The News Review:

- Farewell to a ‘gentle genuine’ family man
- Sights and sounds of science: Museums underscore connections between…
- Black Strobe Burn Your wn Church
- Motocross rock bands to rev up entertainment

Farewell to a ‘gentle genuine’ family man
Sydney Morning Herald – Jun 17, 2007
Mr Beeston was described as a “beautiful gentle genuine man”who made a habit of telling those close to him how much he lovedthem. Yesterday his family and friends showed how much they loved himback. There were smiles among the sadness as they shared stories aboutMr Beeston’s passion for fishing camping and bush-bashing onmotorbikes and how it was matched by a taste for “the finer thingsin life” such as Victoria Bitter Ford V8 racing cars and heavymetal music. Source: The Sun-Herald.

Sights and sounds of science: Museums underscore connections between…
Free with registration – News & bserver – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 17, 2007
17–A wisp of wind flows across the bird garden at the Museum of Life and Science. It’s too faint to feel against the skin yet it’s visible in the wildflowers that rustle in the center of the space. Bird feeders waver from spring-loaded branches on a treelike metal sculpture and dangle from a metal plant with tall strands reaching up from the ground like sea grass. Nearby signs and push-button audio guides help visitors connect to the wings flight patterns and feeding habits of feathered friends. Chapel Hill welder Callie Warner designed the sculpture to blend into the landscape so that visitors will pay attention to the birds. But in the Durham museum’s new wind exhibit art is finely calibrated with science in a way that makes Barry Van Deman the museum’s president and CE imagine painters and musicians with the birds that perch on the feeders and Warner’s metal plants. “This is a good space for this” he says.

Black Strobe Burn Your wn Church
guardian.co.uk – Jun 17, 2007
From the ironic disco of Calvin Harris to the Chameleons-referencing dram-rock of Editors and Gwen Stefani’s shameless aping of ‘True Blue’-era Madonna The Decade Decency Forgot has been rehabilitated as an era when the pop music at least was big bright and knowingly subversive. Which is easier to believe when you weren’t there trying to avoid Howard Jones and Huey Lewis and the News. But time always filters art and leaves young musicians with only the good stuff to steal. Hence Black Strobe a French quartet who have spent the past decade making the kind of punk-influenced disco that has finally hit the mainstream and have now made a stylish punchy dance-rock debut album full of the are-they-kidding? camp machismo that harks back to Eighties leather ‘n’ patchouli acts such as Sisters of Mercy and smack-and-S&M-era Depeche Mode… But time always filters art and leaves young musicians with only the good stuff to steal. Hence Black Strobe a French quartet who have spent the past decade making the kind of punk-influenced disco that has finally hit the mainstream and have now made a stylish punchy dance-rock debut album full of the are-they-kidding? camp machismo that harks back to Eighties leather ‘n’ patchouli acts such as Sisters of Mercy and smack-and-S&M-era Depeche Mode. Burn Your wn Church is inspired in the titular sense by the bizarre world of Norwegian black metal and its Nineties history of men called Count Von Grizzzlar or somesuch burning down churches and killing each other (see MM18). The four also picked the perfect backroom boys to establish their fusion of dancefloor light and alt-rock dark with production from indie-dance remixer du jour Paul Epworth and a mix by Alan Moulder the veteran moulder of every masochistic drug-fuelled misery ‘n’ shagging art-rocker from the Jesus and Mary Chain and Depeche Mode to Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson. It all comes together best on the fast ones where Rebotini’s deep camp and dramatically ill Franglais voice growls and croons apocalyptic sex lyrics over immaculately funky melds of rock and house reaching a peak of humour and heat on an electro-glam cover of Bo Diddley’s classic blues brag ‘I’m a Man’. Best of all Black Strobe remain so deadpan throughout that you just can’t tell whether their vision of the ‘Last Club on Earth’ – which ‘never shuts’ until you’ve been ‘to hell and back’ with your object of desire – is the satirical joke of clever men or the ludicrous pretension of complete boneheads.

Motocross rock bands to rev up entertainment
Record-Searchlight – Jun 17, 2007
?You never know what people have in their pockets or what they might drop and that?s what keeps us coming back. ?You never know what people have in their pockets or what they might drop and that?s what keeps us coming back… “This is going to be an awesome show with nonstop eye candy and something in it for everybody” Poppinga said. “It’s family-oriented and yet it’s also 3-D action because we’ve got the motocross exhibition happening. The program includes two stages on which rock bands will tag-team with continuous music as pro motorcyclists take their turns on a 65-foot jump. Twenty-foot video screens will provide live camera shots and a master of ceremonies will introduce variety acts. The event replaces the destruction derby which has been the Shasta District Fair’s traditional closing act. The motorcycle show is one of several new acts at this year’s fair. “We just decided to do something different on Sunday” fair CE Chris Workman said.