Gavin Doniger’s Mescalito Blues to Headline at KSS Festival and GC Surf Girl Quest to Showcase Beach Fashions and Beauty
A natural inclusion at this year’s Kirra Surfstock is the unique duo, Gavin Doniger’s Mescalito Blues who are just back from another successful tour to the UK and the USA. Gavin Doniger’s Mescalito Blues combines the gritty vocals, swampy blues guitar, rhythmic stomp box and hypnotic harmonica to create a sound much bigger than its parts. Gavin Doniger’s family involvement with Kirra goes back several generations. His grandfather is a life member of Kirra SLSC and started North Kirra SLSC back in the early 40′s.
Saturday’s lineup is headlined by pro surfer Issac Paddon & the Tides who made a strong impression last year with their appearance to close the 2009 Kirra Surfstock. Their songs are sung with passion, and performed bursting with emotion. They perform raw organic folk rock, with a smooth taste of the Caribbean strongly influenced from artists like Neil Young, Bob Marley, the Beatles, Jeff Buckley and Bob Dylan. The diversity in Isaac’s music taste shines through in his own creations.
On the Saturday the main support band will be the Band Of Frequencies who draw their influences from a wide spectrum of styles and sounds; roots laden, heavy grooving rock and soul merges into ambient acoustics and electronic influences that then meets blues at the crossroads. BOF have appeared at many of the major east coast festivals as well as providing soundtracks for several surfing DVD’s.
The festival starts with local acts including last years favorites Tokyo Beef Tokyo Beef, a five piece original Rock ‘n’ Roll band from Burleigh Heads before coming back to a more earthy sound from Broadfoot who aim to satisfy the soul with a heady ever evolving collection of danceable intelligent original material. From there Irishman Alan Boyle will entertain us with his mix of alternate blues/rock/folk songs.
Also on Saturday’s lineup are local crooners GAS. With their Jazz, Blues sound they will bring a more soothing sound to the festival before Cupids Bullet hits the stage. This three piece Gold Coast indie rock/dance sound forces the listener into a state of perpetual motion which only ends with the sound of the last note.
More local bands are up on stage from 10am Sunday morning before local trio the Lamplights whose sound is best described as an organic blend of funk and folk, served with a side of blues, sprinkled liberally with jazz perform.
Adam Scriven is next up with his sweeping lap-slide guitar licks, lively rhythms and upbeat vocal styles, his impressive mix of blues, folk and roots is captivating audiences along Australia’s East Coast.
A different pace will be set when the entrants in the Gold Coast Surf Girl Quest take to the stage. Under the watchful guidance of the Reeder Management Agency the girls will demonstrate to the audience some of this seasons beach fashions.
The underlying dance beats of a combination of Funk, Jazz and Rock will resume the music when the Hayden Hack Infusion resumes the music program followed by Jack and the Giant Killers with their high energy acoustic rock before Gavin Doniger’s Mescalito Blues rounds out the festival.
Saturday 13th November
Kandy McCouat
Tokyo Beef
Nyge Maunder
Kate Leopold and Sarah
Broadfoot
Alan Boyle
Gas
Cupids Bullet
Band of Frequencies
Isaac Paddon and The Tides
Sunday 14th November
Chris Mallory
Karl Williams
Jaya
The Lamplights
Adam Scriven
Gold Coast Surf Girl Quest
The Hayden Hack Infusion
Jack and The Giant Killers
Gavin Doniger’s Mescalito Blues
