Spice of Life 3rd Jan 2010

Happy New Year

The show on the 3rd of January 2010 included music from the Australian group DVA, Eberhard Weber as well as a live performance of Cartography by the talented Arve Henriksen from the Punktfestival 2009.

Lucie Thorne / Heidi Elva

Nice ladies with buckets of talents. The interviews have been uploaded if you want to listen.

pirate bay founders jailed

from SMH
Pirate Bay founders guilty and jailed


April 18, 2009 - 3:17PM


* Pirate Bay server becomes a tourist attraction



A Stockholm court on Friday found four men guilty of promoting copyright infringement by running The Pirate Bay, one of the world's top websites for illegal filesharing, and sentenced them to a year in prison.

The court also ordered the four - Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstroem - to pay damages of 30 million kronor ($4.98 million) to the recording industry, which hailed the ruling as a symbolic victory.

"The Stockholm district court has today convicted the four people charged with promoting other people's infringement of copyright laws," the court said in a statement.

Representatives of the movie, music and video games industry had sought some 117 million kronor ($19.41 million), in damages and interest for losses incurred from tens of millions of illegal downloads facilitated by the site.

Founded in 2003, The Pirate Bay makes it possible to skirt copyright fees and share music, film and computer game files using bit torrent technology, or peer-to-peer links offered on the site.

None of the material can thus be found on The Pirate Bay server itself.

The four, who have denied any wrongdoing, are expected to appeal the verdict and have previously vowed to take the case as high as the Swedish Supreme Court if necessary.

The Pirate Bay claims to have some 22 million users worldwide.

"By providing a website with ... well-developed search functions, easy uploading and storage possibilities, and with a tracker linked to the website, the accused have incited the crimes that the filesharers have committed," the court said in a statement to the media.

The court added that the four "knew that copyrighted material was being fileshared".

The one-year jail sentences were motivated by the "extensive accessibility of others' (copy)rights and the fact that the operation was conducted commercially and in an organised fashion".

IFPI, which represents the recording industry worldwide, hailed the decision.

"The trial of the operators of The Pirate Bay was about defending the rights of creators, confirming the illegality of the service and creating a fair environment for legal music services that respect the rights of the creative community," IFPI chairman and chief executive John Kennedy said in a statement.

"Today's verdict is the right outcome on all three counts," he said, adding: "The court has also handed down a strong deterrent sentence that reflects the seriousness of the crimes committed."

During the trial, the four had pleaded innocent, insisting that filesharing services can be used both legally and illegally.

One of their lawyers, Per Samuelsson, argued that The Pirate Bay's services "can be compared to making cars that can be driven faster than the speed limit".

Another defence lawyer, Jonas Nilsson, had insisted that "the individual Internet users who use Pirate Bay services ... must answer for the material they have in their possession or the files they might share with others".

Swedish police raided the company's offices several times and seized nearly 200 servers in 2006, temporarily shuttering the site. But it resurfaced a few days later with servers spread among different countries.

The site is still in operation.

Lucie Thorne interview

OK it's been awhile since I posted anything here however I have uploaded the interview I did with Lucie Thorne today. She hails from the beautiful Bega Valley, and is a very talented singer song writer who sings about personal experiences in a way that would melt your heart. She will be performing across the country up until August, so if you get a chance to hear her perform please do so.

Here are the dates for the tour:

BLACK ACROSS THE FIELD Album Launch Tour

NSW

Thursday 16th April, 2009
Interview + live-to-air performance on The Morning Show, with Deb Cameron.
702 ABC Radio. 10.30am.

Saturday 18th April, 2009
The Surry Hills Festival, Prince Alfred Park, Sydney.
Lucie + band performing on the main stage at 12.45pm.

Tuesday 21st April, 2009
Interview + live-to-air performance on The Morning Show, with Chris Coucouvinis.
FBi Radio. 11am.

Tuesday 21st April, 2009
Interview + live-to-air performance on The Spice of Life, with Hans Stoeve.
2SER Radio. 1.30pm.

Wednesday 22nd April, 2009
The Basement, Sydney.
with special guests Leroy Lee and Maxine Kauter.
Tickets $18 + bf presale / $22 at the door.
Doors open 7.30pm / Show starts 8.45pm.

Saturday 25th April, 2009
The Clarendon Guest House, Katoomba.
Tickets $20 show only / $55 dinner + show.
Bookings: 02 4782 1322.
Dinner from 7pm / Show starts 8.30pm.

Friday 1st May, 2009
The Town Hall, Candelo.
Tickets $20/$15 at the door.
Doors open 7.30pm.
BYO / Supper available.

VIC

Thursday 14th May, 2009
The Corner Hotel, Richmond.
VITAMIN RECORDS presents INDIE SIX PACK featuring Lucie Thorne + band, Tin Pan Orange, Fireside Bellows, Sal Kimber, Tobias Hengeveld and Leah Flanagan.
Tickets $16 at the door.
Doors open 7.30pm.

SA

Saturday 16th May, 2009
The Singing Gallery, McClaren Vale.
Tickets $20/$15.
Doors open 7.30pm.
BYO supper.
Bookings: 0413 358 618.

Sunday 17th May, 2009
The Wheatsheaf, Adelaide.
4pm.

NSW

Friday 22nd May, 2009
The Murrah Hall, Murrah.
Tickets $20/$15 at the door.
Doors open 7.30pm.
BYO / Supper available.

ACT

Saturday 23rd May, 2009
The Ainslie Hall, Canberra.
Tickets $20/$15 at the door.
Doors open 7.30pm.
BYO / Supper available.

NSW

Thursday 11th June, 2009
The Vanguard, Sydney.
details tba.

Saturday 13th June, 2009
The Wauchope Hall, Wauchope.
details tba.

Wednesday 17th June, 2009
The Bowling Club, Mullumbimby.
details tba.

QLD

Thursday 18th June, 2009
The Troubadour, Brisbane.
details tba.

Friday 19th June, 2009
The Black Box Theatre, Nambour.
details tba.

Sunday 21st June, 2009
The Court Theatre, Townsville.
details tba.

NSW

Friday 26th June, 2009
The Memorial Hall, Bellingen.
details tba.

Saturday 27th June, 2009
The Musician's Club, Armidale.
details tba.

Sunday 28th June, 2009
Mt Misery Goldmine Cafe, Nundle.
details tba.

more BLACK ACROSS THE FIELD launch tour shows in regional NSW, Western Australia and the Northern Territory announced soon...

John Martyn dies

Incredibly sad news; an inspiring guitarist and wonderful singer song writer.

From the BBC website

John Martyn, who has died at the age of 60, was widely regarded as one of the most soulful and innovative singer-songwriters of his generation.

His music - a marriage of blues, folk, dub and funk - has been cited as an influence by artists as varied as U2, Portishead and Eric Clapton.

Although he rarely troubled the charts, many of his albums - especially Solid Air - are regarded as classics.

But the singer battled with drugs and alcohol throughout his career.

John Martyn
Born Iain David McGeachy in New Malden, Surrey, Martyn's parents divorced when he was five.

He spent his childhood alternating between his mother's houseboat in England and his father's home in Scotland, where he was exposed to the music of both the Presbyterian Church and the English music hall.

Moving to London in his late teens, he became a fixture at Les Cousins - the Soho club at the centre of the city's folk scene, which also spawned the likes of Ralph McTell, Bert Jansch and Al Stewart.

Soon after, he became the first white act to be signed to Chris Blackwell's Island Records, and recorded his debut album, London Conversation, for £158 in 1968.

On the road, he began to experiment with electronic effects - notably a tape device known as the Echoplex, which provided his signature sound.

By 1969, he was married to blues singer Beverley Kutner, with whom he recorded 1970's Stormbringer in Woodstock, where the couple lived near Bob Dylan.

"Jimi Hendrix owned a house literally over the road," Martyn said in 2007. "He used to fly up every Thursday in a purple helicopter. He was very quiet and used to tell me how much he loved the animals."


Martyn won a lifetime achievement prize at 2008's Radio 2 Folk Awards
Martyn cemented his reputation with 1973's Solid Air, described as the "musical equivalent of a reassuring hug" by Q Magazine, which named it the 67th best British album of all time in 2000.

The haunting title track was dedicated to his friend and fellow singer-songwriter Nick Drake - who died of an overdose shortly after it was finished, aged 26.

The following few years saw Martyn descend into alcoholism, with live performances swinging erratically between moments of inspired genius and incoherent inebriation.

The singer later recalled an occasion in Spain where he had been so drunk he fell off the stage. "I still got three encores," he noted.

Inevitably, however, the substance abuse took a toll on his personal life and his marriage broke up towards the end of the 1970s.

Grace and Danger, released in 1980, presented a painfully honest depiction of the divorce - and Martyn later told recording engineer Phil Brown that "he had never written a good song since" leaving his wife.

Nonetheless, his subsequent albums - Glorious Fool and Well Kept Secret (the former produced by Phil Collins) - were the highest-charting records of his career.

In the late 1990s, Martyn began to experiment with electronic dance sounds and scored a top 40 hit as a featured vocalist on Deliver Me - a dance record by Faithless musician Sister Bliss.

But his life continued to be blighted by drug dependency and alcohol abuse.

In 2003, he had to have his right leg amputated below the knee after a cyst the size of a golf ball burst (although Martyn told some reporters he lost the limb after crashing his car into a stray cow).

"It only affected me getting in and out of bed, cars and theatres," he told The Mirror in 2008.

"I wasn't too pleased about it, but whatever happens to your bod, happens. I'd have died if they hadn't cut the leg off. My blood would have been poisoned."

The singer, who took to performing in a wheelchair, told Q Magazine he had no regrets.

"If I could control myself more, I think the music would be much less interesting," he said.

"I'd probably be a great deal richer but I'd have had far less fun and I'd be making really dull music."

Shortly before his death, Martyn was appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours.

Kim Sanders news

Kim Sanders & Friends will perform for the Jazzgroove Association on February 17. The gig will feature drummer Toby Hall. “I’m looking forward to playing with Toby again. Playing with a jazz drummer is very different to playing with a tabla-player, and we like to take the music in different directions at different gigs,” says Kim. The other players will be Steve Elphick on bass and Sandy Evans on soprano and tenor saxes. “Sandy will be just back from a month studying in India, so she’ll be full of ideas and rarin’ to go. And there may just be some Indian things happening despite the kit instead of tabla!”

Support band (8.30pm) is Flap! from Melbourne
Jessica Guille - ukelele
Eamon McNelis - trumpet
Mark Elton - bass
Ben Hendry - drums

Touring from Melbourne to promote the launch of their debut album, Flap! are a charming band led by Jessica and Eamon. Featuring musicians from Vada, C.W. Stoneking and Shane Warne, the Musical, they sing original songs about falling off cliffs, obese amputees, being poor and the essential universal themes of falling in love and getting wasted.
Kim Sanders & Friends
10 pm
Tuesday 17 February
Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills
cnr Foveaux & Bellevue Sts
www.excelsiorhotel.com.au

Kim Sanders news

Kim Sanders & Friends will perform for the Jazzgroove Association on February 17. The gig will feature drummer Toby Hall. “I’m looking forward to playing with Toby again. Playing with a jazz drummer is very different to playing with a tabla-player, and we like to take the music in different directions at different gigs,” says Kim. The other players will be Steve Elphick on bass and Sandy Evans on soprano and tenor saxes. “Sandy will be just back from a month studying in India, so she’ll be full of ideas and rarin’ to go. And there may just be some Indian things happening despite the kit instead of tabla!”

Support band (8.30pm) is Flap! from Melbourne
Jessica Guille - ukelele
Eamon McNelis - trumpet
Mark Elton - bass
Ben Hendry - drums

Touring from Melbourne to promote the launch of their debut album, Flap! are a charming band led by Jessica and Eamon. Featuring musicians from Vada, C.W. Stoneking and Shane Warne, the Musical, they sing original songs about falling off cliffs, obese amputees, being poor and the essential universal themes of falling in love and getting wasted.
Kim Sanders & Friends
10 pm
Tuesday 17 February
Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills
cnr Foveaux & Bellevue Sts
www.excelsiorhotel.com.au

1st & 6 December 2008

On the show today, an interview with Adrian Belew who is currently touring with his power trio. Belew has played with many musicians and groups over his illustrious career; Zappa, Talking Heads, Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Laurie Anderson plus many more. He's performed on about 150 albums to date and for the last 27 years has been part of King Crimson. I'm sure you have heard of them. Hear what he had to say or download the interview for future listening.
Also Lulo Reinhardt, relative of the great Django passed through town this week. Hear what he had to say and maybe get along to hear him play at a performance near you somewhere,
Music by David Sylvian & Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Rodrigo Y Gabriela from their new CD recorded live in Japan, Muslimgauze, Speaking of which, over the next few weeks I'll be playing parts of a longish interview I did with Roger Richards, the man machine behind the Extreme label out of Melbourne. He has come out of hibernation with a swag of new releases, many focussing on Australian musicians. Not always easy on the ears, this is none the less essential listening from a label that likes to push and explore what is on the boundaries of new music.

Spice of Life 7 Oct 2008 info

On the show today, musical treats and delights from the following:

Less world music on today's show and more of an ambient slant.

Terje Rypdal / Miroslav Vitous / Jack de Johnette- CD To Be Continued
Geoff Smith & Nicola Walker Smith- CD 15 Wild Decembers
Julee Cruise- CD Floating Into The Night
Angelo Badalamenti- CD S/T to Twin Peaks
Tetsu Inoue- Ambiant Otaku
David Sylvian- CD Camphor

If you miss the show tune in again on Saturday for a repeat.

Next week, 2SER's annual radiothon begins. Please subscribe, re-subscribe or donate to show your continued support of what the program and station are trying to do year in year out ie be an independent voice on Sydney's radio scene. 2SER turned 29 this year and is still going strong. Many of our former volunteers have gone on to successfully produce and present on ABC or SBS radio, and indeed other areas of media production . Subscribing helps keep independent radio alive. Sponsorship for The Spice of Life is welcomed.

If you would like for me to call you and take your details personally, please email me with your details. Happy to do so.

Some upcoming gigs worth taking note of:

THE KINGS OF SWING - 24TH OCTOBER

A great night of Big Band music featuring some of Sydney's original and best musicians from the 60's, 70's and 80's. Overlooking Lane Cove golf course, this promises to be a fun night for those who love the music of this era.

Billy Burton returns to the big band scene to lead the Kings of Swing for the night. The program will feature some of the punchiest big band arrangements from Billy's own library dating back to his days at Sydney's premier night spots in the 60's and 70's like Chequers, the Chevron's Silver Spade room and Marrickville RSL. Along with his own smooth, classy trumpet playing - Sydney jazz great - Errol Buddle will lead the sax section. Frank McQuade and Helen Fenton provide the vocals for the evening along with special guests Armondo Hurley and Lisa Michel featuring throughout the night.

Dinner and show $55 and Show only $20. Contact Lane Cove Country Club on 9418 6159 to make a booking.

JASLYN HALL PRESENTS.... THE FINAL TOUR

DAVID MURRAY BLACK SAINT QUARTET (USA)
David Murray - Tenor Sax/Bass Clarinet
Lafayette Gilchrist - piano
Malik Washington - drums
Jaribu Shahid – doublebass

The Sacred Ground Tour revives the music of Murray’s original Black Saint Quartet, a legendary musical collaboration going back some twenty years with an innovative new approach that visits some of the classic numbers as well as featuring many new compositions.

"David Murray is far and away the greatest tenor saxophonist
of his generation" – Tom Hull (Village Voice)


TWO SYDNEY SHOWS ONLY
Thursday 30th October & Monday 3rd November -The Basement, 7 Macquarie Place, Circular Quay. SYDNEY
Tickets $60 + b/f Bookings: www.thebasement.com.au
DINNER & SHOW tickets available Tel: The Basement, 02 9251 2797 www.myspace.com/davidmurraymusic

Kim Sanders & Friends:

High-altitude World Music at the Gearin


Good news for mountain-dwellers as Kim Sanders & Friends head to Katoomba for a gig at the Gearin Hotel on Sunday October 19. This will be Kim's last gig in Australia before heading off to Indonesia to perform with didge-player/ singer/ dancer Glen Doyle at the Solo International Ethnic Music Festival in Yogyakarta at the end of the month.

The gig at the Gearin marks the return of percussionist of Peter Kennard. Peter has played with Ashok Roy, Sirocco, the Flying Fruitfly Circus and the Turkish State Theatre, and is a veteran of Kim's legendary world/Gypsy band Brassov. He also collaborated with Kim on his acclaimed CD 'Trance'n'Dancin'. "When it comes to frame drums," says Kim, "Peter is the best".

World Music veteran Sanders has studied with Sufi ney-masters in Turkey, played with Gypsy wedding-bands in Macedonia, in mosquito-infested nightclubs in Gambia, seedy tavernas in Greece, concert-halls in Turkey, recording studios in Indonesia and tea-houses in China - not to mention Rooty Hill RSL. Saxophonist Sandy Evans and bassist Steve Elphick have built on their jazz roots to become two of Australia's leading World Music exponents. Their strong improvising has made their names familiar worldwide.

"We don't do many gigs in the Blue Mountains," says Kim, " so I'm really looking forward to the Gearin. And we're on a roll after the release of 'Bent Grooves'"

Kim Sanders: Ney (Sufi flute), kaval (Bulgarian wooden flute), mey (Turkish double reed), Bulgarian and Turkish gaidas (bagpipes), tenor sax

Sandy Evans: soprano, tenor saxes

Steve Elphick: bass

Peter Kennard: dhaf, darabukka, jingly things

2.30 pm, Sunday October 19


Gearin Hotel
273 Great Western Hwy, Katoomba (near the railway station)


$20/15 conc
Meals are available from 12pm

Info and bookings: (02) 4782 4395


The Barons of Tang (gypsy-jazz-punk) have one widely acclaimed self-titled EP under their belt
and are frantically working on a follow up.

The Barons will be performing in October at :
The Factory Marrickville, Sydney Thurs 2rd
The Lass O’Gowrie, NewCastle Fri 3rd
Evolve Festival, Byron Bay on Saturday 4th
The Globe, Fortitude Valley , Brisbane with KAFKA
**Northcote Social Club (Melb) Sunday 19th
with French Artist Ronan/Ronan Album Launch

For more info check out:
www.myspace.com/thebaronsoftang

Banjo Player and singer of Fils de Teuhpu Ronan Guittier travels direct from the small french village of Montreuil to Australia
to perform his Solo Show Ronan/Ronan and launch his album “Copie/Colle”.

With 26 shows throughout Australia, Ronan/Ronan will be playing an eclectic selection of Festival sand venues, starting with shows in the pristine World Heritage forests of Cape York’s Wallaby Creek Festival to Brisbane Powerhouse to NZ Nelson Arts Festival to the beautiful The Famous Spiegeltent at Sydney Opera House . With many dates in between, Ronan/Ronan tours to a venue near you to perform a very special show.

On the stage Ronan creates his music completely live . In a joyous bric-a-brac of colour, turntable decks, children’s toys and a box full of treasures, Ronan/Ronan creates his poetic, lyrical mayhem, performing light hearted yet haphazard songs that you may just find yourself singing along to!!

Surrounded by an array of different acoustic instruments and a loop pedal, Ronan experiments and creates his own musical universe – amusing, entertaining and poetic all at the same time. His performance is visually amazing and teeters on the edge of comedy and surreal musical madness.

Ronan’s Instruments include Plastic train, banjo, ‘moo’ box, turntable, ukulele, hand-saw and log of wood, the ‘music star’ toy, trumpet, aspirin, cymbals, ‘squawk’ box harmonica, whistle, small bells, door slamming, rustling of plastic bags and so on......

With his warm smile, a cheeky look and a loaded shelf, Ronan/ronan, the true one man orchestra, will wind you up like a clock!




Tour Dates

RONAN/RONAN (FRANCE) AUSTRALIA TOUR : 25th SEPT – 31ST OCT 2008

26th Fri - 29th Mon Sept Wallaby Creek Festival Cape York Qld
31st Tues -- 3rd Fri Oct Coffs Buskers & Comedy Festival
3rd Oct Fri Dorrigo Theatre Show
4th Oct Sat Evolve Festival Byron Bay
7th Oct Tues Press Launch @ The Lounge Café Surry HIlls
8th Oct Wed Milton Theatre Milton Escape Arts Festival
9th Oct Thurs The Heritage Hotel Bulli
10th Oct Fri ‘Who Art Thou ‘Art Gallery Gosford
11th Oct Sat The Convent Orange
12th Oct Sun The Clarendon Blue Mountains
17th Oct Fri Higher Ground Adelaide
18th Oct Sat The Folkus Room, Canberra
19th Oct Sun Northcote Social Club Melbourne
“Copie Colle” CD Launch with The Barons of Tang
21st Oct Tues The National Geelong
22nd Oct Wed The Alley Cat Hobart Tasmania
23rd Oct Thurs Brisbane Powerhouse
24th Fri – 26th Oct Yungaburra Folk Festival North Queensland
27th Mon NZ Nelson Arts Festival 2 Shows
29th Oct Wed The Famous Spiegeltent Sydney Opera House
31st Oct Fri Bangalow A&I Hall Byron Bay Howling Halloween

…….With More shows to Be Announced





Regards

Hans Stoeve
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