Photographer: Wendy Robinson
With Confidence at The Factory Theatre, Sydney – 18 August 2017
Photographer: Wendy Robinson
WITH CONFIDENCE – AUSTRALIAN HEADLINE TOUR 2017 details here…!
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Review by Peter Coates
Brisbane band The Dustflowers belong somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon line in the southern USA, with their first release ‘Get There’ a collection of 5 songs that are gritty hip-swinging blues-rockers with a country twist, or country-rock with some added soul! You can take your pick – whatever style you like, the songs are all class! Recorded on the Gold Coast at Blind Boy Studios, and produced by Brad Hosking, a well-known session player and producer, this EP is a great intro to an Aussie band with stacks of international appeal.
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Photographer: David Jackson
Broadbeach Country Music Festival, Queensland – 28-30 July 2017
Photographer: David Jackson
Photographer: Peter Coates
Steve Hackett at The Tivoli, Brisbane – 02 August 2017
Photographer: Peter Coates
Review and photo by Peter Coates
The original band’s front man Patrick Monahan is Train now, offering up a greatest hits set, with a terrific sound and production, supported by a band of very competent session musicians and two female backing vocalists bulking up the harmonies.
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Another high quality and interesting release from Provogue / Mascot Label Group which is becoming something of a powerhouse for both established and up and coming blues artists of all persuasions. Clyde Vernon “Sonny” Landreth is a renowned slide guitarist, and “the King of Slydeco”, hailing from the deep south of the USA in Mississippi who has been based in Lafayette for many years . His background includes being part of both John Hiatt’s band and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, as well as featuring on both live and studio recordings with the likes of Marshall Crenshaw, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Buffett, Little Feat and Mark Knopfler.
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Review and Photos by Meghan Player
Grinspoon at Enmore Theatre, Sydney – July 2017
Photographer: Meghan Player
There’s little doubt that Grinspoon’s return to touring wouldn’t have received the response they have thus far.
NSW Central Coast-based indie-electronic duo, Desert Moons (Brothers Jake & Simon Dobson), self-produced debut single ‘Rough Trade’.
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Review by Peter Coates
There is a haunting menace to the vocal arrangement in the title track of this latest release from the Jefferson City, Missouri southern country alt-rockers Shaman’s Harvest…….a band I am ashamed to admit had passed me by until this, Red Hands Black Deeds, their 6 th studio album was promised for review.
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Photographer: Meghan Player
Grinspoon at Enmore Theatre, Sydney on 6 July 2017
Photographer: Meghan Player
Photographer: Rebecca Reid
Touché Amoré at The Triffid, Brisbane on 5 July 2017
Photographer: Rebecca Reid
Review and Photos by Meghan Player
Grinspoon at Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne on 30 June 2017
Photographer: Meghan Player
Admittedly, I was 9 years old the year Grinspoon released their debut album, ‘Guide to Better Living’, so I can’t say with certainty where I was when I first heard it. What I do know is how much this band and their music shaped a better part of my teenage years, and now adult life.
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Photographer: Krista Melsom
Jason Singh at The Tivoli, Brisbane – 25 June 2017
Photographer: Krista Melsom
Photographer: Krista Melsom
Hanson at The Tivoli, Brisbane – 25 June 2017
Photographer: Krista Melsom
Photographer: Wendy Robinson
Killing Heidi at Metro Theatre, Sydney – 08 June 2017
Photographer: Wendy Robinson