H i n d si g ht i s 3 0 : 3 0Aussie rock icon J IMMY BARNES is heading to Bimbadgen next week as part of his national 30:30 Hindsight tour and TE caught up with Barnes on the eve of his Adelaide hit out with the Rolling Stones.

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A young, newly wed, newly dead, couple end up as poltergeists in their home. U nable to scare away the insufferable new owners, they summon an expert fright master.

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In a case of “you can’t keep a good thing down”, legendary rocker Jimmy Barnes is back on stage and better than ever, as Hunter fans will find out when he rocks

Bimbadgen next month.

Barnes was forced to reschedule shows for his current 30:30 H indsight tour after complications from elective back surgery and he told TE , on the eve of his Adelaide Rolling Stones support slot, that he was over the moon to be well-and-truly on the mend and back on stage.

“Yeah, it feels great, and I’m feeling pretty good now, too,” he said.

“W e had a little bit of a slow start coming back, but now, after a few shows in we’re really rockin’ and the Day on the Green shows are going to be awesome - having the opportunity to play with a bunch of great mates in a brilliant setting - you can’t beat it.”

There’s no denying that 2014 has been quite an eventful year for Barnes. Aside from his hospital stint, he also clocked up 30 years as a solo artist and celebrated with the release of the ARIA-nominated 30:30 H indsight album. The album, a celebration of his formidable solo career, sees Barnes unite with a slew of “heavy” friends including Bernard Fanning, Steven Van Zandt, Tina Arena, The Living E nd, Keith U rban and Joe Bonamassa and Barnes said the project came together with a considerable ease.

“It was just one of those fortunate things where everything just kind of fell into place,” he said.

“There were only a couple that were a bit hard to pin down - Bernard Fanning was one. M y son Jackie said I should get Bernard on the record and I said “defi-nitely”, so I called him up and asked him if he was interested and he told me he was leaving for Spain in two days time, but he really wanted to do it so he ended up driving to Byron Bay and he did the song [I’m Still On Your Side] and he did a bloody brilliant job.”

In another coup, Barnes secured the services of long-time Bruce Springsteen guitarist Steven Van Zandt who layed his inimitable style down on a rousing rendi-tion of the classic R ide The N ight Away - a song that was co-written by Van Zandt for the massive For The W orking Class M an album.

“Yeah, it was great to get to record that song with Steven but again it was a bit of a tight squeeze as he only had one day in his schedule. Steven sent me the song originally- we hadn’t met but I played with Springsteen on his last tour and went up to Steven and asked if he wanted to record it and luckily he could fit it in. It really was like coming full circle.”

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The ease with which Barnes was able to pull together such a formidable cast of characters for the album is testament to the amount of respect Barnes commands within the industry. The same goes for the Australian record buying public, too, with 30:30 H indsight fast approaching plati-num status as well as snagging an ARIA nomination for best rock album. Given that Barnes has one of the most impres-sive track records as a solo artist - with all but one of his 15 solo albums snagging a top three chart slot - you might think he may becoming a little nonchalant about plaudits these days, but you’d be dead wrong.

“It’s just fantastic the way people have responded to the album and the ARIA nomination is a huge honour,” he enthused.

“After 30 years on tour, it’s a great valida-tion and it’s great to see that people are still interested - I couldn’t be happier.”

Barnes, who essentially dove headfirst into a solo career less than one month after Cold Chisel called it a day with their

now-legendary Last Stand tour, said while going solo was a nerve wracking experi-ence initially, after the mammoth success of his debut long player Bodyswerve he knew he was onto something.

“Yeah it was bloody nerve wracking - I mean I was stepping out from the best bands in the country at the time,” he said.

“But, I needed to keep going, so I got a band together and got to work on the album. W e weren’t really expecting it to come in big but it ended up at number one which took a hell of a lot of pressure off.”

Nowadays, it’s pretty much a given that Barnes is one of the most iconic and influential artists that Australia has ever produced. So where does he see himself fitting into the whole story?

“I don’t really think about things like legacy or anything like that,” he said. “After all this time, 30 years and 15 albums, I guess I’m just a part of the fabric.”

Catch Jimmy Barnes, The Living End, Baby Animals, Mahalia Barnes & The Soulmates and Nick Barker at Bimbadgen Winery on Saturday, November 8.

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At the age of 12, when a guitar was placed in his hands, it wasn’t hard to tell that Ben Travis was destined to be a performer. After years of play-ing in bands, duos and trios fine-tuning his performance skills it was time to take the leap and play the way he has always loved. Stripped back and acoustic

By the age of 20 Ben had already performed with high-profile artists such as The Screaming Jets, Anasta-sia, Chris Isaak, James Reyne, Kid Courageous and Grinspoon.

Travis has the ability to play just about any request you can shout out in a catchy, fun, unique style that will leave you wanting more. He is also known for his quirky abilities in between songs or sets, “seal like” balancing tricks, card tricks and a joke here or there.

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After a conditioning of dance music from a young age it’s no wonder that Jon-T has developed into the young and creative electronic musician he is today. Combining the full-bodied tunes of the modern music scene and enjoyable classics with the energetic element of traditional live music, Jon-T uses various drumming and DJ gear to produce a unique music experience perfectly suited for any situation. His repertoire spreads from the meaty club genres such as E lectro House, Dubstep, House and Hip Hop to chill out genres such as R& B, Nu-Soul and Funky House.

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When it comes to sheer, unadul-terated sticktoitiveness in the music biz, there are few to hold

a candle to Canadian metallers Anvil.The subject of a 2009 doco, The Story Of

Anvil - arguably one of the best and most inspiring music docos ever made, Anvil have been making records - 15 of them in fact, in relative obscurity since their first slab of classic metal H ard and H eavy dropped in 1981. W hile bands like M ega-deth, M etallica, Slayer and Anthrax - the “big four” of U S metal all cite Anvil as an influence - wider recognition eluded them.

However, they kept on keeping on and as a result of the 2009 doco, interest in the band skyrocketed with European tours, slots on Conan O’Brien, and supports for the likes of AC/DC and Saxon in the offing.

The band last visited our shores for the 2010 Soundwave festival, but as guitarist, Steve ‘Lips’ Kudlow told TE the band’s upcoming O z tour, on the back of their latest album H ope In H ell, would pull out all of the stops.

“This is the first time we’ve played a full Anvil show in Australia,” he said.

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Kudlow formed Anvil in 1978 with drum-mer, Robb Reiner and while their debut caused a lot of fuss, dodgy dealings left them high and dry leaving the band to essentially fly under the radar, releasing albums on various indie metal labels in the States and Europe, but as Kudlow said, once the doco came along he knew all of the hard work he had put into the band was going to pay off.

“Put it this way, I’d been playing this music for many, many years, twelve albums worth of years at that point and this guy [director, Sacha Gervasi] who we’ve known since 1982, sits me down and tells me he wants to make a movie about Anvil and I just broke down into f***ing tears.

“I mean, here is a guy who has worked with Steven Goddamn Spielberg, who wants to make a movie about my band - I knew then and there things were going to take off.

“The thing about the Anvil story is that it is a very human story - it’s all about doing the best that you can do with your life and also that you can’t let the outside world tell you what’s right and wrong. Just live for tomorrow, man. It’s all about living for tomorrow.”

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After dipping his toe into solo territory with last year’s cosmic-psych pop E P, The Good Borne

of Bad Tym es, You Am I and the Pictures “chord slinging cowboy” Davey Lane is back with a cracking LP - Atonally Young.

Lane said the album, which is a beguil-ing amalgamation of the synth-heavy explorations of Bad Tym es coupled with a forthright power- pop sound more akin to his work with You Am I, had definitely been a long time coming.

“Since the Pictures kind of shuddered to a halt, I’d basically been writing and recording aimlessly in my bedroom,” Lane told TE .

“I spent a couple of years basically holed up in my bedroom, working out my sound and letting my freak flag fly.

“I ended up writing around fifty or sixty songs, then culled it all down and went into the studio to record with Tony Buchen, which was great because it was the first time I’d taken my own stuff out of the bedroom and into the studio - the E P was all done at home.”

Lane turned to the crowdfunding site Pozible to fund the nuts and bolts of the project and, while he said he was reti-cent at the get-go he was pleased with the results.

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“That said, it worked really well and while I might not go down that route for the next thing, it’s definitely a great avenue for independent artists.

“I’m already about 16 songs into the next album - you never know when you’re gonna drop off the perch, so it’s best to keep busy while you can.”

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When fire destroyed the M orrow Park Bowling Club last year - the home of Caitlin O ’Reilly

and Tim E vans from Newcastle moody pop three-piece Crazy O ld M aurice - on the night they were laying down tracks for their upcoming E P, it seemed that the recording would never eventuate.

However, twelve months on and thanks to tenaciousness and some generosity from the Newcastle muso community, the band, also featuring double bassist M ike Collins, is back with the aforemen-tioned E P, The E m pty Glim m er finally seeing the light of day next month.

“It absolutely has been a long time coming so there is a great sense of relief,” O ’Reilly told TE .

“After the fire, we thought that the

recording would be just a dream but here we are”

Having lost pretty much everything except their lives in the fire, an outpour-ing of support, in the form of fundraisers, helped the band replace the musical gear lost and get back on their feet. O ’Reilly, who, along with E vans helps run the Commons on Beaumont Street said that the support was overwhelming, as they were more used to being the ones to help up and coming musos and artists.

“Through the Commons we were kind of used to doing the giving,” she said.

“It was really heartening to see that there were so many people who thought what we were doing was worthwhile enough to throw their support behind and we’re forever grateful.”

O ’Reilly said the eclectic six-song E P will be released in Newcastle at the M orrow Park Bowling Club on Sunday, November 23.

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izotte’s will be getting into the Yuletide spirit a little early this year when legendary Aussie blues

‘supergroup’ The Backsliders bring their pre-Christmas show to Newcastle next weekend.

Featuring the formidable talents of singer/guitarist Dom Turner, the drumming bril-liance of M idnight O il and The Break’s Rob Hirst and, for this hit-out, harp player Ian Collard (Collard Greens and Gravy), the Backsliders have been doing their thing for 30 years now and are showing no signs of slowing down if their latest long-player Darkside is anything to go by.

Turner told TE that the album - which bristles with The Backsliders massive “delta-blues wall of sound” was a mixture of new tracks and some lost classics that had underwent a bit of a spruce up.

“W hen you’ve been doing it for as long as we have you tend to have a lot of songs,” Turner said.

“And there are a lot of those old songs we love that we just haven’t looked at in ages so we decided to go back through, pick out a couple that we really liked and give them a bit of a reworking and I’d say the best example of this is the song H ouse on the Corner that we did in the 90 s - it had a real blues rock beat , but we’ve reworked it here to a point where it almost sounds M iddle E astern.

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Given that it’s the live arena in which this band comes into their own, Turner said that getting this vibe down on the album was imperative - and helped in no small part by recording in Hirst’s M idnight O il alumnus, Jim M oginie’s studio.

“Sure we embellished it a little bit with overdubs bit it was all recorded completely live and Jim’s studio is really conducive to recording in a live setting and as such we found the whole process quite easy really.”

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In a massive blow, country chanteuse Kasey Chambers has been forced to post-pone her upcoming Bittersweet tour, set to touch down in Newcastle on Sunday, November 23, on doctor’s orders.

Chambers was, last week, diagnosed with nodules and inflammation on her vocal chords and she will undergo vocal therapy for the next few months top repair the damage and avoid surgery.

“Doctors have advised that I lighten my workload considerably for a little while to give them a chance to heal, but luckily, if I take their advice, no surgery is needed. Thank you for the support over the last year, with some rest and ‘no yell-ing at the kids to clean their room’, I’ll be back on track in no time,” she said.

A new Newcastle date will be announced shortly. Get well soon, Kasey.

Cardiff RSL is kicking off a new line-up of live entertainment every Friday and Saturday night and what better way to kick things off than to play host to one of the best tribute bands on the circuit Born Jovi. If Bon Jovi are high on your play-list, then you’ll be in hog heaven with

Born Jovi - a scarily accurate tribute that embraces the sights and sounds of one of the world’s biggest rock bands. Hit after hit, all your favourites are delivered in a passionate and powerful performance.

Catch Born Jovi at Cardiff RSL on Saturday,November 8

Australia’s Got Talent judge and multi-platinum artist Timomatic will be showing off his moves at his first ever face-to-face dance workshops for 5-18 year olds in Newcastle this Friday.

“He will also talking to the young people about his journey and that’s what makes it such a positive experience,” event coordinator Chad Ross said.

Timomatic shot to stardom after

competing in So You Think You Can Dance and Australia’s Got Talent, going on to hit singles such as Set it Off and Parachute.

Tickets are available now from www.celebritydancefactory.com.au.

The Timomatic workshop will be held at 7pm inside the Kotara High Audito-rium on Lexington Avenue, Adamstown Heights.

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