Brad Kennedy
By BILLY DIXON BRAD Kennedy is no attention-seeking Who’s Got Talent contestant. He played in cover bands in his early years, but after going solo and writing his own tunes, would still revert to cover songs to get gigs on the Peninsula, primarily due to the relative lack of alternative music venues. Slowly but surely, he built up a repertoire of songs all his own, and gradually slipped them into his cover gigs to build his brand....
Boy & Bear hit the road for Limit of Love
IT’S been a few weeks Aussie five-piece Boy & Bear released their third studio album, Limit of Love. After an impressively busy touring schedule in 2014 that saw Boy & Bear play 170 shows across three continents, the boys have decided it’s time to hit the road again. They’ve just announced their Limit Of Love album tour. Kicking off at Odeon Theatre in Tasmania on 22 January, the tour will move through to Festival Hall, North...
Justin McLaren
By TERRI LEE FATOUROS JUSTIN McLaren is one of those unassuming butt talented individuals who has been operating “undercover,” so to speak, for years as a producer and engineer. He’s helped hundreds of aspiring musicians produce and record original albums for public recognition. He kick-started his love affair with music at the tender age of 13, way back in 1984 after landing his first professional job in musical theatre with the...
The Whisky Gypsies
By TERRI LEE FATOUROS RECENTLY, hip Café Moto on Nepean Highway, Carrum played host to The Whisky Gypsies, a classic traditional, Celtic inspired duo with a Euro Folk Groove who perform with acoustic guitar (Daniel Gray), and mandolin and electric fiddle, Ken McAlpine. The guys have a real buoyant and uplifting beat going down and their combo of acoustic Celtic groove inspired tunes will arouse the dancing fever within; you can’t help...
The talented Mr Papp
By TERRI LEE FATOUROS ROB Papp is a singer songwriter and well-honed guitarist with many years experience performing in bands, duos and solo gigs. During his formative years, College of the Arts Founder, Bruce Clarke recognised Papp’s potential and took him on as his protégé, tutoring him in a comprehensive education of reading, writing and playing music as well as teaching him all he knew about playing jazz. Whilst studying at GIT...
The Blues Hip Jive Dance Party is coming to town
By TERRI LEE FATOUROS ARE you a blues fan, do you like swing-dance, want to rock out and have a bloody good time? Then you had better get yourself down to Eddies Band Room (EBR) on Saturday, 30 January at 8pm. Be prepared to shake those hips, groove and jive all night long and rock out with a great mix of cool blues and jiving swing rock with the fabulously talented Peter Jackson of The Jackson Four fame, as well as guitar virtuoso,...