John Kennedy started his music career in Brisbane in the early 1980's with his first band JFK and the Cuban Crisis. A move to Sydney in 1982 brought immediate independent success with the Careless Talk Costs Lives ep with its radio hit The Texan Thing being the first release on Waterfront Records. The band broke up in 1984 after the release of the prophetically titled The End Of The Affair album and Kennedy went on to pursue a solo career with his band vehicle John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong. Numerous indie hits including Miracle (in Marrickville), King Street and Big Country followed but commercial success remained elusive. In 1989, Kennedy chose to travel the world with his guitar living by the mantra he used fo the title of his 1990 acoustic collection: Have Songs, Will Travel.
After ten years of living, performing and recording in LA, Berlin, Hong Kong, Holland and London, Kennedy returned to Sydney in 2000 and formed John Kennedy's 68 Comeback Special. With an ever-changing line up of musicians, he continued to release numerous albums before settling with a stable group of bandmates: original Love Gone Wrong drummer Peter Timmerman, ex-Red Wiggle Murray Cook on guitar and Phil Hall formerly of Sardine v, The Dropbears and The Lime Spiders on bass. With this new release, this line up has now morphed into John Kennedy And The New Originals.
The last five years have seen Kennedy busier than has he ever been with six albums releases in six years. After two recent volumes of the Raining Treasure albums of covers of Australian indie hits, the new album, John Kennedy And The New Originals, is the first album of new originals to be released since 2017's JFK and the Midlife Crisis. It is also likely to be Kennedy's last release for some time as Kennedy will leave Australia in June to live for an extended period in Spain.
John Kennedy & his band The New Originals are launching their new album with us at George Lane on the evening.
Check out some of John Kennedy below with ‘From St Peters to Kings Cross’:
(66) From St Peters To Kings Cross - John Kennedy 2019 - YouTube
And ‘Psycho’ below:
Psycho - John Kennedy (2022) - YouTube
This is a show with premium seating as well as general admission (mostly seated) tickets available. Supporting on the night is The Golden Rail. Check them out below with ‘Silver Linings’:
(66) Silver Linings by The Golden Rail (2022 Official Video) - YouTube
Doors open at 7:30pm and tickets can be purchased below:
Multiple Ticket Prices + BF
General Admission at Door $35pp
See you there :)