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| The Church has never cut a wide stylistic swath, preferring instead to focus on its strong suit of rich, ringing folk-rock, and Monday's show -- centered on the latest Church album, "After Everything Now This" -- was a neat summation of that approach. The quartet was supplemented by a keyboardist, and Kilbey's rich baritone was gently buffeted by the pulse of drummer Tim Powles, so that newer tunes like "Numbers" and "Song for the Asking" sounded as seamless as older compositions like "Electric Lash."
Ultimately, a Church gig is about the guitars, and the band's various effects pedals provided the celestial tingle that acoustic guitars naturally lack. Koppes was especially effective, whether singing "A New Season" (which received a rousing roar from the capacity crowd) or contributing inventive leads. With such effortless command of its idiom, it's easy to imagine the Church whirling with style for years to come. -- Patrick Foster CT
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LA English CY (c) 2001 Nationwide News Proprietary Ltd LP FOR 10 terrifying minutes, passengers aboard a Sydney-bound flight prayed and held hands with strangers after an engine failure forced their aircraft to make an emergency landing yesterday. Qantas flight 426 from Melbourne was 30km into its flight when there was a loud bang, lights went out and a large hole appeared in the left engine casing. TD
Passenger Cathy Bickford seated over the engine in seat 26A stared mesmerised at the hole as the Qantas Boeing 767 made a slow turn and headed back to Melbourne airport which had been placed on full alert. "There was an enormous bang and I looked out and saw this huge hole in the left engine casing," Mrs Bickford said after transferring to another aircraft and landing in Sydney two hours later than expected. "Then the captain comes on and says `we're safe' and in the meantime the engine is making this horrendous grinding noise. "I thought about what had happened in the US with that engine falling off and thought `God don't fall off, don't fall off'." Husband Marshall, sitting in 26B praised the captain and crew for keeping people calm. He said after announcing the aircraft was safe, the captain said "we've had a catastrophic engine failure". Qantas spokesman David Forsyth said the plane was able to return safely to Melbourne airport. "This is something the aircraft is designed to withstand and the engine itself is designed to withstand," he said. "The crew are trained to deal with these emergencies. The aircraft itself can fly capably on one engine, which it did." He said a fan blade in one engine had failed - an unusual occurrence. Passengers said they were told by the flight crew that one of the fan blades had broken off and ripped through the casing. "Everyone just went quiet, it was very tense but the crew were fantastic in telling us what was happening and keeping everyone calm," one passenger said. Steve Kilbey, frontman of legend rock band The Church on a three-day acoustic Sydney tour, said everyone just held on as the plane went eerily quiet and returned to safety. "It will affect our performance tonight," a shaken Kilbey said. CO
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Document daitel0020011127dxbs000y1 HD The Church. BY John Lappen WC 375 words PD 17 September 1999 SN Hollywood Reporter SC HLYW
PG 41 VOL ISSN 0018-3660; Volume 359; Issue 31 LA English CY Copyright 1999 Gale Group Inc. All rights reserved. LP Attending church has never been quite as noisy as listening to the Church. The Australian quartet was anything but reverent as they brought their KROQ-heavy sound to Los Angeles for a mostly interesting 90-plus minute performance. Not much for chat, the boys let their instruments do the talking as they ran through a set that was thick with their dense, dual-guitar sound topped off by bassist Steve Kilbey's monotone vocals, oddly perfect for the band's force field of hypnotic sound. TD
While their wall-of-sound approach with its primarily slow- to mid-tempo rhythms was compelling, it also had a narcotic effect that at limes caused interest to stray. A change in tempo might help as the droning guitars of each song sort of blended into one another, with the music becoming one long series of guitar noise that didn't really seem to deviate from the previous song. But in its own weird way, the haze of guitar was also comforting as its dreamy languidness imparted a cushiony feeling of relaxation that enabled the listener to drift along with the atmospheric music. Occasionally, though, the alarm would go off to wake the dreamer from his or her doze as Marty Willson-Piper's shuddering leads and treated guitar runs would crackle through the haze like a stark bolt of guitar lightning. Such moments were a welcome departure from the gloomy, dirge-like songs that permeated the set Until the last song or so, the set didn't really rock -- a surprise because the Church's new record on Thirsty Ear Records, "A Box of Birds," surges with serious injections of rocky guitars and chunky rhythms. Although recorded somewhat as a lark -- it's a set of oddball but cool covers -- the band should have played more tracks from the album; its edgier sound would have been welcome. They did offer up an eerie cover of Iggy Pop-penned "The Endless Sea" that used Kilbey's flat vocals to great effect. The Church is a talented bunch that just needs to spice up the proceedings with a bit more punch. RF
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THE lead singer for Australian rock band The Church appeared in a Manhattan court yesterday charged with the possession of three small amounts of heroin. Steve Kilbey, 45, was arrested in Alphabet City on New York's lower east side on at 2.40pm on Tuesday afternoon. TD
According to court documents tendered before Judge Carro in the New York City Criminal Court, Kilbey, pictured yesterday, was caught by NYPD officer William Post buying three "glassines" of heroin at the corner of East Sixth Street and Avenue D. The glassines, small plastic capsules, carried a "Red Devil" trademark and sell on the streets of Manhattan for between $US5 and $US10. Public defender John Kerins told the court Kilbey was an Australian visitor and first-time offender and appealed for his immediate release. The Sydney musician had spent the previous night in a Manhattan lock-up with 30 other small-time offenders. Police prosecutor Jeff Chabrowe indicated the People were inclined towards leniency but asked Kilbey be placed on some form of bond. After the hearing, Judge Carro agreed and sentenced the Australian to serve a day's community service - ordering him to return to the same court room on December 8 where, if he remains clean and carries out his community service, his police record will be "sealed". Kilbey is to report to the Metropolitan Transport Authority later this month for a day's cleaning detail on the suburban A-train. In handing down the relatively lenient sentence, Judge Carro warned the Australian he would face a much stiffer sentence if he was caught on the street again buying the illegal drug. "Alphabet City is no longer the heroin capital of the world," Judge Carro advised the defendant. Kilbey's short stay in jail interrupted the band's American tour. (c) 1999 Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd. NS
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Celebrations for the release of The Church's new album have come to Wollongong with a performance set for next Wednesday. In October 1997, after 17 years, The Church announced the then current tour of Australia would definitely be the last, unless the group's 11th soon-to-be-released album proved to have a life of its own. TD
That album, Hologram Of Baal, was a success and has since proved that The Church is not dead and buried. The performance in Wollongong is only one stop on the Hologram Of Baal world tour. The band is returning to Australia after a 24-city trip across North America. After the Australian tour The Church will fly to Scandinavia and then Europe in December. The Church has a somewhat chequered past, including success, lost record deals and the loss of band members. The Church began in 1980 as a three-piece consisting of drummer Nick Ward, guitarist Peter Koppes and singer and bass player Steve Kilbey. Shortly thereafter the trio was joined by Marty Willson-Piper on guitar. The band recorded its first album, Of Skins and Hearts, with drummer Nick Ward replaced by Richard Ploog just before the album's release. The band's second and third albums were released within a year of each other. The release of the third album followed a successful overseas tour. For The Church, 1984 and '85 were a chance to recuperate and re-evaluate their direction. The 1986 album Heyday instantly won critical favour. A greatest hits package, Hindsight, was released by EMI 1987 as a tribute to the band's achievements. However, the band was dropped by EMI and found itself without a deal. Eventually, the band secured a deal with Mushroom Records and released the next album Starfish. The album was a runaway success, the band spending the year on a hectic world tour playing to sell-out crowds. The compilation Conception was released by their former label in 1988, and was followed in 1990 by Gold Afternoon Fix. Tensions within the band during recording saw drummer Ploog leave. His spot was filed by Jay Dee Daugherty and the band embarked on a tour through Australia, Europe, Japan and the US. In 1992 the band released Priest=Aura, recorded in Sydney, the album touted by critics as one of the group's finest works. It was then that Koppes announced that he would quit the band. Fans and critics alike were surprised when Kilbey and Willson-Piper, despite being down two members, released Sometime Anywhere in 1994. Tours of Europe, Australia and the USA were undertaken in 1995 by Kilbey and Willson-Piper. Later that year, the band returned to the studio, recording what would become the album Magician Among the Spirits. The band released the album on its own label, Deep Karma. Former member Koppes made a guest appearance on the album. In 1997, with Koppes back on board full-time, The Church undertook a short tour of Australia and then recorded the album Hologram of Baal. This re-unified lineup and world tour seem to indicate the beginning of a new era for The Church. The Church perform next Wednesday at the Woonona Bulli RSL. AN
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LA English CY (c) 1998 Nationwide News Proprietary Ltd LP Nicole's true blue role Nicole Kidman will bring her smashhit play The Blue Room to Sydney while her hubby's in town working on the sequel to Mission: Impossible. Benelong's spies report the actress is telling friends she intends to tackle her hometown audience in early to mid-1999. TD
The couple will be based in Sydney for much of next year, as Tom Cruise works on a 20-week shoot at Fox Studios. There has been no official announcement of a deal to produce the play in Sydney, but theatre-industry insiders say finding backers would not be a problem. After a sell-out season in London, the 111 New York performances of the play have almost sold out. Dressing Tracey NEWSREADER Tracey Spicer has always wondered whether her second-hand dressing table - allegedly once the property of The Church rocker Steve Kilbey - was the real McCoy. Now she knows. Benelong hears that when Spicer was being interviewed for an article, she mentioned she had bought the dresser from a secondhand store because she was a big fan of Kilbey's. When Kilbey's mother read the story, she wrote to Tracey and assured her it was the real thing - adding that she had "never seen it looking so uncluttered". And on the subject of her own musical taste, Mrs Kilbey offered this: "I know the boys (Kilbey and his brother) are talented, but I'm more of a Frank Sinatra fan myself." Hugh's big break AUSSIE stage star Hugh Jackman is to get his Broadway break, starring in the big-budget musical Oklahoma when it hits the Big Apple next year. Jackman impressed critics in Australia starring alongside Debra Byrne in the ill-fated but acclaimed Sunset Boulevard, in which he played gigolo Joe Gillis. At the time, industry insiders tipped great things for him, but were surprised when he and wife DeborraLee Furness went to London, where he signed to play in Oklahoma. But Benelong hears Jackman is to get his Christmas wish after all, with news that the UK cast will make the move to New York next year. Uneven contest BATTLE lines have been drawn between The Panel, the Ten Network's highestrating show, and E! News, Ten's, er, not so highly rating show. Apparently at issue is a remark made by The Panel's Rob Sitch, who played a clip on last week's show in which E! host Donna Gubbay asked "Who the hell is Kate Langbroek?" referring to one of The Panel(lists). Sitch responded with "Who the f*** are you?". Over to E!, where an insider promised: "We'll get them." Unlikely, mused one insider, given the vast gap between the audiences they attract. Sorry, no cigar WE'RE a mighty curious lot, if the situation at Madame Tussaud's is any indicator. Benelong hears that visitors to the waxworks seem unusually obsessed with the life-like figure of Bill Clinton. So much so, that a Tussaud's staff member is dispatched every half-hour to zip the President's pants back up. Oh dear. Santa shock IT seems that in the '90s, not even Santa Claus is immune to modern crime. Benelong hears queues grew as crowds gathered to meet Santa at one suburban shopping centre, only to find the man in red had been mysteriously delayed. When he finally made his appearance, the news was grim - his car had been stolen, and the thief even made off with his red suit! Show for Dale THE cast and crew of The New Rocky Horror Show will give a special performance today in memory of deputy stage manager Dale Jewel, 23, who suffered fatal injuries in a fall during a show on August 15. Proceeds go to the Dale Jewel Scholarship for aspiring stage managers at NIDA, and the Dale Tempest Jewel Trust. (c) Nationwide News Proprietary Ltd, 1998. NS
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LA English CY (c) 1998 New York Times Company. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All Rights Reserved. LP The Church has been a buzz band at least twice in its nearly two decades of life. The first time was when the young Australians scored in their native country with their first album, and especially the jangly, emotionally expressive hit "Unguarded Moment" in 1980. (They later had success in the United States with the same song on a differently packaged debut album.) The second time, the Church hit the epicenter of the pre-grunge alt-rock world with the dreamy single "Under the Milky Way" from the "Starfish" album in 1988. TD There have been other albums, but no real Church presence to speak of for eight years. "It was never meant to be that long," sighs singer-songwriter-bassist Steve Kilbey, on the phone from Minneapolis. "Although, touring the US isn't all there is to life. {Guitarist} Marty {Willson-Piper} and I did a bit of stuff, just the two of us playing acoustic guitar around the world, and the band did a bit of work in Australia." Kilbey says the band, which includes guitarist Peter Koppes and newish drummer Tim Powles, found its confidence ebbing, as hassles with management and record labels took their toll. "People talked us into staying together," he says, "because they thought we were a good band." The group is back with its 11th album, "Hologram of Baal," a new release on Thirsty Ear (which contains a bonus all-instrumental disc "Bastard Universe"). The band is on tour and stops in Boston at Mama Kin Music Hall Wednesday. "It's back to the bars," says Kilbey, whose band played theaters during the "Starfish" tour. But Kilbey doesn't discuss this downsizing with bitterness. He says it's hard to remember getting any pleasure from the success of "Starfish" on the road. "We were on tour the whole year so there was never any time to sit back and {savor} it, and it didn't do me any good career-wise. Everybody wants you to be bigger than U2." Did he want that? "No, never. We're not that sort of band. The nature of what we do limits it. You put out a book of poetry, you know it's not going to sell as much as a Hollywood porno novel. What we do has limits built in." At any rate, the Church has always been an ambitious band. "I hope we're not a pop band after all this time," says Kilbey. "We do some pop songs, I guess, but I hope we push the boundaries a little bit more than that." Indeed, they do. The Church has long had a dreamy, meditative sound: a swirl of celestial guitars, a melancholic tone, a mid-tempo pace, a mix of light and dark shades. Kilbey explains how the 80- minute space-trucking "Bastard Universe" CD was done. "We put a DAT in the DAT machine and we started playing and playing and playing. . . . After about 80 minutes someone walked upstairs and turned the machine off. Someone said that it makes Pink Floyd's `Echoes' {an album side-length space-rock jam from the early '70s} look like a Ramones song." On both the bonus disc and "Baal" the Church creates a spatial "wide-screen" effect. You tend to hear the Church's music as you might watch a beautifully filmed movie unfold. Could the Church be compared to any filmmaker? "Oh God," says Kilbey, with a laugh, "that's a bit grandiose, isn't it?" But he takes the bait: "Cecil B. DeMille. I like that bigger-than-`Ben Hur' feeling, you know. "It's not a happy record," Kilbey adds. The moody Church has never been mistaken for shiny happy people. Even "Unguarded Moment," a song Kilbey has long despised, is centered around the nagging notion of failing to find inspiration. "There's always that paradox with the Church," says Kilbey. "Sad music can make you happy, whereas happy music doesn't always make you happy. I think it is a bit like watching a film, this album. Like our other albums, too. You go through bits of happiness and lightheartedness, bits of melancholy. I think it finishes on kind of an up note." "We've tried to bring a bit of literature and history to pop and rock music," says Kilbey. "A lot of people didn't appreciate that, especially in the early days, 'cause there is this school of thought that rock music should be about girls and cars." Is the Church a spiritual band? "Well, we try to be," says Kilbey. "We try personally and musically to incorporate that. I think music can sometimes get you to places were you might not have been before. We don't have a defined spiritual life . . . We're not followers of anything." Kilbey says that on the best nights, the Church feels that spiritual warmth on stage. "We played Vancouver the other night," he says, "and we got high from playing. We got higher and higher, it was like a real multiplication thing. The band is getting better than it ever was, and {that feeling} is getting more and more common now." NS
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Behind every great male rock band stands a woman. A 70-year-old woman. Goes by the name Mom. TD
When the Church and its leader, Steve Kilbey, were about to hang up its guitars for good last year, Kilbey's mother turned up backstage on the final night of the final tour. "We almost had the place levitating that night," the singer and bassist recalls of the concert in Australia, where the Church formed in 1980. "And my mom broke into the dressing room (afterward) and said, `You can't give up.' "It was like Paul on the road to Damascus," added Kilbey, a lyricist with a weakness for the literary. "The muse came to me and said, `Don't give up.' " Thus was it ensured that an 18-year career of making atmospheric, label-defying rock would last at least a little longer. The Church's 11th and latest album, "Hologram of Baal," comes out next week, and tomorrow the quartet launches its first U.S. tour in eight years with a show at Solana Beach's Belly Up Tavern. On the phone from Stockholm, Sweden, where he has lived for about a year, Kilbey cites a couple of reasons for the long absence. For one thing, longtime guitarist Peter Koppes had left the band in 1992, and "I just didn't want to tour without him." Directory: files -> 2008 2008 -> Preparedness for the Health Consequences of Climate Change as a Potential Influence on Public Health Law and Policy 2008 -> Darryl Heller Dissertation Proposal Draft April 7, 2008 Law, Labor, and Politics: Street Railways in Brooklyn and New York, 1884-1904 2008 -> Anna Palladino Professor Calvert 2008 -> Jails replace schools in the mountain region of guerrero 2008 -> University of Arkansas at Little Rock Plan No 2008 -> This is a list of search engines we (Polson Enterprises) have found helpful from time to time 2008 -> Rnib centre for Accessible Information (cai) Literature review #2 2008 -> Anne louise cohen 2008 -> Time race# Download 1.73 Mb. Share with your friends:
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