The last hurrahAfter 28 trips Down Under, iconic leather-clad rocker SUZI QUATRO is saying goodbye to Oz with one last national tour. TE caught up with Quatro to chat about her 50-plus year career.

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The Last Hurrah

If you’re planning on catching leather-clad rocker Suzi Quatro on her upcoming umpteenth-dozen tour of Australia, you’d do well to pack a few Kleenex.

After 28 visits Down Under, over a career spanning a ludicrously impressive 51 years, Quatro will be saying goodbye to Australia with a tour that is sure to pull out all the stops.

“You know, I’ve been coming down to see you guys for so long now and because this will be the last Australian tour I wanted to make it really special for you guys,” Quatro told TE down the line from London.

“To celebrate my 50th anniversary, last year I released a really cool box-set with, like 82 tracks - 82 tracks, man! So I’m look-ing forward to sharing that with Australia but, you know it will be kinda bittersweet because I’ve been visiting since the 70s and I’ve basically shared a lifetime with you guys so it should be a little poignant, you know? Poignant but with some really kick ass rock and roll.”

Ever since Quatro saw Elvis Presley’s now legendary turn on the Ed Sullivan show as an impressionable child, she knew that a life lived onstage was one worth chasing.

“I was around six years old and living in Detroit, Michigan,” she said.

“I was in another room and my sister was screaming. I went in to see what she was screaming about and there was Elvis doing his thing on screen.

“First, I was looking at the screen and then I was inside the television. I decided then and there that’s what I wanted to do with my life.”

She certainly hasn’t looked back - not only with music but, successful forays into acting firstly playing Fonzie’s girlfriend Leather Tuscadero in Happy Days before snagging roles in shows like Minder, Absolutely Fabulous, Midsomer Murders and even a turn on the West End as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun. Not to mention her radio career on BBC2 (she was nominated for broadcaster of the year at the Sony Radio Awards in 2006)

After first dipping her toe into musical waters, playing drums for fer father’s jazz outfit The Art Quatro trio, she formed an all-girl outfit, The Pleasure Seekers, later renamed Cradle, with her sister Patti. It was this outfit that caught the attention of iconic British hitmaker/producer Mickie Most (The Animals, Donovan, Lulu, The Jeff Beck Group) who brought Quatro back to London and before too long she started working with the songwriting team of Nicky Chinn and ex-pat Aussie Mike Chapman (Smokey, Racey, Sweet) who gave Quatro her first number one smash Can The Can and a string of hugely successful follow-ups such as Devil Gate Drive, 48 Crash, Daytona Demon and Your Mama Won’t Like Me.

Quatro said having such a formidable team behind her was invaluable in those early years.

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man who really was like a father figure to me - I really did love that man, he really believed in me right from the start and he taught me so much about rock and roll,” she said.

“Working with Chinn and Chapman was just outrageous as well - I mean both of those guys are so darn talented and, even now I still work really closely with Mike Chapman - he’s a really great friend.”

Over the course of her career, Quatro has stood out as one of only a handful of female rock an rollers to make a name for herself. Sure, the likes of Janis Joplin and Grace Slick existed long before Quatro, but they were in a different, blusier ball-park than the pure unadulterated rock and roll of Quatro. Her effortless swagger and thumping bass skills essentially set the template for the female rock star and her influence can be felt in such artists as Talking Heads’ Tina Weymouth, Chrissie Hynde, Joan Jett and the Runaways, and even homegrown heroes like Suzie DeMarchi and Sarah McLeod.

While she may’ve made her bones in the

oft-male dominated dominion of 70s rock and roll, she said she was unaware of any boys club mentality within the industry.

“While I’m sure it was there, none of that stuff really touched me because I grew up in a family of four sisters and my dad brought us all up to be ballsy and not to get pushed around,” she said. “Although, in the beginning I do remember thinking to myself ‘I hope this is successful because this isn’t really what a girl should be doing.”

While Quatro said she was loath to “toot her own horn” she did offer a quote from Mike Chapman about her place in the pop music landscape.

“Yeah I don’t like to toot my own horn about these things but I think Mike Chap-man put it well when he said ‘there are no girls around making music today who don’t owe some debt to Suzi Quatro’. Now I don’t know about all that but it sure sounds nice, doesn’t it?”

Catch Suzi Quatro at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre on Wednesday, February 18.

STEPHEN BISSET

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Ahh glam rock - the outrageous costumes, the glitter, the spandex, the hair, the riffs, the everything! Well, if you think those days are long gone and bands these days are taking themselves too seriously with all of the shoegazing and whatnot, fear not - because Newie’s glam-meisters Glam Slam are here to set you straight.

Just a cursory look at the lineup - Kitty Kozmik on vocals and guitar, Jizzy Stardust on keys and vocals, Logga Rhythm on bass and vocals, Rick Oshay on drums and vocals and Rocky Fox on vocals guitar, it’s pretty much a free kick that these guys don’t want nothing but a good time. Also, with a songlist that includes the glamiest of the glam an the rockiest of the rock - thinkthe likes of Bowie, The Sweet, Alice Cooper, Gary Glitter, TRex and Kiss, there’s no denying that all of the major glam food groups are covered here.

So, if you like it loud, brash smothered in glitter and with more than a fair share of fun, then Glam Slam are just the ticket.

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The blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll - so sang Muddy Waters in 1977

It used to be common for hard-rock-ing bands to emerge from the blues scene - everyone from the Stones and Cream to Led Zeppelin cut their teeth on a 12-bar.

Chase the Sun is one Australian band with roots in the blues scene and, since forming in 2007, has been letting an unabashed love of rock and roll fully hang out, infusing their take on the blues with loud guitar, blaz-ing hard funk and a cranking 1970s southern rock feel.

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Chase the Sun’s constantly touring road show has had them smash every major Australia blues festival over the past few years, take out top honours in the Australian Blues and Music Oz awards, debut on the US Billboard charts at number 13 and release two albums in Japan.

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Carrington Bowling club is set to explode with the best rhythm and roots the East Coast of Oz has to offer this Australia Day long weekend,

with the return of the annual Coaltown Strutters Ball.

Hot on the heels of the runaway success of last year’s event, that featured the likes of Ian Collard, Chris Wilson, The Cartwheels, The Junes (pictured) and Roy Payne’s Cajun Dance Party, organiser Gleny Rae Virus, whose band The Junes will be making a welcome return, told TE that she was hoping for an even bigger Ball this year. With such acts as The Junes, the laconic Townsvillians The Barramundi Brothers, Woolongong alt. country darlings, Jeremy Edwards and Dust Radio, Canberra blues-meisters The Fuelers, jazz impresario George Washingmachine and honky tonk legends Rob Luckey and the Lucky Bastards, all signs point to yes.

“It really is a celebration of the wealth of rhythm and roots talent we have here on the East Coast and something to counter-act the redneck, bogan celebrations that, sadly, Australia Day seems to becoming known for,” Virus told TE.

There’s not really much happening musi-cally for Australia and the Coaltown Strut-ters Ball is a great way to celebrate with the whole family in a really fun environment.

STEPHEN BISSET“We’re quite lucky because we’re able

to capitalise on the last week of the Tamworth Country Music Festival and the Nundle Festival which is becoming a bit like the Tamworth fringe festival - a lot of the bands are heading back down the coast so we’re able to snap them up on their way home - it’s great.”

Virus’ band, The Junes, also featuring the formidable talents of Suzannah Espie, Sarah Carroll, Dougie Bull and the Badloves’ Chris Tabone, are currently riding high on the back of their swinging 2014 long player Country Con Queso.

Produced by the legendary Jeff Lang at the equally legendary Adelphia Studios in Melbourne - Country Con Queso is an eclectic tapestry of swing, country and bluegrass with stunning three-part harmo-nies - all put through the sassy self-effacing Junes humour machine.

“Working with Jeff was just great - he’s got such a wealth of experience and he really got the kind of live vibe we wanted to capture with the record. We were also lucky enough to have him weave some of his guitar magic on there, too”

Tickets to the ball are $30/$25 and avail-able via trybooking.com/GPVN. Kids under 16 are free.

TE is giving you the chance to win a double pass to see the show! Email your name and contact details to editorial@newcastlepost.com.au with “Coaltown” in the subject line, by 5pm Friday, January 23. Winners will be notified by phone.

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From the sparkling indie-rock of Tambalane (featuring Novocastrian and Silver-chair drummer Ben Gillies) to winning season six of

Australian Idol, to his raw, folk-inspired Buffalo Tale project, no one could accuse Wes Carr of pigeonholing himself.

After a 2014 that saw Carr undertake such unlikely projects as touring with celebrity chef Pete Evans as part of his Paleo Way tour, treading the boards in the theatrical production Rolling Thun-der Vietnam and completely shaving his head for the music video for his latest single Anthem, Carr is kicking off 2015 with another out-of-the-square project - a show he has written about one of his personal musical heroes George Harrison.

“The show is, of course a celebration of George’s fantastic music, but also a celebration of his unique philospohies on life,” Carr told TE

“To me, George was a spiritual leader in his own way, as he was a guiding light for so many.”

Carr added the show would also attempt to uncover the essence of Harri-son, as told through the scant interviews he gave throughout his life.

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didn’t say all that much but when he did, he said a hell of a lot.”

While Lennon and McCartney are the obvious touchstones when thinking of the Fab Four, there is no denying that Harrison was largely responsible for creating their sonic backbone and visual aesthetic - particularly during the Sgt Pepper days. While Harrison’s contributions the the Beatles are often overshadowed by the famous songarit-ing partnership, Carr said he beleieved George wouldn’t have it any other way.

“George really was the innovator, in my opinion - I mean he was the one that introduces the band to all of the easten philosophies that really changed their whole outlook.

“Also, going back further, listen to a song like Taxman or Tomorrow Never Knows - he was way ahead of his time. I mean, Frank Sinatra said that Something was the best love song ever written.”

“But the great thing about George was that, while he was overshadowed by Paul and John, he didn’t really care - there was no ego with George - he was just always looking for the next chal-lenge and he didn’t really care if it made him three bucks - and that’s definitely how I want to live as an artist.

“It’s about challenging yourself and trying to create somehting that actually says something - unlike most of what you hear on radio these days. - otherwise you’d just get bored.”

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