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TE caught up with PETE WENTZ from US rockers FALL OUT BOY who will be making their inaugural festival run at next year’s Soundwave on the back of their freshly minted and totally epic single Centuries

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GREASE Friday, 9pm • Prime What’s not to like about this all-singing, all dancing walk down the memory lane of 50s teenagehood? From Travolta and Newton John to a killer soundtrack, the Pink Ladies and surprisingly astute social commentary. The songs, including Hopelessly Devoted to You, Greased Lightning and Rizzo’s heart-wrenching There Are Worse Things I Could Do are worth a viewing alone - regardless of the chemistry exuded from Travolta and Newton John.

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Out Now

ARETHA FRANKLIN SINGS THE GREAT DIVA CLASSICS Out Now

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It might seem strange that one of the greatest female voices and well respected ‘divas’ in the history of popular music would release this album with none of her classics included, but after she rips into the first bar of the Etta James classic At Last you’ll find yourself saying ‘who the hell cares’.

Honestly, at 72 years of age, Aretha still has the best pipes in the business and what she is able to do to a song, without resorting to all of the hollow vocal gymnastics that is de rigueur with the likes of Beyonce, is just astounding.

From the James classic, Aretha moves onto such fare as Adele’s Rolling in the Deep, Alicia Keys’ No One and Streisand’s People but for my money, the standout here is her take on the Gladys Knight and the Pips classic Midnight Train to Georgia.

If ever there was a time when it was legitimately okay to go “insane in the membrane”, it would have to be when Cypress Hill hit town. Cypress Hill have continually pushed musical boundaries since their inception in the early 90’s. The release of their self-titled debut album in 1991 sold over two million copies and established them as one of rap’s most potent groups. Subsequent albums, featuring such gamechangers as I Ain’t Goin Out Like That, How I Could Just Kill A Man and Hits from the Bong sent them well and truly into the hip hop stratosphere.

The original South Gate trio of B-Real, Sen Dog and producer, DJ Muggs have reunited to work on a new album slated for a spring 2015 release. It’s the first time in ten years that the original trio is back together in the studio and their sound is even more psychedelic and booming than ever.

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If apes, in particular intelligent apes vying to become the earths dominant species, are your bag, then this film was probably made with you in mind.

Se ten years after the first instalment, Rise tells the story of a growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar who are threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth’s dominant species.

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A massive “fingers crossed” are in order for Newcastle venues The Kent Hotel (pictured) and the CBD Hotel who are in the running for a combined nine awards at the upcoming AHA NSW Awards for Excellence.

Stephen Hunt from Hunt Hospitality - the business group behind the venues said he was thankful for all the hard work staff at both venues had put in.

“We’re very excited to have made it through to the finals and are particularly delighted to have become finalists in so many categories,” he said.

The CBD Hotel is in the running for:

best family hotel; best new/re-developed hotel - country; best casual dining venue - country; best steak venue; industry rising star (for CBD general manager Elle McNamara) and overall country hotel of the year. The Kent is vying for best new/ redeveloped hotel, best casual dining venue - country, and chef of the year for Robert Wilkinson.

The awards will be announced at a ceremony at the Dockside Pavillion, Darling Harbour on Monday, November 24. Winners will proceed to the AHA national finals. Good luck to all concerned.

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Mars and Jackson together at last Moonwalk 2 Mars is a tribute to two of the greatest singer / songwriter performers of our time, Michael Jackson and Bruno Mars. This production features Akinga with Sam Pulman who bears an uncanny resemblance to the sound of these icons.

Audiences will be treated to hit after hit with songs including Billy Jean, Rock With You, The Way You Make Me Feel,

Thriller, Beat It, Just The Way You Are, Treasure, Count On Me, Locked Out Of Heaven, Gorilla, Grenade, When I Was Your Man and so much more.

Catch Moonwalk to Mars at Wallsend Diggers for two special Christmas Shows on Saturday, November 29 and Friday, December 5. Tickets are $55- member $65- non and includes a 3- course meal.

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Back in the mid- 80s, WA outfit the Eurogliders, featuring Grace Knight on vocals and Bernie Lynch on guitar cut a swathe through the Oz pop charts with a string of classic hits that espoused a whip smart pop sensibility and a musical sophistication beyond many of their peers.

The band are heading to the Caves Beach Hotel next month and TE is giving

you the chance to win a double pass to see these 80s Aussie icons in action.

All you have to do is name two of the Eurogliders’ hit singles. Easy right?

To enter, email your answer and contact details to dan.hawkins@ newcastlepost.com.au with ‘Eurogliders’ in the subject line by no later than Tuesday, December 2. Winners will be notified by phone

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ith their first album back from their three year hiatus - Save Rock And Roll - putting Fall Out Boy well and truly back on the musical map, they are certainly striking while the iron is hot with their huge new single Centuries and an equally epic Gladiator- style video to accompany it.

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Bass player Pete Wentz told TE that while the band weren’t planning on writing any new material, the song came about at just the right time.

“Patrick [Stump, frontman] and I weren’t really planning on working on much and we were on tour in the States with Paramore and he came forward with the song and it just seemed like the time was right,” he said.

“The whole song, and also the video, is basically saying that anybody can become a legend - you’ve got one shot so you’d better make it count and that’s how we all feel about the band. So, that song came along and basically the plan for the album was built around that.”

Before the album drops in early 2015, Fall Out Boy will be heading down our way for their first-ever OZ festival stint at Soundwave. While a Fall Out Boy show is a spectacle in and of itself, Wentz said the prospect of a festival bill was always enticing for the band as it was a great breeding ground for new fans.

“Yeah, man we’ve never played Soundwave before, but it sure looks like a cool festival - what a great lineup,” he said.

“I think we play better to festival crowds because at your own shows everyone is there just to see you, but at festivals there are plenty who aren’t there to see Fall Out Boy so we tend to be much more on our game.”

After cutting their teeth in the late 90s Chicago hardcore punk scene (Wentz played in such bands as Racetraitor, Birthright and Extinction) Fall Out Boy quickly found themselves the darlings of the alternative music press thanks largely to their first two genre-bending records Take This to Your Grave and Under the Cork Tree. While the second record saw the band crack the Billboard 100, it was their third album Infinity on High featuring the runaway hits Thanks fr th Mmrs and This Ain’t a Scene It’s an Arms Race, that really shot the band into the cultural zeitgeist.

Following the release of the follow- up, Follie a Deux, the band went on a three year hiatus before coming back in grand fashion with Save Rock and Roll in 2013.

Wentz said that while there was definitely pressure placed on the band internally to comeback with a truly kick a*rse record, the external pressure that existed in the Follie a Deux sessions was virtually non existent.

“There was so much more outside scrutiny on Follie because of the success of Infinity on High, but with Save Rock

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and Roll there was probably less pressure because we were totally flying under radar - nobody expected anything from us,” he said.

While Save Rock and Roll still has echoes of the bands early punk roots (with nods to bands like the Get Up Kids still evident in their beguiling mish mash of styles), there is a decidedly more pop flavour to proceedings.

“When we go into the studio, we always want to be the biggest f***ing band on the planet but we’re also band who aren’t going to write the same album twice - it’s really important, I think , not to set any limitations on yourself when you’re creating because you’re only going to limit the final product.”

Speaking of creativity, there’s also been a fair amount of non- album creativity within the Fall Out Boy camp of late with both Wentz welcoming his second child

into the world in August while frontman Patrick Stump became a father in October.

“It certainly has been interesting,” Wentz laughed.

“Although I have a six- year- old already so, in some ways I was prepared, but it’s always an adventure. But Patrick is a father for the first time and it’s all still very new for him - I haven’t really had a chance to talk to him about it yet because he’s still so in it, but I’m sure he’ll be fine.”

For a band that has never been known to paint themselves into any form of genre box, it seems fitting then that when talking legacy, Wentz said he wants Fall Out Boy to be the band that transcends genre.

“I would say that I hope at some point Fall Out Boy becomes the descriptor of a style,” he said. “You know how people will say a name like Linkin Park and you immediately think of a certain sound. We want to be that band.”

LIGHTS CAMERA ACTION THIS WEEK Mathias inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell it, he discovers a tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager - an ancient French real estate system with complex rules about its resale - and feisty Mathilde, who has lived there with her daughter Chloé for years, can by contract collect payments from Mathias until her death. Mathias stays with Mathilde, instantly clashing with Chloé . As they grow closer, Mathilde unveils a complex labyrinth of secrets that unites the trio in unexpected ways.

Cast: Kevin Klein, Maggie Smith Kirsten Scott Thomas.

LET’S BE COPS

It’s the ultimate buddy cop movie except for one thing: they’re not cops. When two struggling pals dress as police officers for a costume party, they become neighborhood sensations. But when these newly-minted “heroes” get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.

Cast: Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr, James D’Arcy, Andy Garcia.

Directed by Michaël R. Roskam (Bullhead), The Drop follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski through a covert scheme of funneling cash to local gangsters - called ‘money drops’ - in the underworld of Brooklyn bars. Under the heavy hand of his employer and cousin Marv, Bob finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood’s past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.

Cast: James Gandolfini, Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapice, John Oritz.

Interstellar

[Rated M] Reviewed at Tower Cinemas Newcastle by Stephen Bisset

5/5

While director Christopher Nolan already enough cinematic gravitas (thanks to such triumphs as Memento, Inception and the Dark Knight trilogy) before he went into shooting Interstellar, this mind-bending science fiction epic blows all of his previous efforts out of the water.

Not since 2001: A Space Oddessy has a sci-fi film come along with such an ambitious scope, making this this is the best sci-fi flick since the Kubrickian opus. The film centres on a dying earth in the not-too-distant and Matthew McConaughy must helm a mission headlong into a rip in the space-time continuum, n search of a planet that can sustain life. Throw in some acutely mind-bending theories on event horizons, relativity, wormholes, the fifth dimension and our place in this whole cosmic ballet, and you have for one challenging film indeed.

This is a triumph of modern cinema and a definite must-see that will have you contemplating your place in the universe.

Love, Rosie [Rated M] Reviewed at Event Cinemas, Glendale by Amelia Parrott

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One part Juno, coupled with a dash of My Best Friend’s Wedding, makes this romantic comedy from the writer of P.S, I Love You, an utterly charming affair.

British-American beauty, Lily Collins (The Blind Side, Mirror, Mirror) plays Rosie Dunne, an out-of-luck lady forever chasing her lifelong best mate, Alex Stewart (Sam Claffin, the Hunger Games series, Snow White and the Huntsman).

The film plays out over decades and continents, through Rosie and Alex’s early friendship, awkward teen years, relationships, children, and failed marriages. The chemistry between the two is palpable and Collins is so likeable in the role of Rosie.

With writer, Cecelia Ahern’s best-known work centering around a widow receiving letters from her dead husband, it’s not surprising that this film has quite a few unbelievable moments. Not only does Rosie get a second chance with Alex, she gets a third, fourth, fifth chance and so on. But, I for one was happy to put this aside to buy into this love story.

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5 SAWYERS: Wednesday, Jake Follbigg & Jessica Cain; Friday, DJ Jonathan; Saturday, DJ Surian; Sunday, DJ Jonathan.

ABSOLUTE THAI: Saturday, Brien McVernon.

ANNA BAY TAVERN: Saturday, VanderAA. AUSTRALIA HOTEL, Cessnock: Saturday, Darren.

AVOCA BEACH BOWLING CLUB: Friday, V8 Juke Box; Saturday, Beatles Magic Show.

BAR 121: Friday, Troy; Saturday, Flying Mare.

BAR PETITE: Friday, HP Duo; Saturday, Gian; Sunday, Oli and Soph.

BEACHCOMBER HOTEL: Friday, DJs. BEAUFORD HOTEL: Saturday, Casho.

BELMONT 16s: Wedneday, Bob Howe, Milton Ward; Friday, The Rockin Eddie Band; Saturday, McAlister Kemp, The Viper Creek Band, The Rumour; Sunday, Klassic Blak.

BELMONT BOWLING CLUB: Sunday, Wobbly Boot Jazz Band.

BELMORE HOTEL: Friday, Daley Holliday; Saturday, Sun Hill Drive.

BERESFIELD BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Gen X; Saturday, Solid Gold Party Night; Sunday, Red Dirt Country Band.

BLACKBUTT HOTEL: Friday, Angel Gear; Saturday, Incognito.

BRADFORD HOTEL: Friday, Deuce; Saturday, Huge Shoes.

BUDGEWOI SOCCER CLUB: Saturday, Leonora Parade; Sunday, Gemma.

CAMBRIDGE HOTEL: Wednesday, Aversion’s Crown, Molotov Solutions; Thursday, Philadelphia Grand Jury; Friday, Yacht Club DJs; Saturday,

Sailor’s Grave.

CANTON BEACH SPORTS CLUB: Friday, Time Slip; Saturday, Whiskey River.

CARDIFF RSL: Friday, Brenton Williams; Saturday, KDL. CATHO PUB: Sunday, Defaced.

CAVES BEACHSIDE HOTEL: Saturday, Dr Strangelove.

CENTRAL CHARLESTOEN LEAGUES CLUB: Friday, Paul Watters; Saturday, Hayden Johns.

CENTRAL HOTEL, Stroud: Saturday, No Control.

CESSNOCK EX-SERVICES: Saturday, Humdinger.

CESSNOCK LEAGUES CLUB: Friday, Bobby C; Saturday, The Levymen; Sunday, Kids’ Disco & Karaoke, Ruby The Clown.

CHARLESTOWN BOWLING CLUB: Thursday, Brian Cadd; Friday, Iguana; Saturday, Golden Years feat Gold Cadillac, The Snape Brothers, The Years; Sunday, Jake Folbigg.

CLARENDON HOTEL: Friday, Zane Penn; Saturday, Dave Owen.

CLUB AZZURRI: Sunday, Latinova.

CLUB MACQUARIE: Friday, Kevin O’Hara.

COLLIERY INN: Friday, Karaoke; Saturday, Pete Sneddon; Sunday, Live Music 3-6.

CRICKETERS ARMS: Saturday, Kristy J. CRITEREON HOTEL, Carrington: Friday, Brien McVernon; Sunday, Damien.

CROWN AND ANCHOR: Friday, The Andy Show; Sunday, Dane Fitzsimmons.

CUSTOMS HOUSE: Wednesday, AdzDrumz; Friday, Holly Wilson; Saturday, Jon T; Sunday, Zane Penn/ DENMAN HOTEL: Friday, Purple Hearts; Saturday,

Jamie Martens.

DUKE OF WELLINGTON: Wednesday, Bob Corbett Band; Friday, Daniel Arvidson; Saturday, The Sue and Mikey Show EAST CESSNOCK BOWLING CLUB: Wednesday, Matt McLaren.

EAST MAITLAND BOWLING CLUB: Friday, GenR8; Saturday, Total 80s Recall; Sunday, Matt McLaren.

EDGEWORTH SPORT AND REC: Friday, Thunderstruck AC/DC Tribute.

EDGEWORTH TAVERN: Friday, Hellbent; Saturday, Full Throttle.

ENTRANCE LEAGUES CLUB: Friday, Kiss Chasey EXCHANGE HOTEL: Friday, Funkapedia; Saturday, Rebecca Johnson Band.

FAMILY HOTEL: Friday, Outerphase.

GATESHEAD TAVERN: Friday, The Hepburns; Sunday, The Piranha Brothers.

GEORGE TAVERN: Friday, Brooke Harvey; Saturday, AdzDrumz.

Proud as punch It’s the sound of surf roots and Australian mojo rock. It’s stomping in high energy yet jaw dropping and full of fresh new raw emotion.

A style of music garnished and brewed in the Far North Coast surfing Mecca of Lennox Head/Byron Bay, NSW. The songs are powerful, rhythmic, energetic, honest and emotional; the live performances are full of blood, sweat and tears.

Marshall O’Kell and the Pride performances are igniting fervent reactions all over the country. This tubthumping four-piece has fans frothing and after listening to their latest album Birdy it’s not hard to see why. Featuring a litany of formidable talent including members of Chase the Sun, Hussy Hicks, Brittle, The Habits, Hat Fitz, and The Good Vibrations, this is blues/roots par excellence.

Groomed on Hendrix, Winters, Little Feat, Muddy Waters and AC-DC, his journey was set forth before he ever had a choice, a victim of rock and roll circumstance.

Marshall’s father and his entourage of talented musical friends from all over Australia taught him licks, tricks, riffs, styles, techniques and drum and bass grooves.

GRAND HOTEL: Tuesday, Jazz.

GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL: Tuesday, Open Mic GRETA WORKERS CLUB: Friday, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

GUNYAH HOTEL: Friday, Lauren Arms; Saturday, GenR8; Sunday, Darren.

GWANDALAN BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Karaoke.

HALEKULANI BOWLING CLUB: Saturday, Malihini’s Over 30s Nightspot.

HAMILTON STATION HOTEL: Wednesday, Sete Stars, Alf Stewart, Piece of S**t; Thursday, Madhouse DJs MC Battles Heat 2; Friday, Karaoke, Autolysis, Cerebral Contortion, Tekkokential, Amora; Saturday, Karaoke, Balsescream, Nekrology, Evocatus, Gorak; Sunday, Annie O’Dee. HARRIGANS IRISH PUB: Saturday, DLove.

HEXHAM BOWLING CLU B:Saturday, Red Sweat.

HOLMSVILLE HOTEL: Friday, Russell Snape.

HOTEL DELANY: Wednesday, Matt meler; Friday, Twinsanity Trio, AdzDrumz, Sean Andrews; Saturday, Overload.

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PHIL MCKNIGHT MARK HOTEL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15

A McKnight to remember Phil McKnight performs ‘take no prisoners’ rock ‘n roll, blues and country in a show that has for many years seen audiences up and down the country bouncing around in pubs and clubs and shouting for more.

Phil’s show is all-pumping guitar, harmonica, stomp box and powerful vocals which fill the dance floor and has punters leaving with great memories of performer and venue.

Phil performs absolutely live - no exceptions.

Exceptional guitar-playing and showmanship are not the only features that set Phil’s show apart from the rest. His audiences are also treated to visits from some of rock’s royalty including King Elvis and Bryan Adams amongst other not-so-musical luminaries.

From contemporary hits of the noughties, to classic rock, pop, blues and country, Phil delivers.

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SHAFT TAVERN: Friday, Nicko and Friends.

SHOAL BAY RESORT: Friday, Viagro, Howard Shearman; Saturday, Claudio Meyer, Loose Bazooka, Kenny Jewell; Sunday, Todd Stewart Duo; Sunday, Stoneage Romeos.

SHORTLAND HOTEL: Friday, Kirsty Larkin.

SOLDIERS POINT BOWLING CLUB: Saturday, The Bad and the Ugly.

STAG AND HUNTER: Friday, Method; Saturday, The Cartwheels.

STOCKTON BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Karen Soper; Saturday, DJ Symon; Sunday, Clean Slate.

STOCKTON RSL: Saturday, Roadhouse Rockers.

SYDNEY JUNCTION HOTEL: Friday, DJ Owen Webber, Incognito; Saturday, DJ Sean Michael, Glam Slam; Sunday, Matt Semmens.

SWANSEA RSL: Saturday, D’Lish.

SWANSEA WORKERS CLUB: Saturday, Rollercoaster Band.

TELARAH BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Karaoke; Saturday, Free Jukebox.

THE POURHOUSE, Maitland: Saturday, Kirsty Larkin.

THE DEPOT ON BEAUMONT: Wednesday, Logan’s

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Heroes; Thursday, Joe Camilleri; Friday, Josh Callaway; Saturday, Krishna Jones.

THE SMALL BALLROOM: Thursday, CW Stoneking; Friday, Husky; Saturday, Nick Saxon TILLIGERRY RSL CLUB: Friday, The Bad and the Ugly; Saturday, Kelly Hope.

TORONTO DIGGERS: Friday, Emile; Saturday, Franky and Johnny.

TORONTO GOLF CLUB: Saturday, Paul Storey.

TORONTO HOTEL: Sunday, Kristy J. TORONTO ROYAL MOTOR YACHT CLUB: Sunday, Kirsty Larkin.

TORONTO WORKERS CLUB: Friday, Cover 2 Cover.

WALLARAH BAY REC CLUB: Friday, Open Fire; Saturday, The Retrospectives.

WALLSEND DIGGERS CLUB: Saturday, Sundays Record.

WANGI HOTEL: Sunday, Tiali.

WANGI RSL: Thursday, Kids’ Disco.

WANGI WORKERS CLUB: Saturday, Pistol Pete.

WARNERS AT THE BAY: Thursday, Marissa Lee; Friday, Hornet; Saturday, Kings Kong.

WARNERS BAY FORESHORE: Friday, Phonic Duo. WESTS CARDIFF: Saturday, Earthbound.

WESTS NEW LAMBTON PIANO LOUNGE: Wednesday, Frank Wakewood; Thursday, Angamus; Friday, Warren Hunter; Saturday, Ben Hanley; Monday, Chris Hanley; Tuesday, Terence Koo. WESTS NEW LAMBTON MARBLE BAR: Friday, Loonatic Fringe; Saturday, The Gaudreys.

WEST WALLSEND WORKERS CLUB: Friday, Good Grief.

WICKHAM PARK HOTEL: Wednesday, Wicko Jam Night; Friday, DV8; Saturday, Nicko and Friends, Marshall O’Kell and the Pride; Sunday, Aleyce Simmonds, Afro Moses Spirit Band.

WINDALE GATESHEAD BOWLING CLUB: Friday, La Bomba Rock.

WINDSOR CASTLE HOTEL: Firday, Pete Gelzinnis; Saturday, Zac and Ben. WYONG BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Red Sweat.

WYONG LEAGUES CLUB: Friday, Sea Gypsies; Saturday, Gyrate.

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PRINCE OF WALES:Thursday, Bel Enks; Friday, Kim; Saturday, Dean Kyrwood; Sunday, Jason Bone.

QUEENS WHARF BREWERY: Saturday, Troy; Sunday, Jerome.

RACECOURSE HOTEL: Saturday, Steve Werren.

RAILWAY HOTEL, Cessnock: Saturday, Tim Usher; Sunday, Katrina Burgoyne.

RATHMINES BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Rock Oz. REGAL HOTEL, Kurri: Saturday, Secret Society.

RIVER ROYAL, Morpeth: Sunday, Brooke Harvey.

ROYAL FEDERAL: Saturday, KR Duo. ROYAL HOTEL, Denman: Saturday, The Zillers.

ROYAL HOTEL, Singleton: Sunday, Dean Dee. ROYAL INN, Waratah: Saturday, Tim Rossington.

RUTHERFORD HOTEL: Saturday, HR Duo. SEVEN SEAS: Friday, The Leadbellies; Saturday, The Hurricanes.

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HOTEL JESMOND: Friday, The Levymen; Saturday, Dreamcatchers.

HOTEL PREMIER: Saturday, Arley Black; Sunday, The Smarts.

HOTEL TUDOR: Saturday, Deuce.

IRON HORSE INN: Saturday, Jake Folbigg.

JUNCTION HOTEL: Friday, Jerome; Saturday, Aqwa; Sunday, Sunday Republic.

KENT HOTEL: Friday, Karaoke, DJs. KING STREET HOTEL: Friday, Reece Low, Snectar, Lemond; Saturday, Generik; Sunday, Any Given Sunday.

KURRI BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Dr Love, Talk of the Town.

LAKE MACQUARIE TAVERN: Friday, Loose Lips LAKESIDE VILLAGE TAVERN: Friday, Sam Idols.

LASS O’GOWRIE HOTEL: Wednesday, Owen Rabbit, Lunar Villa, Spencer Scott & Shelby Clements; Thursday, Creative Creatures Open Mic Night; Friday, Grand Master Monk, Jep and Dep, James Bennett, De’May; Saturday, The Stained Daisies, Dan Southward Band, The Mocking Birds; Sunday, Rizal Abdulhadi.

LIZOTTE’S NEWCASTLE: Wednesday, Alex Bowen, Anna Milat; Thursday, 8 Ball Aitken; Friday, GANGajang; Saturday, Simply the Best Tina Turner Tribute; Sunday, Songs that Made Me - Katie Noonan, Angie Hart, Melody Pool, Sam Buckingham.

LOCHINVAR HOTEL: Saturday, James Naldo.

LONG JETTY HOTEL: Saturday, Romney Watts; Sunday, Open Mic with kate Keighran.

MARK HOTEL: Friday, Dane Fitzsimmons; Saturday, Phil McKnight; Sunday, Hornet.

MARY ELLEN: Thursday, Matt McLaren; Friday, Sundays Record Duo; Saturday, Little Black Book.

MATTARA HOTEL: Friday, Lennie Live; Saturday, Disco & Karaoke.

MAYFIELD HOTEL: Wednesday, Open Mic; Thursday, Karaoke; Friday, Jimmy Mann; Saturday, Inside Out; Sunday, John Wilson.

MEREWETHER SURF HOUSE: Sunday, Kylie Jane.

MJ FINNEGANS: Friday, DJs.; Saturday, XYZ, DJs. NAG’S HEAD HOTEL: Saturday, 4 Letter Word.

NELSON BAY BOWLING CLUB: Saturday, Karaoke.

NELSON BAY DIGGERS THE LOUNGE: Friday, Fusion, Bad Boys Afloat; Saturday, 2 Good Reasons; Sunday, Holly Wilson.

NEWCASTLE CRUISING YACHT CLUB: Sunday, Karen Soper.

NORTHERN STAR HOTEL: Friday, The Royal key; Saturday, Mark Wood.

NORTHUMBERLAND HOTEL: Friday, Grayson.

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Upon tucking into her poached peach, nut praline vanilla ice cream sandwich with star anise and cardamom syryp, my dining partner remarked “this is the most grown up ice cream sandwich ever’. The ice cream was so smooth that words do not do it justice. The praline as ‘wafer’ was crisp and equally as indulgent while the peach was perfectly poached, full of spring sweetness with a hint of its fresh acidity in contrast.

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pring has well and truly sprung, nowhere moreso than Hamilton’s Love Tree café whose spring menu has to be sampled to be believed.

Tucked away in Beaumont Street’s Piazza complex, Love Tree has been making some serious waves in the Newcastle food scene and it’s not hard to see why.

Kicking off our evening with a starter of fresh and crispy sourdough with an aromatic dukkah and balsamic and olive oil, my dining partner and I were impressed with the flavour evident in what looked to be a very simple dish.

Escewing the tempting entree menu, lest our stomachs burst, we decided to move straight to mains.

My dining partner opted for the spatchcock on cinnamon-infused kumara mash with thyme butter and smoked tomatoes.

The spatchcock was cooked perfectly with no hints of dryness (it’s certainly no mean feat to hide any imperfections in such a small bird) and was, in a word, delicious.

The kumera mash was silky smooth with subtle nutty undertones and the surprisingly delicate smoked tomatoes added the perfect touch to this formidable triumvirate of flavours.

I decided on a roasted beef fillet in a red wine jus with candied baby vegetables and sweet potato crisps and, after one bite it became apparent that you’d have to travel pretty far to find a better-cooked piece of beef. The red wine jus was beautifully offset by the sweetness of the candied baby vegetables.

At the insistence of proprietor Frederic Holten, we made room for dessert, which as it turned out proved to be the cherry on top of a very impressive cake. Love Tree

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hen it comes to rock and roll icons, Sun Records would have to be pretty close to the top of the tree. Hailed as the ‘birthplace of rock and roll’, the unassuming studio in Memphis Tennessee and its owner Sam Phillips were responsible for launching the careers of the likes of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison.

Some 62 years after it first opened its doors, Sun Records’ influence still reverberates through popular culture worldwide and now, Novocastrians will get to experience a bit of that magic when the Sun Records All-Stars show wings its way from the States next month.

Featuring the unforgettable music of Presley, Lee Lewis, Cash, Orbison and Perkins, this two- part show traces rock and roll’s humble beginnings in Memphis to its dramatic peak as a global popular music force, with part one focussing on the story of the label (featuring the likes of That’s Allright Mama, Blue Suede Shoes, Folsom Prison Blues and GreatBalls of Fire), and part two looking at the latter portion of the All-Stars careers.

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t’s a pretty tacit acknowledgement that you’re on the right track when, some 12 months after your album has dropped, you’re still touring it around the country.

That’s exactly what’s happened to Aussie country outfit McAlister Kemp, whose third long player Harder to Tame - an unapologetic barn burner of a country rock album is still igniting crowds throughout Oz and in the US as well.

The boys will be heading back to our neck of the woods for a show at Belmont 16s this week - an increasingly rare proposition these days.

“Yeah we haven’t been back for a while and it’s always been a good spot for us, but we’ve been touring pretty much non-stop , you know, getting out and seeing more of the place so it will definitely be nice to come back,” Drew McAlister told TE. In the four years since McAlister Kemp got together, they’ve achieved a considerable amount - they’ve topped the ARIA country charts, snagged a spot in the mainstream top 20, and an ARIA nomination for their previous album Country Proud. Not

to mention that they won the attention of John Rich from US country juggernaut Big and Rich who took the boys to the States where they played to 40,000 people at the Country Thunder festival in Wisconsin.

Off the back of this whirlwind of activity, the boys (also featuring Newcastle’s own Troy Kemp) laid the foundations for Harder to Tame in Nashville with producer Jeremy Stover and the result is a super slick rocking country album that has some pundits declare it to be a “game changer” in the Oz country scene.

“It’s just one of those things - you never know how things are going to be received so we’re over the moon with the reaction to the album - it just seems to keep growing,” McAlister said.

One of the biggest surprises on the album was the anti-bullying song Fight Me which tells the story of a boy in a playground who is challenged to a fight on his first day of school for being different.

“I think it’s a really important topic although it’s become the most talked about song on the album which was a bit of a surprise,” he said.

“It’s just a great feeling when a 10-yearold girl comes up to you before a show and says ‘are you gonna play Fight Me?”

McALISTER KEMP BELMONT 16S SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 With Harder to Tame still going great guns, McAlister said the band were keen to take some time off from the rock and roll treadmill to take some stock. Fair enough.

“Yeah we’re gonna take a bit of a break from it all for a while and maybe spend some time on some other projects. I guess we need some time to let it all sink in.”

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f you’ve hung around at the Seven Seas at Carrington of late, chances are you would’ve heard the high-octane glam, punk, garage and rock and roll strains of The Hurricanes.

Featuring the rhythm section of 90s post- punk legends Sandpaper (Anthony Dean, drums and Andy MacDonald, bass) and augmented by the twin guitar attack of Shane Hayter and Paul Harris, these guys raised more than a few eyebrows when they opened for proto- punk icons Radio Birdman at their recent Cambridge gig.

Now, the boys will be back at the Seven Seas this weekend to launch their debut self-titled album.

Hayter said the album, engineered

by Geoff Mullard at his RTN Studios in Mayfield, started life as an EP, but circumstances conspired to push the sessions out to a full length.

“The idea was to record around five or six songs and do an EP,” he said. “But Geoff recently had to move out of the space where the studio was and move to new digs so we thought why not get all the songs we can get down while we’re here so we ended up with an album and Geoff certainly knows how to get some great guitar sounds.”

Influenced by the likes of Alice Cooper, The Kinks, Crazy Horse, The Stooges and T-Rex, the boys certainly have no shortage of experience in the live arena.

“At the end of the day, there’s no age in rock and roll,” he laughed

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While the expansive Oceans might not have been the most obvious choice for a single, given its slower tempo and five minute runtme, Corson said it made sense as the band wanted to show how far they had come since releasing Uluwatu “We’re really proud of that song and because it had been a bit of time since the EP, we wanted to show people something a little bit different and we’re stoked with the way it’s been received.”

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ith their debut EP Uluwatu hitting the streets at the end of 2011 (helped along in no small part by the bright, summery single Zimbabwe) and, given the fact that it’s November and the band are only now heading out on their first headlining tour of the year, you might think the Ulladulla- bred three piece were living the lives of lotus eaters.

But you’d be dead wrong.

In the interim, the band have been hunkered away, refining their sound and with two snippets from their soon-to-be released album, Rosaline and Oceans piquing interest all over the shop, it seems the band, whose punchy sound has drawn favourable comparisons to the likes of The Editors and The Klaxxons, may very well be on the right track with a much deeper and more layered sound.

“Yeah, we’ve been laying pretty low over the last little while, but we’ve actually been really busy writing the new record and exploring our sound a bit more,” guitarist James Corson told TE. “This recording was one of the most relaxing experiences we’ve had - we essentially went back to basics and back into the bedroom/home studio set up.

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Newcastle Art Space: Let the chips fall, where they may by The Strutt Sisters (pictured) & Surface Tension by Toni Amidy until 30 Nov Nobby’s Lighthouse: Working the Harbour by Dino Consalvo Timeless Textiles: Source exhibition by Giselle Penn until 16 Nov Watt Space Gallery: Fine Arts Honours Exhibition by Ben Kenning, Courtney Mathieson and Allan Duncan; Stitching together the fabric of a nation by Simon Clark; Identity Crisis by Alex Parkes; The Aura and the Object: A Spiritual Cleanse by Ashlee Dennis-Rice; Hung 2014 duration 4:52 and The Settlement duration 5.48mins by Tim Buchanan; OCD on Film 2014 duration 2:12mins by Ellen Starrett & All Saints 2013 duration 4:47mins by Manuel Seoane, Pablo Paniagua (Colectivo SinMotivo) Music by Simeon Roncai until 23 Nov All listed exhibition are on now or starting week of 12 Nov

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t may’ve been a long time between drinks, album wise, for Aussie country star James Blundell with his last effort Woolshed Creek dropping in 2011, but fans won’t have to wait long for new material with the songwriter re-invigorated with a new record label and new crop of songs.

“It has been a pretty complicated 2014 for me as my wife’s father passed away but I’ve also been working on a bunch of new songs with a producer in Montreal and the plan is to release them on a track-by-track basis and then eventually release it as an album,” he said.

Blundell, who has a freshly inked deal with burgeoning label Red Rebel Music said, given the tyranny of distance between Australia and Canada much of the current project had been conducted via file sharing which definitely had its advantages.

“I’ve done my fair share of recording in big studios and the like, but it really can be quite hard to organise eight people’s lives,” he said.

He added that being on an indie label has, in a sense given him more freedom to stretch his creative wings. “ It’s great being able to kind of fly under the radar and not be tied to any studio

pressure while recording,” he said. “Also, Karen, who runs Red Rebel is seriously focussed on the music which is great because, I’ve found with these sessions that I’ve been able to revisit some of the ideas that I’ve had in the past that had been put aside - there’s a great freedom to it all.”

After first bursting on the scene in the late 80s, Blundell almost single-handedly reinvigorated the Aussie scene with an ingenious amalgam of the story- telling style of Slim Dusty and John Williamson with an energetic rock and roll feel. He was the first Aussie country artist to sign a deal in Nashville and the ripples of his influence can still be heard throughout Australia. You get the definite sense, talking to the affable star that while he is chuffed about the heights he has reached in the industry it is and always has been first and foremost about the song.

“If you set out to make good music you might end up making some money, but if you set out to make money you’re always going to make bad music.”

TE is giving you the chance to win a double pass. To enter, email your name and contact details to editorial@ newcastlepost.com.au with “James Blundell” in the subject line by no later than Tuesday, November 8. Winners will be notified by phone.

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FRIDAY

JAMES BLUNDELL WESTS CARDIFF SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22

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LIVE ENTERTAINMENT entertainment

28TH NOVEMBER

One massive night, 2 great Aussie bands!! $20

7 MAWSON CLOSE CAVES BEACH www.cavesbeachsidehotel.com.au

4980 9999

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Tickets are available online at bigtix or at the venue for both Eurogliders & the GANGajang / SPY V SPY gig

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Tickets - $35