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Musicians – Bill (vocals/acoustic & nylon string guitar/harmonica/bgv), Procol Harum veteran Chris Copping (Hammond organ), Ruth Hazelton (banjo), James Gillard, Stephen Hadley & John Bois (bass/upright bass), Garrett Costigan (pedal steel), Ken Howard (Rhodes piano), Andrew Swann & Scotty Martin (drums/percussion/bgv), Terry Dean (12 string guitar) with Simon Bruce, John Flanagan, Rory Boast & Robert Price (bgv).
1965 was a very important year for me – it was the last year before we started losing important people in our lives and it was the first year that I remember music. I have a long memory. I can’t tell you what I had for lunch yesterday but I can tell you the music that I was listening to when I was 2.
To be fair, music was always a part of my life. On the stereo, radio, tv, movies, concerts, musicals, choir, piano lessons. I can’t sing or play to save myself but I have a great passion for it.
My mum had an album called :
I think that it was given away after mum and dad’s recent passing. I looked it up and found it on YouTube. That will do for now. It has some of the best ever songs on it.
It was a year of huge songs. Indeed, the 1960’s was diverse and exciting musicwise and otherwise wise.
Bill has a lot of the qualities and feels of that era of songwriters. They had a unique way of telling stories so that they were important but also easy to listen to. Bill does that too.
I am drawn to the folk side of country, being a 60’s Aquarian child – it comes with the territory. I had two aunties who were teens in the 60’s and early twenties and they shared their love of the Beatles, Elvis and Woodstock artists with me. Mum’s first albums to my sister and I were The Seekers and Peter, Paul and Mary. My love of Country music finally came about in the early 70’s when I was hooked on Kristofferson and Dylan and James Taylor.
There’s not much difference in lineage with Country and Folk. The depth of the storytelling is
Australian Music Week Announces Final Artists
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Today, Australian Music Weekis pleased to announce the second and final round of artists to performat the music summit this November in Cronulla, NSW and the full program of various panels and master classes.
FULL BAND LIST BELOW
Already announced*
Allan Smithy *
Amber Rae Slade
Bearfoot *
Bella Hardy (Scotland)
Betty & Oswald
Big Erle
Bootleg Rascal
Brielle Davis
Bush Gothic
Catherine Britt *
Cheap Fakes
Chris Cain (USA) & Ray Baedle
Claire Anne Taylor
Claude Hay
Colin Jones & The Delta Revue *
CONTROL
Cubans In Whistler
The Delta Riggs
Damien Leith
De’May
Demi Louise *
Diesel
Dog The Duke *
Dog Trumpet
DOS // ENOS
Fanny Lumsden
Fox Holmes
Fripps & Fripps *
Garrett Kato
Goo
Hannah Robinson
Hayley Couper *
Hedge Fund *
Hollow Coves *
I Am Apollo *
IVY
Jake Meadows
James Thomson and The Strange Pilgrims *
Jason Kearney
Jeff Martin (Tea Party) With Terepai Richmond
Jen Mize
Jodi Martin
Joel Leffler
Kay Proudlove
Key to the Highway
KNOX
Lachlan Bryan
Lepers & Crooks *
Letters to Lions *
Little Georgia *
Lindsay Broughton (Canada)
Luke O’Shea *
Mark Lang
Mat McHugh (The Beautiful Girls) *
Matt Stillert *
MVRKS *
Poor Nameless Boy (Canada)
Red Wine Roses
Rich Aucoin(Canada)
Rita B
Rory Ellis
Sarah MacDougall (Canada)
Stay At Home Mum
Taasha Coates
Talisk (Scotland)
Tall Hearts
Tay Oskee *
Tenderfoot *
The Game River
The Kava Kings
The Mae Trio
The Moving Stills *
The Weeping Willows
Uncle Axel
Vince Jones
Vince Purcell
Waza
White Blanks
William Crighton *
Youngblood (Canada)
Australian Music Week will play host to Australia’s leading industryfigures, andincludes personnel from record labels, producers, touring companies and much more. For full list of speakers and panel timetable head to www.australianmusicweek.com.The conference program will include panel topics outlined below.
SOUNDS Eleven years ago Australian country music duo The Audreys released their first album, Between Last Night & Us. Despite intentions to do a ten-year anniversary tour, they are now on the road one year late – but, of course, for their fans, any time is the right time. The album won an ARIA, and there were other successful albums after that. Yet it’s back to this first landmark album they’ll go for this tour – and I spoke to one half of the band, Taasha Coates, about it. How did The Audreys form all those years ago? It was 2004. Tristan and I were playing together doing mostly covers but in our own style – slowed-down versions of pop songs and stuff – and we wanted a band name. We were just calling ourselves Taasha and Tristan, and we wanted a band name. And we started a competition. The winner – the person who came up with the band name that we chose – got a $50 drink voucher at one of our gigs. We got so many suggestions – pages and pages of suggestions. At one point after we’d chosen the name, we threw the pages away in frustration because we were so sick of looking at them, and I’ve regretted that so many times because I’ve had friends trying to name bands. But in the end it was actually me who came up with [the name]. I said, ‘It’s a shame there’s already a band called The Audreys because that would be really cool.’ And Tristan said, ‘I’ve never heard of a band called that.’ It’s just a nice reference to something old fashioned and I’m a big Audrey Hepburn fan, and Hank Williams’s wife was called Audrey. So it has a few little tie-ins. And then we started writing, and recorded our first record in 2005 and it came out in 2006, and that’s this record that we’re touring now. Did you give yourself the $50 drink voucher? Yes, I got drunk at my own gig – it was awesome. Listening to this album, it doesn’t sound like a debut album – which makes sense, because you were obviously playing for a long time "I'm allergic to exercise" Every day, amazing people across the UK are unwilling to let significant hurdles stop them from enjoying physical activity. Tasha Coates got in touch with Get Inspired to tell us about her challenging illness - and her love for gymnastics. This is her story. "Your disability does not define you. You have to focus on what you can do, and don't let others stand in your way. In May 2013 I developed a rare condition which affects the cells in my body called mast cells. As well as many different daily symptoms, this in effect makes me 'allergic to exercise'. Why? Because exercise promotes mast cell degranulation, which can throw me into a life-threatening allergic reaction if I do not stop at first sign of any symptoms. I lost all of my hair in July last year due to the physical stress of going into anaphylatic shock so many times in a short space of time. My hair was falling out in clumps so, before I lost it all, I gave it to charity., external I'm 20 now. Having already been a gymnast for 10 years, I was not willing to let my diagnosis define me and stop me from enjoying the sport I love, so I made the switch to disability gymnastics. This allows me to train and compete just like anyone else, while keeping my health a priority throughout and allowing for adaptations. So, I'm an artistic gymnast training at Hartford School of Gymnastics in Northwich and I compete in the physical disability category (there is also an 'intellectual' disability category). In April 2014, I suffered a respiratory arrest. I thought my time as a gymnast was over. It took what felt like a very long time to get well enough to be able to complete a full routine on each piece of equipment, and I was thrilled just to be well enough to be able to compete properly again. Before my diagnosis, I wanted to be a paramedic. Unfortunate
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Get Inspired: 'My allergy to exercise won't stop me'