No grey areaAfter what seems like an eternity, Adelaide’s uncompromising MARK OF CAIN are making their way back to Newcastle and TE caught up with bass player, KIM SCOTT to chat about their latest bone-shaking effort Songs of the Third and Fifth.

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With such songs as My Drug Buddy, It’s A Shame About Ray, Outdoor Type and a cracking cover of Mrs Robinson, these guys were at the top of the indie rock tree.

In recent years The Lemonheads have been in something of a state of flux, having released no new original studio material since 2006’s self-titled effort, but of late frontman Evan Dando has been holed back up in the studio with the likes of founding member and early co-songwriter Ben Deily (rejoining the ranks for the first time since 1989) and ex-bassist Juliana Hatfield (well-known for her bountiful solo career).

This December, playing alongside ac-complished local act Spookyland, The Lemonheads will bring us new music mixed in with the classics - it promises to be a special affair for long-term fans and newcomers alike.

WHAT'S ON According to Taylor Swift, the title for

her latest album, 1989, is a nod to all of the ground-breaking artists, Madonna and Annie Lennox for example, who were breaking down barriers and changing the musical goalpoasts in 1989, the year of Swift’s birth.Fair dues - but the inherent problem here is there is nothing remotely groundbreaking or even memorable about this twee collection of post teen pop.That’s not to say it’s a terrible album - it’s actually quite a fun dance-pop outing that is sure to win her many more fans and send her stock soaring even higher.

It’s an album that revels in a teenager-esque gossip - songs about boys she likes, boys she used to like et al. In short is musical confection of the highest order with very little substance. But at the end of the day, isn’t that what pop music is supposed to be about?

If you like a bit of mind-numbing vacuousness with your cinematic fare, then this, rather pointless sequel should be just the ticket. The gals - Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha - are back but this time they’ve ditched Manhattan for Abu Dhabi, following Samantha’s movie-star ex. Much of the charm of the series and the original flick was the Manhattan setting and seeing how they cope in the desert in a pair of Manolo Blahnik’s is pointless.

If you loved the first in-stalment of the TV show reboot, then, you’ll more than likely be doubled over in laughter with this self-effacing and utterly hilarious sequel.

After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kin-dred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infil-trates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partner-ship. Now they don’t have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship.

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The grey matter

Given the fact that punk rock raconteur Henry Rollins has all but given up on musical projects, the fact that he appears (albeit in a spoken

word capacity) on Mark of Cain’s latest single Grey 11, is testament to the respect the uncompromising Adelaide three piece still commands.

“It was really quite serendipitous,” bass player Kim Scott said of the collaboration.

“We were in the studio and [John] Stanier [drums] had gone home and we were adding some extra guitar and other overdubs. We heard that Hank was in town so, we called him up and, without hesitation he said, ‘I’m there’.

“So, he shows up and we didn’t play him the song, we didn’t show him any lyrics, just gave him a sense of the song, which is about coming back from a bad conflict and basically being betrayed by loved ones and Hank just nailed it in one take.”

The song in question is from Mark of Cain’s latest album Songs of the Third and Fifth - an album that, while a long time coming, 11 years in fact, has definitely been worth the wait with some pundits

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declaring it their best work since their seminal Battlesick and Ill At Ease albums. Their brutal, off kilter wall of sound - that recalls an Antipodean Big Black or Shel-lac - is still well and truly untarnished. Further, given that Rollins produced their Ill At Ease set - there’s definitely a sense of things coming full circle.

Scott said the album was plagued with challenges - both personal and pragmatic - such as the logistical challenges of the getting American drummer, John Stanier into the studio - no mean feat given that the former Helmet drummer also sits behind the kit for Tomahawk and Battles.

“It’s funny because there was a point

where Stanier said he thought it would never see the light of day - but here we are,” Scott said.

“It was a long time coming but, thank-fully we have quite a hardcore fan-base who you’d best describe as ‘stayers’.”

Scott said that he believed the reason that the stayers were still staying was due to the band’s uncompromising attitude.

“There’s definitely no compromise with Mark of Cain and there never has been,” he said.

“We were always going to do what we want to do - John has never been inter-ested in following trends in his writing or writing hooks.

“We’ve been accused of being a dicta-torship and that is definitely the case - I mean the fact that we’ve had 14 drum-mers tells a take - but John has always had a very clear vision.”

While John Stanier’s other commit-ments will keep him away from the band’s current tour, his shoes will be more than ably filled by home-grown drummer, Eli Green.

“Anyone who knows our stuff knows it’s not the easiest to play drums to, so we thought it would be tough, to find someone. But Eli turns up and we asked him to play Tell Me and he pulls out this sheet music, and just nailed it.”

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Uptown is a pop/funk covers band from Newcastle, Australia. The band is renowned for their fun-filled, energetic performances and exceptional musicianship.

Since mid-2012, Uptown have performed extensively in venues and clubs around NSW.

They have also been one of the Hunter Valleys most popular acts to entertain weddings, birthday par-ties and , well, anything really.

Uptown features Eve Boyle as lead vocalist. Her versatility as a singer is put on display at every show as Uptown span a wide array of genres such as funk, R&B, pop, Motown and lounge.

Uptown’s rhythm section consists of Ben McCann on electric guitar, Ben Pittman on bass guitar, Chris English on keys and Brad Rhein-berger on drums.

These in-demand session musi-cians and music educators are all formally trained in their field with each member completing a Bach-elor of Music from The University of Newcastle.

With a set list that literally runs the gamut of popular music , there isn’t much that this versatile outfit cant do.

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After more than 12 years of laying down the coolest, funkiest and most infectious grooves for some of this region’s best bands and per-formers, bass player, Steve Wooster and drummer, Adam Morris have combined to create one of the most exciting and innovative new acts in this country - A.G.T. (Absolute Groove Therapy).

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The Caddman returnsH aving last performed in our region

back in May with good mate Glenn Shorrock, there’s no deny-

ing that Newcastle is high on Brian Cadd’s touring agenda.

“I’ve said this so many times but Newcastle always provides crowds that just love their rock and roll - it’s a true rock and roll town - not just because of the fans but also because of the amount of talent the area has produced,” he told TE.

Cadd, who as recently returned from Nashville where he has been laying some finishing touches of a new-soon-to-be-released studio album, will be bringing a “greatest hits” show to Charlestown Bowl-ing Club and, when your back catalogue stretches the breadth of Cadd’s (from hits with his 70 supergroup Axiom - Little Ray of Sunshine, Arkansas Grass - through to solo gems as Ginger Man and Every Mother’s Son), writing a set for a show such as this, can be a bit of a problem.

“Yeah, it can be a head scratcher which is a problem of a lot of artists my age- you just can’t fit everything in. I mean obvi-ously you want to play your new stuff, and I’ll certainly be doing a few new songs, but there’d certainly be trouble if I didn’t play Ginger Man.”

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After his first notable outfit The Groop, who found fame with the track Woman You’re Breaking Me as well as being Russell Morris’ backup on his seminal The Real Thing, disbanded, he paired up with Shorrock (along with

Don Mudie (The Groop), Doug Lavery (The Valentines) and Chris Stockley (Cam-Pact) to form Australia’s first supergroup - Axiom - and while they only released two albums and disbanded two years later - they

became an integral part in the story of Australian rock and roll.

“Axiom was part of a movement that started around 1967 or 1968 in Australia where there was this great explosion of creativity,” Cadd explained. “Prior to that everything was a kind of a hybrid of what was coming out of America and England and then, all of a sudden at the end of the 1960s people started to strike out on their own and Australia began to rock so might-ily with the sound of some truly original music and I’m glad that I was able to be a part of that.

“It wasn’t just music, either you saw it in the incredibly unique original film and television we were producing - it really was an incredible time.”

Fast forward a number of years and there isn’t too much of the industry Cadd hasn’t seen. He has penned songs for the likes of Joe Cocker, The Pointer Sisters and Bonnie Tyler, lend his soundtrack talents to the likes of Morning of the Earth, Alvin Purple and The Heartbreak Kid as well as sitting on the other side of the fence as a label head and A & R man, but it is the art of songwriting that has kept him so passionate for so many years.

“I never really saw songwriting as a tool to get into the hit parade,’ he said.

“For me, success was always in the song itself and writing is definitely what still keeps it all going.”

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I f boisterous power-pop, with more than a healthy dash of punk thrown in for good measure is your bag, then

you’d do well to get to the Lass later this month to check out Fremantle-based three piece Axe Girl.

Featuring the talents of Jebediah rhythm section, Vanessa Thornton (bass) and Brett Mitchell (drums), Axe Girl is augmented by the sassy rock and roll swagger of London-bred frontwoman Addison Axe. The band are on the cusp of releasing their debut, self-titled long player and Axe said after receiving such positive feedback for the album’s teaser singles Give Me Your T-Shirt, Anamatronic and Silence, she was keen to see how punters would react to the rest of the album.

“If you’ve already heard our EP [Ghost Romance] or the singles, they’re a pretty good mission statement of what the album is about,” she said.

“We really are a live band and given that we have been playing quite a lot of late we all felt much more confident as a band going into this record - much more so than the EP where we were kind of still finding our feet.”

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Meat Puppets, the Bennies and Dallas Frasca. Axe said that she even picked up stumps and relocated from the UK to Perth so the band could keep going.

“I’m from London and I was in Perth a couple of years ago performing a show for the Fringe Festival,” she explained.

“I met Ness and we started jamming and then Brett came on board and next think I’ve moved from London to Perth to keep the band going - because we are just having so much fun.”

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