Following the Grand opening night of Crown Entertainment complex I embarked on the most star studded year of my life. I was Bobby Valentine CPE (Chairman’s preferred entertainment – refer BLOG # 2) and our first gig was opening for…
I can still feel how cold it was that Winter Sunday huddled outside Broadmeadows town hall after a disastrous rehearsal for the '71 Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds. We were nervous and afraid, debating whether to just make a run…
There was a time I was the most hated singer in Melbourne, if not all of Australia. It was June 1997 and I was about to begin 5 nights opening for Stevie Wonder with his band and the Melbourne Symphony…
With the 20th anniversary just passed of the recording of the Revenge of the big band live album I thought it would be fitting that I should relate one of my favourite Big Band stories which wasn't actually the Revenge…
So, after playing at Hugh and Debra Lee’s wedding a few years earlier, I received a phone call from my friend Alyce Platt to perform at Hugh's mother-in-law's 70th birthday. Alyce had put a great band together and they’d asked…
The Youtube clip for my song “Aloha Baby” has just clicked over 2400 views & there’s been a lot of talk about it & the song of late. Plus I get asked a lot about songwriting, so I thought…
With the launch of my shiny new website & in anticipation of a stellar 2012, I decided it was time to indulge myself in the odd Blog. What better way than to kick…
With the recent acknowledgement of the 5th Anniversary of Billy’s passing, I was reminded of a couple of ‘Thorpie’ Stories & thought they would make an appropriate 3rd blog.
& so, flushed with the success of my first foray into Blogdom, I have decided on an account of my first meeting with Jerry Lewis at Crown for my second.
As the notion of Blogging settles into my psyche, ideas…
We’ve been so busy with the business of getting a new album out that, only now have I had a chance to sit down and write about the experience and where it’s…