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The sound of Australia

Stephen Bisset caught up with Mark ‘Cal’ Callaghan, vocalist and guitarist of iconic Aussie pop-rockers GANGgajang to chat about hitting the road again after the tragic loss of bass player Chris Bailey.

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Cape Fear Thursday, 8.30pm • 7 Two Thanks to some masterful direction from Martin Scorsese and brilliant performances from Robert De Niro and Nick Nolte, this remake at least stands on par with the classic 1962 original starring Robert Mitchum.The story centres around small town-lawyer Sam Bowden (Nolte) who, fourteen years prior, put away psychotic, bible-quoting rapist, Max Cady (De Niro) after concealing a document that could have gotten Cady acquitted. Now, Cady has been released and is bent on teaching Bowden and his family a lesson.

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De La Soul Saturday, December 28 • Metro Theatre

history of hip-hop culture and makes a refreshing change from all of the empty “street filibustering” from the likes of Kanye, Jay-Z et al.

It’s been four years since the trio visited Oz, on their massive 20th anniversary tour, but they are set to rectify that with a massive show at the Metro this month. If you can’s bust a move to ‘A Rollerskating Jam Named “Saturdays”’, then you probably aren’t human.

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Upon its release in 1989, De La Soul’s iconic debut album ‘3 Feet High and Rising’ was hailed as the saviour of hip-hop. With its colourful, neopsychedelic collage of samples and styles, plus a clever turn of phrase, the album sounded like nothing else in hip-hop. Even now, the album still stands as a groundbreaking statement in the

The World’s End Out Now The comedic team of writers/actors Nick Frost and Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright are back

with the third instalment of their “Cornetto Trilogy” and this mad-cap sci-fi adventure is definitely up there with the hilarity of “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz”. Pegg stars as Gary King – a middle-aged manchild who convinces his mates to revisit a pub crawl they attempted years ago. Typically they are beset by all sides by an alien robot invasion. Silly and hillaious.

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With Christmas just around the corner, it’s probably not the best time to be casting a critical eye over the eleventh album from Florida’s greatest blasphemers, but all that Satanic cahootery aside, this album is a thundering triumph.

Glen Benton and co have rarely sounded more vicious than they do here, thanks in no small part to the production skills of Jason Suecof (The Black Dahlia Murder, Death Angel, Atheist). The same unrelenting rhythm section, shrieking riffing and gut wrenching growls from Mr Benton are still the band’s stock in trade but it seems as though things may’ve ramped up a notch. Standouts include ‘Between the Flesh and the Void’ and ‘Even the Gods Can Bleed’.

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Thankfully, for the band’s many fans they are hitting the road again – including a Newcastle show, for the first time since Bailey’s death and frontman Mark ‘Cal’ Callaghan (pictured) told TE that he expected a bittersweet affair.

“It’s been quite a while between drinks for us in Newcastle – it’s a great town and eit’s always been good to us,” he said.

“It is going to be weird, though with Chris not being there.

“He really was the core of the whole GANGgajang thing and not just on the music side of things. He really was the glue that held the band together. Also, his playing was just incredible” Callaghan added that Bailey (who also lent his considerable talent to the The

GANGgajang Lizotte’s Lambton Thu 19 Dec Angels and many others), before his death, insisted to each member that the band continue and to that end, the band have recruited Rebecca Johnson into the fold.

“One thing that Chris made known is that he wanted the band to keep going and so we’ve got Rebecca Johnson in to play bass and, at this stage, we haven’t actually met but she is a

phenomenal bass player with her own band and she has also played with people like Ian Moss and Richard Clapton so she’s no slouch. It’s funny because I know Chris would have said that we should get Rebecca in because she is better-looking than him,” he laughed.

Perhaps best known for their paean to Australia, ‘The Sounds of Then’, Callaghan said he had no idea that the song would become an Australian cultural touchstone.

“Often the way it works, for me at least, is that I’ll write a song thinking it’s the best thing ever, get really precious about it and then go and record it and be disappointed with the result,” he said.

“But it was the opposite with ‘Sounds of Then’. It was always a track we played in the middle of the set – it never really stood out – but then we recorded it and it took on a life of it’s own that none of us ever saw coming.”

So, with the band hitting the road again, can we expect GANGgajang to hit the studio any time soon?

“Well, we have lots of songs as I’ve never really stopped writing,” he said.

“We have definitely talked about a new recording and we will road test a couple of new ones on these shows, but we’ll just take it one step at a time.”

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hen iconic Australian pop-rockers GANGgajang lost their founding bass player, Chris Bailey, to throat cancer earlier this year, it seemed as though it might be stumps for the band that brought us the “unofficial” Australian anthem, The Sounds of Then (This Is Australia).

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he last time Newcastle-based singer songwriter Kristy James graced these pages, her debut single, the tubthumping country rocker ‘Overdrive’ was pricking up more than its fair share of ears.

space when you do record, you are kind of more willing to express yourself differently or offer creative input.”

Since first stepping onstage at the tender age of 11 and cutting her burgeoning musical teeth at the Steel City Country Music Club every Tuesday, James has taken to the life of a singer songwriter with gusto and has been an artist who is happy to do things on her own terms – as evidenced on the EP’s title track which James describes as “a song that says you are who you are ultimately because of you”.

“For me, songwriting is about my own real life experiences or maybe me stealing some of my friends real life experiences,’ she laughed.

“I’m not the kind of songwriter who can walk down the street, see a tree, and suddenly be inspired, so yeah, a lot of my songs are very personal and the title track definitely falls into that category.”

Aside from the critical plaudits the album has been getting, James said she was heartenedby the response to her pozible.com campaign to get the EP funded with pledges going over and above the amount needed.

“It really was a difficult task getting the campaign together but it was just brilliant to see so many people get behind the project and support it.

"It was a lot of hard work but worth it."

‘Nobody’s Gonna Make Me’ is available now through iTunes or at kristyjames. com.

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Now, it looks as though that momentum is continuing with James’ first EP, ‘Nobody’s Gonna Make Me’ debuting at an impressive number 12 on the iTunes country charts before shooting up to the number two spot, just behind Taylor Swift.

“I’m just so stoked – I never thought I’d see anything I’d done up there with the likes of Taylor Swift. It’s just amazing,” she told TE. After listening to the five tracks of beautifully produced neo-country, it’s not hard to see why people are catching onto James at a rate of knots.

As with ‘Overdrive’, James teamed up with producer Simon Johnson (Adam Harvey, Travis Collins) and she said the relationship the pair had forged during the recording of ‘Overdrive’ proved invaluable to the creative continuity of ‘Nobody’s Gonna Make Me’ “I think having Simon on board again helped with the creative process no end," she said.

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t seems as music wags are heaping such hyperbolic praise as “my new favourite artist” or “an indie masterpiece” to every second artist.

However, after just one listen to

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Armidale-bred songwriter Dustin Tebbutt’s layered and intricate debut EP, ‘The Breach’, it becomes obvious what the wags were talking about. The EP, spearheaded by a mesmarising title track, is a meditation on the appeal of hibernation and the notion of life in the winter, and Tebbutt holed up for the better part of two years in Sweden to realise his creative vision.

“The location was a fundamental influence to everything that ended up on ‘The Breach’ – the landscape and the completely altered sense of time,” he told TE. “I found that I was inside a lot and doing small life things which really changes your perception of nearly everything.”

Tebbutt, who returned to Australia to mix the album in his home studio said that he nearly didn’t release the EP at all.

“At one point, after I’d finished it, I thought that it had served its purpose and I wasn’t going to release it, but I guess I just became intrigued with the process of releasing something. It was quite cathartic in that once it was released, it was like a scene from a space movie where the astronaut is cut form the pod and starts drifting into space – that’s how I felt about the EP. It’s out there now in the ether and people can put their own interpretations on it and those different interpretations kind of force me to look at the songs in a different way.”

It seems as though it was the right decision to unleash the EP as the eponymous single has received high-rotation airplay on Triple J, BBC1 in the UK and a number of US college stations while the EP hit the top 10 on the iTunes album chart. Tebbutt, who has just come off an extensive national run with Boy and Bear, said while the prospect of taking the songs tor a live setting was a little daunting , he said he is getting over the initial jitters.

“The first show of the whole project was about three months ago and it was so nerve wracking,” he said. “But I was well and truly thrown in the deep end with the Boy and Bear tour."

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ith craft beer halls popping up across Newcastle at an alarming rate, it was only a matter of time until some bright spark decided to merge fine food with the fine liquid.

A relative newcomer to the Darby Street eat-scene, the Hop Factory is where that spark comes to life.

With 16 craft beers on tap, as well as a selection of ciders, Belgian brews and other speciality beers, there is plenty to keep even the keenest aficionado of the amber fluid satisfied – and with a sizeable locally focused wine list, wine lovers will feel right at home too.

But it’s the food that makes the Hop Factory stand out from the increasingly fecund Newcastle craft beer scene.

Unlike most restaurants, where the wine list is matched to the food, the Hop Factory seems to use the reverse philosophy, designing the menu to compliment the beer.

Full of sumptuous cuts of meat, seafood, cheese, and pasta-goodness – it’s a hedonistic carb-loaded affair with barely a salad in sight.

Sipping on a Batlow Cloudy Apple Cider, at the recommendation of the chef I feasted on hefty potion of beef eye fillet charred and coated with an indulgent café de Paris butter sauce and topped with a king prawn. Cooked to perfection, this surf and turf with fancy twist really hit the spot.

Even my normally wine drinking dining partner couldn’t escape the craft beer pull, opting to wash down her delicious soft cheese stuffed chicken dish with a glass of 4 Pines American Style Pale Ale, haling from Manly on Sydney’s Northern Beaches – a beverage that spurred the remark, “I think I could become a beer drinker!”

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ou might have noticed that Newcastle post-hardcore powerhouse I Am The Agent have been conspicuously absent from stages of late.

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However, don’t go thinking that the four piece is resting on its laurels. “Yeah at the moment we are laying a little low as we’re in the middle of writing our debut album which we’re expecting to have out early next year,” bass player Jason Breen told TE. Breen said the band handed over production control to Newcastle producer

Geoff Mullard at RTN Studios for the album which gave the band the chance to further develop their sound in the studio.

“We’ve taken a bit of a different approach with the album in that with the EPs [Volume One, Volume Two and Volume Three] Michael [Gale, vocals] and Daniel [Lambert, guitar] took on the production role, and for the album we’re recording with Geoff at RTN and he’s got a really good ear for all kinds of sonic weirdness." Anyone who has seen I Am The Agent would know that they are one of the most committed and kinetic Newcastle bands at the moment and Breen said one of the main focuses of ‘stay Drunk’ was to capture that live energy in the studio.

“We went into the album thinking that we really wanted to capture that live vibe, considering that we didn’t really get it on the first three volumes, so it will be a very live sounding album.

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38 Pint-sized riffing too special these days, what sets Corpse Harvest apart is the age of the members.

Singer (or battle roars and wood chopping according to their bio) 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.

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ou might have noticed that after rave reviews of the sold-out season of his show ‘Todd McKenny Sings Peter Allen’ there were so many requests for encore performances that McKenny juts had to say yes and now he is bringing the show to the Hunter region.

Just like the first go-around, the show promises to be a celebration of the songs and life of Peter Allen in a high-energy, vibrant and entertaining night that showcases McKenny’s formidable talents.

McKenny first caught the performance bug when he slipped on his dancing shoes at the tender age of three. However, it wasn’t until he landed the role of Peter Allen in the classic stage show ‘The Boy From Oz’ 14 years ago that he found his true passion.

McKenny became a household name after taking on the role of iconic Aussie performer Peter Allen in the original 1998 production of the 'Boy from Oz'.

Now he’s set to reprise that role with a bit of a twist. He’s the all singing, can dance, Aussie stage sensation with a wonderful acerbic wit and irreverent sense of humour. He’s as fit as he’s ever been and matches Allen’s own amazing energy through out the show.

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nyone who caught even a sniff of the Newcastle music scene in the 80s and 90s would know what a huge presence UJ Neill was. Best known as the frontman of the iconic cover band The Funbusters, Neill attained cult status as the clown prince of Newcastle.

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Sadly, Neill passed away earlier this year, but in memory of one of Newcastle’s most-loved larrikins, close friends of Neill are holding the ‘UJ Neill Fun Family Benefit Buster’ (with proceeds to UJs family) at the Cambridge tomorrow night. Casey Raschke, who was an integral part of the Funbusters family as the ubiquitous “games hostess” Nurse Casey said the night would be an upbeat celebration of Neill’s rambunctious spirit. “The bill will include various bands featuring former Funbusters members including Loonatic Fringe, Punkfish, Love Experience and the show will be topped off with an all-star Funbusters jam session.”

Anyone who caught a Funbusters set would know that they would often turn into quite debaucherous affairs thanks to Neill’s rollicking sense of humour and

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‘UJ Neill Fun Family Benefit Buster’ Cambridge Hotel THU 5 DEC the array of games overseen by Nurse Casey. “UJ had a knack for turning one liners into ten liners,” she laughed. “He had such a quick wit and an ability to connect with people and there were some sets where the boys were lucky to play three songs. He was such an icon and it's a shame that we don’t have anything like UJ in Newcastle any more.

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“It’s just a lifestyle thing for me,” the Blue Mountains based songwriter told TE. “The East Coast of Australia, for example, is just an awesome stretch to play – you can just park the van at the beach and take each day as it comes. It can be tiring, but the pros definitely outweigh the cons.”

Hay, who has been plying his genre defining trade (he shifts from roots to blues to hard rock to funk almost effortlessly) since releasing his debut album ‘Kiss The Sky’ in 2007 (with subsequent albums ‘Deep Fried Satisfied’ in 2007 and ‘I Love Hate You’ in 2012), is unique in the blues/roots scene in that he takes the DIY concept a step further by making all of his own equipment such as “Betty” a double-necked guitar made out of an old kitchen bench-top or his latest creation the “Cigar Box” guitar that started life as

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a six dollar baking tin. “I think I was pulling apart guitars before I was able to play them,’ he laughed.

“I have always been interested in electronics and it allows me to create vastly different sounds that you couldn’t get from a traditional guitar.

“Nothing is off limits though – I was in the post office the other day and I saw these Christmas-themed biscuit tins and the first thing I thought was “now, they would make a fine guitar.”

While he is often lumped in the blues and roots genre, Hay’s latest album ‘I Love Hate You’ a paean to everything the singer both loves and hates, has a decidedly rockier edge. For Hay, it was a stadium rock show at a very early age that spurred hm to a life on the road.

“I was in about second grade and me, my sister and two friends snuck out of the house to see Kiss at the Sydney Cricket Ground,” he said. “We were so little we easily slipped past the security guards and as soon as I heard them playing ‘Cold Gin’, I was instantly hooked.”

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Since debuting at number one on the ARIA chart in July with their third album ‘Asymmetry’, Karnivool have been hard at it. Now a major international draw, they’ve already appeared at a string of major European festivals this year in-

cluding Sonisphere France (80, 000 people), Download UK (130, 000 people) and Hurricane Germany (60, 000 people).

Karnivool are currently in the middle of their second European tour, concluding with a sold out London show and recording a coveted Radio One Rock session at the legendary Maida Vale Studios in the UK – not bad for five guys from Perth.

After sold out shows in Australia, last month Dead Letter Circus grabbed their round the world tickets and headlined Krank’d Up Festival in South Africa, toured the UK and Europe on a co-headline run with Monuments, played Euroblast Festival in Germany, and are now in California on their North American tour with Periphery.

Catck Karnivool and Dead Letter Circus at Newcastle Panthers on Thursday, January 16. Tickets are available now at karnivool.com.au/tour. Get in now.

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The online public vote created a shortlist of 50 bands before a panel of music industry experts selected three winners for each festival and the Triple M Music Jury selected the fourth winner.

Benjalu frontman Ben Gumbleton said winning the competition was a dream come true.

“The band is overwhelmed with the love and support they have received from fans in the headspace competition,” he said.

The Big Day out will be on at Sydney Showgrounds on January 26.

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hearty congratulations are in order for Newcastle-based outfit Benjalu who, after going head to head with nearly 500 bands across the country to win a place on the new headspace stage at next year’s Sydney big Day Out. Benjalu was chosen a one of four bands to play the iconic festival as part of headspace’s (an organisation devoted to promoting mental health amoung Australia’s 12 to 25-year-olds) Big Day Out Competition which attracted more than 25,000 votes.

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ne of the world’s most recognised and most performed pieces of music, ‘Messiah’, will be presented by the Christ Church Cathedral Choir and Christ Church Camerata this weekend, just in time for Christmas.

‘Messiah’, directed by the Cathedral’s organist and Master of the Choristers, Peter Guy, was a sell-out in front of more than 600 people when it was performed two years ago.

“Few people realise the exceptionally high quality of performers and musicians that we have within the Christ Church Cathedral Choir and the Christ Church Camerata,” Mr Guy said. “ Christ Church Cathedral is the only regional Cathedral that has a choir that is the calibre of those in Sydney and Melbourne and Christ Church Camerata is arguably one of the finest Cathedral ensembles within the country.”

Messiah was composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel and contained a scriptural text written by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible and from the Psalms included with the Book of Common Prayer.

“Handel’s ‘Messiah’ is one of the greatest choral compositions ever composed,” Mr Guy said.

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‘Messiah’ Christ Church Cathedral SUN 8 Dec to the genius of the composer and his setting of the text. The ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ is perhaps one of the most instantly recognisable choral works of all time but ‘Messiah’ also includes some of the most beautiful solo arias and choruses of the repertoire. It really is the genius of Handel in full flight.”

‘Messiah’ will be performed at Christ Church Cathedral on Sunday, December 8 from 2pm. Tickets are $30 for adults, $25 concession, $15 for students or $80 for a family ticket and can be purchased at newcastlecathedral.org.au

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