My lovely and VERY talented friends, Juvita and Joel, are supporting one of Australia’s hottest bands – Thirsty Merc – this Sunday. Last week their band, Good Fight, played a fantastic set at the Peninsula Lounge on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. The night was aptly named “Girls Behaving Naturally” and featured three of the Peninsula’s hottest female singers. Kate George started out the night to a rapturous welcome. Her powerful, passionate vocals were greeted with stunned awe. This lady can ROCK! Next up was Meg O’Reilly and her band and, finally, Good Fight came on stage. Johnny Kendall, one phenomenal fiddler, joined them on the night to help recreate the magic he contributed to the bands’ latest single ‘Dublin Rain’. His playing is exquisite to say the least and added some heartbreaking riffs to almost all songs on their set (is it a riff if it’s played on the fiddle? I’ve no idea!). Between songs he threw out a little humorous flourish here and there which kept things moving along nicely.
Sidetracked – the intention of the post was to draw attention to Good Fight’s NEXT gig 
They’re playing at the Hallam Hotel, in Hallam, Victoria. If you’re in the area, you should definitely make an effort to come along. There are three support bands in the lead up to Thirsty Merc hitting the stage. Unfortunately, the third artist escapes me completely just now, but the first two are draw card enough, so little matter. First up is Good Fight. Now with Luke Mears on drums and Ben Clacy on bass, their sound has grown and expanded exponentially over the last six months. Featuring their stand out new song “Dublin Rain” (listen to a sneak peek here – “Dublin Rain Preview” or BUY it here – “Dublin Rain Two Track Promo CD”), the beautiful ‘Open Your Eyes’ (the second track on the CD) and their latest addition to the set, the rhythmic, gutsy song ‘Centre Of Your World’, this will be well worth your time and petrol to come along.
Following them is Victoria’s rocking, quirky boys from ‘The Wonderul’. Another local band whose sound has matured rapidly over the past year with the addition of drummer, Noel Tenney and bassist, Pete Mollica. With well-known frontmen Olly and Scuzzi, they’re bound to raise the roof and get you jumping. I’ve yet to hear them live as a full band and can’t wait to hear how they sound as a four piece.
As I said earlier, if you’re in the area, you should definitely get along to this gig. Yes, I know the headliners are the incredible Thirsty Merc, but I think the true focus of the evening should be given to supporting our local artists. Not only is this a nice thing to do it’s also damn encouraging and (hopefully) will help put a little money into the pockets of four people (Juvita and Joel; Olly and Scuzzi) who have been providing free entertainment for all of you Mornington Peninsula-ites and beyond over the past 3 to 8 years. The bigger the crowd support bands can draw, the more exposure they get, the more gigs they get, the more chance they have of being heard by recording studios and radio stations. Come on, kiddies, do your bit to get them on the air!
(Update:The third support artist is Andrew Swift.)
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if im in the neighborhood i promise ill be there. i would love to see them live. please convince them to come to the states.
hell, you come to the states, mol.
Can I be so cruel as to say “Once was enough”? :-p
Kidding! Lovely to hear from you monsieur! I hope all is well with you and your family. We seriously need to catch up. Strangely, I had intended to FINALLY email you this evening and, yet again, looked at my conversational repertoire and thought ‘Hmmm, let’s not inflict that on the poor man!’ Hence the months on end of silence.
So, I am incredibly glad you dropped by so I can be (temporarily) excused with this note
[...] public links >> mollica Good Fight, The Wonderful and Thirsty Merc Sunday 3rd August 2008 Saved by ptrbrinks on Fri 21-11-2008 Alessandra ferri i fratelli mollica mi faccio un buon tr. [...]