Welcome to the Blues Association of South East Queensland
Nardia competed in Memphis; now she’s headlining in LA
By Dennis Atkins and Melanie Christiansen Every Australian blues act that has tasted success in Memphis over the years has its own story of opportunities, opened doors, and connections that led to new beginnings [...]
Lecia Louise’s Record Launch: Hot Enough to Curl the Pizzas at the Cave Inn
Review By Dennis Atkins The Cave Inn in Woolloongabba, one of Brisbane’s liveliest emerging, small music venues, was already buzzing when the doors opened on a Friday evening in mid-September.A merch table offered [...]
Introducing The 2026 BASEQ Blues Challenge Entries – Leftys, August 23rd 1pm – 6pm
Interviews and words kindly supplied by Dennis Atkins, photos by Rod Fletcher Photography. Midnight Sound Machine If enthusiasm for the blues was the key to an entry in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee, [...]
Australian Piano Man Finds His Own Middle C – Interview with Lachy Doley
By Dennis Atkins On a sunny Saturday afternoon at the Gold Coast’s Blues on Broadbeach Festival in 2016, an emerging blues keyboard player, Lachy Doley, took to the main stage in Surf Parade. With his [...]
Broadbeach Fills the Bluesfest Gap
By Dennis Atkins The hard feelings, the scars, the money lost, the bitter disappointment, the empty Easter weekend, the two-timing, cheating and lying are all still there. Yet in place of Byron Bay Bluesfest [...]
