Samson and Delilah Sat, 10.30pm, ABC2


on THE BOX


THERE is no doubt that Cecil B. DeMille is (and possibly will always be) the undisputed king of the sword and sandal epic, and Samson and Delilah is one of his best. Though his people, the Israelites, are


enslaved by the Philistines, Samson, strongest man of the tribe of Dan, falls in love with the Philistine Semadar, whom he wins by virtue of a contest of strength. But Semadar betrays him, and Samson engages in a fi ght with her real love Ahtur and his soldiers. Semadar is killed and her sister Delilah, who had loved Samson in silence, now vows vengeance against him. She plans to seduce Samson into revealing the secret of his strength and then to betray him to the Philistine leader, the Saran. With an all-star cast featuring Angela


Lansbury, Victor Mature, Hedy Lamarr and Russ Tamblyn, Samson and Delilah comes directly from the “they don’t make ’em like that anymore” annals of fi lm history.


Guided By Voices - Let’s Go Eat the Factory (Fire)


on THE STEREO


AFTER a hiatus of 15 years the “classic” original lineup of Dayton Ohio’s favourite sons Guided By Voices (Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Kevin Fennell and Greg Demos) is back with one cracker of an album. Fans of the band’s more slick and polished output (from 1999’s Do the Collapse, to the band’s 2004 “swansong” Half Smiles of the Decomposed), might be a little disappointed with Let’s Go Eat the Factory because this is Guided By Voices in all of their lo-fi glory. Recalling such earlier classics as Bee


Thousand, Mag Earwig! and Vampire on Titus, Pollard, Sprout and co are at their hook and harmony-laden best. Standouts include the delightfully obtuse Imperial Racehorsing, The Unsinkable Fats Domino and Laundry and Lasers, although there is very little fi ller to be found here.


MARK Wells’s emphasis on writing memorable tunes and delivering energetic performances has earned him a swag of awards, radio airplay


and a legion of dedicated supporters. Citing Ryan Adams, Keith Urban and


Jackson Browne as major infl uences, Wells’s style is emotionally raw, and his honest storytelling pulls no punches while never forgetting to have a good time in the process. He has wowed audiences across the


country, stopping to play festivals like the Optus National Music Muster, the Deni Ute Muster, Tamworth Country Music Festival and CMC Rocks the Hunter. Touted as “one to watch” by the legendary


Bill Chambers, Wells has been riding a wave of success ever since he won the songwriter’s prize at the Telstra Road to Tamworth in 2008. The win earned him a trip to the US to meet and work with some of Nashville’s best songwriters and US music industry heavyweights. As a performer, Wells is no stranger to the


touring and playing live. He has performed in the legendary bars of Nashville, Tennessee, centre stage at the Sydney Entertainment Centre and appeared on bills with the likes of Alan Jackson, Lee Kernaghan, Troy Cassar- Daley, Kasey Chambers, the McClymonts and Adam Harvey. He will be playing at the Wickham Park Hotel on Sunday, January 29 from 1.30pm.


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The Orb and Bomb the Bass - Metro Theatre, Fri, Feb 25


RARELY do two such iconic acts who where so fundamental in shaping electronica music come together for two truly amazing live sets – the Orb (pictured) and Bomb the Bass. Ever since their early hits two decades


ago with Little Fluff y Clouds and Blue Room, the Orb have been described as the rave generation’s Pink Floyd. So, it was perhaps inevitable that these two institutions would eventually combine with Floyd’s David Gilmour on the Orb’s 2010 album Metallic Sphere. With amazing visuals to complement their unique style, this is going to be one set not to be missed. The dusky atmosphere of Bomb the


Bass’s 2008 album Future Chaos has given way to a more radiant sound, buoyed by waves of synthesisers and propelled by clean-lined grooves. Raising the tempo, Tim Simenon takes inspiration from classic techno, while vocal contributions from Richard Davis, Kelley Polar, the Battle of Land and Sea members and Paul Conboy bring Bomb the Bass into new-found melodic focus. It’s a brighter, more immediate sound than before; warmer, too, with the singers’ voices positively glowing inside intricately woven electronic nests.


on DVD Colombiana


IF fi lms such as Luc Besson’s La Femme Nikita or Toshia Fujita’s Lady Snowblood fl oat your boat, you could do a lot worse than this female assassin tale from Olivier Megaton (Transporter 3). A young woman, Cataleya Restrepo


(played by smoldering ingenue Zoe Saldana), grows up to be a stone-cold assassin after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Columbia. She works for her uncle as a killer for hire by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target – the mobster responsible for her parents’ death.


While the plot may’ve been done


to death and does come across as a tad predictable, Colombiana is given a certain stylish gravitas thanks to the aforementioned Besson who co-wrote the script with Robert Mark Kamen (Taken, Fifth Element).


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