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Volume 28#46 © 2014 Echo Publications Pty Ltd
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Vintage Romance .........
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CULTURE ......... p18
STARS............... p19 GIG GUIDE ..... p21
CINEMA
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GOOD TASTE .. p22
mostly just follow what comes to me. I don’t try to write 60s-style songs, but if my liking for that era comes through, that’s nice. I do go for a vintage sound though with my choices of reverb and vocal style What are the songs of 60s artists that you actually do? There are so many great ones to choose from! We do about 15 songs from the 60s, by The Kinks, The Troggs, The Honeycombs, The Beatles and other acts. My favourites are Sandie Shaw’s Long Live Love, Lulu’s To Sir With Love and Gerry & The Pacemakers’ I Like It, the last two of which are on our album. How did Annie & Bern become a duo? We met through an ad I put in a music paper, looking for a band. We’d been writing and performing originals together in various bands, and when How did you become our last band came to acquainted with the an end, we decided we’d music of Sinatra and be a duo, freshly arrange Sandie Shaw and our originals for acoustic Shirley Bassey? Did guitar, and do covers you raid your mother’s of songs that feel right record collection? We for us. only discovered Sandie Tell me about Here Shaw last year! I heard Comes the Love, your my dad’s Bassey albums when I was a kid but didn’t appreciate her until I was debut album? Where did you record? what were the ideas you had for twenty-something. I did like dancing to my mum’s Beatles album though, and that album? How did you feel about the end result? We recorded the album when I was a teenager also really liked a 60s girl-singer compilation album from at Kent St Studios in Melbourne, and Bern mixed it at home. There wasn’t an her collection. intended theme. We just wanted to record our best songs. The song subjects are What is it about these particular 1960s acts or their style of music that mostly about love though, be it in the form of romance, solidarity, gratitude or you find so creatively evocative? Do you think Brit music of this era was longing, and it’s quite a positive album. I’m really pleased with the recording, our intrinsically different from what was happening here or in the US? For me, performances and the songs. I’m quite happy for it to be out there in the world. pop music of the early 60s has romance and charm, and also innocence and cheekiness. Many people who were in London in the 60s say it felt like something What should we expect for your Byron Show? At our show in Byron you can expect some snazzy vintage-style costumes, and we’ll be performing our originals really exciting and new was happening, so it also has an air of dynamic promise interspersed with covers: mostly 60s but also some Britpop 90s and a few oddities for me. I don’t know a lot about US or Australian music of the same time, but that we do in a vintage style. perhaps there’s a cosiness and warmth to British culture – comedy, accents, TV and music – that draws me in. How do you take their influences and create your own work? In songwriting I Catch Annie and Bernie from 7pm at Frankie Brown on Friday.
LOVERS OF VINTAGE CLOTHES AND VINTAGE SOUND, ANNIE AND BERN, BRING THEIR VINTAGE ROMANCE TO FRANKIE BROWN IN BYRON ON FRIDAY. THE PAIR EVOKE THE SWEETNESS, WIT AND ROMANCE OF 1960s BRITAIN. BERN’S FINGERPICKED ACOUSTIC GUITAR PLAYING AND ANNIE’S SMOOTH VOCALS CREATE WARM, INTIMATE, CAPTIVATING PERFORMANCE. THE ECHO ASKED A FEW QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT MAKES THEM TICK.
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HITS & PITS
HELL & WHISKEY, BYRON
15 MAY
KIM CHURCHILL
BOARDRIDER RAFFLES 6.30PM
16 MAY KING OF THE NORTH
SAT 3
LYALL MOLONEY
17 MAY
YOUNGER DRYAS
SUN 4
THE FIRE TREE
23 MAY
THE OWLS
TUE 6
MARSHALL OKELL, VINYL NIGHT
THU 1
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