Give it a girl
Give it A Girl - Margaret Urlich, Annie Crummer, Debbie Harwood, Sharon Oneil, keyboardist from Dragon (sorry, name eludes) and a bunch of other real solid musos were in the lineup I saw on Saturday Night
They played the Auckland HOG Rally party and it's a long time since I've enjoyed a gig as much. You want to get in touch with some popular Kiwi Music roots? - no not that sort of roots, biker scum - history roots, then wrap your aural orifices around the work of these songstresses.
I admit that Margaret has always pushed my buttons. Ever since those post Sherbet days with our Daryl Braithwaite.
if she hasn't got better with age, she's stayed as good as she ever was. And as hot.
The others I've enjoyed as well. Annie Crummer's soul outro on 'For Today' is kinda my 'sound of NZ' - that, and Evermore, and Opshop, and the Feelers, and Jordan Luck, and Graham Brazier, and Don.......errr..... Anyway if I ever get a bit melancholy for the shaky isles that one bucks me right up.
Debbie Harwood I knew from watching Barnsey gigs and Sharon Oneil's film clip about the King's Cross Hooker is a not too far removed 'romantic' version of the Cross I used to frequent on an XS1100. I say romantic because nobody vomits or trips over a pick.
The set was long and energetic. Occasionally the shtick got a bit too lovey-dovey, but that's what theses girls do I guess.
The song selection was everything you would expect, all of their popular hits, and some covers that I enjoyed as much as the originals.
I stood 10 feet away from Steve Gilpin at lots of gigs. Mi Sex played the Caringbah Inn, South of Sydney - on a roster.
I lived local and saved a table. Never burdened with the knowledge of his 'showbiz' career in NZ - I saw a rock band singing about shite I was in to - like Computer Games - and Don Martin's bass riffs spoke to me in pulsing 4/4 time.
When the girls did 'Blue Day' it became obvious they were the only ones who now could - without baggage. And it was joyous.
Same with 'Rain'. I saw Dragon at the Toronto workers club. It was one of their last-ever gigs. Co-pilot made me leave before the brawl started. My fault, but it was that sort of club. It was that sort of gig. Unforgettable.
So was the girl version. With gusto. I've never seen so many people dancing at a bike gig.
The four girls performing these songs seemed so...right, like something that had passed, for me anyway, lived again.
If you get a chance and they are doing the rounds somewhere, I thought Give it a Girl were outstanding.
Head bangers need not apply.
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Originally Posted by Big Dave
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