Fitzroy Hotel
161 George Street, Windsor
Phone: 02 4577 3396
Email: info@fitzroyhotel.com.au
PAST EVENT
April 9th, 2010 -
Tyla Guy
With a dynamic and fresh talent for dance and a voice that parallels that of Norah Jones and Missy Higgins, Tyla Guy is soon to become a household name. From the age of two Tyla has dazzled audiences with her unique and commanding style of dance combined with a stage presence that demands attention. Trained in Jazz, Tap, Ballet and Hip Hop, Tyla has performed in concerts and Eisteddfods state wide since she could walk and has performed on television for the NBN Telethon broadcasted nationwide in 2003 and again on Australian Idol backing the lovely Delta Goodrem in 2007.
It was due to her love of dance and the arts that Tyla experimented with music and vocals where she discovered her exquisite voice and ability on the guitar and piano. Self taught guitar and piano skills have since aided Tyla in the recording of several singles that have showcased her rich and powerful vocals as well as her talent for song-writing.
Tyla is a passionate and determined performer that has set her sights high and in a trip to the US in June this year, to record with a string of producers, to broaden her horizons and expand that love of music! Right now Tyla is writing and recording her debut album with the same producer that has taken on acts such as Kate Miller Heidke and Gabriella Cilmi. With the album to hit stores later this year.
Pawno is back at the Fitz on the first 1st of April with the best Djs sydney have to offer Joel Granger,Danny Deckchair,Ryno,Stumpy,Almon come on down and party the nigth away with the best tunes pumping across the dance floor.
Formed in early 2008, A SECOND TO SURFACE, a three piece alternative/rock band from Lithgow N.S.W, have defined an unmistakable dynamic sound. They have already played with bands such as Karnivool Little Birdy & many more. Described as explosive melodic & powerful these boys with influences spaning the genres are definately making a lasting impression.
Finalist in Emergenza National competition
Winner of Katoombas Blu FM competition 2009
Performed with Karnivool and Little Birdy 2008
Formed in Sydney, Australia in 2004, TownHallSteps brought together five young musicians hungry for success. With a love of bands like U2, Jimmy Eat World and Foo Fighters, the boys began writing and developing music, which would eventually become the definitive sound of TownHallSteps.
The band burst onto the music scene and quickly found a following supporting local acts like Gyroscope, 28 Days & One Dollar Short. Within a year, and momentum growing, 2005 found TownHallSteps touring nationally with international acts Avril Lavigne, as well as supporting Simple Plan, All American Rejects and Sommerset in their hometown of Sydney. 2005 also saw TownHallSteps in Hong Kong to perform in a showcase alongside some of the best young acts in the world, after winning the Australian national heat of the World Battle of the Bands.
THS has released three EPs to date, after working alongside the likes of Rick Will (Foo Fighters, No Doubt incubus) and Lachlan Mitchell & Phil McKellar (Silverchair, Grinspoon, KissChasy). The break downs EP debuted at No. 17 on the AIR charts, reaching No. 10 and continuing to grow in popularity. Their film clip for the single Breakdowns (taken from the EP), was one of the Top 50 Most Requested film clips on Channel V for months and landed itself a spot in the Top 200 for 2006.
Mal Eastick is widely considered to be Australia’s finest musical protagonist of the blues. Playing guitar since his mid-teens, Mal has achieved a standard of playing that is, at once, both envied and admired. He has played with Robert Cray, Los Lobos, Buddy Guy, George Thorogood & The Destroyers, Tommy Emmanuel, Jimmy Barnes, Joe Walsh and Kevin Borich, just to name a few. Mal’s early career was epitomized by his time with legendary band, The Stars, and his work on the Andy Durant Memorial concert and album. In the 1980s Mal played in the Jimmy Barnes Band and also formed his own touring outfit. Two albums, Southern Line and Spirit have followed. Both critically acclaimed, they are available through Mal’s own label, Bluefish Records. In 1993, after experiencing two seizures, Mal was diagnosed with an abnormal tangle of arteries and veins (known as an “AVM”) in the left temporal lobe of his brain, but it was not until 2001 that surgery became possible. After several major neurosurgeries, as well as six carpal tunnel surgeries, major rehabilitation and almost 4 years away from the stage, Mal returned to playing live.
Mal & his Band were one of the Headline acts from last years Sydney Blues Festival held in Windsor and is headlining The Broadbeach Blues Festival on the Gold Coast while on a NSW North Coast Tour and Queensland in late May
Mal has now crafted a dynamic new show which draws on some of the highlights of his 30 year career as one of Australia’s leading guitar players. He is making up for the lost years with a vengeance. Mal Eastick sure knows the blues, but his musical ascendancy and versatility make his live shows, as they ever were, the stuff of legend.
Bex has also been described as what might be the result of teaming Bonnie Raitt and Led Zep and letting them jam in an everglades moonshine joint
THERE IS NO ONE LIKE HER BLUES MATTERS.
A Devonshire lass now residing in London, the product of two completely different familys one blue blooded landed gentry, the other Irish Romanys she had a great live musical background growing up, at every family gathering her uncles would play for the family, she was given a 1963 Gibson Hummingbird when she was 11, classical guitar playing was her first passion, she got hooked on instrumentals and standards which stretched her fingers and gave her a great basis for her own musical creations to develop, flamenco, ragtime, country chicken pickin, rock and on to blues, roots and slide dobro which she plays on an Ozark 3515E Electro Acoustic Biscuit resonator, wood body with a lipstick pickup and a cutaway through a Fender Frontman 25R with reverb.
SYDNEYS MOST ADDICTIVE COVER BAND - Smoke are a six piece party band and have been performing for over a decade. Consisting of both female & male vocals, Smoke perform a wide variety of popular booty shakin cover songs from the 70s 80s and 90s to current chart music which are sure to get the party started and keep the dancefloor full all night long!
Pink to Pink Floyd, ACDC to ABBA, Bon Jovi to Bryan Adams, Bob Marley to Blondie.
Seattle Sound are a NSW Covers Band who formed in 1996 after realising that they could deliver the music influenced by the grunge explosion of the 90s coming out of Seattle.Unlike the many other Cover Bands that were around at the same time, Seattle Sound are the only surviving show from that period. They have proven themselves by their repeatedly breaking Attendance and Bartaking records, which they STILL, 7 years on, continue to do at venues like Castle Hill Tavern, G.Ws - Penrith, not forgetting the smashing of their OWN record at The Collector Tavern- Parramatta and The Fitzroy Hotel at Windsor
