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| Part of the charm of "The Trinity Sessions" was the sense of innocence that permeated the making of that album. Recorded in a day at a church, the major-label debut captured the live, almost spiritual essence of the group. That quality is missing on "The Caution Horses" and in its place is an almost-clinical perfection that robs the group of its spontaneity and charm.
The depressing subjects _ love lost, love unfulfilled, etc. _ are also a problem. With not one tune offering a ray of hope or shred of optimism, the sadness and despair chronicled in "Thirty Summers," " 'Cause Cheap Is How I Feel," and "Where Are You Tonight?" make for tedious listening. Carly Simon, "My Romance" (Arista) @@@ Following the path forged by Linda Ronstadt, Carly Simon's latest album is a collection of standards. But whereas Ronstadt merely sang the tunes _ not such a bad thing given her solid voice and often impressive range _ Simon feels each tune. Among those she on which she emotes beautifully are songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (the title track, "He Was Too Good to Me," "My Funny Valentine"); Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn ("Time After Time"); and Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II ("Something Wonderful"). The soft piano acompaniment and gentle string arrangments that embellish the majority of the collection's dozen songs place Simon's voice in the spotlight. And, with the exception of a few moments where she reaches beyond her range ("My Romance" and "Something Wonderful"), Simon is up to the challenge. Simon's impassioned delivery indicates she understands the emotions expressed in these songs _ or more to the point, has lived them. Longing and love, doubt and delight _ they're all there. The only new song in the collection is one Simon wrote with Michael Kosarin and Jacob Brackman. But in mood and tone, it stands strongly next to the standards. Kevn Kinney, "MacDougal Blues" (Island) @@ 1/2 Kevn Kinney steps out of the Drivin' n' Cryin' lineup and away from the group's metal-tinged boogie beat for his first solo album, a collection of folk-rock tunes. Kinney's strong suit is not his voice, which is often flat and totally lacking in color. His strength lies in his songwriting. In each song on the album named after the Greenwich Village street where Bob Dylan once lived, Kinney manages to capture a slice of life. Sometimes the scene is poignant ("Not Afraid to Die); sometimes it is downright weird ("Last Song of Maddie Hope," a tune about a woman who sings once a year for the UFOs that land in her back yard). But always the pictures Kinney paints with detailed, colorful strokes are interesting. Peter Buck of R.E.M. produced this collection with a tender, loving touch. The instruments unobtrusively enhance the mood of each song and allow the characters to come alive. ART
PHOTO - The Church: from left, Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Richard Ploog, and Marty Willson-Piper. IPD COLUMN RELIGION PUB Record / Hackensack, New Jersey AN Document rec0000020011115dm4c00fff SE SHOW HD The Church is back on track after losing drummer BY Cary Darling:The Orange County Register WC 680 words PD 12 July 1990 SC OCR ED EVENING PG k05 LA English CY (c) 1990 Orange County Register. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All rights reserved. LP
Recording acts generally are most proud of their most recent work. But Marty Willson-Piper, guitarist/co-vocalist/co-songwriter with The Church, has decidedly mixed feelings about his group's latest effort, "Gold Afternoon Fix." "I like it but I can't get the heart out of it," Willson-Piper said in a phone interview. "The best thing is when you see The Church live it's three times as good as the album. Unfortunately, people might judge how we're going to be live from the album." TD
Willson-Piper chalks up his disappointment to the unexpected departure of longtime drummer Richard Ploog in the middle of recording. Ploog had been with the Australian band, which crafts melodic, psychedelic-edged guitar rock, for more than a decade. "You can hear on this album that we're losing a member," Willson-Piper said. "This will be the legendary losing-a-member album. We were faced with the situation where we didn't have a drum track and (had) to invent new ways of making The Church sound good." While Ploog has been replaced for the current tour by Jay Dee Daugherty (who has played for Patti Smith and Richard Barone), the band had no time to find a replacement in the studio. The group -- which also includes singer/bassist Steve Kilbey and guitarist Peter Koppes -- opted for a drum machine that Willson-Piper feels had a negative effect on recording. "(But) there's a lot to be said for writing songs without drummers. Richard wasn't a songwriter and he would get bored. That was part of the problem," Willson-Piper said. "We'd start jamming, I'd come up with a guitar chord and I'd have him play the same thing again. He doesn't want to keep sitting there while I mess around. The benefit of a machine is you can get a beat, come up with guitar parts and keep the beat going until you perfect the idea." This isn't the first time there's been a schism in The Church. Reportedly, relationships within the band have been stormy in the past. Three years ago, The Church almost fell apart during a European tour. "That was more to do with me," Willson-Piper said. "Since then, the three main creative members have learned to co-exist." In recent years, Church members have released their excess creative energies through solo projects. They feel this allows them to approach The Church with less tension. "It stops the thinking which says, `Well, we've got two years between albums and it's going to be 10 tracks on it and if I don't get one on this, I won't get one for four years.' We all have solo deals, we all do OK with those and we're all creatively happy." The group has a high profile, thanks largely to a hit single, "Under the Milky Way," from the 1988 album "Starfish." While the band has earned a loyal cult following with such albums as "The Church," "The Blurred Crusade," and "Heyday," it was "Starfish" -- recorded in Los Angeles with US producers Greg Ladanyi and Waddy Wachtel -- that pushed the foursome into the mainstream. Oddly enough, "Starfish" was created in an atmosphere of hostility as Ladanyi and the group did not agree on how to make the album. Both sides, according to Willson-Piper, were strong-willed. "He was not used to a bunch of guys like us and we're not used to a producer like him. It's no big deal really. You can't get on with everyone." CONCERT PREVIEW Who: The Church, Blue Aeroplanes. Where: The Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano. When: Tonight at 8; Saturday, 9 p.m. How much: $25. Ticket availability: Saturday is sold out. Information: 496-8930. ART
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LA English CY Copyright 2008 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP The week's Sydney Festival highlights are listed below TONIGHT TD
Beck's Festival Bar - Girl Talk + Sleater Brockman + Kato + Stuart Buchanan + Operator Please: Hyde Park Barracks, Macquarie St, City, 8pm, $36 Cannot Buy My Soul, The Songs Of Kevin Carmody - Kev Carmody + Paul Kelly + Dan Kelly + Tex Perkins + Clare Bowditch + The Drones + Sara Storer + Pigram Brothers + Missy Higgins + Steve Kilbey + Dan Sultan + Last Kinection: State Theatre, Market St, City, 8pm, $85 A Res/$65 B Res FourPlay: The Famous Spiegeltent, Hyde ParkNorth, Elizabeth St, City, 5.30pm, $35 House Of The Holy Afro, Dino Moran + Third World Bunfight + Odidi Mfenyana: Metro Theatre, George St, City, 9.30pm, $50/$45 FRIDAY Beck's Festival Bar - Monobloco + Uber Lingua Sound System + Marcelinho + Mashy P + DJ bP:Hyde Park Barracks, Macquarie St,City, 8pm, $36 Cannot Buy My Soul, The Songs of Kevin Carmody - Kev Carmody + Paul Kelly + Dan Kelly + Tex Perkins + Clare Bowditch + The Drones + Sara Storer + Pigram Brothers + Missy Higgins + Steve Kilbey + Dan Sultan + Last Kinection: State Theatre, Market St, City, 8pm, $85 A Res/$65 B Res FourPlay: The Famous Spiegeltent, Hyde Park North, Elizabeth St, City, 5.30pm, $35 House Of The Holy Afro, Dino Moran + Third World Bunfight + Odidi Mfenyana: Metro Theatre, George St, City, 9.30pm, $50/$45 SATURDAY Beck's Festival Bar - Babylon Circus + True Live + Brame + Trevor Brown: Hyde Park Barracks, Macquarie St, City, 8pm, $36 FourPlay: The Famous Spiegeltent, Hyde Park North, Elizabeth St, City, 5.30pm, $35 House Of The Holy Afro, Dino Moran + Third World Bunfight + Odidi Mfenyana: Metro Theatre, George St, City, 8pm & 11.30pm, $50/$45 Spanish Harlem Orchestra + Phil Slater Quartet: Domain, Art Gallery Rd, City, 8pm, free Sufjan Stevens + My Brightest Diamond: State Theatre, Market St, City, 9pm, $65 A Res/$55 B Res sunday Sufjan Stevens + My Brightest Diamond: State Theatre, Market St, City, 9pm, $65 A Res/$55 B Res Tunng: The Famous Spiegeltent, Hyde Park North, Elizabeth St, City, 7pm, $45 MONDAY Sufjan Stevens + My Brightest Diamond: State Theatre, Market St, City, 9pm, $65 A Res/$55 B Res Tunng: The Famous Spiegeltent, Hyde Park North, Elizabeth St, City, 7pm, $45 Tuesday Tunng: The Famous Spiegeltent, Hyde Park North, Elizabeth St, City, 7pm, $45 WEDNESDAY Beck's Festival Bar - Krafty Kuts + Percussion Junction + Rephrase: Hyde Park Barracks, Macquarie St, City, 8pm, $36 RF
DTM-20080110-1-050-328465 IN i97412 : Theaters/Entertainment Venues | i974121 : Performing Arts Companies | ilea : Leisure/Arts NS gent : Arts/Entertainment | gcat : Political/General News RE austr : Australia | ausnz : Australia and New Zealand PUB Nationwide News Pty. Ltd. AN Document DAITEL0020080109e41a00058 SE News and Features - Arts HD Night of the Triffids has them lining up BY Bernard Zuel. WC 1641 words PD 19 December 2007 SN The Sydney Morning Herald SC SMHH ED First PG 15 LA English CY (c) 2007 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au LP
It's been a long, open road putting together a show that will celebrate the band and their much-loved songwriter, writes Bernard Zuel. An Englishman, an Irishman and an Australian walk into a bar. And emerge later not with a punchline but the germ of an idea for a night paying tribute to a band and a songwriter who sold a fraction of the sales of INXS, didn't trouble Cold Chisel's status as the beer drinker's friend and would never have been seen in gold lame micro-shorts. TD
A Secret In The Shape Of A Song is a Sydney Festival evening devoted to the music of The Triffids and their songwriter/singer David McComb. You could call it an Australian version of the successful festival show of 2005, Came So Far For Beauty, a homage to the work of the Canadian Leonard Cohen. McComb's dramatic narratives, his dusky timbre and the eloquence of his descriptions of an Australian landscape, external and internal, began in 1978 and reached their apogee in the 1986 album Born Sandy Devotional, whose signature song was the evocative Wide Open Road. Either side of that landmark album, reissued last year to mark its 20th anniversary and recently included in the first series of the SBS show Great Australian Albums, McComb released six Triffids albums, numerous mini-albums and EPs, then a solo album and two others with the group the Blackeyed Susans before succumbing to a congenital heart ailment in 1999. While never really troubling the upper reaches of the local charts or commercial radio, the Perth band were one of a handful of artists in the 1980s alongside the Birthday Party/Bad Seeds and The Go-Betweens who transformed opinions in Europe about Australia and Australian music. Last year the remaining members of The Triffids were invited to perform at a Belgian art gallery holding an exhibition of Triffids photographs, memorabilia and works inspired by the music. To fans and the band, who hadn't performed since 1989, it seemed a one-off, a marker for the anniversary of a key album. But that's where the Englishman, John Dyer (the head of Domino Records, which has made its money with Glasgow's Franz Ferdinand and Sheffield's Arctic Monkeys and is now re-releasing Triffids albums around the world), and the Irishman, Fergus Linehan (the director of the Sydney Festival and an avowed fan), enter the picture, as the Australian, Graham Lee (Triffids member for the second half of their career), explains. "After we did the Belgian thing I was most flattered to have many, many overtures from many people saying can we do the Triffids show? But it was things like [outdoor rock] festivals and we just didn't think that was right, to just get up there and play a 45-minute set," says Lee, who has been the official keeper of the Triffids flame for the past 18 years, waiting for interest to develop again in the band's work. "We were offered all sorts of things and it was flattering, but it was not right and I would feel embarrassed about doing it because we wouldn't be able to present the songs in the best light. It would be expedient. "Now I share an office with [the publicist] Miranda Brown and she said, 'You should try some of the [arts] festivals,' and I made some vague attempts to contact people at the Sydney Festival but didn't have much success. "Then John Dyer came through town and he said he was going up to Sydney and he would see what he could do. "Before I knew it he had got himself a meeting with Fergus and Fergus got in touch with me and we went from there." Lee rules out the remaining band members - McComb's older brother and violinist/guitarist Robert; keyboard player Jill Birt; bass player Martyn Casey; drummer Alsy MacDonald and himself - going back into the studio and recording any material, on the quite reasonable basis that "we are missing a vital element". However, that missing vital element is not proving a barrier to performing the songs again. As well as various band members stepping up to the microphone, a number of guests will wander on and off the Metro Theatre stage during the festival show. "When it was first suggested to me by the organisers of the thing we did in Belgium my immediate reaction was well, I don't see how we can do that," says Lee. "But then I thought about it and also thought about my intentions as far as agreeing to the exhibition they were planning, and that was meant to celebrate and remember Dave the songwriter and remember him through his music, so why not perform the songs? "When we got over that hurdle, it really seemed quite natural, and when we first picked up instruments and played together for the first time since '89 it all just felt quite natural. "Over there [in Belgium] we had the entire venue decked out with posters, photographs and whatever. It was like playing in a Triffids museum. It was a bit weird ... At times we literally expected Dave to come walking around the corner. The sense of him being there was quite palpable and that's what we meant to do: celebrate him. And that's the reason for the Sydney Festival thing too." It's fair to ask how this is different from the myriad tribute shows (for the likes of Steely Dan, Eagles, Zappa, Zeppelin and Joni Mitchell) keeping middle-ranking Sydney musicians in work almost every week. "Everybody who is performing is a fan and it will certainly be different to the Australian INXS Show," Lee says. "The difference is we never intend to take this on the road. It will happen once next year and if anybody asks us - say, should the Perth Festival approach us in 2009 - we'd be happy to do it. We want to make them big occasions where all our energies are focused on celebrating Dave through his music. I think if we keep that in mind it won't turn into a self-serving wankfest." He pauses. "Hopefully." Those involved in the show include Rob and Mark Snarski, who were in the Triffids-influenced band Chad's Tree (Rob later co-founded the Blackeyed Susans with David McComb); Mick Harvey of Nick Cave's Bad Seeds; pianist Chris Abrahams; and Youth Group's Toby Martin. Perhaps the most surprising figure involved is Steve Kilbey, singer-songwriter of Triffids contemporaries The Church, whose borderline obsessive fandom only came to light with his appearance in the Great Australian Albums episode. "I had not really known Steve Kilbey until last year, and when I met him I had no idea he was a fan but he is - a very, very sincere and knowledgeable fan," says Lee. "When we were talking about possible songs for Steve to do I said to him, 'I'll make you a CD,' but he said, 'I have everything.' "He's got more than I've got. I know that Steve makes a regular habit of playing overseas guests who haven't heard of The Triffids Born Sandy Devotional, and in more than one case they've gone on a mission in Sydney in their last few days in the country to track down every piece of Triffids vinyl they can possibly lay their hands on." That search has become much easier in the past year. The whole Triffids catalogue is being remastered and reissued. Two releases are out already with three more expected next month, and a box set of vinyl singles is available in Britain now. "I had no idea getting into this that there was so much stuff," Lee sighs. Would he have gone ahead if he had known? "Yes, yes. It's just become an obsession for me and I have to see it through now," he says. "The thing that really pleases me most about the reissue series and the effect it has ... is when people come up to me and say, 'I've never heard this music before but thanks for getting it out there because I love it.' "That's the best thing. It's all well and good to be presenting slightly tarted-up versions of the old albums for the people who have already got them but it's another thing entirely to be introducing a whole new range of fans to the music. "There's another thing about the Sydney Festival shows: we will be presenting songs from the entire career. "I went through initially and put together a list of songs that I really thought were essential. I came to 52. Then I went through and said: OK, I'll be really brutal this time. I got it down to 33. For a two-hour show. So there are plenty of songs that are absolutely essential that we won't get to do." I point out to him that Came So Far For Beauty was something like 33/4 hours long, and none of us there would have complained if it had gone on longer. "Look, you never know. The show will be at least two hours and maybe we will let our hair down and try to beat 33/4 but I think that's a bit extreme," he laughs. "Though it's a shame we can't get Leonard [Cohen]. I know if Dave was selecting singers to sing his songs, Leonard Cohen would definitely be one." Maybe for next time. A Secret In The Shape Of A Song is at the Metro January 17-20. NS
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PG 36 VOL 2611 LA English CY Copyright 2004 United Entertainment Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. LP ARTIST/BAND/ALBUM: GREEN DAY/AMERICAN IDIOT LABEL: REPRISE TD
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