on THE BOX Arachnophobia Sat, 10.45pm, Seven


IF you are a little squeamish around spiders, then this deliciously creepy horror- comedy probably won’t do much to abate your fears. A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidently transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small Californian town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider’s off spring. It’s up to a couple of doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate the army of creepy crawlies before they take over the entire town. Starring Jeff Daniels (Dumb and Dumber)


and John Goodman (The Big Lebowski), Arachnophobia is perfect Saturday night creature-feature fare.


Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (Spunk)


on THE STEREO


IF you like your music on the richly textured, atmospheric side, then you could do a lot worse than Texan four-piece Explosions in the Sky’s sixth studio album Take Care, Take Care, Take Care. The main focus of this album is a reliance


on some extremely reverb and echo-heavy guitars that, with textured feedback and angular noodling creates a soundscape that wouldn’t be lost on the silver screen. While this quartet prefers to approach


things sans vocals, (aside from the occasional “ooh” and “mmm”) there is so much else going on here that it doesn’t really matter. Take Care, Take Care, Take


Care is a very interesting album that divulges more and more sonic secrets on subsequent listens.


STRAIGHT from the heart and reminiscent of a smoky, French cafe, the Baker Suite creates a seductive and potent world, carrying the listener through elegant ballads, gypsy romantica and a lurching night waltz in the rain.


“We’ ll take your breath away”


MON TO FRI - EARLY BIRD SPECIAL DINING OUT?


Be here and order your main meals between 5.30 and 6.30pm and receive GARLIC BREAD between 2 people FREE! OR FREE ice-cream and topping for Children under 12 years with their main meal!


FREE SUNDAY RAFFLE


GET $20 WORTH OF TICKETS FROM 4.30PM OR $10 WORTH FROM 5PM


AUSTRALIAN POKER LEAGUE


Thurs & Sat Rego at 6pm


REGULAR RAFFLES


Thursdays & Fridays On sale from 6pm


Tuesday Night FREE ENTRY GREAT PRIZES


TRIVIA


SUPERB FUNCTION VENUE AVAILABLE


For that special occasion *call the club to


arrange inspection 17a Valentine Cres, Valentine


VALENTINE BOWLING CLUB Phone: 4946 7232


22 THE NEWCASTLE POST Wednesday, July 6, 2011


Come to the Island! SEVEN SEAS HOTEL


COWPER ST, CARRINGTON PH 4961 2467


The BEST in Town


Thai


OPEN 7 DAYS Lunch & Dinner


Daily LUNCH SPECIALS AUSSIE MENU AVAILABLE


FRI The lush instrumentation of the Baker


Suite, with the addition of Paul Grabowsky on piano, ignite these stylish and elegant songs that refl ect on love, family and strangeness. Grabowsky produced the Baker Suites’


album A Quartet for Car Horns and Brakes in 2010. Since its release, the band has toured internationally to sold-out shows and standing ovations.


A highlight of this show will be a


performance of a recent collaboration between Grabowsky and Baker for the theme song for Fred Schepsi’s new fi lm Eye of The Storm, based on a Patrick White novel. “I have always treasured great songwriting,


and after listening to the Baker Suites’ demo recordings I was struck by the depth and authenticity of the material. It harks back to great writers such as James Taylor, Jimmy Webb, Carole King or Burt Bacharach,” Grabowsky said. The Baker Suite are John Baker (guitar,


vocals), Gayle Buckby (accordion, vocals), Lyndon Gray (double bass) and BJ Barker (drums). And for this tour, Paul Grabowsky is on piano. They will be playing at Lizotte’s Newcastle


on Friday, July 15.


That’s suite


that’s ENTERTAINMENT on THE ROAD


British Sea Power, Thurs, July 28, Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst


ALREADY confi rmed on the stellar line-up for this year’s Splendour in the Grass, UK darlings British Sea Power have just confi rmed


a special sideshow in Sydney this month. The six-piece, released their fourth studio


album Valhalla Dancehall earlier this year. A record that musically moves from concise electronic pop and solemnity to swaggering thug-glam in songs about local libraries, indigenous societies, pigeon shoots and the party to which everyone is invited, this album takes turns unexpected yet smooth. As a live band, it has been said that their


inventive shows have become a latter-day rock institution. Playing shows across the globe in the most unanticipated of locations, British Sea Power have been atop the Great Wall of China, on the Scilly Isles, on the Arctic islets, down a Cornish slate mine, on ships at sea and deep in Polish forests. The only thing to be expected of British Sea Power is that they’ll do something unexpected.


on DVD The Mechanic


ACTION star of the minute Jason Statham (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Expendables) stars as the “mechanic” Arthur Bishop – an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets.


But when his mentor and close friend


Harry (Donald Sutherland) is murdered, Bishop is anything but detached. His next assignment is self-imposed – he wants those responsible, dead.His mission grows complicated when Harry’s son Steve (Ben Foster) approaches him with the same vengeful goal and a determination to learn Bishop’s trade. Bishop has always acted alone, but he can’t turn his back on Harry’s son. A methodical hit man takes an impulsive student deep into his world and a deadly partnership is born. This remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson hit, while never reaching the same heights as the original, off ers up some fun and quite tense moments.


WED KILLER POOL COMP $100 PRIZE MONEY EVERY WEEK


THURS LUNCHTIME RAFFLE 6.30PM SCHOONER DRAW


AFTERNOON RAFFLE & HOT BAR SNACKS 7 SEAS 6-PACK CHALLENGE FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTY ON THE BIG SCREEN


MON FREE POOL SOCIAL CLUB MEMBERS CASH DRAW BETWEEN 5.30 - 6.30PM


TUES $10 JUGS & $10 CURRIES


THIS WED - STATE OF ORIGIN 3 SAT 16TH - MICK HART PRESENTS


THIS SATURDAY NIGHT HUNTER & KING


“ARE YOU EXPERIENCED” JIMMY HENDRIX TRIBUTE Phone: 4969 5099


BOTTLESHOP OPEN TIL MIDNIGHT


view the digital edition online at www.newcastlepost.com.au


By STEPHEN BISSET


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48