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Hottentots Hot to Trot

Hottentots Hot to Trot


Publication Date: Wednesday January 31, 2001
Artist: The Hottentots
Venue: Northern Star Hotel
Event Date: Saturday 3/2/2001

Contemporary folk and songwriting duo PARISSA BOUAS and CARL CLEVES will perform at the Northern Star Hotel on Saturday, February 3. The Byron Bay duo, known as THE HOTTENTOTS, will arrive in Newcastle during an East Coast tour to promote their third CD, GRACEFUL, before heading off for a ...

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Long Hot Summer . . .

Long Hot Summer . . .


Publication Date: Wednesday January 31, 2001
Artist: Screamfeeder
Venue: Northern Star Hotel
Event Date: Thursday 1/2/2001

Screamfeeder guitarist Tim Steward torched then smashed his guitar at Homebake earlier this month. Presumably no-one told him his latest album, Rocks On The Soul, had just been named Triple J album of the week! With bass player Kellie Lloyd and drummer Dean Shwereb, Steward and his Brisbane-based ...

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Versatility is Cruisers' Attraction

Versatility is Cruisers' Attraction


Publication Date: Wednesday January 31, 2001
Artist: The Cruisers
Venue: Kurri Kurri Bowling Club
Event Date: Friday 9/2/2001

When you're playing three or four sets a night at the local club, bands such as THE CRUISERS know you have to be versatile. That's how the five-piece, playing this Saturday, February 3, at Kurri Kurri Workers Club and Friday, February 9, at Western Suburbs Leagues Club, has remained ...

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Little Wonder that Jeanne Found Fame

Little Wonder that Jeanne Found Fame


Publication Date: Wednesday January 31, 2001
Artist: Jeannie Little
Venue: Western Suburbs Leagues Club
Event Date: Friday 2/2/2001
Author: Anthony Scully

IN 1975 a designer of outlandish maternity clothes, married to an interior designer and newspaper columnist, walked into the offices of Sydney's DAILY MIRROR to deliver her husband Barry's column. Reporters at the office had grown accustomed to visits by the outlandishly dressed woman ...

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Band Not Prepared to Just Take a Number

Band Not Prepared to Just Take a Number


Publication Date: Wednesday January 31, 2001
Artist: 1927
Venue: Newcastle Panthers
Event Date: Friday 2/2/2001

THE story of 1927, playing at Club Nova Newcastle on Friday night, speaks volumes about the fickle nature of the Australian music industry. 1927 may have sold 750,000 copies of its debut album . . .ISH in 1988, but last year new demoes again failed to make an impression. To lead singer and ...

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Geyer Returns for Hit Parade

Geyer Returns for Hit Parade


Publication Date: Wednesday January 31, 2001
Artist: Renee Geyer
Venue: Western Suburbs Leagues Club
Event Date: Friday 23/2/2001

SMOKY-VOICED diva RENEE GEYER will return to Newcastle on Friday, February 23, to perform at Western Suburbs Leagues Club. Geyer will 're-live all the wonderful hits of her career' and perform songs from her most recent SWEET LIFE collection. In 1974, Geyer arrived on the Australian ...

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Dance Party Double Up

Dance Party Double Up


Publication Date: Wednesday January 31, 2001
Acts: Dennis Kimani, Tommy Leung
Event: Midnite Soul Dance Party
Venue: The Cambridge Hotel
Event Date: Saturday 3/2/2001

HIP HOP and soul DJs DENNIS KIMANI and TOMMY LEUNG will return to The Cambridge Hotel on Saturday, February 3, for another MIDNITE SOUL dance party. About 80 punters took part in the first outing on December 16 and twice that number turned up to do it all again on January 6. Entry is $5, beginning ...

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NoKTuRNL Digs Into Perception

NoKTuRNL Digs Into Perception


Publication Date: Wednesday January 31, 2001
Artist: Nokturnl
Venue: SJ's on Beaumont
Event Date: Thursday 1/2/2001

NoKTuRNL seem to confound the critics when it comes to describing their music. But there's one thing they all agree: NoKTuRNL, a three-piece from Alice Springs, is one of the hottest new Australian bands. Nokturnl, playing tomorrow night at SJ's Hotel, describes itself as 'the ...

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Ready Steady Go

Ready Steady Go


Publication Date: Wednesday January 31, 2001
Artist: Go
Venue: Fanny's
Event Date: Friday 2/2/2001

A NEW five-piece covers band called GO has launched itself onto the Hunter pub and nightclub scene armed with a winning formula for picking up followers. Go, playing on Friday night at Fanny's, plays 'the latest Top 40 commercial songs and the hottest tracks from TRIPLE J' to lure ...

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