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Joe Camilleri (1948, Malta) The Church - Steve Kilbey (1959, England); Marty Willson-Piper (1959, England) Cold Chisel - Jimmy Barnes (1956, Scotland); Steve Prestwich (1954, England) Bryan Davies (1944, England) Daddy Cool - Gary Young (1947, United States) Dead Can Dance - Brendan Perry (1959, England) Diesel (Mark Lizotte) - (1967, US) Joe Dolce (1947, US) The Easybeats - Stevie Wright (1948, England); Harry Vanda (1947, the Netherlands); George Young (1947, Scotland); Snowy Fleet (1946, England); Dick Diamonde (1947, the Netherlands) Jon English (1949, England) John Farnham (1949, England) Linda George (1951, England) Colin Hay (1953, Scotland) Marcia Hines (1953, US) Jim Keays (1946, Scotland) Ed Kuepper (1955, Germany) Wendy Matthews (1961, Canada) Max Merritt (1941, New Zealand) Jenny Morris (1956, New Zealand) Ted Mulry (1949, England) Olivia Newton-John (1947, England) Hans Poulsen (1945, Denmark) Lynne Randell (1950, England) Ross Ryan (1950, US) The Seekers - Keith Potger (1941, Sri Lanka) Glenn Shorrock (1944, England) Barry Stanton (1941, England) Swanee (John Swan) - (1952, Scotland) Red Symons (1949, England) Billy Thorpe (1946, England) Dutch Tilders (1939, the Netherlands) John Paul Young (1950, Scotland) Johnny Young (1945, Indonesia) Split Enz (New Zealand) Dragon (New Zealand) Mi-Sex (New Zealand) Jon Stevens (New Zealand) Hush - Keith Lamb (England) Kevin Borich (New Zealand) Peter Andre (England) John Kennedy (England) Cheetah - Chrissie and Lyndsay Hammond (England) Chris Bailey (Kenya) Mental As Anything - Reg Mombassa (New Zealand) Dave Miller (New Zealand) The Moir Sisters (Scotland) Radio Birdman - Deniz Tek (US); Chris Musuak (Canada) Ollie Olsen (Norway) Mike Rudd (New Zealand) John St Peeters (Italy) Roddy Radalj (Yugoslavia) Sherbet - Clive Shakespeare (England) Broderick Smith (England) SPK - Graeme Revell (New Zealand) Supernaut - Gary Twinn (England); Chris and Joey Burnham (England) The Twilights - Paddy McCartney (Ireland) v. Spy v. Spy - Mike Weily (England); Craig Bloxom (US) Western Flyer - Brian Peacock (New Zealand) Tony Worsley (England) Mike Furber (England) The Groop - Peter Bruce (England) Dave Hole (England) The Eurogliders - Grace Knight (England) Billy Green (The Netherlands). NS
GCAT : Political/General News RE AUSNZ : Australia and New Zealand | AUSTR : Australia AN Document suhers0020010817dwbq0099s HD Far from a music bum 20 years on. BY By Tina Stagg. WC 571 words PD 16 September 1999 SN Hobart Mercury SC MRCURY PG 28
LA English CY (c) 1999 Davies Brothers Limited LP PART-time author Stephen Cummings has an analogy about how he wants the world to view his 20-year-plus musical career. "Hopefully, it's kind-of like Andy Warhol wearing one of those silver wigs," he offers along with one of his trademark nervous chuckles. "He never looked like he was getting older or dated - he just had that look forever. So I hope my music, my thing, will just be perennial." TD
The singer was discussing his latest recording, the intentionally restrained Spiritual Bum. After two albums with The Church's Steve Kilbey twiddling the knobs, Cummings has decided to go it totally alone for this, his ninth solo outing. "Once is probably enough with anyone," says Cummings with another chuckle. "Anything I could ever have learned from Steve I've probably got from him now: he showed me all his tricks and I showed him all mine. "It was really good. I really like him. I really like what he does and everything. But in another way, it's a bit like I wanted to go back and take control again myself now. You think, `What am I going to do now? I don't have Steve there to do that and that.' "I sort-of lost a bit of confidence in myself in a weird way, so I wanted to just strip it back and start again and make me central to the thing again. There are no solos on the record; the voice is mixed up loud. I thought I'd make it really simple `me' sort-of songs, with me at the centre. Start me on a new path again, or something." Spiritual Bum does have its louder moments as well. Four electric tracks, collaborations with Even's Ashley Naylor, break up the recording's predominantly acoustic feel. Cummings and Naylor became friends late last year, a couple of days before The Sports' reunion set at Mushroom's 25th anniversary concert. Cummings' old band from the '70s had been long committed to the concert when guitarist Martin Armiger was forced to pull out when his already broken leg became gangrenous. The disenchanted singer fortuitously ran into Even's bassist Wally Kempton who immediately offered his own services and those of guitarist Naylor to ensure that the show would go on. "They were both massive Sports fans," chuckles Cummings of his new young friends. "I think Ashley's a really talented songwriter and guitarist. So it was really fun for me doing four tracks with him. It was really inspiring." As for The Sports' reunion itself? Well, that's another matter. "It was really strange," says Cummings, offering a laugh. "A day in the rehearsal room was enough. It was too bizarre for me because I've gone my own way since then [1981], set a different path. But we sounded really good straight away." Cummings is also about to release his second novel, Stay Away From Lightning Girl. The follow-up to Wonderboy, his new book tells a light-hearted story of a famous singer who is forced to return home to Melbourne from Canada when his mother suffers a stroke. Cummings put the finishing touches to the book lying flat on his back, recuperating from a slipped disc. Spiritual Bum and Stay Away From Lightning Girl are out now. (C) 1999 Davies Brothers Limited. NS
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The Church are experts at the break-up that never was. Members come and go, record deals are lost and tours hailed as "final". But this 17-year-old institution persists. Guitarist Peter Koppes returned to the hallowed halls of the Church in 1997 after leaving in 1992. He laughs when asked if this tour is really the band's last. "We're becoming experts at final tours. We could continue in the theme of farewell tours. it's great marketing." TD
He explains the last "final" tour, in 1997, didn't count because he wasn't properly in the band. "I hadn't officially rejoined, we didn't have a record company or a manager, we only had each other and we thought maybe we should come together as a band. "Just because I'm back in the band doesn't mean I identify totally with the institution. I don't like to be institutionalised and I felt I was institutionalised by being a part of the Church." When Koppes returned, the Church's trademark ethereal sound came with him. Their new Hologram of Baal CD is vintage Church and the band have accompanied its release with a tour of Australia, Scandinavia, Europe and 24 cities in the USA. "All the reviews in America have been ecstatic, saying it's the best album since Starfish," says Koppes. "I'm quite happy to accept it's the best album we've produced to date. "I'm not into the top 10 or the greatest thing. I can enjoy them but I don't take it seriously. It's one of the best we've done - the celebration of us together again, realising our strength of chemistry. Realising that what we do together we really enjoy - when you don't have to talk about what you're doing and it just happens." When the Church do leave Australia's music scene, Koppes wants their contribution to be remembered as "a psychedelic-tinged, popular rock music with no boundaries". "This sounds corny ... we've suffered the slings and arrows of being an uncompromising band and we've survived it. We've given people a bit of faith by not being distracted." But it hasn't been difficult for the Church's music to escape the electronic-pop influences of the '90s. "Our threshold of boredom is very low, and that's what's kept us there, there's no challenge in that music." Since the Church began in 1980 with Koppes, singer and bass player Steve Kilbey and drummer Nick Ward, the influences (and line-up) have changed. In the past few years, the band's children have influenced both the Church's music and members' solo projects. The final track on the new CD, Glow-Worm, is a love song dedicated to young children, says Koppes. "Glow-Worm is dedicated to one young child actually, one of Steve's twins. It's interesting that he would write something about just one twin." Koppes's third solo album (1989's From the Well) features Lullaby which he wrote for his daughter. "My great ambition is to write a Christmas carol, which is the same genre as Lullaby." Even without Christmas carols, Koppes says the Church is trying to attract a younger audience as well as appeal to older fans. "I think we're creating music for people we imagine are like ourselves. I would like to think there are a lot of people who haven't experienced our music, I think we really can offer something to people." But he isn't concerned that trying to attract young fans will alienate the Church's loyal followers. "We never had any worry about losing any fans because we haven't. They just follow us religiously, if you'll excuse the expression. We have two fanzines dedicated to us in the UK. Those people gave me a respect for what I did in the band. Their interpretation of what we did is what made me go back." The Church play the Forum on 7 November and the Hallam Hotel on 8 November. 'Hologram of Baal' is out now. NS
GCAT : Political/General News | GENT : Arts/Entertainment AN Document agee000020010914dub600krx SE L.A. LIFE HD POP BEAT THE CHURCH DROPS TO 2 BY Fred Shuster WC 365 words PD 1 July 1994 SN Los Angeles Daily News SC LAD
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LA English CY (c) 1994 Los Angeles Daily News. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All rights reserved. LP And then there were two. When we last heard from the Church, an Australian band whose psychedelic guitar-driven pop is fuel for a cult following in this country, there were four members. Now, it's down to just guitarist Marty Willson-Piper and singer Steve Kilbey. TD
Yet, the pair managed to write enough songs for "Sometime Anywhere" (Arista), the new Church album. "Originally, we were worried about the chemistry being different, so we just started messing about together in the studio," said Willson-Piper. "Once we got started, we knew everything was going to fall into place." When founding member Peter Koppes announced he would leave after the group's 1992 Australian tour, "we weren't sure if the band was going to exist anymore," Willson-Piper said. During the making of the current album, the two remaining musicians experimented by switching instruments. "On some tracks, I would play bass and Steve would play guitar or piano or whatever," Willson-Piper said. "I couldn't even tell you who played what on many of the tracks. It helped bring new ideas and expanded our songwriting." The Church, formed in 1981, has released nine albums to date and will play in Los Angeles this fall. Connecting with Soul One of the more striking and inspirational tunes on pop radio these days is "Shine," by the Georgia-based quintet Collective Soul. The ultra-catchy song was first played about six months ago on WRAS-FM, an influential Atlanta college station, which had received a copy of Collective Soul's independently produced first album, "Hints, Allegations and Things Left Unsaid." The track quickly became the station's most-requested song. At that point, Atlantic Records vice president Jason Flom flew to Georgia to see Collective Soul live and signed the group on the spot. The debut album was retooled and released on Atlantic last month; "Shine" is currently in the national top 20. "For a new band to connect with people this way is exciting beyond words," said Ed Roland, Collective Soul's singer-guitarist-producer. The band is currently on an East Coast tour. IPD
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TD AN ENGLISHMAN, an Irishman and an Australian walk into a bar. They emerge later not with a punchline but an idea for a night paying tribute to a band and a songwriter who sold a fraction of the sales of INXS, didn't trouble Cold Chisel's status as the beer drinker's friend and would never have been caught in gold micro-shorts. A Secret in the Shape of a Song is a Sydney Festival evening devoted to the music of the Triffids and their songwriter/singer David McComb. You could call it an Australian version of the successful festival show of 2005, Came So Far For Beauty, a homage to the work of Canadian Leonard Cohen. McComb's dramatic narratives, his dusky timbre and the eloquence of his descriptions of an Australian landscape, external and internal, began in 1978 and reached their apogee in the 1986 album Born Sandy Devotional, whose signature song was the evocative Wide Open Road. Either side of that landmark album, reissued last year to mark its 20th anniversary and recently included in the first series of the SBS show Great Australian Albums, McComb released six Triffids albums, numerous mini-albums and EPs, a solo album and two others with the group the Blackeyed Susans before succumbing to a congenital heart ailment in Melbourne in 1999. While never really troubling the upper reaches of the local charts or commercial radio, the Perth band were one of a handful of artists in the 1980s alongside the Birthday Party, Bad Seeds and the Go-Betweens who transformed opinions in Europe about Australia and Australian music. Last year the remaining Triffids members were invited to perform at a Belgian gallery holding an exhibition of Triffids photographs, memorabilia and works inspired by the music. To fans and the band, who hadn't performed since 1989, it seemed a one-off, a marker for the anniversary of a key album. That's where the Englishman, John Dyer (the head of Domino Records, home to Franz Ferdinand and the Arctic Monkeys and now re-releasing Triffids albums around the world), and the Irishman, Fergus Linehan (Sydney Festival director and an avowed Triffids fan), enter the picture, as the Australian, Graham Lee (Triffids member for the second half of their career), explains. "After we did the Belgian thing I was most flattered to have many, many overtures from many people saying, can we do the Triffids show?. But it was things like (outdoor rock) festivals and we just didn't think that was right, to just get up there and play a 45-minute set," says Lee. "We were offered all sorts of things and it was flattering, but it was not right and I would feel embarrassed about doing it because we wouldn't be able to present the songs in the best light. "Now I share an office with (publicist) Miranda Brown and she said, 'you should try some of the (arts) festivals', and I made some vague attempts to contact people at the Sydney Festival but didn't have much success. "Then John Dyer came through town and he said he was going up to Sydney and he would see what he could do. Before I knew it he had got himself a meeting with Fergus, who got in touch with me and we went from there." Lee rules out the remaining band members - McComb's older brother and violinist/guitarist Robert, keyboard player Jill Birt, bass player Martyn Casey, drummer Alsy MacDonald and himself - recording any new material, on the quite reasonable basis that "we are missing a vital element". But that missing element is not proving a barrier to performing the songs again. As well as various band members stepping up to the microphone, a number of guests - including Rob and Mark Snarski, (Rob co-founded the Blackeyed Susans with David McComb), Mick Harvey of Nick Cave's Bad Seeds, pianist Chris Abrahams, Youth Group's Toby Martin, Steve Kilbey of the Church (his borderline obsessive fandom only came to light with his appearance in the Great Australian Albums episode) and Melbourne music identity Julian Wu - will wander on and off the Metro Theatre stage during the festival show. "When it was first suggested to me by the organisers of the thing we did in Belgium my immediate reaction was 'well, I don't see how we can do that'," says Lee. "But then I thought about it and also thought about my intentions as far as agreeing to the exhibition they were planning, and that was meant to celebrate and remember Dave the songwriter and remember him through his music, so why not perform the songs? "Over (in Belgium) we had the entire venue decked out with posters, photographs and whatever. It was like playing in a Triffids museum. "It was a bit weird ... At times we literally expected Dave to come walking around the corner. The sense of him being there was quite palpable, and that's what we meant to do: celebrate him. And that's the reason for the Sydney Festival thing, too." It's fair to ask how this is different from the myriad tribute shows (for the likes of Steely Dan, the Eagles, Zappa, Zeppelin and Joni Mitchell) keeping middle-ranking Australian musicians in work almost every week. "Everybody who is performing is a fan and it will certainly be different to the Australian INXS show," Lee says. "The difference is we never intend to take this on the road. It will happen once next year and if anybody asks us - say, should the Perth Festival approach us in 2009 - we'd be happy to do it. "We want to make them big occasions where all our energies are focused on celebrating Dave through his music. I think if we keep that in mind it won't turn into a self-serving wankfest." He pauses. "Hopefully." From an initial list of 52 songs, Lee has whittled it down to 33 for a two-hour show. I point out to him that Came So Far For Beauty was almost four hours long, and none of us there would have complained if it had gone on longer. "Look, you never know. The show will be at least two hours and maybe we will let our hair down and try to beat that but I think it's a bit extreme," he laughs. "Though it's a shame we can't get Leonard (Cohen). I know if Dave was selecting singers to sing his songs, Leonard Cohen would definitely be one." Maybe next time. A Secret in the Shape of a Song is at the Metro, Sydney, January 17-20. LINK: sydneyfestival.org.au NS
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LA English CY (c) 2007. News Ltd. All Rights Reserved. LP STANDARD household items might seem harmless enough, but can have a dark past, Haberfield's Jessica Bailey believes. The organiser of the Cruelty Free Living Festival said everyone could help make the world a better place. TD
``Simple decisions that each and every one of us make every day can have a huge impact,'' Ms Bailey said. ``Things like choosing a brand of shampoo or household cleaner that hasn't been force-fed to rabbits, or saving a life by fostering or adopting homeless animals.'' At the festival, musician Steve Kilbey (The Church) will be joined by a variety of entertainers and international authors and activists offering information on living a less-cruel life. Vegan cooking demonstrations, free kids' face-painting and films in a mini-cinema will run all day. Stalls will be selling cruelty-free products, vegan food and wine. The Cruelty Free Living Festival will be held at Petersham Town Hall, 107 Crystal St, Petersham, on Sunday, November 4, from 10am-4pm. Entry is a $5 donation to Animal Liberation NSW (children are free). Visit www.crueltyfreefestival.org.au RF
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HD Time to boogie as music week heats up WC 216 words PD 26 October 2007 SN The Newcastle Herald SC NEHR
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LA English CY (c) 2007 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.fd.com.au LP BEAUMONT Street at Hamilton will be the hot place to be tonight for fine food, music and a spot of fire twirling. Newcastle Music Week will kick off with "Boogie on Beaumont" when musicians and street performers will bring some vibrant sounds and sights to the dining strip. TD
Two stages will be set up, in Cleary and James streets, with performances from 5.30pm by a diverse group of musicians from the Civic Big Band to The Porkers and Fish Fry. Restaurants along Beaumont Street will also feature acoustic performers. Adding a touch of the theatrical to the evening, fire twirler Andrew Matsen will display his pyrotechnic skills. Mr Matsen, of Wickham, has been twirling for about three years and is a professional street performer. He said he learnt the hard way how to perfect his art. "If you play with fire you get burnt, and I've had a few good whacks to the face and body along the way," he said. Newcastle Music Week runs until November 2, and includes a music expo on November 1, featuring workshops with photographer Tony Mott, The Church's Steve Kilbey, Travis Dempsey from the Living End, and guitar virtuoso Bruce Mathiske. NS
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