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Here’s one fans of classic Southern rock won’t want to miss. Gregg Allman, founding member of the Allman Brothers Band and a solo musician in his own right is heading to Oz for the first time.

Allman founded the Allman Brothers Band in 1969 with his brother Duane, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks and Jai Johanny Johanson. The band’s first three albums – The Allman Brothers Band, Idlewild South and At Fillmore East were huge hits that made their unique fusion of country, blues and rock, a national sensation. In his solo career, Allman has recorded seven albums including Low Country Blues his first recording in more than 13 years. Produced by T Bone Burnett, the album finds Allman putting his own stamp on songs by some of the blues giants whose work has long informed his own, from Muddy Waters and BB King to Buddy Guy and Magic Sam.

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The Kaiser Chiefs, those darlings of the mid-noughties UK guitar rock explosion (The Zutons, Fratellis, The Kooks et al) are back with album number five and while there’s some gold contained within, you get the feeling it’s all been done before.

Beginning with the rousing Factory Gates – a track that wouldn’t have seemed out of place on earlier releases Employ-ment and Yours Truly, Angry Mob, this album isn’t interested in breaking new ground. Even the title – taken from a 2007 Tony Blair quote – is evidence of this. Lyrically, there is an all-pervasive sense of dissatisfaction with modern-day Britain, but unlike the work of people like Joe Strummer, this comes off as sounding like bourgeois whining. Standouts include the arena-worthy Ruffians on Parade and the melodic, yet driving, Misery Company.

If you can’t go past a good tear-jerker then Marley and Me is a must-watch. After their wedding, newspaper writers John and Jennifer Grogan (Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston) move to Florida. In an attempt to stall Jennifer's ‘biological clock’, John gives her a puppy. While the puppy Marley grows into a 100-pound dog, he loses none of his puppy rambunc-tiousness. As the Grogans have children of their own, Marley continues to test everyone's patience.

Silliness and low-brow comedy are the order of the day in this much-anticipated sequel to Will Ferrell’s hilarious Anchorman.Having left San Diego for New York City, Ron Burgundy (Ferrell) is living the high life with wife Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) and son Walter Burgundy. But, when Ron is fired and Veronica promoted to lead anchor, everything changes. Back in San Diego, Ron is work-ing at Sea World. His shot at redemption comes via the Global News Network 24-hour news channel. Ron reunites the team of Champ (David Koechner), Brick (Steve Carell), and Brian (Paul Rudd). Not as funny as the original but rather chuckleworthy nonetheless.

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Hot on the heels of their latest single – the pure pop barn-stormer Goodbye Future – Aussie electro duo par excel-lence The Presets are set to

melt a few faces with a massive show at the upcoming Groovin the Moo festival in Mait-land later this month.

“This show is going to be freaking huge,” an enthusiastic Kim Moyes told TE.

“We’ve been working on a completely new show over the last couple of weeks and we’ve reworked a lot of our older stuff, we’ll also be using all live electron-ics, our lighting guy is putting together a whole new lighting rig and there’ll be a new visual component with a bunch of visuals custom-made for the show.”

Phew.Aside from the upcoming festival run,

it’s proving to be quite a massive year for the My People duo, having signed on for an ambitious collaboration with Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Or-chestra called Timeline. A show dubbed “a sonic and visual journey that traces the evolution of music – from the dawn of time to now.”

Stephen BiSSet “It is an ambitious project, but Julian and I have always tried to push ourselves creatively and this one is definitely a chal-lenge.

“It’s all about discovering what has shaped music since the first known in-stances of recorded music - it’s quite broad and there is a lot to get through but we’re really happy to be a part of it – it’s going to be an amazing experience.”

With their impossibly catchy fusion of dance, techno and a decent helping of rock and roll swagger, The Presets, thanks to an ever-expanding live show and the hit-laden albums Apocalypso and Pacifica were well and truly at the forefront of the early-noughties Aussie dance music ex-plosion. Seven ARIAs are hard to argue with. Now in their tenth year, the boys are showing no signs of slowing down, with more singles and a shedload of touring slated for the rest of 2014.

“First and foremost, it’s all about mak-ing banging music that people can let loose to and get lost in,” Moyes said.

“We’ll keep doing it for as long as we can maintain those energy levels.

“But just the fact that we have managed to carve out a place in the music scene and are allowed to keep doing this is the best reward.”

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A fter winning his way into the hearts and minds of tiny tots everywhere (and quite a few

grown-ups) as the yellow Wiggle, chil-dren’s entertainer Sam Moran certainly hasn’t slowed down.

Since his departure from the Wiggles in 2012, Moran has continued to cut a swathe through the cutthroat world of kids’ entertainment with his Nick Jr. TV series Play Along With Sam and subse-quent album of the same name picking up various award nominations such as best children’s album at last year’s ARIA’s and a best-presenter nomination at this years Logies. The album also debuted at number 1 on the iTunes children’s charts and at number 10 internationally.

Moran will be in town this month with his Play Along With Sam: Sam’s Animal Adventure show and he promised a fun-filled musical adventure.

“It’s such a fun show,” the affable Moran told TE. “We’ll be doing a lot of songs from the show that kids should be familiar with and I’ll be introducing my furry friends the Bam Bam Binos who help me search for my lost sound jars.

“There’s also quite a bit of audience participation as well so the kids are also part of the Bam Bam Binos as well.”

There’s no doubt that children can be the harshest critics, but for Moran, being able to connect with kids on their level

was a pretty hard thing to pass up.“Yeah, kids can be merciless – it’s not

like an adult audience who, if they don’t like what you’re doing, will at least try to be polite – kids will just walk away if they’re not interested,” he laughed.

“But, just being able to see the world through a child’s eyes is pretty fantastic.”

Moran, who became a parent in 2010, said that while fatherhood hasn’t neces-sarily changed the way he approaches his work – it has given him a new-found appreciation for the parents who bring their children out to his shows.

“I certainly have a much greater appreciation of what parents have to go through coming to shows like this – you know organising the kids, getting them in the car and to the show – it can be very exhausting – which is why I’ve tried to include things in the show that the parents can appreciate as well.”

Moran, who parted ways with the Wiggles in 2012, said he was still blown away from the amount of well-wishing messages he has received from Wigglers fans across the globe.

“When you’re involved in something like The Wiggles, it’s hard to get perspec-tive on anything because it’s really like living in a bubble,” he said. “But I still get the most amazing messages and emails of support from people all around the world which is just mind-blowing.”

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A fter a hugely successful Australian tour last year with The Festival of Russian Ballet, the Imperial Rus-

sian Ballet is heading back to Newcastle this month with a flamboyant and festive production of a giant in Russian Ballet – Don Quixote.

Principal dancers Nariman Bekzhanov and Lina Seveliova told TE the company was over the moon at the prospect of re-turning Down Under.

“We really cannot wait because we really like the Australian audience – very warm and welcoming,” Seveliova said.

“Yes, and Australian nature – the kan-garoos and crocodiles are very exciting,” Bekzhanov added.

First performed in Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre in 1869, Don Quixote has gone on to become one of the most recognised bal-lets in the world – having been performed thousands of times by both Russian and international ballet companies.

The story revolves around Don Quixote, a retired gentleman who is travelling the roads of Spain searching for glory and grand adventure. Accompanying him is a somewhat bewildered labourer named Sancho Panza who he has persuaded to accompany him as his faithful squire. In

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Stephen BiSSetreturn, Don Quixote promises to make Sancho the wealthy governor of an island. Don Quixote gives up food, shelter and comfort all in the name of a peasant wom-an Dulcinea del Toboso who he envisions as a princess.

Seveliova, who plays Kitri, the inn-keep-er’s daughter, said she was drawn to the ballet because of it’s farcical and comedic tone.

“My character works in a tavern helping her father and is a really fun girl and the public really likes her,” she said.

“But we all joke around quite a bit during the ballet because it is quite comical and there are a lot of light-hearted relation-ships.”

Formed in 1994 by former Bolshoi Ballet soloist Gediminas Teranda, the Imperial Russian Ballet have staged masterpieces in the iconic Tchaikovsky Concert Hall and the Mossovet Theatre. Bekzhanov, whose technique has been likened to that of Rudolph Nureyev, said he had learned a lot under his mentor.

“Gediminas teaches us to work hard to reach for our goals,” he said.

“He is very thoughtful about certain tra-ditions and rules in ballet and I feel he has taught me a lot about ballet’s traditions.”

The Russian Imperial Ballet’s Don Quix-ote will be on at the Civic Theatre on Sat-urday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27.

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