Jail was the only time Steve Kilbey ever missed a gig - until this month
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Rueful, lyrical phrases roll off Steve Kilbeyâs tongue as he describes the disappointment of Bluesfest being cancelled and the dearth of live performance. He could almost be singing lines from a song by the Church.
âIt ended up being tantalisingly close . and we all miss that feeling,â he says. It would have been his bandâs first show in two years had Bluesfest gone ahead last month.
New songs, new members, new gigs: The Churchâs great reformation
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Rueful, lyrical phrases roll off Steve Kilbeyâs tongue as he describes the disappointment of Bluesfest being cancelled and the dearth of live performance. He could almost be singing lines from a song by the Church.
âIt ended up being tantalisingly close . and we all miss that feeling,â he says. It would have been his bandâs first show in two years had Bluesfest gone ahead last month.
The Churchâs frontman Steve Kilbey.
New songs, new members, new gigs: The Church s great reformation theage.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theage.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
13 April 1981
Here’s an interesting pop music fact: Johnny Marr asked Mike Joyce to be in the Smiths after attending a gig by Anglo-Australian alt-rockers the Church. Would the modern musical landscape be any different if this event hadn’t happened? There’s a nice dinner-party discussion right there. As for
how the Church’s paisley-hued, nouveau psychedelia informed northern England’s premier purveyors of quality teenage angst, well, it’s up for debate. That said, there are some striking similarities (a certain 1960s aesthetic, a carefully measured approach to lyrics.
And here comes the biggie: the electric guitar is at the heart of every song, yet it never resorts to the overblown, rock-god histrionics that punk tried, but failed, to eradicate. In the era when everyone was buying one of those new and affordable synthesizers that appeared in music shops around the world, a few bands clung to their guitars. Some of those bands, such as the Church, were rewarded with a
IRIS DOE, a new project from Jeffrey Cain of alt-rockers THE CHURCH, have just issued their debut single.
Cain has been a touring member of the Aussie hitmakers for a number of years, contributing guitar, bass and keyboards, but was promoted to full-time status when band founder reconfigured the line-up following the departure of Peter Koppes in 2019.
Beginning work on a new Church album in Australia at the start of 2020, Cain returned to the States for the duration of the pandemic, where he began working with ex-Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery, keyboardist Jebin Bruni (PiL) and drummer Leslie Van Trease.