Kasey Seizes The Day

KASEY Chambers will bring her brand of country/pop to the stage when she headlines the first of five 'A Day On The Green' summer concerts. She will perform at Bimbadgen Estate this weekend, with supports The Beautiful Girls, Lior and Bertie Blackman . It will be the ninth time the ...

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Mentals: From Free Beer To Free Spirits

THERE is an urban myth about a group of art students who passed themselves off as a band to con a publican into giving them a gig in exchange for free beer.That group came to be known as Mental as Anything .More than two decades later they are still touring with their brand of garage ...

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Combo To Swing, Shuffle

BLUES fever seems to have taken a hold on the Hunter Region and local venues are picking up on the trend.Wallsend Bowling Club is no exception and will be kicking things off with the Pat Capocci Combo .The combo will be stomping in and brandishing their style of swing and shuffle this ...

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Celebration Of Pure Survival

NEWCASTLE band The Porkers are finally coming of age.The ska band are celebrating their 18th birthday with a gig at The Cambridge on Friday night.Formed in 1987 their first gig was a ``house-wrecking'' party in Bar Beach, as their friends' rental property was marked for ...

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Rose Puts Sex Back Into The Circus

WHEN The New Jim Rose Circus comes to Newcastle audiences can expect to see some amazing stunts.Some are labelled controversial but the man himself said the show was a comedy above all else.``It's like The Three Stooges but it's real,'' Rose said.While they sold whole ...

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Blues, Ballads From Real Mccoy

IT was 1969 when singer- songwriter Tony Joe White from Louisana was brought into the spotlight with his Top-10 single Polk Salad Annie .With his blues- drenched, truth-injected songs about swamp characters and ballads about life and love, White became a critically acclaimed artist.Throughout ...

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Globe Trottin' Dj Man

DJ ALAN Thompson has been into dance music for decades but it was not until 1990 that he bought his first pair of decks so he could mix tapes for himself and friends. The British ex-pat said he never dreamed at the time that he would become a professional DJ.``I started purely as a ...

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Delta Grooves Flow On A New Course

ASH Grunwald is hollering, stomping and sliding his way into the lives of fresh audiences around the world.With his combination of delta blues and hypnotic grooves, Grunwald seems to be updating the blues and roots genre for a modern audience. This year has been full of successes for the soloist ...

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Gypsy Musos Light Up

THE long waited debut CD from Newcastle eclectic Gypsy Band Le Minibus will be launched at the Lass O'Gowrie Hotel , on Sunday, November 20 at 2pm. Le Minibus will perform its eclectic mix of traditional European Gypsy, Greek, Klezmer, French and American hillbilly music.The band combines ...

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