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This is the new album by legendary Australian rock group the Atlantics and on the album it has original songs written by Jim Skiathitis and Martin Cillia as well as Jim who is the original member and bass player Bosco Bosanac are on the album along with Jacob Cook on drums except the last track called Stranger on Mykonos which was an recording from 2013 which had Peter Hood on drums but was never released and it was the last recording he did with the Atlantics which he passed away on september 22nd 2021. It is AWESOME, ROCKIN and BRILLIANT with FANTASTIC songs as well as the great guitar playing by Jim and Martin and that Atlantics sound is still there on the CD. It is 60 years this year when Bombora came out and the song still holds up very well and also I already mentioned that drummer Peter Hood passed away on September 21st 2021 but his legacy with the Atlantics lives on. The Atlantics should be inducted into ARIA Hall Of Fame for their impact on Australian music and let'

This is the memoir of Australian rock singer and member of legendary Australian rock band Painters and Dockers Paulie Stewart and in this book he talks about his upbringing in Melbourne, the loss of his brother Tony who was one of the Balibo Five killed by Indonesian Forces in East Timor in 1975, working as an journalist for the Sun News Herald, forming the Australian rock band Painters and Dockers in 1982 which would achieve success with the singles Nude School and Die Yuppie Die as well as the album Kiss My Art, playing in the Dili All Stars and The Transplants, having an liver transplant in 2008, doing community work amd social activism, encounters with the Wiggles, Lobby Loyde, Kylie Minogue and many others. It is FANTASTIC, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with FANTASTIC and AWESOME stories as well as very impressive and very entertaining which it's well worth an read and Painters and Dockers still performs which they have done some shows recently with the Sunnyboys including Twin To

On Thursday I went to the South Bank Cinema to see the movie What's Love Got To Do With It. Zoe (Lily James) who is an documentary maker as well as dating app addict has been having an disatrous relationships with men much to the disappointment of her mother Cath(Emma Thompson) and is friendly with her neighbour and childhood friend Kaz(Shazad Latif) who is an doctor is following the example of his parents and go for an arranged marriage to an woman from Pakistan named Zoya (Sajal Aly) and as Zoe films his journey from London to Lahore it starts getting interesting. It is excellent, very funny and very entertaining with excellent acting by Lily James, Emma Thompson, Shazad Latif, Sajal Aly, Shabana Azmi and Oliver Chris. It is directed by Shekar Kapur and produced by Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan, Nicky Kentish Barnes and Jemima Khan who did the screenpla as well. I give it 4 stars as it's in the cinemas right now so do yourselves an favour and SEE IT which you will be impress

Last Sunday January 15th I went to the Wynnum Bowls Club to see legendary Australian singer Issi Dye and Glenn Douglas which I last saw Issi and Glenn only 7 months ago at Twin Towns Tuesday June 7th 2022 . I caught the train to Wynnum from the city, walk to the club, rang home, went inside, got an arm band, saw Michael who I know from the gigs and Fiona who I knew from ARAD, went to the table where I saw Issi, met Peter, ate chips and drank Coke with No Sugar. The show started at 2pm with Issi doing 2 songs and then Glenn Douglas came on stage doing the Roy Orbison classics from the 60's to the 80's including Working For the Man, Crying, Claudette, You Got It and many others with Issi doing the bongos and on backing vocals and guitar Julian Jones an legend in Brisbane music having played with the Avengers in the late 60's and during the set I got my name mentioned by Issi which I appreciate it as well as dancing with an lady named Maria. There was an interval which I w

On Sunday I went to the Southbank Cinema to see the movie The Fablemans. It's 1952 and Sammy Fableman(Mateo Zoryan Francis-DeFord) along with his parents Burt (Paul Dano) and Mitzi (Michelle Williams ) go to the movies to see the movie the Greatest Show on Earth which the train crash scene dazzles the boy and he gets the toy train which crashes it one night and then using Burt's camera to shoot the crash which inspires Sammy to do filming which he does regularly filming his sisters. Then due to Burt's new job the family moves to Phoenix Arizona which Sammy(now played by Gabriel Labelle) continues to do filming with the boys scouts as well as an family camp which while editing he discovers his mother with family friend Bennie(Seth Rogen) having feelings for each other and then Burt moves to California due to an job promotion which then gets interesting. It is FANTASTIC, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with Brilliant and Superb acting by Paul Dano, Michelle Williams, Gabriel La

The number 1 song in Brisbane 50 years ago this week in 1973 was the song Ben by Michael Jackson and the song was from the movie Ben which was a sequel to the film Willard which actually at the beginning of the film Lee Montgomery sang in the film and Michael Jackson sings it at the end of the film. It was written by Don Black and Walter Scharf and it was actually intended for Donny Osmond but was on tour at the time so Michael jackson did the song. It went to number 1 in the USA and Australia and number 7 in the UK and went to number 1 in Brisbane December 29th 1972 which would be at number 1 for 6 weeks. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song but lost to the Morning After by Maureen McGovern from the Posiedon Adventure and it had won the Golden Globe for Best Song.

The number 1 single in Brisbane 40 years ago this week was Dr Heckyll and Mr Jive by legendary Australian band Men At Work which was from the album Cargo and it was number 6 in Australia but here in Brisbane it went to number 1 on January 10th 1983 which it would be there for just 1 week before the Clapping Song by the Belle Stars took the number 1 spot.

On August 5th 1966 rock group the Beatles released their 7th album Revolver which it went to number 1 in the UK, number 1 in the USA and number 1 in Australia and from the album it had the double sided hit Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby. The album came out the same month when they did their final American tour before retiring from live performances and concertrating in the studio as the stuff they did on the album they could not do it live on stage as there wasn't the technology avaliable at that time and also this album along with Rubber Soul and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band were the best albums they made as this was their creative period as they were experimenting with different sounds . It is now being reissued again and I am reviewing the double CD edition. On the first CD it has the original tracks that was on the album and on the second Cd it has Paperback Writer and Rain as well as outakes of different tracks as well as different takes as well as the booklet w

This afternoon I went to the Events Cinema at Carindale where I saw the movie Lyle Lyle Crocodile. Hector P Valenti(Javier Bardem) who is an magician who has been trying to audition for an talent show but is rejected and goes to an pet shop where he hears an singing crocodile named Lyle (Voiced by Shawn Mendes) which he takes him and try to get an act together but Lyle gets stage fright and then Hector leaves to make more money. then 18 montha later an family called Primm with Josh(Winslow Fegley), father (Scoot McNairy) who is an teacher and stepmother (Constance Wu) move into Hector's 3 storey home and then Josh who is having difficulty making friends encounters Lyle in the attic which they become friends and then both his stepmother and father find out which they're initally scared of him but they bonded and Hector returns and also they also have to deal with their unfriendly neighbour Alistar Grumps who doesn't like Lyle or the family and then it gets interestin

This afternoon I went to the South Bank Cinema to see the movie A Man Called Otto. Otto Andersson(Tom Hanks) is an widower who has retired from his job and is grumpy to his neighbours on the street he lives as well as is set in his ways as he likes things to be right and then an new family comes into the neighbourhood with Marisol (mariana Trevino) with her family as she is pregnant with her 3rd child and then he starts to change his ways which gets interesting. It is FANTASTIC,Very Funny and Very Entertaining with FANTASTIC acting by Tom Hanks, Mariana Trevino and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as well as Tom Hanks' son Truman plays the younger Otto. It was directed by Marc Forster and produced by Tom Hanks, His wife Rita Wilson, Gary Goetzman and Fredrik Wikstrom Nicastro, Any film that has Tom Hanks in he does it so well and in this movie he does the role very well. I give it 4 stars and it's in the cinemas now so do yourselves an favour and SEE IT which you will be impressed and ent