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Stephen Bisset caught up with Mark ‘Cal’ Callaghan, vocalist and guitarist of iconic aussie pop-rockers ganggajangto chat about hitting the road again after the tragic loss of bass player Chris Bailey.

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Upon its release in 1989, De La Soul’s iconic debut album ‘3 Feet High and Rising’ was hailed as the saviour of hip-hop. With its colourful, neo-psychedelic collage of samples and styles, plus a clever turn of phrase, the album sounded like nothing else in hip-hop. Even now, the album still stands as a groundbreaking statement in the

history of hip-hop culture and makes a refreshing change from all of the empty “street filibustering” from the likes of Kanye, Jay-Z et al.

It’s been four years since the trio visited Oz, on their massive 20th anniversary tour, but they are set to rectify that with a massive show at the Metro this month. If you can’s bust a move to ‘A Rollerskating Jam Named “Saturdays”’, then you probably aren’t human.

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With Christmas just around the corner, it’s probably not the best time to be casting a critical eye over the eleventh album from Florida’s greatest blasphemers, but all that Satanic cahootery aside, this album is a thundering triumph.

Glen Benton and co have rarely sounded more vicious than they do here, thanks in no small part to the production skills of Jason Suecof (The Black Dahlia Murder, Death Angel, Atheist). The same unrelent-ing rhythm section, shrieking riffing and gut wrenching growls from Mr Benton are still the band’s stock in trade but it seems as though things may’ve ramped up a notch. Standouts include ‘Between the Flesh and the Void’ and ‘Even the Gods Can Bleed’.

If you like your music more on the abrasive side of the spectrum, you could certainly do a lot worse than this sonic onslaught.

Thanks to some masterful direction from Martin Scorsese and brilliant performances from Robert De Niro and Nick Nolte, this remake at least stands on par with the classic 1962 original starring Robert Mitchum.The story centres around small town-lawyer Sam Bowden (Nolte) who, four-teen years prior, put away psychotic, bible-quoting rapist, Max Cady (De Niro) after concealing a document that could have gotten Cady acquitted. Now, Cady has been released and is bent on teaching Bowden and his family a lesson.

The comedic team of writers/actors Nick Frost and Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright are back

with the third instalment of their “Cornetto Trilogy” and this mad-cap sci-fi adventure is definitely up there with the hilarity of “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz”. Pegg stars as Gary King – a middle-aged man-child who con-vinces his mates to revisit a pub crawl they attempted years ago. Typically they are beset by all sides by an alien robot invasion. Silly and hillaious.

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The sounds of Australia

When iconic Australian pop-rockers GANGga-jang lost their found-ing bass player, Chris Bailey, to throat cancer

earlier this year, it seemed as though it might be stumps for the band that brought us the “unofficial” Australian anthem, The Sounds of Then (This Is Australia).

Thankfully, for the band’s many fans they are hitting the road again – including a Newcastle show, for the first time since Bailey’s death and frontman Mark ‘Cal’ Callaghan (pictured) told TE that he ex-pected a bittersweet affair.

“It’s been quite a while between drinks for us in Newcastle – it’s a great town and eit’s always been good to us,” he said.

“It is going to be weird, though with Chris not being there.

“He really was the core of the whole GANGgajang thing and not just on the music side of things. He really was the glue that held the band together. Also, his playing was just incredible”

Callaghan added that Bailey (who also lent his considerable talent to the The

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Angels and many others), before his death, insisted to each member that the band continue and to that end, the band have recruited Rebecca Johnson into the fold.

“One thing that Chris made known is that he wanted the band to keep going and so we’ve got Rebecca John-son in to play bass and, at this stage, we haven’t actually met but she is a

phenomenal bass player with her own band and she has also played with peo-ple like Ian Moss and Richard Clapton so she’s no slouch. It’s funny because I know Chris would have said that we should get Rebecca in because she is better-looking than him,” he laughed.

Perhaps best known for their paean to Australia, ‘The Sounds of Then’, Cal-laghan said he had no idea that the song would become an Australian cultural touchstone.

“Often the way it works, for me at least, is that I’ll write a song thinking it’s the best thing ever, get really precious about it and then go and record it and be disappointed with the result,” he said.

“But it was the opposite with ‘Sounds of Then’. It was always a track we played in the middle of the set – it never really stood out – but then we recorded it and it took on a life of it’s own that none of us ever saw coming.”

So, with the band hitting the road again, can we expect GANGgajang to hit the stu-dio any time soon?

“Well, we have lots of songs as I’ve never really stopped writing,” he said.

“We have definitely talked about a new recording and we will road test a couple of new ones on these shows, but we’ll just take it one step at a time.”

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On the up and up T

he last time Newcastle-based singer songwriter Kristy James graced these pages, her de-but single, the tubthumping country rocker ‘Overdrive’ was

pricking up more than its fair share of ears.

Now, it looks as though that momentum is continuing with James’ first EP, ‘No-body’s Gonna Make Me’ debuting at an impressive number 12 on the iTunes coun-try charts before shooting up to the num-ber two spot, just behind Taylor Swift.

“I’m just so stoked – I never thought I’d see anything I’d done up there with the likes of Taylor Swift. It’s just amazing,” she told TE.

After listening to the five tracks of beautifully produced neo-country, it’s not hard to see why people are catching onto James at a rate of knots.

As with ‘Overdrive’, James teamed up with producer Simon Johnson (Adam Harvey, Travis Collins) and she said the relationship the pair had forged dur-ing the recording of ‘Overdrive’ proved invaluable to the creative continuity of ‘Nobody’s Gonna Make Me’

“I think having Simon on board again helped with the creative process no end," she said.

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I t seems as music wags are heaping such hyperbolic praise as “my new favourite artist” or “an indie mas-terpiece” to every second artist.

However, after just one listen to

Armidale-bred songwriter Dustin Teb-butt’s layered and intricate debut EP, ‘The Breach’, it becomes obvious what the wags were talking about. The EP, spear-headed by a mesmarising title track, is a meditation on the appeal of hibernation and the notion of life in the winter, and Tebbutt holed up for the better part of two years in Sweden to realise his creative vi-sion.

“The location was a fundamental influ-ence to everything that ended up on ‘The Breach’ – the landscape and the complete-ly altered sense of time,” he told TE.

“I found that I was inside a lot and doing small life things which really changes your perception of nearly everything.”

Tebbutt, who returned to Australia to mix the album in his home studio said that he nearly didn’t release the EP at all.

“At one point, after I’d finished it, I thought that it had served its purpose and I wasn’t going to release it, but I guess I just became intrigued with the process of releasing something. It was quite cathartic in that once it was released, it was like a scene from a space movie where the astro-naut is cut form the pod and starts drifting into space – that’s how I felt about the EP. It’s out there now in the ether and people can put their own interpretations on it and those different interpretations kind of force me to look at the songs in a different way.”

It seems as though it was the right deci-sion to unleash the EP as the eponymous single has received high-rotation airplay on Triple J, BBC1 in the UK and a number of US college stations while the EP hit the top 10 on the iTunes album chart. Teb-butt, who has just come off an extensive national run with Boy and Bear, said while the prospect of taking the songs tor a live setting was a little daunting , he said he is getting over the initial jitters.

“The first show of the whole project was about three months ago and it was so nerve wracking,” he said. “But I was well and truly thrown in the deep end with the Boy and Bear tour."

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space when you do record, you are kind of more willing to express yourself dif-ferently or offer creative input.”

Since first stepping onstage at the ten-der age of 11 and cutting her burgeoning musical teeth at the Steel City Country Music Club every Tuesday, James has taken to the life of a singer songwriter with gusto and has been an artist who is happy to do things on her own terms – as evidenced on the EP’s title track which James describes as “a song that says you are who you are ultimately because of you”.

“For me, songwriting is about my own real life experiences or maybe me steal-ing some of my friends real life experi-ences,’ she laughed.

“I’m not the kind of songwriter who can walk down the street, see a tree, and suddenly be inspired, so yeah, a lot of my songs are very personal and the title track definitely falls into that category.”

Aside from the critical plaudits the al-bum has been getting, James said she was heartenedby the response to her pozible.com campaign to get the EP funded with pledges going over and above the amount needed.

“It really was a difficult task getting the campaign together but it was just bril-liant to see so many people get behind the project and support it.

"It was a lot of hard work but worth it."‘Nobody’s Gonna Make Me’ is available

now through iTunes or at kristyjames.com.

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Michael Mills is a veteran performer with more than 30 years experi-ence of playing gigs in Australia and Europe.

Mills has many highlights in his career including a four-year stint at the Red Garter in Florence Italy, as well as two years of playing the Aussie pub circuit in Austria and Germany.

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W ith craft beer halls popping up across Newcastle at an alarming rate, it was only a

matter of time until some bright spark decided to merge fine food with the fine liquid.

A relative newcomer to the Darby Street eat-scene, the Hop Factory is where that spark comes to life.

With 16 craft beers on tap, as well as a selection of ciders, Belgian brews and other speciality beers, there is plenty to keep even the keenest aficionado of the amber fluid satisfied – and with a sizeable locally focused wine list, wine lovers will feel right at home too.

But it’s the food that makes the Hop Factory stand out from the increasing-ly fecund Newcastle craft beer scene.

Unlike most restaurants, where the wine list is matched to the food, the Hop Factory seems to use the reverse philosophy, designing the menu to compliment the beer.

Full of sumptuous cuts of meat, sea-food, cheese, and pasta-goodness – it’s a hedonistic carb-loaded affair with barely a salad in sight.

Sipping on a Batlow Cloudy Apple Ci-der, at the recommendation of the chef I feasted on hefty potion of beef eye fillet charred and coated with an in-dulgent café de Paris butter sauce and topped with a king prawn. Cooked to perfection, this surf and turf with fancy twist really hit the spot.

Even my normally wine drinking din-ing partner couldn’t escape the craft beer pull, opting to wash down her delicious soft cheese stuffed chicken dish with a glass of 4 Pines American Style Pale Ale, haling from Manly on Sydney’s Northern Beaches – a bever-age that spurred the remark, “I think I could become a beer drinker!”

A clever blend of tasty meals and masterfully brewed beers in industrial yet welcoming surrounds makes the Hop Factory a perfect choice for group gatherings or perhaps even a hubby-friendly date night.

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Y ou might have noticed that New-castle post-hardcore powerhouse I Am The Agent have been con-

spicuously absent from stages of late.

However, don’t go thinking that the four piece is resting on its laurels. “Yeah at the moment we are laying a little low as we’re in the middle of writing our debut album which we’re expecting to have out early next year,” bass player Jason Breen told TE. Breen said the band handed over pro-duction control to Newcastle producer

Geoff Mullard at RTN Studios for the al-bum which gave the band the chance to further develop their sound in the studio.

“We’ve taken a bit of a different ap-proach with the album in that with the EPs [Volume One, Volume Two and Vol-ume Three] Michael [Gale, vocals] and Daniel [Lambert, guitar] took on the production role, and for the album we’re recording with Geoff at RTN and he’s got a really good ear for all kinds of sonic weirdness." Anyone who has seen I Am The Agent would know that they are one of the most committed and kinetic New-castle bands at the moment and Breen said one of the main focuses of ‘stay Drunk’ was to capture that live energy in the studio.

“We went into the album thinking that we really wanted to capture that live vibe, considering that we didn’t really get it on the first three volumes, so it will be a very live sounding album.

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D o the early NWOBM sounds of Iron Maiden get your blood pumping? Does the intense riff-

ing and double-kick madness of ‘Ride The Lightning’-era Metallica make you want to headbang until you’re in danger of developing whiplash? Then you’d do well to get along to the Great Northern this weekend for a healthy dose of metal madness courtesy of Newcastle four-piece Corpse Harvest.

While the idea of a bunch of guys tack-ling the metal masters might not sound

too special these days, what sets Corpse Harvest apart is the age of the members. Singer (or battle roars and wood chopping according to their bio) Andrew Murdoch has enlisted the talents of his progeny Sage Murdoch (age 11 - lead axeman) and Heath Murdoch (age nine - doom blasts) and mate Chad Ross on bass. Aside from Maiden and Metallica, the boys will also be giving the likes of Slayer, Twisted Sis-ter, Venom and an array of metal masters. So, get ready to raise those devil horns with glorious abandon.

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Y ou might have noticed that after rave reviews of the sold-out sea-son of his show ‘Todd McKenny

Sings Peter Allen’ there were so many requests for encore performances that McKenny juts had to say yes and now he is bringing the show to the Hunter region.

Just like the first go-around, the show promises to be a celebration of the songs and life of Peter Allen in a high-energy, vibrant and entertaining night that showcases McKenny’s formidable tal-ents.

McKenny first caught the performance bug when he slipped on his dancing shoes at the tender age of three. How-ever, it wasn’t until he landed the role of Peter Allen in the classic stage show ‘The Boy From Oz’ 14 years ago that he found his true passion.

McKenny became a household name after taking on the role of iconic Aus-sie performer Peter Allen in the original 1998 production of the 'Boy from Oz'. Now he’s set to reprise that role with a bit of a twist. He’s the all singing, can dance, Aussie stage sensation with a wonderful acerbic wit and irreverent sense of hu-mour. He’s as fit as he’s ever been and matches Allen’s own amazing energy through out the show.

This show is not just Peter Allen’s hits, McKenny also includes songs from

some of his earlier musical theatre per-formances and you’ll hear stories and anecdotes of Peter, as well as get all the goss from ‘Dancing with the Stars’. Got a question? Call it out during the show and Todd will likely answer you back. But here’s a fun warning to be careful as he can give as well as he gets. You’re most welcome to score Todd’s perfor-mance, in fact why not bring your score cards with you, but please do be kind.

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A nyone who caught even a sniff of the Newcastle music scene in the 80s and 90s would know

what a huge presence UJ Neill was. Best known as the frontman of the iconic cover band The Funbusters, Neill at-tained cult status as the clown prince of Newcastle.

Sadly, Neill passed away earlier this year, but in memory of one of Newcas-tle’s most-loved larrikins, close friends of Neill are holding the ‘UJ Neill Fun Family Benefit Buster’ (with proceeds to UJs family) at the Cambridge tomor-row night. Casey Raschke, who was an integral part of the Funbusters fam-ily as the ubiquitous “games hostess” Nurse Casey said the night would be an upbeat celebration of Neill’s rambunc-tious spirit. “The bill will include vari-ous bands featuring former Funbusters members including Loonatic Fringe, Punkfish, Love Experience and the show will be topped off with an all-star Funbusters jam session.”

Anyone who caught a Funbusters set would know that they would often turn into quite debaucherous affairs thanks to Neill’s rollicking sense of humour and

the array of games overseen by Nurse Casey. “UJ had a knack for turning one liners into ten liners,” she laughed. “He had such a quick wit and an ability to connect with people and there were some sets where the boys were lucky to play three songs. He was such an icon and it's a shame that we don’t have any-thing like UJ in Newcastle any more.

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W hile the thought of clock-ing up more than 100,000 kilometres in a year would

be enough to make most musos curl up in a ball, for bona fide one man band Claude Hay, it’s just the norm.

“It’s just a lifestyle thing for me,” the Blue Mountains based songwriter told TE.

“The East Coast of Australia, for exam-ple, is just an awesome stretch to play – you can just park the van at the beach and take each day as it comes. It can be tiring, but the pros definitely outweigh the cons.”

Hay, who has been plying his genre de-fining trade (he shifts from roots to blues to hard rock to funk almost effortlessly) since releasing his debut album ‘Kiss The Sky’ in 2007 (with subsequent al-bums ‘Deep Fried Satisfied’ in 2007 and ‘I Love Hate You’ in 2012), is unique in the blues/roots scene in that he takes the DIY concept a step further by making all of his own equipment such as “Betty” a double-necked guitar made out of an old kitchen bench-top or his latest creation the “Cigar Box” guitar that started life as

a six dollar baking tin. “I think I was pull-ing apart guitars before I was able to play them,’ he laughed.

“I have always been interested in elec-tronics and it allows me to create vastly different sounds that you couldn’t get from a traditional guitar.

“Nothing is off limits though – I was in the post office the other day and I saw these Christmas-themed biscuit tins and the first thing I thought was “now, they would make a fine guitar.”

While he is often lumped in the blues and roots genre, Hay’s latest album ‘I Love Hate You’ a paean to everything the singer both loves and hates, has a decid-edly rockier edge. For Hay, it was a sta-dium rock show at a very early age that spurred hm to a life on the road.

“I was in about second grade and me, my sister and two friends snuck out of the house to see Kiss at the Sydney Cricket Ground,” he said. “We were so little we easily slipped past the security guards and as soon as I heard them play-ing ‘Cold Gin’, I was instantly hooked.”

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W ith 2013 drawing to a close, it’s time to start gearing up for a mammoth 2014 and

what better way to start than with Kar-nivool and Dead Letter Circus on the same bill?

Since debuting at number one on the ARIA chart in July with their third album ‘Asymmetry’, Karnivool have been hard at it. Now a major international draw, they’ve already appeared at a string of major European festivals this year in-

cluding Sonisphere France (80, 000 peo-ple), Download UK (130, 000 people) and Hurricane Germany (60, 000 people). Karnivool are currently in the middle of their second European tour, concluding with a sold out London show and record-ing a coveted Radio One Rock session at the legendary Maida Vale Studios in the UK – not bad for five guys from Perth.

After sold out shows in Australia, last month Dead Letter Circus grabbed their round the world tickets and headlined Krank’d Up Festival in South Africa, toured the UK and Europe on a co-head-line run with Monuments, played Euro-blast Festival in Germany, and are now in California on their North American tour with Periphery.

Catck Karnivool and Dead Letter Cir-cus at Newcastle Panthers on Thursday, January 16. Tickets are available now at karnivool.com.au/tour. Get in now.

A hearty congratulations are in order for Newcastle-based outfit Ben-jalu who, after going head to head

with nearly 500 bands across the country to win a place on the new headspace stage at next year’s Sydney big Day Out.

Benjalu was chosen a one of four bands to play the iconic festival as part of head-space’s (an organisation devoted to pro-moting mental health amoung Australia’s 12 to 25-year-olds) Big Day Out Competi-tion which attracted more than 25,000 votes.

The online public vote created a shortlist of 50 bands before a panel of music in-dustry experts selected three winners for each festival and the Triple M Music Jury selected the fourth winner.

Benjalu frontman Ben Gumbleton said winning the competition was a dream come true.

“The band is overwhelmed with the love and support they have received from fans in the headspace competition,” he said.

The Big Day out will be on at Sydney Showgrounds on January 26.

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‘Messiah’, directed by the Cathedral’s organist and Master of the Choristers, Peter Guy, was a sell-out in front of more than 600 people when it was performed two years ago.

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