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Part of the group's recent renaissance saw them perform two sellout shows at Sydney Opera House
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"The acoustics were fantastic and we got to experiment with all kinds of different equipment," Piper says. "And no matter what anyone says, there's still that aspect of telling your parents you've got a gig at the Sydney Opera House and having them say, 'uh, so when you were a kid and I tried to talk you out of being a musician, well sorry, but I was wrong'. The band are also looking forward to a December 6 gig at the Homebake Festival, in Sydney. "We've not played a festival in Australia since the 1980s and even then, festivals weren't really a Church thing," Piper says. "Don't get me wrong. I like festivals. I went to Homebake last year as a punter. But I think if there was ever a festival to showcase The Church then this is the one. We share a bill with performers like Nick Cave and a lot of other eople who were peers of sorts." * The Church and Charles Foster Kane play The Troccadero, in Surfers, next Friday (December 5). 'It's the music that keeps you alive. It's the music that keeps you interested and it's what keeps us interesting' NS
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JUST when you thought The Church had shuffled into obscurity, they have returned with Forget Yourself. The band continues to endure and evolve, remaining consistent in their output despite two of the four band members living in Sweden and the US. TD
The sessions for this album involved all members playing different instruments to their own, a process Steve Kilbey describes as "a manifesto which supersedes any individual playing". Some intense sounds permeate, such as the opening track Sealine, which has Kilbey welcoming us into the dark, haunting place that seems to be his domain. There are also songs offering warmth and safety such as Maya, Summer and Appalatia. It can be a perplexing task trying to unlock the meaning behind the songs so just sit back and listen. While this is not their best album, Church fans will still welcome it. NS
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LA English CY (c) 2003 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au Not available for re-distribution. LP Music review: THE CHURCH, The Corner Hotel, December 19 Longevity is impressive in rock's constantly churning trash compactor. But it's evolution, not survival, that makes The Church a living artwork beside the Rolling Stones' static permanent collection. TD
The 24-year-old Sydney band acted its age on Friday night in terms of technical expertise and dynamic musical interaction but the song selections embraced the moment in a way that few acts with this kind of cult following would dare. Never mind the 23 CDs by the band and solo members on the merchandise table (and plenty of titles were missing), this year's dark and restless offering was mostly drawn from the last two, with results as sweetly ethereal as After Everything and as dense and aggressive as Song in Space. Dressed in their customary outlaw black, Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper enveloped proceedings in their endlessly weaving cloak of chiming, drifting and shrieking guitar sounds, an extraordinary blend of craft and science that seemed to create its own magnetic field. Laconic lead singer Steve Kilbey, trimmed down, surprisingly sun-kissed and groomed like a dignified old hippie, was no more prone to smiling than his old comrades. He did, however, texture the onslaught with wry banter between songs. Willson-Piper's charisma, an estimable attribute for sure, was the singer's running gag for the evening. "This song was number one in Brigadoon," he deadpanned before a somewhat rare airing of The Church's sole global hit, Under the Milky Way. Exciting as it was, the indelicate singalong response perfectly illustrated why Kilbey is so reluctant to go the crowd-pleasing route. Casual fans were also treated to thrilling, high-energy visitations of Reptile and Destination and a breathtaking, slow-building, 10-minute climax of Tantalised. But the real value of this band, as most of the sardine-packed throng accepted, is its relentless pursuit of fresh blood and new vistas. Numbers, the Theatre and its Double, Willson-Piper's Chromium and the sighing Radiance all validated The Church's staunchly progressive rules of engagement. Most importantly, it's a rare gig such as this that leaves rock's X-Files so alluringly open. While most of the hot new rock'n'roll breed see truth as something to be recaptured from the past, for The Church, it's still out there. NS
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Document AGEE000020031222dzcn0000b HD Metro - Life in the slow Lane. BY By SACHA MOLITORISZ. WC 925 words PD 6 June 2003 SN The Sydney Morning Herald SC SMHH PG 21
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TD Next Big Thing or under-achiever? Either way, David Lane still has 11 reasons to sing, reports SACHA MOLITORISZ. DAVID LANE Where The Metro, 624 George Street, city When Tonight, doors open at 8 How much $20 Bookings 9287 2000 More information Also performing are Abby Dobson, J. Walker (Machine Translations) and Carus. Lane plays at the Brass Monkey, Cronulla, on June 21. Go to www.david-lane.net Ten years ago, David Lane bought an acoustic guitar with his first record company advance. The guitar now looks older than he does at 33. The varnish is chipped, the fretboard is dented and beneath the strings a hole the size of a 50-cent piece is surrounded by deep gouge marks. "It's been burnt, dropped, stepped on, you name it," says Lane over a beer. "It's been played by a lot of other people, too. Lots of crazy people, strumming rather hard on it." For four years until 1999, Lane held a Sunday night residency at the Excelsior Hotel in Glebe. Backed by an impromptu mix of local musos, he played for up to five hours each week. During the breaks he encouraged audience members to step up and have a strum. His battered acoustic bears the scars of these shows and many more besides. And here's the funny thing: despite his hundreds of live shows in Sydney and overseas, Lane still suffers moments of musical angst. "Sometimes I just think, 'What am I doing?'" he says. "Every now and then I'll just have a moment onstage where I'm thinking, 'What the hell am I doing up here, trying to sing songs to people? Who am I to get up here?'" Indeed, who is David Lane? Over the past decade he has seemed to alternate between two guises: one minute he's the Sydney Muso Most Likely to Succeed; the next he's the songwriter delighting in wilful under-achievement. There's certainly no doubting his talent, both on CD and onstage. It's tough not to sing along to songs such as Compass, Lucky Joe and Triple J favourite Goodbye Rollercoaster, which recently won first prize in the folk/ singer-songwriter category of the International Songwriting Competition. His talent is also revealed in the musical company he keeps. His collaborators have included Abby Dobson and Dean Manning of Leonardo's Bride, Amanda Brown from the Go-Betweens, bass guru Jackie Orszaczky and Steve Kilbey of the Church. Kilbey was so impressed with Lane that he invited him to play with the Church on last year's world tour. "Laney is a great addition to whatever you're doing," says Kilbey. "He brings an instant musicality. He's a rare example of an intuitive musician: he sits down at the piano and plays along with something he hears for the first time. He feels it." Tonight, Lane is launching his third solo album, Eleven Reasons to Sing, at the Metro. "Singing songs is quite healing," he says. "I can feel like death warmed up; then you start playing music with your friends and it really does make you feel better." Like its predecessors, Compass and Put Me in a Taxi, Eleven Reasons to Sing is a potent blend of folk and pop. It ranges from lilting ballads such as Moon over Water to the raw rock of Faded T-Shirt and the uplifting pop of Feeling Frail and Superstar. The common thread is Lane's beautiful voice. While the lyrics are occasionally dark, the music is overwhelmingly positive. "The title is a little bit ironic, really - that Australian ironic humour - because some of the songs aren't really happy," says Lane. "But life's too short to whinge too much. Hopefully someone will put the album on and feel better." As well as occasional embellishment with strings, trumpet and trombone, Eleven Reasons to Sing boasts the Cruel Sea's rhythm section: bassist Ken Gormley and drummer Jim Elliot. "Ken and Jim are so fun to play with," says Lane. "Sometimes I catch myself not playing much at all, just listening." Both will play at tonight's show, for which Lane is taking the unusual step of rehearsing. "Sometimes I like not rehearsing," he says. "I don't like going over and over something because then you start not enjoying it. It's gotta have some sort of spontaneity." And there, in a nutshell, is the charm of Lane - a bloke who would rather improvise than learn by rote. Tellingly, although he started learning piano and guitar at the age of 10, even then he knew that he didn't want to learn to read music. "Even as a kid I thought, 'Nah, that's just going to get in the way of creating.'" At a time when the hard sell and ambition often count for more than talent, Lane is an anachronism: a bona fide troubadour with a beat-up guitar and no road map for his career. "I never had a grand plan," he says. "I just decided when I was about 19 I didn't want to sit in an office all my life. I play songs. And if I don't like it, I'll stop. Or if nobody else likes it, I'll probably stop, too." And what about those moments of performance anxiety? "Oh, it soon passes," he says. "I just realise, 'Well, I'm having fun. I love it'." What better reason to sing? NS
GCAT : Political/General News | GENT : Arts/Entertainment RE AUSNZ : Australia and New Zealand | AUSTR : Australia IPC N2K:FFAX | ME | 21 AN Document smhh000020030605dz660000b HD SONGWRITER Anthony Atkinson has always had an... BY By Noel Mengel. WC 293 words PD 7 July 2003 SN Courier-Mail SC COUMAI PG 13 LA English CY (c) 2003 Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd LP
SONGWRITER Anthony Atkinson has always had an eye for the small details. In his band The Mabels he used a cricket scoreboard analogy for a faded relationship in a song called A Sporting Declaration and wrote about the difficulties of crosstown love affairs (The Suburb in Between) and interstate ones (Streets of Brisbane). TD
Atkinson gets the chance for more of this on his solo album, Come Home for Autumn, contemplating a relationship in collapse on songs such as Shifting Sands and Where Were You Tonight? There is still room for sporting imagery in Mental Notes Aplenty: "She's the goalie in the work indoor soccer team/She's sick of watching her colleagues kick goals." The album is released today through Candle Records. * THE Express only-four-more-sleeps-until Friday alternative top five: * How Far Have We Really Come?, Powderfinger, from Vulture Street - Classic '70s rock sounds from Brisbane's best-known fans of the Rolling Stones, with a soulful ballad that ponders the cyclical nature of history. * Midnight Sunshine, Tex Perkins and the Dark Horses, from Sweet Nothing - Perkins in reflective mood on second album with the Dark Horses. Can this really be the singer of the Beasts of Bourbon? * All Our Dark Tomorrows, Bruce Cockburn from You've Never Seen Everything - 27 albums into his career with no sign of burnout. * Again, Steve Kilbey from Freaky Conclusions - Kilbey uncovers the vaults of his four-track demos recorded between 1977 and 1985, rescues tapes from disintegration and is surprised by what he finds. Now released with added extra: a decent drum sound. * North Atlantic Drift, Ocean Colour Scene from North Atlantic Drift - Scarf-waving ballad from album out on August 11. NS
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TD Music review: Marty Willson-Piper What: Marty Willson-Piper Where: The Corner Hotel, Richmond When: Tonight, doors open 8.30pm. Tickets: $16.50 plus booking fee from the Corner on 9427 9198, GaslightRecords, or $20 at the door. It's rare for a band to last for two years. Yet former Sydney band the Church have now clocked up 22 years together. They've had their breaks, and oh yes, they've had their troubles, but the band has never formally disbanded. Perhaps one of the reasons they've endured is because band members have frequently busied themselves with other projects outside the Church, in particular singer-bassist Steve Kilbey. And although it hasn't attracted as much attention as Kilbey's solo and collaborative work, guitarist Marty Willson-Piper has also been plugging away at a solo career since 1987, when he released his first solo album, In Reflection. Four more have since followed, the most recent being 2000's Hanging out in Heaven. His fifth album, Noctorum, is due for release next month. So when Willson-Piper plays his only Melbourne show tonight at the Corner, it's safe to say he'll be previewing some forthcoming album tracks. Supporting tonight is Jamie Hutchings of Sydney band Bluebottle Kiss. Paisley shirt optional. NS
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HD the church close ranks. BY By WILLIAM BOWE. WC 631 words PD 2 May 2002 SN Herald-Sun SC HERSUN LA English CY (c) 2002 Herald and Weekly Times Limited LP
FOR many, the mental image of life in a pop group remains that evoked by The Monkees and A Hard Day's Night, of four inseparable lads sharing high-spirited adventures and only ever leaving each other's sights to allow brief romantic sub-plots to develop. Then there's The Church. Of the two constant mainstays of the band's 20-year career, one, Steve Kilbey, lives in Stockholm with his wife and family. The other, Marty Willson-Piper, is based in Brooklyn when he's not on the road as a member of English goth-folk perennials All About Eve. TD
More glamorous still, bassist Peter Koppes and drummer Tim Powley live in Sydney. Years can pass in which the members don't hear from each other, and there have been times when they had no better an idea than the general public if the band was still together. "I suppose in the beginning of a band it's necessary that everybody's part of a gang and you all hang around together and live close," Kilbey says, "but as you spend more and more time together, when you have a break, it doesn't really matter where the other people are. "When we need to get together we just fly in from wherever we've been, and I think it's good because you bring in a little piece of where you've come from." Certainly The Church are together enough at the moment. Kilbey and Willson-Piper are back in Australia for their first national tour since 1999, coming on the back of the warm reception to their 15th album, After Everything Now This. "I think it's a much better album than probably anything we've done for 10 years," Kilbey claims. "When I got it and I listened to it a couple of times, I said to the wife, `You know, this is actually a good record'. I was quite surprised." He needn't have been. Coming after the band's sometimes unfocused work of the late 1990s, After Everything Now This marks a confident return to the atmospheric mood-rock template the band made their own, and from which they will probably always be able to yield satisfactory results. But it is unlikely to return them to the sales peak they enjoyed just over 10 years ago, when The Church stood alongside REM as early pioneers of the alternative-rock crossover we can now thank for Creed, Nickelback and Triple M. During this time Under the Milky Way became an American top 20 hit and the albums Starfish and Gold Afternoon Fix shifted well over a million units between them. For Kilbey, however, the achievement is obscured by the credit many would give to the radio-friendly sheen applied to both albums by high-rolling LA producers Waddy Wachtel and Greg Ladanui. His own view of their efforts is less enthusiastic. "I think those imbeciles we had ruined it," Kilbey says. "When something's successful everybody always scrambles to find a reason. And very rarely is the reason, `Oh, it had some good songs,' it's always, `Oh, it was recorded in LA with American guys, that must be the reason'. "There's probably 10 people in the world whose advice I'd listen to musically, and certainly those two fools weren't included in that. "That's the trouble with being with big record companies: the more success you have, the more they try to strait-jacket you. I think we would produce our records ourselves anyway unless Brian Eno dropped down the chimney, and I can't see that happening." After Everything Now This (Cooking Vinyl) out now. The Church, Athenaeum Theatre, Sunday, $40.50, Ticketmaster7. NS
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Document hersun0020020501dy52000e8 HD The Church JUST a few tracks into... BY By Craig Spann. WC 377 words PD 3 May 2002 SN Courier-Mail SC COUMAI LA English CY (c) 2002 Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd LP
The Church JUST a few tracks into After Everything Now This, it's pretty clear The Church are back at their darkest and most-melodic best - and Steve Kilbey knows it. "Every now and then we make a really good album and this is one of them," he says. "We were drifting for a while and I think there is a level of surprise, not that we have put out another album, but that we have put out an album as good as this." TD
While the album is definitely one of the band's most progressive works to date, it doesn't move too far from their comfort zone. "It would be ridiculous to have The Church and then do something that wasn't anything like The Church at all," he says. "You have got to have some continuity and then you have got to develop and evolve. And I think we really have, on this record we have made some kind of great leap forward." Written over a three-year period, the album was recorded in Sweden and Sydney. The disjointed recording schedule happened more by accident than design but Kilbey says it yielded some impressive results. "We came back to Australia, threw some of what we had already done away and started it all again," he says. "I don't want to do that next time, but I think it was a good thing to do." The fact Kilbey is already talking about "next time" is testament to what is clearly a renewed faith in The Church. In fact, they plan to start work on the next album in September after wrapping up a hectic year of touring that will, yet again, take them around the world. "What I was struggling for on the first song I ever wrote, I am probably still trying to get across today ... that feeling," he says. "And I don't know what it is, that feeling, and if there was a name for it then I probably wouldn't have to keep trying to write songs to describe it - it's just a feeling I want people to get." The Church play The Zoo, Fortitude Valley, tomorrow. With Tylea. NS
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BY Jo Roberts WC 212 words PD 4 May 2002 SN The Age SC AGEE PG 16
LA English CY Copyright of John Fairfax Group Pty Ltd LP Title: The Church -- Where: The Athenaeum Theatre, city When: Tomorrow, 8pm TD
Tickets: 9650 1500, $40.50 Remember 1981? Watching four fresh-faced paisley-shirted boys on the ABC's Countdown? There were irresistible melodies and Byrds-like guitars, but offsetting those jingle-jangle Rickenbackers was the most curious voice - a deep, plummy pout of a voice, as sooky as it was sexy. This was the FIrst glimpse for most Australians of the then-Sydney band, the Church, above. Led by enigmatic singer-bassist Steve Kilbey, that hook-laden tune, The Unguarded Moment, became the band's breakthrough hit and the FIrst of many to come; recall the anthemic swirl of When You Were Mine; the out-of-this-world beauty of Under the Milky Way, or the delirious psychedelia of Tantalised. Despite a tumultuous and drug-addled career, the Church are now entering their 22nd year and still boasts three of the four original members: Kilbey and guitarists Marty Willson-Piper and Peter Koppes, who in 1996 were joined by drummer Tim Powles. The band's 11th and latest album, After Everything Now This, is being hailed by critics as their FInest release in years. See for yourself tomorrow night, when they play a primarily post-1998 set. AN
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