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Updated Blues News.
Completely re-worked the content pages to match the new front page.
Added Blue Metal - Chain, Native Dog Creek - Jeff Lang,
Live At The Continental - Chris Wilson, Mumbo Gumbo - The Mojos,
Track Me Down - Ivan Zar, Short Cool Ones - Wilson Diesel,
The Dog Don't Bite - Whipping Post.
Added link to Top10 Australian Music Sites voting form.
Geoff Achison will be launching his new all acoustic CD, Mystery Train,
at the Continental Cafe on December 15, with special guest Marco Goldsmith.
This promises to be one of the shows of the year, so be there!
The results of the 1996 Australian Blues Music Awards, conducted as part of
the Lithgow Blues Festival:
- New Female Artist: Jan Preston
- New Male Artist: Louis King
- Female Artist: Lil Fi
- Male Artist: Marco Goldsmith
- New Band: Third Degree
- Band: Marco Goldsmith's Blue Heat
- Album of 1996: Irresistible Behaviour by Marco Goldsmith's Blue Heat
- Song of 1996: "Right Track" by Marco Goldsmith's Blue Heat
- Harmonica: Jim Conway from The Backsliders
- Guitar: Jeff Lang
- Hall of Fame Award: Ron and Jeff King from The Foreday Riders.
The Bellhops have released their debut CD, Room Service, containing a mixture
of covers and original material. Like many recent releases, the CD is
independently produced and currently available, for $25AUS, via mail order from
The Bellhops, PO Box 553, Regents Park, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2143. If you
like good rockin' R&B with a jazzy feel, do yourself a favour and get a copy of
this release!
The Australian Blues page celebrates its first year!
Updated Blues News.
Geoff Achison has a new residency at the Muddy Waters every Wednesday,
playing acoustic stuff. Unfortunately, his previous residencies at the
Waltzing Matilda and Thumpin' Tum are no more.
- Muddy Waters, 134 Chapel St, Windsor, Melbourne,
phone (03) 9521-1181
Updated Blues News.
Completely redesigned the entry page layout, adding nifty images and a snazzy
Java interface. Thanks heaps to Piers Buxton for the graphical design!
Matt Corcoran has released his debut CD, 240 km/h, and it cooks! If you're
in Australia, get to your local CD shop and ask for a copy. Drop me a line if
you have any trouble getting one.
Updated Blues News.
Added Years and Years - Turning Blue.
Added photo of Turning Blue, and CD cover for Night Time - Turning Blue.
Turning Blue have released their second CD, Years and Years, and will be
performing CD launches at the following venues:
- Provincial Hotel, Ballarat, 4/10/96
- De La Ville Hotel, Geelong, 11/10/96
- Waltzing Matilda Hotel, Springvale, Sunday 13th October
Brian Fraser will be doing an interview and some live stuff on Dave Ray's
show on 3PBS 7/10/96 10pm.
The Bellhops have recorded their first CD, due for release in a couple of
months.
Turning Blue are recording a new CD, due to be released in late 1996.
Added audio samples for Night Time - Turning Blue.
Added contact details for Turning Blue.
Corrected Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs (thanks Zbig).
Corrected Bay City Union, Blues Hangover, The Paramount Trio,
Smokestack Lightning, Matt Taylor, Sid Rumpo, and The Wild Cherries
(thanks Ian).
Added Papa Lips, Salty Dog, The Taildraggers, Muddy Puddles, Skip Sail,
Blues Appetite, and Blue Roots (thanks Glenn).
Added member list for The Bellhops (thanks Ian).
Updated Blues News.
Initiated the Blues feature section.
Added Marco Goldmith's Blue Heat feature.
Added new links to Australian Blues on the web.
Initiated the Blues News.
Finally found some time to tweak the layouts.
Added audio sample for The First Set - Johno's Blues Band,
Irresistible Behaviour - Marco Goldsmith's Blue Heat, Marooned -
Marco Goldsmith's Blue Heat.
Re-sampled all WAV audio samples to improve quality.
Added MPEG Layer 2 audio forms of all audio samples.
Moonlight Publishing will soon be releasing the fourth edition of The Who's Who of
Australian Rock. This is a major revision of the most comprehensive Australian
music reference around, so keep watching for more news on the exact date of
availability.
Marco Goldsmith's Blue Heat will be launching their new CD
Irresistible Behaviour at the Continental Cafe on September 19th.
Geoff Achison will be guesting on stage with the band, so make sure you get
along and see them!
Matt Corcoran is currently finalising the master for his debut CD, which is
to be released soon. I'm not sure exactly who will be handling the distribution
yet, so keep checking - this CD sounds like it's going to be a monster!
Geoff Achison has obtained two residency gigs, increasing his local profile
with his new band. Every Sunday, Geoff and band are at the Thumpin' Tum from
4pm `til 7pm, while they also play at the Waltzing Matilda Hotel from 9pm every
second Friday. Get along and see one of the best around!
- Thumpin' Tum, 433 Church St, Richmond, phone (03) 9429 5266,
$5 entry after 4pm
- Waltzing Matilda Hotel, Springvale, $4 entry after 9pm
While on the subject of residencies, Midnight Special also have a new one.
They play at the Red Eagle hotel on Sundays from 6pm, so make sure you support
one of the best young bands around.
- Red Eagle Hotel, 111 Victoria Ave, Albert Park
Added Alta Mira.
Added audio sample for The First Set - Johno's Blues Band.
Continued to add band members (A-C).
Cleaned up some misleading entries (A-F).
Changed sound samples to compressed WAV files instead of zipped WAV files.
Added Beg, Borrow and Steel - Gwyn Ashton, Whole Lotta Blues - Dave Hole,
The First Set - Johno's Blues Band, Marooned - Marco Goldsmith's Blue Heat,
Irresistible Behaviour - Marco Goldsmith's Blue Heat, Night Time -
Turning Blue.
Added biographies for Marco Goldsmith, Marco Goldsmith's Blue Heat,
The Mighty Reapers, and Turning Blue.
Added Compilations index.
Changed colour of Australian Blues logo to blue (the way it should have been
anyway).
Added ../acknowledgements.php.
Added Adrian Keating.
Added biographies for Blind Freddy and The Foreday Riders.
Reorganised introduction page.
Added separate page for other blues links - added Australian blues links.
Due to unexpected disk space pressure, I've been forced to move to a new URL
at http://www.aba.net.au/people/cs/ozblues/.
Album entries split into separate pages.
Minor layout modifications.
Added biographies for Andy Baylor and Andy Baylor's Cajun Combo.
Added more albums, including Blind Freddy - Blind Freddy,
with audio samples.
Some minor corrections to spelling.
Index broken down by alphabetic title.
Added links on title page.
Added some new album listings, corrected a couple of indices, added
Blues Club Records contact.
Public release.
Moved URL to http://www.werple.net.au/~galap/ozblues/.
Incremental improvements.
Started filling in member details from A onwards.
Incremental improvements.
Restructured directories, started filling in album details from A onwards,
added album list, more audio samples.
Third major draft published.
Artist cross-references, Transparent GIF images.
Second major draft published.
Alphabetical index, new artist format introduced, first audio samples.
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