DAVE'S DIARY - 16 JANUARY 2005 - PREVIEW EPISODE 3 - SERIES 3
NU
COUNTRY TV EPISODE 3 - SATURDAY JANUARY 22
KEITH URBAN AND CATHERINE BRITT HEADLINE
The huge growth of Australian country music here and overseas is reflected
in our action packed third episode of Nu Country TV this Saturday - January
22 - on C 31.
Expatriate Australasian superstar Keith Urban headlines the third series
of the show at 8 p m on Saturday - repeated on Tuesday at 3 p m.
Keith is joined on the show by fellow expatriate young gun Catherine Britt
and hot new acts The Davidson Brothers and Jake Nickolai.
The Davidson Brothers and Jake headline our free Nu Country TV concert
at the Arts Centre lawn on Sunday January 30 from 2.30- 5.30 p m.
Also on the show is rising Australia female trio Bella and Canadian singers
Jason McCoy and Sam Roberts.
KEITH URBAN SOARS CHARTS AGAIN
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Keith
Urban performs on Nu Country TV on the eve of his triumphant return
to the St Kilda Palais on Saturday February 26. Urban, 37, visited his parents on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland for Christmas and returns here to compete for the big bucks in Melbourne the same day Shotgun Willie Nelson and Gretchen Wilson play the Myer Music Bowl. The singer performs his 5th #1 U.S. hit Days Go By from his huge selling 5th album Be Here. Urban's new single You're My Better Half has soared to #5 on the Billboard charts. We hope to also screen that video clip soon. Stay tuned next week - Saturday January 29 - when we take you behind the scenes for the making of the video. |
You get to
meet Keith's mum and discover the source of his hair that peers would
kill for.
We also have a three-part interview with Keith to preview his tour.
CLICK HERE for a KEITH tour
story from the DIARY on DECEMBER 21.
CLICK HERE for
another URBAN story from the DIARY on OCTOBER 13.
CLICK HERE for the
first in our trilogy from DIARY on OCTOBER 5.
CATHERINE BRITT VIDEO PREMIERES
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Newcastle
novitiate Catherine Britt is our hottest country music export since
Urban's search and destroy mission on the home of country music. Catherine is enjoying a whirlwind NSW tour before her return to the U.S. to tour to crack the biggest market in the world. |
Sadly Britt's
music has been ignored by mainstream radio in her homeland but she is
a staple of the ABC, community radio and pay TV channel CMC and Nu Country
TV.
CLICK HERE for a Catherine
story from the DIARY on OCTOBER 21.
DAVIDSON BROTHERS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
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Gippsland
born and bred DAVIDSON BROTHERS might be virtually unknown in their
home state of Victoria. But that's all about to change when they headline the free Nu Country TV concert at the Arts Centre lawn on Sunday January 30. The DAVIDSON BROTHERS represented Australia at the International Bluegrass Music Association festival in Louisville, Kentucky in September. They also performed at the annual festival at Rosine - birthplace of the late bluegrass king Bill Monroe - and hooked up with expatriate band Greencards in Nashville. |
Nu Country
TV host Heather Rutherford - a regular guest at the Telluride bluegrass
festival - has an exclusive poolside interview with Hamish and Lachlan
Davidson at their East Doncaster home.
Stay tuned and catch the inside info on the band who made the finals of
the Australian Golden Guitars two years in succession.
CLICK HERE for DAVIDSON
BROTHERS feature from the DIARY on January 12.
JAKE NICKOLAI FASTER AT ARTS CENTRE
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Hotshot
Whyalla born guitarist and singer-songwriter JAKE NICKOLAI rarely
plays his adoptive hometown of Melbourne. Acclaimed producer Rod McCormack is the studio wizard behind the music of the Tamworth Country Music College graduate and regular Golden Guitar finalist. |
He will also
produce the second album by The Davidson Brothers.
Check out Jake at his web page -
www.jakenickolai.com
BELLA BLOOM
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Award
winning female trio Bella performs a video for single About A Girl
from debut album Gravity on independent label Ocean Road. The band released Gravity this month in Tamworth where it made the Golden Guitar finals for the second year in succession. Bella made its Victorian debut at the 15th Bunyip Country Music Festival in 2004. |
They were
interviewed and filmed by Nu Country TV host Heather Rutherford and plan
a Victorian return in 2005.
McCormack - renowned for production and writing with Beccy Cole, Adam
Harvey, singing spouse Gina Jeffreys and The Wheel - also produced Bella.
Bella members Lynn Bowtell, Karen O'Shea and Kate Ballantyne showed creativity
by writing eight of the 12 songs on Gravity.
CLICK HERE for a BELLA feature
from the DIARY on February 25, 2004.
JASON MCCOY FEELS SIN COMING ON
Canadian
country star Jason McCoy debuts the video clip for his hot new single
I Feel A Sin Coming On for Nu Country TV.
The video is from McCoy's fourth album Sins, Lies And Angels.
Jason first toured here with Jim Lauderdale, Kim Richey, Fred Eaglesmith
and Audrey Auld in 2002.
Last year he was a special guest on a 2004 Aussie tour by Adam Harvey
who joined him on a Canadian tour last year.
CLICK HERE for a Jason
McCoy story from the DIARY.
SAM ROBERTS
Fellow Canadian
Sam Roberts performs the video for his new single Brother Down
on Nu Country TV.
Sam Roberts released his debut EP Inhuman Condition in 2002 following
a popular demo he had made in Montreal.
Before that he had been a violin player that eventually moved on to guitar
and started a band with his friends.
The band moved to Los Angeles but split in 1998.
Brother Down is from his platinum selling second album We Were
Born In A Flame on Lost Highway-Universal in Australia.