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Graeme Connors- North, 25 years on - Concert Hall, QPAC, Brisbane - Tickets & Dining Packages

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This is the new greatest hits CD by legendary Australian rock group Australian Crawl and on this CD it has the classic hits that they had in the 80's including Downhearted, The Boys Light Up,Beautiful People, Reckless, Indisposed and the album tracks too and also the booklet has liner notes by surviving members Bill McDonough, Simon Binks, PAul Williams and James Reyne. It is an AWESOME and BRILLIANT CD with great songs that still endures to this day and the songs still gets played on the radio which it's great to see. Don Bartley did the mastering and the front cover is from an original work in 1979 which Steve Malpass did which was used by kind permission. It is 35 years this year when Australia Crawl came on the scene with Beautiful People and would last until 1986 as it was a launching pad for singer James Reyne who has gone on to a successful career and is still touring and recording to this day. This CD is dedicated to the memory of Guy McDonough who passed away in 1984

On Sunday January 19th I went to Kedron Wavell Services CLub to see Australian singer Vicky O'Keefe who is the daughter of legendary Australian rock singer Johnny O'Keefe and the show she was doing was a tribute to her father which that day was what would have been his 79th birthday as it was my 4th time seeing her but it was my first time seeing it in Brisbane as I have seen her performing @ coolangatta during Wintersun 2007 and 2010 and Cooly ROcks on last year. I caught the bus to Chermside from the city as I went to church there that morning and walked to Kedron wavell. I bought a ticket to see John Rowles on March 7th , went to the Cafe where I had Beef Nachos for lunch and Chocolate Sundae for desert which Pauline and Robyn sat with me, went to the toilet and went to the Blue Pacific Room which I met Helen,Wendy and Julieanne. The show started after 2pm with Vicky O'Keefe coming on stage and for the nearly 3 hours she did mainly her dad's stuff as well as some o

On Friday January 10th I went to the Balmoral Cinema to see the movie Philomena. Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) a journalist who has just lost his job as an adviser for the Labor Government and is not sure about whether to write a book about the Russian history or take up running. But then he meets a elderly Irish woman named Philomena Lee(Judi Dench) who as a teenager in Ireland in 1952 had fallen pregnant which she went to a convent in Roscrea where she gave birth to a son but then as a toddler he was taken away from her for adoption in America and she has suffered from the loss ever since so Sixsmith offers to help her to find her son and it gets interesting. It is a MAGNIFICENT and a BRILLIANT movie as well as sad and touching with a MAGNIFICENT performance by Judi Dench which she does a great job as Philomena as well as great acting by Steve Coogan who also wrote and produced the movie, Anna Maxwell as Jane, Sophie Kennedy Clark as the young Philomena, Michelle Farley as Sally,

On Wednesday January 8th I went to the Balmoral cinema with my mum to see the movie the Railway Man. Eric Lomax (Colin Firth) an retired railways signal engineer who has a interest in trains and timetables when he meets Patti (Nicole Kidman) and they get married but then Eric is having nightmares which as we learn from Eric's friend Finlay(Stellan Skarsgard) that both him and Eric(the younger version played by Jeremy Irvine) had been POW's at the hands of the Japanese during World War 2 and had been sent to work on the building of the Burma Bangkok Railway which Eric would experienced a much harder time as he is being beaten and interrogated at the hands of a Japanese officer played by Tanroh Ishida when he revealed about the makeshift radio and his torture is horrific and then he learns that guard now played by Hiroyuki Sanada is still alive being an tourist guide at the memorial of the railway and it gets interesting. It is a sad, touching and a BRILLIANT movie with BRILL

Last Saturday January 4th I went to the South Bank Cinema with my friend Anita to see the movie Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs 2. After saving the world from a storm in the first movie Flint Lockwood(Bill Haden) and his friends along with the citizens of Swallow Falls to San Franjose California as Chester V Of Live Corp(Will Forte) is being given the task to clean the island. The FLDSMDFR survived the explosion which it landed in the island and Chester is determined to find it as Flint is unaware of that. Flint is invited to work for Live COrp and is given the task to destroy the FLDSMDFR once and for all so he recruits his girlfriend Sam(Anna Faris), Manny the cameraman (Benjamin Bratt), Steve the Monkey(Neil Patrick Harris), police Earl Devereaux(Terry Crews), Brent McHale aka Chicken Brent(Andy Samberg) and Flint's father Tim(James Cann) which they go to Swallows Falls on the boat and it gets interesting. It is a excellent and a funny film with excellent performances by Bill

On Friday January 3rd 2014 I went to Kedron Wavell Services Club to see the Neil Diamond tribute show Nearly Neil done by Canadian singer Bobby Bruce which it's my first time seeing this show. Dad took me to the bus stop @ Cannon Hill, caught the bus to Chermside which I got off at the shopping center and I walked to Kedron Wavell. I had Beef Nachos for dinner, had a chocolate sundae for desert, went to the Blue Pacific Room and had a drink of water. The show started @ 8.30pm with Bobby coming on stage and for the next 2 and a bit hours Bobby did 2 sets doing many of the Neil Diamond songs as well as Ashleigh Toole an Australian singer who in 2009 did Australian Idol came out doing Barbara Streisand songs as well as dressing up as her which she sang great and also the back up were just FANTASTIC with Clive Lendich playing great guitar. the show finished at about 10.45pm and after the show Bobby and Ashleigh were selling CD's which I bought 2 of Bobby's CD's as well

Born Loser is a fanzine done by 2 ladies name Beccy Connell and Yasmine Kopita from Sydney and it's been around since 1988 which it focuses on the 60's music as well as some 80's and 90's and interviews with legenday Australian musicians and singers of the 60's. This magazine Volume 9 has interviews with legendary Australian singers Jeff St John, Maggie Britton, Peter Figures of legendary Australian rock group the Throb(the hit single"Fortune Teller in 1966), Peter Anson of the Missing Links who went to for the Wild Oats as well as playing with Jeff St John in the Id, an tribute to Mick Hadley Legendary Australian singer and a member of the legendary Brisbane group the Purple Hearts and many others. It is a FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT magazine with AWESOME stuff and great interviews too. Beccy and Yasmine has done a AWESOME job putting this magazine together and the cover on it just looks BRILLIANT. This is a must for Australian music fans of the 60s's and I

R Evolution is a DVD that has footage of the Doors some of them rear. This DVD has footage from American Bandstand, Shebang, The Jonathan Winters Show, GTK,the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour as well as their own music films and others and among the bonus features a clip of their performance at the Isle of Wight August 1970 doing Break On Through as well a documentary Breaking through the Lens which has interview with surviving members Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and john densmore. It is a FANTASTIC and a BRILLIANT DVD with great stuff and stuff that has never been seen before which look great and James McAllister did the art design. This DVD is dedicated to the memory of Ray Manzarek who passed away in May last year but the music of the Doors will live on. This DVD is a must for any Doors fans which I give 5 stars and it's in the shops now so do yourself a favour and BUY IT.

On New Years eve Tuesday December 31st 2013 I went to the Carina Leagues CLub where I saw local group Swizzle Trio which included local tribute performer Leisa Kerris and it has been my 9th time in a row going to Carina Leagues Club. Dad took me to the club which I left home @ about 6.15pm and I had Beef Nachos for dinner which they had not Nachos there since about 2012 as well as parts of the club has changed which I had not been there since October 5th 2013 when I saw Brandi and the Badcats as I have not been able to go due to the problem of my foot which it has turned out to be tendinitis. The show started at 8pm and they did sets of songs from the 50's to the 2000's from people like Elvis, Michael jackson, Shakin Stevens, Connie Francis,Chuck berry, Bill Haley and many others and people were dancing on the floor which they would do the waltz, the Nutbush among others and at 9pm the fireworks went off as it has been for the last few years which it looked really good and col