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Bananarama - Twin Towns. Bananarama will be playing in Brisbane at the Tivoli on February 12th 2016 

Bay City Rollers - Twin Towns

On Friday October 16th I went to Kedron Wavell where I saw the Best Of the Bee Gees tribute show which it was my second time seeing them as my first was 12 years ago on May 24th 2003 at Kedron Wavell. Dad Took me to Cannon Hill, caught bus to Chermside, went to the Cafe, rang home, ordered Nachos and Sundae, saw Steven Moloney an family friend whose Mum Bubby was friends with my Mum for many years as she was friends with Steven's Aunty Marilyn and I had not seen him for 24 years since March 1991 at his cousin Laine's wedding, bought Coke and use mobile. Had Nachos for dinner, drank Coke, Ate Sundae, went up to the Blue Pacific Room, Saw Brenda,Yvonne and John, talked and use mobile. the Show started after 8pm with Tim Gaze (Tamam Shus) coming on stage doing an Eric Clapton tribute which it was FANTASTIC doing the classic Eric Clapton stuff with Bridget O'Donoghue on vocals which she sounded great as well and there was an interval where I spoke with Brenda, drank Coke Lif...

On Sunday October 4th I went to the Myer Centre Cinema to see the movie The Intern. Ben Whittaker(Robert De Niro) an 70 year old widower who had retired after being a executive at a phone directory company applies for a senior intern program as he was getting bored with retirement and he works for About The Fit an fashion company owned by Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway). She is skeptical of Ben at first as he assigned to work with her but become friendly and she is having issues about giving up her post as well as her personal life which gets interesting. It is excellent and an funny movie with excellent acting by Robert DeNiro, Anne Hathaway, Renee Russo who plays Fiona the massage therapist, Anders Holm who plays Jules' husband Matt, Adam DeVine as Jason, Christina Scherer as Becky and others. It is directed by Nancy Myers who also wrote the screenplay and produced it with Suzanne Farwell and Stephen Goldblatt did the cinematography. I give it 4 stars.

The Best of the Soul Years is the new compilation by Legendary Australian singer Jimmy Barnes. This compilation has tracks from the 3 albums of soul and R&B classics Soul Deep(1991),Soul Deeper Songs from the Deep South (2000) and the Rhythm and the Blues(2009) and 2 new tracks In the Midnight Hour and Mustang Sally(both Wilson Pickett songs). It's an AWESOME,FANTASTIC and an BRILLIANT CD with great songs which has stood the test of time with great singing by Barnsey on those 2 tracks and this CD went to number 3 on the Australian charts. Jimmy is back on the road at the moment with Cold Chisel and next year will be releasing another soul album. This CD is a must for Jimmy Barnes fans and I give this 5 stars which it's in the shops now so do yourself a favour and BUY IT.

Cass County is the new album by legendary American singer and member of the American group the Eagles Don Henley. This album was recorded in Nashville Tennessee, Dallas Texas and Orlando Florida and 10 of the tracks on this album were written by Don and 2 were covers by Tift Merritt and the Louvin Brothers as well as working with Mick Jagger, Dolly Parton and Trisha Yearwood on different tracks. It is an BRILLIANT and an SUPERB album with BRILLIANT songs and an great performance by Don who sounds great and still in great voice as ever and also an great country feel. This album has done very well as it went to number 1 in the USA country charts, number 3 in the US pop charts, number 7 in the UK, number 23 in Australia, number 7 in New Zealand, number 4 in Canada, number 5 in Scotland and number 5 in Holland and this album was produced by Don Henley and Stan Lynch(Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) with Jeff Balding, Gordon Hammond,Hank Linderman and Chris Bell doing the Engineering and R...

75 At 75 is the new compilation 3 CD set of legendary British singer Cliff Richard and on this compilation it has many of his classic hits including Move It, Living Doll, Please Don't Tease, The Young Ones, Summer Holiday, Congratulations, Devil Woman, Weird For Sound, Some People, Peace In Our Time etc and it has an new song called Golden which was written by Chris Eaton with Cliff and Keith Bessey producing the track. It is an AWESOME,ROCKIN and an BRILLIANT CD set with BRILLIANT songs which has stood the test of time and the new track Golden is just an FANTASTIC track. This 3 CD set has gone to number 4 in the UK,number 63 in the Netherlands and number 43 in New Zealand. Cliff Richard has just finished an tour of the UK to celebrate his 75th birthday and has been an subject of recent allegations of child sex abuse but one charge has been dropped and hope the other 2 will be dropped as I don't believe that he did it . He is still going strong after 57 years when he made his...

Crosseyed Heart is the new solo album by Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards which was an month ago and on this album most of the songs were written by Keith including one with his drummer from the X Pensive Winos Steve Jordan and David Porter(Stax songwriter) and another with Steve and Norah Jones and it has 2 covers including Goodnight Irene as well among the musicians who played on the album including Blondie Chaplain who worked with the Rolling Stones as well as the Beach Boys, Ben Cauley from the Bar Kays who passed away an month ago, Aaron Neville, Norah Jones as well as his back up band X Pensive Winos. It is an excellent album with excellent songs and an excellent performance by Keith which he produced this album with Steve Jordan as well as doing the mixing with Dave O'Donnell, Dave did the engineering as well Kenta Yonesaka did the assistant engineering and Andy Taub and Adam Tilzer were the assistant mix engineers. This album has done very well which it went to nu...

In 1966 British group Hermans Hermits toured Australia with Tom Jones and it was on that tour they performed an one off live show for Australian TV which was sponsored by Hilton's Hosiery as it was shown on GTV 9 Sunday April 17th 1966 and TCN 9 Monday April 18th 1966 and also this show is now officially released on DVD by Umbrella Entertainment. On this DVD they performed the hits they had at that time with crowd throwing streamers and the dancing girls joining them on certain songs. It's AWESOME,FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT with sound and picture quality looking excellent and it's great to see again more music specials coming from the Channel 9 archives which again great job done by Umbrella Entertainment. Hermans Hermits were one of the popular groups at that time and this DVD celebrates the best of the Beat music as great 60's style as well as the group still performs with drummer Barry Whitwam, Peter Noone still performs mainly in America and Karl Green is currently ...

The Road To Happiness Is Always Under Construction is the autobiography of legendary American actress Linda Gray. In this book she talks having polio at the age of 5, her mother being an alcoholic as she was growing up, an abusive marriage which lasted for 16 years with 2 children, taking acting classes, landing the role of Sue Ellen Ewing on the American TV show Dallas which she would be there until 1989, working with Larry Hagman, sad loss of her sister to Breast Cancer and many others. It is an excellent book with excellent stories and I certainly enjoyed reading it which I was impressed. Linda is still acting on TV, Film and theater which she has been in 2 movies this year A Perfect Wedding and Wally's Will and guest appearances on 2 American shows Significant Mother and Winterthorne and also had been in the London production of Cinderella. Even though the original series Dallas finished 24 years ago and the new version only finished last year her character Sue Ellen is still...

Over the Top and Back is the autobiography of legendary Welsh singer Tom Jones. In this book he talks about his upbringing in Pontypridd Wales, have Tuberculosis for 2 years, getting married at 16 to Linda as they are still together to this day as well as having a son Mark, performing around Wales with the Senators as Tommy Scott, going to London in 1964 which he would record for Decca, having the first hit record with It's Not Unusual in 1965, having successful hit singles in that period including What's New Pussycat, Green Green Grass Of Home, Delilah, Detriot City, Help Yourself, She's A Lady, hosting his own TV Show This Is Tom Jones, performing in Las Vegas, working with Elvis Presley,the passing of his manager Gordon Mills, and the resurgence in the 80's up to now and many others. It is an AWESOME,BRILLIANT,FANTASTIC and an SUPERB book with FANTASTIC stories and an FANTASTIC read which I enjoyed it very much. Tom Jones is still going strong still recording and to...

The Beatles Orchestrated - Concert Hall, QPAC - Tickets & Dining Packages

Age Against the Machine is the new album by the late Jim Keays singer of the legendary Australian rock band The Masters Apprentices. This album was recorded @ Hothouse Studios in St Kilda where the Dirty Dirty album was recorded and among the songs on the album are If You Got To Make A Fool Somebody (an James Ray song which British group Freddie and the Dreamers had their first hit with it in 1963), Come On(The Atlantics song from 1967), It's Alright(Adam Faith from 1965), Cadillac (Bo Diddley song)and I Got A Line(Spirit) etc. It's AWESOME,ROCKIN and BRILLIANT with great songs and great singing by Jim despite being ill. This album was produced by Ted Lethborg who also played on it along with the other musicians including Davey Lane(You Am I) with Jez Giddings as engineer who also did the mixing, Finn Keane engineered on one track and Craig Hamath did the additional engineering. This album was completed before Jim passed away but was released back in June this year and it is ...

The Animals and Friends - Twin Towns The Animals and Friends show will also be @ Kedron Wavell Services  in Brisbane Saturday March 5th  2016