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Sep 8, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Just 3 shows to go of the current tour. It’s been such a blast but now just Gosford, Norths Leagues and Sutherland Ent Cent to go. Like Canterbury Hurlstone Park last weekend, all great venues with good production. So important when delivering good music to good folks. I have so enjoyed doing the material in this show with the great musicians we’ve had on tour and the choice of songs has turned out to be spot on, right down to the set at the end with the Big O, big talent, Dean Bourne.
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Aug 8, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Leisurely rest day in perth after long flight. Dinner in Italian restaurant with the boys in the band. Lots of vino, good food and laughter. Breakfast with cousins the next morning. Lunch with Cliff Richard protege Barratt Waugh who is visiting Oz, then time to rest up for the show. Burswood Theatre rocks. Audience especiallly loves the tribute to local boy Bon Scott. Baby Boomers know how to party to the soundtracks of our lives. They know how to rock; they maybe just don’t do it as often but just give them a chance and they’ll rock your socks off. Had trouble sleeping after; reflecting on some great nights around the Aussie capitals-Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. Met some great new friends. Now its NSW’s turn. See you in Shoalhaven in a couple of weeks.
Aug 3, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
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From the opening song by Deano, ‘The Big O’, we knew we were in for a great night. The Brisbane crowd was there to party and we weren’t going to let them down. For such a large venue the Brisbane Concert Hall accoustics are amazing and the light show is minimal but so effective. You can’t help but feel like partying and we partied together. A night like this is what makes concert touring such a buzz and when the audience is along for the ride there are few better experiences. Bring on Perth. Take a look at www.mattyler.com.au. An amazing website and creative talent. I might be accused of being biased but I think I know talent when I see it.
Jul 21, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Great response to the Oz premiere of Nude Study at the Perth International Film Festival. Exciting new for all of us involved. Here are some comments after the screening.”F*cking amazing! Best Australian film in years!” & “Now THAT is filmmaking!” Perhaps the only thing that made Revelation’s departure palatable was the fact that it finished off with a bang, premiering a couple of Australian features, replaying a few festival favourites, and treating the most devoted patrons with a secret screening. Stefan Popescu’s Nude Study was one of the Australian films that received its premiere on Rev’s final night, and was easily one of the most challenging films of the festival (no small feat I assure you). The film stars both Jackie Alixander and Victoria Moss as Sarah (yes, two actresses), a woman devastated by tragedy who heads to Canada to conduct a new art project depicting nudes (and attempt to deal with the tragedies she had faced in her childhood home). In this small Canadian town, Sarah finds herself, unintentionally leaving a trail of destruction (both emotional and physical) in her wake. Intensely disturbing, Nude Study crescendos with a flurry of horrifying sexual violence. Full credit to Popescu and his devoted actors for giving their all to such a harrowing film. Aussie films on a roll. Just saw Animal Kingdom – an Aussie Tour De Force.
Jul 4, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Just love the concerts in Melbourne. Always a buzz. This was no different. Went down a few days early to catch some AFL footy. Hawks v Doggies at the G was a great match. You can’t beat night football at one of the great sporting grounds of the world. We walked back to our hotel the first night after another game at Etihad and I froze my )^*)^ off. Rugged up like eskimos. It’s been a cold winter. Thank you to all those who came out for the Melbourne concert. Humbling to learn afterwards that people had come from as far away as Mt Gambier & Warnambool. The former being in another state and the latter almost. Then there were folks who had come from country Victoria, Kyabram, Warragul. Thank you to all for helping to make The Palms rock and commiserations to Sue who fell out of the booth she was sitting in and required ambulance attention. Hope you’re feeling better today Sue. It was great to catch up with family and good friends afterwards. The whole experience left a very warm feeling.
Jun 26, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Love World Cup but it’s like watching from inside a giant bee hive. I got the Aeroguard out the other night. Just don’t want to meet the Queen Bee. Can’t get over how the 6 dregrees of separation has become 3 degrees. The amount of people one bumps into these days that relate to someone else you know or in your past is amazing. The world is becoming a smaller place, thanks to this thing I’m now on and a whole host of others. As an artist you can take your music and art to the rest of the world which is kinda nice because we are all part of this one magnificent planet. Let’s not &^$&*$ it up!
Jun 7, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Can’t believe it’s nearly a month since my last blog. Spent last week in Melbourne. Visited my new acting agent James; met with the Marketing gang at Crown Entertainment Complex, was taken on a tour of the new 3AW/Magic studios in Melbourne. As I walked in a song by my dear late flat mate Robbie was playing at that moment in time. Met with Rob from Chaos.com, the company that is seeing my music makes it onto itunes, emusic, amazon etc. Went to the opening of an exhibition featuring stills from the movie I did, ‘City of the Damned’, (see trailer at pittotfilms.com. My first movie ‘Nude Study’ has been accepted into the Perth International Film Festival and will have its Australian premiere on July 18. You can see a trailer on You Tube but be warned it features, oohwah, nudity. But don’t worry they’re keeping my naughty bits for the premiere and the BIG SCREEN. Arrived back in Sydney where it was $*^%$ing down.
May 27, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
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It never ceases to amaze me what pops up outta the blue on You Tube. In recent times the B side of my very first single from wayyyyyyy back Every Minute of You, then someone else has put up Tell me Love which was described as 60′s psychedelia, then someone has created moving pictures around Ruby With the Red Hair the 5’34″ single featuring the delightfully gorgeous Jane Asher and then of course there’s So You Want to Be a Pop Singer which I recorded before puberty. While I was in the army actually and doing National Service. The full version of Every Breath You Take from the new Born to Rock album is now on You Tube but you’ll need to send out a search party to find it. I love You Tube, it’s the Encyclopedia Musica of cyberspace
May 13, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Meeting at a nudist coffee lounge
May 11, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Have you ever tried to get musicians out of your hotel room?