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Catch Nathan Kaye at the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel on Thursday, December 11, and the Fad Bar on Friday, December 12. MARSHALL Madness rocks the annual motorcycle toy run celebrations at Hahndorf Oval this Sunday, December 14. It's the 25th anniversary of the Motorcycle Riders Association of SA Toy Run, which starts at Glenelg at 11am and arrives at Hahndorf at noon. Marshall Madness promises some favourites songs for everyone at the event, playing hits from The Beatles to Powderfinger. NS
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LA English CY (c) 2003 Nationwide News Pty Limited LP The chords in The Church's Appalatia roll and surge, but singer Steve Kilbey doesn't want to hear about it. His vanity gets in the way. TD
"It's not (my favourite) because that's not one I sing," he said. "I wouldn't have somebody else's track as the favourite one of my own is." Pushed, the Sydneysider pins his preference on the band's album Forget Yourself to Sealine, the first track. "It's not a fast song, it lurches along and there's something about the way Tim (Powles) plays the drums that suggests The Beatles," he said. The Church has lurched along in the 22 years since The Unguarded Moment lodged them on Countdown and in the heads of music fans. That was 15 albums ago and it's appropriate that the band's latest thunders along. "Everything is about the sea and swimming and physical activity and everything Australia is," Kilbey said. "That's how I wrote it, after I'd been swimming every day." The band's Melbourne gig, however, will be all about drinking vodka and smoking spliffs. And songs from Forget Yourself. "I've always wanted to say this: We ain't no nostalgia band, lady," he said. The Church play the Corner Hotel, Richmond, tomorrow. Tickets: 9427 9198. NS
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LA English CY (c) 2003 Nationwide News Pty Limited LP MUSIC THE Church is back in the City of Churches this week. Founding members Steve Kilbey (bass, vocals), Marty Willson-Piper (guitar) and Peter Koppes (guitar) are still on board, having released 16 albums and kept the band going through occasional splits and solo side projects since 1980. TD
The Sydney band is best known for certified classics The Unguarded Moment, Almost With You and international hit Under the Milky Way, along with acclaimed albums Of Skins and Heart, The Blurred Crusade and Starfish. Kilbey has also produced albums for Stephen Cummings and Margot Smith and formed duo Jack Frost with Grant McLennan (The Go-Betweens). His solo albums include Unearthed, Remindlessness and The Slow Crack. More recent Church releases include covers album Box of Birds and last year's After Everything and Now This. Attend The Church at the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel on Wednesday, December 17. NS
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The Church used to drive fans to riot. Now back in Sydney after years overseas, Steve Kilbey is hoping for a better reception. It is 1981. The Church take to the stage at the Lady Bay Hotel in Warrnambool. The big brick pile stands on the edge of the Southern Ocean, the carpet sticky with years of crushed cigarettes, spilt beer, vomit and sweat. Chicken wire is erected to protect the band from the crowd and the police are regularly called in at closing time to break up fights. TD
The crowd are chanting Unguarded Moment, the band's big song. The Church decide not to play it and the crowd riots, pushing the barricade and charging at the band. Bottles are thrown. The venue manager comes over: "I don't know what the f--- they want - but you better play it." Frontman Steve Kilbey has many such stories: the roadies beaten up in Goulburn while unloading the Church's van before a show; Kilbey in the car park of a Bankstown pub searching for an eyeliner pencil he had dropped on the ground, feeling sick with the apprehension of violence. Or shows with Cold Chisel in the packed, steaming back rooms of pubs, where Jimmy Barnes would be hurling vodka bottles at closed windows, smashing them to let the air in. In the 1980s, it was common for Australian bands to do seemingly endless loops of Sydney and Melbourne, then back out to the country towns, towns where Kilbey felt the audiences were waiting to tear them apart. "It's a real cliche, but the audiences in Australia, especially outside Sydney and Melbourne, were so hard and so [uninterested]," he says. "It was like running with a lead weight around your ankle. New Zealand was even worse. They didn't care who we were, they hated you." Kilbey says playing pubs was the Church's "baptism of fire". "The Church were wussies, lovers not fighters," he says. "So when we went to the US and UK and someone came on heavy with us we were like, 'We're not frightened of you guys, we've been beaten up by some of the biggest yobs in the world.'" Kilbey admits the band never felt comfortable touring country towns and even being labelled Australian felt wrong. Instead, they went on to become a "band of the world", enjoying success in Europe and America, their sound, themes, lyrics and ideas free of any discernible nationality. Kilbey tried on other countries like other men try on suits: a residency in Sweden, a green card for America, citizenship in the UK. He wrote poetry, signed CDs at New York's Tower Records, appeared on Brazilian television, spent time in the wilderness of hard drugs and started a family in Scandinavia. It's been a year since Kilby moved back to Australia and he is finally able to say he has found home. He says he's in love with Bondi. The pleasures of this new life are visceral - swimming in the Icebergs pool in winter, watching the sea change colours as the hours pass, walks down Campbell Parade with his twin daughters and "all the people-watching". The band has also regrouped in Australia and are recording a new album, Forget Yourself, due for release in September. This weekend's shows at the Opera House as part of the Studio Sessions series will feature maybe "six or seven" of the new songs. "It's a balancing act," says Kilbey. "I'm of the school that we shouldn't do all new things in a show." The band has plenty of old songs to draw on, too, with a catalogue stretching back to 1980. Their most cherished work is still 1986's Under the Milky Way. "[Under the Milky Way] is a mixed blessing," says Kilbey. "I've written and recorded hundreds of other songs and some of them are as good as that. "It's like being a father and you've got 10 children and you love them all, but it's when people only talk about one of them and you feel like saying, 'Yeah - but I've got these other kids as well'." Kilbey was surprised to discover, via the internet, that more than 20 versions of the song have been recorded. He singles out Jimmy Little's cover for praise and says it's an "immense compliment for another artist to cover your song". Kilbey says Under the Milky Way "also gets played at a lot of weddings and even some funerals", further proof that the song is lodged deep in people's hearts. He recently received an invitation to attend a wedding in Hungary of a fan who used Church lyrics to woo his wife. Although he is tempted, he won't go. At 48, his restlessness is happily sated. THE CHURCH Where Sydney Opera House Studio When Sunday, 3pm (6pm sold out) How much $25/$20 Bookings 9250 7777 CO
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IT'S often tough trying to work out when Steve Kilbey is joking and when he's on the level. The Herald caught up with The Church co-founder as he held court in a small bar somewhere in West Virginia. Joining him for an after-show drink were members of Western Australian folk-pop band The Waifs and compatriot piano player David Lane. TD
`Have I got some credibility now or what?' Kilbey, 47, croons down the phone line. Kilbey, of course, boasts the sort of cred that most alternative musicians dream about. The vocalist/lyricist/bassist formed The Church with guitarist Peter Koppes and drummer Nick Ward in Sydney 22 years ago. Shortly afterwards they were joined by guitarist Marty Willson-Piper who, like Kilbey, was born in England, and Richard Ploog replaced Ward. Ploog left after their 1990 album Gold Afternoon Fix while Koppes bailed for a few years then returned. Occupying the drum seat nowadays is Tim Powles, the band's longest-serving stickman. The Church have released 15 albums and are arguably better known overseas than they are in Australia. The sublime rockers are a truly international outfit. Powles and Koppes live Down Under, Willson-Piper shifts between London and New York while Kilbey floats between Sweden, Sydney and Philadelphia when not touring. `I'm going through a bit of a domestic upheaval,' admits Kilbey, who has 2-year-old twin girls with wife Natalie. `I'm trying to figure out where I do actually live, where I can actually live, where the rest of my family wants to actually live, who's actually in my family and do they even recognise me.' Ask him where he would most like to reside and Kilbey will probably tell you the Swiss capital of Bern. `They've got legal emporiums that sell the best marijuana in the world,' he says. `... You can smoke the dope and then you can walk around this beautiful town like a fairytale.' Then again, Kilbey could be making a tongue-in-cheek reference to his 1999 arrest for trying to buy drugs in a New York street. The Church has always managed to balance underground kudos with commercial success. Take their song Under The Milky Way, for example. They hit the American top 20 with the 1988 single but rarely play it today. `There was this TV show in Australia that wanted us to go on there but the condition was we had to do Under The Milky Way,' Kilbey says. `We all just went f**k that - we're not a nostalgia band.' Their latest album, After Everything Now This, was hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as `a masterpiece of stealth' brimming with songs of `dislocation and disconnection'. `I don't know what that means,' Kilbey laughs. `I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be separated from the womb, my mother or the band.' Few groups of The Church's vintage are regarded as relevant, let alone innovative (with U2 another exception). `I don't think there are many bands that keep trying, to tell you the truth,' Kilbey offers. `Most bands that have been around for 22 years have found their niche and they just stay there, but we're still trying.' The Church perform tonight at Newcastle's Civic Theatre. RE
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LA English CY (c) 2002 Nationwide News Proprietary Ltd LP NOT many things would surprise the Church's frontman Steve Kilbey these days, but when a 15-year-old American girl recently asked if he would sign the CD she had just bought, he was dumbfounded. "She didn't even know if we had any other albums," the lead singer of the 22-year-old band says of their recent store appearance in the US. "I said: `Aren't you kind of young to like us?' And she said: `No, I just heard your song on the radio and we liked it."' TD
The predominantly Australian band (two members were born in the UK) has returned to where it formed for a series of live gigs to support its latest album, After Everything, Now This. After two decades and countless international tours, they are looking forward to bringing their live music back to a complete electric ensemble after last year's short acoustic tour. "Australia will be the cream for us, it's always the cream," Kilbey says, towards the end of the American leg of the band's tour. "Melbourne and Sydney are right up there - the excitement of playing in Melbourne is just as much as anywhere I've ever been." The Church formed in 1980 when former schoolmates guitarist Peter Koppes and bass player Kilbey recruited drummer Nick Ward and later Marty Willson-Piper. Now consisting of Kilbey, Willson-Piper, Koppes and Tim Powles, the band has had a string of hits during the past two decades including classics The Unguarded Moment and Under the Milky Way, and its latest single Numbers. Kilbey says although band members live in different countries - two in Australia and two in the US - nothing much has changed through the years. But in true rock style, behaviour speaks louder than words - Kilbey even finishes the interview with the obligatory "rock on". But while the Church may not have changed, their audience has. "In Australia we get a bit of everything," Kilbey says. "One thing we have noticed is a lot of people who come to our shows are doctors, lawyers, scientists, professors, gynaecologists, geologists ... there are all these tertiary[-educated], brainy people watching us. I think that's amazing ... we're making music for the intelligentsia." So what next for a band that can count 15-year-old schoolgirls and scientists among their biggest fans after 21 years on the road? "It's easier to keep going than it is to stop," says Kilbey. "I just don't think about it anymore, I stopped thinking about it a long time ago. We just do what we enjoy and if you do something you get pleasure out of, why not keep doing it? "We want to snatch the taste of victory once more and last as long as the Rolling Stones ... we're halfway there." The Church play Adelaide tonight, Brisbane tomorrow and Melbourne on Sunday. NS
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LA English CY (c) 2002 Advertiser Newspapers Limited LP THE CHURCH After Everything Now This (Universal) Steve Kilbey's and Marty Willson-Piper's tongue-in-cheek title belies the trademark sounds within. Not groundbreaking but an instant brew of melodic attraction. In fact, founding guitarist Willson-Piper plucks out the same four notes in the introduction, Numbers, a hooky, cyclical mantra. That simplicity is the ethos behind this unique collaboration, known the world over. By the time song two, the title track, has unpeeled, it becomes evident the Church has melded a career's reminiscences into one album. Kilbey has blended the Smiths' dreamstate delivery and the weightlessness of Stephen Cummings' Falling Swinger into the vocal fold and the magnetism can't be denied. * * * * Mike Gribble ALANIS MORISSETTE Under Rug Swept (Warner) Alanis Morissette is no Jedi master, but there is a slight comparison between her and Yoda. For her third album, she's reversed the title like the little green guru structures his sentences. TD She's also returned to the music world a little wiser while proving she still has the angst-ridden force of her first acclaimed album. After wowing the world as a 21-year-old with her ex-boyfriend bashing debut Jagged Little Pill, Morissette took a left turn for her second album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, focusing more on experimental sounds. But that good old gutsy rock has returned for her third release, with a dose of self-reflection. It is strewn with hits such as the crunching guitar sounds of 21 Things I Want In A Lover, Hands Clean and the personal So Unsexy. It's her gift for finding a strong melody and giving it grit which makes this such an addictive listen. * * * * Jon Hart CAROLE KING Love Makes the World (Rockingale/Shock) It's hard to believe but Carole King has been writing hit songs since 1962 and she is still going strong. This new effort, which includes assistance by a range of artists such as Carole Bayer Sager and PopRox, shows her music stands the test of time. King writes stand-out ballads and her love songs bear out her claims that "songwriters are the light inside the star". Ballads aside, this album includes a wonderful unplugged version of Oh No, Not My Baby which was a hit for Manfred Mann back in the 1960s, while King shows she can still write a good rock riff on I Don't Know and Monday Without You. None of the songs will match her work on Tapestry but that's like saying none of McCartney and Lennon's later works matched anything on Sgt Pepper's. While there are many pretenders to the throne, Carole King remains the queen of female singer-songwriters. * * * Greg Kelton. NS
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LA English CY (c) 2002 LP Vicar Street, Dublin For founding members singer-bassist Steve Kilbey and guitarists Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper, along with drummer/producer Tim Powles, the musical big picture can be found in the details. TD
Best known for the 1980s worldwide hit Under the Milky Way, the Australian band the Church combine the jangling acoustic-electric guitar-pop with the opaque lyrics of frontman Kilbey to create a lush, melancholic music that, if you listen closely, has a silver lining. Or rather, that's what it sounds like on record. Within the controlled environment of a studio, time can be taken to balance Kilbey's baritone voice against the acoustic guitar playing of Koppes and Willson-Piper, highlighting the musical and lyrical subtleties are the mainstay of The Church's style (and frankly, the only elements that rescue it from mundanity). Unfortunately, this was not the night for those subtleties to shine through. What the band may have thought was a casual, unhurried approach to their set came across as studied indifference, setting a disinterested tone that settled on the evening and refused to budge. Minor technical problems and an apparent lack of enthusiasm from the stage only served to dispel any remaining pockets of atmosphere from the gig. Kilbey's voice, both the music's focal point and its engine, should have been sitting clearly atop the mix, playing off the ethereal rhythms and melodies that emanate from the interaction of the guitars. Yet, while the guitars sounded clear (the playing was, at times, unsure), a muddy sound hampered the vocals, dulling the edge of Kilbey's off-the-wall lyrics and abstruse sense of melody. In the end, what should have been a subtle and warming experience came across as overcooked-yet-cold. NS
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PARENTHOOD has been a case of double or nothing for The Church's principal songwriter, Steve Kilbey. Kilbey, 45, touring Australia to celebrate his esteemed `paisley rock' band's 20th anniversary, is the proud father of two sets of twin girls. TD
The eldest are eight years old and live in Sweden with their mother. Five months ago his current partner, an American university student, gave birth to another pair. `Twins don't run in men's families, they run in women's so I suppose it's unusual,' says Sweden-based Kilbey, fronting The Church tonight in The Metro at Newcastle Workers Club. `None of them will grow up as Australians. The Swedish ones are Swedish and the American ones are American - I doubt whether they'll even be coming to Australia.' If you think Kilbey is reluctant to talk about his family, try asking him about a certain night in the US last October. The singer-bassist offered `no comment' to an inquiry about him being arrested in a New York street. But he was a little more forthcoming about the other reason why he and his bandmates have reunited. Guitarist and fellow founder Peter Koppes, who drifted in and out of the band during the 1990s, lives in the Blue Mountains. The other guitarist, Marty Wilson-Piper, resides in his native England while relatively new recruit Tim Powles (drums) hails from Sydney, where the band began two decades ago. 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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