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Still on happy ground Having recently wrapped up his mammoth Feeler tenth anniversary tour, Pete Murray is heading back to Newcastle for two special shows.

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If it’s a set of rollicking blues and R&B that’s tempered with some of the most incisive and stinging fretwork heard in quite some time that you’re looking for, then you’ll want to pick up this latest album from one-time Butterfield Blues Band member and no-fooling blues powerhouse and slide guitar master, Elvin Bishop.

While the album contains five new Bishop tracks, it is when he gets into revisionist mode that things really heat up.

Bishop’s takes on Fats Domino’s Bo Weevil, Jimmy Reed’s Honest I Do and Lionel Hampton’s Hey-Ba-Ba-Re-Bop are definite standouts here. Aside from Bishop’s undeniable credentials, this album also features the formidable talents of Mickey Thomas (Jefferson Starship) and the blues harp icon Charlie Musselwhite.

While Darren Aronofsky, and his idiosyncratic directorial style, may seem like a strange choice to resurrect the Biblical epic, he has created a humanistic story amid the CGI bells and whistles - despite taking some liberties with the source material.

While the scope of this film is huge - a man chosen

by God to undertake a mission of rescue before a flood destroys the world at it’s heart, Noah, is about a man struggling with his own obsessions. In this sense, Aronofsky’s Noah fits in well with his other protagonists - the ballerina in Black Swan struggling for perfection, the mother and son in Requiem for a Dream and their self destructive obsessions and Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) looking for one last win.

Award-winning outlaw US singer-songwriter Gary Allan will be embarking on his first Australian tour in six years this September. The hard-living Californian will be joined on all shows by the legendary genre-bending party band The Mavericks and four-piece “redneck rock band” Blackjack Billy.

Australia’s love affair with Allan began fourteen years ago, when he made his first trip to our shores, winning over local crowds with his whiskey-soaked voice, raw charisma and intense live performances, including a show where he confronted a power failure at a venue by playing acoustic to a rowdy crowd while perched on the edge of the stage, singing “songs that make you laugh and make you cry, and songs that p**s you off.” Multiple return trips have cemented his reputation as an artist whose down to earth rock’n’roll swagger makes him just as home here, as in his own US home.

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In a violent post-apocalyptic society, a drifter, Eli (Denzel Washington), has been wandering westward across North America for the last thirty years. He finds solace in a unique book which he carries on his person and guards closely. Before too long other survivors including the ruthless Carnigie (Gary Oldman) see the value in Eli’s book and he sends his gang into the wasteland to take the book from Eli, but the man proves to be a formidable foe.

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t may seem strange, but when singer songwriter Pete Murray released his breakthrough sophomore effort Feeler back in 2003 he didn’t really think much of it - in fact he didn’t listen to the record in full for eight years.

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Having a full room at the Enmore chanting your name is a pretty special thing

Sun, Summer at Eureka and Blue Sky Blue sending him further into the Aussie folkrock stratosphere. Murray said that he could pinpoint the very moment where he realised that he was on the right track with his music.

“Once we started getting a fair bit of airplay, we did a show at the Bar Broadway in Sydney and we rocked up t the gig and there was a line down the street,” he said.

“I thought that someone else was on who was going to steal my little crowd.

Anyway I opened the show with the last song on the album, Ten Foot Tall thinking it would be a quiet little song to start the show and everyone, something like 400 people were singing every word.

“It was kind of a weird because I went from playing to around 30 people in Melbourne bars to playing in front of thousands at festivals just months later after Feeler came out - it was a very exhilarating time.

“Actually, this Feeler tour has kind of taken me back to what it was like ten

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years ago. Having a full room ofpeople chanting your name at the Enmore is a pretty special thing. When you have that kind of success, you only normally get to experience it once but I really think I’ve been lucky to get some of that back.”

With some solid touring, both here and overseas under his belt already this this year, Murray said that he would be looking to head back into the studio sometime soon, however he didn’t feel that he needed to rush into anything.

“Yeah, I’m working on some stuff at the moment, I mean I’m always writing, but I wouldn’t mind getting something new out soon.

“I mean, I don’t want to rush into anything.”

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“I really thought I’d blown it with that record,” Murray told TE “ I guess I had a really bad dose of the post album blues - I really thought the album didn’t work and, to be honest, I didn’t really like it as an album.

“It’s funny, because a couple of years ago, I got a text from [Powderfinger guitarist] Darren Middleton and he said that he had just finished listening to it and that it was a bloody good record.

That got me curious so I had a listen to it back to back and I’ve got to say that now, I’m immensely proud of it, it really is a good album.

“The album does have a big fan-base and while it was hard for me, for a while, to see why, I think because there’s not a lot of pretence on there and it’s quite an honest record lyrically.

“I think that clicked with audiences because there wasn’t really much around like it at the time.”

Along with the tour, the album itself received a bit of an overhaul - a re-master at the legendary Abbey Road Studios along with a second disc featuring the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra.

“Having the orchestra was just amazing - hearing those songs “fleshed out” like that gave me a whole new perspective.

There are a couple of songs on there like Freedom, My Time, and Please where I thought to myself ‘ why didn’t we do this the first time?’.”

Murray, who has just wrapped up his Feeler tenth anniversary run - a tour that saw tickets selling like hotcakes all over the shop in a tacit acknowledgement of the album’s impact in Aussie popular music - will be heading back to Newcastle this month for two special shows at the Depot on Beaumont as part of his Winter Acoustic Series tour and he said Newcastle had always been high on the touring agenda.

“Yeah Newcastle has always been great,” he said.

“Whenever we’re putting a tour together, it’s always in the mix - the Feeler show I did there earlier this year was fantastic so I can’t wait to get back for these intimate shows.”

While Murray was a relative latecomer to the world of music, picking up the guitar at 22 while pursing a career in sports medicine, he has definitely taken to this singer-songwriter thing like a duck to water with subsequent albums See The

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US funnyman on the go STEPHEN BISSET

hile there are some comedians who might wax lyrical about the social importance of their comedy and the way they are holding up a mirror to society to expose its foibles, US funnyman Arj Barker has less lofty ambitions for the upcoming local run of his show Go Time.

“Basically it’s all about hilarity,” the laconic Barker told TE down the line from Byron Bay. “My main hope is that people will basically just laugh their a**es off for an hour.

I mean, I try to be positive and there are positive messages snuck in there but people shouldn’t just come for a message they should come for the laughs.”

Having last visited our shores in 2012, arguably Australia’s favourite American comedian certainly hasn’t been resting on his laurels with some pretty solid touring both solo and with his old pals New Zealand’s ‘second best folk comedy duo’ The Flight of The Conchords (Conchords fans will be more than familiar with Barker as he appeared in their hilarious HBO series as Dave - Brett and Jermaine’s indifferent friend.)

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In recent years, he has spent more time in our country than his own and has come to understand our culture perhaps better than we understand it ourselves.

While Barker said he was grateful that he had been so well received in Australia he was at a loss to explain why.

“I really don’t know what it is,” he said.

“I think I got some pretty good television spots early on and got a good momentum going that just seems to keep going and I’m definitely not complaining.”

While comedy is definitely Barker’s raison d’être he said that he likes to constantly test himself with new challenges.

“I really love music and I’ve been trying to learn the piano - I tried to learn it as a kid, but I really wasn’t interested then.

I’m also really interested in flying and I’m a partially qualified hang-gliding instructor so I guess it would be cool to be the world’s first hang-gliding, piano playing comedian. It’s all about testing yourself.”

Catch Arj Barker at Cessnock Leagues Club on Friday, August 15, Belmont 16s on Friday, August 22, Nelson Bay Diggers on Saturday, August 23 and Wests, New Lambton on Saturday, August 30.

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LIGHTS CAMERA ACTION THIS WEEK If it’s edge-of-your-seat, no-holds barred action, featuring some of the biggest action stars that have ever graced the silver screen , well you’d do well to check oeut the latest instalment of the hugely popular Expendables franchise.

Barney ( Sylvester Stallone), Christmas (Jason Statham) and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson), who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill - or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables - but Barney has other plans.

Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster, eager and more tech-savvy.

The latest, and biggest mission yet becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle to date.

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In The Hundred-Foot Journey, Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal) is a culinary ingénue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch.

Displaced from their native India, the Kadam family, led by Papa, settles in the quaint village of SaintAntonin-Noble-Val in the south of France. Filled with charm, it is both picturesque and elegant - the ideal place to settle down and open an Indian restaurant, the Maison Mumbai. That is, until the chilly chef proprietress of Le Saule Pleureur, a Michelin starred, classical French restaurant run by Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren), gets wind of it.

Begin Again

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Back in 2006, an unlikely hit emerged from the streets of Dublin, the endearing musical romance, Once. Now, eight years on, writer and director, John Carney is back with another boy meets girl musician tale, this time set in NYC. Songwriter Gretta (Keira Knightley), lacking confidence after a breakup with her pop star boyfriend (Adam Levine), gets roped into recording an album with washed up record label exec, Dan (Mark Ruffalo). This film wins points in the writing - Carney has come a long way since Once and, as a result, Begin Again is a lot more plot-driven than its predecessor -and for the music -I wouldn’t be surprised if the track Lost Stars receives a nod at next year’s Oscars. However, it loses marks for the chemistry, or lack thereof, between the leads, something Once did so well, and for the casting of Knightley in the role of Gretta. She may capture the look and angst of the heartbroken singer but she just doesn’t have the voice to carry it off.

Guardians of the Galaxy [Rated M] Reviewed at Event Cinemas, Glendale by Stephen Bisset

4/5

Given that it seems every second film these days is a Marvel superhero flick, I approached Guardians of the Galaxy with a feeling that it was going to be the same as the last ten costumed defender film. However, director James Gunn (Super, Slither) has created an utterly engaging, both visually and plot-wise, film that is arguably the best film in the Marvel universe, so far.

26 years after being abducted from earth, Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), discovers a mysterious and powerful orb that is coveted by all-round bad guy Ronan the Accuser, and thus an intergalactic manhunt begins. Quill assembles a rag-tag team of misfits - a genetically engineered racoon-type creature (Bradley Cooper), a humanoid tree (Vin Diesel), a revenge-consumed muscleman (Dave Bautista) and a mysterious female assassin (Zoe Saldana) to defeat the evil Ronan and earn the title of Guardians of the Galaxy. Gunn, who cut his teeth directing for Z-grade studio Troma, has struck the perfect balance between swashbuckling action and adventure, laugh-out-loud comedy and relatable characters.

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ADAMSTOWN CLUB: Thursday, Adam Price; Saturday, Deviation; Sunday, Wobbly Boot & Grand Diva with the Southern Cross Trio.

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BAR PETITE: Friday, Cam Hughes; Saturday, The Harbourmaster; Sunday, Crocq.

BEACHCOMBER HOTEL: Friday, Casho; Saturday, Vaughn Matthews; Sunday, Maryanne Rex. BELMONT 16s: Wednesday, Dot Cooper, Milton Ward; Friday, Deviation; Saturday, The Cruisers; Sunday, Beccy Cole, Libby O’Donovan; Sunday, Stephen R Cheney.

BELMORE HOTEL: Friday, Mark Wells Duo; Saturday, Incognito.

BERESFIELD BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Flying Mare; Saturday, Snape Brothers; Sunday, Red Dirt Country Band feat. Lisa White.

BLACKBUTT HOTEL: Thursday, Karaoke; Friday, Live Entertainment.

BRADFORD HOTEL: Saturday, Flying Mare; Sunday, Troy Kemp.

BREAKERS COUNTRY CLUB: Saturday, Sam Bannerman.

CARDIFF RSL: Friday, Talk of the Town; Saturday, KDL. CATHO PUB: Sunday, The Mason Rack Band.

CAVES BEACHSIDE HOTEL: Friday, Almost Joe Cocker Show; Saturday, Leeroy and Tinno.

CENTRAL HOTEL, Stroud: Saturday, The Ngariki Electric Band.

CESSNOCK LEAGUES CLUB: Friday, Arj Barker; Saturday, Karaoke Klubhouse; Sunday, Kids’ Disco & Karaoke, Ruby the Clown.

CHARLESTOWN BOWLING CLUB: Friday, 2 Good Reasons; Sunday, Jake Folbigg.

CLARENDON HOTEL: Friday, Troy Kemp; Saturday, Jerome.

CLUB AZZURRI: Sunday, Latinova.

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DENMAN HOTEL: Friday, Lennie Live.

DOYALSON RSL: Friday/Saturday, Live Entertainment.

DUKE OF WELLINGTON: Wedensday, The Mark Wells Trio; Friwday, Iguanas; Saturday, Mark Wells Duo. EAST MAITLAND BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Loose

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The Mark Wells Duo are determined to entertain at all costs.

Just ask Mark Wells, singer and guitarist in the local two piece acoustic group.

With a happy-go-lucky approach to their live shows, the pair have been flat out gigging at many of the Hunter’s premier venues and entertaining at numerous private and corporate functions.

At most shows, the pair will happily do impromptu requests of any song.

It’s become a feature of a typical Mark Wells Duo gig which has seen on-the-spot renditions of songs as far out as Britney Spears’ Baby One More Time, The Wiggles’ Hot Potato and even Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World.

But their core show is stacked with plenty of acoustic rock.

Expect to hear a lot of tunes you know, and be ready to dance and sing-along to songs from artists like Powderfinger, Green Day and the Foo Fighters.

The Mark Wells Duo brings you a night of straight up fun.

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GRAND JUNCTION: Thursday`, Baghead Johnson; Saturday, The Pornskas; Sunday, Marshall O’Kell.

GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL: Tuesday, Open Mic GUNYAH HOTEL: Friday, Perry Carter; Saturday, Purple Hearts; Sunday, Jerome.

GWANDALAN BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Cover to Cover HALEKULANI BOWLING CLUB: Saturday, Malihini’s Over 30s Nightspot.

HAMILTON STATION HOTEL: Wednesday, Live Bands; Thursday, Madhouse DJs, Blades, Izzy n the Prophet, Kale, Tycotic, DJ Papa, Micks King, Wizla; Friday, Karaoke, Nekrology, Abacination, Gutter Tactic, Chromatide; Satuday, Karaoke, The Grounds, The Worstmn, Horse Bolted, Tax Sea Cabs; Sunday, Andrew Richmond, Noah Church,

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EDGEWORTH SPORT AND REC: Sunday, Rafael EDGEWORTH TAVERN: Friday, Leadbellies; Saturday, Ash Mountain.

ENTRANCE BOWLING CLUB: Friday, The Lovebirds; Saturday, Kuta Groove.

ENTRANCE LEAGUES CLUB: Saturday, Darren Rolling Keys.

EXCHANGE HOTEL: Friday, Incognito; Saturday, Phase III. FAMILY HOTEL, Maitland: Friday, Rob Cass and the Cosmic Cowboys.

FIVE ISLANDS REC CLUB, Speers Point: Sunday, A Touch of Country.

GATESHEAD TAVERN: Sunday, Zac and Ben. GEORGE TAVERN: Thursday, Damien; Friday, James Osborn; Saturday, Janey’s Alibi Duo.

NORTHERN STAR HOTEL: Friday, Dani Lucas.

NORTHUMBERLAND HOTEL: Saturday, Sugar.

OCEAN BEACH HOTEL: Friday, Lianna Pritchard.

OCEANVIEW HOTEL, Dudley: Friday, Izzy and Leeroy; Saturday, Brew Ha Ha; Sunday, Pappy, Keery & Jed. OLD PUB, Woy Woy: Saturday, Four to the Floor.

ORANA HOTEL: Friday, The Perpetrators; Saturday, The Jungle Kings.

PEDENS, Cessnock: Friday, Graeme Mills.

PIPPI’S AT THE POINT: Friday, Twinsanity, Pete G; Saturday, Oh Webber; Sunday, Bec Willis.

PLOUGH INN: Friday, Pete Gilchrist.

POTTERS BREWERY: Friday, Arley Black.

PRINCE OF WALES: Friday, Nick Connors; Saturday, Zane Penn; Sunday, Ben Travis.

QUEENS WHARF BREWERY: Saturday, Jason Bone; Sunday, Lianna Rose Duo.

No lounge lizards Performing commercial covers from the 60’s to todays crowd pleasers, Iguana is a versatile, professional and highly entertaining duo.

From acoustic ballads to dance floor favourites, Paul Carroll and Karyn Raferty definitely have you covered.

Carroll is a brilliant guitarist/vocalist and Raferty a talented lead singer, having performed in many successful acts but probably best known for her role as Georgie in The Curvettes.

Combined with harmonies and the sequenced backing of drums, bass and guitar, the duo is more than able to have you on the dance floor the entire night.

The art of “reading the audience” and knowing what to play comes only with years of performance experience.

Between them, Karyn and Paul have played at everything from weddings and balls to corporate dinners and New Years Eve celebrations, and in every style of venue including The Hilton, The Opera House and the local pub.

Whateveer the mood, these guys are guaranteed to please.

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REGAL HOTEL, Kurri: Saturday, Rip It Up RIVER ROYAL, Morpeth: Friday, Zane Penn.

ROYAL CROWN, Dudley: Saturday, Karaoke.

ROYAL HOTEL, Denamn: Saturday, 4 Letter Word.

ROYAL HOTEL, Singleton: Sunday, Caffine Crunch.

RUTHERFORD HOTEL: Saturday, Spank N The Monkey.

SALAMANDER SHORES: Friday, Katrina Burgoyne.

SEVEN SEAS: Thursday, Jam Night; Friday, Baby Legs Duo; Saturday, Helen and Friends Band.

SHAFT TAVERN: Friday, Defaced.

SHOAL BAY RESORT: Thursday, The Zillers; Friday, Brooke Harvey, Overload; Saturday, Rafael, The Core, Claudio Meyer,; Sunday, Phonic Duo, Todd Stewart Duo. SHORTLAND HOTEL: Friday, Damien.

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SOLDIERS POINT BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Norm Bakker; Saturday, Free Juke Box. SOUTHS LEAGUES CLUB, Merewether: Saturday, Duelling Pistols; Sunday, The Beer Nuts Duo, Open Mic Night.

STAG AND HUNTER: Friday, Gleny Rae and Her Playboys; Saturday, The Blues Bombers.

STOCKTON BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Karen Soper; Saturday, DJ Symon.

STOCKTON RSL: Friday/Saturday, Entertainment.

SUNNYSIDE TAVERN: Saturday, Dean Kyrwood; Sunday, mark Wells Duo. SWANSEA HOTEL: Thursday, Karen O’Shea; Saturday, Matt McLaren.

SWANSEA RSL: Saturday, La Bomba Duo. SWANSEA WORKERS CLUB: Saturday, Mardmax.

SYDNEY JUNCTION HOTEL: Saturday, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

TELARAH BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Nose Stress; Saturday, Free Juke Box. THE POURHOUSE, Maitland: Saturday, Tiali.

THE DEPOT ON BEAUMONT: Wednesday, Annie O’Dee and the Steel City 3; Friday, Krishna Jones; Saturday, Audie Franks.

TILLIGERRY RSL CLUB: Friday, The Piranha Brothers.

TORONTO DIGGERS: Friday, Bob Allan.

TORONTO WORKERS CLUB: Friday, Karaoke; Saturday, Solid Gold Party Night.

VUES ON THE BAY: Friday, Sam Idols; Saturday, Good Grief.

WALLARAH BAY REC CLUB: Friday, Lone Wolf; Saturday, Soul Station.

WALLSEND DIGGERS CLUB: Friday, Rock Factor; Saturday, Sundays Record.

WANGI HOTEL: Saturday, Andrew G. WANGI RSL: Friday, Peter Stefanson.

WANGI WORKERS CLUB: Saturday, Dave Live.

WARNERS AT THE BAY: Thursday, Ryan Daley; Friday, Love That Hat; Saturday, Uptown.

WARNERS BAY HOTEL: Thursday, Karaoke; Friday, DJs; Saturday, Overtone; Sunday, Hudson Arc. WESTS NEW LAMBTON PIANO LOUNGE: Wednesday, Peter Wall; Thursday, Angamus; Friday, Peter Wall; Saturday, Warren Hunter; Monday, Warren Hunter; Tuesday, Angamus.

WESTS NEW LAMBTON MARBLE BAR: Friday, Phonic Trio; Saturday, Silverhair.

WEST WALLSEND WORKERS CLUB: Friday, Karaoke; Sunday, Anthony Lee. WICKHAM PARK HOTEL: Wednesday, Wicko Jam Night; Friday, Milestones; Saturday, King Shakey, Marshall O’Kell and the Pride; Sunday, Mick N Josh, The Jungle Kings.

WINDALE-GATESHEAD BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Vegas; Saturday, Karaoke.

WINDSOR CASTLE HOTEL: Friday, Dane Fitzimmons; Saturday, Daley Holliday.

WOY WOY LEAGUES CLUB: Friday, Chris James; Saturday, Layth Gunn.

WYONG BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Gene Valance.

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JUNCTION HOTEL: Friday, Dean Kyrwood; Saturday, DJ Special K, Amos Wellings; Sunday, Sunday Assembly.

KAHIBAH SPORTS CLUB: Saturday, Glam Slam.

KENT HOTEL: Thursday, Karaoke, DJ. KING STREET HOTEL: Friday, Audiofreq, Xciita; Saturday, Other Idea; Sunday, Chip Sandwich Sunday.

KURRI BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Deborah Sinclair.

LAKESIDE VILLAGE TAVERN: Friday, Show & Tell; Saturday, The V Dubs.

LASS O’GOWRIE HOTEL: Wednesday, Creo, Dave, Model Youth; Thursday, Mark Goetz, Deanna Rose, Flower Inc, Some Chick and a Ukulele; Friday, Unfit for Human Consumption, The main Guy and the Other Guys, The Vanishing Shapes; Saturday, Nova and the Experience, White Walkers, Owen Rabbit.

LIZOTTE’S NEWCASTLE: Wednesday, Joe Dabron, Annie O’Dee, Nadine Quinn, Glam Slam; Thursday, Newcastle Academy of Music; Friday, Ray Beadle; Saturday, Toni Childs; Sunday, Harmony James, Pete Denahy, Luke O’Shea.

LOCHINVAR HOTEL: Saturday, Brooke Harvey.

LONG JETTY HOTEL: Saturday, Kristy J; Sunday, Open Mic With Casho.

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MARY ELLEN: Thursday, Brooke Harvey; Friday, Novo; Saturday, Phonic Duo. MATTARA HOTEL: Friday, Lee Rolfe; Saturday, Disco and Karaoke.

MAVERICKS ON THE BAY: Friday, Lauren Arms; Saturday, Karen Soper; Sunday, Matt McLaren.

MAYFIELD HOTEL: Thursday, Karaoke.

MJ FINNEGANS: Friday, DJs; Saturday, DJs, Misbehave.

MURRAYS BREWERY: Sunday, Norm Bakker.

NAG’S HEAD HOTEL: Saturday, Loko.

NELSON BAY BOWLING CLUB: Saturday, Brazillian Brothers.

NELSON BAY DIGGERS THE LOUNGE: Friday, Good Company; Saturday, Beccy Cole, Mickey Pye, Dr Zoom Duo; Sunday, Zane Penn.

NEWCASTLE CRUISING YACHT CLUB: Sunday, Russell Snape.

NEWCASTLE DISTRICT TENNIS CLUB: Friday, Karaoke.

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egular readers of the TE Eat Out page will no doubt recall our excitement when we first sampled the deep sea delights on offer at the then newly opened Jeremiah Jones back in January. “Perfectly-cooked chips,” “melt-in-the-mouth” calamari - they were big claims to be bandying around but even after just one taste we were confident that this fish and chippery could not be beat.

Last weekend, eight months since our initial visit, we returned to Jeremiah’s to see if the seafood we put above all others had stood the test of time.

Well, we’re happy to report that the freshness we experienced last summer was not just a honeymoon. The fish is still market fresh, the oil is still changed daily, the ingredients are still of the highest quality and the result, Jeremiah’s Jones still has the best damn fish and chips in town.

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As the buzz has grown about Jeremiah Jones, so too has the menu. On our most recent visit we taste tested one of the newest items of the menu, the classic fisherman’s basket ($15.90). A cornucopia of fresh seafood cooked to perfection think crispy prawns, impossibly tender calamari, generous portions of meaty shovelnose ray, light fillets of whiting, sprinkled with Murray River salt flakes, served on a bed of Jeremiah’s crispy, golden, chunky chips and served with a side of fresh and zesty pear and parmesan salad. Delish!

The secret of Jeremiah Jones really is about uncompromised freshness. Not only is the fish prepared fresh in-store everyday, even the tartare and aioli dipping sauces are house-made! There’s no expense or effort spared and the result is takeaway fish and chips that are beyond compare. We promise, you won’t be sharing these with the seagulls.

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s far as red letter years go, with a massive tour with James Blunt, a gold record and three National Indigenous Music Award (NIMA) nominations, 2014 will definitely be up there for Tom Busby and Jeremy Marou, aka Busby Marou.

With their brilliant 2013 long player Farewell Fitzroy still kicking some pretty serious goals around the traps, Busby Marou are hitting the road on the back of their latest single My Second Mistake.

“It has been a pretty full-on year so far,” Jeremy Marou told TE “The James Blunt tour was amazing, getting to play to such big crowds and we also managed to get a gold record for our first album [ self-titled]. It’s been a bit of a slow burn given that it’s been out for a couple of years, but it’s really not that easy to get a gold record, especially with all of the piracy going on - so we’re so chuffed with that one. It’s definitely something to show the grandkids.”

Marou said the latest single My Second Mistake - an irresistibly playful tune about fidelity, growing up, and a healthy dose of Catholic guilt - was one of his favourite tracks on Farewell Fitzroy.

“It was just one of those songs that, when we demoed it, we knew that it definitely had legs. When we recorded the album over in Nashville we were

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While there is obviously still plenty of life left in Farewell Fitzroy yet, Marou said that he and Tom were keen to start working on album number three.

“Time really has gone so quickly for us lately - it doesn’t really feel like two years since the first album,” he said.

We are definitely working on new tracks but the plan is to release another single and then head out on the road again for a bit of a duo tour and then we’ll look at recording again.

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he last time Aussie rock legend Jimmy Barnes graced the stage at Bimbadgen Winery, all 8000 tickets sold out on the first day. So, you can be pretty sure that his upcoming Hunter show to celebrate 30 years as a solo artist will be one for the ages - especially with the likes of the Living End, Baby Animals, Mahalia Barnes and the Soul Mates and Nick Barker on the bill.

“Mate, this show is going to be absolutely huge,” Living End drummer Andy Strachan told TE. “It’s been a little while for us so to be

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The Living End’s inclusion on the bill follows on from their recent collaboration with Barnes on a reworking of his classic track Lay Down Your Guns, from his upcoming 30/30 Anniversary album that also features collaborations with Little Steven Van Zandt, Tina Arena, Jon Stevens, Journey and Keith Urban.

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match it with Barnes’ powerhouse vocals.

“The guy just blows me away,” Strachan said. “We basically did the song in one take - he just rocked up to the microphone and yelled ‘g’day boys’ down the mic and we just ripped into it - we didn’t really overthink things, we just went in there and belted it out.

While the Living End have been pretty quite on the touring front this year, forgivable after two and a half years of solid touring off the back of their latest long player The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating, Strachan said that there had been talk of new material, although distance has made it a bit difficult.

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However, Strachan added that punters could expect the band to pull out all the stops at the Bimbadgen show.

“We treat playing live like a footy match - we like to start big and end bigger.”

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Country poster girl fter 20 years in the music business, Aussie country music star Beccy Cole should have enough stories to fill a book. It would make sense, then, that when TE called her to chat about her three upcoming local shows, that’s exactly what she was doing.

“I’m actually locked away in a little room finishing my book - it’s an autobiography so it’s been a testing exercise, but a very rewarding one.” Cole said the idea for the book came about after her first best-of album last year Beccy’s Big Hits. “That was definitely the start of the whole thing.

It was a really cool process going back over all those songs - like walking down memory lane, but I didn’t know whether to feel honoured or old,” she laughed.

After cutting her teeth in her mother, Carole Sturtzel’s band and busking in Tamworth with old mate Kasey Chambers, Cole burst onto the scene after winning the Star Maker contest in 1993. Since then, Cole has remained at the top of the Aussie country music tree with eight albums (three of which went gold), 13 number one singles, nine Golden Guitar awards and

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an ARIA nomination for her latest studio album, Songs and Pictures under her belt.

She has never been one to shy away from relating personal experiences in her songs and in her personal life, recently revealing that she was gay on the ABC’s Australian Story. “I honestly believe that you can’t hide your own truth and if you’re going to be honest with others you need to be honest with yourself,” she said.

“Also, it is absolutely a cathartic process performing a lot of those songs live and the telling of stories is a really strong tradition of country music and, to my mind, the best stories are the ones that are true.”

Having been part of the Australian country scene for quite some time, Cole said one of the biggest changes she has witnessed within the genre is a lessening of the stigma surrounding it. “The country sound has found its way into a lot of artists’ sound, artists like Busby Marou, Pete Murray and Kasey Chambers who may not consider themselves fully country are, in a way, pushing down the country path, which is great. to see” Catch Beccy Cole at Club Singleton on Friday, August 15, Nelson Bay Diggers on Saturday, August 16 and Belmont 16s on Sunday, August 17.

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Stickin in My Eye, Fat Mike and the boys will be sure to give their latest album Self Entitled a pretty fair workout on this tour.

Self Entitled represents a bit of a return to NOFX’s more aggressive Animal Liberation and S&M Airlines-era sound while still retaining that razor sharp melodic punk sensibility.

Having caught NOFX’s last couple of Newcastle gigs, we can honestly say that this is one show that you won’t want to miss.

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ith their sophomore long player - the sweeping The Motive of Hope - garnering them even more attention, Newcastle four-piece will be playing a special show at the Warners Bay Hotel this weekend.

It’s been a busy 12 months for Hudson Arc, with the release of the new album and a slew of touring that has seen the band take on Europe a couple of times to rapturous receptions pretty much everywhere.

Hudson Arc is the brainchild of musician/composer/producer Gareth Hudson, who comes with an impressive career behind him producing awardwinning artists including The Buddy Knox Blues Band, Amy Vee and Auriel

Andrew. He has also recorded and written arrangements for artists including The Hilltop Hoods, The Last Kinection, Briggs and The Beards. Hudson teams up with gifted string trio Ensemble Arc consisting of Tadijana Ilicic (violin), Jamie Pollock (viola) and Rachel Pogson (cello) - all classically trained and bachelor of music graduates from Newcastle Conservatorium. The band’s debut album In An Ocean of Sacrifice piqued quite a bit of interest with ABC Sydney, Melbourne and Newcastle putting it on their playlists and, if the current trend is anything to go by, they are set to go at least one better with The Motive of Hope.

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