I am not in contact with Eric Bogle so I can't answer any questions about shows, etc. However if you have any questions or requests about songs please let me know and I will try my hardest to get them up on the website for you! You can visit his web site at ericbogle.net.
A gentelman by the name of Ben Watkins has a stock of his 3 LPs that were made on the autogram records label back in the 1970's . They are all available in MINT unplayed condition for 15 pounds each. You can email him on benwatkins9876@hotmail.com if you are interested.
Eric Bogle is roundish, shortish, baldish, fiftyish and Scottish.
An Australian resident for 35 years, and an Australian citizen since 1982, he is an internationally known and respected singer/songwriter and has been taking his music around the world for the last 25 years or so, in spite of warnings to "stop it or you'll go blind"
Eric is a warm and engaging stage performer, and his songs have the knack of getting straight to the heart of the matter with intelligent and well-crafted lyrics.
His songs have been recorded by many other artists ranging from Joan Baez, Donovan, The Pogues and Mary Black through to our own late, great Slim Dusty. He has recorded 14 CD's so far, and is at present working on his 15th. A DVD is also in the tentative planning stage, but will probably remain so unless Eric wins Tattslotto in the next couple of years.
Eric has been described as a bit of a living legend, a label which he is uncomfortable with, but, as he says, "it's marginally better than being a dead legend"...
Eric has just finished a tour of North America (his 11th) together with his partner in crime, John Munro. 2006 promises to be even busier for The Elderly Brothers, (as they are often called by their peers, more or less respectfully - well, probably less). Trips to Scotland, Alaska and touring UK and Ireland with a couple of side trips to Denmark are all confirmed, plus Eric will be touring with Colcannon around Eastern Australia in February/March April 2006 to promote his new CD "Other People's Children". (See the concert schedule on the web-site for confirmed dates). After that they are both planning emotional and physical meltdowns, followed by intense therapy, followed by more touring.
They hope to do a separate tour of Western Australia in 2007, because as any self-respecting Sandgroper will tell you, Western Australia is a totally different country from the decadent and wimpish east of the country. (courtesy of ericbogle.net)
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this folk-carol on myspace... Poem 230 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (see my blog for details): CHRISTMAS SUNG SIMPLY
As gospellers have said, Beneath signalling skies, On land dusty to tread, A trough in a stable Was the strawy first-bed Of a divine baby - The forgiving Godhead.
A season for new hope - There then and here now; The yuletide of goodwill - There then and here now.
In respect of this chance, Beneath bright or dark skies, Faith's the star that we glance Attending Christ's churches And trying to enhance, With singing and ritual, Our God-loving stance.
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 2 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): WALKABOUT WITH MY PEN
Once drove an old sedan, up north, From a place in Sydney to Cairns; Then to Kuranda I went forth, By train, to look without set plans.
I browsed through the trendy market, With fresh fruits of tropical kind; Walked to the creek through lush thicket - Nature’s hand giving peace of mind.
I dined in a scenic cafe; Then, outside, as I wrote for yen, Some passing Kooris called-out: “Hey, You go walkabout with your pen.”
Request or question, I don’t know - Assured voices, elderly men. That’s now several years ago, And I’ve seen the world - with my pen.
Hey 'Eric', I've been playing you on my Celtic Music Radio show in Scotland- and will do so many more times! I've just posted a new song about a Scottish soldier in Iraq which you, and others might appreciate- it's called 'Killing Time (In the Garden of Eden)'. I hope you get a chance to listen. Slainte.
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Once drove an old sedan, up north, From a place in Sydney to Cairns; Then to Kuranda I went forth, By train, to look without set plans.
I browsed through the trendy market, With fresh fruits of tropical kind; Walked to the creek through lush thicket - Nature’s hand giving peace of mind.
I dined in a scenic cafe; Then, outside, as I wrote for yen, Some passing Kooris called-out: “Hey, You go walkabout with your pen.”
Request or question, I don’t know - Assured voices, elderly men. That’s now several years ago, And I’ve seen the world - with my pen.
Greetings and thanks for the add from Tarbert Music Festival - Loch Fyne - Argyll - Scotland next on 19th - 22nd September 2008 - see http://www. tarbertmusicfestival. com/ Peace!
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Happy New Year!! A few quotes, and some fireworks.....
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan
New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~John Burroughs
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. ~Ellen Goodman
Last but not least, the Buddhist in me must add,
On the day you were born, you begin to die. Do not waste a single moment more. --Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
"It is because I love him that I wish to be foremost where our noblest will be found---under the Palmetto flag. Nothing should make him for one moment forget his holiest right. The right to defend the soil & honor of Carolina." -Lucy Holcombe Pickens
The burned ruins of Columbia, South Carolina, from the State House steps, 1865
"But amidst all, my greatest wish is that so much heroism, and suffering, and blood, may not at least be uselessly expended; and this, and every other record of them may freely be given to the flames, if from the ashes 'shall arise a bird which shall avenge them all.'" -Lucy Holcombe Pickens
"But it is not a contest for victory, but the sword drawn by this brave little state [South Carolina] is a solemn & heroic protest against wrong, & in vindication of our natural rights---...you must feel...that I am where duty & honor demand me, and whatever dangers surround me, I will be with God's help, true to my name and blood..." -Lucy Holcombe Pickens
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