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ver since forming seminal Australian outfit Hunters and Collectors in 1981, Mark Seymour has joined the upper echelon of Australia’s finest modern songwriters alongside the likes of Paul Kelly and Don Walker. His prolific and evocative storytelling has extended beyond the realm of Hunters and Collectors (who disbanded in 1998) with six solo studio and two live albums and two with his latest outfit, Mark Seymour and the Undertow. For his latest effort with the Undertow – ‘Seventh Heaven Club’, Seymour’s songwriting has taken a back seat to a catalogue of eclectic artists such as Neil Young, The National, Lucinda Williams, Robbie Robertson, Dave Dobbyn, The Pogues and Jackson Browne. Essentially a concept album revolving around love, don’t expect Seymour to be choosing simplistic “I love you baby” pop songs, either, as he said he wanted to explore all aspects of amour – the good and the bad. “The main criteria for selecting songs for this album, at the beginning, was the lyrics,” Seymour told TE. “For me it was about the willingness of the writer to convey their own frailty through their songs, as songs about love are some of the hardest you’ll ever write.”
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fantastic songwriter. It was earmarked to put in with a bunch of new songs and then it was put to me that if I was going to do that, why not do Lorelei [The Pogues], as I had ben playing that one in my live shows for quite a while, and the whole thing just snowballed from there. “Being a musician for as long as I have, I’ve listened to a hell of a lot of music so a lot of it was about trawling
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rying to classify US guitarist and composer Kaki King is like trying to find a piece of hay in a massive stack full of needles. Across her impressive six albums and three EPs, King has moved deftly from adventurous instrumental flourishes to touches of post-rock and indie and back again, nary missing a beat. Anyone who has seen or heard this guitar virtuoso in action will be well aware of her formidable talent on the fretboard and fearlessness when tackling disparate genres. King is currently riding high on the back of her latest album, ‘Glow’ which marks a return to her instrumental roots and can’t wait to get to Australia to give people another taste of the album (King was last here at the end of 2012 when she played at the Peats Ridge Festival). “You guys have some of the best audiences in the world,” she said. King said that her latest album was completed in a surprisingly short amount of time and the inclusion of New York string quartet Ethel was the main inspiration behind eschewing the vocals in favour of the music. Catch Kaki King when she plays at Lizotte’s Lambton on Sunday, May 26.
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fter wowing both pundits and punters alike with their beautifully lilting sophomore album, ‘Earnest’, alt.country outfit The Stillsons are set to release album number three and, if the lead single ‘Break and Keel’ is anything to go by, it’s going to be a cracker. The song is the first single to be written and sung by drummer Cat Canteri and she told TE that the band were quite chuffed to have the song in the ether. “Yeah we’re all pretty stoked with the result – we’re really quite proud of the track,” she said. Canteri said the song was a teaser of what people could expect from the album – a similar alt. country vibe (with refreshing flourishes of roosty folk) but tempered with a much rockier edge – something that was a side-effect of the amount of regional touring the band has done.
“I’d say, because of all the regional touring, the new songs are much more reflective of that,” she said. “Audiences in those areas tend to want to get up and dance so as a result this album has a much more rockier edge than ‘Earnest’ and [first album] ‘Circus’. “A lot of the songs on the album had crept into the set while we were on tour promoting ‘Earnest’, so by the time we got around to recording, all of the stuff had been pretty well tried and tested on the road.” While Canteri said the band were both humbled with the reception ‘Earnest’ received (ABC Australia, DIG, Gold Coast, Bendigo and Radio Adelaide album of the week and Best of the Week in the Sydney Morning Herald) they felt little or no pressure to replicate earlier successes with the third album. “For us it’s more of a case of just getting in there and doing what feels right,” she said. Catch The Stillsons when they play at The Grand Junction Hotel on Sunday, May 26.
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fter discovering a gift to reveal the future and communicate with the spirit world as a child, Newcastle’s Mitchell Coombes has parlayed his talents into quite a successful career. With regular appearances on Channel Seven’s ‘Sunrise’ and ‘The Morning Show’, a weekly column in ‘That’s Life’ magazine and two best-selling books in ‘Sensing Spirit’ and ‘Sensing Psychic’, Coombes, the 2011 Australian psychic of the year, has become one of Australia’s best-known seers. Coombes will be bringing his show, ‘An Evening With Mitchell Coombes’, to Wests this week and he said the show would be similar in format to that of US medium John Edward and he will be passing on messages from audience members’ departed loved ones. “I would say that I’m almost like a switchboard operator to the other side,” he said. “I’ll be getting messages from people’s departed siblings, children, parents, friends and, yes, sometimes even people’s pets come through.” Catch ‘An Evening With Mitchell Coombes’ at Wests Lambton on Friday May 24.
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just phenomenal. I’m just getting used to living out of a suitcase.” Martin, who was a member of Team Keith on series one of the juggernaut show, said given that he was already a working musician, he initially resisted the idea of auditioning for the show, but a run of bad luck with management spurred the burgeoning talent to throw his hat into the ring. “I was a bit hesitant at first because you hear all of these horror stories about reality TV shows being nothing more than a factory,” he said. “I already had a pretty good reputation building up around Melbourne but I kind of hit a brick wall with some bad management that led to all sorts of court drama – I was basically prevented from doing anything musical for two years so I was working like four jobs to pay off legal fees. Anyway, I ended up winning the case and around that time ‘The Voice’ came around and I figured that it was a great opportunity, a kind of last ditch effort to be heard.” Martin, who made it to episode 13 of the show, said what he had learned during his time on set was immeasurable. “There were so many things – it’s hard to name them all,” he said. “The best advice I got from Keith [Urban] was probably ‘be yourself and stay true to who you are’. “Keith is just such a down to earth person – he’s got this mammoth career and you’d think there would be some airs about him but not at all. The main thing I guess I learned was that you can have a career and still have your feet on the ground.” Martin’s debut single, a collaboration between him and Evermore’s Jon Hume, is in the vein of a big, classic rock ballad which he said made Hume the perfect choice for the collaboration. Catch Adam Martin when he opens for Evermore at the Cambridge Hotel on Thursday, May 30.
ancy seeing one of Australia’s best country-comedy performers? Fancy seeing him for free? Sawtell’s own Backyard Balladeer, Errol Gray, is heading back to the Pelican RSL Club by popular demand, bringing with him a slew of hilarious songs that are bound to have you in stitches. Described by People Magazine as a combination of true-blue Australian performers John Williamson and Kevin Bloody Wilson (but not quite as rude), Gray’s chuckle-worthy
tunes cover everything from Government bureaucracy to living with the kids of Generation Y. Showing no signs that he’s running short on comedic material, Gray released his fifth record, ‘Footloose and Fancy Free’, in March this year. It features 14 new tracks, including ‘That’s What Pops Do,’ the sequel to the popular, ‘They Wonder Why You Drink.’ Catch Errol Gray at his free show at Pelican RSL Club on Saturday, June 1 at 7:30pm.
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likes of punk and reggae didn’t happen, something that the Dennis Boys are all too aware of – creating a musical gumbo of everything the band has been influenced by. The result is a crop of solid, earthy songs – as evidenced on their killer debut long player ‘No Story To Tell’ – but with a huge variety in rhythmic feels and sophisticated chord changes. You could be the most avid hater of country music on the planet and still find something worthwhile in a Dennis Boys set. The band is made up of Dennis siblings Leah (vocals), Lyle (guitar and vocals), Erle (bass, vocals, harmonica), Shane (vocals, guitar) and close family friend, Dave Bourke, looking after the drumming duties. Catch the Dennis Boys Band when they play at the Lass O’Gowrie on Saturday, May 25 alongside Catherine Traicos and Dave Wells, or it’s just a hop skip and jump up to Maitland where they’ll play at the Grand Junction Hotel on Friday, March 24.
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