Kristy Cox launches her second Nashville recorded bluegrass album ‘Miles & Timezones’ at Radcliffe’s Restaurant along with a spectacular line-up of acoustic artists. Originally from South Australia, Kristy recently showcased her new songs at the Americana Music festival in the USA after gaining 3 top 10 radio hits in the Australian Country scene in 2010.
Joining her for the first time in Melbourne is International hit songwriter, Jerry Salley. A Stellar bluegrass singer, and seasoned performer, Salley has had songs recorded by everyone from Elton John to Loretta Lynn. Along with Carl Jaskson & Larry Cordle he recorded a track for the ‘Louvin Brothers Tribute – Livin’, Lovin’, Losin’ which won a Grammy in 2003 for Country Album of the Year.
To top off a great night, Victoria’s own Davidson Brothers will take the stage as they continue touring their latest release ‘Here To Stay’. Nominated for in Jagermeister Independent Music Awards in 2011, Lachlan & Hamish will demostrate theworld conquering musicianship that has earned them numerous National Bluegrass Championships, Golden Guitars and an ever growing fan base in the US & Europe.
You can find Kristy on tour around Australia launching her new album ‘Miles & Timezones’ here:
Sunday 22nd January, 2012The Pub – 3:00pm 99 Gunnedah Road, Tamworth NSW
Wednesday 1st February, 2012
East Brunswick Club – 7:30pm
280 Lygon St, East Brunswick VIC
Thursday 2nd February, 2012
Radcliffe’s Restaurant – 7:30pm
2-10 Radcliffe Street, Echuca VIC
Friday 3rd February, 2012
Goldmines Hotel – 8:30pm
49-57 Marong Road, Bendigo VIC
www.facebook.com/GoldminesBendigo
Saturday 4th February, 2012
Yinnar Hotel – 8:30pm
46-48 Main Street, Yinnar VIC
‘Little Bit of Wonderful’ is the first single from Kristy Cox’s forthcoming second Nashville recorded album ‘Miles & Timezones’. Available to radio NOW.
HOODOO GURUS TO HEADLINE THE AGE EG AWARDS 2011
Like Wow!
The Age EG is thrilled to announce legendary Australian band the Hoodoo Gurus as this year’s inductees into The Age EG Hall of Fame and the headline act for the 2011 Age EG Awards at the Prince Bandroom in St Kilda on Wednesday, November 23.
The Hoodoo Gurus were formed in Sydney in 1981 by Dave Faulkner, Brad Shepherd , James Baker and Clyde Bramley. The Gurus gave Australia such anthemic pop-rock gems as Leilani, Tojo, My Girl, I Want You Back, Bittersweet, Like Wow-Wipeout!, Miss Free Love ‘69 and What’s My Scene?. They will join their rock n’ roll colleagues Paul Kelly, Painters and Dockers, Died Pretty, Kim Salmon and TISM as the sixth act chosen by EG staff for the EG Hall of Fame in loving memory of former Age journalist and one-time EG editor Steve Waldon.
“We are very proud to include the Gurus, who gave us such brilliant albums as Mars Needs Guitars!, Blow your Cool! and Magnum Cum Louder, to our very exclusive Hall of Fame” says EG editor Jo Roberts. “Each year this night gets better and better and the Awards night gig has earned legendary status among discerning Melbourne music fans. After last year’s awards, Beat magazine said ‘you’d be hard-pressed to find anything else with this much spontaneity, or heart, in the musical calendar and that really sums it up. The EG Awards are a labour of love.”
Dave Faulkner was on hand at the 2008 EG Awards to induct friends and peers Died Pretty into the EG Hall of Fame. “It was like one big party, he said, “It’s a good one. It has the thing of not being industry- like, even though it is part of the industry…the EG Awards are different.”
Triple R’s own Jon Von Goes will host the awards this year, which will be opened by the four-sister phenomenon that is Victoria’s own Stonefield who this year have already wowed audiences from Glastonbury to LA’s Roxy. The sizzling house band the EG All-Stars (including Pete Luscombe, Dan Luscombe, Ash Naylor and Bill McDonald) will be performing along with other guest stars on the night, TBA.
Eight of the 10 EG Awards are chosen by EG readers, making it the largest reader-voted music awards in Australia, with last year’s online voting drawing a record 45,000 votes.
This year Patrick Donovan, Music Victoria CEO and Founder of the Age EG Awards will present two awards on the night – details TBA.
Online voting for the 6th Annual EG Awards opens on Friday October 7 at theage.com.au/entertainment.
Tickets are $45 and on sale at the Prince Bandroom website, princebandroom.com.au or through Moshtix.
The Age EG Awards is sponsored by rock legends Coopers Brewery and Triple R and new sponsors Crumpler and Allans Music+Billy Hyde. All profits go to Support Act Limited.
For further information, images or interviews please contact Karen Conrad Publicity on 0400 527 365 or email kcpublicity@optusnet.com.au
DAVIDSON BROTHERS LAUNCH NEW ALBUM ‘HERE TO STAY’ IN VICTORIA
Australia’s hottest bluegrass act, the Davidson Brothers released their brand new album Here To Stay on July 1.
Here To Stay contains eleven original tracks, ten of them written by Victorian based brothers Hamish and Lachlan. “We’ve managed to capture something of the energy of our live show on this record and it is our best yet,” said Lachlan.
Sharing the lead vocals, the Davidson Brothers shine on banjo, fiddle and mandolin and are supported by some of their favourite Nashville musicians on this release.
The songs on Here To Stay are old and new – steeped in bluegrass tradition, but with the patented Davidson Brothers energy. It’s Blue Grass, but it’s also New Grass. Check out the scorching 180 beat per minute banjo instrumental OMFG for a sample of what you will hear at a live gig!
Other stand out tracks include My Heart Can’t Believe My Eyes which is a classic heartbreak story written in traditional bluegrass style. Write Me A Letter is a song about loneliness that addresses the lack of personal interaction in the age of technology. Victoria expresses home state pride and the Double Plugger Strut is a stompin’ mandolin tune influenced by Australian culture.
Finalists in the 2010 Melbourne Prize for Most Outstanding Musicians, the Davidson Brothers traveled to Nashville to work on their fourth project with producer Mark Thornton and this time joined by Larry Marrs as coproducer. Mark played guitar with Jerry Reed for twelve years and Larry is a talented Kentucky native and has toured with the likes of George Jones, Randy Travis and Marty Stuart.
With two Golden guitar awards to their name and a handful of Australian Bluegrass Championship titles, Hamish and Lachlan are favourites at many folk and country festivals nation-wide and have also appeared on Spicks and Specks, Carols By Candelight, CMAA Golden Guitar Awards and Bert Newton’s Good Morning Australia.
The Davidson Brothers aren’t yet 30 years old, but they have toured Europe taking the music they love to a whole new generation of music lovers and are highly regarded in the bluegrass scene in the US.
“It has been an honour to be invited to perform back with Ralph Stanley (Oh Brother Where Are Thou) and to play in the backyard at the boyhood home of Bill Monroe. For weeks afterward, you couldn’t have smacked the smiles off our faces with a baseball bat,” says Hamish.
The Davidson Brothers played on The Man From Snowy River soundtrack; represented Australia at the IBMA International Bluegrass Fanfest in the USA (2004, 2007, 2008); and have toured with the likes of Lee Kernaghan and Troy Cassar-Daley who described them as “…the best young Blue Grass Pickers we have seen for a long while in Australia and a very exciting live act”.
Get the Davidson Brothers latest album Here to Stay at www.davidsonbrothersband.com and don’t miss their upcoming CD launch performances at:
FRIDAY 5 AUGUST 8.30PM
Caravan Music Club
95-97 Drummond St
Oakleigh VIC
Doors: 8pm
Bookings: www.caravanmusic.com.au or 9531 9259
SATURDAY 13 AUGUST 8.30PM
East Brunswick Club
280 Lygon St,
East Brunswick, VIC
Doors: 8pm
Bookings: www.eastbrunswickclub.com or (03) 9388 9794
20 & 21 AUGUST
Beechworth Blugrass Festival
Beechworth, VIC
Bookings: www.kellycountrypick.org
Media queries, cds, hi res pics and review requests please contact Karen Conrad on kcpublicity@optusnet.com.au ring 0400 527 365.
CHARLES JENKINS & THE ZHIVAGOS 3RD ANNUAL WINTER BALL
MARK SEYMOUR & MICK THOMAS JOIN THE LINEUP FOR THE 3RD ANNUAL WINTER BALL!
Dust Devil Music is pleased to announce two more fantastic performers for Charles Jenkins & The Zhivagos 3rd annual Winter Ball at the Corner Hotel on Saturday 9 July!
Ladies & Gentlemen, for your listening pleasure – Mark Seymour & Mick Thomas will also be gracing the stage at this years Winter Ball. They will join Jeff Lang, Lisa Miller, Shane O’Mara, Ashley Naylor, Kat Spazzy and Ron Peno!
Mr Peno will be playing with his band The Superstitions and showing off tunes from his soon-to-be-released album.
Other surprises are yet in store and tix are selling like those proverbial hotcakes so get in quick to reserve your spot at the gala musical event of the season!
Proceeds will be donated to Foodbank Victoria.
The Winter Ball is proudly sponsored by 3RRR.
Tix are available online now at www.cornerhotel.com, in person at The Corner Hotel Box Office, 61 Swan Street, Richmond or by ringing (03) 9427 9198.
Media queries, pics or interviews please ring Karen Conrad on 0400 527 365 or email kcpublicity@optusnet.com.au.
FROM THE WEBMASTER
This website has been down for about a month because our web host was destroyed (literally) by a malicious hack attack. The host kept no backups off-site, so 5,000 clients were wiped off the map. This website / blog has been reassembled and reformatted from bits and pieces, like Foghorn Leghorn reassembling his numbered feathers. There are many posts missing, mainly from this year, all gone to that big Website in the Sky. We will smooth out remaining rough edges as we go, but Karen wanted to get back up online as soon as physically possible, so here we are, back on air. — S.
STRANGER COLE HITS MELBOURNE TOWN!
Stranger Cole’s Melbourne gig is a one-off for our fair city – and a spectacular gathering of every significant ska/reggae/rocksteady band of note in the history of this sweetass metropolis.
Please don your finery and raise your glass.
Dance like nobody’s bidness.
Bruthas and Systas
Come and witness:
MELBOURNE ROCKSTEADY SKA & REGGAE REVUE
Saturday 5 March 2010 – Corner Hotel, Richmond – from 7pm
Stranger Cole (Jamaica)
The Moonhops
The Ska Vendors
Judge Pino & The Ruling Motions
Johnny Longshot
Skazz
DJ Moss Raxlen (Canada)
DJ Mohair Slim (PBS FM)
DJ Jesse I (PBS FM)
PLUS the excellent Nicky Bomba with ‘Bustamento!’
After a show-stealing cameo in support of Dawn Penn last year, Stranger Cole returns to Australia with his
own show of an hour and a half of his foundation hits backed by the Moonhops (Melbourne’s rocksteady
kings reunited for one night only).
In honour of the Jamaican recording superstar, five of Australia’s top ska, rocksteady and reggae
aggregations plus DJs will for one gigantic summit of swinging off-beat and hypnotic rocksteady grooves.
Kicking off at 7pm, THE MELBOURNE ROCKSTEADY SKA AND REGGAE REVUE will be a feast of the finest
Jamaican music played by famed local exponents including The Ska Vendors, Judge Pino & The Ruling
Motions, Johnny Longshot and Skazz. Between the bands, PBS DJs Mohair Slim and Jesse I will maintain
the vibe with vintage vinyl sounds. After the bands, Canadian DJ, producer and historian Mossman will
transform the Corner Hotel into a Kingston dancehall with a killer two hour set of Jamaican oldies.
Dress code: “Sharp as a ratchet knife”.
Proudly presented by PBS FM
Ticket $35 + booking fee:
Corner Box Office 9427 9198 or www.cornerhotel.com
Northside Records – 236 Gertrude St. Fitzroy
POP GOES THE CURFEW!
Local hipsters and music afficinados will be familiar with Pure Pop Records in Barkly Street St Kilda and their famous beer garden gigs, which have regularly hosted local musical glitterati such as Conway Savage, Charles Jenkins & Tim Rogers, along with bands from all around Australia including The Gin Club, Halfway, Steve Kilbey and Kate Miller-Heidke amongst others.
Their intimate stage has also hosted international artists including Barry Adamson, Academy Award winners The Swell Season, Charlie Parr and Dean & Britta (Luna/Galaxie 500) for over 5 years.
Pure Pop is possibly the only record store, cafe, live music venue in the world – and they have heaps of devoted local patrons to prove it. The beer is cold, the staff is friendly and the music is beyond awesome….
in fact the only complaint that has ever been leveled about a Pure Pop gig is that they fill up too quickly because the courtyard is only licensed for 50 bodies at a time and gigs have to end early, due to Council’s curfew.
With this in mind, store owners Dave Stevens & Elaine May have decided to expand for one night only and hold a gig featuring their favourite musicians at the Prince Bandroom in St Kilda.
They invited the entire Pure Pop mailing list to help them name the show and the winning entry was Pop Goes The Curfew.
Dave and Elaine are thrilled to announce one of their favourite bands, The Men, is “jetting in, direct from Sweden to headline the gig!”
The Men is a Mod outfit from Lund, Sweden and they were the first artists ever to record on the Pure Pop label, circa 2003, and are flying to Oz by special request to kick off the festivities. They’re known as something of a small “supergroup” since they formed out of four already established Swedish garage bands, The Sinners, The Girls, Thee Expression and Colubrids.
The sum of their parts is The Men – the ultimate live-band; explosive, stylish, tight, groovy, cool and fun – no shoegazers!
They will be joined by the mighty Gun Street Girls and local favourites Pony Face. Special performances by Tim Rogers, Charles Jenkins, Jeff May, Ryan Coffey, Hugh of The Skybombers and Heath & Alex of Dirt River Radio fame will also feature at the gig and musically oriented comedy duo Anyone For Tennis will host the night.
“We can’t wait to throw open the doors at the Prince Bandroom, listen to loads of great loud music, drink too much and not have to clean up afterwards!”
Get tickets to Pop Goes The Curfew at Pure Pop Records, 221 Barkly St in St Kilda or online at www.purepop.com.au or www.princebandroom.com.au for $20.00 plus bf.
See you there!
For more info, interviews or sounds from The Men please ring Karen Conrad on 0400 527 365.
RON PENO’S NEW BAND – RSVP & THE RETURN TO SENDERS
RSVP
Ron S Peno requests your attendance at the debut of his new band RSVP (his initials) & The Return To Senders at their final intimate sneak preview gig.
Peno, former lead singer with much loved band Died Pretty is giving you the slow tease… a wink, a word to the wise and the promise of glorious new ditties from his first ever solo project.
Cam Butler (guitars), Brett Poliness (drums), Andy Papp (bass) and Tim Deane (keyboards/guitars) expertly accompany him on this musical sojourn.
Ron and Cam have been furiously busy during the past year writing those bittersweet left-of-centre songs that sparkle when they need to and break your heart when you don’t expect them to.
Now it’s time to publicly unveil the fruits of their musical labours.
RSVP & The Return To Senders will road test the new tunes before recording thier debut solo album and are pleased to invite you along to check out the goods.
SUNDAY, JUNE 6 – YAH YAH’S with Andrew McCubbin & The Hope Addicts – 99 Smith St, Fitzroy
Free entry.
For interviews, pics or more info please ring me on 0400 527 365.
Cheers
Karen
ROCKSTEADY GIG TIX ON SALE NOW!
ROCKSTEADY: THE ROOTS OF REGGAE CONCERT
Starring:
THE MELBOURNE SKA ORCHESTRA
with guests:
DAWN PENN (U.K.)
STRANGER COLE (Jamaica)
Plus:
The Moonhops
DJ Mossman(Canada)
DJ Mohair Slim
Saturday 1 May 2009 ‐ Corner Hotel, Richmond ‐ Tickets $59 + b.f.
To coincide with the Australian release of the award-winning documentary “Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae”, the Melbourne Ska Orchestra troops have been marshalled for their annual off‐beat skirmish, this time inviting two of the giants of Jamaican Rocksteady: Dawn Penn and Stranger Cole to join the fray.
The night will be a joyous celebration of Jamaican rocksteady, the soulful music that evolved from ska and gave birth to the reggae sound and features the first lady of Rocksteady, Dawn Penn, who had hits including the world wide smash “No, No, No (You Don’t Love Me).
Dawn Penn is visiting Australia for the first time as is Stranger Cole (who is also the narrator of the Rocksteady film). Stranger Cole has the distinction of being one of the few artists to have had hits in all three Jamaican roots eras: Ska, Rocksteady and Reggae. From his first records “Rough and Tough”, “Arte Bella” to his rocksteady classics “Down by the Trainline” and “Love Me This Evening”.
As always, the 30‐piece all‐honking, all‐skanking, all‐star behemoth Melbourne Ska Orchestra will provide the musical support to this momentous event.
Supports are: The Moonhops; and selectors Mohair Slim and from the U.S.A., the producer and arranger of “Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae” movie and CD, DJ Mossman.
In MSO tradition, the ladies and gentleman are kindly requested to dress “stylish Caribbean” with brightly coloured dresses for ladies and light trouser with hats for men suggested.
Hey Sugar Babies,
Direct from Perth, The Sugar Blue Revue will hit Melbourne town on Saturday, 13 March 2010 at The Order Of Melbourne. Please join us for a night of unparalleled burlesque and merriment from 7.30pm at The Order, Level 2, 401 Swanston Street in Melbourne.
Tickets:
$25 +Booking Fee presale
$30 at the door
www.moshtix.com.au
Perth’s premier performance troupe, Sugar Blue Burlesque, will burst onto the stage for their very first huge Melbourne Burlesque show, The Sugar Blue Revue.
Come and see what everyone’s talking about!
Be blown away by the amazing costumes and unique, never-before-seen performances in Melbourne Town for one incredible night only!
Treat yourself to a night of bedazzlement and beauty with the best burlesque artists on this continent or any – A’dora Derriere, Sapphire Demure and Trixi Tassells – These classy, sassy dames have also been invited to perform in this year’s London Burlesque Week so catch up with these lovelies before they wade gracefully over to ye jolly olde’ in their elegant stilettos…
The Sugar Blue Revue features Sugar Blue Royalty Mia Bella, Clara Cupcakes, Miss Jane, Coco Poppin’, The Duke, Becky Lou, Miss Kay Risque, Foxy La Femme and is hosted by the sassy Feistystrumpet!
Prizes will be awarded for Best Dressed, so come in something luxurious, sweet as sugar or in Blue! Dazzle the crowd with your own sequins and finery and win big!
Check out www.sugarblueburlesque.com for more details.
Tickets available at www.moshtix.com.au, 1300 GET TIX (438 849), on your mobile www.moshtix.mobi and all moshtix outlets including Polyester Records (City & Fitzroy) and Greville Records.
Info about Sugar Blue Burlesque:
Based in Perth, Western Australia, Sugar Blue Burlesque is both a performance troupe and burlesque academy! Reminiscent of the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s, Sugar Blue Burlesque presents a unique blend of classic burlesque and elaborate vintage costumes, with authentic vintage dances, circus, comedy, music and crowd pleasing theatricality!
The talent behind Sugar Blue Burlesque includes some of Australia’s finest, award-winning swing dancers, respected dance instructors and dedicated historians of the period, Western Australia’s most spectacular lady circus performers, bright young comedians, actors, as well as Perth’s finest costumiers.
For Melbourne media queries, interviews, saucy pics, etc, please ring Karen Conrad on 0400 527 365 or email kcpublicity@optusnet.com.au.
See you there, Sugar….
