DAVE'S DIARY - 6/2/07 - PREVIEW OF EPISODE 9 - SERIES 7
BECCY AND BRAND HEADLINE NU COUNTRY TV
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Tamworth
Golden Guitar winners Beccy Cole and Adam Brand headline this week's
episode of Nu Country TV as a prelude to their performances at Whittlesea
Country music festival. Fellow Tamworth winners and Whittlesea guests Jake Nickolai and Sunny Cowgirls also perform on our show this Saturday February 10 at 9.30 p m on C 31. The show is repeated on Wednesday at 5.30 pm and at high noon on Thursday. This week's host is PBS-FM programmer and former Nu Country FM rockabilly DJ Hugo Armstrong who shot the Queenscliff Music Festival to international acclaim. Armstrong, a fellow Geelong College graduate of former Nu Country DJ and latter day Acid Country PBS host David Heard, did his hosting role where the duo toil on Easey Street in Collingwood. |
Series #5
producer Sofie Blichfeldt directed and filmed the extravaganza in the
studio of the station that moved from St Kilda to Carringbush a few moons
ago.
Cole, born in the Blackwood Hills of South Australia, brought her Golden
Guitar tally to seven with three new gongs this year.
The one time singer with the Chambers family Dead Ringer Band, won awards
for her Australian soldiers tribute song Poster Girl (Wrong Side Of
The World).
It was inspired by a 2005 tour of duty in Iraq and Kuwait and included
on the bonus disc when her fifth album Feel This Free (ABC) was
re-released.
Cole, 36, hosted the 2006 awards on her return from the war zone.
"I'm still on a high from my experience entertaining the troops in
the Middle East,' Cole said at the time.
"I have a huge amount of respect for our forces and I'm very proud
of the great job they are doing over there. Our job was to provide an
entertaining break from their gruelling routine. We succeeded. I'm happy
to report that morale is high amongst the Aussies and if their hard work
and commitment is anything to go by, peace in the Middle East is achievable."
CLICK HERE for a Cole feature
from the Diary on April 16, 2005.
ADAM BRAND - OPEN ENDED HEARTACHE
Adam Brand
also returns to Nu Country with the video clip of his song Open Ended
Heartache from his sixth album What A Life.
Brand, twice divorced at 36, was well qualified to write the song that
scored him his ninth Golden Guitar.
The Perth born former stock car racer and dental technician spent his
teenage years at Colac and Wallington south of Geelong.
CLICK HERE for a feature
on Brand from the Diary on August 26, 2004.
RONNY ELLIOTT - BORN IN 1947
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Florida
country singer Ronny Elliott performs Born In 1947 with his band The
Nationals. Elliott, 59, shares birth date and place - Birmingham, Alabama - with Emmylou Harris Ronny has been recording since the sixties and opened for Kasey Chambers in a dirt floor Florida bar on her first American tour. The singer has released seven albums that won wide exposure on Americana radio and on Nu Country and PBS-FM in Australia. CLICK HERE for an Elliott feature and reviews from the Diary. |
JAKE NICKOLAI RETURNS
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Whyalla
born Jake Nickolai followed Keith Urban to Nashville last year where
he won acclaim when he played showcases. Jake also wrote with leading songwriters in Music City and is about to release his debut album. |
Those writers
included Neil Coty, Mike Mobley and Jon Vezner - Grammy award winning
husband of singer songwriter Kathy Mattea.
Nickolai performs the video of Three Days Driving from his seven
track ABC Music EP Think About You on Nu Country.
The hotshot guitarist was a headliner at the Nu Country TV Arts Centre
showcase on January 30, 2005, and toured nationally with fellow South
Australian born Cole.
Jake also worked on a charity recording session with fellow South Australian
expat Jedd Hughes and his former employer - Texan country star Lee Ann
Womack.
The session featured Joe Nicholls and was produced by Dan Huff whose clients
are expat superstar Keith Urban and singing actor Tim McGraw.
Jake also played on a session with new artist, Kyle Wyley who was so impressed
with his guitar skills he offered Jake the opportunity to record with
him.
There was also a chance meeting with Blues Brothers legend Steve Cropper
- the co-writer of Dock of The Bay who gave him one of his guitar picks.
CLICK HERE for a
Jake feature from the Diary on September 13, 2005.
SUNNY COWGIRLS
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Sunny
Cowgirls - Sophie and Celeste Clabburn - were raised on a family
farm near Hamilton in the western district of Victoria before heading
west across the Nullarbor. |
ALEX WATT
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Alex
Watt's art imitates his life. Alex's father was a musician in a local band and taught him the basics of piano and then guitar. |
Watt, who
began writing songs at 16, penned seven of 12 songs on his debut disc
that was produced by Bushwackers member Roger Corbett.
Alex, a finalist in the prestigious Star Maker in 2005, performs a video
of his album title track Window Down.
"I spent the first twenty-one years of my life on the family wheat
and sheep farm," Alex revealed.
"I was a mad keen farmer ever since I was old enough to pull on my
own boots. Unfortunately we went down the gurgler as far as the banks
go. They kept lending us money until the bottom fell out of the land prices.
My life changed big time then. It took me years to get over the loss of
the farm. It was like a death. I think you really have to live some experiences
to understand them. I went back to farming for about eight or nine years
and in all that time I didn't play the guitar at all. But over the past
two or three years I've started to get back into it."
Further info - www.alexwatt.com.au
TROY CASSAR-DALEY CD PRIZES
ARIA award
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