will probably come back; you’re not go-ing to get another chance to see Ethanol.
Local rock roy-alty Ethanol will be bringing their � nal ever performance to Rosalind Park tomor-row night and will be launching their fan-tastic new live CD. Ahead of the show, we caught up with frontman Albert ‘Skip’ Skipper and drumming pow-erhouse Colin Thomson for a few words…
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ALANNA and Alica Egan always had musical talent.That was evident to anybody who heard their performances at Ben-
digo’s Open Stage concerts at the top of Forest Street during the late 90s.More than a decade on, this compilation of mainly self-composed folksy
jazz numbers demonstrates their formative years performing were well spent.
Two in a Book is their second full length album and is reminiscent of American folk music of the 60s and early 70s.
When you come back, track three gets the feet tapping and hips sway-ing despite the unmistakable broad Australian accent.
A bit like Dolly Parton swings by Bendigo, with a hint of blues, proving what musical talent these remarkable sisters possess.
Well engineered with just the right balance between vocals and musi-cal backing, including local Cally Bartlett on cello, and Amy Bennett on keyboard, violin and viola, with the help of some guitar work by Andy and Peter Baylor.
Sit back, relax and let Alanna and Alica’s Two in a Book weave its charm as their music takes you back to an era of more mellow melodies.
Album: Two in a BookArtist: Alanna and Alicia
EganReviewer: Nick Atyeo
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08|Friday 3 December,2010
Title: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Rating: PG Director: Michael Apted
Family | Adventure | Family Reviewer: Robert Gibson
THERE is no need to fret as the big screen version of Harry Potter draws to a conclusion as the Chronicles of Narnia still has four of CS Lewis’ famous books to be transformed for cinema release.
The third in the series The Voyage of the Dawn Treader follows the suc-cessful adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia.
Still to go are The Silver Chair, The Horse and His Boy, The Magician’s Nephew and The Last Battle.
Like the rest of the series, the latest o� ering, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, borrows heavily from traditional Christian themes but CS Lewis’ cleverly intertwines British and Irish fairytales with Greek and Roman my-thology as well.
In this installment the youngest two of the Pevensie children return to the magical world of Narnia where animals talk and good will is guided by the talking lion Aslan.
The two Pevensies (Edmund played by Skandar Keynes and Lucy played by Georgie Henley) are joined by their obnoxious cousin Eustace Scrubb (Will Poulter).
They meet up with Narnia’s king and hero Prince Caspian (Ben Marnes) and this time set sail on the Dawn Treader for much adventure in the strangest of lands.
The Narnia story is perfect for 3D treatment and the Dawn Treader is the � rst of the series to use the technology.
Cleverly, the use does not detract from the fantasy and is used as an en-hancement not a gadget.
The continuing ensemble cast have much to do with the franchise’s suc-cess.
As in the many children’s � lms released for the holidays at the moment the juvenile members of the cast put in impressive and most importantly, believable, performances.
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The DVD Parade of The Dead is out now, which is also a track o� your latest album State Of The Art. At what point did you decide to create this zombie themed mocumentary?
It seemed like a good idea at the time (laughs). We were going to do zombie clip for Monsters Ball, but it didn’t happen for whatever reason, so it was always in the back of our heads. It sort of snowballed into this idea, we wanted to do something di� erent, not something boring.
Yeah it’s good to branch out and do something a little di� erent.
Yeah and a zombie was the obvious choice (laughs).
So you wrote the dialogue for the mocumentary, was everybody in The Hoods on board with it or did it take a bit of convincing?
Nah I think everybody was on board, I think we were just trying to come up with something on the DVD and nobody else did (laughs). So my idea made it through on the strength of being the only one (laughs).
No challenge then?Yep no challenge. I didn’t think it’s the strongest case
for why this DVD should of been made (laughs). It is what it is.
DJ Debris didn’t have any problems coming out with his biscuit addiction on the DVD?
Well for people who don’t know there is a picture of Debris in a biscuit bath, which is probably the peak of his life. He’d been out on an all night bender and it was
like 10 in the morning when I got round to his house. We went to the supermarket and went biscuit shopping and we bought about $200 worth of biscuits. We came back and his girlfriend threw him in a bath full of biscuits and took photos of it. He was like ‘my life will be only downhill from here’.
So if The Hoods don’t come out with anything in the near future we know its because you’ve spent all your money humiliating Debris with a heap of biscuits in a bath somewhere.
I don’t think it’s humiliating Debris, it’s humiliating the biscuits.
You’ve done a lot of work with (artist) John Engel-hardt, even with all the backdrops of your shows, how much notice do you have to give him before a tour?
I think for the single cover of What A Great Night he had a day but for other projects he gets a few months. He went to high school with us. It’s not like I approach him on a business level so I just ring him up and say ‘what do you reckon?’
Has he ever knocked you back?Never. He’s designing all kinds of things for us at the mo-
ment, he’s designing my tattoo even.
There’s a few Hilltop tattoos out and about, a few fan ones you can see online, does that spin you out?
It does. I’ve actually met a few of them (fans). A lot of people I talk to about it say ‘don’t freak out about it, it just represents a time in my life of having fun’.
The group’s career has ventured into production with your Golden Era label, how’s that working out for you?
Really good. (Labelmate) Briggs released The Blacklist in September and is getting really good critical reviews, its been received really well. Briggs’ on tour with Drapht right now so things are going really well for him.
Do you get sort of a proud big brother feeling when an artist on your label does well?
It’s hard to have a big brother feelings for Briggs because he’s a giant (laughs). But I’m proud of him for the album he made, the way he sticks to his guns and his work ethic.
If he has a lot of success in the future it’s deserved because he’s worked hard for it.
So what’s the next release from Golden Era we can expect?
A new Funkoars record hopefully out in March. And then a record from us (The Hoods).
How much work have you done on your new record?Quite a bit because we never really stop working. We’ve
got about � ve or six beats for the record which are pretty much de� nite. We’ve written some stu� and demoed some tracks. We’ve been doing a lot of collaborations. The cycle goes make an album, tour it, do your collaborations and then start on the next album.
What number of collaborations are you looking at for this next record?
Dunno we’re still thinking about it. We’ll probably have Classi� ed on the record because we toured with him here and there and we really get along with him. He’ll do something for our record and we’ll probably do something for his. Trials will get a beat or something on the record purely for the fact him and me talk and send texts nearly every day.
It wouldn’t be a Hoods records without a little bit of Trials on there.
He’s like the sixth member of The Hoods. Everything he’s ever done for us has been amazing, like the Clown Prince remix. He kills it.
How are you going to promote the latest DVD? Any tours or special screenings?
Not really. We had a screening in Adelaide for family and friends, the crew, the extras and some of the media but that’s about it. We’re going to put our heads down and work on the record and the label.
In light of the release of your new DVD, if you were to create a posse track with fallen artists only, who would you include?
Biggie, the Big L and the Big Pun, the three Bigs.
Simon Blake can be heard on the ‘This or That’ hip hop show on Mondays from 8 to 10 pm on Phoenix FM 106.7
THE Bendigo Musician’s Alliance, an all new, not for pro� t or-ganisation, is the brainchild of local muso Chris Meek, and had its � rst o¢ cial meeting on November 30.
“It went extremely well. We achieved as much as we could. We have named our committee, and are in the process of draw-ing up our mission statement and constitution, so we can start proceedings with regard to registration and incorporation,” Meek said.
The Alliance aims to provide much needed support for musi-cians and music lovers in the Bendigo area.
Meek reckons with the live and local scene rising once more, the timing was right to up the stakes.
“The Bendigo music scene is currently thriving thanks to the hard work and persistence of dedicated individuals who are ab-solutely passionate about music,” he said.
“It’s not only the musicians themselves but also the venue operators and all the behind the scenes people who simply love live music and are determined to see it survive.
“The Alliance is something I have been passionate about for a long time, but have taken until now to put into action because there are so many other good things going on around Bendigo
in the music scene.”Meek is well credentialled. He was born into a musical fam-
ily in Nhill, Western Victoria and both his parents were working musicians – Mum, a brilliant pianist/organist, and Dad, a drum-mer.
“They played everything from old-time dance to traditional jazz and swing,” he said.
“I began playing drums at about 9 or 10, took up the guitar and joined my � rst garage band at age 13 and have played in bands of all descriptions across Eastern Australia ever since.”
Meek said the Alliance had some clear goals in mind and is seeking support from anyone who is keen to see a strong and healthy live music scene continue in Bendigo for many years to come. So show your initial support by liking the Alliance site on Facebook or email Chris Meek on [email protected] and rock up to a very casual Christmas Picnic on Sunday December 19 at Strathdale Park from 4pm.
All are welcome to bring family, friends and an acoustic in-strument for an all-in jam/sing-along.
“It will simply be an opportunity for people to come along and learn what our organisation is all about,” he said.
Bendigo musicians, it’s time to align.
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SUFFA MC (aka Matt Lambert) heads up seminal Australian hip hop group Hilltop Hoods.
The Hoods, formed in 1991 in south eastern Adelaide, have gone on to help forge a new genre of music, “skip hop”, through hits such as the classic, The Nosebleed Section.
Interviewer Simon Blake of Phoenix FM’s hip hop show This or That caught up with Su� a recently to talk about The Hoods’ latest zombie � avoured release
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THERE’S lots on right now in the Greater City... Deep breath in, here we go.
The La Trobe Visual Arts post-graduate show at VAC by Bendigo and Mildura cam-pus students is strong. Ceramics, painting, photography, textiles.
Stand outs? Tegan Wheeldon, who uses a yellowing pillowcase as a canvas for her ragged childlike embroidery, more akin to something you’d � nd in a ‘deceased estate’ wardrobe than a gallery. Loved it.
Susan McMinn’s delicate charcoal horse drawings ‘At 4pm’ are beautiful, and a deft narrative. While Lyn McDonald’s large ‘In-dustrial Lace’ is a kind of textile mandala, owing as much to the hessian sack as it does plaster-of-Paris.
Dips me hat too to the gallery sta� who hung the show expertly; it might have su� ered otherwise.
New La Trobe department head Profes-sor Norie Neumark gave a great speech at the opening. I was inspired to hear in a public forum someone extolling the vir-tues of ‘play’, risk-taking, artistic process as research and “encouraging failure” – all valuable artistic activities. Without art we’re nothing: shout it out loud.
Across the road at Bendigo Gallery is photographer Donna Bailey’s locally-shot exhibition, ‘Don’t Play On the Mullock’. They’re big ‘chromogenic’ prints taken around the left-over mining sites of Ben-digo, many of which include child � gures disturbing forlorn landscapes.
While her work draws a direct line to American pros Robert Adams, Mary Ellen Mark and Eugene Meatyard – the lat-
ter two also used kids in their landscape studies – I found the most powerful im-ages those absent of human � gures.
Stand in front of ‘New Moon #2’, ‘Pen-nyweight Flat’ and ‘Maiden Gully’ for any length of time and try to not be over-whelmed... Stunning.
Perhaps though the most exciting new development this Yuletide is the arrival of a new art space ‘across the bridge’ in Eaglehawk: Re.Works Arts Collective (for-merly ‘Arts @ Our Shed’.)
Re.Works is a � tting complement to Eaglehawk’s dynamic Our Place project, a community assistance centre set up after Black Saturday.
Out of that grew Our Shed and the Re.Generate community enterprise re-cycling business. Run by manager Mark Polson, he says Re.Works was a natural progression evolving directly from com-munity need.
Originally a community internet café, the Re.Works’ building is at the front of Our Shed. Mark says people kept “stick-ing their heads in and asking about an art space.” The net café is now being con-verted into a fully-functioning gallery and studio for local work. The house next door is also part of the deal: artist studios-in-waiting.
Re.Works’ coordinator Brooke Wolsley has worked in tandem with Mark, recent-ly trialling art workshops in the lead up to the o� cial launch, January 29.
An ambitious, passionate and entirely sustainable ‘community art complex’ idea drives this new space.
Painted giant cable reels serve as tables out front, inviting people in to meet, talk and make art.
“We want to mash up di� erent worlds,” says Brooke. “Artisans with artists, people in need, local volunteers, those who have been sent to us by Centrelink.
“The space will be a balance [between] professional artists and people from the community, coming to show their art too.”
The very � rst contemporary artist mar-ket will coinicide with Re.Works’ launch.
Stallholder applications are now open, as are EOIs for artists to show at the gal-lery. The possibilities are endless…
Speaking of ‘across the bridge’.. That’s also the theme for the 2011 Eaglehawk Art Award. Also calling for entries “in any medium”, $5000 is up for grabs for the Main Award, with $500 to the winner of the ‘Peoples’ Choice’
Big breath out…
Latrobe University Visual Arts & De-sign Post-Graduate Exhibition, Visual Arts Centre, until January 2, 2011.
Don’t Play on The Mullock by Donna Bailey, Bendigo Art Gallery until Janu-ary 19, 2011.
Re.Works Arts Collective launch and ‘Birds Of A Feather’ artist market Janu-ary 29, 2011. 14 Sailors Gully Road, Eaglehawk. Join ‘Re.Works Arts Collec-tive’ on Facebook.
2011 Eaglehawk Art Award, deadline February 13, 2011. Further info: 5435 2596
over the road,across the bridge
words megan spencer
Without art we’re nothing: shout it out loud.
ABOVE: Brooke Wolsley and Mark Polsen at Our Shed artspace. Photo_Vicki Harrington
TOP LEFT: Tegan Wheeldon, Home Sweet Home 2010, thread and graphite on linen.
MAIN PIC: Donna Bailey, Christmas Reef #4, 2009, C type photograph. Courtesy of the artist..
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Fancy a signed copy of Matthew Hayden’s Standing My Ground?
We have one copy to give away. If you would like to be in with a chance
to win, send an email to [email protected] before noon on Monday, December 13 with your details and “matty” in the subject line.
Fancy a copy of Brendan Cowell’s How it Feels?
We have three copies to give away. If you would like to be in with a chance
to win, send an email to [email protected] before noon on Monday, December 13 with your details and “brendan” in the subject line.
The winners will be notifi ed by email.
Oprah visits ‘down under’for the fi rst time.
The Ashes (If you are an England Fan)
The Circle weekdayson Channel 10.
Inception out on DVD and Blueray
Kings of Leon set to tour
Christmas shopping
X magazine issue 2
U2 Rocking Melbourne360 tour.
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Runtime: 95 minsOpening: December 9, 2010Director: Tom McGrath Cast: Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah HillSynopsis: Megamind (Will Ferrell) is the
most brilliant supervillain the world has ever known. And the least successful. Over the years, he has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way. Each attempt, a colossal failure thanks to the caped superhero known as Metro Man (Brad Pitt), an invincible hero until the day Megamind actually kills him in the throes of one of his botched evil plans. Suddenly, Megamind has
no purpose. A supervillain without a superhero. He realizes that achieving his life’s ambition is the worst thing that ever happened to him. Megamind decides that the only way out of his rut is to create a new hero opponent called Tighten (Jonah Hill), who promises to be bigger, better and stronger than Metro Man ever was. Pretty quickly Tighten starts to think it’s much more fun to be a villain than a good guy. Except Tighten doesn’t just want to rule the world, he wants to destroy it. Now, Megamind must decide: can he defeat his own diabolical creation? Can the world’s smartest man make the smart decision for once? Can the evil genius become the unlikely hero of his own story?
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Carefully displayed in the newly-built gallery on Pall Mall, you’ll � nd objects that speak vol-umes about early local life.
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fossicking for Christmas lunch
IT may mean your Christmas seafood will be much cheaper, but whatever happens over the next couple of weeks, Nasiakos is unlikely to be sco� ng down crays, prawns and oysters.
She’s over it.“I’m so tired, I really won’t care what I eat,” Nasiakos says.The � shmonger is the odd one out among Bendigo’s pro-
vedors, with her bah-humbug response to the festive season.Out at Istra Smallgoods at Musk near Daylesford, Bernard Ju-
rcan understands the sentiment, but has found a way to avoid Christmas burn-out.
Istra will sell about 1500 hams-on-the-bone this season, a limit they set themselves so they don’t go ham-crazy.
Bernard says he’ll be “pretty much over” ham come Christ-mas day, so it will be seafood for him. (Hear Helen sigh.)
Erindale Farmhouse Butchery is smoking ham hand-over-� st too, in the Christmas lead-up, but Kane Arnold, manager of their Market Place shop, says he will have no such qualms tucking into the ham.
“I’m very fussy about my ham,” Kane says, “so I cook it myself, glazed in honey and syrup.”
Half an hour, basted every � ve or ten minutes, will give you a perfect hot glazed ham, he says.
Local reds are probably not quite the thing for Christmas lunch.
Mark Co� y at Wine Bank on View says they sell ten times as many sparkling wines at this time of year and you can get a good to exceptional one from around $26 to $36.
Co� y recommends the sparkling shiraz from Balgownie, Langanook or Bress, and suggests, too, that a bottle from Sheer Drop at Harcourt is “worthy of a Christmas lunch”.
If it does get hot, Co� y is set to serve up a kind of summery cocktail, made from the sparkling sweet Italian rose Brachetto, with fresh ginger and lime over lots of ice.
He confesses he himself will probably be drinking fair din-kum champagne at Christmas lunch: “It’s a good day for it.”
It’s also a good day for pud, but if the fair dinkum kind can seem a little daunting, Hayley Tibbett has a solution: eat your Christmas tree decorations.
At Indulge in the Fountain Centre, Hayley can hardly keep up with orders for her tiny chocolate trees (featured in last week’s Fossickers).
This year, she is buily adding to the range of edible decora-tions, including white and milk chocolate freckles and baubles for your tree.
If they don’t last the distance until Christmas day, nibbled prematurely, you could � nish lunch with one (maybe two) of Hayley’s Christmas pudding tru� es.
Hayley’s almost-too-pretty-to-eat delicacies are hand-made from the � nest Belgian chocolate. The Christmas Milk Mint Sou� es are even gluten-free.
As you plan your Christ-mas lunch menu, spare a thought for Helen Nasia-kos.“I don’t know what’s go-ing on,” the manager of Finny’s Fresh Seafood in the Market Place says.“They’re saying crays are down an incredible amount from last year, but I just can’t give a price until they tell us.”A decision by China to ban rock lobster imports from Australia (a heavy-handed response to a dispute over the duties paid by importers enter-ing China through Hong Kong, apparently) has thrown that market into chaos.
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1. Waiting For My Real Life To Begin - Colin Hay. Love this song because I feel like it describes my life perfectly - always looking ahead, always waiting to grow up!
2. Dance Anthem Of The 80s - Regina Spektor. Love running to this song, it has the perfect beat
3. I Wanna Dance with Somebody - Whitney Houston. This is a party song I just love to dance to!
4. Single Ladies - Beyonce. In the wee hours of the morning at my engagement party this song went on repeat! Plus I love this scene on Glee Season One.
5. Little Lion Man - Mumford & Suns. Everyone loves an Irish tune or two.
6. Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson. It’s just a true story, the only way the world’s going to change is if we look at ourselves.
7. Not Fire, Not Ice - Ben Harper. This is my wedding song.
8. A little Ray of Sunshine - Brian Cadd. My Dad sang this song to me when I was a little girl, we always sing it together now.
9. People Get Ready - Curtis May� eld. I used to sing this with my choir in high school, just love gospel music!
10. Tall Buildings - Carus. Saw Carus for the � rst time about eight years ago at Port Fairy Folk Festival, fell in love and have been going to see him ever since. This is my favourite of his songs because I love his story in it.
Elizabeth McDonald and Aleisha Verwoert from WIN TV go to war over their favourite all time tunes
Elizabeth McDonald:
1. Sunday Best - Washington. I just love this girl’s haircut, liking the song is a bonus!
2. One Crowded Hour - Augie March. A well written, almost poetic song.
3. Make You Feel My Love - Adele. It sums up what a partner should be able to do for you, although not a typically conventional love song. We all have our ups and downs.
4. Valerie - Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse. The only song I can sing in tune.
5. Make You Happy - Josh Pyke. Who doesn’t want to be happy? The tune of this song is infectious and makes you want to ride a guitar-shaped boat.
6. Your Love Is Like A Song - Dan Sultan. Dan was the � rst live act I ever saw, one of his songs had to make the list.
7. Stand By Me - Ben E. King. A classic that featured in a very short-lived TV show, American Dreams, that I used to tape and watch to give me a break from my VCE studies.
8. Say Hey - Michael Franti. I discovered this song when a group of ¤ ash tappers sprung up in the Prahan Market and left again. The song makes me want to tap dance too.
9. You Can’t Stop The Beat - cast of Hairspray. Why would you want to stop it?
10. Bridal Train - The Waifs. A beautiful Australian song with a real story behind it, you can almost see those young women leaving Australian shores forever.
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BENDER Alternative Club exceeded all ex-pectations on the weekend when over 250 people � ocked through the Black Swan’s doors for the club launch.
USA alternative heavyweights Stick To Your Guns and First Blood tore up the stage and had limbs � ailing to their aggressive brand
of melodic hardcore whilst Queenslanders Wish For Wings and local boys The Escape and The Lost Boys made for brilliantly enter-taining opening acts.
After their show, I caught up with Wish For Wings’ bass guitarist Aido Spinks who was blown away by the club’s reception. “We love playing our regional shows, they’re always a lot of fun. I can’t believe how many people showed up tonight, Bendigo must have more people than I thought!” he said.
The club’s founder, 19 year-old Thomas Jo-hanneson was stoked with the night’s turn-out and has con� rmed that the monthly club show will continue.
For people who think hardcore is a little too aggressive for their taste, we can reveal that the next show will feature the more mellow sound of some Australian pop-punk music, more details as we have them. Make sure you are following Bender Alternative Club on Facebook to keep up-to-date and help ensure its continued success.words: Jake Schatz
KATE NASH returns to Australia in February with a new album, a new look and a new nostalgic sound.
The new album is My Best Friend Is You and uses 60s sounds of full brass pipes and twanging surf guitar to show her diversity.
Kate Nash plays Billboard, Melbourne on Friday, February 18.
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THE Musicman Mega Store gig last Wednes-day was a great way to start o� the month.
Her Majesty (formally Three Faces West) kicked o� the night with some their new songs from the unreleased EP Odious.
It was great to see the local talent back up on the stage.
The crowd was jumping around going crazy for the intense breakdowns that Her Majesty so often delivers.
Next up on the stage was Queensland’s hardcore/metalcore act Wish For Wings which got the crowd jumping around even more.
The mosh pit was getting more intense with every song.
The next group was San Francisco’s straight up hardcore act First Blood. They delivered many intense breakdowns and foot stomping ri� s to get the crowd going like never before.
Next up was the headlining act. Stick To Your Guns delivered another very
hardcore act, but with more melody to the mix of instruments than the previous band.
Into the � rst song, the crowd was going nuts.
By the end of the night everyone was ec-static to have just witnessed and enjoyed the music the four bands delivered.
THREE cover bands are all out to make sure you are Rockin’ at the Theatre Royal, Castle-maine on Saturday.
E11even is a hard rock band that plays mu-sic from the 1970s all the way through to the latest songs with their own twist. Darkcides material consists mainly of Status Quo, Rose
Tattoo with some original material thrown into the mix. Finally, Balls ’n’ All is a hard rock band whose music takes you through the 1970s to the 1990s like ACDC, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, and Bon Jovi.
The gig runs from 9pm until 1am. Tickets are $18 Bookings on 5472 1196.
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AFTER a huge amount of applications to play the The Newmarket Hotel on Saturday January 22, festival organiser Don Webb has trimmed the list back to a tight 22.
And the lists goes like this: Lee Rosser, Bridget Robertson and Lance Hillier, 12 Inch Clocks, Sister Ray, Artilah, Talisa Jobe, Tim McMillan Band, Skip, Master of None, The
Blister Transistor, Louie and the Pride, Colo-nel Vipers Whipstick Band, Tyson Hodges Trio, Made in China, Soundhole, My Left Boot, Jacob Mcguª e, Jasmine Eyes, Fuhrer, La Bastard, Deano and Old Buzzard Medi-cine Show.
Gigfest kicks o� at midday and � nishes at 11.30pm.
gigfest is locked & loaded.
Everything else is a bit hit and miss and may well need a surreptitious stash-ing at the back of the cupboard until it’s safe to assume the giver has forgotten their unfortunate decision to surprise you with that gew-gaw knick-knack you couldn’t do without (not). But a book…. the perfect gift.
Perfect, that is, so long as you have a good idea about the receiver’s reading tastes and interests.
You almost can’t go wrong with a very good crime novel, particularly at holi-day time when most people have a little more time. They want a book that will engage them immediately and keep them interested, even as the warm sun invites an afternoon snooze.
You could choose the absurdly popular Stieg Larsson, or go for this year’s Miles Franklin winner, Peter Temple’s Truth (although the earlier Broken Shore is much better). Reginald Hill (creator of the Dalziel and Pascoe series which went to television) has a totally absorbing recent novel called The Woodcutter which should pass the sun-drowse test.
The most-hyped book of the year is Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom: a must-read, just to be part of the conversation about whether the novel is on its last legs, although opinions on this one are vastly di� erent. It frustrates as much as it pleases.
For someone who likes to read history in the form of a good story, Andrea Levy (author of the magni� cent Small Island), you could try Love Song, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize this year.
Shocking information about the slave trade, but told with gusto and a posi-tivity that is heart-warming.
Harry Hart from Dymocks bookshop in Bendigo is a huge history fan. Even though he’s surrounded by books, he’s hoping to � nd under his tree a copy of the new one by Steve Berry, The Emperor’s Tomb. Berry is “meticulous” with his research, Harry says, and his plots are both “zesty and believable”. And his lead character, Cotton Malone, is the kind of fellow Harry would himself like to be.
Monsignor Frank Marriott, at Sacred Heart cathedral, is also a history bu� . For his Christmas stocking, he nominated The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine, by Simon Price and Peter Thonemann.
History, says the Monsignor, gives him “balance”.There’s a swag of new biographies out in time for Christmas: John Howard’s
Lazarus Rising is doing well on the bestseller lists, and a couple of other (very di� erent) blokes have also told their stories: Barassi is written by Peter Lalor, and old rocker Keith Richards called his warts-and-all memoir Life.
Susan Mooney, adult programs coordinator with Gold� elds Library Corpo-ration, says she’s keen to read (and thus receive) Australian comedian Corrine Grant’s story, Letting Go. A “compulsive hoarder”, Susan says she is attracted to this memoir by another such hoarder, and, she adds, “a good laugh is rare”.
Anne Henshall, marketing co-ordinator at the Capital Theatre, already has a copy of The Fry Chronicles, the second memoir by Stephen Fry, which she rec-ommends for its “brutal honesty”. Fry, she says, is “perceived so very di� erently to the man he actually is”.
We’ve gone to an expert for a foodie recommendation: “fossicker”, Nicole Murphy, says she’s hoping for either MoVida by Melbourne restaurateur Frank Camorra (now in paperback) or his new one, MoVida Rustica. Next best thing to actually eating there, Nicole says, is trying out the dishes at home.
Now, what if your gift recipient is a big-time reader, and already has all the latest (or borrowed them from the library)? What if their tastes are very spe-cialised? You may have left it too late to order up that obscure title, but there are so many good second-hand bookshops around, maybe that’s the way to go.
Over at the Bendigo Art Gallery, director Karen Quinlan is hoping to � nd some time over the holidays to pursue her interest in local artist, Agnes Goodsir (who died in 1939), and one way of doing that is to read about a similar artist, the American Romaine Brooks. Karen hopes Meryle Secrest’s biography of Brooks, Between Me and Life, might be that nice, neat, easy-to-wrap present, waiting for her on Christmas morn.
Photo: Harry Hart and Anne Henshall by Vicki Harrington
words Rosemary Sorensen
Christmas morning, when you head to the tree, there’s re-ally only one parcel the shape and size of which does not make you appre-hensive – the book present.
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words and photo Sebastian Young
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What did you get out of putting this autobiography together?
That I never want to do a book again (laughs). What I got out of it was that as an athlete you never involved or par-ticipate in the euphoria around the events that you actually play in. You’re oblivious to it to a degree, a large degree ac-tually. So all the build up and and the tension and the media and the speculation amongst the punters, all of those ele-ments that are evident, you’re really removed from.
So the � shbowl approach works the best to avoid distractions?
Yeah you’re naturally in a bowl so the pressure comes not from any of those factors I mentioned but more just in internally, where you focus in your own game and your own team. That’s enough to worry about quite honestly and that’s enough to handle, than all the other information that’s out there.
So you would rarely read the press during your ca-reer?
Not much, no. Not to say that in a disrespectful way but
there was enough to worry about than to worry about Tom, Dick and Harry having their say on whatever it was.
It seems as if there is always a member of the Austra-lian cricket team in the gun in the press.
If a guy needed a bit more support you’d give it to them, if they needed their space you’d give that to them as well. You are very mindful of each other’s position, but I wasn’t the personality that would take it much deeper than that.
How was your relationship with the media?I’d much rather choose to have the relationship with the
media that I trusted and knew and just let that manage itself, rather than get down to tin tacks of who said what, how, when and where.
You retired in early 2009. Do you miss the game?Yesterday I was in the nets with kids bowling to me from
eight years old to 15 years old and I still love hitting cricket balls. It was a bit of a promotion thing for the book tour and I still love it, I just love purely hitting cricket balls. To a large extent one of the great challenges of playing in a team is the comradeship that exists within your network of close team mates. It’s a bit like what Mitch (Mitchell Johnson) would be feeling now, he’d be out but he’d never be down and out because he’ll have some good mates around him telling him he’ll be ok and to keep cracking on. That’s a great feeling but quite honestly I get that from business as well. I have a close group of people who I can share that spirit with. The elation of having a framework of teamwork is a really good feeling and long be it that I don’t have to exist without it.
Are you having a hit apart from the IPL?It’s a time thing for me. I’ve got a young family and life
is busy. I’ve got a decision to make there, I noticed my auc-tion � oor price was $200,000. But I have never ever lost the passion and the absolute joy that I get from playing cricket, I love it. You’d be worried if you didn’t considering I’ve de-voted most of my life to it.
Can you elaborate on that slightly peculiar pre match routine you used during your career? I think some-body referred to it as “pitch bonding”...
It was a way that I could be connected to the wicket, a way I could mentally rehearse. There was a lot of meditation involved in a lot of ways, but it was really about trying to understand what I had ahead of me, what the conditions were like and to get a general feel for the ground, so there were no surprises come the � rst ball on the � rst day.
So you’re a very spiritual person then Matt?Most de� nitely, I feel deep connections to people, natu-
rally my family and the ocean, I love being outside so cricket was a great game for me to pursue. My faith is something I don’t talk about a lot, there’s no real need. All those ele-ments have been great anchors in my life, whether I’m hav-ing a rotten day or a great day, I come back to those core elements in my life.
You were dumped from the Australian test team in 1997, some experts thought for good. Did you ever feel you wouldn’t get back into the team?
No not really. I knew I had my back up against it and the
wind was well and truly in my face but having said I didn’t really feel like I was going to get there ahead of time any-way. All the things I’ve achieved individually through my career, I never really asked for, I was just pointed in a certain direction and I was walking into the wind and giving it my best shot. I consider my life to be a great journey. Some days are going to be good, some days are bad, that’s the way it is. I don’t really see these destinations, hundreds and Test wins are the be all and end all I guess.
So it’s all about the journey not the goal?It’s a very hard discipline to stay in your process. I guess
it’s such a cliche when it comes to sport, you’ll hear every athlete say ‘I stayed in the moment, I didn’t try and get too ahead of myself, and blah blah blah blah blah’. But the real-ity is, it is 100 per cent where you need to be at, every ball in cricket is a di� erent event and as such it has a di� erent circumstance, opportunity and threat over the course of a long innings.
So who was the biggest threat in your career, bowl-ing wise?
(Curtly) Ambrose was the best bowler I ever faced. I was walking around the MCG the other day � lming a commer-cial and I was remembering my � rst ever Boxing Day experi-ence. I was just a kid. I was staying at the Park Hyatt and I was looking down on the massive G and I’m just thinking to myself ‘clearly I’m not good enough to be here’. It was too vast an experience and on the day I had to deliver any kind of skill set I had Curtly wobbling in at me at 100 miles an hour at me, knocking my o� stump out of the ground for nought.
I remember that delivery, you shouldered arms.It wasn’t a particularly thrilling experience. Walking o�
the ground, packed stadium, Boxing Day, not a single per-son thinks you can play, including the bloke that is playing (laughs). I had a self ful� lled prophecy as they say: didn’t think I was good enough, wasn’t good enough because I was thinking that way. It was a massive turn around in my overall plan to come back and probably one of my great-est achievements, to dominate a Boxing Day Test. Turning it around from the most horrible experience to some of my greatest experiences (Hayden made six Boxing Day Test cen-turies). One of my favourite experiences would have been batting with Symo (Andrew Symonds), when we had our backs against the wall in that Test match (fourth Ashes Test 2006) and turning it around. That partnership (279 runs) was special.
And you got a hundred in the following test match in Adelaide.
It was described as a woeful innings (125- dropped sev-eral times), and truthfully it wasn’t my best, but in the cir-cumstances to turn it around was a good performance.
Your friendship with Justin Langer is well docu-mented. What wouldn’t you do for your old batting partner?
Not much (laughs).
Standing My Ground is out now. For your chance to win a signed copy see page 5 of b.entertained.
Cricketer Matthew Hayden is arguably Australia’s greatest ever Test opener, who holds the dual hon-our of the highest score in Tests (380) and one day internationals (181*) by an Australian.After retiring early last year, Matt the Bat has treaded the path of many an ex-cricketer – he’s now a commentator and has just released his auto-biography, Standing My Ground.We talk to the man known as “The Unit” about his worst moment on the cricket � eld, and his deep love for the game...
q&a.matthew hayden
words ben cameron
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NEW MARKET HOTEL Made in China w/The Trod|9pm |$5 BASEMENT BAR Richard Perso (guitar/didge | 9pm | Free THE OLD HEPBURN HOTEL Bone Idol (pop/rock covers) | 8.30pm | Free PUGG MAHONES Xerocks (pop/rock covers) | 11pm THEATRE ROYAL King Stone (seven piece ska) | 8pm | $10 THE HIBERNIAN Chris DeAraugo Trio (rock/pop/blues covers) | 8-11pm | Free DAYLESFORD INN Open Mic/Folk Night w/Venessa Craven | 7pm |Free