BIG NEWS FOR IZZY

THIS HAS BEEN A BIG WEEK IN THE LIFE OF IZZY AND CO.

KEEP YOUR EYES ON THIS SPACE.

HILLBILLY BLUES BANDITS – UNOFFICIALLY

MUSICIANS IN THE NEWS

FROM THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL LIBRARY HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS.

A TOUCH OF THE PAST.

IZZY OWES HIS CONTINUITY OF VISION, AS WELL AS HIS ADDICTION TO APPLAUSE AND LAUGHTER, TO THE MUSICIANS WHO HAVE PRECEDED HIM THROUGHOUT HISTORY

MUSICAL MEN.–Generally speaking, musicians are the most intolerant of men to one another, the most captious, the best humoured when flattered, and the worst tempered at all other times. Music, like laudanum, appears to soothe the senses when used in moderation, but the continual employment of either flurries or excites the faculties, and often renders the best natured men in the world, petulant, irritable, and violent.- Madden.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2215545

The Sydney Gazette and… Tuesday 4 March 1834, page 2.

 

 

LINKS TO NATIONAL LIBRARY HISTORIC NEWSPAPER DIGITISATION PROJECT . SEE ALSO FACEBOOK GROUPS.	ABSTRACTS , EXTRACTS AND DISTRACTED COMMENTS
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628458 The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Saturday 18 April 1812, page 3	The amazing story of BLIND JACK who played violin and acted as a guide through the wilderness.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2178758  1814. And the pay hasn’t increased noticeably since then.	Ten Musicians, for performing Sacred Music in St. Philip’s Church, Sydney were funded from Government Stores. 9 pounds they were paid.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2183221 Two fine ideas for gifts in 1824. A Melodious Firesecreen and the Grotesque Musicians. SYDNEY GAZETTE 1824	“Music has furnished the idea of another toy of a similar character, called the Grotesque Musicians: It consists of a collection of moving figures,representing musical amateurs, and admirably caricatures all their airs and gestures. “
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1090867 Hobart Town Gazette and… Friday 1 July 1825, page 2.	The appointment of Mr J. P. DEANE as organist of St Davids in Hobart – causes rancour and dispute in much the same way as the obataining of gigs in the Tweed Region does, on occasion, in 2008.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2446928 Colonial Times and Tasmanian… Friday 6 January 1826	A different opinion of Mr J P Deane from a different newspaper.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2189397 The Sydney Gazette and… Monday 19 November 1827, page 2.	” Indeed, the mighty changes we have wrought, forcibly remind us of a passage in an old author we have met with somewhere, and which, by way of episode, we will endeavour to recollect for the instruction of those who will make the application :-A certain minstrel once boasted of being able to make a marvellous impression upon the people, after the ancient fashion, by means of his lyre ; and, one day, when there was a quarrel out of doors, undressed as he was, saith the history, he jumps out into his balcony, his lyre in his hand, in his slippers, with his breeches hanging down to his ancles, a stocking upon his head, and an old tattered waistcoat upon his body. He touched his lyre with a very unusual sort of flourish, nor were his hopes frustrated. The odd equipage, the uncouth instrument, and the strangeness of the man and of the music, drew the ears and the eyes of the whole mob …. ” READ ON FOR AN HISTORICAL PARALLEL TO IZZY’S JAMIESON’S EXPERIENCE.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2193521 The Sydney Gazette and… Thursday 1 October 1829, page 3.	A REJECTED ADDRESS to have been spoken at the Sydney Opera House when it was opened in 1829. However it were not opened then. Says Izzy – but a part of a long tradition of entertainment in Australia of which Izzy  is but the latest incarnation.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2196145 SYDNEY GAZETTE 1830	Extraordinary.The young Ducornet, born without arms, and who paints so surprisingly well with his feet, has to encounter a more astonishing rival in the person of a young girl at Bourdeaux. She has neither arms nor feet, yet writes, draws, knits, loads a pistol-with her mouth. She is also a musician, and plays upon the piano with her nose. This young person is besides remarkable for her beauty.-Foreign Literary Gas. And Izzy thinks HE can perform !
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2200330 The Sydney Gazette and… Saturday 30 April 1831, page 4	GENIUS ALL hear and see much alike ; but there is an undefinable though wide difference between the ear of the musician, or the eye of the painter, compared with the hearing and seeing organs of ordinary men ; and it is something like that difference in which genius consists. Genius
	ANN THOMSON (A RELATIVE OF IZZY’S CHICK.) BORN WITHOUT ARMS BUT NOT KNOWN TO HAVE PLAYED THE PIANO WITH HER NOSE.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2205624 The Sydney Gazette and… Tuesday 20 March 1832, page 2.	A COLONIAL CELEBRATION OF ST PATRICKS DAY AND SOME WILD MUSIC. Lives there a man with soul so dead Who never to himself has said, “This is my own, my native land[?]“
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2210732 The Sydney Gazette and… Tuesday 12 February 1833, page 2.	” William Webb-I am a shoemaker by trade, and reside near Alloway Bank, the estate of Captain Piper, by whom I was occasionally employed as a musician; as a shoemaker I work for my own advantage ; I know the prisoner at the bar ; he is an assigned servant to Captain Piper” READ ON :  a muso with a day gig.

 

 

 

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REHEARSING WITH GABI BLISS

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THURSDAY AFTERNOON and we are in the COTTAGE. THEY are rehearsing for GABI BLISS on SATURDAY.

 

THAT’S the poster. Been out sticking them up all over the place. Down at Panorama Plaza in the place of Rejection – Chick stuck ‘em up and in bus shelters and on backs of loo doors because this weekend is the launch of REFLEXIONS. GABI BLISS is on the loose. Out on the FRONT PORCH with Evan on Lead, Izzy on bass and kazoo and Mike Fisher on drums. The Cottage sits on top of the Hill with the BILAMBIL VALLEY down there – amphitheatre like. Up here the new PA is set up. The DOS is out at lunch for the day. The Electric guitars are plugged in. Mike Fisher is here with his drums and the Final Rehearsal is on.

SATURDAY – BUDDHA BELLY CAFE AT UKI.

SEE YOU THERE.

 

 

 

 

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LYNNE SANDERS-BRAITHWAITE

GABI BLISS THIS SATURDAY

GIGS 2008 : IZZY FOREAL

NEW GIGS 2008

AUGUST 22 FRI
LUFFLEY’S CAFE MURWILLUMBAH WITH KEL AND SCRUBBY 7-9 PM

AUGUST 23 SAT
KIRRA SPORTS CLUB WITH PETER LAWSON AND THE BOSS

AUGUST 24 SUN
BYRON RAILS HOTEL 5.45 PM – 9PM

AUGUST 29 FRIDAY
LUFFLEY’S CAFE MURWILLUMBAH WITH KEL AND SCRUBBY 7-9

AUGUST 30 SAT
REFLEXIONS LAUNCH GABI BLISS CD BUDDHA BELLY CAFE UKI.

SEPTEMBER 5 FRI
LUFFLEYS MURBAH

SEPTEMBER 7TH
FATHERS DAY AT TYALGUM WITH HILLBILLY BLUES BANDITS

SEPTEMBER 12 FRI
LUFFLEYS

SEPTEMBER 13 SUNDAY
HILLBILLY BLUES BANDITS AT TALLY  VALLEY

SEPTEMBER 21 SUNDAY
GRAFTON CONSERVATORIUM

SEPTEMBER 28  SUNDAY
ILNAM WINERY WITH PETE LAWSON

OCTOBER 11
HILLBILLIES AT LENNOX POINT HOTEL

OCTOBER 25
SCUBBY AND IZZY PARTY

GIGS 2008 « IZZY FOREAL

THINGS IS LOOKING LUFFLEY

 

 

FOR THOSE OF YOU HOPING TO CATCH IZZY FOREAL AND SCRUBBY PETER HURCOMBE  NOW THAT THEY ARE NO LONGER PERFORMING AT JAMOZE OR BILAMBIL SPORTS CLUB , FOLLOW THE LINKS BELOW AND TRY THESE NEW VENUES

THIS WEEKEND IS A BIG ONE FOR IZZY. FRIDAY NIGHT WITH KEL AND SCRUBBY. SATURDAY NIGHT AT PETE LAWSON’S KIRRA PARTY GIG. SUNDAY WITH BANDITS AT BYRON RAILS.

LUFFLEY CAFE MURWILLUMBAH FRIDAY NIGHT 7 -9 PM : KEL AND SCRUBBY.

ILNAM WINERY CAROOL

IZZY WITH GABI BLISS  FOR REFLEXIONS LAUNCH AT BUDDHA BELLY CAFE UKI.

AND SCRUBBY’S HILLBILLY BLUES BANDITS AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS INCLUDING BYRON RAILS SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

 

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IZZY AT LUFFLEY’S

MURWILLUMBAH.

LiveJournal Tags: luffleys cafe,murwillumbah,scrubby PETER HURCOMBE,izzy foreal,live music,cafe vibes This Friday Night from 7pm to 9 pm Izzy appears with Scrubby and Kel at Luffley’s Cafe Murwillumbah NSW.

 

Izzy Foreal, having recently ended his long series of Saturday nights at Jamieson’s restaurant, begs leave to inform patrons that he will be continuing his primary business of entertaining and performing at new locations soon.   Mr Foreal wishes to respectfully convey his thanks for the support and encouragement of Jamieson’s customers . He begs respectfully to assure them that their continued patronage shall stimulate him, by renewed exertion,to discharge faithfully the important trust committed to his hands.

GABI BLISS

TO THE PUBLIC

Izzy Foreal, having recently ended his long series of Saturday nights at Jamieson’s restaurant, begs leave to inform patrons that he will be continuing his primary business of entertaining and performing at new locations soon.   Mr Foreal wishes to respectfully convey his thanks for the support and encouragement of Jamieson’s customers . He begs respectfully to assure them that their continued patronage shall stimulate him, by renewed exertion,to discharge faithfully the important trust committed to his hands.

YESTERBEATS

• Izzy has begun rehearsals for a 60s music band tentatively titled the YESTERBEATS. More details as the rehearsals progress.

 

• Izzy will also be performing with GABI BLISS at her CD launch SATURDAY AUGUST 30 2008 AT BUDDHA BELLY UKI NSW. The event is called REFLEXIONS. Details to come.

 

• IZZY is also gathering band members for the band version of IZZY FOREAL AND ASSOCIATES.  KIKI ZARSOFF SO THEY SAY.

 

BIG CHANGES FOR IZZY

STAY POSTED FOR BIG CHANGES FOR IZZY AND HIS MUSICAL LIFE.

NEW MUSOS TO PLAY WITH.

NEW GIGS TO PLAY AT.

NEW MATERIAL.

AND THE LONG AWAITED IZZY’S CHILDRENS CD.

 

 

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