- GIG REVIEW: Album Launch 19.1.11
- ...."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."...... [Read More...]
- NEW HEADLINE SHOW
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
- Q n A with FRANKIE
- Bridie features in a full page Q n A with FRANKIE magazine issue 45. [Read More...]
- ALBUM LAUNCH BAND LINE UP
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.
- RIOT ON SUNSET VOL.27 ~ OUT NOW
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.
- Physical copies of HIGHWAY HEART
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!
- Highway Heart REVIEW
- “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
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- Highway Heart on iTunes
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!
- Knock Knock...
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.
