Fitzroy Hotel
161 George Street, Windsor
Phone: 02 4577 3396
Email: info@fitzroyhotel.com.au
PAST EVENT
April 26th, 2009 -
Katie Roberts
Katie was born in Mona Vale Hospital and grew up in Hornsby Heights. She has always sung since she was little, putting on shows for her family with her sister and other family members. Katie grew up listening and singing to Whitney Houston and Barbara Streisand and always marvelled at their power and range. She sang in the school choir and local amateur musical theatre.
Born in Narrabri and raised in Moree in country New South Wales, Drew McAlister grew up listening to Bryan Adams, Noiseworks and Slim Dusty and started singing at age 7. One of four children, after finishing school at the age of 18, Drew decided to take his music ability seriously and left the country for the dazzling lights of Sydney. He immediately picked up session work for major brand television and radio jingles. During the next few of years, Drew continued to write his songs, performed in many different bands and appeared on “The Midday Show” and “Hey Hey It’s Saturday” numerous times. Drew then toured Australia with the production of “Jesus Christ Superstar”, before eventually landing a recording deal with EMI.
A popular urban myth concerns a group of art students who passed themselves off as a band in order to con the local publican into giving them a gig in exchange for free beer. The deception worked better than intended, and the group came to be known as Mental as Anything. Nearly three decades later, they are still irritating the public with their highly listenable, idiosyncratic brand of garage pop.
A self-explanatory single to reflect their success, The Nips Are Getting Bigger, rose through the charts as did their fundamental understanding of the old adage that for every action there is a reaction. Ahead lay a very lengthy pub crawl which only the accomplished could survive.
Sydney based singer/songwriter Kate Gogarty writes and sings about love, anger, torment and happiness. Taking influences from established acts such as Fleetwood Mac, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan and The Pretenders
The Cover Ups-Live Duo was first formed in 2004 with collaboration between David Taylor and Hayley summers.
They met while both working on P&O cruises overseas and through their love of music came to together to create what is now the Cover ups.
Their aim in the beginning was to only perform acoustic covers.
Over time they realised that playing with backing music gave them not only a much bigger sound, but more freedom to perform a wider range of songs that would appeal to different audiences. Making their own backing tracks and using a blend of high quality midi sounds and live instruments gives the cover ups a sound that could lead you to believe they were a 4 piece band.
They play a variety of cover songs ranging from top 40 music from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and today. With Hayley on vocals and Dave on Guitar, bass and occasionally bringing out a ukulele, the quality duo are sure to entertain.
Prior to 1978 Brian Nichol was bass guitar/lead vocals and Fess Parker was lead guitar in “Big Swifty”. At the same time Geoff Turner was bass guitarist with RCA signed “Twister”. After the two bands performed together a couple of times “Twister” disbanded and “Big Swifty” decided on a change of musical direction. Times were changing and major advances had been made in the music industry so the two bands and their music styles merged and drummer Chris Tagg was added to the mix .
Brendan Callinan brought keyboards to The Radiators in 1979 and the individual members of the Band began their prolific song writing careers. By the time Chris Tagg left the Band in 1984 three albums had been released and The Radiators had been awarded Gold Records for “Scream of the Real” and “Up For Grabs”. A little further down the track their Albums “Feel the Heat” and “You Have the Right to Remain Silent” scored double Platinum.
The Radiators was now an incorporated Company.
When 1990 rolled around Mick Buckley moved on, had overseas success and keyboardist Brendan departed. Drummer extraordinaire Mark Lucas signed up and it was decided thereafter to forego keyboards.
That was the line-up of the mighty Radiators in 1990 and so it remains to this day!
The Cover Ups-Live Duo was first formed in 2004 with collaboration between David Taylor and Hayley summers.
They met while both working on P&O cruises overseas and through their love of music came to together to create what is now the Cover ups.
Their aim in the beginning was to only perform acoustic covers.
Over time they realised that playing with backing music gave them not only a much bigger sound, but more freedom to perform a wider range of songs that would appeal to different audiences. Making their own backing tracks and using a blend of high quality midi sounds and live instruments gives the cover ups a sound that could lead you to believe they were a 4 piece band.
They play a variety of cover songs ranging from top 40 music from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and today. With Hayley on vocals and Dave on Guitar, bass and occasionally bringing out a ukulele, the quality duo are sure to entertain.
Hard work pays off in the music industry, and Sydney-based, international touring band All Mankind are living proof.
Over the last three years, All Mankind (previously known as The Richard Beeston Band) have performed over 500 shows to more than 100,000 people, across Australia, the US & UK, and have sold over 5000 albums.
The bands positive approach to their writing & their performance has seen them become finalists for songwriting & performance awards including MusicOz in Australia, and the Indie Alliance Awards in the US.
For their new album Puzzles, the band asked legendary producer & ARIA award winner David Nicholas (Elton John, Sting) and Peter Mayes from dance/electronica sensations PNAU to help them create something special.
The result is an album an album that sounds classic and cutting edge all at once. Bold, powerful pop/rock with a unique sonic depth.
