The Time Being | Steve Kilbey

The popular play Van Park will be performed for a limited time, in Melbourne, at Chapel on Chapel. Get your tickets soon!  Wed 21st March to Sun 1st April. Full details here  .

WIN TICKETS TO VAN PARK AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET STEVE KILBEY

Place an order by midnight 31st of March 2012 via the church online store to go into the draw to watch Steve Kilbey perform with John Paul Young in the play VAN PARK at The Chapel Off Chapel in Prahran in Melbourne, Victoria. The tickets will be for the finale on April 1st and winners will get to meet Steve after the show. This entertaining play is currently on every night until the 1st of April and tickets can be purchased here.

VAN PARK – a musical comedy

Starring John Paul Young and Steve Kilbey

                   Writer/Director Greg Appel l Music King Curly

Win two tickets for the closing shows on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (finale show) and the chance to meet with cast of the play!

A huge hit at the inaugural Sydney Fringe festival – “Van Park” starring John Paul Young, Steve Kilbey and many more –  will play for two weeks at Chapel Off Chapel theatre in Prahran during March, as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

This musical farce is about a group of washed up rockers who wind up in a Caravan Park. Amongst these battle hardened creatures a sensitive young boy come of age.  Enter the love interest and let the music begin.  It’s theatre you might actually enjoy!

Just as his 1975 chart-topping song Yesterday’s Hero lamented a star’s fall into obscurity, JPY’s character in Van Park faces a similar fate – albeit one with a few more vices gleaned from the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle.

Van Park also stars another legend of the Australian rock scene – The Church’s singer, lyricist and bass guitarist Steve Kilbey, who’s character, interestingly, spends much of the show with a (cough) unusual phallic enhancement.

Van Park is written and produced by Greg Appel (Spontaneous) – who was one of the directors behind the very successful ABC documentaries Long Way to the Top and Bombora – the story of Australian surfing both were made with Paul Clarke who also collaborated on early stages of this musical. Van Park also features a live-on-stage soundtrack via King Curly, known among fans for their quirky and highly original sound.

Van Park is many things rolled into one. It is as much a touching story of an unconventional childhood as a critique on the excesses of hard living. But, ultimately, it’s a rollicking musical full of larrikin humour that’s plugged into an amp with the volume set to high.

“some genuinely entertaining elements in this show. JPY is a real trouper and in strong vocal form, Kilbey’s energy and presence light up the stage and Webb’s smoky, achy voice is to die for. There are a couple of very cool new songs – I Was Born in Shadow Land and Family Man – and some sterling renditions of classics – Yesterday’s Hero and Am I Ever Going to See Your Face Again?”

 The Age, 27.3.12

i love this play

i love the songs…..

I HAD A FUCKING BALL!!!!

sk (Steve Kilbey)

Venue: Chapel off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel St Prahran
Dates: 21st March – 1st April (not Mondays or Tuesdays), Preview 21st March
Tickets: $ 45.00 Full, $ 39 Conc
Times: Wednesday to Saturday 8.00 pm, Matinees Saturday 4.00pm,
Sunday 6.00 pm
Bookings: Chapel off Chapel.com.au (03) 8290 7000

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Hologram of Baal CD
We now have the Hologram of Baal CD with the bonus Bastard Universe EP (four track, UK version).
Only 7500 of these CD’s included the bonus EP. “
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The new ISIDORE album (Jeffery Cain and Steve Kilbey) called Life Somewhere Else is streaming now via their website
http://www.soundisidore.com/

This long awaited release is due out at the end of February and will be available from the churchmerch store.

VAN PARK play – John Paul Young and Steve Kilbey plus a very talented cast of eclectic performers appear in this hilarious comedy from 21st March to April 1st in Melbourne Victoria AU. Dates: Preview 21 March
Opening 22 March – 1 April Wednesday, Thursday & Friday @ 8pm Saturday @ 4pm & 8pm Sunday @ 6pm

Tickets: Preview – All tickets $35. $45 Full, $39 Concession + transaction fee

Venue: Chapel Off Chapel
Info here http://chapeloffchapel.com.au/melbourne-comedy-theatre-art/melbourne-events/melbourne-comedy/van-park-a-musical-comedy-21-march-1-april/

Watch The Church and other great gigs on Moshcam.

Steve Kilbey and Marty Willson-Piper interviewed  before the Future Past Perfect show at The Enmore Theatre in Sydney, 17th December 2011.

The weather’s looking great for today’s Zoo concert. Tickets are available from the venue gate from 3pm so come along and enjoy the surroundings. The concert kicks off at 7pm with a 1/2 hour acoustic support by Simon Shapiro.

Ticket Enquiry phone number is 1800 675 875.

Zoo website for Twilight concert information is http://www.twilightattaronga.com.au/enquiries.php

Purchase any two of these three reissued and remastered albums (Gold Afternoon Fix/Starfish/Priest=Aura) and receive a free copy of our special 8 page full colour program from the Future Past Perfect tour, available while stocks last!

Purchase any one of the three albums above (plus one or more of the t-shirts listed below) and receive a 10% discount off the price of the t-shirt’s you select:

• 30th Anniversary
• Future Past Perfect Tour (limited edition)
• Priest=Aura
• Starfish
• Untitled #23

PLEASE NOTE – 27/1/12 – tickets are now only available from the zoo from 3pm tomorrow  (the day of the concert)

TWILIGHT AT TARONGA – Last chance to see the church in concert in Sydney for a while. Plenty of tix are still available for this gig at the Zoo. Date: Sat Jan 28th. Time 7.30pm. Beautiful view, music and atmosphere. Don’t miss out. Click on the link above to get your tickets!

Marty’s dream guitar – a 1965 Model 1993 Rickenbacker Rose Morris 12 string was stolen from a New York office back in the 80’s. Marty would dearly love to get this guitar back. These guitars were exported to Europe and Australia from the US and have a traditional ‘f-hole’ instead of the normal Rickenbacker ‘cat-eye’ sound hole. SERIAL NO EB157.

This beautiful guitar can be seen played by Marty in the church video for  A Different Man and is on the cover of his Rhyme album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox3npPy2tWs

Stolen 1965 Model 1993 Rose Morris Rickenbacker Serial No EB157 - please return if found

Also stolen on the same day was the Shergold Modulator 12 string SERIAL NO 4010 that features in the video for Electric Lash and on the cover of the church’s Hindsight album and a custom made Rickenbacker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9IRwVyQAc0

Hindsight 1980-1987

If by some miracle someone out there knows of the whereabouts of these guitars or comes across it, we would dearly love it returned to Marty, especially his dearly loved ’65 model 1993 Rose Morris Rickenbacker!