Take a journey to a world class Safari Motel
By TERRI LEE FATOUROS I’d been meaning to catch up with Safari Motel and check out their new band line up for some time now and circumstances had prevented it. However, recently the God’s shone down on me and cleared my way to share a relaxing Sunday afternoon session with them at The Heritage in Balnarring. Got to say, I was gob smacked. Don’t get me wrong, they were good two years ago but man they’ve become polished and in Nicole...
Johnston mesmerises all
By TERRI LEE FATOUROS I caught up with the gorgeous and talented Sarah Frances Johnston at Beach 162 recently and over coffee we chatted about her amazing journey to stardom in the U.S.A and in her hometown of New Zealand. Johnston has been in the public eye since she was 11, starring in the New Zealand soapy called Shortland Street which would probably be equivalent to Australia’s Home and Away. She also starred in a European TV...
Abducted but not by Mad Cowboy Disease
By TERRI LEE FATOUROS Do you remember back in 2011 when a guy by the name of Warren Rodwell was abducted by Islamic extremists and held captive for ransom for 472 days? During this time there was a media blackout by both the Australian and Philippines government. Recently I spoke to Rodwell via phone and in brief, he told me his story: On the night of 5th December 2011, Rodwell was supervising workers renovating his house where he...
Adrian Thomas
By TERRI LEE FATOUROS Meet nice guy Adrian Thomas, singer-songwriter of The Adrian Thomas Band. Recently he and fellow band member Ash, his friend, together with Brendan Salmond, drums and Guy Pacqiadio bass, launched their music video called Loverboy to an appreciative crowd at The Cellar Bar in Inkerman St, St Kilda. ARIA award winning producer Peter Reggie Bowman, producer of Loverboy, was able to portray Thomas’s message of love,...
The Ripple Effect making waves, huge waves
By TERRI LEE FATOUROS Ryan Pate and Pete Davies are an acoustic duo known as Ripple Effect and they truly are making huge waves wherever they gig. In fact their music is so popular that people dancing on the dance floor wouldn’t let them stop playing and kept calling ‘encore’ after ‘encore’. Well this is what I encountered recently when I checked out this dynamic duo at their monthly residency at Beach 162. They’ve got the look;...