 Eric Bogle's Small Pot (Pension Optimisation Tour) coming to a close.
Eric’s Bogle’s Small POT (Pension Optimisation Tour) is winding down. Fortunately for Australian fans it won’t be the last time he graces the stage with long time companion John Munro which is great news considering the reaction from audiences throughout this, his last extensive tour.
Anyone who was at The Basement in Sydney two days after Anzac Day and was part of the rapturous extended standing ovation Bogle and his band received at the conclusion of ‘The Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ will testify to the majesty of his live performances and why Eric (a national icon) is regarded as one of Australia’s eminent singer-songwriters – it was a magic moment and one by his own admission Eric will remember for a long time.
The news is probably not so good for the rest of the globe. In an interview with ABC Sydney’s Richard Glover Eric shared the mixed emotions he felt during his last ever performance in his home town of Peebles in Scotland when the realization hit him that this would be the last time he would see the many familiar faces, friends and relatives in the flesh. His tenth & final sojourn around Europe & the UK was drawing to a close, having also recently completed his last tour of North America.
Look and listen out for Eric Bogle in Capital News, The Northern Leader, Messenger Community News, The Murray Pioneer, The Sunday Mail, JB Hi-Fi Mag, Country Update, Rhythms Magazine, Trad & Now, WA’s Irish Scene, The Border Mail, Herald Sun, Sydney Morning Herald, Blarney Bulletin, Tsunami Magazine, 2010 NFF Program, Simply Australia, ACMLA News and on 2GB, ABC Local Radio, Radio National and community radio nationwide especially 2BAY, 2OCN, 6NR, 3RRR, 2BLU, 3PVR, 2REM, 2BAB, 3INR, 4BAY, 3WYN, 2SEA, 2LVR, 2BAR, 2WET, 3SCB, 2EAR, 2RDJ, 6MKA, 1VFM, 1XXR, 2BAR, 7LTN, 4TTT, 4NSA, 4NAG, 4BCR, 3RPC, 3PBS, 3MBR, 3CH, 2CCC, 2MBS & 2MAX.
Both his 15th album The Dreamer (RRR47) and first ever DVD Live at Stonyfell Winery (RRR48) are available at retail through MGM Distribution as well as Folk Trax, Trad & Now and directly from Undercover Music via mail order. Fans can also now download the best of Bogle’s back catalogue Singing The Spirit Home which has been released online through MGM.
Tour Dates: See the Gig Guide for dates and venues (top right).
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 Gary Shearston
Gary Shearston returned to the stage in February with two shows in Sydney as well as an amazing house concert hosted by Greg & Lynne Hudson in the Blue Mountains, staged to the backdrop of one of the most torrential downpours in the area in living memory. That didn’t stop a healthy turn out of adoring fans that were treated to a spell binding show of Shearston’s repertoire spanning a wonderful five decade career.
Gary then appeared at the Museum of Sydney as part of the Martin Sharp Artist exhibition before returning to the Harp Hotel in Tempe.
Whilst his guitar picking fingers aren’t as nimble as they once were and by his own admission his hair is a little thinner and belly a little thicker, all three shows were a resounding success and testament that there is plenty of life in him yet.
Gary debuted brand new material at the gigs and in an interview and live performance on 702 ABC Sydney’s afternoon ‘Drive’ program hosted by Richard Glover which led to a host of listener calls including ‘Monica’ who exclaimed “Gary Shearston was to folk what Johnny O’Keefe was to rock!”
Moves are now afoot for a new album and national tour in the first half of 2011.
In the meantime, if you haven’t heard Gary Shearston’s latest double album The Best Of All Trades then you are missing out on what Capital News’ Keith Glass describes as‘a document that should finally place Shearston in the pantheon of our greatest song commentators.’
Look and listen out for Gary Shearston in Blarney Bulletin & the 2010 NFF Program.
Dr Peter Mills, Senior Lecturer in Media and Popular Culture at Leeds Metropolitan University in England is also doing an essay on Gary's work later this year.
The Best Of All Trades (RRR46), Here & There, Now & Then – An Anthology of Gary Shearston (RRR41) and Only Love Survives (RRR3) are available at retail through MGM Distribution as well as Folk Trax, Trad & Now and directly from Undercover Music via mail order.
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The Celebrated Knackers + Knockers Band
In May 2010 Rouseabout will be releasing two restricted triple-R CDs of bawdy songs by The Celebrated Knackers and Knockers Band.
Titled Sing Us Anothery, Dirty As Buggery and Rooted in the Country, the songs on the albums are very politically incorrect - racist, homophobic, sexist and every other taboo - and all collected from Australia’s rugby, bushwalking and rabblerousing past, and an important record of our disappearing colloquial language. These albums are sure to offend, shock (and entertain) whilst saluting our musical past as they represent the first comprehensive collection of Australian bawdy songs and verse.
The CDs are accompanied by scholarly (and hilarious) booklet notes and feature sensational cover art by James P. Gilmour who has also produced two flash cartoons that will be used as part of a viral email campaign.
It has been confirmed that The Celebrated Knackers & Knockers front man Major Bumsore (who bares a striking resemblance to our favourite larrikin Warren Fahey) made a brief cameo at the opening concert of the National Folk Festival in front of 3000 people including the Minister for Arts to rapturous applause!
Major Bumsore also appeared on ABC Radio National’s The Music Show on Saturday April 10.
Look and listen out for The Celebrated Knackers & Knockers Band on ABC Radio, Folk Trax, 5EBI, HotFM106.7 Mildura, the Australian Folklore Network & community radio folk programs nationwide.
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Russell Morris
Check our gig guide for where you can catch Russell Morris live along with either Brian Cadd or Daryl Cotton and Jim Keays this month.
Tour Dates: See the Gig Guide for dates and venues (top right).
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