With the Lions about to front up for their 3^rd Grand Final in a row and hopefully down the Cats, I thought I’d share a special Lions story with you all which should explain why they’re my 2^nd…

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…

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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…

Blog #1 Jimmy Barnes on Khe Sanh

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 5^th Anniversary of Billy’s passing, I was reminded of a couple of ‘Thorpie’ Stories & thought they would make an appropriate 3^rd blog.

Billy was a Rock n Roll hero to me…

& 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…