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Spectrum & Madder Lake at Way Out West Sunday March 28, 2021
I hadn’t seen these 2 bands play since February 23, 2020 & that was also a Way Out West show. In the past the system has been Spectrum in the first half; Madder Lake in the second half. But on Sunday that was reversed. Spectrum played many of the songs the audience would be expecting…
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Michael Gudinski’s role in Split Enz early days in Australia
During the week we heard the sad news that Michael Gudinski had died, aged just 68. Tributes have flowed in from musicians in Australia, the UK, New Zealand. Tributes also came from high profile US musicians like Bruce Springsteen. Michael did some great work for Kiwi acts & here I want to address his very…
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Wilbury Sessions – Field, See & Mason plus 3
Last night (Thursday March 4, 2021) Lindsay Field, Sam See and Glyn Mason played at the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne along with James Black (ex-Mondo Rock & a regular on Rockwiz), drummer Angus Burchall (John Farnham Band) & multi-instrumentalist, bass player Paul Cartwright (who has played with Brian Cadd, Glenn Shorrock & others). Sam was…
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John Williams gigs again …
I went to a gig this week. After almost a year … The last one I went to was March 8th, 2020. I was due to go to two the following weekend but one was cancelled & we had concerns about the small venue – crowded space issue with the other. DoubleShot of Blues, the…
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New CD: ‘I Can Dream’ Max Merritt 2020
Wow: a posthumous CD … In the last couple of weeks the CD I Can Dream covering songs Max recorded over the years 2002 – 2020 was released by Fanfare Records giving us Max, gravelly as he should be, with a rich contemporary backing. Some of the recording & much of the mixing was done…
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