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holy cow! icehouse are gonna do bdo!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Day_Out#2007
the song that's the kicker for me is flowers (pre icehouse) "we can get together". fucking genius. it's so innocent, but iva is so eighties and fakin' that english accent and angsty in his howls...
maybe sometime...
you can buckle my shoes...
do you have any icehouse/flowers/iva memories?
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Saw Flowers at the Princess Theatre supporting Jo Jo Zep and The Falcons the week that the debut Icehouse album came out. Won tickets through 3XY.
First tour as Icehouse, they played at Festival Hall. Support was a unknown lot of young scots - Simple Minds
Also saw them tour on Primitive Man at the Ballroom of The Venue. Support was Deckchairs Overboard.
3RRR used to have an old live-to-air of the original four-piece doing most of the debut as well as ripping covers of Funtime, Waiting For The Man and more...
...quite unlike later covers on The Berlin Tapes
saw them lots as flowers. iva always had great leg action happening when he sang. bought him lots of drinks.
This was the live-to-air
My brother bought Man of Colours. I didn't like it. The end.
Stop after the first two LPs and get a copy of John Brand's remix of Dusty Pages. All you need
man of colours is awesome.
i won a prize dancing to electric blue when i was like 8 or 9
Iva's Bicentennial concert guitar solo splits was awesome.
Flowers were tops.
Icehouse sucked balls.
The end.
welll you've gotta be crazy baby, to want a guy like me! yeah you've gotta be out of your mind.. CRAZY!
I wanted hair like that mo fo once.
Man of Colours is great!
my ex's brother was the keyboard player in flowers - there's a gold album laying around her house somewhere
are icehouse really playin at the BDO?
well?!
apparently yes.
used to ride my lambretta to see them playing t.rex covers at the sussex hotel. and they were flowers, and a real band. icehouse tended to be iva and whoever could program the samplers.
Flowers good, Icehouse bad.
I can't believe it has taken me this long to discover this thread as for some time I have been in the grip of EXTREME ICEHOUSE APPRECIATION.
extreme ey
flowers are cool
icehose...thank fuck the 80's are over..never ever going back there..see Ken Done thread for why.
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listening to ''we can get together'' now. Havn't checked out the dvd yet.
the version of ''love in motion'' with Chrissie Amphlett singing is choice maaate.
dave! holy crap yes.
so, meredithians, how was it? someone tweeted wondering what the hell julian assange was doing singing rock on stage - obviously a youngun, way before their time.
Was thinking the other night that he's looking like a melband weekend warrior.
''Nicehouse, more like it''
..it was totally mild. but to be expected. kinda nice...
what did they play?
all the hits...
opened with Icehouse
We Can Get Together
Walls
Cant Help Myself
Sister
Electric Blue
(one or 3 others.. I cant recall)
closed with Great Southern Land
I only caught the end, so not sure what they played, but pretty sure I witnessed a bit of a backing track-related fuckup – at one point, after a chorus, Iva went to sing the next verse, but a guitar solo started. He then moved away from the mic and played the solo over the top of the backing track solo
awkward
Oops.
meh. I love Icehouse. <3
they played Crazy too.
and Hey Little Girl
Creepy old men
So sluggish. They needed a bit of what I was having. Pep them old cunts up.
I remember seeing them play on that 'Australian Made' TV concert back in the 80's when I was a kid - and they sounded really slow and off key. It was my first experience of realising a band could be much shitter live than they sounded on record.
I was expecting nothing and thought they were fantastic. Such much more interesting than Neil Fucking Finn. Sax solos!!
I saw them open for AC/DC (in the Dave days) as Flowers at the Adelaide Bicycle Club
nope. Neil Finn owned... ice House (as it's written these days) were pretty placid.
Sax solos always rule tho.. agreed
All of the Finns suck.
They can get fucked with their boring ballady shite
RRR used to have a recording of a flowers gig at Storey hall, they snipped it up onto carts and played them like singles. They were easily the best recorded versions of the flowers songs. Some old mates of mine did the recording in an old bread van with a multitracker inside, parked in a lane next to the hall. I rang up Neil Rogers once and asked him what happened to them, he said he'd get back to me, years ago. The versions on the recent release were close, but no cigar.