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Still wired for soundUK megastar Sir Cliff Richard will be heading back to Newcastle

next year for his Still Reelin’ and A-Rockin’ tour and Stephen Bisset spoke to the undisputed king of British pop about his formidable 54-year career.

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W hile perhaps not the most recognisable fi lm in the Alfred Hitchcock cannon, this psychological thriller starring

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Borrowing many motifs from German expressionist cinema, the fi lm follows central character Marnie Edgar (Hedren) – a habitual thief and liar – her modus operandi is getting secretary jobs and then robbing the company blind months later.

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M uch had been said in the lead-up to Christopher Nolan’s swansong to the

Batman universe, about whether the third installment could live up to the near superhero perfection found in the Dark Knight. The answer is a resounding yes – and then some.

Eight years after Batman (Christian Bale) locked horns with the Joker and took the wrap for the crimes of Harvey Dent, the caped crusader is in self-imposed exile. That is, however, until the terrorist Bane (Tom Hardy) surfaces with a chilling plan to bring Gotham City to its knees. That’s about as much exposition as can be divulged here as The Dark Knight Rises has a rather meaty plot – more akin to a Scorcese crime drama than a Michael Bay cliché-fest.

The Dark Knight Rises is a near-perfect end to one of the most memorable fi lm franchises in recent memory. This is a must-see, not just for fans of the superhero genre, but for fans of fi lm in general.

O ff the back of their surprise inclusion to the previously all-Aussie (okay, with the occasional Kiwi thrown in)

Homebake festival, Blondie will be playing a special sideshow at the Enmore. While the ticket price is more than the cost of the

entire Homebake bill, if you can’t bear the thought of missing out on those Gods of New York new-wave, then, chances are, money will be no object.

In case you’ve been living under a rock, or your CD collection consists largely of Nickleback, Blondie features possibly the

most compelling frontwoman in the history of popular music – Deborah Harry.

They emerged from New York in the late 70s and quickly became a pop culture icon with such classics as ‘Call Me’, ‘The Tide Is High’. ‘Rapture’, ‘Hanging on the Telephone’ to name a few.To take the sting out of the price tag, legendary UK punk rockers The Stranglers, whose hits ‘Golden Brown’ and ‘Skin Deep’ were just two of an incredible 23 top 40 UK singles, will be kicking off these rather splendid proceedings.

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STILL GOT THE BLUES

T he Keith Hall and Pat Dow band are a three-piece blues, r ‘n’ b and roots outfi t that has been gigging around the Australian

traps since 1985 and the band will be embarking on an extensive ‘Four States’ tour to promote their new long player, ‘This Kind Of Blue’.

With a healthy dose of electric blues, ‘This Kind of Blue’ also manages to throw a few curveballs at you in the form of a bit of mellow acoustic stuff and mandolin.

The band has developed quite a

distinctive sound that draws on the traditional blues made famous by the likes of John Lee Hooker and Buddy Guy and the British blues explosion of the late 1960s that made household names of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and John Mayall.

With Keith Hall on vocals, bass and acoustic guitar and Pat Dow on guitars and harp, this is one formidable live outfi t.

Catch the Keith Hall and Pat Dow band at the Wickham Park Hotel on Sunday, December 2.

T here’s no denying that, when it comes to the New Wave Of British Metal (NWOBM), the juggernaut that is Iron Maiden

is at the top of the tree.While frontman Bruce Dickinson’s

caterwauling has become as synonymous with the band’s sound as Nicko McBrain’s pounding drums or Steve Harris’ thundering bass, they have, over the course of their career, had a few front men.

Now, as a special treat for Maiden fans everywhere, two of the metal behemoth’s former vocalists – Blaze Bayley and Paul DiAnno (pictured) will be hitting Newcastle for a co-headlining set that will have both singers belting out an Iron Maiden-only set from their respective periods in possibly the world’s greatest metal band.

Paul Di’Anno’s unique and

aggressive vocals featured on Maiden’s fi rst two ground-breaking albums – their self-titled 1980 set and its follow-up ‘Killers’. Both releases are widely regarded as classics and have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.

When Di’Anno’s successor, Dickinson, left the band in the early nineties, former Wolfsbane vocalist Blaze Bayley was selected to step into Dickinson’s rather large shoes.

Bayley went onto record two albums with Maiden – their 1995 effort ‘The X Factor’ and 1998’s ‘Virtual IX’ – helping to ensure Iron Maiden’s prominence during the nineties when heavy metal was at one of its lowest ebbs.

If you’re in to all things metals, this is surely one not to be missed.

Catch Blaze Bayley and Paul DiAnno at the Cambridge Hotel on Thursday, November 29.

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A t 72 years of age, you could be forgiven for thinking that UK pop music megastar Sir Cliff Richard would want to put his

feet up and enjoy his autumn years and the fruits of his incredible 54-years in the oft-fi ckle world of pop.

However, Sir Cliff is defi nitely one artist to whom you wouldn’t want to apply the term ‘autumnal’ – he is the very epitome of the evergreen artist.

“I’m currently in my house in Barbados,” he told TE.

“It’s a typical day here – it’s nice and sunny and I’ve just been to the garden centre, done a spot of gardening and spent 45 minutes in the gymnasium and spend an hour-and-a-half playing tennis.

“For me, maintaining the energy levels and passion for what I do isn’t really hard because I absolutely love it – so it’s all about eating correctly and exercising because, at the end of the day, I really don’t want to look like some old has-been.”

If the sales of his iconic calendars are anything to go by (his 2011 calendar sold more than 4 million copies), has-been doesn’t even enter into the equation.

“I think I’ve been blessed with really good genes,” he mused.

“My mother looked incredibly young right up until she got dementia and wasn’t able to look after herself – I think my sisters and I are very lucky to have inherited her genes.”

After a critically-lauded Australian tour in 2010 with his original and iconic back-up band, The Shadows, Sir Cliff will be returning to our shores to prove, once again, that he’s still got it on his ‘Still Reelin’ and A-Rockin’ tour. Considering, though, that his fi rst single, ‘Move It’ was released in 1958 and he has since amassed more than 250 million global record sales and more than 130 hits in the UK charts (not to mention 25 Aussie top tens), does choosing a set list for a greatest hits show like this prove problematic?

“It really is a nice problem to have,” he said.

“But with a 54-year career, it becomes impossible to do everything in one night, but what I will say is that people can expect to know absolutely everything – they can expect ‘Devil Woman’, ‘Living Doll’, ‘Move It’, ‘Wired for Sound’, the duet I did with the your lovely Olivia Newton John, ‘Suddenly’, which I’ll be singing with the very talented [X-Factor contestant] Suzie Furlonger – so everyone will know absolutely everything.

“I just love coming to Australia, though when you tour in Europe it’s always winter and everyone has colds and it just becomes a hassle, but when we’re in Australia it’s always summertime so we get to play tennis all the time – it’s great.”

That’s not to say there won’t be some surprises. Sir Cliff said he was currently working on a new album of rock and roll standards in Nashville including The Four Voices’ ‘Sealed With A Kiss’, Dion’s ‘Dream Lover’ and Chuck Berry’s

‘Reelin and Rockin’ – all of which are likely to get an airing in the Aussie shows.

Born Harry Webb in Lucknow, India, Sir Cliff changed his name at the insistence of his then-manager, Harry Greatorex, who said the name “Cliff” was synonymous with rock.

Britain’s answer to the US rock and roll craze, Sir Cliff quickly became a fi xture on the UK hit parade with such classic tunes as ‘Move It’ (which John Lennon

cited as the fi rst British rock and roll record), ‘Living Doll’, ‘The Young Ones’, ‘Bachelor Boy’ and ‘Summer Holiday’, yet he said he never imagined in his wildest dreams that his career would endure for so long.

“I never, ever thought I’d be doing this for as long as I have,” he said.

“When I was fi rst signed, I didn’t think I was going to live to 50, let alone have a 50-year career.

“I don’t think it was until around 1968

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SOUNDwhen I released an album with The Shadows called ‘Established ’58’. You see, when we started, we were kind of just written off as being one hit wonders – you know, one of those here today, gone tomorrow outfi ts. Anyway, I was looking at that record and I realised, ‘Wow, I’ve been doing this for 10 years now – maybe I’m not a one hit wonder after all’. I was quite amazed.”

Over the years, Sir Cliff has been the source of a fair bit of both good and not so good natured ribbing for his ultra clean-cut image and conversion to Christianity in the late ‘60s at a time when most rock stars were going through their hedonistic or Maharishi phases. Perhaps the most notable use of Sir Cliff as comedy tool was in the classic UK student comedy, The Young Ones. The shows’ would-be anarchist Rik (Rik Myall) would often espouse his love for all things Cliff Richard, the show borrowed his smash hit of the same name for the opening credits, and he even teamed up with the cast to record a version of his song ‘Living Doll’ to raise money for Comic Relief.

“I always absolutely loved that show – fi rstly because they used to mention me quite often in it and secondly because while they were making fun of me, it was never nasty and always in a good-natured way.”

While Sir Cliff’s star defi nitely waxed rather than waned over the ensuring decades with massive US hits like ‘Devil Woman’, ‘Wired for Sound’ and ‘We Don’t Talk Anymore’, in the seventies and eighties, support from commercial radio, particularly in Britain, has become increasingly rare for Sir Cliff.

The snub is so obvious that in 2011, digital radio station Absolute Radio 60s passed down an edict that they would not play any of Sir Cliff’s records as they did not fi t into the ‘cool’ sound espoused by the likes of The Beatles, The Stones and The Who.

At the time, Sir Cliff responded to this by saying “They’re lying to themselves and they’re lying to the public”.

While he may be bitter about radio effectively killing his recording career, he said he has come to terms with it now and wears the fact that he has managed to endure in spite of radio as a badge of honour.

“They really crushed what I was and that was a recording artist – they effectively took away my livelihood,” he said.

“I’m kind of proud now that I have

been able to endure, but it’s not in the same way as it used to be – it never will be. I used to be able to go into a big studio, full of ideas, and come out with a ‘Devil Woman’ and I just can’t do that anymore. That said, 54 years on, I’m still totally in love with what I’m doing – I absolutely love touring and I’m still in the studio – not as much but I’m doing my rock standards album, so everything seems to have worked out just fi ne.

“At this stage of my career, I don’t really give a damn if I sell more records than The Rolling Stones or if I’m bigger than Elton John – I’ve basically been on a lucky streak for the past 54 years so for, me that’s all that really matters.”

Catch Sir Cliff Richard when he performs at Newcastle Entertainment Centre on Tuesday, February 5. Tickets are on sale now through Ticketek.

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Shifting gears

T he Central Coast’s favourite sons, After The Fall, are back with their freshly-minted fourth album ‘Bittersweet’ and will

be swinging by our parts to give Newcastle punters a taste of the new fl avours.

The pop-rock quartet were one of the most successful bands to emerge from the fecund Central Coast

punk rock scene in the mid-naughties with such radio fodder as ‘Mirror Mirror’ and ‘Concrete Boots’.

Since the release of their 2009 slab, ‘[In] Exile’, the band has ushered in a new drummer and spend most of the time working on songs for ‘Bittersweet’.

Catch After The Fall when they play at the Great Northern Hotel on Saturday, December 1.

THE NEW FLAVOUR

STEPHEN BISSET

F or Newcastle singer-songwriter, Kristy James, the road to becoming a fully-fl edged solo recording artist has been a long

one – but one, she insists, has been well worth it.

James will be launching her debut single ‘Overdrive’ in Newcastle this weekend and she said she was overjoyed to fi nally have it out there.“It’s been a very busy time for me of late, getting everything ready for the launch of the single,” she said.

“I’ve pretty much spent all of this year working on the track and the fi lm clip which was directed by [Golden Guitar winner] Glen Wilson – it’s been a very busy time, but all totally worth it.”

Since fi rst getting the performance bug at age 11, fostered by both her musical mother and the Steel City Country Music club where she would cut her teeth every Tuesday night, James hasn’t looked back. Once she turned 18, she started

gigging pretty much every weekend and has been doing so in various cover bands, duos and trios for the better part of ten years.

She said that while it had taken some time to emerge from the relative safety of a combo to fl y solo, she felt no pressure as performing on her own was always the endgame.

“It wasn’t really a diffi cult transition at all because playing solo has always been my goal,” she said.

“I always looked at the duo and band thing as more of a profession – something that allowed me to make a living without really working.”

James said she enlisted some pretty big names for the sessions including Simon Johnson of Hillbilly Hut, Glen

Hannah and Mike Carr.“After the single

launches, we’ll be spending a lot more time on the EP, but for now all focus is on the single – that said, 2013 is going to be all about getting a bigger product out there.”

Catch Kristy James when she launches ‘Overdrive’ at the Lambton Park Hotel on Friday, November 30.

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T he global punk community was left shocked earlier this year when news broke that Hard Ons frontman was the victim of a

vicious and unprovoked attack by two teenagers while working his day job as a taxi driver on Sydney’s north shore.

He was left with a fractured skull, swelling on his brain and 16 stitches and fans everywhere showed their support by donating money and showing up to a run of benefi t shows. Thankfully, Blackie has made an almost complete recovery – in fact, since leaving hospital, the band has already undergone tours to Europe and Japan – and are on the cusp of bringing the madness back to Australia for the fi rst time since.

While they are looking forward to the impending Aussie dates, bass player Ray Ahn told TE that some of the novelty of Blackie’s recovery had worn off.

“We are defi nitely looking forward to these shows but, to be honest, not as much as I thought because, since he’s left hospital we’ve done trips to Europe and Japan so that whole idea of the triumphant return has kind of worn off. Although Blackie has promised to stub his toe or something on the night so it should be fi ne.”

The Hard Ons have been going through a bit of a revisionist phase of late with re-issues of their sets

‘Dickcheese’ and ‘Smell My Finger’.“I hadn’t listened to a lot of that stuff

for a long long time,” he said.“But I think the thing about the

Hard Ons is that we were never really interested being dictated to by the current trends so in a way our stuff hasn’t really dated at all.

“Also, we’re essentially wearing the same clothes that we were wearing way back then so there were no real embarrassing photo moments either.”

The band has also recently welcomed new drummer, former Novocastrian, Murray Ruse, into the fold, and Ahn said he had helped inject a new enthusiasm into the band.

“The thing about Murray is that while he’s not really into studying the drums and stuff, he gets by on pure talent. Also, because he’s 10 years younger than us, he gee’s us up to play stuff that we haven’t played for like 20 years. It’s great.”

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N ewcastle muso Steve Werren cut his musical teeth in the numerous pubs and clubs in Newcastle and he achieved success early on in his career with a Professional Musician’s award

for best act with his musical comedy duo, Nobody’s Home. Besides being the lead singer in numerous bands and

duo’s, Werren also used his talent to regularly switch between playing guitar and bass. Before too long, he moved to London and immediately started making an impact on the British with his particular style of entertainment.

After only a short period, Werren became well entrenched in the London music scene and became known for forming party bands for one-off performances. Now living and performing full time in London and Europe to packed houses, the maestro, with his busy schedule, still

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T he Jungle Kings hail from Bondi in the eastern suburbs of Sydney – the playground of rich and poor, gangsters

and suburban families, surfi es and rev-heads, corporate giants and hoboes, sharks and whales; an area of high-priced real estate and junk-fi lled streets, local kids on skateboards and tourists by the truckload.

Out of this ferociously fecund forest, this international vortex of bluebottles and backpackers, this Antipodean urban jungle, the Jungle Kings emerged.

The Jungle Kings play an up-vibe selection of tunes that most people want to hear – what you might call “rockin’ rhythm ’n’ swing”.

The rockin’ end includes Elvis Presley, Van Morrison, the Stones, James Brown, Big Joe Turner and Big Joe Williams, while the rhythm ’n’ swing is a selection of classic swing and jazz by the likes of Cab Calloway, Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis, with a classic jungle beat.

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H ead west of the Pacifi c Highway, just past Belmont, and you will be met with the Eastern delights of Laws

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Chinese and Australian dishes awaited my dining partner and I as we were shown to our table overlooking the garden in the non-smoking outdoor dining area, by one of the many friendly and courteous staff members. Expectations were high as we looked around the packed restaurant fi lled with diners of all ages.

“This place must be good,” I thought. I began with my entrée of calamari. A

risky choice, as so often it can end up tasting like an old rubber band, but to my relief as I took the fi rst bite, the squid was cooked to perfection and the outer was crisp and light. My dining partner opted for the garlic king prawns – large, meaty prawns served in a thick aromatic garlic sauce with fresh seasonal vegies.

For mains, we covered both sides of the menu. I chose Chinese, while my partner stuck with Australian cuisine. I chose my all-time favourite Chinese dish, crispy beef with plum sauce, and the serving size was very generous with the

plum sauce sticky and sweet. I’ve had this dish at many a Chinese restaurant and I can confi dently say that Laws Restaurant makes the best.

My partner had a sizzling t-bone steak, served with chips and a fresh garden salad. The steak made a dramatic entrance to the table, searing and sizzling on a hot plate – a great Chinese twist on an Aussie favourite.

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I t seems as though 2012 has been a year of new beginnings for singer-songwriter, Wes Carr, with a new musical project in the offi ng and another, more cuddly project that has just

been released.“Yeah, I actually just woke up – I have a 2-week-

old baby boy so I’ve been playing a little bit of catch-up with my sleep. The mums and dads out there will know what I mean by that, too,” he said.

“I have the 2am to 5am shift so I’ve spent a bit of time driving him around in the car to get him to sleep. I play Beatles songs and that seems to work – he likes all the good ones like ‘Come Together’ – I’m developing his taste early.”

Carr’s other project, Buffalo Tales, is as much about a desire to get back to his songwriting heritage as it is a reaction to his experiences on the major label “treadmill” he was thrust onto after taking out season 6 of Australian Idol.

“I got really sick and tired of the whole Wes Carr caricature,” he said.

“I’m a songwriter fi rst and foremost and I wanted to shine a light on that as opposed to the Wes Carr you’d see in the gossip pages. I was just not fulfi lled at all – everything just seemed really cheesy, like I was running a fake race.

“I came to the conclusion that if anyone was going to take me seriously as a songwriter, I needed to step as far away from that Wes Carr caricature as possible; also, I read that when the Native American Indians dream of a buffalo, they must return to their heritage, so I thought Buffalo Tales would make a great name for this new project.”

Carr parted ways with his label, Sony, last year, choosing a completely independent path for Buffalo Tales and he said his creativity is all the better for it.

“It’s been great – like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders,” he said.

“It was a really bizarre time on that major label treadmill, it became really hard to write because I was up against a wall of playing weird gigs populated by Sony execs who talked about hits and it was just a really stale environment.

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an illusion,” Carr said. The fi rst fruit from the Buffalo Tales tree, the EP

‘Blood and Bone’, is fi ve hauntingly raw and honest tracks [one co-written with songwriting legend Don Walker] that meander pleasantly with a lilting and delicate alt. country aesthetic. While it seems Carr had developed a defi nite direction and sound on the EP, he said Buffalo Tales was still a work in progress.

“I spent a fair bit of time growing up in public and now I’m fi nding my feet again,” he said.

“Now I’ve written 15 or 16 songs so I’d say when it’s time for an album, there will be much more of a ‘sound’ – that said, I’m really proud of this EP, it’s given me the chance to rediscover my artistry.”

Catch Buffalo Tales at Lizotte’s, Lambton on Friday, November 30. ‘Blood and Bone’ is out now.

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A lot has happened to former Novocastrian muso Jamie Hay since packing up stumps and moving to Melbourne a few

years back. After stints in the post-hardcore powerhouse A Death In The Family, former Newcastle outfi t Fear Like Us, which is still kicking around (not to mention tying the knot and generally “loving the life in Melbourne”), Hay will

be returning to one of his old haunts, the Lass O’Gowrie, this weekend as part of a national tour to promote his latest long player ‘King of the Sun’.

“I love the Lass and all the people that work there,” Hay told TE. “It’s got a great vibe and shows there are always lots of fun – it will also be great to see some friends.”

Hay said those that know him from the aforementioned bands or his Newcastle outfi t – the blistering and politically wrought Conation – might be in for a few surprises on ‘King of the Sun’. Just don’t

expect any summery roots-inspired cliché’s from this acoustic troubadour.“I guess people can expect some pretty dark themes,” he said.

“It’s no bright and happy solo acoustic record, that’s for sure – I don’t want to give anyone a false lead here. Musically there are some full band songs, some stripped back acoustic tunes, banjo and pedal steel. It’s constantly moving.”

Hay said that while the recording of ‘King of the Sun’ wrapped in eight days, writing the album proved to take a little longer.

“Some songs came quick and easy, but some took over a year to fi nish,” he said.

“‘King of the Sun’, for example, is one of those songs. I had the song and melodies written for about a year but everything I tried to write never felt right. It wasn’t until my fi rst visit to MITA

(the Broadmeadows refugee detention centre) and the conversations I shared with some men in there that I came home and fi nished the lyrics in one night.”

While the album might be full of dark themes, Hay said people could expect an uplifting experience live.

“It’s a pretty no frills show, to be honest. It’s just myself and a few friends having a good time and if we’re lucky there’ll be some singalongs and fi sts in the air,” he said.

“The one thing I hope people take away is a feeling of being a part of something and not just a spectator because we couldn’t do this stuff without everyone coming along, singing and getting involved.”

Catch Jamie Hay, with support from Lincoln La Fevre, at the Lass O’Gowrie on Friday, December 1.

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2013, however, will see Adams return to the rock and roll roots that made him a household name across Australia and the world, with a tour that is earning glowing reviews around the globe.

As Canada’s best-known ambassador, Bryan Adams has spent the last three decades making music history. He has sold over 65 million records, toured six continents and achieved number one hits in over 40 countries around the world.

With memorable songs like, ‘Cuts Like A Knife’, ‘Summer of ‘69’, ‘Kids Wanna Rock’, ‘Can’t Stop This Thing We’ve Started’, ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It For You’ and ‘Heaven’, Adams’ status as one of the great songwriters of our time has been solidifi ed.

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