rockinluke

LAst Friday November 11th I went to Kedron Wavell Services Club to Australian singer Daryl braithwaite which it was my 4th time seeing him live. The show started at 8.25pm with Daryl Braithwaite and his band came on stage starting off with Blueswalkin from the 1976 Sherbet album "Howzat" and would put on an 1 hour and 2o minute show doing the songs from his 80's and 90's hits as well as the other Sherbet song Howzat as well as cover songs and 2 new songs which everyone would sing along to the songs. The show finished at 9.45pm finishing off with the Horses which everyone sang along to that and someone in the audience gave an toy horse to Daryl towards the end of the show which was very good. The show was FANTASTIC with Daryl singing great as always even at the age of 62 and the back-up band including Geoff on guitar was just FANTASTIC and also after the show finished I waited to see if Daryl would come out which he did and I got an autograph and an photo with him wh...

On Sunday november 6th I went to Kedron Wavell to see the Rock'n'Roll Spectacular show to raise the money for the Endeavour Foundation and it was an FANTASTIC day which i'm sure they raised an lot of money for it. The line up of the show on that was an bit different again but it was GREAT and like Digger Revell wasn't supposed to be in the actual line up but was in the last minute but as well as Lee Conway wasn't well and Sharon Rowntree could'nt come but it was an GREAT line up anyway. The show started at 12.30pm with Graham Webb an well known Sydney radio disc jockey who worked in Brisbane in the early 60's on 4KQ as well as hosting the TV show Blind Date in the 70s' as well as founding host and producer of Sounds Unlimited and comedian Kenny bennett compering the show and Barry larter started the proceedings doing an set of Johnny O'Keefe songs, then Dennis Knight came on which he did an great set of rock pop classics and had 2 of his daughters o...

iron man is the autobiography written by Tony Iommi the guitarist and founding member of one of the biggest heavy metal groups from England "Black Sabbath" and this was released in Australia about 2 weeks ago. In this book Tony talks about his upbringing in birmingham, ENgland, suffered an hand injury at an sheet metal factory which would be the unique playing style that Tony would have, played in local bands like the Rocking Chevrolets, The Birds and The Beesm the Rest(featuring future Black Sabbath member Bill Ward), Mythology and Earth who would become the band known as Black Sabbath which Geezer Butler the bass player came up with the name after an 1963 film that starred Boris karloff and would become one of the biggest bands as well as one of the early heavy metal groups , the success as well as the wild excess and many others. it's an Excellent and an brilliant book which it's co written with TJ lammers and Tony tells an lot of great stories about his life an...

Last Saturday night October 29th I went to the Easts Leagues Club in Coorparoo to see an tribute show to the legendary American 70's group The Eagles called the Eagels Band and it was my first time seeing this band but it was my 2nd time this year seeing an Eagles tribute which had been back on Friday July 29th @ Morningside Services Club where I saw one of those nights (Aka MAsters Of Rock). the show started around 8pm with the Eagels band coming on stage which they did the first set doing the classic stuff like Best of My Love, One of These Nights,Lyin Eyes, I can't Tell you why etc and there was an interval where i saw an friends of Dad's named janice and Bev which they are well. The second set had more of the classic Eagles stuff as well as some of the Don henley,Glenn Frey and Joe Walsh solo stuff and the show eventually finished by after 10.30pm which they finished it off with Hotel California. It was an FANTASTIC show and the band put on an FANTASTIC show which th...

On Friday October 28th I went to kedron Wavell Services Club to see Legendary American singer Taylor Dayne which i've known her music since the 90's and was so looking forward to see her live which it was my first time seeing her. the show started around 8pm with support act Andrew Lawson who had been on the X Factor starting which he did an excellent set doing mixture of covers and originals and he was just excellent which he was on for about half an hour and also he had cd's on sale at the first break. I met Andrew which i got an autograph and an photo and I spoke with an man who showed me an picture of him and Belinda Carlisle taken outside @ kedron Wavell back in february. Taylor Dayne came on around 9pm and was on for over an hour and an bit which she was just FANTASTIC singing great doing most of the famous hits that she made back in the 80's and 90's as well as having an very good sense of humor and also the 2 back up girl singers were just FANTASTIC too sing...

On Saturday I went to the Balmoral Cinema to see the documentary George Harrison Living In the Material World. in this documentary it talks about George Harrison's upbringing in Liverpool, joining the Quarrymen who would become the Beatles, Beatlemania success, his travels to india, the Indian culture influence in his music, his relevance and importance as an member of the Beatles, as well as his solo career after the Beatles, his friendship with Indian musician Ravi Shankar, launching Hand Made Records in the 80's, the attempt on his life in 1999 when he was stabbed and hsi sad death on November 29th 2001 and others. it's an BRILLIANT, IMPRESSIVE and an AWESOME documentary with archival interviews with George Harrison as well as interviews with people like his Brothers Peter and Harry, surviving Beatles members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Astrid Kirchherr an photographer who knew them in Hamburg,germany in the early 60's,Klaus Voorman, Eric Clapton, Pattie Boyd(g...

On Friday night I went to the Mt gravatt Bowls Club to see the Legendary Australian singing group the Delltones and it's been more than an year and an half since I last saw them @ kedron Wavell Services Club on friday April 9th 2010. it's been 8 months since I was last @ Mt Gravatt Bowls CLub when I saw Australian country singer Sara Storer on thursday February 17th this year and there has been an change in the line up of the Delltones is that Danny Mayers who had been with them from 1981-85 and 1995-2011 has left the group to do his solo career. the show started @ 8.25pm with the four piece line of Woody,Owen, Merv and Pee Wee coming on stage which they did the unplugged set for the first set which they did stuff like I Wonder Why, Book Of Love, Why Do Fools Fall in Love etc and during the interval I bought the Delltones 1995 album "The Sunshine Club" which i had an talk with Carla about the latest projects for the group, Pee Wee's book and Wintersun. The guys ca...