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issue 17.

01. cover: clare bowditch02. clare bowditch03. megan spencer04. sound off | q&a steph anderson

jake schatz

steve kendall

editor’snote

b.entertained was born in the latter part of 2010. As we hang on the brink of 2011, I can see only great things ahead.Next issue we start our focus on the Summer in the Parks season, a month of live music in Rosalind Park.It’s festival season all over Australia, but we can have our own little taste here in Bendigo. If you like live music, make sure you support the events, go along and take some friends. If you’ve never been to a live show, make this your   rst. I bet it won’t be your last.Live music is special, bringing about a whole new under-

standing far removed from the studio-produced album. No chance to go back for a re-take on the live stage.It’s gutsy, raw and highly entertaining. As far as we’re concerned, if it’s about music, b.entertained plans to be there, if it’s about the arts, b.entertained plans to be there. If it’s about food we’ll have a taste... we’ll look at the   lms too. Our team of specialist writers will keep you up to date on what you need to b.entertained.Make sure you come on the journey with us.

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“I remember once I was driving along listening to Radio National and somebody played Fields of Gold,” she recalled.“And I actually pulled over and just wept.“I just thought that is so beautiful, who the hell is that?”They were the posthumous tones of Eva Cas-sidy, the American songstress who died of cancer in 1996, who found fame beyond the grave.“That was one time I really needed to hear that kind of story on that day because it reminds me of the eternal, the bigger picture,” she said.“Some days you might be in a particularly vul-nerable mood and Bon Jovi could do it for you.”Speaking from her family wagon somewhere in northern Melbourne, in the midst of a last minute Christmas shopping spree, Bowditch reveals 2010 has been one of her busiest yet.The release of her latest album, Modern Day Addiction, sparked a journalistic   re, that has spawned gigs on ABC Radio National and panel show, Q and A (apparently she wears a Tony Jones T Shirt to bed every night).“I’ve been doing a lot more media than I nor-mally do (to promote the album),” she said.“I usually just do a few days, but it went on for months.“I realised I actually quite like writing and in-terviewing and all that kind of fun stu� . “But I’m an absolute hack, I’m just an amateur.”Clearly Bowditch is having a laugh. After all, the talented singer songwriter man-aged to pin down PM Julia Gillard for a one on one, just a week before the election.“I was really surprised it happened, it was one of those amazing things where I got the call on Wednesday and they said ‘can you be in Sydney on Friday morning to interview the Prime Min-ister?’” she said.“It was wonderful though. I went in knowing there was nothing I couldn’t ask her that she couldn’t answer.“She’s a clever woman, she’s a clever person. A lot of people rubbish politicians, sometimes for good reason, (but) sometimes we don’t un-derstand how di� cult their role is.“I went in with an open mind basically, but I made a point of having a discussion rather

than an interview.“Just the kind of converstation you would have at a dinner party.“And she was up for the conversation, so she got my respect in that way.”The two built a healthy rapport, with the PM relaxed enough to reveal she was a fan of pop sensation, Lady GaGa.“I nearly fell over backwards, I knew she liked Meatloaf, The Stones but I didn’t know about GaGa,” she said.Turns out Gillard is a fan through family con-nections – her step daughter has been a make up artist for GaGa. Her lyrics weren’t discussed however.“She didn’t talk about disco sticks or anything,” she laughed.Unfortunately Bowditch didn’t ask the tough question – is she a fan of her own music?“I don’t ask her out of fear of embarassing myself, I’m sure she listens to a bit of Gold FM for a bit of calm before meeting world leaders,” she said.For Bowditch, manning the mic has often been more nerve wrecking than performing live with new backing out  t, The New Slang.“I was very nervous at   rst,” she said.“A lot of the   rst show was discussing the arts in Australia and whether we can think of it in the same way we think of sport.“So I was talking about stu� that I knew about which was helpful.

“It’s far more terrifying to be on radio (than performing live in concert).“You realise the show is going out to a million people around Australia potentially, and you think ‘oh god, you’ve got to be interesting or friendly, you better not stu� it up’.“It’s di� erent from a show. You’ve got an hour and you’ve got a band.”Bowditch is the envy of most journalists, hav-ing already interviewed her all time dream guest, Leonard Cohen – albeit in the form of an impromptu chat outside a hotel during their Australian tour together.“I asked him ‘do you believe in God?”, she said.“And his response was ‘I don’t believe in God, I know God’.“He’s got a very dry sense of humour.”Bowditch isn’t likely to give up her regular job though; she’s still in love with the art of creat-ing music.“I believe in the radical power of music,” she said.“I believe in the power of music to actually change lives and connect people.“I know intuitively and I know from working with music therapists that in a practical way music can become one of the central tenets to healing people.“To give them a place to express themselves, but also to give people some hope.“It’s such a powerful connector of people. It’s what we play at funerals, when we’re getting

married, it’s everywhere and it’s so underused in a way.“So much of it (music) is senseless and com-pletely irrelevant but I guess that has its place to, a bit of light relief!”As the PM can attest, Bowditch is a straight shooter. A quality perfectly attuned for the medium of radio.“That’s something (honesty) I appreciate in other people, it’s how I roll,” she laughed.“Be yourself, you don’t have to be all things to all people.”

wingsSpreadingYou heard it here � rst: Sting’s song-writing brings Clare Bowditch to tears. Although she’s recently dipped her toe in the world of journalism- she’s become somewhat of a Christ-mas time ring in for the likes of Derek Guille and Robbie Buck on ABC Ra-dio. Bowditch is both music creator and fan, � rst and foremost.

The new album is called Modern Day Ad-diction.So what’s yours Clare? Apart from co� ee, the odd ciggie, watching too much televi-sion and Twitter?“I can be distracted by just about every-thing,” she confessed.“If I put one down, I pick up another. I’m just like everyone else, I have a million of them (addictions).“When I give up sugar, I end up eating twice the fat.“Our minds are like tourists, buying sou-venirs to throw in a cupboard – with too many souvenirs.“The main premise I was trying to discuss on the album is this question of why we doubt ourselves. Why do we think we’re not good enough? Why do we believe that story? And how can we challenge it?“I wanted to answer those questions in a way that was enjoyable to listen to, rather than just a lecture, or pretending to have the answer, it’s just a set of questions.”

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One of my favor-ite places to go and just ‘sit’ is Bendigo Pottery. What a gem.

I was around it plenty as a child too – every visit we wound up at the Pottery, looking at the beautiful ceramics and running around the historic red bricks.

It deeply embedded a love of craft.Now as an adult, I � nd myself gravitating to it as a place just

to ‘sit’, have co� ee (made by the wonderful Susan, a contender for best barista outside of Bendigo CBD!), and read the paper…

It’s also another local art venue, right now exhibiting the latest show by Bendigo Art Society: 155 works by 40 amateur artists.

Titled Creative Edge the show is in the Pottery’s Paynter Gal-lery, which, according owner to Sally Thomson, is proving to be a successful ‘alternative’ gallery space for artists who don’t get a guernsey inside some of the region’s more high-end art spaces.

“There is limited space for people to exhibit around Bendigo; those who aren’t quite up to gallery level,” Sally told me.

“Where do they go when they want to show their work?”It’s actually a really important question if you think about it;

where do amateurs, emerging artists, or those not quite plugged into the ‘professional’ art networks and politics, show their work?

What becomes of them? And do we really care?Sally does, and spends much of her time encouraging people

whose work she likes. Clearly she loves Paynter Gallery, which is becoming in-de-

mand. It combines invited work (Gail Taverner and Terry Jarvis being

just two popular locals whose professional work you’ll often see there), curated exhibits (work from the Pottery and other pot-ters), and hired exhibitions, such as the BAS.

As you might expect, ‘Creative Edge’ is mostly composed of paintings, landscapes and ‘still lives’, although the odd sculpture and abstract creep in (see Ian Alden’s ‘Blue on Blue’).

Many of the artists also show multiple entries. “Initially it was going to be 20 artists with up to four entries each, then it became

40 artists!” Sally laughs. Paintings spill onto the walls of the

café, including several of Margaret Richmond’s, who has clearly been inspired by a visit to WA. ‘Flowers & Rock in Pilbara’ was perhaps the best of her series, a big bold love letter to the desert. Striking.

“It’s been the best exhibition of painting we’ve had here so far,” Sally says of the positive reactions ‘Creative Edge’ has received since opening mid-December. “Many people have commented on the quality of the paintings for an amateur exhibition.” On until February 16.

Bendigo Art Gallery is also ramp-ing up for its 2011 exhibition season. Their ‘American Dreams’ photography show has given me serious goose-bumps. Work by over 35 of America’s best photo artisans – such as Diane Arbus, Harry Callahan, Nan Goldin, Lee Friedlander – are on the way in April, another stun-ning feather-in-the-cap of BAG, who has “developed” this exhibi-tion with George Eastman House in New York. Cannot wait – I’ll be dive-bombing into that one when it opens!

Back to painting though; BAG is also behind “Australia’s richest open painting prize”, o� ering $50 000 and acquisition, to the art-ist whose work wins the bi-annual Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, exhibiting 12 February – 2 April 2011.

Word went out this week that 38 artists have been shortlisted so far, including Tim McMonagle and local painter Kate Bergin (Mount Macedon), who also short-listed in 2009.

The winner will be announced at the exhibition opening, 6.30pm, February 11, 2011. Put it in your diaries now!

‘Creative Edge’, until February 16, Paynter Gallery at Bendi-go Pottery, Midland Highway, Epsom. www.bendigopottery.com.au” www.bendigopottery.com.au

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Unless your name is Veronica Corningstone, newsreading is usually the bastion of middle aged men.But thankfully Bendigo’s internet television station IPTV has bucked the trend and installed Stephanie Anderson as its chief news anchor. The tri lingual (French and German) Anderson might be a rookie in the world of journalism, but she’s de� nitely not green. Or yellow.

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EVERYONE at b.entertained would like to extend warm wishes for an absolutely rocking new year.

This is our 17th issue and we are incredibly pleased with how this magazine is shaping up; in 2011 we want to continue to help push Bendigo’s music scene to bigger and better places.

January holds a lot of great opportunities for some incredible live music, take for example the return of the Summer In The Parks program, a series of free, all ages shows in the beautiful, bat-free Rosalind Park.

We will of course be covering the program in full along with all the great upcoming Melbourne music festivals, starting with the Big Day Out.

One thing we are always asking for at b.entertained is your feed-back, let us know your thoughts. We take all your feedback seri-ously and it is only with your help that we can continue to evolve.

If you are in a band and are doing something special, whether it’s playing your � rst gig, releasing an album, anything at all, hit us up and we will help you on your way.

Helping out music scene thrive is something we are very passion-ate about. We have more than 100,000 people in this town, so we want to help make sure they know what’s going down.

See you in the new year Bendigo, it’s been an amazing 2010.Catch ya, Schatzy

jake@bendigoweekly.com.au b.entertained@bendigoweekly.com.au

b.yond 2010

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Title: Gulliver’s TravelsRating: PG

Director: Rob LettermanComedyReviewer: Robert Gibson

GULLIVER’S Travels is a universally loved story and has never been out of print since it was written by Jonathan Swift in the 18th century.

While Joe Stillman and Nicholas Stoller’s working of the literary classic is primarily a vehicle for its star Jack Black, it retains the essence that made the story popular with chil-dren and adults alike.

Through an extensive body of work Jack Black has become a favourite Hollywood comedic talent.

Like other North American comedians such as Jim Carrey and earlier Jerry Lewis, Black’s work is a clever combination of physical comedy, precise timing and lashings of slapstick antics.

As his movie career has blossomed, so has his ability to carry o� a romantic comedy laced with his comedic trade-marks.

The screenplay writers use all of Black’s skills to bring to life their wonderful version of Lemuel Gulliver who this time around is sucked into the Bermuda Triangle to the land of

Lilliput and its little people.The modern adaptation has several love stories as the cen-

tral plot lines, but still use the giant versus the little people to its full advantage.

The two love stories are those of Black’s character with Darcy (played by Amanda Peet) who is his o� ce romantic interest, and Lilliput’s Princess Mary (Emily Blunt) and the lowly stationed Horatio (Jason Segel).

The leads work well with Black and complement the mod-ern take of the story – perfectly marrying the old and new storylines.

A wonderful support cast add to the project’s success in-cluding unlikely castings like Ozzy Osbourne as the narra-tor, Catherine Tate as Queen Vera and Billy Connolly as King Bendamin.

Work by Chris O’Dowd as general Edward and TJ Miller as Dan are also responsible for the ensemble cast’s contribu-tion to the � lm’s appeal.

Technically, the concept is perfect for 3D which is matur-ing as a medium. Thanks to Avatar, 3D is becoming less of an intrusion and more of an adjunct.

David Tattersall’s cinematography uses elevation to en-hance the special e� ects required to produce the little citi-zens of Lilliput.

Lilliput has been intricately created and modernised by a team of art directors headed by Peter Russell.

While the setting remains 18th century based, Gulliver’s appearance from modern times allows the production crew to introduce some funny 21st technology like an iPhone, advertising billboards and even a Transformer.

Modern set and prop injections add to the comedic rhythm of the � lm throughout.

Rob Letterman’s direction is tight while letting each de-partment add their respective creative talents to the end result.

Jack Black’s name is all over this project and it is not sur-prising as he is also one of the producers.

The � lm will succeed as it meets all the requirements for holiday cinema entertainment, especially as it targets such a wide demographic.

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1. Better Man – Pearl Jam An all time classic.

2. With or Without You – U2Another classic. I cried at their recent Melbourne concert.

3. Free Falling – John Mayer I love this version (of the Tom Petty song). It’s one of those songs that I’ll never get sick of hearing.

4. Knocked Up – Kings of LeonOne of my favourite bands, great song, even better live.

5. You’re The Voice – John FarnhamOne every Aussie should know the words to. We grew up with a John Farnham video that would go on every time we cleaned the house.

6. Take Your Mamma Out – Scissor Sisters

One of those songs that sounds even better when it’s played really loud.

7. Without Me – EminemA song that immediately takes me back to a certain “crazy/fun” time in my life.

8. Billie Jean – Michael JacksonAn instantly recognisable beat.

9. At Last – Etta JamesI’m a romantic at heart and think this is just a beautiful song.

10. Angel – Sarah McLachlanI’m a romantic at heart and think this is just a beautiful song.

1. Mango Tree – Angus and Julia Stone It’s just a really beautiful song.

2. My Happiness – Powder� ngerAnother classic. Always reminds me of my family and going back home.

3. Art vs Science – Flippers.Good song to party too and reminds me of my � rst Falls Festival.

4. Crystalised – The XX.I love all of the XX’s music. I love both their voices and the music is really clever.

5. Watch The Sun Come Up – ExampleReminds me of summer and I love the beat.

6. Skinny Love – Bon Iver.Another really beautiful song.

7. Walking On A Dream – Empire of the Sun

This song is just genius! I love the lyrics as well as the music.

8. Dog Days Are Over – Florence and the Machine.

Whenever I’m having a bad day I whack this song on and my day always picks up.

9. Breathe Me – SiaHer voice is amazing!

10. Zero – Yeah Yeah YeahsI love Karen O (lead singer). I lover her for her voice and her performances and the clothes she wears on stage. She is just really funky.

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q&a.steph anderson

As a journalist you need to ask a lot of questions. Were you a curious child?I was at Healesville Sanctuary when I was about four looking at wombats. I wanted to pat them. There’s video evidence of this encounter but I hope it’s lost somewhere in our garage. But, on video, my Mum – being a good parent – warns me not to get too close to the wombats. I grin at the camera and stick my hand through the fence, where it is promptly bitten. Tears ensue. I don’t know whether that makes me a curious child; it certainly makes me an obstinate child.

Did you have the gift of the gab from a young age?I was a bit of a feral child. I was probably too busy roaming the local streets and parks being generally tom-boyish and dis-gusting – swimming in creeks I would not jump into now if you gave me $1000. I was certainly opinionated and stubborn and I used to speak a mile a minute. Fortunately I’ve shaken that habit and pulled that back to a nice, news-readerly pace now.

What attracted you to becoming a journalist?I think the variety of every day. I’m also a tragic news junkie and I like to argue with people so it seemed a pretty natural progression.

How have you found the IPTV experi-ence so far?It’s all been a learning curve for everyone involved. Obviously I never expected to work into a job as anchor, although I do a lot more than just read the news. It’s been challenging and intense but there are a lot of people who’ve worked very hard to make IPTV a reality so I feel pretty privileged to be a part of it.

How your � rst experience on air?It was pretty terrifying to get in front of the camera for the � rst time. I suppose the � rst time was during the interview process, when our managing director gave me a script to do a cold read in front of

the camera. As if job interview situations aren’t stressful enough. After a fairly disastrous reading of the bulletin, we then did an on-set interview where I was the talent, and I think I got lost in the content and sort of forgot about the camera. Although I’m hardly an old pro, it doesn’t phase me at all now and I have to remind myself of how much it can get the adrena-line going when I have nervous guests.

What’s the secret to a good interview? The best interviews seem to be when you’re really interacting with the guest and they’re opening up and engaging with you on topics they really care about. This can range from speaking with the OTIS foundation about the messages left in their retreat guest book by cancer patients who’ve since died; to someone who cares for a child with a mental illness, to a post-natal depression su� erer sharing her experience so that other su� erers don’t feel so alone. It’s also strange to interview people who are expressing views I really don’t agree with. But I don’t see it as my job to argue a certain side and what I think is irrelevant.

Have you had any di¥ cult ones yet? The most di� cult ones are probably the best ones, where you’re dealing with a sensitive or emotional topic and you want to tread carefully and not be too invasive while still getting their story. Nervous guests are also hard to deal with – it’s hard to make them feel comfortable and forget about the camera when there’s so many bright lights and people standing around working on production – but you try to put them at ease. It’s great when an interview just feels like having a chat with someone and you’re not even really aware the cameras are there.

Who would you love to interview?I feel like I should say something like Barack Obama here, but the people I really want to interview are those who’ve come out of the woodwork and have a unique

story to tell. I suppose it’s a pretty common journalistic trait to want what nobody else has managed to get. But I think we all – journalists and everyone, really – want to feel like we’re making a di� erence in some way, so I’d love to feel like I’d achieved that.

You moved from Melbourne to begin your career. How’s the Bendigo experience been so far?Bendigo really is a great place to live and I’ve somehow turned into a passionate advocate for the city when I speak to my Melbourne friends. I’m probably doing wonders for tourism. Anywhere with good food and nice places to have a drink really has my vote and there are ample opportu-nities here. I’ve also found myself adapting to the country lifestyle: I get serious road rage in Melbourne tra� c and I’d be loathe to give up the � ve minute commute to work. From an outside perspective, it’s a place with a strong sense of community and I’m feeling more a part of that now after living here for six months.

Cliched question I know but where do you hope to be in 10 years time? I’m not a great one for � ve to ten year plans. Again I feel like the correct answer should be “Kerry O’Brien” – although that’s more of a who than a where – and although I am a great fan of Mr O’Brien I don’t really know. Hopefully in 10 years time Bendigo IPTV has expanded to be-come a media giant to rival News Ltd and I’ll be able to look back fondly on these days from wherever I am and remember I was a part of it from the start.

Stephanie Anderson can be seen on Bendigo IPTV at www.bendigoiptv.com/

so-und offBendigo Spirt team mates Gabrielle Richards and Tess Madgen jump into the Sound O� ring and lay down their all time top tunes

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