April 8-12th 2004 - ublues travels to Byron Bay, Australia for two performances at the largest blues and roots music festival in the Southern Hemisphere -The East Coast Blues and Roots Music Festival. In its 15th year, this years event attracted 57,000 people over 5 days of music and was headlined by none other that The Godfather of Soul himself - James Brown. Other featured acts included Taj Mahal, Dr John, Kenny Neal, Jackson Browne, Shemekia Copeland and much more! See pics below...
The road trip to Bryron Bay - a 2 hours drive from Brisbane Airport
The Singapore flag flying atop Mojo Stage - the festival's main marquee!
Above and below: Dan and Trev meet the Godfather himself - the one and only James Brown!
Above and below: The crowd at Byron Bay!
Our very own dressing room... cool
Our very own beer cooler...cooler!
Danny jams onstage with Louisiana bluesman, Kenny Neal!
Chilling out with Kenny backstage...
Dan and the legendary voodoo man himself - Dr John
Gary and Shemekia Copeland's drummer...
Gary and Harry Manx
...and with Taj Mahal
Danny and B3 organ (plus Heineken...)
Chilling
out in our dressing room after Sunday's well-received performance at
Mojo Stage - the largest of 4 stages at the festival.
Francis sometimes sees things we don't...
They didn't have kway teow...
A younger, hippier, surf-loving version of Gary - his lil bro Benny and ladyfriend Veronica, Byron Bay locals.
Coffee for breakfast, at 3pm in the afternoon
Trying to look composed... partying backstage at 3am
Above and below: Dan jams onstage with Jim Dyson (Mia Dyson's father)
Who the hell are these guys? We don't know either. Hanging out with some happy locals.
Trev and Dan meet folk legend, Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne's guitars... some of them
More friendly festival goers...
Danny and upcoming blues queen, Shemekia Copeland
Above and below: The people in Byron are all relaxed and laid back - from the scenery you can see why.
Backstage at Taj Mahal's performance
Meeting Taj Mahal...
Daniel (drummer from Mia Dyson's band) with Gary (above) and Francis (below)
Francis outside the Juke Joint bar, where we performed our second gig
Gary and Hilary Jones (Robben Ford)