Show 130
It's alive!
Begging Bowl - Geoff Achison recorded a solo gig in 2011 and released it as the album Live At the Burrinja Cafe, which is in the small Victorian town of Upwey.
Along About Midnight - Andy Baylor and his band, variously called the Cajun Combo and Andy Baylor's Rainbow Band, from the album One Night In Fitzroy, recorded in a pub, the Rainbow Hotel, on October 10, 1999.
Broke Down Engine - Backsliders, from a show they recorded in 1996. The album was titled Live At the Royal because the show was in the Theatre Royal in Ballarat, a good-sized city in central Victoria. It was the first permanent theater built in inland Australia, opening in 1858.
Heartbreak Hotel - Still in Ballarat, Tommy Emmanuel in 2006 in concert at Her Majesty's Theatre in Ballarat. Elvis did the song in 1956.
Face In the Mirror - Chris Wilson, Live At The Continental, recorded on May 20, 1994 in the sadly now defunct Melbourne nightclub. This version from an expanded 2021 reissue. With Shane O'Mara on guitar and Jex Saarelaht on piano and organ.
I Drink - Bill Chambers, from a 2011 show in Tamworth, New South Wales, the capital of Australian country music, the album titled Live At The Pub Tamworth
It's A Man's Man's World - Renee Geyer doing the Jame Brown song, from a concert on November 14, 1998 in the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the biggest stadium in the southern hemisphere (it'll hold 100K people) and released as an album, video and DVD titled Mushroom 25. The nine-hour concert included 56 acts, performing to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Mushroom Records, organised by the label's founder Michael Gudinski.
Never Let Me Go - Vika and Linda, the Bull sisters, from an album they released titled simply Live 2011. The sisters are best known as backing singers for Joe Camilleri's band the Black Sorrows, and Paul Kelly.
Destination - the Church, in concert in 2011 in Sydney, it's the opening track from their album Starfish, which they played in its entirety for this show.
Concert of the decade?
Paul Kelly and Neil Finn joined up for a tour that peaked at the Sydney Opera House on March 10, 2013. In November it was released as an album and DVD titled Goin' Your Way.
Dumb Things - a Paul Kelly song originally from the 1987 album Under the Sun by Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls.
Before Too Long - first recorded by Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls for their 1986 album Gossip.
Distant Sun - the Neil Finn song, first done by Neil and his band Crowded House in 1993 for their album Alone Together.
Intro thanks to Slim Dusty (G'day g'day, Slim), and Roulette by Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp, Underwater Casino, 2003.
Exit and extra: Pacific Heights - Baby Langston from their acclaimed 1998 album.
