Well... bugger me if I didn't forget to renew my interweb thingy. Saw the email; forgot about it; then it was all tits up and trouble. But we're all right now. Paid the bill and have I got news for you. The long (make that lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ong) -awaited Johnny Cash stage show presented by Walking The LIne - Australia's Number 1 Johnny Cash Showband, is ready to roll. Not roll over and play dead like the poor old Man in Black hisself - it's ready to rock and roll!! BLACK - the Lighter Side of Johnny Cash hits the stage this Saturday night (July 25) at a theatre near you - if you live in Golden Grove, that is. I think it's at the: Golden Grove Arts Centre. (Details below)
BLACK features the performers from Walking The LIne - Australia's Number One Johnny Cash Showband with Rohan Powell as Johnny Cash and Amber Joy Poulton as June Carter. BLACK is littered with ripping Johnny Cash songs from five decades of his career, bejewelled with classic Carter-Cash duets all strung together with a story line as robust as a wet Tally-ho. Yeh, Nah, seriously... It will be more fun than watching my grandad with St Vitus' dance riding a rocking chair in a roomful of long tail cats - and sound just as good. If not... even gooder. BLACK opens at the Golden Grove Arts Centre, Golden Way, Golden Grove, this blasted Saturday!.
Phone 08 8289 5111 for bookings and performance details, and check here for future performances of BLACK -- the Lighter Side of Johnny Cash, through July and August.
if you miss out on BLACK the Johnny Cash stage show on Saturday night because you didn't get the information on time, don't birch your buttocks black and blue, come along to the Wine Underground in Pirie Street on Sunday Afternoon (July 26) to listen to the sensual throbbing, pulsing and even undulating sounds of Double Wammy as they grind Sunday arvo into a flopping, submissive organistic flurge of mighty power soul passion. And don't worry if you don't know what that all means... neither do I - I just made that shit up. But around 5-ish, give or take a parsnip, Double Wammy will step up to the mike and all hell will break loose - in a very nice Sunday arvo in Adelaide fashion. Chuck a few bucks at the door bitch to get in and we'll see you there!
121 Pirie Street - Adelaide 5000
It's a Grouse start to the weekend
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
MASSIVE STOCK-TAKING CLEARANCE this Friday July 3 when The Grouse opens their guitar and drum cases and takes stock of the situation before bashing and flanging a bunch of songs into end-of-the-financial-year oblivion. Tax, Tax and more Tax as The Grouse strains your audio sensory appendages to the limit and opens a spreadsheet for you to have a lie-down on. ALL SONGS MUST GO in this F-Whopping (that's my new abbreviation for fukken whopping) whorehouse clearance to make way for whatever's next. And where will you get all these bargains???? At the Norwood Hotel. Right on the edge of the Parade, at Norwood. Sets open at 9.00 pm.... Don't be late... you might miss some great tunes at knockdown deliveries from Stu "Designer" Day on geetar, Rob "Ripp-off" Boundy on the bongoes and Denis "Dis-count" Surmon on the plank. Take advantage of the hu-freakin'-mungus sell-out before July 3 turns into July 4. Cripes, I'm knackered now. These end-of-the-freakin'-financial-year sales take it right out of me these days.
But, after a cup of tea and a couple of buttered Yo-Yos we're ready to be up and at 'em on Saturday - yes, that day with a poo right in its middle. By then I will be fighting fit for a ripping evening of fun and semi-naked frolicking with pan!c at the Daniel O'Connell Hotel, North Adelaide, July 4! Yes, July 4. The Fouth of July... a big (BIG) day for the Seppos. According to my atomic siderially-offset and astral parsec-compensated wristwatch clock, July the Fourth will .76 of a second longer than July the Thirdth. Oh! Hang on... shoot! the battery's flat. Well... whatever. I was just goin', like, you know, Aww, Gee-willikers. Gosh-durn it. Dang. Shucks. Look out !!!! - he's got a gun!!!!
I'm a bit sorry if I scared you with that last bit. But not completely sorry. It's pretty funny to see and hear people screaming and diving for cover. Oh, Christ... he has got a gun !! Pow! Pow! Puwheeeee (that was a bullet ricocheting offa the steel plate in muh head). Click, Click, click!. He's outa ammo! Git him! We jumps him and wrassles him to the ground. Now... shout this in his ear: "Go to the Wine Underground on Pirie Street Sunday afternoon, July the Fifth (a day that might be a bit shorter than July the Fourth, a point Ah could verify if Ah can git mah A-tomic sideways pascalated wristwatch doohickey working properly ) Shoot... where was I? July 5, Rhumboogie will be a-rockin' and a-stompin at the Pirie Street Wine Underground from 5 o'clock pm, and...and.... and ... " Lawks-a-Lordy me, I need to have lie down. I'm all in after that. Somebody stood on the back of my neck in the fight and I'm not feeling so good now.
From Swing to Soul with a little Country in-between
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Look at the time ... poke my budgie's fethry hole with a pineapple - it's gone half-past June and I haven't got the washing done yet. Here it is Wednesday and I am just hanging up the posters for Blues Avenue - Swinging the Blues at the Wheatsheaf Hotel on THURSDAY - get the change of date.... THURSDAY June whatever it is. Tomorrow. June 25. James Sweet Baby Meston and The Preacher Denis Surmon kick off the proceedings at around 8 pm and that's when the jiving starts. It's free to get in and - if you like to Swing, Jive or Lindy Hop - you will have more fun than a swine flu germ in a Jumbo jet!
Saturday June 27 - following the triumph at the Cabaret Festival Fringe shows (The Promethean) Honky Tonk Angels - the Loretta Lynn Story will be taking the country to the beach to present a foot-stomping dinner dance show at the North Haven Surf Club. You get the whole show and a bellyfull of grub.; now, you couldn't beat that with a two-foot kidney buster, could you? Tickets are selling fast and you will need to hurry.
The two-hour show tells the life story of Loretta Lynn from Coal Miner's Daughter to Honky Tonk Angels, with Amber Joy Poulton playing the Queen of Country Music, and The HellRaisers providing the musical backdrop. Don't miss it while it is still affordable! Here's some contact details: North Haven Surf Life Saving Club, Foreshore, Australia II Avenue, North Haven, 5018. ph: (08) 8341 8543. Photo left:Honky Tonk Angels on stage at the Promethean Theatre for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival Fringe 2009
Now, if you're going down that way - sort of to the beach at the top end of the Peninsula for the Loretta Lynn Show, for example, why not stick around - maybe sleep in the car or behind a rubbish skip or something - and get ready to rock till you get a serious pain in your left arm that goes all the way down your chest and makes your face turn blue, to the mighty sounds of Double Wammy at the Semaphore Workers Club. Doors open 4 to 8 pm and the power soul starts at 5-ish. You don't have to bring nothing but a smile and maybe a bucket bong to have a good time. See you there on Sunday June 28 at the Semaphore Workers Club, Semaphore. Right near many other things in Semaphore, including the beach and that amusement park thing.
Don't forget Sunday at the Coopers 1862 Bar in the Wine Underground - Adelaide's newsest Roots and Blues Music venue in PIrie Street, Adelaide. LIve music from around 4 to 8 pm every Sunday.
o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ong) -awaited Johnny Cash stage show presented by Walking The LIne - Australia's Number 1 Johnny Cash Showband, is ready to roll. Not roll over and play dead like the poor old Man in Black hisself - it's ready to rock and roll!! BLACK - the Lighter Side of Johnny Cash hits the stage this Saturday night (July 25) at a theatre near you - if you live in Golden Grove, that is. I think it's at the: Golden Grove Arts Centre. (Details below)
if you miss out on BLACK the Johnny Cash stage show on Saturday night because you didn't get the information on time, don't birch your buttocks black and blue, come along to the Wine Underground in Pirie Street on Sunday Afternoon (July 26) to listen to the sensual throbbing, pulsing and even undulating sounds of Double Wammy as they grind Sunday arvo into a flopping, submissive organistic flurge of mighty power soul passion. And don't worry if you don't know what that all means... neither do I - I just made that shit up. But around 5-ish, give or take a parsnip, Double Wammy will step up to the mike and all hell will break loose - in a very nice Sunday arvo in Adelaide fashion. Chuck a few bucks at the door bitch to get in and we'll see you there! 
MASSIVE STOCK-TAKING CLEARANCE this Friday July 3 when The Grouse opens their guitar and drum cases and takes stock of the situation before bashing and flanging a bunch of songs into end-of-the-financial-year oblivion. Tax, Tax and more Tax as The Grouse strains your audio sensory appendages to the limit and opens a spreadsheet for you to have a lie-down on. ALL SONGS MUST GO in this F-Whopping (that's my new abbreviation for fukken whopping) whorehouse clearance to make way for whatever's next. And where will you get all these bargains???? At the Norwood Hotel. Right on the edge of the Parade, at Norwood. Sets open at 9.00 pm.... Don't be late... you might miss some great tunes at knockdown deliveries from Stu "Designer" Day on geetar, Rob "Ripp-off" Boundy on the bongoes and Denis "Dis-count" Surmon on the plank. Take advantage of the hu-freakin'-mungus sell-out before July 3 turns into July 4. Cripes, I'm knackered now. These end-of-the-freakin'-financial-year sales take it right out of me these days.
But, after a cup of tea and a couple of buttered Yo-Yos we're ready to be up and at 'em on Saturday - yes, that day with a poo right in its middle. By then I will be fighting fit for a ripping evening of fun and semi-naked frolicking with pan!c at the Daniel O'Connell Hotel, North Adelaide, July 4! Yes, July 4. The Fouth of July... a big (BIG) day for the Seppos. According to my atomic siderially-offset and astral parsec-compensated wristwatch clock, July the Fourth will .76 of a second longer than July the Thirdth. Oh! Hang on... shoot! the battery's flat. Well... whatever. I was just goin', like, you know, Aww, Gee-willikers. Gosh-durn it. Dang. Shucks. Look out !!!! - he's got a gun!!!! 
Look at the time ... poke my budgie's fethry hole with a pineapple - it's gone half-past June and I haven't got the washing done yet. Here it is Wednesday and I am just hanging up the posters for Blues Avenue - Swinging the Blues at the Wheatsheaf Hotel on THURSDAY - get the change of date.... THURSDAY June whatever it is. Tomorrow. June 25. James Sweet Baby Meston and The Preacher Denis Surmon kick off the proceedings at around 8 pm and that's when the jiving starts. It's free to get in and - if you like to Swing, Jive or Lindy Hop - you will have more fun than a swine flu germ in a Jumbo jet!