Brewsters Play Lizottes
The Lizottes Live & Cookin’ venues are an excellent way to combine entertainment with a great atmosphere while enjoying fantastic food. With all those ingredients in place, you’re set for a great night out with friends.
Last year the Brewster Brothers played all three Lizottes venues at Dee Why, the Central Coast & Newcastle. There was a great response with two of these venues completely sold out.
2013 sees a return visit to these East Coast locations on Thursday 31st January at Lambton in Newcastle, Friday 1st February at Kincumber on the Central Coast and a final show at Dee Why in Sydney on Saturday 2nd February.
You can visit the Gigs Page on this site for more details.
ABC Radio’s Richard Glover On The Brewster Brothers
Seasoned presenter Richard Glover from Sydney’s ABC Radio 702 remarked ….”I defy anyone to listen to the Brewster Brothers and not be transported somewhere special.
They offer a musical trip to a very compelling place. They are always a huge hit with the listeners when they come on our show and I’m always happy to help in any way.”
Rick and John Brewster were interviewed on Richard’s “Drive” radio show where they played live as well as discussing John’s vocal suitability to sing the popular songs of the legendary songwriter who is Bob Dylan.
The interview goes on to talk about the multitude of Adelaide venues during the 70’s and the controversy of Dylan performing with a full band in front of the die hard folk music audience of the day.
You can listen to the inteview and the Brewster Brothers live radio performance of the song “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” right here on this page.
“Shadows Fall” Album Receives Great Media Reviews
“Shadows Fall” is the first album from the Brewster Brothers who are the mainstay of Australia’s legendary rock band The Angels.
Deciding a need to explore further their vast array of musical influence, Rick and John stepped out from their decades of rock music experience to reach all the way back to their childhood musical training and their love of works outdside the straight ahead rock genre for which they had become known.
Keeping it very personal they recorded this album themselves and the professional result speaks volumes about their years at the helm with album production.
While still maintaining an undertow of strong, straight ahead rhythms the album is littered with a variety of styles which express everything from foot-down beats through to gorgeous melodic ballads.
Considering this was the Brewsters first foray in to a much wider realm of life’s musical consciousness they certainly hit the nail on the head right from the start.
“Shadows Fall – a timeless and diverse music with an unabashed love of the form that few can match. The potency of John Brewster’s voice, an unearthed treasure that has been sadly underused for decades”
Steve Bell – Time Off Magazine
“Last year the Brewster Brothers achieved visibility with the album ‘Shadows Fall’…..They toured, constructed a website and found an influential fan in the Sydney ABC radio announcer Richard Glover.” They accumulate a repertoire of original songs that exist in a parallel universe to the brooding menace of The Angels classics such as Take A Long Line or Mr Damage”
Anthony O’Grady – Sydney Morning Herald
Rick Brewster Ranks # 5 in Top 50 Oz Guitarists
“I’m In Great Company,” Says Guitarist Rick Brewster, On Being Named One Of The Five Greatest Australian Guitarists Of All Time, By Australian Guitar Magazine.
Rick Brewster, along with Ian Moss, Tommy Emmanuel and Chris Cheney was recently named one of the Top 5 Greatest Australian Guitarists by readers of Australian Guitar Magazine.
Rick Brewster was pleased to see Angus Young at the number one spot.
“Angus was a big influence on my playing in the early days,” said Rick Brewster. “ It was his exceptional sense of melody and timing that inspired me. It’s a huge honour to be up there with him. I feel like I’m in great company … he was the first guitarist I saw that really motivated me to learn.”
In 1975, less than a year after forming in Adelaide, The Angels joined AC/DC on a now legendary tour of South Australia. In a Port Pirie motel room, after the first show of the tour, Rick Brewster and Angus set up a practice amp, plugged in and jammed.
What did they play? “Twelve bar blues,” said Rick, “I was totally in awe of what he could do on a guitar. We just jammed.”
Was Rick Brewster surprised to make the Top 5?
“Of course. Over the years I’ve become known as “the guy who just stands still and does nothing”. Who would have thought, after 35 years of it, I’d be singled out for such recognition?”
So how did Rick Brewster become the guitarist who famously never moves onstage?
“It was partly a reaction to Angus and every other lead guitar player I’d seen. They all ran around the stage, leaping about. I tried it, felt monumentally awkward, and decided to do the exact opposite. When I was a teenager learning classical piano my father used to say to me, “Let the fingers do the talking … .” Standing still is how I’m most comfortable playing.”
Rick and John Brewster’s signature nik-nik riffs were born out of a frustrating, but ultimately fruitful, search in the mid-70s for a unique sound for The Angels, and Rick’s symphonic lead guitar solos evolved from his classical background and his father’s second piece of sound advice, “Make the melody sing.”
“I came to playing lead guitar from the left,” said Rick. “When we started this band, John was already playing guitar and I knew the basic chords. We needed a lead guitar player and I put my hand up. I had never played a solo and never had a lesson, so I was writing classical solos in my head and then working out how to play them on guitar. In a few months, I went from playing classical piano and washboard to lead guitar in a rock band.”
You can read the article by following this link.