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Fab Three psyched up
By DANIELLE McGRANE
www.ntnews.com.au
TAME Impala could be forgiven for being sick of Beatles
comparisons, but when it
comes from John Lennon’s
son it’s got to be taken as
a compliment.
‘‘I was speaking to Sean
Lennon and he told me I
sound like his dad,’’ says
Kevin Parker, Tame Impala’s
leader. ‘‘So I guess if anyone’s
going to tell me I sound like
John Lennon I guess he’s the
one with some sort of authority on it.’’
Parker, who hails from
Perth, is bemused by the Fab
Four comparisons.
‘‘I just don’t think we sound
like them so much . . . but I’ve
listened back to my vocals
sometimes and gone, ‘Oh
yeah, that kind of sounds like
the Beatles’.
‘‘I’ve never thought I sound
like John Lennon in particular,’’ he adds, which puts
him at odds with the Beatle’s
own son.
‘‘We played some shows
with him (Sean Lennon) in
America. He’s a trippy kind
of dude,’’ Parker says.
‘‘Trippy’’ is also a good description of the psychedelic
melodies the ARIA awardwinning band are known for
producing. Their 2012 album
Lonerism falls into the
‘‘hypno-groove’’ genre. Think
the Beatles during their Ravi
Shankar period.
Comparisons aside, Tame
Impala’s hypno-grooves create a natural high that are all
their own.
Parker says that’s ‘‘a small
Sean Lennon says Melbourne band Tame Impala sounds like his dad, Beatle John Lennon
part of the idea’’ behind creating the music.
‘‘I definitely think that
one of the purposes of psychedelic music is to have
a kind of an effect on you
that’s like you’re on drugs
only you can’t have any
drugs, or you don’t like
drugs,’’ Parker says.
‘‘Sometimes I get stoned
when I’m making music,
sometimes I get drunk. Sometimes I get both. Sometimes
I’m completely sober.
Her perfectly good
heart on top again
LOS ANGELES: Taylor
Swift has been named the
most charitable star of 2013
by charity website DoSome
thing.org.
The 24-year-old singer has
topped the site’s ‘‘Celebs
Gone Good’’ list for the
second year running.
Editors cited Swift’s work
at the Winter White Gala in
London, for homeless youth,
i and to her $112,758.64 gift
to the Nashville Symphony.
Boyband One Direction
were second, raising more
than $800,000 for cancer research in 2013.
The group also volunteered in Ghana for Comic
Relief, a charity based in
the UK that raises money
for projects worldwide.
Beyonce Knowles was
third, with editors citing
her work for Goodwill and
Chime for Change.
Late Fast & Furious star
Paul Walker followed at
fourth. Musical duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis rounded out the top five.
‘‘In the end it doesn’t really
matter. The only thing that
matters is that you’re getting
something out of it, or that
it’s moving you.’’
With three 2013 ARIA
awards (Album of the Year,
Best Group and Best Rock album) and a 2014 Grammy
Award nomination (Best Alternative Music Album) the
group are clearly moving the
right people.
But Parker doesn’t think
2014 will be Tame Impala’s
year at the Grammys, as they
battle bands such as Vampire
Weekend and The National
for the award.
‘‘We’re up against bands
that people have actually
heard of. People aren’t going
to be confused if Vampire
Weekend win, but if they
read out ‘Tame Impala’
everyone’s going to go, ‘Who
the f*** is Tame Impala?’’’
While the group starts to
make ripples in international
waters, the waves of success
at home have propelled them
towards one of Australia’s
biggest festivals, Big Day Out.
But Parker is modest about
that, too, saying he’s excited
at the prospect of meeting his
own music idols there.
‘‘I was actually a massive
Deftones fan (also to play
BDO) when I was in high
school, so that’s going to be a
trip down memory lane,’’ he
says. ‘‘Hopefully I’ll get to
meet them, that would be
even better.’’
Driver’s intelligence fails dame
LONDON: Dame Judi Dench
has told how she was once
late for lunch with the boss of
MI6 — because the driver
sent by Britain’s Intelligence
Service could not find where
to pick her up.
The actress, who famously
played spy boss M in the
James Bond movies for a
17-year span, had been invited along to the famous
London HQ to meet her
real-life counterpart Sir
David Spedding.
She was issued with a
driver whose bungling led to
her being 45 minutes late.
‘‘I was invited to lunch (at
MI6) by Sir David Spedding.
They asked me for 12.30 for 1
and I said ‘‘Yes, my driver . . .
‘‘ and they said ‘‘No, no, not
your driver, our driver.
‘‘He couldn’t find me . . . I
was so late for lunch — embarrassingly late.’’
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