Where the wild things areWhile she’s been noticeably absent from the Aussie touring circuit over the past 12 months, MIA DYSON is heading back Down Under for a national tour with a new album in tow.TE caught up with Dyson to find out what’s been keeping her so busy of late.

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Having packed up stumps and relocated stateside back in 2010, seeing roots-rocker, Mia Dyson on the Aussie touring circuit has

been an increasingly rare occurrence.

Save for the odd Down Under run with friends Jen Cloher and Liz Stringer, Dyson has been busying herself with trying to crack the elusive US market with increas-ing success.

Now, with her fifth album, Idyllwild, under her belt, Dyson is making a welcome return to Australia and, with new shows being added to the tour at a fantastic speed, it looks like it may be a case of absence makes the heart grow fonder.

“I certainly hope so,” Dyson laughed.“It really is very exciting to be back in

Australia having the chance to reconnect with Aussie audiences after quite a long time away.

“Last year, I toured Oz with Jen and Liz which was great and then I headed back to the States in early 2014, played South By Southwest and toured the East Coast, the Midwest and the South East - so I’ve definitely been busy.”

Building on the success of her previous album, the Moment, which saw success on both sides of the Pacific with its lead single When the Moment Comes, Idyllwild looks set to send her star further skyward.

Critics are already salivating over the album with some proclaiming it to be her best album and “eleven tracks of authen-tic roots rock brilliance”.

While Dyson said she tends to take things like this with a grain of salt, she added that positive reinforcement was always encouraging.

“It has been wonderful to see people reacting to the album so well,’ she said.

“I tend not to read too much into those things but hearing things like that tend to make you feel as though you’re on the right track.”

Dyson said that, after the protracted Moment sessions, she was keen to try a different approach on Idyllwild which, in and of itself, presented its own challenges.

“The Moment came about after quite a long time - a couple of years - so I really wanted to challenge myself to get some-thing done in a much shorter time,” she said.

“So, I basically spent about a month in 2013, battening down the hatches in order to see if I could write that way, because

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previously songs had just kind of come to me when they came.

“It was really challenging - I really thought, at the beginning that I would struggle with the process, you know, just sitting in front of a blank piece of paper knowing that you have to fill it, but we got there in the end.

“For me, though, the biggest help was just removing myself from the whole social media thing because it’s something that can be quite overwhelming.”

Growing up in the Victorian beachside town of Torquay, music always loomed large in Dyson’s life.

She became particularly enamoured with her blues guitarist father’s record collection, namely the likes of Dylan, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt and Little Feat and a slew of American artists that first ignited her desire to, at the very least, experience a bit of American music culture.

“I always really wanted to go over to the States and my parents record collection was a big part of that,” she said.

“When I started playing guitar, my big dream was to get over to there, even if it was just to hear some music.

“After I’d released a few albums in Australia, it felt like the time was finally right.”

Heading Stateside in 2010, with her boyfriend, manager and bass player in tow, it’s been a roller coaster ride, but one which she said she was finally starting to get some traction.

“There wasn’t really any plan going over there, I didn’t really know anyone and eventually, all of those relationships started to fall apart - I split with my boyfriend and my manager and my bass player went home - it was pretty grim. But, even though it has been a really uphill struggle, it feels like I’m finally starting to get a foothold in the US, which is great.”

Part of her US odyssey has included a stint collaborating with Eurythmics main man Dave Stewart, who attempted to mold Dyson into an androgynous pop star by the name of BOY - an experiment which didn’t work out but one which taught the singer many valuable lessons.

“I guess out of all of that, I realised that I was still quite susceptible to persuasion - having someone come along saying, “I can make things happen for you if only you do it this way’ is very tantalising, especially when it came about when I needed it the most,” she said.

“I basically ignored my best instincts on that and I’ve also realised that learning to trust your gut feelings is essential.”

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While Chivers said it had been some time since the troupe had been on the road - he couldn’t wait to have ‘em rolling in the aisles again.

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After calling it a day back in 2008, after the release of their mammoth Monuments EP,

Melbourne rockers Antiskeptic have finally come out of hibernation with two new members and a cracking new album Stare Down The Ocean.

The boys will be in Newcastle this month as part of their national album tour and drummer Nick Coppin told TE that, while the workload had picked up in camp Antiskeptic of late, it was a good problem to have.

“Mate, we’ve been pretty much flat out lately,” he said.

“We’ve been rehearsing pretty solidly for like the past six weeks, but really it’s been a process of about two years where we basically holed ourselves away work-ing out where we wanted to go with this.”

After wrapping things up in 2008, after two successful albums in Aurora and Memories of the Common Man, it was a one off gig - the last at the iconic Melbourne rock and roll venue The Arthouse (tickets for that show sold out in mere minutes), that inspired the reformation.

“Yeah that gig was definitely the cata-lyst,” Coppin said.

“Just seeing the amount of love for the band still out there made myself and [fellow foundation member Andrew Kitchen] want to keep it going.

“When we wrapped in 2008, there was a sense of unfinished business, I guess, but our hands were kind of tied with some personal issues that were going on at the time, but when I reconnected with Andrew he felt the same way I did and we decided to get the ball rolling again, now we have a couple of new guys [Jarrod Salton - guitar, Travis Wardlaw - bass] and things couldn’t be better.”

If the band needed any sign that a comeback was something the fans wanted, they got it when they launched a Pozible campaign to fund the record, raising almost $30,000.

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