Today of course, the characters in this story are pretty vivid in the collective memory. And the reason I can is because when I was growing up around them, I created my own story.” “But as a singer, I can actually feel the songs better from that era. People can’t live in that fantasy like they used to. With music today, that imagination … it’s gone. You had to use your imagination, you had to put yourself in those songs. “In that era, there was nothing called the internet. This year he’s mellowed, alongside Glenn Craven, into the Everly Brothers). “It’s an era that just won’t die, and I’ll tell you why,” says Rick Charles, one of the stars who’s been singing with the jukebox dance-theatre show since it opened in Essendon in 1993. Shake Rattle’n’Roll stars J’aime Holland and Anthony Petrucci.
The nostalgic “all-singing, all-dancing, all-out stage extravaganza” is a world away from the gritty Friday night shakedown in Thornbury, but for 29 years, on and off, it’s been drawing from the same seemingly endless well of affection for ’50s and early ’60s rock’n’roll style. It’s a road the producers of Shake Rattle’n’Roll have come to know well. Rollicking twists on Springsteen and the Clash nail the point home: all roads lead back to the golden age.
His fiery roots rock trio plays Shake Your Hips after reminding us the Rolling Stones stole it from Louisiana swamp legend Slim Harpo, then they mash it with AC/DC’s Whole Lotta Rosie. Musicologists might put headliner Jesse Dayton closer to psychobilly, but the Texan guitar gun likely doesn’t give a damn what you call it. The fans in winklepicker boots and swing skirts can split hairs at the bar. But if people want to call us a rockabilly band and pay us to play a rockabilly gig, we’ll do it.” After 25 years playing most weekends, there’s no shortage of people willing to do that. “Rockabilly traditionally doesn’t have harmonica. “We call it roots rock’n’roll,” says bassist Dave Philpots. The Detonators are first: a Melbourne quartet with slappin’ upright bass, western shirts, slick country guitar licks and some tidy quiffs on top.
Southern Shakedown is a triple-band bill presented by Queensland-based hot-rod and rockabilly festival Greazefest. It’s Friday night at Thornbury Theatre and rock’n’roll is alive and kicking. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size
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