Certified sorrowsTE caught up with Aussie music icon JOE CAMILLERI whose Black Sorrows are riding high on the back of their critically acclaimed album Certified Blue.

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Certified sorrows

With 50 years in the music biz and 45 albums under his belt, you’d be forgiven in thinking that Joe Camilleri was

getting ready to wrap things up. Listening to Certified Blue however - the latest and seventeenth album from the iconic Black Sorrows - there’s a palpable sense that the journey is far form over.

“I’ve written more than 400 songs and I’m still going strong, it’s just that the legs might be a little tireder - it’s been 50 years in the business and 45 years of hanging around,” Camilleri told TE down the line from Adelaide.

Following on from their 2012 release - the mammoth three-disc Crooked Little Thoughts - Certified Blue represents a bit of a purple patch for the band with music wags across the country hailing it as a career-best effort in a year that has seen fellow so-called “heritage artist” Russell Morris achieve a similar feat with his Sharkmouth set.

“There really does seem to be a little thing happening around this record which is great and totally unexpected,” he said.

“When you’re an independent artist like I am, and have a few more barnacles on you, you tend to have a kind of “wait and see” attitude and hope for the best in terms

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of how people are going to react to it. For me, the process on this one, for whatever reason, I don’t know why, I seem to have got right and the fact that people are happy with what we’ve put out there, has me really quite chuffed, to be honest.”

If there was something that could be attributed to the album’s success, Camilleri said it could be due to the fact that he thoroughly enjoyed the entire process of making the album.

“What was really nice was that I really enjoyed making this album with this version of the band,” he said.

“Mark [Gray - bass] and John [McAll - keys] hadn’t recorded with me as band members before and everyone really wanted to be there and I think everyone felt that they had the freedom to express themselves musically - these are all small things but when you add them all up they amount to quite a lot.

“I remember walking out after we finished recording thinking “wow, these songs are doing what I thought they would, and in some cases more than I ever expected.”

Camilleri added that it was the process of music making, in and of itself, that had kept him so obviously passionate and driven for half a century.

“It’s just what I like to do, I guess,” he mused.

“I just love the process of it all - there’s nothing better than having something fresh to play onstage - I mean it’s nice to embrace the past but I certainly don’t want

to live there. Also, in terms of recording, in the studio you are as creative and adven-turous as you can be and that’s a pretty hard thing not to fall in love with.”

In case you’ve been living under a rock, there’s little denying that Joe Camilleri has forged a career that has seen him become one of the most tireless and important figures in the Australian music industry. Since first bursting into the national consciousness as frontman for seminal blues-rockers Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons, Camilleri has won his way into the national consciousness with such iconic songs as Shape I’m In, Hit and Run, Harley and Rose, Hold on To Me and Chained to the Wheel.

Since the Black Sorrows formed in 1984, they have toured Australia more times than they can remember, played sold-out shows across Europe, and sold more than a million albums globally.

At 66, Camilleri said that it can be a tough row to hoe getting industry gatekeepers interested in new product (he said that no labels were interested in Certified Blue) however, with the album’s success and the recent success of the likes of Russell Morris, things may well be changing.

“The people still speak with their feet and I’m forever grateful for that,” he said.

“It’s not an easy run and it’s definitely not all beer and skittles but I really do think that people are starting to recognise that there is room in this game for everybody, which is good because I’ve got no plans to go away any time soon.”

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Catfish Soup is a Newcastle band that - just like the late Kurt Cobain - firmly believes “the worst crime is faking it”.

With a diverse set-list of originals and covers that takes full advantage of the depth and breadth of the rock and blues genres, the Soup have built a solid fan base and earned a reputation as a direct and compel-ling live act that’s all about the music.

Catfish Soup have focussed that vitality in the 10 original tracks on their recently released, self-titled debut album.

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With a song selection that can only be compared to the likes of a jukebox, or a 60GB iPod, The Rattle is a diverse duo with the experience and talent to cater for any crowd.

The duo features Ty and Mark from local heroes Hornet. Both experienced musicians, Ty has gained more 19 years experience as a professional musician, has penned three top ten hits in the Australian charts, and has featured as voice talent in numerous TV and radio jingles. Throughout his music career Ty has opened for many top touring acts including Mick Jagger, Midnight Oil, The Divinyls, Hoodoo Gurus, Baby Animals, Carol King, INXS and many more, and has performed in the USA, Europe, Asia and in the Middle East. Mark has 18 years experience as a professional musician and is currently signed to Warner Music with the country artist Steve Gibson.

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here may’ve been a bit of time, three years in fact, for the dust to settle around Sydney electro heroes

Art vs Science’s ARIA chart-topping long player The Experiment, but that dust is well and truly being kicked up again with their latest ear-worm of an EP - Create/Destroy.

To celebrate the release of the EP, and its impossibly catchy single, Creature of the Night, the boys are embarking on a tour that will kick of at the Splendour in the Grass festival this weekend.

“Yeah, I’d say that Splendour is prob-ably the best festival in the country so it’s always good to kick off a tour at such a brilliant festival,” drummer Dan Williams told TE.

“This run is quite a modest one though, we’re only doing around six or seven shows - it’s kind of an intelligent plot by our management to leave the people wanting more, but yeah we’re kicking it off at Splendour and wrapping up at the North West Festival in Port Hedland so it should be a pretty fun run.”

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as Parlez Vous Francais and Magic Fountain under their belt, fun is a word that looms large in the Art vs Science modus operandi and Williams said the same could be said of Create/Destroy.

“We all had such a blast recording

it - it was so much fun to do,” he said.“ We did it all with Paul McKercher

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“We’d written a bunch more material

and there was the intention, at the begin-ning to release a full length but we felt that the songs were quite stylistically divergent, so we might be looking to release another EP a little further down the track. The first thing we ever released was an EP and I’m a really big fan of the format.”

While you might be forgiven for think-ing that Art vs Science were resting on their laurels and basking in the success of The Experiment in the interim you’d be mistaken as the ensuing three years had been taken up with intense touring, dipping toes in other creative waters and a bit of technological upskilling.

“After the record came out we toured pretty much non-stop for a year and a half around Australia, the US, and Asia so after that we were all pretty exhausted,” Williams explained.

“So Dan [Mac, keys, guitar] and I took some time off while Jim Finn [keys, bass] did a solo record and we started with new material in early 2012 and there was a fair bit of teaching ourselves a lot of new technologies like making beats in Ableton and stuff and broadening our horizons -before scrapping all of that and going back to how we did things in the beginning,” he laughed.

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If the runaway smash-hit Jersey Boys stage show, or the Clint Eastwood-directed film of the same name isn’t

enough to satiate your cravings for the falsettoed brilliance of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, well Wests Cardiff certainly have you covered with a special tribute show later this month.

Direct from the US, Oh What a Night will be making a triumphant return to our shores after their 2011 run - initially planned at 24 shows, yet blew out to a massive 54 - proved how much love Australian audiences still have for such timeless classics as Walk Like a Man, Can’t Take My Eyes off You, Big Girls Don’t Cry and My Eyes Adored You.

“Boy I’ve got to say that it makes it so much easier for us knowing that there is that love for us Down Under - this will be our third trip and it just gets better every time,” Oh What a Night writer and performer George Solomon told TE.

Solomon added that fans could expect a night of unabashed Frankie Valli fun with more than a few surprises thrown in for good measure.

“It’s a real feel-good show for all ages - it’s an all singing and all dancing tribute and all those wonderful hits will be in the show, for sure,” he said.

“There’ll also be some surprises as well - for example there were a ton of

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songs that people thought were sung by Frankie Valli but weren’t and we’ll throw some of those in there and people like Billy Joel said that Frankie was the inspi-ration for his song Uptown Girl so we’ll also be doing a few songs where The Four Seasons influence can be felt - it’s a real loving tribute to the Four Seasons.”

Soloman, who cites his elder siblings for instilling a love for the Four Seasons from a young age said there was an inherent timelessness in their music that he said is the main reason it continues to transcend the generation gap.

“Those melodies are just timeless and just so darn catchy,” he said.

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