Gliding high80s indie pop sensation The Eurogliders are back and TE caught up with frontwoman GRACE KNIGHT ahead of their show at the Caves Beachside Hotel.

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Powerhouse “no-wave” experimentalists Swans are heading back our way, next year, for what promises to be a thunderous performance at the Manning Bar. Consisting of Michael Gira, Nor-man Westberg, Christoph Hahn, Phil Puleo, Thor Harris and Christopher Pravdica, Swans have released an astounding twelve studio albums, with album thirteen To Be Kind continuing to push boundaries and draw in listeners with their ability to create sounds which are equal parts beautiful and confronting. After a 13-year break, Gira resurrected the Swans, releasing critically acclaimed albums My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope and The Seer. The latest album, To Be Kind was developed live during the Swans tours of 2012/13 and the result is two hours and ten tracks of mind bending symphonies of hypnotic and psychedelic tendencies.

WHAT'S ON As a final statement, from the band that

brought us such monumental concepts as The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon, this is an astounding record.

Based on various improvisations that came out of the sessions of their 1993 album The Division Bell, this deeply com-plex instrumental effort (save for the final track Lost for Words) demands repeat listens. The genius in this album lies in the fact that Pink Floyd have managed to create something completely fresh while wholeheartedly embracing their past. The Wish You Were Here-era It’s What We Do, but it is the closer Lost for Words that really captured this reviewer’s attention. The line “we bitch and we fight, diss each other on sight... but this thing we do is louder than words” is a perfect summa-tion to Pink Floyd’s juggernaut-life yet tumultuous career.

While it’s a given that Kris Kristofferson can write the heck out of a tune, the same can also be said of his acting as this early Marty Scorsese classic more than amply proves. A young woman’s husband dies suddenly and she is left to care for her 11-year-old son. The two of them set out for Monterey, California where she once was very happy and was employed as a singer. Kristofferson’s performance

While I find absolutely no redeeming qualities in this dated, hackneyed sit-com, it appears that I am in the minority as the success of this flick at the box office proved.

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If you grew up in the heady days of the 1980s’, chances are you spent a fair bit of time in your bedroom singing along to Perth post-punk/indie pop outfit the Eurogliders and, if you were female you were probably doing your

best impersonation of frontwoman Grace Knight’s “manic ballerina”.

Well, its time to start reliving all of those memories as the Eurogliders are back and heading our way for a special show at Caves Beach next month.

Breaking up firstly in 1989 after a slew of Aussie hits, the band reformed in 2007 for two albums and now they’re back again and as Grace Knight told TE things couldn’t be going better.

“We’ve been having such fun taking the band out again for the past ten months,” she said.

“How the whole thing started was that [rock histo-rian] Glen A Baker asked the Eurogliders to support the Boomtown Rats on their Australian tour, so Bernie [Lynch Knight’s main Eurogliders co-conspirator] decided to get a band together - however the tour fell over and we were all ready to go so we thought to ourselves ‘let’s just do it’ and we’re glad we did because it has been great fun.”

If you know anything about the Eurogliders back catalogue you’d know that fun always featured largely in their output and Knight said it was great to

see that same sense of fun still evident at shows all these years later.

“I may have to take an extra breath between songs nowadays, but it is all about having a ball onstage and it’s also great to see so many people from way back when who are still dancing right along with us.”

Asked what she believed was the secret to the bands’ success and continued resonance, Knight had but one word.

“Bernie,” she said.“In my opinion he is one of the greatest songwriters

in the country, I mean those songs were written 20 or 30 years ago and they still sound fresh and relevant - that’s all such a testament to Bernie’s ability as a songwriter.”

While most of their contemporaries might be content with resting on past glories, Knight said the Eurogliders were currently working on a new album which would feature reworkings from the back cata-logue as well as some new material.

“We really wanted to reintroduce ourselves to everyone so we decided to re-record some of our biggest hits along with some new stuff,” she said.

“We’ve ben playing a fair few festivals lately so we really wanted to create a really celebratory festival atmosphere with this record.”

TE is giving you the chance to win a double pass to the show. To enter, email yopur name and contact details to editorial@newcastlepost.com.au with “Eurogliders” in the subject line by no later then 5pm on Tuesday, December 2. Winners will be noti-fied by phone.

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While first shooting to stardom on the silver screen in the 80s Aussie smash hit The Man From Snowy River, actor Tom Burlinson is also quite a dab hand at singing, too. Particularly when it comes to the songs of Frank Sinatra.

His first professional singing gig was as the voice of the young Frank in the Warner Brothers mini-series Sinatra, produced by Ol Blue Eyes’ daughter Tina and has since travelled the world reimagining Sinatra’s formidable songbook.

In 1998, he created the hugely successful Frank - A Life in Song’, which played several times in the Australian state capital cities as well as in Toronto, Canada and Las Vegas, U.S.A.

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Anu Brings the cheer

M ulti ARIA award-winning performer Christine Anu has certainly achieved a lot in her

twenty-plus year career but she had never released a Christmas album -a balance she has well and truly redressed with her joyous new collection of Yuletide fare, Island Christmas.

“It’s all so exciting at the moment, all systems go,” Anu told TE.

“I’ve never promoted a Christmas album before so I don’t want it to get lost among all of the other music released at this time of year. But it’s such a fun album, I’m having great fun listening to it and I hope everyone else does, too.”

Given the sheer plethora of Christmas songs already in the ether, you’d think selecting an albums’ worth to re-interpret would be a mammoth, almost insur-mountable task. But for Anu, the task was all about bringing it back to a more personal level.

“It wasn’t as much of a struggle as I first thought it might be because it was all about working out what Christmas means to me and trying to articulate that in the song choices.”

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album - the self-penned title track and a silky smooth rendition of the Five Stairsteps soul classic Ooh Child.

“To me, the essence of Christmas is family so it was great to be able to get the kids involved in the album,” she said.

“While Ooh Child isn’t traditionally a Christmas song, it’s a great song and the message definitely resonates at this time of year and the other one, Island Christmas had been kicking around for a little while - I actually wrote it years ago when the kids were little, with them definitely in mind.”

Anu, who will be heading to Lake Macquarie next month for the opening ceremony of the International Childrens Games and Carols by Candlelight, said that while it was definitely all systems go at the moment, things would be sure to ramp up next year as she celebrates 20 years of the release of her groundbreaking album Stylin’ Up.

“While 2014 has definitely been a busy one, I feel as though it’s kind of a setting up period for next year with the 20th anniversary - it’s going to be huge.”

Catch Christine Anu at the International Childrens’ Games Opening Ceremony and Carols By Candlelight at Speers Point Park on Sunday, December 7. Entry is free but be sure to get there early. The opening ceremony gets underway at 5pm and the carols kick off at 8pm.

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W hen the sartorially correct Dave Graney last darkened Newcastle’s doors in June, he

must’ve enjoyed his time at the Royal Exchange Theatre because he’s coming back and the gig is so nice, he’s playing it twice.

Graney will be heading back to the venue for a double-headder next month and he told TE the vibe of the venue fit in with the current plan of playing off the beaten rock and roll track.

“It’s such a cool little venue that has a really great European bohemian vibe,” he said.

“When we were last on the road in Australia touring Fearful Wiggings [ Graney’s latest album], we wanted to play places that were outside of that rock and roll pub box and the Royal Exchange certainly fit the brief.”

Graney and his long time musical and life collaborator Claire Moore have just come off a five week European stint playing with Harry Howard ( Crime and the “ity Solution, Those Immortal Souls] in his outfit Harry Howard and the NDE, with Graney taking on bass duties. He said the opportunity to step out of the spotlight somewhat was an attractive one.

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such a common shared experience it’s easy to tune into what he’s doing.

“Also, I love bass players and bas sin general - in funk, in hip hop, in every-thing and all of my music in some way is informed by that rhythm - and, yes it’s good going gigs where you don’t have to project your personality as much,”he laughed.

However, Fearfull Wiggings, Graney’s second solo album will be the focus of these gigs and he said he was pleased with the way the lackadaisically free-wheeling album has been received.

“Well I think it’s a bloody good album and I guess an album has only got as many legs as you’re prepared to commit to it.”

Catch Dave Graney at the Royal Exchange Theatre on Saturday, Decem-ber 6 and Sunday December 7 (matinee show 2pm)

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Wednesday November 26

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MONDAY $15 SURF & TURF 250G SCOTCH TOPPED WITH GARLIC PRAWNS & CALAMARI

TUESDAY $12.50 PASTA NIGHT CHOICE OF 4 PASTAS ACCOMPANIED WITH GARLIC BREAD

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Courtesy bus - friday, saturday & super sunday!www.belmontbowlo.com.au

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4945 4724 ABOVE WOOLWORTHS

HAPPY HOUR Schooners $3.909am - 12 noon EVERYDAY!

New exciting cateringinternational cuisine

New menuOpen Monday lunch

Tueday-Sunday lunch and dinner

Raffl esRaffl esTHU Travelling Bowlers 4.30-5pm

FRI Fantastic Friday Raffl e! Including H Including HAM AM AND PORK!!AND PORK!!Every $5 in raffl e tickets gets you promo tickets for your chance to win up to $300 cash! 6pm—$50 draw, $7:30pm—$100 draw, 8:30pm—$150 draw.Meat & Ladies raffl es 5-6.30pmBelmont Swansea Soccer Club 7pm

SAT Travelling Bowlers raffl e 4.30-5pm

1 High St, Belmont NSW

SUNDAY 30TH NOVEMBERPRESENTED

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12 NOON2 COURSE MEAL

$25 P/P

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FREE ADMISSIONSaturday 6 Dec @ 8pm

FREE ADMISSIONWOBBLY BOOT

Sunday 21 Dec @ 8pm