live shows

Jeff Lang May Tour

Today, got my tickets to see Jeff Lang at Lizotte’s here on the Central Coast on May 29. Almost a year to the day when he last played up this way. And we have the same table right next to the stage. One of the great thing about booking online for Lizotte’s is you can [...]

Bob Brozman at Lizottes 10th Jan 2008

I was going to do a proper review of this show but time has got away from me a little. But I can say Bob was in fine form at Lizottes week. Gear wise, he had his usual National guitars, a Wweissenborn type lap steel (a Bear Creek guitar I bet) , another lap [...]

Next outing

Casually perusing an email from Lizotte’s I was scanning the upcoming shows when I noticed Bob Brozman is playing next Thursday. A quick call to The Beloved to tee up Gran and Gramps for babysitting and we have a night out. This seems a real short tour by Bob and NSW only. But he will be [...]

Compassionate concert fatigue

Apparently there was this big global concert extravaganza over the weekend called Live Earth. The cause was worthy but the whole idea seemed nothing more than a bunch of musos showing they care without really achieving anything. That coupled with an alarming lack of beer has me very underwhelmed by the whole event. As the [...]

Love, Revenge and Remorse: Jeff Lang, Lizottes 27/5/2005

For the blessed few, the artistry of Jeff Lang is not a mystery. You can be assured that his gig at Lizotte’s on Sunday night was another masterful performance. For the uninitiated, to not know Jeff Lang is to have a yawning hole in your musical soul. Jeff Lang has been around for a while. [...]

Torrents of Lang

There is no denying that Jeff Lang is one of Australia’s musical treasures. A superb singer/songwriter and of course, guitarist. He’s even appeared on Spicks and Specks. It was 6 years ago this Easter that I first saw Jeff in one of the tents at Byron. Maybe it was just beers but at the end of [...]

Led Zep: Lean and Mean on DVD

Most weekends see The Beloved and myself engaged in titanic battles of vocabulary over the Scrabble board. Usually I like to have the footy in background but as the season is over (apart from tomorrow’s NRL grand final) music DVD’s have been playing in the background. The other day I picked up Led Zep’s live 2003 [...]

The Imperial Butt Wizards

In the midst of preparing a piece on a great but relatively unknown Chicago blues guitarist I came across something I wrote almost 10 years ago to the day on an old fashioned listserv (Yes Virginia. Back then we communicated our love of music via old timey email). It was the time I went as [...]

The Darkness: The New Gods of Rock

From The Australian. All Salute These Gods of Rock: IT seems Bon Scott may never find his peace. Just when it appeared the former AC/DC frontman - who died in 1980 - had been handed over to history, rock'n'roll comes back into vogue, his gravesite in Fremantle Cemetery is heritage listed and the Darkness storm into [...]

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