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YEAH HUP!
TE caught up with legendary axe slinger DENIZ TEK from seminal Aussie rockers Radio Birdman, who will be kicking off their tour in Newcastle next week
Bluesfest’s Peter NobleBriggsGig Guide
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Legendary US sluge/alterna metallers Prong may’ve been doing their thing for 28 years but, this November, they will be making their maiden Australian voyage.
The history of Prong has cast a long shadow - bands like Korn, Slipknot and Nine Inch Nails openly acknowledge their influence.
By the time they had signed to Epic Records in 1989, the New York City post-metal triumvi-rate had already accomplished a lot. The band, formed by guitarist and vocalist Tommy Victor, soundman at the legendary club CBGB’s along with the club’s doorman Mike Kirkland and ex-Swans drummer Ted Parsons had already released two independent records. Their best known and best selling work, Cleansing, cemented Prong’s position as a mainstream metal mainstay. The album’s single Snap Your Fingers Snap Your Neck has been in the top 100 riffs ever since.
WHAT'S ON Despite the fact that his groundbreaking
fretwork in seminal UK outfit The Smiths essentially lay the blueprint for Britpop and myriad subsequent genres, Johnny Marr often played second fiddle to Mor-risey’s flower tinged caterwauling. Then, as a guitar for hir in such outfits as Mod-est Mouse and John Frusciante - he once again showed he was content with stand-ing in the shadows somewhat. However, after the release of his brilliant solo debut The Messenger last year, he proved he had plenty to say and he’s certainly making up for lost time with Playland - a kinetic and punchy set and tempered with a blistering post-punk energy.
While tracks like the Echo and the Bun-nymen-esque Little King and the rocking Back in the Box - the album is let down a tad by Marr’s vocals - a problem which his guitar playing more than makes up for.
While this isn’t Quentin Tarantino’s magnum opus (Django Unchained) holds that title this glorious re-imagining of WW2 comes pretty darn close.
A band of U. S. soldiers facing death by firing squad for their misdeeds are given a chance to re-deem themselves by heading into the perilous no-man’s lands of Nazi-occupied France on a suicide mission for the Allies. Brad Pitt and Christoph Waltz are nothing short of fantastic here. A must watch.
While not Tom Cruise’s finest hour, there is still plenty to like about this sci-fi Groundhog Day.
An alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Major William Cage (Cruise) has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoni-ously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again...and again.
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While the first incarna-tion of Radio Birdman existed for only four short years, the ripples that their bril-
liantly incendiary two LPs - Radios Appear and Living Eyes - created can still be felt some 38 years after their release.
While they have always existed on the fringes of the Aussie popular music scene, there’s no denying that Radio Birdman were one of the finest rock and roll bands this country has ever produced. A fact that is reflected in the release of a mammoth, limited CD box set containing both the Trafalgar and Sire Records versions of Radios Appear and Living Eyes, remas-tered form the original tapes, each coming with a standalone bonus disc with more rarities than you can poke a stick at. To cap it all off the set also contains a previously unreleased show recorded at Paddington Town Hall in 1977. Yeah, hup!
“It’s funny because none of us thought the tapes existed and we ended up finding them in a studio where we’d never worked before,” guitarist Deniz Tek told TE.
“So, we went over there and there were like 20 boxes of multi-track studio record-ings - pretty much everything we’d done from mid 76 to mid-77 as well as a killer live album. From there it was a matter of restoring the tapes and just trawling through it all to pick out the quality , then we took it to [producer] Wayne Connolly
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who mixed it all - it was quite a long process, but definitely worthwhile.”
To celebrate the release of the set, a revamped Birdman lineup, featuring original vocalist Rob Younger, guitarist Tek and keys player Pip Hoyle along with bass player Jim Dickson (The Baracudas, The New Christs, Louis Tillet, The Pasen-gers), drummer Nik Rieth (Celibate Rifles, Tumbleweed) and guitarist Dave Kettley (New Christs, Shifter), are heading out on a whirlwind tour that will kick off in Newcastle next week.
Newcastle represents a special place in Tek’s heart - not least for the amount of love in this area for Birdman, but also the fact that the trained ER doctor and ex-navy flight surgeon worked for a time at the Mater Hospital as well as meeting his wife in Newcastle.
“Newcastle has always been good to us, for as long as I remember, I also used to live there and this will be the first time we’ve played Newcastle in seven years so it makes sense to kick off the tour there,” he said.
After releasing their blistering state-ment of intent, the 1986 EP Burn My Eye, the band sent a shockwave through the Sydney music scene. With most bookers not knowing what to do with this anomalous Motor City-inspired rock and roll band, many venues refused to put them on. So, in an act of defiance, the band took over the management of a pub in Taylor Square - renaming it the Oxford Funhouse. The Funhouse became Birdman’s base of operations as well as a place for like-minded bands to play until
Birdman departed for their first European tour - a tour which would also see their eventual demise.
While many have cited the Funhouse as a catalyst for the Sydney punk scene and Birdman the fathers of the genre by exten-sion, listening to the breadth of influence that exists across their output and the inher-ent musical ability displayed by all players, makes this claim a tad disingenuous.
“I think the “punk” tag was a lazy tag that was put on us at the time because people didn’t really know what to make of us,” Tek said.
“I mean, we had a keyboard player and our drummer [Ron Keeley] was into jazz and definitely more roll than rock. We we’re obviously really influenced by guys like the Stooges and the MC5 but we also saw ourselves more in the vein of that 60s rock and roll like the Easybeats and the Purple Hearts - we didn’t really have any peers until The Saints.”
While there’s no doubt that Birdman inspired and still continues to inspire a level of adoration amoung fans that most bands could only dream of, Tek said he believed this was more to do with what the band represented than anything else.
“It was pretty crazy in those Funhouse days but I don’t think it was fanatical in terms of fandom for the band but rather a fanatcisim for a new way of thinking, dressing and being,” he explained.
“We were singing ‘there’s gonna be a new race’ and all of that frenzy and fervor, was for themselves and the possibilities of this new outlook, and we were just the poster boys for it.”
I think the “punk” tag was a lazy tag put on us at the time because people didn’t really know what to make of us
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FLYING MARE EXCHANGE HOTEL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25
Flying Mare are not your “aver-age “ band. Each performance sees these seasoned pros giving everything on stage. Every song is carefully selected for maximum audience enjoyment and entertain-ment. The boys in the band love to crank up a happening party every gig! With decades of experience under their belts, there is the guar-antee of a fantastic night ahead!
The musicians in Flying Mare have worn out stages across the Hunter/Central Coast for many decades. Previous bands like Magic Carpet, Men Without Shame, Melt-ing Pot, Big Ask, The Longknives, The Deep and Appaloosa have allowed Dave, Ron, Luke and Gav to refine their stagecraft and musical technique. Their dedicated and professional approach is testament to their many years of experience. Audience interaction , humour and dedication to songcraft show that there really is no substitute for experience.
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GWANDALAN BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Earth-bound.HALEKULANI BOWLING CLUB: Saturday, Malihini’s Over 30s Nightspot.HAMILTON STATION HOTEL: Wednesday, Whiskey Business; Thursday, Bearded Men of Newcastle Final; Friday, Karaoke, Hell Crab City, Raygun Mortlock, The Grounds; Saturday, Karaoke, Ugly Bartender fundraiser; Sunday, Jen BuxtonHARRIGANS IRISH PUB: Saturday, Gen X.HEXHAM BOWLING CLUB: Saturday, Cool
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If you’re a music fan, chances are the boys from Rubber Bullet, have got your favourite sounds covered. With an unrivalled quantity of songs in the arsenal they have been gigging solidly in the Newcastle area for quite some time now. They say they have never played the same show twice, keeping every performance unique, fresh and driving with a spontaneous energy.
Like many popular powerhouse bands of the past Rubber Bullet pride themselves on only being a three-piece and keeping it all totally live.
They have recently welcomed their new member, drummer, Peter Shafter. Shafter grew up in Mel-bourne, where before leaving for Newcastle he played in a popular St Kilda pub band, where he got the chance to jam with Aussie legends such as Ross Wilson, Paul Kelly and Southern Son Jack Jones. Bass player and vocalist Mark Wood was born in Liverpool England and returned there in the early nine-ties where he spent some time in a Beatles concept band in the role of John Lennon, with who his voice has an uncanny resemblance to. Zane Penn on vocals and lead guitar has a wealth of experience also, having supported a string of top acts most notably being Mick Jagger on his 1990 solo tour.
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With this year’s 25th anniversary Byron Bay Bluesfest featuring the likes of John Mayer, Elvis
Costello, Gregg Allman, Steve Earle, The Doobie Brothers, Boz Scaggs, Aarron Neville and Buddy Guy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the festival couldn’t get any better.
Well, to think such things would be to underestimate the drive, passion and tenacity of Bluesfest impresario Peter Noble, who, with just two announce-ments in, has pulled off a bill for 2015 that would be the envy of many of the world’s major festivals.
If the first announcement, which includes blues-rock duo The Black Keys, funk meisters George Clinton and Parlia-ment Funkadelic, soft rockers Train, Aussie legend Paul Kelly, an US country/folk darlings the Zac Brown Band, wasn’t enough, then the second announcement, released last week, should have you salivating - Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals in their first performance in eight years, Gary Clark Jr, Ruthie Foster, veteran soul chanteuse Mavis Staples, UK singer songwriters David Gray, Ben Howard and Paolo Nutini and Brissy world-beaters Sheppard.
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announcements, in fact, there have been a few times where I’ve had to pinch myself - I mean, just look at it,” Noble told TE.
For Noble, who throughout his 24 year involvement with the festival has brought the likes of Bob Dylan, James Brown, Taj Mahal, Bo Diddley and BB King to Byron, the fact that he was able to secure Harper ( a long time visitor to Bluesfest) with his legendary backing band The Innocent Criminals, has made him as proud as
punch, given that the history of the festi-val is inexorably linked to Harper.
“Bluesfest was always primarily blues, gospel and, I guess alternative country oriented, then here comes Ben Harper in 1996 around the time when Fight For Your Mind came out and then we started seeing the younger crowd come in and all of a sudden I found that I was booking a different kind of festival and it all points to one artist. His music just transcends genre
and you can definitely see his influence on Aussie artists that came after like Xavier Rudd, John Butler and The Beautiful Girls. So, obviously we’re very proud to be hosting him with the Innocent Criminals and I will say now that this will be his only performance, definitely.”
While other Aussie festivals have suffered various knocks over the past couple of years, Bluesfest remains at the forefront of not only this country’s festival circuit, but globally.
“You’ve only got to go on Palo Nutini or Ben Harper’s Facebook pages to see how much interest around the world the announcement generated,” Noble said proudly.
“I wouldn’t say we’ve survived unscathed - every year I have a few more scars, but I think the longevity is down to the fact that we’re always progressing and we never really limit ourselves - I mean we mix heritage artists with new artists and we’ve got blues, rock and roll, reggae, pop and even a bit of punk in there - people might come to see your Ben Harpers but then they’ll be walking past someone like Bo Diddley and say “what the hell is this” and that’s the beauty of Bluesfest.”
The Byron Bay Bluesfest will be on at the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm, Byron Bay from Thursday, April 2 to Monday, April 5 2015. For tickets and more info, visit bluesfest.com.au
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Homemade Bombs and 2010 long player The Blacklist, Victorian-bred rapper Briggs has hit back with possibly his most cohesive and potent collection yet, Sheplife.
It seems the Oz music buying public agrees, too with the album snagging his first ARIA top 20. Briggs is currently on the road in support of the album and its latest single Bad Apples and he said everything that has happened post-release has exceeded all expectations.
“It’s been really cool, man and some-thing I never expected,” Briggs told TE.
“When you’re making a record, you don’t really think about that kind of stuff but to se it happening is great. Also, there’s been a great vibe on the tour as well and it’s really cool to see how far the music has reached -I mean there are people at shows who know the joints word for word, and that’s really cool.”
Briggs hones in on his hometown of Shepparton as the main inspiration for the album, which features collaboratios from ther likes of Ill Bill, Sietta and Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, and the result is a punchy collection of tracks that are a poignant reflection of the rapper’s rural upbringing.
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“When I set out to make this record, I kind of felt like a whole new artist and it really felt like my first record,” he said.
“This one is was more about putting together a complete piece of art with a unifying vision than it was about just getting a bunch of rap songs together which is kind of the way I approached The Blacklist - there’s definitely a lot more direction and focus on this album.
“Each song on Sheplife is a piece of the overall puzzle.”
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