Safari Motel
With Liam Kealy on Hammond keys rocking it and Dean James producing first-class riffs on lead, the four originals of Nicholas Pearce (sax), Jason Nehill (bass), Neil Richardson (percussion) and Nicole Nehemia (vocals) are paramount in sound. Their panache is making waves at the Heritage 3059 on Sunday, 13th March. Safari Motel are seeped in soul, funk and blues and combined with their big band sound is really rocking it. Over the past...
The Andy Layfield Sound
By TERRI LEE FATOUROS Every so often I’m blown away with the extraordinary talent of an individual musician or a band. Recently, my mind was set ablaze with The Andy Layfield Sound, gigging at Musicland in Fawkner. Musicland is definitely worth the drive as the place is pure band/music oriented. You’ve got a decent-sized stage boasting professional lighting and awesome sound with superb video recording/cameras set up. The flashing...
Rhett May
Rhett May owes his rare musical sound and style to the unique environment that he grew up in. Born in 1950, in Calcutta, India, and living in an orphanage at age 7, he was immediately immersed in a magical, musical melting pot. Carnatic and Hindustani music and instruments such as the Sitar and Tabla were always providing melody and percussion against a daily backdrop of lifting and soaring voices of Ragas. Ragas especially played a...
Groovin’ the Moo
It’s been a little while between drinks for Bundy’s most notorious thrash party duo, DZ Deathrays, but it is with great pleasure that we reveal their brand new single ‘Blood On My Leather’. The track, which is a standalone single, had its world wide premiere on triple j last month and will is now available for purchase and streaming. Late last year the pair decided to head back into the studio with producer/friend Burke Reid (of...
Stephen Cummings
By LACHLAN BRYAN The Caravan Music Club has become well-known for hosting special musical events in a relatively intimate setting. Now and again, a show proves so popular that two nights at the venue are required and that is exactly the case with Stephen Cummings’ imminent celebration of his two most acclaimed releases: Lovetown and A New Kind of Blue. Whilst Cummings has enjoyed a place amongst our most revered songwriters for quite...
Citrus Jam
By TERRI LEE FATOUROS INFLAMMABLE, combustible and highly energetic flamenco-metal duo, Citrus Jam ignited the airwaves yet again at Sound Bar in Rosebud recently to an enthusiastically packed house. With a die-hard following, the fiery-sweet duo keep thrilling their peeps with spectacular gigs at various venues on the Peninsula, including the very popular God’s Kitchen in Mornington. The individual known as Citrus Jam incorporates a...