Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
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Coorabella Studio-photography in fashion
Coorabella Studio is Nyree Mackenzie – creative director, photographer, stylist and producer. Known for producing high quality fashion editorial work as well as numerous campaigns for Tree of Life fashion label, Nyree has set up in the Byron Hinterland taking on local clients such as Colin Heaney. Nyree’s photography combines pop colour with vintage glamour, artistic flair, a little bit of sass and a bohemian twist. Inspired by poetry, love, desire, art, fashion, innovation, red lipstick and music, artistic Nyree is also a singer/songwriter who has collaborated with producer/programmer Jochen Mueller to create their own […]
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Back to Our Roots
It’s been well over twenty years since Keven Oxford decided to put together a festival of blues acts and share his passion for music with Byron Bay locals. Since the late seventies, Keven Oxford, his wife Karin Woods, and their good mate Dan Doeppel were responsible for bringing an outstanding lineup of international and national touring artists to the north coast of NSW. Regular shows at The Lismore City Hall, Ballina Theatre and The Everglades (now Byron @ Byron) treated locals to a calibre of music usually reserved for Australian capital cities. In 1978 Keven […]
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Earthlings From Outer Space
By Jeff Dawson Not all that far out from Roswell, deep in the Black Rock Desert of Northern Nevada, tens of thousands of Earthlings slip through a portal. A kind of worm hole portal between the default world and their Home, the Playa. Many of these beings are not reptilian, many are not aliens, most do not look like you or me, well, not like me anyway, they are ‘Burners’. For eight days a year they cluster to recharge, then disperse back to the four corners (?) of the planet. Almost blending in with […]
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The Art of Making Music
Create’s Elle Hayter talks to custom guitar maker Jim Mills What first got you interested in designing and building guitars? I got tired of buying good quality guitars that weren’t playing up to their potential. How long does it take for you to build a guitar? Around three months if the weather doesn’t turn nasty and send the humidity sky high. What difficulties did you face when you first started building guitars? Everything was difficult from sourcing the materials and basic tools, to climate control, building methods, finishing techniques this could be a very […]
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WALLAPALOOZA 2012
Stunts, art and metal music. CIA owner and Wallapalooza event founder Andy Clark is always challenging the event to be bigger and better and this year this rule has been taken to new heights !! The line up of 13 bands, freestyle stunt show from the amazing Jack Field and the Flair Action Sports team, live painting exhibition for Kaitlin Hawkins, tattoo comp, Jim Beam Girls and busker comp, makes for a full day of exciting entertainment for all who attend, and entry is free !!! Clark says the festival will be broken up into […]
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Brian Setzer jump starts Byron Bluesfest
Brian Setzer has always been a rebel. When England was immersed in the punk rock sounds of the 80’s, Setzer and his American mates sold up their gear and bought a plane ticket. They howled onto the scene as the Stray Cats, bringing driving rockabilly licks, heart-thumping standup slap bass and a heavy snare drum back-beat. During the 90’s, Setzer rioted among the zoot suits, styling a 17-piece swing orchestra to back his blistering jump blues guitar. This assembly earned him his 8th Grammy nomination for best classical crossover album (Setzer has won three Grammy […]
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Norpa jumps aboard live theatre at Lismore train station
Railway stations are places of the heart, where life’s journeys begin and end, where hellos and goodbyes remain locked in time. When the Lismore station closed in 2003, more than 250 people turned up to protest the closing of the rail service. Now, Lismore Station is being brought back to life by Julian Louis and the team at Generator, NORPA’s Creative Development Program. Railway Wonderland will have its World Premiere March 27th-31st, 2012. Take your seat under the stars and immerse yourself in a dreamy wonderland of strange encounters, wild stories, half-truths and bare-faced lies. […]