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| "People shouldn't get too hung up on the process, but there is something undeniable when you first write a song, a feeling that it seems to me you can never get again," Kilbey says. "So we're going to the source as we write songs and then manipulating them."
Kilbey and guitarists Marty Willson-Piper and Peter Koppes have been at the core of the band's dreamy soundscapes since the start, but the arrival of Powles, in 1996, helped them refocus their energies. They still tour the world with strong support in Europe and the United States, where 1988's Starfish topped 600,000 sales. "It seemed the more successful you became the more pressure there was, when you would think it would be the other way around," Kilbey says. "People were going, this one sold 500,000, with the next one you've got to do a million. These people judge your life on how many records you've sold rather than the quality." But those who appreciate quality have remained loyal to The Church. After watching the cycles of the pop music game all these years, Kilbey is happy to see that no one really has the answers. "You can try to groom a performer, give them all the right songs by all the right songwriters. It could work, but not necessarily. It's funny to see people keep on trying. Sometimes we meet these young business types with their plans. All this talk about how to win the war!" The Church play the Great Northern, Byron Bay on Wednesday; The Tivoli, Brisbane, Thursday; Troccadero, Gold Coast, Friday. NS
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LA English CY (c) 1999 Nationwide News Proprietary Ltd LP STEVE Kilbey emerged from room 103 of the Manhattan Criminal Court slightly dishevelled but otherwise unfazed over his experience with the US legal system. Kilbey, lead singer of veteran Australian rock band The Church, had been arrested by police the day before attempting to buy three small packets of heroin from a street dealer. After spending a night locked in a cell at "Central Booking" with about 30 other prisoners and having missed the band's second and last New York concert, Kilbey still managed a joke. TD
He said being picked up for drugs in New York was a rite of passage for Australian musicians. "A drug bust is something every ageing rock star should have under his belt," he said. "(Australian singer) Nick Cave and I are in great company." Kilbey said he was "popped" by police while walking near the corner of E6 St and Avenue D in the Alphabet City district of lower Manhattan about 2.40pm on Tuesday. "Five years ago you would have had no problem down there," Kilbey said outside court. "Now things are different." The 45-year-old singer/bass guitarist felt the full sting of New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's zero-tolerance crime policies. NYPD officer William Post arrested Kilbey as he bought three "glassines" of heroin, neatly packed with a "Red Devil" trademark. He was handcuffed and made to wait in the back of a police wagon for two hours, watching police arrest eight more men. After being strip searched, photographed and finger-printed at the local precinct, he was sent to the police lock-up at Centre St. Not sleeping a wink in the crowded cell (he said one inmate propositioned him, another tried to sell him crack that had been smuggled in), Kilbey went before Judge Gregory Carro the following morning at 11.30am. John Kerins (representing Kilbey) asked that his client, who had no record in New York, be allowed to go free, without any conviction. Police prosecutor Jeff Chabrowe said the "people" demanded some form of punishment. Judge Carro ordered Kilbey to report for community service for one day later this month. He will spend a day cleaning A-Train subway carriages running from Manhattan to JFK Airport. Kilbey's fellow band members - unhappy at being left without a lead singer the night before - did not show up at the court to retrieve him. The band had already flown to North Carolina where they were to perform a concert at the Cat's Cradle nightclub in Carrboro. Kilbey managed to get a later flight, making last night's gig. (c) Nationwide News Proprietary Ltd, 1999. NS
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LA English CY (c) 1999 Herald and Weekly Times Limited LP STEVE Kilbey emerged yesterday from the Manhattan Criminal Court slightly dishevelled but otherwise unfazed over his experience with the American legal system. Kilbey, lead singer of veteran Australian rock band the Church, had been arrested the day before trying to buy three small packets of heroin from a street dealer. TD
After spending a night locked in a cell with about 30 other prisoners and having missed the band's second and last New York concert, Kilby could still manage a joke. He said being picked up for drugs in New York was a rite of passage for Australian musicians. "A drug bust is something every ageing rock star should have under his belt," he said. The 45-year-old singer/bass guitarist felt the full sting of New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's zero-tolerance policies. The mayor's tough stance on street crime has converted New York from a drug centre into a relatively safe urban environment. Kilbey was handcuffed and made to wait in a police wagon for two hours, watching police arrest eight more men. Kilbey said he didn't sleep a wink in the crowded cell. Judge Gregory Carro ordered Kilbey to report for community service for one day this month. He will spend it cleaning subway carriages. Kilbey plans to travel to Delaware this weekend where Natalie, his girlfriend of 12 months, is due to give birth to twin daughters. (C) 1999 Herald and Weekly Times Limited. NS
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LA English CY (c) 1999 Davies Brothers Limited LP AUSTRALIAN singer Steve Kilbey emerged from New York's Manhattan Criminal Court slightly dishevelled yesterday but otherwise unfazed about being ordered to clean train carriages as punishment for trying to buy drugs. Kilbey, the lead singer of The Church rock band, was arrested the previous day as he attempted to buy heroin from a street dealer. TD
After spending a night locked in a cell with about 30 other prisoners and missing the band's second and last New York concert, Kilby, 45, could still manage a joke. "A drug bust is something every aging rock star should have under his belt," he said. The judge ordered Kilbey to spend a day cleaning carriages on a train that runs from Manhattan to JFK Airport. (C) 1999 Davies Brothers Limited. NS
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Steve Kilbey (the Church) and Grant McLennan (ex-Go Betweens) - two of the most literate and once-so-serious of Australian musicians. One can just imagine what they're getting up to in Brisbane, rehearsing for the first live dates of their "supergroup" duo, Jack Frost. Perhaps a spot of poetry reading while practising those arty looks in the mirror? "We're trying on our glam overalls at the moment," quips Kilbey - he who once donned many a paisley shirt. TD
"Steve's been doing a little bit of soft-shoe since he's been up here," McLennan says. "But, apart from that, it's just two Australian men in their 30s playing really great songs on acoustic guitars." If they ever decide to make the movie When Steve Met Grant, the opening shot would be New York, 1988. The Go-Betweens were playing a small show in a record shop and Kilbey went along and introduced himself. Jack Frost was formed in 1990, and their first album released. Almost six years later is the follow-up, Snow Job, on Kilbey's new label, Karmic Hit. It opens with the line: "We got some rifles and they're loaded, too", and casts the pair as the Everly Brothers from an alternative universe. After this maiden tour by Jack Frost, The Church is due to release a new album, while McLennan records his next solo opus. AN
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LA English CY (c) 1997 Nationwide News Proprietary Ltd LP THE sign outside Steve Kilbey's house at Rozelle tells the story in one word: "Sold." Inside, the long-time leader of The Church is busy packing up 20 years of memories in preparation for a permanent move next month to Sweden, home of his twin girls. TD
"I've got these daughters and they're six years old and they're really lovely kids," explained Kilbey. "Their mother's Swedish and she chose to move back to Sweden. And, really, if I want to be an active father and take control of their upbringing - which I do want to do - I've got to go there. So that's what I'm going to do." The doting daddy stops himself for a moment and lets out a laugh. "It's really boring reading about rockers talking about their kids - I used to hate it - but they're the most important thing I have. They're the most real thing. "Groups and records and careers and all that, they're not real. They're just ideas. Like the idea of a career is not something you can sit down and give a cuddle to. "A kid is a real thing. The kids give me a lot of love and a lot of inspiration and I just want to be there with them all the time. It's not much fun seeing them once in a blue moon and the last time I was there, saying goodbye was just too much." Aside from packing up the house, there's a few other things Kilbey has to wrap up before taking off to start his new life. On top of the agenda is, of course, The Church. "We're going to do our last ever album," declared the singer. "I'm hoping to call it Au Revoir Per Favore. "The last record [Magician Among The Thieves] should have been the last one but I don't think it was good enough to be that. So I'd just like to finish off on a really good record. "And I've got a real feeling in my bones that this is going to be a good record. Everyone's really up for it." At this stage, Kilbey still has no idea what shape this last ever Church album will take, and he sort of likes things that way. "People in the band say to me, `What do you think it's going to be like?' I don't know what it's going to be like. I think that's the exciting thing. It could go anywhere. "It could be really retro or it could be really experimental electronic. Don't know. Just see what happens." Ironically, the imminent end of The Church comes at one of the most harmonious points of the enigmatic outfit's often turbulent history. After surviving as just the duo of Kilbey and guitarist Marty WillsonPiper for a few years, The Church is now a full band once again. Cofounder Peter Koppes has returned to the fold after bailing out following the release of 1992's Priest = Aura. There's also a permanent drummer - Tim Powles - for the first time in ages. "I think everybody really likes playing with each other," said Kilbey. "I'd rather play with them than anybody else. "But the interest has gone away from The Church now. I feel that even if we made the greatest record ever possible in the history of rock music, it wouldn't get a fair shake of the stick. "Also, purely selfishly, I feel that as long as The Church is going, anything I do by myself is a bit second best to that." Of course, the final days of such a great outfit forces reflection on opportunities lost. There was a time not too long ago when it seemed The Church was poised to take over the world. But things didn't pan out that way and, according to Kilbey, it was all their own fault. "We blew it," he offered nonchalantly. "It's like many are called but few are chosen." (c) Nationwide News Proprietary Ltd, 1997. NS
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LA English CY Copyright 2007 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP Church singer has found a new calling, writes Sally Browne STEVE Kilbey, lead singer with Australian rock icons The Church, remembers the day he wrote his first poem. He was 16, at school in Canberra. TD
"Some people who ran the school magazine said, `Hey Kilbey, you could write poetry, couldn't you?' And I said, `Oh, I think I could'. I went home and I sat down and I picked up this piece of paper and the first thing I wrote was, `Despite impossibility, infinity has been reached', and that was my first line." Now he writes prolifically, keeping a blog which he updates daily with a new poem. He has also had several poetic works published, one of which is Fruit Machine: Essays on Rock, which he will read at the Queensland Poetry Festival this weekend. Kilbey (pictured) says there is a "huge" connection between rock 'n' roll and poetry. "The spirit of rock 'n' roll is the same spirit as poetry. The intent is the same, to ravish your mind. And just to absolutely bombard you with horrific stuff and fantastic stuff so you walk out with your mind blown." On Friday at 11am, Kilbey will be joined by Jamie Hutchings of Bluebottle Kiss for an exclusive presentation on the art of songwriting. He'll also be joining top performers including Jacqueline Turner, Matt Rader, Julie Beveridge, The Stress of Leisure and Graham Nunn at a Leonard Cohen tribute on Saturday night. The Queensland Poetry Festival has come a long way since its days in a boatshed at inner-Brisbane's West End. Now it is held over three days at the Judith Wright Centre in Fortitude Valley, with a line-up of national and international guests. It is the largest poetry festival in Australia. Last year's guest performer, emily xyz from New York, said it was one of the best poetry festivals she had attended. One of this year's stars is award-winning Canadian poet Shane Koyczan, 31, a former clerk who makes his living from poetry. "I've written on just about everything I've experienced," he says. "Two themes that seem to keep coming up are love and sex. One time a girl told me, `Fat people don't know anything about sex or sexiness', so I've always come back to it with an `Oh really?' attitude." Koyczan says rock 'n' roll can never be as cool as poetry: "There's just too much showing off." For more details see www.queenslandpoetryfestival .com. Bookings: Judith Wright Centre www.jwcoca.qld.gov.au or 3872 9000. RF
[SML_T-20070902-U-014-273529 ] NS gent : Arts/Entertainment | gcat : Political/General News RE auscap : Australian Capital Territory | austr : Australia | ausnz : Australia and New Zealand PUB Nationwide News Pty Ltd. AN Document SNDMAL0020070901e3920008j HD Still seeing stars above the Church WC 889 words PD 27 July 2007 SN New Zealand Herald SC NZHLD LA English CY (c) 2007 The New Zealand Herald LP ROCK: Church leader Steve Kilbey tells Scott Kara about giving up control and living under the Milky Way STEVE KILBEY reckons he's lucky he wrote a good hit song. ``Imagine being the guy who has to play Shaddap You Face every night?'' laughs the laconic frontman from Australian psychedelic alt-rockers the Church. TD
He wrote the band's 1988 world- wide hit, Under the Milky Way, and insists ``it's a good albatross to have hanging round your neck''. When he plays a solo show in Auckland's Transmission Room tomorrow he will play Under the Milky Way. ``It'd be churlish not to,'' he reasons. That dreamy, yet catchy song did for the Church what Don't Dream It's Over did for Crowded House - it made them a household name in the United States and well-known around the world. ``And it still brings a bit of money in'' reflects Kilbey. But, he says of the song he co-wrote with his girlfriend of the time: ``It never seemed at any time like we actually enjoyed it. ``When the touring and all that was over the song was over as well and then suddenly there was all this pressure to have an even bigger and better hit. Of course, it didn't happen and the parade moved on and we were left going, `What? What?' So it was an interesting experience.'' The Church formed in Sydney in 1980 and despite some creative and personal differences over the years, the core three of Kilbey, and guitarists Marty Willson-Piper and Peter Koppes, have continued to release albums ever since. Kilbey has also released solo albums with a more unusual and experimental rock twist. While Under the Milky Way made the band mainstream stars for a time, earlier albums such as debut Of Skins and Heart, including their first rousing hit song, Unguarded Moment, and The Blurred Crusade, featuring Almost With You and When You Were Mine, earned them a loyal fanbase in Australia and among indie rock fans overseas. In the 80s, with the Go Betweens and the Triffids, the Church's eloquent and poignant rock'n'roll was unique in Australia compared to the brash pub- rock of acts like Cold Chisel and Midnight Oil. ``One thing the Church always had in common was not the things we liked, but the things we hated. ``That kept us united through bad times - so we were determined we weren't going to be an Oz pub-rock band. ``But we were never as big as the Chisel, or the Oil. We were selling out big pubs, they were selling out arenas.'' On the band's first best-of collection, Hindsight, from 1988, Kilbey states in the liner notes that the song It's No Reason was when ``rock'n'roll and the Church part ways - my fault entirely I'm afraid''. On reflection he's not so adamant. ``I think in the early days I didn't like rock so much. I've re-embraced it now,'' he says. ``In the early days I was always trying to get away from it because I fancied myself singing these big ballads, or being a torch singer or something. It never worked.'' That comment from Hindsight gives a small indication of Kilbey's control freak tendencies and the power he wielded over the band, which came to a head on 1983's Seance album. ``That was probably the most solo record that the Church has ever made in terms of me telling everybody what to play and being a complete control freak.'' He says on 1986's Heyday that's all changed and since then the Church have written everything together. ``We re-emerged with that album and we figured out what we wanted to do. I decided I didn't want to have this control, and I could feel it suffocating the band in every way. I think we got much better results from there on in. ``But,'' he adds wryly, ``I was still kind of directing chord changes from my bass.'' Now, he says almost grumpily, he doesn't even bother to show the band the songs he's written by himself. ``They don't want to do those, they'd rather do the ones we've written together.'' He says he's glad he is no longer a control freak. ``It was too much work. It wasn't a position I wanted to be in. So many times I would be like the school teacher with the three naughty boys who didn't want to do what the teacher wanted them to.'' And after 15 Church albums, numerous solo and collaborative albums, you won't catch Kilbey running round like Mick Jagger, singing angsty, emotional and earnest love songs he wrote 25 years ago. ``Some songs that you write when you're 20 you can't play when you're 50. I think Mick Jagger is ridiculous running round the stage singing I Can't Get No Satisfaction at 63.'' Which is another reason he still plays Under the Milky Way to this day. ``It's a kind of universal every-age song. I'm lucky that I can go on doing it forever and not feel silly about it.'' RF
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TD Sunday: Yallah Roadhouse Tickets $34.40 (show only) Vocalist and bass player Steve Kilbey is no stranger to the Illawarra. In fact, the frontman for The Church explains the region has influenced his music in many ways because of a childhood connection to the region. "From age four to nine I lived in Dapto and went to Dapto Primary School," he explains from his Sydney home. "I'm not a nostalgic guy but there are a lot of things I still draw on that come from there. For example I remember doing a class play and walking up Byamee St to the community centre. That's where I got this complete fetish for backstage. 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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