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Ross Wilson @ Leftys Music Hall

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Yesterday afternoon I went to the Leftys Music Hall on Caxton Street to see legendary Australian singer-songwriter Ross Wilson known for the 2 legendary Australian bands Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock and it was my first time going to Leftys which I had heard so much about but never been there until yesterday as well as being my 9th time seeing Ross live as the last time I saw him was at Koala Tavern Saturday June 24th 2023. The show started at 3.30pm with the support act Turns doing an short set and there was an interval which I had Pepsi Max. Ross Wilson came out at about 4.20pm and for the next hour and an half did an set of the Daddy Cool songs as well as the Mondo Rock songs as well as some of solo work including Touch of Paradise which was the hit for John Farnham as well as performing 2 Skyhooks songs as he produced the 1st three albums for Skyhooks as well as mentioning his first visit to Brisbane in 1969 with the Party Machine as he mentioned that the band were ripped off and talk...
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Elvis Can't Help Falling In Love Show with Tristan James

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Yesterday afternoon I went to Redland Performing Arts Centre to see the Elvis Presley tribute show Elvis Can't Help Falling in Love with Elvis tribute performer Tristan James which it was my 3rd time seeing him. The show started at 2pm with clips of Elvis Presley were shown on the screen Tristan came out wearing the blue gear which Elvis wore during the 70's came on stage an medley of Elvis' 50's hits as well as doing the Elvis classics including Love Me Tender which Tristan with the help of his wife was handling scarfs to the ladies coming up the stage, Wonder Of You and It's Now Or Never which then did the Elvis Aloha From Hawaii as they showed clips of Elvis in the 70's Tristan changed clothes to the gear Elvis wore at the show performing the songs Elvis did including Steamroller Blues, See See Rider, My Way and many others. The show finished at 3.40pm, Tristan came out to have photos taken with the fans including myself, stop @ Coles, caught back to Carinda...
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4BH October 1968

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This is from the Telegraph October 15th 1968 and now the classic hits station in Brisbane in 2026 as well as the number 1 Brisbane radio station 4BH was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the late 60's which among their disc jockeys were Geoff Bradley who did Breakfast Monday To Saturday, John Kerr doing Drive Time from 4pm to 7pm Monday To Friday and Saturday afternoon, Scott McKinlay from 9pm until Midnight Monday To Friday and Sunday Mornings and Alan Hart who was on from 2pm to 4pm in the afternoon and 7pm to 9pm in the evenings and Saturday mornings playing top 40 music as well as yesteryear and modern music albums.
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4BC October 1963

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This is from the Telegraph October 14th 1963 and now the talk back station as it is the only commercial one here in Brisbane 4BC was one of Brisbane's popular music radio stations at the time in the 60's which among their disc jockeys was Geoff Atkinson who was on Monday to Friday at 4pm doing the Top 40 Go Show playing the music that was in the top 40 at the time as 4BC had been the first radio station in Brisbane to do the Top 40 which happened May 19th 1958.
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Thje Social Reckoning

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I went to the Dendy Cinema Coorparoo this afternoon to see the movie The Social Reckoning which it's based on an true story and it's 2019 Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) is an reporter from the Wall Street Journal who joined up with San Francisco Bureau as a tech reporter is assigned to cover Facebook which he meets Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) who works for Facebook in the Civic Integrity Team having been an data engineer who is showing concerns about the leaderships at the company priotizing engaement as revnue over user safety meanwhile Facebook co founder Mark Zuckerberg (Jeremy Strong) is preparing to testify to the United States Senate which gets interesting as well as the secrets that would come out. It's Gripping, Fantastic and Brilliant with FANTASTIC acting by Jeremy Allen White, Mikey Madison and Jeremy Strong and it's directed by Aaron Sorkin who was one of the producers with Todd Black, Peter Rice, Tony A Grier and Stuart M Besser well as also doing t...
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Rubber Soul The Beatles

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On December 3rd 1965 British rock group The Beatles released their 6th studio album Rubber Soul which it went to number 1 in the UK, USA and Australia and it was the album that signified the change in the music of the Beatles as they were experimenting with different sounds as well as their songs were going away from the early pop stuff like Please Please Me, From Me To You, She Loves You to more expressive and thoughtful lyrics which was influenced by Bob Dylan as well as there was not hit singles from the album even though Nowhere Man was a hit in the US, Australia and some of the other countries including Germany and Canada. The album also had all original material mainly written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney as well as 2 written by George Harrison including If I Needed Someone which was influenced by the Byrds as well as British rock group The Hollies had an number 20 hit with the song at the time and it is now out again on CD which I am reviewing the double CD edition as the...
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4BK October 1977

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This is from the Telegraph October 7th 1977 and until 1990 when it became B105 4BK was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the 1970's which during the weekend of October 8th and 9th 1977 4BK did the American Weekend as they were playing the best of American music which was presented by Peter Shearer's which it was Menswear shop which was on Queen Street in the city.
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