News
25 July 2008 - Ramsay St
Make sure you are watching Channel Ten on August 5th as Abby and her full band are performing on Neighbours
Stay tuned as we await the invitation from Summer Bay for a similar performance there...
22 July 2008 - Melbourne show announced
Abby will be playing at the Oakleigh Bowling Club on the 26th of June...check out shows for details
04 July 2008 - paris weblog
oh la la.
i have been in paris since the day after my last joe jackson show in melbourne.... may 28.
for languid days of resting writing and ....fromage....
played a few shows in france supporting australian group belle roscoe.... just me and my guitar; travelling light.
paris is a wonderful backdrop for reflection. and we took an apartment in montmartre for a few weeks which was superb.... 5 flights up, no elevator, but sublime rooftop views and sacre coeur poking its head above the building across the street.... and a piano.
and the city of light didnt let me down... its light til about 11pm so you can walk everywhere at night and ride velibs around the town after the worker bees have freed up the boulevards.
velibs are free municiple bicycles you can pick up from stands all over paris and ride to wherever you like and leave the bike at a different stand - velib is short for velo (bike) and libre (free).
one sunday, when i was staying on rue de rivoli in the heart of paris, i was told i had to wake up - the normally noisy streets were all quiet except for the sound of hundreds of heavenly little bicycle bells - outside my window the were no cars but a parade of bicycles like some scene out of a wim wenders film. they are quite conservative the french but also eccentric and proud and have a wonderful regard for living well and .... eating well.
when i say 'well' i dont mean healthily. my appetitie for fromage, vin rouge, croissants aux amandes, les baguettes, yaourt, and les petits financiers framboise has been unquenchable; alas it shall only be my return to melbourne this week which i imagine shall bring me back to my senses.
yesterday i left paris for 5 days in bucharest, romania. so far i have not been so inspired by it as a city but the weather is hot and it feels a bit like greece or turkey. the only thing i have been craving like a lost lover is the ocean. i see pictures of it and it is as if i am heart broken.....
they say that travel puts you in touch with the infinite; and i like this idea. it is too soon to say how it has benefitted me, but i cant tell you how valuable it is to jump off the mouse wheel and be untethered ...
next week, i fly to home to melbourne to do some solo victorian shows in support of lior on july 10, 11 , 12, & 13.
from the stage, i shall try not to lament the lack of chevre and borgeuil, but sing as one who has dined well on life and whose eyes have been both on horizons far and close.
until then, aurevoir.
abby
24 June 2008 - Everybody needs good neighbours
Check out Abby's latest piece of press from the Neighbours' website
Interview - Abby Dobson
16 June 2008 - Paris, France
Abby is in Paris where she is playing some shows and rejuvenating her soul through good coffee and beautiful surroundings...
With this in mind be sure to book your tickets early for Abby's run of shows with Lior in early July...she'll be back and better than ever
See shows page for details
21 May 2008 - New photos!!
Check out the new photos on the photo page...
See pics of live performances at Apollo Bay, The Basement and The Famous Speigeltent as well as pics of Abby's talented, handsome and lively band members on and off the stage...
Featuring photos from Simon Bourke, John De La Roche, Joern Harris and the infamous Mal Pink...
14 May 2008 - New Lior Tour in July
Abby is on the road with Lior once again this July for a run of shows in Victoria where she will be performing solo. Not to miss!
Lior Tour July
Thursday 10th July - Ruby's Lounge - Belgrave
Friday 11th July - Theatre Royal - Castlemaine
Saturday 12th July - The Palais - Hepburn Springs
Sunday 13th July - Performing Arts Centre - Horsham
06 May 2008 - Joe Jackson Tour kicking off soon!!!
JOE JACKSON TOUR
Mon 19 May – Twin Towns - Tweed Heads
Tuesday 20 May - Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre - Cnr Merivale and Glenelg Sts, South bank, Brisbane
Thursday 22 May - State Theatre - 49 Market St, Sydney
Friday 23 May - State Theatre - 49 Market St, Sydney
Tuesday 27 May - Palais Theatre - St Kilda, Melbourne
28 April 2008 - Pics from The Basement, April 18th
check out some shots of us playing at The Basement in Sydney...
click HERE to see
16 April 2008 - nsw here i am
i'm in nsw the next few days for the following shows...come check me out
Wed 16 April – Brass Monkey - 115 Cronulla St, Cronulla
Thu 17 April – Lizottes - Lot 3 Avoca Drive, Kincumber
Fri 18 April – The Basement - 29 Reiby Place, Circular Quay, Sydney
Sat 19 April – Waves Towradgi Beach - 170 Pioneer Rd, Towradgi
11 April 2008 - tour weblog
hi,
just woofing down toast with almond spread and honey... have 8 minutes before i have to leave for the airport ... fly by the seat of your pants productions... i am the president.
off to tasmania with the lovely eden on electric guitar to support lior in launceston and hobart. then i'll come back and ready myself for a run of shows in and around sydney which should be cool... lots of changes going on in all the people around me ... i have the feeling this is the theme for this year .... but it feels positive, not devastating.... but intense. so all i can suggest is.... rest when you can, let go when you can, give thanks when you can, love when you can....
over and out the door....
abby
10 April 2008 - Second Place in ISC!
As announced this morning, ABBY DOBSON won SECOND PLACE in the AAA category for her song Horses, co-written with Ian Houston Shadwell. The International Songwriting Competition (ISC), renowned for its prestigious celebrity judges, received over 15,000 songs from amateur and professional songwriters from 100 countries worldwide, confirming ISC's status as the leading global songwriting event.
Top stuff Abby!!!
02 April 2008 - So You Think You Can Dance?
It's Only Love featured on the show on Sunday the 30th of March...
01 April 2008 - OPENING FOR JOE JACKSON IN MAY
Abby has been confirmed as the support act for legendary English artist Joe Jackson on his forthcoming Australian Tour in May.
Joe Jackson, who released the smash hits “Is She Really Going Out With Him”, “Steppin’ Out”, “Happy Ending” & “Breaking Us In Two”, is touring in support of his new album Rain.
“The music of Joe Jackson used to seep under the door of my older brothers’ bedrooms when I was growing up” Abby said. “Listening to his songs now, takes me back to a time of lime green bean bags and chalk drawings of captain good vibes on our blackboard in the playroom.”
JOE JACKSON TOUR
Tue 20 May Convention Centre Brisbane
Thu 22 May State Theatre Sydney
Fri 23 May State Theatre Sydney
Sat 24 May The Clarendon, Katoomba
Sun 25 May Royal Theatre Canberra
Tue 27 May Palais Theatre Melbourne
See shows page for details
25 March 2008 - New single is officially out!
My new single It's Only Love "Desire Mix" is now out on iTunes
Check it out HERE
20 March 2008 - weblog #3
hi ho. full moon fever's got me going this week. i think its officially full tomorrow but it sure is keeping my feet tapping this week.... and today is the equinox.... where day and night are of equal length.......the 'it's only love' tour starts tonight at capers in hawthorn, melbourne. ...where did i put the fairy lights? ... just about to pick up my guitar from the acoustic centre where its been for a week being fixed. we performed on the set of neighbours a couple of weeks ago, and the strap peg had come out of my guitar so the crew made a make shift peg out of a pencil and cracked the bottom of my maton....
my new single 'it's only love', which i produced with tony buchen and which josh abrahams has now remixed for me, is out on itunes on march 24... just a buck69 will get you a slice of love...... i went to see the australian ballet's swan lake last night at the arts centre. that was pretty special. i wore lots of white tulle petticoats... gotta dress for the occassion.....that tchaikovsky sure knew how to write a movement. 3 hours went by in about 20 minutes....
im writing on the fly, so not much time for reflection today.... the flow of the river is too strong.. must let go of the river bank. happy easter bunny to you all... i look forward to seeing you when my circus comes to your town.
abby
13 March 2008 - Win tickets and downloads!!
Visit Fasterlouder.com to win tickets to my It's Only Love Tour and free downloads from iTunes of the new single!!
Competition ends March 17th
04 March 2008 - weblog # 2
they were the best of times... they were the worst of times.... the good and bad sometimes sit so close together dont they? i wont go into my personal weather patterns except to say life is long, but its also short. the theme of the week is 'say yes'..... i have a wise friend who i havent seen forever cause he doesnt have a phone or a computer or a car, but he always used to say to me "ab, say yes to everything and hope that they don't offer you tripe."
..... went to see feist last week at the prince of wales in st kilda in melbourne. the lovely emily ulman put me on the door. half way through the first song, i turned to my boy and said, "that's it. im getting me an eletric guitar". leslie feist had the coolest guitar sound. might even get up off of my stool sometime soon too... woohoo... she's got legs!... what else?..... did a very cool nashville stylee singer-songwriter in the round evening of song and stories in a cute bar in abbotsford called the idgaff bar on sunday night. me and abbie cardwell and jordie lane (you should check them out - they are so good) all sat on stage together and took it in turns to play one of our songs and tell a little story about them. it was quite something and we all revealed more than we intended. the audience really dug it. but we dug it a LOT . it was a treat to be onstage listening to wonderful story tellers and get insights into their relationship with music; little estuaries joining to make a river for a night.... then we drifted apart again....
i'm coming to sydney this weekend with my guitarist eden and my cellist, mal, to play at the acoustica by the lake festival at lake belvedere –bicentennial park, australia ave, sydney olympic park. its a free festival on sunday 9th, with music all day and we're on at about 6pm..... before that, however, i shall be in church as i have been asked by my oldest friend in the world to be her little girl, aurora's godmother.... big responsibility - i shall be her spiritual guide / or at least be the one to show her how to blow smoke rings...
i'm doing some rehearsals for my upcoming touring - which will see me play from eumundi to tasmania. i'll be doing some shows as a duo, some as a trio, some as a quartet and some as a 6 piece.... am really looking forward to it all....
my great friend, matty, who is about as top shelf a human as you can get, is having an operation tomorrow morning (wednesday 5th) to have a tumour removed from his brain. so if you could send some healing energy out into the universe to him, i'd be most appreciative.
wishing you all good good things.
abby.
21 February 2008 - News from the lady herself...
the inaugural weblog - by Miss Abby Dobson
i am currently trying to put a tour together for march and april with several different arrangements of musicians - duos for this, trios for that, full enchilada 6 piece band for that... today i have to learn how to play the classic beatles song, 'across the universe' on the guitar and learn the words off by heart to play tomorrow night at the collingwood town hall in melbourne. i’ve been asked to do a charity rockwiz show there for kids suffering due to substance abuse. the rockwizzers are a gorgeous bunch and I'd do almost anything they asked of me....
this week me and my band went to the set of neighbours and did a performance of my upcoming new single 'it's only love' in 'charlie's bar' that they filmed for the show. it didn’t take very much to convince my band to do this. and, in fact, after we were done, we all felt a bit flat because we felt like our career had peaked. 'where do we go from here?' adrian, my wurlitzer player, texted me. all I could offer him, by way of hope, was that there was always summer bay.
i’m also doing some delicious sleuth work on my 'making it big in france' project. hoping to hope that i can get to paris for a spell this june to play a few little shows and meet some folks about representing me there... i’m getting lots of emails from friends about where to play and such. this is quite exciting as i am so enamoured with the place and the language...and the food...
what else?... next week i’m going to be doing a nashville style 'in the round' singer-songwriter thingy with abbie cardwell and jordie lane who are both very cool and good and we're gonna take turns playing our songs and then telling little stories about them.... oh, you'll need kleenex a-ready for my stories. even you grown men.....
loving living in melbourne. every day is different. having a purple patch. and gratitude aplenty.
til next time... be happy ... abby
17 February 2008 - Abby a Finalist in the International Songwriting Competition
Dear Friends!
Abby is a FINALIST (out of over 15,000 entries worldwide) in the International Songwriting Competition! Judges include Tom Waits, Julian Casablancas, Loretta Lynn, Macy Gray, Nelly Furtado and more, and music industry delegates include Monte Lipman, President Universal Records, Charlie Walk President Epic Records, Cameron Strang, President New West Records and many more.
Abby's song "Horses", co-written with Ian Houston Shadwell, from her sublime album "Rise Up" was chosen as one of 15 finalists in each category. Craving Records artists make up the only Australian finalists in the AAA category (Adult Contemporary). Other Aussie finalists include Lior and Clare Bowditch in the Folk/Singer-Songwriter category. To see the full list of finalists press here.
"In addition to great prizes, ISC offers the unique opportunity to have your music heard by the most impressive group of judges from a variety of industry backgrounds in any songwriting competition.This makes ISC the songwriting competition to take note of." - New York Tiimes
VOTE FOR ABBY NOW!! - All the finalists' songs will be posted online as part of The Peoples' Voice which allows the public to listen to and vote for their favorite song. This contest is in addition to, and completely separate from, the regular winners selected by the judges. Voting will be open on Tuesday, February 5th and will remain open until February 29.
Click here to listen to the finalists' songs and vote for the People's Voice:
http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/PVWelcome2007.htm
05 February 2008 - New Single Coming Soon
Hey Folks!
New single coming soon!! Abby has just been in the studio with producer Josh Abrahams, best known for his work with Amiel and their hits "Addicted To Bass" and "Love Song". The single, "It's Only Love" which has been remixed and reworked by Abrahams, will be released digitally March 25th exclusively to iTunes!
Her national tour will be announced very soon, including support shows with Lior and much more. Stay tuned!
06 November 2007 - Tex Perkins Tour
The lovely Abby Dobson will be supporting Tex Perkins and James Cruikshank on their national tour this December. Abby will be doing the Victoria and W.A. shows, which means she will be playing to Western Australian audiences for the first time since Leonardo's Bride. The shows are as follows;
Thursday 6 December – Torquay Hotel , VIC
http://www.torquayhotel.com.au/
Friday 7 December – Esplanade Hotel, VIC
http://www.espy.com.au/
Sunday 9 December – Ruby’s Belgrave, VIC
http://www.rubyslounge.com.au/gigs/
Wednesday 12 December – Indie Bar Scarborough, WA
http://www.ioh.com.au/
Thursday 13 December – Bwana Bar Mandurah , WA
http://www.bwanabar.com/
Friday 14 December – Civic Hotel Perth, WA
981 Beafort Street, Inglewood, WA / Ph: (06) 9272 1011
Saturday 15 December – Leopold Hotel, WA
Sunday 16 December – Caves House Yallingup, WA
http://www.seashells.com.au/
02 October 2007 - Abby on ROCKWIZ
Hey all, don't miss Abby on ROCKWIZ this weekend on SBS, Saturday 6th, 9.20pm, falling on the same day as the official release for Abby's new album Rise Up.
28 September 2007 - Rise Up Tour - DATES ANNOUNCED
Abby will be hitting the road in November to showcase tracks from her debut solo album “Rise Up” which is out on October 6 through Craving Records/Inertia. See the TOUR page for all the dates and venues.
Before heading off on her own tour, Abby has been personally invited by The Waifs to be their support at their Adelaide and Melbourne shows next week.
11 September 2007 - New Album & Shows
Abby Dobson, former lead singer of Sydney band Leonardo's Bride, will release her highly anticipated solo album Rise Up on October 6 through Inertia. Shining Star the first powerful single from the album is available exclusively through iTunes now.
Abby and Leonardo's Bride are best known for their hit single, Even When I'm Sleeping which was voted APRA Song Of The Year in 1998 and was also later voted one of APRA's 'Top 20 Australian Songs of all Time'. The track was lifted from the gold-selling album, Angel Blood.
Abby's debut solo album has been many hard years in the making. Two of the songs on the album Horses and I'm Not Missing You were produced by Abby and Robert F Cranny - Sarah Blasko's musical partner. This song, Shining Star, the first single from Rise Up was produced by Abby and Tony Buchen, who produced/mixed two records out of the 10 nominated in last year's J Awards.
Other amazing Australian musicians have also helped contribute to Rise Up, such as; Paul Mac (silverchair), Damian Press (Expatriate), James Haselwood (The Dissociatives, Mia Dyson), Jackie Orszaczky... and more. In September, Abby will be taking to the road with her band to showcase tracks from Rise Up.
Don't miss the launches of her new single Shining Star!!
Wed 19th Sept @ The Northcote Social, Melbourne
Thurs 27th Sept @ The Basement, Sydney
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