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f it’s a non-stop action-packed thrill ride that you’re after, then this edge-of-your-seat thriller from director Antoine Fuqua (‘Training Day’, ‘Shooter’) should be right up your alley. Gerard Butler stars as a disgraced former presidential guard – in a very John McLane-esque turn – who finds himself trapped inside the White House (code-name Olympus) after it is captured by an unrelenting terrorist mastermind. Much like ‘Die Hard’, US national security is shown to be inept and incapable to respond, relying on solely on Butler’s inside knowledge to help retake the White House and save the president. Butler seems completely at home as the laconic tough guy and his commanding presence is a major drawcard. Another is the excellent supporting cast, including Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett and Dylan McDermot.
hile Nine Inch Nails’ proto-industrial sound tended to grate (with a few exceptions) on this reviewer’s ears, this, their first studio album since 2008’s disappointing ‘The Slip’, throws in a few surprises that show that there has been a fair amount of growing up happening in camp NIN of late. There is no doubt that this is a markedly different band that released their 1994 classic ‘The Downward Spiral’. Gone is the brooding musical nihilism in favour of lashings of funk and a much lighter electro-pop sound that owes more to the likes of Depeche Mode than to Al Jourgensen. Standouts include the haunting ‘Find My Way’ and ‘Copy of A’ and ‘Came Back Haunted’ – two of the rockiest tracks on the album that harken back to heavier times. This is a meticulously crafted album with some mind-blowing production and could arguably be the strongest body of work Trent Reznor has produced.
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he Civic Theatre is set to explode in a cornucopia of colourful costumes, music and jaw-dropping dancing from some of the greatest in the world when the Imperial Russian Ballet bring their ‘Festival of Russian Ballet’ to Newcastle next weekend. While previously impressing Australian audiences with sold-out performances of ‘Swan Lake’, ‘The Nutcracker’ and ‘Sleeping Beauty’, company artistic director Gediminas Taranda told TE this production could just be their most ambitious yet. “This program is very full,” he said. “It’s almost three hours of non-stop dancing and if you like contemporary, no problem. If you like traditional, no problem – we’ve got enough choreography here to make everyone happy.” He isn’t kidding, either. Act one will be dedicated to one of Tchaikovsky’s most enduring works, ‘The Nutcracker’, before all of the dark and brooding drama of Ravel’s ‘Bolero’ takes us through Act two. The third act will feature highlights from some of the greatest ballets ever staged, including ‘Giselle’, ‘Carmen’ and ‘Le Corsaire’ as well as, as Taranda explained, a few surprises. “Yes, we are going to be doing some special choreography for the Melbourne Cup – we Russians love the Melbourne Cup and it is such a special celebration
for Australia, so we will have special choreography for Ladies Day and the race, so it will be special. There will also be some French can can – something for all.”
Certainly no stranger to the stage, Teranda was, for thirteen years, the lead soloist in the iconic Bolshoi Ballet, during a time when the government
placed heavy controls on the nation’s dancers for fear that they were potential defectors. He said that when the policy of Peristroika (or restructuring) was adopted by Mikhail Gorbachev, essentially bringing about an end to the Cold War, Russia’s proud ballet tradition, surprisingly, suffered. “It is very interesting because the story of ballet in my country is 265 years old,” he said. “Many, many Russian people go to the ballet and then, around 25 years ago, when Peristroika came, it made it very hard for ballet because dancers and teachers left the country. Now, it’s very nice. Many Russian teachers have come back.” Teranda, who started the Imperial Russian Ballet 15 years ago after leaving the Bolshoi, said that while he left the iconic company to pursue freedom (during the Bolshoi period, Teranda was unable to go out after 10pm, watch political films or gather in groups of five or more), he is unsure if this is actually the case. “After the Bolshoi, it was very hard. “I though to myself, ‘If I do my company then I will have the freedom’, but now I have come to realise that this is not freedom – I have more than 45 dancers to look after, I must organise theatres and decoration – this is not freedom,” he laughed. The Imperial Russian Ballet Company’s ‘Festival of Russian Ballet’ will be on at the Civic Theatre on Sunday, September 15.
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he good folks at Lounge Room Entertainment are back with another secret show and this time they are offering up some brilliantly evocative indie folk, in the form of Tasmanian-born singer songwriter Christopher Coleman and Sydney chanteuse Zoe Elliott. Fresh off the back of his beautifully lilting and lyrically vivid EP ‘Burnt Black Wood’ and a recent 25-date tour of the UK, Coleman told TE that punters could expect quite an intimate affair at the upcoming secret show. “It’s going to be a solo show – just me and a guitar so it should be quite intimate,” he said. There is also a strong sense of intimacy on ‘Burnt Black Wood’ and Coleman said the choice of recording location helped immeasurably in achieving this aesthetic.
“Yeah, I recorded it at home – I was living in the Tasmanian bush at the top of a mountain and I just set up a little studio and hopped to it,” he said. “It was also really nice to be able to just roll out of bed and go and record vocal tracks whenever I wanted.” Coleman, who cites the likes of great storytellers Leonard Cohen and Paul Kelly as major influences, is certainly no stranger to the road, having toured the UK, France, the US and Canada (not to mention countless km’s clocked up on Aussie roads) and he said he just couldn’t imagine life any other way. “There are quite a few travel themes that pop up in my writing,” he said. “I guess I just feel more comfortable on the road than off it – the nomadic lifestyle really appeals to me. Christopher Coleman and Zoe Elliot will be performing, somewhere in Kahibah, on Friday, September 20. For more information on the location closer to the event, contact Sara on 0419 636 867.
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here’s little doubt that Newcastle muso Pistol Pete – or Peter Pihlak to the taxman – knows how to entertain an audience. Since 1989, he has been plying his trade in pubs and clubs around the country, sharing stages with the likes of The McCormack Bros, Tommy Emmanuel and Trisha Yearwood and the more avid gig watchers among you may have spotted Pistol Pete slinging a guitar for Newcastle trio, After Hours. To say that a Pistol Pete show is eclectic is an understatement. This guys plays an all killer, no filler set brimming with crowd pleasers from the 50s right through to today’s chart toppers. Think the likes of Eagle Eye Cherry, Australian Crawl, Pearl Jam, Bill Haley and Jason Mraz. Catch Pistol Pete when he plays at Salamander shores on Friday, September 6.
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here is no denying that Cloud Control have come a hell of a long way since their humble beginnings in the Blue Mountains after meeting at rehearsals for a production of ‘Pirates of Penzance’. Now based permanently in the UK, Cloud Control first hit the indie rock stratosphere with their critically acclaimed debut album ‘Bliss Release’ (a slab that won them the 2010 AMP Music Prize, and spawned such tracks as ‘Gold Canary’ and ‘There’s Nothing In The Water We Can’t Fight’). Staving off the pressure of the “difficult second album”, Cloud Control, arguably, went one better with their latest release, ‘Dream Cave’ – complete with lashings of dream psych and 80s electro. The band are currently back in their homeland to promote the album and frontman Alister Wright told TE that punters could expect a well-oiled machine when the band takes to the stage, having just finished a solid block of overseas touring. “We have literally just got back from seven days over in the States so we’ve had plenty of opportunity to get the songs to a point where they are as good as they need to be onstage,” he laughed. Written and recorded predominantly in London and France, ‘Dream Cave’ was produced by uber-producer Barny Barnicott (Stereophonics, Kasabian,
Placebo, Alberta Cross) and Wright said the album’s strength came from a willingness not to repeat themselves. “The whole thing took about nine months and about halfway through we found we were struggling to finish some of the songs, so we went a way and spent some time polishing them up on the acoustic,” he said. “I think that because we did that, we were able to be more flexible when we were recording. We wanted something really direct and with heaps of tone, and Barny was just brilliant at that, and we also had this mantra of ‘no rules, no rules’. “Also, I think confidence played a big part – the only way a song gets up in our band is if we’re all excited about it. I remember having conversations with the label where they were saying things like, ‘Where’s the summer song?’, but we weren’t interested in pushing ourselves to write the single or anything like that.” While Cloud Control’s star has shot even higher in this country since their departure, the ever-humble Wright was more concerned with what he sees as a resurgence in the Australian music scene. “Man, things are going mental in Australia at the moment,” he said “There are just so many great bands getting around and plenty of people seem to be keen to go and check them out. Also, I heard the other day that Triple J is the most popular radio station in Perth and that is just awesome.” Catch Cloud Control at the Bar on the Hill on Wednesday, September 11.
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hile he is certainly no stranger to Australian stages, anarchic Irish comedian Jason Byrne was conspicuously absent from this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival – something he plans to rectify when he hits our shores again with his new show, ‘Special Eye’. “Yeah, I can’t wait to get back there to see you guys – I’m in Edinburgh at the moment and the weather is really bad, like, all of the time here,” Byrne told TE. “I was gutted that I wasn’t able to come down this year but I was filming my sit-com for the BBC. I ended up saying, ‘Can’t I just go down and play a couple of cities?’ I really love it. Coming to Australia is really like a busman’s holiday for me.” Best known for his gloriously unhinged stand-up, Byrne said that the sit-com, ‘Father Figure’ (which he also wrote), would tackle a different kind of mayhem. “You see, I’m also a stay-at-home-dad so I’ve got years of experience in that area,” he said. “The show is about me giving up my job and trying to deal with the kids and obviously all my plans and schemes fall into complete and utter chaos – it’s all a bit f***ing mental.”
Anyone that has seen Byrne in full flight will be well aware that he is not afraid to jump down into the audience and make punters a central part of his act. While Byrne said that this approach has not backfired on him yet, there have been some pretty close calls. “I wouldn’t say backfired, but the first time I was in Australia, I was at the Gala for the Comedy Festival and I brought a guy up onstage and made him get inside a cardboard box,” he explained. “Anyway I was pulling the box along and I ended up hitting the guy, quite hard, on the head with my mic. Luckily everything worked out for the best.” With Australia having a long tradition of welcoming and warming to Irish funny men and women, just what is it about the humour from the Emerald Isle that resonates so well with Aussie audiences? “The British,” Byrne said succinctly. “Both Australians and the Irish are great storytellers and have a bit of a rebellious streak in them, thanks to the British. “Also, I guarantee you that you could walk up to any Australian and they would have a funny story to tell you. “The British tend not to have funny stories and, if they do, I can guarantee that they first heard it from an Australian an Irishman or a Scotsman.” Catch Jason Byrne at the Civic Theatre on Saturday, September 21.
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espite being a self-confessed “hopeless romantic”, Melbourne-via-LA-via-Londonvia-Sydney singer songwriter Aimee Francis’s latest single, ‘Loser’s Game’, takes a decidedly cynical stance on the subject of amour. “Usually when I’m writing, I tend to focus on personal experience,” Francis told TE. “So, this time around I decided to challenge myself and write about what I see in the world and being such a hopeless romantic writing a song that says ‘maybe love is not all green grass and fairy tales’ was quite a challenge.” Francis has certainly crammed a considerable amount into her 23 years such as opening for the likes of Pat Benatar and Steel Panther and plying her brooding rock stylings (think an Antipodean Joan Jett) in venues like The Viper Room and The Whisky a Go Go. “So I left school after year 10 as I wasn’t the most academically-minded person and then I went to music college,” she said. “I started gigging around Melbourne when I was 15, and by 16 I was picked up by management and by the time I was 18,
I was living in Los Angeles, had recorded an album and was living the high-life. “Anyway, it turned out that I was getting pretty severely burnt by my management over there – you know, a lot of manipulation and stuff, so I came back to Australia, got a job and saved and saved then went over to California, came back, moved to London and then moved to Sydney where I’m now based. It has been a pretty crazy ride.” Francis said that while she did experience the less-than-rosy side of the biz while in LA, she said she wouldn’t change a thing as those experiences have made her the artist she is today. “Yeah, I’d say that LA shaped me, not only as an artist but also shaped me from head to toe as a person,” she said. “I was very vulnerable at the time and just went along with pretty much everything – I mean I was told to get braces so I did, I was told to lose 30kgs or LA wouldn’t be the place for me – stuff like that. It has taken me a few years to work out who I am and now, I’m a completely self-managed artist and I feel that there is really nothing stopping me, so I’m really excited about the future.” Catch Aimee Francis at a lunchtime show at the University of Newcastle before she backs up at the Cambridge on Wednesday, September 18.
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Josh Groban and Westlife), first came to prominence after being invited to be a featured singer as part of Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison’s Blues and Soul Revue – a gig that lasted six years, saw Kennedy travel the globe and perform alongside such heavy hitters as Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. With his star well and truly on the rise after the stint with Van Morrison, Kennedy has been able to parlay that success into a formidable career that has seen him release 10 albums, snag a gig as a vocal coach on series one of ‘The Voice Ireland’ as well as representing his country in the iconic European singing competition, ‘Eurovision’. Catch Brian Kennedy when he plays at Lizotte’s on Tuesday, September 10.
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‘Emily Eyefinger’ is the story of a gifted young girl accepting her differences and finding peace within herself. Born with an extraordinary gift – an eye at the end of her finger – Emily struggles with being different but also discovers that with her third eye she can solve mysteries, see around corners, rescue friends and catch dangerous criminals. As she ponders her unique gift, Emily’s best friend, Malcolm, Great Aunt Olympia and other friends embark on their biggest journey yet – to discover the mystery of the Tomb of Tutenkamouse. Suitable for young people aged between 4 and 10, ‘Emily Eyefinger’ is 55 minutes of pure
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