Live Act 200

a life changing experience to see 200 live acts. finish up with Boil up. what's the time Mr wolf is particularly good. brass conga line to the beer garden to bring in the new year.

Post-Christmas Shenanigans

montz matsumoto.  bushranger Australian style banjo playing.
roll in my sweet babies arms
Japanese number, land of Navajo catfish John
the hipster place across the road had a line the youngsters migrated across  but didn't really have an appreciation for quality banjo
may the circle be unbroken redemption song with banjo is something to behold
ashokan farewell road to distanvara
Woody Guthrie
Tony trishka

brisbane hotel Punk Rock girl trio.  the blonde got to get your bris legs
bass and lead singer with great legs.  their song This Town was particularly good.

tim and Scott at Post Street Social. On hobart wharf during Sydney to Hobart Taste of Tasmania random boaw boaws between songs from Music Girl.  teaching her about Tasmanian whisky . Simon and Garfunkel.bubbles blowing across from the neighbouring table.  now I'm a patron of the arts. the acts talk to me in the break. request for Tiny Dancer

Bad dad orchestra lots of dancing great horn section.  great song dedicated to Liam Pennicott from Guthrie.  Pete Cornelius. mercy singlets have norm from life be in it.  random drunken women dancing on stage just awkward.

4 letter fish.  psychedelic music from 60s and 70s Britain.  not really my thing.  many floral shirted 50 plus year old men.  with reading glasses hanging off the neck of their shirts. weird dancing hung weed was at last nights gig musically quite good but not my thing.  maybe I hadn't drunk enough or had enough drugs taxman with the taxman. I never liked Pink Floyd. except two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year. I hate Neil Young.

Nothin but a Glam Time.  Irish Murphy's.  A few in long wigs, animal print tights and head bands. Guns n Roses singlets abound.  Featured a wing machine (fan) to blow back those long lock.  Beautiful in its ridiculousness. Chloe interacted with the locals through the medium of Daryl Braithwaite  whitesnake poison def leppard pour some sugar on me, David Lee Roth. Bon Jovi. of course sweet child o mine hair in the mouth when your trying to sing. I'd forgotten how much I love Van Halen.unskinny bop.

Jonathan Warwarek at TBone. Great version Forever Now. Enough to make you cry. Dumb Things.  His interpretation of songs is a little different and makes you think about classics in a different way. Take it Easy. it's too late Carole King. harmonica.  lover lover you don't treat me no good no more.

   

Pre-Christmas Shenanigans

Chris Coleman tbone opened with angels am I ever going to see your face again. gobetweens and kylie jed Appleton song. his originals are beautiful. Dandilion Flower is my favouite. divinyls I touch myself
who's gonna make the gravy.

Bridget Pross at T Bone best female singer of the year. patsy Kline landslide Fleetwood Mac Chris issak
Johnny cash burning ring of fire there may have been dancing I just called to say I love you.jolene the flame cheap trick Bee Gees and Steve Poltz
John Lennon introduced me to Paloma Faith finished with Dolly

lagoon hill zydeco. one fellow was playing his tie, washboard style, squeeze box, double bass rocking good time. roadhouse blues the doors, Folsom prison blues.

Christmas Eve. triangles in heat. 

young man with stuffy hair and a lovely friendly innocent voice. a beautiful song about family. made you want to care for him. at the end of his set he grabbed his skateboard and rode of into the freshly dark evening. had to get home so Santa could come presumably.

Seth Henderson. harmonica. some good some less successful guitar unnecessarily heavy seemed unfinished and experimental.

jed Appleton excellent. brilliant songwriter and storyteller. great performer. you really get that he is living the song not just singing it. one of his songs drifted into I'm feeling good. that is proper use of heavy guitar

triangles in heat great songs fantastic performance didn't like the stage interlopers and too much treble on the mic but brilliant. high quality at home on any modern radio station

Tennyson King

Tennyson king at the Republic. Canadian. get mellow music for a pre-Christmas mid week session. Chris Isaak I want to fall in love. should have been a bigger crowd for such a quality artist. beautiful sound from his guitar. if I knew anything about guitars I couldn't tell you which brand. it was pretty. soulful tunes sitting on the dock of the bay.take a walk on the wild side

I hate it when half the people in the bar have no interest in the music and try to celebrate over the top.

got a drunkard chucked out

another terrible day in the world pedestrians mown down by a car in Melbourne. rohinga people persecuted. we have a responsibility to enjoy what we have and commit to changing the little in our own way.

I don't know where I'm going but I know that I'm right here. various paths we take live in the moment

Carols & Baker Boys

carols are Shit. need more booze and fewer terrible singers

Baker boys at Prince of Wales. bass keyboard drums singer, drummer was particularly good. Fleetwood Mac Dreams. killing me softly. fever, I'm so in love with you. smooth operator

watching ashes cricket as the Aussie took the poms apart, again. burnt after a day of football, toothache which was making my throat hurt

The Musiq Gardens

Dylan Eynon at The Musiq Gardens by Kick-start Arts. courtyard with beanbags food and drink. live painter Tarik Abou. interacting with kids encouraging them to draw and paint and talking to them about materials and media.
Ajax Cocktail Party. Jazz fusion band.

Ben & Spiral Stairs

Ben at Republic. inspirational. perfect vocals as always. I despair that I may never hear Derwent River Live again. opportunities great version.

Spiral Stairs. not expecting much. seems to be too cool for me., a man in horizontal stripes that one might want to get to know a little better
a touch of Paul Kelly with a little Pink Floyd Australian crawl without James Reyne. maybe with a touch of blues. Angel Eyes. song about south east Queensland Dave Graney