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Grafton Primary Eons Ahead Sydney electronic-rockers have pushed back the release date of their stellar 13 track debut album Eon to September 13. The timing is right, the synergy is right. The Eon National Album Launch Tour kicks off next week in Melbourne at the East Brunswick Club on Frida...

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Howard Panter for the Ambassador Theatre Group Marriner Theatres And TulchinBartner Productions Presents The Donmar Warehouse Production of The West End Hit All star line up set to play Sydney from March 12 Lisa McCune, Marina Prior, Ian Stenlake, Garry McDonald, Shane Jacobson and ...

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Sydney Theatre Company and Out of Joint present The Convicts Opera By Stephen Jeffreys, adapted from The Beggars Opera by John Gay 30 September to 25 October 2008. Opens Saturday 4 October at 8pm Sydney Theatre, 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay Then tours extensively in the UK to Salisbury, C...

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KYLIEX2008 CONFIRMED TO TOUR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE After wowing audiences and critics across the UK and Europe in what has been hailed as "her most flamboyant show yet" (Manchester Evening News), Kylies X2008 tour is coming to Sydney and Melbourne. Kylie said she can't wait for the D...

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Sydney Theatre Company presents The Wharf Sessions Free post-show live music at The Wharf Paul Capsis with Alister Spence on piano Friday 5 September 2008 at 10pm (approx start) Free Entry Paul Capsis is the next special guest to perform at The Wharf Sessions, the new regular series of ...

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Elefant Traks, New World Artists and triple j present THE HERD Summerland Tour JULYSEPTEMBER 08 special guests The Last Kinection THE HERD BRING SUMMERLAND TO AUSTRALIAN WINTER - WITH A LIVE SHOW TO WARM UP THE COLDEST OF BODY PARTS. Fresh from the release of their fourth album S...

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Want to work alongside the writers of NCIS in LA? Thanks to a deal Film Victoria struck with CBS Paramount in LA, one skilled Victorian screenwriter will spend six weeks shadowing writing staff on the acclaimed US television series ratings hit - NCIS. They say they understand that intern...

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Kaiser Chiefs confirm details of their new album and join the growing roster at Liberator Music. So, a mere eighteen months since the release of their second album Yours Truly, Angry Mob, which saw Leeds' Kaiser Chiefs have the best selling UK rock album of last year, they are set to unleash ...

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SNOW PATROL BRAND NEW ALBUM: A HUNDRED MILLION SUNS - OCTOBER 25 BRAND NEW SINGLE: TAKE BACK THE CITY - SEPTEMBER SNOW PATROL release their brand new album A HUNDRED MILLION SUNS through FictionPolydor on October 25. The album is preceded by the fantastic single Take Back The City, th...

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Bluesfest wins 2008 International Greener Festival Award Second year running for the Byron Bay event August 21, 2008 : The International East Coast Blues and Roots Festival is extremely proud to announce it is - for the second year running - an international winner in The Greener Festival Awar...

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New Multicultural Documentary Series: Screen Australia and SBS Call for Proposals Monday 25 August 2008: Screen Australia and SBS Television and Online today announced details of a call for proposals for a new multicultural history documentary series. The new series will examine the sto...

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Quite a good deal of out and out fun from hostess with the mostess; I like to call her Dazzle, but really it's Daz Chandler doing her usual wonderful best interviewing a comedian notorious for being difficult to interview. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="htt...

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The Adelaide Film Festival and the South Australian Film Corporation in association with the Australian International Documentary Conference and with financial assistance from Screen Australia present... Crossover Australia A national hothouse for innovation 15 19 February 2009 Interna...

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Can you imagine going through life with the literacy skills of a six-year-old? Support Indigenous Literacy Day Wednesday 3 September Authors, musicians, sportsmen and politicians join forces to help us celebrate Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD). Most events are free and open to the general pub...

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Last Chance To Enter Trasharama A-go-go 2008 If you missed the first deadline for entries into Australia's nastiest touring film competition you can relax a little and finish that entry with a little more breathing space. The late and final deadline is Tuesday Sept 9th. Their website s...

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Eons Ahead	GUYS and DOLLS	THE CONVICT'S OPERA
KYLIEX2008	Free post-show live music at The Wharf	The Herd SUMMERLAND Tour
Want to work alongside the writers of NCIS in LA?	Kaiser Chiefs' new album	Snow Patrol New Album
Greener Festival Award to Bluesfest	Call for Proposals	Daz Chandler - Daniel Kitson
CROSSOVER AUSTRALIA 2009	Indigenous Literacy Day	Trasharama extended deadline

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Eons Ahead (LINK)

August 28th 2008 11:41

Grafton Primary – Eons Ahead

Sydney electronic-rockers have pushed back the release date of their stellar 13 track debut album Eon to September 13. The timing is right, the synergy is right. The Eon National Album Launch Tour kicks off next week in Melbourne at the East Brunswick Club on Friday 5 September, before moving onto their hometown Sydney for a show at Oxford Art Factory on Saturday 6 September.

For those who can’t wait to hear, love, cherish, and possess a piece of Eon, Grafton Primary release ‘She Knows It’, the first single from their debut, through iTunes on September 9.

‘She Knows It’ comes with three remixes by Swiss duo Cryptonites (Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay), New York programming wunderkind Kap10kurt (Dave Gahan, The Bravery, Moby) and Grafton Primary (Faker, Dukes Of Windsor) themselves!

Eon is an album that plays on the themes of time and timelessness. The album explores past, present and future love with stunning lyrics and commanding synth lines that build layers of aural bliss and showcase Grafton Primary at their compelling best.

The time has come for Grafton Primary to release their debut album.

Eon will reach through the ages.

Grafton Primary make their stand here and now.

GRAFTON PRIMARY

‘Eon’ Tour Dates

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

SYDNEY

Sunday 31 August

X-RAY SPEX (Under 18s)

Oxford Art Factory w/ Bag Raiders Jezabels

Tickets available from moshtix.com.au or Moshtix Outlets

MELBOURNE

Friday 5 September

East Brunswick Club (18 )

Support: Foxx On Fire Outrun Greyhound Lane

Tickets available from the East Brunswick Box Office 03 9388 9794 and direct from the venue.

SYDNEY

Saturday 6 September

Oxford Art Factory (18 )

Support: WOW Yellowbird

Tickets available from moshtix.com.au or Moshtix Outlets

ADELAIDE

Friday 12 September

Jive (18 )

Support: Fire Santa Rosa Fire Femme Fatales

Tickets available from moshtix.com.au or Moshtix Outlets

CANBERRA

Saturday 13 September

Inthemix Top 50 Party

ANU Bar (18 )

Tickets available from moshtix.com.au or Moshtix Outlets

BRISBANE

Friday 19 September

The Zoo (18 )

Support: BMX Panther DLX Blue Carousel

Tickets available from moshtix.com.au or Moshtix Outlets

GOLD COAST

Saturday 20 September

Streetkid (18 )

Tickets available from the door.

WOLLONGONG
Thursday 25 September

Wollongong Uni (18 )

Tickets available from bigtix.com.au
Plus: Wollongong Uni Shop and Red Back Music Wollongong

GRAFTON PRIMARY’s debut album EON is independently released SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER through MGM.

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GUYS and DOLLS (LINK)

August 28th 2008 11:31

Howard Panter for the Ambassador Theatre Group
Marriner Theatres
And
Tulchin/Bartner Productions
Presents
The Donmar Warehouse Production of

The West End Hit

All star line up set to play Sydney from March 12

Lisa McCune, Marina Prior, Ian Stenlake, Garry McDonald, Shane Jacobson and Magda Szubanski stars of Melbourne's acclaimed production of GUYS AND DOLLS have been signed to appear for a strictly limited 12 week season at the Capitol Theatre Sydney. After a successful 20 week season at Melbourne's Princess Theatre, the record breaking Olivier Award winning West End musical with a cast of 30 and an orchestra of 14 will open March 12.

'When I saw the show in London, with its star cast, I wondered how we would cast it for Australia. What we’ve got is better than I could have imagined and to have them agree to star in the Sydney season is terrific news for us,' said co-producer Jason Marriner.

This sharp, sexy and contemporary version of GUYS AND DOLLS is an enduring, endearing classic. Based on Damon Runyon's famous short stories and set in 1940's New York, small-time gambler Nathan Detroit bets his big time pal Sky Masterson that he can't make the next woman he sees fall in love with him. When the next doll happens to be the neighbourhood missionary Sarah Brown, the stage is set for an unforgettable evening's entertainment. Featuring the hit musical numbers If I Were a Bell; I've Never Been in Love Before; Take Back Your Mink; Sue Me; Adelaide's Lament; Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat and Guys and Dolls.

The Donmar Warehouse Production of

GUYS and DOLLS

The West End Hit

Music & Lyrics Frank Loesser
Book Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows
Directed by Michael Grandage
Australian Direction by Jamie Lloyd

WITH: Lisa McCune, Marina Prior, Ian Stenlake, Garry McDonald Shane Jacobson and Magda Szubanski heading a cast of 30

The Capitol Theatre from March 12
Gala Opening Thursday 12 March
Tuesday to Saturday evenings 7.30pm,
Wednesday matinee 1pm
Saturday matinee 2pm
Sunday 3pm
Tickets from $69.90 to $109.90
Tickets on Sale from September 22

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THE CONVICT'S OPERA (LINK)

August 28th 2008 11:18

Sydney Theatre Company and Out of Joint present
The Convict’s Opera

By Stephen Jeffreys, adapted from The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay

30 September to 25 October 2008. Opens Saturday 4 October at 8pm
Sydney Theatre, 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
Then tours extensively in the UK to Salisbury, Cheltenham, Manchester, Oxford, Warwick, Leeds, Southampton and Liverpool

Featuring some of the most accomplished music theatre and opera performers from both Australia and Britain including Peter Cousens, Barry Crocker, Juan Jackson and Ali McGregor, The Convict’s Opera, directed by Max Stafford-Clark and based on John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, is at Sydney Theatre from 30 September 2008. A co-production between Sydney Theatre Company and the acclaimed UK-based touring company, Out of Joint, the production will tour extensively throughout the UK following its Australian premiere season.

Stafford-Clark and playwright Stephen Jeffreys set the piece on board a creaking convict ship where Second Fleet convicts stage their own version of Gay’s work, set in a world they were leaving far behind.

With plenty of intrigue, fun and romance, the production features the songs of The Beggar’s Opera alongside some modern rock and pop surprises as well – just as Gay himself had borrowed tunes from Handel, Bononcini and Bach when devising the original.

The Beggar’s Opera is the raucous tale of ladies’ man Macheath and sweet Polly Peachum juggling love and deceit in the dirty underbelly of 18th Century London. It was the period’s most popular ‘ballad opera’ – the forerunners of the modern musical – and has been adapted many times since, perhaps most famously for Brecht and Weill’s groundbreaking The Threepenny Opera.

As well as a cast drawn equally from both countries, the creative team for this unique co-production is made up of artists from both countries, including set design by Dale Ferguson and costumes by Tess Schofield.

STC’s long association with the eminent British director Max Stafford-Clark goes back to 1988 when the Company brought his acclaimed production for London’s Royal Court Theatre of Our Country’s Good – his first bite at the convict cherry – to Sydney during the Bicentennial year. Other collaborations include STC bringing Stafford-Clark’s production of Shopping & F*cking to Sydney in 1995, his directing former Artistic Director Robyn Nevin in the 2003 STC production of David Hare’s The Breath of Life and STC bringing Out of Joint to Sydney in 2005 with Hare’s The Permanent Way.

with amelia cormack, peter cousens, barry crocker, karina fernandez, nicholas goode, juan jackson, ali mcgregor, brian protheroe, catherine russell

director MAX STAFFORD-CLARK
music arranged by felix cross set designer dale ferguson costume designer tess schofield
lighting designer nick schlieper sound designer PAUL CHARLIER choreographer john o’connell

venue SYDNEY THEATRE, 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
previews 30 September to 3 October 2008 at 8pm
season from Saturday 4 October to 25 October 2008
twilights mon 6 October, mon 13 October, mon 20 October at 6:30pm
evenings Tuesday – Saturday 8pm
matinees Wednesday 8 October 1pm, sat 11 October 2pm, Wednesday 15 October 12.15pm, Saturday
18 October 2pm, Wednesday 22 October 1pm, Saturday 25 October 2pm
night with actors 13 October at 6.30pm post-show discussion with the cast and creative team
tickets $77 / $62 concession matinee $68 / $56 concession
bookings stc box office (02) 9250 1777 / ticketek 132 849

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