The Soul Side TV - Episode 11

Episode 11: The People Behind the Front Man

Every great band has a crew behind it. This month we meet the people who made the music happen, live on the couch.

🎸 James Roy: live music on the night, opening the show and joining Dave for a yarn

📚 Michael Smith: music historian, bass player and author of What's Been Did and What's Been Hid

💡 Robbie Park: Started as a disco DJ in 70s Kings Cross, then spent the 80s lighting Mental As Anything, The Models, The Choirboys, Machinations and the Divinyls, and touring with Simple Minds and the Thompson Twins. He later worked on Cats in Sydney and Sydney's New Year's Eve, before creating Lithgow Halloween and LithGlow.

🎤 Willem Hendriksen: Retro Rehash, Blue Mountains promoter

🦎 Bluetongue - local hip hop artist

❓ Mel's Lightning Round Trivia

📍 On The Soul Side Cafe, Gearin Hotel, Katoomba · 🗓 Sun 25 Oct · Doors 7pm

Use the code EARLYBIRD for 5% off tickets. Can't make it? Watch live at thesoulside.tv

Robbie Park in his early Lighting Days

Robbie Park's 'Forged in Fire' light show at Lithglow

That 'tall guy' - Robbie Park has backstage stories to tell from the glory days of bands liek Mental as Anything and Midnight Oil

Michael Smith in his band Scandal in 1978

Michael Smith's latest Book on the History of Aus Rock n Roll !