the Avengers show @ Easts Leagues Club May 19th 2012

On Saturday May 19th I went to Easts Leagues CLub to see the Legendary Brisbane rock pop group the Avengers which it was 6th time seeing them as well as my 4th time seeing them so far this year this year. The show started at 7.30pm which they did 4 FANTASTIC sets of stuff from ELvis, Buddy Holly,The BEatles, Dion Di Mucci, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fleetwood Mac, Chuck Berry and others and this time added an few different songs which was just great as you need to do different songs sometimes to keep it fresh. They did Don't Stop and Have you ever seen the rain for me which was nice of them to do that as well as during the 2nd set an guitarist named Simon came on stage for a few songs and the show lasted until 11.30pm when it finished. The show was just FANTASTIC as always which everyone had an great time including myself and the group were just FANTASTIC as always too which after the show I spoke with Graham, Roger and Mick about the group's history which I asked how they got the name, recordings and other things including the 4BC spectacular show in 1965 as well as why the original group broke up and also Graham told me that their former lead singer Ross was there at the club that night but had to leave early. The Avengers will be back at Easts Leagues CLub on SUnday June 3rd @ 2pm and to those who have not seen them go and see them as they put on an FANTASTIC show playing great songs from an great era. Setlist- set 1- When You Walk In The Room Proud Mary Heartbeat Runaway I Could Easily Fall In Love WIth You/Do You Wanna Dance/Move It/Please Don't Tease That's Alright mama Singing the Blues Promised Land You Never Can Tell Young girl All Shook Up The Wanderer/Ruby Baby RAve on Still Rock'n'roll to me Suspicous Minds My Girl Come Back Again Theme From The Monkees/Last Train to Clarksville/I'm A Believer set 2- That'll be the day A Hard Day's Night Twist and Shout Johnny be Goode Brown Eyed girl Crazy Little Thing Called Love Happy Together Big girls don'r cry Walk Like A Man I Can See Clearly Now Stuck In the Middle Pretty Woman Get Back The Twist/Let's Twist Again Da Do ROn Ron set 3- when you say nothing at all lyin eyes something everybody's talkin sway MAggie May Last night Don't Stop Long Cool Woman in A Black Dress set 4- HAve you ever seen the rain Handle WIth Care Take it easy No Matter What Hey Tonight Massachusettes To Love SOmebody Do You Love Me

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