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Sunday, 8.30pm ·11 Directed by David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada) this subtle comedy is the perfect way to see out the week. Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson star as three birdwatchers about to embark on their Big Year - a term in birding meaning seeing or hearing as many birds as possible in a calendar year.

They criss-cross the continent (including to Alaska's westernmost island), follow migration patterns, and head for storms that force birds to ground.

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POP WILL EAT ITSELF Saturday, September 6 • Manning Bar, University of Sydney Union Pop Will Eat Itself, aka PWEI, aka the Poppies stormed on to the late-80's UK scene with their high-energy, industrial-tinged dance-rock anthems. They shared a stage with such musical contemporaries as Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Jesus Jones, and The Wonder Stuff. However, it was their sample driven, biting social satire that set them apart from the others and they quickly gained a rabid worldwide following. Relentless live shows and groundbreaking artwork also solidified their position as innovators. After a years of going full tilt, the band racked up an awesome musical legacy before running out of steam in 1996 when Clint Mansell called it quits to work on his award winning soundtrack career. All remained quiet on the Poppies front, bar a brief reunion in 2005 until 2011 when original member Graham Crabb, legendary vocalist Mary Byker (Gaye Bykers on Acid, Apollo 440), drumming powerhouse Jason Bowld (Pitchshifter, Killing Joke) and Gary Numan's guitarist Tim Muddiman fused an all new reinvigorated line up of the band.

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If ever there was a case to be made that Matthew McConaughey has well and truly cast off the rom-com beefcake image, this heart-wrenching drama would be the perfect starting point.

McConaughey stars as real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. Ron, now ostracised by many of his old friends, and bereft of government-approved effective medicines, decides to take matters in his own hands. Woodroof joins forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely successful "buyers' club." Jarred Leto is mesmerising and barely recognisable as the transvestite Rayon.

SEETHER ISOLATE AND MEDICATE Out Now Six albums in and South African alternametallers Seether prove that they are showing no signs of slowing down - in fact Isolate and Medicate could very well be the band's most ambitious and comprehensive release to date.

From driving rockers to out and out exercises in visceral sonic brutality, Seether cover a hell of a lot of sonic territory here and, despite not being the biggest fan of the genre, I would say that there's very little filler contained within.

Standouts include the blues-driven My Disaster and the sludgy See You at the Bottom which features, courtesy offrontman Shaun Morgan, one of the most terryfying gutteral screaming sessions since Mike Patton decided to vent his agression onamic.

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"I am just really stunned with how it has been received especially considering that I almost didn't release it because, after I recorded it, I felt that it was too vulnerable and too close to home - but I'm definitely glad I did because it really has been an overwhelming twelve months:' Pool enlisted the help of Brad Jones (Missy Higgins, Butterfly Boucher) and Jace Everett (best known for writing the theme for the hit HBO vampire soap True Blood) to oversee production duties on the album and she said both the people she was working with and the location helped with the overall sound ofthe record "Nashville was definitely an inspiring place to record but I don't think I was fully aware ofit while I was there," she said.

"But I do think the mix of being completely disconnected from my life back borne and being immersed in this completely creative arena definitely helped the vibe of the alburrL I was kind of out of my comfort zone and it was good to push myself that way. "'!b.e album was a completely different

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cballenge to the last two EPs [ Heart To Heart Talk and Awake, You're AU Around Mel in that everything was tracked completely live in three days and then all ofthe overdubs were done in another three days - it was great to see everything go so smoothly. Jace and Brad were just really respectful of wbat my vision was for the record -they were such a great audience."

Since The Hurting Scene hit the streets, with pundits declaring the album as "one of the most accomplished debuts by an Australian singer songwriter", Pool has barely had time to reflect on her rising star, jetting off on a sold-out tour of the UK and Europe with Californian indie-rock duo The Milk Carton Kids as well as a slot at the Americana Music Festival in Nashville.

"Yeah, it has been a pretty hectic 12 months but it's been totally worthwhile and there have definitely been quite a few 'pinch me' moments?'

Now, after an Australian run with UK singer-songwriter Gabrielle Alpin, Pool is gearing up to hit Aussie roads again, this time on a co-headline tour with New Zealand-via Melbourne songwriter Marlon Williams - a prodigious 23-year-old talent who has been described as "the impossible love child of Elvis, Roy Orhison and Townes Van Zandt".

"I'm really looking forward to this tour - Marlon is such a great songwriter;' Pool enthused.

"It's going to be a switch back and forth headline kind of thing - say I'll headline

Lizotte's and Marlon will headline the Melbourne show - we'll be doing our own stuff as well as getting onstage together for a few duets."

Despite her workload over the past 12 months, as well as an impending move from her home-base in Kurri Kurri to Melbourne after this tour wraps up, Pool has also found the time to pen a new crop of tracks, which she plans to record in Nashville later this year. She said that there is a certain weight ofexpectation surrounding the impending sessions - given the personal, and oft-melancholic nature of The Hurting Scene.

"I think I'm a little freaked out, actually," she admitted.

"Because The Hurting Scene was very much a heartbreak album and I'm not heartbroken anymore there is kind of an irrational voice saying "oh now you can'y write songs for s路Ot - but I'm sure everything will be fine.

"Musically, it's going to he a lot darker to The Hurting Scene - quite a lot of minor chords and the last album was recorded live and I really want this one to capture that same energy. Lyrically, well I've done quite a bit of growing up since the last album so it will definitely be a reflection of

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While that seems to be the release that gets the most airplay for the Fremantlebased trio, it's their second studio album A Song is a City - which celebrates it's 10th anniversary this year - that frontman Kav Temperley believes holds the most sentimentality for the band's fans. ''People have lots of very personal experiences with that record. When I'm talking to people, everyone's always like 'aww A Song is a City was my album';' Temperley said.

With this in mind, the singer/songwriter is heading out on a three-month solo acoustic tour across Australia to play tracks from the band's breakout 2004 album but audiences will get more than just your usual gig experience. ''When I worked out it was 10 freaking years since the album came out I just thought it was a good opportunity to go out and just play the songs and tell a lot of the stories as well;' Temperley said.

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"Some of those stories were really hard to tell back in the day, because it involved people and people we'd done business with and so on, so it was kind of inappropriate but now it's like, it's been a few years and no one really cares any more!'

While Temperley embarks on his solo tour, band mates Stu MacLeod and Joel Quartermain are having a few months off and are taking on their own projects.

For Macleod that means building recording studios while Quartermain's current focus is recording young musicians in the band's studio in Fremantle.

"Everyone's kind of got their fingers in a few different pies. I'm still doing exactly the same thing as I was doing before;' Temperley said laughing.

As well as offering a night of music and storytelling, audiences will also receive an acoustic EP recorded by Temperley, covering all the songs that inspired him during the making of A Song is a City, including the Bill Withers classic Ain't No Sunshine.

Looking back on that experience over a decade ago, Temperley has fond memories of the Perth music scene before the talent hidden on the west coast made its mark across the country.

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because we had this fantastic jam room just out ofFremantle and it was a real open door policy for any of our friends bands or even people we didn't know to come in and demo and jam on songs together;' he explained. "It was a classic moment in time of innocence and skill coming together in a bit of a perfect storm!'

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[Rated MAJ Reviewed at Tower Cinemas, Newcastle by Stephen Bisset

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Mike Lane (Channing Tatum) is a thirty-year old who, by day, works as a roofer while at night, as Magic Mike, he is the star attraction of a group of male strippers who secretly wants out Secretly he wants out. One night Adam (Alex Pettyfer), a teen-aged work-mate of Mike, follows him to the club and, when one of the acts is unable to go on, he is prevailed upon to strip becoming a huge hit.

However, success goes to his head and his foolish actions threaten Mike's ambitions as well.

provoking, tense and darkly comic film from Irish director John Michael McDonagh (The Guard) could well be up there on the year's best lists. Brendan Gleeson (The Guard, Gangs ofNew York) gives a subtle, deeply human, career-best performance as Father James Lavelle - reminiscent of Bruce Dern's turn in Nebraska.

The tense tone that pervades the film is set in the opening scene with Father James hearing confession. The voice recounts a tale of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a Catholic priest - a sad story that turns terrifying when the confessor tells the priest that he will kill him in seven days time as killing an innocent priest holds more weight than killing a bad one. The priest, goes about the business of tending to his flock and dealing with reminders of his life before coming to the church setting Gleeson up as a Christlike figure atoning for the sins of an entire religion.

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Jersey Boys

[Rated MJ Reviewed at Tower Cinemas, Newcastle by Stephen Bisset

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Sitting somewhere between Goodfellas and Dreamgirls, Clint Eastwood's big screen adaptation of the Broadway smash Jersey Boys is a pleasant enough affair - it has all the hits that you would expect to hear (Big Girls Don't Cry, Walk Like a Man et al), a principal cast capable of pulling of near identical versions of the songs and more musical cliches than you can poke a stick at, however the at almost two-and -a-half hours, things do tend to drag a bit.

This typical musical bio-pic charts the rise of iconic pop group Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, from their humble beginnings on the fringes of the New Jersey mafia (a sub-plot disappointingly sugar coated with Christopher Walken's made man Gyp DeCarlo coming off as the stereotypical hoodlum with a heart of gold) to one of the most iconic vocal groups of all time.

The the story tends to plod along at times with certain plot points, namely the death of Frankie Valli's wayward daughter, glossed over, and it is those fantastic songs that are this film's saving grace.

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When Moore Street market-trader Agnes Brown finds her livelihood under threat, she and her family embark on a campaign to save her stall and, obviously, hilarity ensues. True fans don't miss the opportunity to dress up as your favourite character and come early for our preshow entertainment. The fun kicks off at 6.30 with some pre-show entertainment before the film at 7Pm. All tickets are $15.

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More than 30 years ago ABBA played eleven dates in Australia.

This trip was accompanied by mass hysteria and was captured on film inABBA - The Movie.

Today, ABBA is considered one of the three largest selling recording artists in music history, alongside The Beatles and Elvis Presley.

FABBA has been established since 1996, initially as the FABBA girls.

FABBA is now a world-class act comprising of professional musicians and musical theatre performers. While FABBA are dedicated to replicating the ABBA sound, they have also added the theatrics, fun and modem style to the songs as seen in the musical/movie Mamma Mia. The FABBA show has an entire wardrobe designed to capture the complete look of ABBA - from the 70'S to now. Every FABBA show is tailored to suit each individual event and function from costumes and scripting through to the song list. FABBA promises to deliver a show that is highly energetic, visually captivating, musically brilliant, audience engaging and always totally entertaining.

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Allthat Jazz Arguably the best New Orleans Style Jazz trumpeter produced in Australia, Geoff Bull has received recognition on the world stage. A descendant of Norwegian genius, violinist Ole Bull who toured the world in the mid-19th century and played with Liszt and Greig, Geoff brings some of that genius to the trumpet. Bull formed his first New Orleans style band, the Olympia Jazz Band in the early sixties when he was a young man Of20.

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My dining partner and I tried the braised beef with oyster sauce and the sizzling garlic king prawns, with special fried rice.

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We also tried the Australian side of the menu, and between the two of us, we managed to get through most of a schnitzel, chips and salad. The schnitzel was terrifically crunchy, and like any good schnitzel, arrived accompanied by a delicious gravy which made the entire dish a good choice.

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er sound may've been described as "Chrissie Hynde lost in East Nashville", but on the eve of an East Coast run to promote her latest EP, the alt.country-tinged The Good People, Jackie Marshall aka The Peppercorn Queen, things are decidedly huskier. ''Well, I've actually had to strike off the first gig on the tour in Brisbane because I have a really bad case of l~tis and I'm sounding an awful like lot Tom Waits:' she laughed.

"Thankfully, I'm on the mend and should be in fine voice by the time I get to see you guys:' It has been a relatively long time between drinks for Marshall with her previous album the critically acclaimed Ladies Luck dropping in 2010 however she definitely had a good excuse.

"I guess my main creative output during that time was giving birth, so I have spent a lot of time coming up with new lullabies:' she laughed.

For the new EP (a set that bristles with a live energy and the same idiosyncratic writing style and impassioned vocal delivery that made her previous two albums Ladies Luck and the Australian Music Prize-shortlisted Fight n' Flight stand out from the rest), Marshall adopted the moniker The Peppercorn Queen - a title bestowed upon her at the Nymagee Outback Music Festival in 2009, and is backed by the Fat Lambs band featuring Leighlvin (The Re-Mains, who also produced the EP), Adam Bodkin and Ronny Rindo. It features three new tracks, penned by Marshall as well as three eclectic covers - Dreaming From the Waist by The Who, A Song For You by Gram Parsons and Geroge Jones' Seasons ofMy Heart.

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"I had been working on this project with Leigh lvin for a while - I had been friends with Leigh for around ten years - and we recorded it out the back of Tamworth in a studio he built in an old tobacco shed:' she said.

"All of the guys in the band went to school together so everything came together really naturally:' It is in the live arena where Marshall really comes into her own and she said she hoped she could bring a little "wow" factor to the Hunter.

"I really just want people to say "wow that was really fun - I want to go out next weekend and see more music - I want to go to a Gleny Rae Virus show" you know, if my music can have that effect, then I've done my job:'

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Long live Captain Spaulding hen LA-born stage actor, comedian and director Frank Ferrante decided to bring his acclaimed portrayal of legendary stage and screen comedian Groucho Marx to Australia, he wasn't sure how Antipodean audiences would react to this intrinsically American brand of humour. As it happened, he needn't have worried.

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"The shows have exceeded all myexpectations - I mean, I've done this show for so many years but mainly in North America where Groucho is an icon so I wasn't sure how Australian's would take to the show, but audiences have been laughing in the same places and at the same schtick - I even got a standing ovation in Byron Bay - I guess funny is funny no matter where you are?'

The show in question is An Evening with Groucho Marx and Ferrante said it was more than a mere tribute - but rather a glimpse into what it would've been like to see the mustachioed giant of comedy in a one man show at the height of his comedic powers.

"The conceit here is what it would be like to experience the result of Groucho being asked to put on a one man show filled with

zingers, schtick, songs and one liners - this was something he never did because he was so busy performing with his brothers on the stage and in film.

"It's a very fast paced show and I'd say that about a third of it is improvised when I first saw Groucho I felt so excited and exhilarated and I hope that I can capture some of that feeling with this show?'

For Ferrante, it was a viewing of the Marx Brothers' classic A Day At the Races as an impressionable nine-year-old that ignited his passion and he said it was the Marx Brothers, in particular Groucho's irreverent sense of humour that has kept him hooked ever since.

"A neighbourhood friend told me to turn on my television and A Day at the Races was on and I was just mesmarised;' Ferrante said.

"Groucho was just so quick-witted, so irreverent and so fearless with his comedy and provided a 'great alter-ego for all us shy kids?'

Ferrante first portrayed the young Groucho Marx as a high school student in the 1980s but it wasn't until he was "discovered" by Groucho's son and playwright Arthur Marx, who cast Ferrante in the title role in Groucho: A Life in Revue, that he managed to parlay his early fascination

with Groucho into a career that has sen him labelled the "greatest living interpreter of Groucho Marx material".

"It's great and such an honour to have that connection to the family;' Ferrante said. "Groucho's daughter [Miriam Marx Allan] is well into her eighties now and still calls me three times a day. In fact she is very interested in how her father's work is being received over here in Australia and I'm happy to report that it's being received very well?'

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The heart of the matter f there's one word to describe Morpeth-based singer songwriter Lyn Bowtell's latest album Heart of Sorrow, it would be eclectic.

Still brimming with the same unaffected brand of country pop that has seen Bowtell snag two Golden Guitar nominations, the Shane Nicholsonproduced Heart of Sorrow moves from jazz-inspired ballads to reggae infused pop without missing a beat. The ambitious album also sees the multi-talented Bowtell try her hand at acoustic guitar, ukulele, omnichord and percussion - all with aplomb.

Bowtell first came to attention as one third of the Golden Guitar-winning trio Bella (also featuring Kate Ballantyne and Karen O'Shea) and proved she could strike out on her own with her solo debut Secret Songs "My last album Secret Songs was my first solo venture after the end of my band Bella.

With my latest album Heart ofSorrow, I have moved into a new chapter of my life and career:' she said:' I'm bolder and braver, and willing to risk standing closer in my songs to both the light and the darkness:' Bowtell is regarded by her peers as having one of the best voices in the business. With a truly ethereal voice, Bowtell effortlessly weaves her way between tenderness and rage, through despair and joy, makingher live show a truly personal and intimate affair.

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here's little denying that, with songs like Annie's Song, and Sunshine on My Shoulders under his belt, John Denver remains one of the most emotionally engaging folk songwriters in the history of popular music.

Now, 17 years after his tragic death, his music is still captivating people around the globe - not least New Zealand-based artist Bevan Gardiner who will be bringinghis Take Me Home: The Music and Life of John Denver show to Newcastle this month. The last time Gardiner visited our shores, he was opening for country music legend Charley Pride.

"Playing Australia is almost like a working holiday for me:' Gardiner told TE. "The last time I was over there I was supporting Charley Pride which was quite a daunting experience but so rewarding - Charley was just fantastic he stood on the side of the stage every night and watched me - something you don't see too often" It is testament to Gardiner's talent that his interpretation of Denver has won the approval of not just Charley Pride but also Denver's mother Irma Deutschendorf and his brother Ron. "Meeting John's mother and brother

was an absolute career highlight:' he said. "It all kind of happened by chance but they told me that they appreciated what I did which was just so nice - I was also fortunate enough to play a couple of songs with John's band as well which was a huge highlight:' Gardiner, who is partially sighted said that he first discovered Denver as a seven-year-old and passion for Denver's music is as strong as ever.

"My parents would take us away on holidays and dad always had an old cassette tape of one of John's live shows and it always stuck with me Catch Take Me Home at the Civic Theatre on Friday, July 18.

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Producer, creator, choreographer and performer Simon Vowles - along with promoter Andrew Malouf - has been solidly working on the concept for the past nine months, penning the story, organising the soundtrack and the musical mash-Up, casting the perfect performers for the roles and much more. No stranger to working on massive shows - Simon has previously been involved with Time Warp, Westside Story, Chicago and Grease - this was the first time he had undertaken all the roles, at once, by himself.

"It is really fun;' he said.

"I love big costumes, 1 love the witty humour. There is such a fun element in this show and we've catered to everybody, straight people, gay people, everything in between people, and to every [musical] genre.

"My three words for this show are fun, fast and fabulous. It is a mash-up musical and for anyone who loves Glee or the Pitch Perfect-type movies, this caters for everybody."

Queens of the Outback is much as the name suggests - some fantastic drag queens performing in the outback of Australia. The storyline is simple but

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That's not the half of it though, there are some hilarious experiences along the way including a temporary imprisonment, breakdowns, a little love story and many a minibar to be emptied.

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