Veteran country band The Dead Livers will support Lee Kernaghan at Premier Speedway on May 25
Australian country music star Lee Kernaghan has chosen veteran Victorian country band The Dead Livers as his support act on his Premier Speedway cancer research concert on Saturday May 25. Kernaghan, 35, nominated the band - headed by two ex-Monivae College students Michael Schack and Marty Atchison - during an interview on Melbourne radio station Nu Country FM. "Two of the guys live near Warrnambool and they have worked with me before", Kernaghan said, "I really like their music". The Dead Livers have just recorded a new CD - comprising songs written by South West TAFE librarian Schack and Portland singer Atchison - at the Warrnambool studio of Peter Bird. Bird, a former member of Nevada and now a key member of Lost in Suburbia, also co-wrote a song on the new disc. Kernaghan, whose CD sales exceed 500,000 in just 11 years chose Warrnambool for the event after he was approached by the south-west Apex clubs. "We want to get 2000 dogs in 2000 utes at the speedway", Kernaghan revealed. "The record stands at 699 but we have been assured we will have no trouble finding the dogs, but we do need the utes to house them. We have added the Dead Livers (now celebrating their 22nd anniversary) to the concert which kicks off in the afternoon. Anyone who has a spare dog or ute should enter. Just call 5593 2692 - to register". Ironically, the Shipwreck Coast city is the childhood home of Aussie country pioneer Smoky Dawson, 87 this month, who sings with Kernaghan on his sixth album Rules of the Road. "What we are trying to do is raise funds for cancer research, in particular childhood cancer research and leukemia", Kernaghan said. "Part of the funds will go the Ian Gawler Foundation. Ian shows people who are seriously ill a diet they can adopt to give them strength to fight the illness after doctors have done all they can." Kernaghan says the Warrnambool charity event is one of only two Victorian concerts that he will perform this year. Latter-day Warrnambool resident Adam Harvey will be among Kernaghan's cast for the inaugural Mountain Bay Country Music Festival from March 11-13.
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