Photos: Angie Paton   Mark Seymour and the Undertow are currently touring the country, performing songs from their album, Roll Back the Stone, a retrospective collection of songs written and recorded by Mark over the past three decades. It’s an album that perfectly showcases his prolific song writing and storytelling skills. A number of these songs, as Mark explained throughout …

Photos: Angie Paton Singer Jon Stevens’ highly anticipated ‘Starlight’ tour kicked off in Melbourne this weekend with not one but two shows at The Palms at Crown and we were there for the opening night of the tour. One of Australia’s leading guitarists, the enigmatic Phil Ceberano and his band opened the show and set the vibe for the night. …

I had no idea what to expect last night. All I had ever heard were a few songs, seen band photos on some vinyl and knew of the hysteria that had taken place all those years ago. Legendary 70’s pop/glam music icons Bay City Rollers are so deserving of their status that I now consider myself a bit of a …

Back in the 70’s, the Bay City Rollers were a phenomenon, a world-wide success story with millions of hysterical, adoring fans following their every move.  My cousin was a tartan-clad, die-hard devotee who amassed mounds of memorabilia and went to their first Australian concert chaperoned by her father, who was called upon to assist the venue with the enormous number …

I couldn’t think of a better way to spend a chilly Thursday evening in Sydney than by defrosting my weary self by the warm and sparkling fire of a Jimmy Webb concert. The City Recital Hall had just a man, with a piano, but with some of the most glorious songs you have ever heard, luscious song writing and storytelling …

To think this was a 40th anniversary tour is just unbelievable. Like most fans, my memories are from way back and start with the Donnie Sutherland “Sounds” era. Those Saturday morning music shows that were the crux of our musical youth, along with the seminal Sunday evening of Molly Meldrum’s “Countdown”. It would have been the Flowers music clips that got …

I have wanted to see and hear this fabulous woman live for a very long time. Etched into my childhood psyche, she has always been ‘around’, and there are not many of us who wouldn’t know her unique voice and sweeping dramatic songs. This fabulous woman is of course the eternal powerhouse Bonnie Tyler. When I think of Tyler, I think …

Timeless, ageless, fun and joyful (throw some rainbows and unicorns in there too.. ) This is what I think of when I think about this band and their music. Not many of us wouldn’t have childhood memories of the legendary Village People. Mine would be at about 8 years old and seeing my Mother’s vinyl with those outrageous outfits and striking poses. …

How I love a virgin gig! You know the band and the music, you have heard the reputation but you are yet to watch them live and in full flight.  Such was my anticipation leading up to this Darkness gig at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney. I knew the stories, read all about the many years worth of shenanigans and had …

Finally it’s time to indulge again, with my longest and most dearest live music love affair, the Canadian masters ‘ The Tea Party’. Unbelievably, it’s now 23 years since I first encountered this phenomenal band at our old-school live music venue ‘Selinas’ here in Sydney, and what an introduction it was, an all encompassing musical, religious experience. So much so that I have lost …