Buddy Holly & Mick Jagger – Rock On At Astor Cinema – 9th Feb 08

Posted by Sam on Feb 9, 2008

BUDDY HOLLY & MICK JAGGER ROCK ON AT ASTOR CINEMA

9th FEBRUARY 2008

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Who’s Behind the Green Door presents two outstanding tribute shows at the Astor Cinema in Mount Lawley featuring Buddy Holly Lives and Mick Jagger Start Me Up on Saturday 9 February 2008.

The highly popular Buddy Holly Lives show has entertained many music lovers in recent months with their outstanding and reminiscent tribute to the innovative and energetic Holly, having sold out at various venues across Perth.

In a special two for one show featuring John Mann as Mick Jagger with the Start Me Up tribute to the iconic rock n roll legend in his early years. Performing such songs as “Little Red Rooster”, “Get Off Your Cloud”, “Walking The Dog”, “Route 66”, “Can’t Always Get What You Want”, “Let’s Spend the Night Together” to name a few.

Sam Pulvirenti, director of Who’s Behind the Green Door says “the demand for our Buddy Holly tribute show remains strong, our audiences keep wanting more, so we’ve decided to throw together a special show at the Astor with the exciting Mick Jagger tribute, two terrific tribute shows for the price of one.” Pulvirenti continues to say “Felix and John both have a natural gift and remarkable resemblance to these respective legends of rock and roll”.


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Buddy Holly Lives! Ultimate Tribute Show – 30th Nov 07

Posted by Sam on Nov 30, 2007

BUDDY HOLLY LIVES! ULTIMATE TRIBUTE SHOW

30th NOVEMBER 2007

Extract from ‘THE PERTH VOICE’ newspaper,
Saturday November 24, 2007 (No 493)

THEATRE’S NEW BUDDY
by CHRIS THOMPSON

A BUDDY HOLLY impersonator from Mt Lawley will on November 30 transport the Astor Cinema back to its live music heyday.

“I answered an ad’ in the paper, and thought I’d give it a shot”, WAAPA graduate Felix Potier said of his recent shuffle into Holly’s pale skin. “I was a bit of a rockabilly fan in a way”.

Armed with his Fender Stratocaster and horn-rimmed glasses imported direct from the USA, Potier will play the Astor for one night only. Cavernous Cinema One will be shakin’ from 400 pairs of suede shoes and Bobby socks slappin’ on the floor.

“I’ve never done impressions before” Potier told the Voice. “It’s all quite new to me, putting yourself in someone else’s shoes”. “He’s a legend of rock ‘n’ roll” the baby-faced muso’ said, adding Buddy’s size niners were big clogs to fill. “I’m 25, but he was only 21 or 22″.

Indeed the bespectacled Texan was only 22 when his chartered four-seat aeroplane bound for Fargo, North Dakota crashed minutes after departing Mason City, Iowa. Later commemorated by Don McLean as ‘the day the music died’, February 2, 1959 saw Holly, Ritchie Valens (17) and the Big Bopper (28) transported to the Grand Old Opry in the sky.

Astor manager Tania Ilarda says the Holly gig signals a rockabilly-led recovery for her venue, where flicks have screened less frequently of late.

“At one stage, the the 1950s or ’60s, it was an x-rated theatre only” she said of the 1914-built complex on the corner of Beaufort and Walcott Streets, where live music and theatre were once all the go. “but I can remember seeing more mainstream movies here in the 1970s, when I was a kid”.

“If we could keep this place open for live music, I’d be more than happy to do that”.

In a 33-month recording career, Holly cut some of the most influential tracks in rock history, including Oh Boy! and Rave On. Proving it’s hip to be square, his hiccupy, homespun tones inspired the punk and slacker genres of the 1970s and 1990s.


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