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News: Back to work..

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

News: England & Ireland DECEMBER 2012

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

News: 2 weeks to go!

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Almost time to fly over to England and lovely Ireland to play some shows and meet some new friends. Very excited.

News: ROCKIN' EL ROCCO 24TH AUG

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0800

News: September residency at SLH

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0800

News: LONDON TOUR

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0800

It is back on!

After the dissapointing news of GoGo's cancellation and subsequent cancellation of our June tour, we have gone back to the drawing board.

Thanks to the efforts and sponsorship of Rude Bookings, I am touring the UK solo acoustic this coming December. Laid back and low key. I am so happy and excited and look forward to seeing some ole buddies again.

I will be in the UK from 3rd Dec till the 17th Dec. ... U.Kayeons Ahoy! - conatct me for gigs and jams.

News: Check out & buy HIGHWAY HEART from the store

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0800

P.S Just found out the GoGo festival has been cancelled. :( No rockin out on the mainstage with Peaches. :( Thanks to all those who sent me well wishes throughout my preparation.

News: THE GOGO FESTIVAL LONDON 2012

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

I am performing at The GoGo Festival in London on June 10th 2012!

An amazing opportunity to rock the UK has been granted. I am booked to play on the main stage along side Peaches and Jill Jackson.

Press: AJ Allen's lovely words...

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

"A free-spirited beauty who is both self-deprecating and disarmingly unaffected. Highway Heart is the second album by Australian singer/songwriter, Bridie O’Brien, and is a perfect introduction to her individual style of music and strong signature vocals. London and Melbourne based Rude Bookings have sponsored Bridie’s first UK performance. She is on the main stage at GOGO Festival, London, on June 10th, where she will premiere tracks from the album. Full of passion, energy, drive and conviction, Bridie is sure to set the stage alight with a range of introspective songs that reach out and grab you. A second gig on June 15th is soon to be announced." - http://www.she-nanigans.net/

News: Melbourne was rocking!

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

We had such a fun night hanging with Wilk and Heath and also the guys from Alex Aronson and the northern lights.

News: Great gig at SLH - looking forward to Melb!

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Press: GIG REVIEW: Album Launch 19.1.11

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

...."The power of the two drummers lifted the whole thing off the stage over the next two pieces – ‘Lonely’ and ‘Disco Lights’ – melding into a funky skin and wood machine of irresistible force. Then O’Brien took it to a ‘different level’ – clearing the stage and working through the title track, ‘Highway Heart’ with only her guitar and the plaintive cello of Kate Adams beneath her voice. It was a good move and had a stunning effect – her remarkable voice framed by only the barest structure."...... - The orangepress.net

News: NEW HEADLINE SHOW

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Hi everyone!

Thanks to those of you that came to our album launch! Wow - what a smokin hot night of Rock n Roll!

We have just announced a special headline show:

Where: SYDNEY LIVE HOUSE- LEWISHAM 794 Parramatta Road Lewisham.

When: FRIDAY 17th FEBUARY

Time: 8pm (we on stage at 10:15pm)

Cost: $12

Press: Q n A with FRANKIE

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Bridie features in a full page Q n A with FRANKIE magazine issue 45. - FRANKIE Magazine

News: Knock Knock...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Im paranoid enough wading through the conversations, swapping gold for ciggarettes, fantasising about lush locations.

Hey. Im back from a wintery slumber. Asleep for too long in a steampunk scene, littered with neverending dreams and unreasonable mirrors. Ive lost friends, buried fathers, lost brothers, dealt with dramas. Its been 4 years of survival, reinvention, revival. I am feeling meek and sharp. I am ready to chop and laugh.

Hey. Im back. Where've you been? Or are we meeting for the first time?..

Im starting from scratch here. No record label's or fair weather's. Just me and the music I have made.

It is a gift for me. It is a gift for you.

It's Rock n Roll. It's big heart and bruised soul.

It is personal. So stay in touch.

If you like what you hear, then dont wait for the train. Buy a copy of my album and shoot right through.

News: ALBUM LAUNCH BAND LINE UP

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Alright... we have got the goods lined up! The HIGHWAY HEART launch will be a duelling drum kit whisky solarium for the senses.

DRUMS: Syd Green AND Ned Wu

BLUES HARP/TRUMPET: Stuey West

CELLO: Kate Adams

BASS: Oliver Pieterse

GUITAR n VOX: Bridie

....and 2 fabulous support acts being TANTRUM FANTASY and TRIGGER MODE.

THURSDAY 19th JAN at THE SANDO in Newtown.

Press: Highway Heart REVIEW

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0800

“Roots, Blues and Rock n Roll songwriter Bridie O’Brien – for years now a bighearted fixture at festivals and rock venues around Australia – built her new album, Highway Heart with just two people. Recorded with polymath producer Syd Green at his Sanctuary Point studio, Mononest, O’Brien plays everything (guitars, lap steel and piano) but bass and drums which Green provides. It is testament to her talent (too weak a word for something this soulful) that Bridie O’Brien can howl 'Rock n Roll Outlaw’ and a few songs later sweetly croon her own ‘Country Song’ – In a genre that grows creatively narrower and narrower in a mistaken crusade for ‘honesty’ and ‘realness’, Highway Heart captures them both and finds time for musical adventure and daring originality. God bless the non-purists…” ~John Hardaker - The orangepress.net

News: RIOT ON SUNSET VOL.27 ~ OUT NOW

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

272 RECORDS IN CALIFORNIA USA HAVE JUST RELEASED A COMPILATION CD THAT FEATURES 'ROCK N ROLL OUTLAW'.

WE ARE HAPPY TO BE INVOLVED IN SUCH A GREAT COLLECTION OF WORK.

News: Physical copies of HIGHWAY HEART

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Hey!

You want a copy of HIGHWAY HEART that you can play in the car, throw on the bed, use as a mouse pad? Well head to the store right now, coz we got the hard copies ready to ship out to your door.

Registered and FREE postage Australia wide!

News: Highway Heart on iTunes

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0800

HIGHWAY HEART will be available on iTunes from the 22nd Oct 2011.

If you would like to get up close and snuggly with the album artwork, like I so often do, then may I suggest you buy the HIGHWAY HEART hardcopy direct from this website. FREE POSTAGE in Australia!