John Kennedy with Murray Cook and John Willsteed, Cave in Brisbane 11-01-25

 A fabulous evening entertainment last night at the Cave Inn seeing the return to Brisvegas of John Kennedy out of retirement, joined by Murray Cook and John Willsteed along with the Trams in support. The Trams were wonderful, that Brisbane sound low fi and unpretentious, but melodic and engaging. John took us through a respective walk down the 40 something years he has been doing this music business. Songs I rushed out and brought as a teenager through to the songs of parenthood to the songs of older age. Songs of Brisbane, well leaving Brisbane mostly, to songs of his beloved home turf in Sydney. Murray Cook, long term comrade in arms and ex wiggle joined for the entire set and John Willsteed who amongst to many things to mention, was right there in the beginning, playing bass of John Kennedys debut single some 40 years ago, also joined in for a couple of songs. Their cover of the legendary Glen Campbell song Wichita Lineman being a highlight of the evening. As for this blog which has been out of action for a few years, I will be posting photos and gigs and stuff of interest starting back this year and maybe a few things from years of past

16 Lovers Lane - Queensland Performing Arts Centre 14-7-17

30 years after the release of their seminal album 3 members of the
Go-betweens line up that created it return to the stage to perform
it in full along with a few other Gobs songs.
Lindy Morrison Amanda Brown and John Willsteed joined on stage
with Dan Kelly, Danny Widdicombe and Luke Daniel Peacock and
a fantastic array of artists taking on the vocal roles
(Steve Kilbey (The Church), Mark Callaghan ( GANGgajang ),
Ron S Peno (Died Pretty), Katie and Tyrone Noonan (george),
Montaigne, Sam Cromack and Jen Boyce (Ball Park Music),
Tim Nelson and Zoe Davis (Cub Sport),
Sahara Beck and Kirin J Callinan.)
And what a night it was, brilliant in the musical department
of course along with amazing vocal performances
It was a moving, emotional heart felt performance
Steve Kilbys anecdotes were very cool, but the greatest joy
was to see the 3 band members receive the appreciation they
deserve.
One of the highlights was Amanda singing the song the devils eye
But there was many great performances
The show paid tribute to the 2 great songwriters Grant and Robert
constantly and shows how very loved this band is in their home town
I regret not taking my camera but being in the 2nd row I
managed to get some shots on my phone