{"id":36,"date":"2015-01-28T10:44:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T10:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/?p=36"},"modified":"2015-01-28T10:44:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T10:44:39","slug":"james-blundell-at-the-deck-bar-a-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"James Blundell at the Deck Bar (a review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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11.9.2006<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been a big fan of James Blundell since his Hand It Down CD back in 1988, first saw him on the Ray Martin Midday show way back then. I have since bought all of his releases, though In the last few years I\u2019d become disillusioned with James. In my opinion, his latest cd Deluge, is comparatively his weakest release to date.<\/p>\n

On Friday night I tossed up whether to go and see James\u2019 free up-close and intimate, just him and his acoustic guitar show at the Deck Bar (Ex-Petty Sessions) in Darwin. I went \u2013 it was the best concert from anybody, I\u2019ve seen for years! James rocked the place like a 20 yr old! He did a mixture of his own material and everyone else\u2019s \u2013 Jackson Brown\u2019s Stay, The Church\u2019s Unguarded Moment, Van Morrison\u2019s Brown Eyed Girl, Peter Allen\u2019s I Still Call Australia Home and at one stage he did a tribute to the Vietnam Vets. He did 3 Vets songs in a row \u2013 Redgum\u2019s I Was Only Nineteen, Chisel\u2019s Khe Sanh and his own Postcards From Saigon! He did stuff from his very first album all the way to his most recent \u2013 was probably on stage for 3 hours \u2013 and he looked like a man who loved every second of it! During the breaks and after the show he was happy to mix with the punters, shaking hands, signing stuff and posing for photos \u2013 even congratulated me on my vocal prowess when singing along in the crowd (for which I\u2019ve been embarrassed ever since).<\/p>\n

Like I said, it was the best show I\u2019ve seen in years, so if you get the chance to see James live, do yourself a favour, get in there, get up front and sing along \u2013 you\u2019ll love it, I promise!<\/p>\n

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Welcome back to the top of the list James!<\/p>\n

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James brought along a young 21yr old support singer from Kununurra in WA \u2013 she\u2019s a talented, pretty little thing with a big mob of brown hair and plays a neat guitar \u2013 one to keep an eye on \u2026..if only I could remember her name!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

11.9.2006 I\u2019ve been a big fan of James Blundell since his Hand It Down CD back in 1988, first saw him on the Ray Martin Midday show way back then. I have since bought all of his releases, though In the last few years I\u2019d become disillusioned with James. In my opinion, his latest cd … Continue reading James Blundell at the Deck Bar (a review)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5K3B8-A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}