STACK NZ Sep #66

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SPRING IN THE STEP FOR KIWI COUNTRY New LPs fromTami Neilson and Delaney Davidson, plus tours andTV shows.

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 .

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

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.

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

Silver Bullets by The Chills is due out on October 30

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

Delaney Davidson, Tami Neilson, Barrry Saunders & Marlon Williams

CUMBER-BARD

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.

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