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The Beat final reminder

October 4th 2006 13:11
The Beat are currently playing in Brisbane and will be in Newcastle tomorrow night and then they will be in Sydney Friday night.

Get your tickets asap. I was speaking to a fair few people today that are coming so it looks like it will be big. We're (The Signals) opening first and are selling CDs of 2 tracks for 2 bucks.

Backy Skank will no doubt please and then there is the headline act all the way from the UK. Lots of dancing and drinking I would say. Cannot wait.



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Comment by Anonymous

October 5th 2006 11:20
The show here at the Zoo in Brisbane was good. Backy Skank did well on their first trip up here and got the audience moving after a 'ska band' from Switzeraland struggled to do so.

The sound at The Zoo for The Beat was great when I briefly checked out the mixing desk/middle of the room position. It was terrible when I was further back in the room on the side, which is a venue thing, not so much related to the mixing skills.

Positives : All the old songs played, except Two Swords Loads of energy from Roger and his son on vocals, great drumming from Mr Morton and the keys from Blockhead, who looks just like he did in 1980!!!) Those were the 3 original members, Saxa evidently has retired, which is a great shame because he MADE The Beat!

No real negatives other than the gig was expensive at $48. If it had been priced at $35 then the audience would have been bigger than the 200 or so.

Hopefully we'll see The Beat again. Throw Saxa a First Class Ticket though!
Anyway, Stand Down Margaret turned into George and Tony, only John wasn't name checked here!

Comment by Glen

October 6th 2006 01:56
Thanks for the little review - shame about numbers but I do think they priced themselves out of that market. Looking forward to tonight, should be close to capacity.

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