NOTHING HAS CHANGEDA T R I B U T E W I T H W A S O

DAVID BOWIE

PROGRAM

Thursday 10 & Friday 11 November 8pmRiverside Theatre, Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre

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iOTA

TIM ROGERS

STEVE KILBEY

DEBORAH CONWAY

ADALITA

WEST AUSTRALIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Amanda Pelman creative director Christopher van Tuinen conductor

Ashley Naylor guitar & musical director Davey Lane guitar

Clayton Doley keyboard James Haselwood bass

Laurence Pike drums Jade MacRae vocals Robyn Loau vocals

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ACT ONE Space Oddity iOTA

Starman DEBORAH CONWAY

All the Young Dudes TIM ROGERS

Rebel Rebel / The Jean Genie ADALITA

Stay / Diamond Dogs STEVE KILBEY

Ziggy Stardust / Suffragette City iOTA DEBORAH CONWAY

Fame TIM ROGERS DEBORAH CONWAY

China Girl STEVE KILBEY ROBYN LOAU

Oh! You Pretty Things DEBORAH CONWAY

Sorrow TIM ROGERS ADALITA

(Is There) Life on Mars iOTA

ACT TWOStation to Station STEVE KILBEY

Moonage Daydream ASHLEY NAYLOR

Golden Years TIM ROGERS DEBORAH CONWAY

Changes STEVE KILBEY

Young Americans TIM ROGERS

Boys Keep Swinging DAVEY LANE

Modern Love / Let’s Dance / Fashion ADALITA iOTA

Ashes to Ashes iOTA

Lazurus TIM ROGERS

The concert duration is approximately 2 hrs 30 mins, with a 20 minute interval.

David Bowie: Nothing Has Changed premiered at the Sydney Opera House on Thursday 19 May 2016 with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

iOTAiOTA, an award-winning singer, songwriter, musician, producer, playwright, stage performer, film actor and visual artist, has been very busy since his last studio album release back in 2006. Since then, he has performed in critically acclaimed productions of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Sydney Dance Company’s Berlin, while also writing and starring in the international fringe theatre hit Smoke & Mirrors, the

Sydney Opera House show Young, Hard and Solo, and most recently the controversial and acclaimed B-Girl, also at the Sydney Opera House. Along the way, he has picked up Helpmann and Green Room awards for outstanding performances and productions.

He has written, recorded and produced two albums in the last 12 months: a self-titled opus written while on set in the desert of Namibia shooting Fury Road, and Wolf Number Nine. Whatever role he finds himself in, iOTA is finally living the role he was born to play: that of an exceedingly capable individual and powerful performer – no masks, no disguises, no gimmicks, just himself.

Tim RogersHailing from a mining town in WA, Tim Rogers has taken his talents to the world in a career that encompasses music, film, television and stage. As the frontman of You Am I, he has released ten studio albums, three of which have debuted at #1: Hi Fi Way (1995), Hourly, Daily (1996) and #4 Record (1998) – with the records receiving ARIA Awards and platinum and gold status. The band has been released internationally and headlined shows across

North America and Europe. He has also released critically acclaimed solo albums, and a number of collaborations with musicians such as Tex Perkins, The Temperance Union and The Bamboos. In 2012 he released his fifth and most recent solo album, the acclaimed Rogers Sings Rogerstein.

One of his most notable film roles was in the 2013 musical-thriller film The Boy Castaways with fellow Australian musician Megan Washington, and he appeared alongside Mia Wasikowska in the film Tracks. He has stood in front of 50,000 screaming rock fans, but is just as at home playing an acoustic guitar and joking with the locals in a country town venue.

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Steve KilbeySteve Kilbey was born in England in 1954 and – as lead singer-songwriter and bass guitarist – formed the psychedelic rock band The Church in Sydney in 1980. The Church has released 24 studio albums and 34 singles, including ‘Under the Milky Way’ (from Starfish, 1988), which brought the band international fame and was named Single of the Year in the 1989 ARIA Awards.

The band was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2010, and the following year Steve Kilbey was inducted into the Australian Songwriters Hall of Fame. He has written three books, including Something Quite Peculiar, and released many musical collaborations. He now lives in Coogee.

Deborah ConwayDeborah Conway has been a significant and eloquent contributor to Australian music for more than 30 years. Her first band Do-Ré-Mi topped the charts; her first solo album achieved platinum sales while simultaneously becoming the most shoplifted album of that year. She continues to release albums that attract acclaim from reviewers and appreciative audiences alike, most recently Stories of Ghosts, described as ten dialogues around themes from the Torah, from an atheist Jewish perspective.

Deborah Conway has pursued a career of extracurricular activities alongside the core business of writing, recording and performing her songs. In 2015 the 5/4 anthem ‘Alive and Brilliant’ – written with long-time collaborator Willy Zygier – was inducted into the National Film and Sound Archive. Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier have just released Everybody's Begging, a follow-up to 2013's Stories of Ghosts.

AdalitaAdalita, lead singer of seminal band Magic Dirt, has been one of Australia’s most respected and influential artists for nearly two decades. You may well have grown up with her music, watching it evolve from the free-form distortion-drenched darkness of the early 90s to the confident, poised rock ’n’ roll of the album Girl. Or you might be a new fan, just beginning to explore her solo work released under her own name, dynamic and introspective.

The release of Adalita’s eponymous debut album in 2011 marked the advent of a remarkable new phase in an already illustrious career.

In 2013 her second album, All Day Venus, blitzed the music scene, landing her an Age Music Victoria award just a month after its release. In 2014, Adalita delivered a stirring keynote speech at the annual AIR Awards and received an ARIA Award Nomination for Best Female Artist.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Amanda PelmanCreative Director

As Cameron Macintosh described her, ‘a rock ’n’ roll chick from way back’, Amanda Pelman has signed artists (Kylie Minogue), managed artists into successful international careers (Indecent Obsession) and championed the careers of many others through her A&R roles in Australia and the UK. Recalled as the ‘nasty judge’ on Seven Network’s It Takes Two series, her on-

camera appearances didn’t start there but in the early 80s as a dancer on Countdown – prompted by her friend Molly Meldrum.

Amanda Pelman is the proud recipient of two ARIA Awards: for production on the live event Sound Relief (Best Music DVD 2010), and as Executive Producer of Tangier, the posthumous release for Billy Thorpe (Best Adult Contemporary Album 2011). Together with Michael Chugg and Billy Thorpe, she co-produced the enormously successful Long Way to the Top live concert series (2002–04). Her roles in casting and as a creative director have covered productions such as Priscilla Queen of the Desert, RENT, Oliver, Jolson, Fame, Fiddler, Always Patsy Cline (starring Deborah Conway) and Morning of the Earth (which features music by her partner Brian Cadd).

Christopher van TuinenConductor

Christopher graduated with a Bachelor of Music from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 2001. In 2005 he completed a Masters in Conducting at the VCA. Experienced in both vocal and instrumental music he was awarded the John Williams Conducting Scholarship for 2004-5. In 2006 he received a Green Room Award nomination in the ‘Best Conductor’ category. During

2008 and 2009 he was a member of the Young Artists program as a Conductor with Opera Australia and in 2007 he was appointed as the inaugural Conducting Fellow at the Australian Ballet.

In addition to his work as Chorus Director for WASO, Christopher is also Conductor of The University of Western Australia Choral Society, Musical Director of Fremantle Chamber Orchestra and Artistic Director of Lost and Found Opera.

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The West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO) is Western Australia’s largest and busiest performing arts organisation. WASO’s resident company of full-time, professional musicians plays a central role in creating a culturally vibrant Western Australia.

Each year the Orchestra performs over 175 concerts with some of the world’s most talented conductors and soloists to an audience in excess of 190,000.

For further information visit waso.com.au

WEST AUSTRALIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

WASO ON STAGE TONIGHT

VIOLINGraeme NorrisA/Assistant ConcertmasterKylie Liang Assoc Principal 2nd ViolinSarah BlackmanFleur ChallenBeth HebertEllie LawrenceShaun Lee-Chen*Ken PeelerLouise SandercockJolanta SchenkJane SerrangeliDavid YehVIOLAAlex BroganBenjamin CaddyAllan McLeanHelen Tuckey

CELLORod McGrath Chair partnered by Tokyo Gas Shigeru KomatsuTim SouthXiaole Wu

DOUBLE BASSJoan Wright Mark Tooby

FLUTEMichael Waye

OBOELeanne Glover

CLARINETAllan Meyer

BASSOONAdam Mikulicz

HORNRobert Gladstones Principal 3rd HornFrancesco Lo Surdo

TRUMPETBrent Grapes Peter MillerMark Underwood^

TROMBONEJoshua Davis Jeremy Greig^

BASS TROMBONEPhilip Holdsworth

TIMPANIAlex Timcke

PERCUSSIONChiron MellerA/Assoc Principal Percussion and TimpaniPaul Tanner^

HARPSarah Bowman

ALTO SAXMatthew Styles^

TENOR SAXMelissa Skinner^

BARITONE SAXAlex Boyd^

*Instruments used by these musicians are on loan from Janet Holmes à Court AC.

PrincipalAssociate PrincipalGuest Musician^

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ABOUT THE BAND

Ashley NaylorGuitar & Musical DirectorGuitarist, singer and songwriter Ashley Naylor has fronted the Melbourne rock group, Even, since 1994, releasing six albums as well as touring throughout Australia, Japan the United States and Europe. He has also released two solo albums, Four Track Mind and High Horse, often showcasing material from these albums at rare, intimate acoustic shows. He also shares the stage and recording studio with Paul Kelly,

The Grapes and The Ronson Hangup, and currently plays in the Rockwiz Orkestra. He was ranked among the top 50 Australian guitarists in Australian Guitar magazine, and in 2010 he received an ARIA award for his role as Musical Director in Triple J’s tribute to Paul Kelly, Before Too Long. Ashley is currently finishing the new Even album, due for release this year.

Davey LaneGuitarDavey Lane is a Melbourne-based solo artist, songwriter and guitarist. He joined You Am I at the age of 18 in 1999 and since then has made six albums with the band, most recently Porridge and Hotsauce (2015) – his singing and song-writing debut with the group. He has also worked with Crowded House, Jimmy Barnes and Jim Keays, as well as fronting his own group The Pictures (2000–10). Since then

he has produced his own music as a solo artist, with a slew of releases including the critically acclaimed debut album Atonally Young (2014), with I’ll Burn Out Brightly due later this year.

Clayton DoleyKeyboardClayton Doley is best known for his Hammond organ virtuosity, and his own bands have been invited to play at leading festivals worldwide, including Montreal International Jazz, Byron Bay Blues, Toronto Jazz and Tremblant International Blues. An experienced and versatile session musician, he has played on, produced or written songs for hundreds of Australian albums. He has toured

the world with the likes of Harry Manx, Joe Bonamassa, Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington, Steve Cropper and Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn (Booker T. & the M.G.’s, The Blues Brothers), David Garibaldi (Tower Of Power), Jimmy Barnes and The Divinyls. As a television musical director he has worked on Good News Week and The Sideshow as well as special events.

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Laurence PikeDrumsSydney-based Laurence Pike is a drummer, composer and producer. His group PVT (formerly Pivot) was the first Australian act signed to the UK label Warp Records; he is also a member of Jack Ladder and The Dreamlanders, and works with Sarah Blasko, jazz pianist Mike Nock and UK electronic musician Luke Abbott. He has appeared on over 35 albums and performed worldwide with artists as

diverse as Bill Callahan, Speech Debelle and Prefuse 73, and appeared at Glastonbury, Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Pukklepop, Lowlands, Montreal Jazz Festival, South By Southwest, CMJ New York, Vivid, Splendour in the Grass and Sydney Festival. He has also composed for television and presented for Triple J and Double J.

James HaselwoodBassBass player James Haselwood arrived in the spotlight in 2005 as a member of the Dissociatives (featuring Daniel Johns of Silverchair, Paul Mac and the Presets). Since then he has worked with a wide spectrum of artists in Australia and internationally, including Natalie Imbruglia, Mia Dyson, Dan Akroyd, Jon Cleary (New Orleans), Alex Lloyd and Tina Harrod. One highlight has been Cannot Buy My Soul: Kev

Carmody – a DVD recorded live at Sydney’s State Theatre and featuring Paul Kelly and other leading artists. After working in New York City, James Haselwood returned to Australia to play bass on the 2014 series of The Voice Australia. Currently he is recording and touring with Kasey Chambers.

Jade MacRae VocalsJade MacRae’s formative years were spent at the Sydney Conservatorium, during which period she collaborated with early incarnations of The Presets, Pnau and The Sleepy Jackson. She was mentored by Sydney funk and soul luminaries Jackie Orszaczky and Tina Harrod, which proved pivotal in developing her flair for arrangement and composition. Subsequently she released two albums, earning

three ARIA Award nominations as well as numerous APRA Awards. As a vocalist, she has shared the stage with musical icons such as James Brown, Ray Charles, Renée Geyer, Cold Chisel and Neil Finn, and was the voice of Cynthia in The Sapphires. Her current original music project, Dune, explores pop music with a focus on analogue synths.

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Robyn LoauVocalsRobyn Loau has released two solo albums to critical acclaim, drawing comparisons to Neneh Cherry, Kylie Minogue and Kate Bush. Upon the release of her debut album Malaria and hit single Sick With Love, Rolling Stone magazine proclaimed her ‘a serious diva in waiting’. With over half a million sales, her music has made its way into homes across Australia, Asia and Europe through her solo

releases and as the lead singer of pop group Girlfriend. She is the face and voice of world music project Siva Pacifica, and has coordinated and arranged the vocals of the indigenous South Pacific tribes featured on the project.

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PRODUCTION CREDITSMark Sutcliffe Head of Commercial Programming (SSO), Executive ProducerAmanda Pelman Creative DirectorLaura Daniel Head of Production (SSO), Stage DesignRoss Graham Lighting Design

And our talented arrangers:Nicholas Buc, Daniel Denholm, Jamie Messenger, Benjamin Northey, Joe Twist and Jessica Wells

ABOUT THE MUSICAll songs by David Bowie unless noted otherwise. The orchestral arrangements have been specially commissioned for these concerts.

Space Oddity arr. Daniel DenholmStarman arr. Joe TwistAll the Young Dudes arr. Nicholas BucRebel Rebel arr. Jamie MessengerThe Jean Genie arr. MessengerStay arr. Jessica WellsDiamond Dogs arr. WellsZiggy Stardust arr. WellsSuffragette City arr. WellsFame David Bowie, Carlos Alomar & John Lennon, arr. MessengerChina Girl David Bowie & Iggy Pop, arr. MessengerOh! You Pretty Things Sorrow Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, Richard Gottehrer, arr. Buc

(Is There) Life on Mars? arr. DenholmStation to Station arr. Joe TwistMoonage Daydream arr. WellsGolden Years arr. Wells Changes arr. TwistYoung Americans arr. WellsBoys Keep Swinging Modern Love arr. Benjamin NortheyLet’s Dance arr. NortheyFashion arr. NortheyAshes to Ashes arr. NortheyLazarus arr. TwistFive Years arr. BucHeroes David Bowie & Brian Eno, arr. Denholm

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