10CC plays Frankston Arts Centre
By TERRI LEE FATOUROS Back in the 1970s an interesting art rock band called 10cc, hailing from Salford and Prestwich in England burst onto the music scene achieving considerable commercial success. Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme wrote and recorded together for three years before assuming the name of 10cc in 1972. After Godley and Creme left the band in 1976, Gouldman and Stewart remained. When Stewart left...
SKA vs Rockabilly
By TERRI LEE FATOUROS Christine Bitomsky is one of those lucky individuals who has successfully combined her passion of rockabilly clothing and said genre of music into a working business model. Growing up on the “’50s scene” with her family in the UK in the ’80s, she wasn’t aware there was a ’50s revival going on as these clothes, this music and lifestyle (including their family business) was part of her normal family life. However,...
The Beautiful Girls
The Beautiful Girls have announced they will be heading to The Grand Mornington on Friday 8 January as part of their annual Summer SoundSystem outings. Lead singer Mat McHugh has said that the band will perform again after a 9-month-long hiatus in which the singer/songwriter released his critically acclaimed album WAVES. The album was available to fans as a free download. It’s been a tumultuous year for Mat, who had to cancel the...
The Audreys at the Flying Saucer Club
By LACHLAN BRYAN Multiple ARIA-winning South Australians The Audreys are without doubt one of the finest roots acts this country has produced. At the band’s core is the duo Taasha Coates and Tristan Goodall, who first met in Adelaide before forming the band in Melbourne in the early 2000s. Coates’ distinctive voice and Goodall’s multi-instrumental work both compliment the subtle songwriting which has made its way onto Triple J, ABC...
British India
Riding high on the success of their fifth album, Nothing Touches Me, Australian indie rockers British India will embark on a national tour to close 2015, playing The Grand Hotel, Mornington on Tuesday 29th December 2015. It has been an outstanding year for British India. Their fifth studio album Nothing Touches Me, debuted at #5 on the ARIA Albums Chart and saw the band complete their most successful national tour to date, with a...