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Interview The Doug Anthony Allstars’ Tim Ferguson

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While perhaps best known for zany roles in the likes of Ghostbusters and Stripes Bill Murray can also do subtle with aplomb.

Murray plays a cantankerous, and hedonistic Vietnam Vet who is happy living in his self-absorbed bubble. That is until he meets Oliver, a young boy next door whose parents have just divorced. The pair soon form a strong bond and Oliver begins to see more in the old man than just his foibles.

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fter a mammoth sell- out season last year, Australia’s undisputed foremost purveyors of comedy mayhem, The Doug Anthony Allstars are extending the run into 2015 and will be making a triumphant return to the Civic Theatre next month - and Tim Ferguson sincerely hopes all is forgiven.

“We hope it will be a triumphant return but that will depend on whether the local police and the local business chamber are willing to let bygones be bygones,” Ferguson laughed.

“But seriously, Newcastle has always been great to us and we’ve played some fantastic gigs there over the years - there’s something about you Newcastle people and comedy.”

While Ferguson and Paul McDermott will be without their original foil, Richard Fidler, whose ABC Radio commitments excluded him from hitting the road “Richard is this huge radio star raking in obscene piles of taxpayer- funded cash, so it’s understandable that he wouldn’t want to associate with the likes of us,” Ferguson mused - the pair have teamed up with long- time collaborator Flacco (Paul Livingston) who, Ferguson said brings a whole new dynamic to the trio.

“Both Paul and I have to be really polite to Flacco because we both look up to him as a true comedy mentor and, really he is the only person that either of us are

nice to so backstage the dynamic is quite collegial and he definitely brings his own dynamic to the stage - he’s kind of like the Harpo of the group and he’s also desperately funny with an impeccable sense of timing.

“But, while it is a different dynamic with Flacco, the same sensibility that’s always been there, is still there - attack, attack, attack.”

Mixing an aggressive, confrontational and, more often than not, shocking brand of humour that swings effortlessly from the ribald to jokes about Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, with an innate musical sensibility that gave us songs covering such diverse themes as bestiality, incest, murdering hippies and communism, The Doug Anthony Allstars cut an irreverent swathe through the Australian comedy scene like none before or after.

“Nobody in the world was approaching comedy at the time the way we were and I also think that there was an inherent recklessness with what we were doing that was appealing to a lot of people.”

Despite starting life busking on the streets of Canberra in the early 1980s, it was in the UK where people started to sit up and take notice after some wellreceived shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival led to numerous appearances on British television, but it was their appearance on the Ben Elton- hosted Friday Night Live TV show when things started to click for the trio.

“Friday Night Live was huge for us,” Ferguson said.

There was an inherent recklessness with what we were doing that was appealing to a lot of people “We had never done television before and here we were on a show that was watched by eight million people and I for one never imagined that there was that kind of audience for comedy, so it was really pivotal.

After returning to OZ, the All Stars started making inroads into the Australian comedy zeitgeist thanks to regular appearances on the seminal ABC show The Big Gig and their subsequent series DAAS Kapital.

Ferguson, whose post- Allstars career diverted into a few different paths including stints on television (Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush, Funky Squad), lecturing in comedy and author - having written the satirical novel Left Right and Centre and his autobiography Carry a Big Stick: A Life of Laughter, Friendship and MS (that deals with his life as a successful comedian and his battles with multiple sclerosis) - as well as a tilt at the senate in 2013, said

there was always a sense of unfinished business when it came to the Allstars.

“Yes there has been a sense of what might have been as, when we did call it a day in 1994, it was quite sudden,” he said.

“But we did a reunion show in 2013 at Melbourne Town Hall for the DVD release of DAAS Kapital and it sold out so we thought ‘why not?’ So, it’s definitely all back on again and after this run we’re off to the UK, the US, Canada and Germany so it’s all systems go.”

He added that the trio had noticed a number of much younger fans turning up to shows, which he puts down to the availability of their early material on YouTube.

“You know it’s funny, because most people in their 30s have no idea who we are - it’s people 40 and over and strangely there is this growing band of young people turning up with these gifts like special biscuits with our faces on them and painted portraits, its this weird cult thing happening so we’re busy organising restraining orders you know, treat them mean and keep them keen? Get those AVO’s and go, go, go.”

While Ferguson’s illness may keep him confined to a wheelchair these days, it would be a fool’s errand to expect any of the sarcastic vitriol he displayed in their heyday has dissipated.

“The great thing about it is that nobody expects to be c**k-punched by a guy in a wheelchair so I’m definitely using that to my advantage,” he laughed.

Catch the Doug Anthony Allstars at the Civic Theatre on Saturday, May 9.

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GRAND HOTEL: Tuesday, Jazz.

GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL: Friday, Garth Prentice; Saturday, Styles on Styles.

GRETA WORKERS CLUB: Friday, Outerphase.

GUNYAH HOTEL: Friday, The Remedy; Sunday, Troy Kemp.

HALEKULANI BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Malihini’s Over 30s Nightspot.

HAMILTON STATION HOTEL: Friday/Saturday, Karaoke.

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OCEAN BEACH HOTEL: Saturday, Sean Frazer.

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hile they have never been a band to revel in past musical glories, Western Australian prog rock adventurists Karnivool, are hitting the road to celebrate the ten- year anniversary of the release of their ground- breaking and criticallyacclaimed debut long player Themata.

Guitarist Mark Hosking said that the tour was more about celebrating fan loyalty rather than patting themselves on the back.

“This tour is a great chance to pay tribute to the people who have been supporting us since that record came out,” he said.

“It’s pretty mind-blowing to me that, ten years after Themata came out that I still get emails from people telling me how much of an effect the album had on their lives so

we definitely want to pay that back in some way.”

While it has been a decade since the album dropped, Hosking said that it was more of a case of ‘time flies when you’re having fun.’

“It does and it doesn’t feel like ten years,” he said, “I mean we’ve achieved so much since that album came out but also, I mean, I moved from Melbourne to Perth to start work on the album and ten years later I’m still here.”

By the time the tour kicks off at the end of this month, the band will definitely be a well-oiled machine, having just come off highly successful tours of India and Europe.

“It was bloody great because, on those Indian and European runs, we weren’t really promoting anything so we weren’t really expecting really big numbers but the crowds were crazy in India and we ended up playing the biggest headlining shows we’ve ever done in London, Amsterdam, Paris and Germany so, yeah we were all really over the moon.”

With their latest release Asymmetry still kicking some serious goals both here and overseas, Hosking said the band were looking ahead to the next release, but added that they felt no pressure to rush the follow-up.

“The thing is, we’re not the speediest songwriters - we never have been,” he said.

“The kind of music we write is quite challenging, but we are writing, writing, writing.”

Catch Karnivool at Newcastle Panthers on Friday, May 1. Tickets are on sale now via the band’s website karnivool.com.au

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hile most bands have dreams of fame, fortune and world domination when releasing albums, one Newcastle band is bucking that trend by using their music as a means to raise awareness on the importance of mental health.

By Design, featuring Jayson Evans, Levi Dallen, Brent Ebeling and Dylan Booth, have just released their sophomore long player Reanimator alongside an accompanying short story on their website as a free download or via donation that the band plans to pass on to various mental health charities.

Evans told TE that the album continues the story that commenced with their debut album Spaces.

“Spaces was an album that described the feelings associated with loss and the depression that comes alongside it. In Spaces, these problems add up so much that it causes the character to literally move to another planet to get away from

it all, but upon landing he realises that his problems have followed him across galaxies,” he said.

Reanimator continues the story where Spaces left off - upon arrival to the new planet. This album is much more of a concept album than the last, with each song describing the next chapter of the story. The character learns that whenever he tries to rebuild his life, he is set back to square one by monstrous creatures that inhabit the planet - creatures that are made up of the things that haunt the character from their past. He learns of a power source called Reanimator and

begins his journey to find it. The album tells the story of the search for the power to beat the demons of your past.

Evans said that the ambitious project was one that was very close to his heart.

“It has been a long time coming,” he said.

“In around 2010, the band I was in disbanded and I basically decided to give up music, but one day I started writing again and around the same time I was diagnosed with depression so the stuff I was writing reflected that and when we released Spaces there was an alarming number of people who told me how well they related to the songs and how some

people’s decisions around suicide were directly influenced by the songs so we decided to delve deeper into the idea with Reanimator and it has been a very cathartic process.”

For Evans, the modus operandi for

By Design was to get the message out to people suffering from mental health issues, that they are not alone.

“It’s not about sales for us - it’s about the message and we don’t really consider ourselves a band in the traditional sense but rather musical authors.”

By Design’s Reanimator is available to download now via www.wearebydesign.

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