Musicians
Susan Wyllie “God Bless The Child”
Susan is a Perth musician with a great jazzy / Blues voice. She sings here live with the Hey Hey Band “God Bless The Child” Broadcast on Hey Hey it’s Saturday 22.06.1991 I have left the segment intact as it was a classic Hey Hey moment. [pb_vidembed title=”” caption=”” url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq02Uk_Sr6c” type=”yt” w=”640″ h=”360″]
Read MoreRichard Pleasance
About Richard Pleasance (ex Boom Crash Opera) has had great success outside of the band. His 1991 album Galleon featured the singles “Sarah (I Miss You)” and “Don’t Cry”. The album featured some of his closest friends in the music industry including Paul Hester and Deborah Conway. Galleon was critically acclaimed and went on to…
Read MoreRoss Hannaford APB for stolen gear
From Daddy Cool’s manager, Mark Sydow … A tragedy has befallen Ross Hannaford, the guitarist of iconic Australian band Daddy Cool. In the early hours of Saturday morning Ross Hannaford’s white 1989 Toyota Hi-Ace Van QRN 479 was stolen from a Yarraville street. The van was most likely stolen by joy riders, but the real…
Read MoreBrian Baker
About Brian Baker is a composer, singer/songwriter and producer living in the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne, Australia. From his studio he is currently creating music for the Fable/Image production library, writing and recording his own original material, composing jingles and soundtracks, and writing with other songwriters to pitch songs to various artists around the world.…
Read MoreBilly Thorpe Dead At 60
Veteran Aussie rocker, Billy Thorpe has passed away today, 28th Feb 2007, aged 60 from a massive heart attack. His family rushed him to St Vincents Hospital but he could not be revived. Billy was still very active with his live music career and was in the process of recording another album at the time…
Read MoreStevie Wright
I was blown away last night to see Stevie Wright on This Is Your Life. During the late Eighties I worked for a while as Stevies live sound engineer, alongside my brother Brett on monitors and My Pal Brian ™ on lights, and I have wonderful memories of some great gigs as well as some downright…
Read MoreGoing on a real tour – James Blundell
The “tour” story about Bandanna apparently gave some people, including my beloved Mrs Gibbo, the idea that touring was some sort of wonderful, bohemian lifestyle chock full of naked women, intoxicating substances and midnight law breaking! In an effort to correct this very misguided idea, I would like to present a tale from the other…
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