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Truckers were never a band who shied away from the reflective and the highly personal in their lyrics – Jason Isbell has taken this to the next level on his brilliant fourth solo album – Southeastern.

In all honesty, this is an album of very little filler and mostly killer lilting alt.country (with a few tracks verging on masterpiece territory] that it is never overstated or overplayed. Post-rehab, there is a very downbeat and sombre tone to Southeastern – it’s a statement of a man who has been through the emotional and physical wringer but no-one could accuse this songwriter of skirting around the truth. Standouts here include the gentle love song ‘Cover Me Up’, the intriguing murder ballad ‘Live Oak’ and the emotion-ally wrought ‘Elephant’. If you appreciate great songwriting, you need to hear this.

Loosley based on the crimes of Ivan Milat and the murder of Peter Falconio, this chilling film proves that Aussies can make genre pictures as well as anyone. A group of twentisomethings are on a road-trip in the Australian outback and all is going swimmingly until their car breaks down. Seemingly friendly bushman Mick Taylor (John Jarratt) soon comes to the rescue however the group soon learn that they have bitten off more than they can chew.

With such genre-defining classics as ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ and ‘Notting Hill’ under his belt, there’s no denying that director Richard Curtis knows his way around a rom-com. While this one is a little more unbelievable than most, there are still plenty of “nawwww” moments.

At the age of 21, Tim (Domhnall Gleeson) discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. He decides to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend. Moving from the Cornwall coast to London to train as a lawyer, Tim finally meets the beautiful but insecure Mary (Rachel McAdams). Romantic hijinks ensue.

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over to the UK. What was the inspiration behind that decision and was it daunting essentially starting afresh in a country with quite a formidable comedy pedigree?

KF I knew I wanted to be a standup comedian and the only way you can get any good at standup is by doing it, live, in front of an audience. There simply aren’t enough gigs in Australia so I moved to the UK so I could work every night, sometimes several times a night. Practice. Practice. Practice.

SB What would you say you took away from the experience of working with the likes of Lee Mack, Tim Vine and Jim Tavare on the [UK smash hit] ‘The Sketch Show’?

KF I think working with those guys, particularly Lee, probably made me a better joke writer. I learned how to get to the punchline faster. They didn’t waste any time or words on the sketch show, it was very rapid fire.

SB So what’s one thing that people prob-ably don’t know about Kitty Flanagan that you think they should?

KF My mango pudding recipe needs more cream and less sugar. It’s revoltingly sweet, it’s actually hurting my teeth.

SB So, after this current run of dates, what’s next on the agenda for Kitty Flana-gan?

KF Time to write a new show and start the whole process all over again.

Here, Kitty KittyF rom gut-busting turns on iconic

sketch comedy shows ‘Full Frontal’ in Australia and ‘The Sketch Show’ in

the UK to owning virtually every stand-up stage from here to Edinburgh and back again (not to mention her regular appearances on ‘The Project’), there isn’t much no-fooling funny lady Kitty Flanagan hasn’t done. Now she’s bringing her laugh-out-loud show ‘Hello Kitty’ back to town and she was kind enough to tell us all about it.

SB Hi Kitty, thanks for the chat. So where are you right now and what were you up to before the pesky media interruption?

KF You’ve caught me “testing” (ie. scoff-ing) a mango pudding recipe. I’m going to a Chinese banquet dinner next week and I’m in charge of dessert.

SB So you must be looking forward to be bringing Hello Kitty back to Newcastle. There’s obviously a lot of love for you in these parts?

KF We kicked off the Hello Kitty tour in Newcastle almost two years ago. I remem-ber I was so worried I might forget things cos it was the first ever show. I even had my tour manager standing side of stage with all my topics written down, in case I went blank. At the end of the show, I was so happy, I didn’t forget anything and it had gone down really well. I’ll always love the

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people of Newcastle for that!! That’s why I really wanted to come back and end the tour the same way we started, with a big shiny show in Newcastle.

SB You deal with quite a diverse range of topics in the show – from crazy cat ladies to hot beverages in the toilet. What would you say the uninitiated can expect from the show?

KF In a nutshell, funny stories, stupid voices, some fully clothed burlesque danc-ing, a bit of experimental movement, jokes, more jokes, a song or two and a very very sparkly curtain.

SB So, what has been making you laugh of late?

KF There’s a hamster on Youtube that’s been trained to act like it’s been shot. It’s incredibly dramatic the way he mimes taking a bullet. Makes me laugh AND makes me want to get a hamster.

Who or what was it that inspired you to get onstage in the first place?

KF My sister, Penny, she’s a musician and way back in the day, she was touring around with her girlie pop band Club Hoy and getting a lot of attention. Being the needy eldest child, I thought…I want some attention too!! But I couldn’t sing. Or do anything useful. So I got up and told a few jokes.

SB After gaining a considerable amount of popularity on 'Full Frontal', you made the decision to pick up stumps and head

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I f you are a fan of cinema, or more accurately the work of directorial giant Frances Ford Coppola (‘Good-

fellas’, ‘The Godfather’), then you’ll want to get along to the Civic Theatre this month when the Live Live Cinema team present his directorial debut ‘Dementia 13’ in a way you’ve never seen before.

The Live Live Cinema team, consist-ing of New Zealand's leading musical maverick, Leon Radojkovic, and his crew of musicians and actors – including a lone, courageous foley artist recreating every sound effect – brings the film back to life on stage. Complete with a new live soundtrack, 'Dementia 13' promises to be a unique and vibrant ‘live live’ cinematic experience.

“Live” cinema is a common fixture of arts festivals, generally consisting of a small musical ensemble performing an original score to a pre-existing (and gener-ally silent) film. Live Live Cinema takes the concept further. Rather than simply having an ensemble perform a new score to a silent film, a sound film is shown and all audio is produced live – a truly remark-able feat.

Dementia 13 was Coppola's first main-stream feature. As an eccentric Irish family bickers over a vast inheritance in a lonely mansion, a mysterious axe murderer picks them off one by one. The film rises above the material by virtue of Coppola's clever editing and obvious flair for composition.

Composer Leon Radojkovic, supported

by multi instrumentalists, actors and a foley artist, reinterprets the images to produce a new live soundtrack. Rado-jkovic has a remarkable ability to shift meaning through music, to underline mood and atmosphere and occasionally affect absolute fear into an audience. The end result is a dazzling, sophisticated production celebrating film, music and live performance.

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after party with 50 revellers and nude swimming at the Bogey Hole), The Underscore Orkestra is a feast for the senses that incorporates violin, accordion, guitar, clarinet, horns, flute, harmonica, bass, vocals and perhaps a bit of belly dancing into a delicious Manouche gumbo.

Led by the energetic Jorge Kachmari, who is equally at home on vocals, harmonica, piccolo and violin, each member of The Underscore Orkestra comes from a widely eclectic range of backgrounds and musical disciplines.

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This is one band that is guaranteed to get you up and dancing, put the p in your pistol and the zing in your zinger. This is one outfit that have to be experienced live to be believed.

Catch The Underscore Orkestra, at the Lass O’Gowrie on Thursday, February 13.

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Endless Love stars Alex Pettyfer (Magic Mike) and Gabriella Wilde (The Three Musketeers) in the story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant de-sire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart. Based on the classic Brooke Shields 1981 ro-mance, this one is sure to elicit a few tears.

With an all-star cast featuring Colin Far-rell, Russell Crowe, Will Smith and Jen-nifer Connelly, ‘Winter’s Tale’ is a fantasy story set in both the 19th Century and present-day Manhattan that revolves around a thief, a dying girl and a flying white horse.

Akiva Goldsman (‘A Beautiful Mind’, ‘I Robot’, ‘The DaVinci Code’) directs.

Directed by Spike Jonze (‘Where the Wild Things Are’, ‘Being John Malkovich’) ‘Her’ tells the story of Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) – a lonely writer in the final stages of divorce.

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Based on his 1995 autobiography, 'Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom' chronicles the life of legendary freedom fighter Nelson Mandela. Mandela may have some powerful performances, most notably

Idris Elba in the title role and Naomie Harris, as steely Winnie Mandela, but the film is a victim of its own narrative. It moves at such a breakneck speed to cover more than more than 50 years of ground in 140 minutes, you feel as though the filmmakers only just scratch the surface of the story. Even Mandela joining the Johannesburg bus boycott, what should be a pivotal moment in the film, one of the future South African president’s first major acts of political defiance, lacks depth.

There is no doubting that Nelson Mandela’s struggle for freedom and peace is one of the most important in our modern history and deserves to be told but perhaps on screen it would have worked better as a mini-series.

With director Paul Verhoeven’s ‘Total Recall’ recently getting the reboot treatment with disastrous results, I approached this, a reimagining of Veerhoven’s sophomore US feature with a certain sense of trepidation. While director Jose Padilha’s version never quite lives up to Veerhoven’s dystopian vision and on-the-mon-ey satire of America under Reganomics – there is still plenty to enjoy here. It’s Detroit, circa 2028 and multinational corporation OmniCorp are at the forefront of robot technology. Their military drones are pacifying theatres of war around the globe and now they want to deploy them in the US. When Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) - a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit - is criti-cally injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer. Great set-pieces, decent CGI and some good performances,(save for Aussie Abbie Cornish’s wooden turn as Murphy’s wife) make for one enjoyable experi-ence indeed.

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One duo with plenty of heart

W hen Newcastle singer-songwriters Peter Kibble and Kim McNaughton teamed up to form Kibbs and Mac Folklaw in 2012, they knew they wanted to weave

intricate tales through their music. What they didn’t know was that their music would come with a cause.

The pair were halfway through writing their debut EP, ‘The Message’ when the project took a different turn.

“It was around February last year and a young friend of mine was diagnosed with a genetic heart condition [hypertrophic cardiomyopathy] and I just found it really quite frightening that heart disease could affect someone so young - you tend to think of heart disease as something that affects older people, but there are 32,000 Australians under the age of 18 living with hear disease,” McNaughton said.

The duo have thrown their support behind the charity Heart-Kids NSW and will be raising money for the worthy cause when they launch ‘The Message’ at Lizotte’s tonight (Wednesday).

“It would be great if people could just donate a couple of dollars on the night to support the work that HeartKids NSW do – it really is a worthy cause.”

The launch will include a full band featuring Mac (vocals), Kibbs (Bass, vocals), Nadine Quinn (backing vocals)Darren Gould (guitar, vocals), Lee Rolfe (guitar, vocals), Chris English (Keys) and Chris Lowe (drums). The evening will also feature special guest appearances by James Osborn,Amy Vee, Dave Carter and Justin Ngariki.

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F reewheeling jazz-folk outfit Rapt are diverse, virtuosic, personal and take you into their world.

Their world has included a whirlwind tour of Europe where they are invited to return for a more intensive round of performances.

Their style has been described as jazz-edged folk with classical influences by audience members due to their capac-ity to bring all their divergent musical passions into the one ensemble.

These varied influences give strength

to their own compositions with ideas stemming from the sound of a wind-screen wiper blade on a rainy mountain drive to a families odyssey from Liver-pool to rural WA and the strong connec-tion between solace and friendship.

They also bring a new relevance to their interpretations of the work of others employing humour, poignance and the fast and furious rhythms of eastern European tunes to communicate.

Catch Rapt at the Royal Exchange Theatre on Saturday, February 15.

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Walking on the right track

They may’ve only been together since July last year, but Newcas-tle-based four-piece White Walkers have already been

given a good indication they’re heading in the right direction after taking out third place at the Coca Cola Battle of the Bands competition at the recent Tamworth Country Music Festival. Edged out by Bellingen’s The Mid North and Murphy’s Pigs from Nundah in Queensland, the nod was a welcome surprise for the band, who only decided to put their hat in the ring just days out from the start of the competition.

“Yeah, we’re all really stoked with the win, ”guitarist Nick Cox told TE.

“Our singer Nick [Connors] came up with the idea to enter and we only decided to enter four days before the competition, so were really happy with the result.”

While the gong may’ve only come with a $200 purse, Cox said that it was more about the exposure gained by performing at such a high-profile festival.

“It was just a fantastic experience – we didn’t really care about the money or anything – I’d never been to the festival before so, just to be there was awesome,” he said. “It was also great for the band because we got to play to quite a few people and it’s a great way to get noticed.”

With the win under their belt, the band (who cite the likes of Johnny Cash, Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver as influences) are keen to strike while the iron is hot.

“We’re planning on playing as much as possible and, hopefully, we’ll be able to get an EP out sometime this year,” Cox said. For now, you can check out the White Walkers when they play with Lachlan Bryan and the Wildes at the Great Northern on Saturday, February 15.

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G et ready to pop some tags. Hip-hop behemoth Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are headed to Newcastle. The duo, who took the world by storm with their 2012 long-player ‘The Heist’ (featuring the smash-hits ‘Thrift Shop’ and

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Catch the pair at the Entertainment Centre on Wednesday, March 5.

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