Buddy Holly Lives Tribute Show

Posted by Sam on Jul 10, 2008

COMING SOON


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Buddy Holly Lives! Dinner and Show – 12th Feb 08

Posted by Sam on Feb 12, 2008

BUDDY HOLLY LIVES! DINNER & SHOW

12th FEBRUARY 2008  ” SOLD OUT” 


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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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