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In the 30 years since its release, the Church's 'Priest=Aura' has gone from a post-

Jail was the only time Steve Kilbey ever missed a gig - until this month We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Rueful, lyrical phrases roll off Steve Kilbey’s tongue as he describes the disappointment of Bluesfest being cancelled and the dearth of live performance. He could almost be singing lines from a song by the Church. “It ended up being tantalisingly close ... and we all miss that feeling,” he says. It would have been his band’s first show in two years had Bluesfest gone ahead last...

New songs, new members, new gigs: The Church’s great reformation We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Rueful, lyrical phrases roll off Steve Kilbey’s tongue as he describes the disappointment of Bluesfest being cancelled and the dearth of live performance. He could almost be singing lines from a song by the Church. “It ended up being tantalisingly close ... and we all miss that feeling,” he says. It would have been his band’s first show in two years had Bluesfest gone ahead last mo...

13 April 1981 Here’s an interesting pop music fact: Johnny Marr asked Mike Joyce to be in the Smiths after attending a gig by Anglo-Australian alt-rockers the Church. Would the modern musical landscape be any different if this event hadn’t happened? There’s a nice dinner-party discussion right there. As for how the Church’s paisley-hued, nouveau psychedelia informed northern England’s premier purveyors of quality teenage angst, well, it’s up for debate. That said, there are some striking similarities (a certain 1960s aesthetic, a carefully measured approach to lyrics. And here c...

IRIS DOE, a new project from Jeffrey Cain of alt-rockers THE CHURCH, have just issued their debut single. Cain has been a touring member of the Aussie hitmakers for a number of years, contributing guitar, bass and keyboards, but was promoted to full-time status when band founder reconfigured the line-up following the departure of Peter Koppes in 2019. Beginning work on a new Church album in Australia at the start of 2020, Cain returned to the States for the duration of the pandemic, where he began working with ex-Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery, keyboardist Jebin Bruni (PiL) and drummer...