RocKwiz Episode 81 - Dan Wilson and Liz StringerVisiting Grammy award winning American singer/songwriter Dan Wilson and local contemporary roots artist Liz Stringer. Watch Now
The other day I watched one of our top rock bands play at an outdoor concert and the thought hit me once again: MAN HAS YET TO CONQUER THE VAGARIES OF SOUND. Read More | 1 comments
Liz Stringer and Dan Wilson perform Killing The Blues (R Salley/Warner Chappell)
Jed Kurzel performs Keep Walking (Cecil Condon, Jed Kurzel, Burke Reid / Mushroom Music, Burke Reid)
Eve von Bibra and Jed Kurzel perform To Love Somebody (Barry and Robin Gibb / Universal Music Publishing, MGB & Warner Chappell Music)
Sarah Chadwick is a member of the Indy Rock outfit Batrider. Dark and sinewy rock with haunting moody vocals, these guys are touring the world and building a serious reputation. If you like your music etched into your brain with battery acid you're gonna want to check them out. If you hum along to muzak in the elevator then I don't recommend going to a Batrider gig.
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John Schumann is best known for his role as lead singer and one
of the two major songwriters for the legendary Australian socio-political
folk-rock band, Redgum. I Was Only 19 is one of the classic songs on Australia's involvement in the Viet Nam war.
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His web site says: "A guitarist, singer and songwriter, Jeff has built up a reputation for
startlingly original performances... " We interviewed him in a respected guitar shop and the owner was soon holding his phone up for his son to hear Jeff do his magic. You have to see this guy to believe one man can make a guitar sing like this without 10 fingers on each hand.
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I'm the first female to be featured at the Golden Guitar Wax Museum In Tamworth. I've entertained the troops in Iraq, for whom I have become a bit of a poster girl. I tour with Adam Harvey and appeared on The Wiggles as Beccy Bluegrass.
After 4 years of touring I broke up the band, changed my name and relaunched as a solo artist in 1991. Then I went back on the road, playing guitar with my brother in law, Jimmy Barnes.
In 1992 we supported Hall & Oates and caught the ear of Mushroom Records impresario Michael Gudinski, and we recorded the songs that would complete our debut album Get On Board. In 1993 the record snared us three ARIA Awards.
29th of November - Jeff Martin formerly of the Tea Party and now with The Armada joins Australia's beloved Tina Arena to cover songs originally recorded by Lulu, Daniel Lanois, and Peter Gabriel.
It's "two for the show" with these duets from Series 2 of RocKwiz.
Edited by Brian Nankervis, this book is a must for any rock trivia fans.
We're now back at the Espy again recording new episodes in the run up to Christmas with a great range of local and international artists. All tickets have been allocated but we are about to announce a big RocKwiz Live mid-summer event and let's just say it won't be at the Espy and that anyone who has ever wanted to see RocKwiz Live will be able to. The only way to get priority tickets will be to be a RocKwiz Newletter subscriber. So if you're not already subscribed, you know what to do..!
The RocKwiz Team is honoured to have been nominated for another AFIA Award in the Best Light Entertainment Television Series category. The Awards will be shown on the Nine Network on December 6th.
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