?((( pulse))) 4 in focus review the week gone...

Sunday: ■ Rescuers cut free a Russian mini-submarine ensnared in deep sea cables, saving its crew of seven after a three-day ordeal at the bottom of the Pacific. ■ The All Breeds Championship Dog Show, billed as a howling suc- cess, finishes in Albury today. Monday: ■ The Border Mail reports on a boom in gas conversions on the Border as petrol prices are tipped to reach a $1.25 this week. ■ A Lavington man who twice allegedly fled from police and assault- ed woman is released on bail. ■ Japan’s Prime Minister Junichiro

Neil Finn Deborah Conway Paul Kelly Kasey Chambers Nick Cave On song writing What is it that brings a song from the heart into reality? Koizumi dissolves Parliament for a snap general election. Tuesday: Jamie Horne talks to a woman who found out. ■ Space shuttle Discovery make a safe landing in California after a drama-packed 14-day mission. DID you know that The Seekers’ Ian Moss’ solo smash Tucker’s ■ A hailstorm leaves much of the Bruce Woodley is one of the few WIN!WIN!WIN! Daughter could well have spelt city of Albury blanketed in ice. folks to pen a song alongside disaster with regards to radio Paul Simon? broadcast. ■ Schapelle Corby’s lawyers ask PULSE, along with Progressive the Indonesian Supreme Court to Or that LRB’s Graeham Gobel Kruger also details the occa- truly believes in song writing PR, have five copies of the sion INXS guitarist Tim Farriss help re-open her trial. Songwriters Speak companion ■ Wangaratta High School and angels who deliver him songs in bumped into the legendary Rolf his sleep? CD to give away. Harris on a flight, enthusing he Ovens College release plans to The double-disc compilation merge by 2007. Sydney-based journalist had wanted to name his son Rol Debbie Kruger uncovers these features 38 tracks from Farriss. ■ Nagasaki, Japan, holds a peace Australian and New Zealand ceremony to commemorate 60 years and numerous equally curious But the author says her facts in her new book artists including Sherbet, Split favourite story from Songwriters since the US dropped the plutonium Enz and silverchair. bomb Fat Man, killing 80,000 people. Songwriters Speak. Speak involves the Tina Turner The book, released last week, For a chance to win, tell us hit What’s Love Got to do with Wednesday: gives an honest insight into which moody rocker Debbie It?, a track penned by Aussie Kruger travelled to England to ■ Two men, 21 and 19, both of some of Australia and New Terry Britten and originally Zealand’s most creative musical interview for her book. recorded by flamboyant British Beechworth are killed in a car crash Put your answer, along with on the Beechworth-Wangaratta road. minds, including the Finn pop act Buck’s Fizz. brothers, Nick Cave, Glenn your name, address and contact “When Terry Britten told me ■ West Albury preschoolers are phone number on the back of an devastated to find their pet rabbit, Shorrock, Darren Hayes and that story, it didn’t seem like Daniel Johns. envelope and send, by next that big of a story for him,” she Louis, has been stolen by vandals weekend, to: Pulse/Songwriters who broke into their school. “Nobody approaches their said work like Daniel Johns,” Kruger Speak Competition, PO Box “As he was saying it, I ■ Freak snowfalls hit south-east 346, Wodonga, VIC, 3689 Australia as Mt Hotham records its said of the former silverchair thought, ‘This is incredible, this frontman. NSW permit no.: TPL just isn’t a well-known fact’. coldest day for a Victorian town, a top 05/06482. temperature of minus 7.1 degrees. “He’s one of a kind and I’m “Tina Turner would never really glad it’s a book of Q&A’s have had her comeback if Buck’s Thursday: because if I’d had to actually Fizz had released that song.” ■ Sixtieth anniversary of the end of explain in my own words how Trust was also an issue that lasting impression on the Kruger also found time to be World War II. Daniel Johns writes songs, I was quickly overcome as Kruger author who travelled half-way a fan among all the hard work, ■ Meat supplier Kennedy’s, of don’t know if I could.” attempted to lower the fence across the world to meet him. eager to discover the beginnings Wodonga, announces it will open an A four-year project, Kruger, that protected many of her “I was never daunted in that of her favourite Sherbet tracks outlet in Urana Rd, Albury. who also describes herself as a celebrity interviewees. ‘Oh my God, Nick Cave’s and quiz the reclusive John PR whiz, broadcaster, jetsetter “Some of them stayed a little famous, I am not worthy’, I’m Farrer about his involvement and homebody, sat at length bit guarded, which was fine never daunted by somebody’s with some of Olivia Newton with 45 homegrown songsmiths because I stayed very much on celebrity or stature,” Kruger John’s most famous hits. after taking inspiration from a topic, I wasn’t there to dig up said. “I was really excited about similar book on US artists by dirt about their personal life,” “What can daunt you is know- meeting John Farrer,” she said. Paul Zollo, Songwriters on Kruger said. ing that somebody like Nick “He was the guy who wrote Songwriting. “If in the process, some of Cave doesn’t suffer fools gladly, all of Olivia Newton John’s “It occurred to me — why them talked quite deeply about does a lot of interviews but biggest hits, including those two shouldn’t we have a book like their lives and relationships or doesn’t enjoy them and cuts his big songs from Grease. this for Australian and New internal band politics, that was very short. “He’s a very shy and modest Zealand songwriters?” she said. great and it certainly added to “I wanted to make an impres- man but it was even more fabu- “Once I decided to do it, it was the flavour and colour of the sion on him so he would open up lous to meet him than what I complete compulsion, I was very stories behind the songs. and I did because I went all the had hoped because for someone driven and focused for the whole “They opened up very easily way to England to see him, he like that to open up, when he is four years.” because they recognised the recognised immediately what so guarded and so shy — I actu- Kruger said the lengthy amount of preparation and the project was all about and he ally found it quite a moving process had been helped along research I had done and the had the American book, experience talking to him.” by some eager subjects. respect with which I was treat- Songwriters On Songwriting,on Likewise, she says, for “They were pretty enthusias- ing their work, whether I was his bookshelf and said ‘Are you Sherbet’s Garth Porter. tic,” she said. genuinely a fan of their music doing a local version of that?, “I knew Garth anyway and I’d “They’re often asked to talk or not. Oh fantastic’. been a Sherbet fan since the about the history of Australian “Every single songwriter I “His assistant had told me I 1970s and had followed them Friday: music and their place in the his- treated with immense respect could have one hour with him around, been a fan and had ■ Police appeal to drivers to tory of Australian music a-la A and I did an awful lot of and he gave me three hours.” known him professionally for a respect the weather conditions after Long Way To The Top from a research — sometimes it was Cave revealed to Kruger, few years,” Kruger said. Tuesday night's double fatality on the performance point of view, but like studying for a university among other things, that he rev- “We must have spent four or Beechworth to Wangaratta road took other than a small handful such exam, particularly with some- els in reading the thesaurus five hours together and I asked the number of dead in the North East as Neil Finn, Paul Kelly and one like Nick Cave.” and, as her journey continued, him all the deep questions I to four in the past 10 days. Nick Cave, very few of them are And it was Cave, the former similarly quirky stories contin- wanted to ask about all those ■ Louis the rabbit stolen from asked to talk about the process Wangaratta High student with ued to be unearthed, such as Sherbet songs. It was terrific Albury West Preschool is returned. of creating songs.” the colourful past, who left a how the original opening line to fun.”

46 — The Border Mail, Saturday, August 13, 2005 www.bordermail.com.au