Craig Claxton talks about recording his albums “Lies and Alibis” and “Azure Blue”

Your humble editor recently bailed up Craig Claxton at his work to talk about a few things. Craig has a long history in the Brisbane music scene, and a longtime supporter of BASEQ. Craig's website is perhaps a good place to start get a better understanding of him. https://www.craigclaxton.com/ This post is one of two. I want to start by covering off the last couple of albums and future recording plans. There's a rumour that you're just about to go back into the studio. Recording. Yeah, I'm [...]

By |2024-06-28T15:39:13+10:00June 28th, 2024|(default)|
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BASEQ Membership: checking if you’re current/ need to renew and how to self-service

This article covers some common questions BASEQ members have about their membership. Please remember, the main reason the BASEQ website exists is to allow members to renew by themselves via the website. For years, the BASEQ committee - humble volunteers - would drown under the weight of manually processing yearly renewals. This can all be done online, simply by going to the membership page on this BASEQ website: https://www.baseq.org.au/membership/#myaccount So, here's some scenarios and what to do: you are unsure if your membership is current (and [...]

By |2024-03-22T00:04:15+10:00March 22nd, 2024|Club Stuff|
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Dezzie D and the Stingrays – So much good music to choose from.

Dezzie D and the Stingrayz at Coolie Rocks On Editor's note: For an experienced band leader and lead singer, there are literally thousands of songs they could choose to put in their setlist. So, how does one choose? What's the deciding factor? With Dezzie D and the Stingrayz playing Sunday Feb 25 at the Royal Mail, Goodna, as the feature host band for the 2024 restart of the BASEQ jams, I reached out to Dezzie D and asked her about what the criteria was for [...]

By |2024-02-23T10:09:27+10:00February 22nd, 2024|(default), The Groove|
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Notice of BASEQ AGM 2023 October 29th

Notice of BASEQ AGM 2023 October 29th - Royal Mail Hotel, Goodna (92 Brisbane Terrace) All financial members of the BASEQ are encouraged to attend the AGM. With out active members there will be no BASEQ Official start is 11am sharp but the committee will be there from 10:30am to talk with people about BASEQ. A rough schedule will be: 11:00am: opening and presidents report 11:10am: treasurers report 11:20am: assignment of chairperson to conduct the election of new committee 11:30am: - dissolving of current committee, - [...]

By |2023-09-26T13:03:57+10:00September 26th, 2023|Club Stuff|
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A local band to watch out for – Shade Hadie (formerly Writers Tongue)

So your humble BASEQ editor stumbled upon a group of four very young musicians who left me impressed. It wasn't their youth, it wasn't the use of vintage high powered guitar amplifiers played at a very comfortable volume but just dripping with tone. It wasn't really even the choice of material they were playing. Michael Georgas (Bass), Peter Donaghy (Drums), Oskar Thaw (Guitar), Buddy Moyes (Guitar, Vocals and Harmonica), It was the feel of that material. It was the musical communication between the members [...]

By |2023-09-26T15:24:43+10:00September 26th, 2023|(default), News, Reviews and Events|
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