HARDWAYS NEWS
I'll update this regularly when good stuff happens or when crap stuff happens and I wanna complain about it.
Feb 2001
Well, I haven't updated news for a while because we now have a mailing list for such things. Join it at ehardways@yahoo.com
18-10-00
Well, I reckon rock, as we know and love it is dead. We entered a battle of the bands and maybe it's sour grapes, but at the semi-finals, we were the band of the night. The whole room agreed including many of the other bands and 6 bands went through and we weren't one of them. The crew and organisers were stunned and I guess the judges had a little to answer for. Anyway, goes to show, 'They don't (and it would seem won't ever again)write like that anymore!'
19-4-00
We finished our Choirboys tour. It was a whole heap of fun and the guys agreed to do the cancer benefit concert that is being planned by myself over the next year. 'Sick of Cancer' will be a way of saying thanks to the Queensland Cancer Fund and hopefully will be a huge success. Keep your eyes and ears peeled. As I said the Choirboys tour was very encouraging with both the band and the crew giving us some VERY positive feedback so it has re-newed my confidence and enthusiasm for our little rock venture, The Hardways.
The new album will probably be called simply - 'ROCK'. Maybe by Christmas, fingers crossed. Thanks to all who came to the gigs, catchyas soon.
24-3-00
Tony 'The Knife' Scarcia and The Choirboys have decided that the Hardways will accompany The Choirboys for the SE QLD leg of their tour. How cool. Dates thus far -
Sat 15 April 2000 - Raceview Tavern, Ipswich
Sun 16 April 2000 - Nambour R.S.L., Sunshine Coast
All Hardways excited except Al who can't be unnerved by anything. Thanks a million to Tony and Ian Hulme.
15-3-00
I went to the Ultimate Rock Symphony the other night. I went backstage and met Roger Daltrey, Alice Cooper, Peter Frampton and the whole gang. This was all thanks to a performer from the show, Nikki Lamborn, who is Roger Daltrey's protege. I owe this her so much. I've wanted to meet Roger forever and thanks to her I did. Keep your eyes open for this girl. She is RED HOT. She got me a backstage pass and said she'll do a duet and/or some backing vox for the next album, so we are currently trying to pen an epic rock duet. Fingers well and truly crossed Nikki will run into us again.
25-2-00
We just finished a recording session with Phil Emmanuel. Four songs were recorded and hopefully we can polish our parts up enough to include them on the next album. Tracks recorded were called - Love & Peace, Dirty Woman, and an unnamed rag. Phil and I also did a duet of Apache but that'll probably only ever get heard by Ma Twiddle. Not commercial enough but if ever The Hardways get big, it'll be worth a fortune, hehe. Major thanks to Phil, one of if not the best guitarists in Australia and even the world. The guy simply amazes me.
