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| 7 September 2008 |
After 2 fantastic shows at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in June, Don Walker is playing at The Famous Spiegeltent, which is located at the Sydney Opera House on October 30, 2008. Don's performance is part of a festival of intimate shows at the Opera House. Please click here to book tickets.
DON IN WA: Lucky Oceans will conduct a live interview/performance with Don at the Fremantle Arts Centre on the 20th November, 2008.
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June 2008 |
Don has signed with Destra Music, which will release a Don Walker anthology/live 2CD pack with a bonus DVD alongside remastered expanded versions of the two Catfish Albums (Unlimited Address & Ruby) and We're All Gunna Die in 2009. Included with the Anthology will be a Don Walker & The Suave Fucks live album recorded in one concert in November 2006 and a short DVD of documentary footage from the Suave Fucks tours of 2006, including the band on stage at the Vanguard. Also due for release in 2009 is "Shots" Don's first ever book with Black Inc Press.To stay up to date with all of these releases and gigs, join out our brand new forum. Sign up and get involved!.
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April 2008 |
Great News!! Don Walker will be playing at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide June 13 and 14!. We will have a new front page soon - its undergoing a revamp at the minute! Thank you for your patience. In the meantime, please join the new mrdwalker.net forum
| 28 December 2007 |
9 May 2007 |
Cold Chisel’s famous 1982 performance at Rockpalast will soon be available on DVD You can buy it online from JB Hi Fi. I must say that I am not sure if it will be available in May, but I am happy to be proven wrong. for a set List and Press release go to this thread on the mrdwalker.net forum
I have heard that Don may be touring July, as soon as I hear something I'll let you know!
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| 16 November 2006 |
From undercover.com.au - Normie Rowe Records New Don Walker Song
by Paul Cashmere -
Australian rock and roll star Normie Rowe will be the voice of a new Don Walker song titled 'Poor Boy'.
"It is a series of songs Don gave me the demos for," Normie tells Undercover News.
Walker, the legendary songwriter and keyboard player from Cold Chisel, has written for numerous artists over the years including country music star Slim Dusty.
"He is a hell of a writer," says Normie. "He has a handle on Australian urban subjects and their delivery".
Normie will release the song on his next album in 2007.
He is also adding another unreleased Walker song 'Long Black Limousine' into his live set.
| 16 September 2006 |
Here are the last two tour dates for Don and the SF's for 2006!
Ian Rilen benefit concert, Thursday, October 5, 2006 @ the Prince of Wales bandroom, Melbourne, VIC
and
Queenscliff Music Festival, Saturday November 25, 2006, VIC
| 12 July
2006 |
Don's new album Cutting Back is out now You can buy it online from JB Hi Fi.
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LIVE ONLINE BROADCAST - Don is performing live on PBS 106.7 FM between 7 and 8 pm Aussie EST time Thursday 13/7/06 - don't miss it.
There is a fantastic interview with Don over at news.com.au. The interview touches on Don's songwriting, Chisel and the Suave Fucks. It which also contains an audio interview with snippets from Cutting Back. It is absolutley wonderful to see Don get this kind of promotion! | For a list of tour dates and to hear 3 tracks from the album check out this e card from Warner Music. "Cutting Back" featuring Ian Moss, Steve Prestwich and Phil Small is now up on Don’s site in the music section. There is also a live version of Fallen Angel recorded at the The Gov in Adelaide with Dave Blight, Jeff Lang & Angus Diggs on the site. Hearing the album is ony half the experience, seeing Don live is essential! Check out this thread for a recent Gig review and try and get to a show. Good news for punters going to Don's shows - there are several CD's on sale at the gigs- Cutting Back, We're All Gunna Die, Catfish and Red River's CD's. It's a great opportunity to build your Don/Red collection. Lastly a big thank you to Ade for this - here is the film clip for Speed Kills/Port Adelaide ! from the Freedom Soundtrack. The clip features Don and Michael Hutchence with Ian, Phil, Steve and David as the backing band. cheers Jerome 12
June 2006 |
Don has contributed new material to Anne Kirkpatrick's latest album Showman's Daughter A few facts about Cutting Back are starting to surface. The track listing is as follows: 1. GET ALONG 2. I WANT MY KIDS TO LOOK LIKE YOU
3. YAKUZA GIRLS 4. FOUR IN THE MORNING 5. SILOS 6. NO REASON
7. FALLEN ANGEL 8. MY EX-WIFE 9. CUTTING BACK 10. SWEET EYES
11. AT THE PICCOLO BAR 12. BARKLEY HIGHWAY WEST
13. THE WAY YOU ARE TONIGHT The players on the album are guitarists Red Rivers, Jeff Lang and Charlie Owen, bass players Steve Woods & Michael Vidale, Angus Diggs on drums and the mighty David Blight on harmonica! A real bonus for Chisel fans is that Ian Moss, Steve Prestwich and Phil Small perform the title track with Don!
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June 2006 |
The best of the St Kilda Film Festival National Screening Tour is on around the country and the line up includes Karen Borger’s All Is Forgiven film ! The tour features the top 15 films out of the 100 screened the Festival proper. It plays in Session One of the Programme and the Film plays 3rd inthe running order of 8 short films. The film is showing at the following venues: | Canberra - June 11 2006 at 6pm Electric Shadows City Walk, off Akuna Street (02) 6247 5060 Brisbane - June 23 2006 at 7pm Dendy Cinema 346 George Street (07) 3211 3244 Perth - June 25 2006 at 6:30pm Luna Cinema 155 Oxford Street Leederville (08) 9444 4056 Hobart - July 07 2006 at 7:00pm State Cinema 375 Elizabeth Street (03) 6234 6318 Adelaide - July 21 2006 at 7:30pm Mercury Cinema Media Resource Centre 13 Morphett Street Sydney - July 28 2006 at 7:30pm Chauvel Cinema Paddington Town Hall cnr Oxford & Oakley Road (02) 9361 5398 21
May 2006 |
Don Walker's Tour Dates for 2006 are now on the Tour Dates page and the Cutting Back Tour Dates 2006 thread! Don will be touring with his band The S.F.'s. The S.F.'s are Red Rivers – guitar. Red is revered for his guitar playing, songwriting and singing in blues and country circles in Australia, and as far away as Texas and Europe, where he tours regularly. Roy Payne – baritone guitar. Roy has added his rockabilly edge to The Whiteliners and The Dust Radio Band among others, and is writing for and recording with his own band, Fat Dusty.
Michael Vidale – bass. Studio producer Michael Vidale (Slim Dusty, The Whitlams, Anne Kirkpatric, The Toe-sucking Cowgirls) has also played bass with Slim, Jimmy And The Boys, The Feral Swing Cats, Reg Lindsay and Peter Wells.
Steve Hopes – drums. Steve has been the drumming backbone behind many musical enterprises, from Crossfire to Randy Brecker to Kamahl.This promises to be a fantastic album and tour, hope to see you at the shows. | 20
April 2006 |
The long awaited Don Walker album, "Cutting Back" will be released on the 8th July 2006! The album will be released via Warner Music. I don't have a link to pre order it yet, but as soon as I have it you'll know about. I do know this is going to be a ripper album full of classic Walker tunes! If you've been visiting Don's official site you would have heard a fair amount of material from Cutting Back. If you havent been to the official site, keep checking in every Tuesday/Wednesday. A new story from Don and a variety of old, new and rare songs turn up on the play list each week. I dont know exactly which songs have made the final cut but based on the gear on his site, it sounds like the album will be a great mix of rock, blues and country Don Walker style. Don will be touring in July and August to promote the album, more on that later! If you havent been to a Don gig or brought a DW album, now is a great time to jump on board and get involved. Keep checking the Cutting Back thread for updates and get involved on the forum. Can't wait for the album and tour! Jerome
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February 2006 |
Great news for Canadian and US fans - The Tex, Don and Charlie short film directed by Karen Borger is being shown in Canada! The All Is Forgiven film is being shown as part of the Australian Film Weekend, February 10 to 12, 2006 at Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St. West (Museum Subway Stn), Toronto Ontario CANADA. The film is being shown after The Proposition, (written by Nick Cave) on Saturday February 11. Universal Music informs me that free samplers of the All Is Forgiven album will be available at the shows. So if you haven’t brought the album and you’re keen to see the film, get out there if you can! In addition you’ll get to see some great Aussie films (with the exception of Josh Jarman). Here is the full program
Tex, Don and Charlie have also been nominated for a Telstra Bigpond AMP awards. As the Telstra website states “AMP stands for Australian Music Prize, a peer-voted award for the best local album of the year. Music journalists, retailers and musicians judged these eight albums as the very best of 2005. Never mind how many units they shifted. Forget who had the best PR campaign. The AMP 2005 rewards quality, not sales or airplay.
The winner will be announced at The AMP 2005 Winner's Event, to be held in Sydney on Wednesday 8th March, and will receive a cheque for $25,000.” Let’s hope TDC takes home the $25 large! You can visit the AMP site and email them with your reason why TDC should win. If you’re looking at hiring a DVD before the footy season starts, check out Little Fish. There is a nice behind the scenes short film about Flame Trees with great comments from Cate Blanchett with the Sacred Heart School Cabramatta hard at work. A big thank you to Michele! Cheers Jerome
| 3 February 2006 |
Tex, Don and Charlie are on the road with The Darling Downs in 2006!
Friday February 24th, @ Newtown, Sydney, Saturday, February 25th, @ Newtown, Sydney, Friday 3rd March, The Prince of Wales St Kilda, Melbourne Keep checking this thread in the forum for more details and feel free to post gig reviews Follow this link to view the TDC movie at the Universal site
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October 2005 |
The band members from the All Is Forgiven album joining Tex, Don and Charlie on their 2005 tour are Shane Walsh on double bass and Garrett Costigan on pedal steel. Drummer Jim Walsh has touring commitments with his band
The Dirty Three , so the legendary Mick Harvey (from the Birthday Party, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds) will be playing drums for TDC. Mick will also be one of the TDC support acts on the upcoming tour. The other act is The Darling Downs, which comprises Ron Peno (from Died Pretty) on vocals and Kim Salmon (Scientists, Beasts of Bourbon, Surrealists) on guitar. Kim also played Jews Harp on the Sad But True album. For the full list of when Mick Harvey and The Darling Downs will be supporting TDC check out the updated gig list All Is Forgiven 2005 Tour . Both support acts have new albums out – Mick has covered songs by Don (Louise) and Kim (Come On Spring) on his new album
One Man’s Treasure , so hopefully there will be some jams between the three acts when they get together. The Darling Downs new album is How Can I Forget This Heart Of Mine?
And you can read about both acts
Here
I urge you to pick up these albums ASAP or at the gigs, they are fantastic pieces of work. I rate them very highly and I have been playing both of them and All is Forgiven regularly over the past month. For those of you who get to see all three acts you are for a great night of bittersweet blues/country drinking music the likes of which you won’t forget! Bring on Nov 20! cheers Jerome PS Don’t forget – the Last Stand is out on DVD and CD in the next few days!
Chisel’s Last Stand
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April 2005 |
Jesse McLallen has done a great job in building the Official Don Walker site http://donwalker.com.au/ . Make sure you book mark this one.
The functions of this new site are complimentary to mrdwalker.net. There are no news, history, photos, lyrics, forum features etc. It has four songs in MP3 form for streaming and a piece of writing. The four songs and written content will be changed at least once a week from now on. Keep checking in on the site, there will be something new to read and listen to on a regular basis. Some of the gear will be from Don's private collection, such as the live version of Harry, recorded with Jeff Lang at the Basement in Sydney some years ago, that's up there now. This is a great time to be supporting Don, so keep it up people and check out http://donwalker.com.au/
Don Walker’s Official Site .
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September 2005 |
Tex, Don and Charlie will be playing LIVE ON RRR Radio in Melbourne 5/10/05, follow this link for details .
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September 2005 |
Inside Film reports that Universal Music and Getty Images have gotten together to create a 7- 10 minute film for the new Tex, Don and Charlie album. Read this interview with Don for more info You can comment on this and other TDC stories in the TDC media thread Cold Chisel’s Last Stand will be available on DVD in October
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September 2005 |
All Is Forgiven will be launched at The Vanguard Hotel, Newton, NSW On Monday 26/9/05 The Vanguard Follow the link to the mrdwalker forum for a list of Tex, Don and Charlie gigs in September and October. TDC upcoming gigs Mick Harvey of the Bad Seeds has covered Louise on his latest album Another Man’s Treasure On the song front, there's a song of Don’s called Damaged People on the new Jeff Lang album - You Gotta Dig Deep To Bury Daddy . There are four songs co-written by Don with Troy Casser-Daley on his new album, Brighter Day
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September 2005 |
Follow the link to the mrdwalker forum for Ade’s reviews of Tex, Don and Charlie’s shows in London on September 5 & 6 . Ade’s TDC in London reviews
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August 2005 |
At the Rock for the Roses concert in October 2004, I heard that the Chisel classic Flame Trees would be re recorded for a new Australian movie called Little Fish. Little Fish is due for release on September 8, the move soundtrack is due for release on September 5. Flame Trees has been recorded by Sarah Blasko. You can order the soundtrack from Sanity
Little Fish is screening at Palace Cinemas check their website for details
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August 2005 |
Tex, Don and Charlie Live Gig Updates – 5/9/05 – The Troubadour, London, 9/10/05 – Pete Wells Melbourne Benefit Concert, @ The Palace, St Kilda and possibly Ruby’s Lounge 3/10/05 Check out the mrdwalker forum for details. Cheers Jerome
| 16 August 2005 |
It's official! Tex, Don and Charlie are playing in London on September 6 at the Carling Academy, Islington Tickets are on sale now from Aloud.com.
For Aussie and Euro fans who have been hanging for one of the Chisels to play in Europe, get your mates get together and head for the gig! Get behind Tex, Don and Charlie and their new album All Is Forgiven, you'll be glad you did. cheers Jerome
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August 2005 |
Tex Perkins has been interviewed in Melbourne’s Age newspaper to promote the Beasts of Bourbon’s upcoming shows and live album "Low Life". This is what Tex had to say about All Is Forgiven:
“Perkins and Owens will then head to London to hook up with Don Walker for some Tex, Don and Charlie shows in the lead-up to the release of their new album, All Is Forgiven, for which Melbourne should see shows in October "And Jo, it's a f---in' cracker!" says Perkins.
"Very proud of it. I'm very proud of both releases. Easily the best work I've done for a while. I don't usually talk my crap up, maybe I'm delusional, but I think it's on the cards."
Fantastic news for Don/Chisel fans who are hanging to see one of the Chisels. Bring on Europe! Cheers Jerome
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July 2005 |
As previously mentioned, Don Walker has been interviewed for Songwriters Speak, the first book dedicated to the great songwriters of Australia and New Zealand from the last fifty years,
written by Debbie Kruger.
Debbie informs me that Don's interview covers his songwriting across his career - Chisel,
Catfish, Tex Don & Charlie and the writing he has done in country
music for and with the likes of Slim Dusty, Adam Brand, Jimmy Little
and Troy Cassar-Daley.
As Don very rarely gives interviews, this is a must for DW fans.
The interview runs over 21 pages in the book (well over 10,000 words).
It's a special one and among Debbie’s favourites in the book.
There is also a Songwriters Speak CD which features Cold Chisel’s “Saturday Night”, you can purchase the CD and copies of Songwriters Speak from the Songwriters Speak website. Debbie will be signing each copy ordered from the site.
Don’t forget to check out the mrdwalker.net forum! The track list for All is Forgiven and a brief interview with Paul Kelly has just been added to the board. Cheers Jerome
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July 2005 |
Tex, Don and Charlie's new album is called All Is Forgiven and wil be out on August 21. Sanity are already accepting pre orders for the new album so pre order your copy now!! All Is Forgiven from Sanity. The band will be touring September/October 2005.
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June 2005 |
Tex, Don and Charlie will be playing atthe Narooma Blues Festival. The festival is on the Labour Day long weekend, September 30th, and October 1st and 2nd, 2005.
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June 2005 |
The new Tex, Don and Charlie CD will be mastered this week and could be out by September. No tour dates have been confirmed as yet, but they will be on the road. Cold Chisel's Last Stand DVD is just about finished. Don has also been interviewed by Debbie Kruger for her book Songwriters Speak. The book contains interviews with 43 Aussie songwriters including Nick Cave, Paul Kelly, Neil Finn and Rolf Harris. There is also a Songwriters Speak 2 CD compliation album coming out featuring music by Cold Chisel (Saturday Night), Crowded House and other writers interviewed for the book. Follow the links to buy the book and CD. Songwriters Speak book from Angus & Robertson Songwriters Speak CD from Sanity
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June 2005 |
Tex Perkins is playing in Adelaide this Saturday and has been interviewed by Robert Dunstan in Rip It Up Magazine. This is what Tex had to say about the upcoming Tex, Don and Charlie album:
Tex had been up at Byron Bay performing with Tex Don & Charlie, who are in the process of recording a new album.
“We’ve already done it and we’ll mix it as soon as I’ve got back from Adelaide,” Tex explained.
“I’d read on the world wide web that it might be a double album.
“No, that’s just wishful thinking” Tex said. “So don’t believe everything you read on the internet. We recorded 18 songs but knew we were always going to whittle them down to about 14 for an album. I don’t think there’s any real need for us to do a double album. It’s all originals because there’s no shortage of songwriters. Don [Walker] had a whole backlog of stuff that we went through. And, over the last couple of years, I’ve been going round to everybody and anybody I know asking them for songs. I’ve been asking if they’ve got any classics under their bed. But the only thing that turned up was a song by Paul Kelly.”
Is it one that Paul has also recorded?
“Not as far as I know,” Tex said. “I actually asked Peter Luscombe [Kelly’s drummer] and he knew of the song but didn’t think Paul had ever recorded it.”
It seems a long time since there was any new Tex, Don & Charlie offerings.
“It’s been 11 years since Sad But True,” Tex stated. “It’s actually 12 because it was late in ’93 it came out.”
Tex reckons that his next ‘solo’ album will go under the banner of Dark Horses.
“I don’t think it’ll be Tex Perkins & The Dark Horses anymore,” he said. “It’ll just be a Dark Horses album because my solo stuff is now getting taken care of by Tex, Don & Charlie. Even the last album, Sweet Nothings, was really supposed to be a Dark Horses record.”
You can read the whole interview on the forum - Tex in Adelaide
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April 2005 |
March has been a very busy time for the Tex, Don and Charlie Trio. Plenty of work is going into the project which included eighteen songs being recorded between the 14th and 19th of March. The band then put in two days rehearsal for their performance at the Byron Bay Blues Festival.
The tracks are being recorded at Phil Punch’s studio in Sydney. Phil has been involved with Tex in the Beasts of Bourbon and on Don’s last album We’re All Gunna Die. Jim White from The Dirty Three is playing drums on the new album.
At the moment, the Tex, Don and Charlie album is not connected to any label – nor is the Don Walker solo album. The word is that Don will be working on the solo album after Easter. Expect to see some gigs around Sydney soon (hooray!) in the next few months as the DW band work in a new set.
| As well as touring with Ian Moss and assisting Cold Chisel and Don Walker, David Blight has his own band ready to go out on the road soon.
They’re called The Flyers, they are based in Adelaide and are mastering their CD at the moment. The other band members are David Small (Phil’s brother) and Rob Reilly (Rose Tattoo).
The Flyers are a blues based band that sounds nothing like Chisel or the Tatts. David is also planning to set up a website for The Flyers.
I know there are plenty of Blighty fans out there, so please get behind the Flyers CD when it comes out and get along to their shows.
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