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     Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 103 Registered: 09-2004 |
There was a really nice article about Adele a couple of Sunday's ago. What I found didn't have the photo's and it looked to be an article built around photos, so we will have to make do with just the text. If anyone finds a link to the article with photos, please post it. -------------- Adele Pickvance Publication info: The Sunday Mail [Brisbane, Qld] 11 Aug 2013: 7. This is my story Musician Adele Pickvance shows Mike Bruce her favourite pictures My cool teen years This is me aged about 14 with my sister Melody, 1, in Leeds (in Britain) in about 1983, just before attending a party of a friend of mum and dad's. Mum had dressed me in that dreadful outfit and I wasn't awfully happy about it. I grew up in Bury, just north of Manchester, the eldest of four kids. This shot was taken the same year mum and dad decided to leave Britain and Thatcherism to migrate to Australia. An ARIA! This is in a bar in Leipzig (Germany) in 2006 when The Go-Betweens (Glenn Thompson, Grant McLennan and Robert Forster) were touring. We'd all gone out separately and just bumped into each other when we got a call from Ian Haug (lead guitarist with Powderfinger) to tell us we'd won the ARIA for Best Adult Contemporary Album for Oceans Apart. The barman offered to take a group shot and we responded with a group pouting session! The years of bedlam This would be around 1993, making me 24. It's on the stairs at The Shamrock Hotel in Fortitude Valley with the band I was playing in at the time, The Natives of Bedlam, which was four girls and one guy - rather unusual at the time. We were regulars on the Brisbane folk scene in the early '90s, playing at places like The Shamrock, The Zoo, Dooleys Hotel and the Woodford Folk Festival. Reunited Glenn (Thompson) and I had talked about doing something musically together for a long time, because we'd been playing with Robert (Forster) since 1994 in his solo career. We'd just never found the right time or right opportunity to collaborate, but we finally did it three years ago as Adele&Glenn, recorded an album and got a German label to take it on. The album, Carrington St, was released here and in Europe last year. Adele Pickvance is best known as the bass player in popular ARIA-winning Brisbane band The Go-Betweens. Pickvance was born near Manchester in northwest England in 1969 to a musical family. She learned violin but, wanting to perform more contemporary music, she moved to bass guitar. When Pickvance was 14, the family migrated to Queensland where she played gigs with her pianist dad. Pickvance fitted music in between her nursing studies, playing in several local bands until joining The Go-Betweens in 2000 until it disbanded after the death of member Grant McLennan in 2006. After moving to Sydney in 2010, Pickvance teamed up with former Go-Betweens drummer Glenn Thompson to form Adele&Glenn, releasing their first album in 2012. Adele&Glenn perform at Brisbane's Eaton Hills Hotel with Tim Finn and Bob Evans on Friday, August 16, and at Southside Tea Room, Morningside, on Saturday, August 17. Credit: Mike Bruce | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5999 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Austin. I'd love to see the picture that goes with the ARIA story. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 336 Registered: 05-2005 |
Glenn was replaced by a strange guy last week... https://www.facebook.com/adeleandglenn#!/photo.php?fbid=653474768003478&set=a.1 89936084357351.49875.163883246962635&typ e=1&theater (Cut and past all de link) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6003 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for that Trou. | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 104 Registered: 09-2004 |
Wow, that is great! Thanks for posting it. |