Celebrating with a Crossley ceilidh

Warrnambool Standard June 26th 2014
ST Brigid’s Church in Crossley celebrates the centenary of its first service this weekend and music will fittingly play a part in the festivities. The church and hall have been the scene of many gigs since they were purchased by the local community. One of the regular gigs has been the 15 Minutes Of Fame concerts and a special Irish themed version of the open mic-style show will be held tomorrow night as part of the centenary.
On the bill will be The Rusty O’Bucks, poet Mary Bourke, The Tin Whistles [i.e Wednesday Whistlers], The Beale Family, Roy Carson, poet David O’Brien, and Likely Celts.

A ceilidh — a traditional Gaelic night of music and dance — will also be held on Saturday night following the centenary dinner .

The Likely Celts

 The Wednesday Whistlers

Robert Burns Fest 2014 -- Likely Celts

Scottish Festival entrees -- Warrrnabool Standard June 19th 2014

THE festivities of the Robert
Burns Scottish Festival won’t
be confined to Camperdown
this year. Two curtain-raiser gigs
(or “kilt-raisers”, as they’re
calling them) will be held at
Skipton Mechanics Hall on
June 25 and Port Campbell
Surf Lifesaving Club on June
26 before the event kicks off
properly on June 27.
Both concerts will feature
artists from the festival.
Skipton’s show will star
Danny Spooner, Likely
Celts, Don Grieve & Angela
Preiss, and Peter Daffy &
Luke Plumb, along with piper
Donald Blair.The Port Campbell concert
will feature Spooner, Fiona
Ross Band, Tuniversal, Daffy
& Plumb, and Lex’s Shed.
Both shows start at 8pm.

Zuzu Angel, Ten Thousand, Dead Letter Blues @ Espy - Jordan Lockett

South-west musos at Espy = Warrnambool Standard June 19th 2014
THE south-west will be well represented at The Espy’s Rock N Load festival on Saturday.
The famed St Kilda venue will host 34 bands across four stages and 12 hours. Among them will be Zuzu Angel (which features former Port Fairy drummer Jordan Lockett), Ten Thousand (which features former Warrnambool bassist Luke McKenzie), and Dead Letter Blues (which features former Warrnambool guitarist Justin Salmon). Also on the bill is Tumbleweed, King Of The North, Sun God Replica, Neon Queen, My Echo, and stacks more. Head to oztix. com.au for tickets and a full line-up.

Cherie Amor, Kate Gane, Om & The Pea and Oriel Glennen - Refugee week June 22nd 2014

Refugee Week performance -- Warrnambool Standard Thurs June 19th 2014

A DAY of song and story will be held in Warrnambool on Sunday to mark Refugee Week. The event has been put together by Rural Australians For Refugees’ Warrnambool branch and is sponsored by the Lions Club. Gunditjmara duo Tuurann and south-west singer-songwriters Cherie Amor, Kate Gane, Om & The Pea and Oriel Glennen will perform, as well as the OEMV Choir. The gathering at the Mozart Hall in Warrnambool from 12.30pm will raise money for Scarves For Hope and Friends Of Refugees.

Band Roulette 2014

Band Roulette’s second spin Warrnambool Standard June 19th 2014

LAST year’s Band Roulette fund-raiser gig was one of the most impressive and surprising musical events in Warrnambool. Taking a cross section of local musicians, the show threw them together in unexpected line-ups and put them on the spot to come up with a short set of songs. The results were predominantly outstanding and the whole show raised money for charity, so it’s good news that it’s going to be happening again on November 16 at the Hotel Warrnambool. Peter’s Project, Australian Prostate Cancer Research, Movember and Beyond blue will benefitfrom money raised. The new twist is that there will also be “duo roulette” performances happening on a second stage in between band roulette performances. If you’re a musician and you’d like to take part, contact Russ Goodear on goodidea@ansonic.com.au or 0402 127 077.

Musicians mix it up for Warrnambool men's health fund-raiser

By MATT NEAL
Warrnambool Standard Nov. 18, 2014,

SOME unusual musical combinations came together for a good cause on Sunday, as a large crowd filled the Hotel Warrnambool for the second annual Band Roulette gig.

The event’s main focus was to raise money for Peter’s Project, Australian Prostate Cancer Research, Movember and Beyond Blue, but the pleasant spin-off was seeing a line-up of one-show-only bands. 

Organiser and musician Russ Goodear said more than 40 musicians threw their names in the hat to be put together in random line-ups for a short set of covers.

“This town is full of really good musos, but they’re also people who step up for a good cause,” Goodear said.

“They usually don’t see each other as they’re normally playing at other venues but there’s a real camaraderie because they’re all in the same boat. 

“And the day has a nice kind of edge to it (for the musos) because they’re getting up there and playing stuff you may not have played or even heard before and that requires a certain energy.

“It’s fantastic — it’s a good thing.”

Musicians (from left) Laaland, Michael Schack, Steve Garner and Brianna Reeves perform for the Band Roulette fund-raiser at Hotel Warrnambool. 

Eight bands and a few walk-up performers played throughout the day with judges deeming the line-up of Phil Royle, Christopher Grace, Prof Walters, Keith Prest and Hayden Brodie to be the best of the day.

Goodear said another highlight was seeking Warrnambool blues harmonica player Eddy Boyle fronting a jazz trio featuring Gavin Franklin, Geoff Kilminster and Peter Hocking. 

The money raised from the day was still being tallied but Goodear said he hoped to reach last year’s figure of more than $7000.

Warrnambool gig guide June 19th 2014

THURSDAY
Tankard, Galbraith, Halliwell, Conlan: Hotel Warrnambool
Tom Maxwell: Commercial Hotel, Koroit

FRIDAY
The General live score by John Hudson & Matt Hewson: Terang Civic Hall
Omar Dean, Frank Dixon, The Clique, D-Macon: Casterton Town Hall
Dave Burgess: Last Coach, Warrnambool
Shaun Kirk: The Stump, Port Fairy
Loose Cannons: Victoria Hotel, Warrnambool
Crossfi re Hurricane, Lemonbait, Bonney Ranch: The Loft, Warrnambool

SATURDAY
Kayla Dwyer: The Stump
Big Love: Victoria Hotel, Warrnambool
David Anderson: Commercial Hotel, Hamilton
Superguns, Drifter, Bonney Ranch: The Loft

SUNDAY
Hamilton Strings (arvo): Hamilton PAC
Acoustic Al (arvo): Victoria Hotel, Warrnambool
Jason Bull (arvo): Hotel Warrnambool

TUESDAY
Richard Tankard: Cally Hotel, Warrnambool

WEDNESDAY
Danny Spooner, Don Grieve & Angela Preiss, Peter Daffy & LukePlumb, Donald Blair: Skipton Mechanics Hall

COLERAINE musical comedian Adam McClure, aka The Rapping Shearer,

McClure video goes viral -- Warrnambool Standard 5th June 2014
COLERAINE musical comedian Adam McClure, aka The Rapping Shearer, has been uploading his ocker tunes to YouTube for the past four months to moderate success. Most of his tracks attracted a couple of hundred views, with his song The Shearer clocking up 2000 . But his latest tune Hamilton — an ode of sorts to the town of the same name — has gone a bit viral , racking up 6000 views in just three days. Some of McClure’s music is also available on iTunes.

Likely Celts

Likely return for local Celtic trio - Warrnambool Standard 5th June 2014

WARRNAM BOOL’S Likely Celts will return to the scene of their first gig when they play at the National Celtic Festival in Portarlington this weekend. Exactly a year ago, the trio made their debut at the festival, playing a not-ideal timeslot to a small crowd, singer-guitarist Glenn Hudson explained. “But one of the people at that first gig was on the committee for the Australian Celtic Festival in Glen Innes,” he said. Likely Celts were flown up to play at the Glen Innes event in northern NSW in May, which Hudson said goes to show that “every gig is worth it”. “When we go back to Portarlington this weekend we’ve got the timeslots of  9pm on Friday and 7.30pm on Saturday so we’ll be playing to a bigger audience which is great,” he said.

The band has just finished its first year of festivals and already has the Port Fairy Folk Festival, the Beechworth Celtic Festival, and Camperdown’s Robert Burns Festival under its collective belt.

“We did this band for fun and just to do festivals,” Hudson explained.Raised in Dublin, the singer-guitarist moved to Australia 13 years ago and has been a regular at Irish music sessions around the south-west since. It was during such a session at the beloved Warrnambool gathering known as Lex’s Shed that Hudson began teaming with multi-instrumentalist Merran Moir. “We like messing around with the traditional stuff and giving it a bit more swing or playing it a bit more percussive,” he said. “Merran’s well known in the Celtic music community because the type of instruments she plays are not widely played — she’s quite the specialist.” Indeed on the band’s debut self-titled release, which was recorded at Smith Sound in Naringal earlier this year, Moir plays the not-often heard small pipes and border pipes, as well as the accordion and  traditional Celtic whistles. Completing the line-up of Likely Celts is bassist Tim Conlan, whose diverse musical background — he plays in rockabilly, jazz, blues and even punk line-ups locally — furthered Hudson and Moir’s ambitions of “messing around with the traditional stuff”. “Myself and Tim are from contemporary backgrounds,” Hudson explained. “He’s changed the direction slightly just through jamming with him — he’s taking us down different paths that we wouldn’t have done.” Their self-titled album is a fine example of this, twisting little known traditional folk pieces into new shapes and making them sit neatly alongside Hudson’s own originals by employing tricks and ideas more common with jazz, acoustic
pop or even reggae. “There’s a big gap between the very well-done traditional stuff and (band’s like) Claymore and that rocked-up or Celt-punk stuff,” he said. “Our goal is never to be traditional but use traditional flavours and so there’s no limitations. “We just want to enjoy ourselves.” Likely Celts will play at the National Celtic Festival in Portarlington this week- end alongside Barrule from Isle Of Man, Scottish group Feis Rois, The Heartstring Quartet, Shane Howard, and many more. The Warrnambool trio will also be playing in Camperdown and Skipton later this month as part of the Robert Burns Festival. Their self-titled debut album is available to stream or download through likelycelts.bandcamp.com or at Capricorn Records.

Gig guide 5th June 2014

THURSDAY June 5th 2014

Michelle Benjamin & Richard Tankard: Hotel Warrnambool

FRIDAY

Subb Michalski Trio: The Stump, Port Fairy

15 Minutes of Fame: St Brigid’s Hall, Crossley

The Doctor: Kirkstall Hotel

Arockalypse — Kashmere Club, Tank Dilemma, Buddha In A Chocolate Box: The Loft, Warrnambool

Ben Cross: Whalers Hotel, Warrnambool

SATURDAY

Michelle’s Velocity: The Stump

The Bracelets: Victoria Hotel, Port Fairy

Wild Roomers: Mickey Bourke’s Koroit Hotel

Arockalypse - Tom Richardson Project, Aurora Jane, Blackwood Jack: The Loft

Kayla Dwyer: Whalers Hotel

Josh Brown: Gallery Nightclub, Warrnambool

SUNDAY

Mick Keane (arvo): The Stump

Arockalypse (all day): The Loft

Dave Burgess (arvo): Hotel Warrnambool

The Reimers Brothers: Whalers Hotel

DJ Encee: Gallery Nightclub

TUESDAY

Glenn Miller Orchestra: Lighthouse Theatre, Warrnambool

Chris & friends: Cally Hotel, Warrnambool