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Stephen Bisset caught up with ukulele adventurist Jake Shimabakuro ahead of his highly anticipated

Bluesfest performance and sideshow at Lizotte’s to chat about redefi ning instruments and working with Alan Parsons.

Rockabilly Queen Wanda Jackson hits town PAGE 29

Electro pioneers Sonic Animation are back PAGE 35

Electronic party band Pigeon take off PAGE 33

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The Incredible Burt WonderstoneReviewed at Reading Cinemas by Tricia Morosin

T his slick remake of the 1971 Charlton Heston vehicle, ‘The Omega Man’, from director Francis Lawrence

(‘Water For Elephants’) relies more on the visceral scares than subtlety to get its point across, but is still just as compelling viewing nonetheless.

Will Smith stars as scientist Robert Lawrence, who, after being unable to stop an incurable man-made virus, is the last human survivor in New York City and perhaps the world.

However, he is not alone, with mutant victims of the plague lurking in the shadows and coming out at night. Conveniently immune to the pandemic, Lawrence is driven by his one remaining mission – to fi nd a way to reverse the effects of the virus.

This is one tense and taught thriller that defi nitely errs on the side of horror.

W ith such a magical cast of comic

actors, it’s diffi cult to not have high expectations for ‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone’ – the new comedy by Don Scardino of ‘30 Rock’ fame.

Steve Carell (Burt Wonderstone) and Steve Buscemi (Anton Marvelton) play two out-dated magicians, struggling to fi nd relevance against the David Blaine-style antics of their new rival, Steve Gray (Jim Carrey).

Carrey is almost unrecognisable as the masochistic Gray, however not as funny as expected.

The best supporting role would have to go to Alan Arkin, as Carell’s mentor, Rance Holloway. The pair rekindle the on-screen spark that lit up ‘Little Miss Sunshine’, and Arkin provides perfectly delivered dead-pan comedy.

While there are a few LOL moments, I couldn’t help compare the storyline to the much funnier Ben Stiller classic, Zoolander. This fi lm could’ve delivered more laughs, but overall still offers up a fun night out at the fl icks.

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Bonnie Raitt, Wednesday, April 3Enmore Theatre

T his gritty cop drama from director David Ayer (‘Training Day’, ‘The Fast and the Furious’) takes the

whole cinema verite/documentary style narrative to a whole new level.

The fi lm follows the day-to-day of two LA police offi cers Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Mike Zavala (Michael Pena) with Taylor carrying around a video camera to shoot footage for a fi lm class he is taking for extra credit on his law degree.

However, nothing can prepare them for the backlash that happens after they pull over the members of a notorious drug cartel for a routine traffi c stop.

Jake Gyllenhall is quietly convincing as the streetwise LA cop.

Visceral and edgy, this fi lm has plenty of gripping moments that are sure to keep you on the edge of your seat.

B onnie Raitt is more than a best-

selling artist, respected guitarist, expressive singer and accomplished songwriter she has become an institution in American Music.

The breakthrough success of her Grammy-winning 1989 album, ‘Nick of Time’, shone a light on her gifts as a songwriter, singer and musician, launching a steady stream of recognition and respect by the music industry and fans alike. She has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Blues Hall of Fame, has won ten Grammy Awards and been named by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time and 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

On her latest and nineteenth studio album, ‘Slipstream’, these gifts – lyricist, composer, singer and musician – are honed to a fi ne edge. The result is a collection of superlative tracks garnering more respect and praise for Raitt’s work.

Along for the ride will be no-foolin, rock and roll legend Mavis Staples, who is responsible for blazing a rhythm and blues trail while with her outfi t, the Staples Singers.

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I n an era where youthful female singer/songwriters tend to either travel the Britney Spears manufactured pop path or the

laid-back road of Norah Jones, it’s refreshing to discover the music of Australia’s own Kim MacKenzie. An energetic performer whose music defi es categorisation, MacKenzie has progressively built a crowd-pleasing reputation since branching out from her Toowoomba base in 2002. But a series of live performances up and down Australia’s east coast is merely an entrée for what lies ahead.

MacKenzie has always maintained a rare honesty in her vocal delivery and musicianship, whether it’s performing her own catalogue of well-crafted material, or re-interpreting the tunes of some of the world’s most respected songwriters. Her unique take of Bob Dylan’s All Along The Watchtower, often used to close the show at her live concerts, is indicative of a performer capable of shattering all musical boundaries.

Catch Kim MacKenzie when she plays at the Clarendon Hotel on Saturday, March 23.

Heart on her sleeve

N ewcastle muso Greg Bryce has been plying his trade around the traps in various outfi ts (most notably the

legendary DV8 and more recently, Greg Bryce and the Bad Bad Things) for more years than he’d probably care to remember, but, such is his passion for music, he is about to unleash his latest project onto the world, The Hot Yogis, when they launch their debut album ‘Under the Wire’ at the Wicko later this month.

Bryce said he, bass player Len Samperi and drummer Simon Lee, fi rst got together with the intention of getting a covers band together, but things clicked pretty quickly and the trio soon blew out to a fully-fl edged originals outfi t.

“We formed the band with the view of getting a covers set together and we went into the studio to record

some snippets of covers to use for promotional purposes,” he said.

“I had been writing a fair bit of stuff on acoustic guitar that wasn’t really suitable for the other projects I was involved in and we ended up laying down fi ve original tracks during that session.”

Listening back to the sessions, the trio discovered that while covers sounded good, it was the original tracks that had the real legs so, with a renewed enthusiasm, they set about giving the already recorded a spit polish as well as penning more tracks to complete ‘Under The Wire’ – and the end result is an alluring mix of hookier- than-Rex-Hunt’s-tackle-box guitar lines, a bit of soulful funk, blues and even the odd ballad for good measure.

“I played the songs to a few friends of mine and they basically said they sounded great but they needed more production so we added some colour on the existing tracks and we ended up writing 15 for the album – 14 of which made it onto the

fi nished product.”Catch The Hot Yogis when they play at the Wickham Park Hotel on Thursday, March 28. As a special treat,

the band will be joined onstage by Screaming Jet and Agent of Peace, Grant Walmsley, who will be taking on second guitar duties.

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N ewcastle muso Dave Owen has been plugging away at his craft around the traps for quite a few years now,

making quite the name for himself largely for his warm tones, solid rhythms and tasteful guitar lines.

Aside from plugging away on the solo circuit, Owen has also been known to pop up with the equally popular double act, Aaron and Dave.

With tracks from the likes of Neil Young, Tom Petty, Crowded House, Green Day, Powderfi nger, Pearl Jam and Bob Marley, a Dave Owen set reads like a who’s who of popular music and is eclectic enough to keep even the fussiest gig fancier satiated.

Catch Dave Owen when he plays at the Cricketers Arms Hotel on Saturday, March 23.

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THE CHURCH OF THE SOUL

H aving just returned from a hugely successful debut European tour, there’s no denying that Sydney-based

soul-blues outfi t, The Widowbirds, have come quite a long way since their early days (just three years ago) as an acoustic duo.

“Man, that tour was just awesome,” frontman Simon Meli told TE.

“We left straight after New Years and played 24 shows over there – it was much better than we expected. We defi nitely found our second home in Spain we had awesome shows over there.”

Touring the continent to promote their latest release, the swirling gospel soaked ‘Shenandoah’, Meli said the band was particularly surprised at the reaction they received on the tour given that they had absolutely no European distribution for the record.

“No, we went over there with the

intention of setting up distro and stuff for a return trip and we spent heaps of time doing radio and anything we could to get the word out, so it was really nice to see such a positive reaction.”

Produced by Noiseworks guitarist Steve Balbi, ‘Shenandoah’ is all about lapsteels, dobros, a gritty southern aesthetic and that ever-present and brilliantly mesmerising Hammond organ and boogie piano.

With infl uences coming from the likes of Otis Redding, Frankie Miller, The Band and Neil Young, the Widowbirds deliver a raw soulfulness without any hit of pretentiousness.

Meli said the band received an early boost while on tour with former Jam and Style Council frontman and young soul rebel Paul Weller with the King of the Mods joining the band onstage to wail on the Hammond.

“Man, that was totally unexpected,” Meli said.

“We didn’t have a Hammond player at the time and all of Paul’s stuff was set up behind us while we were playing and he just walks onstage, sits down at the Hammond and started wailing on it – the guy has such a great knowledge of soul that he just knew exactly where to...It was an awesome experience.”

Meli said the

Widowbirds were essentially a live band, putting everything they have into each show, and that punters need not expect a bunch of loiterers onstage.

“I’d say there aren’t a lot of bands that will give you a show like we do,” he said.

“We just love fi lling rooms with an awesome soul power – it’s more like going to church than going to a gig.”

Catch the Widowbirds when they play at The Wickham Park Hotel on Sunday, March 24.

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W hen it comes to rock and roll and rockabilly royalty, they don’t come much more regal than

Wanda Jackson. Widely regarded as the Queen of Rock and the First Lady of Rockabilly, Jackson, who has been playing ever since being placed on a bill with none other than Elvis Presley, will be in Newcastle this week as part of her Bluesfest sideshows.

Despite having a back catalogue heavy enough to kill several small horses (hey, she’s been releasing albums since 1958) Jackson said that the show would run the gamut of a career that encompassed country, rockabilly and gospel.

“People can defi nitely look forward to

hearing a lot of the old standards from the 1950s and 1960s – songs like ‘Let’s Have A Party’ – and I also plan to throw in some country and gospel,” Jackson told TE.

“There will also be a few selections from my latest two albums – ‘The Party Aint Over’ and ‘Unfi nished Business’ which I’m really looking forward to playing.”

For the most recent albums, Jackson enlisted the services of White Stripe Jack White and roots singer/songwriter and son of Steve Earle, Justin Townes Earle respectively to produce and she said she learnt quite a bit from the pair.

“In general, they were totally different to work with,” she said.

“Jack is kind of like a velvet-covered brick – he always gets his way but he was just so nice you just didn’t mind at all. He was so full of great arrangements and he was all about giving me a fresh

sound, whereas Justin really wanted to strip everything down back to the country roots – I learned a bunch from both of those guys.”

There was another artist who taught Jackson a thing or two, a little bit earlier in her career – a little upstart called Elvis Presley.

“He defi nitely infl uenced me but he infl uenced music, full stop, as he singlehandedly turned the music business inside out,” she said.

“Although it soon became evident to me, in those days, as Elvis pointed out, that it was the young people who were starting to buy the records and, because I was a teenager at the time, he urged me to get in on this whole rock and roll thing, although, at that time it wasn’t called rock and roll, it was just known as Elvis’ kind of music. He really showed

me and a lot of other people the way.”In a case of things coming full circle,

it seems that Jackson is now showing people, years her junior, the way with the likes of Adele singing the Queen of Rockabilly’s praises and inviting her to perform on tour.

“It really is a very good feeling when you start to see that your music does have an effect on people and I think I may’ve become a kind of role model for younger people in the business, just because I’ve been doing it for so long,” she said.

“But I really wouldn’t know how to do anything else – I’ve never made a penny from anything other than singing, not even from babysitting when I was a girl.”

Catch Wanda Jackson when she plays at Lizotte’s Lambton on Monday, March 25.

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A s one of the region’s most recognised and respected entertainers, Daniel Arvidson shines as a highly experienced performer.

His expanding commercial and original material sets exceptional standards, while his success as a musician is constantly increasing.

He is an award-winning artist, winning plaudits both for his original music and performance.

Arvidson is fi rst choice for many major events and functions around the country and has also taken his magic around the world to places including Italy, New York and the Caribbean.

He has a massive repertoire, ranging from Coldplay, Bernard Fanning, Angus and Julia Stone, Bruno Mars, Jack Johnson and Jessie J to Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash, Neil Young and Pearl Jam, plus more.

While possessing an exceptional ability to capture an audience, his endless repertoire allows him to adapt his show to suit the audience.

Be it sweet and smooth for those quieter moments, or powerful and gutsy when you’re ready to dance, Arvidson knows how to deliver a song.

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W hen it comes to enthusiastic young musicians doing their thing around the traps,

they don’t come much more so than Central Coast-based singer/guitarist, Howard Shearman.

In the short time Shearman has been plying his musical trade, he has recorded two EPs and shared stages with a number of Aussie music luminaries such as Jon Stevens (Noiseworks), James Reyne (Australian Crawl) and Rai Thistlewayte (Thirsty Merc), to name a few.

After clocking up gigs in more than 100 different venues, there’s no doubt that Shearman has developed the chops to entertain any audience. Also, with a covers set that reads like a who’s who of popular music, this guy could well be described as a human jukebox.

Catch Howard Shearman when he plays at the Swansea Hotel on Thursday, March 21.

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A virtuoso’s vision

I f ever there was an instrument that was denied its dues, it would be the ukulele. This little, unassuming instrument has largely been

relegated to the realm of the novel or kitsch in popular music, thanks to the likes of Tiny Tim.

However, the ‘little instrument that could’ has undergone a bit of a resurgence in recent years, with community ukulele groups popping up all over the shop and the likes of Eddie Vedder realising the instrument’s potential.

However, there is one man whose passion for and ability on the ukulele is dragging the instrument out of the novelty song doldrums and making people fi nally sit up and take the ukulele seriously, and that man is Hawaiian virtuoso Jake Shimabakuro.

In the country for the Byron Bay Bluesfest, Shimabakuro, who has been described as redefi ning the instrument and has drawn comparisons to the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis, will also be stopping by Lizotte’s later this month in what promises to be a jaw dropping display of talent.

Shimabakuro said he couldn’t wait to get back to Australia as he created quite the buzz during his last Bluesfest trip in 2008.

“The last time I was down there, I had such a great time – the shows were just fantastic and I was really

taken with how nice and supportive everyone was down there,” he told TE.

“I just love Australia because it has

a very similar laid-back island lifestyle that I am so familiar with, coming from Hawaii. I can’t wait to get back.”

While Shimabakuro has been quite well-known (with those in the know) in his native Hawaii since releasing his debut album, ‘Sunday Morning’ in 2002, after some healthy YouTube traffi c (just check out the video for his rendition of the George Harrison/Beatles classic ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’) Shimabakuro hit the stratosphere with his ninth album, ‘Peace, Love, Ukulele’ taking out the number one spot on the Billboard charts and causing Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder to proclaim that he is “taking the instrument to a place that I can’t see anybody else catching up with him”.

High praise, indeed.However, it seems Shimabakuro has

taken his unassuming instrument to yet another level with his latest album, ‘Grand Ukuleles’. Not only did he manage to enlist the help of production guru Alan Parsons – the man behind the desks during Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark

Side Of The Moon’ sessions – for the album, but he managed to teach the uber producer a thing or two, as well.

“Working with Alan was just phenomenal,” he said.

“He’s just got so many brilliant ideas for arrangements and basically, the way he arranged the mics in the studio, it was the fi rst time that I felt the mics capturing what I hear when I play.

“Also, it was the fi rst time Alan had ever recorded a ukulele, if you can believe that, so it was a bit of a learning curve for him as well.”

Shimabakuro, who was given his fi rst ukulele at age four, said he thought the reason the ukulele was becoming popular was because of the democratic nature of the instrument.

“It’s a really social instrument and I think that it’s great because you don’t really have to be a musician to play the thing. There’s no egos with the ukulele.”

If you’re up for some jaw dropping skill, then catch Jake Shimabakuro when he plays at Lizotte’s, Lambton on Sunday, March 31.

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SAX SELLS

T here is no denying that there just aren’t enough killer sax lines in popular music today. Unfortunately, the saxophone has been condemned to be a staple of adult

contemporary and 1980s cheese from the likes of Billy Joel.

Thankfully, there is one band, Pigeon, who is redressing this balance – juxtaposing some truly smooth sax lines with the heady sounds of dance-pop with all of the epic sing-a-longs and undeniably catchy beats that come along with it.

After releasing their debut EP, ‘Parallels’ in 2011, the band are touring hot on the heels of their latest release – ‘Fortunes’, featuring the larger-than-life single ‘Oh Hebe’ and will be bringing their “fun-fi lled electro sax party jams” to the Great Northern this week.

“We really like playing Newcastle – it’s one of our favourite places to play because we seem to have a pretty good fan-base there so we’re always keen to get back when we can,” sax player Luke Cuerel told TE.

Cuerel said the latest album, which is an impressive amalgam of such disparate genres as jazz, house, indie, pop and electronica, was a much more focused album and was representative of a band that had fi nally found their sound – not a bad effort for a band that’s only been together for a

little over two years.“I’d say that Parallels was quite a scattered EP,”

he said.“While we’re all really proud of it, it was more of

an experiment in what we could do and it was a very fun exercise.

“I’d say we were much more focused on ‘Fortunes’ and we spent a lot more time honing our sound for the EP.”

Cuerel added that the amount of miles the band had clocked up recently (2012 saw the band share stages with the likes of Van She and Tijuana Cartel as well as hit a fair few festival stages) also played a large part in this more focused approach on the new EP.

“Parallels was a complete studio project, because we hadn’t really done any touring before it came out,” he said.

“While the songwriting does always start for us in the studio, I think the amount of shows we’ve played and the amount of time we’ve spent together on the road has made us more intuitive musicians.”

Just know that if you’re going to check out a Pigeon show, don’t expect any shoegazing or super seriousness.

“It’s all about fun for us,” Cuerel said.“We just want everybody to have a sick time and

go away and tell their friends what a great time a Pigeon show is.”

Catch Pigeon when they play at the Great Northern Hotel on Saturday, March 23.

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BIAFRA’S BACKH ere’s one that you won’t want

to miss. Jello Biafra, the infamous former frontman and chief-agitator for legendary

U.S. punks Dead Kennedys, will be coming to Newcastle with his latest outfi t The Guantanamo School Of Medicine featuring former Rollins and Ween bassist Andrew Weiss, drummer Paul Della Pelle from Helios Creed and Nik Turner’s Space Ritual fame and the twin guitar attack of Ralph Spight from Victims Family and Kimo Ball,for his fi rst live performance in Newcastle since the now legendary Dead Kennedy’s show at the Bel Air in 1983.

Formed in 2009 after Biafra was inspired by The Stooges performance at Iggy’s 60th birthday and a rare stateside visit from Australia’s own Radio Birdman, Jello and Guantanamo quickly recorded an album, ‘The Audacity Of Hype’ released to immense anticipation via Biafra’s Alternative Tentacles label.

Fans were not disappointed with the album retaining much of the spy-music-on-meth chaos of the Dead

Kennedys while adding a healthy dose of Detroit style proto-punk mixed with layer upon layer of sonic guitar noise. EP’s in 2011 and 2012 followed before the release this year of a second album, ‘White People and the Damage Done’, Biafra’s fi rst concept album since the Dead Kennedys seminal ‘Frankenchrist’ album in 1985.

Catch Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine when they play at the Cambridge Hotel on Sunday, May 19. Get in quick, you won’t want to miss this.

W hile the Netherlands may not be known to be a seething hot-bed of rock and roll, one trio is defi nitely

redressing that balance, taking their fuzzed-out, Hammond-soaked psych blues to the world with Australia being next in their sights.

The trio in question, DeWolff, took their name from Harvey Keitel’s Mr Wolfe character in ‘Pulp Fiction’ and, like their namesake, this is a band that likes to solve problems – although for DeWolff, it’s much less about disposing of dead bodies, but rather how to most effectively blow people away with a live show that prompted music bible ‘Rolling Stone’ to declare that DeWolff are Europe’s “must see live band” – a nice piece of hyperbole that Newcastle audiences will get to experience when the band plays at Newcastle Leagues Club this week.

The band are currently riding high

on the crest of a pretty impressive wave with their latest and fourth album ‘DeWolff IV’ kicking several goals around Europe with the record hitting the number one spot in the Netherlands and the top 10 in Italy.

While the band laid down some pretty heavy Zeppelin-inspired blues rock on their last three albums – ‘Strange Fruits and Undiscovered Plants’, ‘Orchards/Lupine’ and ‘Letter God – A Few Words on Psychedelics’, frontman van de Pol said the band had really stepped up the psychedelic space-rock miasma on ‘DeWolff IV’ with the 20-minute swirling opus, ‘A Mind Slip’.

Catch De Wolfe when they play at the Newcastle Leagues Club on Wednesday, March 27 alongside Newcastle’s own sonic gymnast Fox Control.

TE is giving you the chance to win a double pass to see these psychedelic champs in action. To enter, email your name and contact details to editorial@newcastlepost.com.au with “DeWolff” in the subject line by no later than 5pm on Tuesday, March 26. Winners will be notifi ed by phone.

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AN EXERCISE IN VOWELS

A fter a triumphant return to festival stages at last year’s Homebake, and with a brilliant comeback album in ‘Once

More From The Bottom’, pioneering electronica duo (Rupert Keiller and Adrian Cartwright) Sonic Animation are about to embark on an east coast tour that will bring them to Newcastle this weekend.

“We’re both absolutely excited about getting back on the road,” Rupert Keiller told TE.

“We did Homebake last year and it just felt really comfortable being on stage again. We weren’t really sure what to expect at fi rst, because we had been away for so long. We had an arvo slot and it turned out to be really good. There were heaps of old fans there but also plenty of new people who were curious as to what Sonic Animation is all about.”

The fruits of their Homebake performance can be seen in the video for the fi rst single off ‘Once More From The Bottom’, the buoyant yet bitingly cynical house track, ‘I Will Be Twisted’. The duo asked fans to upload footage from smart phones and cameras and the contributions were edited to form the video.

Sonic Animation fi rst caught the national consciousness in 1999 with the pulsing paean to alienation ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ before following it up with

the brilliantly tongue-twisting track ‘Theophilus Thistler’. Both singles were featured on Sonic Animation’s expansive debut double album, ‘Orchid For The Afterworld’, that went gold and launched an eleven-year career that spawned fi ve albums, two Australian Dance Music awards (best live act and best video) and two ARIA nominations and placed them, quite rightly, at the top of the Australian dance music tree.

The duo went their separate ways after their 2006 album ‘Defective Perspective’ and Keiller, who picked up stumps and relocated to Canada after the break, said it was a lack of motivation that played a large part in Sonic Animation’s inactivity in the ensuing years.

“It really was a lack of motivation and I got to the point where I really didn’t want to start something because I knew I wasn’t going to fi nish it,” he explained.

“But, I guess I fi gured out how to get out of that rut and then Adrian and I started kicking around the idea of doing a reunion and playing some festivals, if they’d have us.”

Aside from their pioneering synergy of myriad genres (hip-hop, dub, trance, house, ambient et al) and a legendary live show, part of Sonic Animation’s success, according to Keiller, was the duo’s two furry mascots, Theophilus

Thistler and Robert Rollie – the two jovial “technotubbies” that were a staple in Sonic Animation’s fi lm clips (including the hilarious clip for ‘Theophilus Thistler’) and live shows.

Keiller insisted that the pair would defi nitely get an airing on the upcoming tour after earlier plans to put them out to pasture were scrapped.

“We talked about getting rid of

them around 2005 or 2006 but we just couldn’t do it,” he laughed.

“The fact is they were pretty key in our success and the fans will defi nitely be expecting to see them jumping around behind us so, yeah, they’ll defi nitely be there.”

Catch Sonic Animation when they play at the Cambridge Hotel on Friday, March 22.

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BIT ROCK AND ROLLC ountry fans turned out in

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despite a little inclement weather, the atmosphere couldn’t be dampened.

The major drawcards, US country sensations Big and Rich and Rascall

Flatts didn’t disappoint, with the former wowing a huge crowd on Saturday night while the latter closed proceedings on Sunday night with a powerhouse performance.

Apart from the array of overseas artists, there was a large Aussie

contingent including Hunter representatives Morgan Evans, Bob Corbett and Mark Wells while Sydney/Newcastle duo McAllister Kemp stepped in for Billy Ray Cyrus who pulled out due to illness and defi nitely held their own with an uplifting country rock set.

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BAD BOYS OF ROCKG iven that it was a “school

night”, I was a bit unsure as to how many people would show up to see hard rock

behemoths Guns N Roses, but as testament to the band’s infl uence, Newie Gunners fans turned out in droves to witness what was to be a huge rock extravaganza.

Meat and potatoes rockers Rose Tattoo opened up proceedings and really got things going with a set chock a block full of such dirty blues rock classics as ‘Bad Boy For Love’, ‘Rock and Roll Outlaw’ and ‘We Can’t Be Beaten’.

Angry and the boys ripped through the high-octane set in a way that many bands their junior could never hope to achieve. While they have threatened, in recent years, to scale things back, the night’s set proved that there is still plenty of life left in Rose Tattoo yet.

Hirsute rockers (except for the drummer Frank Beard, who ironically, is the only one without facial adornment) ZZ Top were up next and, as I have never been the biggest fan of their simplistic blues, I found this set a little repetitive. That said, these guys are consummate professionals and put on the kind of highly polished show that you would expect from a band that had been playing together for more than 40 years. Most of the major ZZ Top food groups were represented – ‘Legs’,

‘Sharp Dressed Man’ and ‘La Grange’ – easily the best song about a Texas brothel. That said, if you were a fan of the band you would have been in hog heaven. Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill’s stage presence oozed a laidback Texas cool that may’ve been a little at odds with the rock and roll exuberance that was to follow.

Much had been said in the lead-up to this show about whether Guns N Roses, without the likes of Slash, Duff, Izzy et al could bring it, and the answer is an unequivocal yes. They brought it big time – complete with all of the bells and whistles, pyrotechnics and rock and roll swagger you’d expect from a Guns N Roses show.

Opening with the title track off the latest album ‘Chinese Democracy’, Axl and co wasted no time with making their intentions to blow the doors off the Entertainment Centre felt, following up the lesser-known opener with two thunderous run-throughs of the ‘Appetite For Destruction’ classics ‘Welcome To The Jungle’ and ‘Mr Brownstone’.

However, from where I was sitting at least, the vocals sat a bit too far back in the mix, but as the fourth song, ‘Estranged’ from the ‘Use Your Illusion II’ album kicked in, Axl’s signature wail began to resonate throughout the Ent Cent and refused to give up for the remainder of the set.

Now a seven piece (DJ Ashba, Bumblefoot and Richard Fortus on guitars – yes three guitars – Dizzy Reed and Chris Pitman on keys, Tommy Stinson on bass and Frank Ferrer on drums) the band proved a force to be reckoned with. While the inclusion of three guitarists may be a little bit of overkill, Guns N Roses, the kings of early 90s rock excess, were never known for their subtlety.

In another nod to the overt rock pomp and circumstance that surrounded stadium shows in the 80s and early 90s, all three guitarists and ‘Illusion’-era ivory tickler Reed were given their own

chance to shine – DJ Ashba impressed with a Satrianai-esque neo-classical number, Dizzy Read gave us a beautiful run through of the Led Zep hit ‘No Quarter’ and Richard Fortus’ solo section proved what a consummate axeman he really is. Bumblefoot chose one of his own songs – a mile a minute punk number ‘Objectify’, that was possibly a low point of the set.

With a few more selections from their Chinese Democracy set thrown in – ‘Better’, ‘This I Love’ and ‘Catcher in The Rye’ the band really surprised with two covers – Pink Floyd’s ‘Another Brick In The Wall Part 2’ with Axl belting out

the “we don’t need no education” line from a piano and a rousing rendition of The Who’s ‘The Seeker’.

The rest of the set read like a Gunners greatest hits album with ‘Night Train’, ‘November Rain’, ‘You Could Be Mine’, ‘Don’t Cry’ and ‘Knockin On Heaven’s Door’. Choosing to close the show with an encore of ‘Patience’ and ‘Paradise City’ was inspired.

Sure it was big, brash, bold and explosive, but that’s exactly what we’ve come to expect from the likes of Guns N Roses – egos, showmanship, explosions and one hell of a brilliant rock and roll show.

STEPHEN BISSET

Photos: KEVIN BULL