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\"\"<\/a>\u201cIt\u2019s funny, a lot of the times with these sorts of supergroups, they\u2019re good on paper but they might not necessarily work on stage as well as you would hope, but this one has got a really special energy to it. So it was a nice accident that came together and here we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Release: In celebration of Abbey Road\u2019s 50th anniversary, some of Australia’s most respected musicians and members of iconic groups, collectively known as ARC \u2014 Kram (SPIDERBAIT), Mark Wilson (JET), Davey Lane (YOU AM I) and Darren Middleton (POWDERFINGER) \u2014 all self-confessed Beatles tragics, will faithfully and lovingly bring The Beatles’ most audacious creation to life on stage, performing Abbey Road in full, from start to finish, followed by a second set comprising of a selection of hits spanning the breadth of The Beatles\u2019 career and catalogue.<\/p>\n

While at home in Byron Bay, Kram gave us a call to talk about the very special 50th<\/sup> anniversary of The Beatles\u2019 Abbey Road and the performances with the super group ARC, as well as his take on The Beatles, what\u2019s happening with Spiderbait, photo opportunities across Australia, and more…<\/p>\n

For starters, it\u2019s been just over five years since we last chatted so let\u2019s catch up, how have the last five years been for you?<\/strong>
\nThe last five years for me and for us like Spiderbait in general has been an incredible time really. Pretty much from when we played Splendour maybe four years ago we had this incredible show on the main stage that was a real trip for us and we\u2019ve done a few tours since then and a lot of different tours around the country. I\u2019ve been working with a bunch of different people as well as doing new material with Spiderbait and now we\u2019re doing this amazing Abbey Road show so yeah the last five years have been fuckin\u2019 awesome, man.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re here because later this year we\u2019ll all be celebrating the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of \u2018Abbey Road\u2019 but you and some amazing mates forming ARC, how did this all come together?<\/strong>
\nSo, the band sort of was created sort of haphazardly in a way by Darren asking us, myself, Davey and Mark whether we wanted to put a band together to play at the World Cup in Brazil a few years and we didn\u2019t have a lot of time to make a decision and were like oh fuck yeah OK cool, great, so we put it together and we did a couple of shows over there as part of the Australian football teams thing and it was just amazing, we really jelled as a band, we\u2019re very old friends all four of us obviously from playing with each other\u2019s bands at different shows over the years and it just really jelled. It\u2019s funny, a lot of the times with these sorts of super groups, they\u2019re good on paper but they might not necessarily work on stage as well as you would hope, but this one has got a really special energy to it. So it was a nice accident that came together and here we are.<\/p>\n

Besides celebrating fifty years, what is it about Abbey Road that you feel warrants this kind of event?<\/strong>
\nWell, as I\u2019ve said a few times before, this is the greatest bands in history final work and also the biggest band in history and also the first band to be huge and sort of created the modern rock and roll phenomena as we know it today. Also from the perspective of they had made the decision to break up and decided to make one last record, so this is sort of like a creative farewell to the world and each other, and it\u2019s not very often bands get to do that let alone create such a masterpiece. So in a lot of ways it\u2019s a whole bunch of different energies coming together to create this incredible work so I think it definitely deserves celebration.<\/p>\n

Not only will you be playing it start to finish but also celebrating the band\u2019s career with some other tunes, but how do you even pick songs from such a vast catalogue of amazingness?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s tricky so the structure of the show, the idea is basically to do the album from start to finish and then after that we thought I sort of had this idea of where do you go once you\u2019ve reached the end and the obvious answer is you work your way back to the start. So the idea will be to go back through the band\u2019s career and end up at the first single where it all started for them and for me personally it\u2019s a very interesting idea to think about within regards to even your own band, I\u2019ve been in my own band for many years with the same line-up and we\u2019ve been through a lot together and it\u2019s really interesting to go back to where you started and I guess see what that journey has done to you a as person you know and nobody had a bigger journey than The Beatles. So we\u2019ll just pick what we think is a good bunch of songs that we feel we can do justice to but I think what they\u2019ll be is yet to be determined but I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll be a good mixture.<\/p>\n

Can we expect to see you all recreating the cover across numerous cross walks in Australia?<\/strong>
\n*laughs* That\u2019s the first time anyone\u2019s asked me that this week that\u2019s a great idea! I don\u2019t know I mean hopefully, that\u2019s a really good idea, if we do do that I\u2019m definitely going to give you a big plug. That\u2019s a fuckin\u2019 awesome idea *laughs*<\/p>\n

So on The Beatles, for you what was the most stand out thing they did for music?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019d have to say two things, one is the songs I just think that song catalogue, I\u2019ve been doing a lot of thinking about like I saw the Queen movie and my kids love it and I love Queen and they\u2019re one of the greatest bands of all time, and then you look at yourself and your own band and the songs that you write and if you look at the top ten Beatles songs, they\u2019d probably be comparable to the top ten Queen songs, then if you look at the top twenty Beatles songs, top thirty Beatles songs, top forty, once you start getting into the bigger numbers there\u2019s no other band that\u2019s had such consistency and strong work. It\u2019s just mind boggling, this is why they\u2019re so studied, the only other songwriter in history who is studied as much as them is Franz Schubert who is probably the only person that wrote more songs than The Beatles did. So song wise is the inspiration for any person that loves songs but in a way even more importantly I love the way they created a space where for the first time a collective, a group of people, a group of friends could do something bigger and more powerful in a way and more successful than the individual because before The Beatles there were no bands it was just individuals, it was Buddy Holly, it was Elvis Presley, it was Frank Sinatra and suddenly this group of friends they basically invented pop music in that way where it\u2019s the group that\u2019s the power rather than the individual. I love Elvis and I love solo artists as well but as a person that always wanted to start a band I think they\u2019re a great inspiration. So they invented so many things and that\u2019s kind of why they are the biggest but it\u2019s very, very rare in culture that the biggest is also the best and is also the first.<\/p>\n

Outside of this amazing event, anything you can fill us in on musically in your world?<\/strong>
\nOh there\u2019s heaps. In between all of this Beatles stuff I\u2019m putting together a new Spiderbait record, we\u2019re gonna do a new album and we\u2019re really excited about that because our last as you asked earlier our last few years of shows have just been monumental and I mean we just finished another big tour with Magic Dirt and Jebediah in Perth and I think the time is right for us to do some new work we\u2019re really excited by that. Also I\u2019m in this band with James Morrison and Paul Grabowsky called The Others, and we\u2019ve been playing, we played Perth festival and gonna play Adelaide festival this year and looking to do a record as well. So that\u2019s kind of a totally different kettle of fish, it\u2019s a totally trip band but yeah I\u2019m sort of packing as much in as I can in at the moment for some reason maybe I think I should relax more *laughs*.<\/p>\n

Lastly let\u2019s look ahead to the future, finish this sentence for me, in 2019 Kram will\u2026<\/strong>
\nProbably be touring a lot with Spiderbait with this new record I would imagine. That\u2019s the plan anyway and going to the beach as much as possible *laughs*. I think there\u2019s also of more ARC productions as well, if this Abbey Road one does well and we\u2019re happy we\u2019d definitely like to do more things in the future so it is a really good band I just need to fit all of it into the calendar.<\/p>\n

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ARC Presents: The\u00a0Beatles’ Abbey Road Live<\/strong>
\nPerth Concert Hall –\u00a0Sunday\u00a0August 11
\nThebarton Theatre, Adelaide –\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0August 13
\nPalais Theatre, Melbourne –\u00a0Thursday\u00a0August 15
\nFortitude Music Hall, Brisbane –\u00a0Sunday\u00a0August 18
\nEnmore Theatre, Sydney –\u00a0Tuesday August 20<\/p>\n

Tickets On Sale 10am Monday March 18
\nLive Nation Pre-Sale: 10am March 15 until 8am\u00a0March 18
\nDetails at\u00a0livenation.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n

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Essential Information<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong> Australia<\/p>\n

Band Members:<\/strong> Kram (SPIDERBAIT), Mark Wilson (JET), Davey Lane (YOU AM I) and Darren Middleton (POWDERFINGER)<\/p>\n