With more than 120 national and international awards between them for their individual performances and recordings, they are a force to be reckoned with! From the Classic Era of the great 1920s Blues women they will take you on a road trip from New Orleans, up the Delta and through the Mississippi Hills, to Memphis and Chicago via Appalachia and the Piedmont, with a swing out to the West Coast and down into Texas. Fronted by seven Blues sisters, Fiona Boyes, Kerri Simpson, Cara Robinson, Leesa Gentz, Julz Parker, Alison Penney, and Sweet Felicia, they are joined by Hammond B3 and sax maestro, Tim Neal, and drummer/percussionist Mark Grunden. He has exhibited his Lumino Kinetic Light Sculptures and photographs in New York, Kununurra, WA, Melbourne, Sydney and New Delhi.īlue Empress Artists is proud to present Australia’s finest Blues and Roots Artists in the spectacular nine-piece Blue Empress All-Stars. He is described by the Music Director of Vivid Sydney 2021 as the ‘Father of Lumino Kinetics’ in Australia, and the 'VIVID Sydney of his day', Foley FOGG loves The Northern Rivers of NSW, producing a Lightshow Concert in Lismore City Hall and Mullumbimby in 1969 and filming the Aquarius Festival in 1973. Over five decades, Fogg’s impressive body of work has evolved the medium of Lightshow Art, redefining the context of Performance Art, ‘happenings’, unusual theatre, dance parties and real Australian History with the Gija mob of Bow River, WA as well as facilitating the birth of the Australian Event Industry. Roger Foley-FOGG was an early proponent of the Australian Counterculture movement, ELLIS D FOGG LIGHTSHOWS becoming a popular 1960s phenomena inspiring a Global Village of young people connected through Rock and Roll and Lightshows designed to produce a total worldwide experience, an expanded awareness, ‘the oneness of the world’ and the start of the Symbioscene, the Age of Aquarius.įoley-FOGG was also a founding member of Martin Sharp and Albie Thoms' Yellow House artist collective in Kings Cross, Sydney. Like Spectrum's 'But That's Alright' and 'Play a Song That I Know', The Indelible Murtceps' 'Indelible Shuffle' and 'Esmeralda' and Ariel's 'Jamaican Farewell' and 'Disco Dilemma' -and never forgetting the legendary song that started it all, 'I'll Be Gone (Someday I'll have money)' of course! Today's Spectrum plays a batch of retrospective songs from the various Spectrum, Murtceps and Ariel albums, including as election from their many singles released over the decades.
Spectrum and Madder Lake played a very successful series of double bill shows during 2019 celebrating Spectrum's 50 th anniversary and as 2020 marked the Madders' 50thanniversary there had been another series of double bill shows planned throughout the year, another good intention scuttled by COVID-19.
The recent addition of Madder Lake guitarist Brenden Mason(pic)however has added a very positive dimension to the band, especially in the live performance arena-a recording would seem to be inevitable. Spectrum today is, conceptually at least, similar to the original band launched way back in 1969, but the loss in 2013 of bassist and fellow founding member Bill Putt leaves NZ-born singer/songwriter Mike Rudd as the sole original member in the current line-up. Tamam Shud still love creating, recording and performing together in the spirit in which they have always made music. The most recent Tamam Shud release is 2018’s CD “Resonate” featuring the current band Lindsay Bjerre, Tim Gaze, John Cobbin, Paul “DC” Di Giacomo and Nigel Macara. In 2016 the first all new Tamam Shud recording in over twenty years was released. In 2002 Tamam Shud performed in the original “Long Way to the Top” national concert tour and “Live in Concert” recording and in 2006 were part of the “Delightful Rain” project. They recorded an album of all-new material “Permanent Culture” with songs by Bjerre and Gaze and featuring the single “Stay”. The LP charted in May 1972, and eventually went triple gold. Iconic songs such as ‘Lady Sunshine’, ‘Too Many Life’ and ‘Bali Shores’ and ‘First Things’ from the “Morning of the Earth” film and soundtrack album, which were a huge success both in Australia and internationally.
This has led to some memorable recordings and select live performances over the years. The members of the band have stayed in touch quite regularly in the five decades since the early 1970’s. Tamam Shud played an important part as pioneers of progressive music in the late sixties and early seventies. ? BLACK FRIDAY SALE ・ ENDS MONDAY! Midnight AEDT ・ code: BLACKFRIDAY ?