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[Brickwizard]

As you are aware, I am eclectic when it comes to music, but tonal quality in a singer comes first in my books followed by looks
some of my favourite FM singers are, Mary, Doris Day, Judith Durham, and Maria Callas I also like Katherine Bush [we use to live 2 villages away from her family] purely for her range [er style is not for me]

 

[Brickwizard]

 

[PuppyHome]

Excellent topic and jukebox right here!

 

[Condobloke]

I have to say, Judith Durhams voice sends a shiver up my spine. Pure class.

 

[wizardfromoz]

I'm kind of amazed that you remember all of these.

I cheated, but remind me when I get to David Bowie, Elton John and Billy Joel, and tell you how it's done, and also what I learned.

 

[KGIII]

I cheated

I did save some concert stubs but I didn't start off doing that and that never turned into a habit.

That'd probably have helped me remember 'em all.

I'll wait to read about those concerts as I've had the pleasure of seeing all three of those artists.

 

[wizardfromoz]

Our Australian Idol Top 12 released a single, a cover of The Doobie Brothers classic "Listen To The Music" - I particularly like Hannah's soaring voice at the end.

 

[wizardfromoz]

Be warned ... this one goes for nearly 30 minutes, so view it on your downtime.

I don't usually post such lengthy items, but this one is the top 5 interviews to get onto this year's Australian Idol.

Hope you enjoy it as I did watching it.

 

[Brickwizard]

Found this today, a bit heavy for me these days,

 

[wizardfromoz]

One of the three judges in our Australian Idol show is Marcia Hines.

Marcia was from USA (via parents born in Jamaica), and came out here at the age of 16 to appear in the Australian production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical "Hair". I saw her in that, in Melbourne.

She has been here ever since, although she only became an Australian citizen in 1994, after 25 years in her adopted country.

Here she is now (turns 72 in July) with a song from a performance on Idol.

 

[wizardfromoz]

I'd like to introduce to the rest of the world, a young lady with huge potential. Her name is Gisella Colletti and she comes from Perth In Western Australia.

Below are her "audition" for Australian Idol, conducted by Marcia Hines in Perth, and also a song from the musical Wicked, "Defying Gravity".

So far, Gisella has made it to the Top 30 (courtesy of Marcia), the Top 21, and the Top 12, through the judges. Since the live appearances and voting started, she has progressed to the Top 10, and I do hope she goes as far as possible.

Of course, from a parent's and grandparent's perspective, I do hope she finishes her schooling, but we'll see, lol.

 

[Condobloke]

Kyle has a point. He doesnt need to see a 16 year old performing a 40 year olds song.

That 'dates' her.....

Her song choice will make or break her.

She has ability & talent by the shovelful.

 

[wizardfromoz]

Kyle has a point.

Kyle usually does, lol.

Love him or hate him, he is totally immersed in the business, and if you have talent, but don't make it to the finals because of voter fickleness, and don't keep in touch with him, you have rocks in your head, because he can get you jobs that will promote your skills.

 

[wizardfromoz]

My 15th concert remains one of my faves, and that was David Bowie.

I will explain here a couple of references made earlier in this thread, the first was where David G, commented

I'm kind of amazed that you remember all of these. I've been to a ton of concerts and can't remember the order in the slightest. I'm not sure that I remember them all.

... and my response was

I cheated, but remind me when I get to David Bowie, Elton John and Billy Joel, and tell you how it's done, and also what I learned.

When I embarked on this journey of cataloguing the concerts/artists I have seen, I knew I would not likely recall all of them, let alone the dates and venues. I did a little Googling and found a great site for Aussies

https://www.austourdbase.com/

From there, I have been able to cobble together most of my list.

On the bit

, and also what I learned.

it seems I have held a false memory, on Bowie, for over 40 years (blush).

I would have told it it was his "Serious Moonlight Tour" I saw.

It wasn't, it was his "ISolar II" tour, more commonly known as The Low / Heroes World Tour or The Stage Tour.

ISolar II tour was 21st November 1978 at Lang Park, Milton, Brisbane, Queensland.

Serious Moonlight tour was almost exactly 5 years (stuck on my eyes) later, on 16th November 1983.

I then searched for and found the setlist (playlist) for each concert and compared them, and recognised that I had seen only the earlier concert.

I also found a wonderful article from the Queensland State Library Archives, detailing the controversy over the Bowie concerts, under the then (draconian) Qld State Governement of Joe Bjelke-Petersen.

https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/david-bowie-russ-hinze-and-intolerable-brisbane-concert

Anyway, my secret is outed, I don't have an eidetic memory.

Here's a couple of Bowie numbers from the concert I really saw.

Our concert started, in darkness, with

and a couple of my faves, "Five Years" and "Suffragette City"

 

[KGIII]

https://www.austourdbase.com/

That works! I did keep a number of concert tickets but I did not keep all of them. I do have some that are more special than others, things like band passes, back stage passes, VIP passes, and that sort of stuff. Even then, I didn't keep all of those.

I found this, based on your link's name:

https://www.concertarchives.org/

If you don't get what you need from the site you linked, I made a link to some search results:

https://www.concertarchives.org/locations?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=australia

It's a lot to wade through, but the search function works well enough. It does lack search refinement features and I was able to find one concert that was not in the archives. Finding one not in the archives didn't take long. It was the 2nd one I looked up because I know the location, year, and band. The rest of what I looked up was archived. I just found one that was not.

 

[wizardfromoz]

Ta, David, glad you found that.

I still keep performing palm to forehead, thinking all these years that I had seen the Serious Moonlight Tour, when I hadn't.

Glad I found out before I draw my last breath, lol.

 

[KGIII]

Serious Moonlight Tour

Well, now you have (if you want):

It's even in Sydney.

The video can't be embedded.

 

[f33dm3bits]

 

[osprey]

Some of my most memorable concerts:

 

[wizardfromoz]

@osprey , wow, they look like they would have been great to see.

The late, great, Alan Rochester had two (2) threads here, one for jazz and one for classical.

Jazz

Anyone like classical music?

You should post some there.

Chris

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