With a seemingly never ending string of hits and headlines Keith Urban never ceases to amaze me for his ability to churn out BIG tunes. His marriage to Nicole Kidman and subsequent birth of their daughter is just an ongoing addition to the saga that is Keith Urban.
I have never seen Keith live but do love most of his more “up” songs. (Isn’t tht most of them?) Keith Urban was one of the rising stars in Australia for a long time and certainly paid his dues.
I guess one of the other things I like about Keith Urban is that he plays a Gibson Les Paul in many of the clips that we see.
Tags: Actor, Arts, australia, Gibson Les Paul, Keith Urban, Lyrics, Music, Nicole Kidman
Blogging about John Mellencamp could be a long blog. I will keep it short. Great music and great musicians. I heard a rumour years ago that Mellencamp insisted that his band all learn a new instrument for one of the albums. I think it might have been his Scarecrow album.I don’t know how true this is but it rang true to what sort of person Mellencamp is.
I saw John Mellencamp in concert in Sydney back in the 80’s I think. Great gig. This was at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. He certainly rocked and rolled. A big band complete with fiddles and keyboards and lots of guitars. The band was the same band that John Mellencamp had been using for most of his career. They rocked.
Would I go and see him again? You bet! John Mellencamp who used to go by Johnny Cougar is a favorite of mine.
Tags: Album, Concert, Guitar, John Mellencamp, Keyboard instrument, Music, Sydney Entertainment Centre
Midnight Oil the great Aussie rock band from the 70’s 80’s and 90’s spawned the Labor Politician Peter Garrett. not surprising really as the majority of their songs were political in some way or other.
I never saw Midnight Oil live in Australia. I guess the whole Midnight Oil politics thing didn’t grab me then. I like a lot of their songs. As songs. Not as political statements.
These days Peter Garrett from Midnight Oil is a Labor Minister for something. I hope that he is doing what he protested about via his music for 3 decades.
Tags: Add new tag, australia, Midnight Oil, Music, Peter Garrett, Politics, Rock music, United States
Wow what a gig this would have been to see. A true blast from the past as Cold Chisel blew the V8 super cars off the track!
A rapturous crowd danced and sang their way through headline act Cold Chisel’s live performance last night, capping off a massive concert program at the Sydney Telstra 500 this weekend.
The legendary Australian rock band played almost two hours worth of songs, including hits Khe Sanh and My Baby at the ANZ Stadium within the Sydney Telstra 500 precinct.
Cold Chisel also gave two encore performances, much to the delight of the adoring crowd who were witnessing what was possibly the band’s last ever performance.
The crowd was made up of Cold Chisel die-hards and those who had come along to experience all aspects of the Sydney Telstra 500, which has so far seen a total of more than 120,000 people attend.
via Cold Chisel caps off concerts – v8supercars.com.au.
Tags: Arts and Entertainment, australia, Cold Chisel, Concert, Khe Sanh, Music, Stadium Australia
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