DAVE'S DIARY - 23 AUGUST 2006 - HOTEL KEW SHOWCASE
NU COUNTRY SHOWCASE - UNSUNG HEROES SHINE
All roads
lead to Hotel Kew from dusk on Saturday October 7 when Nu Country TV hosts
a showcase to give exposure to unsung heroes of the Victorian country
scene.
Ruckus, Phil Younger & Country Brew, Queensland singer-songwriter
Jason Kemp and Silver String Outlaws are among the artists already booked
to appear.
Other bands and solo artists will be announced soon for the show that
also features the draw of the Lee Kernaghan Akubra for Nu Country members.
All financial members of Nu Country will be in the draw that will be conducted
by a mystery VIP.
The concert will be filmed for Series #7 of Nu Country TV that will screen
on C 31 in Victoria, South Australia and New Zealand over summer.
We have picked quality artists, rarely seen in the city and inner suburbs,
as a treat for viewers.
The concert starts at 6 p m at Hotel Kew - 99 High Street, Kew Junction
- and is free for members.
Admission is also free for members who renew on the night or become members
for the first time.
They will also be rewarded with country CDS and cassettes from our library
and free admission to our Christmas party at the same venue.
All artists will also have their CDS and other merchandise on sale during
the show.
RUCKUS RETURN TO HOTEL KEW
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"Well,
it was just an ordinary Friday night/ I was singing songs and watching
cowboys fight/ when in walked a stranger." - Dance Cowboy Dance
- S Himbury-V Moses.
Popular Melbourne band Ruckus, renowned for high energy concerts in Tamworth,
Gympie and beyond the city limits, rarely performs in the inner Melbourne
suburbs.
But the quintet, who shared billing with Arizona country star Billy Wyatt
at our 2005 Christmas party, is back by popular demand.
Ruckus is promoting its seven track self titled indie CD featuring three
original tunes penned by singer Sandie Himbury and guitarist Michael Abrey.
Sandie, heavily pregnant during her Christmas party show, has given birth
to a child and a bunch of new songs.
Other members are acclaimed violinist Marcela Koldova, who also played
in Wyatt's band, drummer Andy Costello and bassist Barry Tiplady.
Ruckus took its name from an outer Melbourne suburban beer barn fracas
and plays an eclectic repertoire of originals and covers.
It has won a wide following during a three-year sojourn and scored extensive
airplay on community radio - major outlet for country music in the unlucky
radio country.
The bands energetic live performances are drawn from over 80 songs.
Further info - http://www.ruckus.net.au/ruckusaboutus.htm
YOUNGER BREWS UP CASH BATTLE
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Phil
Younger & Country Brew began 2006 with a memorable performance
at the long standing popular Red Hill Country Music Festival. Nu
Country TV has twice screened the band's video for Concrete Jungle
Cowboys in response to viewer reaction. |
Phil, whose
voice has a three-octave range, stands 6 ft 6 in the old currency and
made a video for the title track of his album Concrete Jungle Cowboys
featuring 12 of his original songs.
"Concrete Jungle Cowboys took a year to record, financed completely
by us," says Younger.
"We are very proud of it."
Phil followed sister Kay to Australia after she strutted her stuff with
the Yarra Yarra Jazz Band.
His song Seven Years was played at the funeral of his mother who
raised her kids in England.
Younger eulogised unsung heroines - jillaroos - on his debut single Sweet
Jillyroo and highway honky tonkers in Long Distance Truckie.
His music embraces rural and urban themes with the bluesy belter Rear
View Mirror, Be Proud Of Who You Are and Stuck In Prison.
Among guests on his album are violinist Jen Anderson, Git singer Sarah
Carroll, Ian Collard on harmonica and Ed Bates on pedal steel.
The singer resigned from the CMAA and claimed on his web page he was snubbed
in the annual Golden Guitar awards and ignored by Gympie Muster and Mildura
country festival organisers.
"Country music to me is a passion and a love," says Younger.
"Wherever we perform, we get great responses, if we didn't we would
have packed up years ago. Our album is now fully licensed by an American
Company, we are signed to a UK record label with distribution throughout
Europe."
Further info - http://www.philyounger.com/
SILVER STRING OUTLAWS
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Westernport
band Silver String Outlaws, famed for their lavish touring bus and rigs,
are making a rare appearance in the inner suburbs.
The band, formed by Steve Latham in 2001, released an EP in 2005 that
featured the single Looking For The Good Life.
Since then the band has recorded an album with a brace of originals.
They include oft recorded Holy Mary - penned by Dead Livers singer
and latter day Portland resident Marty Atchison who wrote the popular
Nu Country TV theme song Up And Down The Line.
The Silver String Outlaws have also made two new video clips to promote
their new album.
A highlight is Hit The Highway, penned by bassist Noel Goard.
Other band members include singer Barry Donohue, Dead Livers guitarists
Rodger Delfos and Don Farrell and drummer Ron Mahony.
Further info - http://silverstringoutlaws.com/
JASON KEMP
Roma singer-songwriter
Jason Kemp won warm acclaim when he performed with Billy Wyatt at the
Nu Country Christmas party.
The prolific songwriter has had songs recorded by peers diverse as Tanya
Self, Josh Arnold, Janelle Donovan, Robert Keith and Gemma Doyle.
Fellow Queensland country singer Nellie Donovan, raised on a Conondale
dairy farm released Kemp's song Cruisin' as the second single from
debut album Steppin' Out.
The video clip for Cruisin' was shot by award winning director
Ross Wood at Berry in NSW - it followed the video for her debut single
Sing Me An Angel.
Kemp released two singles from his debut album This Dance and is
making a new album in Melbourne in spring.
He made video clips for five of his original songs - Country Train,
Roadtrip, No-one Loves This Truck Like Me, Conformity and Ballad
Of Adrian Peddemore.
Most were filmed in Queensland and scored exposure on Pay TV channel CMC
and Nu Country TV.
The video for Kemp's trucking tribute was filmed at the famed Nindigully
pub near St George in Queensland.