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Okay, hip-hoppers, if you missed out on nabbing tickets to the upcoming Groovin’ The Moo festival in Maitland, never fear because Aussie hip-hip “super-group” One Day are giving you another chance to check them out at the Metro Theatre.

It’s hard to imagine that the crew comprising Horrorshow, Spit Syndicate, Jackie Onassis and Joyride only released their debut album Mainline last August. They have since enjoyed back-to-back singles added to radio (the Triple J Hottest 100 entrant Love Me Less, Leave Your Windows Open and SDRO) and packed out gigs from Enmore Theatre through to Field Day and Beyond The Valley.

Their rapid rise has only be reinforced by their ever-expanding monthly block party, One Day Sundays. The event is regularly attracting 1500-plus partygoers and has seen them take the events interstate.

If that wasn’t enough, One Day will be joined by Briggs whose Sheplife set has been kicking goals all over the shop and Jayteehazard whose debut EP Cold Blue has put him well and truly on the radar of tastemakers everywhere.

Being of a certain age, I find it quite hard to believe that it’s been 20 years since Silverchair released their grunge-soaked debut longplayer, but here we are.

Not having listened to this set in about 15 years, what struck this reviewer was how fresh and vital everything still sounds after all these years - not bad for a band whose members were just 15-years-old when recorded and one that was written off as a mere Nirvana pastiche.

Frogstomp while eventually eclipsed by Daniel Johns and co’s more expansive and adventurous efforts, is an all-killer, no-filler set of Antipodean grunge rock and roll that has seldom been equalled.

The conflict in Vietnam has had plenty of screen time devoted to it but this gritty Mel Gibson film brings something new to the table - a study on how Ameri-ca’s involvement started. Gibson stars as Lt. Colonel Hal Moore the head of the 1/7th Cavalry Regiment of the US 1st Air Cavalry Division, who finds himself in the first phase of American involvement.

Not since 2001: A Space Oddessy has a sci-fi film had such an ambitious scope and, in my opinion this is the best sci-fi flick since the Kubrickian opus. Trying to explain the story adequately in such a short space would be a fool’s errand however, it centres on a dying earth and Matthew MacConaughy, a former NASA pilot, must helm a mission into a rip in the space-time continuum, in search of a planet that can sustain life.

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While the reaction from music criticshas always been lukewarm, Nickelback has managed to make album sales in excess of 50 million

Whenever Nickelback is mentioned in the media you know that the subject of hate is bound to come up.

After all, how can it not? It’s the big musical elephant in the room. There’s no way to ignore it; people hate Nickelback. The irony of it all is that for a band who attracts so much ridicule they sure do sell a hell of a lot of albums, which may be part of the reason why band members, including lead guitar-ist and backing vocalist Ryan Peake, don’t let comments from haters get to them.

“I don’t think we’ve ever been striving to be one of the more polarising bands,” he said.

“That’s never been a thing we’ve set our sights on. But it is what it is and you just wear some thick skin and some people are gonna like you and some people aren’t gonna like you and it doesn’t really bother me.”

While the reaction from music critics has always been lukewarm, Nickelback has managed to make album sales in excess of 50 million, earning them the title of one of the most commercially successful Canadian groups in history.

Their most recent album, 2014’s No Fixed Address, saw the band take on a slightly different musical direction, including an unexpected collaboration with American rapper Flo Rida.

“People are thinking we’re stretching our

legs a little more with this album, which I kind of feel we were as well,” he said.

“There’s some avenues we’ve taken on this that we haven’t touched before and I’m pretty happy about that.

“I think it’s one of our better albums that we’ve made so I hope our fans feel the same.”

With this album Ryan feels they’ve managed to find a good balance between giving fans something new, without completely alienating them.

“You don’t want to completely take such a left turn that you’re going to confuse all of your fans,” he laughed, “which some bands have done”.

“But I don’t think we’re confusing anybody.

“We’ve got some hard rock songs on here and we’ve got some melodic things as well and the Flo Rida thing was really an after thought. It happened really organically, nothing was really premeditated at all.”

When it comes to testing out their new material Ryan has a couple of close family members that he trusts to give honest, constructive feedback.

“My wife’s got a really good honest ear about what we do, and my brother as well,” he said.

“So I usually send those guys a copy and go ‘are we on the right track, what do you think?’

“Nine times out of 10 we get pretty decent scores from them but there’s the odd time where they’re like ‘I think you guys are missing the mark here’, but they’ll tell you why.

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“I like that because with any kind of crea-tive job sometimes you get caught up in your own thing and not see the forest for the trees, so to speak, so it’s nice to have those soundboards for sure.”

As guitarist of the band Ryan is in the perfect position to have all the perks of a rock star life without having to deal with the recognition and media scrutiny that comes with the role of front man.

“Personally I fly under the radar a lot more than [lead vocalist] Chad does,” he said.

“I’m able to play in this band and make this music and be able to tour everywhere and still can kind of go out to a movie or go out shopping or do whatever you’ve gotta do and not get recognised.”

With popularity comes covers and Nickelback is certainly not immune to this phenomenon. The most well known of these would have to be the piano ballad rendition of How You Remind Me by Chad Kroeger’s wife and ex-skater girl Avril Lavigne. When discussing the idea of people taking on the band’s songs, Ryan’s self-deprecating response shows that the Nickelback guys are very much in on the hate joke.

“Ultimately I think it’s very brave of them,” he laughed.

“Cause they’re like ‘listen, here’s my plan to either keep my stardom going or to start my plan, I’m going to do a Nickelback song’.

“’Terrible idea! What are you thinking?! It’s career suicide!’ So if anybody tries it they’re very brave and good on ‘em,” he laughed.

Catch Nickelback at the Newcastle Enter-tainment Centre on Saturday, May 23.

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When it comes to high-energy pop-rock, you’d be hard pressed to find a band on the local covers scene that does it as well as Sundays Record.

Featuring the formidable talents of Ben Travis, Ammiel Warner and Jae Nelson, the wealth of experience all three bring to the Sundays Record party results in a top-notch live experience, from the first chord to the

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As Daley Holliday, Ryan Daley and Josh Holliday have a great repertoire that spans various genres including rock, roots, jazz, pop and blues - all the hits you know and love.

Daley has more than five years experience as a professional singer/songwriter, enter-taining audiences with his great repertoire, fantastic voice and charismatic stage pres-ence and general likeability.

His versatility as an entertainer proves a great advantage - he can perform in ‘intimate’ acoustic format or ‘party all night’ mode.

Working on his first album and playing shows up and down the east coast, Ryan enjoys sharing his love of music with a wider audience.

Daley’s duo partner Holliday currently works with a variety of bands, playing both covers and original material.

Holliday’s drumming brings an extra burst of energy and fun to the show, and together this pair create something definitely worth checking out at the Belmore Hotel on Friday, April 10.

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Having to cancel much of his mam-moth Utopia tour, earlier this year due to illness, 360 (aka Matt Colwell is making good on his promise to make up the cancelled shows with the Reto-pia tour that will see the rapper hit the Cambridge later this month.

Following on from 2012’s Falling And Flying, the double-platinum smash album that resulted in Sixty’s mete-oric rise to fame, his latest offering, the bold and passionate Gold-selling Utopia, is the soundscape to a young man’s life who found himself growing up and facing his demons in the public eye.

Speaking to TE earlier this year, he said he and producer Styalz Fuego pulled out all the stops for Utopia.

“With Utopia, I felt like the aim was

to make an album that was the next level in every way, so I guess that pres-sure was more put on by me to create something, I guess, bigger,” he said.

Still riding high on the back of Uto-pia, the rapper is certainly wasting no time in striking while the iron is hot and is currently in the studio, working on new material with Chris Cheney from The Living End so, don’t be sur-prised if you’re treated to some fresh 360 when he hits Newcastle.

Catch 360 at the Cambridge Hotel on Thursday, April 23.

TE is giving you the chance to win a double pass to the show. To enter, email your name and contact details to stephen.bisset@thepost.com.au, with “360” in the subject line by no later than 5pm on Tuesday, April 14.

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Flipside Project, Catapault Dance Inc and Past Present Future, will take audiences on a journey through time, reaching back into the past as far as the Dreaming and delving into some of Newcastle’s iconic Watt Street and some of its most interest-ing and historical sites.

Inspired by last year’s CONDA award- winning Diving off the Edge of the World, Stores in Our Steps is a walking, theatrical, time-travelling tour of Watt Street that kicks off at the top of James Fletcher Park and winds its way down through the old Industrial Girls School (now James Fletcher Hospital), St Phillips Presbyte-rian Church (now Tantrum), Watt Street Commercial, the Lock Up and Pacific Park.

“Newcastle is a town full of people passionate about history…yet every day, hundreds walk down Watt Street unaware of the stories in their steps,”

project producer Amy Hardingham said.“The project uncovers just some of

those hidden histories and brings them to life in an original and dynamic way.”

The project will also be complimented by an exhibition of archival material, photos and interpretation at Newcastle Regional Library and will form part of the 100 Years of ANZAC celebrations with a WWI-themed dance piece by Catapault Dance and The Flipside Project at Tantrum called Warriors, Rest - named for the inscription at the base of each of the eight WWI memorial plaques on the internal walls of the church.

Stories in Our Steps will be on from April 10-19 and starts at the top of James Fletcher Park, cnr Watt and Ordinance Streets. Audiences are limited to 40 per session and tickets are available via stickytickets.com.au

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It’s hard to believe that it has been ten years since local country-pop trio, Bella - featuring the formidable vocal talents of Kate Ballantyne, Karen O’Shea and

Lyn Bowtell released their sublime record Gravity as well as picking up two consecutive Golden Guitars for best vocal group.

While they have been on what Bowtell called an indefinite hiatus since the release of the album, the trio are reunit-ing for a special show at West’s Cardiff to celebrate the tenth anniversary milestone.

The trio received a rousing reception, earlier this year when they played two shows at the Tamworth Country Music Festival - a tacit acknowledgement that there is swtill a considerable amount of love around the traps for Bella.

“Yeah, we had a really good time in Tamworth, this year and we figured because it’s been ten years since the Golden Guitars it was a good excuse to get together,” Bowtell told TE.

“We packed out the Longyard hotel which was great and we played to about 7000 people at the Toyota concert in the Park which was just crazy.”

Bowtell, who definitely has extra reason to celebrate with her sophomore album Heart of Sorrow taking out a Golden Guitar for best alternative coun-try album at this year’s festival, said that when it comes to Bella, she doesn’t need much of an excuse.

“The time I get to spend onstage with those girls just goes so fast,” she said.

“I absolutely love what I’m doing now, touring solo, but it is just such a joy to be able to share that moment on stage with Kate and Karen.”

If you’ve ever heard Bella in action, you’d know that while each member is a formidable vocalist in their own right, when their voices intertwine, they create a resonance that is rarely equalled.

“I don’t know what it is,” Bowtell said.“Maybe it’s an intuitiveness that’s

built up over the years, but it’s some-thing that even astounds me - hearing the three voices become one.”

The upcoming show will feature the trio sining Gravity in its entirety as

well as some unreleased material. So, is there any hope of the trio heading back into the studio any time soon?

“We have talked about it - we’ve got the songs, it’s just a matter of making it all work,” Bowtell said.

“Kate’s a teacher now and Karen does

lots of shows around the area and is also a full-time mum and I’m the only one still crazy enough to be out there touring. Never say never, though. It’s definitely on the bucket list.”

Catch Bella at Wests Cardiff on Satur-day, April 18.

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