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John Williams: gigs & the next CD
John Williams with Double Shot of Blues has had a busy few weeks. Last Thursday the trio played at the Hume Blues Club & yesterday they were one of three bands playing for an Asylum television live recording at 303 in Northcote. Regretfully I didn’t get to see them at either of those gigs. News…
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Mike Rudd: 50 years of Spectrum – the 1st anniversary show
The show at Thornbury Theatre on Saturday May 11, 2019 began with Chris Stockley & his band followed by Madder Lake, who are often in shows with Spectrum but have always played after Spectrum. The Madders make performance seem so easy & did this again on Saturday. Mike sang with them at the end of…
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Dave Hogan (& the all the Heinous Hounds) in the basement at the Espy April 28, 2019
It was great to see this band again a few weeks after their regular gig at the old Cherry Bar ceased when the bar closed at that location. The basement at the Espy is a great space; small but funky where it is amusing to be able to look up & see trams passing by…
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Stars (with Roger McLachlan) at Thornbury Theatre April 12, 2019
Yah!!I have now seen 5-piece country-rock band Stars in a full performance. Previously all I had seen was a 30-minute taster at Basement Discs the day, almost a year ago, when they launched Boundary Rider, which very soon will not be their newest CD. MAL EASTICK; MICK PEALING; GLYN DOWDING (OBSCURED); ROGER MCLACHLAN & NICK CHARLES…
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Mike Rudd: 50 years of Spectrum
What an anniversary this is! Mike formed Spectrum after the band he had been in, Party Machine wound up. He’d been impressed with the Party Machine style of delivering original songs. He enlisted Bill Putt (b); Lee Neale (kbds, v) and Mark Kennedy (d) for the first early Spectrum line-up (mid-1969). Mike (g,v) followed Party…
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