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!
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!
http://www.ravemagazine.com.au/content/view/30845/82/ The Church TUESDAY, 10 JANUARY 2012 Brisbane Powerhouse – Fri Dec 23 A rainy pre-Christmas Eve night can be made special in a variety of ways – in this lifer’s case, seeing The Church, who are bringing the three-album Future Past Perfect extravaganza to the Powerhouse. Aided by a considerably-younger “utility man” Craig Wilson from Sydney dream/jangle-popsters Astreetlightsong, the Blurred Crusaders encounter an uneven mix during the opening Cobalt Blue, but have all instruments up to level by the time they launch into the menacing Deadman’s Hand. Over two-and-a-half years since its release, the band’s most recent LP Untitled #23 remains an impressive body of work, yet its second half – particularly Sunken Sun with its echoey, post-rock-hued outro and Lunar’s short-and-sweet, ‘space-rock’ trip – is a revelation live. Ever the master of the six-string, Peter Koppes takes us places with his David Gilmour-esque guitar solo during the melancholic On Angel Street, while Steve Kilbey signals the intermission following the gorgeous Operetta. The album all Church fans tend to agree on, Priest=Aura isn’t so much a faithful reproduction as a mind-blowing live experience. Two decades post-conception, the album still sounds like nothing else recorded at the time or currently, Ripple and Feel brimming with immaculate guitar-pop power and the lovelorn Mistress allowing dynamo drummer Tim Powles to turn the intensity down a notch. However, the second set’s moment of truth arrives when Kilbey puts down his six-string bass and roams the stage during the cathartic Disillusionist, followed by nine brain-melting minutes of Chaos and the brief, haunting Film – the direct precursor of the ‘00s instrumental rock boom. Following a brief pause, the four-piece roll out Starfish – the record that brought Kilbey and co. worldwide recognition – for the night’s final set. As expected, Destination zooms, Antenna (with […]
http://www.ravemagazine.com.au/content/view/30845/82/
The Church
TUESDAY, 10 JANUARY 2012
Brisbane Powerhouse – Fri Dec 23
A rainy pre-Christmas Eve night can be made special in a variety of ways – in this lifer’s case, seeing The Church, who are bringing the three-album Future Past Perfect extravaganza to the Powerhouse.
Aided by a considerably-younger “utility man” Craig Wilson from Sydney dream/jangle-popsters Astreetlightsong, the Blurred Crusaders encounter an uneven mix during the opening Cobalt Blue, but have all instruments up to level by the time they launch into the menacing Deadman’s Hand. Over two-and-a-half years since its release, the band’s most recent LP Untitled #23 remains an impressive body of work, yet its second half – particularly Sunken Sun with its echoey, post-rock-hued outro and Lunar’s short-and-sweet, ‘space-rock’ trip – is a revelation live. Ever the master of the six-string, Peter Koppes takes us places with his David Gilmour-esque guitar solo during the melancholic On Angel Street, while Steve Kilbey signals the intermission following the gorgeous Operetta.
The album all Church fans tend to agree on, Priest=Aura isn’t so much a faithful reproduction as a mind-blowing live experience. Two decades post-conception, the album still sounds like nothing else recorded at the time or currently, Ripple and Feel brimming with immaculate guitar-pop power and the lovelorn Mistress allowing dynamo drummer Tim Powles to turn the intensity down a notch. However, the second set’s moment of truth arrives when Kilbey puts down his six-string bass and roams the stage during the cathartic Disillusionist, followed by nine brain-melting minutes of Chaos and the brief, haunting Film – the direct precursor of the ‘00s instrumental rock boom.
Following a brief pause, the four-piece roll out Starfish – the record that brought Kilbey and co. worldwide recognition – for the night’s final set. As expected, Destination zooms, Antenna (with Wilson on mandolin) chimes and Reptile bites; Marty Willson-Piper and Koppes take confident solo turns on Spark and A New Season and the former wrings every drop of emotion from Hotel Womb’s outro. Christmas can’t possibly get any better than this.
DENIS SEMCHENKO
http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/photos/galleries/114945/the-church-10.htm#1 Photos taken Friday 30th December at the Future Past Perfect show at The Forum Theatre, in Melbourne (AU).
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Photos taken Friday 30th December at the Future Past Perfect show at The Forum Theatre, in Melbourne (AU).
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150628114645968.476449.385647585967&type=3 Peace and love church visitors. Enjoy some more stunning photos on Facebook of the FPP Enmore Show 17th December 2011 – by the talented Monica Pronk
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Peace and love church visitors. Enjoy some more stunning photos on Facebook of the FPP Enmore Show 17th December 2011 – by the talented Monica Pronk
“Stunning show. One of the best shows I have ever seen by them and I’ve seen plenty.” Noel Mengel
“Stunning show. One of the best shows I have ever seen by them and I’ve seen plenty.” Noel Mengel
TimEbandit chats with DB Magazine about the Future Past Perfect show – read below : the church Recent events have conspired to return the church to the public conscience. Industry recognition came last year with the band’s induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame accompanied, of course, by Steve Kilbey’s inspired acceptance speech. In April there was the one-off ‘Psychedelic Symphony’ concert at the Opera House to celebrate their thirtieth anniversary. Perhaps most crucial of all has been the success and critical acclaim for their 2009 album ‘Untitled # 23’. From his Sydney home on a rare day off, drummer Tim Powles reflects on a hectic but rewarding 2011. “The band haven’t been in the same place since the Opera House show but we’ve been working on plenty of things including the TV special and the forthcoming DVD and double live CD from that show as well. But recently we’ve been working on bringing the ‘Future, Past, Perfect’ tour to Australia that we toured through America in February.” That tour will see the church perform not one, but three albums in their entirety, namely ‘Starfish’, Priest = Aura’ and ‘Untitled # 23’, an ambitious concept with humble origins. “Our website moderator Sue Campbell inadvertently came up with the three album thing and suggested one per decade as a solution to an argument about what we would actually play. We were always going to do two, and we always came back to ‘Starfish’ and ‘Untitled # 23’ as being the oldest and most recent ‘classic’ records. Then we felt there wasn’t enough that was different in there because we’d covered the records, not totally, but reasonably within the last three or four years in our touring. So the idea of adding ‘Priest = Aura’ in so we had an eighties […]
TimEbandit chats with DB Magazine about the Future Past Perfect show – read below :
the church
Recent events have conspired to return the church to the public conscience. Industry recognition came last year with the band’s induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame accompanied, of course, by Steve Kilbey’s inspired acceptance speech. In April there was the one-off ‘Psychedelic Symphony’ concert at the Opera House to celebrate their thirtieth anniversary. Perhaps most crucial of all has been the success and critical acclaim for their 2009 album ‘Untitled # 23’.
From his Sydney home on a rare day off, drummer Tim Powles reflects on a hectic but rewarding 2011. “The band haven’t been in the same place since the Opera House show but we’ve been working on plenty of things including the TV special and the forthcoming DVD and double live CD from that show as well. But recently we’ve been working on bringing the ‘Future, Past, Perfect’ tour to Australia that we toured through America in February.”
That tour will see the church perform not one, but three albums in their entirety, namely ‘Starfish’, Priest = Aura’ and ‘Untitled # 23’, an ambitious concept with humble origins. “Our website moderator Sue Campbell inadvertently came up with the three album thing and suggested one per decade as a solution to an argument about what we would actually play. We were always going to do two, and we always came back to ‘Starfish’ and ‘Untitled # 23’ as being the oldest and most recent ‘classic’ records. Then we felt there wasn’t enough that was different in there because we’d covered the records, not totally, but reasonably within the last three or four years in our touring. So the idea of adding ‘Priest = Aura’ in so we had an eighties record, a nineties record and a new millennium record was actually just a comment in an email. But it was a great idea. Marty Wilson-Piper came up with the ‘Future, Past, Perfect’ title and we all kind of leapt into it. I think this is as focused as the band has ever been learning something. What it’s done is actually raise the standard of our live show by another fifty percent. It’s really stretched everybody. ‘Priest = Aura’ and ‘Untitled # 23’ particularly are not easy records to play live.”
That complexity coupled with the sheer length of the performance leaves band and audience feeling tired but exhilarated. “It’s a good exhaustion, though. It’s an amazing feeling. You forget the beginning of the night when you come off. It’s an amazing journey. In my opinion it’s the best show we’ve done in terms of a musical adventure and it has pretty much bits of everything that the church do. There’s no encore, just the three records. It clocks in at three hours twenty minutes or something by the time you’ve had a short break between them.”
After many years of hard graft, Powles is certainly enjoying the recent critical and commercial success, but as ever the band continue to forge their own path. “It does feel good. But it will also feel good when we’ve done the tour and hopefully people have come out to see it! It’s a risky venture, we’re doing this ourselves. We’ve chosen to take the risk, so I guess we’ll know by New Year’s Eve what happened!”
the church bring their ‘Future, Past, Perfect’ tour to the Norwood Town Hall on Thu 29 Dec. To read the full interview with Tim Powles, go to http://www.dbmagazine.com.au/535/iv-TheChurch-544.shtml
By James McKenzie
AU Review – “If I had a crystal ball I would predict that the church’s future will remain as inspired, creative and perfect as their past and present”. http://www.theaureview.com/sydney/the-church-enmore-theatre-17-12-2011
AU Review – “If I had a crystal ball I would predict that the church’s future will remain as inspired, creative and perfect as their past and present”.
http://www.theaureview.com/
Take a look at photos of the church taken by Kirby Walton at Homebake last weekend .http://musicfeeds.com.au/photos/homebake-2011-the-domain-sydney-03122011/
Take a look at photos of the church taken by Kirby Walton at Homebake last weekend .http://musicfeeds.com.au/photos/homebake-2011-the-domain-sydney-03122011/
“Due to quirks in the schedule surfacing in the late afternoon, space saviours the church are forced to play an abridged, seven-song set at The Dome (Steve Kilbey is the first to admit the four-piece are going to be far more generous at a venue) as PNAU doof away at a close distance. The introspective Aura, Sealine and Cobalt Blue are interesting choices for a festival gig, but You Took and Tantalized take all and sundry to the electric wonderland and Starfish classics Under The Milky Way and Reptile are ever-mesmerising, Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper invoking a six-string satori. Bring on the three-album tour later this month.” – Denis Semchenko Read their full write-up of Homebake here
“Due to quirks in the schedule surfacing in the late afternoon, space saviours the church are forced to play an abridged, seven-song set at The Dome (Steve Kilbey is the first to admit the four-piece are going to be far more generous at a venue) as PNAU doof away at a close distance. The introspective Aura, Sealine and Cobalt Blue are interesting choices for a festival gig, but You Took and Tantalized take all and sundry to the electric wonderland and Starfish classics Under The Milky Way and Reptile are ever-mesmerising, Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper invoking a six-string satori. Bring on the three-album tour later this month.” – Denis Semchenko
Read their full write-up of Homebake here
http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/reviews/events/30955/The-Church-The-Triffids–Ed-Kuepper-Red-Hill-Perth-041211 the church, The Triffids & Ed Kuepper at Red Hill Auditorium, Perth WA 4th Dec 2011 by carlosrockets
the church, The Triffids & Ed Kuepper at Red Hill Auditorium, Perth WA 4th Dec 2011 by carlosrockets
