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It’s only the beginning TE caught up with Josh Pyke ahead of the Newcastle leg of his national ‘Lone Wolf’ tour to chat about finding inspiration in ironic places.

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Every Which Way but Loose Friday, 11.30pm • NBN It’s a buddy-buddy movie starring Clint Eastwood at his gruff and cantankerous best and an absurdly guffaw-inducing orangutan. What more could you possibly ask for?

Eastwood stars as Philo Beddoe – a truck driver with a penchant for fighting. With two friends Orville and Clyde, the orangutan he won on a bet - he roams the San Fernando Valley in search of cold beer, country music and the occasional punch-up.

Steve Earle and the Dukes Wednesday, April 23 • Enmore Theatre Singer-songwriter, actor, author, political activist, producer – Steve Earle is one of America’s greatest living storytellers. His tales, encapsulated in songs such as ‘The Galway Girl’, ‘Jerusalem’ , ‘Goodbye’s All We Got Left’ , ‘Guitar Town’, and his anthemic ‘Copperhead Road’, have filled 14 albums and earned him three Grammy awards. Two years ago he came to Bluesfest solo, nailed it and sold-out his sideshows to boot. This time he’s bringing The Dukes along for the ride and showcasing his 15th studio album, 'The Low Highway' – a road record written about what he experienced from the window of his tour bus. Backed by a new lineup of The Dukes ( and Duchess) featuring The Mastersons (Chris Masterson on guitars and wife Eleanor Whitmore on fiddle and vocals), Kelly Looney on bass and Will Rigby on drums, Steve Earle rolls through a bumper taster from this new album and his bulging back catalogue.

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Sure, it’s rude, crude and very lowest common denominator, but if you’re expecting anything else from Johnny Knoxville and the Jackass crew, you’re in for a rude awakening.

If, however you take this film at face value, it is a laugh-out-loud romp with a surprising amount of heart. The film's loose narrative surrounds 86-year-old Irving Zisman (Knoxville) who must take his eight-year-old grandson, Billy, on a cross-country road trip to reunite Billy with his estranged father.

Along the way, the irresponsible Zisman introduces young Billy to people, places and situations that give new meaning to the term childrearing. Hillarious.

Joan as Policewoman The Classic Out Now After making quite the name for herself as an indie rock torch singer par excellence thanks to such brilliant albums as ‘Real Life’, ‘To Survive’ and ‘The Deep Field’, Joan as Policewoman aka Joan Wasser is back with album number four although this time around it’s a much brassier, neo-soul tinged affair.

While this genre has undergone quite a resurgence in recent years and, as some may argue, mined to death by the likes of Amy Winehouse, Wasser does manage to bring some freshness to proceedings.

The gently soulful ‘Get Direct’ is a definite standout while Wasser is at her vampy and gritty best on ‘Good Together’.

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t’s a pretty tacit acknowledgment that you’re onto a good thing when your album continues to wow the music buying public nearly eight months after its release.

That’s exactly the case for Josh Pyke’s fourth studio album ‘The Beginning and the End of Everything’. The album came in at number 7 on the ARIA album chart as well as picking up an ARIA award nomination for best adult contemporary release.

Pyke is smack-bang in the middle of yet another national tour, this time to promote his latest single, and the album’s title track although, as Pyke told TE, the inspiration behind the track came from the unlikeliest of places.

“I was going through a sort of writer’s block,” Pyke said. “This was after ‘Only Sparrows’ came out and I was on tour in the UK promoting it. I was sitting in a hotel room in Brighton and I was mucking around with some writing and I was interested in the concept of waiting for the muse or the lightning to strike and then I just started writing what became ‘The Beginning and the End of Everything’, and the rest of the album just flowed from that – so I guess it is ironic that the inspiration

kind of came about from having trouble finding inspiration.”

When it comes to tapping into the Australian cultural zeitgeist, Pyke has been making a pretty good fist of things – with four of his albums, 100 per cent in fact, making it to the ARIA top ten. While he was reluctant to pinpoint the reason why his deft turn of phrase and lilting folktinged pop resonated so well with audiences, he added that it may have something to do with the fact that there is little pretence in his work.

“It is very hard to look at your work objectively like that, but I would say that the music I make tends to be the type of music that becomes associated with significant events in people’s lives – you know like summer holidays or weddings. A lot of what I do is very honest and quite personal and people tend to throw their own life experiences into the song and then, I guess, it kind of becomes universal.”

If it’s connection with his audience that Pyke is looking for on his albums, the same can certainly be said of his live show.

“The best shows I’ve ever seen are ones where there is a genuine engagement with the audience. Also it’s a feeling – whether it be a rush of adrenaline from metal show or a feeling of intimacy from an acoustic show – it’s all about that feeling.”

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o the early NWOBM sounds of Iron Maiden get your blood pumping? Does the intense riffing and double-kick madness of ‘Ride The Lightning’-era Metallica make you want to headbang until you’re in danger of developing whiplash? Then you’d do well to get along to the Great

Corpse Harvest Great Northern Hotel Tiki Bar Friday, March 14 Northern this weekend for a healthy dose of metal madness courtesy of Newcastle four-piece Corpse Harvest.

What sets Corpse Harvest apart is the age of the members. Singer Andrew Murdoch has enlisted the talents of his progeny Sage Murdoch (age 11- lead axeman) and Heath Murdoch (age nine – doom blasts) and mate Chad Ross on bass. Aside from Maiden and Metallica, the boys will also be giving the likes of Slayer, Twisted Sister, Venom and an array of metal masters. The boys are gearing up to launch their debut album ‘Infinite Suffering’ and I’m told the title was inspired by what mum goes through when the lads are in the garage practicing.

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The man in the mirror Stephen Bisset

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hen it comes to Michael Jackson, aside from the King of Pop himself, there are few, if any who do it as good as Kenny Wizz.

Despite being regarded as one of the world’s premier Jackson tribute artists, Wizz told TE that it his 30-year Jackson journey was something he kind of fell into.

“It didn’t just come together at one time – it’s a process of studying and learning that continues today,” he said.

“I always has a love for Michael’s music and wanted to be able to dance as a form of self-expression. I got into street dancing in the eighties and then Michael came out with ‘Thriller’ and everyone just went crazy for it. I was doing some street dancing at the time and more and more people who saw me perform thought I resembled Michael and the more popular the album became, the more demands there were for me to do what Michael was doing, and the rest is history – no pun intended."

After an eleven-year run at the Riviera Casino in Las Vegas, Wizz branched out with his own critically-acclaimed show ‘HIStory”, and now he’s bringing his ‘HIStory II’ show back to Oz after huge runs down here in 2010 and 2012.

“While we didn’t want to change it too much, we wanted to add some new songs as well as some new production to make it even more spectacular,” he said.

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“We want to cover Michael’s whole career, from the Jackson 5 right through and it’s just impossible to cover everything. Even if you covered just the hits, you could never do it in a two-hour show.”

Wizz added, since Jackson’s untimely demise, audiences have cast a much closer eye on what he is doing onstage, which he said makes for a more realistic experience.

“People dissect the show a lot more because he really does have a lot of hardcore fans out there,” he said. “For me, it’s all about keeping Michael’s legacy alive by emulating him, not becoming exactly like him and giving people the chance to experience some of the spirit of Michael."

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Framed for a crime he didn’t commit, muscle car mechanic and street racer Tobey (Aaron Paul) gets out of prison determined to settle the score with the man responsible for his false conviction. Tobey tears up the road in a gritty cross-country journey; one that begins as a mission for revenge, but proves to be one of redemption. ‘Need for Speed’ also stars Dominic Cooper, Ramon Rodriguez, and Dakota Johnson.

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If there is one thing that is sorely lacking in the sequel to the visceral 2006 sword and sandal epic it is the direction of Zack Snyder.

Snyder, who has brought his unique vision to such films as ‘The Watchmen’ and ‘Man of Steel’, only took on screenplay duties this time around, and it shows.

That’s not to say that this isn’t a visual feast that manages to capture Frank Miller’s (the author of the original graphic novel series) original style almost perfectly – it’s just that it feels like a soulless facsimilie of the original. After the defeat of the Spartans in the original, Persian King Xerxes is on the march against the major Greek City States, with Athens first on the agenda. It is up to Greek Admiral Themistocles to put a stop to Xerxes' advances but must first use the might of the Greek navy to do battle with Artemesia – the vengeful commander of the Persian navy. The blood and gore are ramped up to ten here and even though things got tiresome after the 15th slo-mo limb lopping, it was a decent distraction.

Tracks

[Rated PG] Reviewed at Tower Cinemas, Newcastle by Amelia Parrott

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It is not everyday you come across an Australian film as visually breathtaking as 'Tracks'.

Produced by See Saw Films, the production company behind 'The Kings Speech' and 'Oranges and Sunshine', 'Tracks' tells the extraordinary true story of Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska) who in 1977, set off from Alice Springs with four camels and a dog and didn’t stop until reached the Indian Ocean nine months later.

'Girls' star, Adam Driver plays National Geographic photographer, Rick Smolan, who plays Davidson’s on-again-off-again love interest/thorn in her side throughout the film but it is Mandy Walker, the cinematographer who is the real star of this flick.

Walker captures the West Australian dessert spectacularly – pulling raw beauty and crushing loneliness from the baron and desolate landscape through aerial shots and sweeping wide angles.

The film may have been just a touch too long but those landscape shots, coupled with an amazingly emotive performance from Wasikowska, more than make up for the slow pace.

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Don’t stop the rock Formed in late 2010, The Rockin' Eddie Band first appeared at the Biggest Indoor Rock n Roll event in September 2010. T.R.E.B's aim is to accommodate all forms of 40s, 50s, and 60s classic dance steps.

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Rockin Eddie was better known in his younger days as a drummer & Australian Champion Rock n’ Roll Dancer with numerous titles to his credit. In his younger days Eddie ventured far and wide within the Rock n Roll scene. Also, when you consider the members of the band have worked with the likes of Black Feather, Phil Keys’ Band of Light, Reg Lindsay, Dinah Lee and the Atlantics, the word formidable seems a bit of an understatement.

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Mucho riffing afoot Stephen Bisset

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n and of themselves, bands like Chinchen, the Hell City Glamours, Vaudeville and Dropsaw are pretty formidable concerns, but when you take members from these bands and put them in a room together, then you have something else entirely.

Featuring the talents of Ben “Dutchy” Holland on bass, Ben Kelly and Mo Mayhem on guitar, Jae Nelson on drums, Dave Bell on sax and Rob Parkes on trombone, Mucho Sonar offer up

an almost irresistible array of horn and adrenaline-fuelled punk rock with just the right amount of metal riffing. Think the likes of Rocket From the Crypt and you’re in the right ballpark.

Rob Parkes told TE that, given everyone was quite familiar musically, Mucho Sonar was a natural progression for all concerned.

“Basically, we’ve all played in bands together at some stage and me and Mo had come out of another band and we were writing songs together so it seemed like the natural thing to do.”

Despite only being a band for a rela-

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After the success of last year’s inaugural event, more than 20 stallholders from across the country will take part in the second Hunter Record Fair on Saturday 22nd March. A massive range of both new and second-hand vinyl records and CDs will be on offer, plus books and DVDs. All genres of music will be available, including: country, rock, soul, metal, punk, pop, hip-hop, jazz, blues, reggae, rockabilly, folk, r&b, ska, alternative, house, hardcore punk, electro, indie, new wave, noise and more.

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tively short amount of time, Mucho Sonar have been gaining quite a bit of attention around the traps – not least for their blisteriing and tighter-than-atourniquet debut self-titled EP. “We pretty much recorded all of it at home," Parkes said.

"We didn’t really have any idea how it would come out, but it ended up sounding really massive – we’re heaps happy with it” Parkes said.

Catch Mucho Sonar at the Cambridge Hotel on Saturday, March 16 alongside Drug Mother, the Delta Lions and The Grounds.

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Bennies chasing rainbows Stephen Bisset

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iven that it was just 12 short months ago that Melbournebased punks The Bennies’ career was in doubt after their guitarist was stabbed in the armpit by a bogan punter in Byron Bay, to see where they are now is quite astonishing.

Since the incident, the kings of stoner party jams have toured China, Japan and New Zealand and are still riding high off the release of their genre-bending sophomore release ‘Rainbows in Space’.

“Yeah, it’s pretty amazing that it’s been almost a year since that stuff in Byron happened,” bass player Craig Selak told TE. “It was a situation where we didn’t really know what was going to happen with the band so to see where we are now is just awesome.”

When ‘Rainbows in Space’ was released in November last year, pundits were throwing around hyperbole like confetti with some proclaiming it to be the album of 2013 and Selak said the

band put literally everything they had into the making of the album with the end result a miasma of reggae-infused punk rock with more layers than you can poke a stick at.

“The whole idea was more is more just keep adding s**t,” Selak said.

“The songs were a bit of a mixed bag – there was some stuff that had been kicking around for quite a while and there were a couple of tracks that were only written a couple of weeks before the recording and I think having those really new songs really helped create a really energetic vibe on the album – we really did put everything into it.”

Selak added that once the current tour wraps up, there is no chance of slowing down – with more Aussie tours planned as well as another visit to China.

“Man, China was just f***ing mental,” he said.

“We’d been to Japan a couple of times before but not China – our friends the Smith Street Band recommended we go over there and we were just blown away so were heading back over there again soon – it’s going to be awesome.”

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hile they will be without guitarist "Big D", who was unfortunately rushed to a Florida hospital last week, you can be rest assured that the Southern soul piano maestro Jon Cleary and his band, The Absolute Monster Gentlemen, will be preaching the New Orleans rhythm and blues and funk gospel when they hit Lizotte’s this weekend.

“The gents will be bringing the monster funk …and invite everyone to come join the party as we bring Mardi Gras to you,” Cleary said.

Described as the funkiest band in the city that has some of the funkiest musicians in the world, Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen are the gem in the New Orleans crown – an unabashed riot of gospel harmonies and foundation rocking grooves.

Running the full gamut from street beats to old school rhythm and blues, the party is propelled by Cleary’s vocals and mesmerising piano chops, skills the British-born Cleary picked up as a teenager in New Orleans directly from the masters who invented the style.

“Ultimately, all New Orleans music is about making a joyful noise – even when burying their dead, folks in New Orleans will have a wild jazz band to celebrate the good life,” he said.

Described by country legend Bonnie Raitt as “the ninth wonder of the world”, Cleary’s talents have been in high demand of late, working alongside the likes of Taj Mahal, Doctor John and jazzman John Schofield but he maintains there’s nothing like the feeling he gets when the Absolute Monster Gentlemen take the stage.