23 That’s Entertainment www.newcastlepost.com.au The Newcastle Post Wednesday, December 19, 2012 You won’t curse this day For Newcastle outfit Zoe K and the Shadow Katz, 2012 has been a year of honing their sound and getting their music out there to as many people as possible. Stephen Bisset caught up with the enigmatic songstress to chat about new horizons. When blues and folk collide PAGE 27 Graphic action with 12 Foot Ninja PAGE 34 Hey Geronimo head back to Newcastle PAGE 29 The Choirboys 30 and not out PAGE 35
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You won’t curse this dayFor Newcastle outfi t Zoe K and the Shadow Katz, 2012 has been a year of honing their sound and getting their music out there to as many people as possible. Stephen Bisset
caught up with the enigmatic songstress to chat about new horizons.
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The Pursuit of HappynessFriday, 8.30pm – Gem
Offi cial: The Best of Australian Hip Hop Vol. 1. It’s Offi cial Music / Warner
F ormer Fresh Prince of Bel Air Will Smith gives a bravura performance in this emotional and inspirational, based-on-a-true-
story tale of Chris Gardner.Set in the early 80s, Gardener invests
the family savings into a white elephant medical equipment deal that breaks his family fi nancially, causing his wife to walk out on him and their young son, Christopher.
Without money and a wife, but totally committed to his son Christopher, Chris sees the chance to fi ght for a stockbroker internship position, vying for one career in the end of six months training period without any salary with other twenty candidates.
Meanwhile, homeless, he has all sorts of diffi culties with his son.
A fantastic fi lm that is a testament to the strength of the human spirit.
I f ever you needed convincing that, over the past ten years, Australian hip-hop has well and truly shrugged off the stigma of being the poor,
feeble and oft-rejected cousin to its US counterpart, then this compilation, the fi rst release from It’s Offi cial Music, will defi nitely do the trick.
Right from the fi rst track, The Hilltop Hoods’ smooth ‘I Love It’, this album grabs you and refuses to let go with classic cuts from the likes of Bliss and Eso, Koolism, 360, The Herd, Murph and Plutonic, Astronomy Class, Butterfi ngers, Pez and Urthboy. All of the major Aussie hip-hop food groups are represented here.
Standouts include The Herd’s prophetic 2008 jam ‘2020’, the unabashed joy of Diafrix and Daniel Merriweather’s ‘Simple Man’ and the laconic style of Murph and Plutonic on ‘Heaps Good’.
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B efore he was ‘the Govenator’, Arnold Schwarzenegger, along with fellow 80s action stars Sylvester Stallone, Jean
Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lungdren, elicited much criticism from pundits and moviegoers alike for being big on brawn but small on acting ability (“Get to the chopper, “It’s not a tumor”, “Who is your daddy and what does he do” et al.)
Many times during the 118 soulless minutes that make up Len Wiseman’s (‘Underworld’) pointless rehash of Paul Verhoven’s 1990 sci-fi classic I found myself thinking “In Terminator 2, you promised you’d be back, Arnie. All is forgiven, please come back.”
Total Recall 2.0 eschews the Mars setting of the original for a futuristic skyscraper, fl ying car and zippy elevator-laden Earth (that has more akin to the other Phillip K Dick adaptation ‘Blade Runner’) that is essentially window dressing over a paper-thin, Colin-Farrell-running-away- from-the-bad-guys-plot.
While the CGI is a stark improvement on the original, even here all of the bells and whistles seem overdone and overplayed at the expense of character development
and plot.While Kate Beckinsale holds her own as
the Sharon Stone character, Lori, not even her vampire hunter character Selene from ‘Underworld’ could save this hackneyed mess.
H ere’s one that’s sure to get noise merchants everywhere salivating. Those kings of swirling, pulsating, psychedelic rock, My
Bloody Valentine, will be winging their way to Sydney next year in what promises to be a shoegazers fever dream.
When My Bloody Valentine was founded in Dublin in 1983, the course of modern rock music was about to be altered by a considerable seismic shift. Led by the visionary Kevin Shields and with an arsenal that included overwhelming volume, churning guitars and a revolutionary melodic sophistication, My Bloody Valentine both completely thrilled and totally inspired a generation of fans and
with their 1988 debut LP ‘Isn’t Anything’, it was the release of 1992’s ‘Loveless’ that saw the band strike upon the perfect amalgam of thrilling noise and melancholic bitter sweetness.
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SNEAKY SOUNDSN ewcastle clubbers
can rejoice as Australian dance music powerhouse, Sneaky
Sound System, will be swinging by our fair city this weekend.
Black Angus (Angus MacDonald) and Miss Connie (Connie Mitchell), as Sneaky Sound System, have released countless dance-fl oor anthems since their formation in a few years back such as ‘UFO’, ‘I Love It’ and ‘Pictures’.
With the release of their third long-player ‘From Here To Anywhere’ last year, Sneaky Sound System promised a sharp, streamlined new look and a thoroughly invigorated sound and they defi nitely delivered – as anyone who gets along to the show will see.
Black Angus and Miss Connie started making beautiful music together in 2004. As their reputation grew, thanks to the still-weekly Sneaky Sundays club night in Sydney, Sneaky Sound System started releasing singles (including ‘Hip Hip Hooray’ and ‘Tease Me’) and eventually, in 2006, a self-titled debut album. Spearheaded by a spectacular salvo of hits, Sneaky Sound System won ARIA awards for best dance release and best breakthrough artist in 2007.
Striking while the iron was all but on fi re, the second long-player ‘2’ arrived in 2008 with dancefl oor slayers in the form of ‘Kansas City’, ‘When We Were Young’ and the number one UK club smash, ‘It’s Not My Problem’. In 2009 ‘I Will Be Here’, a collaboration with superstar DJ
MORE THAN 20 GOOD REASONS TO CELEBRATEW ith New Year’s Eve creeping
up on us at a fantastic speed, Hunter Valley Gardens is set to kick off
2013 with festivities that will rock your world.
The celebrations will begin with a jaw-dropping lights display, ferris wheel, story book jumping castle, merry-go-round and a slew of live entertainment in the gardens from 6pm to 10pm.
Even though Christmas will be done and dusted, you will still have the opportunity to experience the amazing Christmas Lights Spectacular that illuminates the gardens with more than 1.25 million lights with such sights as a
larger-than-life nativity scene, the North Pole, fountain fi rework lights and cherry blossom trees.
If that wasn’t enough, just a stones throw away from Hunter Valley Gardens, over at Harrigan’s Irish Pub, Aussie indie rockers Thirsty Merc (pictured) will be playing a special one-off show that you defi nitely won’t want to miss out on.
With more than 250 million albums sold and more than 300 live shows under their collective belt, Thirsty Merc has, quite rightly, earned themselves a place as one of this country’s best loved indie-rock acts.
Expect to hear such hits as ‘Mousetrap Heart’, ‘Tommy and Krista’,
‘In The Summertime’, ‘20 Good Reasons’, ‘Someday Someday’ and much, much more.
Entry to New Year’s Eve at Hunter Valley Gardens is $20 for adults and $15 for children (4-15 years). Children four and under will receive free entry and every child will receive a free glow stick. For more information, visit www.hvg.com.au.
Tickets for Thirsty Merc are $50 or $180 VIP (plus booking fees). For more information, visit harrigansirishpub.com.au.
Tiesto, took Sneaky Sound System to the top of the US dance airplay charts.
It’s been nigh on three years since the Sneakys last set foot on Newie soil, performing to a sold-out crowd at Fat as Butter, and the guys have decided to make Newcastle the last port on their extensive Australasian ‘From Here To Anywhere’ tour, so get along and help them fi nish proceedings with a bang.
Catch Sneaky Sound System when they play at Fannys on Saturday, December 22.
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A fter a massive month in the US where they played a formidable 18 shows in 18 days to enraptured audiences,
Brisbane outfi t The Trouble With Templeton are currently smack bang in the middle of their fi rst ever headlining tour that will see them swing by Newcastle this weekend.
The band are currently fl ying high off the release of possibly their biggest single to date – the infectiously catchy ‘Six Months In A Cast’ which was iTunes single of the week in September and managed to hit number 4 on the AIR Independent Radio Charts, not to mention receiving a healthy push from the national youth broadcaster Triple J.
2012 has, thus far, been a pretty big one for the band with tours with
Of Monsters and Men, Julia Stone, Husky and Father John Misty to name a few so, if you want to get a sense of what will be happening for these guys in 2013, get along and check out this formidable live entity.
Catch The Trouble With Templeton when they play at Lizotte’s Lambton on Saturday, December 22.
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W hile her stage presence has been described as “a 1920s fl apper on
uppers”, Newcastle jazz, soul and R ‘n’ B diva Zoe K insists you never know what you’re going to get when she takes to the stage with her band, The Shadow Katz.
“A lot of what I do onstage comes from a great deal of nervous energy,” she told TE.
“Because of that nervous energy, there tends to be a bit of banter in which I have about an 80 per cent closing rate – the rest of the time it can get a bit dicey – let’s just say you never know what you’re going to get.”
Call it what you will, there’s no denying that Zoe K has an abundance of stage presence and the formidable vocal chops that recalls the soulful intensity of the likes of Etta James, to match.
It seems the rest of Australia might well be catching onto the 2009 ABC female vocalist of the year, with the band spending much of 2012 on the road honing their sound off the back of their self-titled album.
“We have been pretty busy this year on the road and
basically becoming a much better band,” she explained.
“We started off the year playing the amazing Woodford Folk Festival on New Year’s Eve and we’ve done two East Coast tours and we’ve been getting some really good feedback. It’s all been very positive.”
In between all of the touring, Zoe K said she was also writing for album number two which would represent a broadening of the musical horizons for the band.
“We’re still writing for the second album which will hopefully be fi nished sometime in 2013, and while the Shadow Katz line-up is still interchangeable, I’ve been lucky enough to have met a very talented sax player in Shane Landry who is also really good at arrangements, so there’s a lot more work going into the songs.
“I’m also getting right back into the jazz side of things and, while I’m still really into the soul and funk, I don’t want to come out sounding like an Amy Winehouse rehash. I want to combine everything into something really new and fresh. It’s all about fi nding a balance.”
Catch Zoe K and The Shadow Katz when they play at The Wickham Park Hotel on Thursday, December 20.
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WHAT A WILY PAIRA fter a triumphant East Coast
tour back in October and equally successful stints in Europe and the US earlier this
year, folk-blues duo Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson will be kicking off yet another East Coast tour in Newcastle in January in support of their latest album – the critically acclaimed ‘Wily Ways’.
Robinson said Newcastle punters could expect the same engaging stripped back folk-blues that has permeated their career over the past
few years, with a few surprises thrown in for good measure.
“There will be lots of tracks from ‘Wily Ways’ in the set and we’ve also been working on a few new songs that might work their way in there at some point – there’s also going to be a lot of stories, anecdotes and tales from the road. We just can’t wait to get back out there,” Robinson said in a disarming Irish lilt.
The pair, now husband and wife, fi rst met when Fitz was performing in Ireland and it was suggested that he check out a wonderful Irish singer. He did, was duly blown away and the rest, as they say, is history.
The fi rst fruits of their musical
marriage was the brilliant debut ‘Beauty and the Beast’ that coupled Fitz’s obvious love of 1920s-esque electric slide blues with Robinson’s folk sensibilities to create something truly unique.
“The best way I can describe the sound is that it’s original music with a true old timey fl avour,” Robinson said. “It’s all about simplicity.”
Robinson added that ‘Wily Ways’ was a natural progression from ‘Beauty and The Beast’ and was a document of the pair becoming more comfortable with each other as a duo.
“The main difference on ‘Wily Ways’ is that I think we have honed our sound a lot more together and also, this time around, we enlisted the help of [Aussie blues and roots legend] Jeff Lang to
co-produce and he really knew what we wanted and how to bring those sounds out on the recording.
“We’re both really chuffed with the album and we were also quite taken with the reaction it’s been getting as well. Europe was just amazing – France really came alive for us and England was great as well. We’ve actually been nominated for an award in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, which is really nice.”
So, does all this add up to an even busier 2013 for Hat Fitz and Cara?
“Who knows. In this business anything can happen so let’s just wait and see, shall we,” she said.
Catch Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson when they play at the Royal Exchange Theatre on Wednesday, January 2.
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CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY
C hristmas will defi nitely be coming early to the Great Northern Hotel when some of Newcastle’s most talented
and big-hearted musicians descend on the venue for a night of unabashed Yuletide joy and cheer.
The night will see Newcastle acts The Nixon Wing, Holly Who, The Hunters, Marissa Saroca and Jay Chase wishing punters a very merry Christmas and each group contains siblings, husbands and wives making for one very special family-oriented affair.
“Christmas is such an amazing opportunity to embrace community and family but, too often, we get too busy, impatient or it’s just not a priority,” said
event coordinator and vocalist for Holly Who, Holly Clayton.
“We many not have carols but we sure have the spirit.”
Opting not to charge for tickets, the acts will be encouraging punters to join in on the Christmas spirit and pop a couple of bucks into ‘Thank You Tins’ – the proceeds of which will be distributed to local families through the Salvation Army Christmas Appeal.
“We’re anticipating a super special night,” Clayton said.
“It all starts at 8.30pm and it’s BYO tinsel.”
All of the Yuletide fun will be on at the Great Northern Hotel on Saturday, December 22.
N ot since the hits of legend Harry Belafonte have we experienced the joy that is calypso music. However, that
has all been rectifi ed with the birth of Australia’s fi rst traditional calypso band – aptly named Eucalypso – and these guys are on a mission to change the face of roots music.
While playing in a number of western swing and country roots outfi ts, Gleny Rae Virus never stopped listening to the music of great calypsonians such as Lord Kitchener, Mighty Sparrow, Lord Flea and The Roaring Lion.
Eucalypso’s music is brimming with humour, political commentary, double entendre and they take the traditional
structures and instrumentation of calypso and add distinctly “local” lyrics laden with puns and the odd sexual innuendo.
Working under her calypsonian nom de plume “Lady Gumnut”, Virus has written a collection of Aussie-themed calypsos dealing with topics such as over regulation, power tools, education and the sexual revolution.
Her Big Bad Banksia Men consist of the three-part horn section, upright bass, guitar, drums and percussion with the lady herself on piano, violin, accordion and vocals.
Get along to the Wickham Park Hotel on Saturday, December 22 for a healthy dose of Eucalypso.
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W ith fi ve-star reviews rolling in on their Triple J Unearthed profi le and their breakthrough single ‘Why
Don’t We Do Something?’ amassing more than 850,000 views on YouTube, Brissy band Hey Geronimo are the band to see this summer.
Fresh from the band’s appearance at Homebake Festival, frontman Pete Kilroy spoke to TE about dropping in to Newcastle and the bands never-fail formula for writing pop songs.
“We’re really looking forward to playing in Newcastle again,” Kilroy said.
“The Great Northern is such a cool venue and has such an awesome vibe, it should be a great show.
“We just want people to have some good times at our show, have a few beers, sing-a-long even if you don’t know the words.”
Thankfully, punters who are none-too-familiar with the lyrics of Hey Geronimo are in luck as the band swears by the hooky-chorus rule.
“We have a steadfast rule with all new songs, you’ve got to be able to either sing-a-long or dance to it.
“We want people to come away from a show in a good mood not on a downer.”
This formula is certainly on display in the band’s latest single, ‘Dreamboat Jack’.
Along with an infectious chorus any
drummer is sure to enjoy, the video is also a hoot.
Put together by Kilroy with the help of friend, Joe Brumm, it features a James Bond-style chase between a puppet lion and zebra.
“I’m not sure why they are chasing each other, it’s kind of hard to give inanimate objects intention, but it seemed like a fun idea at the time,” Kilroy joked.
“We worked on it each weekend over a few months.
“We like to take our time with things, that way you haven’t
wrapped up a video and are left thinking, ‘Sh**, we should’ve done that.’”
Kilroy said the band are also taking their time in the recording studio but
said a Hey Geronimo LP is scheduled for release in mid-2013.
Catch Hey Geronimo when they play at The Great Northern Hotel on Saturday, December 29.
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Nickson Wing, Holly Who + more.GREAT NORTHERN, Teralba: Friday, Michael Mills.GRETA WORKERS CLUB: Friday, Kadence.GUNYAH HOTEL: Friday, Deuce; Saturday, Mick Jones; Sunday, Incognito.GWANDALAN BOWLING CLUB: HALEKULANI BOWLING CLUB: Saturday, Traffi c Light Party.HAMILTON STATION HOTEL: Wednesday, Horse Bolted; Thursday, DJ; Friday, Jamaican Junior Culture; Saturday, Karaoke; Sunday, Nicko’s Christmas Party.HARRIGANS IRISH PUB, Pokolbin: Friday, Uptown.HEATON-BIRMINGHAM GARDENS BOWLING CLUB: Sunday, John Wilson.HOTEL DELANY: Wednesday, DJ Jay Chase; Friday, Matt Meler, AGT; Saturday, Phonic; Monday, DJ Patsan.HOTEL JESMOND: Friday, Dream Tambourine.HOTEL PREMIER: Friday, Ben Travis; Saturday, The Remedy; Saturday, Hornet.IRON HORSE INN: Saturday, Barnestormin - Chisel/Barnes Show; Sunday, The Jungle Kings, Dave Cochrane.KENT HOTEL: Sunday, Howie and Alex.KOTARA BOWLING CLUB: Saturday, The Smarts.KURRI KURRI BOWLING CLUB: Saturday, Gary DavidsonLAKE MACQUARIE YACHT CLUB: Sunday, James Chatburn.LAKESIDE VILLAGE TAVERN: Friday, DJ Ricky; Saturday, Surmiza.LASS O’GOWRIE HOTEL: Wednesday, Swiss Army Wives, Flightless Fowls, My Sweetest Friend; Thursday, Creative creatures Open Mic Night; Friday, Moses O’Jah; Saturday, Bayonets For Legs, Peace and Plenty; Sunday, KL and the Kites.LEMON TREE PASSAGE BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Redline; Saturday, Red Sweat.LIZOTTE’S KINCUMBER: Wednesday, Jon English, Peter Cupples; Thursday, Jingle Blues; Friday, The Chiorboys; Saturday, The Trouble With Templeton, The Falls; Sunday, James Reyne, Ollie Brown. LIZOTTE’S NEWCASTLE: Wednesday, The Idea of North; Thursday, Jon English, Peter Cuppels; Friday, The Trouble With Templeton, The Falls, Saturday, James Reyne, Chris Byrne; Sunday, The Choirboys.
I n case you’ve been living under a rock, Newcastle songstress Peta Evans Taylor has sass to burn – not to mention one formidable set of pipes.
She has won both state and national titles for singing and songwriting. She has also wowed audiences all over Australia and overseas with her sultry sounds being heard in Hollywood, San Francisco, India and Norfolk Island – to name but a few.
Having also shared stages with the likes of Damien Leith, Wendy Matthews, Brian Cadd and Russel Morris, this sassy lady is going places.
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SALAMANDER SHORES: Friday, Mardmax; Sunday, Peta Evans Taylor.SEABREEZE HOTEL: Saturday, Bella Dose Duo.SEVEN SEAS: Friday, Kirsty Larkin; Saturday, Boulder Dash; Sunday, Allon.SHAFT TAVERN: Friday, V Dubs.SHAMROCK HOTEL, Muswellbrook: Saturday, Fun2mental.SHENANIGANS, Maitland: Friday, Karaoke; Saturday, Solid Gold Disco.SHOAL BAY RESORT: Wednesday, Mick Jones; Thursday, James Naldo, Katrina Burgoyne; Friday, Gen X, Beth Gleeson; Saturday, Kirsty Larkin, Romney Watts, Tru Lies; Sunday, Twinsanity, Mike Pickering, Troy; Monday, Sundays Record, The V Dubs.SHORTLAND HOTEL: Friday, Mick Jones.SINGLETON DIGGERS, York Street: Friday, Daniel Arvidson; Saturday, Pete Hibbert.SOLDIERS POINT BOWLING CLUB: Saturday, Brazillian Brothers Duo.STAG AND HUNTER: Friday, Ninemile; Saturday, Formula.SWANSEA HOTEL: Thursday, Damien; Friday, Twinsanity; Saturday, AGT; Sunday, Viper Creek.SWANSEA RSL CLUB: Saturday, Iguana.SWANSEA WORKERS CLUB: Saturday, Blue Gum.SYDNEY JUNCTION HOTEL: Friday/Saturday, DJs.TALL TIMBERS, Ourimbah: Friday, Twitcho.TELARAH BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Jim Overend; Saturday, Free Jukebox.TILLIGERRY RSL CLUB: Friday, Plastic Spurs; Saturday, Casho; Sunday, Bec Willis; Tuesday, Mick Jones.TORONTO HOTEL: Friday, Piper and the Cro; Saturday, Mick Boogaard.TORONTO DIGGERS: Friday, Rok Candy; Saturday, Franky and Johnny.TOWN HALL HOTEL, Waratah: Sunday, Ryan Daley.TUDOR HOTEL: Saturday, Redline.VUES ON THE BAY: Friday, ME; Saturday, Sundays Record; Sunday, Mike Vee.WALLARAH BAY REC CLUB: Friday, Change Duo; Saturday, Brassick.WALLSEND DIGGERS CLUB: Friday, Cruisers; Saturday, Rock Factor Trio.WANGI DISTRICT WORKERS CLUB: Friday, Gary Davidson; Saturday, John Jay.WANGI HOTEL: Sunday, Dave Feint.WANGI RSL: Friday, Red Alert Duo.WARNERS AT THE BAY: Thursday, Karaoke; Friday, Moonlight Drive; Saturday, Loose Bazooka.WARNERS BAY HOTEL: Thursday, Misbehave;
Friday, DJs; Saturday, Revolver; Sunday, Lennie Live, Open Fire.WESTON WORKERS CLUB: Saturday, DJ Brian Bean, On The Prowl.WESTS NEW LAMBTON PIANO LOUNGE: Wednesday, Terence Koo; Thursday, Angamus; Friday, Peter Wall; Saturday, Warren Hunter; Monday, Frank Wakewood.WESTS NEW LAMBTON MARBLE BAR: Friday, Jerome Duo; Saturday, Gen R 8.WEST WALLSEND WORKERS CLUB: Friday, Venus 2; Saturday, Peter Stefanson.WICKHAM PARK HOTEL: Wednesday, Flash Jam; Thursday, Zoe K and the Shadow Katz; Friday, Milestones; Saturday, John Larder, Josh Callaway, Gleny Rae’s Eucalypso; Sunday, Carrot, Steve Edmonds Band.WINDSOR CASTLE HOTEL: Friday, Two Good reasons; Saturday, Bobby C.WYONG BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Paul Watters.WYONG LEAGUES CLUB: Friday, MT Pockets; Saturday, Slam Tango.
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H ave you got the itch, the urge and the rattle for fantastic music? Then it’s time you checked out the
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Newcastle band Hornet.Ty has made his name with 19
years’ experience as a professional musician, penned three top 10 hits in the Australian charts and opened for prestigious acts such as Mick Jagger, Hoodoo Gurus, Baby Animals and the Divinyls.
Alongside Ty, Mark has 18 years’ experience as a professional musician and is currently signed to Warner Music with Steve Gibson.
The duo has a hunger for classic rock/pop music and a song list that can only be compared to a 60Gb iPod. The guys cover acts such as the Beatles, Elvis,
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I f you’re looking for a great night out for the whole family with some great food and entertainment to boot, then you’d do well to get along to
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This freshly minted restaurant (when I dined there, they hadn’t even got the menus back from the printers) offers modern Australian cuisine – think seafood, steak and pasta – with some classic pub-fare touches.
After a quick perusal of the menu, and after a healthy serving of some of the most delicious garlic bread I’ve had in recent memory, I decided on that iconic pub dish – the chicken parmigiana.
Served with a crisp and fresh summery homemade potato salad with iceberg lettuce and succulent tomato wedges, this dish was an absolute delight. The lightly seasoned chicken breast was cooked to perfection and was covered in a deliciously thick layer of ham and mozzarella cheese. The addition of a rich yet not overdone tomato sauce made this dish really shine.
Dining partner number one decided on the fi llet steak served with a peppercorn sauce and a side of salad and chips and, again, they truly hit the mark.
The perfectly seared steak was
melt-in-your-mouth tender and the peppercorn sauce provided a spicy morishness that was hard to beat.
Lastly, dining partner number two (young master 11) chose another pub classic – the chicken schnitzel with gravy, salad and chips and the enthusiastic young diner declared it to be “the best schnitzel ever”.
The chicken breast was encased in a lovely wafer-thin crumb that was full of fl avour and the homemade gravy provided the perfect accompaniment – as did a healthy portion of fresh and crunchy chips.
However, perhaps the star of the show was the restaurant’s namesake – Hushie. He really made us feel welcome and as if we were dining at his home.
Aside from running the restaurant with aplomb, Hushie is also a dab-hand on the microphone and when he is not wowing you with his affable demeanour, you’ll fi nd him on stage with his sister, niece and brother-in-law, belting out some karaoke. Honestly, this guy can sing and his relatives are no slouches either. Dinner and a show! What more could you ask for?
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I t’s pretty much a free kick that, no matter how surreptitious, sneaky or deceptive, a 12 foot ninja would be pretty hard to ignore.
It would come as no surprise, then, that Melbourne outfi t 12 Foot Ninja’s debut long-player, the intricate prog rock heaviness that is ‘Silent Machine’, is almost as big and imposing as the band’s namesake.
The band are gearing up for a
massive Oz tour that will kick off in Newcastle in January and guitarist Steve “Stevic” Mackay told TE that punters could expect a ridiculously energetic performance with a little bit of zen thrown in for good measure.
“We’re really looking forward to this tour, it’s going to be huge,” he said.
“People can expect a bunch of material from the new album and some pretty wild stuff going on onstage. We’ve been standing on poles out in the water, perfecting our balance and making sure that our chi is fl owing nicely so it should be good.”
After two short sharp bursts of 12 Foot Ninja, in the form of the EPs ‘New Dawn’ (2008) and ‘Smoke Bomb’ (2010) the band decided to take the plunge with a long-player and Mackay said the whole ordeal, while trying at times, couldn’t have gone any better.
“The reception the album has been getting has been brilliant and the way critics, other bands – we’ve actually been embraced by a few bands in the States so we’re forging some really good friendships over there – and punters has just been fantastic.
“The writing for the album was a bit all over the shop, though. Some of the songs were written completely on an iPhone, some came out of jamming
and some were written on a computer. There was no set plan. I essentially recorded the thing, like four times, changing little things each time, which was rather annoying, but to see the end result in your hands, it’s totally worthwhile.”
As something a bit different, in the lead-up to the album’s release, the band released each track digitally with an accompanying comic drawn by UK artist Keith Dawes that fl eshed out some of the weighty concepts contained on the album, which will be available at the show.
Catch 12 Foot Ninja when they play at The Cambridge Hotel on Thursday, January 10.
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I t’s a pretty telling statement of intent that iconic Aussie pub rock outfi t The Choirboys’ fi rst single was titled ‘Never Gonna Die’.
Some thirty-plus years since the band’s inception, they are showing no signs of shuffl ing off this mortal coil with the band seeing out the year with a special acoustic show at Lizotte’s this weekend.
“I reckon that, when we recorded that song [‘Never Gonna Die’], I pretty much knew that I was never gonna die,” front man Mark Gable told TE.
“We were pretty young and stupid at the time and at that age you think you’re pretty much impervious to everything – you can smack into things, have things smack into you and the like and you just bounce back – also, if you did happen to die it would be a glorious death like an assassination and all the kids would weep that their people’s poet was dead. Honestly, though, it is pretty amazing that we are still around and having as much fun as we are.”
When it comes to fun, Gable said that was pretty much the modus operandi for the Choirboys these days, as people who attend the acoustic shows will be able to attest.
“This acoustic run will be our last shows for the year and it’s basically going to be a heap of fun – it’s not like working at all. We’ll just be rocking up with our acoustics, making a few
‘woohoo’ noises and cracking a few jokes – I like to tell jokes onstage – I don’t think they’re funny, but I get a few laughs from the crowd from time to time so it’s okay.”
Perhaps best known for their anthemic hit ‘Run To Paradise’, Gable said the Choirboys were currently formulating plans to head back into the studio, sometime in the near future, to lay down some new tracks for a long player.
“We want to put out a blues/pub rock album – much like our fi rst record. There’ll be no niceness on there at all, just a lot of rough and ready blues and rock and roll with lyrics about old men wanting to sleep with young women – in their 50s,” Gable laughed.
Catch The Choirboys in acoustic mode when they play at Lizotte’s Lambton on Sunday, December 23.
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Two for the price of oneA fter sold-out performances across
Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide earlier this year and hot on the heels of their impressive performances on
the smash-hit TV show ‘The Voice’, Carmen Smith and Diana Rouvas will be coming to Newcastle for a very intimate acoustic show.
The show will essentially be made up of three sets, with both singers performing separate sets before they join each other onstage for a powerhouse encore that is sure to impress.
Smith is a versatile and engaging performer who not only writes, produces, dances and performs her own material but has done the same for many successful Australian artists. Her vocals have been featured on tracks from the likes of Diesel, Thirsty Merc and Guy Sebastian and she has just released her new single ‘They Don’t Know Me’ on iTunes.
Rouvas, on the other hand, has been plying her trade in the Sydney soul circuit for years now. The pint-sized singer with one heck of a set of pipes loves nothing more than playing late-night venues – becoming energised from the hum and buzz of the after-hours lifestyle.
The two singers had only heard of one another through mutual friends and when they fi nally met on the set of ‘The Voice’, it was like two old friends coming together, according to Smith.
“It was like I had known her for years,” she said.
“I started singing one of her songs to her from her EP a few years back – she fl ipped.”
On ‘The Voice’, both singers were not only Team Joel and Team Keith favourites but also managed to please the crowds.
Catch Carmen Smith and Diana Rouvas when they play at Lizotte’s on Thursday, January 17.
