Building bridgesStill enjoying the fruits of their 2013 sophomore long player Harlequin Dream indie-folkies BOY AND BEAR are smack-bang in the middle of a mammoth 30-date regional tour and TE caught up with frontman Dave Hosking to chat about keeping sane on the road.

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After founding the influential art-punk band Throwing Muses, at age 14, Kristin Hersh went on to spend the next 25 years confounding expecta-tions and breaking rules - both her own and others

Her solo-mostly-acoustic career spun off in 1994 and has lived in parallel to the Muses.

Her first solo release, Hips and Makers was widely acclaimed and since, Hersh has released a steady stream of solid and distinctly individual solo albums.

However, her latest work of passion is her beloved band, Throwing Muses’ epic work, Purgatory / Paradise.

An entirely listener-funded recording, written and demoed in public and in full conversation with the audience meant to consume it, the project was published as a hardcover art book with a CD mounted inside 60 pages of photos, lyrics and narrative prose.

WHAT'S ON While there are flashes of the Pixies of old

on their first studio album in 23 years - Indie Cindy never lives up to the skewed indie-pop brilliance of albums like Surfa Rosa and Doolittle.

While Frank Black is in fine caterwauling form and Joey Santiago is still bringing those slinky, snakey guitar lines, the absence of original bass wielder Kim Deal is noticeably absent.

In fact, this kind of sounds like a side project of Frank Black, Joey Santiago and David Lovering, rather than a Pixies record.

Their heavier, rockier moments kind of come of sounding like a band trying to do the Pixies, yet it is in the quieter moments such as the standout Greens and Blues where this album truly shines.

This is by no stretch of the imagination a bad record, but definitely not the best in the Pixies formidable indie-rock canon.

Aside from his turn as unhinged gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, this could very well be the best role in Johnny Depp’s career.This true story follows the life of George Jung (Depp) - a small-time hood who rose through the ranks to become the king of cocaine in America in the hedonistic 1980s.Starting out as a small-time marijuana dealer, Jung became part of the Medellin drug cartel, headed by none other than Pablo Escobar.

Sure, it is debauched and the majority of its characters devoid of any moral compass, but Martin Scorssese’s biopic of the life of nefarious stockbroker Jordan Belfort, could just be the iconic director’s magnum opus.

Based on Belfort’s book of the same name, The Wolf of Wall Street charts Belfort’s rise from a Long Island penny stockbroker to becoming the founder of his own firm, Stratton Oakmont. Along the way, Belfort was involved in a massive securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street.Leonardo DiCaprio is bril-liant as the amoral Belfort but, Jonah Hill threatens to steal the show as Belfort’s partner-in-crime Donnie Azoff.

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Given that their latest album, Ha rl e q u i n D re a m , was released in August last year, you’d t hink t hat a lbum’s cycle w ould b e ne aring i t’s

end a nd B oy a nd B ear w ould b e re ady to s tart t he pro cess a gain w ith a lbum number three.

However, as testament to the beautifully realised driving folk-rock album, it seems Australia a nd no w E urope a nd t he US won’t let Harlequin Dream go.

Having completed a n ational tour at the end of l ast y ear, t he b and h ave re cently finished a m ammoth 3 2-date t our of Europe a nd t he US (i ncluding a s tint a t SXSW) and, with nary time to put their feet up, they’re heading back out on Aussie roads again, this time taking in more regional centres.

Frontman, D ave H osking t old TE th at, while the band’s schedule had been quite daunting of late, it was a good problem to have.

“Yeah it has been a little busy, but I guess that’s nice,” he laughed.

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like t his - y ou c an’t get t oo e xcited or you’re definitely going to come unstuck.

“You really do have to stay kind of disci-plined or else you could lose your sanity.”

After f irst pi quing t he n ation’s i nterest with th eir d ebut Moonfire, wh ich d rew favourable c omparisons t o t he l ikes of Fleet Foxes for its atmospheric and moody folk p op a nd e nded u p g oing pl atinum -

Boy a nd B ear c ertainly went at le ast one better with Harlequin Dream.

The a lbum de buted a t n umber one on the A RIA c harts u pon re lease a nd h as gone on to sell upwards of 35,000 copies in Australia.

While H osking s aid t here w as a s ense of p ressure su rrounding t he Moonfire sessions it was more about pressure placed

on themselves rather than any weight of expectation from external forces.

“It’s been absolutely fantastic how people have welcomed the album,” he said.

“Everyone t alks a bout t hat d readed second album syndrome so it’s nice to have avoided that in some ways.

“I me an, t here’s a lways pre ssure w ith any a lbum y ou do bu t I’d s ay t hat t here was more s urrounding t he f irst a lbum. With Moonfire i t w as more a bout u s putting pressure on ou rselves to raise the bar c reatively a lso, t his t ime a round w e are a little wiser and it always helps to have someone l ike W ayne C onolly pro ducing your album.”

Hosking said that Conolly - t he erstwhile axeman f or S ydney in die-rockers T he Welcome Mat and Kinievel and producer of albums for the likes of You Am I, The Fauves, Died P retty a nd S arah Bl asko, broug ht a sense of ease to the sessions that more than came through on the finished product.

“Wayne is just such a chiller - the k ind of guy you really want to hang out with,” Hosking said. “Aside from that, he’s also a bit of a subtle genius who really knew how to get t he b est p erformances f rom a ll of us - our cultural stars definitely aligned.”

The dream continues.

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A formidable pair

Separately, w ith son gs lik e Ginger M an, E very M other’s Son, Reminiscing, Cool Change and Help Is On the Way - Brian Cadd and Glenn Shorrock are

icons of the A ustralian music industr y. Together, though, they c reate something truly special.

Cadd and Shorrock ( who w ent on to become a global sensa tion as f rontman for the Li ttle Ri ver B and) first started collaborating in 1969 in what was dubbed Australia’s first “ supergroup”, Axiom - best kno wn for such iconic tracks as Arkansas Grass and Little Ray of Sunshine - and i t is a music al f riendship tha t has stood strong ever since - lon ger than a lot of marriages.

“We started out in our twenties or there-abouts and we really did evolve together,” Cadd told TE.

“We met during a period in both our lives where we were learning about songwriting and performing and when you go through that together, it gives me a g reat sense of confidence on stage, knowing that the guy next to me is completely on the same page as me.”

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Cadd and Shorrock w ill be hi tting the Hunter for a run of dates this week with a sho w, dubbed, The S tory o f Sharky and the Caddman (named after an album featuring reworkings of their respective and collec tive son gbooks, released last y ear) and C add said the Hunter region was alwa ys high on his tour agenda.

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that just love their rock and roll - i t’s a true rock and roll town.”

When C add’s outfi t The Groop disbanded in 196 9 he paired up w ith Shorrock (along with Don Mudie (The Groop), Doug Lavery (The Valentines) and Chris Stockley (Cam-Pact) to form Australia’s first super group - Axiom - and while they only released tw o albums and disbanded two years later

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

“Axiom was part of a mo vement tha t started around 1967 or 1968 in A ustralia where there was this grea t e xplosion of creativity,” Cadd explained. “Prior to tha t everything was a kind of a h ybrid of what was coming out of Americ a and En gland and then, all of a sud den Australia began to rock so mightily with the sound of some truly original music and I’m glad that I was able to be a part of that.”

Fast for ward a number of y ears and there isn’t too much of the industr y Cadd hasn’t seen. H e has penned son gs for the likes of Joe Cocker, The Pointer Sisters and Bonnie Tyler, lend his soundtrack talen ts 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, but i t is the art of son gwriting that has kept him so passionate.

“I never really saw songwriting as a tool to get myself into the hit parade,’ he said. “For me success was always in the song itself and it is writing that first ignited my passion and definitely what still keeps it going.”

Catch Brian Cadd and Glenn Shorrock at Nelson Ba y Digg ers on Thursda y, Ma y 8, B elmont 16s on Sa turday, Ma y 10 and Cessnock Leagues Club on Sunday, May 11.

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E ven if y ou only displa yed a passin g fancy for the fec und New castle music scene in the la te 1970s and

early 80s there’s a pretty solid chance tha t you would be familiar with The Heroes.

Formed f rom the ashes of glam-rock outfit Rabbi t in 197 7, and fea turing the talents of Mark Tinson on gui tar, Phil Screen on drums, Jim Porteus on bass and Pete D e J ong on gui tar and v ocals, The Heroes became one of the most formidable live acts on the Newcastle scene.

They were also one of the first Newcastle acts to mak e an impression further afiel d, signing to the iconic S ydney label Albert Productions, home to the lik es of A C/DC, The Angels and The Easybeats.

Now, some 32 y ears after they brok e up, The Heroes are hitting the stage once again for a sho w a t Wests C ardiff. Dubbed The Heroes and L egends, the sho w w ill also feature fellow Novocastrian “legends” Dai Pritchard (Rose Tattoo) and Gran t Walms-ley (Screaming Jets). “It’s going to be a lot of fun,” guitarist Mark Tinson told TE. “We’re

really enjo ying pla ying tog ether no w and the show will also be a grea t chance to g et together with some old friends.”

Already one of the top a ttractions in Newcastle, The Heroes’ stock rose consid-erably after they pla yed a t the Star H otel on S eptember 19 , 1979 - the nigh t of the infamous Star Hotel riot, one of the biggest in Australian history. “Yeah the Star H otel show brought us a fair amount of notoriety and we were actually signed to Alberts on the strength of it,” Tinson explained.

The band ’s rela tionship w ith the label yielded a self-titled album with the singles Baby’s H ad a T aste/Waiting f or Y ou and The Star and the Slaughter/End of the Road. Both singles made the loc al top ten while the album hit number one.

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