The Lucky Comets @ the Dixon Street Stage

On Saturday Afternoon June 10th I went to the Dixon Street Stage to see the Adelaide band Lucky Seven doing the Lucky Comets an tribute to Bill Haley and His Comets which it's my 3rd time seeing them as I saw twice @ Cooly Rocks On 2021 at Greenmount Surf Club on Thursday June 10th 2021 doing the Bill Haley tribute and Saturday night June 12th 2021 at the Queen Elizabeth Park Stage just as Lucky Seven. the show started at 1pm and for the next 1 hour and 15 minutes they did the classic Bill Haley songs from the 50's including Rock Around the Clock, Thirteen Women, Shake Rattle and Roll, Mambo Rock and the Freddie Bell and the Bell Boys song Giddy Up A Ding Dong and many others . the players in the Lucky Comets(Lucky Seven) are just Amazing players with great saxophone sounds and an great guitar sound with the drummer coming on stage playing the drumsticks on the bass string just amazing and they do the songs with great respect and do it so well. The show finished @ 2.15pm and it was an FANTASTIC show which everyone had an great time and the band were FANTATSIC too really entertaining the crowd and can really play which I hope they come back to Cooly Rocks On again as they are worth seeing live doing the BIll Haley stuff amazing. Set List- Rip It Up Rock Around the Clock Mambo Rock Happy Happy Baby ROCK Giddy Up A Ding Dong Thirteen Women instrumental Don't Knock The Rock 40 Cups Of Coffee Razzle Dazzle Choo Choo Choo Boogie Birth Of The Boogie Hide and Seek 2 Hound Dogs instrumental Teenager's Mother Burn That Candle Rock A Beatin Boogie Dim Dim The Lights Shake Rattle and Roll

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