Where: Memo Music Hall
✉ 88 Acland StSt Kilda
3182
Australia
Melbourne
What: Redgum @ Memo Music Hall
When:
Sold out performances of “The Redgum Years” across Australia have whipped up a fair bit of demand for a live record. Thus it comes to pass…On Saturday, 23rd and Sunday 24th of August (matinee), John and the Crew load into their favourite Melbourne venue to record two “Redgum Years” concerts for a live album.
Trump fans won’t like it, nor will the right-wing shock jocks, climate change deniers, Murdoch’s playmates etc etc … Too bad. With the working title “Corrugated Highway” to be produced by Shane Nicholson, this album will continue the tradition of “Caught in the Act” – timeless Australian songs, a slick band, great harmonies and John Schumann.
In Redgum and then the Vagabond Crew, John Schumann has earned for himself a reputation as a one of the best frontmen in the country – the dry-humoured artist/intellectual with an acerbic tongue, an unerring popular touch and a campfire voice. Schumann’s capacity to engage an audience was first captured on Redgum’s most successful album, “Caught in the Act” recorded live in 1983 at the Three Weeds in Rozelle, Sydney. “Corrugated Highway” is the next chapter. Write yourself into it at the Memo Music Hall on August 23rd and 24th.
How Much:
www.bandsintown.com InStockSt Kilda
3182
Australia
Who: Redgum
Rock
Redgum was an important Australian folk-rock band from Adelaide. They proved to a sceptical commercial music industry that there was a significant audience for songs sung in an Australian accent, using Australian place names and addressing political and social issues. They carved out a niche in Australian music that was followed artists like Midnight Oil and Paul Kelly. Redgum recorded five albums and their 2 biggest hits, “I was only 19” and “I’ve Been to Bali Too” were written by lead singer John Schumann. “I was only 19” became the Australian Vietnam veterans’ anthem and is one of the top 25 Australian songs of all time.