50 years of Aloha From Hawaii show at Twin Towns

on Friday night February 24th I went to Twin Towns to see the show 50 Years of Aloha From Hawaii show. I walk to Twin Towns, went up to the 5th floor,Saw Robyn an lady I know from the gigs, bought Gordon Hendricks CD and an Elvis Hat, drank Coke With No Sugar, went inside, sat on the front row and waited. the show started after 8pm with compere Colin Greene coming out saying an few words and the first act was Shaylee Wilde who came from Ireland coming to Australia in the mid 70's and performs at the Mercantile Hotel in Sydney and performed an few songs including Danny Boy and From Galway to Graceland with an acoustic guitar, then Jacqueline Feilich who does the She is The King Elvis tribute show came on next which she performed am number of Elvis classics including Trying To Get To You, Fame and Fortune, Never Been To Spain and others which she sounded great and did an FANTASTIC set and then Maori Entertainer who is based in Australia Peter Paki did the Tom Jones Set which included It's Not Unusual, Green Green Grass Of Home, Sex Bomb, Deliah, What's New Pussycat and many others and there was interval where I drank Pepsi max and went back inside. The show resumed with Brendon Chase came on stage doing the songs that they did during the Aloha from Hawaii show as it's 50 years ago when Elvis Presley performed in Hawaii doing an TV special that was shown all around the world and the songs Brendon performed on the night including See See Rider, Hound Dog, You gave Me A Mountain, Steamroller, Burning Love, Can't Help Falling In Love and even though it was not released until 1977 Way Down and also the end of the end Jacqueline, Shayleen and Peter came on stage to do the encore. The show finished at about 11.10pm, the acts came out to meet the fans to get photos which I got mine with Jacqueline, Shaylee, Brendon and Peter as well as seeing Vicki an lady I have met at some of the shows at Kedron Wavell and took photos of her with Brendon and walked back to Greenmount. It was an FANTASTIC show which the performers were FANTASTIC as well as Brendon doing an great Elvis as always which he does it so well and also the back up were FANTASTIC including on guitar Woody Finlayson from the legendary Australian group The Delltones which he played great guitar on the night. I look forward to see Brendon and Jacqueline live again in the future and if you have not seen them do yourselves an favour and SEE IT which you will love it.

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