Hank concert rescheduled

Hank concert rescheduled  - Published in the Warrnambool Standard 6th June 2013

THE birthday of Hank Williams is a much anticipated date each year in Warrnambool thanks to the annual tribute concert held as a fund-raiser for 3WAY FM. But things will change this year due to a change in date. Instead of being held around September 17 the tribute concert will move to August 22 to accommodate organiser Michael Schack, who will be travelling [to] Alabama in September to participate in celebrations for what would have been Williams’ 90th birthday.

Warrnambool rockers Airbourne to make flying visit home?

Warrnambool rockers Airbourne to make flying visit home?

http://www.standard.net.au/story/1420689/warrnambool-rockers-airbourne-to-make-flying-visit-home/?cs=72

Howard family in Tamworth 2013

Family harmony unites Howards

Warrnambool Standard Jan 17th, 2013- ©Copyright Warrnambool Standard  2013.  All rights reserved
 

THE Howard Family is bound for Tamworth again next week for the 41st Tamworth Country Music Festival. The band, which includes Marcia, Damian and Shane Howard, will appear together in one show only during the festival at The Family Hotel on Wednesday. Individually the siblings are well-established artists, with Marcia and Shane having performed at the festival as part of Goanna in the 1980s, while Damian’s band The Ploughboys will hold their own show at Tamworth next week. The musical family, originally from Dennington, has been playing together all their lives, Marcia said. “It’s great to get together and play together, it’s lovely,” she told Offbeat. “I’ve played with Shane in Goanna for years and on his  solo albums, and I’ve played with Damian for lots of years as the first keyboard player in the Ploughboys. “The harmonies are beautiful and we all write our own songs and play them too. “A lot of it has a family theme because we’re a family and we’ve all got our own families. “When we get together at Christmas we still have a good old singing session.” She said the family band performed at last year’s 40th anniversary festival at Tamworth, joined on stage by friends Troy Cassar-Daley, Sara Storer, Pete Denahy and Dobe Newton. “It was great,” Marcia said. “I hadn’t done Tamworth for years before that. “Shane and I had done it in the Goanna days in the ’80s but it has changed a lot since the early days. “It’s a pretty amazing festival. “It’s very different (from Port Fairy) because the folk festival employs acts and books them to come, but at Tamworth the venues are spread all over town and each artist does their own. “The mall in the main street has buskers everywhere, lots of people playing songs trying to get a break. You have to put on your own shows and create your own venues. “I know a lot of the musos up there and Damian has been going every year. “As a world country music festival it’s got a good reputation

Shane, Damian and Marcia Howard are headed back to Tamworth for a one-off performance.

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Shane Howard, The Loft, Brady James, Cobey Fletcher

Shane Howard performs at the MCG

Brady James returns to Warrnambool

The Loft's Big Day In

Cobey Fletcher's EP


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Sunday at the Warnie

http://www.swtafe.vic.edu.au/Lrc/Music/LISwarnie.htm

The Durdins

http://www.standard.net.au/news/local/news/general/warrnambool-country-music-veteran-to-star-in-her-own-benefit-concert/2495084.aspx

Rhys Crimmin - South West Musicians take on the world

South-west musicians to take on the world

News November 5th 2011

Look who's back in town
Group joins mini storm tour
Battle of bands push on
Deliverance at The Loft

Blue Heat in Warrnambool Standard

http://www.swtafe.vic.edu.au/lrc/music/blueheatoct11.htm

Hank night, Gordon Lightfoot tribute show

Upcoming events -- Hank night, open mic and Art Gallery

Gordon Lightfoot tribute

Warrnambool gig guide August 25th 2011

FRIDAY

Blues On The Boyle: The Loft,Warrnambool

Zygoma: Whalers Inn,Warrnambool

Dave Burgess: Wyton Cellars,Warrnambool

Ash Benson: Royal Hotel,Warrnambool

Wild Roomers: WoolsthorpeHotel

Trevor & Boyd: Caledonian Inn,Port Fairy

3 O’Clock Nigel, Stonefire: Seanchai, Warrnambool

Colmc: Simon’s Waterfront, Warrnambool

Glorious Bastards: Victoria Hotel, Warrnambool

Nick How: Mickey Bourke’s Koroit Hotel

SATURDAY

Russ Goodear Band’s Gordon Lightfoot Tribute: Timboon Distillery

Metal night: The Loft

Christo Rook: Whalers Inn

Johnny Connor: Royal Hotel, Warrnambool

Live music: Caledonian Inn, Port Fairy

Crusaders: Seanchai

Ash Benson: Victoria Hotel, Port Fairy

Jason Bull: Flying Horse Bar & Brewery, Warrnambool

Glorious Bastards: VictoriaHotel, Warrnambool

SUNDAY

Jason Bull: Cally Hotel, Warrnambool

Nick How (arvo): Caledonian Inn, Port Fairy

Nick How: Kirkstall Hotel Irish session (arvo): Victoria

Hotel, Warrnambool Lost In Suburbia (arvo): Hotel Warrnambool

TUESDAY

Dead Letter Circus, Jerrico, IAm Giant: Flying Horse Bar & Brewery

WEDNESDAY

Stonefire, Tommy Lie, Acid Wash Lobotomy: Whalers Inn
Ash Benson: Seanchai

Tank Dilemma Newspaper article

Soul funksters to put pictures with their sounds
Warrnambool Standard Aug 4, 2011 - ©Copyright Warrnambool Standard  2011.  All rights reserved

Tank Dilemma’s Matt Trenery (left), Matt Hewson, Ruben Shannon (obscured), Brenton Smith and Richard Tankard play at last year’s Tarerer Festival.



THE film clip craze is continuing in Warrnambool with Tank Dilemma the latest south-west band to shoot a video. The funky soul quintet worked with Warrnambool filmmaker James McAnulty (who has previously shot clips for Tom Richardson and The 80 Aces) last week at an undisclosed location to shoot a promo for the song Like To Like. The track will be the lead song on the band’s forthcoming album, which is about half-completed, frontman Richard Tankard said. Like To Like is already receiving a positive response at live gigs, thanks to a super-catchy chorus, some James Brown-style horns, and a keyboard riff reminiscent of Stevie Wonder’s early ’70s work. Tankard said the incomplete album will feature the “customary ballad” and “what I would loosely call ‘piano pop’”, but he added he hoped it will be a more consistent album than its predecessor Alright Already, which was released in 2007. “I think it’s going to be less eclectic and much more focused,” he said. “The album is going to be very riffy, very riffheavy. There’ll be some hard funk. “And I’d like to think the lyrics are a notch up. There are more stories now about (made-up) people, more character pieces.” Tankard’s keyboard talents have been in demand throughout his career and seen him play with the likes of Jimmy Barnes, Richard Clapton, Things Of Stone & Wood, Blue Heat, and Broderick Smith. But in between these outings, his focus has been on Tank Dilemma, which comprises Brenton Smith (drums), Ruben Shannon (bass), Matt Trenery (trumpet) and Matt Hewson (saxophone). Tankard took his band to Melbourne to make Alright Already, but decided to take a more local approach this time, employing the talents of his multi-skilled drummer Brenton Smith to record the record at Smith’s studio in Naringal. With six songs already close to completion, Tankard said he’s resisting the temptation to release an EP. “I think I’m an album person,” he explained. “It would be a lot easier to release an EP. I did an EP back in the day (but) I don’t know. I feel like EPs feel somehow incomplete. I think it’s also a genre thing — if you’re doing funky soul, it seems to lean more towards a full-length album.’’ No release date is set for the record, which will be Tank Dilemma’s fourth release after the Flaunt Your Sweetness EP (2001), Innersoul (2004) and Alright Already, but more recording time is set down for later in the year. “There are more songs that are really strongly brewing,” Tankard said, adding that his modus operandi for songwriting lately has been to go for “long walks with a notepad and a pen”. The band will be roadtesting the new material as it comes together in the coming months, including at The Loft in Warrnambool on Saturday night and semi-regular gigs at the Hotel Warrnambool at the Thursday jazz sessions or on Sundays. Doors open at The Loft on Saturday night from 9 pm.South West TAFE music archive