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Gary Oldman and Paddy Considine star in the atmospheric, psychological thriller The Backwoods, a dark tale of revenge, while The Abandoned is a metaphysical Spanish horror film with a difference. Both films are released on DVD by Momentum Pictures on Monday, but you can win copies at www.jewishtelegraph.com ONLY ONLINE David lashed out after being Disturbed by antisemites MANY people will be surprised school when he spotted the advert “One time I’d just got my to see rock band Disturbed from Disturbed in the Illinois allowance money from my playing the Download Festival on Entertainer in 1996. parents and I’d just gone down to a Friday night — as frontman The group has sold more than the arcade on my bike to play on David Draiman almost trained to 10 million albums since their the machines. be a rabbi. debut The Sickness. Second “I had the yarmulke on and I But the American nu-metallers album, Believe, included the song even had the prayer shawl as are fourth on the bill at the Prayer which was about a well. I came out of there and Leicestershire venue so should be conversation between Draiman some guys bounced me off my well off stage by the time and God after the death of his bike. Shabbat comes in at about grandfather. “They were like, ‘Do you have a 9.11pm. Disturbed’s fourth album, lot of money on you, Jew boy? Do Draiman has made no secret of Indestructible, is released by you think we can have some of his Jewish roots. In fact, he talks Warners on June 3. that?’ Then one of them started to quite openly about it in this Earlier this year, Disturbed pull the wallet out of my pocket month’s edition of Metal performed live in Kuwait, while so I lifted my heel up into the guy Hammer. last month, Draiman appeared on behind me’s n***, then the guy in His paternal grandparents MTV’s Headbangers Blog front of me struck me and I fell website, talking about a struggle were Chassidic and involved in down by my bike. with a heroin addiction when he the uprising against the British “Then I saw the bike chain and was 16. occupation which led to Israel’s I picked it up and beat the living independence. His addiction was inspiration s*** out of them until they could for the song Inside the Fire from not get up. His maternal grandparents the new album. survived Bergen-Belsen and “When I went home I was Draiman, who claimed in one covered in blood and my mother Auschwitz concentration camps. interview that he was not at all The Brooklyn-born singer went into hysterics because she religious, once spoke about his thought it was my blood. My studied at yeshiva in Milwaukee refusal to have his body tattooed and at Jewish schools in Chicago entire upbringing was full of because it was against Judaism. stories like this.” and California. Instead, he had his labret (under The 35-year-old triple majored his lower lip) pierced as that Also appearing at the in business administration, could heal. Download Festival are rock band Kiss, led by Paul Stanley and political science, and philosophy In Metal Hammer, Draiman Gene Simmons. from Loyola University Chicago. spoke about an antisemitic He was planning to go to law incident in his youth. www.downloadfestival.co.uk ROCK ON: Disturbed with frontman David Draiman, second left Eve drumming up klezmer support with two bands PICTURE: ALLISON CHIPAK UGGLING the BY ROBERT CLAYTON Isle of Klezbos. workload of two Eve has been able to adapt her bands is no problem Metropolitan Klezmer.” love of the classic musicals with for drummer Eve Eve then met clarinetist her bands and has covered a Sicular. Howie Leess, who she describes number of popular songs. as “very sweet and a great JFor Eve is the founder of “I had a great time covering inspiration”, and the pair Metropolitan Klezmer and all- the songs that I loved growing arranged to spend some time in girl group Isle of Klezbos, but up,” she said. the studio. she insists there is no conflict “We do Fagin’s song from of interest. However, Howie broke his Oliver and we tried to take the neck in a car accident, meaning best bits from the book and the She said: “There is a lot of the collaboration was delayed show to give our version an edge overlap between the two bands. by a few months. to it. “For a start, four of the Howie died in 2003, aged 83. “We also do a medley of two women in Metropolitan songs from Guys and Dolls. Klezmer are also in Isle of After establishing Klezbos. Metropolitan Klezmer in 1994, “People seem to love our the group released its first versions and we get a great “But they both have the same album, Yiddish for Travelers, in reaction live. They like hearing sensibility of swing and jazz 1997 and have followed up with the different take on familiar and both have a keen sense of another three — Mosaic songs.” the haunting aspect of klezmer. Persuasion (2001), Surprising The latest album, Traveling “It is more of a Finds (2003), Traveling Show Show (Rhythm Media Records), complimentary situation than (2007) . was recorded live and includes a anything else.” Eve has produced all the ‘Klezbonus’ studio track by Isle Born and bred in New York, albums. of Klezbos. Eve’s father was a “talented”, Then, in 1998, Eve set up Isle Metropolitan Klezmer CDs classically-trained pianist who of Klezbos, which debuted at are available from always encouraged Eve to the Michigan Womyn’s Music www.sternsmusic.com follow her musical ambitions. Festival. Their repertoire “Growing up, I listened to a includes Eastern European- www.metropolitanklezmer.com and lot of classical music, although rooted Jewish folk music, http://myspace.com/metroklez or to my tastes were very wide- Yiddish swing and tango, as watch clips at www.youtube.com/ ranging,” she said. well as a number of originals. followed by watch?v=RZenI9K9Cas and watch?v=a7rr0Bk1iwM and “I started playing the drums In 2003, the band released its watch?v=PDqn6lA5hGg and at the age of eight and was debut album, Greetings from the really devoted to learning v/FtXMg7ZIbxY them. PICTURE: ANITA BRIGGS “For my batmitzvah, I really BIG BAND: Metropolitan Klezmer, featuring Eve Sicular, front left campaigned to get my parents to buy me a drum set and my father eventually fulfilled my wish. Carly ’wrecked on birthday “For then on, all the way through college, I was playing TELEVISION beauty Carly Stratton been missing the island loads,” she them.” celebrated her birthday on last week’s said. After majoring in Russian Shipwrecked . “It’s been six months since we were history and literature at The Channel 4 show featured the on the island and it was beginning to Harvard, Eve spent time in Hale Barns girl’s festivities. feel like it had never happened before Seattle with klezmer band The “We celebrated with a children’s the TV show started. Mazeltones. party, with the guys dressing up as “Now, even seeing the little things It was The Mazeltones who clowns and playing silly kids’ games. we did reminds me of what it was like told Eve about KlezCamp, “It was also the same day that the and I really miss it. which she attended in 1989. new arrivals had come to Tiger Island, “Also, I think the hot weather just “It was only then that I so we were already very upbeat and reminds me of our time on the island.” realised what a wonderful scene they were amazing. Along with her modelling work, there was out there,” she said. “Vicky was like a breath of fresh air Carly is now working part-time as a “In 1990, I went back to New and Michael was like a big teddy bear hostess at new Manchester restaurant York where I knew a lot of and very sweet.” Ithaca, before starting her studies in people from the camp, And speaking of life back in childhood education at the University including the main players in England, Carly admitted that she has of Birmingham in September. The Klezmatics. been missing the island recently. Catch Shipwrecked: Battle of the Islands on “As it happened, I already “This week in particular I have Sunday (11:50am) on Channel 4. knew the future members of MUSICAL WOMEN: Isle of Klezbos surround Eve, seated