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I did say a little. Perhaps I had adopted the wrong line of questioning because he opened up when quizzed if there were any particularly low periods for The Church. `It was the early '80s after we had done really well overseas,' Kilbey says. `We came back and toured around Australia incessantly just to pay our debts. I won't go into who we were paying back but it was their fault we lost all the money.' But there were also plenty of highlights from 15 albums, numerous hit songs (including Unguarded Moment, Almost With You and Under The Milky Way) and conquering parts of the world many Australian musicians only dream about. His fondest memory was travelling through Italy during a northern summer in the mid-1980s. `All we had to was mime one song (Tantalised) a night in the town square,' he recalled. RE
AUSNZ : Australia and New Zealand | AUSTR : Australia AN Document nehr000020010808dw4100639 SE Employment HD Spiritual Bum BY Larry Schwartz WC 159 words PD 17 September 1999 SN The Age SC AGEE
PG 7 LA English CY (c) 1999 of John Fairfax Group Pty. Ltd. LP
Spiritual Bum, Stephen Cummings (Festival) **** A stark contrast with the sweep of two Steve Kilbey-produced previous outings, Spiritual Bum is a CD in which restraint is a virtue and on which the virtuosity of players as highly regarded as guitarist Shane O'Mara is put into service on a batch of exceptional songs. Borrowing the album title from Henry Miller and lyrics for one song from Guillaume Apollinaire, Cummings has created a work that showcases his strengths. It is very much his album, even if two songs have lyrics by Christopher Marshall and others are mostly co-written with backing musicians. They include bass player Bill McDonald, who helped with the rousing, poppy Don't Talk to Me About Love, a track buoyed by Adrian Naylor's melodic guitar, a highlight of recent live performances. ``Such luck,'' to quote a song out of context, to be treated to music so fine. -- Larry Schwartz NS
GCAT : Political/General News | GJOB : Labor Issues AN Document agee000020010825dv9h005ww HD Church man one of the best. BY By DINO SCATENA. WC 186 words PD 8 October 1999 SN Daily Telegraph SC DAITEL PG 19
LA English CY (c) 1999 Nationwide News Proprietary Ltd LP ALTHOUGH the heyday of The Church is now history, frontman Steve Kilbey is still regarded by many veteran music critics as one of the finest songwriters this country has ever produced. While he was actually born in England, Kilbey grew up in Canberra before moving to Sydney in 1980 to form The Church. TD
The outfit proved immediately popular with local audiences and early singles such as The Unguarded Moment and Almost With You found an instant home in the top 40. But The Church's greatest success came later in that decade. The band's 1988 album Starfish sold over one million copies around the world, 600,000 in the US alone. The first single off Starfish, Under The Milky Way, was a worldwide hit and won that year's ARIA award for best single. The Church has continued to release albums through the 1990s but never realised such commercial peaks again. The band's latest CD, a record of cover versions called Box Of Birds, came out just this week. (c) Nationwide News Proprietary Ltd, 1999. NS
GCAT : Political/General News | GENT : Arts/Entertainment RE ASIAZ : Asian Countries | AUSNZ : Australia and New Zealand | AUSTR : Australia AN Document daitel0020010903dva800cne HD CHURCH SINGER HELD. WC 67 words PD 7 October 1999 SN Herald-Sun SC HERSUN PG 2 LA English CY (c) 1999 Herald and Weekly Times Limited LP
THE lead singer for Australian rock band The Church has been arrested in the United States. Steve Kilbey, 45, spent Tuesday night in jail after being picked up by New York police, missing a scheduled performance. TD
"He's on a minor charge," band manager Ward McDonald said, but refused to say if it was related to drugs. (C) 1999 Herald and Weekly Times Limited. NS
GCAT : Political/General News | GCRIM : Crime/Courts | GENT : Arts/Entertainment RE NAMZ : North American Countries | USA : United States | USAZ : United States - Arizona | USW : Western U.S. AN Document hersun0020010906dva7009ue HD The Big Apple is serious about tackling drugs. BY By Keith Tremayne. WC 402 words PD 9 October 1999 SN Hobart Mercury SC MRCURY PG 22
LA English CY (c) 1999 Davies Brothers Limited LP STEVE Kilbey is sitting in the back seat of a New York taxi trying to be philosophical. He has just spent a night in a prison cell with 30 other men. His wrists are red raw from wearing handcuffs. He has not slept in 30 hours. He needs a cigarette. TD
The 45-year-old musician remains sanguine over his plight. He knows he may have pushed the envelope just one too many times. "My guardian angel is saying `I am not looking after you any more because of your naivety - you're on your own'," he says. Kilbey was on his own the previous day when he approached a street dealer for drugs. While other members of The Church (Marty Willson-Piper, Peter Kobbes and Tim Powles) prepared for their final gig in New York that night, Kilbey wandered into drug pan alley - Avenue D on New York's lower east side. For any drug user, particularly one who has not visited Manhattan in recent times, street-based dealing is fraught with danger these days. Police are everywhere under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's plans to convert New York from a drugs supermarket into a suburban shopping mall. The policy is simple: if the dealer who approaches you on the sidewalk is not an undercover cop, there is a good chance one is watching you. So it was when Kilbey ventured into Alphabet City on Tuesday afternoon to buy heroin. He had just bought three small "glassines" of the drug when he was pounced upon by officers flashing a badge and a pair of handcuffs. There were no guns drawn. The police were quite "nice" about the arrest. But Kilbey would not be making it to that night's concert. The English-born, Canberra-raised bass player and lead singer said he was prepared to take the rap this time. "Your mouth shouldn't issue cheques that your arse can't cash," he said. As prisoner 99N087621 was being processed at the police lock-up in Centre St, his fellow band members were cooling their heels at the Bowery Ballroom, less than 1km north. Nobody was concerned when Kilbey failed to show at the 4.30pm sound check. But alarm bells were ringing by 9pm, when the show was due to begin. "We've got a problem". (C) 1999 Davies Brothers Limited. NS
GCAT : Political/General News | GCRIM : Crime/Courts RE NAMZ : North American Countries | USA : United States | USAZ : United States - Arizona | USW : Western U.S. AN Document mrcury0020010907dva9005gx SE ARTS &FILM HD Rarely letting loose, Church lulls its flock BY Jim Sullivan, Globe Staff WC 419 words PD 6 October 1999 SN The Boston Globe SC BSTNGB ED City Edition PG E2
LA English CY (c) 1999 New York Times Company. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All Rights Reserved. LP THE CHURCH With Baby Ray At: the Paradise, Sunday night The Church, an Australian quartet fronted by singer-bassist Steve Kilbey and guitarists Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper, is a serious-minded band, more interested in pensive, brooding meditations and dreamy soundscapes than "good-time" rock 'n' roll. The group has hit two peaks in its 19 years, the first at the onset with a self- titled debut and the second in 1988 with "Starfish," featuring its biggest hit, "Under the Milky Way." The Church of 1999, with newcomer Tim Powles on drums, avoided those reference points Sunday night during a two-hour show before about 320 people at the Paradise, opting instead for an ebb-and-flow set of more obscure catalog choices and cover songs. (The covers came from the Church's latest, "A Box of Birds," an all-covers album that seems both a creative holding pattern and a fond nod to artists who inspired them.) TD
The opening five songs, beginning with "Hiroshima," were languid, mid-tempo numbers -- caressing guitar waves, world-weary lyrics, blurry vocals, low spark. Interesting, up to a point, especially in the tone and texture of the guitar-playing, but laden with a lulling sameness. With "Myrrh" and "Anasthesia," the Church turned it up several notches and Willson-Piper let loose with a couple of semi- frenzied leads. Yes, action! Then, it was back into the soup for "Tranquility" and "Buffalo," until a dramatic version of Iggy Pop's churning "The Endless Sea," where the ocean takes on cleansing but dangerous characteristics. From that point, about two-thirds of the way in, the Church was on a roll. The set climaxed with Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer," with its crashing crescendos, and Hawkwind's "Silver Machine," a careening space-rock and sound-effects boogie in which Kilbey and company shed the introspective aura for good and jumped upon that silver machine, phasers set on stun. Give 'em points for the generosity of the set (its length), dock 'em for omitting crowd favorites (no "Reptile" either), and admire them for persevering, by continuing to play intelligent rock in a dumbed-down era. Boston's Baby Ray, label mates on Thirsty Ear, are smart rockers, too. Their opening set was both terse and shimmering, a minor- and major-chord shuffle that worked on a subtle level and then went gloriously over the top on the closing "Train Wreck." NS
GCAT : Political/General News | GENT : Arts/Entertainment IPD REVIEW MUSIC Powles, Tim PUB Boston Globe Newspaper AN Document bstngb0020010825dva600z44 SE Entertainment Guide HD Sticky Carpet BY Patrick Donovan WC 708 words PD 7 May 1999 SN The Age SC AGEE
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* Stephen Cummings's last two albums, Escapist and Falling Swinger, produced by Steve Kilbey, were atmospheric multi-layered soundscapes. But Cummings is changing tact for his 11th album, the marvellously titled Spiritual Bum (out on Festival in July). ``I wanted to make things really stripped back, with the vocal really loud ... it's really the thing of the song and the singer. Something like what Ron Sexsmith achieved on his two albums. In-your-face and immediate, but also warm. Understated but passionate. Lo-fi but heavy on melody,'' Cummings says. But it almost didn't get the cool name. Cummings says his girlfriend hated it. ``She was brought up a Catholic and hates anything spiritual and she also hates the word bum. I tossed around a few other titles, including Wishing Machine, Recording Not Thinking, and More Bridges to Burn (Cummings didn't think this one would be a good way to start a relationship with a new label), but I returned to Spiritual Bum.'' TD
* As guitarist for Daddy Cool, Ross Hannaford (above right, back) was responsible for some of the coolest guitar riffs to come out of Australia. And now he's done it again, with his current band, Diana Kiss, who have just released Jah Country, an album of famous 1950s Country and Western songs done in a reggae beat. Only a few very skilled musicians, like Willie Nelson, have tried this dangerous fusion before, so don't try it at home, kids. Hannaford sums it up: ``The music we play has a groove ... the unique groove that's established is accomplished through the diversity of the band members and their partnership, our love of the music. Check the title track, Jah Country (which Hannaford wrote) - I think it's actually a new groove ... I've not heard it before.'' Intrigued? Head to the Nightcat on the next three Wednesday nights at 9. * Australia's greatest old-skool rock band, the Powdermonkeys, are doing big things in Europe. At a recent show in Scandinavia, they got up to play the MC-5 classic, Kick Out The Jams, with MC-5 guitarist Brother Wayne Kramer (and it doesn't get much bigger than that) and a prominent US record company exec recently flew to Sweden to check them out and was apparently very impressed. They have signed to the Hellacopters' label, White Jazz, and are currently recording a new album with them in Sweden. Their tour winds up in London at the end of May. Tom Forsell is one of the most experienced roots musicians in town. The founder and frontman of the Moonee Valley Drifters (below), one of Melbourne's oldest and best local roots bands, was born in the States and settled here in the "80s. On his return to Lubbock, Texas, last year, he expanded his vast music knowledge by getting to know Buddy Holly's family. Holly's niece, Ingrid Kaiter, who is a blues singer, lent him an amplifier and he met the Baker Brothers, who taught a young Holly how to play guitar, mandolin and banjo. ``There's a free jamboree in Lubbock every Saturday night, where the Baker Brothers and farmers and carpenters from all around come out of the woodwork,'' he said. Forsell also picked up some rare tapes of Holly playing bluegrass banjo. ``He was a seasoned banjo player by the time he was 13. He had a great feel for roots stuff. His pop stuff was good, but, if he didn't die at 22, he could have gone on to become an amazing roots player.'' You can catch the Drifters's tex mex, western swing, hardcore country, cajun, zydeco, blues and rockabilly mix tonight at A.J's Bar in Homestead Road, Berwick, from 8pm, and every Saturday night at the Old Homestead in Clifton Hill. * Deborah Robertson's blues/film-noir play, Am I Blue?, returns to the Greyhound every Friday in May. With a live band playing the music of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Julie London, Dean Martin and early Ray Charles, it follows the life of a jazz singer from a romantic to a heart-wrenching blues chanteuse. pdonovan@theage.fairfax.com.au NS
GCAT : Political/General News | GENT : Arts/Entertainment AN Document agee000020010824dv57008gg SE NIGHT BEAT HD NEW SOUNDS BY Kevin Amorim; Steve Knopper; Martin Johnson WC 577 words PD 28 January 1999 SN Newsday SC NDAY
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LA English CY (Copyright Newsday Inc., 1999) LP THE CHURCH `Hologram of Baal' (Thirsty Ear) Anointed with Marty Willson-Piper's crystalline, almost cosmic guitar playing and Steve Kilbey's equally ethereal singing and songwriting, The Church was finally recognized more than a decade ago for "Under the Milky Way." (Time flies like a vicar's vestments in springtime, no?) But The Church's output since its 1980 baptism in Sydney - such as the group's Beatle-y, self-titled, U.S. debut album and its magnificent centerpiece, "The Unguarded Moment" - has been divine. TD
The recent and decent "Hologram of Baal" finds The Church in good form. "Baal" (the Hebrew ba`al means "lord" or "master") patterns itself on the quartet's established mystic sensibilities - "Anaesthesia," the opener, is a hippie-trippy excursion as sleepy as the name implies and sets the tone for the album's nine other tales. "Tranquility," too, comes off as serene as its title. "Glow-Worm" wraps everything up, culminating in anything but a silly love song. For whatever reason, there don't seem to be many Church-goers in this country. With yet another great offering such as "Baal" and no real buzz surrounding it, we are praying The Church does not perish. - Kevin Amorim PETER HIMMELMAN `Love Thinketh No Evil' (Six Degrees / Koch) There are two Peter Himmelmans: One is the solemn, occasionally rocking but more often folking singer-songwriter of his records; the other is the sarcastic, rambling comedian-storyteller of his concerts. Himmelman took a stab for the first time at capturing his former self on record with 1996's uneven live "Stage Diving." "I need a good laugh," the Minneapolis native sings on "Checkmate," but his ninth album is mostly pop-rock anthems along the lines of 1992's "Beneath the Damage and the Dust." Sometimes his deep voice strains to communicate loftiness, as on the declarative love song "7 Circles," and other times he uses orchestral instrumentation, mixing strings, organ and drums on "Coming Apart at the Dreams." Himmelman plays to his recorded strengths on "Love Thinketh No Evil," bringing big themes ("Everything and Nothing at All" about covers it) down to earth via catchy guitar rock. And although we won't call for the studio version of his notorious "Dixie the Weiner Dog," is a little levity too much to ask? - Steve Knopper SEAL `Human Being' (Reprise) After two painstakingly crafted, self-titled releases, Seal has named his third recording "Human Being." It's as if he's still on a quest for identity. Yet Seal has a rather well-established calling card in the music community. The London-based, Nigerian-born crooner is the poster image for the strong, sensitive male. His chiseled body contains a supple voice that is highly affecting, whether he's singing odes to inner bliss ("A Kiss From a Rose") or exhortations to daring pursuits ("Crazy"). It took more than two years to make that record, and more than four years later, his third arrives. Although "Human Being" still features a very high level of craftsmanship and production values, the music has not progressed much. In fact, Seal is beginning to lose the edge in his voice that gave his passion such urgency. Acoustic guitars still mesh nicely with electronic effects, but it all starts to sound like a British spin on Babyface. - Martin Johnson ART
Photo by Anastasiia Fitter / Hakan Lindell- The Church: Spreading the word here IPD MUSIC THE CHURCH HOLOGRAM OF BAAL LOVE THINKETH NO EVIL HUMAN BEING RECORDINGS AN Document nday000020020503dv1s024h9 SE News; Nightlife HD The Church Start Tour In Illawarra BY By Paul Zalunardo WC 348 words PD 17 September 1998 SN Illawarra Mercury SC ILM
PG 16 LA English CY (c) 1998 of John Fairfax Group Pty. Ltd. LP
``Definitely our last shows ever,'' is how legendary The Church frontman Steve Kilbey describes the band's upcoming tour. Coinciding with the release of double CD Hologram of Baal, the group will say farewell with a national tour during October and November. TD
The tour starts with a show at the Woonona-Bulli RSL upon arrival home from a 24-stop tour of North America. Following the Australian tour, the band embarks on a tour of Scandanavia, before calling it a day after a most remarkable career. Of Skins and Heart set the ball rolling back in 1981. Here was the line-up of drummer Nick Ward, guitarists Peter Koppes and Englishman Marty Wilson-Piper joining bass player and singer Kilbey for the start of a long and successful journey. The single The Unguarded Moment was released from that album, but had a pigeon-holing effect on the band, before it played it for the last time in 1988. Then came the albums The Blurred Crusade and Seance in quick succession, with the gothic and otherworldly feel something the band had already mastered. Two more albums came and went before the band landed something big. Starfish sold more than one million copies in the US alone, with the song Under the Milky Way serving as its anthem for years to come. The band worked with Los Angeles producers Waddy Watchel and Greg Ladanyi on the album which was mostly recorded live. With the twin guitars and Kilbey's voice at its best, the album enabled The Church to hit the road and tour the world twice. The next big hit came with the single Metropolis, which was released in 1990 on the album Gold Afternoon Fix. Comings and goings within the band caused a fall in interest. The release of Holograms of Baal could well bring it back. Koppes, Kilbey and Wilson-Piper are back together. The result is a re-birth of the enthusiasm and dreamy music that has taken it to lofty heights in the past. AN
Document ilm0000020010917du9h00hzh SE Metro HD The Reformation. Again. And Again. BY Sacha Molitorisz WC 414 words PD 30 October 1998 SN Sydney Morning Herald SC SMHH
PG 2 LA English CY (c) 1998 of John Fairfax Group Pty. Ltd. LP
Good Lord, it's The Church! SACHA MOLITORISZ talks to the high pries-"t" of enunciation, Steve Kilbey, about why he has to have more farewells than Melba. How tedious! How Groundhog Day! Boston again. How many times is that? At this point, you'd forgive The Church for being a bit blase. After all, this is a band in its 19th year. This is a band who got huge at home and sampled success overseas. This is a band who, since 1984, has toured the United States almost every other year. TD
But no, singer and songwriter Steve Kilbey seems as excited and enthused as he was in 1981 (when The Unguarded Moment guitar-riffed its way into the top 20); not only about The Church's new album but that he's about to take the stage in Boston again. Just as soon as he finishes his meal and this interview. "We've been playing a selection of old stuff, new stuff and medium stuff," says Kilbey. "The crowds are going crazy." How improbable is this latest wave of popularity? Well, for a start, longevity and rock aren't good bedfellows. Even more significantly, The Church last year played their "last-ever shows". And now they're back? What happened? Quite simply, Kilbey thinks those shows, for which Peter Koppes rejoined Kilbey and Marty Willson-Piper after a four-year absence, stand out as The Church's best. "We realised we wanted to keep going. Everyone came backstage and said, 'You can't break up!' "We just looked at each other and thought, 'We can't break up'. Now it feels like we're just reaching a peak; it feels like the old band only much much better." It is indeed. The recently-released Hologram of Baal weaves spells and evokes exotica ethereal as its title suggests ("baal" means "false god"). The Church have had their moments of contrivance and indulgence; this isn't one. "I don't know if it's our best, but it's definitely one of our best," Kilbey agrees. So, at the Metro tonight, you'll hear old, new and medium, but you definitely won't hear The Unguarded Moment. "It's irrelevant to what we do," says Kilbey. "Under the Milky Way fits in. It's moving and ambient. But I don't think I could do Unguarded Moment with a straight face." The Church play The Metro tonight. AN
Document smhh000020010919duau00fw1 HD Back in the pulpit. BY By DINO SCATENA. WC 571 words PD 29 October 1998 SN Daily Telegraph SC DAITEL LA English CY (c) 1998 Nationwide News Proprietary Ltd LP
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