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Jacqui Rogers

Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA


Joined March 25th 2008

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Hi! My name is Jacqui and I love to write just about anything; poetry to short stories. I've always wanted to be a music journalist so having www.gigsnreviews.com allows me to fulfil a dream.

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New Music For November

November 7th 2009 05:28

All The Dreamers
Powderfinger

powderfinger, rock, dreamers
Powderfinger


All you Powderfingers fans out there unite! The boys from Brissy have a new album coming out November 13! The album is titled The Golden Rule and the first All The Dreamers is very much a rocky Powderfinger track.

If you pre-order The Golden Rule they will donate $5 to Movember. So head to Powderfinger's site and order your copy of The Golden Rule today!

In the meanwhile here’s the video for All The Dreamers:





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Can Rob Get Any Better?

October 30th 2009 06:41
rob thomas, someday someday
Rod Thomas
Can this man get any better? In his new video for Someday Rob Thomas is promoting world peace!

I love you Rob!!!

Sorry, back to being professional.

Due to computer problems I’m afraid there won’t be a Gigs ‘n Reviews’ weekly Myspace Discovery . But I hope you enjoy this video instead:



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Diesel's Blues & Hits Tour

October 24th 2009 09:34

Diesel
The Palms, Melbourne
Friday, October 23, 2009


Diesel, guitar, casino
Diesel @ The Palms, 23/10/09
Last night Diesel and his band did the first of two shows at The Palms as part of the Hits and Blues Tour. As you know I’ve seen Diesel perform so many times but every time he manages to blow me away with his new direction and sound.

The night started around 8:30 and same as last year’s Palms performance there was no support and the show didn’t end until 11:30. Diesel came out dressed in a grey suit and his long-time bass player looked the part in a black hat. The stage became smokey like how a blues club traditionally is.

The first set was dedicated to the blues. Diesel started off with My Baby Likes To Boogaloo introducing us to how good sax and guitar can sound together. Then they launched into a Diesel original Stoopid Fool. He rewinded back time with tracks from his first blues album (with Chris Wilson) Short Cool Ones playing many tracks like My Babe and Can’t Stand the Rain.

The banjo made a big appearance in Walkin The Blues and it’s always amazing how Diesel invents new uses for his instruments; who would have ever thought the banjo could be used as a drum?

Being an Ebay queen myself, I could sympathise when Diesel told us how he had bought a guitar from Ebay for only $75! The guitar may be only little but it definitely punches out a big steel guitar sound! Spoonful sounded awesome with this little guitar.

Even going way back twenty years Diesel and band did songs from his Johnny Diesel and The Injectors days. Diesel revealed he pitched Since I Fell For You from his Dad’s collection.

The second set was all his hits from Hepfedelity to Days Like These, bringing a new life and a totally foreign sound to some songs. He dusted off Parisiemme Motel and added a country sound to what was a rock tune. The audience began to get louder as it got deeper into the second set with hits like All Come Together, Never Miss Your Water, Don’t Need Love, Love Junk and Come To Me. Actually Come To Me received some punk treatment. It bought a smile to everyone in the band.

As part of 3the encore Diesel paid tribute to the great Jimi Hendrix by doing Wind Cries Mary. This was surreal. Diesel ended the night with saying, “You’ve been a fucking great audience, thank you!”
Set One
My Baby Likes To Boogaloo
Stoopid Fool
Walkin The Blues
Be Your Man
Sun Is Shining
Since I Fell For You
Sweet Emotion
My Babe
Tear Out The Man
Whiskey And Weed
Spoonful
Parisiemme Motel

Set 2
Man Alive
Dig
Fifteen Feet Of Snow
One More Time
All Come Together – guitar as drum intro
Days Like These
Don’t Need Love
Lookin’ For Love
Soul Revival
Tip Of My Tongue
Never Miss Your Water
Love Junk
Hear that sound, come to me
Carmen Smith vocals

Encore
Wind Cries Mary
Cry In Shame
Can’t Stand The Rain




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A Special Edition of Gigs ‘n Reviews’ weekly Myspace Discovery

October 21st 2009 05:04
An Interview With
Dallas Fracsa

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Gigs ‘n Reviews’ Weekly Myspace Discovery

October 15th 2009 05:38

The Fumes

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New Music For Octoer

October 12th 2009 05:37
kisschasy, aussie, music, Paul van Dyk
Kisschasy

I don’t know about you, but there hasn’t been really exciting new music on Rage and Video Hits lately. On Saturday I saw two new songs that woke up my inner ear though.

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Gigs ‘n Reviews’ Weekly Myspace Discovery

September 30th 2009 04:06
Brad Kennedy

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My Empty Heavy Heart

September 27th 2009 03:41

My heart’s empty and heavy,
Like you have just taken all the contents


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Darren Hayes' Thoughts on the Music Industry

September 17th 2009 07:56
Darren Hayes, blog, Myspace
Darren Hayes


For the next two weeks there will be no Gigs 'n Reviews' Weekly Myspace Discovery as I'm on holidays! However last night after reading Darren Hayes' latest blog entry titled "The Death Of The Recording Industry" (you can read it HERE) I felt so compelled to write the response as follows


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Gigs ‘n Reviews’ Weekly Myspace Discovery

September 8th 2009 10:12
Tainted Toys
Myspace
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Tainted Toys
A family friend said to check a Sydney band called Tainted Toys out on Myspace. I was hesitant as his taste in music is a little warped


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Recent Comments

Comment by Jacqui Rogers
on Jon Gives Jovi a Bad Name

April 8th 2009 06:22


Gigs n Reviews
thinking out loud
I get what you're saying, but there are plenty of Bon Jovi tribute bands who use 'Bon Jovi' in their names. Is Jon going to threaten them with legal action?

Comment by Jacqui Rogers
on Lady GaGa – why are her songs popular?

March 23rd 2009 07:08


Gigs n Reviews
thinking out loud
you have hit the nail on the head there

Comment by Jacqui Rogers
on Another Awesome Night with Diesel

March 13th 2009 08:42


Gigs n Reviews
thinking out loud
Lilly? She's very pretty

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on Chris Cornell turns to Pop - WTF

February 16th 2009 07:02


Gigs n Reviews
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bring back Concise and Show Me How To Live! The guitars were the bomb I think.

Thanks for reading and posting

Comment by Jacqui Rogers
on Coldplay finally announce tour downunder

December 4th 2008 00:15


Gigs n Reviews
thinking out loud
Hi everyone

Just wanted to post the new dates added to Coldplay's 2009 Australian Tour:

Thursday 5 March – Melbourne, Rod Laver Arena

Saturday 14 March - Sydney, Acer Arena

Hope you have been able to get tickets today.

Keep rockin'
Jac

Comment by Jacqui Rogers
on katyzzz blogging career

August 3rd 2008 02:44


Gigs n Reviews
thinking out loud
Hi there,

I think most of us didn't realise how tricky the friendship between Orble and Adsense is. Unlike Blogger, Orble don't allow you to easily add meta tags to your pages, which means you can't add your blog to a blog-list, therefore unenabling you to get higher traffic.

I'm extremely grateful to Orble, having www.gigsnreviews.com gives me a purpose and a sense of duty to the community. I get a thrill everytime I earn a few dollars.

Keep on blogging!
Jacqui

Comment by Jacqui Rogers
on Eminem versus The Pussycat Dolls

July 14th 2008 09:08


Gigs n Reviews
thinking out loud
Thanks for your comment, I really appreciate you reading www.gigsnreviews.com

Comment by Jacqui Rogers
on Meta tags?

July 10th 2008 02:29


Gigs n Reviews
thinking out loud
What is my analytics id?

Comment by Jacqui Rogers
on Discover Pamela Pachal

July 8th 2008 05:09


Gigs n Reviews
thinking out loud
all fixed. Thanks for letting me know

Comment by Jacqui Rogers
on Format Experiment

July 5th 2008 04:30


Gigs n Reviews
thinking out loud
Hi there,

I don't know whether my blogs are setup properly? Can we determine where ads are placed apart from within posts?

Thank you for your time,
Jacqui Rogers