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| How
to book Spectrum |
Apart
from the legendary Spectrum band there are four other Mike Rudd options
to choose from listed below. If you'd like to book Spectrum or any
of the other outfits please contact Mike per
email
or speak
to him directly on (03) 9736 1164 or 0411 103 818. Prices and availability
of the various combos available on request. (Read live
reviews of
Mike's bands)
* For those into such things, (like I am) you can see a description
of Mike's
stage gear |
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Mike
Rudd, Brenden Mason, Peter 'Robbo' Robertson, Daryl Roberts
and Broc O'Connor
Spectrum today is, conceptually
at least, similar to the original band launched way back in
1969, but the loss in 2013 of bassist and fellow founding member
Bill Putt leaves singer/songwriter Mike Rudd as the sole original
member in the current line-up. The recent addition of Madder
Lake guitarist Brenden Mason (pic) however has added
a very positive dimension to the band, especially in the live
performance arena - a recording would seem to be inevitable.
Spectrum and Madder Lake played a very successful series of
double bill shows during 2019 celebrating Spectrum's 50th anniversary
and as 2020 marked the Madders' 50th anniversary there had been
another series of double bill shows planned throughout the year,
another good intention scuttled by COVID-19.
Today's Spectrum plays a
batch of retrospective songs from the various Spectrum, Murtceps
and Ariel albums, including a selection from their many singles
released over the decades. Like Spectrum's But That's Alright
and Play a Song That I Know, The Indelible Murtceps'
Indelible Shuffle and Esmeralda and Ariel's
Jamaican Farewell and Disco Dilemma - and
there are quite a few more.* Never forgetting the legendary
song that started it all, I'll Be Gone (Someday I'll have
money) of course!
* See Spectrum's
Heritage song-list
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the official Spectrum
bio |
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Mike
Rudd's Indelibles - inc. Spectrum Plays the Blues
AKA The Indelibles, this is
the very same band that was known until quite recently as
Spectrum and is the band that can evince the original Spectrum,
The Indelible Murtceps, Ariel, WHY, Mike Rudd & The Heaters
and even Mike's first band, Chants R&B songs just for
you. With songs like I'll Be Gone, Launching
Place Part Two, Going Home and Fly Without Its Wings,
Ariel's Jamaican Farewell, Rock & Roll Scars,
Red Hot Momma and Worm Turning Blues, Murtceps'
Esmeralda, Some Good Advice and We Are Indelible,
you'll be in Spectrum heaven.
The Indelibles (pic) will also treat you to a set
of more recent songs from the Breathing Space EP
series like Rocket Girl, Silicon Valley and Xavier
Rudd is Not My Son, followed by a set of crowd pleasing
blues from the Spill - Spectrum Plays The Blues and
No Thinking CDs. Irresistible? Up to you. Indelible?
Certainly!
See large
portrait (pic
Dale McCabe) |
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| Q&A
Q. So, what's this Indelible String Band all about then? A.
Well, I should point out that the project is still at the
dream stage, but the portents are pretty good that the dream
is due to become a reality. Portents don't necessarily trump
the pandemic, of course. Q. How did this dream come about
then? A. I received an email on the 11th of January 2019 with
an mp3 of a string arrangement of I Can Do Anything.
When I say arrangement, I mean a real arrangement,
not just an immediately recognisable version of the original
song with strings tacked on. It actually took me quite a while
to identify what song it was! I was impressed and intrigued,
and when I played it to my live-in muse, the beautiful Maria,
she absolutely adored it, so the die was cast! Q. So, can
you tell me anything about the arranger? A. Noel Kennedy's
a gentleman of a similar vintage to me - not quite as old,
of course, nobody is these days - but Noel's been in and around
the music scene as we know it for the requisite yonks and
was aware of the Rudd oeuvre - which, in itself,
is noteworthy. This all began a couple of years ago so we've
met in person two or three times now, but in many ways we're
still feeling each other out, musically speaking, which is
all part of the adventure. More to come...
NNNNNNNNNNOEL
KENNEDY |
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Mike
Rudd,
George Butrumlis &
Jeremy Alsop
I had a dream - and the dream
was this acual trio, with piano accordion meister
George Butrumlis and ace bassist Jeremy Alsop brilliantly
transforming the repertoire from Rudd's Ancient & Modern
hymnal into sublime reality. If the reaction to the trio at
Spectrum to Ariel's re-Visionary concert is anything
to go by, there's an audience out there for exactly this kind
of sophisticated acoustically inclined fare. George's lyrical
playing and instinctively appropriate vocal harmonising combined
with Jeremy's knowing, but always tasteful double bass, flesh
out the Cruddy guitar and vocal musical palette and enliven
my occasionally quirky songs culled from pre-history, last century,
yesterday and beyond..
Trio bios
and a live review
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Mike
Rudd playin'
wid himself
Throughout his long performing
career, Mike has preferred the comfort and safety of 'the band'
format, but things are about to change. Mike sees playing solo
as an opportunity to tackle songs that, for one reason or another,
don't get played in the group setting. Outrageous songs like
Excuse Me Just One Moment from Murtceps' Warts
Up your Nose album and Confessions of a Psychopathic
Cowpoke, from Ariel's A Strange Fantastic Dream
album which of course was famously banned from airplay by the
FCB* when on release.
Naturally the
solo repertoire isn't just comprised of controversial songs
- there are some damn strange and just plain beautiful songs
in there as well. Songs like Superbody, from the Spectrum
Part One album, the Ariel single I Can Do Anything,
and the haunting Kneedeep from the Living on a
Volcano CD.
*Federation
of Commercial Broadcasters
Read a review
and some feedback
about Mike's solo performances |
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Discuss
- is Spectrum dead?
The
original Spectrum played around Melbourne and beyond between
1969 - 1973 when it was known chiefly as a sit-down-and-listen-to
concert band, playing at venues like the Thumpin' Tum, Berties
and Sebastians (oddly known as Discotheques) and the occasional
riotous TF Much Ballroom event.
When pub gigs came into vogue in Melbourne, The Indelible Murtceps
was devised to cope with the more visceral demands of pub audiences
and happily co-existed with its big brother Spectrum, occasionally
even playing a support role in the bigger concerts.
The popularity of Spectrum's national number one single, I'll
Be Gone, put the band in front of many more people than
an outfit retrospectively dubbed as a prog rock band might've
expected, but Spectrum doggedly pursued its own musical course,
to the point of NOT including I'll Be Gone on its first
album, Spectrum Part One.
You will hear echoes of the original Spectrum in all the contemporary
configurations listed above and, while it's still a useful reference
point, the fact is that Spectrum as it was known back in the
'70s, doesn't actually exist any more.
Don't be disheartened though. If you really want a genuine,
purely Spectrum-Murtceps contemporary recreation, let's talk.
In the meantime, if you'd like a stimulating concert-type reappraisal
of Spectrum and beyond there's the Spectrum option
with the effervescent guitarist Brenden Mason to consider.
And there's much, much more, so rather than me
rabbiting on, check out the list above. (See official bio) |
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