Galleries vs street art. Its become a bit of an issue lately.. Everyone loves a good gallery opening, but when local street artists are prosecuted and turned off of making art free for the people and forced into gallery spaces by the small mindedness of the Adelaide City Council it really fcks us off..

We have some of the most talented character and creature illustrators based here in Adelaide. Their creativity is amazing, but they've been driven off the streets by the manic buff (cleaning) patrol & long arm of the council. Where oh where have our public art spaces gone? We're meant to be the festival state, but the closest thing we have to festive streets is a $2 million dollar bunch of pixels on a carpark. FAIL.

Illustrations by Dan Withy

Ikochi, Skeletons, Cock, God God Dammit Dammit and Band for the Summer @ Urtext

Perhaps you were lucky enough to attend our 10th issue Staff Party? What can we say, it was a hoot. God God Dammit Dammit played their pants off, and our impromptu buskers almost stole the show with a Mario Brothers medley! All of this, in the beautiful surrounds of the Urtext ballroom, a sublime place to be.

Missed it? Fear not! Head on over this month for some more sweaty mayhem amongst the Japanese rockabilly of Ikochi, skinny nu-ravers from Norway aptly named Skeletons, and rockin locals, Cock. Bless you.

Listen
myspace.com/ikochi
myspace.com/cocktheband
myspace.com/godgoddammitdammitband

When: Thursday, November 20th, 7.30pm
Where: Ürtext, Level 2, 14 Grenfell St, city
Map: Giggle mups
Cost: $10.
What you get: Hot, sweaty rock and roll in a lamplit ballroom, complete with outdoor balcony and cheap ice-cold booze.

Cut Off Your Hands

Not content to play in Adelaide what seems like every two weeks, Cut Off Your Hands are back again this month... and back again for the way cool St Jeromes Laneway Festival. But this time they farewell the Rocket Bar stage to play the bigger Fowlers Live.

If you don't know them, imagine the romance of The Smiths delivered on a layer of frenetic punk like tempos. It's delicious pop at its finest. Don't let the hype dissuade you, it's always a good show.

UPDATE: you'll be needing that back to the future DeLorean to make it to this event.. sorry, we been drinkin' a little too much wine this month in the summer sun. :/

When: Friday, November 14th, doors at 8pm
Where: Fowlers Live, 68-70 North Tce
Tickets: $20, buy on-line

Feast Festival

November is here and that means things are about to get a little bit bent! Over 150 queer events including parties, cabaret, music, visual art, workshops, live performance and everything in between.

Want to dip your toe into the Feast Festival lineup but unsure what to see? Well we're waaaay ahead of you and got some hot tips straight from the transsexual horses mouth.

Private Lives
If you want a theatrical experience like no other, check out Private Lives and be taken on a trip through the city in a one on one experience in hotel rooms, bars, cars, alleys – you won’t forget this...

When: 17th - 26th November, 7pm
Where: Higher Ground, 9-15 Light Square
Buy tickets: bass.net.au

pARTy
pARTy will see you taking over two empty shops on Hindley St on a Sunday arvo. Chilled tunes, chilled drinks, chilled peeps. Be fitted with a white boiler suit, enter the white room and get freaky with a shit load of paint!

When: 17th - 26th November, 7pm
Where: 151 and 153 Hindley Street
Buy tickets: bass.net.au

I am Glace Chase
Part punk, part cabaret, part motivational lecture, part trash. I am Glace Chase is underground, edgy and hilarious. "The creation of the coked-up, faux-glamourous iconoclast Glace Chase embodies all the things gone wrong with today's media culture." Inpress

When: 24th - 28th November, 7.30pm
Where: Higher Ground, 9-15 Light Square
Buy tickets: bass.net.au

Medal Jam VI

If you begrudgingly switched on the American "So you think you can dance?" show purely for the breakdancers, then this event is for you.

Medal Jam is an underground bboy/bgirl event that takes place at a different street venue each month. Focusing on pushing the city's established dance scene to new levels, it also encourages the next generation to get hungry and step up to the challenge.

Based on a unique format, Medal Jam gives each dancer the opportunity to hold the "City King" title and accompanying medallion for the duration of a month.

Medal Jam VI coincides with the screening of the new breaking documentary "Planet Bboy" which is on for only two nights at the Mercury Cinema. For those who are interested in coming down and supporting the film, it will be on at 7.30pm after the jam.

When: Saturday 22nd November, 4pm
Where: Under the King William Street bridge
Website: myspace.com/medaljam

edukated

Finding cool clothes can be a hard task for guys in Adelaide, especially when you're into counter culture street wear. But step into the lovely old Regent Arcade and you'll find a shop called edukated. This little store of hand picked goodies will have you covered, stocking a selection of alife, 10 Deep, Crooks & Castles, Mishka, Official Headwear, Diamond Supply Co, Stussy Deluxe & artist series, MHI & Nikita.

You need be neked no more.

The best bit is that when you buy from edukated, you're helping them support local skate, artist & hip hop talent. That's worth big props in my book.

Where: Regent Arcade, off Rundle Mall.
Website: edukated.com.au
Blog: edukated.com.au/blog (new arrivals)
When: Monday to Thursday 10am – 5.30pm, Friday 10am – 9pm, Saturday 10am – 5pm, Sunday 12pm -5pm

Robot t-shirts by Benzo

If you enjoy exploring the little alleyways in the city, you're bound to have come across one of Benzo's robots. They come in loads of customized forms, some sprouting wings, blowing bubbles and even vomiting fish. He's been known to show them off in galleries too, burned into skateboard decks, carved out of wood blocks, sculpted from tin cans.. so it was only a matter of time before you could wear one of his robot friends.

For a very limited time you can buy one of Benzo's custom screen printed t-shirts.

3 colour prints [black, white & metallic silver] on 4 different colour tees - powder blue, ash grey, charcoal grey and black. Sizes small, medium, large and xtra large.

Email orders: info@benzo376.com
Price: $40

Hoorah for Independent Record Stores

A little birdy has told us that in a wee laneway behind the Austral, just off Bent St, there is soon to be new independent record store to open very soon.

It's Mr V. Music, the same great store that can be found down on Semaphore Rd, and we hope it too will be stocking some pre-loved and new vinyl, plus usual formats.

Check it out soon! While JB Hifi may be easier and cheaper, there isn't much love in it, especially from their snooty staff. Ouch.

Where: Just off Bent St.

Hip to the wise

Remember Bonds? That iconic underwear company that had every opportunity to win the hearts and minds of young people by producing plain hoodies and tees for everyone, but failed. Sure they are still around, but man did they miss an opportunity.

Along comes American Apparel, promptly shooting a nail in the Bonds coffin, by providing ethically made staples that actually fit well and are... a little sexy.

Soon you won't have to wait 2 weeks for your 5 pack of tees to ship, just duck on down to Rundle St and pick them up yourself.

When: Soon
Where: 211 Rundle st, City

Object?

There's a little space, in a little lane, with some little stairs, to a little room, where an object stands.

Paperhorse studios is the little space, and 'Object' is their latest exhibition. An insight into the mind of an artist, through their impression of objects.

Seasoned regulars Dan Withey, Danica Wells-heitman (aka Nickas), Lauren Sutter, James Dean, Egija Mittenberga, Stasi Kotaris, Suzanne Karagiannis and Lisa King are joined by a new face on the paperhorse walls, Julian Ishere (aka Jules). This is going to be one not to miss.

When: One night only, Thursday 27th November, 7pm - 10pm
Where: Paperhorse Studios, Level 2, 93 Rundle Mall, down Lindes Lane, near the balls.

Downhill longboarding

You may have heard of a little thing called the urban yo-yo.. it's a little crazy charging down car parks with concrete walls and murderous security guards, but if that's not hard enough for you here's a little something extra.

Enter the Adelaide Speedboarding crew. These guys are totally fsckng nuts. They're riding modified boards that are capable of speeds up to 125 km/h, and they ride hills all around for both pleasure and competition.

With no brake system other than the wind, sliding, foot braking or falling off, you can be assured that these lads have the biggest gonads in town.

But don't take my word for it.. check out their video!

Video: by Leigh Griffiths
Website: skateboardracing.org.au

Australia - movie fundraiser

"From the smallest seed grows change"... that's the tagline for One Village, a non-profit organisation providing education and aid programs to Namwendwa, a village in Uganda. Their tagline is a little cheesy, but the organisation definitely is not!

This awesome little group are throwing a movie night fundraiser at the Capri for the brand new Baz Lurhmann extravaganza Australia.

So come along and see a wonderful film, the amazing Capri cinema organ player rise through the floor, and best of all help a Ugandan child help themselves with the education we take for granted.

When: Friday 28th November at 8:00pm
Where: Capri Theatre, 141 Goodwood rd, Goodwood. Map here.
Supporting: One Village
Cost: Adults $15, Students $12
Book tickets: 0433 773 061 or on-line here

Way Laned!

Adelaide has maybe never needed the Laneway Festival more than in 2009. With a tired and predictable shamble of a Big Day Out lineup, our little town was facing a festival season void of any sort of Summer excitement. That was until the Laneway Festival’s first lineup announcement simultaneously blew our minds and wet our pants.

Never a group content to rest on their laurels, the organisers have progressed the festival once again and taken the lineup into new and exciting directions. Gone to a significant extent are the sweet indie pop melodies that defined 2008’s shows. In its place, rock and roll in all its shapes and forms will rattle the concrete of Fowler’s courtyard with the likes of No Age, The Drones, The Hold Steady and Jay Reatard.

You can also catch pop chameleons Architecture in Helsinki, Canadian cool kids Born Ruffians, those hyped Kiwis Cut Off Your Hands and the one and only Girl Talk in all his sweat drenched glory. Add to that a bunch more and a second lineup release still to be announced!

Save your pennies, ditch the sweaty dustbowl and the dirty bogans and enjoy an afternoon in the cool and cultured streets for $50 less. We’ll see you there on February 7th.

Words by Nick

Dungen '4'
(Fuse Music)

Did you know Swedish is the 74th ranked spoken language in the world? No of course you didn't but I bet you're glad now, it makes for interesting dinner party conversation.

How this is relevent is Dungen, and Dungen are a truly remarkable band. It isn't just because Gustav Ejstes creates some of the most visual and colourful psychedelic rock this side of the acid tests, but its because you won't find them in the world music section of your local record store. You will find them under 'D' in many decent stores the world over; amazing for a non-english speaking (err singing?) band. Who would have bought ABBA if it was sung in Swedish? It's cheesey enough without the inherent humour of the Swedish language rollicking and sticking against your eardrums. Although I fear my logic may be off, I can't think why anyone would buy ABBA, but I hope you get the point.

'4' sees Dungen leader Gustav trade in his fuzzed out guitar tones for piano, sidestepping down an alleyway into loungey jazz and daring 60's soundtrack territory. Sound lame? No what you're reading, the impossible transferrance of musical experience into a critics text sounds lame; the album is neat.

While it is toned down ever so slightly from prior records like 'Ta Det Lugnt' (“Take It Easy”), Samtidigt 1 and Samtidigt 2 prove the guitar led jam is still in Dungen, and Finns Det Nagon Mojilighet has enough clipping distortion to appease.

The groovy expanses and fulfilled ambition of this record make the minor sound shift a success. Through cascading scales and groovy rythyms, the language barrier does not detract at all from the experience. Particularly while Gustav delivers his voice as one of a myriad of instruments as he trips and holds syllables in the most ear catching and unique fashion. Thanks Sweden.

Listen: myspace.com/dungen

Kiwi Love
(a mixwit mix-tape by Nick)

We have reason to believe our much loved music man has been abducted by New Zealanders and is being held against his will, forced to produce Kiwi mix tape propaganda. So I would highly recommend against loading up your favourite browser at work with this.. Kiwi Love.. the propaganda is gooooooood.

Ambulances & Dreamers

Bel Schenk's poetry collection 'Ambulances & Dreamers' creates a world where people search for the thing they need the most – love, music, food or each other. It's a book for the disappointed and the desolate in all of us. It is the weariness of the deserted 4 am street. It is the mumble from the karaoke bar and the folded message from the stale cookie. It is the possibility of somethingwonderful lurking in the cracks of something sinister.

Sound like your thing? Come to the launch and get your book signed by Bel herself.

When: Thursday, 20th November, 6-8pm
Where: The Grace Emily, Waymouth st

Bliss Organic Garden Café

Good food is easy to come by in Adelaide, but ethically produced food is more of a game of hide and seek. Bliss produce delicious, cruelty-free organic food which doesn’t cost the earth. By using organic ingredients, locally-grown wherever possible, and by refusing to use animal products (apart from offering dairy as well as soya and rice milk for drinks), they keep their carbon footprint as small as possible.

They're also hosting games nights there on Saturday night. For $15 per person you get a 3 course organic meal, plus a table for you and your friends to play games!

When: Tues to Thurs 10am-7pm and Fri/Sat 10am-9pm
Where: 7 Compton St, just off Gouger st, map
Contact: Steve for more 0435 119 182 or eat@blissorganic.net.au

Peppermint magazine
fresh • green • fashion

There's a new fashion magazine on the streets, and this one's a little different. It trades glossy spreads of corporate whores for whispered green messages of re-worked vintage classics and modern screen prints on organic fabrics.

Its a beautifully illustrated magazine of proof that you can be green AND look sexy doing it.

Keen to read more? Well the lovely folk at Peppermint have given us 5 free subscriptions to give away to you, the lovely readers of home slice.

To win yours, simply hit reply to this email with your name and address.

Nick / Junkyard / Ghosts / Punk

The other (and dare I say better) "Our Nick", Warracknabeal's favourite son and Renaissance Man to rival da Vinci, the one and only Nick Cave is returning to home soil next year. Sure it's only November, but we're a little excited. He's curating the pee-your-pants amazing All Tomorrow's Parties festival, which sadly skips Adelaide, but in his generosity, is bringing his Bad Seeds and playing the Thebarton Theatre on January 14. So kids, study up. Here's your homework...

The Birthday Party - "Junkyard"
In 1980, Nick Cave and his Boys Next Door bandmates moved to London and changed their name to The Birthday Party, a name that conjures fond memories of childhood celebrations, fairy bread, balloon animals and cakes. But alas, The Birthday Party's sophomore effort, 'Junkyard', is definitely not a suitable soundtrack for a game of pass-the-parcel. Released in 1982, it's more the soundtrack to an apocalypse: dark, foreboding and hopelessly pessimistic, but celebratory in it's violence, Cave alternately shrieking and sneering, alternately helpless and fiercely combative. Junkyard is frightening, exciting and cathartic, laden with brutal guitar riffs and tribal drumbeats. After immersing oneself in The Birthday Party, you really have to wonder: did Cave form Grinderman because he missed Nick The Stripper?

Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
This is definitely not a film to watch when you're home alone at night. Set sometime in the near future, Ghosts...of the Civil Dead documents the goings-on in a maximum security prison in the remote Australian desert. It is sickeningly violent, unrelenting and confronting, and if it doesn't make you feel uncomfortable, there has to be something wrong with you. Cave co-wrote the film, acts in the film playing an inmate, and contributed to the soundtrack. This film is hard to find, and ultimately the decision to actually watch it has to be made by you, but its comment on the modern penal system is an important and interesting one.

"Inner City Sound: Punk and Post-Punk in Australia, 1976-1985" by Clinton Walker
"Inner City Sound" is a beautifully crafted testament to a wonderfully creative almost-decade of Australian music. First published in 1981, the revised edition was released in 2005; the original a collector's item. Pieced together from articles featured in fanzines and newspapers, the book is an incredible celebration of a scene that spawned countless important bands that continue to be ripped off and gushed about today. Cave and his Boys Next Door/Birthday Party cronies get quite the write-up, but so do the Go-Betweens, Radio Birdman, The Scientists (if you missed them live last year I pity you - sorry), The Saints (selected by Cave to play All Tomorrow's Parties), Beasts of Bourbon and lesser known but not lesser groups like the Primitive Calculators (another Cave ATP selection), X and Essendon Airport to name just a few. Adelaide is surprisingly well represented too! Buy this, and buy it soon, but try to track down a copy with a compilation CD (I didn't and I'm still kicking myself).

Words by Amy.

Dear HomeSlice;

Ive found as of late ; that your "zine" lacks substance, and has turned into yet another "front page to the highest bidder" publication. This is somewhat upsetting as one thing Adelaide desperately needs is quality street press.

The last issues opening rant; was terrible. A pathetic attempt to make an obvious statement, to an audience which most probably share a similar view. Preaching to the choir? From a purely "Year 7" viewpoint, punctionation? gramatics? ... full-stops?? Homeslice editors perhaps time to start editing?

Regards
SS

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Dear SS,

I can understand your frustrations and we at home slice do somewhat regret our editorial decision to run 'that' introduction in our last issue. We do view it as lowest common denominator rubbish presented in a clunky fashion, playing on the bigoted stereotypes of some inner city dwellers.

We have learnt from that event, and with the advent of a new editor, things will change. Why did we run it? Well it was part compromise, part slipping of ideals, but we must remember home slice is a collaborative effort and has many different views, this was but one of the them.

Viva la difference!

Mint.Ed.