What’s the secret to the Li’l Fi touch? Live and lively but always from the heart. People can hear it when you’re faking it. My heart and soul has been blessed with the music of all the gospel singers I’ve loved and it’s time to pay some homage and make one for Jesus. Who will you be recording with? Steve Russell (all keyboarded things) Thierry Fossemalle (basses and tuba) Pete Wilkins (drums), Martha Baartz (saxophone) and Mal Wood (trumpet). Scrubby Pete, Why have you decided to go with a crowdfunding campaign? I Billy Williams and Grant Bedford get a showcase and so will AM had a number of my friends on Facebook suggest it one too many Summerfield and my dear friend Fiona Boyes on the guitar tracks on times and I thought I would put myself out there and see what the Sister Rosetta Tharpe numbers. So there’s an airfare and a few happens. I have always pre-sold all my CDs so it felt like a fairly people to pay. natural thing to do. What is your attraction to gospel? The album is going to be called Tell me about your plans for the gospel album? I have booked People Get Ready. It’s a bit of a handbook for the afterlife really. As I the studio in Samford (Brisbane) called Airlock. It’s owned by Ian Haug from Powderfinger and, having recently recorded a children’s had a near-death experience and went back to Heaven I’ve got some inside information that I’d like to share with anyone who’s not feeling album there, I was convinced it was the place to record an album. I like to record live, first or second take at the most. It’s a snapshot of a very sure about what happens. musical moment. I’ve booked the finest musicians I know and have And finally: How do people go about contributing? Go to the been playing music with quite a bit so it’ll be a joy to go into the Pozible Link People Get Ready or type in your browser http://www. studio and put these tracks down. pozible.com/project/176609.
NEED TO WAIT TO BE ‘UNCOVERED’ BY A BENEVOLENT PATRON OR RECORD COMPANY, YOUR FANS CAN GET ON BOARD AND GIVE YOU THE KICK ALONG – AFTER ALL, IT’S ‘THEIR’ PRODUCT THAT THEY’RE HELPING FINANCE. LI’L FI IS A LOCAL MUSICIAN WHO’S TAKEN CROWDFUNDING ON BOARD.
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Prior to his solo show efforts, Lindsay’s career was forged across several media. He was ‘the funny bloke’ on the Sea FM Morning Crew on the Sunshine Coast Queensland for four years, and has been working the Australian comedy circuit since he won the Queensland finals of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival JJJ Raw Comedy Competition in 1998. Lindsay is pissfunny. You’ll pop an eye. Lindsay is joined by Paul McMahon as support and Mandy Nolan as MC at the Ballina RSL on Thursday at 8pm. Free!
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Palace Cinemas’ opera and ballet season begins this week with two screenings of the much-loved Nutcracker, presented by the Royal Ballet. This production was filmed live at Covent Garden on 12 December for presentation in cinemas around the world via state-of-the-art digital projection with digitally recorded surround sound. The full company of the Royal Ballet fills the stage with colour and energy while the set designs, beautiful costumes and impressive staging create a magical atmosphere. Screening at the Palace in Byron Sunday at 1pm and Wednesday 5 February at 11am. Tickets $21–$24.
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our ‘domestication’ has programmed us with. During this three-hour lecture, Don Miguel and Don Jose will assist you in understanding that the agreements we make are ultimately about seeing our whole reality through the eyes of truth. The result of practising these agreements helps you to move into complete acceptance of yourselves just the way you are, and the complete acceptance of everybody else just the way they are. The reward for doing that is your eternal happiness. Byron Community Centre Wednesday 5 Feb. $70 + booking fee.
longstanding drawing class Dynamic PAINTIN NG WITH LIG GHT Drawing swings back into action this WORKSHOP & RETREAT week. WEBB OF COM MEDY AT BALLINA’S A’S AMANDA SAGE PRESENTS Amanda Sage in collaboration The class welcomes all newcomers and anyone who simply BIG GIIG PAINTING WITH LIGHT with Mosaic Vision is offering a wants to develop and discover their identity through WORKSHOP AND RETREAT retreat focused on the exploration There are some comedians that have this uncanny ability of talking drawing. It is a progressive forum in which each individual is ON WEDNESDAY AT THE of traditional methods in visual art to you as if they’ve known you forever. Lindsay Webb is one of them. fully valued and given total opportunity to find their natural PARADISE ONE RETREAT He is unforgettable. Other comedians all acknowledge that no-one and using these skill sets to cultivate direction. Ron Curran’s positive energy and the group itself talks to an audience and improvises material as well as Webb. He is personal style and voice. CENTRE IN COORABELL wholly support each person’s drawing journey and aims to the master of small talk. In fact he’s so good at shooting the breeze Exploring techniques based on the fully encourage the development of each person’s unique that in 2009 he set a Guinness World Record, for the longest show by drawing style. early Renaissance methods of under-painting and glazing, this an individual when he performed nonstop – a massive 38hrs 6min. Classes are $20, no need to book workshop will focus on observing fundamental principles of light, in. Wednesdays – Mullumbimby colour and form in the natural and ‘visionary’ worlds. Drill Hall / Fridays – Byron Bay Developing an eye to see nature through rendering our perception Scout Hall – both 9.30am–12 by working in pastel on toned paper, while also following the noon. Enquiries Ron 0421 101 220 fundamentals of painting with acrylic and oil. Paradise One Retreat or www.dynamicdrawing.com.au. Centre, Coorabell. Bookings essential: http://inticketing.greentix. com.au/evinfo.php?eventid=370296.
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WOME EN SE EEIN NG RED D ON VIOLENCE Friday 14 February sees the women of the world gather in streets, on beaches, in parks… dressed in red for V Day – an international day asking people to say NO to violence against women and children. Organisers are asking women to bring a placard relating to justice for women and if possible to learn the dance for the flashmob – www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQpttPZqOIw. If you can’t do that, come anyway, and do wear red! Dance rehearsals are also happening each Monday and Wednesday at Lisa Burnie’s Zumba class. 7.30am!
BYRON ON FILM Famous for its surfing and laidback, bohemian lifestyle, Byron Bay’s buzz during the Byron Bay International Film Festival is infectious. From a jazz fusion that tap dances its way through the pulsating streets of India to a power play sizzles between Italian actors conquering each other in love. This summer the hottest beachside action will be happening inside the cinema when the 8th Byron Bay International Film Festival presents a more inspiring dose of screen culture from 28 February to 9 March 2014.
HUGHESY IN THE BAY You’ve got to love the laidback laconic humour of Dave Hughes. A dad of three now, the boy next door who became the boy on NOVA 100 breakfast radio has said goodbye to his pre-dawn starts and walked back into the spotlight as a standup. Catch his pre-comedyfest show at the Byron Theatre on Thursday 6 Feb. 7pm, $30.
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