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I was
wrong.. Let me count the ways..
30.1.09 - I blame the heat. I managed to
send out a few hundred Spectrum monthly gig guides before Yahoo!
told me I'd exceeded my daily limit. Probably just as well as
it turns out. While I didn't forget to give the Sunday Sounds
gig at the Royal Talbot on Sunday the 15th a mention, (pic)
I got most of the crucial details wrong - like, who is (or isn't)
on the bill for instance. I got the starting time wrong too.
In fact, about the only thing I got right was 'and more!'
On the plus side, I've now given it a pretty decent plug.. |
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Wally
is a national treasure |
Wally
Bishop honoured in the Australia Day honours list
27.1.09 - The Concert For Max
is on Foxtel as I write, and chances are that you caught up
with the replay on Australia Day - I got an SMS from my sister-in-law
Robyn last night saying it was on. Perhaps you didn't
know, however, that the benefit concert's creator and producer,
Wally Bishop, (pic) was honoured with an Medal of the
Order of Australia in the General Division the Australia Day
honours list. Thoroughly deserved the award is too - there are
too few examples of such altrusitic initiative in the Oz music
industry and it's even rarer to find the effort acknowledged
so appropriately..
Speaking of DVDs, I ran into Ron Brown in the Camberwell Safeway
today, and he gave me the tip that the Daddy Cool DVD he directed
and produced will be shown on the Ovation channel on February
10th - including an interview with Bill and me and the version
of Excuse Me Just One Moment Spectrum performed at
the Regent Theatre back in 1971. Or was it 1972..? |
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Spectrum's
Australia Day weekend
1)
Daz relaxes with Peter from 3SER between sets 2) Gwen and Peter
Merrill try and wriggle out of another pic |
3) 3MDR's
Stewart MacQueen |
gig
report
Dandenong Workers Club and Australia Day celebrations
27.1.09 - It was our first time at the
Dandenong Workers Club, and so I got there unusually early
- even beating Bill! - and discovered this
was the first time they'd run their brand new al fresco
BBQ facility,
plonked on what looked like used to be
the old bowling green. The band set up on the verandah and was
a little skew wiff in relation to the audience under their umbrellas,
but it still worked OK. Peter Merrill (pic 2) suggested
we should tease the audience with the harp riff from I'll
Be Gone at the start of each set, which I tried and had
a bit of fun with too.
We left Robbo's just before 8.00 the next morning to join the
Australia Day celebrations on the shores of Lake Weeroona in
the heart of Bendigo. The program was just about identical to
last year's, but I think the day being a holiday (whereas last
year fell on a Sunday) contributed to the greater numbers
- at least for the early part of the day. Naturally,
everybody retreated to the shady bits as the day got |
hotter or drifted off back to their
air conditioning at home. I decided to dither the three sets
so each one was a complete mini-concert, with nylon-string ambient,
blues and new and retro-Spectrum represented in each. I even
started the first two sets with I'll Be Gone - and
this approach worked quite well, given that the bulk of the
audience was different for each set. We were surprised to see
The Soundgarden's Dave and Maree there (pic 5) and
old friends Wayne and Robyn (pic 8) very kindly collected
some new contacts for the e-mail list for me. There were a number
of people there again this year who'd seen us at the Maldon
Blues Club, (pic 9) so I'd better organise another
gig there soon!
Rotary's Martin Ruffell (pic 10) made sure the day
ran smoothly and suggested before we left we should chalk the
date in again for next year! Sounds like a good idea to me. |
4) The
Soundgarden's Dave took this shot of Spectrum playing Little
By Little
5)
The Soundgarden's Dave and Maree with Daz and Robbo 6) Jason
left his capo at home
7) New
Aussies take the oath 8)
Spectrum stayed at the motel Wayne and Robyn used to run in
Castlemaine
9) Robbo
gets re-acquainted with Moon Rockit's Paula 10) Rotary's Martin
Ruffell and a melting Mike |
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It's
official - Spectrum kicks off the New Year at St Andrews!
1) Bill
snuggles up to former student Rod 2) Robbo's mates, The Rats
(and Rattes) of Tobruk, were there in force |
3) Edwin
Mitchell made the journey out to St Andrews |
gig
report
The trio kicks off at St Andrews
19.1.09 - I'd got all the way to Templestowe
before I realised I'd left the CDs behind. That was a shame,
because there was an exceptional turn-out for this time of the
year and I think we would've sold a few. I guess it could've
been worse, being the first gig back, and we managed not to
sound too rusty and it all went down rather well. Notable
audience members included Robbo's Rats of Tobruk pipe band companions
(pic 2), Bill's ex-student Rob (pic 1), and
Edwin Mitchell from NSW, (pic 3) who's been putting
down a couple of tracks with me at AMS. (Incidentally, I've
at last put up the 'new' version of the I'll Be Gone clip
on the videos page - check
it out). |
1)
Mike with Di, Lyn (birthday girl!) and Heather 2) What's
going on? Robbo with Heather, Di, Jennie and Lyn |
3)
These gals get around! Bill with Jennie, Bill, Heather,
Lyn and Di |
St
Andrews - the sequel..
19.1.09 - While we don't have a vast
audience of adoring fans, the people we do
play to really value sharing in the experience. Heather
Bass (who sent the accompanying pics) writes: Hi Mike,
Bill and Robbo! I had to write and say what a great time
the four of us girls had yesterday! Your brilliant music,
company, banter, hugs and kisses made us all feel great.
We haven't laughed so much in quite a long while.
And they'll always love us too - as long as we play
Esmeralda of course! |
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Mark
Holden prepares to ask the tough questions.. |
Mike
& Bill wobble into the New Year with Mark Holden
1.1.09 - Mark (pic) got
in touch about doing the interview a couple of weeks ago, but
it was only yesterday I got an e-mail from him requesting we
play My Dad Said and/or I Can Do Anything.
Quite timely in a way, because I'd been planning to incorporate
them in my alleged solo set, but not today exactly.
Mark's got a holiday slot on 3AW, Melbourne's top-rating talkback
station, and as such it's not exactly music friendly, but Mark's
keen to introduce a little music into the mix. We had one mic
each, and with my headphones on I couldn't hear my guitar in
My Dad Said, and I couldn't contrive to adjust
my headphones in mid-song either. Then, to |
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thing again on Dancing At Midnight,
Bill's impromptu choice for the second song. (I was so rattled
I couldn't decide on a second song, so there's no-one to blame
but myself). So, it's official - it's more of the same from
the Fumble Brothers in 2009. |
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