Cadillac Tramps Drive Up-Tempo Music Style

YOU won't find no lonesome, my-baby-left-me or my-dog-just-died, howling blues from THE CADILLAC TRAMPS. According to the group's harmonica player BOB FULLER 'It's more of a rockier style of blues.' 'We like to call ourselves blues with balls,' Fuller said. ...

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New Releases

Lo-Tel - Planet of the Stereos (Murmur) Lo-Tel have backed up the resounding success of their single, 'Teenager of the Year', with this well-balanced debut album. From a humble birth in a Dublin backpackers, the Lo-Tel dream has manifested into a genuine success story. To date the ...

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Dynamic Duo

THEY'VE played at most of the Hunter's pubs and clubs, but this Friday night RED SWEAT will play for the first time at Adamstown RSL Club. The duo, playing music from the 1960s to the 1980s 'and a touch of the 90s' features VINCE KOMENE on lead vocals and rhythm guitar and JOHN ...

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Rockin' Rebels Roll out the Hits From Three Decades

YOU can't keep a great band of old rock'n'rollers down, and the REBEL ROUSERS are living proof. The Rebel Rousers, playing this Friday night at the Burwood Colliery Bowling Club, are fronted by lead singer RAY SMITH, a star from the mid-1960s and 1970s. Playing 'vintage ...

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Grant Dripping With Country Spirit

YOU can take the boy out of the country, but when GRANT RICHARDSON travelled to Sydney to record his first single, he proved that a little bit of country remained in the boy. Richardson, who will perform for the STEEL CITY COUNTRY MUSIC CLUB this Sunday at Club Macquarie, described his first ...

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Festivals Coming Soon

IT'S summer festival time time again - yay! So get out your Christmas wish list and jot a few of these down for Santa. The original and the best festival of them all, BIG DAY OUT 2000, has announced its premier line-up with more to be announced later. POWDERFINGER, THE GO-BETWEENS, KILLING ...

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Adelaide Trio Slotting Right In

ADELAIDE trio KALEIDOSCOPE will dazzle audiences in Newcastle for the first time tomorrow night, supporting Brisbane band GEORGE at the Northern Star Hotel. Lead singer and bass player KYLIE COWLING fronts Kaleidoscope, with guitarist and programmer CRAIG LEWIS and drummer STEVE SHIER. ...

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Trio Infects Audience

JAZZ-fusion group THE CHRIS REYNOLDS TRIO, playing tomorrow night at THE DUNGEON, in the Adamstown Uniting Church Hall, is a versatile jazz outfit. Playing music from sensitive ballads to jazz fusion in the style of JOHN SCHOFIELD, to high-powered Latin jazz, the trio infects the audience with its ...

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