Tag: Paul Kelly

INTERVIEW | Paul Kelly, folksinger, songwriter, Australian music legend. GEORGE KATRALIS talks to the man behind the myth ahead of his London show at Cadogan Hall on Friday 12 April 2013.

Australian singer-songwriter and an icon of Australian rock Paul Kelly is performing at London’s Cadogan Hall on Friday 12 April 2013. His new album, Spring and Fall, is available now in the UK.

Here’s our top five Australian Christmas carols for 2012 that sum up the Australian Christmas experience. Which is your favourite? Vote now for your number one Aussie Christmas song.

MUSIC FROM THE MOTHERLAND | The Australian bill for Edinburgh Fringe is taking shape while back home The Beach Boys are set to ride a wave of nostalgia and an unknown Tassie singer takes us to the world.

REVIEW | The name Paul Kelly is synonymous with Australian pub rock anthems. For this reason it felt strange to be sitting on a civilised church pew in Union Chapel, London, amongst the many others here to worship this Australian rock icon.

Paul Kelly, one of Australia's most celebrated musicians, will take to the stage in London this week.

It's an undeniable fact of life that the two greatest Christmas songs of all time are The Pogues’ ‘Fairy Tale of New York’ and Paul Kelly’s ‘How to Make Gravy’. Some will tell you art is subjective and beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that — ...

REVIEW | We sat there staring into the storyteller’s shaded, deep set eyes as he spun uncomplicated yet incredibly moving yarns through his impressive song writing, all the while backing it up with a voice that is as solid, seemingly unchanging and Australian as Uluru.

INTERVIEW | “I think people are influenced by what’s gone before. When I learnt how to play songs, you fall in love with other people’s songs and you learn them and you start to write your own." Paul Kelly, September, 2011.

REVIEW: Despite being filled with some of Paul Kelly’s lesser known songs, the “dark, weird and difficult night three” as described by Kelly himself was not without highlights.

REVIEW: The letter ‘F’ was where we started the night with Paul accompanied by nephew Dan Kelly a famous musician in his own right.

REVIEW | Paul Kelly is a walking, talking manual for how to live. And, yep well I better come out and say it; 'an Australian bloke's way to live.

Paul Kelly's been entertaining audiences for three decades and the ever popular Australian musician is still in huge demand around the world, as evidenced by his four sold-out shows in London this week.

MUSIC FROM THE MOTHERLAND: From curing those post Glasto blues to the bestest Aussie albums ever, MFTM has it all. Oh, want a slice of Meatloaf for the AFL Grand Final? How about bringing Mr Paul Kelly to your door? Enjoy!