MUSOS and uni students grooved for lost friends at a charity ball for cancer research at Warrnambool's Sundowner Motor Inn last night. Warrnambool five-piece band Maximum Groove which is exclusive to Oceania Pavilion made an exception for about 200 Deakin University residential students in memory of a band member. Band founder lan Edwards said residents had lost a friend to cancer in March and wanted to book the group for their annual ball. 'We both realised we'd lost somebody dear to us. So we combined together to do a bit of fundraising," he said. "My first lead singer of Maximum Groove was diagnosed with breast cancer at 28 and we lost her at 29. That was five years ago." After the loss, the now 11-year- old band took time out before surging through the "Grand Hyatt circuit", playing all over Australia and overseas. "We went to Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, at big casinos, for three months at a time, performing six nights a week," Edwards said. "It was very difficult for the whole band. She was a lovely girl . . . This is the funny thing about young people with cancer: they've got this spiritual full-of-lifeness about them. "But she wrote us all a note to say 'Don't stop. You know I love music. It would be more important for me to know you guys were still performing'. It is understood thousands of dollars will be donated to Cancer Council Victoria, including money raised from Deakin University resident functions.
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Warrnambool Standard 21st July 2005 - ©Copyright Warrnambool Standard 2005. All rights reserved
GETTING people onto the dancefloor the aim of covers act Maximum Groove, the new house band at Warrnambool’s Oceania Pavilion. Venue manager Ian Edwards put the band together to provide Saturday night entertainment, starting with a supper-and-show performance this Saturday night from 9pm. Edwards will play drums and said he has kept the name Maximum Groove from a similarly themed band which he toured through Asia with in the ’90s. He will be joined by Robin Sharrock Slap ’n’ The Cats) on bass, Jarrod Irvine (Paddy Lieback) and Dave Burgess (Dave and Leyland) on guitar and vocals, and Heidi O’Neill (Default) on vocals. The band will perform danceable hits from the likes of Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Jamiroquai and Sister Sledge.
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