Let the good times rollTE caught up with bona fide Aussie legend Russell Morris, who is bringing fellow legends Joe Camilleri, Richard Clapton and Leo Sayer to town for the APIA Good Times tour.

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Due to the massive success of maiden tour in 2012, ska legends, the English Beat, are coming back for a repeat skanking session.

Charging onto the scene as ‘the hottest thing since the Pennsylvania meltdown’ in 1979, Birming-ham’s ska kings sustained an equally explosive career, spearheading the British ska movement alongside influential acts like The Specials, Madness, Bad Manners and The Selecter.

The current US-based incarnation boasts a setlist jam packed with fan favourites - Mirror In the Bathroom, Save It For Later, Too Nice to Talk To, Stand Down Margaret, Hands Off She’s Mine and I Confess to name a few.

Pick it up, pick it up.

WHAT'S ON After blowing away all expectations with

his b arnstorming Sharkmouth se t la st year, Ru ssell M orris h as de finitely g one one better with Van Diemen’s Land.

The sec ond i n a p roposed t rilogy, Van Diemen’s L and pic ks u p whe re Shark-mouth, a nd i t’s chr onicling o f A ustralian characters, left of f, but t his t ime a round, with s tories o f th e E ureka S tockade, Breaker Morant and Sandakan, the scope is much bigger.

While a ny a rtist, w hen t ackling s uch subject m atter, r uns t he r isk of d rifting into overly sentimental or mawkish terri-tory, Morris avoids this problem creating a riveting catalogue of Aussie tales.

Musically t his i s ro ots/blues p ar e xcel-lence and with help from the likes of Rick Springfield, C hain’s P hil M anning, S cott Owen from the Living End, and Rob Hirst, it’s almost an essential listening.

Directed by Zack Snyder (The Watchmen, 300) this post-modern adventure is a visual feast.

Baby Doll (Emily Browning) is locked away in an asylum by he r a busive s tepfather whe re she w ill undergo a l obotomy i n f ive days’ t ime. Faced w ith unimaginable o dds, she ret reats t o a f antastical world where she and four other female inmates plot to escape the facility. The lines between reality and fantasy blur as Baby Doll fights for freedom.

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He decides to quit the turbulent and demand-ing life of thrill for his daughter’s sake and retires to a small town. As is the case with such things, Statham is soon drawn into a stouch with the local meth kingpin (James Franco).

This film isn’t trying to break any new ground, but it’s a decent enough action flick and James Franco brings a certain gravitas to proceedings.

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After the massive success of last year’s APIA Good Times tour - featuring Daryl Braithwaite, Joe Camilleri, James Reyne and Ross

Wilson - it’s coming back to Newcastle, this time featuring another bevy of formidable talent in Joe Camilleri, Russell Morris, Richard Clapton and Leo Sayer.

“Yeah, they’re all a great bunch of fellas and the show should be a hell of a lot of fun,” Russell Morris told TE.

Morris, who is currently enjoying quite the purple patch, thanks to the runaway success of his Australiana blues-roots masterpiece Sharkmouth and now its follow-up Van Diemen’s Land said that punters could expect an even smattering of classic hits and new tunes.

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“Obviously a lot of my earlier hits like The Real Thing and Wings of an Eagle will be in there, but I’m also keen to play a few tunes off Sharkmouth and Van Diemen’s Land,” he said.

“We’ll all be doing individual sets and we may just all get up together as well, so it should be pretty exciting.”

One of the country’s most enduring singer songwriters, Morris hit creative paydirt last year with one of 2013’s most surprising releases in Sharkmouth. The barnstorming blues album, full of tales about such colourful Aussie figures as Squizzy Taylor, Phar Lap and Les Darcy, has become Morris’ most successful album to date. Not a bad effort considering that it was released completely independently.

“It was such a lovely feeling to see the album do so well - it’s absolutely fantastic and much more than I expected,” Morris said of Sharkmouth.

“I have absolutely no animosity toward

the labels that turned it down though - I actually have received a few letters since the release from labels apologising for not giving the album the attention it deserved - which is nice.”

Now, with the second album in a proposed trilogy, Van Diemen’s Land, out and doing it’s thing, it seems the purple patch is set to continue for Morris who has produced another thumping blues record that is even bigger in scope, both musi-cally and lyrically to Sharkmouth - cover-ing such topics as the Eureka Stockade and Breaker Morant.

“Without being jingoistic, the reason I decided to tackle Australiana as a topic is that, if you’re going to do a blues and roots album - it should definitely be about your roots,” he said.

Morris, who is perhaps best known for his seminal psych classic The Real Thing has definitely achieved icon status, with the ubiquitous track added to the National Film and Sound Archive last year - although he said he wasn’t sure about the icon tag.

“It’s so great to be recognised in such a way, but I don’t really know about being called an icon,’ he laughed. “An icon is something you put on a wall and look at from time to time and I’m not ready to be put on a wall just yet.”

Catch the APIA Good Times tour at the Civic Theatre on Saturday, May 17.

TE is giving you the chance to win a double pass to see Good Times. To enter, email your name and contact details to editorial@newcastlepost.com.au, with ‘Good Times’ in the subject line by no later than 5pm on Tuesday, May 6. Winners will be notified by phone.

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5 SAWYERS: Friday, Ned Kelly; Saturday, DJ Patsan; Sunday, DJ Tone.ADAMSTOWN CLUB: Friday, Bob Henderson Jazz Band; Saturday, Deviation; Sunday, New Empire Ballroom Ragtime Dance Orchestra.ANNA BAY TAVERN: Saturday, Slam Tango.AVOCA BEACH BOWLING CLUB: Friday, All Star; Saturday, Paul Strutt.BAR 121: Saturday, The Shedmasters.BAR PETITE: Friday, The Harbourmaster; Sat-urday, Matt Purcell; Sunday, Phonic Duo.BAY HOTEL: Saturday, Sugarpill.BEACHCOMBER HOTEL: Saturday, Misbehave.BEAUFORD HOTEL: Saturday, The Harbour-master.BELMONT 16s: Wednesday, Graham Stroud, Milton Ward; Friday, The Rockin Eddie Band; Saturday, Talk of the Town; Sunday, Stephen Cheney.BELMONT HOTEL: Saturday, The V Dubs.BELMORE HOTEL: Friday/Saturday, Live Entertainment.BERESFIELD BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Defaced; Saturday, The Years.BLACKBUTT HOTEL: Friday, DLove.BRADFORD HOTEL: Saturday, Ash Mountain; Sunday, Dave Feint.BREAKERS COUNTRY CLUB: Friday, Steve Twitchin; Saturday, Sam Bannerman; Sunday, Bandeoke with Rollergirl.BUDGEWOI SOCCER CLUB: Saturday, Cover 2 Cover; Sunday, Terry Mac.CAMBRIDGE HOTEL: Saturday, Gloryhammer,

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Lagerstein.CANTON BEACH SPORTS CLUB: Friday, Back 2 Rock.CARDIFF RSL: Saturday, KDL.CATHO PUB: Sunday, Steve Edmonds Band.CENTRAL HOTEL, Stroud: Saturday, Lee Rolfe; Sunday, Darren Jack. CESSNOCK LEAGUES CLUB: Friday, Incognito; Saturday, Solid Gold Party Night.CLARENDON HOTEL: Saturday, Troy Kemp.CLUB AZZURRI: Sunday, Latinova.CLUB LEMON TREE: Friday, Zane Penn; Satur-day, Mick Jones.COLLIERY INN: Friday, Karaoke; Saturday, Pete Sneddon.CRICKETERS ARMS: Saturday, Zane Penn.CRITEREON HOTEL, Singleton: Friday, Howie and Alex.CROWN AND ANCHOR: Friday, The Andy Show.CUSTOMS HOUSE: Wednesday, AdzDrumz; Saturday, Jon T; Sunday, Jerome.DAVISTOWN RSL: Thursday, Daxton Mona-ghan; Saturday, Jennie Marie Lang.D’ALBORA MARINA: Saturday, Darren; Sunday, Brooke Harvey.DENMAN RSL: Friday, Lennie Live.DUKE OF WELLINGTON: Friday, Dream Tam-bourine; Saturday, The Nick Raschke Duo; Sunday, Guitar Masters with Steve Cowley.EAST CESSNOCK BOWLING CLUB: Thursday, Talk of the Town.EAST MAITLAND BOWLING CLUB: Saturday, Total 80s Recall; Sunday, Peter Stefanson.EASTS LEISURE AND GOLF: Saturday, Karaoke.EDGEWORTH BOWLING CLUB: Sunday Debo-rah Sinclair.ENTRANCE BOWLING CLUB: Friday, Open Fire; Saturday, Jake Rattle and Roll.ENTRANCE LEAGUES CLUB: Friday, Talk of the Town, Paul Storey.EXCHANGE HOTEL: Saturday, Grand Theft Audio.FIVE ISLANDS REC CLUB, Speers Point: Sun-day, Sheri and Dave.GEORGE TAVERN: Thursday, Thomas Lawson; Saturday, The Remedy.GOSFORD RSL: Saturday, Rollergirl; Sunday, Tim Pringle, Kristy Bennett.GRAND HOTEL: Saturday, Corey Makin.GRAND JUNCTION HOTEL, Maitland: Thursday, Fish Fry, Pow Wow; Sunday, Dylan Hartas and the Blues Masters.GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL: Wednesday, Resos Jam Night.GRETA WORKERS CLUB: Thursday, Spank N The Monkey.GUNYAH HOTEL: Friday, Troy Kemp; Saturday, Purple Hearts; Sunday, Jack Daniels.HALEKULANI BOWLING CLUB: Saturday, Mali-hinis Over 30s Nightspot.HAMILTON STATION HOTEL: Wednesday, The Grounds, Drug Mother, Deadtown Nothings ; Thursday, Final Mad Battles; Friday, Karaoke; Saturday, Karaoke, When Giants Sleep, Lon-don Town Fires, Bite Back, Bury Us Bury Us;

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Be prepared to get rocked. Defaced are possibly one of the hot test new line-ups to surface in the H unter’s live scene for quite some time.

The five-piece is driven by passion, versatility and professionalism. P ut all of that with first-class production values and you can be sure that your senses w ill be trea ted to a nigh t to remember. P eople who come to a Defaced sho w nev er lea ve disap-pointed.

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Stones to satisfyHunter fansIn what is possibly the biggest music news to hit the Hunter in, well, forever, the Rolling Stones are headed our way this November as part of their mammoth 14 On Fire world tour.

The le gendary ro ckers w ere f orced t o p ostpone t he Australian le g of t he w orld t our i n M arch f ollowing t he tragic death of Mick Jagger’s girlfriend L’Wren Scott.

The r escheduling o f t he tou r to O ctober/November h as allowed the addition of two extra shows - Hope Estate and Perth Arena. With supports for the Hope Estate show to be announced shor tly, t his i s s omething y ou w on’t w ant t o miss. The Rolling Stones play at Hope Estate on S aturday, November 15. P re-sale t ickets w ill b e a vailable v ia w ww.frontiertouring.com/rollingstones fr om n oon T uesday 2 9 April until noon Wednesday 30 Apr il (or earlier if pre-sale allocation is exhausted). Head to the site for further details.

Naked ambition

A fter a tri umphant turn on t he re cent B ig D ay Out t our, Au ckland-via

Los A ngeles s ynth-op f ive pie ce The Na ked a nd Fa mous, a re s et to do it all again - this time on the action-packed Gro ovin’ t he M oo line-up, s et t o h it M aitland ne xt weekend.

“Yeah Groovin’ the Moo should be pretty cool,” frontman Thom Powers told TE.

“The B ig D ay O ut w as re ally cool b ut, we ’ve on ly re ally done summer f estivals o ver t here before so it will be nice to play in some, hopefully, cooler weather.”

The b and, who a re c urrently riding high on the back of their sophomore re lease In Ro lling Waves, also recently completed a m assive US s tadium t our w ith rockers-of-the-moment I magine Dragons - not a b ad f oot i n t he door at all.

“It was just amazing playing on such massive stages,” he said.

“It’s a l ittle w eird b ecause y ou are so far apart from one another on s tage, t hings c an get a l ittle reserved b ut w e wa rmed t o i t after a l ittle wh ile. W e pl ayed a

crazy s how in V ancouver w here pretty much t he whole audience got ou t t heir i Phones a nd w ere waving t hem a round si nging along to album tracks which just blew us all away.”

The band, who re-located to Los Angeles i n 2 012 h ave p roduced an album in In Rolling Waves that is a w elcome b arrage of e lectro rock - putting them in the s ame league as the l ikes of M GMT and Passion Pit.

After t ouring t he le gs of f t heir debut Passive Me, Aggressive You, the b and ho led u p i n t heir L A home t o l ay t he f oundations of the record before hitting a H olly-wood studio to put t he f inishing

touches on it. Powers said the fact the band were all l iving together made f or a m uch more c ohesive record. “ I’d s ay i t w as a d ifficult album t o m ake, bu t re ally, a ll albums a re qu ite d ifficult t o make,” he said. “But I think that it is a really cohesive album, a very precise album and one that we are all c ompletely h appy w ith, b oth creatively and personally.”

The Na ked a nd Fa mous play at Groovin’ T he M oo, M aitland on Saturday, April 26. With Maitland GTM now sold out, if you missed out, never fear.

You c an c atch t he Na ked a nd Famous a t S ydney’s Metro th ea-tre on Tuesday, May 13.

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Flying solo

T here’s li ttle d enying th at, as a founding m ember a nd s ong-writer for Newcastle’s rockingest

outfit The Screaming Jets, Paul Woseen has left an indelible mark on t he Aussie rock and roll landscape.

With s uch cl assic J ets tun es as Help-ing H and, Holding O n and October Gr ey under his belt, there’s no doubt Woseen’s contribution t o t he b and - a side f rom his blistering harmonies and slinky bass lines - is immeasurable.

Now, Woseen is striking out on his own, with his debut solo album, Bombido.

The a lbum features a s election of J ets tracks, written by Woseen, stripped back to their bare acoustic essentials as well as a f ew new t racks. W oseen h as ju st kicked of f a t wo-month n ational t our, which w ill h it New castle ne xt mon th, and he s aid t he shows h ave b een going swimmingly.

“I’ve done two shows on the tour so far and they’ve been bloody great,” he said.

“I’m pl aying more s maller ve nues on this tour which really lend to the stripped back hone sty of t he w ay I pre sent t he songs.”

With m ore th an 3 0 J ets tun es un der his belt, Woseen said he took quit a pragmatic a pproach i n d eciding wh at

tracks made the f inal cut. “Well they’re all t he s ongs t hat I w rote, s o I b asically went through them all and the ones that didn’t sound s**t when I sang them were the ones that made it on the album,’ he laughed.

While s tepping ou t f rom b ehind t he “safety net ” of a b and m ight s eem l ike a d aunting t ask f or s ome, W oseen s aid he has taken to solo mode like a duck to water.

“It wasn’t really daunting at all because this i s a pro cess t hat h as b een bu ilding up for years,” he said.

“I ha d a lways wa nted t o d o t he so lo thing, and it just s eemed th at the time was right.”

With a new J ets a lbum sl ated f or sometime this year, Woseen said he was keen to get b ack in the studio for album number two, when time permits.

“The pl an i s, w e’re a lmost f inished writing for the next Jets album, so after that’s ou t a nd w e t our i t, I’m de finitely keen to get b ack i n t he studio - I’ ve got quite a few songs that I’m keen to get out there.”

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