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NEWS EXTRAS
SPRING IN THE STEP
FOR KIWI COUNTRY
New LPs fromTami Neilson and Delaney Davidson, plus tours andTV shows.
With the latest James Bond adventure Spectre
now less than two months away, now is the
time to get reacquainted with one of the
world’s biggest franchises. This month sees
the release of a brand new Blu-ray and DVD
box set which
brings together all
23 Bond films plus
two new featurettes
‘The Shadow Of
SPECTRE’ and ‘The
Story So Far’.
The James Bond
Collection is out on
September 23
CUMBER-BARD
CHILLS DEFR0STED
Flying Nun legends The Chills return
next month with their first full-length
studio album in almost two decades.
Silver Bullets was recorded at Albany
Street Studios in Dunedin and an early listen
confirms that mainstay Martin Phillipps has
not lost his knack for timeless melodic pop.
The Chills have kept a low profile for most
of the 2000s, but have enjoyed a revival
since signing with UK label Fire Records,
which last year issued The BBC Sessions
and the live album Somewhere Beautiful.
Silver Bullets by The Chills is due
out on October 30
Delaney Davidson, Tami Neilson,
Barrry Saunders & Marlon Williams
I t’s shaping up to be a bumper
spring for fans of homegrown
country and roots music.
Hot on the heels of the release
of sophomore album from Eb & Sparrow
(check out our interview on page 32), this
month sees the release of new LPs from
Silver Scroll winner Tami Neilson and Delaney
Davidson. And next month, the latter two,
together with Marlon Williams and The
Warratahs’ Barry Saunders – both of whom
have also issued new albums this year
– will be hitting the road for the annual
Church Tour, which will feature concerts
at some of our most historic and beautiful
churches.
This year’s event is also being filmed
as part of new addition to Prime Rocks
documentary strand entitled The New Sound
Of Country, which will explore the revival of
folk and country music in New Zealand.
Fans can also look forward to plenty
more country music featuring on the second
season of The Brokenwood Mysteries, which
is expected to air on Prime shortly. Tami and
her brother Jay have written the score for
the new series of TV movies and we have
heard a whisper that the murder of a country
musician is one of the plotlines this time
around!
No word yet whether the soundtrack
will be released as an album but Neilson
fans can look forward to her new album
on September 25. Don’t Be Afraid features
contributions from both Jay and Davidson,
while the title track was the last song written
by her late father Ron Neilson, who passed
away earlier this year. And the first single,
Lonely, is the completed version of a song
first demoed by Ron back in 1972.
Look out for more on Neilson in the
October edition of STACK; for a review of
Delaney Davidson’s new album Lucky Guy ,
see page 52.
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04 SEPTEMBER 2015
Benedict Cumberbatch has
been getting back to his
theatrical roots, with two new
Shakespeare productions in the
pipeline.
In November, New Zealand
audiences will get a chance to
see him as Hamlet in a new
National Theatre Live cinema
presentation taken from his
sell-out West End run. And next
year the British star is just one
of the big names assembled
for a lavish new BBC trilogy
The Hollow Crown: The Wars
Of The Roses, which is based
on Shakespeare’s Henry VI –
parts 1 and 2 – and Richard
III. Cumberbatch will play the
latter in The War Of The Roses,
while the star-studded cast also
includes his Sherlock adversary
Andrew Scott, plus the likes of
Judi Dench, Michael Gambon,
Hugh Bonneville and Keeley
Hawes.
The first Hollow Crown trilogy,
which gets its DVD debut here
on September 15, boasts a
similarly starry ensemble, with
Ben Whishaw as Richard II,
Jeremy Irons as Henry IV and
Tim Hiddleston as Henry V.