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"TH!NK, Don't Drive with Drugs or Drink!" is a nationwide, multimedia public service campaign aimed at discouraging driving while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. It was recently unveiled by the U.S. secretary of transportation. Conducted with the cooperation of the U.S. Department of Transportation, the National Association of Broadcasters, the Advertising Council, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the "TH!NK" program includes, among other things, a music video, public service announcements, and celebrity auto races. Aretha Franklin and an all-star cast that includes Jonathan Butler, Kenny G, Juice Newton, and Starship are featured in the "TH!NK" video, which will premiere Friday on MTV. It will be rock-around-the-clock time Saturday when Channel 13 broadcasts a 15 1/2-hour rock-and-roll marathon. Beginning at 1 p.m., nine programs will be featured during the special broadcast, part of the channel's annual fund-raising effort. Among the programs that will air are "Elvis: That's the Way It Is," "The Compleat Beatles," and "Buddy Holly and the Crickets." The highlight of the daylong event will be "Shake, Rattle, and Roll." The 2 1/2-hour program, airing at 8:30 p.m., will feature some of the biggest names in early rock-and-roll, including Chubby Checker, the Coasters, Lesley Gore, and Jerry Lee Lewis. RF
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THE AUSTRALIAN rock band The Church, which comes to SDSU's Montezuma Hall tomorrow night, finds itself in an ironically amusing position these days. After years of pioneering a distinctive, guitar-based, gravel- throated sound, the group is awash in a sea of like-sounding bands, all producing ersatz Church tunes. In fact, "I Don't Know Why I Love You," by England's the House of Love, is the best Church song that The Church never did. TD
When asked about the connection between The Church and these other bands, Church guitarist Peter Koppes replied, perfectly deadpan, "We've been waiting for them to start this, so we could copy them. It would be a lot easier than forging our own career." Then he laughed. The statement is ironic in itself. The point of fact is that The Church has been staking out its own territory for years, independent from other bands, Australian (Koppes pointed out that The Church had an album in America before continent-mates INXS) or otherwise. "People don't know if we're British, American or Australian, anyway," Koppes said. "We just feel pretty universal." After passing through the early and mid-'80s with little American success, changing record companies nearly as often as it completed an album, The Church scored big, commercially and critically, with 1988's Starfish. According to Koppes, the band's follow-up to Starfish, Gold Afternoon Fix, was a more difficult project than the band had first anticipated. "We had quite a bit of difficulty with this last album on a couple of different levels," he said. "It became apparent when our drummer (Richard Ploog) sort of had to leave the band. And it was a whole reflection of us, too, at the moment." In the wake of Ploog's departure, The Church used a drum machine on some of the Gold Afternoon tracks, an event that did not please Koppes. "Nobody really understands when you should use a machine and when you shouldn't," he said. "What everybody's looking for is a drummer who plays perfect time, or a drum machine that sounds like a drummer. And there's nothing in between. For rock music, it has to have some sort of passion. It has to have a live drummer, I think." For this tour, The Church has enlisted the help of former Patti Smith Group drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, a move that Koppes calls "an exciting, refreshing, invigorating combination. We're like a conquering army, now. Every gig we go in with so much confidence, because they're consistently good, powerful, everything you could ever want." In addition to The Church, individual members of the band are active in solo projects as well. Koppes, guitarist Marty Wilson Piper and bassist/vocalist Steve Kilbey have released a number of solo albums on independent labels. Rather than detracting from the band, Koppes said he believes that these solo endeavors are ultimately for the benefit of the group and its fans. "You find a lot of the development as a musician carries over into the work of The Church. Musicians shouldn't exclude themselves from everything and only be part of a band. That's what stifles a lot of bands, I think. We try to have a constant, generating creativity." NS
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LA English CY (c) 1990 Oregonian Publishing Company. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All rights reserved. LP For a non-sectarian group, The Church administered some divine guitar sacraments to an assembly of about 550 already-converted Portlanders at the Melody Ballroom Saturday night. Without the blessing of radio or MTV, the Australian pop/rock group seemed to be managing its breakthrough in the United States just fine on the strength of its seven LPs in the last nine years, and nine solo discs by individual members. TD
Shrugging off the sweltering ballroom and hellish fog machine that turned the place into a sauna, the Church in person proved full of revelations. Marty Willson-Piper and Peter Koppes each showed off their unique talents on guitar, while Steve Kilbey on bass and most vocals rounded out the group's characteristic sound. Jay Dee Daugherty, the former drummer for the Patti Smith Group, replaced longtime Church drummer Richard Ploog, but Daugherty seemed integral to the group's efforts, which included an unstartling cover of PSG's "Dancing Barefoot." The Church at times seemed quite different from its variable recordings. "Grind," "Reptile" and "Under the Milky Way," probably their best songs from their last two discs, seemed to lose some luster in translation. On the other hand, relative clunkers such as "Fading Away" from their latest disc made complete sense live and prodded almost everybody into motion. Still other songs such as "Transient," which suffer characteristically from too many strange rhythm- and chord-changes, fell just as flat live as they did on disc. The audience stood still for such songs but was quick to move when a hit came around. Opening the show was the Blue Aeroplanes, probably the only band you've ever heard of from Bristol, England. Formed about eight years ago by vocalist Gerard Langley to augment his efforts at college poetry readings, the band has been through about 20 members since then and produced several very different LPs and EPs. The group's performance Saturday focused on "Swagger," its most recent release, ignoring some remarkable songs like "Severn Beach," from their previous release, "friendloverplane." In person the Blue Aeroplanes sounded much richer than on any of their discs. Each of three guitarists (not including bass) lifted the overall sound to a new level, something akin to the old Dream Syndicate without the feedback. Fortunately, the guitars made it easy to ignore Langley, who overwhelms "Swagger" by speaking most of his words, like a British Bob Dylan. Somehow the band's resident dancer, who flailed about like flies on fire, or a cross-country skier racing uphill at 40 mph, didn't obtrude. Even if he was the only one moving, on stage or off. PUB
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"If I was a spider and I saw a shoe, I'd go inside it. As long as I keep checking, it's never going to happen. It is a little sad, though, because if I took my shoes off right now I would have to check them before I put them back on" - ACTOR CHARLIE SHEEN. TD
Katie's split not definitive REPORTS that Dawson's Creek star Katie Holmes is splitting with actor boyfriend Chris Klein were all a misunderstanding, the actress says. Apparently when the rumour-mongers overheard Holmes (left) tell Klein "I need more space", she was talking about buying a house, not breaking up. "People talk about you, and what can you do?" Holmes, 25, says in an interview with The New York Daily News to promote her new film, First Daughter. "It's like high school times one thousand." But Holmes, who played Joey Porter in the long- running TV teen soap, says being in the public eye has prepared her well for her movie debut, in which she stars as the paparazzi-plagued offspring of the US President, played by Michael Keaton. "Being in the public eye can be isolating," she says. "It's hard to make friends easily. That's why I'm always on the phone with my family, trying not to think about my image." Donny's back DONNY Osmond has stormed back into the UK charts with his first top-10 single in more than 30 years. The song, Breeze On By, debuted at No.8 - his best placing since When I Fall In Love in 1973. The 46-year-old onet-ime teen heart-throb's last hit single in Britain was Soldier of Love in 1988, which peaked at No. 29. Island woes FILMING of a reality-TV version of the Bob Denver (right) sitcom Gilligan's Island has resumed after cast and crew had to batten down the hatches at the hurricane-hit Gulf of Mexico location. Just like the TV series, The Real Gilligan's Island features an actual skipper, a first mate, a millionaire couple, a movie star, a professor and a farm girl. Their challenge is to find a way off the island. Prince perfect PRINCE William (right) has been named "sexiest male celebrity" at the ITV Awards ceremony in London. Other winners were Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe (young talent), singer Will Young (music star), Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell (celebrity of the year) and a whole bunch of soapie stars we've never heard of. Steve returns to Earth STEVE Kilbey, who for almost 25 years has been the principal songwriter and public face of Sydney band The Church, lobs in Brisbane this month for the Queensland Poetry Festival. Surprised? So is he. "I didn't know they had poetry festivals," he confesses. On the other hand, no one apart from diehard Church fans would know that Kilbey has had two books of poems published. Earthed came out in 1987 to accompany his second solo album of the same name. The poetry-prose work Nineveh/The Ephemeron was published 12 years later. Kilbey (right) says he hasn't written much poetry since then, but was quick to accept the invite. And the more he thought about it, the more it made sense. "Song lyrics and poetry are not the same thing," he confesses, "but ... our first exposure to poetry is usually by lyrics." Kilbey will perform an acoustic set of songs and launch a new edition of Earthed at the festival, which kicks off at the Judith Wright Centre in Fortitude Valley on Friday. But if poetry's not your thing, Kilbey and fellow Church members Marty Willson-Piper, Peter Koppes and Tim Powles will be back in Brisbane on November 20 for a one-off gig at The Zoo. The band's latest album, Forget Yourself, was released last year and Kilbey is cagey on whether another may be in the pipeline. He says work could start soon, but "nothing is finalised". He is, however, enthused by the prospect of The Church's 25th anniversary next year. For the man who two decades ago wrote a song called Life Speeds Up, he admits the 25 years have gone quickly and this could be the moment to do something special: "Maybe we could play at Uluru or in a forest or something." Powder keg IT was a tad tense for Brisbane's Powderfinger at the local launch of their These Days: Powderfinger Live In Concert DVD on Monday night. About 20 minutes into the screening at the Brisbane City Hoyts Regent Cinemas, the sound started to warp from a glitch in one of the speakers. After stopping the film to try to remedy the problem, the band, minus frontman Bernard Fanning who is overseas, decided to go on with the screening which showed footage from their phenomenal 2003 Live On Vulture Street tour. In a very generous gesture, band manager Paul Piticco offered the 300-strong hometown audience a free copy of the live DVD, which is in stores from today. Judging from the audience stampede running to get their copy, it's obvious the DVD is bound to be a hit across the nation. RF
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YOU might think that the inclusion of the Church's song Under the Milky Way in the Commonwealth Games' opening ceremony, and nightly replays of it on the Yarra, would be a proud moment for the Sydney band. But not if you ask acerbic frontman Steve Kilbey. He showed none of the graceful enthusiasm of closing ceremony participants Paul Kelly or Ben Lee on his blog the following morning: "Groucho Marx said never work with animals or children. I guess we had both last nite. What an amateurish load of olde tripe. It cost a fortune and it was useless. Do adults really wanna watch exploding wombats?" Kilbey does have a point there, mind you, and on stage at Manchester Lane he served up plenty of dry humour with his bitter cynicism. Generally, he was in a more jovial mood as he riffed on the Melbourne-Sydney rivalry, Wolfmother's fantastical lyrics and winery shows for ageing rockers. The crowd fired back with lines such as "show us your flying tram". The occasion was the launch of the band's 10th studio album in its 26-year career, Uninvited, like the Clouds, at Melbourne's most intimate lounge. The musicians performed in acoustic mode because the venue is better suited to softer sounds, and it suited some of the new material such as She'll Come Back for You Tomorrow. The venue's stunning grand piano was well utilised, but the lack of electric guitars stifled some of the rockier numbers. Well-built guitarist Willson-Piper looked like a muzzled man-of-war guitarist as he tried to rock out on acoustic guitar. No doubt, the band's tour later this year in a larger venue will offer more shades and textures to new slow-burning atmospheric songs such as Day 5 and Song to Go. The Church's dreamy rock and Kilbey's poetic lyrics and stunning voice have attracted a cult following around the world, but the new material seemed to plod a little and rehash some old melodies and glories. There was no way we were going to hear Under the Milky Way (in fact Kilbey may never sing that song again), but we were treated to Metropolis, Two Places at Once and Unguarded Moment - before which he asked the audience to get down on its knees and pay tribute. He also noted that Chopper Reid included the song in his iTunes playlist, and Qantas had called it an Oz classic. But, by the time Kilbey had finished the song, he had done more to ruin it than any talkers in the audience. Perhaps a post-Church career in stand-up comedy beckons for Kilbey. NS
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TD Indie label Karmic Hit is celebrating its 10th birthday. SACHA MOLITORISZ reports. Karmic Hit 10th Anniversary Where Roma Room, Metro, 624 George Street, city When Thursday, doors open 8pm How much $12 plus booking fee; $15 at the door if available Bookings 9287 2000 or www.karmichit.com. The first 200 people to buy tickets receive a limited edition 20-track CD of Karmic Hit new releases and rarities Last year John Kilbey discovered a dusty old box that had been languishing in storage for 20 years. At first he was astounded, then he was dismayed. "It was a huge box of old tapes of Steve's songs," says John, referring to his brother Steve Kilbey, frontman of the Church. "I'd forgotten about those tapes," says Steve. "Altogether there were hundreds and hundreds of songs, because I used to record one or two songs every day while I was living in a house in Rozelle. That was in the early '80s." Unfortunately, the tapes had deteriorated badly. "When we pressed play the tapes just stuck on the heads - there was just this terrible noise," says John. Undeterred, John had the tapes baked (a technique used to restore tapes). This time when he pressed play, there was music - but it was still interrupted by screeching. "That was even more frustrating," says John. "So I had them rebaked. The guy who did it said, 'We've never baked tapes twice before, let's see what happens.' "That time when I got them back, they played so smoothly. It was beautiful." To his delight, John had on his hands about 80 songs recorded between 1980 and 1984, the period when the Church released the breakthrough single The Unguarded Moment and the seminal album The Blurred Crusade. Unfortunately, they were all simple home recordings, usually featuring Steve's voice and guitar accompanied by only a rudimentary '80s drum machine. With Steve's blessing, John cleaned up the recordings and added percussion and drums played by Darren Ryan. "We just thought people would really love to hear this, so authenticity be damned, we'll just do whatever we can to make it work," says John. The end result is Steve's new album, Freaky Conclusions, a compelling mix of retro songs and contemporary embellishments. "It is a bit weird," says Steve. "Now that it's all been put together with a running order and an album cover and a title, it's like these songs were always meant to be together. In actual fact, it's more of a random selection of what we recovered. But I reckon they are all as good as anything I am doing now or was doing then." Steve will launch Freaky Conclusions on Thursday in a show that celebrates 10 years of Karmic Hit, the independent record label the three brothers Kilbey - the third is Russell, formerly of the Crystal Set - launched in Sydney in 1993. "We're the world's No.1 esoteric post-contemporary record label, and I defy anyone to prove me wrong," says John. "I think what ties all the acts together is that they're not writing songs about cars and girls and getting drunk. We're writing songs that are somehow trying to understand or investigate some sort of spiritual side to life, or some sort of deeper meaning within our existence. Sometimes that's more subtle, and sometimes that's more obvious, like in Snog's new song, Fill My Hole." Snog, an electro-folk outfit from Melbourne, will also be launching their new album, Beyond the Valley of the Proles, on Thursday. Led by David Thrussell, an electronica whiz who composed the soundtrack for last year's Guy Pearce feature The Hard Word, Snog are little known at home but popular in the US and Europe. "They usually sell about 25,000 copies of their records around the world, but their last two records weren't even released in Australia," says John. "The last one was banned because of the cover which had two McDonald's employees standing outside a McDonald's saluting. Basically, McDonald's in Australia said anyone who puts this CD out will be sued. The funny thing is, it was released everywhere else." In a launch-packed night, Thursday also marks the release of three more Karmic Hit albums. One is a beautiful collection of pop songs by J.L.K., alias John Kilbey, who was the frontman with Sydney rockers the Bhagavad Guitars. Called Nothing More Than Something to Wear, its cover features a nude portrait of the artist. "It's funny how challenging some people find a bloke lying on a couch with his kit off," says John. Also being launched are a rerelease of David Lane's gorgeous debut album, Compass, and the debut album from Perth guitar pop band Halogen. "We feel really lucky to have them," says John. "They had a couple of big labels chasing after them - big labels, proper labels, who were offering them money and all sorts of things. But they said, 'Everyone seems to want our first-born child and our left leg to sign with them; we want to remain in control.' So now they're with Karmic Hit, and that's exciting, because there's not many bands who will choose art over cash when they're being offered a large wad of money." NS
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LA English CY Copyright of John Fairfax Group Pty Ltd LP COME TO THE PARTY Steve Pav (as in Pavlovic) is the man behind Summersault, arguably the best in a wave of music festivals hitting us this summer. TD
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