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| Bob
Evans
Goodnight,
Bull Creek! Is Bob Evans’
third album, featuring the current
single “Someone So Much”.
The beautiful video for the song,
filmed in Sydney and its scenic
surrounds, is receiving much love
from the viewers of MAX, VH1 and
Video Hits. From March 27 fans can
also purchase the clip on iTunes.
On his recently announced Goodnight,
Bull Creek! national tour - Bob
will be joined onstage by new band
members - Malcolm Clark (Sleepy
Jackson), Hugh Jennings (End of
Fashion, Bob Evans), Ben Witt (The
Chemist) and Louis Macklin (67 Special)
– as well as special guest,
USA’s Steve Poltz and other
special supports to be announced.
www.bobevans.com.au
Tickets
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Renée
Geyer
Renée has finished her
new album for Liberation Blue, called
"Renéesance". In
the tradition of the series it's
a reworking of her best and greatest
tracks. Produced by Bruce Haymes
and featuring Jeff Burstin on guitar
together with Bruce on keyboards
(and noises) it's a wonderful visitation
of Renee's greatest and a must for
all fans. Sometimes words aren’t
enough. All the things that have
and will be said about Renée
Geyer…one of the world’s
finest singers…Australian
music legend…are true and
undeniable, but saying that about
her still doesn’t say enough.
Renée Geyer is Renée
Geyer, a unique talent, not a singer
whose career is dependant on yesterday
or tomorrow’s hit song, but
someone who lives for her next performance,
on stage or on record, someone who
refuses to rest on her laurels.
The voice was always there. From
the first time she opened her mouth
those who heard turned their heads,
but that wasn’t enough for
Renée Geyer, still isn’t
enough for Renée Geyer. She’s
much more now than she ever was.
“I do rhythm and blues,”
Renée explains. “This
genre of music picked me. I didn’t
pick it. From a very early age I
was listening to it on my transistor
radio under my pillow. At fourteen
or fifteen years of age I knew that
this was the music I connected with.
With this record I’ve turned
some kind of corner where the suit
that was bought for me as a young
girl, that I knew was a beautiful
suit, only just now fits. It just
feels right. www.reneegeyer.com.au
Tickets
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Woohoo
Revue “Dance Time”
The sound of The Woohoo Revue
‘reflects the unique experience
of a ‘gypsy’ band raised
on Melbourne dance floors’
~Beat Magazine~.
Freakish Balkan tunes are delivered
with a dose of the vaudeville, making
The Woohoo Revue’s show a
genuine musical circus.
Their act features old-world class,
theatrical entertainment and childish
joy performed by six musicians who
might have been trained from childhood
by an overbearing Russian ringmaster.
Formed in 2008, The Woohoo Revue
is a new band with old world influences.
The group has quickly established
itself in its hometown of Melbourne
with a series of shows that blend
scorching gypsy themes with funky
rhythms.
Following the release of their album,
Dear Animals, The Woohoo Revue jumped
in the caravan and met some old
comrades along the highway. They
have traded gypsy metal licks with
The Crooked Fiddle Band, cheated
at poker with Juke Baritone and
danced around the fire with Mojo
Juju and the Snake Oil Merchants.
The band has also fast established
itself on the festival circuit by
getting the big crowds dancing at
Folk Rhythm
and Life, High Vibes, The Village
and The Maya Festival. www.myspace.com/thewoohoorevue
Tickets $17.50 inc GST & booking
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Ash
Grunwald + Band of Frequencies
Fish Out Of Water is the award
winning, third single and title
track off bluesman and multiple
ARIA nominee, Ash Grunwald’s
fourth studio album, Fish Out Of
Water.
It is a lurching, rock n roll follow
up to the radio hit, Break Out (#50
in JJJ’s Hottest 100 2008),
produced by TZU’s Counterbounce
and will be available as a digital
download from April 8th.
A song about a young man stuck within
the claustrophobic confines of the
city, dreaming of the open road
and finally deciding to fly the
coup and get the hell outta there!
Fish Out Of Water was recently awarded
Song Of The Year at the 2009 Blues
Music Chain Awards.
He will be joined on the road by
Kanchana Karunaratna on electro
beats and ethnic percussion, and
Benny Owen playing the Car Door
and other Junk percussion for shows
on the East Coast. www.ashgrunwald.com
Tickets
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King
Tide + Dub Marine
Australia’s leading Roots
Reggae Band…dance time
The seven piece King Tide was not
intentionally formed, it was born.
and has begun to grow, taking on
a life of its own, more or less
kidnapping its members like some
kind of haunted ship, hell bent
on rocking festival stages across
the land, with little or no mercy,
this beast/entity is gaining strength
daily, sucking power from all the
level vibes and support each new
crowd seems to feed it. www.myspace.com/kingtidesydney
Tickets
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Carus
+ Loren + Drew Wilson
Hailing from Fremantle it is easy
to mistake Carus as “just
another roots act” in the
style of The Waifs and The John
Butler Trio. He hit the folk-rock
highway ten years ago, he plays
over two hundred shows every year
and he has sold tens of thousands
of CDs. He plays the major festivals
and has a passionate fan base that
any D.I.Y folky would be proud of.
Yet, in many ways Carus owes more
to the OZ pub rock tradition than
his rootsy contemporaries. His show
is essentially a rock and roll show.
While he is a story telling troubadour
in the Paul Kelly style, he “goes
off” in the adrenaline fuelled
manner of The Beasts, The Gurus
and The Oils. A lyrical observer
of society he may be- but a shoe
gazer he ain't.
The tension between the sensitive
balladeer and the fold back leaping,
nut bag skeg with his guitar behind
his head never left my mind during
the entire recording process. While
Carus says in the title track- he
can fit his life into three boxes
and go traveling, he himself is
extremely difficult to squeeze into
a single box. Check
them out online!
Tickets
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Musicians
and Friends celebrate the life &
work of Chris Walter RIP
Musicians and
friends come and say farewell and
celebrate Chris Walters life. There
will be music and jams - and a lot
of stories of this great man who
loved his community and his music.
The Concert
Room at Joe's Waterhole from 7pm
Entry
by donation towards family |
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| James
Reyne James
Reyne is one of Australia’s
most loved singer songwriters. James
has worked a diverse range of projects
recently- he has hosted the first
series of Dig TV on ABC 2, recorded
material for two Children's books-
Mr Froggy Went A Courtin’
and Save The Bones For Henry Jones,
while working on his follow up to
his last successful release "
And The Horse You Rode In On “
and still finding time to perform
live around the country. James’
song-writing coupled with his idiosyncratic
vocal style, enabled James to transcend
the disposability of music industry
fashion and carve his place in the
musical landscape of Australia.
www.jamesreyne.com.au
Tickets
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Augie
March + special guests - Gareth
Liddiard and Dan Luscombe from The
Drones
On
sale May 15
For the past
13 years Melbourne band Augie March
have achieved what very few bands,
indeed artists in any field in Australia,
can claim to have achieved. While
steadily building a loyal and ferocious
fan base, they have simultaneously
sustained critical acclaim and commercial
viability.
This year has
seen the completion of two very
successful and very different tours
on the back of the release of their
fourth LP “Watch Me Disappear”.
The most recent, titled “On
The Quiet” was a sellout,
a rare presentation of the band
stripped back and swinging, a revelation
for many in the audience who perhaps
had always heard the music but never
realised it was 5 human beings with
sticks and strings making it come
about.
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contrast this winter, Augie March
will don full regalia and take the
garden of forking paths into their
own schizophrenic past where minotaur’s
with broken hearts hold up the front
bar, manic pixies bore repeatedly
into the necks of corporate swindlers,
and the human condition gets ridden
roughshod by rabid monkeys into
an unthinkable tomorrow. Plus there
may be a love song or two. Watch
Me Set My Strange Sun You Bloody
Choir will be a trip down memory
lane for Augie fans because all
four albums will have an equal showing
on this grand tour. www.augiemarch.com
Tickets
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The
Backsliders Dom Turner,
Rob Hurst (Midnight Oil) & Ian
Collard (Collard Greens and Gravy)
As a three piece, they can lift the
roof off any venue – moving
from straight ahead, in your face,
‘amped up’ original blues
– ‘Blues ’not ‘Roots’
that is – to ‘all–acoustic’
unplugged ‘way down south’
delta blues. These guys have been
writing, recording & performing
acoustic–based blues for 20
years – even before ‘roots
and blues’ became a catch–phase
with bands across the country. Multi–media
celebrity, Doug Mulray describes them
as ‘the best acoustic blues
band in the country’. www.backsliders.com.au
Tickets $27.50
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Diesel
4pm afternoon show
In the tradition of 'Short Cool Ones',
the 1996 blues release from diesel
and Chris Wilson (under the Wilson
Diesel moniker), Diesel returns once
again to his roots, and to the studio
to produce a raw blues album with
the working title ‘Saturday
Suffering Fools’.
Slated for release on June 3 and comprising
of originals and unearthed blues gems,
the record will feature long-term
band members Richie Vez and Lee Moloney,
as well as Bernie Bremond (ex the
Injectors) and father Hank Lizotte
on horns. The live show will comprise
selections from 'Saturday Suffering
Fools', past cuts from the 1996 release
'Short Cool Ones' and will also see
diesel and his band revisit his back
catalogue and its connections to diesel’s
blues roots. www.dieselmusic.com.au
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Borich
& Borich
featuring Kevin Borich, Lucius
Borich (Cog) and Harry Brus (Barnes,
Geyer, etc…) "...live,
you can’t help but be moved
by the passion and intensity of
his playing and performance, whether
he’s sliding with his resonator
or inducing his glittering, black
Strat to scream and wail it will
be an experience you will take to
your grave."
Kevin Borich is still every inch
the slashing, stylish axeman who
has come to take you higher. Without
a hint of parody, he struts the
stage at major festivals in lace
shirt, snakeskin pants and cocky
stance, gleefully unleashing the
credible, fluid licks that have
accorded him the status of a legend.
Borich, the iconic rock/blues guitarist
who livened up the national Long
Way To The Top tour with fiery renditions
of his 1971 hit Gonna See My Baby
Tonight, has a theory that music
“keeps you young”. Unlike
many of his contemporaries, Borich
makes few concessions to the passage
of time – although the mantra
is now sex, fresh air and rock’n’roll.
Joining Kev for this gig is his
son Lucius from ‘COG’
on drums and the living legend of
bass Mr Harry Brus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=628rwZg6X-c
Tickets
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or $25 inc GST @ door
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Mark Seymour
Mark Seymour is internationally
regarded as one of Australia's best
singer / songwriters. Since making
his name as the lead singer of Hunters
& Collectors, Mark has enjoyed
a stellar career as a singer and
acoustic guitarist. He’s also
composed film scores, written and
performed music for theatrical productions
and acted. In 2008 Mark wrote &
released a novel, Thirteen Tonne
Theory, a loose collection of stories,
observations and exploits from his
18 years with Hunters & Collectors
and subsequent career as a solo
musician. Mark reached Australian
rock cult status throughout the
80's and 90's as the lead singer
for Hunters & Collectors, the
band performed around the world,
a rollicking eight piece funk ensemble.
When in 1998, Mark decided he’d
done all he could as the front man
of Hunters & Collectors, he
plunged into the unknown, finding
himself alone on stage with just
an acoustic guitar. In going solo,
Mark discovered a new and refreshing
intensity in his voice that he’d
believed he’d lost in the
band. Mark Seymour’s subsequent
five solo albums, each of which
has been highly successful, still
bare the raw, emotional hallmarks
of his writing for the landmark
Hunters & Collectors album,
Human Frailty.
A passionate, intense vocalist,
Mark continues to draw a strong
crowd. Mark Seymour’s song
writing ever evolves, as he produces
songs that resonate and permeate
one’s consciousness. Mark
Seymour’s music and lyrics
have formed an indelible part of
Australia’s musical landscape.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4XahjfsyJs
Tickets
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| COMING
SOON IN '09 - not on sale yet |
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| • Hat
Fitz & Cara Robinson
• Ian Moss
• Lulo Reinhardt
• Dallas Frasca
• Dragon
• Jeff Lang
• Ashleigh Mannix
• Andrew Morris
• Sarita & Band
• Joe Robinson Band
• Paul Dempsey
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DRIVER INCENTIVE
When a group of three or more guests arrive with
a Designated Driver, the nominated driver will
receive an arm band entitling them to free soft
drink and/or coffee for the evening (conditions
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| SHOWS
YOU MAY HAVE MISSED... |
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09 |
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Dan
England and the Thieves
After his highly
successful run on Australian Idol,
Dan England has created a remarkable
story by honing his songs and playing
to tens of thousands of people in
towns and cities across Australia.
The tour is taking in on average
5 gigs per week, traveling to every
state and territory in Australia.
Dan England has travelled the highways
with his band, meeting and playing
to people in all walks of life.
His Idol success was left behind
for a road journey involving a genuine
connection with people across the
country, and a genuine willing to
play great music night in and night
out. www.danengland.com.au
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Alex
Lloyd
With his base
now having been in London for the
past two years, one of Australia’s
most loved male artists, Alex Lloyd
is coming home for a run of national
dates throughout May.
These shows will be the first in
Australia for Alex since the release
of his album Good In The Face of
a Stranger. Looking forward to heading
home and playing these songs to
a local audience Alex said, “I’ve
been playing around with these songs
in small venues in London by myself
and can’t wait to bring them
to life in a unique way with my
mates.” Joining Alex on tour
will be long time friends Kinnon
Holt on guitar and Ian Jones on
drums. Both musicians having played
alongside Alex since Black The Sun.
www.alexlloyd.com
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United Tour
Tara Simmons + Edward Guglielmino
+ mcArtney + Coby grant + Simon
Kelly
The line
up will bring together five great
talents from across five Australian
states to perform together in song
and stories.
They will perform songs from their
own repertoire, songs of each others
and they may even do a few covers.
The show runs for two hours with
an interval.
The five artist will be on stage
together at all times singing and
telling stories about their own
lives and stories about each other.
Tickets $15 |
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Skipping
Girl Vinegar + Dead Letter Chorus
+ Skinny Jean
Three great
Oz Indie bands in one show. Taking
their name from the iconic Melbourne
neon sign of Audrey the ‘Skipping
Girl' in Richmond, Skipping Girl
Vinegar is Chris Helm (drums), Mark
Lang (Lead Vox, Guitar), Amanthi
Lynch (Keys) & Sare Lang (Bass).
Testament to the band’s obsession
with melody, pop-hook, and the search
to stretch their song craft, the
result is a dark, warm, organic
show that reflects the environments
and journey of the band throughout
their lives.
After some serious major label &
indie offers in Australia. Skipping
Girl Vinegar decided to set up their
own label Secret Fox and License
their debut album ‘Sift The
Noise’ in Australia to Melbourne
indie label Popboomerang & MGM.
The latest single 'Sift The Noise'
was added to high rotation on Triple
J as well as receiving extensive
play on community and ABC radio
across the country. The band are
currently exploring label partnerships
in the US & UK.
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Smokin
Joe Robinson
Australia's Got Talent Winner
All Ages…Must
be accompanied by an adult…
Doors 7pm show 7-30 end 9-30
At just 17 years
of age, Joe Robinson has secured
a reputation as one of the worlds
finest young guitarists. His unique
acoustic guitar style has caught
the attention of Les Paul, Steve
Vai, Brad Paisley, Tommy Emmanuel
and many others. From winning the
hit television series "Australia's
Got Talent", to recording in
Nashville with "Producer of
the year", Frank Rogers, few
doubt that this humble young man
is destined for greatness.
Joe started playing piano at the
age of six, only because he was
told his fingers were too small
to play the guitar. After 4 grueling
years of classical piano, Joe quit
and began to play the guitar (aged
10).
He outgrew his guitar teacher in
less than 12 months, and he started
to teach himself from the internet.
Like a sponge, Joe dragged his parents
around to any music situation on
offer. He would jam in local bars,
with his guitar cable through the
window, in order not to be thrown
out. From lots and lots of jamming,
Joe developed incredibly mature
listening and improvisation skills.
It also gave him versatility, playing
Jazz, Country, Rock, and Blues.
www.joerobinson.com
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Reggie
Watts (USA) One man. One
loop machine. Ten octaves.
300 characters. Never the same.
and a custom-designed Set/Décor/Projections
by Jonathan Oxlade
Talk about ‘back by popular
demand’! This year’s
Sydney Festival pin-up returns to
spread his unique talents further
around Australia. On his inaugural
visit in January Reggie Watts chalked
up 11 sellout shows. Countdown to
his reunion with rabid Sydney fans
as Reggie headlines the Sydney Comedy
Festival in May, and appears with
Brian Eno as one of the five select
performers in LUMINOUS, a festival
of music, ideas, lights and performance
that’s part of the new VIVID
SYDNEY, in June. Select cities and
regional areas will now get the
chance to see a live Reggie Watts
show between May 17th and June 6th.
Reggie Watts is a completely unique
comedian AND musician. He shakes
new meaning into what you can do
with a human voice, a microphone
and a loop machine. Exploiting a
jaw-dropping ten-octave vocal range
he creates funky bass lines and
soulful diva-esque vocals to underpin
hilarious, off-the cuff riffs on
everything from ancient history
and technology, science and racism,
to theology and pop culture. Channeling
over 300 characters, his mix of
improvised music, absurd comedy
and visceral social commentary makes
him a one-of–a-kind performer.
An incisive commentator on all
that surrounds him, and one-man-band,
Watts is like a tornado traversing
hip-hop, trip-hop, 80's pop alternative,
nu-metal and classical opera. No
two songs or performances are ever
the same, as he disorientates and
stuns his audiences like a supernatural
force. And globe-trotting designer
Jonathan Oxlade is creating visuals
for Reggie to respond to his own
unique way.
Born in Germany and raised in the
US, Reggie is a classically trained
pianist and jazz singer. He made
his name playing and singing in
the Seattle music scene through
the 90s, shifting to a music- comedy
hybrid Reggie infiltrated the New
York and Los Angeles comedy scenes,
and top festivals including South
By South West (USA), Edinburgh Fringe
(UK), Montreal’s Just For
Laughs and Cape Town Comedy Festival.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York and
frequently performs alongside Regina
Spektor, Imogen Heap and the Dresden
Dolls, Flight of the Concordes ,
Arj Barker, French chanteuse Camille
to name a few.
Tickets
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Ruthie
Foster (USA)
As anyone
who witnessed Ruthie Foster live
first time around will tell you,
this woman in the flesh is something
truly extraordinary, so make sure
you see her with her powerhouse
group of musicians.
This prodigiously
gifted singer and songwriter from
Texas has raised the multiple flags
of American music ever since her
self-released 1997 debut, Full Circle.
There’s Southern blues in
her groove, rock in her rhythm,
a blend of gospel redemption, country
poetry and jazz elegance in her
singing. Her gigs have taken her
from choir lofts to folk bistros
and onto stages in Europe and Australia.
Tickets
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Marshall
and the Fro plus Guests
Since
releasing their Debut Album 'Marshall
& The Fro', the band has received
widespread industry recognition,
creating legitimate and deserved
credibility within the Australian
music industry. Some of the bands
recent achievements & awards
include: attainment of D’Addario
Platinum Endorsement, The Australasian
Best Bass Player Award, No 1 spot
on the Australian Roots charts on
MySpace, regular JJJ air play and
overseas airplay across Europe,
Japan, Canada and the USA. Additionally
Marshall & the Fro have won
the NCEIA Album of the Year &
Best Blues & Roots at the Dolphin
Awards. The fro are a refreshing
modern Face generating a Progressive
rock/roots energy. The formula of
Big vocals, rippin guitar, a rock-solid
rhythm section, mixed with an enticing
and involving presence, earning
them a legion of fans spanning the
globe. Their music it is said, feels
so natural and so comfortable it's
like slipping into your favorite
pair of double pluggers. Tickets
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Stylus
‘The
Original Australian Motown White Soul
Band’
Dress
to impress your memory, not your kids
The only Australian band to be signed
by the American Motown label and the
first ever non Afro American band.
Stylus are ‘Back from the Past’
reforming for a series of shows. Yes,
we’re all older than we were
in 1975 when Stylus had their first
two big hits, Summer Breeze and Living
in a World of make Believe, but the
music has lived on and still sounds
fresh today. Less can be said of course
for the fashion and the clothes that
Stylus wore on Countdown back then!
Fronted by the extraordinary vocal
talents and surely one of this country’s
greatest voices, Peter Cupples, Stylus
have always been considered to be
some of the best musicians in the
business so it’s not surprising
that the reformed band can still make
these songs come alive just like in
the 70s. The band is made up of the
original members, Peter Cupples (vocals/guitar),
Ronny Peers (Guitar), Sam McNally
(Keyboards) and Ashley Henderson (Bass
& Vocals). The only new member
in the line-up is the remarkable David
Jones on drums...
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Preston
Reed (Scotland/England)
He can’t
be doing that. It’s a familiar
reaction to the one-man symphonies
on Reed’s 15 studio albums,
as the maestro fuses chord-based grooves,
soaring melodic runs and polyrhythmic
percussion with his breathtaking two-handed
style. Yet this is not guitar wizardry
for its own sake. Unlike many instrumentalists,
the power and depth of Reed’s
original songwriting is as unique
as the man’s execution, as blues,
rock, funk and jazz meet, embrace,
interlock and attack to create a sonic
brew quite unlike anything you’ve
heard before. Ears prick up. Heads
turn. Feet tap. Hearts melt. Tickets
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Mat McHugh
(Beautiful Girls)
In his role
as frontman for the Beautiful Girls,
Mat McHugh is prone to reggae cliches,
so it's a pleasant surprise to see
that when left to his own devices
he sounds refreshingly original.
Free of the BG's, McHugh mines some
darker territory, as well as keeping
things sparse and simple. At times
he brings to mind an upbeat Elliott
Smith, at others, he sounds like an
acoustic Frank Black. Thankfully,
he's not another Jack Johnson clone.
Tickets $20 pre-sale $25 @ door |
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| Sat 7 |
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Paul Greene
Over
the past few years Paul Greene has
been given the thumbs up by John Butler,
The Waifs & Ani DiFranco, hi-jacked
by Midnight Oil’s Rob Hirst
and served as the inspiration behind
Ben Harper’s ‘Diamonds
On The Inside’. He has sold
nearly 40,000 albums (an impressive
amount in his native Australia); however,
you won’t see his name on any
charts, as Greene has taken a staunchly
independent path which has led him
on a journey through countless festivals,
bar rooms and concert halls across
Australia. Tickets $17 |
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| Sat 14 |
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Andrew
Morris + Sue Anne
When
Andrew Morris is not playing guitar
for Bernard Fanning or touring with
the Wilson Pickers, he’s releasing
damn fine albums of his own. His
latest CD ‘Needs and Wants’
will cement Andrew as one of Australia’s
finest. Andrew will be joined on
the road by the same group of Melbourne
musicians who leant their talents
during the recording process of
Needs & Wants. With only five
days to record, and no rehearsal
time, other musician may have walked
away with a half baked album. Not
this group of consummate musical
professionals!
It seemed only fitting to bring
the same group back together for
a tour. Keyboard player Steve Hesketh
(Jet, Paul Kelly), bassist Pat Bourke
(Dallas Crane, Tex Perkins) and
drummer Roger Bergodaz. $12 pre-sale
or $15 @ door |
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| Fri 20 |
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Bill Chambers
& Kevin Bennett (Flood)
Leading
bluesroots and alt country exponents
Bill Chambers and Kevin Bennett will
combine their talents in an exquisite
double-header.
Bill, father of Kasey Chambers is
one of those growling singers who
owes a substantial debt to both Bob
Dylan and John Prine. There’s
much more to Bill Chambers than just
being Kaseys dad. The patriarch of
the Chambers Clan is considered by
some to be Australias premier alt-country
guitarist. He can be a master of delicate
picking on Dobro or Lap Steel and
a demon on Slide.
Kevin Bennett, front man for ‘The
Flood’ and good friend of Bills
will join Bill for a Duo tour of the
Country and there is bound to be some
‘pin drop’ moments in
the show.
$20 pre-sale $25 @ door |
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| Sat 21 |
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Martin
Martini & the Bone Palace Orchestra
Martin
Martini doesn’t really trust
humans – he prefers animals
and chess. ‘I love a game where
a horse can eat a bishop. There should
be more of that. I love a game where
a queen takes pawn. I think all queens
should take a bit of pawn. The world
would be a much better place if there
was just a little more pawn…”
His unconventional approach to life
mirrors itself in his music. Nobody
explained to him that you couldn’t
make an orchestra with just a few
freakishly talented misfits playing
clarinet, trombone, guitar, bass,
drums and keys. So in defiance he
formed the Bone Palace Orchestra;
fusing grooves of jazz, blues, and
matchless show-tunes; with good old
fashioned rock’n’roll.
Tickets $16 |
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| Thurs 26 |
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Adrian
Bohm and the Irish Echo Present
Luka Bloom (Ire)
Much loved Irish
troubadour Luka Bloom is a master
of the concert stage. His incredibly
gifted electro-acoustic guitar playing
guarantees an impassioned live performance
of his original, poetic and melodic
songs.
Luka’s concert arsenal includes
both tender and dynamic original
material and a surprisingly eclectic
selection of other people’s
work.
Over the years Bloom has brought
his inspiring lyrics and sumptuous
melodies to clubs, theatres, festivals,
bars and arenas all over the world,
but he has a special place in his
heart for Australian audiences and
has earned a devoted following in
this country. Tickets $48 |
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| Fri 27 |
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Adrian
Bohm and the Irish Echo Present
Luka Bloom (Ire)
Buy now, don’t be disappointed…Luka
is our fastest selling artist. Tickets
$48 |
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| Sat 28 |
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Dallas
Frasca + The Blackwater Fever and
Texas Tea
Dallas
Frasca has an undeniable stage presence.
Her powerful and commanding vocal
style is one of a kind; raw, gritty
and unrestrained, this woman is
a force to be reckoned with. Joined
by the upside down, left handed,
back to front, slide dobro and mandolin
extraordinaire, Jeff Curran makes
the two piece without kit a wall
of guitars and stomp box that delve
into raw, double duelling slides,
launching from a
rock solid ground of roots influences.
One thump on that stomp box demands
attention from any audience and
is a sure-fire way to get the crowd
worked up...
Dallas Frasca is an impressive live
experience you don’t want
to miss!
Tickets
$20 |
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| FEBRUARY
09 |
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| Fri 6 |
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Brewster
Brothers (Angels)
John and
Rick Brewster are the guitarists
and major songwriters of the legendary
Angels, one of Australia’s
most successful bands. They produced
the band’s classic multi-platinum
albums. After three decades, The
Angels remain one of this country’s
most loved and respected outfits.
John and Rick continue to perform
with them today. In 1998, The Angels
were inducted into the ARIA Hall
of Fame by their peers. Tickets
$15 |
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| Sat 14 |
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Stu
Koch Family Benefit Concert
Musicians
and friends of Sound Engineer, Stuart
Koch are staging a benefit concert
for Stuart's family to be held at
Joe's Waterhole. The line-up of
musicians who have put their hands
up to be a part of the event is
testament to the deep respect that
he had within the music industry
on the Sunshine Coast.
Stuart Koch died on Christmas day
and was given a rousing farewell
by family and friends on January
2. He is survived by his eldest
son, Sam, aged 18 years, two young
sons, Arafin 18 months and Oscar
3 months and partner Shantam.
From 1990 onwards, when he was the
innovative sound engineer working
with Barry Charles at his Verrierdale
Concerts and at the Maleny Folk
Festival in Maleny, through to his
work in setting up the back room
at Joe's Waterhole as a popular
venue, Stuart played a huge part
in producing and staging live music
events around the coast. He was
also sought after as a sound engineer
for recording projects, both live
and studio as well as for bands
touring nationally. Stuart also
gave his time and expertise wholeheartedly
to community and charity fundraising
events. Tickets $15 |
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| Fri 27 |
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Mia
Dyson + Jen Cloher & the Endless
Sea
“Then
there is Mia Dyson. You can almost
hear jaws dropping in the theatre
as her ghostly slide guitar and
spare, raw voice lift through this
town into the stratosphere. On a
night of sharing and giving, the
best moment is perversely hers alone:
even her band mates were in awe”
The Age
In early 2009
one of our most loved and most talented
female singer songwriters, Mia Dyson
will leave our shores to relocate
to the USA for a good part of next
year. As polite as she is, Mia would
never leave without saying goodbye.
The tour is booked, the gear will
be loaded and all you need to do
is get your ticket! Tickets $25
Pre-sale $30 @ door |
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| JANUARY
09 |
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| Fri 2 |
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ANDREW
WINTON
Andrew
is a WA independent solo artist combining
acoustic guitar, lap slide, dobro
and seven-string lap guitar/bass (the
Wintonbeast), with hollers and stomps
to provide an engaging and authentic
performance. Andrew’s sound
has been likened to a cross between
Ben Harper, Sting, Kelly-Joe Phelps
and Harry Manx. His performances are
driven by infectious rhythms, stunning
slide, bluesy vocals, quirky lyrics
and storytelling. 2006 saw Andrew
tour Australia for three months, play
at numerous festivals, events and
radio broadcasts, and take out first
place in the Folk/Acoustic category
of the Australian Songwriter’s
Association awards (as well as the
award for best live performance at
the awards night!). Andrew was a feature
artist on ABC Radio National’s
Music Deli program, and placed in
the top 10 in the instrumental category
of the MusicOz awards.
Tickets $15 |
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| Sat 3 |
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DOUGIE
MACLEAN (Scotland)
Dougie
MacLean is one of Scotland's most
successful, respected and popular
musicians.
Singer-Songwriter, Composer and
'magical' Performer, he is also
a fine guitarist and fiddle player.
From his home base in Butterstone
near Dunkeld in the beautiful Tay
Valley in Perthshire Scotland, MacLean
tours the world with his unique
blend of lyrical, 'roots based'
songwriting and instrumental composition.
His moving song Caledonia and melody
The Gael (used in The Last of the
Mohicans) have been recorded by
hundreds of artists and enjoyed
by millions worldwide. Tickets $25 |
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| Fri 9 |
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THE
BEEZ (Germany)
The Beez
have furnished their house with
musical bric-a-brac from around
the world – a potpourri of
moving, silly, deep and sometimes
meaningless pop and rock songs.
These songs are, however, anything
but common or garden variety. The
four tonal interior decorators from
the Beez rearrange and craft a song
until a certain stylistically unmistakable
Beez Feng Shui emerges.The Beez
are at home on any stage and travel
light-four voices, two acoustic
guitars, an acoustic bass and an
accordion and, it has to be said,
more than a few costumes…The
Beez are renowned as excellent hosts,
serving lavish lashings of humour
and musicality guaranteed to charm
every audience. Their programme
‘’In the House”
is (with or without electricity)
like a luxury penthouse on the roof
of pop and rock history in which
everyone finds a sunny room with
a view. Tickets $15 |
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| Sat 31 |
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ANGE
TAKATS ‘Aniseed Tea’
CD launch
The National Folk Festival winner
of 2008 Lis Johnston award for vocal
excellence
Her
storytelling is laced with honesty
and grace and it is the ease in
which she breathes life into her
intimate memories that makes for
a well-balanced and gratifying listen.
Songwriting ability aside, it’s
Ange’s voice that is truly
the star of the show. Reminiscent
of American folk singer Joan Baez,
Takats’ exceptional voice
is fine, smooth and almost effortless
as it slips from her lips. There
is such disarming honesty to these
songs… the arrangements reflect
Ange’s on stage performance
style; they are mostly understated
and always graceful. Tickets $15 |
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| DECEMBER
08 |
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| Fri 5
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CHAIN
40th Anniversary Tour
The originators
of ‘Oz Blues’, Chain,
have reached a milestone in 2008
as they celebrate 40 years since
first forming in 1968. They are
still the only blues band in the
world to have a number one on Australian
charts (Black’n’Blue)
as well as a number two (Judgement).
Together with singer Matt Taylor
another number one (I Remember When
I Was Young) & the double gold
album ‘Toward The Blues’
ensured them a place in rock history.
Tickets $25 |
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| Fri 19 |
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ANNE
VRIEND (Canada)
Firmly
rooted in pop music, Ann Vriend
exudes originality and flare, comparable
to the likes of Kate Bush, Regina
Spektor, and Sarah Slean. Her double-entendre
lyrics have had critics liken her
to Leonard Cohen and Paul Simon.
Her voice is as much Dolly Parton’s
as it is like Eva Cassidy’s,
making her albums and acclaimed
international performances a stunning
vocal experience. Ann’s songs
are literary, poetic and intelligent;
in short, epic, and encompass the
feelings of anyone who longs for
freedom, love, and meaning.
Whether at the International Leonard
Cohen Festival in Berlin, the Commonwealth
Games in Melbourne, or at her hometown
Edmonton Folk Music Festival, Ann
Vriend mesmerizes audiences around
the world. Her vulnerable yet exquisite
voice is often the first thing which
turns heads, while her songs maintain
an infectious, natural knack for
melody, her lyrics reveal a literary
depth rarely found in contemporary
pop music, and her stage presence,
balanced perfectly between breathtaking,
heartbreaking, emotion-filled songs
and charming, witty humor, make
for a completely engaging show.
Her albums have all been critically
acclaimed.
Tickets $15 |
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| NOVEMBER
08 |
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| Thurs
6 |
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TOOTHFAERIES
+ Speed Of Purple
Toothfaeries
became one of Brisbane’s most
popular bands during the 1990s.
An integral part of the explosion
of the local live music scene in
the early part of the decade, they
were intimately associated with
the birth and survival of The Zoo,
Brisbane’s most enduring music
venue. Playing roots music before
the category existed, their acoustic
folk/pop sound was joyful, passionate,
and made them a staple of the Maleny/Woodford
and Australian National Folk Festivals,
although the band also played repeatedly
at Livid and the Big Day Out. The
Toothfaeries released three CDs,
with the first release 'I Believe'
and 'Final Album' are still sought
after today.
Tickets $25 |
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| Sat
8 & Sun 9 |
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BLACK
SORROWS + special guests
Like static
on the dial, a look comes back in
style...
The Black Sorrows are back!... for
2 shows!
One of Australias most-loved bands
who have sold more than one million
albums and released classic singles
such as Chained To The Wheel, Harley
& Rose and Hold On To Me returns
to Joes’ for two shows due
to the very fast sell out last visit,
this masterful musical chameleon
will take us on another unforgettable
trip. Bringing the songs to life
is a stellar Black Sorrows lineup,
including James Black (also the
leader of SBS RocKwiz Orchestra),
Claude Carranza, Steve Hadley and
Tony Floyd and of course, Joe Camilleri.
Tickets $28 |
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| Sun
16 |
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JEFF MARTIN
(Tea Party) & the ARMADA + special
guests
The
enigmatic Jeff Martin, is former
front man of the Canadian super
group 'Tea Party'. His new CD and
new trio, 'The Armada', is scheduled
to come out this October and Martin
predicts it's just what his Tea
Party fans have been pining for.
"This is me back to some pretty
serious rock and roll music,"
said Martin. "This thing is
a monster."
So with a new trio in force, the
Armada will release its first record
and then get set to tour Australia,
Canada and beyond. "I'm excited
about it again, and I've certainly
got the music to back it up again,"
said Martin of the rock and roll
industry. "I think Tea Party
fans, they've been very supportive
over these last couple of years
of my solo venture . . . and I would
say probably patient as well, because
they've been waiting for me to make
this kind of record again."
Rumour has it that the new album
coalesces middle eastern influences,
blues and dark moody-sounding songs,
which are reminiscent of songs from
The Tea Party's '97 era release,
Transmission...this gig is not to
be missed.
Tickets $55 |
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| Fri
21 |
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C.W.STONEKING
& the PRIMITIVE HORN ORCHESTRA
The
most authentic 1930s Hokum blues act
on the planet...can't be missed. C.W.
Stoneking, is a musician who draws
influence from pre-war blues, jazz,
1920s calypso, folklore, and personal
experience to produce his original
songs. Accompanied with his trusty
steel bodied National guitar and tenor
banjo, and with his brass band, the
'Primitive Horn Orchestra' Stoneking's
songs range in style from lonesome
field holler blues, to cheeky hokum
duets, to full blown 'jungle jazz'
epics. Come Dressed in your best 30/40's
Op Shop garb!
$20 pre-sale $25 @ Door |
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| OCTOBER
08 |
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| Sat
4 |
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HAT FITZ
& ITCH + Kara Robertson (Ireland)
It’s
another hot Queensland night, a
curious crowd has quietly gathered
to see what all the fuss is about.
The air is heavy with expectation.
Out of the shadows slides Fitz ,
kicks off his thongs , plugs in
and powers up. The room shatters.
The essence of every Hat Fitz and
Itchy performance is the controlled
mayhem. A single metal bodied guitar
hammers out tributes to masters
long gone, all the while driven
along relentlessly by the thunderous
drumming of Itchy riding shotgun.
This is today’s music. It's
raw, raucous and relevant. Hours
later the crowd slowly drift off
into the early morning totally satisfied
, drenched with sweat and covered
in smiles.
Tickets
$15
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| SEPTEMBER
08 |
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| Fri
19 |
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JOE
CAMILLERI solo + special guests
CANCER BENEFIT SHOW
for local Vicki Thomas
Sunshine Coast
music lovers are in for a special
treat! Legendary musician Joe Camilleri
is performing live and unplugged!
This is no ordinary show and a rare
opportunity to get up close on this
special occasion.
Joe is donating his appearance at
the show to a very special person
by the name of Vicki Thomas, a great
member of the Eumundi and Sunshine
Coast community who is fighting
cancer. This is a benefit concert
to help Vicki and family and show
what we as a community can do both
as individuals and also as a group.
Also included in the line up of
local performers are Psychedelia
& Tim Batfink who will be jamming
with Joe towards the end. This only
happens once! As music lovers know
this will be a night that will be
remembered for all the best reasons.
Only 300 tickets available and only
$25 per ticket entry. Raffle tickets
also available with a total prize
value of $3000 all donated by Sunshine
Coast businesses.
Tickets $25 |
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| AUGUST
08 |
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| Sun
3 |
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JON
ENGLISH with JONAH’S ROAD
A prolific songwriter, experienced
screen composer, and a popular actor
with wide community recognition and
critical public acclaim, Jon English
is undoubtedly one of Australia’s
most successful, loved, and enduring
recording and performing artists.
Jonah’s Road, has developed
a significant following in the country
music scene over the past few years.
The contemporary sound is a feature
gaining them many new fans and the
respect of their peers thanks to tight
vocal harmonies and great songwriting
by Jay, John and Rod.
Tickets $25 |
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| Sat 9 |
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Liz Frencham
and Robbie Long
'Snapshots of you and me' Tour
You
can’t get better entertainment
or dollar value than this –
two of Australia’s highly respected
and much loved musicians and performers
on tour together. Having performed
to a sell out crowd for the CD launch
gig at the National Folk Festival
for her you & me vol.1 duets CD
(featuring Frencham originals as well
as a wide range of covers with friends,
including “Black Coffee”
with Kristina Olsen), the incomparably
engaging singer, bassist and songwriter
Liz Frencham announces her highly
anticipated “you and me”
national tour.
And what a tour it will be, with Liz
performing the “you and me”
songs in style with one of Australia’s
finest guitarists, Robbie Long (The
Lawnmowers, Kate Fagan). With a long
history of eclectic musical taste
and outstanding musicianship, Robbie
recently added Australian Flat Pick
Guitar Champion to his list of achievements.
And the secret is out, Robbie is a
mean vocalist to boot!
Tickets $15 |
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| JULY
08 |
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| Fri
18 |
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TEX
PERKINS with James Cruickshank
Tex Perkins is hitting the road again
- this time just bringing his swag
and acoustic guitar. Joining Tex on
his travels is good friend and former
Cruel Sea cavalier James Cruickshank.
Tex and James had some good laughs,
some good stories and played some
quality shows as they staggered around
the country together in December last
year. Not satisfied with just that
tour, the boys are doing it all over
again.
Tex Perkins is not one to take a break.
In his spare time, he has just finished
the recordings for his new studio
album, being released through Universal
Records this year. This latest recording
has left Tex itching to hit the road
again.
Tex’s perfect accomplice for
his travels is James Cruickshank,
who has a history of sharing the stage
with Tex. Whilst also being an occasional
Dark Horse, a regular Blackeyed Susan,
and a honorary member of the Mick
Harvey and Nick Barker clans. Last
July James made a celebrated reappearance
onto the music scene with his latest
creation ‘Hello Human’
to glowing national reviews.
Tickets $30 |
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| Sat
26 |
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ANGIE
HART (Frente) with Dave McCormack
(Custard)
You might remember a major event in
Australian pop called Frente. They
were from Melbourne; the singer Angie
Hart was only seventeen when they
began and only a couple of years older
when they started having enormous
hits. It all went crackers for Frente.
Totally off the scale in terms of
stardom and recognition and all that.
Angie was just a girl. But boy, the
girl could always sing.
That was then. This is now. Angie’s
got her own thing going on, finally.
And this is the thing: back then with
Frente, it was like she was trying
to be the singer and trying hard with
her singing. Now it’s all totally
effortless, the most natural thing
in the world. It seems ridiculous
that she never did a solo album before.
It seems unthinkable. How could it
be that Angie Hart is only now ready
to be out on her own?
Well – she is. The debut solo
album is called Grounded Bird and
it’s lovely and strangeregular
Blackeyed Susan, and a honorary member
of the Mick Harvey and Nick Barker
clans. Last July James made a celebrated
reappearance onto the music scene
with his latest creation ‘Hello
Human’ to glowing national reviews.
Tickets
$25 |
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| JUNE
08 |
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| Sat
7 |
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THE MILLIONAIRE$
THE MILLIONAIRE$
are an Australian indie super group
that play their own brand of country
music, with David McCormack guitar
& vocals, Jim Elliott drums,
Brendan Gallagher guitar & vocals
and Michael Galeazzi double bass.
Jim Elliott is a founding member
of legendary band ‘The Cruel
Sea’. The winner of six ARIA
awards, the Cruel Sea created a
style of rock which extended Australian
rock & roll culture and, at
the same time, made them one of
the most successful Australian groups
of the '90s. Brendan Gallagher is
best known as singer/songwriter
with Karma County. Formed in 1995
the band has released 5 albums.
Over the last 10 years they have
performed all over Australia. Brendan
has played on recordings for artists
like David Bowie, Kylie Minogue
and Paul Mac.David McCormack is
best known for fronting Brisbane
band Custard throughout the '90s.
As well as innumerable side projects
he spent the time following Custard's
breakup performing as a member of
the Titanics and later as a solo
performer with the Polaroids. Michael
Galeazzi is a member of Karma County.
In 1994 he created jazz group Java
Quartet and continues to direct
this most personal of projects.
Tickets $15 |
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| Sat
14 |
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PAUL GREENE
+ Rob Lonstaff + Sue Anne
After almost
4 weeks in the top on the itunes
Blues/Roots Top Albums Chart, Paul
Greene’s new album Distance
Over Time has finally up crept to
#1. Distance Over Time is a phenomenal
showcase for Paul Greene’s
songwriting skills, justifying the
many critics who regard him as one
of Australian music’s best-kept
secrets. Melbourne's 3PBS’s
tipped it as one of the best Blues
& Roots Tip albums on week of
release while Rhythms said:
"As far
as musicians go, you can liken Culburra
Beach based singer / songwriter,
Paul Greene to a fine wine - maturation
is the key here, and while there's
a while to go, perhaps before you'd
dust him off and enjoy him with
your veal cordon bleu, he's well
on his way, having been down in
the cellar doing the hard yards
for quite some time now." (Sam
Fell, Freelance Writer - Rhythms
/ Inpress / Drum Media/Mess+Noise
/ Australian Guitar)
Sydney Morning
Herald’s Bernard Zuel remarked
how he moves effortlessly “from
rustic folk-pop to unreconstructed
rocker; from herbal roots ex-surfer
type to intense singer-songwriter”.
"Greene's genuine songwriting
stands above all else" proclaimed
the Newcastle Herald; “You
could be forgiven for thinking we
may have our own Jack Johnson but
Greene is more than that!”
exclaims the Daily Telegraph. DIG
radio says, “Paul Greene is
growing into one of the best Australian
singer songwriters” whilst
Nova called his music “refreshingly
honest and as catchy as you like”
before anointing him Australia’s
best unsigned acoustic act in 2007.
Already spinning
on radio from the new album, Greene’s
stunning interpretations of The
Waterboys’ classic The Whole
Of The Moon (which was given the
seal of approval by its composer,
The Waterboys main man Mike Scott,
who proclaimed it to be a ``great
version`` before praising Greene
for his amazing vocals), and Jeff
Buckley’s The Last Goodbye
(a JJJ favourite lifted from the
Buckley tribute album Stars In Their
Belly).
Greene has taken
a staunchly independent path, selling
nearly 30,000 albums locally. He
has played countless festivals,
bar rooms and concert halls across
Australia and recently toured with
Grammy winning U.S singer/songwriter
Patty Griffin and platinum selling
country rocker Adam Brand. Greene
kicked his own national tour on
May 21.
Tickets $15 |
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| Sat
21 |
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STEPHEN
CUMMINGS (Sports)
“My
name is Stephen, and I’m a
melancholic …”
Stephen
Cummings is an Australian folk/roots
pop singer-songwriter. He has been
making music for more than three
decades. The quest for the perfect
pop song continues with Space Travel,
his new album, which comes 30 years
after ‘The Sports’ first
record, and 25 years after his debut
solo single, ‘We All Make
Mistake’s.
Space Travel is Stephens 13th proper
full-length album. He recorded it
over a series of short sessions.
The songs were written mostly during
the summer of ’06. “I
don’t want to go into too
much detail about the songs, but
I will point out that there are
my usual themes of forgiveness and
mucking up.” Said Stephen
Tickets $25 |
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| Fri
27 |
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MASON RACK
BAND + Brian Fraser Trio + Pop Stanton
Mason originates
from Southport on Queensland’s
sunny Gold Coast. With his outstanding
vocals, guitar and lap slide guitar,
Mason continues to deliver a high
impact performances to audiences
everywhere he and his members appear.
Together with his band , Mason feels
most comfortable playing blues,
rock and original live music locally
and interstate. MASON started performing
at the tender age of 6, father BILLY
RACK was an awesome muso and all
round legend. Mason is a local artist
with incredible talent and passion
for his music!
Brian Fraser's song writing and
finger-picking guitar-playing talents,
combined with his gruff vocal style
and entertaining showmanship, have
been acclaimed around the country.
With three solo albums and years
of constant touring, he has built
a reputation as one of Australia's
finest acoustic blues performers.
Tickets $15 |
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29 |
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JEFF LANG
+ Kara Grainger
With his eloquent
guitar, sweet voice and plainspoken
yet sensitive approach to the original
and traditional source material,
Jeff Lang is expanding the boundaries
of traditional folk, country and
blues to create a new brand of nontraditional
music which is undeniably and deeply
steeped in tradition, yet with its
imagination set on future horizons.
Arranged with the utmost simplicity,
the duo format of Lang’s superb
guitar accompanied by Grant Cummerford’s
deft bass playing allows the stories
of ‘Half Seas Over’
to be delivered in their utmost
power. As the quiet intensity of
their playing builds, driven by
the relentless pace of each story,
the duo paint indelible pictures
– a copper miner closing his
eyes to dream of flight, a murderer
watching the wind ruffle the water
that will be his lover’s grave.
Jeff will be touring nationally
through May & June to support
this release with blues/folk singer
songwriter Kara Grainger, in support
of her debut solo album,
“Grand & Green River”
Tickets $25 |
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08 |
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2 |
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MARTIN
MARTINI & The BONE PALACE ORCHESTRA
+ The Blackwater Fever
Martin
Martini and The Bone Palace Orchestra
are a raucous downtrodden gypsy rock
band from the north side of Melbourne
Australia that formed in 2005.
With an ever increasing cult following
hooked on their unique and addictive
music it is not hard to see why Martin
Martini and The Bone Palace Orchestra
have booked out shows at the prestigious
Famous Spiegeltent Melbourne and as
the band of the Adelaide Fringe Festival
2006, the HiFi Ballroom as the resident
house band during the Melbourne International
Comedy Festival 2006/2007, Woodford
Folk Festival 2005/2006 etc etc.
With a sound that fuses funk with
junk, circus with rock and everything
from waltz, swing, blues and gypsy
in-between, The Bone Palace create
another world of sound to enter. Their
infectious, old-world grooves and
head-high tackle-lyrics have drawn
crowds and fans in larger and larger
numbers, hooked on the music and the
unpredictable nature of their stage
show.
Tickets $16 |
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3 |
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JACK
AND THE GIANT KILLERS
(feat. Marcello from The Toothfaeries)
+ DION READ & The AFTERTHOUGHTS
(Melb)
+ Joei
+ Michael Backhouse
Jack
and the Giant Killers are one of
those Brisbane bands you can just
feel are going to be big. Jack Vaney
- Vocals/Guitar, Marcello Malani
- Guitar/Vocals, Mark Heady - Very
Bass/Vocals Matt Burgess- Skins/Cymbals
Dion Read &
The Afterthoughts are one of the
new young crop of exciting singer/songwriter
bands to emerge out of Melbourne.
Recently completing their debut
release, “The Shoes and Gloves
EP,” The Afterthoughts fuse
Dion’s love of a well-crafted
song with hard hitting piano and
sharp wit, creating unique and sophisticated
pop.
Tickets $15 |
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10 |
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GRACE
KNIGHT + Ange Takats
She's gone
and done it again. First, Grace
Knight took the Eurogliders pop
band to chart topping success throughout
the 80s, then she became Australia's
number one selling Jazz Diva in
the 90s, and now... for something
completely different...!!
Working with Tom Misner and Jochen
Muller from Mirage 301, Grace has
just completed her latest album.
Titled "Zeitgeist" this
new album is a blend of textures,
genres and styles, taking the listener
on an exciting journey through sexy
grooves, tribal rhythms, and amazing
harmonies.
Tickets $30 |
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Sat 17 |
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HARRY
MANX (Canada) + Yeshe
They call his music “Mysticssippi”
and even Bruce Springsteen is a fan
- unique Canadian bluesman Harry Manx
returns for a long-awaited Australia-wide
tour, bringing with him a stunning
new “live” album to follow
the success of his “Live at
The Basement” DVD of 2004 and
his acclaimed “Mantras for Madmen”
studio album of 2006.
Harry’s been dubbed an “essential
link” between the music of East
and West. Having lived in Europe,
Japan, India and Brazil, it was his
five-year tutelage with renowned Rajasthani
musician Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (Grammy
winner with Ry Cooder for “A
Meeting by the River”) that
forged his now signature east-meets-west
style of music, infusing traditional
American earthy 12-bar blues with
a subtle hint of mystic Indian sounds.
Playing lap-slide guitar, harmonica,
cigar-box guitar, banjo, stomp box
and the 20-stringed Mohan Veena, Harry
envelopes his audience into “The
Harry Zone” with his warm vocals
and haunting original songs, plus
his quirky reworks of some classic
blues.
Tickets $39 |
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31 |
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THE
BLACK SORROWS + The Express
Like static on the dial, a look
comes back in style...
The Black Sorrows are back!
One of Australias most-loved bands
who have sold more than one million
albums and released classic singles
such as Chained To The Wheel, Harley
& Rose and Hold On To Me returns
to Joes’ for what’s
bound to be another sell out nigh,t
this masterful musical chameleon
will take us on another unforgettable
trip.
Bringing the songs to life is a
stellar Black Sorrows lineup, including
James Black (also the leader of
SBS RocKwiz Orchestra), Claude Carranza,
Steve Hadley and Tony Floyd and
of course, Joe Camilleri.
Tickets $28 |
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08 |
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5 |
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BOBBY
FLYNN and The OMEGA THREE + Dan Parsons
Bobby's long
awaited CD "Out Front" is
out now and racing up the charts.
Out Front debuted at number 57 in
the ARIA International charts, 15
in the ARIA Australian music charts,
6 in the AIR (Independent) charts,
and has been up to number 6 in the
iTunes top albums for Australia. Music
isn’t crafted from statistics
though, it comes out through feelings
and thoughts and Bobby has plenty
of them.
Tickets $25 |
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12 |
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KRISTINA
OLSEN (USA) + Special Guests
Eric Bibb’s
support act last time around, Kristina
Olsen is one of the most entertaining
and compelling performers on the international
folk circuit. A fine instrumentalist
(acoustic guitar, steel-body slide
guitar, saxophone, concertina and
piano) as well as a powerful songwriter
with a big bluesy voice, Kristina
has audiences around the world coming
back for more.
Her mix of strong songs in the troubadour
tradition, some jazz-inspired sounds
and powerful bottleneck blues (as
well as her hilarious storytelling)
makes for a diverse and satisfying
musical experience, on stage and on
disc.
Born in San Francisco and raised in
Haight-Asbury during the 1960's, Kristina's
approach to music and life was formed
by that environment of vital cultural
expression, social activism and diverse
musical influences. She now calls
Venice Beach, Los Angeles home but
rarely sees it from touring ten months
a year.
Tickets $20 |
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19 |
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BLUEHOUSE
+ Hussy Hicks
As one
of Australia's premier independent
bands, Bluehouse have stamped out
their own unique style by writing
folk-flavored pop melodies meshed
with powerful, intricate harmonies
and inspired guitar and bass playing,
along with an engaging, lively show
that heaps healthy doses of sardonic
wit and humor in between songs.
The dynamic
duo of Jacqueline Walter and Bernadette
Carroll first met in a pub in Melbourne
in 1995. They have since forged
a successful career worldwide, by
honing their performance skills
through beautiful singing, clever
thinking and near constant touring.
They have received five-star reviews
from critics and fans alike.
Tickets $25 |
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| MARCH
08 |
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| Thurs
6 |
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LOUDON
WAINWRIGHT III (USA) + Lucy Wainwright
Roche Candid,
humourous and emotionally powerful
songwriter Loudon Wainwright III is
returning to Australia for a highly
anticipated national concert tour
in March 2008.
A regular to these shores, it’s
certainly been too long since Australian
audiences have been able to experience
this unique and influential performer
in person. Loudon is heading to Australia
in support of his acclaimed new album,
‘Strange Weirdos’ Music
From and Inspired by the Film Knocked
Up. The record was produced by Joe
Henry (Solomon Burke, Aimee Mann),
who described the result as the “best
Loudon Wainwright album in 15 years.”
Don’t miss this one of a kind
artist on his upcoming Australian
tour.
Tickets $50 |
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14 |
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CHAIN
+ Phil Manning Solo The
originators of ‘Oz Blues’,
Chain are the only blues band in the
world to have a number one on Australian
charts with ‘Black’n’Blue’.
That song sat at #1 for 18 weeks before
being squeezed out by Daddy Cool's,
'Eagle Rock'. Together with singer
Matt Taylor another number one ‘I
Remember When I Was Young’ &
the double gold album ‘Toward
The Blues’ ensured them a place
in rock history.
Tickets $25 |
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15 |
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RON
SEXSMITH (Canada) + Special Guests
Ron Sexsmith
maps the human heart with surgical
skill and great compassion. He offers
us hard-earned pieces of wisdom, all
set to strong yet gentle melodies
and sung unaffectedly, with emotional
eloquence and genuine soul. These
are his creative signatures, and they
have earned the Toronto-based singer/songwriter
immense respect from his peers, critics,
and a devoted international audience.
These assets are vividly displayed
on Time Being, the latest addition
to a formidable catalogue. The Toronto
Star recently noted that "Ron
Sexsmith has produced a body of quality
work that's unequalled in contemporary
Canadian music in originality and
musical daring." It is no stretch
to extend that statement into the
international arena, as a vast number
of Ron's peers would agree.
Tickets $43.50 |
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19 |
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GUY
DAVIS (USA) + Hat Fitz (solo)
It's difficult
to know where to begin with the story
of New York City bluesman Guy Davis.
Accomplished and acclaimed as a musician,
composer, actor, director and writer,
Davis somehow makes the term multi-talented
seem woefully inadequate. The routes,
and roots, of his blues are as diverse
as the music form itself. It can be
soulful, moaning out a people’s
cry, or playful and bouncy as a hay-ride.
He's a musician, composer, actor,
director, and writer. But most importantly,
Guy Davis is a bluesman. The blues
permeates every corner of Davis' creativity.
Guy is a national treasure in the
USA as are his famous actor/activist
parents. Check out Guy’s website
and I’m sure we’ll see
you at the show.
Tickets $25 |
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20 |
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JAKE
SHIMABUKURO (HAWAII) + Special Guests
Playing jazz,
blues, funk, classical, bluegrass,
folk, flamenco, and rock, Jake’s
mission is to show everyone that the
ukulele is capable of so much more
than only the traditional Hawaiian
music many associate it. Though many
still have trouble pronouncing his
last name and the instrument he plays,
Jake Shimabukuro (she-ma-boo-koo-row)
is becoming recognized as one of the
world’s top ukulele (oo-koo-LAY-lay)
musicians. Renowned for lightning-fast
fingers and revolutionary playing
techniques, Jake views the ukulele
as an “untapped source of music
with unlimited potential.” His
virtuosity defies label or category.
Tickets $20 |
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27 |
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LIOR
+ ABBY DOBSON (Leonardos Bride)
Following
on from his critically acclaimed
debut album - 'Autumn Flow' - Lior
has been hard at work recording
his follow up album. Lior's second
album was independently released
on the 9th Feb '08. 'Corner of an
Endless Road' is the album in which
the gifted songwriter has deviated
from the norm of 'his' genre. From
the opening track, you are drawn
into an aural landscape of another
culture, another life, another mind
that seems littered with raw and
unhesitant feeling. But more importantly,
you are drawn instinctively to a
strong voice that says a million
things......
Multi gold-selling artist, Abby
Dobson is a highly regarded and
popular singer and songwriter in
the Australian music industry. With
her band ‘Leonardo’s
Bride’, she recorded the album
‘Angel Blood’, including
the single ‘Even When I’m
Sleeping’ achieving gold sales
for both album and single, which
also won APRA's Song Of The Year
1998. She has collaborated with
many Australian artists, such as
Paul Mac, and has written for film
and television including the highly
popular and award winning series
Secret Life Of Us for which she
wrote 3 songs which received much
national airplay. A passionate and
edgy pop writer with a powerhouse
voice.
Tickets $30 |
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29 |
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RORY
McLEOD (UK) + Special Guests
Rory Mcleod
- ex-circus clown and fire eater.
A one man soul band, poet and story
teller, singing his own unique upbeat
dance stories. A modern travelling
troubadour using tap shoes, acappella,
harmonica, guitar, trombone, spoons,
finger cymbals, bandorea, djembe and
various percussion instruments!
Rory has travelled the globe for different
reasons at different times, from Asia
to the middle East from Gambia to
Cuba, Central America, Australia,
North America, Canada, Europe and
other nooks and crannies of the earth.
"I've travelled to look for work,
to mend a broken heart, to be with
someone I longed for. I'd travel to
visit friends and on the way I'd make
new ones, I'd roam because I was curious
to see what was around the next corner,
sometimes I travelled to follow the
warmer weather and migrate... like
the birds and the big whales and fishes
do" Rory.
Tickets $25 |
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30 |
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ABBY
DOBSON + Special Guests
Multi gold-selling
artist, Abby Dobson is a highly regarded
and popular singer and songwriter
in the Australian music industry.
With her band ‘Leonardo’s
Bride’, she recorded the album
‘Angel Blood’, including
the single ‘Even When I’m
Sleeping’ achieving gold sales
for both album and single, which also
won APRA's Song Of The Year 1998.
She has collaborated with many Australian
artists, such as Paul Mac, and has
written for film and television including
the highly popular and award winning
series Secret Life Of Us for which
she wrote 3 songs which received much
national airplay. A passionate and
edgy pop writer with a powerhouse
voice.
Tickets $22 |
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| FEBRUARY
08 |
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2 |
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A night at
the ‘CHELSEA’ featuring...
Ange Takats, Tom Woodward & Cameron
Elliot
In
the late sixties the Chelsea Hotel
was known as a “rest stop for
rare individuals”…a place
where music legends like Bob Dylan,
Leonard Cohen, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell,
Janis Joplin and Tom Waits spent time.
“A night at the Chelsea”
will showcase the music of Ange Takats,
Tom Woodward and Cameron Elliott –
three singer songwriters who have
been influenced by the musicians who
jammed at the infamous New York hotel.
Singing original compositions as well
as classic Americana covers, these
songwriters will perform at Joe’s
transporting their audience back to
an era when lyrics mattered, melodies
were intricate and music inspired.
Sunshine Coast performer Ange Takats
began her musical journey singing
Joni Mitchell songs in a small folk
bar in Bangkok where she lived for
two years. After releasing her first
EP in 2007, Ange has played support
for Bobby Flynn and Abby Dobson @
Joes as well as various festivals
across the country. Canberra based
alternative country bluesman Tom Woodward
is rapidly carving himself a niche
as a reliable preacher of wicked and
wanton hymns. His music is raw, his
lyrics are sharp and poignant. But
just as concerned as he is with mortality,
melancholia and the macabre, he also
paints a commemorative illustration
of humanity. In stark contrast to
the roughness of Tom’s voice,
Brisbane based Cameron Elliott adds
a reassuring smoothness to each and
every song. The key to Cameron Elliott’s
originality lies in his somewhat unusual
childhood. Having lived in England,
America, Japan and Malaysia all before
the age of 10, the subject matter
of Cameron's poetic lyrics is often
observational and reflective.
Tickets $12 |
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SONiA (USA)
& Disappear Fear + Kristy Apps
Whether
in the bomb shelters "Miklats"
in Israel or summer camps in Palestine,
Human Rights Events, Colleges, Festivals
or Venues around the world SONiA is
always striving to disappear fear
and spread her message of Peace. In
fall 2007 SONiA released a new CD
with her band ‘disappear fear’
to the world (al mundo). “t
a n g o" features 13 songs in
Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic and English.
To list just the highlights of Sonia’s
achievements here would be to long.
A favourite at the recent Woodford
festival for many and as one very
high profile performer said “At
last, a protest artist with that substance
from the 60s/70’s we thought
we’d lost”…follow
the link for more info.
Tickets $15 |
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22 |
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TINPAN ORANGE
+ Guests
“If
my voice had a baby, it would be hers”
– Renee Geyer
Singer
songwriter duo, Jesse and Emily Lubitz,
write with flare about the poetics
of the everyday uncanny. Their band,
TinPan Orange, find on their musical
journeys love in a flood and solitude
in a crowd, binding the momentary
with the eternal and the playful with
the wretched.
Supported by the weeping violin of
'maestro' Alex Burkoy, and a stirring
rhythm section provided by Gidon Symons
(bass) and Chris Doig (drums), the
songs are dynamic, dramatic, almost
cinematic, yet truly wholesome. Another
highly recommended Woodford act.
Tickets $15 |
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23 |
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The RE-MAINS + Guests
Country
rock’n'roll begins in the accelerator.
Press it down moderately hard as you
motor across the Great Dividing Range.
Ease off as you plummet towards Uralla,
or in the other direction, gallop
by Bolivia, mindful of the kangaroos
arrayed in ranks, saluting ere they
make the mad dash to glory.
Head out west, to Nymagee and beyond.
The ghost of a shearer, white-eyed,
will join you in the passenger seat.
Nod hello, and keep driving, to the
coalface.
At the coalface of country rock’n'roll
it is frequently dusty, dry and hard
work. Beware of burrs in the boxer
shorts, dirt in the engines, dust
in the amps. You may take the stage
uncertain why the endless miles, the
untold broken strings.
But take a break, sleep it off. Steer
your motor to the City Tavern Tamworth.
Sit back and regale yourself with
the careening, shambolic strains of
country rock’n'roll. Johnny
Cash. Jon Spencer. Johnny Green. Bob
Dylan. Ragadoll. The Australian Beefweek
Show. Tonchi. The Re-mains. Identify.
Taste the stench of cordite and ozone.
Drink of the fluids amber, pale, spirituous
and sweet emanating from the bar.
Breathe deep. That smell is the sweat
of country rock’n'roll.
Tickets $15 |
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29 |
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DAVID
ROSS MACDONALD (Waifs, Missy Higgins)
The UNDESIRABLES (Canada)
Aside
from being the Waifs drummer for
the last nine years and having drummed
for Missy Higgins and the Audreys,
David Ross Macdonald also happens
to be one of this country’s
finest guitarists and singer/songwriters.
“David Ross Macdonald is one
of those few songwriters like Nick
Drake, Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes),
and Josh Ritter that can captivate
his listeners armed only with a
voice and guitar.” American
Songwriter Magazine “David
Ross MacDonald's vocals, lyrics,
and intricate fingerstyle guitar
playing bring to mind a collaboration
between Nick Drake and a mid-1970s
Bruce Cockburn... “ Acoustic
Guitar Magazine "...deft guitar
playing ... polished songwriting
... pristine, thoughtful folk rock..."
Penguin Eggs Magazine
The Undesirables are Corin Raymond
and Sean Cotton hailing from Toronto,
Ontario, Canada. For more than ten
years this duo has blazed an international
trail that now brings them to Australia
with their beguiling, haunting and
entertaining show. Their songs and
theatrics draw upon mystical, weird
and heart felt worlds and characters,
past, present, future, real and
imaginary... hard to describe, but
maybe, if you stumbled upon a writers
tavern where Tom Waits, Jim Morrison,
Charles Dickens and Ray Bradbury
were sharing old stories and ale
laden songs, then just maybe you
might be getting close to the energy
and verve of The Undesirables.
Tickets $15 |
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The
TOOTHFAERIES + Dave Flower Band
Toothfaeries
became one of Brisbane’s most
popular bands during the 1990s. An
integral part of the explosion of
the local live music scene in the
early part of the decade, they were
intimately associated with the birth
and survival of The Zoo, Brisbane’s
most enduring music venue. Playing
roots music before the category existed,
their acoustic folk/pop sound was
joyful, passionate, and made them
a staple of the Maleny/Woodford and
Australian National Folk Festivals,
although the band also played repeatedly
at Livid and the Big Day Out. The
Toothfaeries released three CDs, and
are still sought after today.
Tickets
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5 |
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THAT
1 GUY (USA) + Tjupurru
Like a one-man
band plucked from the pages of Dr.
Seuss, ‘That 1 Guy’ delivers
earthshaking future funk from ”the
magic pipe” to accompany his
madcap lyrics about turbo snails,
meat storms, and weasel pot pies."
Necessity is the mother of invention,
but in the case of Mike Silverman’s
slamming, futuristic funk act, the
normal rules of biology just don’t
apply. This one guy is one of the
most prolific and insanely genius
musicians we’ve met in quite
some time. With a rap sheet a mile
long, including a slot on Tom Waits
latest triple CD, and a reputation
for turning out ‘over the top’
live shows where ever he plays, this
virtuoso is a class act all the way.”
Tickets
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9 |
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SUNSHINE
& CLOUDS…
Featuring: TIM FREEDMAN, OLD MAN
RIVER, JOEL PLASKETT (Can) &
the CUTHBERT NIGHTWALKERS CHOIR
Three
of the country’s most popular
singer songwriters Tim Freedman,
Ohad Rein (Old Man River) and Joel
Plaskett (yeah, he’s Canadian
– but we love him) will be
hitting the road for a triple header
tour with The Cuthbert Night Walkers
Choir in 2008 taking in most of
the East Coast. 2007 has been a
great year for all three artists
– Freedman’s band The
Whitlams performed a series of sold
out gigs backed by a Symphony Orchestra
at the Sydney Opera House; Ohad
has found national exposure thanks
to his catchy pop song La and Plaskett
pleased thousands of fans when he
toured Australia with his band earlier
this year before picking up the
Songwriter of the Year gong at the
Canadian East Coast Music Awards.
Tickets $25 |
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19 |
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AURORA
JANE + BETH PRESTON (USA)
On the road
24/7, Australian artist Aurora Jane
has a story like no other. Her music
reflects the vast distances she travels,
spanning diverse genres, but residing
most comfortably in a funky, rootsy
groove. Sharing stories while she’s
on the move between the Australian
desert, India & North America,
Aurora Jane’s songs display
an insightful global perspective,
yet retain a breathtaking intimacy.
Aurora Jane’s latest album “Universal
Language”, was recorded in Byron
Bay, Australia & New Delhi, India.
Beth Preston resonates to a higher
frequency. Not to say that she's not
down to earth- if you see her play,
you know that what she's sharing is
real. There is no effort to impress
in her presence- only to express herself
with primal resonant vocals, and lyrics
that not only pull the heartstrings,
but also carry a strong positive message.
Tickets $12 |
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07 |
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Kate
Miller-Heidke + Special Guests
Kate Miller-Heidke
truly arrives in 2007, and delivers
what we've been waiting for from an
Australian solo artist for years.
Her debut album 'Little Eve' beautifully
combines her unique theatrical musicality
and the fascinating peculiar girl
inside her. A collection of charming
and eclectic songs about a modern
girl's life and her world, it's the
result of a focused and determined
artist. Modest and gorgeous, Kate's
fresh, innovative and slightly loopy
folk/pop softly melts the insides
of her enchanted listeners, and establishes
her as one of Australia's most exciting
musical talents. www.katemillerheidke.com
Tickets $20 |
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| NOVEMBER
07 |
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ED
KUEPPER + Special Guests
To describe
Ed Kuepper's career in terms of his
unique artistic vision is to understate
the impact of his significant influence
on contemporary music. His career
has spanned over three decades, beginning
in 1973 when he formed the original
version of the proto punk band ‘The
Saints’ in Brisbane. From there,
Kuepper launched an extensive and
prolific solo career which has seen
the release of more than 15 albums
as well as several soundtracks and
music composed for experimental film.
Kuepper was awarded and nominated
for a string of ARIA awards throughout
the 1990’s and was inducted
into the Aria Hall of Fame in 2001
a move that was considered long overdue
by many observers. |
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| Sat
10 |
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ABBY
DOBSON + Emily Maguire
Multi gold-selling
artist, Abby Dobson is a highly regarded
and popular singer and songwriter
in the Australian music industry.
With her band ‘Leonardo’s
Bride’, she recorded the album
‘Angel Blood’, including
the single ‘Even When I’m
Sleeping’ achieving gold sales
for both album and single, which also
won APRA's Song Of The Year 1998.
She has collaborated with many Australian
artists, such as Paul Mac, and has
written for film and television including
the highly popular and award winning
series Secret Life Of Us for which
she wrote 3 songs which received much
national airplay. A passionate and
edgy pop writer with a powerhouse
voice. |
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| Sat
17 |
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ARCHIE
ROACH + SHANE HOWARD
Archie
Roach is a singer and songwriter
of remarkable strengths and insights.
A story teller in the tradition
of his ancestors, Archie relays
and retells intimate real life stories
as well as traditional stories of
the Dreaming. Having survived a
personal history that would have
left most artists scarred and defeated,
Archie Roach has emerged as an extraordinarily
gifted Australian artist with a
truly visionary talent. Shane Howard,
since the initial successful releases
with his band Goanna, has consolidated
his reputation as an inspired and
inspiring Australian songwriter
and performer. Through his music,
Shane Howard promotes the essence
and spirit of reconciliation. |
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18 |
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COLIN
HAY & Band
“You
Lookin' at Me?" is Colin Hay's
first studio album of new material
in over five years and is touring
internationally to expose it. A
tuneful, insightful meditation on
life, love, sobriety, maturity and
perseverance, the album finds Hay
at the absolute peak of his craft.
As a writer and vocalist, he has
never been more masterful. Few have
endured and survived the way Hay
has, from an unimaginable pinnacle
of success to forging new roads
as a working artist and songsmith.
Avoiding the pitfalls that have
claimed so many of his peers (drugs,
depression, delusion); he continues
to ply his craft. The rewards, he
knows now, are greater than something
as fleeting as fame and notoriety
as the ‘Men At Work’
frontman. "Are You Lookin’
at Me?" is the next chapter
in a story that is still unfolding
– on his terms. |
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| Sat
24 |
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The
BACKSLIDERS + Special Guests
Guitarist/
vocalist, founding member and key
songwriter for the band, Dom Turner
specialises in "bottle-neck"
slide guitar using resonator, as
well as 6 & 12 string guitars.
Dom’s influences are many
and varied – a blend of delta
blues, piedmont blues, rock, dub
and sounds of Asia. He is a highly
regarded speaker on blues and roots
music and has guested on ABC radio
programs and presented music workshops
at festivals and in universities
both nationally and internationally.
Rob Hirst is a founding member of
Midnight Oil. He was the drummer,
songwriter, and backing singer for
25 years. In 2003 he published his
first work of prose on Pan McMillan
– ‘Willies Bar &
Grill’ which is the story
of Midnight Oil’s USA &
Canadian tour just after September
11. Joining Dom and Rob is one of
Australia’s most innovative
and dynamic players, award-winning
harmonica genius Ian Collard (Collard,
Greens & Gravy) blazing his
own trail of raw energy into the
Backsliders sound. |
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07 |
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| Wed
3 |
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SHARON
SHANNON (Ireland) + Special Guests
The
Sharon Shannon Band is a collaboration
of Irish virtuoso accordionist Sharon
Shannon, Capercaille flute player
Michael McGoldrick, Jim Murray (Guitar)
and Dezi Donnelly (Fiddle). She's
a triple-platinum seller in Ireland
and acclaimed worldwide but onstage
the ever-smiling accordion and fiddle
player from County Clare is as self-effacing
and generous a musician as you could
wish to meet. Sharon is well-known
for pushing the musical envelope.
She has collaborated with everyone
from Sinead O'Connor to Steve Earle,
Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello &
The Waterboys. All musicians in
Sharon’s band are masters
of their individual instruments
but combined create a very unusual
but serious rhythm section. |
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| Sat
6 |
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STEPHEN
CUMMINGS + Fi
Clause
After
a successful career as lead singer
with the Sports in the late seventies,
Stephen Cummings carved himself
a career as an enigmatic, reticent
solo performer. Stephen has released
thirteen solo CDs. He writes in
a style that's at once personal,
earthy, erudite and literary. He's
easily one of the best singers this
country has ever produced. On top
of all this Stephen is a restless
soul who keeps himself from getting
bored by turning out some truly
fine records with scant regard for
trends or demographics. He is one
of the very few of his peers still
turning out records that match his
very best. |
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| Fri
12 |
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TYRONE
NOONAN & PAUL GREENE & KARL
BROADIE
The ‘HEAVY SOUL TOUR’
As co-singer
and instrumentalist for multi-platinum
selling Australian jazz/rock/pop
combo ‘George’, Tyrone
Noonan released a #1 debut album
(double platinum), won an ARIA award
and performed to 1.8 billion people
(the Rugby World Cup Opening Ceremony).
Paul Greene has released 4 solo
albums independently since 2001,
and through hard touring and well-honed
craft as a singer-songsmith, has
made his impact on the Australian
music scene with an unpretentious
ubiquity. Karl Broadie is a Sydney-based
singer-songwriter originally from
Edinburgh, Scotland. Since appearing
on the scene in 2002 Karl has been
gathering a reputation as a very
fine craftsman of songs. Critics
have praised his unique “sweetly
cracked” voice and drawn songwriting
comparisons to some of the finest
songsmiths including Townes Van
Zandt, Tom Waits and Neil Young.
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| Fri
26 |
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BOBBY
FLYNN + Massie Smith
Bobby's
back by popular demand after his
last sell out show at Joe's. Certainly
it's his voice, which brings to
mind the otherworldly tenderness
of Nick Drake and baritone flashes
of early '70s David Bowie: the idealism,
almost, of another time we may have
felt we lost. Whatever it is, 25-year-old
Bobby Flynn is one of the most exciting
and affectingly original singers
in Australia today. |
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| SEPTEMBER
07 |
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| Fri
14 |
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DEBORAH
CONWAY & WILLY ZYGIER + Kali Blunt
Deborah Conway
& Willy Zygier have been playing
together since the gold selling album
Bitch Epic in 1993. Many albums later
their music has been in the charts,
has been in the movies, the telly
& living rooms everywhere. Currently
they have turned their repertoire
into a warm & woody performance
of acoustic based songs featuring
their most recent release Summertown,
new tunes from their upcoming album
and some old favourites. This will
be a superb intimate performance with
one of Australia’s much loved
performers. |
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| AUGUST
07 |
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| Wed
8 |
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BRIAN
KENNEDY + Special Guests
Spotted by
Belfast international legend, Van
Morrison, Brian joined Van’s
renowned Blues and Soul World Tour
for a period of six years, performing
with some of the legends of the music
industry – Joni Mitchell, Ray
Charles, Bob Dylan, and many others.
He also backed Van on several albums
– Days Like This, The Healing
Game, Back on Top and others, combining
with Van and John Lee Hooker on the
live album, One Night in San Francisco.
Recognition of his exceptional vocal
talent came when asked by Van to record
the soundtrack version of Crazy Love
for the film When a Man Loves a Woman.
Be quick, as this show is sure to
sell out as it did in 04. |
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| Fri
10 |
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BLUEHOUSE
+ Metaphor As
one of Australia's premier independent
Duo’s, Bluehouse have stamped
out their own unique style by writing
folk-flavored pop melodies meshed
with powerful, intricate harmonies
and inspired guitar and bass playing,
along with an engaging, lively show
that heaps healthy doses of sardonic
wit and humor in between songs. |
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| Sat
25 |
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SARA
TINDLEY & the KINGFISHERS + Special
Guest Sara
Tindley has captured the attention
of musicians and broadcasters across
the nation with her latest effort
‘Lucky The Sun’, the follow
up to 2003's ‘5Days’.
Tindley has an interesting lyrical
sense, often relying on the use of
imagery to propel the narrative in
her songs. One would imagine this
style of writing to be quite difficult
and terribly awkward if not done well,
but Tindley manages to pull it off
seemingly effortlessly. Lyrically,
she shows shades of Paul Kelly and
Tim Rogers while musically sticking
to a Lucinda Williams-esque country
pop sound that's about as sweet as
anything that's come out of the country
for quite some time. |
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| JULY
07 |
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| Fri
20 |
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BOBBY
FLYNN + Ange Takats Ok
-Ok, so it's not our usual style to
be hosting Idol contestants, however,
this guy is not your homogenised type
of commercial music 'product', he's
the real deal. Certainly it's his
voice, which brings to mind the otherworldly
tenderness of Nick Drake and baritone
flashes of early '70s David Bowie:
the idealism, almost, of another time
we may have felt we lost. Whatever
it is, 25-year-old Bobby Flynn is
one of the most exciting and affectingly
original singers in Australia today. |
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| Sat
21 |
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WOLVERINES
+ Special Guests
Following
the great success of their 2003
Sail for Cystic Fibrosis Kids Tour,
The Wolverines have decided to,
once again, sail north from Sydney
to Far North Queensland, to raise
money for Kids in Need. This Rock
n Country tour will start on the
6th of July at the Cruising Yacht
Club of Australia, Rushcutters Bay,
will stop and do concerts at 18
ports along the way and end on the
5th of August at Silkwood, North
Queensland. They would like to raise
a ton of money for these kids. A
fun night and a worthy cause! |
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| JUNE
07 |
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| Fri
1 |
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The
BLACK SORROWS + Special Guests
One of
Australia’s most-loved bands
- who have sold more than one million
albums and released classic singles
such as Chained To The Wheel, Harley
& Rose and Hold On To Me - returns
to Joe’s Waterhole. Their
last show here sold out and was
one of our most memorable, energetic
gigs ever. |
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| Sun
3 |
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The
AUDREYS + Andrew Morris.
South Australia's
‘The Audreys’ feature
the sultry voiced Taasha Coates,
her 4 dapper suited boys and an
array of banjos, ukuleles, guitars,
violin, double bass and drums. Their
debut album ‘Between Last
Night And Us’ was released
in February 2006 to rave reviews
and an ARIA Award for Best Blues
& Roots Album. A favourite at
festivals and clubs alike, their
shows are exquisite, enchanting
and always unforgettable. |
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| MAY
07 |
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| Sat
5 |
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CHAIN
+ Phil Manning Support
The originators
of ‘Oz Blues’, Chain
are the only blues band in the world
to have a number one on Australian
charts Black’n’Blue.
Together with singer Matt Taylor
another number one I Remember When
I Was Young & the double gold
album ‘Toward The Blues’
ensured them a place in rock history. |
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| Sat
12 |
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DALLAS
FRASCA & her GENTLEMEN
+ HAT FITZ and ITCH
A Double
Header of serious Blues. This two
piece are a wall of guitars and
stomp box that delve into raw, double
duelling slides, launching from
a rock solid ground of roots influences.
There is no wonder The Oz press
have labelled her as ‘The
Modern Day Janis Joplin’ with
Frasca’s mammoth vocals.
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| Sat
26 |
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NEIL
MURRAY
Neil Murray
is one of Australia’s most
respected singer/songwriters and
has enjoyed a solo career since
1989. He has released five albums
“Calm & Crystal Clear”,
“These Hands”, “Dust”,
“The Wondering Kind”
and his latest - “Going The
Distance” – the songs
on these albums - from the rollicking
“Good Light in Broome”
to the prayerful “Native Born”,
describe an inner landscape to the
heart and soul of Australia. |
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| APRIL
07 |
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| Wed
4 |
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KIERAN
KANE, KEVIN WELCH & FATS KAPLIN
(USA)
Direct from the Byron Blues Festival
Kane, Welch & Kaplin nominated
"Group/Duo of the Year"
at the 2006 U.S. Americana Music Association
Awards and knocked Bruce Springsteen
of the number one spot on the US Americana
charts…convinced yet?
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| Fri
13 |
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GRADA (IRELAND)
One of hardest
touring bands in Ireland,
Gráda are based in Dublin and
Galway, Ireland, where they began
playing together in 2001. The group
draws from a wide range of influences,
which has seen them working with Vyviene
Long (cellist with Damien Rice); and,
as a producer, Trevor Hutchinson (Lúnasa,
Sharon Shannon, The Waterboys).
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| Sat
28 |
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THAT 1
GUY (USA) Like
a one-man band plucked from the pages
of Dr. Seuss, That 1 Guy delivers
earthshaking future funk from ‘The
Magic Pipe’ to accompany his
madcap lyrics about turbo snails,
meat storms, and weasel pot pies.
‘That 1 Guy’ is a musical
guerrilla by every definition and
no traditional Rock critic yardstick
can be applied to what he's doing. |
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| MARCH
07 |
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| Fri
2 |
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ERIC
BIBB & DANNY THOMPSON + Kristina
Olsen
Three
of the worlds’ greats in one
show.
This is destined to sell out fast. |
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| Sat
3 |
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LUNASA
(IRE) + The Kellys
Lúnasa,
the most sought-after band on the
international Irish music scene,
is returning to Australia in February
& March 2007, for a national
tour culminating in appearances
at Womadelaide and the Port Fairy
Folk Festival. This act sold out
on a Tuesday night back in 04…be
quick |
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| Sat
17 |
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PAUL
GREENE + Stuart O’Conner (UK)
St Paddys Day
Folk Diva
'Ani Difranco' was so impressed when
Paul Greene opened for her that she
sat side of stage every night for
every note of every song and his loyal
audience all over Australia know why! |
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Sat
24 |
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LUKA
BLOOM (IRE) + Sabrina Dinan (IRE)
An
uplifting and different night of
music guaranteed from much-loved
and highly acclaimed Irish singer-songwriter
Luka Bloom.
An inspired and inspiring performer,
his literate and melodic original
songs, sensitive interpretation
of others and impassioned live performances
have earned Bloom a devoted Australian
following. |
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Sat
31 |
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CHRIS
SMITHER (USA) “Chris
Smither delivers one of the most riveting
live shows you're ever likely to see.
His growling vocals, badass finger
picking and uniformly brilliant songs
are here in spades” Smither
is among the finest acoustic guitarists
anywhere in American music (Bonnie
Raitt calls him "my Eric Clapton").
ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE |
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| JANUARY
07 |
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| Fri
5 |
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PAUL
GREENE + Special Guests
Folk Diva
'Ani Difranco' was so impressed
when he opened for her that she
sat side of stage every night for
every note of every song and his
loyal audience all over Australia
know why! |
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| DECEMBER
06 |
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| Fri
22 |
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EMILY
MAGUIRE and BAND (UK/AUS)
+ Dan Lyons and Special Guests
Live @ Joe’s Christmas Party
Catch
this great songsmith before we lose
her to the world. Emily returns
to the UK again early next year
for 2 shows supporting Hollywood
star Steven Seagal, before heading
to the USA with her band to launch
her new album 'Keep Walking' in
New York in February 2007. |
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| NOVEMBER
06
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| Fri
3 |
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CHAD MORGAN
with GORDON LARKIN The
'Sheik of Scrubby Creek'...Another
legend plays @ Joe's |
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| Sat
18 |
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GRAEME
CONNORS
It is universally
acknowledged that Graeme Connors
is one of Australia’s finest
and most distinctive songwriters,
and that his music has changed the
way we see our country and ourselves. |
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| OCTOBER
06 |
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| Fri
6 |
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THE CHURCH
One of Australia’s
most successful acts visit Joes for
a great night of iconic pop/rock. |
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| Sat
7 |
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KELLY
JOE PHELPS
Seven
albums into his career, the jazz
guitarist turned acoustic country
blues man has increasingly been
balancing old standards and forgotten
nuggets with his own material. |
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| Sat
21 |
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THE
BLACK SORROWS Roarin Town Tour
+ EMILY MAGUIRE
Joe Camilleri
with the Black Sorrows has been
one of Australia's favorite bands
for more years than some of us care
to admit. Great night guaranteed.
'Roarin Town' CD launch. |
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| SEPTEMBER
06 |
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| Fri
1 |
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KING
CURLY
Paul Kelly reckons "their
name should be shouted from
the roof-tops." Harry
Angus from the Cat Empire
says they're "so strikingly
original, musically and lyrically,
that they can't really be
compared to anything."
Don’t get the critics
started or you'll be swimming
in superlatives till doomsday. |
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| Wed
6 |
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BOB
BROZMAN (USA) In Concert
The
King of the National Steel
Guitar is visiting the Coast
as part of his national tour,
Bob’s shows are filled
with humour, education and
jaw dropping, mind expanding
guitar work, a true master
of his art. |
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| Sat
16 |
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DAVID
ROSS MACDONALD ( The Waifs)
+ MARK MORONEY The
drummer for The Waifs also happens
to be one of Australia’s
finest finger style guitarists,
and singer/songwriters. Dave
is launching his third solo
outing ‘Knuckled Brass
and Bone’. Mark Moroney
also launches his newest effort
‘The Platform’. |
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| AUGUST
06 |
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| Sat
5 |
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DIRTY
LUCY + Matt Tonks
It’s been a long time
between drinks for Dirty Lucy,
after releasing their debut
album Dark Green in 2003 and
touring relentlessly to every
corner of the country for
two years solid. The girls
came off the road to give
the van a rest and retread
the tyres - and now they're
back. |
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| Fri
25 |
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KEVIN
BORICH EXPRESS
With a professional career
spanning 30 years, Kevin Borich
has done it all. Beginning
with the LA- DE- DA’S
in New Zealand, writing the
classic hit ‘Gonna See
My Baby Tonight’, to
his KEVIN BORICH EXPRESS and
The PARTY BOYS, Kevin has
performed at some of the biggest
Rock events Australia has
seen. |
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| JULY
06 |
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| Fri
21 |
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CHAIN
+ Phil Emmanuel
The originators of ‘Oz
Blues’, Chain are the
only blues band in the world
to have a number one on Australian
charts Black’n’Blue.
Together
with singer Matt Taylor another
number one I Remember
When I Was Young&
the double gold album ‘Toward
The Blues’ ensured them
a place in rock history. |
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| JUNE
06 |
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| Fri
16 |
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DALLAS
FRASCA with Geoff Curran +
The Blackwater Fever
The
raspy bottom end vocal, unified
with groove-based slide-dobro,
and pounding stomp box produces
Frasca’s trademark sound.
Influenced by Delta Blues
legends Robert Johnson, and
Mississippi Fred McDowell,
Dallas Frasca’s slide-guitar
sound is majestic. |
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| Sat
24 |
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RICHARD
CLAPTON + special guest Paul
Fogarty
Richard
Clapton is one of Australia's
foremost singer/songwriters.
In 2005 he set about making
the first acoustic album of
his career. Clapton stripped
back some of his favourite
songs - reimagining them in
a different environment. The
result is his 17th album REWIRED. |
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| MAY
06 |
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| Fri
5 |
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LIOR
+ iota
Lior's
sound is a rootsy mix of styles
that always harks back to
the lyric and melody. With
Middle Eastern heritage, Lior
also keeps the music of his
bloodline close to the surface.
It is Lior's voice that has
drawn most attention, capable
of both power and tenderness,
always delivered with soul
in its truest sense.
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| Fri
12 |
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FLOYD
VINCENT and the CHILD BRIDES
Over
the years the band has been
renowned for its consistent
and high quality live performances
with a musicianship and energy
level far above that of most
Pop/ Rock bands. |
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| APRIL
06 |
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Wed 12 |
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HARRY
MANX Trio (CAN) |
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Fri 21 |
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HOTHOUSE
FLOWERS (IRELAND) |
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| MARCH
06 |
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| Fri
10 |
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THE
RE-MAINS + Rae Spoon (Can)
The
hardest working band in Oz!!
The Re-Mains are Country Rock
n Roll and every other bands
favorite party band, you want
to dance? this is it!! Rae
Spoon has played every major
festival in Canada and has
toured his homeland seven
times, contemporary Roots
songwriting at its best.
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Thurs
16 |
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RICHARD
THOMPSON (UK) + Bron Ault-Connell
Richard
Thompson has already achieved
more as a songwriter and instrumentalist
than most musicians could do
in a lifetime. Since co-founding
Fairport Convention in the 1960's
his incredible gift has earned
him accolades and the respect
and admiration of his peers. |
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| Fri
17 |
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St
PATRICKS DAY PARTY
BARLEY SHAKES & Celtic
Blue Irish Dancers
This
is it folks, it’s finally
here. St Patrick’s Day
is upon us and we can party
like there is no tomorrow.
This Friday head to Joe’s
Waterhole and get in the spirit
of it all with one of Australia’s
best Irish bands and the Australian
champion Irish dancer for
2005. The best St
Paddy's day party on the Coast,
Guinness on tap, wear something
green...loads of prizes...best
dressed, best dancers etc. |
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| FEBRUARY
06 |
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| Fri
17 |
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THOSE
BLOODY MCKENNAS + The
Blackwater Fever
An
Australian band with the
world stage firmly set
in their sights. 'The
Bloodys' have played most
of the major festivals
in the country and have
supported some of the
worlds best. Lap slide
mandolin and wah wah flute...seriously
good fun...bring your
dancing shoes! |
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| JANUARY
06 |
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| Sat
21 |
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GWYN
ASHTON (UK/AUS) plus guest
artist Gwyn
Ashton was placed third
behind Jeff Beck and Gary
Moore in a recent guitarist
survey in Europe. This
solo acoustic show will
show the reason why, (think
Rory Gallagher). |
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| Sun
15 |
|
EMBER
SWIFT TRIO (CAN) + Alix
Olsen (USA)
Independent,
Canadian style-merging
trio. A huge hit at the
Woodford Festival, now
see a full set in a/c
comfort. |
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| Sat
14 |
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KARMA
COUNTY + guest artist…Jesse
Younan One
of Australia's most innovative
Roots acts, Karma County
spend most of the year
touring the world, catch
them while you can. |
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| Fri
13 |
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ASH
GRUNWALD + guest artist…
Jez Will
this JJJ Blues and Roots
show host be our next
John Butler?? If the awards
Ash has been receiving
is any indication...just
maybe. |
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| Fri
6 |
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FRUIT
+ Those Bloody McKennas
Supporting Michelle Shocked
back in September saw
this incredible group
have the crowd in a state
of awe at their sublime
harmonies and musicianship.
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| DECEMBER
05 |
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23 |
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EMILY
MAGUIRE - with band (UK) + Deb
Bond Last
show at Joe’s for the
year and what a great way to
wind up an amazing year of world
class live music on the Coast.
Emily recently opened for ‘The
Beautiful Girls in London, and
locally at The Shed. Catch this
act before they’re too
big for Joe’s.
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WOODFORD
DVD Evening + live music with
JACKIE MARSHAL & BIG BRASS
BED
Wind
down the w/end with a preview
of this **** DVD of theMajor
acts at Woodford 2004/5 followed
by the great live music of
Jackie Marshall and Big Brass
Bed. |
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| Sat
17 |
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ROYAL
SCAM a world class nod to STEELY
DAN plus Allan Kelly
Members
of this amazing band have played
with…(name drop heaven)
Earth Wind & Fire, Rick
Wakeman, JJ Cale, Procul Harem,
10cc, Beatles, Robin Ford, Georgie
Fame, Tina Turner, etc etc.This
10 piece international line
up of ‘A’ list musicians
play the highly complex and
popular music of ‘Steely
Dan.’ |
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10 |
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MICK
THOMAS and The SURE THING +
Jackie Marshall
WEDDINGS
PARTIES ANYTHING were one of
Australia’s favourite
Party bands, now the ex front
man and one of country’s
most respected songwriters is
back. |
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| Fri
9 |
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BARRY
CHARLES & GUESTS…CD
LAUNCH + Dan Lyons & Jay
Bishoff The
‘Big Voice” of the
Coast’s Roots music scene
launches his newCD with the
help of some of this country’s
finest musicians. |
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2 |
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JOE
CAMILLERI & BAKELITE RADIO
+ Lee Mellors
Don’t
miss this, it’s party
time. |
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05 |
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| Sat
26 |
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The
FLOOD + guest artists The RAIN
Kevin
Bennet and band return to Joes.
The Flood are consistently one
of the most popular acts we
have presented at Joe's. Plus,
before the Flood we must have
The Rain.
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| Fri
25 |
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MIHIRANGI
(ex Stiff Gins) + Josie Cubis
Contemporary
and soulful funky-world-roots
fusion. Mihirangi is fondly
remembered in this area from
her performances with "The
Stiff Gins" at various
Woodford Festivals, now Mihi's
solo shows are receiving similar
accolades.
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| Fri
18 |
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JOSH
ARNOLD + TAMARA STUART
Two
of ABC roots label artists in
one show, both in full band
mode and both with new award
winning albums.
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| Thu
17 |
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PLEASURE
KINGS + Owen Grey's Monkey Puzzle
A
top night of hard driving Guitar
Blues/Rock and Piano Boogie
Blues from some of the coasts
most experienced players.
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| Sun
13 |
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The
GREAT DIVIDING RANGE + guest
artist Known
as the principal songwriter
with Muzzy Pep and a host of
previous bands in Canada and
the US, Scott Blackley now returns
to centre stage with his new
album and new band.
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| Thur
10 |
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MICHAEL
FIX + Jason McGregor
ATTENTION
ALL GUITARISTS...Michael Fix
is considered by many to be
one of the greatest 'Fingerstyle'
guitarists in the country. Together
with Oz's 'Young Guitarist of
the Year' will make this a must
see show for advanced and budding
players or just fans of great
music.
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| Sat
5 |
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JODIE
MARTIN National CD launch tour
+ guest artists Rebecca Wright
Band & Dan & Jay
"One
of the best singer / songwriters
I've ever seen" (Josh...The
Waifs).
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| Fri
4 |
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NICK
BARKER [acoustic] + Paul Fogerty
Nick
launches his new acoustic
album "C sides"
from the "Liberation.
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05 |
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| Sun
30 |
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LUCIE
THORN & HEATH CULLEN (Melb)
+ Loren
Wind down the
weekend with this great singer/songwriter,
Lucie Thorne is one of those
gems you find occasionally and
keep in a special place.
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| Fri
28 |
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MIA
DYSON + guest artists
Mia's back with
a brand new band, featuring
Angus Diggs (Jeff Lang) on percussion.
Mia's last gig at Joe's was
a huge success and this one
is sure to sell out, so get
your tickets early.
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| Sat
22 |
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MATT
WALKER & ASHLEY DAVIES +
Sime Nugent
Three of Melbournes'
most respected Roots music artists
in one show. Mia Dyson claims
Matt as her main guitar influence
and lap slide teacher. Ashley
Davies is a drummers drummer
and Sime's vocals will melt
your ...
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| Sun
16 |
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KRISTINA
OLSEN (USA) + Mark Cryle
What a perfect
way to wind down the weekend,
an intimate concert with one
of the worlds' favourite folk.blues
artists.
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| Sat
15 |
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GEOFF
ACHISON and the SOULDIGGERS
Geoff has long
been considered one of Oz's
greatest blues/rock guitarist/vocalists
ever. The power and passion
of this band will leave you
stunned. A rare national tour
from this international act.
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| Sat
8 |
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LYNWOOD
SLIM (USA) + Hat Fitz
American Blues Harmonica Legend
Experience the real deal, this
all-star lineup of Texas/Chicago
Blues legends includes Thunderbirds
drummer Richard Innes and Guitarist
Alex Schultz from Rod Piazza
and the Mighty Flyers.
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| Fri
7 |
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THOSE
BLOODY McKENNAS + FAQ + THE
GIN CLUB
Three acts for
the price of one... strap on
your dancing shoes. This will
be fun, as usual.
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05 |
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| Fri
30 |
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GLENN
TILBROOK (UK SQUEEZE) + Mark
Maroney
Remember Cool
For Cats? The worlds' music
press has firmly planted Glenn
Tilbrook in the company of Lennon-McCartney
and Dylan as one of the worlds'
finest song-writers. This intimate
solo concert is the perfect
setting to experience one of
the best.
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| Sat
24 |
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SARITAH
(Perth) + Pauly B (George)
Saritah's music
is a fresh burst of strong spirit
and groove that is bound to
uplift and inspire. Acoustic,
roots, earth groove band.
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| Fri
23 |
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MICHELLE
SHOCKED (USA) |
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DESIGNATED
DRIVER INCENTIVE
When a group of three or more guests arrive with
a Designated Driver, the nominated driver will
receive an arm band entitling them to free soft
drink and/or coffee for the evening (conditions
apply). |
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