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40 — Centralian Advocate, Thursday, June 30, 2011 PUB: CADV DATE: 1-JUL-2011 PAGE: 40 COLOR: C M Y K ALL GIG GUIDE DETAILS MUST BE PHONED IN (8950 9777) OR FAXED (8950 9740) TO THE CENTRALIAN ADVOCATE BY TUESDAY. ROCK BAR: Fri Mike David the Blues Man from 9pm. Sat Leon Spurling and Damo Armstrong from 9pm. Sun Timbo Mariner from 7.30pm. Mon Joe Relic from 7.30pm. Tues Ben Philips from 8pm. Wed Damo Armstrong from 8pm. Thurs Duncan Rae from 8pm. BO’S SALOON: Bring in your iPod every night from 9pm and the resident DJs will play the songs you want to hear. www. bossaloon.com.au HEAVITREE GAP TAVERN: Fri Tim Rickards Chris Callaghan 6pm - 10pm. Sun Reptile show at 6pm followed by musicians Tim and Chris. $10 specials every night. KINGS CANYON RESORT: The Roadies Family Fun Band Sat to Thurs from 6.30pm to 9.30pm. MEMO CLUB: Fri open mic night 9pm. Thurs free video jukebox all night. SOUNDS OF STARLIGHT: Tues Fri The Didgeridoo Outback Show with Andrew Langford. For bookings call 89530826. GAPVIEW HOTEL: Sun Karaoke from 4pm. TCT: Fri-Sat DJs from 9pm. Sun live music 1-4pm. JUICY RUMP: Fri Joe Relic from 5pm and DJ Jed from 10.30pm. Sat DJ Jed from 10.30pm. Sun Juicy Brunch with Cain Gilmour from noon. ANNIE’S PLACE: Fri The Warburtons from 7pm. Sat Basil Raelene from 7pm. UNCLE’S TAVERN: Wed State of Origin with prizes. EDITORS NOTE: Would you like your gig in our free weekly gig guide? Call the Centralian Advocate on 8950 9777 or fax to 8950 9740 for a free mention in every Friday edition. www.therockbar.com.au All new acts welcome at The Rock Bar Ph: 8953 8280 715305/11as Phone: 8952 2166 775305/11 BINGO SUNDAY 1PM ALICE LIVE Panda gives a little bit of soul Leigh Paatsch Angelina Jolie stars in Kung Fu Panda 2 AS fun as the 2008 animated hit Kung Fu Panda turned out to be, there was always a grey area concerning the movie’s black-and-white hero. You should know exactly what I’m talking about. And if you don’t, well, you’ve flunked Movie Biology 101 for ever more. Come on now. You must have noticed a certain physical dissimilarity between the headstrong young Po (voiced by Jack Black) and his wise old dad Mr Ping (James Hong). A lard-carrying panda the son of a card-carrying goose? And no explanation throughout the first film as to how this can possibly be? Moving to right this wrong, the makers of Kung Fu Panda 2 get right down to origin-story-business from the opening scenes. It is here we learn that Po’s real ma and pa were the victims of a China-wide purge of pandas ordered by the psychotic warmongering peacock Lord Shen (Gary Oldman). Shen is none too pleased when he learns that Po survived the cull. Particularly as it was once prophesied a panda would one day prove his undoing. And so, Po and his merry band of martial arts masters, the Furious Five — still spearheaded by Tigress (Angelina Jolie) and Monkey (Jackie Chan) — are placed on a collision course with dark forces allied to the villainous Lord Shen. Getting the better of this bad dude will not be easy because Shen has developed a monster cannon that overpowers the magic of kung fu, first time, every time. To properly assess the merits of Kung Fu Panda 2, you must compare it with two other films. The first, of course, is the original, alongside which No.2 stacks up very well indeed. The story is a solid refinement of the best bits from before, and the balance between light humour and darker drama is quite well maintained. Second, if you put it head-to-head with the other animated sequel hitting cinemas this week, you would have to say the slick Cars 2 is beaten to the chequered flag by the burly panda. Kung Fu Panda 2 has a better plot, superior vocal performances (yes, that even includes Jean- Claude van Damme as a kooky crocodile) and gives off a little bit of soul that its rival does not. ■ Kung Fu Panda 2 is rated PG and can be seen at the Alice Springs Cinema. DJ Jed keeps being inspired Cameron Boon DJ Jed Ducaine ... ‘‘loves all sorts of music.’’ ADELAIDE DJ Jed Ducaine has been entertaining crowds for about three months now. Jed said his appreciation for all types of music made him very happy to be DJ-ing at the Juicy Rump. He said: ‘‘I worked in a mar- keting and promotion company for a couple of years when I was living in Adelaide and I knew a little bit about DJ-ing. ‘‘When I moved to Alice Springs, I didn’t really know a whole lot of people and I saw the Juicy Rump had an opening so I applied for it. ‘‘I love all sorts of music, so I have a great time playing the Top 40 stuff. Don’t get me wrong though, because I’d love to be playing Jimmy Barnes or Guns’n’Roses as well. ‘‘Doing this job has actually inspired me to do more DJ-ing, but it’s just a matter of getting the time to do it because I work six nights every week.’’ Jed said he would like to host an R’n’B night in the future. ‘‘For the most part I just keep it fairly simple. It just depends on how organised I can get.’’ ■ DJ Jed will be playing at the Juicy Rump on Friday and Sat- urday night from 10pm. A fable, folk-tale film Cameron Boon PART fable, part folk- tale and part real-life, the Araluen film of the week is a 2009 film about a hermit by the name of Felix Bush. Set in early 1930s Tennessee, Felix (played by Robert Duvall) has no regard for anybody in the town nor anyone who wants to get to know him. But one day, after an old fellow hermit dies and he hears people in town telling stories about him, Felix de- cides he needs to tell his own stories while there’s somebody there to listen. And there’s one story in particular that Felix needs to reveal and it’s a secret that has haunted him for 40 years. Revealing that secret will mean the entire town will have to re-evaluate its prejudices and as- sumptions about this tortured soul. He decides the best way to do this would be to hold his own wake — while he’s still alive. The job of arranging the early wake falls to Frank Quinn (Bill Murray) the local fu- neral director and his only employee Buddy. Felix’s big bad secret involves Mattie (Sissy Spacek) who has just returned to town. Sissy the role of the old woman with relish. Felix has to try and tell the story to the crowd but doesn’t know if he can do it. ■ Get Low stars Robert Duvall (The Godfather I and II, Apocalypse Now, Crazy Heart) Bill Mur- ray (Lost in Trans- lation, Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters I, II, III) and Sissy Spacek (Big Love, Coal Miner’s Daughter, Carrie). See it at Araluen at 7pm this Sunday.
