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Tour Guide/ Thu Mar 20
ILLY @ Governor Hindmarsh ASH GRUNWALD @ Ramsgate Hotel THE ANGELS @ Jive
Fri Mar 21 THE ANGELS @ Jive BOBBY KEYS AND THE SUFFERING BASTARDS @ Governor Hindmarsh Sat Mar 22 ROB SCOTT AND THE BIG SMOKE @ Governor Hindmarsh ELIZABETH ROSE @ Pirie And Co Social Club THE SMITH STREET BAND @ UniBar THE ROLLING STONES @ Adelaide Oval SINCERELY, GRIZZLY, THE ROCKETEERS & THE STORM WILL COVER OUR TRACKS @ Rhino Room
Sun Mar 23
JURASSIC 5 @ Thebarton Theatre CASPIAN @ Crown & Anchor SUNNYBOYS @ Governor Hindmarsh Tue Mar 25 AN EVENING WITH THE CAST OF ‘SONS OF ANARCHY’ @ HQ Thu Mar 27 MICHAEL PAYNTER @ Jive Fri Mar 28 THE HOLIDAYS @ Pirie And Co Social Club IWRESTLEDABEARONCE @ Fowler’s Live LOON LAKE @ UniBar I KNOW LEOPARD @ Rocket Bar STICKY FINGERS @ Governor Hindmarsh LA BASTARD & KITCHEN WITCH @ Exeter Hotel
Sat Mar 29
LA BASTARD, THE VILLENETTES & RICOCHET PETE @ Grace Emily Hotel FLICKERFEST @ Mercury Cinema
Sun Mar 30
THE SCIENTISTS @ Governor Hindmarsh Wed Apr 2 LITTLE WISE & MEGAN BERNARD @ Grace Emily Hotel
Thu Apr 3
JOHN BUTLER TRIO @ Thebarton Theatre LUCA BRASI @ Crown & Anchor Hotel FLAMENCURA @ Norwood Concert Hall
Fri Apr 11
CALLING ALL CARS @ Fowler’s Live TWELVE FOOT NINJA @ Governor Hindmarsh FOR TODAY & PREPARED LIKE A BRIDE @ UniBar WHEN GIANTS SLEEP & EMECIA @ The Cavern Club THIEF @ Rocket Bar
Sat Apr 12
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD @ Governor Hindmarsh
Thu Apr 17
KREATOR & DEATH ANGEL @ HQ BAM BAM @ Edinburgh Castle
KODALINE @ Governor Hindmarsh
Wed Apr 9
WHEN GIANTS SLEEP & EMECIA @ Crown And Anchor
SASKWATCH @ Blenheim Festival, Clare Valley
Sun Apr 20
BORIS THE BLADE @ Fowler’s Live
Sydney power pop band Sunnyboys shone brightly in the early ’80s until singer Jeremy Oxley’s battle with schizophrenia made it virtually impossible for the band to continue.
Mon Apr 21
THE ALMOST @ Fowler’s Live HORROR MY FRIEND @ Rocket Bar THE BAD SHEPHERDS @ Governor Hindmarsh
Wed Apr 23
BURIED IN VERONA & FIT FOR A KING @ Fowler’s Live
Thu Apr 24
VANCE JOY @ Governor Hindmarsh HUGH LAURIE @ Thebarton Theatre
Fri Apr 25
GROOVIN THE MOO: DISCLOSURE, DIZZEE RASCAL, THE JEZABELS, KARNIVOOL & more @ Oakbank Racecourse THE ACACIA STRAIN @ Fowler’s Live INSECTS & STARS @ Governor Hindmarsh
Sun Apr 27
LORDE @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre
There were various reformations over the years and even an album of new material, Wildcat, but Oxley’s ongoing issues meant that Sunnyboys were always going to struggle for any further success. A couple of years ago, however, the Sydney version of Dig It Up!, a series of shows curated by Hoodoo Gurus, had the band playing on the bill. Originally meant to be an acoustic set, the band played in electric mode and wowed their audience. That led to further shows – Sunnyboys performed at Meredith Music Festival in 2012 and toured around the country with Elvis Costello – and they have just released a new ‘best of ’ titled Our Best Of and have hit the road for a national tour. Bass player Richard Burgman says the band, which will head to Adelaide with young
Geelong-based trio The Frowning Clouds, are in fine form. “We haven’t done a big headlining tour like this for a long time so it’s been good to play to people who want to come out and see us,” he says. “And because Jeremy’s health has improved remarkably over the last few years, we’re rarin’ to go again. He’s able to manage his illness really well. “So that was how we got to play Dig It Up!,” Burgman continues. “Hoodoo Gurus had invited Jeremy to do a little acoustic set but he said he wouldn’t play unless it was the full band. So it all sprang from there. Next thing we know, we were invited to play Meredith Music Festival.” Burgman says that one of his personal highlights of the early Sunnyboys days was of performing in London. “We played The Marquee Club on Wardour St,” he recalls. “So treading the same stage as Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds and all that was pretty special. And we packed the place out and we could see the sweat running down the walls.” Sunnyboys, the subject of the 2006 allAustralian tribute album, Happy Man, which featured artists such as Even, Danny McDonald
and Adelaide’s Green Circles, now have a new ‘best of ’ album, Our Best Of. Alongside their many hits, it also boasts an early demo as well as recently unearthed alternative mixes from their 1982 album, Individuals. “We all had a hand in choosing the songs,” Burgman says. “Surprisingly we all pretty much agreed on what should go on there.” Oxley was also the subject of a documentary, The Sunnyboy, which was recently screened on ABC1. “That doco really helped explain his illness,” Burgman decides. “We wanted it to be factual, which it is, because when people hear the word ‘schizophrenia’ it can imply all sorts of things. People might have thought Jeremy was dangerous but he’s not. He’s actually quite meek. The documentary explains that and puts everything into some kind of perspective."
some excellent musicians…” The Rolling Stones will always be the band Keys is best known for his association with; he’s been with them almost 45 years and has been a vital part of their sound. He says when he first went in to lay down a sax part on the Let It Bleed album, he didn’t know what he was getting himself into. “Didn’t have a clue. The first track I played on was Live With Me, which was also the first track that Mick Taylor played on.” After all these years, he never gets sick of playing with or listening to the Stones. “Nope, I really don’t. The band have never become a parody of themselves, they’re not just going through the motions or any of that jazz – I’d get sick of that real fast. I don’t get sick of playing with people that are playing on the kind of level they are – I’ve played Brown Sugar 2,000 times or more, and I still put everything into it as much as I did the first time I played it – as do they." Having played on so many hugely influential recordings, it’s interesting to hear where Keys himself found his early inspiration. The late 1950s was a big time for the saxophone in rock’n’roll.
“My approach to music was influenced by King Curtis and saxophone players of the late ‘50s on the Atlantic label, they had so many great saxophone players – The Coasters’ records, LaVern Baker… That’s when I became really aware of the saxophone as a rock’n’roll instrument. And those old r’n’b records, Fats Domino, Little Richard – everyone had saxophones! Then it changed and everybody had guitars.” He comes to Australia with The Suffering Bastards, a band put together by a friend for a bit of fun. “It all came about primarily because I was looking for something to do; a sax player in Nashville is not the busiest guy in town. I ran into this fella Chark [Von Kinsolving]; he had a place to play and knew musicians and it worked out real well.”
WHO: Sunnyboys WHAT: Our Best Of (Warner) WHERE: Governor Hindmarsh (with The Frowning Clouds) WHEN: Sun Mar 23
Tue Apr 29
MKTO @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre
Wed Apr 30
RUSSIAN CIRCLES @ Fowler’s Live
Thu May 1
STONEFIELD @ Governor Hindmarsh
Fri May 2
Sat May 10
ARCTIC MONKEYS & POND @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre Sun May 11 HELLIONS @ Fowler’s Live
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Dunstan by Robert
Fri Apr 18
BALL PARK MUSIC, PAPA VS PRETTY & JESSE DAVIDSON @ Governor Hindmarsh Fri Apr 4 SIETTA @ Pirie & Co CHANCE WATERS @ Social Club Rocket Bar ART VS SCIENCE @ Sat May 3 UniBar BOOM CRASH OPERA @ Governor Hindmarsh Sat Apr 5 - Sun OSCAR KEY SUNG @ Apr 6 Rocket Bar OZ COMIC CON: BENEDICT Tue May 6 CUMBERBATCH, BILLIE MICHAEL BUBLE @ PIPER, SHANNEN Adelaide Entertainment DOHERTY, AMANDA Centre TAPPING & more @ Adelaide Showground Wed May 7 ORIGIN & A MILLION Sat Apr 5 DEAD BIRDS LAUGHING ELEANOR McEVOY @ Fowler’s Live & ANGE TAKATS @ Barossa Regional Gallery, Thu May 8 Tanunda JASON DERULO @ JIMBLAH @ Pirie & Co Adelaide Entertainment Social Club Centre LITTLE WISE & MEGAN DJ PREMIER & PETE BERNARD @ Grace Emily ROCK @ HQ Hotel Fri May 9 Sun Apr 6 JAMES REYNE @ ELEANOR McEVOY & Norwood Hotel ANGE TAKATS @ Singing ELLA HOOPER @ Jive Gallery, McLaren Vale
Tue Apr 8
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Keys & Bobbyuffering The S tards Bas ndon by Dan Co
There’s not enough space on this halfpage to cover the depth of Bobby Keys’ discography. Here he is discussing a sample of the setlist you can expect when his Suffering Bastards come to town; he played on all these original recordings.
“A lot of the material is taken from the Stones stuff, Exile On Main Street and Sticky Fingers, that period of time,” he says in his friendly Texan drawl. “Also some stuff from Joe Cocker I did with Mad Dogs & Englishmen, some hit records I did with George Harrison on All Things Must Pass and some John Lennon things people would be familiar with; Whatever Gets Your Through The Night and Power To The People.” That’s barely scratching the surface; you could go into classic albums from Warren Zevon, Dr John, Eric Clapton, Donovan, Harry Nilsson… Even the personnel on Keys’ eponymous 1972 debut solo album are staggering: “There’s some great players on there. Clapton plays a lot of guitar on there, George and Ringo, Billy Preston,
WHO: Bobbys Keys & The Suffering Bastards WHERE: Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Fri Mar 21