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t’s kind of hard to believe that, since releasing their incendiary statement of intent, ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’, in 2006, the Arctic Monkeys have gone on to release four more albums – each one charting an evolution of a band not willing to be painted into one corner. Now residing stateside, it seems some of the LA living has rubbed off on the band as there is an overarching feeling of rock and roll swagger here rather than the short sharp bursts of angular stabby guitar that permeated their debut. While this isn’t the best work in their catalogue, AM could very well be the Arctic Monkey’s most consistent. Standouts include the lurching opener ‘Do I Wanna Know’ and the lead single ‘Why’d You Only Call me When You’re High’. Perhaps the biggest surprise here, though is the band’s choice to close the album with a tweaked cover of ‘I Wanna Be Yours’ by punk poet laureate John Cooper Clarke.
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fter plying his axe-slinging skills for indie rock legends You Am I for the past 14 years, as well as his side project The Pictures and for the one-off supergroup The Wrights, Davey Lane has finally stepped out on his own with a new EP, ‘The Good Borne Of Bad Tymes’ and it’s an absolute cracker – although anyone expecting a kind of neo-You Am I may be a little disappointed. Lane, who is currently gearing up for a nine-date east coast tour in support of the new release, told TE that while the EP may have been a long time coming, it had been fermenting in his mind for some time. “I’d say the gestation period was around two years,” he said. “The problem was that I really didn’t know what I was writing for. I always had a feeling that I would put something out under my own name but I just wasn’t sure what form that would take. So, anyway, I started writing and I recorded around 15 songs that I thought scrubbed up okay and then I went through the whole ‘how the f*** am I going to put this out and then I spent about 18 months culling everything down which is a bloody long time, so it’s good to finally have it out there.” Lane said the fruits of his solo labours were more than enough for an album but he said the songs sat in two, quite distinct, styles and would lend
themselves better to separate EPs. “There was a lot of the more straightup guitar pop – you know, the jangly guitar stuff that people might expect from me and then there was the other, more synth-driven songs which are what forms the basis of this EP.” Case in point is the EP’s barnstorming single ‘You’re The Cops, I’m The Crime’ complete with thick hip-hop drums
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a great freedom recording the EP,” he said. “The thing about it was that no one really had any idea that I was doing anything on my own so there wasn’t really any weight of expectation placed on me. I guess I was able to fly under the radar.” Catch Davey Lane when he plays at the Great Northern Hotel on Friday, September 27.
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f you have been thinking that Newcastle-based singer-songwriter Allon Silove has been a little quiet on the recording front of late, you may be right, but he certainly has a good excuse. Silove, who released his debut long player – the refreshingly eclectic roots/ fusion of ‘Small Steps’ in 2011, told TE that while he had been planning a follow up, it seemed as though the universe had other plans. “2011 went really well for me with the release of the album but 2012 rolled around and my wife and I tried to get pregnant a couple of times, unsuccessfully, through IVF,” he said. “Anyway, it finally worked, but my wife got really sick and I basically had to become her full-time carer. Thankfully, though everything worked out and we are now both really proud parents. This all happened right when I was starting production on the new album, so obviously things have been put on the backburner.” Silove, who aside from his solo output has made quite a name for himself in such bands as Chi and The Agents of Peace, said he was champing at the bit to get things back on track now that things have settled down on the home front, and plans to kick things off with a show at Lizotte’s that he said would be a much fuller realisation of his musical vision. “Much of my material is just me, my guitar and a stompbox but it was always my intention to have a much larger sound, so I’m bringing a massive band with me for the Lizotte’s show,” he said. “On drums, I have the amazing Canadian Thom Reid who has become kind of the go-to jazz drummer in Newcastle, my very good mate Ben Gain, who I’ve played more gigs with that I can remember, will be on electric guitar, David Javier, who brings a really refreshing Latin style, will be playing bass, Jason Tyler who was Zoe K’s right hand man will be playing keyboards and the wonderful Natasha Rusteroltz will be providing some vocals – it’s a very formidable line-up and they have got me very excited. “It’s also my first time fronting a band since high school basically so yes, I am sh**ing my self a little bit but it’s also very exciting.” Catch Allon when he plays at Lizotte’s, Lambton on Wednesday, September 18. Tickets are $10 and table bookings are essential. To book, call the venue on 9984 9933.
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half of next year. The tour, dubbed the ‘Trilogy Concert’ will essentially be a chronicling of the Dragon story told in three parts – the young years (19731979), the glory years (1982-1998) and the phoenix years (2006-onward). “It’s all still very new to me but very exciting,” Williams said. “It’s going to be brilliant to be able to look at the evolution of Dragon in that way.” Catch Dragon when they bring their ‘Sunshine to Rain’ tour to Lizotte’s Lambton on Friday, September 27.
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ith their debut self-titled long player going great guns, Sydney-based indie/world popsters Jinja Safari are about to hit the road on their largest tour yet. A 16-date behemoth, the ‘Bay of Fires’ tour will take the effervescent five-piece right around the country and keyboard player Cameron ‘Pepa’ Knight told TE the band were pulling out all the stops. “Yeah man, we’re really looking forward to it,” the affable Knight said. “It’s the biggest tour we’ve ever done so you guys can definitely expect 110 per cent effort. We’ve got some friends from Sydney who are amazing visual artists and they have created some projections for us which look fantastic. We’ll also be playing a bunch of songs off the new album, too so everything will feel really fresh.” Across their two EPs – ‘Jinja Safari’ and ‘Mermaids & Other Sirens’, Jinja Safari created an intoxicating and refreshing sound with a palpable world music influence – a sound that could be
likened to a uniquely Antipodean Vampire Weekend with gentle nods to the likes of Peter Gabriel and Sufjan Stevens. Knight said while the band had always been strongly influenced by world music, he felt a little like an outsider as he had never experienced the cultures that spawned his far-flung influences. So Knight and vocalist Marcus Azon jetted off to Northern India and Uganda (home to the town that inspired the band’s name) respectively and Knight said those musical journeys were the focus of influence on the record. “We’ve always been inspired by world music but, I guess, I felt a little bit silly playing afro pop without having actually seen those cultures first hand,” he said. “Marcus wrote all of the lyrics and a lot of the songs came from his travels in Uganda and while I was in India, I tried to hang out with the local musos as much as possible and just being able to sit down with these guys and get a feel for the rhythms and stuff, was just a phenomenal experience”. Catch Jinja Safari when they bring their ‘Bay of Fires’ tour to the Cambridge Hotel on Friday, September 20.
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t’s pretty much a free kick that, no matter how surreptitious or sneaky, a 12-foot ninja would be pretty hard to ignore. It should come as no surprise, then, that Melbourne outfit Twelve Foot Ninja would name themselves thusly – especially is you have heard their debut long-playing slab of intricate prog rock heaviness, ‘Silent Machine’. Despite the album kicking around for a while now, it continues to do great business for Twelve Foot Ninja who are heading out on the road again, after selling out all capital city shows on their first headline tour earlier this year, to try and satiate their fans’ unquenchable thirst for all things Twelve Foot Ninja. “It’s just been awesome, we really couldn’t have asked for a better result,” guitarist Steve “Stevic” Mackay said of the album’s reception. “It’s been a really steady growth and it seems as though there may still be some life in the album yet, which is just great. Always a band willing to think outside the box, Twelve Foot Ninja came up with the novel idea of releasing each song individually with an accompanying comic that was inspired by the lyrics. “In the current music industry climate, albums are
a constant source of debate – are they worthwhile etc,” Mackay said “My philosophy is that you do need full lengths to survive the industry but to attract new fans I really think single songs are where it’s at. It’s all about holding the audience’s attention outside of the music and I’ve always loved the comic book genre and it all revolves around a novella I wrote with my partner all about the Twelve Foot Ninja so it fit in nicely.” This ‘outside-the-box’ attitude extends past their recorded work with the band recently breaking records with a crowdfunding campaign to fund their latest video for a yet-to-be-named song. The band managed a phenomenal $50,000 in pledges and Mackay said this could be due to some of the more unusual rewards on offer. “Yeah the video campaign was awesome $50,000 should allow us to make a pretty sick video,” he said. “Now we’re just in post production, putting some special effects on there and sprinkling some fairy dust on it to make it look even sicker. “But yeah, some of the rewards were pretty out there like, for example, one of the things I have to do on tour is wear a beret and paint people’s portraits while Rohan [Hayes, guitar] serenades them on the guitar – it’s going to be pretty special.” Catch Twelve Foot Ninja at the Small Ballroom on Thursday, September 19.
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s someone who grew up in Newcastle’s western outskirts I can recall many childhood trips to the Wallsend Library, then situated on the corner of Cowper Street and Murnin Street, to pick up books for primary school projects or to hire out the latest literary adventure from Emily Eyefinger. As it happens, until this past weekend, that was the last time I had set foot in the building that now houses Heng Loong Restaurant. After many years of driving past Heng Loong and wondering how someone ever managed to magic a library into a restaurant, as I walked through the door for the first time on Friday night I was immediately taken aback by the high standard of the interior. The floating ceiling in the dining area is dotted with red lanterns and you feel as though you are dining under a Chinese pagoda – the lighting is soft and inviting. We are shown to our seat by the friendly wait staff and ordered up a few starters – prawn toast for me and spring rolls for my partner. The prawn toast, a personal
favourite of mine, was thick and crispy with a generous coating of nutty sesame seeds while the house-made spring rolls were crunchy on the outside and full of tasty piping hot veggies – bundles of yum and the perfect start to our feast. After our entrees, a steaming, sizzling plate of Mongolian lamb arrived on our table, drawing looks of ‘menu envy’ from diners at neighbouring tables. That was until the couple next to us decided on a plate of chicken satay which is served up flaming! It certainly seems as though restaurant owners Winnie and Eddie are bringing the theatre and spectacle back into dining. While my partner devoured his impossibly tender Mongolian lamb, I indulged in a very generous, sweet, sticky serve of rainbow beef, creatively served in an edible deep fried potato basket. We finished the night with a deep fried banana fritter, on the strong recommendation of our waitress (she was dead right!), and fresh and fragrant lychees served with ice cream, all topped off with a pot of traditional Chinese oolong tea. We leave Heng Loong with very full bellies and a new favourite Chinese restaurant. For delicious Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Malay cuisine, you couldn’t possibly go anywhere else.
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John Fisher from Fishbone to produce their funk and ska-infused (at a time before skacore was even a thing) ‘The Best of Times’ album. Through countless line-up changes, the one constant in the band is frontman Jimmy Gestapo. Always the life of the party, Gestapo has a reputation for making sure every punter has a damn good time. At a recent gig in NYC, a wag at Spin.com reported that “someone brought a bucket of beers onstage which Jimmy Gestapo distributed to the front row, along with shots of Jaeger.” Game fanciers might also recognise Gestapo from the smash hit game Grand Theft Auto IV where he played the DJ of Liberty City Hardcore radio. Catch Murphy’s Law when they bring their brand of mayhem to the Cambridge Hotel on Sunday, September 22.
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