From De Jah Groove to Jimmy Barnes to Kaya to Women in Docs to everything between I have had a rather fun filled crazy weekend at Caloundra for the inaugural Caloundra Music Festival for which I had the crazy pleasure of photographing for city council.
Last Wednesday night I went to see Young & Restless for The Dwarf and I was quite blown away by Y&R. I only found out at the last minute that I was indeed going along, I had a little listen on myspace and was like yeah not too shabby. Live though they put on a fantastic show with lots and lots of energy 😀
Supporting them were two Brisbane bands Stature::Statue and Twist Oliver, Twist!.
Before Hi-5 and before The Wiggles there was Peter Combe and he is back with a toffee apple, playing the songs that he played to Aussie children in the late 80’s/early 90’s again, though now we are young adults. We still know the words, and with a bit of thought we can easily fold our newspaper hats again. He is coming to town on October 21st and I am dragging everyone I know along to it with newspaper hats of course, even my Mum is going to come along. We are still trying to drag Matthew along but unless we drag him there I don’t think we will have much luck. To say I am mildly excited would quite possibly be an understatement 🙂
Mum and I are not too sure if we ever saw him the first time round, though I am sure we probably did at some ABC Kids thing but I won’t be missing it this time 😀
I can’t tell you much about the support act because I slept through most of it. You get me sitting in a dark room for and for the first 30 mins I will sleep. I do it quite often. I don’t think I missed much.
Tori was damm! I am so glad I got a ticket. I especially loved it when it was just her and the pianos and yes she occasionally played two at the same time whilst singing. I love the band but when it is pared back to just her and the piano(s) I just grin.
Whilst I absolutely loved hearing the old classics which just put a grin on my face like Cornflake Girl or Cooling or Hey Jupiter and it was great to hear the new stuff live, I was blown to shreds along with I would say everyone else in the audience with an improv song she did called Homo Spirituality. That song was just so touching.
For the set list as well as some pretty dedicated Tori fans feelings on the show, head over to undented.
I am by no means a huge Tori fan, I don’t know all those obscure songs, I don’t know the words/meanings of the songs but there is something about the way she plays piano and sings that just haunts you in a good way right to the bones.
It was all topped off by ABC2 playing a Tori Amos concert from 1997 in New York the following morning. I taped that 😀
At the moment I can’t get enough of some of the live recordings from Bonnaroo. I also just like saying the word Bonnaroo. Even if it is meant to be Cajan Slang it sounds quite Australian to me. This year there was also a swag of Aussies showing the people stateside how music is made. Well two of them did, I am still not sold that the third one makes music. The first two are Xavier Rudd and The John Butler Trio. Both of whom have been nominated for ARIAs as could be expected.
John Butler Trio: 2007-06-17, Bonnaroo (Sendspace link) [mp3] Regina Spektor: 2007-06-16, Bonnaroo (Sendspace link) [mp3] Xavier Rudd: 2007-06-16, Bonnaroo [mp3,ogg,flac]
I still have quite a few artists on that list that I want to check out live.
On the weekend Clare and I went to the Acoustic in the Park afternoon at Southank. It was a nice afternoon of relatively unknown local singer/songwriters. We went because we wanted to check out Georgia Potter who delighted us.
Clare’s Shoes
Georgia and then two of the other acts. I can’t recall their names at the moment and can’t find the slip of paper I was writing it down on. Southbank has not posted the names anywhere.
Also went to the farm on Sunday morning and took a few photos. These two are my favs.
Work is still going pretty well but getting quite busy.
