20 years of success

Interview Everclear

Catherine Britt Bam Margera+ Gig Guide

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These guys capture the loud and fast, anything-goes spirit of classic rock with their heavy stoner-influenced jams. The quartet, consisting of Bryan Giles, Aaron Beam, David Sullivan, and John Sherman, makes guitars the focus of their gimmick-free brand of driving rock and roll, eschewing any prog leanings and putting the emphasis on the riffs. The sound is tied together by a sense of punk urgency which spurs the stoner jams into action and gets the songs moving at a raucous gallop.

With their third long player, Whales and Leeches hitting the Billboard 200 charts, now’s the time to see Red Fang at the top of their game.

Mountain Goats main man John Darnielle’s songwriting palate has always been vast to say the least. Themes of anger, rejection, fear, redemption and joy wrapped up in highly literate obser-vational narratives that have had rock critics stammering for superlatives since the unassuming three piece hit the indie zeitgeist proper with their acclaimed eleventh album All Hail West Texas in 2002. For the Goats’ 15th effort, Darnielle has turned his lyrical attentions to the world of professional wrestling and while it may seem a strange combo, the results are astounding. As testament to Darn-ielle’s gravitas as a social observer, these songs delve much deeper than tales of the turnbuckle.

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The band had been plugging away for a considerable amount of time before hitting the stratosphere

When it comes to writing blistering, yet hookier-than-a-fisherman’s tacklebox power pop, there are few bands

that do it as well as Everclear.The band, who cut a swathe through the

grunge-soaked musical landscape of the 1990s with such tracks as Santa Monica, Heroin Girl, Heartspark Dollarsign and Everything to Everyone will be heading our way next month to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their game-changing sophomore album Sparkle and Fade.

So does it feel like 20 years for frontman Art Alexakis?

“Well, it does and it doesn’t,” he told TE.“I mean it does because I’ve lived a

hell of a lot of life since that album came out and Everclear have released seven albums since then but, on the flipside it doesn’t because those songs still feel really fresh to me all these years later, we play those songs live and people still seem to relate to them really well.”

After piquing some interest with their debut record World of Noise - interest that resulted in a label bidding war that was

won by Capitol Records, the resulting Sparkle and Fade and in particular its second single Santa Monica, catapulted them from the indie milieu and well and truly into the mainstream.

“The moment I realised that Everclear was really starting to click was when Santa Monica came out over the Christ-mas of 95/96,” Alexakis explained.

“Over that holiday period, there’s a complete blackout on things like sales and airplay figures, but after that two weeks were over, the song went from selling, like 9000 copies a week to 40,000 a week which was just amazing. Also, we found that we were starting to sell out shows the day they went on sale. It was around that time we thought ‘hey we might just have something here”.

Everclear followed Sparkle and Fade with their best-selling album to date, So Much for the Afterglow and Alexakis said there was a certain amount of pressure surrounding the Afterglow sessions to replicate that earlier success.

“There totally was pressure and that’s kinda why I wrote the song on So Much for the Afterglow called One Hit Wonder because there was a perception that we were exactly that,” he said.

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stratosphere definitely helped keep them grounded in that heady period.

“Look at it this way, by the time Ever-clear took off I was, like 33 or 34 and had been playing in bands since I was 16,” he said.

“There was that perception that we were overnight sensations but we really did work our arses off.”

Not content to exist in pure revisionist territory, in 2014, the band inked a deal with Brooklyn-based indie label The End Records/ADA and are on the cusp of releasing their ninth studio album Black Is The New Black - a set that Alexakis said was a harkening back to the classic Everclear sound of the first three records, coupled with many modern flourishes. If you’ve heard the lead single, The Man Who Broke His Own Heart, then you’d know to expect a mammoth wall of sound.

“There is such a buzz of enthusiasm there for Black Is The New Black,” Alexa-kis said.

“It’s an unapologetic rocker through and through that I feel combines the best of classic Everclear with contemporary production and what I feel is some of my best songwriting in years.”

Catch Everclear at the Small Ballroom on Tuesday, May 12.

record, but it wasn’t great. We were recording in New York and I ended up spending a bit of time walking around the city and I came up with a bunch of new songs so we went back in, cut some tracks out of the list and spent about two months working on the new stuff and it ended up being our most success-ful album yet. So I guess, in a way the pressure was placed on us ourselves to raise the creative bar because you can’t spend your life listening to people who only kiss your arse or people who hate everything you do - you really have to listen to yourself.”

Alexakis added, the fact that the band had been plugging away for a consider-able amount of time before hitting the

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It may have been a little while between drinks for Newcastle-bred country chanteuse Catherine Britt, with her last studio album Always Never Enough dropping in 2010, but

she is certainly redressing that balance with her soon-to-be-released sixth record Boneshaker.

“It has been a little while but I have been in the industry for quite a while now and I’ve never really had the chance to take some time off and kind of reflect on everything, so the last little while has been about that,” Britt told TE.

“It has been nice to have that little break, but the feet are definitely itchy and I just can’t wait to get the album out there - not too long now.”

If the debut single, Good To Bad (originally intended for her side project with Tim Rogers and Bill Chambers The Hillbilly Killers) is anything to go by, Bone-shaker promises to be a lushly produced set (courtesy of producer Ryan Hadlock - Foo Fighters, Lumineers) that delves into some darker and grittier territory, yet still

replete with the same down-to-earth lyri-cism that typified her previous releases.

Britt said the writing and recording processes were markedly different for Boneshaker - a conscious decision lest she paint herself into an artistic corner.

“Half of the album I wrote here in Newcastle and the other half was written while I spent two weeks living in a yhurt near Woodstock like a bit of a hippie,” she laughed.

“Also, I have worked with Bill [Chambers, who has produced four of her albums] for most of my career and he suggested that I try something different so I decided on Ryan Hadlock because I love the work he did with the Lumineers and Vance Joy so I was over the moon when I found out her wanted to be involved as well.”

Aside from enlisting the services of Hadlock, Britt also managed to snag the formidable talents of Steve Earle who duets with Britt on the track You and Me Against The World - a collaboration that gave Britt a sense of things coming full circle given that it was an Earle album that provided the main inspiration for Boneshaker.

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rational, exciting and joyful experience,” she said. “He released an album called Washington Street Serenade which was just him, an acoustic guitar and a DJ and that album had a profound effect on me when writing Boneshaker to have him actually sing on it is just fabulous.

“Also, the song was actually written for my fiancée so he thinks it’s the coolest thing in the world.”

Catch Catherine Britt at Lizotte’s on Saturday, April 18.

Her album Boneshaker hits the streets on May 1.

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The last time Bam Margera, brought his proto-punk outfit F**kFace Unstoppable (FFU) to Australia, things got a little out of hand - as you

might expect if you know anything about Margera. So much so, that the rambunc-tious pro skater and star of such fare as Jackass and Viva La Bam told TE things would be toned down a tad on his return visit to our shores next month.

“Yeah, man I think things will have to be a little more chill this time because, you see I’m really into paint, and last time I ran up a bill of, like $40,000 in oil paint damage to hotel rooms and clubs - pretty much everywhere I went,” he laughed.

“Anyway, I got home and my dad was going over the bill for the tour and he was like ‘Bam, you’re supposed to be making money on tour, not wasting it painting hotel rooms or hiring private helicopters’, so maybe this time I’ll just stick to water-colours. There’s probably some of the damage still there so maybe I’ll be able to retrace my steps.”

Aside from Margera on vocals, the Oz tour iteration of FFU will also feature Margera’s brother Jess (CKY) on drums and in somewhat of a coup, Andy McCoy- the guitarist for Finnish hard rock icons Hanoi Rocks.

“I’m so stoked to have Andy coming down to Australia with us because he is just such a f***ing legend, man,” he said.

“We recorded an album a while back and now we’re planning on re-recording all of the songs with Andy because he’s just so f***ing good.”

The album in question is an absolute barn burner of blistering punk rock and brooding metal that features a swag of FFU originals (including the almost inexplicably hilarious dubstep track Bend My D**k) and great covers of Big News 1 & 2 by US rockers Clutch and Get it On by Swedish punk n rollers Turbonegro.

“The album came together really quickly, actually,” Margera said.

“We recorded it in Reykjavik, Iceland at the studio where Bjork does all her recording, so I think they might have been a little overwhelmed when we were in there with people like Dani Filth from Cradle of Filth who sang on Sleepless,

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because they were used to recording things like Bjork and Sigur Rós but it all worked out really well and I’ really proud of the record.”

Margera first started making a name for himself outside the world of pro skating with the CKY video series that eventu-ally morphed into the global prankster phenomenon of Jackass although, he said he had no idea the concept would blow up like it eventually did.

“I certainly always hoped it would take off, but to be honest no one had any idea,” he said.

“It was pretty f**king weird, man because I was a total nobody in high school and then Jackass blew up and all of a sudden I was getting invited to parties by douchebag frat boys, so I pretty much quit.”

Catch F**kFace Unstoppable at the Small Ballroom on Saturday, May 9.

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