ENTERTAINMENT Classic Creedence will take you to the bayou with hits such as Born on the Bayou, Jambalya and Midnight Special. Then they rock it up with Sweet Hitchhiker, Hey Gallagher, who will be performing Tonight and Fortunate Son. Dinner at Bluesfest with his band the High and show at the Ballina RSL on Flying Birds. And yes there are also The Decemberists, The Wailers, Jason Saturday 17 October at 8pm. Tix are $54.90 at the club. Isbell, Steve Earle & The Dukes and, for the first time in ten years, singer/ songwriter Jackson Browne! Jackson Browne has written and performed some of the most literate and moving songs in popular music and has defined a genre of songwriting charged with honesty, emotion and personal politics. Bluesfest, where every year is better than the last, and the last was the best ever! For tickets and programming info go to bluesfest.com.au.
Live Music
IN THE MICK Irish singer/songwriter Mick McHugh is back in town after being down south in Victoria working on his new album with Australian music icon Shane Howard of Goanna band. Mick has toured relentlessly in Australia with performances at the Sydney Opera House, Bluesfest, Port Fairy Folk Fest, and kicked off the year with a successful crowdfunding campaign to record his debut album. Joined by a fiddle player, Mick will have you hopping to Irish jigs and uplifted with his positive ballads. The Rails, Sunday 6.30pm. Free entry.
THE BLUES OASIS WITH TOM JONES & MR BROWNE Co-headlining the second Bluesfest announcement is the incomparable Tom Jones. Over his 50-year career, Tom Jones has sold more than 100 million records, won a Grammy and two Brit Awards and given us countless hits including: It’s Not Unusual, Delilah, Green, Green Grass of Home, What’s New Pussycat, She’s a Lady, Kiss, Mama Told Me, Thunderball, Burning Down The House, Sex Bomb, I’ll Never Fall In Love Again and If I Only Knew. Also appearing is one of the most talented songwriters in modern rock, principal songwriter, lead guitarist and vocalist for Oasis, Noel
SMITH STREET ON JONSON STREET The Smith Street Band are in the midst of another epic tour touching down at the Hotel Great Northern on Friday. Melbourne’s The Smith Street Band have had a stellar few years, touring relentlessly both here in Australia and abroad in the US, UK and Europe. The band released album Throw Me In The River to critical acclaim, landing Triple J album of the week and debuting in the ARIA Top 20 album chart. The band played at Reading and Leeds festivals in the UK in August as well as at Splendour in the Grass.
DINNER WITH CREEDENCE
Top local and international artist Lisa Hunt’s first show back in Byron after her annual tour of Europe and the US will be a special African (l.e.a.f) Dance Party this Friday at the Byron Bay Golf Club, to celebrate local charity African LEAF’s 10th anniversary. A not-to-be-missed event, which is promised to include some surprise special guests. Tickets are $20 each (only at the door) and every ticket will include a free $5 ticket in a mega-raffle, drawn on the night, for the major prize of two 5-day Bluesfest passes, kindly donated by the Bluesfest team. Show kicks off at 8pm.
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Suzannah Espie’s striking new album Mother’s Not Feeling Herself Today tells the story of motherhood. But it’s not the usual sanitised one that you might expect. This is an album that explores a woman’s sense of failure, as it bravely navigates the territory of post-natal depression, isolation and disconnection.
Suzannah attributes pushing through with her project to the fact she’d received a grant.
me, and as it turns out I have only just opened Pandora’s Box!’
All in all Mother’s Not Feeling Herself Today is a concept album; the title track is a honky-tonk country song. There is another song set in the park, a mother and her young daughter in the park feeling very lonely; I wrote that as a nod to a book called A Divided Heart by Rachel Power about creativity after motherhood – how 99.9 per cent of the time your mind is elsewhere! I have always worked hard at being present. I used to woonder what the hell is wrong with me?!
‘I had thought about the idea, but I wasn’t actively writing when I decided to do it. I got a grant, which made all the difference. I put in the grant application and said that I wanted to write an album about motherhood. I got the grant and then I had to do Espie’s single release I’m Sorry is breathtaking, and it! Having that practical real support is what got me through. All the while I was thinking I don’t know if I features a 13-strong all-woman gospel choir of Alison Ferrier, Georgia Fields, Kerri Simpson, Sarah should put this out there, I don’t know how people will judge me… but I had to keep going. I had this Carroll, Kylie Auldist and more. responsibility to people who funded me because it For Espie, making this album was both cathartic wouldn’t have seen the light of day otherwise!’ and healing, as it’s a story that seems to be The single I’m Sorry was inspired by a talk given by reaching out and touching women everywhere. author and historian Claire Wright at Melbourne’s ‘I was never diagnosed with post-natal depression,’ says Espie. ‘I never couldn’t get out of Wheeler Centre to the theme of ‘My Epic Fail’. Wright spoke of her battle with post-natal depression. She bed, I still functioned. My kids are nine and four talked about driving home from the doctor after and it wasn’t until two years ago that I realised being diagnosed, chanting ‘I’m sorry I failed’. That I spent most of my time feeling despondent. became the root of the song. The writing of the album was an exploration for
The landscape for women has changed in the past few decades, where as women of the past focused primarily on family, these days women are expected to have careers as well, which leaves many struggling to balance work and family life and then feel happy at the same time.
The one and only true Australian tribute to the classic hits of John Fogerty & Creedence Clearwater Revival, performed by seasoned professionals from Brisbane playing all your favourite hits with true showmanship and a great production plays Ballina RSL in October. Already hailed as the best CCR tribute in Australia, this band really takes it to the crunch.
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LISA HUNT’S AFRICAN (L.E.A.F) DANCE PARTY
I’M SORRY I FAILED
‘I was determined in talking about my experiences that I was going to keep it personal and not get political,’ laughs Espie. ‘In fact I think I am learning more every day about myself and how I fit into the world as a woman – we are told we can do it all but it’s not true, the world still isn’t set up for it and we pay the price.’
CATCH NORMIE ROWE AS HE COMMEMORATES 50 YEARS SINCE HIS FIRST SINGLE WITH A SHOW AT THE BALLINA RSL ON SATURDAY.
SOUND RECORDING TECH SUPPORT
OL’ FRANKIE & WILBUR Iconic Aussie rockers Frankie J Holden and Wilbur Wilde will be ‘on the prowl’ at the Ballina RSL on Saturday 9 October featuring hits like Echo, Diana, The Wanderer, Get a
Suzannah Espie performs at Club Mullum on Sunday 18 October as a double album launch with The Stetson Family and Mullum Music Festival 19– 21 November. Go to www.mullummusicfestival. com for ticket and program information.
Job, This Little Girl, Twistin’ the Night Away and of course On the Prowl! After traversing the entire spectrum of show business – film, stage, theatre, radio and television – Frankie and Wilbur are back where it all began: performing together onstage.
At their concerts, Frankie and Wilbur wind back the clock to the days of their multi-platinum band, OL’55, which ruled Australian airwaves for more than a decade. Showtime 8.30pm. Tickets are $30 and are on sale at the club.
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