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Each Sunday morning he’d are available and I would give him a Vincent’s Powder and a glass of water to clean it down…marveling he might devour the pink powder…the foulest elixir recognized to man…the painkiller for housewives and rock stars…a muso looking for path to the latter…each then youths…in the end attaining the head of rock stardom he did.
Left his coronary heart and sweat on stage the earlier night…wanted ‘a mom’s little helper’ to reenergise his soul…so at his request I helped him alongside.
His identify is Iva Davies…then of the band ‘Flowers’…higher often known as the lead and inspiration of ‘Icehouse’…one among our favorite bands.
Their music “Nice Southern Land” featured each Australia Day for many years now.
Journey on.
Bounce to 2022…Covid had killed the stay music scene for the final two years…our bums on seats to assist musos survive seemingly distant repast.
Am I shedding my mojo as no bands enjoying to bop alongside?
Then we noticed a publish that Icehouse had been enjoying at Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour on 19 February 2022…beforehand a Naval Restore yard however now public house…fast get tickets…gotta be a part of the throng.
Having endured East Coast
bushfires adopted by floods then Covid for 2 years and once more floods…the climate forecast for the gig…anticipate a drenching no less than.
So we set off early morn with deck chairs and ponchos anticipating the worst.
However when music is our drugs and therapeutic we’d like…a little bit of rain to sprinkle the get together is unlikely to make us bleed.
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The day arrives…ominous gray clouds frowning above.
Drive to our pre-booked parking spot…quick stroll to Kings Road wharf into the road of punters…and as we do speaking to the couple subsequent to us…David and Helen from the Central Coast .
Good transfer…a lot in widespread…generally 4 folks extra enjoyable than two…stayed collectively during the seven bands on present.
Ferried onto big Captain Cook dinner Cruisers…assembly Tim and Donna whose music tales and portraits made my day…the sounds of bands warming up…greeting our arrival at Cockatoo Island docks.
This was an open air live performance…all armed with picnic chairs…picked our personal spot on a big stretch of grass bordering the lapping waters of the harbour…about 50m from the stage…all spaced for Covid as greatest one can.
At 1:00 pm over 8 hours of
stay music started…and blow me over with a feather…the clouds lingered and frowned into the night time…however solely dropped a number of tears.
Two brothers encouragement for his or her first gig then True Vibe Nation…a hip hop band headed by two guys from Zimbabwe kick off with vitality.
Christine Anu with our good friend Tim Sampson on bass. Christine is of Torres Island heritage and one among our most profitable indigenous singers, music writers and actors…chic efficiency.
Busby Marou…a male guitar & vocal duo who’re widespread with the youthful.
Kasey Chambers…the nation singing nice whose pleasant banter and songs ‘The Captain’, ‘Pony’ and ‘Rattlin’ Bones’ by no means fail to exhalt.
Then James Reyne from his solo music ‘Fall of Rome’ and earlier Australian Crawl fame…youthful cohorts exclaiming “By no means heard of this man however his songs are nice!”
Very good into for the Headline act as darkness descends and expectation and pleasure for what’s to come back…Iva Davies & Icehouse…can hardly wait.
A blue mild on stage…a lone determine…this title ‘Icehouse’ music…others becoming a member of…ethereal with lashings of all our favourites together with ‘Partitions, ‘Sister’, Cannot Assist Myself’, ‘Hey Little Lady’, ‘No Guarantees’, ‘Love in Movement’ and naturally ‘Nice Southern Land’…the
crowd enthusiastically singing alongside.
“It is at all times chilly contained in the icehouse
Although the rivers by no means freeze
There is a lady outdoors the icehouse
I can see her clearly although the timber
And now she’s dreaming of a brand new love
And he or she hopes he’ll be there quickly
However she’s obtained so lengthy to attend for him
As a result of he wants one other 12 months to get there
There isn’t any love contained in the icehouse
The satan lives contained in the icehouse
Not less than that is what the outdated ones say
He got here alongside time in the past
He got here right here within the winter snow
Now it is colder day-after-day
However she’s nonetheless dreaming by way of the summer time
And he or she’s hoping by way of the spring
She says she’s obtained no time for winter nights
She would not discover as the times develop darker
She will be able to’t keep in mind getting any older
There isn’t any love contained in the icehouse
Ohhhhhhhh….”
(guitar solo)
“And now she’s dreaming of a brand new love
And he or she hopes he’ll be there quickly
She says she’s obtained no time for winter nights
She would not discover
as the times develop darker
She will be able to’t keep in mind getting any older
There isn’t any love contained in the icehouse
There isn’t any love contained in the icehouse
The icehouse…”
We linger because the crowds disperse to ready ferries…why stand in queues after we can breath and dance within the salty night time air?
Recollections of music driving the currents or hovering within the air…catch the final ferry again…smiling the heat of contentment
Oh man…that is nice…LIVE MUSIC IS BACK!!!!
Chill out & get pleasure from,
Dancing Dave
Take a look at Icehouse’s “Masterpiece” CD. (Mine a 1992 urgent (however whose counting!)
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