Rebecca O'Connor "Simply The Best" As Tina Turner Show @ Redlands Performing Arts Center

Last night I went to the Redland Performing Arts Center where I saw the show Rebecca O'Connor "Simply The Best" As Tina Turner Show which it was my first time seeing the show, Caught bus to Cleveland from Carindale, bought Coke With No Sugar from Coles, drank it and went to the Cleveland Sands Hotel where I had Steak, Chips and Salad for dinner, drank Coke With No Sugar and for desert had Chocolate Brownie which I waited half an hour for it, paid my meal, walk to the Redland Performing Arts Center, went inside and use mobile. The show started at 7.30pm with Rebecca and the band coming out on Stage which they were on stage for 2 hours and 10 minutes doing the Tina Turner classics including Steamy Window, What's Love Got To Do With It, What You Get Is What You See, I Can't Stand the Rain and Proud Mary which there was an interval where I drank Coke with No Sugar and ate Cookie and in the second set performed classics including We Don't Need Another Hero, Private Dancer, the guitar player did an Jeff Beck tribute, Nutbush City Limits, River Deep Mountain High and finishing off with Simply the Best which but the end of the show Dennis the drummer who is also an manager who manages Rebecca and had managed Fleetwood Mac telling the story about how the connection with Rebecca came abut as well as getting in touch with Roger Davies and Tina Turner. The show finsihed at 10.40pm, went outside, My sister picked me up, stopped at 7-11 and Maccas and came home. It was an AWESOME Show which Rebecca was just totally awesome who does Tina Turner so brilliantly with an FANTASTIC back band with an fantastic guitar and an female bass player which she was just brilliant with the dancers were just FANTASTIC too and also everyone in the audience was just having an great time and enjoying it. I enjoyed the show and I look forward to seeing the again in the future which if you have not seen her please do yourselves an favour and SEE HER which you will be impressed and amazed.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Go Kommotion

Image
This is the book about 2 iconic Australian music shows that were on Channel 0 (now Channel 10)back in the 60's The Go Show on August 4th 1964 which lasted for 3 years and 222 episodes until September 17th 1967 and Kommotion hosted by Ken Sparkes was on from December 13th 1965 until September 28th 1967 after 356 episodes and in the book it has the info about both shows as well as episode guides as well the discography of both the Go label and the Kommotion label and the people who worked on Kommotion including Denise Drysdale and Molly Meldrum and many others including some memorabilla and photos of the artists. It is AWESOME, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with FANTASTIC and AWESOME stuff and amazing information about the Go Show which just celebrated 60 years an month ago and Kommotion as well as very impressive and very entertaining which it is well worth an read. Brett Leslie and Milton Hammon who are TV archivists have done an FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT job putting this book together and i...
Read more

Buddy Holly/Jerry Lee Lewis/Paul Anka/Jodie Sands/Johnny O'keefe Australian tour 1958

Image
this is another new segment on Rockin Luke as we look at the rock'n'roll tours of Australia from the 50's,60's and 70's from the well known tours and to some that don't get a lot of mention so let's start off with the Buddy Holly tour of Australia in 1958. Buddy holly & the Crickets/Jerry lee Lewis/Paul Anka/Jodie Sands/Johnny O'Keefe and the Dee Jays- The Big Show promoter-Lee Gordon Buddy Holly and the Crickets-Buddy Holly,Jerry Allison & joe B Mauldin Jerry lee Lewis Paul Anka Jodie Sands Johnny O"Keefe and the Dee jays- Johnny O'Keefe , John"Catfish" Purser, dave Owens, Johnny greenan, Lou Casch and Keith Williams Dates- Sydney Stadium January 30th 1958 Newcastle January 31st Sydney Stadium February 1st Cloudland Ballroom Brisbane February 3rd West Melbourne Stadium February 4th and 5th This tour in 1958 was the only Australian tour that Buddy holly ever did as well as the tour of the UK an month later as he would be kille...
Read more

Vale Peter Flanagan(the Fauns/The Flanagans)

Image
Peter Flanagan member of legendary Australian singing family group the Fauns aka the The Flanagans passed away on September 2nd aged 73 at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. Peter along with brother Paul and Sister Margaret began as the Fauns in 1959 as they had been doing classical music training which they released 3 singles on the Leedon label- Dance With Me/Don't Take the Stars, We Should Be Together/While Susan Sleeps and Nursery Rhymes Rock and as the Flanagans they released 4 singles on the HMV label-He/Wonderland Of Love and Dreams(1965), Follow the Wind/Land OF Beyond(1965), You Were Meant FOr Me/That's How Man Began(1966) and This is My Song/For Bobby(1967). the group did appearances on Bandstand,Six O'Clock Rock, Teen Time, The Johnny O'Keefe Show, Sing Sing Sing, the Mike Walsh Show, IMT, Revue 61, Revue 62 and many others as well as performing on the Matt Munro TV special in 1966 as well as performing in the clubs too as well as co writing the song...
Read more