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Get set for the Jets After three years away from stages, Aussie rock behemoth The Screaming Jets are back and what better way to celebrate than with three Newcastle shows? Stephen Bisset caught up with irrepressible frontman Dave Gleeson to chat about new beginnings.

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Animal House Thursday, 9.20pm • Seven Two Directed by John Landis (‘An American Werewolf in London’) this riotous comedy could arguably be John Belushi’s finest moment outside of ‘The Blues Brothers’ and is still as hilarious after more than 30 years.

Chock-a-block full of undergraduate humour, ‘Animal House’ still stands as the king of risqué comedies from the late 70s and early 80s that includes the likes of ‘Porky’s’ and ‘Caddyshack’. After watching Belushi’s brilliant turn, you’ll see where Jack Black gets most of his comedic juice.

If you’re a fan of 80s pop, then you are going to be in hog heaven when one of the queens of the genre, Belinda Carlisle, hits Sydney alongside homegrown heroes 1927.

Carlisle’s rise to fame began when she stepped onstage with The Go Gos in 1978 who went on to record a swag of hits such as ‘Our Lips are Sealed’ and ‘We Got the Beat’ before disbanding in 1985.

Unbroken, Carlisle embarked on a hugely successful solo career and her second album, ‘Heaven on Earth’ produced the world-wide smash ‘Heaven is a Place on Earth.’

The hits kept coming on the following album 1989’s “Runaway Horses” a top 10 album and featured the hit songs “Leave a Light On” and “Summer Rain”. Belinda continued to produce hits including the 1996 classic “In Too Deep” showing that she has longevity in the pop music scene. The concert will feature a collection of her biggest and best hits and songs from the past and present.

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Directed by Aussie scare-meister James Wan, who scared the pants off everyone with ‘Saw’, ‘The

Nickleback are an interesting phenomenon. They are obviously huge across the globe, yet this reviewer still has trouble finding anyone who will admit to liking Chad Kroeger (the Paddle Pop lion of moderate rock) and co.

Regardless, people obviously think enough of them for their record company to deem them worthy of a greatest hits set and if you’re a fan of their middle-of-theroad stylings then this should keep you satisfied. All of the major Nickleback food groups are represented here with such chart slayers as ‘Photograph’, ‘Rockstar’, ‘How You Remind Me’ and ‘Lullaby’ all getting an airing, making this the perfect starting point for anyone interested in finding out more about Nickleback, but for this reviewer it was just 19 tracks that are coloured in different shades of beige.

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Conjuring’ could arguably be best horror film of the last five years. ‘The Conjuring’ has everything you'd want in a scarefest - a blissfully ignorant family, a dilapidated farm house, ghost cops and pure evilWhile it doesn’t live up to ‘Amityville Horror’ or other paranormal classics, Wan has managed to pack oodles of tension, atmosphere and genuine scares into the script.

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IDPwD is unique among community awareness days, as it unites disability organisations, businesses, federal, state

and local governments and the community. The day is a collaborative effort to celebrate and acknowledge the experience and expertise of people with disability.

IDPwD is an opportunity to: celebrate the contributions people with disability make every day to their communities; make a positive contribution to the lives of 4 million of Australians with disability. IDPwD celebrations also incorporate the National Disability Awards.

The overarching UN theme for IDPwD in 2013 is: Break barriers and open doors: to realise an inclusive society for all! The former Minister for Disability Reform, Jenny Macklin, and the former Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Carers, Amanda Rishworth have announced the 2013 International Day of People with Disability Patron – Professor Ron McCallum AO.

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ustralia’s 2015 Asian Cup has formed a strategic alliance with the Special Olympics 2013 Asia Pacific Games to celebrate Newcastle’s involvement as a host city for both events. The partnership was sealed at a friendly mini-match involving two Newcastle Jets A-League players and Special Olympics footballers at Hunter Stadium on Thursday.

The Hunter Stadium is the venue for the opening ceremony on December 1 of the first ever Special Olympics Asia Pacific Games (SOAPG) for athletes with an intellectual disability.

It will also host four matches, including a semi-final and the third-fourth place playoff, at the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, the biggest football tournament ever staged in Australia.

The Asian Cup/Special Olympics alliance will involve both organisations in a knowledge sharing agreement.

Member for Newcastle, Tim Owen said: “The news that Australia’s 2015 Asian Cup

has formed a strategic alliance with the Special Olympics 2013 Asia Pacific Games comes as great news for Newcastle and NSW, which is hosting both events,” Mr Owen said. “The 2015 Asian Cup will be the biggest football tournament ever staged in Australia. This alliance between the Asian Cup and the Special Olympics will involve both organisations in a knowledge-sharing agreement, which will offer significant mutual benefits.”

NSW Minister for Tourism and Major Events, George Souris said: “The NSW Government, through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW, is proud to support the Special Olympics 2013 Asia Pacific Games, which is expected to bring an economic impact of over $8 million to the region.

“I commend the Asian Cup/Special Olympics alliance on its collaborative focus in sharing knowledge as well as working to achieve beneficial outcomes for all involved. The alliance will provide a major boost for both events.”

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“Mate, it has been unreal,” and enthusiastic Jets frontman, Dave Gleeson, told TE. “The first show back was in Caloundra and it was a real festival type crowd which was a great way to get back into it. We’ve also sold out shows at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne and the Metro in Sydney and one Cambo one [Thursday Dec 12], which is just brilliant.”

For Gleeson, though, having the opportunity to wrap up the tour in the band’s hometown was just the icing on the cake.

“Back in the good old days, we played something like 26 shows in the front bar and we really learnt who we were as a band in there. We have such a long history with the venue and it kind of feels a bit like coming full circle to be playing there again."

Since forming from the ashes of Newcastle band Aspect in 1989, the Screaming Jets

Screaming Jets Cambridge Hotel Thu 12, Fri 13 & Sat 14 December have been at the very top of the Aussie rock and roll tree. With such well-crafted tracks as ‘Better’, ‘Helping Hand’ and ‘Sad Song’, the Jets essentially

picked up the pub rock mantle laid down by the likes of the Angels (which Gleeson now fronts) and Cold Chisel.

Gleeson said it was the bands attitude

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and tenacity (not to mention one of the most formidable stage presences on the circuit), just as much as their inherent ability to write great songs, that has seen the band stand the test of time.

“We were a very working class band and I guess, in some respects, we thought we were a lot tougher than we actually were,” he laughed.

“I think a lot of that had to do with coming from Newcastle. When regular Joe Public and record companies found out where we were from they were like “oh right, Newcastle,” like there was an aura about the city, and we definitely played up to that.

“Also, the start and heart of the Jets is the songwriting – both Grant [Walmsley] and Paul [Woseen] are brilliant songwriters and while Grant isn’t with the band anymore, I’ve got complete faith in Paul as a songwriter.”

While this tour will essentially be a greatest hits run – a teaser for an extensive 25th anniversary tour planned for next year, Gleeson reiterated that the Jets were still very much a going concern with a new album planned for next year.

“Yeah, we’re going to be recording in the new year, so there’s still plenty of life in the Jets yet.”

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there’s little denying that Newcastle/Blue Mountains country rock duo McAlister Kemp are a force to be reckoned with.

After a triumphant appearance at this year’s CMC Rocks the Hunter, the boys caught the eye of American country juggernaut Big and Rich who invited the duo to Nashville where they started writing for their highly anticipated follow-up to ‘Country Proud’, ‘Harder To Tame’.

So impressed were Big and Rich by the boys songs and high-energy show, that they drove the duo over four state lines and invited them to sing their anthemic ‘Country Proud’ to a 30,000-strong crowd at the Country Thunder Festival in Wisconsin.

“We started off the year with a couple of Golden Guitar nominations and things have just been getting better from there,” Troy Kemp told TE. “We’ve also spent a fair part of the year working on our new album – we were over in Nashville in April writing for the album, so we ended up writing some in Nashville and some back home – we ended up with about 70 or 80 songs that we had to whittle back down to 10. We went over again in June working on it with producer Justin Moore who, if you know anything about country, is a pretty big deal. We really wanted to work with a top-level Nash-

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Untamable country ville producer to see how we could push our sound with a really super slick production and I have to say that I’m really excited about the result.”

If the rousing, titular single is anything to go by, ‘Harder To Tame’ is almost guaranteed to push McAlister Kemp even further into the stratosphere and while Kemp said that there tends to be a bit of a stigma in Australia about the rockier side of country , he added that they were proud to be a part

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of an evolving Aussie sound.

“It’s a very hard-working blue-collar American-esque party-country sound, I guess,” Kemp said. “There does tend to be a bit of a backlash in Australia, you know, people saying “you guys aren’t country", but we are definitely part of a new and evolving country sound.We have the upmost respect for the Slim Dustys and John Williamsons - we know and respect the roots of Australian country but for us it’s about a much more upbeat and rockier vibe.”

The band will be playing their final show for the year at Wests this weekend and Kemp said that punters could expect one hell of a show.

“There will be plenty of hands in the air, for sure,” he laughed. “We’re also going to be shooting a video for our next single at Wests, so if you fancy getting in a video, come on down.”

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he good folks at LoungeRoom entertainment are gearing up for their final secret show of the year, and with bewitching singer-songwriter Jenny Biddle at the helm, it’s sure to be an absolute doozy. The intense and somewhat complex style of her music touches upon many issues that affect us all. She describes herself as “Missy Higgins meets The Waifs, with some mesmarising guitar voyages thrown in.”

Destined to walk a musical path

JENNY BIDDLE KAHAIBAH THURSDAY 5 DEC from a young age, a brief encounter with the ukulele at age four lit Biddle’s obsession. More recently, her latest single ‘Hindsight’ hit number nine on the iTunes songwriters charts and she has also held the prestigious title of Melbourne’s Best Busker 2010-2012 along with the people’s choice award at the Tamworth Country Music Festival Busking Championship in 2012. Along with the secret show, Biddle will also be presenting a free songwriting workshop while in Newcastle, with details to be announced.

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“After ‘First Temple’, it was a really hard and strange time and the recording process for the new album was marred by various oppressive forces and I found myself doubting if the thing would even see the f***ing light of day which just compounded the anxiety of it all. But, to finally see the light at the end of the tunnel is just awesome. It just feels so nice that the machine is all greased and we’re almost ready to unleash it on the world.

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f you’re planning on heading out to the Small Ballroom to see Melbourne-born psych rockers Closure In Moscow, you’d better be prepared to have your mind blown if frontman Christopher deCinque has anything to do with it.

“Yeah, man it’s going to be one hell of a nutty, acid-soaked, orgasmic experience,” he told TE. The band are currently riding high on the back of their latest and brilliantly swirling single ‘The Church of the Technochrist’ from their highly anticipated sophomore album ‘Pink Lemonade’ which is due to drop in February next year.

After creating much hubbub with their debut EP, ‘The Penance and the Patience’ the band relocated to the US to record their debut LP, ‘First Temple’ in 2009 and deCinque said that while it may have been a long time between drinks for the band – the wait will be definitely worth it.

“The major chance stylistically with this album is that after we recorded ‘First Temple’ we recruited a new rhythm section which has opened our sound up heaps more, and this album [Pink Lemonade] was mostly tracked live which I think comes across pretty well on the single,” he said.

DeCinque added that the difficult second album tag definitely applied to ‘Pink

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BELMONT 16s: Wednesday, Joey Fimmano, Milton Ward; Friday, The Rockin Eddie Band; Saturday, Rodney Rude, Talk of the Town.

BELMORE HOTEL: Friday, Paul Robert Burton Duo; Saturday, Aussie Made Radio.

BELMONT BOWLING CLUB: Friday, John Noble.

BELMONT HOTEL: Sunday, Jamie Martens.

BERESFIELD BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Solid Gold Party; Saturday, The Years.

BLACKBUTT HOTEL: Friday, Quaan; Saturday, Viagro.

BRADFORD HOTEL: Friday, HR Duo; Saturday, Loose Bazooka.

BREAKERS COUNTRY CLUB: Friday, Tim Pringle; Saturday, Adam Toole.

BUDGEWOI SOCCER CLUB: Saturday, Whiskey River; Sunday, The Party Mode.

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CARDIFF RSL: Friday, Oz Rock Experience; Saturday, Karaoke.

CATHO PUB: Sunday, The V Dubs.

CAVES BEACHSIDE HOTEL: Friday, True Lies; Saturday, Nightwing.

CENTRAL HOTEL, Stroud: Saturday, Montezuma.

CESSNOCK LEAGUES CLUB: Friday, Black Bird Blue; Saturday, Dr Love.

CHARLESTOWN BOWLING CLUB: Friday, The Levymen; Saturday, Pete Hibbert.

CLARENDON HOTEL: Friday, Howard Shearman; Saturday, Tony White.

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EAST CESSNOCK BOWLING CLUB: Saturday, Allstar.

EAST MAITLAND BOWLING CLUB: Friday, GenR8; Saturday, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot; Sunday, Damien.

EDGEWORTH BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Rip It Up; Sunday, Mardy Leith.

EDGEWORTH TAVERN: Friday, Hellbent; Saturday, Defaced.

ENTRANCE BOWLING CLUB: Friday, The 3 Ps; Saturday, Tell Billy.

ENTRANCE LEAGUES CLUB: Friday/Saturday, Entertainment.

EXCHANGE HOTEL: Thursday, Sundays Record; Friday, Grand Theft Audio; Saturday, Misbhave.

FAMILY HOTEL, Maitland: Friday, Reg Sinclair.

FIVE ISLANDS REC CLUB, Speers Point: Friday, Pistol Pete; Sunday, Adam Rice.

GATESHEAD TAVERN: Thursday, Idol Motion, Friday, The Flicks; Sunday, Caffine Crunch.

GEORGE TAVERN: Saturday, Crawford Brothers.

GOSFORD RSL: Friday, Tell Billy; Saturday, Vinyl; Sunday, Bob Allan, Budi Bone.

GRAND HOTEL: Tuesday, Jazz.

GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL: Saturday, Mar Haze.

GRETA WORKERS CLUB: Friday, Live Entertainment.

GUNYAH HOTEL: Friday, Aaron Bolton; Saturday, Purple Hearts; Sunday, Gen X. GWANDALAN BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Rave On Duo. HALEKULANI BOWLING CLUB: Saturday, Malihinis Over 30s Nightspot.

HAMILTON STATION HOTEL: Wednesday, Epics, Tired Minds, Hurt Unit, Deadtown Nothings; Thursday, Timberwolfe, Jade Wright; Friday, Karaoke, Allay The Sea, Blind Oracle, Double Chamber, The Blackened Beneath; Saturday, Karaoke, Soul Station feat Edy Brock, NCL, Electric Elements, Calski, Lefta Centa, Dawn Laird, Limit Infinity; Sunday, Mark Wood. plus DJ's Wizla, Mad Man, Begzy HARRIGANS IRISH PUB, Pokolbin: Sunday, Twinsanity.

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HOTEL DELANY: Wednesday, Matt Meler; Friday, Jon-T, AdzDrumz, Rubicon; Saturday, The Urge.

HOTEL JESMOND: Friday, Hey Poncho; Saturday, Kit and Kaboodle.

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KURRI BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Cover 2 Cover; Saturday, Mick Freeman.

LAKE MACQUARIE TAVERN: Saturday, Live Ebtertainment.

LAKE MACQUARIE YACHT CLUB: Sunday, Karen Soper.

LAKESIDE VILLAGE TAVERN: Friday, DJ Ricky; Saturday, End of Days.

LASS O’GOWRIE HOTEL: Wednesday, Dave, Huskarl, White Walkers; Thursday, Black Tie Turkey Lounge feat Loose Lucy, Madd Matt and Flower LIZOTTE’S NEWCASTLE: Wednesday, Elena Williams, Horenco, Matt Bradford, Southerly Change; Thursday, Fleetwood Mac Tribute; Friday, The Idea of North Christmas Show; Saturday, Troy Cassar Daley, Ashleigh Dallas; Sunday, Jim Keys and Russell Morris.

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MARY ELLEN: Thursday, Kylie Jane; Friday, Love That Hat; Saturday, Hey Poncho; Sunday, Mick Jones.

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NELSON BAY DIGGERS THE LOUNGE: Friday, The Big Bang; Saturday, Twinsanity.

NORTHERN STAR HOTEL: Friday, John Larder; Saturday, Simon Reynolds School of Music, jam Jar. OCEAN BEACH HOTEL: Friday, Dave Live.

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OLD PUB, Woy Woy: Saturday, Tres Hombres.

ORANA HOTEL: Friday, The Party; Saturday, The V Dubs.

PEDENS, Cessnock: Friday, Lennie Live; Saturday, Vinyl Blackout.

PIPPI’S AT THE POINT: Friday, Brendan Murphy, HP Duo; Saturday, Affinity; Sunday, Kylie Jane.

PLOUGH INN: Friday, Allon.

POTTERS BREWERY: Friday, Matt McLaren.

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QUEENS WHARF BREWERY: Wednesday, Ultamaidam Crew; Friday, Oh Webber; Saturday, Ryde, James Paul, DJ Patsan; Sunday, Phonic Duo. RACECOURSE HOTEL: Friday, Steve Werren.

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REGAL HUNTER HOTEL: Saturday, Michael Mills.

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ROYAL HOTEL, Singleton: Sunday, Brazillian Brothers.

ROYAL INN, Waratah: Friday, Phil McKnight; Saturday, Phonic Duo. ROYAL MOTOR YACHT CLUB: Friday, Kate Keighran; Sunday, Hummdinger.

RUTHERFORD HOTEL: Saturday, Zane Penn Duo. SALAMANDER SHORES: Friday, Greg Bryce.

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SEABREEZE HOTEL: Saturday, Lennie and Carter SEVEN SEAS: Friday, Marriah; Saturday, Hugh Gordon; Sunday, Nick Raschke Duo. SHAFT TAVERN: Saturday, Jungle Kings.

SHENANIGANS, Maitland: Friday, Karaoke; Saturday, Solid Gold Party.

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The band members’ varied individual influences are well represented in their live cover sets, ranging from John Butler Trio to Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson to The Living End and The Romantics to The Beatles. Sundays Record have a swag of gigs in Newcastle under their collective belt, with many high profile local and touring acts.

WALLARAH BAY REC CLUB: Friday, Red Sweat; Saturday, U2 Tribute.

WALLSEND DIGGERS CLUB: Friday, Moonlight Drive; Saturday, Alotta Classix.

WANGI HOTEL: Sunday, Mick Ashman.

WANGI WORKERS CLUB: Friday, Gary Davidson; Saturday, John Jay. WARNERS AT THE BAY: Thursday, Karaoke; Friday, Incognito Band; Saturday, Love That Hat. WARNERS BAY HOTEL: Thursday, Misbehave; Friday, DJs; Saturday, Juicy Fruit; Sunday, Paul Nickerson.

WESTON WORKERS CLUB: Saturday, DJ Brian Bean, Rave On. WESTS NEW LAMBTON PIANO LOUNGE: Wednesday, Frank Wakewood; Thursday, Angamus; Friday, Warren Hunter; Saturday, Stuart Hamilton; Monday, Chris Hanley; Tuesday, Warren Hunter.

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WINDSOR CASTLE HOTEL: Friday, Damien; Saturday, The Gaudreys.

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Tall tales and true

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fter years of plying his trade with such local outfits as The Funbusters, Mark Wells, Special Branch, Loonatic Fringe and Bob

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Corbett’s Roo Grass Band, as well as the likes of Ian Moss and Moving Pictures, omnipotent Newcastle muso Dave Carter is finally stepping out on his own with his first solo album ‘Ten Tall Tales’.

“It definitely has been a long time coming,” Carter told TE. “I’ve been playing around the traps for a really long time now and I have played on so many other people’s albums I thought it was high time that I did one of my own.”

That’s not to say that this was a spur of the moment decision as he said the album had been a labour of love for years.

“The idea was formulated, I guess, around 15 years ago but I’d start working on it and then get side-tracked by other projects or just life in general.

“Then the actual recording was pretty long as well – it was around 18 months from when I first walked into the studio.”

Carter enlisted the services of frequent collaborator and mate Robbie Long to produce the album and he said the intuitiveness fostered between the pair over

Dave Carter Croatian Club Sun 1 Dec the years proved invaluable.

“Yeah, it was great working with Robbie – there were times where we would only have to look at each other and he’d get what I wanted,” he said.

“It was also good because we got to learn different creative sides to each other.”

For Carter, it was his father who first infected him withthe muso bug .

“My dad played in bands and I

used to go along to shows as a kid in my dressing gown and slippers,” he laughed.

“There was one night I was sitting in the band room at the side of the stage and he asked me if I wanted to play Johnny B Goode with the band.

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wings with their latest single ‘Big Things Calling’ – a tubthumping little number that has one foot in trad territory and one firmly in neo-indie-folk land along with some of the lushest harmonies heard this year.

The band, made up of siblings Camilla, Christi, Eileen and Lear Hodgkins and James Chandler, is currently win the middle of their ‘Dressing Up, Shaking Down’ tour and Camilla Hodgkins told TE that Novocastrian punters could expect a bit more than your average pub gig when they hit town – as the name of the tour might suggest.

“Yeah, we’re so excited – there have been some really radical costumes busted out by some of us on this tour and we are encouraging people to dress up and come along,” she said.

Originally from Perch Creek on the NSW North Coast, The Perch Creek Family Jugband began life a street jug band led by

The Perch Creek Family Jugband Small Ballroom Fri 29 NOV their eccentric father, Bob Hodgkins.

“It’s been going for a very long time,’ Hodgkins said.

“Dad and I were playing, with some of his adult friends, around the Perch Creek area and then my brother Lear started learning the drums and everything just kind of fell into place – Dad never really forced us into the band or anything.

“It is interesting playing in a band with your relatives but I’d have to say that overall it’s a blessing. I mean, we have our moments just like any other family but so far, life on the road for us has been great.”

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A fork in the road

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ith his previous outfit, the multi-platinum post-emo outfit Dashboard Confessional going on indefinite hiatus, frontman Chris Carrabba is keeping his toe well and truly in the musical waters with his folksy-esque outfit Twin Forks.

Following the recent announcement that the band would be joining Canada’s City and Colur on a few shows on their Australian tour, news of Twin Forks headline shows couldn’t have come soon enough.

In recording his first collection of songs as Twin Forks, Carabba harnessed the acoustic sprit Dashboard Confessional

and channelled it through the rootsy classic folk sounds of his childhood. He pulled together some fiends – Suzie Zeldin on mandolin, Jonathon Clark on bass and Ben Homola on drums to create a sound that balances their punk and altrock backgrounds with music of a more traditional bent.

“At the beginning of Dashboard, I wanted to write an acoustic record, but every time I played a D,C, or G chord - which are called the 'cowboy chords' - I would think about how Tom Petty or Cat Stevens or John Denver or Gordon Lightfoot did this already," Carrabba said. "That's when I started tuning my guitars all to hell and back, just so they sounded weird to me. I was probably playing DCG anyway, but I didn't know anything about guitar, and that was how I could get myself feeling like I was in new territory."

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Homegrown acts Cornstalk, Alex Bowen, Peta Evans Taylor and Let the Number Be X peppered the nominations list, across a variety of categories.

Roots-rockers Cornstalk snagged three nominations in the rock, alternative and video categories for their songs ‘Shut My Door’, ‘Great Love’ and ‘Traveln’ Song’ respectively. Singer songwriter Alex Bowen was recognised in the blues and roots category for his song ‘Wait For Me’ and in the acoustic singer-songwriter

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category for ‘Goldless’ while Peta Evans Taylor picked up a whopping six nominations – one in the alternative category for ‘Strike Out’ which also snared a nomination in the video category, one in the live category for ‘Slow’, one in pop for ‘Artificial Happiness’ and two in the rock category for ‘Drive’ and ‘The Darkness’.

Electronic/metal genre benders Let The Number Be X found themselves nominated in the dance/electronica category for their track ‘Simon Says’ and in the metal/hardcore category for ‘Trigger Me Happy’.

While there were no winners on the night, just to see so many Novocastrian nominations shows that t there’s a heck of a lot of independent talent in this town.

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f ever you needed proof that Newcastle is a seething hotbed of musical talent, then you need look no further than the nominations list for the recent 2013 Australian Independent Music Awards.

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