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âIâVE always been an argumentative little bastardâ, poet, artist, fashionista and long-term lead singer and bass guitarist for The Church, Steve Kilbey tells me by phone from his Coogee Beach home.Â
The legendary alt-rock artist, though born in England, grew up in Canberra and heâll be here at Belco Arts and Tallagandra Hill Winery later in February for two marathon acoustic performances in which he revisits the debut albums by The Church, the 1981 âOf Skins and Heartsâ and its successor, âThe Blurred Crusadeâ from 1982.Â
Kilbey concedes that Canberra has changed a lot since the boring 1970s, when all bands were cover bands, but if Iâd expected a genteel paean of praise for the nationâs capital, no chance.